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[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Google Music. It's a minimal BS player that just works. I can put up a .apk for you if you want since we Canucks can't actually download it from Play. Winamp Pro was what I used before Google Music. It's alright but I thought it was a bit bloated.

Also, Don't forget Voodoo Sound!
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
difference ?

Thanks for your reply !

is there a difference between "google music" and "google play music" app ? because you can get "google play music" through google play and install it.

If it is a different app, yes, I'd like to get it, if you can !

I've installed "google play music" and it look a LOT like apollo, without the crashing.

About voodoo, is that the options you have in the dsp manager under WM8994 settings ? I know there was a voodoo file to flash but I think it was for GB only if I am not mistaken...

That is one thing I have always enjoy of the original T959D. It was silent with ear buds. With CM10, any sound that occurs seems to unmute the audio and you will hear a high back ground "shhhhhhhhhh" noise.

Like if your hear the "click" sound because you unlock your screen, you hear "pop", "click" and then "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" for two or three seconds and then mute again... You can hear that "shhhhhh" noise between audio track too.

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spot on ! I don't know how you figured out to hit 7 time the build info but it does work indeed !

Thanks !
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Yeah, I think it is indeed google play music. The icon is some yellow headphones.

As far as the Voodoo stuff, everything should be in the kernel (semaphore!) and all you need is the app from Market to enable all the stuff. The settings might be in DSP Manager too, but I like the JACK controls in VoodooSound Manager. Also the DAC Direct/Hi-Fi Play options are not present in DSP (as far as i can find).
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Just installed SlimBean 4.2.2 Build 3 from a fresh flash (wipe cache, davlik, system defalts, manual /system format). It's a whole new level of refinement. I *just* flashed it but from what I've seen, it's quite nice.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Still running nightlies, but the breathing SMS notification is cool (I loves me my eye candy).
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Love to Stratosk

[PSA]

Not sure how many of you read teh semaphore thread, but stratosk was taken advantage of recently - buying a nexus 4 from someone who basically as far as I can tell stole his money.

Stratosk is a great developer and his kernel work has ensure that the I9000 (and as a result of that, the T959D) are still very operable phones. I have used his kernel on GB, ICS, and JB. He answers ALL questions, is extremely professional and polite.

So if you do have an opportunity to buy the man a beer, please do via his donation link.

[/PSA]
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Shameless plug ... please go to http://mbbottlebrew.com/you-name-it/ and vote for 'What's brewing' so I can win free stuff.

Highly recommend the product as well :)
[Fascinate General] Unjustified Dev:
I really wanted to talk to him a link please. I would like to further enhance my developing skills.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1786220
[Fascinate General] Unjustified Dev:
We never had a sephamore kernel.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
You may be in the wrong thread here - do you have a telus fascinate or the US one as per your signature?

semaphore for i9000 works fine on the T959D.
[Fascinate General] Unjustified Dev:
Sorry I'm new to the Verizon fascinate and never heard of telus. I am currently developing for the Verizon fascinate.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
No worries. So this thread is for a small group that use the Telus Fascinate (T959D) so I definitely would not use any of the recommendations here for your phone - aside from the name, they are completely different devices.

Good luck with your development though - I know the larger community appreciates anyone willing to support their device! :)
[Fascinate General] nereis:
Semaphore 2.9.20s

Has anyone here tried flashing Semaphore 2.9.20s on their 959D yet?

Slim Bean 4.2.2b3 works fine on 2.9.18s until I flash 2.9.20s, and every time I tried upgrading the phone would always bootloop.

The same thing happens if I try flashing Cyancore 2.4, which is based on Semaphore 2.9.20s, but strangely both Cyancore 2.3 and Semaphore 2.9.18s works again once I break out of the bootloop through Odin flashed Devil kernel.

I am hoping this wouldn't be an isolated case so maybe stratosk changed something in the new version that made it incompatible with 959D?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Running fine for me on CM10.1
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
So I upgraded to latest nightly last night, still Sema 2.9.20s - all fine. I do see other bootloops in the sema thread though.

