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[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Not sure how helpful this is but yes - you can disable the battery lights. I believe its under display - just turn it off. Alternatively you can search for and use the 2.6.6 version of semaphore which use BLN notification and it does turn off.

In terms of what you already provided above here's a few suggestions:

1. Your friend has a lot of stuff turned on - suggest shutting off GPS and DATA and such when you are not using it.

2. I think our phone, the max screen time you are going to get is about 2 hours (for me anyways on stock batt), so 1.5 with talk time and all that stuff on ... I can see why the battery is draining.

3. Cannot remember if google now is on CM10 - if it is and your friend turns it on with GPS on - my guess is that is eating the batt as well and ...

4. ... install BetterBatteryStats (search the XDA forum for the app) to see what is eating the battery and has wakelocks.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So - back on Slim again - Build four - pretty straight forward flash - just the ROM, AROMA AIO - copied over my GPS.conf. Didn't factory reset, but formatted system, wiped caches - working wonderfully so far. Will give it a few days - turned on USB with it and no soft reboot (pretty much did it on previous builds on first hook up).

So we'll see how long this goes along with my battery life and go from there. :)
[Fascinate General] nereis:
Glad clear settings data worked.

I actually got a soft reboot when connecting usb on the first boot following the build 4 dirty flash, so I am not sure if this issue has been fully solved.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Ouch. Thanks. I'll keep an eye on it.
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
slimbean

Best experience up to now with slimbean. Did not get reboot, uploaded music from usb, no issue.

The music player was jerking a little bit but I remember that I had to install semaphore manager and tweak the governor to conservative and audio is now playing fine.

Bluetooth seem to be working. A little hesitation when music is playing and a call is received. Strangely, the DSP does not work on the bluetooth output even though there is a setting for it...

Camera seems to be more fluid than the one found in CM. Maybe because of the available memory ?

That rom must be a rocket on an S3 !

Again, awesome experience with slimbean.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'm not seeing the available memory you are, but so far the issues that prevented me from sticking with slim - namely the reboots and slow loading of phone and SMS data - have not arisen at all. Been very good with an 'almost clean' install. Enjoying it again, but needs a few days - very very easy on my battery.
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Thanks JP,

The user is not very tech savvy, but I'll do my best to get them to actively turn features on and off.

The change to 2.6.6s seems to have had no affect on the backlight issue. The hardware lights will randomly come on when the screen is off, and stay on. I think when I was selecting kernels, the last for 4.1.2 was 2.6.5s, but 2.6.6s seems to be working fine.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So with 2.6.6s you will want to go into the semaphore app, select use BLN instead of CM LED - and then reboot - otherwise there is no change.

If s/he wants the backlight off altogether, you can do that as well under settings>display I think.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Soft Reboot

Trying to copy over the newest slim via USB - sat at connecting USB, then rebooted the phone.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Did that to me too when I installed SB Build 3. No problems since though. Just had a reboot today though after i put my phone down a bit to vigorously on my desk. But I think that one was my fault.

Gonna skip build 4 as a new WIP is coming out. I'll wait and do whatever the next build is then.

However.... I am running CM10.1 on my Odroid-U2 and I can now say I totally prefer SlimBean to CM10.1.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'm half wondering if its the cord I use at work now.

Also, SB 4.2 is out already.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Saw that before I left work. Might install it tomorrow but Build3 is working so well I don't want to screw with it. I'll make that decision tomorrow.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So I pretty much get the soft re-boot every time (even with my original cord) when I try to copy files to my phone. Saw a post that says that is due to widgets, but never had that issue on CM10.1.

Frustrating.

EDIT: I have USB debugging on, turning off those options to see if that makes a difference - will monitor - takes a long time to connect though.
[Fascinate General] dgerryts:
What do you have the device set up for? MTP or usb device? I've always set it to MTP and never had any issues.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Sad question - where is that setting?

EDIT: Found it .... trying that.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
System Settings > Storage > (menu button) > USB Computer Connection
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
That appears to be much better.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Its funny - I know EXACTLY where that setting is on Froyo and GB as I need to go turn it on when starting fresh, but I guess I always had it defaulting to USB mass storage - still odd that that works in CM but not slim (at least not for me) but MTP appears pretty flawless.

Not a deal breaker as all I want to do is --- occasionally --- copy files - and I can do that now. Thanks!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Slim

I should try to find my last notes when I loaded slim - but I'm now running latest slim (4.2) along with latest semaphore (2.9.22s).

The last few days have been good - I find the phone very responsive, as good on battery as CM10.1 was. The new playstore I'm really digging especially with TRDS turned on - which I am also digging.

I was using CM10.1 without modding DPI for a while, and forgot just how much I love 182 - was really nice to come back into slim noticing some big changes like that. Phone and SMS is not as laggy as it was on the last slim build I tried, so I think I will be here a while now (even removed my cyandelta application).

