yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
If you're on Telus and you downloaded the file I uploaded earlier its already configured for that, no need to edit.

Sent from my SGH-T959D running OneCosmics ICS!
[Fascinate General] d88888b:
I'm pretty sure its the gb boot loaders. I tested by flashing darkys with Odin and then flashing ics and you have a normal boot up...and I would hope other benefits. The drag is that now no matter what, I can't get into download mode, even with adb . I should have just upgraded from froyo to gb in kies instead. I feel a bit left out not being able to get download mode. Let me know if your experience is different.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So I can tell you I cannot get to download mode without a jig - I CAN get to Recovery though - is that the same for you? That was without using GB loaders.

Flashing to 2.3.3 may work over kies - but there's a few gotchya. Firstly, I don't think there's a GB kernel that works - but theoretically as long as you can get to recovery you should be OK - so for example, flashing the speedmod kernel or voodoo as long as you can 3 button into recovery you should be OK. Booting the ROM with those likely bootloops.

That was a while ago when I tried that (this past summer) so something may have come out since, but not sure.
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
You can't get into download mode without a jig? When I flashed the other day I was able to no prob. Try this:

1-Power off and remove battery

2-hold Vol down

3-while holding Vol, plug in usb cord

4- still holding vol pop the battery in.

You should now be in download mode. Let me know if that works.

Sent from my SGH-T959D running OneCosmics ICS!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I've honestly never tried to yet - I'm more about recovery than download - in fact I only use download for going back to stock, using a Darky RE, or adding the voodoo kernel :)

What were you flashing that you needed to get DL mode on?
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
It was when I did the clean install of ICS last weekend. Is it just me, or do you guys get butterflies in your stomach just before you press start on Odin? I've done it quite a few times, but every time still feels like the first lol.

Sent from my SGH-T959D running OneCosmics ICS!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL yeah me too. That is the one spot where you can mess things up... :)

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
So I'm having some random strange behavior in the last day or so. Firstly, I've tried 4 different modems and it's taking at least 30 seconds for my network to connect after reboot, doesn't matter what modem.

Which leads me to the next problem, seems like I can no longer connect to Perka's file stash via that app. Just get a black screen with a header on top but no files to access so I can't even look for another modem with my phone.

Yesterday I was getting some nasty screen freezes mostly while using Swiftkey X or with Go Launcher it seems.

I'm wondering if anyone else can relate to this issues?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Cannot say I am seeing that behaviour - and check out my signature for what I am using.

One thing, did you restore apps from Titanium Backup, and if so, did you include data? Some folks say never restore, others say app only - I usually do a combination.

I'm also using Swift Key X and not having issues - Dump GO launcher for Nova Launcher.

Now let's see if we can fix things.

Firstly, let's try just clearing cache (wipe cache and dalvik) and rebooting - see if that works.

You may also want to reinstall the kernel (assuming semaphore 0.9.1) - if so use a kernel cleaning script (get the samsung one - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1166954&page=13) and immediately install after that.

I'm using the KC1 modem again - still my fav but seems less reliable on ICS than it did on MIUI or Darky's GB editions (noting that I am using the ICS 850 versions of those modems). Perka's works fine for me, but if you want say the KC1 modem - let me via PM with your email and I'll send or hook you up with a dropbox link.

Try the cache and kernel install first - and if all else fails - reflash the ROM completely. I was having weird shutdowns no one else was having and reinstalling the kernal using a cache wiping script first seems to have cured me (knock on wood).
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Ok I think I'm good now, I can access Perka's now, maybe the server was down coincidentally. Anyhow I attribute my network access issue to the V6 Supercharger script. I was running it pretty well when on Darkyrom but it's not on for ICS (or for me I guess).

So I got rid of that and as of now everything seems to be working now, of course time will tell. Hopefully that will take care of my random freeze ups as well.

Jp, I have dabbled with nova launcher but I'm finding it hard to drop the go launcher that I was so used to and happy with. I'll give it another shot tonight and see if I can make it all I need it to be. Thanks for your help for sure!
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Finnegan, is your imei gone? If it's gone you will have weird network issues, especially with data.

Sent from my SGH-T959D running OneCosmics ICS!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Check to see if your IMEI is gone as Matt indicated - you may need to go back to stock Perhaps? I think Matt had that issue so he can help there.

I have NOT used supercharger on my phone, and it is super fast without it. Partially due to nova launcher I believe.

What is keeping you with GO? I miss some of the widgets, but found suitable replacements. I find nova provides the benefits of ICS but with a bit extra (Particularly if you buy the Prime version, but the free one is good enough)

</not an iPad>
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
No, I do have one.

---------- Post added at 02:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:32 PM ----------

I don't know, it does everything I want it to do and how I want it to do things. For instance I noticed that the stock launcher doesn't auto rotate homescreen...seems weird to me.

