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[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, I'm getting tons of space issues now. Going to factory reset a day wipe to install 2.5
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Try one of these. I'm using one of the older ones and it works great.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1847516
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Was actually quicker to move things after I reset and put on 2.5.
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
Is their a way to get a modem on the T959D that will use GSM/UMTS (Fido) without saying it's roaming? Or is their just some settings that I need to change for that?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
apn maybe, you may need fido one + Rogers.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Have any of you tried flashing i9000 Gingerbread roms through Odin? I was just wondering because I wanted to take a couple of steps back and try out a Gingerbread rom instead but wasn't too sure if it would work or not.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
In theory it should work. I ran DarkyROM from odin flash for a long time. You'll probably lose the ability to boot to recovery or download mode, but.. it should work.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Alright.

Another question for SlimBean users. Are any of you having trouble getting into Download mode? I tried Volume Up and Power, Volume Down and Power, followed by my USB Jig and it all just makes the phone boot normally.

Edit: Fixed it. I just flashed an ICS kernel over Jellybean and it boots into Download mode now.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So the latest version of Slim has some bugs - wifi seems a bit off, and blue tooth does not work at all (kernel issue I believe).

There is an unofficial new slim in the thread with VSYNC enabled, but to use it you'll need to flash it, LATEST semaphore with VSYNC in it + gapps or AIO if you are using those.

I'm giving it a flash as I speak (I mean type ;) ) so can update you folks end of day to let you know if it made any changes. Its the same as the 2.5 release, so only real change is VSYNC is turned on.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So far so good. Even OC TO 110, and using CFQ. Give it a full go tomorrow.
[Fascinate General] snufy99:
Hey guys,

Long time 959 Telus user.

I have flashed just about everything.

Currently running CM10 Nightlys with KG3

Works great.

Just thought I would say hello
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hey - hello and thanks!

Did you just flash the latest nightly plus GAPPS? Semaphore 2.1.2?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
So I'm uploading something to my repo right now that should save us all a LOT of time and FRUSTRATION.

DEATH TO KIES.

.... more to come
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Intriguing...
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
So... Do you hate flashing back to 2.2 only to update to 2.3.3 via kies right away? Can you not get that piece of **** Kies to work period?

Well, **** Kies.

http://karmatose.org/t959d/stock_roms/T959TLKG2_GB.tar < BAM!

That should be a working 2.3.3 stock ROM flashable via Odin's PDA field. It contains the stock modem and csc as well. I haven't tested it yet, but it *should* work fine. Who wants to guinea pig it for the community?

I plan to get an odin flashable pre-rooted 2.3.3 ROM too.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yo Karma - firstly - AWESOME.

Secondly, got a rec on a version of Odin to use? I still use the OLD one cause it works with the froyo files (some folks have had issues restoring the froyo stuff because of newer Odin versions).

I might be up for a test on the weekend - just have to remember to take home my laptop - if a 2.6 SB comes out, I'll likely go fresh. Have you tried restoring it yourself yet?

Anyone trying it - please ensure you have your personal IMEI backed up (EFS) :) and any TB backups done to your removable SD.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I use Odin 1.7. it's the one that's always worked for me. It should be on my site.

I have NOT tried restoring this myself. It's a straight Kies dump though, so it SHOULD be fine. That said, I can't give it the gold star seal of approval yet. However, keep your jig handy and should all hell break loose, 2.2 still works ;)

I'm going to give it a try when I get home I think. Make a NANDROID backup, then flash this overtop. Going back to my current ICS setup should be easy, just flash the Semaphore kernel I was using and then restore the nandroid backup. No reason not to test aside from not having a Windows PC at the office.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
awesome, Nice work. was gonna do a full wipe when bean 2.6 came out, ill give er a try when it comes.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Sooo... don't try it. Sadly it doesn't work.

Edit: possibly a false alarm. I used a .pit for an i9100 instead of an i9000/t959d. LOL!

Edit 2: it works. Now I just have to figure out how to downgrade back to it from ICS.

Edit 3: Just went from 2.3.3 to SlimICS 4.2. All I did was install Semaphore 1.3.0s and restore my backup that I made before I started screwing with my phone. Worked fine. Going to try and downgrade back to 2.3.3
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Just a question, can you fix a corrupted Bootloader with a USB Jig? Like say you were flashing the stock 2.2 Froyo files (or the new 2.3.3 files) and your usb cord happened to come out during the bootloader flashing part, could you still fix it with the Jig?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
You can try this: http://samsungcaptivate.wikia.com/wiki/Putting_the_Phone_into_Download_Mode

Or download jig should get you into download mode even with a borked bootloader. I'm pretty confident there is no way to fully brick these phones.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
I dont know what im gonna do when I finally upgrade to a new phone that can actually be bricked, hehe. This phone has made me careless while flashing lol.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
I didn't mess my phone up. :P I was just curious if it would still put me in download mode if I messed up the bootloader. Thanks for the 2.3.3 odin files by the way. :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
You're welcome. I'm still playing with how to downgrade back to 2.3.3 from 4.x.x but the files work. The success I've had so far was putting the tarball in the PDA field and just clicking go. Not checking Re-partition or using a .pit.

