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[Fascinate Android Development] diver47591:
Voice Commands

This is great! But howzabout a Nuance Voice Commands app for this ROM. All the others I've tried don't work w/Geewiz 1.1 . Thanks a lot!
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
First post at the bottom has an update-zip with a Silent Sammy Keypad. Like all my update-zips, it will clear your Dalvik cache and reset SYSTEM permissions automatically, so the first reboot will take longer than usual.

As for Nuance, I think there must have been a reason Samsung removed it from their Froyo builds; I've yet to see a working version myself. I've also never used it, so I'm probably not the best judge :p If you can find one that works with Android 2.2.2 on any of the other Galaxy S phones (GT-i9000/Vibrant/Captivate/etc), there's a good chance it would work with GeeWiz, as I left a lot of things like library files in the ROM that others tend to take out. Some of that is just ignorance on my part as to what to kill, but I did think it was best to leave them there in case people found apps they wanted to use from other Galaxy S devices that may need those support files.

Let me know if you find a Nuance you like, at minimum I can try to make an add-on for it. I'll be honest with you in that I would probably not include it as a "base" feature :D
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Yeah ... I get the same problems as you guys from time to time. Unfortunately, the best I can offer is to update the base ROM with a better version when Google fixes it. I am not a big fan of the Market silent updates myself; you really have no choice but to use the latest version.

One thing I've been kinda/sorta kicking around with my recovery (you know, the one I dorked up my dev phone and screwed you all over on GeeWiz 1.0 because of? DOH!) is to have an option in there to automatically install apps from the PREINSTALL volume we all have. It's a fairly big volume of completely wasted space, and I thought it would be kinda cool to be able to push my Angry Birds and whatnot over there and have a nice one-touch "reinstall all" ability. Making the Java installer thing work from Recovery is another story, but Samsung manages to do it, so it can't be THAT hard. (look in /data/preinstall on a stock phone, and you'll find Madden and Tetris or something in there; that's how they pop back up after a factory reset)
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
One more quick mod for tonight; I'm so tired of accidentally killing my LauncherPro in Task Manager when I really wanted to kill something else that I finally made myself a little edit to hide it like the TouchWiz Launcher is hidden by default. LP users that care -- link and MD5 are at the bottom of the first post.

If people would like to see this as a base option for the more popular launchers (LP, ADW, Go, etc), I'd be very happy to add it as such, this has ticked me off for a while now. I would kinda need to know what to hide, but I can figure that out by downloading the most popular launchers and finding out for myself :) If you want to exclude your launcher from Task Manager, let me know in here! Please include what launcher you use if it's not LauncherPro, ADW or Go, those are all the non-niche ones I happen to know of....
[Fascinate Android Development] saf66:
Unable to download v1.1 click on link and get message that page has too many redirects, any ideas?
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
No problems here, but I will PM you an alternate (and somewhat temporary and likely slower) link in a couple minutes. Gotta copy the files out there ... hang tight!
[Fascinate Android Development] speedingcheetah:
Nuance Voice Commands is a stock app that comes on Eclair and Froyo...it was there on stock ED05 rom...and it is the best as far as voice commands goes...the stock voice dialer in CM7 (which is what I am currently running)is crap....try flashing the Nuance voice commands .zip from the powerwash thread...it should work on this rom as well..
[Fascinate Android Development] scarfman4:
Yeah I was going to say the same thing. Most stock Samsung apps are listed as addons in the Powerwash thread. I install the Samsung Widgets and ThinkFree Office from those and they work fine on GeeWiz.
[Fascinate Android Development] briguyy:
1.1 running stable here. One request: is there a possibility for a swype keyboard addon?....thats the only thing i miss about stock.

Thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] ccampos784:
It's in the OP. Look under Extras, you might have missed it.
[Fascinate Android Development] briguyy:
Thanks so much!......i dont know how i missed that...how long has it been up?
[Fascinate Android Development] ccampos784:
For a while now :p

I can't remember when djp added it though, I don't check on this thread too often :o
[Fascinate Android Development] AuroEdge:
I really like this rom! It's been nice coming back from cm7 to a rom that just works.
[Fascinate Android Development] scarfman4:
On hiding the launchers from TM I'd like to see the stock Android launcher hidden if possible. Thanks.
[Fascinate Android Development] asdecker:
One quick question: Will the Odin file root the phone when flashed?
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Yes. Both the kernel and the SYSTEM volume ("factoryfs" in ODIN) have all the necessary root-enabled stuff in place by default.