I'll give Nova a shot, if it does everything Go does then I'll most likely end up using that. Baby steps :D.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL - yeah, understand completely. One of the reasons I dumped surface was I didn't like the launcher they had, but seemed I was losing ICS goodness if just used adw, lpp, or go. Here's what I like on Nova (and I believe it rotates the screen).

1) Setting for resizing ANY widget

2) You can resize your screen (mine is 5 columns instead of 4 now)

3) Animations and gestures (paid version)

4) Scrollable dock

5) More options in the drawer on the right select (market, manage apps, nova settings)

So it does what the other launchers do really (with the exception of themes) but keeps some of the ICS added functionality like widgets in the app drawer.

And I'm very surprised how snappy it is - once it loads its incredibly smooth where I had lag with the other launchers, or they would constantly re-load.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
... But it doesn't rotate

Edit... By default. There is a setting to start the rotate behaviour :)
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
You're right, after playing with Nova Launcher for an hour or 2 it's a very good launcher for sure and I've figured out everything I need :).

Cheers,
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Ok so i am going to put this out to everyone with our device. I am now back to stock froyo and going to upgrade to gb and would like to know this .....

If you could choose a rom that you wanted to try and didn't, which one would it be? Give me a list and i will choose at least one and install it and get back with a write up for everyone.

I may choose more then one so post as many as you like.

I want to flash something :-)
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Buck, I'd just like to know what kernel you install for gingerbread that has CWM and will allow you to install onecosmics. Not really curious about anything else lol.

Sent from my SGH-T959D running OneCosmics ICS!
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Flashed the speedmod kernel for i9000 to root and then the stock kernel so that it boots again. From there i could flash it again to get the recovery back to flash seeing as rhe three button option works on that one.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Maybe Dark Knight 2.1 buck.

</not an iPad>
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
I was looking at that one lol
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'm batman

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Looks like dark knight is the one. Just finished unlocking the phone and will be flashing in a bit. Stay tuned to the same bat channel for the exciting conclusion! WACK, BOOM, WALLOP!
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Ok so i flashed and first impressions are good.

On a side note for those looking to flash from GB here is how to do it...

1 flash stock froyo via ODIN

2 install samsung kies (should have this if you have this device)

3 update to GB using kies

4 download speedmod kernel and flash via ODIN (your phone will now boot loop but dont worry)http://vln01.helochat.com/tourist/speedmod-kernel-k16-11-Odin.tar

5 pull the battery and then put it back and boot recovery using vol+, vol- and power

6 from the recovery menu select root to do just that root the phone

7 reboot from recovery (again it will boot loop but dont worry) pull the battery after the first attempt to boot

8 flash the stock kernel via ODIN to have a working phone again which is now rooted GB woot woot http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=695552&d=1313881394

9 install a file manager with root access and backup your efs folder by copying it to the internal sdcard then your computer

Now to flash the latest super duper ROMs from the super duper devs you will need to do the following...

1 copy glitch v14 kernel and the rom of your choice to your internal sdcard (glitch is the one i used but i would imagine any kernel with updated recovery would work)http://www.box.com/s/tov06pvzkkqbmui6tcmi

2 flash via ODIN the speedmod kernel again (gives you a custom recovery)

3 when it tries to boot pull the battery and then boot to recovery

4 flash the glitch kernel from recovery (again you are boot looping)

5 pull the battery and boot to glitch recovery and wide data, clear cach and such then flash your ROM

6 copy your backed up efs folder back to the phone to restore yout imei

Be patient and it will boot and be shiney.

Have fun folks and i will let you all know how this rom goes. I will also post links if i can to the files i used for the above process so you dont have to hunt them down yourself.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Turning on 850

Hey guys

Firstly - buck - AWESOME write up (although I loathe to use Kies again LOL) - but I'm definitely doing that on next flash.

Also, I've been constantly searching for a good modem and found that ICS doesn't seem as good as GB irrespective of the modem I'm using (have used KC1 on both firmwares). Found this thread and found that 850 was NOT turned on on my phone:

http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...rk-frequency-your-samsung-i9000-galaxy-s.html

Has anyone else tried that? One note of caution - did this late last night, but today I found my battery just sucked (got maybe 5-6 hours out of it when I'm using getting 12-20 pending on use).

Will re-charge from scratch tonight and see what tomorrow brings but wanted to share the link, and see if anyone else had been doing any tweaking to turn on the 850 band.

Cheers!
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
I am putting this out there with all the talk about modems. After flashing dark knight and restoring my efs folder I have been full bars all day everywhere. Not sure what the difference is its jvt modem so will post more tomorrow
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Actually that link I posted, approach with caution... My battery sucks since I made the change.

