yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Ew

Preach! Its the truth. I can't wait myself. The final alarm clock looks perfect too! You get those tired eyes in the morning when you wake...the red slider is perfect. Just like the one red missed call slider. This is so dialed in...I can't wait! ...edit....short wait! Downloading right effing now!..edit 2..downloaded and placed on SD. I will flash as soon as I am back from the store! Thanks strongsteve, pjjohn, and those that contribute ideas and help on this thread. After testing that zip that tries to make other ROMs run as fast,smooth, and stable as this one for my distant #2 setup, I found several glitches. You just can't replace the hard work and man hours put into a ROM with one flash.

Go launcher part edited...The boys are on fire! Also another Tegrak update looks like just to support another device
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Thanks StrongSteve, looking forward to this update. Thanks SO MUCH for the work!

And as StrongSteve says in the release notes "Just update.. don't question it"

On a side note....

I use XDA Premium and Root Explorer a lot. Drives me nuts to see them grey icons mixed with blue. I am updating the icons for them two apps for my own personal use. If anyone is interested in them icons to push into the apk's let me know. I don't want to clutter StrongSteve's thread or confuse people as to what is/is not part of ROM, so I will just put them in my dropbox.

Also keep in mind that as a 3rd party app, they might update at anytime and you could lose the theming.

So if anyone wants them, PM me and I will share link to dropbox when I am done editing them. LOTS of icons in XDA
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rbtrucking:
Is anyone else having force closes with kies air on this rom? Edit: Nevermind I just needed to update the app. Great rom BTW loving the blue theme and the speed!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mkuehn10:
Just updated to 2/8. Didn't think it could get better. It did. Thanks SS and everyone else.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Heck yeah! Post them up! Huge thanks to pjjohn73
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BigJPNut:
WOW SS this is nice man! Im over Gingerbread but since Sprint took away my yearly upgrade this phone and rom will get me through to if/when ICS is official. Even with the themed rom debacle in the past, this is truly a work of art and hands down the best rom I've ever ran on any phone. BIG THANKS to BIG STEVE....stay strong bro!

EDIT.....Big thanks to pjjohn73!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rbtrucking:
Ya StrongSteve is the man this rom Kicks ASS! By far the fastest! When you say sprint took away your yearly upgrade you mean they increased it to 2 years? They did the same thing to me! What's up with that?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Yeah, that kicked in somewhere around the time this,phone launched I believe ...along with the 14 day return window instead of 30 days
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
They did that to everyone but it's 20 months now, not 2 years.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rbtrucking:
Ya I heard about the 14 day return period too! That **** is ridiculous!

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Ya, you're right.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
If you, for whatever reason, let the voicemail app update itself; make sure you uninstall updates from the application menu to get use of my odexed themed copy in system app.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Looks and feels great like always, thanks Strongsteve!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iorecki:
i know i been slacking a bit, but i updated the other sites to the latest
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Ok, i have updated icons for these apps. But when I insert the icons into the apk's and push them to the /data/app folder the app disappears. Restarting the phone does not help. If I delete the app and try to "install" it from my the apk on the sdcard, it does not install.

Any ideas?

It seems to realize that it is an altered paid app...???
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
I got lucky with my Sprint upgrade. I had been eligible for an upgrade for over two years when I got this phone in September. Now I can use one final annual upgrade in September of this year but have to use it by the end of the year. If I had waited until after October 1 to get this phone I would have to wait 20 months.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I have never been this happy with a phone. Much better than the evo devices I have had. Sense was one obese bloated overlay that slowed everything down to a crawl.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Try pushing them to system app. They will definitely work there. Then, if you want them in data.. use titanium to convert them to user apps.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Great, thanks! Will try that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Hey guys, downloading the newest atm =D. Thanks Steve =D. OH I wanted to know if you guys knew how to 100% wipe your phone? (I'm guessing that would remove root as well but thats fine) because there are a few things that stay even after you do a factory reset in CWM.

I've been getting like 76% Android OS and don't know what to do about it =(. Hopefully this new update will fix it =)!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
For SURE, great phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Ok not having much luck getting Root Explorer to work. Get it pushed to \system\app but when running it it Force Closes.

XDA Premium on the other hand works good when pushed to \system\app.

I am not going to post the actual apk as it is a paid app. But I will post the icons that I themed as I don't think that should be a problem. If it is please let me know and I will remove them.

If you have bought the XDA Premium app and want the themed icons, you need to use Root Explorer to copy the XDA apk from \data\app folder to your SDCard and from there to your computer. Then you can just take the linked icons in this post and push the icons into the XDA apk using 7Zip on your computer. The icons in the zip are in folders with the same name as they will need to be pushed in the apk. Then put the updated XDA apk to your SDCard and then push to \system\app. Might need to then reboot your phone. (UNINSTALL the existing XDA, before pushing the new one.) As an alternative to pushing it to \system\app you could just put it in StrongSteves ROM and flash the ROM.

