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[Fascinate General] cash2387:
Lol well that would do it wouldn't it :p...The reason i was trying to flash that modem from GB was because of what is in the troubleshooting section on OneCosmics Download Page said.

"Use XXJVT baseband/modem or any else that You used earlier on GB"

http://ics.samsung-updates.com/trouble/
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah - its *sort of* true. CM7 and MIUI GB Roms have compatible modems. If you look at the link to Perka's in that description from onecosmic, you'll see it links to an ICS directory. Buck talked to Perka a while ago and there is a directory of 850 modems there - KC1 is good, and right now the one in my sig is my favourite (east coaster).

I believe the modem you had previously worked on Darky's as Darky's is modded Samsung ROMs and NOT AOSP like MIUI or CM7/CM9.

Let me know if you find a good compatiable modem. I had issues downloading from Perkas with my phone as well as linux, but seemed fine in Windows (if that helps).
[Fascinate General] Darkshado:
I'd like to install CM9 nightlies on one of my colleagues' T959D.

From what I can tell from reading this thread, I should:

Reboot to download mode

Use Heimdall to flash a CWM-containing zImage

Reboot to recovery

Make a Nandroid backup

Flash a nightly, which branch: galaxysmtd or vibrantmtd?

Flash an ICS compatible baseband

Maybe: apply a fix for the capacitive buttons?

Maybe: modify build.prop so it shows SGH-T959D

Sounds like a plan?

Thanks,

Darkshado
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So I've never installed CM9, or used Heimdall (only used Odin) but, all in all, your approach looks sound.

As long as you have a USB JIG to get into download mode in the event of a softbrick (where you can reload stock) I'd say that's as good as plan as any.

Also, be very interested in what build.prop changes you make - I've done some on my TF but not on this phone - but the market clearly thinks I am a I9000 - there may be some quick changes we could make there for build.prop that would be VERY helpful.
[Fascinate General] Darkshado:
I don't have an USB jig and wouldn't be able to get one for a little while. I think the safe approach will be to wait until I get one. (Away from home.)

(Although the colleague is an electronics technician who just might have the correct resistors handy...)

I was thinking of trying Heimdall instead of Odin because I've always had trouble getting (another version of) Odin to work on my computer to flash the Gio.

It also turns out that the phone is a Fascinate 4G (959P) but I don't think this really changes anything significant here. After some more reading it seems that the 959P and 959V have sufficiently different partition layouts that you can't just flash, say, an I9000 ROM with minimal work.

For the build.prop, I'd compare with a stock ROM file, but properties of interest in the CM9 nightly file would be:

ro.product.model

ro.product.name

ro.product.device

ro.build.product

ro.build.description

ro.build.fingerprint

Since build.prop does change from one nightly to another, I'd look into scripting a search and replace function instead of doing it manually. Bundling that with a capacitive keys fix into one update zip would make for a very convenient tool IMHO.

One thing that's surprised me looking at the I9000 nightly (coming from the Nexus S) is that it contains a modem.bin image...
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
anyone else mesmerized by the note 2? I'm really thinking about getting one of these.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
New nexus for me maybe.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
Probably gonna get over of those for my wife. Maybe for me too... nice looking phone but not sold on the lack of sd card expansion. I'm really liking the s pen thing, screen size, but a little worried about the possible lack of development due to the exynos processor being closed source.

Decisions decisions...
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I'm considering going new Nexus in the new year. Maybe. My SGS does everything I need it to do so I'm having a hard time justifying an upgrade. More RAM would be really nice though.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
The Nexus 4 looks nice but I need more than 16GBs of storage. :/
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Yeah, I am comfortable having 48GB of storage wherever I go.... But I think that I could live with a little less. I'd just be changing my music up a bit more frequently.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
I'll probably still hold on to this phone regardless of which way I go, use it add a backup/mp3 player. The notes big screen would sure be nice for movies, ice got an hour ride to work every day, no cell service either. Would be a nice way to kill the time.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
You guys should check out the new leaked 4.2 keyboard and camera. They're nice. I like the new camera better but the sphere feature doesn't work. You align the camera for the first picture then after it takes the picture the camera lags badly and you can't get it to take the second picture. The other camera app features works good though.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I heard Google's gesture type out classes swype. I got a takju nexus so I can wait til the update comes out. My fascinate is still being used though.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Swiftkey 4 lyfe... heh..

