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[TouchPad General] apicia:
Just wanted to start a new thread and am open to advice relating to my new tablet purchase. I have been flashing my Behold II, Vibrant, and Galaxy II for some time and have enjoyed all the devs work on their custom ROMs.

Been looking for a tablet and decided on the Touchpad due to all the development going on. Some of the other tablets have barely any activity in their forums.

The Touchpad seems to have great hardware (people say all tablets are slow), CM9, and a great community. For $200 or so bucks, I can't go wrong. My guess is I will get more than my bang for the buck just in flashing fun alone!

Feel free to leave some initial advice or good starting points.
[TouchPad General] jamesissocool:
Good choice! I can't tell you how helpful the devs have been for this platform. Just about everyone here has been helpful and courteous. It is night and day from some phone platforms.

I have tried just about every ROM out there and there really is something for everyone. The devs are helpful and do not come off like they are competing with each other. It feels more like they are all working together, yet offering different builds.

The Touchpad community is cool. What else do you need to know?
[TouchPad General] ponyboy82:
Good luck! I came to really like WebOS, but have had good luck so far with CM9. It really does make the Touchpad more useful, IMO. I've been running "CherryKANG 0.8.9 now with BRICKED kernel [CM9]" lately, and have been very happy so far. ICS rocks on this thing.
[TouchPad General] kenmorgan:
Good luck. Lots of fun.

My first post here. I recommend going to you tube and looking for reverend kyles channel. He has lots of how to videos on how to mod the touchpad. Very helpful. Mine is running as smooth as , dare i say, ice cream. Nice walkthrough video on how to install ics. Good luck.Dumber people than us have done it.
[Kindle Fire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Hi all,

i wrote an article about the Kindle Fire for non-US customers, explaining what works out of the box and what kind of options you have if you want to make use of the full potential of the device.

http://smartphoneblogging.com/2012/03/review-kindle-fire-how-usable-is-it-outside-of-the-us/

this is not meant as an faq for technical stuff like rooting, but more of a overview of whats possible with this tablet. this is hopefully interesting for people thinking about getting a kindle fire which don't live in the USA and are not familiar with Androids possibilities.

Please let me know if there are any questions...
[Kindle Fire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Edited first post as the URL has changed...
[Kindle Fire General] meso100:
Hi

That is a very good article, and something I have been looking for as I live in UK.

You state:

Amazon pushes out updates to the Kindle Fire pretty often, which would normally be a great thing, but not so much if you are using a rooted device with the stock ROM. Updates are forced and there is no way to deny them, other than using the Kindle Fire only offline which of course makes no sense. The problem is that each update will break your root access so you have to wait for the community to again root the new version and provide an walkthrough for it. This cat and mouse play can get very annoying. Chances are that you don’t really need to stick with the stock Kindle Fire ROM anyway as most Amazon services can’t be used outside of the US. This is where custom ROMs come in handy

Does this mean that if you keep the stock ROM updates can still be pushed to the device but by changing the ROM it will freeze the pushed updates or is there no way that these can be stopped currently?
[Kindle Fire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Yes, that's right. Keeping the stock ROM will mean OTA updates will be pushed to your device, and you might lose root.

With a custom ROM like the CM7 or CM9 Rom this will not happen, as you basically have a different device with that ROMs.
[Kindle Fire General] meso100:
Thanks for your help.

I have bookmarked your website for future reference and liked it on G+

Nice one!
[Kindle Fire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Thanks for the feedback!
[Kindle Fire General] Cheshire.Love:
Thank you so much for writing this article. =]

This will come in handy when I move out of the states shortly. lol
[Kindle Fire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Thanks. As far as i know you should be able to use your Kindle Fire normally outside of the US, if it has been activated using a real US Amazon account with a real credit card. All services should work.

But of course this won't last if you move to another country permanently (change address) and don't use your US credit card anymore...
[Kindle Fire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
The only thing missing now is an official CM9 build and hardware acceleration. Hopefully we will see this soon as it would really push the kindle fire capabilities.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Lee.Brda:
My lovely new ATP has ALL the issues. I got an RMA and sent it in for repair. It was rec'd at the Grapevine, TX facility on 02/13/12. It has been in WB5 status ever since it got there. I have called a couple of times and CSR told me that they are waiting for a "special" part to come in so that it can be repaired. The required 10-14 business days in the facility for turn around time have now passed.