I'll know more tonight when I have a chance to play at home.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Maybe one of us can try this:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=965190 I could possibly give it a go.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Easy peasy.

Edit: Instead of post whoring. My 2.3.3 file can only be used to upgrade a stock 2.2 install. I can't seem to downgrade 4.x.x with it. If someone wants to try it, but clear /data, etc first, that MIGHT work. I'm going to do a bit of learning on how to make this work. I'm sure splitting the .tar out into a phone/csc/pda will do what we want.

Edit 2: I can go from a broken 4.x.x to 2.2 to 2.3 and back to working 4.x in under 5 minutes. :D
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
So I went through the guide on how to convert the one file into 3 Odin flashable files. I'm not sure if it will actually work or not but it's worth a go.

I'm about to upload it. It may take a while. My upload speed is rather slow.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
send me a link when they're up. I'll throw them on my site. (and test them. My phone is primed up for some testing)
[Fascinate General] snufy99:
Yup, (24th) from I9000, and JB GAPPS)

They have been playing around with the partitions lately, I think the maintainer is switching it too a hellybean layout currently. This is why the 25th is experimental.

None the less I get 20+ hours on the 24th nightly and it is stable as a rock.

I use it as my daily driver, in a couple nightly's I will make the switch over too the new partition if they go that way.

I have tried just about all of them. I just find CM is usually the most polished and professional and I need that everyday.

It's what "stock" should have been all along.

FYI I hated CM9, it works great but the sounds is much too low everywhere! CM10 is like stock gingerbread, nice and loud.

I usually use stock kernels with CM
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Will do. It's saying roughly 7 minutes left.

Odin says the files are valid. Hopefully it actually works. I can't be held responsible if it bricks your phone though so just a warning. So be careful.

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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5297569/T959TLKG2.zip

Have fun with it. :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Strange... The ROM flashes fine, but it just boots straight into recovery. Will play with it and get back to you.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
I was comparing the Froyo files to the Gingerbread files and they're all in the wrong areas. So I'm going to try to repack the Gingerbread files like how to Froyo files are instead of strictly following the guide. One thing is that the Gingerbread single tar didn't include the boot.bin file and param.lfs file. Should I try taking the Froyo ones and adding them to the Gingerbread files?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Worth a shot. I am going to get gingerbread working on my phone and dump it with adb so I can pull them out for you if the froyo ones don't work.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Alright. That sounds better than using the old Froyo ones. Things may have changed so it's probably safer for me to wait for the new Gingerbread files instead.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
To be honest, I'm pretty sure they didn't. The blob I posted earlier updates 2.2 just fine but won't work with anything else. Anyway, I'm setting up a vm with adb right now to do my dirty work, We can compare notes in a bit.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Good and bad news!

Good news: I just flashed the files I made from the Gingerbread TAR karmatose uploaded from ICS and the phone boots fully!

Bad news: It will take me a hour or so to upload. Uploading in a few minutes! :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Hooray! You saved my sanity. I have remnants of Android dev tools on my desktop machine where my ubuntu virtual machine lives. Because of that I couldn't get my VM to see my phone as an ADB device which means I can't adb into the phone.

Anyway, Glad you were able to get it going. I didn't think those files would be different. I'll throw it up on karmatose.org once it's posted.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
It actually didn't need any files from Gingerbread other than the ones in the original tar you posted. It just needed the missing files from Froyo and the correct files in the proper tars (My original multiple tars weren't set up right.)

It's uploading now. :) About a hour left. Hopefully this saves everyone a TON of time rather then messing around with that train wreck of a program, Kies.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Here here! The other thing I learned today is that you can flash a .tar'd semaphore kernel (ICS or JB, depending on which OS you're going for) then just flash the .zip for whatever os you're after from CWM (SlimICS/Bean, CM9/10). No need to even root GB or install glitch. I can have a fully working 4.x.x setup inside 5 minutes now from scratch.

The flashing process just got streamlined for the T959D. Good work, gents (and ladies if there are any flashing).
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Oh I always did that... I figured this guide was for starting fresh.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Maybe it would have been a good idea for me to actually include a Kernel with a custom recovery instead of the stock Kernel. Then you wouldn't even need to odin the kernel. Just boot directly into recovery, flash the ICS or Jellybean kernel from the recovery, reboot recovery then flash the rom you want. :confused:
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
If we're going to go that far, why not include an file table, and an jb / ics kernel and nothing else. That'd be the equivalent of a task29 on an HTC phone and would leave NO garbage at all. The down side is you'd have to flash a modem, but who doesn't do that anyway?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
No SODs yet... Got DIDLE turned on... Is there something else to do to have it on?

