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[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Just try a bunch of different modems and figure out what works best for you. Give them each a few days and take not of signal strength.
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
KG3 is working well

Is there any option to install gtalk, hangout sucks a lot
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
The only thing I can suggest is deleting it and finding an old apk and replacing it manually. You could grab it from an old slim addons package!

... And yes, I agree. Hangouts suuuuuuucks on old hardware. So laggy.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'm still finding slim a bit weird - battery lives forever one day, no so much the next. There are the memory leaks that reboots seem to resolve, same ole issues with stock email (for exchange), but also my 3G and Wifi goes from blue to grey to blue at times.

Might go back to CM10.1 for a while now that they are on RC4 + 3 nightlies after that - but no time for that at present - plus would likely miss a lot of the nice extras with slim. :o(

Anywho, just a general update.
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
My battery last for more than 38+ hours.

There was not a single automatic reboot but I have not configured any exchange server I use QOWA app to access my official mails :cool:

My 2G and WIFI never turned to grey

And u know that I m on cm 10.1 rc3 :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Really - the about phone you showed the other day said SlimBean 5.
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Yes its SlimBean 5 just took a screenshot of about phone but not able to attach from tapatalk :mad:
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Right - so then you are not on CM10.1 RC3, but actually on SlimBean 5 :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I was getting very frustrated with the memory leaks on slimbean build 5. It got so bad that my music player (XiiaLive) would regularly quit because the phone would run out of memory and the task killer would kill it because it was the only thing that it could kill. Put build 6 on yesterday and hoping it resolves the issues I'm having. If not, I'll hold out for CM10.1 stable and head that direction too. There's a lot about Slim I will miss, but stability is paramount for me.

IMHO, the Slim guys have really been dropping the ball recently compared to the old builds. They're emphasizing features over stability and 'lightness'. I am a piss poor dev though so since I can't put up, i'll shutup.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, no I hear you. Might be a focus too on new devices - as I know folks running slim on their S3s and it runs beautifully. A cappy user here just bailed on it for CM10.1 for the same reasons (music stability). I have had more than a few cut offs as well - so seeing if Build 6 resolves for me as well.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Giving up. Going fresh to 10.1
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
After the camera icon is clicked error displayed is Unfortunately gallery has stopped

---------- Post added at 12:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:29 PM ----------

This happened when I changed the on screen settings but got resolved by clearing the app data :)
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
moved to SB Build 6 not experiencing any of the Memory Leak that others are finding but have to say the battery life is worse then Build 5 and much worse then CM10.1, also hate that i have to reboot every few days to get rid of the lag...but i am liking the Slim Dark feature right now so i think i will stick it out for now and see if battery life gets better
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah - I LOVED TRDS - as well as the extra exchange settings but Exchange was acting weird, my keyboard would get shut down if it wasn't on my LMK, and music programs wouldn't start.

Right now I have stock cm10.1 with semaphore and the big mem fix. Hoping to change DPI but did that this morning and all hell broke loose - so I re-flashed.
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Lockscreen

Hello JP,

I flashed the lockscreen Universal_SlimBean_theme_lockscreen_black_blueglow but cannot locate it

Do you have any suggession

FYI I also flashed google maps GoogleMaps.6.14.4.toggleable.zip and its working.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Can't say I have ever flashed that - and now I am off Slimbean on back on CM10.1
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
If anyone is having talk.apk please share
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
check my repo in the apk folder. I've put the last slimbean talk.apk up there.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hey guys - quick note - I am back on CM10.1 using cyan delta to get my nighly changes and then loading the gps/search fix, semaphore kernel, big mem fix, and latest multi-DPI playstore - once I install a new daily with those other zips, I reboot and set my DPI to 182 (like Slim).

Have to say, seeing it as far more stable at the moment, but that is only after mild use yesterday and then today on a new daily. Battery is just 'ok' 62% after 8.5 hours and me playing some GPS with 1.5 hours of screentime (actually - for that much screen time that's really good battery usage - means I should get close to 4 hours which I never did before - 2 has kind of been my ceiling).
[Fascinate General] canadagolfnut:
So whats the bigmem fix? Does it allow the extra ram and still allow 720p recording?

