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[Fascinate General] simnorm:
I.m using sephamore's auto brightness at bright, I didn't use the phone all that much today. Why is it using so much?

I recently switched to the latest sephamore, before my phone would at about 50% by the end of the day.!
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Do you use exchange?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Also search for better battery stats in xda and install that app
[Fascinate General] simnorm:
Yes, I used it for work email. I use the calendar widget and synch my work calendar. Also i don't auto synch email. Only manual synch
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
OK - that's happened to me twice now. If you install better battery stats you'll see mail service is chewing your battery. So, go into SETTINGS, ACCOUNTS - find your exchange account and remove it ... maybe reboot for good measure, then add your account back in.

Should be right as rain again.
[Fascinate General] simnorm:
Brilliant! I will try it.

Awesome job with this thread, thanks so much for your help
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
No prob. We have a good group here. :)
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
So I tried the I9000 version and it won't install at all... It aborts almost immediately.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Given you may have messed up some things I would suggest starting from scratch. Reflash froyo and going from there
[Fascinate General] nohead88:
I tried a few modems under Perka's File Stash (/Samsung/ICS_CM_Modems/850_Modems_CM). But none seems work out for me.

I just checked my imei#, it's the same in the phone settings and the number under the battery.

I'm back to stock 2.3.3 for now. Will try soon for another attempt. It's more challenging than flashing my old OP1. Still find it weird that I get jammed at the modem/efs step...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
That is weird. Those are pretty straight forward items.
[Fascinate General] canadagolfnut:
Probably an extremely stupid question here, but the t959d is compatible with i9000 accessories right?

So if a 3rd party battery or tvout cable says i9000, thats good to go right?

And Im wondering how many others in here are waiting for the people with lots of posts to post that a jb rom is working good for them so all us newbs can jump on it.. lol. ;)
[Fascinate General] spacekobra:
I have had minimal issues with slim bean. And slim bean 2.0 is around the corner.

I thought I already said slim bean is great.
[Fascinate General] aniym:
Guys, I need help with restoring the EFS folder.

I followed the instructions to the letter: flash stock Froyo, upgrade to stock GB via Kies, backup EFS, root with S1C, flash Glitch Recovery, install ICS.

By the time I have stock GB installed, the phone shows the correct IMEI.

Once ICS is installed (the current ROM in Post#2 is actually a JB build FYI), my IMEI shows up as unknown, even after I copy over my EFS backup into the root / folder through Root explorer.

What am i doing wrong? One post said to paste the EFS folder into /system, but that doesn't make sense as I originally made the backup from the / folder as there wasn't an EFS folder in /system.

I downgraded from the JB ROM linked in post#2 to a SlimICS 4.2, with no luck.

Help would be appreciated. Thanks very much.

One more thing: I had used a different method to root and get to ICS, which left my phone with a placeholder IMEI (004999010640000) but now I'm not even getting that, just an IMEI unknown message. If I type in*#06# on the keypad, it shows "IMEI (blank)" on the screen.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
You're correct in efs folder placement being at root...( / ). Try again...should work, don't forget that it won't show up till after reboot.
[Fascinate General] aniym:
Thanks for your help, but that didn't work. One thing that's a bit weird is that when I initially made the backup, it copied files into an /EFS folder onto the external sdcard, which had a subfolder called /efs that included the right number of files as what was in the root / folder. So essentially, I copy/pasted the /efs folder (with 11 files and subfolders) from the root directory, and got a directory called sdcard/efs/efs instead, with only the /efs subfolder containing the exact same files as in the /efs folder in root.

Didn't really make a difference as I couldn't get the IMEI back even after pasting back the /efs/efs only, rather than the whole /efs.

I'll try the ADB method outlined here next, but I'm afraid it'll be a command-line version of the same thing. Very frustrating !

