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[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So I didn't flash WeUI - for whatever reason, removing exchange and then adding it back in seemed to have resolved the issue. Back to get 20+ hours on the phone - I use a lot of email, apps - so I think I'm a heavy user :)

Still waiting on RC5 from ICSSGS to go to 4.0.4 as Android OS is still too high, but right now not enough incentive to try something new ..... yet ;)

</not an iPad>
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Anyone having issues with you tube not playing video?

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Is the kernel in your siggy accurate or are you using one of the bm versions?
[Fascinate General] hhp_211:
WOW,,, Great find,,,,:good::good:

please post back with updates on how this goes as far as shipping time, (considering the:: Estimated within 17-21 business days),,, quality of product,,, and ease installation,,,, I see they have stuff for the fascinate and even the note II, s III, s II, ETC...

Ohhhh I can see buying and fixing up a cracked screen n2, s3!!! :good:

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[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Shipping times were a bit skewed because of Christmas, but. It took about 25 days to arrive. Quality is comparable to OEM or possibly actually OEM. Actually, it feels more solid now than it ever has.

As far as ease of install, The back half of the phone is EASY to replace but separating the midplane from the screen took a lot of patience, a heat gun and a delicate touch to not crack the glass. Yes, this kit includes glass, but the OLED screen is "fused" to the glass. You can with a lot of patience possibly remove the OLED screen, but there's a very high probability that you will damage it and if you do succeed, there's reports of diminished sensitivity.

It probably took me an hour and half from powering it down to powering it back up. This was not near as easy as all of the Windows Mobile phones I've refurbished over the years.

Edit: I noticed you have an i500. This isn't for you. This is for SGH-T959D
[Fascinate General] hhp_211:
Really appreciate the feedback... yep i know this was not for my i500..

On the heat gun : low or high setting?

About how long to soften adhesive?

Great to hear bout the quality being good as OEM.

Really hoping to score a cracked screen ~ something ~ cheep on ebay

I've done plenty of PC/laptop repairs

Even done phone screen assembly replacement, but really want do do some glass replacement since they are very inexpensive

I've watched some YouTube stuff but never pulled the trigger
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Heat gun on low setting. I've heard stories of guys roasting their screens using the high setting. No real advice on how long to get the adhesive to soften time wise. Just give it about 10 seconds not keeping the gun in one spot and try to separate the glass. If it doesn't come give it a little more heat and try again. Don't use any real force, just gently pry. It will come.

Honest opinion, if you can find a phone with broken glass... Replace the entire LCD. Unless the teardown guide says the lcd isn't fused with the glass, you're almost guaranteed to break the screen getting it off the glass. FWIW, I was going to buy a Gnex with a broken screen but decided against it. I can almost get a Nexus 4 for the price of a Gnex with a busted screen and new oled screen.
[Fascinate General] hhp_211:
Cool, really appreciate the info,,, I keep forgetting about the N4
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I mean, if you're not in a rush... It's the obvious choice. I personally am not in a rush.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Slim Beta 2

I'm still rocking CM10.1 nightlies which are very very good, but noticed slim beta 2 is now out for those folks giving that a whirl.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I'm not touching 4.2 for a while. I finally got my 4.1.2 setup giving me exceptional battery life. Over the holidays when I wasn't streaming media like a madman I was averaging a day and a half to two days of battery doing mostly SMS, Whatsapp and a few phone calls on my 1650mAh batteries.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Minke went from Saturday morning until last night - still my low end battery, but doing mostly just phone calls and shutting off data and sync - about 36 hours or so - not too shabby. :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Not bad, but... I have data on all the time, wifi on sometimes, gmail constantly pushing, the ocasional bus time lookup (with gps), etc. I wish I had taken a screen shot of some of the more outrageous days over my time off.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Wow. that's pretty great actually. I leave data and sync off - those two things together seem to kill my battery. I may have more sucking apps too (I'm an app wh*re) - esepcially exchange for corporate email.
[Fascinate General] Edgeman16:
I usually leave all my stuff (data/sync/gps) on too, but my phone is always plugged in when I'm at home/work, so it doesn't usually have more than a few hours off of a charger.

