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[Fascinate General] Azure1203:
And boom. Worked perfectly. Thankfully at some point during my flashing experience one of the ROMs made a backup of my EFS folder which I used to fix my problem.

Got the original IMEI back, ran TB, and now my phone is back to normal.

Needless to say, I just made a full EFS backup of my phone, and then a nandroid backup as well. Won't get caught again with my pants down. :D
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
what's your brightness at, dude?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Still playing with that. Using the slider and keeping it low when possible.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Starting to get a lot of 'insufficient space' errors on updates. Anyone hit that or try anything other than moving apps to the SD card (been doing that).
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
From what i've read its a common issue due to the partition swap...all you can do is seems is move apps to the SD
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Kewl. That process seems slow. Takes forever to move an app.
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Been trying to figure out the button mappings to get our SEARCH button working, but no dice. Off you make any changes with the cypress_touchkey.kl you lose your home button with no changes to search. Maybe with some more experimenting we can possibly find out what it is.
[Fascinate General] nereis:
Hi,

I was wondering if any here got the lock screen message working on Slim ICS 4.2?

I typed a message in Security -> Owner info and checked "Show owner info on lock screen", however it doesn't show up after I put the phone to lock.

I tried a lock screen message app from the market and it does set a message on the lock screen through alarm, but it periodically disappears so that seems to not work either.

So far the only solution I thought of was to create a lock screen wallpaper with the message embedded in the image, but I would really love to be able to get this working.
[Fascinate General] rfquerin:
Flashed my T959D with the slimICS 4.2 rom. I really like it - lean and fast. Everything seems to work well except that Bluetooth audio doesn't play in my car. The phone works over BT, but not media audio even though the pairing shows both phone and media audio connected. It also seems that the phone thinks headphones are always plugged in. Anybody else have this sort of issue? Any workarounds or fixes? I wonder if SlimBean 2.2 still has this issue.

Side question - I'm assuming I should be installing the t959 roms and not the i9000 ones. Why is the SlimBean 2.2 t959 version half the size of the i9000 version?
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Do NOT install t959 roms on your phone, they are vibrant roms and will not work on ours. You could brick it. The reason we install the i9000 roms is because it is the closest to ours in hardware, we just change the key mappings to make it run properly. You've been warned lol.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
+1 on using I9000 ROMs.

In terms of Blue tooth, I was able to get calls and stream music to my car over BT - pairing was super easy) and did not have that plug in issue. Be sure you flashed the right ROM and maybe reflash.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Man, I wish my car stereo could do A2DP. It does bluetooth calls, but no A2DP.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Lol karma. Also, posted your file link in the OPS. :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Awesome. Hope it's useful for someone.

Also, if there's any APK's or other files anyone would find useful, let me know and I can throw them up on there.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
SO battery does seem to burn quickly - seems like facebook and exchange are the culprits - as soon as I start using the phone (surfing, etc) battery goes down.

Will have to keep watching.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Also, if anyone has JB battery saving settings for semaphore - I'm all ears.

Right now, set to Smart Ass, Simple I/O, low vibrate - that's about it.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
More normal use today, battery is a bit worse than ICS imo.
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Anyone have huge drains with regards to audio out? Better battery stats are saying that my audio out of a huge drain and i cannot figure out why.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Not the culprit on mine but I read of others having issues with the media store. Maybe a simple reboot?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Here's mine for today. Not bad... this is normal usage for me. WiFi was off while I was at school. Etc.... I'm gonna keep trying to improve it. Keep you posted
[Fascinate General] Ipse_Tase:
Had audio_out eating most of my battery when idle until I disabled all the sounds (other than key click in swiftkey). I'm not talking notification sounds, just touch sounds and lock sound.
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
I did that, seems to be saving my battery. Thanks!