NOTE: When using the ODIN file rather than the update-zip version, you have to be cautious to at

minimum

clear out your Dalvik-Cache or at maximum factory reset the device to avoid any Force Close issues. It's actually a more advanced and manual way of applying the ROM/Kernel than the ClockworkMod update-zip version which handles the Dalvik part automatically for you.

The EH09 Mesmerize leak contained a nice set of clean data volume files that don't have any third-party apps in them (Madden/Tetris) that I intend to package up as a "wipe" version of the ODIN fileset. Haven't gotten to that yet, I'm afraid. Sorry :(
[Fascinate Android Development] asdecker:
Do I need to Odin CWM as well or is it also included?
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
You'll have to ODIN CWM separately. If you go this route, I recommend the following:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=942021

It's kinda old at this point and not 100% perfect, but it's the CWM I use to verify the GeeWiz update-zip.
[Fascinate Android Development] asdecker:
Do you have a link to it? CWM
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Sorry, you replied too fast! Look up to my last post, I edited it to include a link to the CWM I use - LOL! :D
[Fascinate Android Development] asdecker:
Thanks Bro, worked perfectly!
[Fascinate Android Development] poetics:
I've been running this rom for over two weeks and have had absolutely zero problems. I have never had a rom, stock or otherwise, run this well. Thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] briguyy:
+1 on that, great ROM!
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Hey, thanks for the props! :o

I like it too (of course), but really ... all I think I can honestly take credit for is trying to test as much as I can, trying to keep to my goals in line, and trying to respond to issues as fast as possible. Samsung really deserves most of the credit, the ED05/2.2.2 update was really good once you peel away all the junk they piled on top of it. All I did was make some fortunate and seemingly lucky choices along the way that so happened to create a surprisingly stable little setup :D (You guys probably didn't flash my "1.0", which was a disaster! LOL).

I

really

appreciate the positive feedback as well. Knowing that there are at least a few folks out there that I was able to make happy for a short time is the type of thing you remember forever. I just hope I can continue to contribute a little something back to this community that I've learned so much from in the past year!
[Fascinate Android Development] Badger51:
Disappearing Apps, or at least, temporarily so...

Anyone having problems with apps disappearing, at least temporarily??

From time to time, some of the apps loaded on the SD card don't show up, either in the launcher app or in the listing of apps....

Interestingly, some time later, they do show up....I've tried rebooting, and often, but not always, the apps still don't appear.

But sometime later, the apps reappear...

I've noticed this behavior both with the stock kernel and other kernels.

Any ideas?:confused:
[Fascinate Android Development] whozamazinka:
+2 on that!! This is my wife's phone, but it runs super well now! I love this ROM!

So has anyone jumped shipped from this ROM to the EH09 GB powerwashed ROM? It looks like it doesn't have as good of battery life, and I'm almost wondering 'Why switch?' Anyone have thoughts on that?

djp952? Do you have thoughts on that?

Thanks!

Jim
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
I've been swamped with the paying kind of work lately (and will be for a while, I'm not ignoring anyone - LOL), so I haven't had a chance to try PW Gingerbread yet.

I did throw EH09 (note: ED05 modem) on my dev phone in order to poke around and deodex it, and from what I saw the battery life was amazing. I left that thing sitting down here in my basement with WiFi on (not connected, so 3G was also on) for three days straight and it was still over 65% battery when I checked it. That's way better than ED05 for my particular phone/location.

As far as the GB EH09 stock effort in and of itself, I didn't see anything that I would personally jump from Froyo ED05 for. I found it to be notably slow and laggy feeling and it didn't include anything I saw that I cared about above and beyond Froyo. I like the updated status bar, but that could be themed on Froyo (and has been!).