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Nope just turn it on. Keep me posted.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Still no issues... How do I get to the stats?

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Its in nstools the last I remember right under where you turn it on ;)
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
I tried again today and still get SOD :mad:.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So I turned it on in semaphore BUT wasn't using nstools at all... Once I did.... S O D

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] metalchef:
Anyone have CWM-based recovery for Stock 2.3.3 (LKG2) -- or will the kernel attached to OP work? [sorry if I missed the obvious here]

(I know the kernel here [http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1115090] is strictly for CM-7 and/or MIUI, neither of which I care to flash).

thanks in advance!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
No custom kernel for stock 2.3.3 that I am aware of.

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] metalchef:
@jpmmcarthy:

thanks for the hasty reply. :D

I didn't think there was a custom kernel for stock 2.3.3 on this device.

(I'd flash the Darky ICS ROM, but SD storage is a no-go; and since I have a 32GB class 10 Micro SD card, that a major downer -- have you heard of any other custom ROM for this device with full hardware support? e.g. none of the issues currently mentioned for Darky, onecosmic, et al)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
What issues?

Darky's 10.4.2 would be the closest but no custom dev of a ROM for the T959D that I'm aware of.

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I am also unaware of any Darky's that has ICS and runs on our phone since it's based on Samsung roms which are not supporting ICS on the SGS.

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
I have not had any issues of late with external storage an beleve me I have tried a bunch of the pics roms :)
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
@jpmccarthy

Thank you! It took me some reading and a bit of understanding but my phone is now Rooted, Unlocked, and I am having fun lol.

Now to do some more reading to lose the nervousness about flashing a different ROM other than the GB 2.3.3.

Thank you a bunch jpmccarthy!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
No problem and thank the community!

Don't sweat too much... We gave all the steps to get back to 2.3.3

I do recommend a jig as well as backing up your EFS :)

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Jigs I got them. Have fun and flash away we are here for ya :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Agreed. Pretty good group here and very helpful :)

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
Ya any time I want to know something about androids first stop is XDA!

Dumb question. Do I need to keep the busybox and superuser apps?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
If you are running any rooted apps you need superuser. I think I have busy box (actually I know I do) but don't have an app for it.

Some launchers let you hide apps from the app drawer - might be what you want.

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
Ya I had to install busybox on my phone but wasn't sure if I needed to keep the app I used to install it.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
You'll get it by default with a custom ROM regardless.

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Wow.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
What's the 'Task29' and what does it do? I've never had a HTC phone and I've Googled it but didn't find to much relevant information for it.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Task29 is the equivalent of flashing a .pit file on our phones with odin but nothing else. Basically a complete wipe.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Ah, Alright. When you say pit do you mean the Odin file we put in the Pit section of Odin? I'm not to sure because in the guide I posted on how to convert the one tar into the multiple tars at the bottom it says what order Odin flashes the files in:

So I wasn't sure if there's another type of pit file. One that gives odin the device partitions and where to flash what file then another which actually gets flashed to the device itself?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
They'd be the same. So really, one could select a 512.pit and an appropriate semaphore kernel and check repartition in odin then go to town with whatever ROM they wanted (in theory). That'd beat flashing a stock rom for no reason.

So to break it down: Fire up odin, select a 512 pit in the pit field and a .tar'd semaphore kernel in the PDA field. Connect phone in download mode and go. Reboot it and initiate Recovery via button press. Flash ROM of choice.

The only thing.. I'm not sure if that would actually work. And since I just got ICS back on my phone in a state I like it in.... I don't really want to test the theory.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Sounds pretty interesting. I'll probably give that a go the next time I want to start fresh instead of going to Gingerbread.

The upload it almost complete. 5 minutes left. :)

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Alright. Here we go: http://db.tt/0CFRuWpk

Have fun. :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I mean, that method would assume you have a stash of modems on hand and a backup of your EFS folder, but that should be a given anyway.

I couldn't see why it shouldn't work.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
I have way too many EFS back ups. Several on my Internal Storage, Several more on my External Storage, and a couple on my Box account. Lmao. Oh and a ton of modems on my phone too. So nothing to worry about for me. Though the method you've said should be used by more advanced users. People who've never flashed a custom ROM on this phone would still probably have to go to Gingerbread or Froyo to backup their EFS Folder.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Mirror'd:

http://karmatose.org/t959d/stock_roms/T959TLKG2_Gingerbread.zip
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Want to write a how to for the OPS?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Super thanks Karma!!!! OP updated :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
SIIIs on for 0$ with 3 yr plan again @ futureshop.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I might buy it outright and switch to wind. Checking coverage right now
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
wind is ok if you live in the city, but once your out of their "zone" its like leaving the country heh. no more contracts for me.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Exactly. I have two to go on this phone and I'm pretty sure it's going to fall apart before that point. When my t959d dies, I'm just going to go but whatever international phone I can. Unless rates drop dramatically and I can get retentions to give me a sweet plan, no more contracts for me. Unlocked international phones only.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I plan to never go on contract. I'm a student right now and I bought this off a friend so no contracts yet ^_^

I just want to know if wind covers UOIT which is in north Oshawa. If it doesn't then I wouldn't switch to them and I'd stick with telus. But then its a bigger fee at first.

