yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tlc08071:
I like the gtalk

I love the blue theme you created. I wanted to make a suggestion with it you may like. Instead of the key characters being white with the blue keyboard, take a look if you hadnt at how good it looks with the blue key board but using red characters.

I dont have your rom installed as of yet, dont have access to a pc at the moment to flash to it & not sure if/or how yet to use mobile oden to flash without a pc, but before i found your wonderful creation i did manage to root my phone and installed cwm recovery on it. I bought a few apps from market so I managed to get things in a blue, black & red theme as far as the basics go. I like the look alot just wish I had time & a pc to learn how to do work such as what you been doing but I currently dont. Im not big on having a bunch of cluttering apps & widgets on my screen either, i like to be able to see my wallpaper in full rather small pieces of it behind a bunch of clutter. Ok, im rambling. its 2:50am and im tired. forgive me all.

Anyhow, I mainly just wanted to suggest intergrating some red into your rom to break up the blue black clash of everything. I still cant wait to flash this rom either way though. If & when i am able to do so, & if you hadnt added some of the red in, once I have it on my phone I will see if i can add soe red here & there and get a screen shot of it uploaded on the site.

Great work once again steve & all involved, keep it up, lord knows us non devs would be lost without you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
I suggest you read post one of the thread, bullet point 4
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I need to update one last time because of a few small things that I am not happy with.. I will do this later today.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 1brainsurgeon:
+1

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Yep, I have. Most importantly, you lose root. Not that it's difficult to re-root, but you do lose it. IMO, it's not ready yet. It's laggy. If you read the OP, there are things that aren't working. GPS didn't work for me. I flashed the gps fix, which led me to a soft brick. It's just not ready IMO...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Amen to this philosophy!! This is what all of the devs used to strive for
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] haxxorcist:
I believe the rogue kernel has support for boot animations, but looks for them in a different location/format than the stock kernel in this ROM. I believe the rogue kernels look at /system/media/bootanimation.zip

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Sturmie:
Does this still work with the latest build? Just curious...was going to update soon.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Final Update

Final Update is being uploaded now..

This should be the last Gingerbread update for this rom .. fingers crossed
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
This one will always remain on the SD no matter what happens in the future! Thanks for the hours of tireless work and for constantly updating and big thanks to pjjohn as well!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Def a big thanks Steve and Paul. I highly doubt ill switch to ICS unless Steve and Paul work on it. I'd rather stay on GB.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
I feel the same way. I'm sure I will try ICS at some point, but I like to wait until all the bugs are shaken out by people much smarter than me. This will always be my go-to GB Rom. Much thanks to SS and Paul but don't forget John who will flash anything and Mpcdata who keeps Go Launcher updates odexed. Patiently waiting for update to be posted.

Edit: downloading now...1:23pm
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
This new update includes Regulis touchwiz calendar widget so full credit to him for that. Other things were minor stuff that I just wanted to make.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jarsong:
THANK YOU!

Thanks for all the hard work that went in to this masterpiece! I hope the day comes you take on ICS for our phones!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Your Welcome Guys :) although very little credit goes to me. 99.9 percent of credit goes to SS. I have enjoyed helping a lot!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I am currently working on a keyboard skin that will match the rom perfectly..

You guys please let me know when an an ICS version is 100% ready and I will get to work on it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rbtrucking:
My thoughts exactly! Love your work StrongSteve!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Which keyboard?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
It will work with all the major keyboards.. ultimate, swift, smart.. etc
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Sweet!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Got this one from the market and I'm staying with it!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
What keyboard is that? =O I have Ice Cream Sandwich Keyboard donation.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
It won't be long. Calkulin posted a stock rooted FB17 build and a deodexed version. Team Rogue has the kernel, and sfhub posted the FB17 Odin tar files in auto root. Haven't had time to read much of it yet but it's all in the dev section.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] random45:
thanks StrongSteve. I like this rom. (although I dont really like the blue that much)

but i'm happy with it b/c the rom overall is really smooth
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Anyone having problems connecting to the Market?

EDIT: never mind, cleared market cache, fixed it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
While there is a deodexed rooted ICS ROM, I have been reading about plenty of little things here and there that wouldn't qualify it to meet strongsteve's standards. I downloaded everything but haven't flashed any of it. I have read about heat issues, random people have no GPS, other little things that may get worked out in next build...oh, also some apps like Netflix don't work
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iorecki:
All the leaks aren't complete....

the OTA updates are gonna start rolling out soon.

my boy just got an Ics ota update on his view tab....like if that matters for us on Samsung devices.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I just dont know how motivated I am going to be.. haha. Everything is great right now and I cant stand to see any green or that stock look. I certainly do not need face recognition.. so really.. what is the hurry? If things are way different, it will be a challenge to find where these mods are at in the code.. anyways.. I am feeling lazy.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
I don't know anything about ICS just that it looks nice, I heard it was faster/smaller than GB but I'm not sure. If that's the case then I guess it might be worth it.