I'll try the new keyboard eventually, but I have a strong dislike for Swype style keyboards. I can never get them to work right.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Karma - you can have swift key AND swipe ... soonish ... I signed up for beta - like you I've been on Swiftkey for a VERY LONG time.

http://www.swiftkey.net/introducing-swiftkey-flow
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
I love the swype, tried swiftkey for a while but just couldent get used to it after using swype for so long. looking forward to trying the 4.2 keyboard
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
Yeah this new keyboard is great, works better than swype IMO. And the voice recognition works great. Just need to get used to the punctuation being on the secondary screen.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
where did you grab it - most of the links I saw are dead now as Google was shutting down the leak.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I have a dump of 4.2. It's just the LatinIME.APK, right?

Shoot me your email address, I'll send you the files. I don't want to host them on my website if google is shutting them down.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
Yeah that's the one, i just found a link to it on one of the unread fourms . Don't know which one it was now, but i could send the apk as well.
[Fascinate General] hawk16:
After following all the instructions and after flashing the Semaphore kernel and attempting to install jelly bean, I always run into a status 0 error. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I've attempting wiping data and cache, fixing permissions, starting again from GB but every time I go to do the install it fails with a status 0. I'm using the CM10 nightly build and have tried a few builds but nothing seems to work.

Edit: I think what may be the problem is that after I flash the Semaphore kernel (2.5.0), CWM recovery isn't able to mount /system. Could that be causing the problem? But why would it be doing so?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Might sound silly, but try flashing 2.6 first. Flash it three times (because of partition change) and let it boot. Then update to 2.8.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Slimbean 2.9. DO IT.
[Fascinate General] hawk16:
Just tried Slimbean 2.6 (attempted to flash three times, and tried on both external sd card and internal) and had same problem. Status 0 and stuck in boot loop... Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I feel like I'm following the instructions to the dot...

Edit: Okay, let me clarify what I'm doing since I believe I found my problem. So I finish steps 1 through 7 and have a stock version of android on the phone. Then I jump to step 10 as I already have a backed up EFS. Instead of the 2.1.0 Semaphore kernel, I grabbed the 2.5.0 kernel for CM10, grabbed the CM10 ROM, 2.5.0 zip and modem zip, tossed the zips onto the SD card and then started up odin and flashed the 2.5.0 tar as PDA only (PIT, Phone and CSC left blank). Then I boot into CWM Recovery, select CM10 to install from sdcard and it gives me a status 0 error.

Am i wrong to flash the kernel by itself onto stock android? I feel like I should have rooted and installed CWM on 2.3.3 before trying to toss the semaphore kernel but I'm just not sure as I haven't seen many people run into a status 0 error. Could the problem also be permissions?
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
perhaps try mounting /system manually in CWM, then flashing...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
2.9 is feeling pretty good.
[Fascinate General] simnorm:
I made the switch from slimICS to 2.8 last night. Upgrading to 2.9 as I type this.

slimbean 2.8 felt really good, I only had it for one day but my battery life was better than with slimICS.
[Fascinate General] yaaa4:
Hi hawk16

Status 0 happens with my phone I flash with slimbean 2.7. Did you tried semaphore 2.1s kernel before flashing to slimbeam 2.6? It worked for my phone!

When you will flash by cwm, you must try to flash three time slimbean because you will have a message telling you that the partition is not perfect and ou may lose your data. Go for it three times and it should be ok!

