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[Fascinate Android Development] Duckman_UF:
Thanks LD, I saw the instructions for the EH03 but it was talking about froyo to geewiz. I assumed I probably needed to but wasn't sure. I'm doing this for my sister. All of my experience is with the ATT Galaxy series.

Thanks again.
[Fascinate Android Development] lord dredd:
sure !!

happy to be of use.
[Fascinate Android Development] JJ5150:
If you don't have stock EH03, you can still flash GeeWiz over Froyo. It's just "recommended" you have EH03 on your phone so everything matches up when flashing GeeWiz.

But GeeWiz is already EH03, and it's a full wipe flash also... so basically you simply yank the battery, put phone in download mode, and odin GeeWiz 2.8.1... your phone will then be EH03.

Good luck and happy Wizzing. hahaha :laugh:
[Fascinate Android Development] scarfman4:
Over a thousand posts before someone made that joke! You just made my day. :)
[Fascinate Android Development] QuattroMechanic:
Anyone know if that rom which removes the phone and makes the fascinate a mini tablet is finished? ???
[Fascinate Android Development] Kaptinkrunk:
What lol I know there's been aokp ICS tablet zips

Fascinating Devil Helly Bean Aug 13rd Devil 1.1.7...
[Fascinate Android Development] scarfman4:
I believe that djp952 had a lot of problems with that and abandoned it. I think with 2.8.1 you can enable airplane mode and still have wifi capability. You might also try removing phone.apk, mms.apk and voicedialer.apk so they don't try to use them, but I don't know what impact that will have.
[Fascinate Android Development] QuattroMechanic:
I can't remember who was working on it but Id like to try it since my fascinate is no longer in service.
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
The Gingerbread version was pretty much a wash, but in my relatively small spare time I've been cooking up a Jelly Bean "Player" for the Fascinate. I've had a ton of trouble with GPS and Bluetooth, but if all you want/need is strictly Wifi, I'm pretty close. The camera is kinda borked, the I/O performance is terrible, but it sounds great since I'm using a modified version of the GW 2.8 kernel with Voodoo Sound in place :)

I've been fighting with BT and GPS for at least a week, and since I'm stubborn and don't want to use a 3.x kernel (more effort than I have time for these days) I'm currently of the mindset to just omit them and move on. If I can fix the camera and get the graphics performance a little higher (related), it's actually pretty nice IMO. I'm turning my old Fascinate into a glorified remote control for my new Sonos system :)

How would everyone feel about a Jelly Bean setup that has absolutely no GPS and unless a miracle happens no Bluetooth? It runs well, but is nowhere near perfect yet.

Here are all the things I know are wrong with my current "Player" :

> GPS = no

> Bluetooth = no (currently working on this)

> Low-power/Charging mode has some challenges I haven't worked out

> Some remaining UI/settings elements for GPS that have to be removed

> No dock audio yet

> Camera works and takes pictures, but preview/viewfinder is tearing horribly

> No camera flash yet

> Have not tied BLN into Jelly Bean yet

> Have not started on "Player" battery charger mod (don't charge at all unless battery is under 50%, perhaps always stop at 85% -- idea is to prolong the life of the battery for as long as possible for a "home" device)

If I was able to fix all the but the GPS I was going to make a grand re-entrance with "GeeWiz Player 3". If I wasn't able to, I was just going to repurpose my 2 Fascinates without these things for personal use and be happy enough in silence :)

By the way, I've been here the entire time, I've just been silent. Since I haven't had the time to participate (and really won't until next year) it's been fun just sitting back and letting it live on it's own :) Thanks to you all for continuing to use GW well beyond it's functional lifespan with absolutely no feedback from me :) :cool:
[Fascinate Android Development] lord dredd:
Nice to see you back DJ
[Fascinate Android Development] QuattroMechanic:
Well I appreciate the response and the amazing work you do, I'm hoping to see player 3 in the near future. Good day
[Fascinate Android Development] JJ5150:
He's back... or rather. "unsilent". :P

I personally would want a complete working version of JB for my fassy since I'm still using it as my main driver. The version I'm on now is linked in my sig... maybe you can use some of it's coding to get you where you need to be. So I guess my answer is no... Need more for my main phone. The version I'm using now is pretty much solid, with a couple minor hickups but nothing major to where I can't use it. Everything works... Not sure if you want to go that route, but if you do... I'd use it.

Peace.
[Fascinate Android Development] lord dredd:
O watta relief.

I am back on gwiz and really the stability and solidity is impeccable.

However fancy them ICS and jb roms look but the bugs ultimately starts to take their toll.