As other people replace devices (blackberries etc) I keep obtaining additional chargers, so now I have chargers everywhere...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL - yeah, I have a few micro USB cords (could use more) and chargers in the car, work, a few at home - but it's a game now - how long can I get out of a battery ;)
[Fascinate General] yaaa4:
I've tried the beta 2 of slim bean on 4.2.1 and it did not go well :

- random reboot and freeze

- incomplete notifications (problem with the size of the rectangle)

- problem with the audio (creepy sound).

Ill stick to 4.1.2 for a while. It works great.

Edit : sorry, i didnt read correcly JP. I was thinking you were talking about slimbean and not cm10. My bad. But don't try the beta of slimbean.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I was actually talking Slim Bean :) I have not tried either beta (and won't based on your feedback :) ) but others have so just noting its availability.

I'm staying with 10.1 - working great, battery is great, functionality is great - but I do do some tweaking where with Slim I would flash the ROM and that was it. WIth 10.1:

1) I use CyanDelta to get diffs and a zip to flash.

2) I flash the latest semaphore what ever that may be :)

3) I flash the multi DPI play store

4) I move DPI to 190.

C'est ca.
[Fascinate General] Heoxoma:
Hi,

For me both betas of Slim 4.2.1 works well. The only downside so far is a bit jerky video recording (in beta 2 became smoother).

I am running on 240 DPI, from tweaks are gps.conf and SQLite script by JP suggestion.

BTW JP as I noticed changed his modem again. What is it just one more tryout?

Thanks
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, just cycling through - but I do find mobile better with this modem - also, yesterday on the latest 10.1 I had the BEST GPS experience EVER - and I test the same route home - lost signal only once, and re-routed me as appropriate (I do not go the way Google recommends which is part of my test - also, its in a VERY rural part where I usually lose signal). Excellent for me.

In terms of latest tweaks I use - I still use GPS tweaks (I just use the one from 'pimp my ROM' now though). Also, I hack the keylayout to get the search working - and for 10.1 I use latest semaphore and multi DPI playstore.

If on beta 2 you have laggy video - maybe get the big video patch - that might fix it - its referenced in the semaphore thread a whack of times - but if you like a 240 DPI you might want to try latest 10.1 as that is the default.
[Fascinate General] Heoxoma:
So as I understand you're flashing nightlies CM 10.1 for I9000 with Semaphore 'S ROM and 'pimp my ROM' on the top of it.

Can you point what else interesting apart from GPS tweak you're using in 'pimp'?

Thanks

Upd: BTW what kind of hack you did for keylayout? cause in Slim search works fine.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Not quite - I'm using the non-S version of the kernel.

Honestly, was going to play with Pimp, but haven't gotten to it - so I'm only using it for the GPS hack at the moment - that's it. I'm just lazy ;)

Yes, slim works fine because I reported the hack fix in the Slim thread, and they fixed it for us. All I am doing is changing the Cyprus key lay out so to erase 'ASSIST' and replace that with 'SEARCH' and ensuring the properties are still rw-r--r-- . That about it. There's details on it pages back in this thread - just search key layout I think.

EDIT: start here ... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33202960&highlight=key+layout#post33202960
[Fascinate General] Edgeman16:
Is there a quick/automated way of running the tweaks post-flash?

I am always forgetting to update build.prop (to change GT-I9000 to SGH-T959D) and the keylayout thing.

And with CM updating daily, it's a lot of effort to go fix every time...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Sort of. You could use cyandelta to flash the daily CM (this is what I use) and then make flashable files for any tweaks (there is one in the thread for the keyboard layout - not sure on overall compatibility with cm10.1).

CyanDelta allows you to choose other zips to flash after the main cm 10.1 - so this is what I do for semaphore and playstore. Since I still have to reboot to change DPI, I just make my GPS switch and keylout switch prior to that 2nd reboot - so I haven't bothered to automate anything. I gave up updating build.prop for phone names - I would do that on a stable but since I'm flashing every day its more of a PITA than anything else.
[Fascinate General] Edgeman16:
That's exactly what I was doing. I started out changing build.prop after every flash (daily), then it started to be "when I remembered", now I don't bother 90% of the time.

