yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Fascinate General] mattsolberg:
Went for a swim in an ocean of beer...

Just a heads up. Apparently our phone is pretty damn durable.

Last night I went out to Beerfest with some buddies in Calgary. After a few two many, my friends decided it would be hilarious to dangle my phone over my full pint of beer. Of course, before I could do anything, it slipped, and dunked directly into the glass. My phone, without a case, was fully submerged for about 5 seconds before I pulled it out and immediately popped the battery out. I expected this to be the end of life for my Fascinate.

After letting it dry over night in a bag of rice, I popped the battery in, crossed my fingers, and powered it up. Low and behold, it sprang to life. Not a single issue with it. It charges, the mic and speakers work as they did before, even the little moisture indicator that sits behind the battery remains unchanged.

This experience has pretty much solidified my confidence in Samsung and has emboldened my motivation to buy the Galaxy S III when it becomes available!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
And it smells like beer.... Bonus!
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Scratch and sniff lol
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Still getting not as good battery life on WeUI as I did on ICSSGS (with the same type of behaviour and settings).

Overall, FANTASTIC ROM in terms of feel - smoothest, UI seems sharper, boot time is very good - a few odd behaviours here and there, but nothing too drastic. MIUI dialer and contacts is far superior to stock.

I think my only con is battery life to date - beautiful widget seems to freeze on reboot and I have to restart Apex, but that's not a deal breaker.

Just my thoughts thus far - will wait for 1.5, or perhaps will try SLIM which is closer to AOSP with some extras.
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
I've turned off my data like buck, seems to last much longer.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Matt, I think we gave similar things running (exchange, haxsync) - how do you find it compared to icssgs?
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
I find battery life on this is comparable, maybe a little worse than icssgs. I do have exchange and haxsync running, they seem to just drain the battery like crazy. But I'm putting up with the drain cuz of how this rom just feels so smooth, I haven't had one problem since install.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Same boat :)

I have slim downloaded but battery would have to be awful for me to switch. Think we're about the same, I find battery to be about 5 to 10% worse pending on use.
[Fascinate General] cash2387:
Hey JP, could I get a copy of your stock Build.Prop? Wanted to tinker around with it here and there. See if we cant get Play showing as a Telus T959D instead of the GT-I9000.

Since flashing around so much I cant even download Spirit FM Free. It tells me its not compatible.:confused:
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah for sure. PM me a Gmail account... I haven't had a chance to look in much detail myself but I grabbed a copy before my last custom flash.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Can anyone running WeUI right now do the following for me - in Google play search for RBC and kijiji.

Do either of the official apps come up in your search results?

They don't in mine - and I modded my build.prop - but cannot remember if they did before, or if I just restored them from TB.

On the WeUI Sys Info screen, SGH-T959D is showing now (I also swapped the locale form US to CA).

EDIT: Google Play thinks I have an SGH-T959D
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Good stuff
[Fascinate General] yaaa4:
Hi guys (again)

Thanks again for all your collaboration. I don't contribute a lot to the thread but I sure read the thread from time to time!

So today, I've tried the new slimbean. But I've got the error : Unfortunately the process android.process.media has stopped.

What I've done :

- Flash my old semaphore (3.0.0s) with the new (3.3.0s) with ODIN

- Reset data factory

- Wipe cache

- Wipe dalvik

- Flash rom (the galaxy MTD slim bean build 2) with the recovery mode

- Flash GAPPS with the recovery mode (the gapps AIO from Slimroms).

Do you have any clue of what is happening? Not the good rom? didn't format system (didn't found it in my recovery mode).

Thanks for your hints.

Yaaa4
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Not sure. I would just reflash again and:

1. Factory data reset

2. Format system.

3. Flash rom

4. Flash gapps.

Reboot. See if that fixes you up. Make sure you are using the 4.3 slim gaps too.
[Fascinate General] yaaa4:
How do I format system? I don't have any option in my Semaphore CWM recovery V6.0.4.4 like format system...

Thanks again, I'll try it!

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Hi there!

I finally succeed to correct the problem.