GWizzing on beautifully :) and freakin loving it.
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
I hear ya! I didn't realize just how much effort those guys put into making something like ICS/JB work on devices that don't have any manufacturer support for them until I tried. Even WITH all of their work available as a reference, it's still extremely difficult. It's taken me 2 days to get the camera working at all under JB and it's still not quite right. Of course, I had to be all fancy and try to add the widescreen picture resolutions, but still! (I have also shunned that entire MTD thing which has not made my life easy either - lol. Hey, it's mostly working!)

Over the past couple weeks, I've gained a lot more respect for what Samsung actually did for us with the EH03 release. Peel away some bloat, tweak a couple things, and it's a real gem!
[Fascinate Android Development] lord dredd:
I didn't mean no disrespect at all DJ.

I have enjoyed practically all the ICS as well as jb ROMs and they are great. But I donno I always fall back on gee wiz for total functionality and zero bugs.

GWizzing on beautifully :) and freakin loving it.
[Fascinate Android Development] JJ5150:
I'm back on GeeWiz myself. I just can't handle bug testing these new ROMs. GW is solid to the core... got some nice custom themes going on thanks to Notta... best of both worlds. Good to be back DJ. :laugh::highfive::D
[Fascinate Android Development] lord dredd:
Indeed.

BTW was wondering if we can have more controls in gwiz kernel as are there in devil ICS kernel.

or I missing something here coz I know with terminal s lot could be done with gwiz kernel as well.

One example is that the default lowest brightness in gwiz is still high for my eyes, and I want to reduce is further, is there a way ?

Looks like time i will have to read the terminal commands in the op again.

GWizzing on beautifully :) and freakin loving it.
[Fascinate Android Development] JJ5150:
I agree... to have that little edge that everyone loves in a kernel would make this ROM respectfully perfect. cuz I'm still using KGB for that extra kick up to 1200MHz... and UV/OV is definitely a plus. If we could have that ALL IN ONE... that would be a huge cheers from the community... not that we haven't done that already. lol
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Can you guys come up with a definitive and SHORT list of things you'd like to be able to change in the GW 2.8 Kernel, and are you OK with using init.d to do it as opposed to a full-blown APK like the various "Tools" apps that are all the rage right now? My time/skillset is unfortunately quite limited on these things; using init.d/scripts is so much way easier than trying to mod the UI!

Also, I know it's been a while since there has been any kind of update .. is everyone OK with having to update all the core apps or should I try to make some time to update them and release a 2.8.2 ROM for ya? I'm still a little flabbergasted that GW 2.8.1 has lasted as long as it has here (props to self - lol).

And finally, a quick update on "GeeWiz Player 3" ... OMG. I still can't reiterate enough how much respect I have for the Cyanogenmod/TeamHacksung/etc teams and Samsung. I really thought using actual source code would be EASIER, but I gotta tell ya -- android is a hot mess on the inside. It takes me *days* to track down and solve any given issue with the way they have laid this OS out, and I still have two written pages of issues to deal with before I would even consider this viable. I'm on day 5 of nothing but trying to solve camera/video issues inbetween real work! [Camera and videocamera do work as of this evening, but not nearly as well as they should yet]

Please do let me know what you'd like me to do with GW 2.8/Gingerbread since it's still surprisingly still an active ROM after all this time :) I quite honestly have about 1/10th the time I did earlier in the year, but I really want to do something for you guys that have been so nice and so loyal to GeeWiz!!

I have a new Android project I want to work on as well, my mom (bless her heart) bought me a craptastic Coby Kyros tablet since "I know you like the Android" (lol "the" Android), and it needs some serious love, this thing is pathetic out of the box. Probably can't improve the hardware limitations, but at minimum I can get Jelly Bean and gapps on it. Already exploited a root, figured out the partitions, got ICS gapps working, and have a modified version of GW recovery almost ready to flash on that sucker!! For what it's worth, the Fascinate benchmarks better than that thing, even with my shi**y Jelly Bean build.
[Fascinate Android Development] lord dredd:
Thanks a bunch for the support dear mate.

May be you feel its easier to cook up a ROM outta sammy,s stuff bit still out of all out there I find gwiz to be most stable and solid.

On the kernel part.

Would like the default lowest brightness to be a few notches lower.

Typically the few options available within the devil kernel for ICS would be great.

And good luck with that tab ;)

I am toying with my nexus 7 from past few days.

Thanks and god bless

GWizzing on beautifully :) and freakin loving it.
[Fascinate Android Development] phxshadow:
Thanks Dj for a great rom. I have tried most of the others but nothing runs like GeeWiz.

I agree that a little oc would be nice and i agree with Dredd both those options would be nice.

On my end thats about all i can think of, I would like to learn some time how to add in the volume boost script. Tried several times but haven't figured it out yet.

I'm a little illiterate when it comes to scripts.
[Fascinate Android Development] JJ5150:
I use Volume+ app for boost all my volumes. just my $.02.

