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[Galaxy S I9000 General] MrAndroid12:
That is a preference I believe. There are two types of organism :p One type likes vanilla android while the second type likes modifications.

Personally, I prefer some of Sammy's modifications over android and LG's crappy ones.

Lockscreen/key aspect:

I like how Lockscreen has music controls, how drag down notification bar has shortcuts and again music controls.

Apps:

1)black magic... hardware accelerated browser in gingerbread.. that is what I missed most after moving away from iOS... ICS's HW accelerated browser is no where as fluid in physics,...

2)Music app... Is a lot snapper and pretty looking.

3)Camera app... neater with tons of features

4)FM radio app.. better looking

5)Video player... neater, better looking

6)Touchwiz 4.. deeply integrated, ultra smooth with graphically intensive live wallpaper and I like to arrange my apps according [panel by panel] i.e. most used, VOIP, games etc...

7)iCons

Dislikes;

1)Touchwiz 3.. laggy and looks ugly with tiles. App drawer itself looks like my old iPod with iOS 3 which was converted into a phone. TW3 itself doesn't deeply integrate or improve overall user experience, but instead lags it..

2)Samsung bloatware.. Touchwiz 3, Samsung apps for example

3)The lockscreen, no silent toggling.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mark234:
So actually I would be very happy with the firmware and performance.

But I've always now a problem with the JW4 MyBackup Pro, which I had never before:

If I create a backup of the APPS or restore apps, the galaxy hangs totally , so you must pull the battery.

When backing up a few apps will always be the error:

- Android Market could not be opened for links

- Link of the android market not found

When backing up all the apps it never comes to the end, because before everything freezes.

i have flashed two times, with 3-piece and one-piece file. Flashed before a clean jVU.

With jVU I never had this problem !!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zmthink:
Just got the valuepack update through kies. I think this would probably be the last (major) update for i9000, and can I root on this version now? Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neroux:
Is there any general conclusion about XXJW4?

Opinions range from bad touch sensitivity, a charging indicator bug, more available memory which is immediately taken by the system, buggy localisation to faster accelerometer, improved performance and so on.

I am currently on XWJVZ (November's 2.3.6 build) and would like to know whether it would be worth it to upgrade to XXJW4 (either for performance or security or feature reasons) or whether it is really worse than previous 2.3.x versions and introduces new bugs.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cy4n1d3:
I did not encounter any bugs yet.

Performance seems to be about the same, hard to say as good old Talon-kernel does not seem to work on this rom yet.

Touch sensitivity seems to be alright for me, although this could also be fixed using some script like Thunderbolt...

Guess if I were you, I would wait until our xda modders have leveled out the culprits. I came from JVZ/JW1 and did not notice any big changes.

I do like the lockscreen however ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] marjoejoejoe:
so far so good , flashed using heimdall
[Galaxy S I9000 General] popopupu:
I have the JVP with speedmod kernel, I just would have to put the file in Pda on Odin and Repartition unchecked?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Exand:
please post results in Quadrant and Antutu benchmark.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lcampori:
imho better to stay on jvz. I did not see any real improvement on jw1 in smoothness nor speed. I tried it for a couple of days then reverted back to jw1 which is rock stable.

So far jvz/jw1 is the best sammy release for sgs.

Oh I've tried half a dozen ics roms as well. Jw1 way better.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neroux:
JW1 is a leaked version though, not an official one, right?

So unless JW4 comes with some crucial security fixes there is no need to upgrade to any higher version (assuming Samsung wont release new 2.x or 4.x versions for the SGS).

Thanks a million
[Galaxy S I9000 General] farazhassankhan:
Please Let Me Know

Folks - I am new to this ROM Flashing and stuff. I have recently installed ICS via Odin in my SGS1. However, I am not really liking it. so I want to install GB again. Since my phone is already rooted, do I have to do all that process via odin and then install 2.3.6 file in my phone or I can directly do that without using odin this time. I am confused and dont want to brick my phone. Please help.