I just flash again the rom with a dalvik/cache wipe.

I think what I did wrong today is that I forced the reboot when the phone was loading for the first time (It was too long).

Thanks again!

Yaaa4
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Great. For future reference in CWM look under where you mount drives - format is there.
[Fascinate General] chris19000:
Any T959Ds for sale?

Hi guys,

Finally upgraded devices a little while back. Work is paying for it and couldn't justify carrying around two devices anymore like I could when my old work device was a legacy BB. I ended up giving my trusty old Fascinate (back to stock 2.3) to my dad who I had been pitying for a couple of years fumbling about on his Moto flipout. Anyway, he loves it, but now I want to set something up as kid friendly for my little girl to be primarily used as a media device. Not sure what ROM I'll use yet but will probably go through APK by APK and get rid of what i dont want. The biggest thing I miss about the fascinate is the sound. The S2, Note2, and now even the S4 can't touch it even though I have voodoo sound working through Saberkernel. If I'm going to do this may as well use something I love and have already spent more time with then anyone outside of my family over the last four years. Only problem is my dad won't give it back to me. :p kidding of course but still, there it is.

So does anyone out there have one they are willing to part with? Can't find anything locally and am going to start combing eBay.

Thanks for reading my essay!
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
There's an i9000 (which i'd rather have) on swappa right now for $110 in Toronto.

Edit: Apparently there isn't.
[Fascinate General] chris19000:
I hear you. A little higher demand for those guys though, bit of a smaller budget esp. with shipping though. Thanks and Hey while I have you thanks for all your work in this thread too. Lots of fun time (and lots of not so fun time) spent in here!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Check kijiji too. I bought a t959d off of there a while ago
[Fascinate General] chris19000:
Thanks JP and echo on my comments to Kermatos to you too. Kijiji so far hadn't been super successful. Broadening my search to other near by markets. There's a couple but the price is way off. Superstore was selling the t959p with the front facing camera for just over $100 on their pay as you go kiosk a while ago brand new so tough to see used t959d for same dollars. That being said though, where have all of these gone? I9000s and vibrants/captivates too? Gotta be a load of them still running with how unbrickable they are.

Anyway cheers and thanks again!
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Beats me. I'd still be using mine if I didn't put it through the wash.
[Fascinate General] chris19000:
Well, found one locally for $50. Decent shape, small crack in rear casing but came with silicone case and unused headphones. Good start! Now going to see which route is best for kid friendly/media player oriented setup. So far going to research some i9000 roms to see what's out there and failing that will test out rooted, debloated, massively stripped down stock 2.3.3 and even further slimmed down newest slim ROM.

Back to basics!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
If you are not going to have a Sim card in it, put it in airplane mode and then turn on wifi - saves a ton of battery.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Could also use titanium backup to remove the dialer.
[Fascinate General] chris19000:
It's an interesting thing. I have tablets the girls use and turn on airplane mode while they use them. We monitor use so they don't turn wi-fi back on accidentally (or otherwise) and to make sure they don't get too much screen time - interesting chat I had with my doc about that one for adults, can only imagine potential effects on kids - but I expect the type of use to be different on this then the tablets. A big difference is that this will be hers and though usage time limits will still be enforced, she can customize and personalize and basically decide when to turn it on and off. Primary use will be mp3 player, camera, maybe picture editing, but will be some selected games too. Maybe even an offline map/atlas, some e-books. Not sure. Looking at Applock and similar apps right now. Combination of stripping down everything that isn't either absolutely necessary to run without constant force closes or forced boots, Play store, TB, etc., then locking everything left that isn't specifically what I want her to be able to access. Will have to see what works best as still haven't found a decent ROM yet.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Lol I hear ya. 2 young daughters myself.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Just thought i would give you all a run down on CM11 (kitkat)...i have to say that for an unoffical "alpha" ROM it ran supersmooth... the fact that kitkat uses less RAM made things run a whole lot better. I noticed that apps like BBM and Juice Defender wouldn't constantly be restarting due to low ram...on the downside its missing some customization options due to it being an alpha ROM...also i did experience soft reboots on a number of ocassions and i would also experience sporatic battery drain for no reason that i could find...one minute battery is doing fine the next time i look at my phone its down 10-15% in 30 minutes and all its been doing is sitting there doing nothing...so sadly i am back on Slimbean for now eagerly awaiting offical nightlies and then i will give it another shot
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I really wish I still had my t959d to play with. Lower system requirements would have made it a much nicer experience compared to jelly bean. Thanks for the update.
[Fascinate General] chris19000:
I'll keep an eye out for anyone giving them up. I'm interested to see how the Firefox OS runs on it as well if they ever really get legs.
[Fascinate General] Alistarsky:
Modem not working