Posting a zip of icons and some screenshots of the app icons, load screen and app screen.

http://db.tt/VIejLa5r (zip from dropbox)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
StrongSteve, when I did the contact-phone apk I just did the icons that seemed to be needed, but I noticed I missed some. So here is an update for you to put in some future version. It certainly is not important enough to worry about now. But just so you have it for later.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CrispyCritter:
Response to previous post.. and some questions / issues with 2/5 build

Hey Steve. Sorry I didn't get back to ya yesterday. The IT world waits for no man. I ended up getting swamped with noob sales reps calling me for tech support. Silly noobs. Yet, they keep food on my table. heh heh.

These days, I'm mostly working tech support for all the sales reps of a rather large automobile / RV / motorsports advertising magazine in the midwest (Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee). I still of course do graphic work which is what my degree is in, but my passion is in building / repairing / troubleshooting computers.

I'd be happy to help you out with graphic work if you need. Just feel free to contact me any time. Just let me know the dpi / file format, etc. specifics you'd need. I have all the major design apps at my disposal like Adobe CS5, Painter Pro, etc.. If I don't get back to you right away it's most likely because a sales rep noob has me on the phone. heh heh.

(ok, 'nuff about me)

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On the latest build of your ROM of 2/5:

I'm loving the quickness of it, of course! (I had no idea my phone could get any faster than it already was!!) I only have a couple minor issues with it..

-The notification text color in the top status bar being blue on black sometimes makes it hard to see if you're outside or in a very well-lit area..

-For some odd reason, the auto brightness sensor is "over-dimming" the brightness. On the last ROM I was on (1/30 build), the screen was always nice and bright, and only dimmed if I was in a very darkened room. I don't want to force the brightness to like 80ish% all the time, but I don't want to be buggered to have to go into the settings to constantly adjust this. I wasn't sure if this was an intentional change to the calibration of the light sensor or not?

-The keyboard.. again, the blue on black theme makes it difficult to read at times in brightly lit areas. Is there any way that I can apply a skin to the keyboard to change it back to the way it was in the 1/30 build?

All-in-all, though, I'm still a true fan of your ROMs, and I have no intentions whatsoever of changing to any other.. 'cept if someone were to release a VERY stable (we're talkin' STRONG STEVE-STABLE!!) ICS ROM... ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Thank you very much. You really should jump on the 2/8. I know that some people have a problem with the status bar contrast. I personally love that blue up in there but I will put up a framework-res later with the stock status bar clock and text colors.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
As a sidebar...if you turn off auto brightness, you can swipe your finger left and right across the status bar to manually adjust the brightness. It also saves a bit of battery not using auto brightness
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CrispyCritter:
Another Update! LoL

Grrr... I just got done updating to 2/5 last night.. had to of course do the fact. wipe since it was jumping to the EL26. At least this time, I won't have to redo all my stuff again.. heh. copying / pasting the updt to my phone's SD right now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Never had an evo but used an HTC Hero for almost two years. Sense made it brutally slow until I rooted it and flashed a custom GB Rom. I loved this phone from day one but it's 100x better now with your Rom and gets better with each update. Thanks for theming the clock. I thought about asking if you could do that to get rid of the ugly grey background. It looks awesome now along with everything else. My son in law has an evo and now wants a GSII real bad. He has a birthday coming up so I'm looking to buy a used one for him and teaching him to root it and set it up with this Rom.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
The themed clock gives it an ICS kinda feel. I think it was a great decision. Been posting from my Nexus so much because I am constantly trying to improve my setup. Its not necessary here...flash this and you're done
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nalesic:
Transparent Lockscreen

Strongsteve, just wanted to say what a great job you've done here. Thought I might make a small contribution if anyone is interested. I really wanted a transparent locksrcreen so I could see my Matrix live wallpaper through the lockscreen, so I modified the framework-res.apk based on another XDA post and attached it if anyone is interested.