Dor karmatose and jp : did you try slimbean 2.9? Big changes in tha build vs 2.8?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Karma and I are both on 2.9. I find it a bit snappier. Battery life TBD after I get a charge or two, but liking that some apps that were eating battery are not so much anymore.

General tip - I went into developer settings and adjusted my 3 animations from 1.0x to 0.5x - and that greatly improved launch speed of apps.
[Fascinate General] yaaa4:
Cool. I thimk I'll try it. How do you upgrade? Just flashing with CWP the .zip file?

I ask the question because I think there is more than one way to upgrade...

---------- Post added at 09:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:04 PM ----------

By the way, when my SGS was on GB, the GPS was not working at all (hardly connecting to signal). Now it's working like my nexus7 and even without data connection!

So nice. Thanks again to you for the help! :) :D
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Just follow the instructions on the slimroms site.
[Fascinate General] hawk16:
And that's what I was doing wrong... Using semaphore 2.1s kernel and flashing slimbean 2.6 3 times worked. Thanks you!
[Fascinate General] yaaa4:
Cool!

Now you can update to slimbean 2.8 or 2.9. And witn kernel 2.4.4s!

Good luck!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Just ordered a nexus 7 although it will be for my wife. Opted for that instead if an upgraded ereader.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
i was thinking about a nexus 7 for a while but i got scared after reading about washed out colours, lifting screens etc. ive read that a reasonably high number of people are getting dud's
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'll find out I guess. Lol
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
I had myself convinced to get the nexus 4 and a 7 but then i read that n4 article on the front page about build quality and the stuff about the n7, so now I'm back to thinking about the note 2.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'm thinking nexus 4 as well, but they are not yet available.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
the way i look at it, there must be a reason they are selling them for so cheap. its not to make us all happy thats for sure. theere has to be some sub quality parts in there in order for them to get the cost down. thats what kinda worries me about it. have to wait and see when people actually get their hands on them and read some reviews then.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I know a few people with the 7_ they live it and most are coming from ipads
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
my wife was an apple person. I got her an ipad for christmas last year, she kept it for about 3 days before she returned it. good thing cause i was getting close to throwing it against the wall. Ive got her converted to android now though :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
We still have ipods but that's about it.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
yeah, the wifes ipod is another device i nearly threw at the wall. lol
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL - I like my wife's nano - cute little device. I also have an old 3G phone (prior to getting my SGS) that I'm using as an iPod now - still like the Apple experience personally, but rather have the level of control that I get with Android (and linux in general :o) ) For TV, I have an unmodded WD Live Media Hub which I really like.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
thats cool, my tvs got dlna built in so i use that alot, the xbox too, but i find the xbox a little finicky sometimes.
[Fascinate General] yaaa4:
I've got the screen lift problem on my nexus 7 but asus repair it for free (but i paid the shipping) and now it's ok.

It's not the best tablet outthere but for 250$ i think it's a good deal.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I bet it's better than my Playbook. This thing is useless.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Has anyone tried going from froyo to slimbean? Have to go back to recover my emie number and want to avoid the whole keis upgrade to gb hassle if possible
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
I've done Froyo to ICS before. It should still be the same. You don't need Kies anymore by the way. I've created an Odin tar for Gingerbread from the Kies files Karmatose provided. Check the second post if you're interested in using Odin to get to Gingerbread without Kies.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Thanks...i'll give going straight to sb a shot to see
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Grab odin GB here http://karmatose.org/t959d/stock_roms/T959TLKG2_Gingerbread.zip

ps: I've gone from nothing (.pit and kernel) to jb. froyo to jb would probably work.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Thanks Karma! I think I am going to flatten my phone back to stock when 3.0 gets released. Change log looks good. Just have to remember to move my zips to the removable SD.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I'm also going to start from scratch next release. too much BS on my phone. The dirty flash update script works real well though. Gotta look at this changelog though.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Cool - might reach out for help. First time using your steps and the odin 2.3.3 files - so can likely just use latest semaphore (tar via odin) to load the jellybean file into place, and skip an ICS version correct? (LOL - I'll read the steps again too - all the answers should be in there more or less).
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Yeah... I open Odin, select the 512.pit, tick repartition and throw a Semaphore kernel (whatever is recent) in the PDA field and flash it. Reboot the phone into recovery then flash Slimbean.