P.S. Steve you never threw me at some tuts.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I think when it comes to putting together a rom..

you should be able to decompile, recompile, edit images, compare files (kdiff), signing, edit xmls, convert colors to hex and smali, edit and construct an update script, odex and deodex manually (not just a script), manage a build.prop, make changes to smali code and/or xmls to achieve mods, be able to navigate an adb shell and know basic adb syntax

I linked the guide that I use for manually odexing and deodexing towards the beginning of this thread. I would google for theming guides. Learn APK Manager.. it is a wonderful interface using a great many tools such as apktool. It is very easy and user friendly.

Make sure you have the SDK and APK Manager and maybe even Eclipse. Learn those things. Gimp, Paint.net, photoshop are great for editing images. Lets see.. probably more I am forgetting.. I am, by NO means, an expert. My talents were in odexing which I learned from the guys at team Mik. Maybe I will take a back seat to this next release.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Thanks Steve =D!!!!! You're always so helpful man. I really appreciate the info. Now time to Google and learn =}.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I will throw you some links later tonight..

Were there not any good custom roms available for that device?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
They're alright, although cm7 nightlies are out for it he wants me to theme the way you did yours and I want to odex one of the nightlies and see how that goes. The one that really doesn't have great roms ATM is my mothers LG Esteem. So ill probably work on hers first.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I would say that the vast majority of theming is done in framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk. You can edit the standard pngs easily and its more work for the .9 pngs. Then go into the decompiled package to the res/values/colors.xml.. a lot of good can be done there..

That is where I would start.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cardenas5810:
hey steve! what has been the longest time you have had to wait for your gps to lock on in google maps????
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I am not sure, really. I use navigation on occasion and it usually never takes longer than a handful of seconds. Maybe someone else could answer.

I know that John C. has helped a lot of users with various gps fixes. If you are having issues, I would hit him up.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Sturmie:
I'm coming from the 1-82 release...did a factory reset + cache/dalvik cache wipe...then installed the 2-20 release. Everything seems to go smoothly (app re-installs) until I restore my SMS+MMS using MyBackup Pro...then the phone starts to flake out (lock up, freeze, shut down) randomly and especially when trying to get into Handcent or the native Messaging app.

Any ideas? I've always used MyBackup Pro to backup/restore my messages and never had this kind of problem before.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Try fresh installing hand cent and then restore if not then uninstall it restore backup and re-install
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Sturmie:
Actually, I did a restore back to my 1-82 image, re-backed up my SMS/MMS, wiped again and then installe 2-20...same thing. Gonna go back to my 1-82 backup again and try SMS Backup+ instead.

EDIT: Actually, SMS Backup+ is going to take ~2 hours to back up my 8,000 texts...anyone know of a better/faster way to back up my SMS + MMS messages?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mpcdata:
If you have a nandroid backup after installing the rom in recovery go to advanced restore and chose data
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Sturmie:
Really? I can do that from CWM? Sweet!

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Uh, how come I didn't know that I could just restore the "data" from a CWM backup after wiping and installing a new ROM? Wow, could have saved myself hours worth of work in the past. Is this method safe? Am I going to see any random FCs anywhere? I assume since 1-82 and 2-20 are both GB based, this type of partial restore method is probably OK.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
If having GPS issues, first start with an app called GPS Status, to to menu and clear a GPS stats. That helps a lot of people immediately. If that doesn't work try two other apps ...GPS Aids and/or Faster Fix
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Sturmie:
@JohnCorleone

I looked and I don't see any folders called "App Manager" at all.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Damn...I am trying to figure out what app I have installed that is doing this for me....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mpcdata:
I thought I was the one older than dirt and gettin senile LOL. Its Rom Toolbox.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AestenD:
ignore, double post
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AestenD:
ROM toolbox I believe.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Capp5050:
I didn't have GPS lock problems -- then I did. At one point, the above helped, then it didn't.

If you try the above (and you should), and they don't work for you, check out this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1466561

..and download/install the appropriate files.

Couple more tips: After all of the above, and before testing, clear your Google Maps cache, and also clear out the NetworkLocation.apk cache.