What really annoyed me is that the EH09 Kernel source released by Samsung is incomplete and doesn't even boot by default. They took out all but the most basic of custom driver source from it (I assume to stop us from hacking the tethering monitor). I spent a couple nights trying, and I still haven't been able to generate a functional kernel from that code. One bonus I noted, however, is that it looks like Sammy included EXT4 support by default for us with Gingerbread. If the stock kernel matches any of the config files they provided in the OSRC, EXT4 is alive and well on the Mesmerize :)

Short version: I have no intention to switch my "real" (non-dev) Fascinate to Gingerbread right now. I didn't think it worked as well on our hardware nor did it add anything I personally found useful. Idle battery life was honestly stellar for my basement, but I don't spend much time down here nor do I really run that short on battery every day where the

idle

time is an issue! ;) I would like to know how the battery fares with things like "Words with Friends" running all day or a few hours of "Angry Birds" under my belt. Those are my personal top 2 batery sucks.

That said, once this horrid "real work" project is done I do intend to try again with the Kernel. I'm hoping that if I do the same things twice that the results will be surprisingly positive again :D
[Fascinate Android Development] whozamazinka:
djp,

Thanks for the response! It's so cool to get a response from the dev right away. It almost feels like I'm rubbing shoulders with a celebrity! :p

That was kind of my thought as well. Aside from better or worse battery life, GB doesn't seem to add anything that I find compelling at the moment. Especially for my wife's phone, where stability is key.

I love your ROM, btw. Really nice work. I'm looking forward to see what you can do with EH09!

Thanks,

Jim
[Fascinate Android Development] rrockstar.kidd:
Agreed with this Guy...nice thinking sirr
[Fascinate Android Development] thedoman:
Used EH09 from day 1 till yesterday. I agree with all of the above. If a voodoo lagfix came out for it I would give it another shot. Went back to ed05 (PowerWahed not GeeWiz, sorry) because it is faster with lagfix enabled than PW Gingerbread and gets better battery.

Looking forward to your kernel work. Thanks for all your good devin'
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Just a quick update: Tonight I *finally* got a source-built EH09 kernel to actually boot up and work properly. I had to steal a couple things from a non-current i9000 kernel (apparently Samsung has ripped BML support from all their current Galaxy S GB kernel sources - a rather necessary thing), but it finally booted and appears to work just fine.

I'm trying to baseline that working kernel code into my "source" version and am still meeting some resistance. EXT4 is being especially problematic. I'll get there eventually. Once the build process is stable and repeatable it won't take very long to make a "GeeWiz" kernel out of it, I only change a few things. Modifying the EH09 US Cellular ROM to my liking will probably take quite a bit longer, if ever based on my thoughts of it so far :( Here's hoping the Fascinate gets a more optimized GB drop relatively soon!
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Another quick Gingerbread update ... I got an EH09 kernel to

FINALLY

reliably compile and boot last night in a kinda/sorta similar configuration to the GeeWiz Froyo Kernel. Tonight I replaced the Wifi driver to get rid of Hotspot Monitoring and started playing with a ROM. I'll give Voodoo Sound a try at some point soon.

I'm nowhere near something that can be released to you guys, and quite honestly I think the end result will be pretty darn close to what ccampos784 has already done with PowerWashed GB, but things are finally moving along. I opted to use the "ACG" leaked ROM instead of the USCC ROM since it had less bloat overall and was only a couple hours older than the USCC version if you believe the build information.

Note: I stuck with the ED05 modem and have some data issues. Data works, but takes a long time after boot to become active. I'll have to try the EC09 modem or at minimum an EFS clear in ODIN. Not entirely convinced EH09 is VZW-friendly.

I'm also still very unimpressed with the performance of GB on this device. Maybe when I start removing the junk it will be better. I'll also have to try a different launcher, maybe it's just TW 3.0 that's the turkey.

So .. it looks like I'm a week or so away from posting anything of value on the 2.3 baseline given my "real work" workload, but keep an eye out for a thread named "GeeWiz 2.0 Alpha" to pop up if a djp952 Gingerbread build is something you're interested in :D
[Fascinate Android Development] pdubsfc:
Thanks for working on GB. I'm looking forward to your work. I'm sure you'll do a great job on it. Thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] shag_on_e:
You damn right interested. Do I nerd to tell your boss to give you some paid vacation?

