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[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Answers to Slim questions

The WeUI toggles are nicer - Slim gives you options for buttons (my screenshot earlier) or toggles, but is more akin to the 10 toggles in DarkyROM. I like being able to quickly shut on/off sound, data, and wifi. There's a ton you can add in here.

Slim has the solid battery, the battery line (like MIUI), % in the battery, or just a % (that is what is in my screenshot). You can have the % always on the lockscreen as well, which is nice (TONS of lockscreen options)

Not sure on that one.

No aroma installer, but there is touch CWM - although I abandoned that for semaphore :)

I'm liking it more and more, and battery life is much better already than Weui was (battery life was my major gripe on miui as well). So I'll be sticking around a while :)

WeUI does feel smoother, although with a high def background, tight display, and nice configured Nova Prime, the UI here still feels shiny - I also loaded more sounds as the default ones left something to be desired - but all that stuff is pretty easy.

I'm a heavy data user as this is a work phone using exchange + my personal stuff, so battery life is taxed - but right now I'm 57% with 12.5 hours used - I tend to sit and surf at night so likely will only get close to 20 hours - but that's more than enough for me - and again, I'm a heavy user - individual results may vary :)

PS have to say I'm loving the build. prop hacks - thanks to Cash for lighting a fire under my a$$ on looking into that. I did alter something else for slim, so anyone editing hit me up for details - I think it was a brand or device setting that was set to 'Android' and should be 'Samsung'
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Nice comparison Jp, thanks. Did you use the md5sum versions or just the regular zip files?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
The regular zips for 3.5,then OTA updates to 3.6. Then semaphore.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Well, I can't for the life of me get slim installed. Went back to froyo, rooted, installed voodoo, then to icssgs,so far so good, got a good clean install.

Cleared everything, caches, formated in cmw, dalvic's and all I get are bootloops. Last time I tried to install slim this was what I got then as well.

What do you think?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
You need to install slim and then essentials RIGHT after it. My guess is you only flashed the ROM but it's a two step flash.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
I'll try that...be right back:D.

---------- Post added at 09:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:21 AM ----------

B-I-N-G-O! Once again, you're my hero, thanks Jp!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Only knew that cause I did the same thing ;)

So if you get the 3.6 upgrade there is a 3.6 essentials you will need and then when you reboot go into Play and UNINSTALL updateme and then reinstall it.

Let me know if you need anything else. Just mowing and cleaning but there's a BEvERage calling my name :)
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Ok gettin' there. Can't get the weather to show though, got it enabled and I've rebooted...

edit: oh, it's im the drop down menu. How to get it on the home screen?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Assuming you want it on the lockscreen. You need to set it up AND turn it on in the lockscreen section.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
If you want it in the pull down, try disabling it and then re-enabling it... Just didn't that and it worked... Didn't even know I could get the weather there!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I use beautiful widgets but if you have nova installed go to widgets in the app drawer. There is an advanced slim widget. Additionally that and you can add the slim weather widget.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Liking it so far, can't get custom lock screen apps to show.

Ok got it to work. Anyway to customize the icons on the lock screen?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Not that I know of. I'll post my build.prop at some point but I'm sure you can figure it out.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
I can see why this rom gets such better battery life, as per CPU spy, it actually throttles down all the way as it's intended to whereas WeUI never did that.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Liking it?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Here's the relevant entries for my build.prop on SLIM_ICS.

ro.product.model=SGH-T959D

ro.product.brand=samsung

ro.product.name= SGH-T959D

ro.product.device= SGH-T959D

ro.product.board= SGH-T959D

ro.product.cpu.abi=armeabi-v7a

ro.product.cpu.abi2=armeabi

ro.product.manufacturer=samsung

ro.product.locale.language=en

ro.product.locale.region=CA

ro.wifi.channels=

ro.board.platform=s5pc110

# ro.build.product is obsolete; use ro.product.device

ro.build.product= SGH-T959D

# Do not try to parse ro.build.description or .fingerprint

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:
For sure, clean and fresh, something different. I'm sure I'd jump ship back to WeUI when they have the next release but it's good to flex the flashing muscle every now and again, lest we forget. :D

And oh yeah, I figured out how to customize the lockscreen icons, just long press on them after selecting what you want to use as a custom option...in case anyone cares.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Thanks for the build prop info. Just made the revisions, is there anything else i need to do other than clear the cache in play store?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Not that I'm aware of other than a reboot :)
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
So, where do I find slim? Is it under our forum or gt-i9000?
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Here ye be: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1536783

Have fun!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
And recent files are on slimroms.com
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Which version #? Im having trouble navigating from my phone...
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
3.6 base and essentials. As Jp pointed out, flash both one after the other or it won't work.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I believe I asked this before but, my efs, and other things like my carrier fix will remain in tact?

