yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
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Must Read...

1. I made this Rom for my personal use... I'm sharing it with the community...

2. This is built off the stock EL13/EK02/EL29 release (THERE IS NO MODEM INCLUDED)

3. EG12/30/31 themes WILL NOT work on this rom...

4. I attempted to remove as much CIQ files as I could without giving the phone bootloops. (EL29 they are removed)

5. The Rom Download is at the bottom of Post 2 (Changelog Post and build code). There's a full rom and a lean rom... If you post in this thread that you can't find the download I'll know you didn't bother to read these bullets.

6. Post 3 is Themes and Mods (you should check back here from time to time...

7. Post 4 Extras...

8. Please keep your language clean and be helpful and positive. If you just want to *****, take it someone else...

9. If you do not understand what 2.3.6, EL13, and rooting is, you probably need to study more before attempting to flash this rom...

10. This rom is flashed via your recovery after clearing cache, dalvik, formatting system and then wiping your data.

11. If you restore a Titanium Backup from a eg12/30/31 rom (which is 2.3.4), to this EL13/ek02 (which is 2.3.6) rom be prepared to have strange behavior within the rom (hopefully we get which items cause the issues soon)

12. IF YOU FEEL I USED ANY COMPONENTS WITHOUT GIVING YOU CREDIT OR I MISSED THANKING SOMEONE, PM ME. DO NOT FLAME ME... I DON'T TAKE FLAMING WELL AND I DON'T FLAME OTHERS...

The THANK yous...

Team members:

AnAm85 - For TeAm VeNuM's cool a** look and the awesome Epic VeNuM logo!!

KingOfThaJungle - For helping me with EVERTHING!! And for his development, themes and mods!!!

banksmi09 for his awesome VeNuM keyboards and ports and testing!!!

Jaybizza for keeping TeAm VeNuM pumped up great android work and testing!!!

Other important people thank yous...

Jerdog for putting up with the crap he puts up with and being a great mentor...

Crawj for all his development...

chris41g for his hard work on our phones (he has a large body of work!!)

Kingsway for EK02 yay!!

Calkulin for all he's given us...

QBKing77 for giving us some love and great videos!!

Great Help: http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1268548 OR http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1265399
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Thanks to QBKing77 for the videos!!

How To: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7uSOQT7W9o

Video Review of the Rom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSclzSp30LQ

Jaybizza got quad score of 6135! Check it out here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20242174&postcount=296

Just found this... not even from this thread... 6325... http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20226812&postcount=586

A few pix​
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Changelog:

02-14-2011

Updated to EL29

New 3g Tweaks (faster 3g)

Zeam as Launcher

12-19-2011

Updated to EL13

Overclocking/underclocking script removed

Crawj Sprint Hotspot 4G (Thanks Crawj!)

Original TW Launcher added

ICS sounds added

SU updated

Market 3.4.4

Removed, some sounds, wallpapers, etc and apps (like Gmail) made a fast lean rom (only 216 mb)...

12-10-2011

Theme updated (see theme zip... )

Icons changed to Epic Venum Icons

MMS themed

Calculator themed

Release 1b 12-09-2011

Bluetooth Fixed

Lean Rom 12-09-2011

A LOT removed, sounds, etc and apps (like Gmail) made a fast lean rom PLUS bluetooth fix...

Removed:

SOUNDS - IMPORTANT YOU MUST MANUALLY TURN A SOUND ON (one that you have put on your sdcard) FOR YOUR ALARM TO WORK

Digital Clock

Weather

Buddies

Gmail

Analog Clock

All widgets (except calendar I think)

Sprint Junk

A few more (rom is 50 mb leaner)

Look for it all in the removed apps zip folder in the mods section

Release 1a 12-05-2011

ROM includes:

Rogue EK02 kernel

Based on ROOTED 2.3.6 / EK02

BeWeather Free

Torch

Crawrj's Hotspot Hack

Documents ToGo Free

ES File Explorer

Adobe Reader

Google Voice

Flash Player

Kies Air

All Share

Kies

ICS keyboard

Wireless Tether

Busybox

Market v3.3.12

Superuser v3.0.7

ADW Launcher

Google Voice

Removed Apps and Default wallpaper are in the sdcard Removed Apps Folder (inside the rom)

and more

MODs/Tweaks included:

A fast VeNuM System

Notification bar displays TRUE network speeds, 2G(1x when used) & 3G(EVDO)

Reboot & Recovery power menu options

Swapped phone & message buttons in dialer (Calks)

TouchWiz launcher displays 5 dock icons & 5x5 app drawer (Calks)

Disabled screen on when charge hits 100%

Browser UA string selection

Removed CIQ service (I removed as much as I can without causing bootloops)

Removed Camera sounds

Battery % on battery meter

Blue Transparent notification background

VeNuM Digital clock

VeNuM Weather

Preset Battery profiles are:

1.2GHz - 100-85%

1.0GHz - 84-36%

800MHz - 35-0%

Removed USB Debug notification

Upped MMS send size limit to 5MB

Removed messaging from call logs

Crawrj's Hotspot Hack to unlock Sprint Hotspot & USB tethering

Moved dalvik-cache to cache partition

Reduced auto-brightness range for better battery life

Removed haptic feedback from dialer

Colored notification icons

Rom is THEMED

System has been optimized & aligned and has also been de-odex'd

Disclaimer: We here at TeAm VeNuM take NO responsibility for the damage you do to your phone by using anything you find here... this rom is flashed via your recovery after clearing cache, dalvik, formatting system and then wiping your data. ALSO give the first boot a few... The bootanimation does not repeat... So you will have a blank screen for a few... this is normal... in addition, after the phone boots you should update profile and prl...

Download EpIc VeNuM Rom EL29: http://depositfiles.com/files/2qz49a8xy

Download Epic-VeNuM-RomEL13: http://depositfiles.com/files/qaxw232tk

Download EpIc VeNuM EK02 Lean Rom: http://depositfiles.com/files/ia2jekrwr
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Themes and Mods (you should check back here from time to time...)

If for any reason you experience LOS, or problems with Rogue Recovery chris41g has made a GREAT alternative to the Rogue Kernel. I highly recommend it and it works great on this rom because I've personally tested it. Thanks Chris41g! Go Here for that kernel: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1368122

Bluetooth update zip (just the blue tooth fix if your 1a and want to be 1b without reflashing the complete rom...): http://www.mediafire.com/?aeqv3pd6yjers4z

Removede Apps 12-09-2011: http://www.mediafire.com/?6czivlgg966gfjp

New 5 theme mms found by Interloper (will add to next rom 12-22-2011): http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20262446&postcount=1

Stock Epic Venum theme zip (NEW Icons and MMS and Calc: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1271491

The NEW Stock Epic Venum Icon Set (extract the contents this is NOT a cwm flashable zip...): http://www.mediafire.com/?c5ihsuckioa12bv

Alternate Launcher Icon for ADW

Zip containing the Icons (EXTRACT the icons, and put them on your sd card and use adw to change the icons to these if you want...): http://www.mediafire.com/?nhs587bt4smzcaw

Compatible Themes:

Black VeNum: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=18926048#post18926048

Red Carnage by banksmi09: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1379848

My Red S**t & my Blue S**t by suwu10: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1336818

Smoked Venum inspired by AnAm85...: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1380695

Tiffany84 Nothin but the Honey: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1281847
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Mine too.....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SantinoInc:
This ROM looks really nice. I like what you did with the dialpad, pull down icons and the dock w/o borders. I think I'm going to try it out!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ricoroadstar:
Cool brotha, love the style and the icons. I think im going to run this thing for a few and see how she goes. I bet this will run awesome with go launcher. Like what i see so far so again, thanks for the new rom!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fendulon:
Downloading now. I'm liking the look of this one.

Thanks for sharing your personal ROM.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sleshepic:
Well, just about have to try this now :) looking forward to it, looks good

edit: back in cwm to reflash, first go 'round wouldn't boot. went through the bootanimation(which is nice) but then just appeared to shut off. this time round i realize the bootanimation doesn't repeat, so the first flash needs a good bit of time to build dalvik etc. dont do a battery pull for a while

got to lockscreen now and have bootloops, unresponsive screen. gonna give another wipe and flash.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Yeah sorry I should have mentioned that... I'll update the op...

Added to op... thanks slesh!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sleshepic:
there we go! this time was a charm. runs great now. yeah its worth mentioning it in the OP i think, little scary at first with a black screen for 30 seconds hehe. Thanks Venum. gonna give it a run. Very nice surprise to come home from work to.

P.S...you should set up a donation button :)

(unless i'm missing it)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ffkip911:
running good, fast locks on gps and wifi. 600mb free mem after initial install and opening all programs(after fast reboot)

how do I change default tray icons?? I would rather gmail be in my tray than email (maybe themed blue to match???)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Hey thanks! If you're using tw launcher click the app icon, click menu, click edit (then click switch or OK in the pop up), then drag your icon you want onto the bottom tray, then click menu and then click save... I've done the Gmail icon before but Gmail gets update so much the update would over write the icon... if you use the supplied adw launcher you can download icon packs and use whatever icons u like... fyi
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ffkip911:
got it, didn't realize ADW was installed---changed in like 2 sec. great rom, virtually flawless

---------- Post added at 05:11 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:03 AM ----------

umm, now im starting to get a bunch of hot reboots
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Hey thanks! Let us all know how it goes on go launcher... I didn't get a chance to test that launcher on this rom...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cdss:
Thanks for sharing, looks great so far, can i change the grey glow to another color ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
If you know its not a combination of apps, I posted a link to the stock ek02 kernel in post 3 that may help. If you download the rom to your phone it could be a bad download too... you may try downloading to a pc...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Well thank you... that is actually part of the rom. Its in the framework. If you want to change it you can pull the framework and change the pangs to you liking if you want...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ffkip911:
doing to re DL and start from scratch
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dreDrennon1:
This boot animation hands down is the best ever !!!!!!!! I dont know how you did it but i gotta by you a keg guys !!!! The rom is very very nice flashed 4 times and finally flashed caulkins format all and reflashed a 5th time and it took the first time no problems doing tb restore now ...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ffkip911:
bad flash before, all's good. thanks venum for the rocking rom
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Thank you very much
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Did you ever get it to work? And if so did you isolate the problem?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Lol, I'm glad it works well for ya!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
There's quite a few actually... They're in the op... And I'm not going to list them all here or say who's better... I already know Calk's a master developer and I'm not in his league... and I don't claim to be. I've always wanted to build my own rom, did it, liked it, and figured I'd share...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nannuq:
Love this ROM. However, I am trying to get my visual voice mail app installed and functioning. I copied it to the system/app folder fixed the permissions, but no voice mail goes to the app. I can compose and send a voice mail within the app just can't receive anything
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Just checking... did you reboot your device??
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nannuq:
wow that was fast, now that i am on PC here is what i did. I moved the APK to the system/app folder, fixed permissions, rebooted my phone. Sent a test voice mail to myself as well as asked my wife to do the same. Both were confirmed via a text message which normally doesn't come through when all is working as intended. waited 15 minutes just in case i needed to wait for it to Download to the phone, kinda the way visual voicemail worked on CM6 for my hero back in the day. nothing ever came through. I have removed the APK and attempted it again with the same outcome.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
get a YouMail account, and, your voice mail problem is solved, FOREVER, regardless of what phone, or OS you end up using..

I switched to YouMail a couple of years ago, and never had an issue since..and, its free!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xlGmanlx:
I use google voice now
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chrlswltrs:
I updated my modem to EK02 and then installed this ROM. I did a factory reset, wipe cache and dalvic first. Now when my phone boots it goes to the lockscreen and that is it. I get a "lockscreen loop?" Cant get past it and if I hold the power button I get the menu pop up but the touchscreen is not responsive, I have to pull the battery to turn it off.

I used Odin to go back to EG30, still same problem. I then reflashed EK02, nothing. I am redownloading the ROM right now incase I had a bad download. Any other ideas??
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] parkerrook:
I'm no expert, but I used Calkulins format all zip. I came from Starburst, used the format all zip and then last night flashed the EK02 modem and have not had any issues. You might try that.

That couple of minutes of black nothingness is kinda scary on first bootup.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Hmm, In your second sentence you did not list a step as per the op... Was that intentional or did you actually do the step? Of course the rom actually does it for you too... Anyway, also in the op I said to wait after the boot animation goes off... the screen will go black... this is normal... did you allow a couple of minutes to ensure the boot completed (the 2 minutes is an arbitrary number btw)... If you did do all these things I'm going too go with a bad download... let us know what happens...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chrlswltrs:
Yes did everything in the op. Waited for boot animation, black screen, etc.

Boots to the lockscreen and that is it. I'll let you know what happens after the new download finishes (computer is downloading really slow right now)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rob97ss:
I made a thread in general.. Voice mail update, someone posted an Apk...

Bobby O'S Epic Touch..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chrlswltrs:
Must have been a bad download because I downloaded it again and flashed it, now everything is working fine. I love the look and feel of the ROM so far
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xlGmanlx:
we know you never doubted VeNuM :D:D:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nannuq:
Thanks Rob97ss
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chrlswltrs:
I didn't, I figured either I screwed something up or it was a defective download. Glad it was the latter.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Glad to see it finally worked for you Chris. Hope you like it...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Euclid's Brother:
I got the lockscreen loop tonight. Rom worked fine all day. Tonight, I purchased ADW Launcher EX for 10 cents. I didn't intend to install it on the phone. I wanted it for my a500 tab, but its battery was dead, so I used the phone to purchase and hit cancel during install. But it installed anyway.

Then, whenever I would hit the home key, it would ask which launcher to use. Tw, adw or adw ex. So I switched back and forth a few times just to see the differences.

Then the phone froze requiring a reboot. Was unable to get past lockscreen after that. Screen completely unresponsive. It would keep doing so.e kind of soft reset loop (not all the way back to the Samsung logo). Tried wiping cache and dalvik. Also reflashed rom w/o data wipe. Still cant get past my pattern lock. I have feeling this happens if for some reqson the rom forgets which launcher is the default.

Is there anyway to set the default launcher while booted to cwm? Otherwise I'm going to have to wipe data and start over from last night. Really wish I had donenother band backup after getting it all setup how I liked.

Still love this rom and will stick with it. Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
nope, you can try wiping cache/dalvik in cwm to see if you can get it stable, but, most likely you will be wiping and setting up again

there is no way of setting default anything in cwm
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] downtrodn:
Any way we can get a flashable zip of the icons?

Thanks.

sent from my Samsung GalaxyS 2!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
I know it's not funny but I've done this very thing in the past... Wase is correct you'll probably have to do a full flash... let us know...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Hey down I uploaded a zip link for the icons in the mods section... they need to be extracted though... What did you mean flashable zip? Like to other roms etc?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SantinoInc:
Heya VenuM. Quick question about themes. If I flash your Venom theme on this ROM and want to go back to the default theme for the ROM is there anyway to do it besides reflashing the rom?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Euclid's Brother:
ehh.. i'm cool with it.. nothing lost but a little time. I'm almost positive it's a launcher issue.

Didn't think about it last night (and I don't have adb access to it right now), but I'm gonna try connecting via adb and remove both ADW Launchers so TW is the only one available. Wanna see if that will get past the issue. I backed up my /data last night before i reflashed, so I should be able to restore it. Or maybe I'll try to duplicate the issue again.

I'll keep ya posted.

PS. If you have multiple launchers installed, how do you change which one is being used?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Grab "Home Switcher" app from the Market. I have a few launchers installed and it works great.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
Home Swircher is good, and, if you don't want to use that, just go to settings/applications/manage applications, and go to the current launcher you are using. Hit "Clear default", and, press your home button, and you will get a choice of the currently installed launchers to pick from..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Euclid's Brother:
Thanks John and Wase.. The "Clear default" was exactly what I was looking for. But that home switcher sound cool.. I'll definately check that out too.

