yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Make a nandroid backup, do a full wipe, then flash the ROM. Since you are on an EL29 setup already, after your first boot, you can most likely boot to recovery, go to backup and restore, select advanced restore, select the nandroid you just made, and select restore data only. It will give you all of the goodness of strongsteve's ROM (including all of the time consuming color editing) and add back your apps and passwords and such. Be sure to make a nand first. This method has never failed me when strongsteve releases an update. I only said "it should work" because you are on stock but you'll be fine...and you will love this ROM!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] runner77:
share!.....share!..... :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Lancair360:
I had to look at my phone to see exactly what it is that you changed and you are right. You're on a roll!! I like yours much better than that fugly grey.

Thanks for all the hard work to make this such an awesome ROM. You rock!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
Is a nandroid backup necessary? I usually just back up my stuff with titanium. I've never used a nandroid backup lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] towncop1978:
Where can you get chris's kernel? I would like to try this rom with it... Especially if it gives that kind of battery life....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] towncop1978:
Thanks for the link shade.... Flashed and going to calibrate battery... then I'll be rocking and rolling with better battery life....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Not necessary but always good to have something you know,works in case something odd happens. People have had random oddities when restoring with Titanium. Its more of a safety net. Everyone should have at least 1 good nandroid backup
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ashevillemike:
I agree about having different backups. I usually make both nandroid and titanium before I flash. The nandroid is pretty easy to work with and I think much easier to restore batch data, while titanium I use to work with individual apps.

This rom is amazing - I've been on it for a some time and have zero (yes zero) issues with stability (and it is blue!).

Thanks to Steve for all of the work that he does here!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
SuperBowl update

I will be updating probably for the last time this Sunday.. change log will be..

-Reverted back to Chris' stock CWM EL26 kernel (better battery life and performance)

-A lot of work to Contacts, Phone, Email, others

-A lot more blue; a lot less green, orange, and grey

-PNG opting and ZipAligning more

-Special Sauce ringtones added. "One Missed Call" set as default

-VVM status bar icon changed and more blue added

-Few more blue Icons

-if you go to another rom and odex it.. good riddance (dont come back)

-some languages removed out of some android packages

-new spinners and progress bars

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Is it Sunday yet? :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] runner77:
Last time?!? Where are you going?

Sent from my Epic phone on Android.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Wait...I didn't see the "last time" part. I just woke up. I sure hope that's not the case. I still have every build of this ROM. I have watched it evolve into the magnificent beast it is now and I hope it stays current
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 1brainsurgeon:
Double S, you must stop this, we're not gonna need you anymore, ****!!! Maybe any clueless fool will be able to odex....they/we won't. Most just want to enjoy the work of others. Dude! you're are super dedicated. I've praised you on so many forums, I can't count. You stay or I will hunt you down!!!:p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I cannot and will not rest until this sum ***** is blue! Please.. for the love of god.. somebody find it!!??

Rejulus22 is going to let me know where it is later today.. its a deep smali edit.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Masterface7:
I am gonna bump this i searched through all the wallpapers in this thread and could not find the one that comes with the rom. If wanna try out some other ones but i know ill end up wanting to go back to the original.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Damn, its in a folder in the ROM....someone help me out here I am going blank....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
He's the inverted app master. It wouldn't surprise me if he found it...lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Its in framework-res.apk
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Masterface7:
okay thanks, got it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
Right on! Something to tweak and play with while DRINKING I mean watching the super bowl. Lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I am going to miss the "wardrobe malfunction" because I will be busy flashing this. I always get the most "Wow! What kind of phone is that?!" When I run this beast. There is something about the blues on this screen. I mean all of the colors look good but the blues look especially great!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
They do look great lol XD. Steve this rom made my friend ditch his iPhone 4s and buy a E4gT XD. His EXACT words..."Wow man what the hell is that?....An Epic 4g Touch? ITS SO BLUEEEEE!!!!!That looks fking amazing. Do they Ll come like that? Strongsteve's rom?o.o? YOU MEAN SOMEONE MADE THAT??!?!?!?! LEMME SEE THAT PHONE." At this point he played with the phone for 4hrs lol. Then he says "Fk this.....lets go!!! Im getting one of these...fk the iphone >_>…i want that with that rom its fking amazing…" So we went and he bought the phone lol then i put on your rom and hes loving it XD.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Lets get ready to rumble ..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
WOW, looks great! can't say how much that green bugged me.