And I completely forgot about the search button. Would CM ever put that into their ROM for us like Slim has?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Possibly. I was going to note it, but in general I get flamed on their thread for not running stock (I don't use the stock kernel) nor am I on a supported device. I might throw a post there.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Just putting my two cents in here... I don't change my build.prop. Never have.
[Fascinate General] Heoxoma:
That's what I was going to ask: what exact changes you need in build.prop apart from change the name (what for?)?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
The only change you HAVE to make in the build.prop is for DPI but ONLY IF you want a smaller or larger DPI - otherwise no change (I never changed it on slim, I ALWAYS change it CM 10.1).

We tweaked build.prop for things before just to make the phone look like it was our phone - more out of just being anal than anything else. :)
[Fascinate General] Edgeman16:
Mainly so that that line says "Sent from my SGH-T959D" instead ;)
[Fascinate General] Heoxoma:
I've switched to CM10.1 just to taste it. :cool:

It fills good, roughly same as Slim. So stick with it for a while.

Also ran pimp my Rom and do search tweak - seems all works.

I've tried your last modem, JP, but I reverted back. The 'TJJJV5' I believe is special issue for Telus so in my case it didn't allow to use data over 3G without data roaming enabled.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, I'm loving cm 10.1 - I essentially flash the new version every morning. Pick up the change via cyandelta, flash that (have cyan delta configured to next flash semaphore followed by multi DPI play store), then I fix GPS, search button, and alter DPI to 190 - reboot.

That's about it - only real issue I have hit is that system>storage is not calculating for me - likely need to do a fresh install of the full zip, data wipe with a format system ... but I'll wait on that as I don't really have any issues at the moment other than that.

On the modem, yeah - just use what works best for you - I'm on telus, so no issues for me.
[Fascinate General] Heoxoma:
Can you go a bit deeper and explain about system>storage? So your delta is not delta and what about all your apps, should you restore them and settings as well?

Thanks
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
just a bug, my storage space is not calculating correctly. At least one other person on CM 10.1 reporting the same.

EDIT: pawtip says its known issue - takes a really really really really really long time to calc. I'm ignoring it for now until I have time to do a complete fresh install.
[Fascinate General] Heoxoma:
Has somebody ever tried Slim 4.2.1 RC1?

It should be pretty stable and free of bugs.
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Hi folks, just figured I would say thank you. I finally got this t959d running with something other than stock GB.

The last 30~ pages have been discussion focused on 4.2.1. What are the best Roms of 4.1.2? I'm running Slim Bean and it seems to be working well with Semaphore's 2.6.6s. I tried flashing the CM10.0.0 nightly with Semaphore's 2.6.5 kernel, but I couldnt get it to boot out of recovery. I'm going to be giving this phone to one of my not-so-tech-savy relatives and am wondering what is the most reliable Rom, with better battery life for this phone.

Thanks!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
In terms of 4.1.2 most of us were on slim bean - last version for 4.1.2 is 3.1. Not sure what other folks are running - i have heard very good things about CM10 Stable, but have never tried it. There is a partition change with CM10 and Slim Bean that meant you needed to flash 3 times those kernels - a lot of times getting an error 7 or something on the first flash, a reboot to recovery on the second, success on the third. Those would be the only two ROMs I'd recommend best on reputation for CM10 and my experience with Slim Bean.

A lot of ROMs moved immediately into the 4.2.1 world soon after - I'm personally running CM10.1 using CyanDelta for nightlies - works very well and I have been using it as a daily driver - no major issues.

Hope that helps - the group here is pretty helpful so just post questions and issues as you hit them. I think there are 4-5 us that regularly check the thread.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Hey Jp, Merry Christmas and a happy New Year buddy! :)

It's been a while since I've fiddled with this phone but I've got an issue I can't sort out and I hope you can help.