I have back ups of it all, but I'm also super lazy as one might guess.

Now to see if I can do all of this without having to get comp access
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I didn't need to restored efs but have a back up just in case. No need for the carrier fix - that appears to be icssgs only at this point.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Yeah, my EFS was intact. However, Titanium Backup isn't opening. I dunno if its a kernal thing. I switch to semaphore 1.1.0s Maybe I should do it on 1.0.0 no suffix for now and then switch.

Now for build.prop and few other things. And it should be good.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hmmn TB worked for me. Assuming you installed from the market after the ROM loaded.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Yeah, I'm wiping my dalvik I forgot to do that. (What is dalvik anyways) Nova, and apex won't start either.

EDIT:That didn't work...

EDIT2: Gonna to start over. I'll keep you posted. I started right at 3.6 was that what you did?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Sounds odd. I would reflash.

Did you follow the instructions for slim?

Wipe cache and dalvik

Format system

Factory data reset

Then flash rom and essentials
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I started at 3.5 and upgraded to 3.6
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
So im going through the process, the link to the stock froyo files on mega upload is dead. I was running rooted froyo anyway so i went ahead and updated to gb using kies, no issues. flashed the speedmod kernel with no issues, however when i try to flash the stock kernel, T959TLKG2_Kernel.tar, odin fails. not sure what to do at this point.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
ok, not sure why but i restarted odin and it worked perfectly. im not rocking ICS. Thanks a ton JP and buck!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I need to get this into the posts :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Odd - copying the EFS folder back to your system directory and then rebooting should restore your IMEI - make sure you copy back all of the folder and ALL of its contents.

In terms of Semaphore - you don't really need it but its my preferred kernel. Once you are on ICS you can flash alternative kernels via recovery (as well as modems and other scripts :) )
[Fascinate General] Sebasking07:
Does it do something if my IMEI number is not the same ?
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
Yes, data issues, market download issues, etc. look it up in the forums, there's lots of info.

Sent from my Telus Fascinate running OneCosmics ICS!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Updated the OP and posts.
[Fascinate General] Sebasking07:
Well my data is working great and I can download everything from the market
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
But your imei isn't the same number as the back of your phone? Strange that it would work without a problem if that's the case. Try to buy an app, when I tried it would come up with an error.

Sent from my Telus Fascinate running OneCosmics ICS!
[Fascinate General] Appetisaac:
ICS links working
[Fascinate General] koocheese:
my IMEI is now 004999010640000, this is what gets assigned if you no longer have the original.

I've been flashing roms for a yr now, the instructions back then never mentioned backing up the efs folder, now my original IMEI is lost forever. :(

I can confirm that data and market/purchasing works perfectly fine.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Corrected a link for one post, embedded the stock telus kernel on the other

:)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Thought I lost mine, reflashed to stock - backed it up - and have it back (matches my battery)
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
so I've flashed back to stock 2.2 and updated to gb through kies. now trying to flash speedmod through odin and getting stuck. Ive got eh file in PDA but when I hit start this is what i get

<ID:0/006> Odin v.3 engine (ID:6)..

<ID:0/006> File analysis..

<ID:0/006> SetupConnection..

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Did this process the other day without any issue at this step. Ive tried restarting the computer, the phone, using different usb ports...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
When in doubt pull the battery...

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
hah I'm an idiot, didint even have it in download mode. uh yeah its working now hehe
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Easy to forget the simple stuff when you are fighting other fires... Been there done that :)

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
heh yeah, been with out a phone for nearly a week, now so excited to get it going again im skipping steps
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Trying the telus JL3 modem. Working pretty well actually.

</not an iPhone>
[Fascinate General] Appetisaac:
Coming from darkys flashed froyo ok. Now kies connected saying it doesn't update my phone t959d. Tried new and old kies.Seems to think I have one of three (KOR) model numbers.Any tips?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I'm back up and running. I'm trying to get 5 columns in my drawer though. The smaller look is more fitting with 5 columns as opposed to 4. I'm actually liking it this way. When I changed it back to 240 it seemed kinda large
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, the tighter display is nice. Nova you can extend the size of the home screens and get 5 icons across. I tried 7 in the dock, but it was too much and went back to 5.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Where? I don't see that option. Oh, and as a warning to people flashing this rom, once you change your build.prop update me stops working.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Nothing to do with build.prop, just started UNINSTALL and reinstall update me via play.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hmmmnn. I have 5 columns in the drawer but not sure where that is set. Doesn't appear to be through the launcher.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Really? Cause it quit working after I edited my build.prop