Sent telepathically.
[Fascinate Android Development] scarfman4:
Do I "nerd" to tell? LMFAO
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
That was so unintentionally accurate! I love it!
[Fascinate Android Development] agrovett:
Still running GeeWiz, haven't found anything else i like better. Looking forward to what you might bring us next.

thanks for all you do
[Fascinate Android Development] PhoenixPath:
"The kernel is actually an offshoot of what I've really been working on since April, and I hope to share that with you guys sometime soon."

Tease...any word on this? No idea what it is (Could be a recipe for bacon-wrapped bacon for all I know)....but after that tease...I want. :p
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Not wrapped in bacon. It's actually a recovery system for the Fascinate, built from the ground-up from the AOSP and not based on ClockworkMod (but shares a lot of features). The ROM stuff has really side-tracked me from it, unfortunately. It works pretty well for me (and the precious few I've sent it to), but there is still so much undone/unperfect :( It's probably hovering around the 85% mark on completion. It works for me quite well, but I'm also perfectly willing to go into ADB and rename/hack stuff on my SDCARD to make it work quite well - LOL :eek:

It's one of those things that's been done to death but yet some of us still think we can do better regardless. It's how I was/am intending to deliver EXT4 and the Voodoo lagfix-style performance enhancements to you guys someday (probably well after we've all moved on, but there's always the Droid Prime, right?). I've written a TON of code for it and do think it has a lot of merit. It's just still living in the land of vaporware right now.
[Fascinate Android Development] shag_on_e:
I got that new Ouija keyboard man, sometimes the words write themselves...available on Android market for a thousand dollar donation... $-)

Sent telepathically.
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Yet another late-night GB update, this one won't go over well with you:

Guys, I hate to do this to you, but I seriously can't justify a Gingerbread GW version here. My kernel seems to work fine, as does my first set of test ROMs, but I am consistently having very serious and widespread issues with 3G data, regardless of what modem I use. I've tried three phones now, I've tried ccampos' PowerWashed ROM (via the ODIN so I got everything he's offering), I've tried three different modems, I've tried EFS clear in ODIN, I've tried whacking my phone from Verizon completely and re-adding it. The end result is always the same for me ... mobile data works about 10-15% of the time, and spends the rest of that time connecting/disconnecting. Flash back to Froyo/ED05 and it's all perfect.

I've also run into a serious problem with the EH09 Dialer application. About 66% of the time it hangs up a wakelock and destroys the battery. Today, for example, when I went to work on my dev phone the battery was down to 15%. A quick check showed that the Dialer had been active and sucking up CPU for 4.5 hours, and that was AFTER a reboot to activate the phone! That in and of itself is a showstopper for me.

It's not all bad, though. I have learned some neat new tricks and I think I can port that EH09 (ACG) Wireless Hotspot app back into Froyo, not to mention how much I improved my own build/test processes.

I promise to do some more research on what the heck is so wrong with mobile data, Maybe the gang at rootzwiki have run into it and have a solution or two, but at this moment in time anything I've done is nowhere near close to what I'd like to think are "djp952 standards".

I will keep looking at it/working on it, but I am also desperately hoping for a VZW release. It's far easier to debloat and hack a few APKs than it is to deal witb a phone that can't do anything useful when it's not connected to WiFi.

Just not feeling this EH09 build on Verizon. My goal was and still is stability, and so far GB/EC10/ED05 just aren't working for me in a way I would call "stable".

I highly recommend ccampos784's ROM for those that must have Gingerbread.:cool:
[Fascinate Android Development] poetics:
Thanks for the update. I'm still a happy geewiz 1.1 user, but would love to see what new ideas you still think you can get in to make it even better. Thanks for all your effort!
[Fascinate Android Development] laureanop:
Does djp's ed05 kernel support bln?can this kernel be used with pw 1. 2?

sent from my SCH-I500 PWGB 2. 0b3
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
It doesn't support BLN. It should be OK with PW 1.2, but ccampo's stuff is a bit more optimized and has cooler features in general :D I didn't change too much from the stock set up.

