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[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Thank you, so far last night I was able to install CWM 6.x and was able to take two backups, one to SD and one to on-board memory, I realized on board memory back up may not include full image.

Before I got CWM, I could only go into stock recovery once, after that it kept showing me a blank/gray battery picture with a ! or ? something like that on screen.. I got scared at first, then I tried battery-pull method and was able to get to recovery.

Tonight I will take another full nandroid back up to an another SD card and keep that on the side.

I will then root it using the root-stock zip so I can delete crap and see how it works, if I see any laggy performance, I am jumping on board Peach Sunrise boat. :) I guess I have to make sure I don't wipe since I just want to root it for now.. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] afwolfpacked:
As long as you make a nandroid you will always be able to revert back to what you had. As always do this at your own discretion but there is always someone here willing to guide and help if anything should happen. This phone is by far the most resilient that I have used and softbricked mine many times but recovers easy.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Thank you so much, I can't wait to start removing bloatware!

Regarding the confusing part, on Wiki, it states that go back to stock rom then wipe data/cache/dalvik.. Why? Shouldn't we wipe ROM, then wipe data/cache/dalvik then flash the stock rom?
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] afwolfpacked:
If installing a custom rom where major changes ie kernel has been modified then a rom wipe is required. If the changes are not significant then a rom wipe isn't require. Root stock there is no major changes.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
I know, I was not referring to absence of rom wipe requirement.

I wanted to mention that it states "flash the stock rom" ... then "wipe data/cache/dalvik".

Check the section "Flash back to Stock" here http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Exhibit_4G

I don't question the requirements, but I am just trying to understand the process. Won't wiping data/cache/dalvik remove data that came with the stock rom? Or these three have nothing to do with rom? Then the user data is stored elsewhere?
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] afwolfpacked:
After the flash the wipes then bootup the answer for it is simply to let the new rom build its new database with nothing present.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] meekrawb:
I read somewhere that after flashing back to stock you will get a lot of FC's , so I think that is why they tell you to wipe after installing.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] afwolfpacked:
The data will be for the other rom and the Dalvik as well. The Dalvik is the VM for apps and if left as is from other rom then it will try to handle apps as if other rom was still present. Both data and Dalvik will corrupt the app and allow it to misbehave thus to prevent this the wipe after the new rom and let it build its new database around the new rom
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Great info, but still does not explain why dalvik/data/cache wipe is mentioned AFTER back-to-stock rom is flashed.

So flashing before or after make no difference? OR wiping them after new rom is flashed will make them "format" in a different way?

I certainly understand that cleaner it is the better it will run, but that does not explain why it asks to flash back to stock "that's it, you are now stock" and then goes on to ask data/cache/dalvik wipe prior to reboot...

Instead, would it make any difference if I do a rom wipe, then data/cache/dalvik wipe, then flash back to stock and then reboot..

I hope I was able to get my question across, since I don't really know much about these and maybe there is a difference to doing d/c/d wipe after flashing it vs before flashing it..
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] meekrawb:
When I had to return my phone(different phone) I wiped everything before flashing stock. After rebooting I got cascading FC's. The way to fix it is wiping cache/dalvik. I couldn't tell you why it happens.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
I see, so it is possible that flashing back to stock may place some useless data in one or more of the data/cache/dalvik, and it is possible that they are not compatible with the device (maybe serial # or mac # or that kind of stuff?)

Your situation demonstrates very well - if by "wiped everything before flashing stock" you mean including data/cache/dalvik-- .. points out that it makes no difference to wipe it before flashing, and the key is to wipe -ONLY THOSE THREE- after flashing. Imagine people wiping rom after flashing and going into an endless cycle of flashing, wiping, flashing, wiping and so on..:eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] afwolfpacked:
Those wipes after the flash resets all the rom so there is no data and completely back to stock. If you don't do the wipes then left over residual data can creep in and corrupt the flash to stock.

As side note on the subject. If you don't desire a rom change but don't want the data on phone ie selling on eBay. You would be able to do those wipes along with reset and just delete the directories left from apps and media. That would reset without reflash. Obviously remove apps prior to wipes and reset or it will rebuild directories as needed.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] lamasliketoast:
Thank you for this, everything seems to be working fine!

There was one issues where I had set my wallpaper, and lock screen at the same time, but when I rebooted my phone the lockscreen turned back to a blank black screen, while the desktop wallpaper stayed the same!