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=859914
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
I actually spent hours trying to get my efs folder to copy back correctly so i could get a valid IMEI number when i first installed Slim ICS. I actually ended up giving up and flashing a different ICS Rom and got a IMEI number (not my real one but the fake 004xx one) which since my phone worked was good enough for me. Once that was working i reflashed Slim and everything has been working since. I can't say for sure since i am no expert but i think for going from GB to the Slim Rom you have to do things a bit different then the OP Post. If you follow the install instructions on the Slim site it says to flash a CM9 nightly before flashing Slim (which i didn't do)...not sure if that is what causes the IMEI issue or not...again not an expert just a thought one day i am going to test it by going back to Froyo and restarting
[Fascinate General] aniym:
Hmm, based on what I read on the Redflagdeals forum on the Telus Fascinate, someone had the same problem as I and flashed a compatible modem through Perka's stash: here's the post:

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/guide-telus-samsung-galaxy-s-telus-fascinate-1201912/3/#post15067776

So I tried it, and instead of getting the IMEI unknown message, I got the fake 004xx one, but my SIM was showing a signal (it was weak, as someone in this thread has mentioned). Following that, I tried to restore the EFS folder and rebooted, only to lose the mobile network all together. Wow, I've never had as many problems with getting custom ROMs on this with any other phone. I want to offload it on Kijiji and get something else, but the resale value would be a bit higher if I could just get ICS and my IMEI back!!!
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
If this was my problem, personally I wouldn't waste anymore time looking for a fix. I'd flash back to stock, backup efs onto both pc and sdcard, then make my way back to where you want to be...fresh. Should only take an hour or so, sounds like you've already invested enough time trying to sort it out already.

Hope you get it worked out sooner or later though, :fingers-crossed:
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
So i am still having issues with getting pretty much anythung onto my Telus T959D. Closest i have come is that i have managed to get Semaphore CWM Recovery v5.5.0.4 so far. Everything else is wiped but i have had no luck getting a rom onto my phone.... Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as i need my phone running by wednesday evening.
[Fascinate General] aniym:
Well, you haven't provided much detail, but if you have CWM running on your phone, you can mount the internal storage of the phone on your PC through CWM, copy over a ROM, and flash it.
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
Ok. So I got SlimICS 4.0.4(Build 4.2) on my phone finally....

This has likely been asked already but I was wondering if there is anyway to get some the 2 errors to stop coming up. ("gmail has stopped working" and "android.media.process failed")
[Fascinate General] aniym:
I would recommend following this Youtube tutorial...it worked well for me, and it is literally step by step, which is why there are 3 parts to that video. Best of all, all the files required are online, unlike a lot of the XDA tutorials which are plagued with missing files and kernels. Follow this to the letter and you will have ICS running in about 30-40 mins.

http://youtu.be/6nb-xyP3tvo
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
I finally got Slim ICS 4.0.4 (v4.2) with Semaphore 1.3.0s running on my phone but I have the issue of not being able to use ringtones or play music for some reason.
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Well, after chompin' on the bit for the next Slim Bean 2.0 I got impatient waiting. So I just flashed Helly Bean, so far I've got to say it's nicely laid out and quite responsive. No issues flashing but as with my previous JB roms...time will tell. Nice thing about this rom and the dev though is that it's pretty much at the nightly stage with updates...
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I thought it was pretty good, but a few days in and I started having massive lag and FC issues. Not sure what changed, but.. I'm staying away for a bit. Keep the updates rollin'! I want to know what I'm missing!
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Yah, that's pretty much my experience as well with past JB roms. Hoping things have changed and I'll most definitely keep you posted...

Tapatalk-XDA Premium...eeep, oppp, errrrrrrr
[Fascinate General] Matt5606:
I would backup whatever you can, and do a factory reset. Then reinstall the rom from recovery. Sometimes those errors come up from leftover files. Try that and let us know how you make out!
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
May also want to go to manage apps>gmail>clear data, same idea for media storage. May work, may not but it's an easy try...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Good idea Finn - I think that worked for me previously actually when I had the same issue. Just needed to do a refresh. Note that I believe stock Slim does not have a lot of sounds - I downloaded a sound pack to have more options (love the T-Mobile ringtone LOL). Zedge is also a good program for sounds.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Follow Finn's recommendations - this should work and has, but as always with different ROMs and methods appearing all the time, its hard to know impacts at times until someone hits them.