For those that want to jump to slim bean 2.3 i highly recommend it. Did it this morning and definitely notice an overall difference from 2.2. Will post more later when i do some more playing with this.
[Fascinate General] AluminumHaste:
Yeah I wasn't really liking 2.2 slimbean, found it buggy and not that smooth, was considering going back to SlimICS. But then 2.3 came out and it's like a completely different ROM, it's been flawless.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'm on 2.3 since Sunday, but fresh flashed it last night. Recommend:

1) wipe cache, dalvik, batt stats - flash new stuff at 100% battery.

2) Flash I9000 2.3, slim gapps, AIO package from add ons, youtube fix.

Been running this morning, about 15 minutes shy 5 hours - I'm at 91% battery - very very low usage, wifi on for most of that time - no sync, no data.

Also, I found changing semaphore settings NOT helpful - so leaving at the defaults (no O/C, ondemand, no brightness) with the exception of vibrate which I set to low. Might be a difference between us and the I9000.
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
I was still on Slim Bean 2.0.1. Huge difference! Google Now used to take a good 10-15 seconds to open. Now it starts almost instantly which makes it actually useful! I can't believe I still had that old version on my phone... wow.

I will report back later on my battery life.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'm at 11 hours and 63%. Used data synced email.
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
Okay now I've done it. I was taking a picture and hit the swap camera button accidentally. No front camera on these things so now it is force closing. Any ideas to get it working again?
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Try clearing the Camera data.

Edit: Apparently there's no Camera data. Just Gallery. Clearing the Gallery data fixed it for me.
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
That did it. Thanks!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
In the slimbean thread there is an APK for SMS messenger that gives you the ability to select quick reply or phone from the notification window - pretty slick - in general bean notifications are greatly improved now.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Hey, I posted that!

And yes, it is really smooth. I'm having a few issues with it. Mainly, it still takes me to SMS but it leaves the window open.

And how do you read better battery stats? Android OS is draining my battery, usually like 75%, and I have no idea what's causing it.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Aaaaand I'm sold. That battery life is better than what I'm currently getting on ICS.

This means I'm gonna make some T959D 2.3.3 Odin ROMs on Saturday. Gonna need someone to help me test them. Any takers?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Too funny - I usually notice those things but was just looking for the APK. Looks like bean 2.4 will have that by default as they are using some different messaging stuff in the next version - also fixing the call answer which is not centered.

Battery stats - 75% is high - I usually look at what is causing partial wake locks since my last charge in BetterBattStats. In my case, its usually mail service (i.e. exchange) removing and readding the account typically fixes it (I think it happens if I screw with semaphore settings).

My guess is yours is the media server - I think rebooting solves that issue as there's a few people complaining about that in the bean thread.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Karma - I do like bean better than ICS _ honestly, I assumed I was going to back to it and that was 2.2. 2.3 was better, and I think 2.4 will clean up a lot of things. I LOVE the new notifications.

I can definitely test - and load them up on the site here - but not sure the weekend works, heading into a busy time at work and need to have a working phone.
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Reflashed the phone last night to stock and back to slim bean, didn't really want to. Guess i don't know when to leave it alone, or fix something that isn't broken hah. It wouldn't boot, tried everything, so i gave up.

Anyways, i would totally recommend flashing back to stock 2.2, factory resetting, then 2.3, then slimIcs, then the latest slim bean. I thought it was fast before, this is crazy stable.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Seem to have lost my quick reply on sms. Might just wait for 2.4. Silly but waiting for call answer to get settled lol
[Fascinate General] mcteazy:
hey folks,

i've been trying to flash to slimbean 2.3 but i'm having an issue where i don't have reception after i flash. i assume it's something to do with the efs folder, but i can't copy the file over without getting es file explorer off the app store (which i can't find in the rom either?) any suggestions?

cheers
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
What does it say for baseband in your about phone settings?
[Fascinate General] mcteazy:
says "unknown"
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I'm not entirely sure I'm going to have the time to do it this weekend myself. I have to change a wheel bearing in my car on Saturday and was voluntold I'm going on a zoo tour on Sunday.