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Hi there, I am seeking for help. I installed ICS in my SGS but I want to go back to GB. I am confused if I have to use odin and then install zip file in my phone in order to flash 2.3.6 or I can do it without odin and directly install 2.3.6 zip file in my phone. Please let me know. Thank you.

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Hi there, I want to come back to Gingerbread from ICS but I dont know the process to do this. I had used odin and then flashed ICS. I want to ask if I need to use odin again and then install GB ROM or I can do that directly from my phone by running zip file after wipe out of cache etc? Please let me know, I am confused.:(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neelsgs:
Which ROM? Stock? Or custom?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neelsgs:
If you want stock then yeah u have to use odin , if custom I.e. CM7, u would just need to boot into CWM recovery and wipe data, cache,dalvic then flash rom , then reboot and REFLASH the ROM and Google apps . But for some ROMs like gamerz you need to go to stock via Odin and root by flashing a rooted kernal e.g. semaphore to get CWM to flash ROM.

PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM INCORRECT
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lcampori:
no. JW1 is official.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neroux:
Right, I just looked it up and saw its the build from mid-December, sorry!

One thing which confused me a bit in your previous posting, you tried JW4 for a couple of days and then reverted to JW1 or you reverted from JW1 to JVZ? I assume its the former, but just want to check :rolleyes:

Generally, would it be advisable to upgrade from JVZ to JW1 or are they more or less the same?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Calidreaming:
I would like to confirm that in this day of test I noticed little lag on touchscreen reactivity as mentioned by other in this 3d.

nothing dramatic, but surely you can see.

byez

PS

sorry for my bad english ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Black Rose:
JW1 was leaked in December and then released officially in late January.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] marjoejoejoe:
If you want , flash stock GB through odin or heimdall ( i also prefer to repartition)

i prefer heimdall...you can download Stock GB packages or create your own.

*for MAC OSX users, i've experienced problems uploading PIT files so flashing stock GB will have to do without any repartition...to repartition use Linux / Windows version of Heimdall

If its a custom ROM< just follow their guides...but i would normally , coming from ICS, flash stock GB first before flashing custom GB ROM...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lcampori:
sorry for not being clear enough.

I was on jw1 (official), then tried jw4 for some days, didn't like it, reverted back to jw1.

jvz and jw1 are very similar indeed, as far as I know. I use jw1 just because I have t9 italian language on stock keyboard.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cosmingcr:
No custom rom yet. There will be any?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jords7:
Hi guys

Could someone please answer a few questions for me (never flashed a firmware before)

- I live in Australia, will i experience network difficulties?

- My Current Firmware is I9000XXJVT 2.3.5 with a semaphore kernel and ext4, do i need to convert this back to rfs?????? also anything else i should be aware of upgrading from this to XXJW4

- Is English an available language?(probably stupid question but want to be sure)

Thanks alot :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] charmthief88:
Strengths of the JW4 firmware

I was interested in this firmware for a few reasons, to see TW4, to get the camera ability to take stills while recording, to test the JW4 modem to, to see how the face unlock with blinking works. I had in one of these threads here DL the Jw4 Modem for ICS. Was going to try to flash it via Odin. But thanks to reading I think that is a bad plan. No one has said its much better than JVU while XXKB3 is considerably better. Plus other potential foot falls suggested. wait until ICS version flashable with CMW.

While I am glad to hear that it works wonderfully for some people, I'm under no delusion that dev ICS roms often still in alpha build stages dance over Samsungs final release. It's a case of passions, brilliance, dedication coming together versus work load deadline. Plus most of Sammy's investment will be focused mainly on the newer stuff sgs3, galaxy beam, note, etc.

Phone: SGS i1900

Rom: Dark Knight 3

Kernel: Devil 1.1.6

Modem: XXKB3
[Galaxy S I9000 General] majava:
So is this ROM supposed to be available through Kies/OTA? Kies is claiming my JVO is latest firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] A.S1980:
Hi

is there rtl for deodexed?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Xami:
can u please give me the link of JW4 CSC file because this download file has only JW4.tar file without csc and modem

thanks in advance

sorry for my bad english
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kabracity:
- No, AFAIK

-Yes, go back to rfs before Odin flashing. Make backup of important stuff just in case.