It's been collecting dust for a while so I flashed cm10.1 but I've lost my IMEI of course. Problem is that with the default file manager, I can't seem to replace my backed up copy with the existing one. Seems like it's not overyly flexible but there has to be a way I'm sure...ideas?

edit: figured it out, just took a looooooooooooooong time and frustration.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Back at ya - what are you running on your S3?

Been tempted to upgrade, but my little t959d keeps ticking ... ;)
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

I got CM10 booting after multiple flash attempts, like you suggested, thanks.

After leaving the rom on for the night to settle down, I woke up to recovery. Since then my phone has been struggling to stay on, and seems to want to reboot every 15 mins or so. Sometimes into recovery, sometimes back to launcher.

This happens on slim bean 3.1 with semaphore 2.6.6s, as well as cm10.0.0 with semaphore 2.6.5.

I tried editing my build.prop with some of the fields in your first few posts to no avail. I haven't touched any radios, and might give those a try to eliminate possibilities.

Any idea what the problem might be?

Sent using Science!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

Have you done a full wipe, formatting both caches and formatting system too?
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

I'll believe I did. I'm going to go back to stock and try from scratch. Will let you know.

Sent using Science!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

Back up your EFS folder too
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Funny, some things never change. I'm all over the place with the S3, between Task and Ktoonsez, Vanilla Rootbox and Slimbean mostly and pretty much in the order listed. Hate to say it but IMO Slim's not quite living up to my old expectations as I'd like it to be. Nice there's lots of options.

Glad to hear your SGS is still ok, I still lurk over here every now and again :) but when or if you're ever gonna get an S3 be sure to let me know. I'll give you the rundown to make the transition as easy as can be...
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

Yep, one of the first things I did.

I beginning to hate this phone... Last night everything was going well. Now I'm unable to boot into CM10 anymore from scratch. The cm logo just spins, for over 30 mins, until I battery pulled.

What am I doing wrong?

From wiped stock.

1) 2.6.5s semaphore kernel .tar flash from odin

2) cm10.0.0 flash x3

3) flash 2.6.5 semaphore kernel .zip flash 3x

It worked last night...

Edit: Fixed it by flashing 2.1.0s .tar first, then the rom, then the 2.6.5 .zip version

Sent using Science!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

Page 185 has some steps but what you are doing looks ok.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

You shouldn't have to flash the kernel three times at the end though.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
FWIW, I just keep a copy of ES on my SD Card. OI is a pile.

Edit: this was to Finn's question. Lots of replies in the meantime.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Yeah it's not really all that intuitive is it.
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
So I think my issue lies in my modem. When checking baseband I see "Unknown", which I know is wrong. I'm downloading the UGKG3 from karma's site now and have one question about it; What differentiates the "850_enabled" from the others?

Edit: So I flashed some modems, and my baseband version is still Unknown... So far I've tried BVJJPG, TJJJV5 and UGKG3. All leave baseband "Unknown". I'm completely confused. Gonna try again from scratch, flashing the modem earlier in the process....

Edit 2: I redid everything from the beginning. Back to stock 2.3.3, then kernel 2.1.0s .tar, then cm10.0.0 x2 (first was errorish), gapps, then kernel 2.6.5 zip, then modem UGKG3 and... success! Now I get to see if the reboot problem was solved.

Also noted that in order to get Wifi working for cm10, I needed to reboot the phone with wifi enabled. Since then there have been no other issues.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Odd on the wifi - I went from slim 3.1 to CM 10.1 so not sure if that is a known issue or not. On your modem - if you went from GB stock, then you had a GB modem which is incompatible with ICS/JB - you need an ICS modem (the 850 ones have a mode enabled that are used on the Canadian network - so good for us Telus users or other network if you bought the phone unlocked :) )
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Thanks for your tips. Phone seems to finally be stable now on both Slim 3.1 and CM10, minus one problem: My hardware key's lights are on 100% of the time when the phone is asleep, and off otherwise (unless a hard key is touched, then on for 3~ sec. I know the hard keys turning off while the screen is on is a JB feature) The weird thing is, the hard keys backlights are usually off when the screen is on, but the second the phone goes to sleep, they turn back on indefinitely, until the unlock button is pressed to wake the device. I'm on CM10 now, but observed this behaviour on Slim 3.1 as well.