Finally, to rule out (and/or identify) what seems to be another bug in some devices, toggle GPS off, then toggle ON, then re-boot with the toggle set 'ON'. Sounds stupid, and it is, but...

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I realize that this was probably discussed ad-nauseum a few weeks back, but can someone briefly summarize why SS reverted back to the EL-26 kernel for this ROM instead of keeping EL29? Is there a difference (real or otherwise?).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mpcdata:
Better Performance from chris41g stock repacked kernels.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blackcanopy:
I finally have enough posts to post in dev thread so I thought I'd share a screenshot
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
XDA Premium finally updated! Looks like Tapatalk now!!! Pjjohn, can you make it blue exactly like last one????
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blackcanopy:
I'd like to say thank you so much StrongSteve for an awesome ROM and staying true to blue. Very smooth, fast and very easy on my battery. The theme on this bad boy is nothing less than incredible. My best experience has been on this ROM.

pjjohn73, thank you for the awesome eyecandy extras you have contributed in here too. Excellent work.

It was great to see how well the 2 of you worked together to bring us such a dream come true ROM. Thank you again.

JohnCorleone, thank you so much for suggesting to try this ROM in the "odex your ROM" thread. It was in there where I was convinced to give this a go.

Thank you to everyone else that asked the questions I didn't have to because the rest of you have given detailed answers to those questions.

Thanks to everyone for the greatest thread reading possible. group effort without drama
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Yes sir.. its been a great bunch of folks in this thread.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Ok, soon as I can.

Also, still need to properly do 9png files, so it looks better.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Yeah xda Prem has never let me upload images ={……it tells me to log in……lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blackcanopy:
I've not had the option to upload pictures until this evening
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Damn ...all of the screenshots I have posted in this thread were from old Premium under more/upload from gallery. I always get my pics from Quickpic not Gallery. If it wasn't for the lockscreen wallpaper being tied to Gallery, I would have deleted it ages ago
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blackcanopy:
It could be that I just never found the option until this evening. When I read the description in market and it said now has ability to upload pics from within the app, i guess i assumed the option didn't exist. I have done allot of reading from XDA and very little posting, so I'm sure you would know much better than I. That is strange though that you had the option and now it is gone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
There ain't no gmail app like it anywhere!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
My keyboard skin
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Lol it looks great =D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blackcanopy:
@ JohnCorleone, I think I see the confusion I may have started here. I updated XDA premium this evening from market, but apparently it didn't "stick". I went back to the market to see what I missed and it still said I have an update available. sorry if I caused confusion. That's probably why my theme didn't change too. My bad
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
No there is not
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Always says I'm not authorized
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Yeah I get the same thing ={
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
No problem. I am sure a themed version for those of us that have Premium will be around in the near future. ;).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Going, to theme it. Will have SS hit the 9png files. Unless he did everything already..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I haven't yet. You do all the standard pngs and then dropbox it to me for the nines..

Also.. I will hunt the xmls for green
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Calkulin posted a flashable FB15 modem. I was on EL26 still because it worked better for me than EL29. Tried the FB15 modem today on this Rom and data speeds are noticeably better. I drive a truck for a living and ran Speedtest at a few locations around Seattle that I go to every day and speeds were better on 3g and 4g.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1505979
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
There has been some changes to the graphics. So I will swap out what I can, then I need to go through and hit some more stuff. Will pass off as soon as I am done.

Edit: Just went through the files, and updated the new files and deleted the obsolete ones. I will be passing off a couple 9png files to SS. to update. Here are some screen shots, the green you see are the 2 9png files I am going to have SS hit and what ever else he wants too.

PS: these screen shots are in combination with using the "simple" display style under settings of xda

HEY SS, when your done let me know.. I have a few more edits I need to do yet..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mpcdata:
Ok here is the updated Golauncher ver 2.80 . Copy to /system/app set permissions reboot. http://db.tt/KkDONsv4 . Paul when your done with XDA premium give me a shout please.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Thanks mpcdata. You're on it. I was in the market yesterday and the update wasn't there yet.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I have started working on this xda app.. but there is a ton of fugly orange so it will be awhile yet..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Those green bubbles bothered me the most and you already have them blue! Cant wait!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zeau2004:
I want this keyboard....it matches perfectly with this rom, how can I get this Mr. StrongSteve??

Sent from a Galaxy far far away...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Pm sent
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] haxxorcist:
I just gave it a try and had similar results on 4g. 3 tests using EL29 then 3 on FB15.

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zeau2004:
Thanx bro

Sent from a Galaxy far far away...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Xda app is done
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asteetva:
Market apps need to be odexed too?