But I'll take your word for it. And if you find it let me know. Thanks a million

EDIT: it was my fault. My build.prop says onecosmic
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
LOL that will do it. Have to be careful with build.prop edits and make a backup. There was issues with update me but uninstalling and reinstall fixed it up. :) glad to see you are up and running!
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Yep, everything seems good now. My build.prop isn't perfect. And silly me only has a back up of the one from stock. So that won't help with this rom. I'm liking this rom though. Some nice features.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I can email you mine if that helps you - just PM me an email address. I don't *think* there is a lot (if anything) that is device specific.

Also, you could always reflash the ROM just wiping cache and dalvik - so you don't lose your apps and settings - *Might* replace the build.prop.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
The wipe worked. And I have 5 again. I wonder if it's the dpi. I like it at 200
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
It is the dpi I think
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
It is most definitely the dpi. Just tried all of them 5 showed up in the lower ones.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Hey Guys - this is pretty handy, recommend checking it out for those times when you forgot to move your flashable to the root of your SD. :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1646108
[Fascinate General] Appetisaac:
Seeing that slim is now recommended over icsss, what is the prefered method for installing? Carrier fixes etc.Thanks guys.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Didn't need the carrier fix or my efs. Still have it back up just in case but you won't need it.

Do a nandroid backup and a factory wipe before flashing.

Oh, and you need to download 3.6 base and essentials. GT I9000 version works with ours.

I believe that's it.
[Fascinate General] Appetisaac:
I should have been clearer.Do I need to flash onecosmics before slim or can I flash it from GB stock?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
You can flash from ics. I did
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
The slimroms site says to flash a cm9 rom first if coming form gb. probably easiest just to flash onecosmic as per this threads directions then flash slim.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yes, or you can try the steps here to flash ANY ICS. All you need is an updated CWM.

I went from Weui to slim.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
2 things, has anyone tried slim 3.7?

And also, is anyone else having trouble with push notifications?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
No to both.

Going to try 3.7 without a data wipe this weekend though.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I'm trying it as soon as the download finishes. I'll keep you posted.

EDIT: seems to be working fine without full wipe.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Same. Obviously I need to redo my build.prop though.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
And fixed :)
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Fixed mine as well. Still haven't rebooted. I'll do it eventually. I want to try theming but he doesn't recommend it yet
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
GPS.conf should be edited too.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Why's that? I don't really use location services on my phone
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
It's set to world... I change it Canada as per the instructions on the first page.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Well, the Slim honeymoon's over. I'm back to WeUI as of now, tried MIUI V4 before going back but wasn't too impressed with that.

Slim was a nice change but overall I think I really dig WeUI the most...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Good to have a mix here! I'm still liking slim but may go to an AOKP next :)
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I'm just following jpm around. He seems to know what the good things are. But I like slim because it has the toggles in the notification drawer.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Weui has that too actually. I find battery a bit better on slim though.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
And following me is your first mistake ;)
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Got something against minions?
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Ya know, I thought that was the way things were going but after a week I found it didn't apply to my configuration or usage. There could obviously be hundreds of contributing factors for sure but end of the day, I can't say from my experience that one was better than the other...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I find it on par with icssgs but Weui was a bit worse BUT I'm a heavy user too.

Right now digging the lockscreen options plus the smaller display.

Anyone using Tasker? I have 2 profiles set up so far that work great but want a few more. The options are a bit overwhelming so haven't made much progress yet.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Lock screen options are pretty sweet. I'm just trying to figure out how to get my push Notifications back.

Other than that I like this rom more than icsgss.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Hey Jp, I've played with Tasker on and off for about a year. At one point I jumped ship and used Llama instead, same thing but less complex. It seems like to use tasker with great success one almost needs to know some basic programming skills. There's a few tutorials around but the problem I found with that is that the versions change rather quickly then and the tutorials are no longer relevant. :mad:

Anyhow, have fun with it!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Yeah, I have a silent mode based on time and gps active with certain applications.

Trying for geo Sensitive wifi and data
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
I've always had problems with both tasker and llama for location based task associations.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
What's the difference between the s b and m on the kernel versions?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
If I'm right s is for slim roms and no suffix is a general thing. But I dunno about the other 2. I've been wondering that myself
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Gummy rom at the moment. Just thought I would throw it out there. Still testing.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Oooh, I think I figured it out.