If so, wheres this fix?

btw also running cm10.1 with sempahore (non bigmem kernel though, but if theres a fix, im changing) on my t959d, find it better than slimbean.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
2nd post, step 15. :)
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
GPS is not working even cannot see the GPS icon in the top bar
[Fascinate General] canadagolfnut:
If I flash S kernel, enable bigmem in semaphore manager, I get 409 mb but camera recording is broken. This is with the JB fix flashed.

If i disable bigmem in Semaphore manager with a S kernel, I get 397 mb of memory, but camera recording works.

If I use a non S kernel, I get 384 memory.

So I take it option 2 is the preferred one? (unless there is a fix for #1?)

oh, and thanks for the response, think its been a while since I read page one. :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL - no worries, and sorry for the confusion. You are correct - there is no fix for enabling Big Mem in semaphore without breaking 720 recording (but you can downgrade your recording and it will work fine).

I use option two - flash the S version, use the fix and get the 397.
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
Have gotten utterly fed up with my SB install at the moment. Too many things going wrong: very sluggish, too many FCs, cannot connect via USB any more, battery usage has dropped like a rock in the last month or so, anything other than the headset earpiece disconnects randomly (ex: bluetooth, speaker, corded headset), etc. Desperately need to reflash this phone.

Finally have some time to try out CM10.1 this time around. Thing is I've kind of gotten used to SB's small DPI. Where did you get the multip DPI PlayStore from? The CM10.1 Play Store is google stock, isn't it?

Re: cyan delta - can you upgrade without wiping everything everytime? Part of the reason I've been so hesitant on reflashing the phone is that I am lazy and didn't want to go through the whole exercise of reloading everything again... *sigh*

Just for confirmation - the CM file for the i9000 is galaxysmtd - correct?

Thanks,

Eric
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Yes, you can use cyandelta to only apply the updates. It's how i keep my odroid up to date.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So I get my multi-DPI playstore from here (just make sure you get the one for the right version of JB else you'll have issues) ... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1839871

Also, I use texdroider_dpi from the playstore to reset my DPI. I do this after CM boots. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.texdroider.texdroider_dpi&hl=en

So as Karma said, yes, you can do use cyandelta without wiping everytime - same as just flashing a new nightly really. Cyan Delta is great, but hasn't been working for me lately, but I think the issues have been fixed. you can even have other zips set to flash after CM - I typically flash my multi-dpi playstore, semaphore kernel s version, and the JB mem fix - let it boot (also I have it set to clear cache - but not factory wipe) - after the boot, I reboot after setting my DPI to 182.

Yep.
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
Thanks - will give it a shot. Need to reflash first. If I flash the RC5, can I still use CyanDelta to update nightly changes? Or best just to stick to the nightly branch altogether?

Thanks,

Eric
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Haven't tried it. I'm strictly on nightlies.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
No issues here
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Yes now its working I wiped the Maps app data and did the setting again
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
heavily contemplating a new phone but would mean a new 3 year contract. Leaning towards the HTC One, but also have other things that far outweigh the buying of a new phone :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I'm at that point too man. Not signing another three year though as these phones just don't last three years. Going to wait until December to see what happens with the whole two year contracts only thing and make a decision based on that. I don't mind buying a phone outright but if I'm going to do that I'm probably better to buy a flagship phone at launch than I am to buy something right now just from a resale point of view.

Really what I am thinking is just getting a SGS2X from Koodo (aka the Hercules... which has official Slim support!) to hold me over until then. The whole no GPS thing on my phone is really starting to bother me. And actually to be fair... I've been playing with a friends S2X lately with CM10.1 and it's a very capable phone for not much money.
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
Ditto for me. I'm leaning towards the S4 vs the One. Although Telus did have a 100$ off last week for a trade in on any phone towards the One. I was very tempted, but just couldn't pull the trigger. Coincidentally, my last 4 phones have all been Samsungs, except for a Motorola I picked up as a quick temp-fix when a Samsung flip died. I've started to become quite loyal to Samsung - perhaps to my detriment. I just found their products and f/w better thought out and planned than the rest oft the competition in the past.