I wish the galaxy nexus from Google play shipped here
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I've been pondering the Galaxy Nexus from Play in the US myself. I have family in the USA, so I'd have my cousin order it and ship it to my broker in Port Huron who'd clear it and get it to my doorstep.

But.... my T959D does what I need it to do. And my car needs a new steering rack.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Yeah, that's the other thing. I don't need a new phone right now. I just want one.

Anyways this is off topic. so on topic: Did the search button ever get fixed in slim bean? It works fine in miui.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Search button is still a bug, blue tooth is non-functional with latest semaphore kernel.
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
Has anyone tried paranoidandroid yet?
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
I have but gave up on it. I couldn't be bothered figuring out all the new settings. I recommend giving it a try though.

Sent from my SGH-T959D running SlimICS 4.2
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
So I downloaded paranoidandroid but I wasn't going to try it yet. Then Thursday night my battery was draining faster than usual so I rebooted my phone. When it came back on I had dropped 50% of my battery and lost all signal. Went into about phone and baseband was unknown. So I flashed a new modem and rebooted again. Still no signal. Baseband was still unknown. After being turned off for a bit the signal came back but went away when I shut it off again.(Phone was almost dead and I was at work so I didn't want it to die completely) I gave up recharged my phone and flashed the new rom. All was good I enjoyed changing the dpi for each app individually. Very neat. Put the status bar on the bottom too which was cool. Woke up this afternoon unplugged my phone within half an hour I was down 5% so I checked the battery usage and android is was way up so I rebooted. Of course came back on no signal and battery dropped another 10%

I'm not sure what to do now, its currently in some sort of weird boot loop where it starts up runs for a couple minutes and reboots.

Any ideas?

EDIT:

So I turned the phone off and plugged it in and charged it. Turned it back on and I have a signal again. Not really sure what's going on.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I'll be keeping my old phone for a bit but.... I'm gone now. Thanks for all your help guys!
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
What did you end up going with kobra?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Galaxy nexus. I'm switched to the wind student plan so it was a great deal. Unlimited everything for 30$ :D

I really want to root this thing
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Nice! Well best of luck to you, if the nexus breaks you know where to find us to fix up your "beater" phone lol.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Slim works great on the Nexus.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Kept my usage to a minimum and shut off wifi etc over night.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
GET IT!

signed the lurker :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL wife bashed it again finn
[Fascinate General] Azure1203:
How are the improvements in 2.6? Time to update from SlimICS? I need it as stable as possible.
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Seems pretty sweet, just updated myself. Seems to be faster than anything else they've released thus far. Just have to flash it 3 times, freaked me out when it wouldn't boot, just got back into recovery and flashed again, worked like a charm.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Agreed matt. Took a while for me to get recovery to hook for the third flash but flying after that.

Essentially you need to flash one - you WILL get an error - that's OK (error 7 or something), then flash a second time - which will reboot your phone, keep trying to use the 3 button combo to enter recovery (took me a while) and then flash a 3rd time - that will stick. I flashed the AIO package after that for good measure and rebooted.

So far - this is the best update yet - the size of the partition for apps is awesome. I also restored my apps (most of them) from TB - issues with Starbucks but that's the only one - all others worked.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
So I'm biting the bullet and going to JB. Just wanted to let ya'll know a little tidbit.

Last week I mentioned instead of going back to stock 2.3.3, maybe flashing a .pit and a Kernel for the OS version you wanted to go to might work and get rid of everything? Well, it works. It wipes everything and will drop you back into CWM to flash your new ROM. So good.

Edit: it doesn't work. I can't get ANYTHING to boot after attempting that. Recovering to 2.3.3 and giving it a go. I bet though if we took enough bits out of the gingerbread package, something could be made to work. So sad.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I think you'll like JB. I really couldn't go back to ICS once I flashed Slim 2.2 - 2.6 is REALLY good along with Semaphore 2.2 - I have had my phone on today with wifi + sync, and after 8 hours I'm at 85%. I love the smoothness, animations, and the new notifications - plus its a faster phone.

I think it's a really great upgrade.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I did really like the first SlimBean release they did for the first day or two, but the battery life was **** and it got really chuggy. It's a lot better than it was a few months ago.