-Yes, English is available

Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ppavlovic:
Don't be angry on samsung developers because of "charging" word on lockscreen they just use google translate ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DMXOnline:
Did any one after rooting get a blinking display it's not always but some times it get's that thing it's more like it keeps restarting the touchwiz then blinking.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MoshuXXL:
It happened to me in the first hours after updating.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MrAndroid12:
For me, face unlock doesn't do jack. Different surrounding environment can affect it and decline access.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Siberian Tiger:
@Przekret

You should add in new features and this:

If you go to settings-accessibility-vision-font size.

There you can change the text size for some apps(Calendar,Memo,Contacts & Messaging) :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] syamsoul:
thanks siberian tiger :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MoshuXXL:
I would like a link with 3 file JW4. I want to make a clean install.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DeusEx80:
Look here (Ramad official firmware thread): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1102881
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Finguz:
Reading the OP the instructions say to run the included Odin....

There is not a version of Odin in the .zip I just downloaded from the link in the OP?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madushan92:
Yep, it happened to me. When I restart the phone, wallpaper settings were gone and the app drawer was reset. Better backup the launcher if u hav changed the app drawer :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DeusEx80:
there is a separate link for Odin 1.82 and pit 512 in the Ramad thread: http://www.mediafire.com/?4h2cx5915ygd22a
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Finguz:
Thanks Deus, I had several versions of Odin, but wasn't sure if there was a " right one " to use.

Much appreciated :cool:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wuh_hassan:
hello sir, does chain fire: kernel works with this VPU? or this kernel is enough....

please do reply
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mark234:
Yes, i had the blinking too after changing to launcher SPB shell 3D launcher and then going back to the TW Launcher

I had to pull the accu and restart the handy
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wuh_hassan:
did this kernel worked,,plz reply me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zalimtayyar:
GPS

What about GPS performance? I think there is no impovement. Also I did not see the "angry gps" app. So *#3214789650# does not work.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mark234:
GPS performance was ok at me , id did not recognize this sporadically losses of satellites .

Yes the angry GPS menu didn't work at mine , too .
[Galaxy S I9000 General] borjaag:
Why there isn't any kernel except CF-Root?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MoshuXXL:
I heared CF-Root is acting funky with this ROM
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Enspade:
Can anyone make a cwm flashable zip for this??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Black Rose:
Because Samsung have not released the source code for the JW4 kernel yet.

It may be several weeks or longer before they do.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DMXOnline:
so there are two options, one the problem is in the build version of the firmware or option two the root make something different and the firmware doesn't like it ?

did you rooted when it began the problem or ..?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madushan92:
What i did was flashed the firmware, switched on, switched off, then rooted... :)

Dont know whether it happens if u r not rooted...

Also while it is flashing I went to the task manager, cleared the RAM and then the home button, launcher was normal..

Can't we try V6 supercharger? It had Hard-to-kill launcher, this flashing happens when the launcher was killed, isn't it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ajay_lanki:
No Data

Hi,

No data after flashing this ROM. It worked for a week then it stopped working. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ajay
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Geryatrix:
Maybe I'm not being very observant, but I can't find the photo editor.

Can someone please tell me how to open it, or at least wher I can find it.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madushan92:
It's in the app drawer, see for an app called Photo Editor... :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Geryatrix:
Thank you! I must have checked my app drawer 10 times, but now I've found it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oswade:
Does anyone else have settings FC when setting pin lock? Or did I corrupt my rom?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EmDzei:
Quadrant Standard v2.0 | Stock JW4 | JF-Rooted

Someone asked about Quadrant benchmark. I run it just once and here it is. Not the fastest kernel settings by CF-Root Tweak Manager v1.20, becouse I have set CPU goverment more battery friendly. Click picture to enlarge it.

Seems my EXT4 is not on, becouse so poor I/O scores. By witch tool I push it on or convert it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gsw5700:
you need the ext4 app which you can download from xda. Using the conservative govenor is laggy!

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] EmDzei:
Ext4 tool needed

After EXT4 converting - although it said that not enough space on /system. All other folders converted.