What is the JB ROM in my second post? Went back and checked, I have a steps for Darky's cause that was a little different but that is 4.0.4.
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
Ty. This worked great. Have had no issues after the factory reset... keeping my phone backed up so its easier to fix next time lol.

Ty everyone for your help
[Fascinate General] Ipse_Tase:
Moosehead11, I am exactly in the same boat. Everything works but it's sure annoying as hell to have lost ur IMEI. BTW: I never flashed CM9 as I went straight to Dark.

I'm wondering if this IMEI issue is related to my Bell Mobile TV not working... and I'm not going back to Froyo to find out. Not with KIES not working :-\
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
I think you only have to do a CM9 nightly going to Slim (at least thats the instructions on the Slim site) but unfortunately i missed that part...i'm debating going back to Froyo this weekend to get my IMEI back...Slim Bean 2.0 is out now so i am starting to get the itch to check it out
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
Just wondering. What modem would you recommend for koodo/telus in Canada?

"Gotta love XDA-Developers"
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
I'm currently using BVJJPG
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
OK. I will try to find it to download... ty

"Gotta love XDA-Developers"
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Use Perkas
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
Can you provide a link for it please? Don't have my computer for awhile so doing this all over my phone lol

"Gotta love XDA-Developers"
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Look for an app in playstore for Perka's file stash.

Tapatalk-XDA Premium...eeep, oppp, errrrrrrr
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
OK ty

"Gotta love XDA-Developers"

---------- Post added 9th August 2012 at 12:07 AM ---------- Previous post was 8th August 2012 at 11:55 PM ----------

Modem is working great! Thank you for everything... phone is working better then ever and battery lasted 14 hours without needing to be charged.

"Gotta love XDA-Developers"
[Fascinate General] Ipse_Tase:
Update: I bit the bullet and placed the backup of /EFS directory into /nitrality/backup to force a restore afterwards.

IT WORKED!!!

But that Bell Mobile TV shaite is still a no-go even with a modded build.prop
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
So where did you put your EFS folder and did it recover your actual IMEI number?
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Anyone on slimbean 2.0.1 yet?
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
Yup, I've come and gone :).

Tried Helly Bean for a day, then back to the latest version of SlimBean. Found it somewhat laggy at times so I just flashed back to Helly...

How's about you there Jp?
[Fascinate General] karmatose:
I'm staying put on SlimICS for a while. Being on the bleeding edge is fun, but it took me six months to make the move to ICS. I love the stability. It'll be a while before I make my next move. Also, I found in the brief time that I was running JB, there wasn't many killer features worth jumping for. Google Now doesn't interest me and the enhanced notices aren't worth the trade off in stability.

At any rate, keep the updates and reports coming, guys. I love knowing what I'm missing.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Still on slim Finn. Trying not to be on the phone stuff too much... Summer is to short.
[Fascinate General] DaiZengar:
So I've got DarkyROM 11 installed, and everything on it is working just great. My only concern is that I'm getting a really weak signal around the house, when before, I could get full bars. I even find myself with no signal when I'm in my room. Would flashing the old Froyo modem fix this problem, or would that just make things worse since it's outdated? Or is it just a side-effect of using a custom ROM that I have to deal with?
[Fascinate General] finneginsfast:
True that buddy. I've gotten to the point that it really takes very little time out of my day. I can flash a new rom in the lunch room at work for instance :D...

Tapatalk-XDA Premium...eeep, oppp, errrrrrrr
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Froyo modems will not work on ICS but a new modem may help. Look at Perkas stash referenced in the ops for help there
[Fascinate General] DaiZengar:
You just saved my bacon again man, everything is working as it should! I think i owe you a case of beer or more at this point for all the help you've given me with this thread.
[Fascinate General] AluminumHaste:
Yeah did it last night. Working fine. A little laggy, but I'll wait til next release if it doesn't improve I might head back to SlimICS.
[Fascinate General] Claybear85:
Hi guys does anyone know the APN mms settings for Telus? I can not send or receive multimedia texts.
[Fascinate General] Dayfid:
My APN settings are