NOTE: This is based on the 2/8 ROM, it will most likely crash any other version. I am not responsible if it breaks your phone, but it didn't break mine and now I have a transparent lockscreen. The update can just be flashed through recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
Thanks for this flashed and looks awesome. Only issue is that i no longer have SS wallpaper. Dont like all my others. Anyone have decent wallpapers that look good with this rom?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Nice. Liked the transparent wallpapers on the Blu Kuban Rom. Flash it in recovery?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
I use the Zedge app for wallpapers and ringtones. Free in the market I believe. Search for "blue and black wallpaper" and you'll find some really nice ones.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Hey steve i had a question does it make a difference in speed if i odex an app and push it to system/app or is it the same if i leave it in data/app?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
It will run "smoother" if you know what I mean. Start quicker, stop quicker, feel lighter, lag less, react quicker.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
Yep, I wiped caches then flashed. Works and looks great.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RubenRybnik:
I really like this ROM for its speed, it's really well done. However I just can't pull myself away from Blazer ROMs ICS theme. I wish I could combine that look with this ROM. Not that I'm taking away from either ROM in its own right, just my own opinion.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nalesic:
Yep, you can just flash it in recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Aren't you glad you have choices ..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I think I'm gonna rock this for a few days..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RubenRybnik:
Yep ... Absolutely my favorite thing about Android and all the great Devs on here ( you included :o) ) like I said wasn't trying to make a dig or anything.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Thanks for the tip Steve =D. Btw 2/8 is a sexy monster =D!!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I have some zipping to do but....some are custom some are from Zedge
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Reignzone:
Was that an older kernel I saw posted a few pages ago?

Hmm... interesting!

Sent from one impressive piece of technology.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I'm gonna try this for a bit..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BigJPNut:
Older kernel....I missed that, but we are using an older kernel on this rom and it seems to mesh well!

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I have had luck odexing some in system/app but I have no luck with Tegrak for some reason?

EDIT...I believe pjjohn73 was having some f/c issues with some also....idk but the ones I use most are there. Most apps that let me move to sd card I just do that and leave em in data/app
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Uamore6:
Try picseed wallpaper from market they even catalog my color.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Lol, thought you were going to rock that other one for awhile...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Reignzone:
I like some of those wallpapers there, so perhaps someone could .zip format these for us folks that are entirely too lazy to view and/or download each of them individually.

Not to mention, searching BLUE as a keyword in Zedge is a never-ending venture of scrolling.

Much obliged.

Sent from the last remaining Prime; Leader of the Autopads.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
I odexed setcpu, ICS keyboard, Folder Organizer and Rom Toolbox then pushed them to system/app and got force closes. Then i went into system/app and tried to install them but the installation failed and force closes stopped and all work perfect. o.o. I might do Opera as well.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Thats awesome.. how do you go about Odexing apps?

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StrongSteve i will PM you the "zipped" contact/phone apk later as asked. But I think I want to tweak a few more things first... Also noticed a problem with Gmail, so I will PM a zip to that as well. Will try to get them up tonight yet..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
I suggested searching for "blue and black"and got 268 results. It didn't take me long to scroll through them at all. Hats off to you for admitting you are too lazy to find and download your own wallpapers and would rather ask someone else to do it for you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Use ADW or Go Launcher and download an ICS theme. Go Locker has ICS style lockscreens too.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pcmanager:
I was at 160 lcd density... love the screen real estate at 160... couldnt read market text and most dialers scale bad, but usable. 7 x 7 on home screen is great..... but the fugly greenies came back in places like VVM... bumped it back to 185 after flashing 2-8 and all is well again. oh and I almost forgot I'm user number 14 strongsteve! in between flashing 2.5 and 2.8 I flashed 4 of the other different roms that are available just check them out. I'm not knocking the other developers I'm sure they do great work but I can only take a couple minutes of each 1 before I flashed back to your rom. thanks for all the awesome work you put into this thing Steve.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
StrongSteve, check your PM's I left you a dropbox link with Contact/Phone, Gmail, and MMS (noticed it was missing a lot), which include the icons, odex, and apks. Tuck them away for your next update if you want.

I have the apk's attached if anyone wants to push them to \system\app with Root Explorer. (Restart phone after pushing)

Edit: Accidently put up an Old Gmail.apk, Sorry about that. It is now updated correctly as of 2-10-12, 11AM
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Sometime back I had shared a free app called AppWidgetPicker.

It organizes the Widget Menu. For example if a Application has 10 Widgets, instead of showing all 10 when clicking on homepage and selecting Widgets, it will just show 1 icon, after selecting that icon, it will then show all 10 widgets for the application. I just find it makes it much cleaner and easier to select specific widgets. I am sure many of you are already familiar with this app.

Anyhow, I just taught myself to odex an app, and this is the one I odexed, so I thought I would share it.

If interested, just push both the apk and odex files to \system\app using Root Explorer and change the permissions the same as the others in the folder. I also needed to restart my phone for it to take affect. I happened to wipe cache and dalvik also, just because.. but you should NOT have to do that. (and just like anything else have a nandroid backup, I can't imagine you would need it for this, but always good to be safe)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Either the last update really helped my 3g speeds or Sprint is doing better in my area or both. Best speeds I've had in like a year. Double what I normally get. Awesome.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] runner77:
That you for this!! It really cleans things up when picking widgets.