Ok so here is what I did.

I have a samsung telus sgh-t959d.

I was already rooted and at froyo, so

**Update/Edit**: I used a non-s version of the semaphore kernel. Mainly because the essential files from page 1 only had JB big mem libraries, and I didn't want to bother with sorting that out yet.

1) I copied my efs folder

2) then flashed the semaphore ics tar via odin

3) Boot into recovery (then via recovery installed from sdcard):

3a) install cm9.1.2 for galaxysmtd

3b) install semaphore 1.3.0 (for ICS)

3c) installed Modem_UGKG3_ICS.CM.I9000

I rebooted. It stuck at the SGH-t959d boot logo and wouldn't move left for 30 minutes no change. I redid the recovery install again and rebooted again (it worked fine after that).

4) However I had no radio

4) I copied my efs folder back

5) rebooted

6) Still no radio (couldn't make calls, no data etc) the drop down bar complained of no service

I tried a bunch of different modems from perkas file stash, but I could not get the modem up.

**Update Edit**: I also checked my IMEI number in the about phone, and it just said "unknown", it wasn't all 0's or a wrong number.

I eventually just went back to stock 2.2 just to get my phone back, and it worked (I lost everything but I have backups so the data and whatnot is not an issue).

Anyway, any hints on how to get the modem working. I tried jumping to cm 10.1 and jelly bean as well (before going to stock), but the recovery install wouldn't take it complained about an error with the zip file, (I redownloaded it and tried again, but same thing didn't like the zip file)

Any help is appreciated thanks.

If you need more info let me know.

**update**

I did it again from the stock I just restored, following all the instructions exactly. It booted from the installing rom, modem, kernel fine, but came up with a warning that said encryption was unsuccessful and to reset phone. I did (as it was the only option) then rebooted. It rebooted fine, and appears to work now. I don't know what went wrong the first time. Though I can say that I was getting the semaphore boot logo the first time, but I didn't this time.

My failed attempt went SGH-T959D -> Semaphore -> CM boot logos

This one just goes SGH-T959D -> CM boot logos

My IMEI is still messed up though and I did restore the backup I made though.

Thanks.
[Fascinate General] Alistarsky:
Ok yea I got it installed to cm9.1 from stock 2.2 and it seems to detect the radio now, but it doesn't get my proper IMEI.

I restore my backup and reboot, but the imei stays at a wrong number.

I even went back to stock 2.2 my phone works, backed it up again, then redid it, and restored, and the IMEI still won't change back to what it should.

Oh and the USB mass storage doesn't appear to be work (I did update the samsung drivers).

adb and debugging work, but when I disable adb and just attempt to use it as mass storage on my computer it never shows up as a drive on my computer.

Any hints.

Thanks.
[Fascinate General] Alistarsky:
Fixed

Ok, so partially my fault, I didn't read well enough apparently.

I forgot to mount the system directory as writable, so when I copied my EFS folder back it wasn't actually doing it (though ES file explorer gave no error)

So I got it working and radio working and connected and all is good.

I have one last question for one who is knowledgable though.

If I run through the install steps from stock 2.2 the boot logos go:

SGH-T959D -> Cyanogenmod

If I run through the install steps from stock 2.3.3 the boot logos go:

SGH-T959D -> Semaphore -> Cyanogenmod

Is there any reason for the difference? And should I be concerned?

I am currently running as installed from 2.3.3 on my phone.