As for me, I'd hate to say it, but I'd like to OC/UV with an app if that's at all possible. I'm still noob on scripting and don't use it. That's the only thing I can see needs touching on. Everything else is spot on. If you can tweak the kernel so that I can use SetCPU and OC this puppy. I'd be a happy camper. A Great many thanks for all you've done and decided to come and do for us. Looking forward to seeing the new update.
[Fascinate Android Development] phxshadow:
I will give it a try jj thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] lord dredd:
DJ

and my friends JJ and mr scarfy

After a long time today I played temple run on my geewiz , but there was appreciable lag in the game.

Is there any tweak to set things right, coz my installation is totally clean and there are no other bugs in the setup.

Regards

GWizzing on beautifully :) and freakin loving it.
[Fascinate Android Development] Kaptinkrunk:
Lol I bee testing on my daily all the time, I figure its what I can do to get these ROMs more stable since I can't contribute

Fascinating AOKP Jelly Bean Build 1 Devil 1.2.1...
[Fascinate Android Development] scarfman4:
Did you move the game to the SDcard? If you're still using the stock card it's a class2 and pretty slow.

If not then sorry I have no idea. I looked in the settings to see if there are any hardware acceleration options to set but not finding any.
[Fascinate Android Development] lord dredd:
nope its still in phone's memory

i feel some more Ram is needed to be freed in the kernel

i hope Dj can get us some more customization options to free up more resources if at all thats possible.

i have downloaded Temple Run On my Nexus 7 and it runs so smooth ;)
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
There are some changes I made for Jelly Bean in the kernel that do free up a little extra memory. I don't think it amounted to much, probably 5-6MB. The same change for Gingerbread may yield more than that, I'd have to back-port to find out. I had to increase the RAM used for video decoding, but at the same time the people I kanged that from had optimized other parts of memory that I pulled in. GB shouldn't technically need the extra RAM for video decoding since it already works

Still working on Jelly (slowly but surely getting a viable system here)
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Thought you guys might like to see the attached screen shot from GW Player JellyBean. I have actually made a settings app. lol. I stole the way to hook it in and framework for the app from Cyanogenmod (of course), but I should be able to back-port the app into Gingerbread when I get back to it as well as some of the current and planned settings that don't currently exist in GW 2.8 Kernel

Don't get your hopes up, I'm still a prude about tweaking too much, but I added a 1.2GHz overclock / 800MHz underclock option for ya "due to popular demand" :highfive:

Other new things not in GW 2.8 are really more for the player. I allow a maximum battery charge value to be set to prolong the physical life of the battery when it's pretty much going to be sitting on a charger for days and days, and the "recharge point" is now customizable, for the same basic reason. Ideally, if you are going to have it in a dock 24/7 you don't want the battery fully charged and you don't need it constantly recharging. These settings allow for a max charge as low as 75% and a recharge point of up to 25% off the configured maximum. The option you can't see in the screen shot enables the Fascinate's dock audio output since it requires special consideration. I don't believe the battery stuff is much use for a daily-use phone, and the dock audio setting isn't necessary for the TouchWiz ROM.

If you guys think you'll want these new battery options in GW 2.8 Gingerbread, let me know, they were not hard to implement at all.
[Fascinate Android Development] lord dredd:
DJ ,

we are game for any improvements mate.

Geewiz is already a darling , a few more feather , i dont think would cause any trouble ;)
[Fascinate Android Development] scarfman4:
I know this is probably a dumb post, but there is an update for the Showcase, version FF29. According to Nex-Tech Wireless: "The updated will improve camera flash, Flashlight, screen lock up, provide louder audio and also provides a Google security patch."

With all the ICS and JB work do you think this is too little too late, or is it worth seeing if there's anything in it that can utilize for GeeWiz to improve EH03?
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Louder audio in and of itself is completely worth looking into! I think the community-based "in call boost" is likely the same thing, but if they managed to increase the gain on the dock audio (even a little bit!) it would so totally be worth it. You never know what those sneaky Samsung guys will do, there is probably a lot more than just a couple fixes in that FF29 ROM/Kernel :)

I'm days, perhaps a week, from cycling back to GB, but I will definitely download this and see what has been changed when I get there. Currently I'm attempting one more feeble attempt and getting GPS and bluetooth to work on JB without enabling the CDMA radio. I have zero confidence it will work out (this is like my 10th try), and my list of things that are broken really whittle down to GPS, Bluetooth, and video recording, so I may opt to go ahead and post this as an Alpha/Beta and get back to Gingerbread for a bit.
[Fascinate Android Development] rxwookie:
Just read that Sammy is working with Verizon to update the devices that infringe on Apple's patents.

Edit (link added):

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57503221-94/samsung-carriers-to-modify-infringing-devices-report-says/

While it specifically mentions working to modify current devices, the entire Galaxy series is infringing the patents due to the TouchWiz interface.

That means a possible upgrade for the Fascinate... it may also mean the death of TouchWiz...