Does anyone know what happens now? I read on this forum that a part for a "fix" is expected by EOM March. Will they keep it until then?

This is the first tablet that I have had and it was not right since the second I took it out of the box. Just so you all know, I do not hold a grudge against ASUS as some members seem to. I work in a franchised auto dealership so I understand all about rushing a product to the market..... BUT if a customer's brand new car is down in the shop and needs a part to get it back on the road, the manufacturer seems to get it to us in expedited fashion. At times they will pull one off the assembly line if there are none at the parts warehouses. That said, I was like a kid on Christmas when my ATP arrived at my door. It took a couple of days for my brain to register that it did not, in fact, work properly. The wind has now come out of my sail and I am just blah about it. I am sure when I get it back in my hands I will, again, be excited.

Sorry for the ramble but I was really wondering was if any one knows what happens now.

Thanks for any input.
[Galaxy 3 General] pchenna143:
hi i opened this thread for explain how to backup your official firmware.

first downgrade your phone so that kies will detect an upgrade for you.

Now read on to see how to save the

firmware files during kies upgrade process.

On your pc, check the option

"Show hidden files"

Now connect your phone to pc via kies to begin the firmware upgrade.

Kies will begin to download the

firmware files...

The files will be saved in tmp files called "tmpA4CE.tmp" or other names

you can find it easily.

In Windows 7, this

tmp file is located at,

C:\Users\ * \AppData

\Local\Temp or type temp in run command.

(* is the pc user

session name, e.g. C:

\Users\chenna

\AppData\Local

\Temp)

When download iscomplete, kies

decompresses this tmp file into a zip folder and begins the firmware upgrading process.

The folder has same name as the tmp file but now with an extention of zipfolder.

When kies begins the upgrade process

starting from 1% until

it reaches 100%, quickly copy the "zipfolder" to your desktop.

You have about 2 to 3 minutes to do this.

Kies will delete the folder once upgrade is 100% (completed).

The "zipfolder" contains all the firmware files kies has used to upgrade

your phone.

Now you have a backup of official firmware from kies.

This is also useful in case kies fails to

complete the upgrade process.

Just use the saved files and manually flash your phone using odin or multiloader.

IF YOU LIKE THIS POST PLEASE PRESS THANKS
[Galaxy 3 General] :
Could be usefull, but there are some threads out there that allready have stock firmwares listed. :)
[Galaxy 3 General] pchenna143:
this process is 100% safe and no confusion. finally you will not loose your warrenty.
[Galaxy 3 General] vivekdumbre:
WHere is downgrade file

can u plz post a link to the downgrade firmware file?
[Galaxy 3 General] pchenna143:
go to samfirmware.com forums there you can get firmwares. they did not add recent firmware(august-2011) so downlod april firmware.

and install with odin.

you can get odin and ops in cianogenmod thread.

and finally download your region firmware. follow letter codes to find your country. for example India-dd
[Galaxy 3 General] fkrone:
I already tried to downgrade so kies would recognize my phone and provide an upgrade but this failed several times. So there is no guarantee that this will work.
[Galaxy 3 General] pchenna143:
this will work.

did you check on showhidden folders?

cleanup your temporary files before start upgrade firmware.

and some times file name is different.

so first cleanup your temp. than check show hidden files than start the process.

it should work
[Galaxy 3 General] fkrone:
I meant with that that kies might tell you that there is no update available. I tried this out several times with different firmwares and different CSCs.
[Galaxy 3 General] m1trand1r:
kies sucks for some reason:P

i just flashed with odin...kies never worked for me either:P

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Sent from Galaxy

Kyrillos' ROM v10 GWK74 beta

powered by

CM7-kernel 1.3 H.V.