Thank you for the diamond info to search the EXT4 tool here from XDA, not on Google Play market.

Some non-stock kernels support 16 different modes of govenor settings. Dunno what this is, but haven't feel so huge lag that I should disable it. For me more imporatant is battery life; installed 1.600 mAh Li-Po battery (yep, not Li-Ion).

EDIT:

Found EXT4 Tool v1.3 (CF-Root-ext4-v1.3-Addon.apk) from Chainfire.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gsw5700:
you need to remove some system apps to free up space in /system, think you need something like 7mb free (check in xda), you can remove samsung bloatware and/or ringtones to get the space, then rerun ext4 app

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] oswade:
Someone pls confirm :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ExAvantz:
i have some questions:

1. in TW4 ... how i want to arrange the icons with the alphabatic order ? :confused:

2. can i flash another kernel (midnight / semaphore) into this rom ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] christian5916:
1. You can't

2. If there's one for this rom yes, some guys are reporting problems with other kernels not based on this one
[Galaxy S I9000 General] christian5916:
Nope it works fine for me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Fremen567:
1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.demidoes.appzorter.lite

2. Not yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sharad_chandar:
Dialer Bug

Hi Guys,

I upgraded from XXJVU to XXJW4 a couple of days back and I seem to have a problem with my Dialer app.

The smart dialer stops working at times and I am unable to switch to the logs or favourites tab either. Restating the phone solves this error for sometime but it reappears after a while.

Has anyone else experienced the same and is there a fix for it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Omarjivraj:
Do we really need the tweaks or this firmware is better without them because i hear the huge ram makes the system overall fast?

n plz advice i want to be on the purest form of this firmware. Ive rooted with cfroot, is cfroot good?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gsw5700:
I'm finding jw4 really good (after jvu) removed all bloatware, using cfroot kernel with noop scheduler, pantriff theme (modified in kitchen), tried ext4 but back to rfs as its running well. I do miss voodoo colour, but starting to get used to stock. Android overhead is almost zero, its very efficient, stacks of free memory and great multi tasking, going to leave ics alone for a while as everything just works, not one fc/sod :-)

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] ExAvantz:
tq bro... ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madushan92:
me too...!! Found no bugs with JW4 and il stick with it for a few weeks... :)

the only problem is, i miss simaphore.. :( hope the kernel will be out soon
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ExAvantz:
can i change a battery icon to a number or percentage icon ? recommend me 1 pls... tq
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MoshuXXL:
Battery Status app. Simple but does the trick.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andoceo:
Moshu,

I am sure that ExAvantz want something like in ICS Build 17+, Nightly, not only a notification in drawer ...

Something like here : http://tweakers.net/ext/f/wZKZ7RIX8eOgL3dFp7qHA7D9/full.png
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lcampori:
google for uot kitchen.

it's not just about icons, you have to mod framework-res.apk code. uot kitchen will do the trick for you.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EmDzei:
/system converted to EXT4

Thank you master!

At start I had only 2.57 MB free on system folder. I removed to safe place swype.apk to my external memory card, and now system folder converted to EXT4 fileformat, too. Hurrah!

(I like swype, but it is useless for me until it doesn't support scandinavian letters.)

One bug I have met with this JW4 firmware: have took some pictures by camera with SCN value Text and the result have been a photo, where there are two frames overlapped. Hey! Not everytime, but most with this SCN value. The photo have divided to two same size pieces and other piece is upper than other. Weird thing is that the Gallery app can view it although the format is clearly broken. Sadly I do not have anymore a model example about this bug and hope you shape what I mean.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gsw5700:
Folks, anyone recommend any good init.d scripts for jw4 to replace cfroot tweaks?

I've only used uv script, noop scheduler

update

using several semaphore init.d scripts after experimenting, 'seems' to be very very smooth and fast, only missing voodoo colour but getting used to stock colour, very pleased with jw4

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
I've found using Go Launcher instead of Touchwiz solves all the force close and freezes I was experiencing with this rom. It was really frustrating because TW would run like a dream 90% of the time and then lag like hell. Go Launcher has solved that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gsw5700:
go launcher is much better, period.