Slim was my 'go to' ROM for a VERY long time, so happy that I can call it that again.
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
hmm...

When you do the install, the pages are empty of widgets. I get no issue when I connect my USB cable to transfer files. I was just wondering what widget get you in trouble, if it is a widget causing the issue.

It's just that if you think it is and you know which one it is, I can try to install it and see if I get the same issue.

Pretty much is awesome up to now... battery life and available ram is really incradible
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So, there's a post in the SB thread that blame the reboots on widgets - I did not try removing any widgets or anything - cause honestly that should just *work*. However, the boys here helped me out and I switched from Mass USB as my default on USB connect - to MTP (I get a little I9000 icons as a device in windows file manager - haven't tried it on linux yet) and that worked swimmingly.

So for me - that was one big issue I had with Slim but now have a perfectly acceptable work around. Additionally, battery life was a bit suspect compared to CM, but I cannot say that any longer.

I'm back to my favourite ROM. :)
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
I switched the phone over to the latest slim with the latest semaphore, and I'm very impressed.

By the way, the button back light issue never went away regardless of semaphore bln setting, clearing dalvik/cache. Only switching from cm to slim has fixed it.

I've had a serious problem with email sync. Gmail is fine, but Hotmail, k-9, stock email, and droid mail (all pop3) seem to be unable to update themselves unless forced manually. This problem is strange and doesn't exist on my Incredible S, with the same settings.

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[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I use stock email without issue. Check the sync settings maybe.
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Settings were push. I changed it to 10 mins, without any success. I think there was an issues with a file overridden by titanium backup in a restore. I've started from scratch again and things seen to be doing better.

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[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
push ?

are you in "push" mode ?

When I was running 2.3.3, I was able to do push doing this:

1) Disable gmail notification

2) Use original email app

3) being able to add an activesync account for gmail (which does not seem to work anymore) for instant email notification

4) being able to add an activesync account for hotmaill for instant email notification

5) being able to add work account every 15 minutes

I say all this because I have the same issue. I am trying to only use a single email app (the one in slimbean) but I cannot get new emails unless I update manually.

I am also not able to set an activesync for gmail anymore.

So are you able to get instant notification with gmail and hotmail under the same email app ?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Fml... The earphones jack on my phone dead. :(
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
New phone time.
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Hey guys, anyone have any success with over clocking? The HTC phone I had would run 1GHz stock, and was extremely stable and responsive at 1.2GHz, without much loss in battery. Wondering if this phone is similar...

Also the battery issue I reported before seems to have been caused by age. I'm looking at 1800mAh on amazon and they seem reasonably priced. Opinion?

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[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'm at 110%
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I run at 120% and it's fine. Battery life is noticeably shorter, but i have several spare batteries now.

Anyway, ordered the parts to fix my phone. $6 and free shipping. I probably could have fixed it with a bit of heat from my soldering iron, but new parts will almost certainly be a better idea at that price. Not giving up on this thing yet. I'll take photos of the process since it's something we're going to collectively face sooner or later and a guide would make things simpler.

---------- Post added at 09:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:44 PM ----------

Get the 1650 OEM Samsung battery from the T959V (the 4G version of our phones). The part number is EB575152LA. It's OEM and guaranteed 1650mAh vs some Chinese battery that probably isn't 1800mAh.
[Fascinate General] Appetisaac:
I run at 120% and it's fine. Battery life is noticeably shorter, but i have several spare batteries now.............Me too,no problems.

Charge while you sleep.
[Fascinate General] timbits01:
Ok i downloaded the files but the only thing I can't find is T959TLJL3_FROYO_Phone-CL763100.tar , I see its a winrar archive, and when i open it, it has modem.bin it it. Don't know I find that file to complete the flash to stock????
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to accomplish, but if you're trying to go back to stock, download this (http://karmatose.org/t959d/stock_roms/T959TLKG2_Gingerbread.zip) and flash with Odin. No point in going to Froyo.
[Fascinate General] timbits01:
Well what I had done without noticing was i had repartitioned my samsung galaxy s 4g (telus) and was trying to get back to stock since when i repartitioned everything i baisically deleted it all off. Now I did download those files, but what happens is when it gets part way through it says sbl.bin in the messages then i get the fail.
[Fascinate General] dgerryts:
If yours is a 4g, it is not the same phone....
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Jump on http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ and download the stock image for your phone.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Just received my new headphone jack assembly. Ordered from stores.ebay.ca/camobileparts. Canadian seller, best price.

Going to install it tonight. Should be easy.

Edit: got it installed. Didn't take pictures. Pretty easy to do though.

-Pull off battery cover, remove sim, battery, sdcard.

-Remove seven very tiny phillips screws.