Other than that minor issue I haven't been able to find anything wrong! :victory:
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
I am trying to find a bloatware list against the .apk listed in many topics. Some of the apk names don't make sense and search on the site and google always leads to the same list. Has there been such list with explanation?
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] afwolfpacked:
Some of them is uninstallable apps. Oherwise the others are system and can be forceclosed frozen or removed. I suggest using rom toolbox or ti backup to freeze before remove to be sure you want that. In either case the files listed in wiki are there. That is if flashed to stock. If peach then already debloated.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Thanks, yes that's right, peach is debloated, I just want to get rid of stuff that slows down the phone before I wipe and install a new rom. Spent some time trying to set up the phone in good order with bunch of accounts, etc.. so I don't want to let my wife go through it all over.

So freezing will be just like removing, except the apps will be on the phone? That's a good idea as well..

I found another list with some more details on apk's here: http://androidforums.com/exhibit-2-4g-all-things-root/472523-how-root.html
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] harryc3:
Re-Loading Peach Sunrise

The other day I dropped my Exhibit 4g on the sidewalk. The cover separated and the battery popped out.

After I rebooted the phone was barely able to make calls. Nothing worked.

I pondered and pondered and finally decided that maybe the phone was involved in some process when it hit the pavement and the sudden shut-down choked the software. I had flashed Peach Sunrise several months ago and have been please with the phone's performance.

So I followed 's Jocala's instructions, wipes and all, and re-loaded Peach Sunrise. Problem solved.

Well almost. Titanium Backup kept hanging up trying to restore. The problem was so critical that I had to try 3 or 4 times to get things right.

My solution: used Google to restore apps and processes; used Titanium Backup to restore data, and only data.

Anyone else have a good BU/Restore plan?

Thanks to Jocala for his great work on behalf of the Exibit 4G community.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] Erik_Sandoval:
I wish there was an oc kernel for this. That would be something.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] aR3alCoo1Kat:
Does anyone know if version 2.04 is susceptible to the USSD exploit?
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] detdett:
A little searching would have found you the answer... (see below)
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] afwolfpacked:
I don't think so. I think that was the update that patched it. Besides you can get the last version and flash over and lose nothing
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] aR3alCoo1Kat:
Thanks for the help. I added it to the wiki for reference. v2.04 is vulnerable to the exploit.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] JTMcVay:
help, messed up on rom

So instead of copying the peach sunrise.Zip to my phone, I copied the files in the .zip to my phone.

I just followed the steps and installed the cwm.zip and have that working properly but now I've wiped the ROM and don't have the peach.zip to set up. Did I just brick my phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] theAPANT:
No you have not, just put a ROM on your external sdcard.(put it into an adapter) Then boot into recovery by holding volume up and power and flash. If you are in TWRP you can to a file transfer straight from recovery. If this doesn't work you can use Odin to get back to stock, but you will need to check out the wiki for that.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] Erik_Sandoval:
Don't extract anything. Just copy the entire zip file to an external SD card and you'll be fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] GalaxyDozie:
You can mount usb using cwm by going through mounts and storage so you can transfer the file from pc. Or directly use the sd card with the pc, i think you can even push it with adb somehow now... so youre far from bricked :)
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] theAPANT:
Good point, with adb, just do .adb push /(path to ROM) /sdcard
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] JTMcVay:
Got it

Just scrounged up a micro SD card and used my wife's exhibit 2g to get it on the card, then swapped the card into mine. Installing Peachsunrise now. I really have no idea what I'm doing though, I just wanted to be able to make my phone a wifi hotspot. Any tips? I googled an app called Android wi-fi tether
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
I think it was foxfi?

Otherwise with root, you should NOT need an app, it should automatically allow tether/wifi hotspot, right?
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] GalaxyDozie:
Well the best tethering experience ive had is with the built in one in camcory's JB PACman rom.. used it last night to let my bro's use their ipods in the car..

Word of advice if your gonna tether make sure to go to amazon and purchase a few backup batteries with the charger.. Tethering and Navigation kill this phone lol..

Not sure if peach sunrise has built in tethering.. its good that youre starting with a GB rom though... overtime youll work your way up to JB(i promise)... once you start flashing roms its so hard to stop...

And yeah basically all you needed for free tethering was root and a good third party tethering app, but you went way further than that.

Congrats on your first custom rom flash! Make sure to check out some of the other roms.. great work by these devs!
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] JTMcVay:
got it

So its installed/flashed w/e you call it for this. It does have built in tethering. my ipad could connect to it but I doubt I'll get any gaming speed out of it ;P. One glitch though, I'm having trouble deleting things off the home screen now, I could before but holding down on an icon will make it orange and then nothing else.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] theAPANT:
Try dragging it to the top of the screen
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
I have the same problem as JTMcVay. It's not only deleting items, you cannot move/resize any home screen items. It worked in the beginning but after I checked "catalog" in main app list (why can't we create folders?) the home screen stopped responding to tap and hold. (I also cannot add widgets, etc.. either) I rebooted the phone, still it won't work. I am stuck with whatever I add to home screen, I cannot get rid of them.... Did a battery pull, still no luck, home screen adjustment is locked/broken now...

