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[Fascinate General] Malechai:
ok i have the semaphore kernel installed and i'm in the recovery menu. however when i select the cm11 m12 zip i downloaded, the install fails with

"this package is for device: galaxys.galaxysmtd.gt-i9000, gt-i9000t; gt-i9000m: this device is sgh-t959d

and then it aborts.

what am i doing wrong? :(

/edit - ok i managed to get past that step by modifying the update script to remove the device check. i'm in kitkat with google apps. the only thing outstanding is that the cell connection isn't working. i assume i need to download and install a modem. is KG3 still recommended for cm11 m12? (kitkat 4.4.4). if so, where can i get it? I cant seem to find the download

/final edit - i got it all working. the kernel was still semaphore and the baseband version was showing "unknown" in about phone. i had only flashed the ROM once even though the instructions said 3 times because i never received an error the first time. said screw it and flashed the ROM twice more then the modem one more time. after that, kernel shows cyanogenmod and baseband has a version. everything works now!

big thanks to this community, and the thread OP for all the information.
[Fascinate General] chris19000:
How have you been doing with the CM11 build? Any comments or likes/dislikes?
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
I don't know if anyone s still following this thread but here goes none the less. :)

I've finally got around to reflashing my phone (after 2 years) with CM11. My first reaction was the DPI. So far runs smoothlyish but te DPI is huge compared to hat I had its cm10. My problem is that I can't remember how I modded the dpi 2years ago. I bleve I ad originally done it in Slim, but don't know if Slim dpi's settings would have carried over to CM or if I had to do something special.

Does anyone have good tips hw to best mod the dpi in cm11?

Thx

Eric.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
hi - so word of caution to be careful as some DPIs can be troublesome (push comes to shove, you can always reflash) but you need to edit your build.prop file. Here's a handy link -http://wccftech.com/article/increase-screen-dpi/
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
Thx. That's what I ended up doing. Using the same dpi as Slim (182) and seems to be ok. Other than the phone being way past due. Just waiting for the S6 to show up.

A a little miffed tho... I have to buy off contract (full price). So I spoke to telus and they still sell you the phone locked even at full price! They still charge 35$ over full price to unlock! How ridiculous is that?! So now I have to find somewhere to buy it unlocked.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
FWIW if I was looking for a new phone, I'd actually get the HTC One M8 - i got it for my wife, best phone I've seen to be honest - and that's unrooted running stock. Mike1986 makes a rooted version of the stock ROM with performance gains, that I would put on if it was mine, but for now my wife is happy with stock (same said for her n7 2012 - she ran stock forever until it lagged, and then I put on Purity which revived the device).

I still have one T959D with CM11 on it - but it just sits on a table at home ... I don't think there's many out there modding that device anymore.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
They both come up in search results for me...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Damn - might have to restore my old build.prop (I made a backup) and research. Not coming up, but looks like phone is correctly identified.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Let me know how you make out with the b.p

I'll post my findings - rebooting with the original now to see if I notice a difference.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
INteresting. Restored my original but I do not get kijiji (actually I don't think its on play) and I do not get the RBC application.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Hmmm weird, I'm guessing your imei number is correct? What's up with everyone having build prop issues all of a sudden?
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Maybe its just an unnoticed issue that is finally being noticed?? lol

As for RBC and Kijiji, I was able to see RBC no problem (official one of course) but the Kijiji app has never shown up (like JP said, i dont remember it being on there). According to the Google Play store online, that doesn't even show Kijiji as a listed app. There could be a build.prop issue, but i haven't had any problems that i know of where apps wouldnt show up.
[Fascinate General] koocheese:
FYI, neither of those apps are listed in play for me.

running ICSSGS, phone is listed as GT-I9000, correct IMEI.

hope that helps in your troubleshooting.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Changes to Build.Prop

Hi guys - so no one is having any issues with Build.Prop - other than the issue we all have on custom ROMs, and that is our phone (and the Play Store) think we have an American I9000 and not a Canadian SGH-T959D.