The Wifi wasn't really an issue... When I fresh installed cm10 or Slim and enabled wifi, it would hang "Turning Wifi On...". If I turned wifi off, then rebooted, the problem would persist. If I let it hang in the On position and rebooted, wifi would function normally for the next boot, and every one after that.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

Have not seen that.check your backlight settings in settings and the semaphore app if you are using the semaphore kernel (which I highly recommend)
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Just realized that changing the brightness in any way fixed the hard key light issue, until the next reboot, where you need to touch brightness again. Semaphore's app seems good. Nice to see some more governors listed than before. In Semaphore's app, you can use a custom auto brightness option. Have you used it? What is your opinion on auto brightness for the T959D? For HTC's Incredible S, my other phone, it is not recommended and will drain your battery slightly more.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

Are you using the semaphore kernel?
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Yes. The stuff I'm using is now in my Sig.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
so I recently tried the semaphore autobrightness, but shut it off. I typically don't use auto, just lowest setting and then adjust as needed (plus the semaphore auto conflict with the status bar slider). Brighter the screen, the quicker the battery dies.

EDIT: trying the semaphore option again today. So leaving Auto on and then letting semaphore run that with the dark profile.
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

So it turns out that the restart problem was related to me not having a sim card in the phone. It also seemed to have an influence on installing roms and radios. When I remove the sim card, I can't install CM10 without lots of weird problems.

Even after installing CM10 with the sim card in, using the phone for a day or so, then removing the sim card. The phone will reboot every 15 mins or so and act weird, until I put the sim card back in.

By acting weird, I mean a lot of random FC and Google sync issues on wifi.

Sent using Science!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Just bought another T959D for my wife (cheaper than me buying out my phone and getting an upgrade). Have to figure what I want to do with it - haven't done much right now - it still only has 2.2 on it - so I think I'll flash Karma's 2.3.3 package and root it and then return it to stock.

Then I might try CM 10 stable to leave that on her for a while - she won't want me doing daily flashes. :o)
[Fascinate General] Heoxoma:
Re: [TELUS T959D FASCINATE] One Stop Shop (updated Sept 2012)

Hi,

JP, I am wandering Cyandelta still doesn't work for you?

I mean that bug with free space.

Thanks,
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hi - I've been using cyan delta for a while - it has always worked. The issue I'm having still exists, but does not impact anything.

The only issue I have is on 'calculating free space' - so Settings > Storage - the calcs just spin and spin. I might try a reflash and data wipe at some point, but its not giving me any headaches, so just leaving as is.

I HIGHLY recommend cyandelta - especially if you are flashing everyday.
[Fascinate General] Heoxoma:
Have you find a way to automate your customizing (search button, gps.conf etc.)?

As I assume you put kernel file in cyandelta folder but what about creating custom flash zip with one file substitution?

Thanks,
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
No, just been doing it manually - I copy a file and make one edit - I suppose if I created a zip with just those two files that would likely work.
[Fascinate General] jefari:
Hey there, thanks for the guide! Must admit I don't claim to be the most knowledgable user on this subject matter but I am just running into a problem that I have been banging my head over for the last few days and just trying to reach out for some help.

I have a

Samsung Galaxy S SGH-T959D (TELUS)

trying to get Cyanogen 10 working on this thing. Following your guide, I put cm-10.1-20130125-NIGHTLY-fascinatemtd on my external SD Card storage (and other ROMs) then flashed Semaphore JB 2.9.8s via Odin PDA field. All good so far, got CWM v6.0.2.7 to boot up, however my problem is when I try to install update from .zip file on SD card and navigate to my .zip ROM.. it always gives me and error when i select my CM ROM. (Status 7 error outputing a bunch of i500 garbage). I tried installing cm-10.1-20130125-NIGHTLY-galaxysmtd but to no prevail either, this time it gives me status 0 error. Just says

Installing update...

E:Error in /sdcard/cm-10.1-20130125-NIGHTLY-galaxysmtd

(Status 0)

Installation aborted

Any suggestions? Am I a certified retard? Thanks in advance!