-Fixed.. For some reason "desktop" was locked in ADW. How did it get locked? I didn't lock it, and nobody else touched the phone since I installed PS earlier today. Odd.. JT, check the settings on home screen and see if it is locked.

The other question I have is until I flashed Peach Sunrise I never noticed any ghosting, but now I can clearly see ghosting/image retention on screen. Especially when I have the bottom menu or browser running for a long time and suddenly if I go to home screen with an even background, I can easily see all the buttons still on the screen until they slowly disappear.

Last question, how do I get rid of boot & turn off sound? (T-Mobile jingle) I just want to get rid of it, or at least replace with something very subtle.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] theAPANT:
Maybe use a different launcher from the play store. Most of the ones I like are ICS and up but maybe go launcher. The app Dev for adw was caught up in some suing stuff and hasn't update the app in a long time. As for the background thing, I don't know how to improve that, I remember that problem with cm9, but now on slim bean, I have no problems. I know what will make it worse but that's not what you want :) Finally the sound thing, mount your system in es file explorer, or terminal, or whatever. go to system/media and look around there that's where the sound should be and the boot animation itself. I'm not on peach so I can't tell you exactly what to do but if you tell me what is inside I can maybe help
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Thanks, I wonder if the screen issue has something to do with brightness or any other settings. For now ADW is working fine, and peach seems to run fine too, I like it it is snappy so far, but that image retention is worrying me.

I will take a look at boot sound, I think it could be paired with boot animation (sound coming from the video) not just the boot sound itself, so I am not sure if I will find it in system media. I don't want to get stuck if the phone cannot find the boot animation and stalls.. :) How do I replace the boot animation?
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] meekrawb:
One of the sounds you are looking for is in system/etc. I think it is poweron.wav.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] theAPANT:
That's also in system/media. And the boot animation is a series of images with a desc.txt file that tells the images how to play (I've made many, there is a Christmas one in the cm10 thread). Therefore the actual audio part is in an audio folder. You will have to find the exact file i believe. With no boot animation the phone won't stall, it will just display a black screen, but it will still boot right up. Once again from experience. As for changing the animation or anything, simply mount system as root and write in es file explorer. I'll go download peach and find the specific info you need.

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Yup you are right I looked in system/media and there is no boot animation.zip I guess because it is based so off of stock

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There are two, power on.wav and 1_power_on.ogg, both are that datatata sound. So I guess they both need to be removed/renamed
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Thank you so much for the responses! I am going to go check the details. I guess we cannot replace the boot animation on this one, then, just remove the sound only, right?

I will replace both sounds with a soft sound just so that we have some sounds. I would love the ability to replace it with a video though, I could put something like me scoring a strike on bowling, or my toddler playing with the phone etc.. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] meekrawb:
I left the ogg file there on my wife's phone so I don't think it does anything.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Looks like we all got this phone for our wives! :) When my wife's 8900 started acting up, I bought her this phone, after thinking about if I should spend $550 on GS3 or $300 on GS2, finally I gave up on both and went with GE II 4G, she seems to be happy so far, hopefully happier now that the phone should be much faster with peach.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] theAPANT:
The video file is a weird and proprietary, so maybe if you are good with some encoding you could convert it. I'm not certain though.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] JTMcVay:
Thanks

Yeah I had figured that out I just forgot to post it. There must be a task that automatically locks desktop without us knowing. :P

One other thing, I like to forcequit apps to make sure theres no battery usage I don't know about. I know about one menu I can go into and do this but I miss the one that had the battery looking widget that I could click on and end stuff. I don't see it anymore though, anyone know what I'm talking about?

Tethering, I like it, I've even run my xbox off my phone and played black ops2 on it :D once a game theres a lag spike but thats it. I'm using the stock tethering though and I can't seem to make a shortcut to the menu for it. Is there an app thats good and do the apps run differently than the stock one in any way? I'm good with windows but I'm new to this linux based system(I think I read that its linux anyways)

And finally. Is this the right place for all these questions?

Afterthought: Everytime I hit delete it deletes the whole word I'm working on and also my predictive text doesn't work anymore. Where is the setting for this?
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
The browser that comes with peach sunrise does not allow pinch and zoom, is there a setting to enable it? I checked the browser's settings and there is nothing to enable it.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] afwolfpacked:
Stock doesn't pinch zoom but dolphin browser does
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
What do you guys use for gallery? The stock gallery is pullling pictures from all albums and folders in my SD card, even the artwork, random documents, etc all show up in gallery which is annoying.