When I put on WeUI last time, as I went back to stock I grabbed the GB build.prop and saved it - so I could compare. Most everything seems to work. I use RBC as a check as it does seem to be picky about what devices it can go in (won't go on my transformer for example as a result of the custom ROM I'm running - but I just sideloaded the APK).

So I put my original build.prop back and RBC comes up - but didn't when I modded it - so I'm missing something. My mods were essentially:

change all GT-I9000 to SGH-T959D

Change locale from US to CA

And that was about it - Play Store appears to see I have a T959D, as well, that is what comes up in my phone info when I had the modded build.prop on.

If I get it working a bit better I'll let everyone know - also, Cash is going to try some mods as well.

So no issues, just being picky about getting something as close to perfect as possible.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
They're both in the playstore on my phone though...

ps my phone is showing up as a I9000
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Build.Prop Changes

Ok - so made a few tweaks and RBC is now showing up (again, this is just a litmus test as an app I have had issues with when modding my Transformer) and I think its working great. My phone is showing up as the SGH-T959D.

I'll run it a few days to see if I notice any issues (I should add my IMEI is perfectly fine) before putting the changes on the front page.

I compare differences between the WeUI I9000 build.prop and the samsung GB build.prop for our phone - paying attention really to a few key fields. Here are the items I changed, and the values I changed them to (If you do this, BACK UP your build.prop - just rename it something else, or copy it somewhere). If anyone else has suggestions, love to hear them.

ro.product.model=SGH-T959D

ro.product.name=SGH-T959D

ro.product.device=SGH-T959D

ro.product.board=SGH-T959D

ro.product.locale.region=CA

ro.build.product=SGH-T959D

ro.build.description=SGH-T959D-user 2.3.3 GINGERBREAD LKG2 release-keys

ro.build.fingerprint=samsung/SGH-T959D/SGH-T959D:2.3.3/GINGERBREAD/LKG2:user/release-keys
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Is there any reason to edit build prop files or is it just so that your phone shows up as a sgh-959d in the play store?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
That's pretty much it lol
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Rbc shows for me but I only get a third party kijiji app to show.

I am on cm9 nightly at the moment
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
aaaaannnnnd, how is it?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:


^ Even the XDA app knows what phone I have LOL
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Has anyone installed the semaphore 1.1.1s kernel? When I tried to upgrade my phone doesn't get past the boot screen.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
I have. Boot into recovery first and clear init.d directory and Nstools settings then reboot. I also ran into a problem with the low memory script if I changed it to anything other than it default so I just keep it there.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
+1.

Per Finn's suggestion I set the low mem killer to default, booted into recovery.

Cleared init.d and NStools, rebooted into recovery.

Ran kernel cleaning, flashed 1.1.1s. Reboot.

No issues that I can see - but haven't used it immensely as of yet.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
All of a sudden had errors - gapps force closed, as did every google app when I opened it.

Not sure what happened, booted into recovery - flashed the gapps update in case that was it, cleared cache, dalvik - but phone will not boot now.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Got it to boot again, but had to re-flash the ROM (without data wipe). Put me back on 1.0.0s though. Might have been a kernel issue.
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
Tough to justify 50$ less on 1 year old technology (700$ for the 32G M8 vs 750$ for the 32G S6). Biggest advantage is the expandable SD slot that the S6 is missing. But still 700$ for year-old equipment sounds like pure theft to me...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL - that would be true. I was thinking more if you buy a plan, likely the m8 would be 0$ but I haven't looked at any pricing in quite a while (as its only something you do when you are looking). Figured though the price would drop with the m9 out, cause you're right, the only way you should go with 'last years model' is to save some coin.
[Fascinate General] ebenze:
My problem is that I have a grandfathered plan that every time I've spoken to Loyalty dept, they've basically told me to stick with my plan and buy a phone outright. That it'll be cheaper in the long run. To get what I currently have, would be 30$ more /mth. @ 2yrs, that's 720$! So not worth upgrading plans; better to buy a phone....
[Fascinate General] dancephnia:
Does anyone still have the files from the KG2 package, the T959TLKG2_Gingerbread.zip?
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
I still have it but it's a large file to upload over 200Mb I don't have alot of bandwidth...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Do you have a place to upload it to?
[Fascinate General] dancephnia:
I'm not sure what the best upload sites are for these kinds of files. Maybe mega?
[Fascinate General] dancephnia:
So some sites I'm thinking: mega .nz, filesanywhere .com, 4shared, depositfiles, streamfiles .com. Do any of those work for you?
[Fascinate General] dancephnia:
Sorry for the triple post, but does anyone know how to revert the phone to the initial stock version of the OS without those files? I'm currently running cyanogenmod version 10.1.3-galaxysmtd and wanted to unlock my phone, except it won't accept the unlock code, which I've gathered is due to the phone not being the stock android version. Is there a way to get back to the stock without using the files here?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
You can search for a 2.2 file, if I get a chance I might be able to share with you over drive or something. PM me your email.
[Fascinate General] 2CanSan:
Looking Too