Name: Telus SP

APN: sp.telus.com

Proxy: Not Set

Port: Not Set

Username: Not Set

Password: Not Set

Server: Not Set

MMSC: http://aliasredirect.net/proxy/mmsc

MMS proxy: 74.49.0.18

MMS Port: 80

MCC: 302

MNC: 220

Authentication type: Not set

APN type: default,supl,mms

APN protocol: IPv4

APN enable/disable: Greyed out + checked

Bearer: Unspecified

You can try those or match them up with your previous APN settings. Be sure to write down your previous ones in case anything messes up or try making a new APN instead. Picture messaging works for me, I didn't test if I could receive pictures but it should work.
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
I made the jump yesterday before work. I haven't even fixed my build.prop yet!

Anyway the jury is still out.
[Fascinate General] bucknetbucky:
Wow has this thread grown lol. On slimbean 2.0 with the 2.0.1 fix. So far it flies and no issues with market or signal (better signal actually). Updated build.prop and no issues there either. Battery might be an issue but will see.

Just a warning though, do not install the t959 ROM from there it is not for this device ;).

Don't have all the time I used to to keep up with you guys so good job keeping this alive and from what I can see the help is much appreciated.

Bucky
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
I've had a stutter here and there but nothing deal breaking yet. I agree it seems a bit hard on the battery, though I've never had great battery life to begin with.
[Fascinate General] AluminumHaste:
So I've tried going to Helly Bean 3 times now, each time I get stuck in a recovery error to auto reboot loop after flashing the HB_inital file. I can pull the battery and get back into recovery sometimes, this last time it just kept boot looping. Finally gave up and odined glitch kernal with recovery from first post, and am trying to get back to SlimBean but I can't get to the backup as it's on Ext sd card which won't mount lol.

So I'm going to try reflashing SlimICS.
[Fascinate General] nereis:
I was wondering if anyone's ever tried putting a 64 GB micro sd card in this phone and see if it gets recognized?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1278945

http://www.androidnz.net/2011/09/sandisk-64gb-micro-sdxc-cards-confirmed.html

I found reports as to i9000 taking Sandisk 64 GB cards, but wonder if that applies to t959d too.
[Fascinate General] AluminumHaste:
Omg so had to go back to stock Froyo then Kies->GB then follow first page instructions to get onto Glitch kernel, now restoring SlimBean NANDroid backup. Restoring now....hopefully it works

EDIT: Nope that didn't work, the restore from backup worked, but my touch screen doesn't work now. Sigh. Oh well, back to Froyo again. /facepalm
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
Ok for those that know of Koodo and that it is a Telus company. Anyone know how I can get my phone back on the Koodo network? I can use the Telus network but it doesn't allow me to mms messages at all...
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Search for koodoo apn settings
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
http://cellexpert.net.p8.hostingprod.com/advanced_settings/apn_settings
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
Ty... still not able to send mms messages :(
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Make your apns type equal to default,supl,mms
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
I've got another strange issue, this time with music sound quality. The earbuds that came with my phone craped out a month or two ago. I went without listening to music for a while the n a week or so ago I bought a pair of Jlab J5MBL earbuds off of amazon. The came in the mail a couple of days ago, plugged them in. Music quality is great but the voice's are really quiet, have a hard time hearing them over the music. First I thought the buds were faulty but I plugged them into the laptop and the sound was perfect. I messed with the dsp manager settings and didnt really get much of any change in anything. Even tried uninstalling the dsp altogether, no change. Running the latest slim ics and semaphore. Not sure if ive got a software issue or maybe ive just dropped my phone one to many times and have knocked something loose. Any thoughts?
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Try installing the voodoo sound ap...i found i got better quality using it
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
oh yeah, forgot to mention that I tried playing around with that one too. bah
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
Actually, strangely this is happening to me as well. I have two pairs of earbuds, one that came with my phone and another came with my Galaxy Tab. The ones that came with my phone work beautifully best earbuds I've had in a while actually. The ones from the GTab look a little cheaper and they make the music louder than the vocals. In fact one song had background vocals that were supposed to be quiet and they were louder than the singer! I haven't tried them in any other device yet... and... so they work fine with the GTab and with my PC. Very strange.
[Fascinate General] nereis:
Do the headphones have a trrs connector?