Also, I started using Dropbox, it works flawlessly, i take a picture and it is on my PC and on cloud in about few seconds, but it does not keep the folder structures, do you guys use anything else for cloud syncing? I would like to have the option of keeping the folder structure and albums on cloud. Any suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] ArtfulDodger:
Here use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studiokuma.nomedia&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5zdHVkaW9rdW1hLm5vbWVkaWEiXQ.. Place the ".nomedia" file in the folder you don't want scanned and the pictures will no longer show up.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Thanks! So does that app have to be running all the time, or can we manually place .nomedia in folders using file explorer?
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] ArtfulDodger:
Open the app, browse the folders and select the folder. The app will place the ".nomedia" file for you. It does not run in the background at all, it only makes a file.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Does anyone know if it is possible to add lock screen widgets with the Peach Sunrise's lock screen?

And if I want to change the launcher, do I have to uninstall ADW first? Does it go back to stock when the ADW launcher uninstall, or do I have to install another one first?

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This one will also stop searching for music as well, I only want to stop it from searching for pictures and displaying in gallery.

The problem is gallery is displaying all album cover art, and all other pictures (if CD booklet is scanned, etc..) sometimes these images are within the mp3 album directory, so if I use nomedia in that directory it will also skip searching for mp3 in those folders as well. That won't work..
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] afwolfpacked:
You can use holo locker for lockscreen and holo launcher both are free in store and works well. Dont uninstall adw if you got rid of stock. Be sure you always have a launcher. As for music and art the art should be in separate folder so just ignore that folder and if you downloaded separate put it in same folder as MP3 to clean up pic folder. Simplifies what and where you look for pictures
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Thanks. I did not get rid of stock, I just flashed Peach Sunrise, so I actually did not do anything to the launcher. So do I just install Holo Launcher on top of ADW and then uninstall ADW? I am not sure how Peach Sunrise was developed, so I don't know if ADW is running on top of stock launcher or if there is even a stock launcher UI. If they removed TouchWiz to speed up the process, I assume jocala just placed ADW there, that's all.

About the Mp3, I know, but I wish it was that easy, WMP adds the image with "folder.jpg" which is driving me crazy, I have to go through each one and just remove the cover art.. I will just do *.jpg and remove them all and then maybe I can find an app that can download or embed cover art like mediamonkey.. I just wish we could tell gallery not to look for pictures everywhere.. Why would it be looking for pictures in Documents folder.. that's beyond me.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] afwolfpacked:
Adw was the choice of browser when that ROM was compiled. Just download install and set up. When happy then set the default to the choice you like. If I recall there is no other launcher and can be removed or froze after new one is installed
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] ticojpunk:
I just went back to Peach Sunrise after a few weeks on Slimbean and CM10.

I love Slimbean and the Jellybean stuff like Google Now. But my goodness, I forgot what great battery life feels like. Peach Sunrise is so smooth, lag free, RAM efficient, etc. Camera shutter delay is much lower as well.

This phone definitely runs better under Gingerbread. I'm using Holo Locker and Holo Launcher so in most respects, it looks and feels like JB, aside from the Touchwiz stuff that I actually kind of like.

I'm getting a Galaxy S3 this week, so I may be leaving the Exhibit at some point. Though, I actually prefer the size of the smaller Exhibit, but we'll see. For now I'll keep it as a secondary phone, and I'll keep running Peach Sunrise as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] hydeah:
Front facing camera is very good with this phone, but the problem is the rear (outside) camera, when I try to take a picture, it takes forever to focus in and out and then finally take the picture. Is there anyway to speed this up and make it better? Sometimes I have to tap and focus in advance then take the picture and it is still slow.

With Holo Locker/Launcher, did you uninstall ADW? afwolfpacked already mentioned to just install and setup, but do I have to remove ADW after that? He mentioned i can freeze it, but if I don't uninstall or freeze, will it still be running on the background? I don't want to get rid of it (and I still didn't pay Titanium back up to free apps).

Thanks!

I agree this phone runs so much better with Peach Sunrise. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] ticojpunk:
No need to uninstall ADW. I don't really think it's running in the background either. Just don't worry about it.

The camera on the Exhibit is simply laggy. In very good light, if you tap to pre focus, it's not toooo bad.

The camera is the Achilles Heel for me, and a big reason I'm probably moving on to the S3.

Not to say I haven't gotten some nice memorable shots on this phone, it's just the good ones were lucky, or very skilled early click shots (anticipating the shot, like clicking the shutter, and THEN telling my daughter to "look at daddy and smile", taking known lag into account. Which gets old really quick. Lol).