Did you ever upload that file and if so do you have a link. I am in need of it as well. Thanks in advance.
[Fascinate General] dancephnia:
The stock files can be found here: http://www.4shared.com/zip/0lKGL5Qo/T959TLJL3.html
[Fascinate General] bindoksala:
Hello,

I flashed Omni MM on our grand T959D http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s-i9000/i9000-development/advance-6-0-1-t3277051

Its working well, now need to give a try for different modem, the site by Karma seems to be down,is it possible to upload the modem to 4shared?

Also FYI the existing UK3 modem is working well but need to try other.

Regards

BS
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Sorry late here - I don't own any of these phones anymore but here's some modem files in my public dropbox you can view.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f66r4i59018x94k/AAADGXQj2EKu8CYUiXrsjMf4a?dl=0
[Fascinate General] Nazarbaz:
Froyo or GB

Hi,

I think this is stock froyo. Does any one has access to stock GB? Can I follow post 2 with Froyo instead of GB?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Post 2 will work but I pm'ed you on the GB file.
[Fascinate General] Nazarbaz:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4hpjft0rz2wbmnq/AAByITD0pwz4h6TcjXpv1HtXa?dl=0

jpmccarthy has graciously provided the stock rom and a number of other files which he has found useful in connection with T959D.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yes, I think I have in the majority of the files needed in that OP now. Thanks for providing the dropbox space :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Not sure if anyone still watches this forum, but I recently put cm 13 on a Galaxy Nexus which is somewhat similar to this phone and it worked really well and snappy with Pico gapps. Just FYI in case anyone is still flashing.
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Still use mine as a mp3 player... Using A-Rom Android 6.0.1
[Fascinate General] nsanzumuhire:
[MENTION=3491512]jpmccarthy[/MENTION] want to go to cm10 or above? Any suggestion would be appreciated!!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I would use i9000 roms for this phone s they are proven to work.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2526478
[Fascinate General] nsanzumuhire:
Which ROM did you had before?? The latest you used on this device? To make sure!!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Was a nightly cm10 or 9 for i9000. Don't really remember. Just sold it maybe in the spring.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
One thing with what you flashed - looks like its for a Vibrant - as long as everything works, you should be 'ok' - I9000 ROMS have worked best in my experience - plus there's more out there for them in general. Once you are rooted though things are much easier :) Definitely stay away from fascinate ROMs - what the US calls a fascinate is dramatically different than the telus version - you will brick your phone.

Good luck!
[Fascinate General] kirito9:
Hello, do you by chance still have the KG2 package from the first post of this thread? I'd like to go back to stock on my Fascinate.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Sorry - no longer have the phones or the files for them.
[Fascinate General] kirito9:
Ahh thanks anyway. I found a video on youtube that took me back to Eclair and now I'm on GB. I got what I wanted except the SIM connection. I'm not sure if I need to unlock for it to work or flash a modem or something. I'm new to this device, been a mediatek user all my life. Any idea?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So you aren't getting calls or data?