Don't even bother going back to stock (2.2 / 2.3). Waste of time if you have your efs folder backed up.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
ohhhhh - so how do you start clean that - datawipe and format SD from within CWM and then flash SlimBean along with the latest package to follow (for me I would use the All In One but you know what I mean)?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Sure, you could wipe the internal SD with CWM after a repartition with Odin, but I rarely wipe my internal SD. I might cherry pick things to delete with AROMA after a repartition, but I'll just usually leave it. Repartitioning with the .pit is good enough.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
and sorry - what's the 512.pit.

I'm feeling like a n00b today :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
s1_odin_20100512.pit inside the odin .zip file. The file you select when you select a PIT in Odin.

It's a partition table.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Quick aside, I had been using the KG3 modem for quite a while, but had some issues this weekend. I flashed KC1 for the heck of it - might be placebo, but getting much better battery life with it. Going to stick with it.

Also, aside, I noticed that in storage under settings, I cannot get sizing for how much room things are taking on my phone. My guess - too many dirty flashes (had the same issue with my TF and a clean from scratch install cleaned me all up LOL). So looking forward to doing it all from scratch on my phone - first time in a long time!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Great - Karma quick question as I think about this again, starting fresh - any gotchyas from your perspective from when the framework changed?

Doesn't look like it based on the installation - I could format SD through settings, flash the GB files via odin, then flash semaphore via odin, load up in recovery - flash slim + AIO + modem and I'm good to go (I think).
[Fascinate General] Azure1203:
So I'm on SlimICS 4.2, and really want to upgrade to JB. Last time I tried I screwed everything up and was lucky to get back to SlimICS.

My biggest problem is getting back into recovery after I flash SlimJB via CWM .zip file. Is there any easier way to do this? My understanding is that you apply update via CWM, and then it goes into bootloop. Then you have to reboot into recovery(which I have a problem with), and flash the .zip file again, and from there it works.

Also, if I make a nandroid backup of my current system, and should something go wrong, could i just root my phone, and restore the nandroid file to get it back to how it is right now?

EDIT: To answer my own question, getting into recovery using the volume +/- and power, with releasing power when the phone turns on, and then HOLDING the volume keys till recovery launched worked. My problem always was I never held the volume keys long enough.

I went straight from slimICS to slimJB. Couple things that created a problem. I tried using the semaphore 2.5.0s kernel to flash via odin, and when i went into cwm, i couldn't wipe data or mount the system. so i went back and flashed 2.1.0s via odin, and then i could wipe data. after flashing the slimJB file, it rebooted instantly, so i had to go back into cwm again, and then flash it again. after that it worked perfectly.

damn its fast.
[Fascinate General] typer100:
Can you confirm to use I9000 roms instead of T959 for the Telus T959D.

I've flashed with SlimBean 2.9 and having few issues with the speaker and battery drain.

EDIT: Just found my answer. Works fine now.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Id flash the semaphore kernel with odin with a pit and ticking repartition. load slimbean on external sd and put it in the phone. boot to recovery and install slimbean like usual.

no need to flash gb.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Sweet action. New steps for me, but looking forward to flashing fresh.

Off topic, Android 4.2 is pretty kewl - just updated AOSP on the nexus 7 I bought my wife (love the nexus 7 by the way - its a xmas gift but I set it up for already - reboxed, saw 4.2 came out, updated, reboxed, LOL)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Aye... It's how I did it the last time I wanted to start from scratch and it worked just fine. There's really no reason to go back to a stock ROM anymore if you have your EFS folder backed up. Format your /sdcard partition in CWM before or after flashing SlimBean if you so desire. It's all pretty easy.