Hi If I want to install Go Launcher and its other Go Apps, can I just download and install the or I have to get it odexed?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
you can usually install anything you want on an odexed rom, except for deodexed themes...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asteetva:
Thank you

Oh Ok Thank you, I will try it out now. Also is there a link where U can find information on advantages of Odexed roms
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
sure is..

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=is+odex+better+than+deodex
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asteetva:
:-)

I did that but every where it just talks about being faster , but no article talks about data speed or browsing related experience etc...Actually that is what I meant to know...But I will flash this and see how the experience is for me. I generally use go widgets etc, hope it works for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
data speed and browsing speed is totally dependent on Sprints wonderful (:eek:) network, so no, odexed roms won't add any speed to that, unfortunately..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I accidentally used the non noCIQ update script in my original upload. This just means that libiq_service.so got left in system/lib. You should go in and manually delete that. Leave libiq_client.so alone.

I am uploading a new copy of the rom with that lib file removed. Otherwise, the apks and jars with nociq are still perfectly functioning.

Done
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asteetva:
Latest Kernel?

- Used an older kernel so please update kernel to Chris pulled with CWM HERE

***Updated 10/29/11 - to remove /system/lib/libiq_service.so. If you installed prior to this update, please manually delete this file. Do not delete libiq_client.so

Have you included the latest kernel ? I am about to download and flash.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
No.. for best results, flash Chris latest "pulled" with CWM 5 after downloading..

Also, I always recommend updating superuser and busybox and binaries..

also remove two startup sounds from /system/etc :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asteetva:
update

So Pulled I can flash from thew link you provided or search on xda.

Update su,bb and binaries via Market?

Why remove start up sound? If I do not want to reboot constantlly...:-) hehe
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Here is another screenshot...

Yours wont look like this if you don't use LauncherPro or this wallpaper.. :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asteetva:
my experience

So I installed this and as suggested I flashed pulled CWM. Wifi did not work,so flashed this rom again and wifi stays connected. One thing I noticed i can connected to 4G and stay connected, not sure if it has anything to do with the Odexed ROM or something else.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I have not had any issues like that.. but I have known cases where someone goes from the "source" kernel to the "pulled" kernel and lose WiFi. I am going to repack the rom with a "pulled" kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asteetva:
I think I was not clear

I think I did not say it clearly, after installing your Odexed ROM only , I could connect to 4G and stay connected from the same location in my apartment , from where I could not stay connected with deodexed rom ( It will connect and then disconnect in a few seconds or as soon as I move my phone).

Flashing the Pullled CWM in the OP broke wifi, so I flashed your Odexed zip again , which I think replaces the CWM and Kernel and everything is fine.

I am just posting my findings so other people can also try different ways and post so we can all gain from it.

No personal attack on pulled CWM latest version.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Its all good..

I am uploading an update with Chris "pulled" kernel with CWM 5.0.2.7
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Hey great work! This looks awesome! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
StrongSteve, great job sir. Two recommendations, the dialer looks good but could the color possibly be white when you press a key? Also my 4g icon....shoot will show Screenie in next post
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
John.. you can go into contacts.apk and swap the PNGs out for any color you want! The resources stay with the .apk so those cosmetic mods are eeasy breezy
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Nevermind, I know how to make it darker thanks to you and Xlgman. By the color of the 4g bars I imagine you intentionally made it that way. Great, fantastic job!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
John..

Do me a favor and try out your hotspot
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Yes .. TW by default. Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
happens to me on every rom as well except for pure stock. I'm not a believer in wiping battery stats personally. Never did on my previous device (samsung vibrant), and the battery lasted forever.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
By the way these batteries charge, you would have to pull the plug right when it got to 100 to see maximum time on 100. Once it reaches 100, I believe it stops actually charging for awhile before starting back up again.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] itbmd:
I can confirm it happens to me on pure stock. Charges to 99% fine, then just takes forever for me to hear that little beep that it's "Fully Charged". I am not even rooted yet, but I think I will for this rom.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] killhr:
Hey Steve im love the rom but im not a fan of blue and was wondering if you planned on any other colors and or hooking up with Venom i love his theme too
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] useport80:
i agree. my eyes are just jacked up tho lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I am planning on an unthemed AIO plus silent camera soon.. maybe late tonight.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] useport80:
sweet! i can't wait. with the AIO, i guess i dont need widgetlocker anymore.

how does one donate to you? i didn't see it in the original post.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
+1 on that.

Sent using Calkulin's V1.1
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
its the way the kernel is programmed. it does that to protect your battery from being over charged and burning your house down... essentially...