But should I find the time, I'll make the ROMs. I know they'll work, the only thing I don't know about is IMEI stuff. I just don't want to put a rom online that will use my IMEI.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Ok - so the issue is you do not have a modem. Follow the links on the OP to get an ICS (works on JB) modem and flash it separately. Just attached your phone to your PC, drag over a modem, reboot to CWM, and flash the zip file - you should be good to go then.
[Fascinate General] mcteazy:
ok great thanks! i always used darkyrom before which i presume came with a modem ^^. any recommendations for modems? or just any in the op
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
See my signature for ones to try.
[Fascinate General] Edgeman16:
You can get the ES File Explorer from the EStrongs website:

I can't post the link yet but it's estrongs .com /en/ download.html

But yea, you need I modem.

I'm using the first modem from jpmccarthy's sig right now and it seems fine.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Mcteazy, did you flash the common or the aio zip? Google play is in there.
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
Has anyone tried any of the themes with Slim Bean? I liked the holo colour themes when I was on ICS but I'm a little hesitant to try them with JB.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I have not - but would love to see what folks are doing to their build.props :)
[Fascinate General] mcteazy:
actually i had problems with the common. i can't get the rom to boot after i flash it. it loops between the slimbean boot animation and "android is upgrading, starting apps". any ideas? i fixed it by reflashing the rom from my sd, but i still don't have the market.

i'd alo like to do a clean install straight from stock since i've been mucking around so much trying to get it to work. i just don't want to do it more than once since kies takes days to update.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
I have just been looking through and changing all the GT-i9000's into sgh-t959d's, oh and changing the locale to CA
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Just did this myself - essentially the only tweaks - figured might as well after switching to SlimBean 2.4. 2.4 is great - only obvious things from my perspective was that now we have the MMS quick reply and call in the notifications, and the when you get a call the dialogue is now centered (which is nice).
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
I use that build.prop editor app, works pretty god, just write out the SGH-T959D and copy paste copy paste, I dont use the stock mms app so never really noticed that addition. I like mysms, https://play.google.com/store/apps/...id.sms&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd pretty handy for me as I dont have cell service where I work, I can leave my phone plugged in at home and just log in at work and text away. Sometimes I work when Im at work too... sometimes.
[Fascinate General] cowvun:
I'm having trouble recovering my efs folder through EFSPro after flashing slimbean. It never seems to work.

Anyone got any suggestions as to how i can recover my efs folder after flashing slim roms?
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
i dont know anything about this efspro, but typically you just need to get a copy of your efs folder as a backup as described in the op. as far as I know, once you flash a rom and lose your efs you will need to go back to stock to get the folder you need. all detailed on the first page.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Did you lose your imei?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
2.4 is making my phone act... odd. So I'm gonna try miui jb. I'll keep you posted.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Define odd?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Calendar broke, then search, then I reflashed and then I couldn't do anything.

I wanted to try miui anyways. Its pretty nice. Really smooth actually. I'm putting semaphore on now
[Fascinate General] cowvun:
When im back at stock, i got my efs and everything back. But after i flash slimbean, it's gone and i can't seem to recover it.
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Did you remember to copy the efs folder from the root drive before you flashed slim bean? Cuz if you did, ask you should need to do is copy back the folder, over writing the old one and rebooting.

You'll need an app like es file explorer that will work with a rooted device and you can set read/rewrite/write permissions
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Weird. Let us know about MIUI - that was my favourite for a long time but battery life for me was really bad (lucky to get 9 to 5 out of it).

Haven't noticed anything odd with Calendar - was having some 'people' issues - some contacts (one actually) caused a force close - I cleared all data and essentially rebuilt the list via sync and it seems fine. I also had that phantom media issue again for files on my SD where everything was duplicated. I might flash again today if I get around to it.

Other than that - 2.4 seems pretty Ok. :)
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Miui jb:

Its a really different, definitely not the ROM I'm used to.