Hoping that we get 4.2 soon for our phones since source is available. I just helped my buddy switch his gnex from yakju to takju and installed 4.2 on it yesterday. Steep learning curve considering I've never even held a gnex in my hands. Apparently he really likes it.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, I think we'll get 4.2 but will take time - a lot of the features in it (widgets on lockscreens, power toggles) are things we have come to expect in custom roms - so the rom developers need to know what they are keeping, deprecating, and merging. So that will all take time.

CyanogenMOD has already started looking at it and that will be 10.1 of their ROM - so just a matter of time. Here's the read on Cyanogen in the 'what's next' now that 10 is final.

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/cyanogenmod-10-0-release
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Rocking 3.0 on a clean install!
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Nice being able to do a fresh install without having to go to a stockrom, eh? I'm going to do mine at work tomorrow as the cable internet is dead here and I need my phone to theather tonight. :(
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Oh, I had issues but resolved them. Formatting the SD wasn't a good idea lol
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
lololol.. did you erase your slim install files?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Ha! Worse I think. So I formatted SD and System, then used aroma to put on the files I needed. I had flashed the PIT along with Semaphore (2.5s) - but kept getting errors when trying to flash as it couldn't mount system. Mounted in CWM just threw errors. Tried using the glitch kernel instead and that worked, and I got slim installed that way - but then I didn't get the T959D splash and went to recovery (good bye bootloader) - so then went back to your 2.3.3 restore (which is totally AWESOME by the way) and got back stock, then used the 2.1s semaphore to load up slim, AIO, modem, and semaphore 2.5s - then I was golden. Adjusted my gps.conf, flashed the lock handle restore - and all is great now - just finished restoring my apps - 99% straight from play, and a few from TB that you cannot get anymore.

But now very fresh, and a few of the odd things (like storage not being able to calculate my space) are gone.

My battery just died after all that work, so now charging and we'll see how things go.

Thanks for the tutorial and the files - worked great for me - we have such a great support network here. Cheers folks!
[Fascinate General] cowvun:
Is it only me or does restoring your EFS folder through ES file explorer never work?

It always say file copied successfully, but when i restart my IMEI is still unknown...

Anyone got a fix?

EDIT: nvm...i flashed another modem and got everyone back.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
New gapps on the slim site.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
maybe its time to update then. gmail 4.2 is sweet. been running it for a while.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Finally took the plunge to Slim Bean 3.0...flashed the rom and gapps was just curious whats in the "extra's"
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I flash the ALL IN ONE package moose, one thing I need in it is STOCK EMAIL - GNOW and a few other things is in there as well. A full breakdown is here

http://slimroms.net/index.php/new-addons-menu/new-addon-app-list-menu
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hey Karma (and anyone else) I'm giving this script a go

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1978061

I simply removed the '.pdf' and copied it over to my /etc/init.d/ directory - rebooted - and may be placebo but saw a big boost (can't verify its running though unlike superscript when I used to run that). Worth a try - love to get others perspectives on it as well.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Thanks JP

Do you happen to know if there is a default power save feature running and if so where you go to turn it off? I know there is one in the Stock JB i have running on my TF300
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Still haven't updated. just got internet back here tonight after 8 days of outage. phone died on the way home though streaming music. ill give it a shot tomorrow.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Not that I know of.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Thanks

One last question. Was the Hold Back to Kill feature ever put back in? I know it was missing from earlier releases and was wondering if it was brought back or not
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Couple of things on that one - one Slim introduced a KILL ALL which you can get to by holding home.

In terms of a BACK TO KILL, Karma found that option buried in the developer options - so you can enable it that way.

Also in there are the animations, if you make those 0.5x instead of 1.0x you can speed up app loads.

Hope that helps!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hi guys - not sure what everyone is running, but my signature file has my latest but in addition to that I'm also running:

LagTuner - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1978061

SuperLauncher - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1844787

GPS.conf tweaks (search on it, just made it for canada and north america.

Just sharing my current configuration - after that just my normal apps and launchers.