One question, if you odin devil kernel, are you not then running the devil kernel and not the semaphore kernel? Not sure what you are doing there, or if you use devil to reflash sema.
[Fascinate General] nereis:
Devil's only used to get CWM back so that I can reflash Semaphore 2.9.18s, otherwise it would continue to bootloop with 3-key combo.

I just saw another user report bootloop on the Semaphore thread.
[Fascinate General] bbrad:
The guy in that thread said Samsung phones have the worst dev community... How much more wrong could that get and the bad thing is people are agreeing with him lol I personally think we have the best community besides the nexus
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Samsung phones? Man, that's a pretty wide brush they are painting with. Samsung only supports my phone up to 2.3.3 and I'm running - flawlessly - 4.2.2. That's pretty damn OK in my book. :)
[Fascinate General] Heoxoma:
Semaphore 2.9.20

In my case full version of Semaphore kernel is not working on CM 10.1 nightlies.

2.9.18 works fine, stock CM 10.1 also works fine.

But neither 2.9.20 nor CyanCore 2.4 (based on 2.9.20 with BigMem patch) work for me.

Both went to loop and all back to normal after I put 2.9.18 via Odin.

UPD:

All fixed now - stratosk the best! :good::cool:
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
follow-up...

After installing the google play music app, I notice that when I get in my car and the phone connect over bluetooth, it's apollo that starts playing, not google music... urgh... I also lost the FF and REW functions (holding next/previous track would FF/REW) that I REALLY enjoyed on my original T959D player... I wish I would have backup the .apk before I wipe my phone...

As for voodoo, I swear I had all those parameter in the DSP manager when I was under CM10.0. I had a 4th option in the DSP manager with all the settings that I found in the app. I just say this because the app is always running and chewing up available memory. I am not sure if it was a setting I had turn on somewhere or it is just now not available anymore in CM10.1.

Another feature I had in CM10.0 was call volume boost. I could boost earphone, headphone and bluetooth levels. I cannot find those options anymore in CM10.1. JP sent me an app that might do the job. I just wonder where the options whent ?

Last thing, how do you like your slimrom ? Is it stable as I read that you had issues (or maybe JP) with it.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I like SlimBean 4.2 Build 3 just fine. I had ONE reboot the first time I plugged it into usb on my PC, but it's been stable since. Since I have four batteries now I've stopped caring about battery life so I can't really comment there. I also stream a lot of music via data connection and have the phone overclocked 20% so my usage patterns are not exactly... relevant.

I dunno what else to say... is there anything specific about Slimbean 4.2 build3 you wanted to know?
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
Well, it was more comparing between CM and slims roms, I see the slimroms are tinyer in package size (maybe it has nothing to do with the whole experiance) but you kind of answer in a way that you probably won't be able to answer... Any issue with communications, sms, email, media.

I use my phone to carry my music and some movies. I listen to my phone in my car all the time, so I want a good stable music player...

what is bettery time, do you find it more stable than CM10.1, do you see advantages/disadvantages between both roms.

I change rom because the original 2.3.3 cause me a lot of random reboot/reset. I miss some of the features I had before and on the other hand, the CM10 roms are waaay more customizable (urgh, sorry for the bad english writing there...)

I was just curious as I already said, I don't know why, the slim rom appeal a lot to me when I read on their site. But seeing JP having troubles with it, I kept it on the safe CM10.0 and now exploring a bit on CM10.1

And by the way, I am not complaining the fact that I updated to an alternative rom. I knew I might encounter issues when I did it. I am not just 100% confident in applying upgrades and I just want to do this the right way with the best rom available.

Sorry for long reply and sluggish writing...
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Well, to be fair... I haven't used a CM rom since CM7 and a brief stint on CM10 before making the jump to Slim so I really can't make fair comparisons. The thing that keeps me on SlimROM is all the customizations they do I really enjoy. The DPI mods, Multi DPI Play store out of the box, all kinds of tweek software built into the OS (Advanced Slim Settings), The Real Dark Slim (which has really grown on me), etc...