And secondly my USB mass storage still doesn't work properly, any hints with that?

Thanks.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Made the same mistake when i first went custom and tried to restore my ESF folder

little confused with your question about boot order are you saying if you start at 2.2 and go to CM (10.0 i assume since you mention ICS) your boot does SGH-T959D -> Cyanogenmod and if you start at 2.3.3 and go to CM it goes SGH-T959D -> Semaphore -> Cyanogenmod?

whats not working wtih it is it not automatically connecting as a Mass Storage or are you getting soft reboots when you connect the USB?
[Fascinate General] Alistarsky:
Thanks for the response.

First, no I did CM9.1 as that is Ice cream sandwich no? 10.0 is the beginning of Jelly Bean I thought.

Second yes, that is correct.

If I start at 2.2 I don't see the semaphore boot logo, but if I start at 2.3.3 I do see the semaphore boot logo as the phone starts up. Not sure how important it is, just found it odd. This is doing the same steps for both.

As for USB, I plug in the cable, both the phone and computer (computer beeps at me) recognize something is plugged in. The phone says usb plugged in with an option to turn on USB Mass Storage. I turn it on. However, at no point do any drives (used to be G: with the stock roms) show up in "My Computer".

However, if I turn on adb debugging, I can access adb commands and seemingly do that stuff that way (adb push works just fine). At the moment though, I go to recovery and use the usb mount option in there to get it to show up on my computer then copy files back and forth as needed. But this is not really a desirable situation. Actually if I turn adb debugging on the drive shows up "My computer" but is not accessible normally (says to insert card blah blah blah), but this was the same behaviour as with stock roms for me and I'm just pointing it out.

Also with USB, if the usb cable is plugged into the computer, it keeps force opening the USB mass storage app on the phone, even if I close it and try to do something else on the phone, within a few seconds it will open again saying USB is plugged in do you want to use mass storage.

New sidenote:

The messaging app that came with cm 9 keeps stopping on me. I just installed an alternate one and that works so not a big issue. But when trying to search for this problem it was apparently relatively common but I found no real solution. Since this is the Telus SGH-T959D thread though, if anyone had experience with CM9 and this and would kindly pass on their experience, that would be appreciated thanks.

Thanks.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Sorry you're right CM9 is ICS...for some reason i thought the 4.0 ROMs started at 10 for them never really got into CM until recently...any reason why you decidedto go with CM9 instead of 10?

Can't say for sure why the Mass storage isn't working correctly...do you have USB debug on? if you do try tuening it off its under developer options
[Fascinate General] Alistarsky:
Oh sorry, yea when I said adb debugging, I meant the usb debugging.

Yes it is turned off, but still doesn't show up on my computer.

I tried changing it to mtp and ptp in the storage USB Connection Settings, but nothing still shows up on my computer.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
never had that issue but also never tried CM9...maybe try starting at 2.3 and going straight to CM10 and see if you still have the same issue...also maybe try Google to see if its a known issue or if there is some special trick with CM9
[Fascinate General] Alistarsky:
Ok so slight update

I reflashed to 2.3.3 then up to CM 10.1.3.

Almost* every is working seemingly perfect.

However, I still have issues with the USB connection to my computer.

Here is my experience:

With USB debugging turned "OFF":

None of the USB Computer Connections in "Settings" -> "Storage" -> "USB Computer Connections" do anything. My computer only ever sees the phone as an android adb device. Everything worked normally with stock 2.3.3. I tried manually changing drivers and whatnot, nothing worked.

With USB Debugging turned "ON":

USB Mass Storage: Doesn't work, phone pops up asking if I want to turn on USB storage, I click the button to do so, it says some apps won't like this, I say ok, and then it just sits there spinning its little wait icon forever.

MTP: Works normally, and gives me access to pretty much what I need anyway, so I'm glad I got it figured out, but still seems odd that with USB debugging turned on this works, but with it turned off it doesn't.

PTP: Work normally, but very limited folder set of course. Again seems odd that this works with the USB debugging turned on.