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[Galaxy 3 General] pchenna143:
If you install latest firmware kies cant provode an update for you.

you have to install your region firmware only. tell me your problem with this process clearly please. i am not understanding your problem completely.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hunterjay7:
MINIMAL N00B

​

BETA V0.8USINESS SEXUAL

ABOUT THEME:

This is my ~second~ attempt at making/cloning/porting/kanging/releasing a theme. I'm very much still learning. Feedback is always good.

It's mostly a clone of TeamVenums Minimal Black & White

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1381336

With little bits of Black Chrome..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1515143

THIS IS FAR FROM COMPLETE, I STARTED THIS MORNING. MORE WILL COME. DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT ANYTHING YET :)

Only (again) with more bugs and a few changes of my own.

Once again my release versions will follow no pattern other than they will all be funny to me.

SCREENSHOTS BETA V0.8USINESS SEXUAL[PARADOX|REBIRTH]:

CREDITS

- Thanks to The ORIGINAL Developers of these themes, links posted at the top! They did all the hard work.

- Thanks to armyofbear136 for helping me get started theming, and making my Galaxy possible ;]

- Thanks to Master&Slave for his video tutorials on theming, which made this possible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSB8iQvpU9k

- Thanks to ADT for helping answer my questions and helping a brother out.

- Thank you if you tested my work :)

CHANGELOG:

3/2/2012 - V 0.8usiness Sexual

Themed All Icon Apps, themed some apps.

fixed that f*cked up statusbar

100% STABLE NAO!

3/2/2012A - Beta V0.Mc Eiht
​

DOWNLOAD MINIMAL N00B - BETA V0.8USINESS SEXUAL [PARADOX|REBIRTH]

http://www.mediafire.com/?xpfl1yz4a6292up

Why You Shouldn't Drink Robitussin for 30 days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj5RQUj6bSo​
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hunterjay7:
[Reserved for a dance party]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
looks pretty sweet man!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] born2gethard:
Looks nice. Wanna try a dark red theme? ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hunterjay7:
hmm maybe after i finish this :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] secure_6:
Robofry.... A++++++

Aaah... I thoroughly enjoyed it...!!!

Sent from my Sammy GSII
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] raycaster3:
That Theme is nice man. Gotta love Black and white!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hunterjay7:
Thanks man. I'll be honest, other than the obvious bugs that need fixing - I'm not quite sure what else I want. I have tried a lot of different status bar backgrounds, but I like the original (paint splatterish looking?) the best, so i left it.

I really don't like modding that many icons honestly :p but if you find something similar to what you like on another phone, let me know - I'll try to port it. I keep wanting to do an ICS theme, but I figure someones always about to do one.

** a couple i've found: http://minus.com/mbht5XnGyv#1

and

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1271655
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] HRodMusic:
Where do I download?

Edit, nvm I guess on the app u can't see the links.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] NoLunchBox_:
Thanks dude, I liked your last port and this one is even better! Good job and keep up the hard work. Will definitely be trying this out when M&S releases his next update...

Keep it up! :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Illusion81:
Nice theme hunterjay7, a lil gloomy but definitely easy on eyes and battery. Good sh!t.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] NoLunchBox_:
Will this work with the new Paradox II? Cuz I flashed it but it didn't seem to be fully working...are you still fixing some things?

UPDATE: nvm, I read the OP lol

Sent from my GameBoy Color running Paradox II
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hunterjay7:
[; actually as far as I can tell, ONLY the voice commands don't work with the new update and my old theme. I'm using it right now, but was too lazy to delete the Voice command APK so it FC's randomly. Open the zip and delete it those apks in App [samsung voice widget i think?] and it should work fine :p - I'll put out an update when I'm back in town for the new release of paradox or whatevers out when im done :)

edit - ohhh yeah it's pretty gloomy haha. I wanted an ultra basic, super minimal theme. Turns out its pretty gloomy :x
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] NoLunchBox_:
So I flashed the theme and love it! I actually like it more than the orange theme but it needs a few "tweaking."

In some apps I can't see what I'm writing because the the font is white and so is tthe background; are there any fix for this?

There are also a few left over oranges - I don't know if this is just me or if its like that and your fixing it. Any help?