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
HMM..... I've always done that when I flash a new ROM to ensure I get the 850 bands, thought I might have better reception. Do you still seem to have good reception even without them? Cuz if you've noticed bad battery drain, I'll disable mine.
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Well i have an answer for you both, flash dark knight :-) . Its only been adout 24 hours but i can say it does not have any modem issues and for me the first charge is still going. When looking at the battery use here are a couple things i noticed.

1. Android OS =4%

2. Cell standby =13% on for 22 hours and time without signal is 0

Not sure if the difference is the upgrade to gb first or not. I think if i can make time today i might flash from froyo and see what happens.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Reception for me seems OK on ICS but I have no bars a lot of the time. Tried this for the same reason yous suggest.

I'm not getting about 5 hours on battery - but I may have screwed something up else in the process perhaps.

Just downloaded Dark Knight - might give that a whirl tonight to go through all the steps.
[Fascinate General] koocheese:
I noted a 4-7db gain on my signal reception in the exact same spot as before. Using the KC1 modem in Vancouver.

I did have difficulty selecting the 850 band though, said not available or something like that, then i tried "all" and it deselected the 900 band and wouldnt allow me to add the 900, only toggle 900 or nothing, finally went into the combi and selected the 900 there and under wcdma was now selected, go figure....

I can't report on battery drain yet cause I just made the change and rebooted.

Running Onecosmics ICS RC4.2 and currently on semaphore 0.91, might give the ICY Glitch V14b5 a run later.

So far, very impressed with how smooth this rom is, and how fast and smooth the t959d can run it!

Only problem I have is the external sd card is not being recognized in OI file manager, or rooted ES file explorer, but I can view the pictures in the gallery??? Weird.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
That's weird kocheese... Running the same as you and can see my micro SD fine

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] koocheese:
maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. It's normally under external_sd, nite it says contents empty.

Maybe I'll cwm flash the complete ROM again.
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Look for emmc sometimes it goes there but does not mount.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
battery and stuff

So thought my battery would stabilize, it didn't. Android OS and Exchange totally eating it up - I have made no real changes to the phone, but battery sucks.

I did turn on the 850 band - and realized I didn't have my EFS folder restored - so restored that and enabled 850 - battery has been really sucking today (but getting better bars on reception).

I'm going to reflash from scratch when I get a chance.
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
I have read in numerous posts that the exchange will do that, something to do with the encryption that it applies.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL - I am now on Froyo 2.2 :) Going through your steps buck. Might have some adjustments.

Remind me to send you a note - had an idea for starting a thread and reserving the first 5 posts or so and collecting all our info in those - ROM, scripts, neat tweaks, etc etc etc.

Not sure I'm going to go to Dark KNight - but sounds like flashing it over SGSICS is a good a plan as well (last post on the thread).
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Seen that too lol. I have not had any issues to date so I am in no hurry. Not a bad idea getting all the information in one place though, I would be up or that. There re a few that post all kinds of fixes and tweaks and so on and would be easier to hit one post instead of 10 lol
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
this seems a lot easier than when I tried it originally in the summer LOL

---------- Post added at 11:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:55 PM ----------

Totally - I have like 4 posts open right now just on stock, 2.3.3, speedmod.

I'm now on 2.3.3 - the new Kies update makes that work a heck of a lot better than this past summer when they released the upgrade - I had to run it on multiple computers as did a few folks.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Trying again but when I flash glitch it is unable to mount the SD to flash my rom :(

Going to soak on gingerbread a bit.

</not an iPad>
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Still no go for me - just restored a GB backup I made, hoping that works to cut down on this, might try and older glitch.

EDIT: So that didn't work, flashing the glitch seems to pooch me - then its back to froyo > GB to try again. MIght be it for tonight. I did try to flash the semaphore kernel - but that did not work at all.
[Fascinate General] koocheese:
I'm on 10hrs and sitting at 60% battery.

The highest drain is Cell Standby at 26%, mostly cause I was in a concrete building half the day and none of my txt's were going through, although I kept on trying, and a couple of dropped calls. This is better performance than I got while on Darky's or MIUI roms.

I checked EMMC and my external SD is there, never had that before, thanks!

I never backed up my EFS folder when I did the flash, never needed to so didnt see why I had to this time, just checked it now, contains 3 nv* files and a lost+found folder.

I didn't back up that folder, therefore I didn't bother with the root process at froyo.

Is lagfix enabled when you flash the speedmod kernel? I made sure to disable that before going any further.

I went straight from froyo to ICS after that step.
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Glade to hear it is working out. The efs folder is your imei information. If you look under about the phone in settings you will notice tht the imei is not what is on the sticker on the phone, this can make difference. As for the lag fix i have yet to disable them and never had an issue.
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
On another note .... stay tuned i think jp and i are going to start another thread and compile all the info to date so that we have a one stop shop for our phone.

This is a great group and we need to keep it growing :-)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hi Folks, quick note as I am swamped at work and home.