I mean, I can make CM10.1 do all these things too, but I like that with Slim I don't have to. Just flash and go. Minimal customization required.

As far as issues, the only issue I have right now is if I'm using xiialive and I open something else like browser, xiia quits (not an FC, but a proper quit) because the phone runs out of RAM. That's a fault of the phone being too aggressive with how it allocates resources. SMS works fine and I can't comment on email app because I don't use it (don't have it installed even...).

As far as battery goes, I get about 8hrs on a normal day now. Usually 3 hours of that is streaming 128K MP3 or 64KB AAC+. I'll also have the screen on for about 4 of those hours using WhatsApp, SMS or Gmail. The phone is overclocked to 1200MHz too and brightness is pretty high but I use Semaphore auto brightness. I swap batteries at least once a day depending on what I'm doing.

My humble opinion, if CM10.1 is doing what you want it to do, keep with it. If not, Give Slimbean 4.2 Build 3 a shot.... Or Just give it a shot anyway. Switching back to CM10.1 is pretty easy should you not like SlimBean.
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
Thanks for the precisions.

I'll check out the files required and I might give this a try just to see like you are saying !

By the way, I already ask this to JP but since he did not reply, I won't bother him again (like he had not done anything to help me !) so I am asking in the forum instead.

What is the correct flash order/procedure when UPDATING a rom ?

Each time I do an update on the CM10 nightly, something stop working, I need to reflash fixes and/or kernels. I am not sure about the correct procedure order. Do you need to clear cache or not ?

Thanks again for all the help !
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
hey - sorry - been a crazy week. So updating a ROM - you should always read what the say on the specific ROM instructions, but generally:

1. Format system.

2. Wipe cache

3. Wipe dalvik

4.Flash ROM

5. Flash gapps (or whatever alternative your ROM maker may have like AIO in SLIM)

6. Flash Kernel (if you have one)

7. Flash any mods (so our search GPS fix, multi DPI play store, etc.)

I usually wipe cache/dalvik again for good measure.

On CM10.1 I use cyan delta which allows me to pick what zips to flash and set caches to wipe - so i get it all in one command from my phone.

Easy peasy.
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
Hey JP ! Good to know you are busy... I don't have much work these days...

I wasn't sure if I was buggin you too much...

So just I be sure, you do this each time you do a nightly update or when doing a rom change (a different one than CM) ?

It's 4 to 7 that I always mess up the order... I never really did 1 to 3 except when you told me to. Is that what you call a dirty/clean install ?

Thanks as usual !

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Maybe everybody already know this but rooting and installing a custom rom won't unlock the phone (as I thought the rom install would do this).

I have tried another provider sim card with no succes.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
When I'm not on CM10.1 yes, but for CM10.1 I use a program called cyandelta to install my nightlies - it automates pretty much everything. Every once in a while I'll do a fresh complete install especially if I notice things going wonky. For me, dirty flash is not doing the data wipe - I think wiping the cache's should be done at the very least.

Yes, unlocking your phone is completely separate. I believe some folks here have used SGS unlock (or some program like that) to unlock. I have never used and cannot comment.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Yep, SGS Unlock works. It does something with the EFS folder so every time you flash you have to unlock again.
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
Stupid crash

uuurgh... I had my first phone crash during a work call in my car on bluetooth under CM10.1... It rebooted into recovery by itself...

It took like 3 minutes before I realize my phone was not responding as we were doing something like "me: would you verify that ? - other person: yeah, one moment... (silence)" and I started to explained some things while I thought he was still listening online completely not knowing my phone had crash... until I peeked at the screen and saw the recovery menu...

I guess I need a freak'n new phone... crap (not to say bad words)... As much as I like my CM experience and the whole learning process, I am still at the same point, a stupid phone that reboot itself randomly...

