[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
Thanks !

First I'd like to thank you (and the others) for taking time to answer all my questions. I was hesitant because of being a newbie at this and also the language as english is not my first spoken language... I was not prepared to receive an answer like yours (and the other ones) who respond to my questions ! That's nice from you guys !

So back on track to your reply, I wish that all people who make tutorials or descriptions how to's would update their original post instead of spreading their updates in the entire thread. I think you did nicely in re-editing your second post with updated informations. That is a great amount of useful updated information right in the begining of the thread even though they are the oldest posts.

Also, thanks for clarifying abbreviations (like OP)... there are tons of abreviations on XDA that I do not always understand. Might sound stupid but OP was not telling me much at first as I tried to translate every possible combination in my head finding werid things !

In fact, I was wondering if there was a thread somewhere with all meanings of abreviations related to the whole forum ? Also explaining what is a ROM, firmware, kernel, baseband, modem, blah blah blah, to know what does what. iiiish... I am really a newbie... :o Trying to search these words in the forum is returning way to much information to get to the point.

I am exactly in the same position as you were back then... I do not have a spare phone to make tests like "ebenze" did describe in the post after yours. I am hesitant also because I wonder how much of an improvement I'll get... I mean, I want to do this to get a better working phone and not as a test purpose or out of curiosity. I need that phone to work (independant worker) so I need a bit of stability for calendar, contacts, appointments, tasks, pdf files, ect. I play very little but run apps related to my field of work.

If I do this just to get the wow factor and have some of the feature not working or crashing, I'll be at the same point of staying with GB.

Along with what ebenze says on his response, I/we have to understand that the T959D is not a really powerfull device and I/we must expect some jerkyness or stuttering when using some functions or apps. But seeing all videos on youtube seem soooo nice...

So today, I restarted everything again from scratch. I was sure all my apps would come back on as I did tick the restore apps parameters but it did not... I have to start again from pretty far.

As I was rebuilding my phone, I took a break and when I came back, another "bug" that happend to me once or twice is that when I push the power button, the screen does not come on. I know the phone is on because when I connect the USB cable, I hear the distinctive tone of the USB being connected but man... really ? I had to pull out the battery and reboot it to continue my work on my phone.

All this to say that at this point, since I need to start from far again, do I finally take the plunge ? Another situation that makes me think, man, f**k that and go for it... or maybe not... does my phone has another issue or all those reboot/weird response does really come from GB ?

My phone has a new board in it for one year... it seem that this 600$ phone cannot run more than one year !?

Urg... :rolleyes:

I bought my T959 in march 2011 and worth 600$. Couple months after, Galaxy SII came out but it seem like the Galaxy S was left in the dust right there... I mean this is not (was not) listed as a cheap device... The only update we got was from 2.2 to 2.3 and all this inside a single year.

no, no, no, don't under estimate yourself, you have a lot knowlage on how to do this... the proof is that very thread that everybody is thanking you for.

Yeah, I've heard about that USB jig. Thanks for reminding me.

Thanks for the i9000 precisions. I guess that is why there are many discutions about the menu/home/back/search button because the i9000 has only 3 buttons if I am not mistaken. Another thing I need to understand before I start.

As for CM10, it's the right combination of files I want to have and be sure about. I was about to find informations for the slimbean (the one I saw on youtube) but reading your answers and also your signature below all your post (everybody should do this), I think I might build my file listing and organisation around CM10.

yes, I'm happy as I said before that everybody is helpful in here !

indeed, odd little phone...

Yes it does. I have to take the descision when I'll take the plunge or not. I have a lot of reading to do too and file preparing.

Thanks again and all the other one too that have replied to my questions below !

Aleziss