Anyone got any details? Or are there just rumors?
[Fascinate Android Development] scarfman4:
First I've heard of it. Bet there will be a lot of people that won't be crying over the loss of TouchWiz.

Do you have a link?
[Fascinate Android Development] scarfman4:
The thing I'm wondering is will the Fascinate be part of this since it has been discontinued for so long. Even if they do the Fascinate buyers will have gotten upgrades by the time they roll it out.
[Fascinate Android Development] vrahn:
I've had my fascinate since it came out haven't upgraded once
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
I think they really only need to care about currently shipping devices, as an injunction only prevents sales of new units. They can't take the phones we already have out of our hands (well, not yet anyway, I'm sure Apple would if they could!)

Are there any Galaxy S phones still for sale by any US carrier? If not, my opinion is that this only "seals the deal" on any possibility for future updates to the line. Not that they were likely to have any, especially not on Verizon! LOL

Hey, for anyone waiting, I got GPS and Bluetooth working on the Jelly Bean player GeeWiz over the past couple days (woo!). The only major hurdles still to overcome are to fix up the USB (I hate that stupid virtual CD-ROM device and the non-functional Samsung MTP) and fix some problems with low-power (plugged in yet off) mode. After that the list seems to be full of fairly trivial and/or non-essential things :victory:
[Fascinate Android Development] rxwookie:
C Spire Wireless currently offers the Samsung Showcase, virtually identical to the Fascinate. $29.99 with a 2 year contract.

Several 4G versions of the original Galaxy S are out there in various countries.

Though I would agree, it's unlikely the good ole Fassy will get the love.

Apple hates it though... and I wouldn't put it past them to ask Verizon and others to require a phone change for customers with one.

Just to add a little more to your plate...

You think you might be able to make that a player a working phone Rom sometime in the future?

JellyGeeWiz... sounds fun!
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Actually, I don't think it would be that hard once all this other stuff works right. I even had to put the RIL (radio interface) in place for GPS and Bluetooth. The hard part has been making so it DIDN'T try to do phone stuff and have everything else work! The RIL was killing me, it would go hog wild with the CPU until I discovered a neat little "hey, don't do phone" property that it obeys, which finally allowed me to work on GPS and BT (as always my implementation is slightly different, but they seem to work fine at the moment)

Let me ask you this, though ... what do you think would be the benefit of a JellyGeeWiz as compared with the current offerings? JGW would definitely not have as many features/tweaks as they do and would probably be *quite* inferior. I've been taking a different approach than everyone else, and maybe there are performance/stability improvements using my way, but I don't think there would be. For example, I've kept the stock BML layer rather than going MTD. It limits me to the 2.6 kernel which makes my life very hard, but at the same time I re-worked Android to allow for Samsung's DBDATA volume the way it originally was. So, the kernel is probably slower and will never have all the right features, but the device may be slightly faster overall since the partitions are being used the way Sammy intended. On the latter point, OMG does it make a difference to get the database files onto the faster device! I see the MTD setups go to great lengths to move things around and resize them to try and get this benefit, it really wasn't that difficult to just mimic what Samsung did (2 evenings worth of work).

I can certainly try ... if it works well enough maybe there would be no reason to go revisit GW 2.8 and bring it up to date :cool: Gotta finish wifi-only first, I actually need this for myself!

edit: How about JellyWiz for a name? LOL, I like it. Up next ... KeyLimeWiz. Sounds like somebody drank too many mojitos and has to use the lavatory!
[Fascinate Android Development] rxwookie:
I would have thought Jelly would have significant advantages...

If it's going to be inferior, then I say stick with GB.

You know best with this Rom...
[Fascinate Android Development] djp952:
Oh no no ... I mean inferior to something like Cyanogenmod or the other full-blown Jelly Bean setups for the Fascinate :) It's absolutely superior to Gingerbread (if not a trifle slower) !!!
[Fascinate Android Development] rxwookie:
Oh, ok...

Personally, I've always preferred the GeeWiz Roms *because* they are different from Cyanogen.

I like my "gently used Yugo with dents in the door". I don't need a Cadillac with all bells and whistles that randomly breaks down.

JellyWiz for me!
[Fascinate Android Development] Kaptinkrunk:
What's this jellywiz?

Fascinating Devil Helly Bean Aug 30th Devil 1.3.1...
[Fascinate Android Development] rxwookie:
It's a proposed new name for the GeeWiz Rom if DJ takes us up to Android 4.1 (JellyBean).

It would be a version of JellyBean with the TouchWiz interface.
[Fascinate Android Development] Kaptinkrunk:
Ah lol OK makes sense now it would be cool

Fascinating AOKP Jelly Bean Sept 1 Devil 1.2.1...
[Fascinate Android Development] JJ5150:
Sweet! Looking forward to it. :good: