yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] spci816:
I don't think that was the setting on my Galaxy Nexus though, but I will give that a try if what you first gave me doesn't work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mortal300:
Is there anyway to get higher rest MMS without using Go SMS Pro?? I just want to use my stock ICS msging app :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tweezydak1d:
pulled this from a nexus s build and it works for me, its the stock ics mms.apk... just push it to your phone with adb, root browser, or root explorer in system/app/ . If you choose root browser or explorer make sure u set correct permissions. Im not sure how to explain which ones and if your not sure what the correct permissions are just long press on any file in the "system/app/" folder and check what the permissions are and just use the same on the mms.apk file after u paste it. The reboot and things should be ok... ive been using it for a few days and everything is good.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40459415/Mms.apk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mortal300:
What if you dont have root? Plus, won't that change the messaging app to the old style?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hitmanre:
Does ti work with tmobile 4G? And Tzones/web2go?

Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tweezydak1d:
Its the nexus s ics mms.apk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmike2424:
Confirmed the nexus s mms.apk fixes the problem, thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neok44:
yeah i must of done something wrong here.

i used root browser to copy out the mms.apk that was there, and put this one in. checked the permissions, then rebooted. and no messaging app.

help?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tweezydak1d:
The only things I can think of is either the permissions are not set right or its not named correctly.... make sure the apk is named Mms.apk . I have attached a pic of what the permissions should be set to.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmike2424:
Just try installing the apk normally, it worked just fine
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Buddy Revell:
Would you be able to post how to push it to the phone using adb?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hiohokaybye:
Same problem with me :/

Any fix?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] madj42:
Thanks for the APK. Fixed my issue and I didn't have to reboot. I did the following:

adb remount

adb shell mv /system/app/Mms.apk /system/app/Mms.bak

adb push Mms.apk /system/app (from the folder the downloaded APK is in)

I had to recreate my launcher shortcut for the Messaging app afterwards.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neok44:
yeah so i've tried 3 times now, and each time i've downloaded it on a different computer.

every time the same thing. i erase the mms.apk thats there, put the new one in, fix the permissions, and reboot. no messaging app.

additionally, none of the Mms.apks that i've downloaded show the icon in any file browser on the app. and if i try to instal normally it says "There is a problem parsing the package."

so i'm assuming somehow that me and the others having trouble got corrupted downloads or something.

heading to bed now, but hope someone can work this out by the time i wake up. will be needing working MMS support ASAP.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hiohokaybye:
I have the same exact problem with you also. :/

And i can't just install the .apk file :( I might have to try adb later, but I'm a noob :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neok44:
well, morning and i'm off to work in an hour. guess i'll have to try ADB later tonight, but honestly, if root browser isn't working, i don't have high hopes for ADB ether.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] <blank>:
Try this one. Seems to work for me. Pulled from one of the Nexus S ICS rom packages.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neok44:
this one seems to be working perfectly. pictures i sent are received smaller than the one sent, but not super tiny as before.

i'm assuming the reason why they're a little smaller is due to the t-mobile compression/resizing.

original was 2592x1944. received is 614x461. so at least you can see it. still a joke that thats the max resolution for sending.

also, how the hell do you save MMS from the built in app? i tried holding and pressing save attachment, but nothing showed up in the gallery or downloads.

i had to open it in the gallery, then edit it, to be able to save.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] <blank>:
Seems to save fine for me. It gets saved in your downloads folder.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neok44:
apparently i had to reboot. now i have 15 saved files in my downloads folder lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hiohokaybye:
thanks :) ill try this soon :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hiohokaybye:
I just tried it, i tried it through root explorer, changed the old one's name to mms.apk.bak, pasted it in system/app, changed permission, reboot, the messaging app is gone?:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neok44:
best to copy out the existing and then erase it and then paste the new one there.

also, if you don't see the messaging icon in the new apk then the download was corrupt, what happened to me.

if it works, you'll usually be able to see the messaging app before you even reboot, but you still should reboot after.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hiohokaybye:
Got it to work finally :) I used the second .apk file and got it to work, not sure what was up with the first apk... but I'm currently out of the states right now, ill try it next week when i get back :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hitmanre:
Can someone give me step by step instructions for this. I too am trying to do this but I'm a noob at adb lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hiohokaybye:
Root Explorer method:

1. Download .apk

2. Go to /System/App with Root Explorer

3. Delete Mms.apk

4. Place the downloaded .apk in the /System/App folder

5. Change Permission to rw-r--r--

6. Reboot

DONE! :D

correct me if I'm missing something lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neok44:
DON'T FORGET TO BACKUP THE ORIGINAL!

very important. you always want to have a backup. even if it works.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hitmanre:
Thanks :) Just did everything said above testing now :D

Edit: Works flawless now :) thanks a lot guys!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mortal300:
I dont get it. Is the Nexus S ICS Messaging app your all installing, the SAME EXACT look and design of the GALAXY NEXUS SMS APP? I don't want to swap for the Nexus S application if its going to look different or something...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] iamstuffed:
The only difference is the user agent that the messaging app uses. "GalaxyNexus" is not recognized, so T-Mobile assumes the receiving phone is a feature phone and resizes and compresses the pic.

This can be fixed by changing the user agent in the Mms.apk file. Either do it from source and recompile, or decompile the Mms.apk file using apktool and rebuild it. Or by complaining to T-Mobile.

Fitsnugly's builds already incorporate the fix in the latest version (starting from 2011.12.30).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neok44:
it's EXACTLY the same as the Galaxy Nexus Mms.apk. the only difference is the user agent. it'll even have all your sms/mms still there after the switch.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Q.Entity:
Beautiful! Many thanks!

Skickat från min ASUS Eee Pad TF101
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FastMhz:
Tmobile + Handcent SMS + Blurry MMS = FIXED!

Was messing with HANDCENT SMS and got it to work...

Here is the link

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20831620&postcount=16
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] spovat:
is anyone having an issue with not receiving notifications after replacing mms.apk? i get texts just fine but they're not showing up in the notification bar
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Q.Entity:
No problem here. In fact, just got notifications a couple minutes ago...

Skickat från min ASUS Eee Pad TF101
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
Worth asking but anyway to do this without root? I'm completely stock and it's not worth wiping to unlock and root just for this? Was hoping I could install the APK normally as a system app update.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Q.Entity:
To do it, I needed to copy the original (as a back up, just in case) and then copy the new one to the system folder. I don't see it a way to do it without root...

I rooted 5 minutes after I got the phone and mine was the first batch out of Clove. I am stock until CM9 is available but I do use root for this as this MMS replace.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] toucan509:
worked for me

This worked flawlessly for me, thanks so much for posting this! I'm so excited to be able to use my MMS again:cool:! I did it using Root Explorer, and was as easy as pie!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] njfpolyr6:
Hi there!

does anyone know if this method also works with APN: internet2.voicestream.com ????

I am currently using their unlimited web for phone ($10 dollars / mo) data plan. I cant use the epc.tmobile.com because t-mo will detect it automatically.

Thanks for your help!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] XAviierG:
Sweet will try this. Thank you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kennethpenn:
Awesome! Great job!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] theli0ntamer:
Nice! I've been waiting since last night to flash this Rom...

Is the mass FC's at reboot issue fixed??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] superfire71:
Oh thank god romracer (sry for confusion! ) , thanks for the update. The dev work makes these phones so much better!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jamesd1:
VERY NICE but i found one flaw the shutdown toggle and the shutdown through the power button restarts the phone
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I think so. I was able to reproduce them on build 3. They occur because /data was read-only due to filesystem errors. I've changed the install script in an attempt to fix the problem. You may have to wipe data once using stock recovery if you are currently experiencing the problem, but I'm hopeful it won't recur anymore after that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] highlanderx:
Is this rom based on ATT? Does it have Carrier IQ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xboarder56:
it does because its based on att base 2.3.6
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] theli0ntamer:
just to make sure that i understand, when i flash the rom, after the first initial boot, i would have to wipe data using stock recovery by settings->privacy->factory reset. ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tacotino:
RomRacer thanks for being a bad-A!!!!!

lol i'm glad you and kenn helping us out in our time of need!!! hahah

i had and Atrix and both of you guys are amazing dev. keep up the good work, will flash when i get home
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] CZ Eddie:
I'm glad you fixed it.

Because the previous version deserved it's own new graphics.

The Skyrocket slayer.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] zgigi666999:
hey can you please make this work on rogers phone please :) :D great job by the way
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mspaulding06:
Sweet rom! Keep up the good work! Running great for me, and i love the gingerbread look.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Thanks, I'm looking into this. I noticed it on my phone, but I have a custom kernel (soon to be published as well) and thought maybe it was my kernel. Are you using the kernel that came with the ROM (which is stock but a custom ramdisk)?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
No, wipe data through stock recovery (flashed via Odin). If you aren't having the FC issue, then you don't need to worry.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacheezy:
Nice work. Any plans to nix ciq?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dac1227:
Thanks for getting this to #4!

I'm getting the FC bombardment on restarting the device for the first time after initial successful boot.

prior to #4 installation while running #3, I wiped data from OS privacy menu, then flashed #4 from CWM. FC bombardment on restarting the device for the first time after repeat #4 installation.

Going to stock recovery now to wipe data, then I'll try again! I wasn't sure if you expected the same FC problems or not on this version, so I thought I'd report!;)

*update*: in stock recovery factory reset.

Alien #4 booted w/o issue, restarted twice. Headed back to Odin for some more CWM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I have not come across this. I use different PCs with different USB cables and a wall charger interchangeably.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Nope, its a full ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skrambled:
No need to flash a 2.3.6 stock rom prior to flashing this (the "update" that was OTA was only available for a couple weeks before it was pulled by AT&T, so if you were updating to 2.3.6 you'd have to use one of the versions in the Dev section anyways).

Standard wipe and install over 2.3.5 and you'll be all set!

EDIT: Damn you're quick romracer! Beat me to it...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Savitt:
grazie mille!! any word regarding news in NFC or Gwallet? i know we can't exactly do that without secure element but i am just really eager to get that going
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
NFC works to read tags, it just can't be used with Google Wallet. The simple reason is there is no SecureElement available (unless your SIM card has one, and that's unlikely). To enable standard NFC functionality (reading and exchanging tags) enable it under Settings -> Wireless.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] brocabortzfield:
Best ROM I used in a while.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rabbivj:
giving this a go tonight...will see how it does...so far so good.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cellgeek:
Great ROM. Amazing battery life.

I did have one issue with the ROM. I couldn't pair a second device with the phone using bluetooth. Once one device was paired, the ROM fails to find the second device.

I have it paired with my car - which works great. Tried to pair it with my Bose Headset and the ROM wouldn't find the headset - ever.

Wierdness. . . .:eek:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Weird, yossiw mentions here pairing two devices without issue. I'll have to see if I can test it.

Does pairing in the opposite order change anything by chance? Not sure why it would, but I'm also not sure why it wouldn't work to begin with :P Also, was it connected to the car while you tried to pair with the headset? I'm not a big BT guy, but maybe BT can't pair with one device while connected to another?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sulpher:
Well after messing with it for a long time i managed to get most of my devices paired at once.. all except a microsoft bluetooth notebook mouse that doesn't even show up when searching.

Seems to not like pairing with my phillips stereo and then pairing with keyboards/mice.. but paired with them all just fine when i cleared all the pairings and then did a reboot.. and then added the stereo last...

Still a few bugs.. but other than the microsoft mouse not showing up it seems that you can get them all working with a couple clears/reboots. Tried flashing back to space pirate to see if the mouse had just died and all the devices connected including it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BootyWurk:
just downloaded this and i love it so far, pretty quick, i love the load up screen its HD and a half... haha but good work man I'm working on a rom like this which ill hopefully realease in a month or 2

wish me luck :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Anfeldt24:
Good luck. Keep me posted when your rom is done. I will test it out for you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] freeman9911:
Thanks a lot for putting the effort to do this. Does this ROM support other languages, Arabic in particular?

Thanks again
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rabbivj:
Im not sure if this is a known issue with 5.5 or not but my bluetooth is acting kinda funky. When I pair it to my jeep, the BT will cut out and it seems not to want to turn back on. i have to reboot my phone to get the BT just to turn on and it wouldnt pair back with my jeep. I was using green power premium but not using the bluetooth piece. i uninstalled it but havent tested it yet but is this a known issue anyone has had with said app?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I used Green power premium with my Atrix, but I seemed to have quite the issues with it on the SGS2SR. I don't use BT much so I can't say I directly had problems with GPP and BT, but I certainly seemed to have more issues with GPP on this phone. Some have reported minor issues with BT, but I haven't really been able to reproduce them. My Scion does not have a BT stereo so its hard for me to test any of the car portions. Alien 5.5 should have resolved most if not all of the major BT issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rabbivj:
yeah I tried it with my jeep again it seems to have resolved the issue after changing the bt settings to visible, and removed GPP. It stayed connected for now. now the main test will be if it cuts out when on calls. i had that same prob with my cappy and on CM7.1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Anfeldt24:
Where is the boot animation stored for this rom?

If I use Rom Toolbox what file is it called so I can rename it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
/system/media/bootanimation.zip. You can delete it in which case this stock "android" logo will shimmer (which can't be removed as far as I know). Otherwise you can overwrite it with other boot animations you can Google for on this forum and others.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rabbivj:
Looks like the bt issues returned. I tried to pair it with my Jeep today and it paired but then disconnected. I tried to turn off bt then turn it on, but that was no help. I have to reboot my phone to get it to work. Any thoughts?

rocketed to da sky using mah brain and mah thumbs...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Anfeldt24:
Thanks for the help romracer.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I patched in Internet Call Settings into the settings app -> Call settings -> scroll to bottom. I haven't tested call functionality yet as it was late, so I'm just attaching this here for people to test for now. It should be flashable in CWM though I didn't test that. If it fails, just pull the Phone.apk out of the zip and adb push it /system/app in CWM.

You can use something like this if you want to try and setup a free SIP account to test with.

ROM developers: please don't steal my work without permission :) I plan to write a tutorial soon to explain how it was done.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] -Kevlar-:
romracer, thanks for your hard work. ive been on alien 4 since it came out. is there anyway that you know of to get an ICS style battery and the ATT signal bars and 4g icons in ICS blue? is there a zip out there with this that will work with alien?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Sorry, I don't know. I'm still not even sure I like the ICS blue myself :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bo0omer:
Anyone else have auto brightness problems? I set it to auto in the task bar or in settings and press the power button to lock the screen. When I unlock the screen it's still on auto and it's a at max brightness again. I am in a dark room. If I hit auto again it dims it to where it should be but won't stick?

What's up with that?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I'm not sure I know what you mean. You want auto on or off? If its on, you can't control the brightness - its automatic. If its off, the slider should work fine.

I just tried toggling mine off, moving the slider and locking the screen. When I turn the screen on, the brightness slider is still in the same spot and auto is off. If I turn auto on and lock the screen, then auto is still on when I unlock it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sulpher:
He means when the auto brightness is turned on it will randomly put the phone to max brightness even though your in a pitch black room. Turning it off of autobrightness and back on fixes it. Does this randomly on its own..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrnovanova:
It does it the other way around for me. It'll go from bright in a bright room to dim, for no apparent reason.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bo0omer:
Yes if auto brightness is turned on it gets stuck on max when you lock the phone. Unlock it and boom it's as bright as it can be even in dark room.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] phrozen209:
Same problem here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] itdiestoday:
Thanks for the hard work romracer. I've been running through a bunch of ICS roms and wanted the gingerbread look again. The rom feels excellent. The only thing from all the ICS versions that we see that I like is the launcher. That's it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lart2150:
So I think that 5.5 is doing a much better job at sleeping and at the same time using less battery but that could be that I've just forgotten to install something that I had before.

It's also nice to have fully working nfc!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] AllTheWay:
Just use ADW ex with the ice cream sandwich theme. It will give you that ICS launcher feel and look.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] gravyplaya:
latest OTA update

Will the next update include the OTA update thats been released?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] gravyplaya:
OTA update changes

AT&T’s Galaxy S II Skyrocket will begin receiving an OTA update. This update is not Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0. This is merely a maintenance update that will that will add several new enhancements. These enhancements include:

• Improved performance from several Qualcomm patches and other refinements

• User Interface updates such as the new screen unlock swipe

• The ability to ‘reply all’ in MMS messages

• Exchange ActiveSync wipe to remove all content from the device and microSD card

• Improved battery indicator icon accuracy

This update will bring the Skyrocket to Kernel version 2.6.35.11, Build number GINGERBREAD.UCLA3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hdelvalle009:
Delete the root?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] yossiw:
Dos anybody now if it will fix the Bluetooth problem (not turning on sometimes) and the 100% battery problem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
No install instructions?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
What? Right below the download link it says "Install with CWM". Probably shouldn't flash custom ROMs if you don't know what that means.

Not the next update, but I do plan to roll over to it soon. Alien 6 is ready, I just need to get the "no wipe" update ready for people on 5.5 (anything lower will require a wipe).

I believe I've fixed the brightness issues with it and a few minor changes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] yossiw:
romracer - i left the sr and your wonderful ROM for the s2 only because of the Bluetooth issue (don't turn on after few days only restart solving the problem).

Can you try to fix that issue even with some app that do restart to the Bluetooth service?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] gomo187:
I've never had a problem with BT since the 5.5 update. Used with headset, car, and bose soundlink without any issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] yossiw:
You may not, but i have it and allot of other people complain about it.

Do you power of your device every day or so?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
The roms I've flashed include step by step instructions, such as:

1) wipe data

2) wipe cache

3) wipe dalvik cache

4) wipe battery stats

5) Install from sd

I was just looking for a little guidance, but I guess that's why everyone leaves here and goes elsewhere. Everyone seems to be too good to help someone out. I appreciate all the work you devs do to develop these roms, but it doesn't help the community when you ask questions and receive answers like this. I would assume its something like the process I wrote above but I just wanted to make sure.