I don't expect the 2 yera thing to make a huge difference - the phone prices will prob just be front-loaded instead. They won't drop the prices - just make you pay more upfront for them.

The S4 can be considered as "launch". Been out for 2 months in Canada so far. Got another 10mos minimum before an S5 shows up.

Are you not able to get GPS on the T959 at all? Are you running CM or SB?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Oh for sure.... I don't mind paying more up front I just don't want a three year deal. Plus I want to keep my current plan as there's nothing close to comparable to it for the price right now.

Totally true... But I'm not making a move until December. At that point I'm better off waiting.

Nope. It's an antenna issue. I could probably fix it if i felt like opening the phone up again, but I'd sooner just replace the phone. I mean... I can't even listen to music and use tapatalk at the same time without the kernel force quitting something to make up some more memory.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Semaphore Settings

Someone asked me my settings a while ago, here's an update since I switched ROMs (but still use semaphore)

Semaphore

- Interactive (this is default CM - seems great on performance and battery)

- ROW

- vibrator 50%

- 512 SD read ahead

- BLN

Also

- CM10.1 Nighltlies

- LMK for launcher, keyboard, and LMK

- Greenifya lot of apps.
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
Hey .. does anybody by any chance have a spare back cover (ie: the battery cover) for the T959D? Mine has a nasty crack in it, but I'd like to make the phone survive a little bit longer before I throw in the towel for a new one.

Thanks!

Eric
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I have a couple that are kinda... not great. But I also have a silicon sleeve you can have if you want.
[Fascinate General] packet11:
this thread is greate. thanks OP.

finally upgraded to cm10.1, but phone could not get signal and IMEI reamained "unknown". restored efs folder from backup and also a few different modem but didn't help.

also the phone will reboot automatically if idle for a while.

After a few days try with no luck I flashed it back to 2.2 with odin and the files provided by OP. as soon as back to 2.2, IMEI showed up and also phone got signal.

I remember the phone came with 2.3.3 before I tried upgrade. Tried upgrade with kies but it kept crashing. any other way to upgrade to 2.3.3?

Not sure if want to try to JB again
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
Thanks for the offer. What does 'not great' mean? Scratched or broken? Or purple and pink with liquid paper spots all over them? :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
One is busted to hell and probably not much better than what you have. The other is fine in the usual cracking points but the corner (top left) is busted off. I'll take a photo when I get home.

The silicon sleeve is just an ebay cheapie.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Man, battery is settling in nice. 1 hour screen, lots of texts, 11 mins of calls.
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
I tried BLN a while back and found it sucked up battery life. Was kinda of suprised considering they were just LEDs. Do you not find that it sucks up a bit of battery life?

What is LMK? Are you no longer using Nova as your launcher?

Tx,

Eric
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Follow the steps in Post 2 - there is a file thanks to Karma that you can flash via odin to have 2.3.3 back.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I find the LED implementation worse on battery - I find BLN (coupled with BLN pro) to work - I like the backlight notification, but obviously you can shut it off.

Nope, still using Nova. LMK (there's a link somewhere in this thread - search on LMK) is an app to use with your kernel to keep certain applications loaded and not get killed - so I put Nova in it. :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I've ordered a few backs off ebay along with cases - I have cheap back on my phone now with a wrap around case - so the size of my phone is not really affected, and keeps things together more or less. Just have to wait 6-8 weeks for the stuff from China ;)
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
Ok - so I finally reflashed CM10.1. First impressions: Holy cow big DPI! Forgot how accustomed to the SB DPI I've become. Waiting for it to finish d/l;ing all my apps from Google Play to reboot. But my other first impression is that it is not particularly snappy either. One of the issues I was hoping to cure by reflashing was SB just seemed very sluggish. I made sure to wipe davlik, wipe cache, format data, format user before installing CM10.1 and Sem 2.9.26s. Did I forget something? Was there something else I was supposed to clean first?