A modem might be part of it - also, if you are not in Canada - might be an issue with the APN settings if you are using a carrier that isn't telus, etc.
[Fascinate General] kirito9:
I flashed an ICS modem and since then it detected the SIM. The problem now is little to no signal. I don't use data so that isn't a problem of not getting data. I was thinking about flashing a different modem to see if that would fix the signal.
[Fascinate General] chris19000:
How did you make out with this? I think I still have most of the old files kicking around somewhere.
[Fascinate General] kirito9:
I bricked the device unfortunately so now it's sitting somewhere. I don't think the USB Jig method would work but I haven't tried it. These phones can't really die right?
[Fascinate General] chris19000:
I temember at a couple of points I couldn't even get the download screen to appear ☺ I remember having to pull the battery, do a combination of plugging the phone into the computer USB connection (with the battery still disconnected), holding a button or combination of some buttons (can't remember which) and then popping the battery in. That worked at some points. I remember also getting an error screen but was somehow able to flash even without the DL screen coming up. Yeah, never truly bricked it or had to use jtag method, but lots of trial and error with different files and support of the community here. It was a lot of fun :laugh:
[Fascinate General] kirito9:
Yeah, it's totally bricked. Without the jtag I probably can't recover it. I will eventually when I decide to get the phone working again. Won't really make any sense get into it seeing it's 7? years old.
[Fascinate General] chris19000:
True enough. I had a lot of fun with mine. Unless you travel a lot and want to save a few bucks using it (you can flash these guys to work pretty well everywhere), or just as a decent mp3 player/media streaming device it's probably not worth the time.
[Fascinate General] Fury_Phoenix:
Please someone tell me whether SGH-T959P is compatible with i9000. I know that SGH-T959P is compatible with SGH-T959V.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Did a few searches but I don't think i9000s will work on that phone.
[Fascinate General] Fury_Phoenix:
Thanks for your reply. Are you aware of any twrp/cwr for sgh-t959p?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Honestly no. I think with the t959d we were just lucky it was close to the international version, otherwise we just had this phone that was an s1 but different enough they're wasnt a strong development community for it.

I miss that phone sometimes as it was fun to play with, but lately I just use a work phone that I am not permitted to root, etc.
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Jp could you email me a copy of your modified build.prop?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I will if I can Buck - my phone ended up getting screwed with the semaphore update - I reinstalled the ROM but GAPPS kept crapping out on me.

I'll try to mount storage from CWM and get that off that way (Made a copy but its in the system drive).
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
well that didn't work - phone is rebooting - did another re-install of WeUI.

If this doesn't work, gonna flatten it and install SLIM ICS for kicks.

EDIT. Flashed SLIM. android.core kept failing. Loved WeUI but will give SLIM a try for something different here on the forums.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Slim ICS

OK - so opted to flash this on whim - might try WeUI again at 1.5, or even ICSSGS.

So far so good with this - very very fast. I also made my build.prop changes, and things that would not come up in play (RBC, WD apps) come up now, and my phone is correctly recognized.

Now swapping out the stock kernel for semaphore 1.1.1s.

See how it goes.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Buck - was what I emailed you helpful? I lost my modded b.p but that is what I use as the source to make changes - the fingerprint seems to be the key. I didn't change those on SLIM and RBC / WD would not come up, made the change - and on reboot everything came up.

Prop changes look pretty good actually.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Man, gapps has it in for you Jp...bad luck.

---------- Post added at 04:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:13 PM ----------

Did you reformat or just format WeUI then flash Slim from there?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Formatted system, then wipes and factory reset.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Interested in your observations, kinda looking for a change...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'll let you know. I'm up and running now. All apps restored, Nova configured, build.prop modded, gps modded, all accounts and email added.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
What's the differences between Nova and Apex? Is one better? They seem the same to me :S

And I was also wondering if I could have a copy of that build.prop I dunno where to start for editing it.