Late night last night getting my phone back up and HUGE shout to Buck for walking me through some things. Essentially I went to stock GB and then eventually to onecosmic. Some notes:

- The glitch kernel for Build 16 did not work for me - would not mount the SD which crippled me. Eventually went to V14-B15 stand alone and that worked (but not without many many headaches - thanks again Buck for ALL the help!)

- For me, the IMEI was completely pooched - make sure you back that up.

- My carrier was not registered so had to go find the '302220' and set that. APNs were fine.

- No more flicker - I am getting the GOOGLE kernel logo as I have not loaded a custom kernel.

I think that is about it at the moment. I am keeping the phone lean and not flashing modems or screwing with phone settings. Oddly enough the jvu modem seems fine at the moment (my house is a good test) but I will likely play with that at some point.

Battery seems OK at the moment, I have to take the drain with a bit of salt as I have downloaded some apps, etc which causes a drain.

As I said, keeping it lean at the moment - pure stock - with email and that's about it aside from swapping out the keyboard for Swift Key X.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
A few more notes:

- so only made two changes - flashed a battery image (so I could get % in the bar), and changed the gconf to be 0.ca.pool.ntp.org

Today I gave GPS a test - only lost GPS twice in areas I expected BUT I usually drop about 4 to 5 times on the way home - much better - and I'm still running the stock modem (jvu) and NO phone tweaks (as I think that may have screwed me up before).

Also, I get signal where before I was getting none.

Pretty impressed - I have to believe I will go to semaphore again, but right now sticking with stock - slowly adding services back in.
[Fascinate General] koocheese:
For kicks, I tried to go to GB, but kies said no.

Mine does the flicker, oh well. What does this logo look like?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hey - so on the Kies front. I had that issue as well (your device is not able to be updated). Buck helped me with that - I was not repartitioning when I flashed back to 2.2 stock - so for doing that all 3 tick boxes need to be ticked.

In terms of the logo, all it is on stock AOSP is a white google logo - Semaphore is a bit different and I'll likely flash that soon enough :) For me, it was just that flicker meant something was amiss, so that was what I wanted to correct (although if Matt and Buck had not mentioned the flicker and the GB bootloader issue I would likely have been none the wiser).
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
The semaphore one is kind of cool. It's clean and blue and shiney, i like shiny things lol.
[Fascinate General] chubster7383:
Guys, what's the benefit to go back to Froyo 2.2 -> GB via Kies and so on as per Bucky's post? I usually just flash Darky's 10.2 RE as a base and then whatever Rom I want next. I know going back to 2.2 gives you as clean as base as possible but what's the bootloader issue?
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Well flashing sgsics, stay away from dark knight. The radio signal went out on me and i could not get it back. Others had started to report the issue as well. The full signal bars was not accurate they just never changed from full ( false reading).

The gb boot loader will show the proper splash screen to show and seems to help overall performance. Flashing back also lets you save your efs folder so it can be restored so you dont bork your imei
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Also Chub - if you are on Darky's I think you are fine as you are likely using a resurrection edition and going from froyo to ginger is perfectly okay.

The issue here is going from froyo to ICS - that skips a version so better to be on ginger when flashing an ICS ROM.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Just had a mysterious shut down - decided to flash the semaphore kernel.

Have you guys noticed that the semaphore kernel allows you to use the BACK and HOME buttons (for going back a menu and HOME selects an option).

Just be wary of fat fingers :) Love that option though.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Sorry. To be clear let's you use back and home in recovery - not just the volume and power buttons.

That was confusing what I wrote lol
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
No I never even noticed. I'm gonna have to try that for myself!

Edit: Epic win! Great find jp!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL cool eh?
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Now I won't have to wear out my volume button prematurely from all the flashing lol
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
OK so sgsics + semaphore + nova launcher + live OC to 120% = the fastest snappiest t959d ever!
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
I have to wholeheartedly agree with this statement. So far I'm completely satisfied with this combo I don't have the slightest inclination to flashitis...at the moment :D.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I agree as well. I'm essentially almost back to where I was - semaphore, sgsics

I do have to say, at present, still using stock modem with sgsics and still good (although seems a bit worse on semaphore).

Has anyone altered modems or done any phone tweaks? My battery is also back to where it was - which is great.
[Fascinate General] Sebasking07:
File

Hi guys i cant find this file anywhere

(voodoo.advanced.v666.2-20110111-21.53.tar)

Can anyone upload that file plz
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
You shouldn't need it. See bucks thread a few pages back but be advised we think you need a different glitch kernel than what is linked there.
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Going to link to my box account for that just need to figure out the link .. again ... Long night and long week .... it will be there

Edit: DONE THE LINK IS ON THE PREVIOUS POST. I WILL POST THE OTHER KERNEL IF NEEDED BUT I WOULD SAY FOLLOW THE PATH FROM FROYO TO GB.