It looks really good though, a bit too much white so I'm gonna look for a polished dark theme.

Other than that, miui features stayed the same across the update and they all work just as great.

They didn't take advantage of the new notifications. I wonder if that's temporary or if they have something else in mind.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
There's a new Semaphore Update for Jellybean.

Change log

2.1.0 (17/09/2012)

- Fix: setting sampling down factor

- io_is_busy 0 as default value (again)

- Fix: WiFi PM_FAST

- WiFi enable early suspend, p2p options

- CWM: updated to 6.0.1.3

- CWM: added option to clear Semaphore Manager settings

- Semaphore scripts: removed touch screen sensitivity options

- removed Semaphore Script Manager app

- compiled with Linaro 20120827

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1786220
[Fascinate General] cowvun:
I've tried this method previous times, but i couldn't replace the efs folder in /root after flashing.

Furthermore, after restarting, i would see a lost+found folder that i cannot delete.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
If you are using ES did you mount system as writable AND turn on root access (in the settings/preferences for the app)?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Battery *seems* better on 2.1.
[Fascinate General] mcteazy:
I'm having a weird issue with the default messaging app on slim 2.4. it doesn't replace phone numbers with contact names all the time. only a few have actually been recognized. anyone else have this happen?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Not here
[Fascinate General] Edgeman16:
I had a couple of questions (this is my first time running on Android that isn't GB/Samsung-provided):

#1. Is there a clock app that replicates the stock one? ie. has stopwatch/timer/more alarm options?

#2. Previously I used to be able to set different sounds to gmail notifications, sms notifications, etc etc. but I can't seem to find anything other then the system default notification sound.

#3. My Search touch button doesn't appear to work for anything. It will vibrate/haptic feedback when I press it but it does not accomplish anything, I have to use the software search button in the top of the screen.

I don't know if these are known issues or problems with how I flashed things?

I guess that's it, thanks again to everyone in this thread, the process was relatively straightforward and now I have fancy jellybean on my old galaxy S :)
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
Not sure about the clock one, there is probably an app on the play store though.

You can set custom notification sounds in each apps settings.

I believe you need to install the Google now add on from the slim ROM site to get that bar to work, just go check it the add on's section.

Hope that helps!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
There's lots - in the market - but none as part of the ROM itself as it only has the AOSP clock (I use that plus a holo stopwatch).

Go into the settings for each app from that app (not the system settings) there you can customize them.

Bug in the ROM I think - mine does not work either. May or may not get fixed - been happening since 2.2 but I think it worked on 2.1.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
Ha, I keep mixing the search button up with the search bar
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Is anyone trying any other ROMs other than SlimBean? I know someone has tried the Jelly Bean version of Miui. I'm about to try ParanoidAndroid. Just waiting for my phone to do a Nandroid Backup.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'm personally not - I used to try a bunch of different things and flash all the time --- before I flashed SlimICS. After that, I've been a slim convert and have not really strayed from it. Love the functionality, the DPI is key to me (makes the screen seem bigger), along with lots of mods - and even feeds the flashing nerve as K always has updates (on JB now) coupled with an evolving semaphore JB kernel.

That being said, love hearing everyone's experiences and what they think of different ROMs as I will never say never ;)
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Edgeman, the loss of functionality with the hard search button is a bug in the Rom, it is listed on their website. :)
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
I'm already heading back to SlimBean. It's not that anything was wrong with ParanoidAndroid, I just don't feel like needing to go through all the settings again and figuring out what the new ones do and all that. Plus I was messing with the DPI settings and somehow permanently messed up my Play Store so it wasn't displaying apps normally which was annoying. PA also isn't as smooth as SlimBean just yet. Maybe it was because I didn't give it a lot of time to settle in. I agree with you on the Slimbean and Semaphore updates keeping the flashaholic side away. :P
[Fascinate General] Edgeman16:
Thanks for answering my questions everyone :)

This thread is great for Telus Galaxy S owners.