Thanks for all the work, you do on this Steve. That is why none of us will go to a different ROM. Because it is Odexed, Blue, bug free, and you keep putting work into it to make it AWESOME. There is none other like it. SO THANKS! And please don't stop!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
I almost blew coffee through my nose when I read this. I've only been running the Rom since the EL29 update but I see it more as a work of art than a piece of software and it's this kind of determination that makes it shine, Steve. Sure, other devs will be odexing because it's easy now, but will they take the time to find every last color to get it right?

Speaking of Rujelus22, I grabbed a bunch of his add-ons and themed apps. They match perfectly with the blue colors on this Rom. Besides the files on his Blu Kuban Rom page, he also has another download site.

With Chris's EL26 kernel, I left my phone on for 7 hours while I slept with WiFi and auto sync on and my battery only dropped 8%. For those who haven't tried this Rom, grab the next update on Sunday and enjoy.

BTW. I killed the CRT with Crawrj's no CRT zip and added the fancy rotations. The only thing it broke was I lost the battery icon and now it's green. No biggie. The rotation mod is working great with no inverted screens without CRT.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Did you try setting animations to fast with spare parts? If not, it is an easy change if you decompile framework-res.apk and change a true/false in bools..

Let me know if you want me to give you exact instructions or I can do it later..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Thanks for that offer. I knew about the spare parts workaround but didn't try it this time. I will after the next update, add the fancy rotations and see what happens. I'm still working on learning how to replace a system app apk with root explorer, so it's one step at a time in my learning process. Have a great weekend and don't work to hard.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Spare Parts workaround just doesn't work for me. I tried uninstalling, etc but no luck
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] haxxorcist:
strongsteve, that is a thing of beauty! the attention to detail that you put into this ROM really shows. I have to be honest, I took a few minutes today to play around with a couple other roms and that odex script, but you know I came right back to the blue.

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BigJPNut:
That never worked for me either John...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
That looks great Steve!!!!=D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Honestly, this ROM is the only one that the CRT doesn't get that pixellated look so I don't mind it. If strongsteve decides to whip something up that takes it out, great. If not, no big deal at all
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rujelus22:
I just sent the info to strongsteve about how to change the settings bar so he should be able to change it now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
I didn't try spare parts on this Rom but tried it on other Roms and mods. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. That's why I flashed Crawrj's zip. I don't mind CRT, but I want the fancy rotations and they don't play nice together. Here's my vote to remove it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
Ok I'll do one just to be safe. Thanks for the info!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
What gives? I cleared battery stats at 100%, used phone till it shut off approximately 12 hours. Then once dead I recharged to 100% while off. I turned back on @100% and look at my results....wtf!!!

This is on Chris's el26 kernel.

Any ideas? Barely any usage.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
When I calibrate (some say it does nothing) I use Battery Calibration app by Ne'Ma. I charge to 100%, calibrate, unplug phone and power down. Plug in and it takes a few minutes to get to 100%. Power back on and open Battery Calibration app again. When it hits 100% and you get the "ping" calibrate a 2nd time and that's it. I never drain battery to completely empty. I have heard from several people its not good for our batteries. It shortens the lifespan. Also, you could have bloat running on its own like Media Hub, Maps, Facebook, etc
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Not good. Hopefully someone can help you figure out why. I reset the same way but I don't let the battery drain down all the way until the phone shuts off. I've read that's hard on a lithium ion battery so I turn it off at about 5% then charge back to 100% while off. Anyone else have an opinion about that?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tallblazer124:
Steve you better not be leaving us. This rom is so great. When you have some free time can you get rid of the ugly gray and add some color on the menu options. I am tired of seeing this gray.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
Look at this one, may be more telling...any ideas??

I even charged it for 10 minutes ...lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Its grown on me. I like it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
Yeah I use that same app! Ill try like you said but I've never had a problem this way. Weird. Ill report back. Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
What launcher is this?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
You have a wakelock going on somewhere. Try grabbing BetterBatteryStats app (can be found for free here on XDA) also, go into settings/location and security and try checking use wireless networks (I always leave it checked) maybe the phone is constantly searching for signal. If you have email accounts synced, see how often they are set to check...if not work related I go for every 4 hours (which gets me in trouble with friends sometimes)...start from there. We'll get you straightened out
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] carnagecjb:
The telling thing in those Pictures is the amount of time your phone is awake when you aren't using it.

Ideally, your awake and screen on time should be about the same.

The app 'better battery stats' can help figure out why it is awake so much.