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] MrAndroid12:
Touchwiz doesn't freeze on this Rom like all.previous versions.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xmen25:
The home screen is real laggy.

But the amt. Of free ram is avg. 90mb. Thats great.

You dont get that much on cm7!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zalimtayyar:
that's true for me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tyxerakias:
It freezes a lot for me. Folders crash, the phone stops responding for almost one minute when it happens. I even had a couple of s.o.d. Very disappointed with what looked like a good looking rom when I first installed it. I should say that I wiped everything after the installation, and reinstalled my apps very carefully with titanium, I have many, many of them (which all worked fine before), which I then arranged in folders. I have stock kernel, not even cf-root. I don't know how some people don't have any problems, but I am so disappointed with this rom -probably the last official rom for our phone- that I'm switching to custom ics asap. Larger memory was welcome, but I think that the freezes killed it for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tyxerakias:
Double post - apologies.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ExAvantz:
my TW works perfect on my both value pack & hybrid 13
[Galaxy S I9000 General] g3n3ral:
jw5 just release so does it means jw5 is better than jw4?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MrAndroid12:
Same thing based on another region
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dk206:
Do you think getting the semaphore kernel for jw4 (when it comes out) will make it less laggy?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] root-61:
Jw4 has more stability
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HM.Carbide:
For sure semaphore can still speed up the rom a bit.

Samsung made a lot of things good in this rom and with tw4, but on some point tw4 freezes for 5, 10 sometimes even 30 seconds. What ever tw4 is doing during those freezes, no kernel can fix it.

It is a “bug“, or at least not a good implementation in tw4.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MrAndroid12:
It is weird, on JVS with touchwiz 4 it would freeze the phone after reopening asphalt 6 2 times.

On JW4, I has so far tried it 20 times (No I am not being sarcastic) and it hasn't freezed once. The gameplay itself doesn't stutter like on JVS.

I have killed the launcher many times and it didn't freeze the phone.

*I have flashed JVS CSC instead of JW4 just for a note
[Galaxy S I9000 General] g3n3ral:
the sms font is way too large any apps to make it smaller
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
I replaced the system font with Roboto regular, which is smaller and more narrowly kerned and sms and web surfing is much better.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] g3n3ral:
Thanks men

One more thing i cant download in market 26mb up error there is no enough space ????? any fix gor this ?

and also my market not updtae to google play
[Galaxy S I9000 General] g3n3ral:
Um im sorry i thought roboto regular is market app

Can you help me how to install it to my phone
[Galaxy S I9000 General] FCB-Fan:
Wich is better: this or JW5?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] g3n3ral:
For me it is same
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oswade:
The only problem that I have with JW4 is that the memory leak seems to be extreme. I have gotten to a point where i have over 300mb/364mb used, even after killing all apps!!!

This seems to be at least partially resolved by LMK scripts such as thunderbolt, but available memory still decreases over time. I have not tracked this down to a single app yet though...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
It's a flipfont, downloadable from XDA Developers
[Galaxy S I9000 General] durikmel:
Hi,

Go to Settings / Accessibility / Font size. For me, "small" works reasonably well.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bazexa:
sorry mates..

it;s asking for pass of the .rar file. can someone help me?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Arcangel_SP:
If I flashed it over a JVU and no wipe (for dont lose data) it work ok? or have any bug and priblem or lose data anyway

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chudek:
This rome is awesom but i have 1 problem with tw4... It's running very well but when I'm using browser to loong the TW4 was killing but i have 80mb free ram! All icons are loading from the beginning. Anyone knows how fix this? i dont wanna change launcher to Go launcher ex because TW4 is faster...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
As reported above I found switching to Go Launcher faster than TW4 but crucially it solved the crashing and lagging I experienced with TW4. I'm also getting better battery life, 12+ hours as opposed to 8+ hours
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ultraman1966:
I would like the report the same as above, I can't believe how much it crashed and froze with Touchwiz 4... makes me wish they'd given us stock ICS without their crap on!