I didn't do BLN since everything I found as a reference would have required me to change out a driver that I wasn't keen on replacing (touchscreen). The fancier kernels seem to have some weirdness from time to time (no offense to ANYONE there), at least the ones I've used, and I was/am trying to just have something nice and basic that doesn't try to do too much ;)
[Fascinate Android Development] dragon1357:
can you make a task manager that excludes launcher 7 ? thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] dragon1357:
sorry, nevermind
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Why? When I get back to Froyo, I was intending to download the most popular launchers and add them all :D Hopefully the nevermind wasn't because I didn't respond quickly. Apologies.

Back to Gingerbread ... I finally broke down and called Verizon about the data problem. Using my most innocent and dumb sounding voice and pretending that "my friend that broke my phone" told me to call them, I got them to take my MEID out of the system and put it back in as was suggested a while back here at XDA, and .... data! I don't know what voodoo they do over there that's different than what you can do on the website, but it worked. (I will probably have to go through the whole process again to switch back to Froyo ... LOL)

OK, so game back on. I have a kernel, a working dev phone, and a de-bloated ROM. Time for some mods and getting something of value out here.

Apologies as always for not producing much. Thankfully there hasn't been much movement past ED05 or a lot of updates to the core applications I included, which lets me get away with it :rolleyes:
[Fascinate Android Development] scarfman4:
Awesome news! Between you, ccampos and nutsij17 working on EH09 we're sure to see some great Roms and kernels in the near future.
[Fascinate Android Development] dragon1357:
oh no, it wasn't that you didn't respond fast enough :( just that I'm not using it anymore. when would the "all in one" task manger be released? :P
[Fascinate Android Development] rosser725:
Can someone please post the stock battery mod?
[Fascinate Android Development] Jazz848:
Edit: 10char
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
I'm getting there :( Still working on Gingerbread at the moment, porting the Froyo mods over slowly but surely. When I get this GB beast out it should have that particular change and then I'll back-port it to Froyo.
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Stock Battery MOD re-uploaded and link fixed in the OP. Thanks for letting me know my MediaFire cleanup was a bit too aggressive rosser725! I most likely killed it because I never renamed it to "1.1", it still says "1.0" since it didn't change for v1.1.

Sorry!!! :(
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
ROM updated to v1.1.1 via a CWM-flashable patch file. Nothing Earth-shattering, just making good on the promise to hide the most popular launchers from the Task Manager and update the core applications to the latest revisions while I was in there.

Download link to 1.1.1 PATCH in the first post, if anyone's still interested :D

GeeWiz 1.1.1 PATCH - 09.28.2011

>> Requires GeeWiz 1.1

- Update Google Market to v3.1.5

- Update Google Maps to v5.10.1

- Update Adobe FlashPlayer to v10.3.186.7

- Update Google Books to v1.4.4

- [MOD] Exclude Froyo AOSP Launcher from Task Manager [com.android.launcher] (djp952)

- [MOD] Exclude LauncherPro from Task Manager [com.fede.launcher] (djp952)

- [MOD] Exclude ADW Launcher from Task Manager [org.adw.launcher] (djp952)

- [MOD] Exclude Launcher 7 from Task Manager [info.tikuwarez.launcher3] (djp952)

- [MOD] Exclude GO Launcher EX from Task Manager [com.gau.go.launcherex] (djp952)

- [MOD] Exclude MXHome Launcher from Task Manager [com.neomtel.mxhome] (djp952)

- [MOD] Exclude Regina Launcher from Task Manager [com.nemustech.regina] (djp952)

- [MOD] Exclude 91PandaHomePro Launcher from Task Manager [com.nd.android.pandahomepro] (djp952)
[Fascinate Android Development] sfd0124:
Some of us are still interested. After flashing everything under the sun and looking for the latest and greatest. Its reached a point where it all comes down to battery life. In my experience, the closest I am to stock gives me the best battery.
[Fascinate Android Development] myersw:
I use the GeeWiz kernel with PowerWash 1.2 rom. With this combination I get good battery life, have a interface experience I like and can use WiFi Tether which I could not with the PowerWash kernel.

No knock on this rom, it is good, Have tried it. I just like PowerWash better. It's a personal thing.:D

--billl