-Use a plastic pry tool or guitar pick to slide in between the front bezel and the rear plastic cap. It should separate.

-Use plastic pry tool to unhook the headphone connector, camera connector, antenna connector, button connector and screen connector off the mainboard.

-Lift the board from the volume rocker side and set it to the side trying not to put too much stress on the power button ribbon cable

-Use an xacto knife to pry up the tiny board upper right corner (if the phone is laying on the screen on your desk). This is the light sensor. Also pry up the ear speaker and ribbon cable that is taped to the backplane. Next pry up the headphone jack itself. Be extra gentle not to damage the glass behind these components. The adhesive shouldn't be too strong.

-take the tape off the old assembly and put it on the new one.

-Replace the 'motherboard' and hook up all connections. Put in battery in test. If it works, put phone back together.

..... hope this helps someone.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
My phone was acting weird where my keyboard would disappear and my battey life sucked. Couldn't figure it out, so reflashed the ROM (wipe cache/format system), reset semaphore settings and reflashed the kernel.

I think it was me screwing around with the kernel (and changing back and forth OC values) that screwed things up - yesterday all was normal and so far today (In fact after 3.5 hours (wife fi, data, gps, sync all OFF) I'm still at 100% battery.

Just sharing in case anyone notices some instability, and can trace it back to just fooling around too much with the kernel.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Still on Slim

Hey - so switched back to Slim on Build 4 - was great. Build 4.2 - better. Build 5 - even better. Very fast. I was rocking an early preview of the stock email changes, and having those extra buttons available now is quite nice.

There are some noted issues with Build 5 in regards to pictures and sounds, but I have not experienced those. Upgrading from 4.2 to 5 I simply cleared both caches, formatted system (manually), flashed the ROM, the updated AIO package, lockhandle restore, and Semaphore 2.9.24s.

All was more than fine for me.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I'll throw Build 5 on tomorrow evening when I have the time. Still on Build 3 here.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, I'm a flash addict - although I haven't upgraded my ubuntu laptop to 12.10 yet ;)
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
I followed the same steps as you JP and I'm very happy with v5.

I've noticed that I've been unable to get a GPS lock on... Though I've never used it, but it's weird that I couldn't get it to work. No change after applying the pimp my rom gps.conf fix. Was on a 2 hour car ride, never locked on once.

I ended up giving my Inc s to my friend and am using this phone as my primary now. I too am a flashoholic ;)

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[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'll have to give GPS a kick.
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Well guys, it's been great, had a lot of fun. I picked myself up the S4 last night and I absolutely love it. Maybe I'll catch up with you guys later on the s4 forum or possibly even the S5 ;)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Tried this morning, took a while to lock but then was perfect. Using OOTB GPS.conf.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I know the developer for Slim on the S3 - great guy - he's going to move to the S4, so there could very likely be an S4 slim version before too long.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
fwiw, I can't seem to get GPS locks anymore either. I had this problem last year after a flash and it actually took about 45 mins of driving around with it trying to lock to actually get a lock.
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
It seems my GPS issue was improper read write permissions for the config file. After fixing this, and re running pimp my rom region fix, I got lock-ons within 30 seconds.

Has anyone had success with paranoid android or PACman roms on this device? I tried flashing one and I couldn't get it to connect to my carrier. I'll be trying again when I get more time tomorrow.

Also, I'm aware that semaphore doesn't support zram in the kernel. Is there one compatible with our device that does?

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[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Maybe try CyanCore - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2184578
[Fascinate General] AluminumHaste:
I can't get back to stock properly. I flashed the files from this thread and I get back to 2.2. I then went to 2.3, then slimICS then Slimbean, and realized I had not backed up my EFS folder so I have no service and imei is blank.

Well I booted into Download Mode, and flashed the 2.2 files again. It re-boots into the (3e) recovery and keeps doing that. If I do a Factory Reset, then it boots into the OS as per normal.

However, still no IMEI number, and now Samsung Kies doesn't recognize the phone anymore.

Help.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Go back to froyo or gingerbread and you might get it back
[Fascinate General] AluminumHaste:
I did. I said in my post that I flashed back to 2.2, but still no IMEI number, and now KIES doesn't recognize the phone any more, saying it's not a compatible device for KIES 2.0.

I can boot into the OS just fine, I can get on the playstore via wireless everything seems to be working fine, except the above issue.