Sent from me and my phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Carbajal3009:
hey strongsteve, i just changed my modem and after i flashed it through CWM, i tried updating my profile and prl through settings>about phone>sys updates. and everytime i try to change the profile it gives me an error. but i am able to update my prl with no problem, any suggestions?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Thank you! With some smali edits, green will be eradicated from Settings. Huge thanks to rujelus22.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
did you freeze anything or remove anything? sprint updater perhaps?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Carbajal3009:
negative... i didnt. I was on the 1/29 build this morning and just recently upgraded to the 1/30 build and then flashed a modem.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
That's Touchwiz covered up by settings options isn't it? XDA widget, etc
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Update is almost done.. got a lot this time..

Explore and find it all..

Believe it or not, this last batch of optimizing has it faster than ever.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Carbajal3009:
nice :D so did you get everything? lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Everything you have ever said about your work has been true. I believe it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Just because it looks so damn good...if I could get that 10 lock a shade of blue rather than green plus,it allows you to keep strongsteve's icons
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
I'm a jackass, I installed dropbox and its uploading all my pictures and videos to dropbox....thats whats using my battery. Sorry for bothering you guys, forgot about giving that permissions to upload. Ugh.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
John and Nick are testing final now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] musclehead84:
U are not seriously done are u? I won't know what to do with myself. Ill have to run stock after the next update. Your the best developer we have. U work with everyone, take suggestions seriously, and u are a perfectionist with awesome work. My phone is addicted to this rom. Lol. Good luck to u brother whatever u decide. Stay strong!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Its freaking amazing! Running like a champ! Looks amazing. Soooo fast!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Not at all. We're here to help each other out. There's usually a solution but sometimes you have to dig around a bit to find it
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Damn, my wifi is slow while watching a movie on Netflix on laptop ...lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
I would actually be genuinely sad if you stopped working on it Steve =(. Either way if this is really the final then no more flashing for me =D...except kernels and modems but thats about it. Going to download it now and flash it.

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Wow great upload speed.....my ISP only gives me like 500kb/s of upload.....=(
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
What is the 10 lock from?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
That's MagicLocker 10 lock paid version. There's a free version but it lacks customization I believe
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I hope its not the last either. I tried odexing a couple of ROMs with the zip but this is still the fastest and the amount of work that went into it....amazing!

This is my first time having Wifi too! Lol. Its great being able to upload something to Dropbox and have it be there before I even open it!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Awesome, thanks John
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mpcdata:
Everything is going great here Steve.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Is it normal to have some grey and some blue menu icons on the 2-3-12 version? Pretty sure I had all grey before. So seems the blue has been added, but odd that it is only on some of them. Just curious if I got a bad flash.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Glad you straightened it out. I did notice the upload arrow was showing in your first screenshot but I wasn't smart enough to ask you why. A good discussion on wiping battery stats though. I use the battery calibration app, too. I'll do it twice as John suggested next time and not worry about drawing it down at all. I do remember reading LI batteries don't have memory and that wiping battery stats doesn't calibrate the battery. Instead it resets the OS to monitor the battery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tallblazer124:
That’s the Stock Touch wiz launcher. When you hit settings that’s the menu that comes up. My friend has a Sensation that’s rooted and i was jealous of his settings menu and I told him that Double S will make something better than that. Here is an example of how it looks.

Also the settings in our stock browser could change also. A white background with some Blue Icons would look nice.

Also the settings in our stock browser could change also. A white background with some Blue Icons would look nice.

These are some places with the fugly stock gray and white.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mpcdata:
It must be normal mine are that way also. Looks like this wont be the final version LOL.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Here is why only some menu icons are blue. I did just the ones needed for LauncherPro. There are so many and they are not easy because they are plain and cannot just simply change the hue. After some rest and if there is still interest, I will start doing them all.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
I could upload a folder with all of the menu icons and teach someone how to it it right.. any volunteers? You can't just blanket color these in because they wont look perfect.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mpcdata:
If they are launcher independent then you might not have them since john and I use ADW EX.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] musclehead84:
I would love for u to teach me some things. I wanna learn.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Has anyone discovered my two special sauce ringtones?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tallblazer124:
Thanks Steve. I know your always up for the challange thats why This ROM is always the people choice. I left for 1 day and I had to come right back. The power of Odex Blue is amazing! Have a beer and get some rest.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mkuehn10:
One is me so horny....the other is ?????????
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iorecki:
You need the much needed rest steve...you are a one man show.