Tx,

Eric
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
give it a bit of time. I find right after flashing things are a bit sluggish but it seems to get better in a day or so
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
As well, a few posts back I give some thoughts and tips on CM10.1 including a link to a multi-DPI play store and an app to change DPI - I run CM10.1 at 182 cause you are right, the stock DPI is huge! :o)
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Hello JP,

SB seems to somewhat slow day by day is there anything that can be done?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Reboot.
[Fascinate General] packet11:
Just curious, I saw people "installing CM10.1 and Sem 2.9.26s", so can I just use the kernel from CM10.1? Sem kernel is just just optional for people want the features from Sem? what's good on Sem kernel not available from the stock CM10.1?
[Fascinate General] canadagolfnut:
Is LMKing LMK really recommended? I thought it just passed something to the kernel, and wasnt a running process?

(and this thread still rocks with all the help and suggestions)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL - probably not but I was getting frustrated with SlimBean killing everything. Doesn't seem to hurt anything though.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yep.

Yep - different kernel.

Mostly the application available in the Play Store (Semaphore application manager) that allows you to tweak settings, select governors, etc. You can do that from settings on the stock kernel as well - I'm just kinda loyal to Semaphore to be honest.
[Fascinate General] dgerryts:
[MENTION=1370138]karmatose[/MENTION]... Loving the SIIX, very very wise choice from a price point POV. Was running slim, but it has issues, and by the looks of it across all of the older devices. I'm running the stock Telus JB 4.1.2 (TWRP and rooted) now, and other than lock screen widgets, its pretty good. Very minimal bloatware.I might move to CM 10.1 at some point when they actually release an official. Sound quality is nowhere near the S, but its livable.

Oh... I just looked at the Koodo website....It's back up to 300!!!!!! I paid 150 outright for mine...... You are then better off just buy the N4 for 350 outright from them, cheaper than the play store....
[Fascinate General] drakemiller40:
Flashing back to stock with VooDoo Kernel

I was able to get back to stock, but I want to flash back to stock with CWM kernel. I bold faced the instructions I followed in the quote.

How do I flash with the VooDoo Kernel?

Thanks!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Put the voodoo kernel in the PDA section of Odin BUT only if you are on 2.2 - if you are on 2.3.3 do NOT flash that kernel. Don't re-partition either at this point.
[Fascinate General] drakemiller40:
Thanks for the reply.

I have already flashed back to stock so my firmware version is 2.2 and not 2.3.3

So If I understood correctly:

1. Run Odin and place the files as follows:

- s1_odin_20100512.pit in "PIT"

- zImage in "PDA"

- T959TLJL3_FROYO_Phone-CL763100.tar in "PHONE"

- SGH-T959D-CSC-TLSJL3.tar.md5 in "CSC"

2. Uncheck the re-partition.

3. Boot my device into download mode and connect to pc.

4. Click start.

Do I put the "zImage" in the PDA section or the "voodoo.advanced.v666.2-20110111-21.53.tar"?

Also do I have to be rooted before doing this?
[Fascinate General] packet11:
my guess is you need to flash with odin again with the VooDoo kernel only. I flashed back to the stock as well, but didn't try the VooDoo kernel yet. Migght as well just go to 2.3.3 stock once I get the files downloaded
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
That is correct, only need the kernel in the PDA slot.
[Fascinate General] drakemiller40:
Thanks, but I get an error.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Is that the poison version that was in the 2.2 zip file? If not use that.
[Fascinate General] drakemiller40:
I think it was due to either not being in debug mode or Kies was open..
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
And I meant ODIN version, not POISON. Damn auto-correct. :) but it sounds like you have it all sorted - I've run into errors like that before and usually stop/starting odin and reconnecting the phone gets things sorted.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Has anyone ever tried the MacKay kernel? or Devil?