EDIT:

That's definately the issue. I cleared the default on TWLauncher, so that it would ask which launcher to use. Then I rebooted and now i'm in the pattern lock loop and screen is completely unresponsive.

Restoring Nandriod now. Will try try some other tests.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dmarden:
Found a big (for me, but likely not so severe for most) bug... hopefully an easy fix for you, Venum.

It appears as though Bluetooth has an issue where the normal prompt when the phonebook is to be downloaded never appears, so the request for permission eventually just times out.

I verified this happens on both my and my gf's cars. It works fine on the stock ROM, but I have not tried any other non-stock ROMs.

What SHOULD happen:

Initial pairing between phone and car bluetooth

Enter pairing pin

Pairing successful

Car asks if it should download the phonebook.

A prompt displays on the phone to verify I want to allow that to happen

Done

What DOES happen:

Initial pairing between phone and car bluetooth

Enter pairing pin

Pairing successful

Car asks if it should download the phonebook.

A prompt is never displayed on the phone, about 30-45 seconds goes by and the download fails.

My WORKAROUND:

I wiped the bluetooth data and restored a backup from Titanium hoping this might also restore the previously set permission for my car to download phonebook data. This proved to be the case, thankfully.

Additional note:

Since I realize not everyone uses this phone with a bluetooth dialing device, just wanted to clarify that none of this is based on any special app or anything, just part of the Android system.

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Euclid's Brother:
My second test failed too. I uninstalled ADW Launcher, cleared the default on Touchwiz. I confirmed that it did not ask me to choose a launcher when pressing home. Then rebooted. It still went into the lockscreen loop.

My hope was that with only one launcher to choose from, it would automatically use it. I'm actually baffled to why that didn't work. With only one launcher installed, I don't see any way of setting it as the default launcher if that flag happens to get cleared. (Maybe with home switcher, you can)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Thanks wase. That's an important part if you want to change default launcher and I left that part out of my post
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Maybe try settings/applications/management/all then look for the one launcher and clear default there or see if it is selected there
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Euclid's Brother:
That's what I did. After uninstalling ADW Launcher, i went down to TWLauncher and cleared the default. Then hit Home (worked w/o prompting me for a launcher) then went back to the settings/applications/management/all/twlauncher and it was still unset. No way to set it there, can only clear it. Rebooted and got locked out.

I'm wondering if this scenario happens on the older 2.3.4 rom's. I've not seen this come before. I've still got some more tests in mind. Ultimately, I'm trying to find a way to resolve the issue w/o wiping data or restoring a nandriod.

Anyway, more tests will have to wait til late tonight..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] downtrodn:
VeNuM, yea CWM flashable theme. Sorry i didnt make it more clear. Id like to use the minimal ui, but with your rom icons. Thats the only reason i ask. :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Actually down that would be a theme... you can actually put the icons in the minimal theme before you flash it...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Dm saw your post and I'll take a look at it for next release...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dmarden:
Thanks, man.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Euclid, the only thing I can think if is to use a theme that's got twlauncher and flash it (I kniw my black venum theme has it) and it may reset back to twlauncher upon boot...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xlGmanlx:
I would suggest uninstalling launcher pro then reinstalling.

Also if you get loops like that, all you have to do is flash the ROM overtop itself without wiping and you should be good. All it does is basically reset the ROM, but you lose no data/apps. Unless the ROM zip wipes for you. It has saved me plenty of times on the evo
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
The rom does wipe. It also comes with home switcher. I also wouldn't clear the default before reboot... bad mojo... i didn't realize he was using LP... good call...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kooldawghd2:
Been running this ROM since yesterday and liking it so far!

Using it with ADW launcher EX and it looks great with the minimalist theme. However the notification LED does not seem to be working whenever I get a text or email notification?? Is there a setting I need to turn on to enable LED notifications??
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
I'm glad you like. Thank you... Menu/Settings/Display/Notification Flash. Unless your not using a ET4G? At least thats the way my phone works...