The adb and other debugging stuff doesn't work when usb debugging is turned on.

adb push <file> <location> works only when USB debugging is turned off, and similarly the storage mounting options only seem to work with USB debugging turned on.

I tried following the advice in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2437308

But it didn't make any difference.

Has anyone else experienced this or found a solution?

Anyway, just if someone already know, as I mentioned MTP gives me pretty much everything I need, just seems odd to me.

I might try some other JB roms, but currently CM 10.1.3 was the only I could get installed.
[Fascinate General] lastcall3:
Slim 4.3 Build 2.2

I am currently running Slim 4.3 build 2 with no issues, but I have been getting notices of build 2.2 on my phone. Has anyone tried this? Is it worth updating? Also, can I update right on the phone as it is suggesting or is better to wipe and reflash?

Thanks
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Not sure what to tell never seen that issue before

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If you are going from 2 to 2.2 you only need to wipe the caches
[Fascinate General] Appetisaac:
SlimKat looking very nice
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Replace camera app

Hello Karma,

Currently I am on Slimbean 4.3 build 2, but the camera is not properly auto focusing, can you please share the camera.apk of slimbean 4.22 or the stock camera.apk.

Secondly how can I replace the camera apk in the current version.

The pics taken from the stock camera are much more sharper than the current version of Slimbean (4.3)

Regards

BS
[Fascinate General] skepticmisfit:
I don't think you can replace the camera APK with an older one. I'd say restore back to 4.2, 4.3 didn't bring much to the table for us with older phones
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Personally I would suggest going to 4.4...kk seems to run way smoother on my phone
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Moose : cm 11?
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
JP...yes CM11 on the latest nightly currently combined with the latest Semaphore...so far really liking it and my phone runs way smoother then it has in years
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, put it on last night. Pretty smooth.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Merry Christmas Everyone!
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
meh...

It always seems pretty smooth when it's freshly installed... like the first time I switched from CM to slimbean, I was so impressed but now it's as sluggish as it was with CM.

I used to have 100MB free memory, now I am at 4MB free. Even when I kill tasks, the memory don't clear up, it chews more !

I like slim, I think it was sleeker than CM but after a couple months of playing with it, it's the same result. Sluggish phone and unresponsive.

Oh well, I'll have do to what you did... get a new phone and let that one die alone somewhere...

Happy Holydays !
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
I m on CM 11, seems to be very smooth.

Check the RAM status in the attachment
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
and you've been running that rom since when ?

I had similar results with slimbean at first (~100MB free) but wait two or three months... now I'm at 10 to 4MB free...

I hope it won't do the same but I am really hesitant to update again as it's always the same result in the long term...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Do you reboot once in a while. Reboot goes a long way and maybe a cache clear.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Are you running a jb or kk ROM? I had major lag and really low ram on jb roms...things are running way better with kk... Running cm11 right now with no ram issues
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
Hey JP, yes I reboot one in a while... or the phone reboot itself randomly... I get "cleaner" free space ram after a reboot indeed like you state but it quickly fill up and the phone becomes sluggish I guess making space for what you want to operate on your device...

I am still running the slimbean rom and still on the first release because I got a lot less random reboot. I can run it many days without any self rebooting and suddenly, it can reboot 4 times in a row and I don't know why...

Slim is not there yet to kitkat at least for a daily driver which is what I need.

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I am still on slimbean 4.3 release 1.

As I already told, I am quite hesitant to try cm11 as it still an early release... I've read that somewhere, not sure exactly which version they were talking about, but it said that the future version of android could "revive" some older devices that never got an update, such as the T595D.

Since when are you using it ? Is it stable enough ?
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Kk is the future release you heard about...I've been on cm11 for awhile now and love it...it runs way better then anything I've had on my phone...I have had some minor issues with some apps but I would chalk them up to the app not being updated to run with 4.4 more then a issue with the ROM
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
Thanks for the details... there is a weekly beta release of 4.4.2 on slimroms... I might try it if you are saying your device is running fairly well... I am not a big fan of beta release though... I'm a bit worried !

Thanks again for the info !