Sent from my GameBoy Color running Paradox II
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hunterjay7:
Out of town again :O, I'm back thursday. By the end of the weekend I'll get one out for the new Paradox, with less glitches :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jrturner89:
It was Ok

I loved the colors of the theme however in some programs and some selections the text wasn't visible until I actually selected it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hunterjay7:
Haha I have been ouuuut of town. Anyone have the original zip for this? I was going to start working on a black and white ICS theme port, just something for myself. everyone can use it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DatBoiJeremy:
great job with this rom. keep up the work
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shone79:
My friend have bought a brand new HTC evo 3D, powered with qualcomm 8660 1.2 ghz dual core processor. Phone look great, but , trust me, i dont want to change my i9000 for that phone (and probably any HTC). Screen on i9000 look much better(with smaller res 800x480 vs 540x960) , amoled is amoled :D, multimedia experince is much better on i9000. We tried to play regulary .mkv 720p shakira spot on both phones. Suprisingly htc evo 3d can't play mkv with stock player. Ok, both of us are downloaded bsplayer lite, and mx player from the market, and on the both players htc evo 3d (with hw accel enabled has stuttering problems), but with all players (including stock) on galaxy s video is smothly. Sound in any way is much better on samsung, and video record 720p stutter on evo 3d (fps is unstable) when light condition change, but with samsung this problems do not exist (video is perfectly smooth in any light condition) .Games and Browser on both phones work great, and i cant find big difference. And another thing, evo 3d has 1gb ram (808 mb actually), but he is full of bloaware, and rarely free ram is more than 150mb). this is enough reasons for me to stay this year happy with my sammy, and dont care about ICS, most phones will not get stable ICS before Q3 2012.

Hi 2 all.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] coooolboyz:
wonderful!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Desotho:
What rom is your SGS running on? Great to see you so happy!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Helloworld294:
Galaxy s ftw :d:d
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tzmueller:
I love my Bell Galaxy S... does everything I want it to and works great.

Rom THS ICS v16

I will use this sucker until my contract runs out in a year/half or until I break it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sbnaul:
Power vr sgx540 ftw !!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MinedSafe:
I must agree in some points. But Galaxy S is not a perfect phone. If we had to stick to stock roms then its a really average phone compering to other phones. Display is very nice and sharp, and thats what I like with my Samsung. Other things are more at average ( call quality, browser, camera, lag)

I had a Sony Experia Arc and it was bit better even on a stock rom.

But apart form all the bad and good things is that, you can buy Galaxy S for 150-180Euro ( used ). This can't be beaten, for that price its a best phone on the market right now. Plus you can have ICS on it and there is a big support community.

You may disagree with me. Its my personal opinion.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] droid8622:
I have bought this phone after winmobile resistive device, so I have in plans to be with my galaxy s at least when something really different will come again)) For example - something with webtop possibility - like motorola atrix.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MrAndroid12:
I am planning to keep this phone until 2014 :) It's a great larger sized smartphone.

I will wait for SGS2 port of ICS
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AlexsamaM:
Yeah the phone is great, i don't plan to change it soon, there are so many mods/kernel/roms to not get bored.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] laehtis:
yeah sgs is still one of the best phones=D lots of roms etc. processor is still enough fast for almost anything:)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bhu1:
What do u mean by better, smaller 800*480 vs 960*540 resolution? Lols....higher the better.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nash123:
I have mine almost 2 years now and it still rocks! Thx to the great community here. Thx guys!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Sidneymac:
Its a classic ... hall of fame for cell phones. I'm keeping mine. It might be worth something one day. Wishful thinking lol. Waiting to get the galaxy s 3 tho....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JuanGomez:
I came from a Blackberry Curve 8520 (ugh...) to my first Android experience with the SGS, and I couldn't have been happier.

Everything I've ever wanted to do with my phone has worked perfectly, it's definitely fast even today, and when I was finally starting to get (veeery slightly) tired of it 2-3 weeks ago, I found so many ICS builds (I was on GB until then) that only made it better!

It's one hell of a phone, and nowadays you can get it so cheap that I'd still recommend it to people who want an Android phone but don't need the latest, most expensive one with the most cores/RAM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] adslee:
So you're comparing your phone to your friend's, which still has bloatware and probably a stock ROM.