(4 pins instead of the regular 3 pin trs)

If so I've found the extra ring for mic signal mess with ground connection, and can be verified through a headphone extension cable or sometimes pushing the mic button. As far as I know there is no solution without sacrificing mic functionality.
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
There's the strange part. Both of my earbuds are the 4 ring variety. I've attached a photo of mine for reference. I'm interested to know what jonnyb16 has. I could probably explain mine since the GTab ones are really cheap feeling and might not get a good connection with the phone.
[Fascinate General] sergoreg:
temporary root

Is there a way to unroot this phone or root temporarily?

Does anybody know how to unroot phone rooted by zergrush?

Unroot function in SuperOneClick seems to be not working.

It seems to me that only option is flash back stock ROM via Odin?

If somebody knows where to find stock 2.2 rom for it can you please link it.
[Fascinate General] kagedtime:
if you want to flash back to stock there is a link on the first page with the stock firmware. or click here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2069701/T959TLJL3.zip

Use odin and these settings:

You will need to extract the .zip file first to get the separate files.

I'm not sure about unrooting, I've never tried before. Maybe someone else can comment on that.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
my buds have the microphone functionality. whats this mix button? weird that the buds that came with my phone had the microphone and still worked fine.
[Fascinate General] simnorm:
This occurs sometimes, very strange
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
What rom, kernel and widgets?
[Fascinate General] simnorm:
After a few refresh it clears

Slimics 4.2

Sephamore 1.3

Widgets:

Sense analog clock dark

Calendar
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
Wacky. Haven't seen that. I run the same but use nova prime, beautiful widgets, and apw.
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
Just as an after thought in regards to APN for Koodo. You need the Telus one and the Koodo one it seems to send MMS messages.
[Fascinate General] nereis:
Sorry I meant to say the mic button, that got auto corrected by the android keyboard.

It's that button which is meant to signal take or end calls, try holding it down to see if your headphones sound any different.
[Fascinate General] jonnyb16:
Well that is just messed up, holding down the button makes the sound perfect. Now I'm pissed, I spent more to get the version of the head phones with the Mic.
[Fascinate General] nereis:
For now the only easy fix is to get a short extension cable, or if you are good with electronic work, drop a bit of solder between the last ring and sleeve then sand down any protrusion if you are not interested in the mic anymore.
[Fascinate General] jpmccarthy:
What does that look like?
[Fascinate General] Ragn:
TELUS Mobility

Name: Telus SP

APN: sp.telus.com

Proxy: 74.49.0.18

Port:80

Username: <not set>

Password: <not set>

Server: <not set>

MMSC: http://aliasredirect.net/proxy/mmsc

MMS Proxy: 74.49.0.18

Port: 80

MMS Protocol: WAP 2.0

MCC: 302

MNC: 220

APN type: default,mms

Koodo Mobile

Name: Koodo SP

APN: sp.koodo.com

Proxy server: 74.49.0.18

Port: 80

Username: <Not set>

Password: <Not set>

Server: <Not set>

MMSC: http://aliasredirect.net/proxy/koodo/mmsc Proxy server: 74.49.0.18

Port: 80

MCC : 302

MNC : 220

APN type: default,mms

That's what I had to enter to get my MMS messaging back.
[Fascinate General] Ipse_Tase:
I placed my backed up EFS folder under insanity/backup (where the Nitrality app keeps it's backup) and did a restore.

Yes, I did get my IMEI back (the only reason why I even tried this). Glad it worked - you never know when you roam and the carrier has blocked the "generic" IMEI.

Just for the newer guys...I am on Darky11BE with Semaphore 1.2.6s and using the "conservative" governor (down from smartassv2) I drain 0.3% battery /hr when idle, 1% with moderate use. I am not a gamer - but damn pleased with battery life on ICS. Enough not to move to JB.

I gave up looking for the perfect modem (never lost signal other than in some basements) and stuck with BVJJPG.

My 2 cents
[Fascinate General] moosehead11:
Thanks

Will have to give it a shot when i have a free weekend