Now, would it be a good idea to flash TWRP or CWM and format system and all that stuff then ODIN Froyo back on?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Ouch.sorry. yes, I would try that. Go back as fresh as possible
[Fascinate General] AluminumHaste:
OMG I'm so dumb. I was using the 2.2 pit file from the Verizon Fascinate not the Telus Fascinate. :eek:

Used the one from the first post and now I got IMEI back! Thank you again man, you keep saving my bacon.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Don't even bother with 2.2. Just grab the 2.3 zip from my site.
[Fascinate General] AluminumHaste:
Okay so I finally got back to SlimBean 4.2.2 build 5, and copied the backed up EFS files and folders to the root of the phone in the EFS folder and rebooted.......IMEI number still showing as unknown and still no cell service. Sigh.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Try flashing a modem.
[Fascinate General] AluminumHaste:
Okay I cleared cache/dalvik and did a fix permissions and also installed that modem in your signature. Now the IMEI number is showing up, thank you so much, if I had a lot of money I'd throw 50s in your face with love. :good:
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I'm good with thanks. Collectively there probably isn't a problem in this post that us t959d owners hasn't faced so I'm just glad to share that knowledge and help where I can.

Enjoy Slimrom on the t959d! It works pretty nice for an old phone.
[Fascinate General] AluminumHaste:
Well I've had slim on my fascinate for a while. I sold it to my friend who was strapped for cash and had a really old phone. Well he loves slim now and did something to it and it wouldn't boot. So he tried to fix it himself and made it worse. So I've been spending the last 18 hours and 3 days working on it. It's finally back up and running thank you so much for your help :)
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
I saw the Ubuntu developer preview for the i9000. I know the two phones are basically identical, and am wondering how likely I will be able to try it out without causing catastrophic issues with this t959...

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[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Give'r a go. I doubt it will brick the phone.
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Volume keys, earpiece issue

Hello,

I got the fascinate SGH-T959. It was on Eclairs

Below is what I did,

1/ Downloaded slimbean from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2060374&nocache=1

2/ Went into recovery, perhaps it was the old version of recovery and then suddenly the the CWM version got updated to 6.0.1.2.

3/ Did not took the nandroid backup of eclairs (a big idiot I am)

4/ Flashed the slimbeam zip as per the instruction given in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2060374&nocache=1

5/ Everything went okay and I was able to enjoy the jelly bean

But then I noticed that the volume button function has been reversed and there is no sounf in earpiece.

I rebooted the phone in recovery again but in recovery too the volume button function is reversed, when I do a phone call then I cannot hear anything in the earpiece, also the ear phone is not recognised by SGH-T959.

I again flashed the ROM clearing all the chache, format system, and wipe/factory reset but the issue persist. I did this process atlease thrice.

I did a PM to "jpmccarthy" and I was informed to refer this thread :), also "jpmccarthy" informed to go back to stock rom 2.3.3 (http://karmatose.org/t959d/)

Now I am downloading the gingerbread zip uploaded by "karmatose" and will follow the recovery process to degrade to 2.3.3

By the mean time do any of the members faced such issue or do you have any solution.

Regards

BS
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Just want to be sure, is this the t959d? If not, stop.
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
About phone option show the below

Model Number SGH-T959

Android version 4.2.2

Baseband version T959UVKA7
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
That's because you flashed that Rom. Do you know the exact model of your phone.

Flashing the wrong firmware could be very bad.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
In your PM you said you had a t959d, so if that's the case you are good to go.

This is the fascinate from telus
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
During booting the model number displayed is SGH-T959 and also in About Phone option the Model number is SGH-T959.

I may have messed up with the D.

is there any way to find out the exact model number?
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Turn your phone off, take the battery out and look for 'MODEL:*your model here*'
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Yes the model number is SGH-T959D.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Flash stock 2.3.3 from my website. Then try flashing slimrom again. It appears you have a t959 rom on your phone.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, you have the right phone so follow the instructions. You should be golden.
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Downloaded the gingerbread zip from your site, now do I have to follow the instruction mention in post 2.

I am asking because my phone is already having slimbean, is it possible to degrade to GB as mention in post 2 in short can you please tell now how shall I proceed and degrade my phone to GB.

Looking at Post 2 it seems that rooting is also not needed to flash GB, shall I unroot my phone and then flash GB?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
You need to get into download mode to load the GB stock - you will use Odin (in the zip) to do that - it will then be stock samsung 2.3.3 unrooted. Then you can follow the other steps to get to a ROM of your choosing - in this case, slimbean.

You could try just flashing slimbean for the i9000 (galaxysmtd) - but having flashed a vibrant ROM like you have, I'm not positive what that did - so I would recommend coming in fresh so you are sure to remove any peculiarities.

Follow the steps - remember when you flash slimbean from GB - it will fail twice (and you might want to flash the latest 10.1 for the i9000 from CM first - kinda paves the way for slimbean but I'm not 100% sure that is necessary either - been a while since I've gone from GB up).
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Used Odin v3.04 and followed the instruction, the message window of Odin shows below

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> PDA_KG2.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> PHONE_KG2.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> CSC_TLSKG2.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)

But the phone did not rebooted as expected and when I click the power button its showing that the battery is charging.