Sent from my Epic phone on Android.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Euclid's Brother:
I'm on 2/8 now, Love the look. Still getting excessive battery drain, but I'm convienced it's some app I've installed that is continually using data. I turned off wifi, 4g and data from the toggles, and battery life has dramitacally improved.

Yesterday, after charging with no use, i lost 20% in 1.5 hours. Today chargine, I lost 2% in 1.5 hours.

I installed BatteryBatteryStats last night, but not sure how to tell what's causing the drain. Once I re-enable data, I'll post some screenshots or logs to see if someone can help me identify the culprit.

Huge thanks to StrongSteve, pjjohn73 and others who have contributed to this. I wish I had more time to help, but I barely have time to flash the updates right now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Pjjohn... you themed an old gmail. The one you themed has the old yellow carrots.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Guys.. make sure your carrots are blue in gmail.. like pictured below..

Edit: I just checked the 2/8 package and it is the current gmail with blue carrots. Pjjohn must have just used an older one.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Your Welcome
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Your right, sorry about that. I have the stuff I have been messing with in a folder, and had forgot you had changed the carrots.

I keep messing up and I'm going to get fired ;)

I will have fixed in a bit and will correct tge attachment. Thanks for letting me know strongsteve
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Never! You are doing an excellent job.. haha. It is really easy to get packages mixed up.. I have hundreds sitting around on my desktop and often mix them up.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Ok , in post 3566, I accidently posted a messed up version of Gmail that was missing the blue carrots..

I corrected that post and also have the correct version attached in this post.

I took it out of SrongSteves latest 2/8 and moved my updated icons in it, so it should not be missing the carrots. (Thanks again StrongSteve, for pointing it out)

SO IF ANYONE PUSHED GMAIL FROM POST 3566, PLEASE UPDATE WITH THIS ONE

PS: StrongSteve I will also delete all my old copies to avoid this again.

Just push it to \system\app with Root Explorer. (Restart phone after pushing)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Lancair360:
Nice......another little gem I didn't even know existed. Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Funny.. I call them carrots but they are actually spelled caret. Lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Funny, well carrot works..

StrongSteve, will you check your pm? I have a question.

EDIT: nevermind, I figured it out....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
The wallpapers I posted were zipped up by strongsteve somewhere in this thread but I will get started on zipping them again
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xlGmanlx:
Did you see that naerok has the volume mod camera apk?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Sturmie:
Looking good :). Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Alternate TWlauncher

I odexed this launcher for my framework.

Site is here: SITE

All credit to Swiftwork and Fr4gg0r

DOWNLOAD

As with anything else.. if you are already using a deodexed form of this mod, it must be deleted FIRST and then flash.

This is untested by me..also, after reviewing the updater script, it appears to remove the old TW so be brave and let me know.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sweets55:
Sorry if asked before but if we were running this Rom before we can just wipe cache and dalvik right?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Yes.. go and do that. However, let me know if your camera still makes noise. Because the updater script is not removing the sounds but the sounds are just not included in system/media. So.. if they are already there, they may need to be removed manually. There are 6 of them. Please let me know your results.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sweets55:
Ok I flashed the update and no camera sound. :)

Thanks for the great Rom and no LOS. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Sweet, sweet!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] useport80:
great job strongsteve!

just finished wiping cache and dalvik. flashing as we speak. coming from update4. :)

is there any chance that a non-themed odex version of this rom existing?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nyflyguy:
My groove ip app stopped working after the update for some reason. I can hear the other person but they can't hear me. Maybe I should wipe...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
hmmm.. not sure about that one. Try to wipe and restart the phone. The only big thing changed is the camera being changed out to the modded one. Other stuff is cosmetic. If we have to, we can put the old camera with sounds back in.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Will that work on the version I am running Steve? (Volume for camera. And no sound...on your first release?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Yes.. it should. You may have to manually remove sounds from system /media.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nyflyguy:
So instead of wiping I decided to flash the kernel itself, and everything seems to be working fine now. Thanks for all your work. Fastest and most stable rom I have tried on this phone so far.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mrpickem:
Was this done without OC? What speed was it OC'd to?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] locoboi187:
Is it possible just to have a crt mod zip to flash instead of integrating it to the ROM?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Using Tegrak, overclocked to 1600 1375mV, native zImage.

If using Tegrak, buy the app so you can go to settings, optimization, adjust oc and voltage.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
looking at, it is something in the framework-res. I can decompile it and make the edit if someone can just tell me where the edit is.

Edit.. ok.. I think I know what to do.. ill work on that tomorrow.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tweeker404:
Would be interested in this as well! Steve? ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Yeah.. I could for sure.. let me get on that soon.

Ok.. what if I just did a stock with AIO mod? I wouldn't dare start another dev thread... haha