I love the SGS, but seriously, don't boost it like it can destroy the HTC Evo 3D until your friend actually installs a performance custom ROM on his new phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shone79:
yes, i say how it look in reality, not paper specification. Everyone know that on paper evo 3d is much better,and yes, i also have stock jvq rom non rooted. Screen on evo 3d (without 3D mode) is nothing special, much better look on our galaxy, and multimedia on evo is poor. I did not say that our phone is best, i know that sgs2 is much better in any way, i just compared this phone with top HTC phone at the moment
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Menvaihelv...:
Well regardless it's a nice spirit booster... I was just in between the price drop when SGS2 came out... So i i bought the SGS full price but i'm very impressed with it. Running ICS 4.2 and semaphore 9.1.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Boo222444666:
I was seriously considering upgrading to an SGS2 and compared two different ones to mine as i wanted the benefits of the S2 plus the better screen. But from what I saw although screen resolution was higher on s2 certainly it wasn't as bright and colours didn't Pop like on the galaxy s. Highest brightness setting on s2 also lower than S.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Hoppahoppa:
I wanted to buy a new phone a few months ago, untill I discovered custom roms....Now my sgs is as fast as a SGSII wit stock firmware... :)

I'm going to stick with this untill the SGSIII comes. And if that is not what I hope of it, I will stick with even SGS longer.

As said above, it's an average phone on stock, but with custom roms it's amazing. Only real negative part is the terrible camera and the lack of flash on it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lavalampofficial:
SGS is a great phone with tweaks it will last until 2014 easily.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MrAndroid12:
lol, a lot of things don't run on full screen :P
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kraven001:
I see a lot of fan boys..

Let's be realistic, things are starting to be slow on SGS - the custom ROM community can do as much with the low amount of memory on this phone. Apps on android "demand" more and more memory - just check the memory usage of normal apps like browser, facebook, twitter, whatsapp, viber, skype, etc.

I don't want to hear, you don't need to run facebook, skype, whatsapp or other crap; I want to consume apps and and frankly I am starting to get tired of lags, hickups, lack of memory for true multitasking and other annoyances ...

I tried custom Sammy based roms, CM7 based, MIUI - current driver. Haven't given ICS a try yet but I am sure I won't be blown off.

All roms work fine - with speed differences obviously on the CM7x side - until I start installing the apps I want to use and some "data" piles up in the data folders and then its "slowville". I don't even use that many apps - around 70 installed counting about 10 time "killer" games.

I tried thunderbolt, scripts, roms packaged with scripts, etc. but let's face it we will never be able to keep this phone running - at least not with satisfactory speeds - for long.

I don't want to talk about battery life either. I for one can't get more than 20 hours average with average to low usage but with 3g data on (using apps like green power, juice defender, whatever). While this is acceptable for my day to day routine where a charger is available however for me it seems a bit too much. By comparison (and I will get a ton of flame now) I have a friend who on an iPhone 4S got 9 hours of continuous usage and 21 hours of stand by with one charge - that seems a bit more realistic for a daily driver smartphone.

To conclude: I was happy with the phone. It served me well for 1 year and some "change" now but I must admit it is starting to get "old" - frankly I am more than grateful to the big dev community which made me still "fight" with this piece of "magic" called a smartphone. More and more we will be forced to upgrade ...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kany1991:
d bestest cell in its price best cell for devs ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BrainsUnlimited:
The i9000 is going to have a long life span ahead of it. Mine is soon two years old and it still feels like a brand new phone. Sure we've had some rough spots in the history where I have dropped the phone in solid concrete floors and even dipped it in snow, it still operates without any flaws -- and yes, even the screen is without a single scratch. Seems like this phone is made to handle all sorts of rough use. Hardware feels like it hasn't aged at all and now that I installed Android 4.0.3, everything seems to operate even more smoothly.

Only when white Galaxy S III comes to the market -- and after a slight price cut -- I will consider upgrading my phone but that day doesn't come in another year or so :)

Hooray for the SGS \,,/.

Sent from my Nintendo 8-bit.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rollno88:
had my galaxy s for more than a year now and it still rocks (on a custom rom)