If so, thoughts on how it stacks up against semaphore?
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
Thanks, but mine has a cracked corner as well. I was hoping to try to use the phone without a sleeve but with a broken back, kinda difficult. :) Will see if ebay has anything inexpensive that I can try instead.

Tx again!

Eric
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hey Eric - FWIW, I have ordered a ton from eBay - and they are all pretty cheap but my latest combo works pretty well and doesn't add a lot of extra girth to your phone. Just search i9000 or t959 battery case.

And this snap on case which really just protects the cheap cover but adds very little the profile.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Black-Mesh-S...PhonesCasesPouches&hash=item27c7e040e6&_uhb=1
[Fascinate General] machv5:
I see that you say to tik the repartition box in your guide. From experience and bricking two different Samsungs one from a guide like thisand another one that on the second try to flash clockwork the repartition box was ticked and i didn't check the second time as it wasn't the first anyway moving on. Almost every other thread I have read says not to tick the repartition box as you can brick your phone to the point that ODIN doesn't see it anymore and if that happens you're likely only going to see iit via QPST tools. I haven't gotten that phone going again yet. I am having trouble making a working hex file from a quasi working one so I can flash it to the near dead as it gets phone. So my question is this why are you suggesting that and why would other threads warn over and over and over again against the repartition idea? :eek:
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Got a link to the other threads?

We don't always promote ticking the box, keep reading.... But for going back to stock (which is what you quoted) if you don't do that kies will not recognize your phone.

That being said, that guide will take you back to 2.2 so it's a bit long in the tooth but it works as I have done it many times to stay fresh with the phone like the day I bought it when 2.2 was the latest.

Make sense?
[Fascinate General] machv5:
yup i do. im in bc. van isl. i am going to turn my bricked one into a development platform from this post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1288093&highlight=t959d+telus

btw i know that sounds like I am not one but alas yes i am a total noob. boo hoo :eek:
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
No worries - but let me STOP you - that thread is for the verizon fascinate - the only thing the Telus Fascinate and the Verizon one share is a name - very different phones - ROMs for fascinate will not work, and not sure about the guts. Our phones are actually much closer to the I9000.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
and are you hard bricked or soft bricked (soft brick the phone boots up and there's a weird little phone icon - http://xdaforums.com/wiki/images/d/d8/Samsung_Galaxy_S_Black_Screen_of_Death.jpg
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Wow indeed. Well your interests are far over my head - Karmatose on this thread is bit more hands on and has taken apart a few phones. I'm just a guy who messes with his phone.

Nevertheless, if you have any questions on the T959D this is probably the best place to ask as most of the users of our phone have gravitated here.

I do at some time need to refresh my OPs here as a lot has changed - whenever someone new comes and asks a question, and I re-read some of the thread, I notice some stuff is quite dated (i.e. I gave up editing build.prop a long time ago LOL)
[Fascinate General] machv5:
lol, I just got around to adding all the phones I currently have right now 14 in total and only 2 are up and running one is my EVO 3D and the other is a Wildfire S. I just post a list of them on the blog I started a while ago and rarely update. I wasn't aware I had that many of them. I buy most of them damaged usually the LCD's and digitizers both. Or LCD working touch screen not. and the rest come from our cities battery recycling center where people often toss broken phones or their old ones. Obviously I have to be a little sneaky due to the liability factor if the workers allowed people to go through the old batteries. I'm shocked at how many working phones get tossed. Some of the flip phones which I find chargers for and give away to anyone that wants one still have the factory scuff plastic on them and are brand new batteries too. It's weird seeing older phones in mint shape.

I will reply with a rundown on whether or not the unbrickable will work when I find out and again if I manage to succeed with it and or the Jtag too
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Can someone PM me the user name and password for Karmatose's site? I finally decided to start fresh for the first time in a while. Thanks. :)
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Photosphere.4.2.2.build.5

Hello,

The photosphere function is not working, where I click the Photosphere icon in camera mode the message is displayed Unfortunately Gallery has stopped.

I have to clear the camera app data then only the camera works.

Any suggestions

Regards

BS
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Our phones lack the proper hardware to actually use the Photosphere feature.