There's different models of the i9000 Like and M model and a B model and T Model etc. Then there's "S" for the Slim kernel as well.*

*This is just a rough guess of course, lets leave the actual answer to experts

EDIT: I was wrong. Leaving this up for embarrassment.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
The differences are in the amount of free memory and as follows:

Normal versions (for CM9 or ROMs without hugemem configuration)

1.2.0

- 374.2MB - 386.4MB

For Slim ROM or patched ROMs with hugemem configuration

1.2.0s

- 387.2MB - 399.4MB

1.2.0sbm (bigmem breaks 720p video recording)
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
haha, awesome. thanks heh

thanks Finnegin, this definitely sheds a little light on the subject. I guess running slimics ill go for the s version.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Push notifications still don't work. I don't understand what I did. I've reflashed a bunch of times. But still nothing.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
What notifications are you having issues with?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
All notifications but my texting.

Like... They work but only if I open the app. So I have to open my Gmail before it tells me I have an email. I wonder if that means it's not running.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Is your account syncing properly? And if so are all aspects of it such as calendar, mail, contacts etc. look to see when they were last synced. After that if everything checks out, check to see if your apps that are supposed to push notifications are properly configured to do so.

You might also want to consider anything that's shutting down your network when you don't want it to be. Battery extending apps for instance, Juicedefender, Greenpower anything like that.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Yeah, everything syncs when I go to accounts and click sync. But that's pretty much the only time.

I'm gonna back everything up in titanium. And flash from factory. I'll let you guys know.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Do you have sync turned on?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Yeah, actually it might be working again. Jpm, you still have my email? Can you send me a test one
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Done :)
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I got it. Delayed a bit. But it seems to be working. I don't mind if it's an hour or so delayed. just so much as it works
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Mines pretty quick. Make sure you have it on and you are not turning it off in the toggles (as it's toggle looks like screen rotation to me, but it's sync)
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
WEUI

I'm getting ready to flash WeUI. Just waiting for my phone to charge. I really like the stock ICS Keyboard and Messaging app. Are these in WEUI as well?

EDIT:

Nevermind I'm going for Slim. Didn't like miui.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
If you like stock stick to the AOSP ROMS. Slim is mostly AOSP with a few tweaks so a nice compromise.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Wait, if slim is just modified AOSP, then what's special about kang projects?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I haven't tried a kang yet honestly, but it's more tweaked than slim.
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I'm looking for a kang project right now. Infitum is discontinued. Which isn't an issue but I'm gonna look for an LTS (Long term Support) ROM.

Does anybody calibrate their screen colours? I have mine at like Red: 0.941 Green: 1.000 Blue: 0.938 atm and its pretty close to the SAMOLED+ screen. But then I realized that it has a blueish tint. So I was wondering what you guys are using in your settings.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Hey everyone. I've just switched from Team Passion ICS 13.1 to SlimICS 3.7. On Team Passion ICS it has the bug where the back and home button were reversed. On SlimICS it is the same as you know but I can't figure out how to switch them back like I did on Team Passion. I tried manually editing the files with Root Explorer but it didn't work. Would the Update for the key fix also work? Sorry if this is a dumb question. Haha.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I used to calibrate mine with voodoo - but haven't tried with the galaxy s options on Slim.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I have never needed to do the key fix with an ICS rom. If doing it manually didn't work (and assuming you didn't run into an error) the flash won't do much more (it simply modifies the same file) so things may be different on ICS than GB.

Push comes to shove, start fresh - and format system and then flash Slim - it doesn't need a key layout fix.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I'd probably use the milestone one.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
I agree, are you sure you flashed the correct rom for your device? I'd almost bet that you didn't if your key assignments are wrong.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Alright. I'll try that. Thanks. :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Per Finn ensure you have the I9000 rom and essentials.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Ah. I was using the Vibrant version. I've noticed nothing wrong other then the two keys Home and Back being reversed. Which I could deal with, I'm using the one screen keys anyway. Do you think I should still switch to the i9000 version anyway?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I would. Generally they seem better, closer to our phone.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
Alright. I'll do that right now. Thanks. I appreciate the help. :)
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Our pleasure!
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Is anybody else experiencing premature "low on space" warnings?

Like I've got 10gbs of space left on both my phone and my card (20 total) and I'm still getting this warning persistently.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
I used to. Could be datadata filling up.

Do you use Chrome beta?
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
Nope, I dunno where it could be coming from.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
If you go to manage applications, you can sort by size and see what is taking up space. Maybe clear cache on your browser.