I notice that I only have like 32MB of free space for running apps, even with 397MB available. The only things that are installed is swype and voodoo sound. All the other app running are for os, one of them not working which is the activesync push service as I never receive any email from that push account.

I wonder if the low memory count could be the issue...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Might be that time. I mean you were getting reboots on stock - and it is an old phone. I have had reboots in various circumstances - not on CM though, but I am not using bluetooth either.

Hard to say what to recommend, I know lots of folks VERY happy with their S3 - some on stock, some on custom (slim makes a nice s3 version) and there's always the unlocked Nexus 4 directly from google.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
16 more months... 16 more months.... (Unless I break down and buy something outright before that)
[Fascinate General] dgerryts:
And I'm VERY happy with my S2x. ($250 outright from Koodo, Telus sim inserted, no unlock required).

TWRP, Rooted and Slim 3.4 installed (unofficial, but NO issues).

There was a deal on , 100 upfront, 150 on the tab, one month @ 20 and paid off and mine on May1st. (The only reason i did it this way was because best buy was giving a 100 dollar gift card on activation. So 20 layout for an 80 dollar return........)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Aye... The only thing holding me back from an S2x is the DAC. A friend of mine has the O.G. Galaxy Note and the audio fidelity just isn't anywhere near as good as what I have with the T959D (which is why I bought it). The S3 is pretty good though and that extra GB of RAM is pretty tempting. I figure I give it a good six months (if my phone doesn't crap out first) and pick up an S3 for cheap or pick up my buddy's original Note and ride out my contract. Actually, the Galaxy Nexus also has great audio quality so that one could be on my radar too...I like removable batteries or I'd just get a Nexus4.

One things for sure... I'm never signing another three year again.

Edit: Oh! I got one of those engrish batteries. It's actually 1500mAh and causes my phone to reboot once and a while.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Galaxy Nexus is pretty nice - still pricey on kijiji though as people are looking to upgrade. Hear you on the contract, feel lucky to get what we have on our phones to be honest. I have 8 mos left on my contract - but still can't bring myself to get something new - seems like after that I just want something else. Really wanted my transformer but it seems SOOOO HUGE now compared to wife's Nexus 7. My wife also got a very crappy LG phone, but found a t959d for 80$ and bought her that - just put in the SIM and away she went - she's still on contract but likes her new phone.

BTW - I bought that 'engrish' battery that dgerryts used - took a few days, but definitely prolongs the battery life - can't complain for 5$ :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Nope, not complaining for $5 I guess and it's only done the reboot twice, but I can kill it as fast as my other batteries.

I guess my only criteria for a new phone is to be able to multitask like a madman so the 2GB of RAM in the SGS3 is very appealing. Plus official Slim, this tool and a boatload of devs. I am going to wait for at least another six months before I make a move. Maybe someone will bring out a phone with an amazing DAC and awesome dev support like our T959D.
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
yeeaaah... the only thing that is going to be missing on the other phones forums is JP, karmatose and other who help me so much...

These phones cost a fortune... I won't get NEVER again a free phone with a 3 year contract because when you phone break, you are still required to pay for it or on top of the payment, you need to add a 300$ repair fee for a total of 900$ phone...

If I pay 600$, I have two year warranty with my credit cart at least... but man, this is so expensive...

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Koodo is going to be my next service provider. They use the same network as telus and are WAY cheaper ($). They had an awesome plan at 56$ for illimited canada talk, illimited sms, 2gb data... I pay 55$ with telus for 200 minutes, 10 illimited numbers, 1gb data. For 1$ more, you could never beat that plan.

The issue was that I still have a stupid balance on my T959D + the new koodo phone I was again at 500$ with an SII... Now they have the S3 but the S4 is just around the corner...

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me neither, NEVER again a 3 year contract...

Are you saying that a battery was causing your reboot issues ?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
Maaaaaaybe, yes. It's happened twice and both times I had the engrish battery in the phone. Hasn't happened on my Samsung 1650mAh batteries (up to 4 of them) at all.