Edit: nvm. But it seems that the editing of my build.prop screwed up my Facebook app. Which is fine, I don't really like Facebook anyways
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
That's about it - both have free and paid versions now - both come from different developers. I keep going back to Nova, like it a bit better than Apex but they are largely the same. I find Nova a bit more stable, and the dock has 'home' as well, so if you hit home you go to the home screen, as well as the home dock - simple feature but I like it.

Hope you backed up your build.prop - I have made the changes I listed but I should have added I did that on WeUI - I made slightly different changes now on Slim - but I use the build.prop from our last official release as the blueprint. I have no issues with anything (although if Android core start failing again I'll blame it on build.prop BUT that shouldn't happen - build.prop hacks are pretty common on XDA). The entries I posted earlier is what I essentially changed, but I should copy out mine here maybe for others to see in complete detail.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So far from exhaustive testing, but did more than usual on my phone this morning, on WeUI about this time I'd be at 90% battery, I'm at 96% on Slim. Made some phone calls, data on, sync is on - I'm a heavy user.

Definitely not as nice UI wise as WeUI (that is hard to beat) but transparencies, etc. on Nova Prime make a huge difference.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So my battery test went south - a co-worker needed to do android test, so they 'browsed the hell out of my phone'. Will have to re-test tomorrow on that - but I was getting very good batt life up till then. :)
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Ok, that was all my fault. I edited the build.prop wrong. Things are running smoothly again. I think I'll do a comparison between launchers. I'm liking apex more because I don't need to pay for some of the features. (Which I cannot do)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, I'm silly. Own like 4 launchers.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Real smooth man.

And my quick findings are that Nova is probably the better paid launcher. But apex is pretty good free. I use gestures a fair amount, so that's kinda a deal breaker.

But you're right. Nova seems faster.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Look at everyone with the T959D signatures. Has everyone been modding their build.prop?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Notes on SLIM

So in case anyone wanted to try SLIM - I came from WeUI so I followed the steps on slimroms.com and worked like a snap. Also did the following:

1) Updated gps.conf to be 0.ca.pool.ntp.org

2) made my build.prop changes :)

3) put on Nova Launcher (making the grid 7X5)

4) switched to swiftkey x keyboard

5) installed exdialer as I missed the MIUI/WEUI dialer too much (added an ICS theme)

So far so good - with the ASS settings you can change a lot:

- change the battery (%)

- Lots of cool lockscreen mods - 4 app wheel, weather, and calendar

- tweak sound you can quickly adjust all the sounds (alarm, ring, media, etc.)

- power saving options (shut off data when phone is sleeping, etc)

- toggles and brightness in the status bar.

- lots more that I haven't played with yet.

The display is very small (like surface ics) but I'm digging it thus far. Battery life seemed good today, but needs more testing as the phone was heavily used today.

So that's about it - if you like to make the most of your display with small icons/fonts, then this is great - its pretty tight.

Also, there is an OTA app to get new roms and essentials - and missing apps - I added back in voice search, exchange and email, as well as some other apps.

Pretty good thus far - I'll run for a while ... maybe AOKP next ;)
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I edited mine.

And that sounds pretty neat. Can you post screenshots of it?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
That looks really good. And you said this is your favorite rom so far?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I think Weui is still my favourite but I am liking this so far... Has some good features that I like. Only been on it a day :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
79% after 7 hours. Pretty good.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Nice, I'm at 65 after only 5 hrs today. Hoping for an update soon or I'll jump ship and try slim. I'll definitely miss the niceties that go with WeUI but...we'll see.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Let me know what niceties and I came tell you if slim had something similar
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
I really like the style and feel of the toggles/notification bar. I know other roms have similar but haven't seen others that perform or look as nice.

I like the battery usage options.

Also like the usb data transfer toggle when I plug into the pc.

Absolutely love the installer...probably a few others but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. After initially installing WeUI I went back to ICSSGS and it just seemed bland to me I guess. Flashed WeUI again and haven't looked back.

Give and take with all roms I know, maybe this weekend I'll do the Slim thing for a change, nothing really to lose except "very hard to come by" time.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
60% after 12 hours.

Will write more on slim later Finn