You have a following here...and im sure there are a bunch more that are lurkers who dont post on the forums. i basically abandoned my Evo 3d just to taste this rom on my phone. when you come back...we will still be here ;)

as for the menu icons bit....

homie is posting pics of a sensation with sense...-_-

we are all using different launchers...i dont think it would be worth the trouble since our launchers are always getting updates. Maybe just the touchwiz launcher for those stock guys. i am super pleased with my device the way it is.

Thank you for all the work!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tallblazer124:
I posted that for an example because that how my friends phone looked and i was using it as an example. Second I was requesting the menu options for the tw launcher. If you were really following the thread you would've noticed that Steve customizes tw stock items such as the Calender etc....... I don't think its to much to request the colored options in tw. That launcher is stock and it doesn't update often.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Oh believe me, I saw that in testing and asked....lol. It seems like Chris's kernels were made to go with this ROM. The speed and battery life is just great
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I am willing to learn strongsteve... you know that. As long as I can get one more image swapping lesson...lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mpcdata:
Wait a minute he had class and I wasn't told. ;p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
I'm up for learning also. Just let me know, as I would be happy to.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] towncop1978:
This ROM and chris's kernel....

I just had to post my results... And im still using the same battery life as i upload this... And it's 7% battery life...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Steve you should make a "how to" do everything you do. I'd love to learn all that so i can use it on my family's phones (mine is perfect with your rom lol XD).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I would love to learn the whole process as well to take some of the pressure off of strongsteve. Say for instance someone isn't a fan of blue. One of us could make a strongsteve (insert color here) edition. There would be so many users!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Carbajal3009:
of course there will be interest. this is the fastest.smoothest and by far had the best battery life ROM i've used. thanks for everything strongsteve. :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cardenas5810:
Is this suppose to be like this or did I do something wrong?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
That's a blunder that I will fix!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
I'm going to help Steve out a bit with the blue icons for adw launcher and etc. Wi connect with him later. Get one day a week off work, so spending a bit of time with my wife right now :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
FIX

Here is a fix for the white on white WiFi discovery pop-up

Push to system/app

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47814275/Settings.apk
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tlc08071:
I have a question if someone could help me with. im running ek02 os 2.3.6 Gb. sprint had the ec29 or el29 update for my phone. I do have my phone rooted so im thinking thats why the update took me to the triangle with the ! in the middle of it. i had to pull the batt to reboot the phone. I did notice my kernel version is showing 2.6.35.7-sph-d710.ek02-cl704398 prl version 60683.

I havent seen the update sense its failier. I did notice im having issues with signal strenth when trying to use my wifi and the service signal in pitman nj sucks when im in some of my friends houses. I hate it.

what i need to know is what rom should i flash and whats involved with getting it done once i can get to a pc i can use odin on? Im not a complete noob at rom flashing, i just get confused cause there are so many different roms and such and every company carring the galaxy s ii epic touch has a different rom for the phone so i got confused fast as to what i can and cant flash to my phone.

thank u for any help
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cardenas5810:
How do I push it there.??? Never done it before :/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I use Root Explorer. You download the file. Open Root Explorer and find the file. Long press it. Select "copy" then hit back soft key until you are at initial menu. Select system folder then app folder. Click the little "R/W" button on top right. Then hit paste. It will ask if you want to overwrite. Select" yes" and reboot
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Steve here are the menu icons changed to blue. I will put these on my phone and see if I NEED to update ADW Launcher also, if so I will look into that too.

http://db.tt/27SG7Cu6
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
Settings.apk

ok.. here is the problem..

I cant make the numbers on the bar at the bottom a different color from the text on the wifi discovery pop-up. In order to make them both readable, I have changed the bar to look like this..

Update tomorrow..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Steve if I want to drop the menu icons in the ROM for my phone to test out.. Where exactly do I need to drop them?

I am assuming somewhere in here??

Strongsteve_EL29_2-3-signed\system\framework

Edit: Nevermind, think I found it..

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Still looks Great!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Agreed. Looks perfect
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 1brainsurgeon:
Flash this rom. Assuming that you have a custom recovery...Download>copy/paste to root of sd card >wipe>flash. This is the best rom for the E4GT!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pjjohn73:
Not sure what i did wrong Steve...

I put the modified blue menu icons in the following folder..

Strongsteve_EL29_2-3-signed MODIFIED2\system\framework\twframework-res\res\drawable-hdpi

I still am getting grey icons in ADW. It seems it uses the default icons. Going to play with it more, but if you have any ideas, let me know.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] strongsteve:
You need to pull the ones out of adw and do them.