But both times it happened the phone was streaming music from the web and the phone was hot to the touch. So who knows really. I just hope it doesn't continue.
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
So just a heads up... I'm thinking about changing some server stuff up. Need to free up some resources and and contemplating installing ownCloud to manage access to the i9000 file dump. Thinking about setting up one shared account where people would have to PM me for the password kinda thing. This would keep crawlers that ignore robots.txt off my server and using up a lot of RAM.

Or better yet, does anyone actually use it?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I do for sure, but appreciate its your resources (my dropbox got shut down a while back for stuff I was sharing).

If you discontinue just give me a heads up I'll purge some files at the very least for own personal recovery stash.

EDIT: Made copies - had most of them but wanted to make absolute sure I had your GB Odin Flash. :)
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
nononononono... I'm not going to REMOVE them, I'm just going to setup a dropbox like service which will require authentication. We can put that authentication in the OP and people can continue to download. It just keeps people from hotlinking my **** all over the web.

Anyway, it was a bit of a false alarm. The bot that was chewing up the resources was spamming a forum that belongs to someone I share the VPS with. I still think I'm going to do the ownCloud thing though.
[Fascinate General] Aleziss:
Slim... veeeeery nice...

Well, I have got another crash this afternoon and I decided to finally give slimrom a test drive.

First thing I was surprised is the screen density. It's a bit tiny at 182 but still look really nice.

Another thing I see a big difference is the available ram for applications. With CM10.1, I had only 32MB left. With slim, 176MB left !!! out of 397MB.

Another thing that I have tried to explained to you guys was the DSP manager. I had that option in CM10.0 but disapeard in CM10.1. In this slimrom, it's back.

When I go in the DSP manager, I have a supplemental option called WM8994. In there, I've got all settings found in the voodoo app with the difference that the voodoo app is not needed and is not running in background chewing up crucial available memory.

I've got a whole new phone to discover the options. I would say to JP to give this a try because I see a huge operation improovement. All my apps have been reinstalled so I've got the same ammount of apps I had in CM10.1.

I have now to decide which launcher I'll use. Each time I return to home page from an app, I get a question asked "Halo Launcher" with a big bunch of gadgets or "stock launcher" fast, light, no memory usage that I can see but not as customizable.

Last thing is that I had install the swype keyboard back on CM10.1 and I realized (I am not sure) that I started to get random reboot. Not sure it is related but I miss that app soooooo much now... I am not sure if it is a good thing to reinstall it...

So my first impressions is wow... waaaaaaay more speedy than CM10.1. I think I had a better experiance with CM10.0 but I think I am going to stay on slim for awhile and see how it goes...

edit: niiiiiice !! the stock keyboard has a "swype" option... awesome !!!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL - trust me, I'm a big slim fan and always recommended it. I started on SlimICS and then went into SlimBean. I know some of the development team as well (work with the guy who maintains the S3 version.

The news SlimBean looks awesome - for me on it the last few times (pre-builds 3 and 4) I would get soft reboots whenever I hooked up USB to copy files, and occassionally in the play store - so I have stayed on CM10.1.

That being said, I always end up trying a version of SlimBean for a while - and with SlimPie and a few other niceties (and have to say that breathing SMS notification is very kewl - I might give it a kick again. I also really dug the TRDS.

Hmmnnnnn - maybe a wipe this weekend wouldn't be a bad thing ;)
[Fascinate General] TheMegosh:
Hey, its been a while since I've posted here... but the person I gave this phone to has been experiencing extremely bad battery life. 6 hours with wifi, data and gps enabled, 1.5hr screen on and maybe 10 mins of voice calls. It seems like the fault may be the hardware keys lighting up whenever a notification is received, and they never turn off. I remember hearing that there may be a fix for it in the build.prop or the keylayout files, but I don't have the knowledge to pinpoint what direction to go in. The phone is running base CM10.0, and the overall experience other than that has been good. Any idea where to go from here?

Is it possible to permanently disable the hardware key lights? Just to see if this is really the cause of the battery drain.