I noticed you talking about a new Semaphore kernel, can I flash that stock from the Semaphore website onto my slimbean 2.4 ROM install from recovery?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Go to the semaphore thread and download 2.1.0s and flash from recovery. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1786220

There is a 2.1.1s as well, but not sure that works.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
anyone else finding it slow to move apps from teh phone to the SD via Manage Apps? and that some apps are unmovable (like XDA)?
[Fascinate General] nereis:
I think some apps have always been unmovable, especially ones that host widgets.

My current work-around is to backup in Titanium Backup first, then convert to system app instead of moving to SD.

Since Slim Bean makes little use of the humongous 2GB system partition, might as well use some for the bigger & non-a2sd-able apps.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'll have to check that out. Plus I can move some to SD from TB as well.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
And... miui jb is now discontinued for the i9000

Leaving us with very few ROMs left for our phone.

The build he left us with is good. But improvements are still possible. I'll be back on slim bean eventually. Not for a while though
[Fascinate General] nereis:
Just a note, I think Adobe Flash Player (on latest .17) is one of those apps that can't be moved to system.

TiBa will move it but flash won't function once moved, but I've yet to have any problems with other apps.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
That's the reality - the phone is essentially 2.5 years old from the original galaxy s launch date - everyone wants newer, better. I'm pretty happy slim sill has good coverage - but we'll soon see the S dropping off developer radars as they get new phones.

Off topic, but my neighbour has an Ace - a low end phone to be sure - and I rooted it, put on recovery - we then tried a few ROMs. I found a GB one that looked nice (ICS is not really out for the Ace).

He leaves on wifi, data, even gps sometimes - and uses the phone - the other day he was sitting at 80% battery after 12 hours of usage - he's like getting at least 1d 1/2 out of it - crazy eh?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Not overly crazy.. I leave data and bluetooth on 24/7 and have my screen at 1/4 brightness. I'm constantly SMSing or using Whatsapp. Most days I still have 50% battery when I go to bed. I can only imagine a newer (albeit budget) phone would be more efficient.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Karma - there is no way I could do that. Are you using your phone much (screen on, doing things)?

I might have anywhere from 50-60% at 5PM after 10 hours or so.

What your secrets dude?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
No secrets.... I have vibrations set to low in Semaphore settings, screen at 1/4 brightness, sounds are at the half way point for volume. The only things I do on the phone with great frequency are Whatsapp (several hundred messages a day), Gmail, and SMS (maybe 200 messages a day), so maybe every 10 minutes or so I turn it on to reply to messages and turn it off again. Usually when I go to the can I read Reddit on Diode, but... that's pretty much all I use my phone for. Nothing demanding, etc.

When I stream media from sky.fm / Sirius though, it chews through battery like crazy.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I probably play too much. :)

Do you leave the gov and clock at the defaults? I was messing around with them, but lately just leaving it at ondemand and 1000
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Yep. I didn't touch the governors. They're set at whatever they came at.

Also, I should mention, the only widgets I use are SiMi Clock QuitNow! and the Winamp widget. Just keeping everything real light as far as running processes. Another thing, I sit in pretty much full coverage all day as there's a tower right across the street from my office and when I'm at home the tower is about a block away.
[Fascinate General] mcteazy:
confirmed 2.1.1s doesn't work for whatever reason. i ran the kernel cleaner then flashed and couldn't get it to boot. maybe someone with more expertise can figure it out, but i just upgraded to 2.1.0s
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
its because of VSYNC which is not in slimbean 2.4 or 2.5.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Just for fun:
[Fascinate General] nereis:
Ugh... a word about moving apps to system...

Don't do it unless you don't mind re-installing them after a ROM upgrade!

I just flashed Slim Bean 2.5 over 2.4 and lost a few of the Google Apps I had stashed in there, not a big deal but if anyone followed this advice I'd also suggest moving the apps back to user apps before flashing.