yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] arindammanidas:
Ain't that a bit racist. LOL:p:D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Sp8ky:
racist? not at all, all i meant is that someone whose language is english is easier to understand
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Perhaps, but I could turn around and say that my native language is actually New Zealand English... which basically involves taking English and swearing a lot more.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] arindammanidas:
LOL... I was just joking bro... chill :p:D:D:D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] arindammanidas:
I thought only the Aussies did that! :D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bscraze:
Haha well my native language is singlish!(and I'm proud of that :p)

How could you not have heard of the galaxy 3! Its one of the best phones for android modding, the oc it can handle is monstrous haha:p

Cheers:)

Sent from my GT-i9003 powered by Stable and Smooth CyanogenMod 9!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] loukalok:
this is galaxy 3:D:D:D:D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Best for modding? No way. Considering there is no documentation on the SoC whatsoever, it makes modding almost impossible.

Best for overclocking, I'd totally agree with that. I still don't think we found the highest possible clock speed on that phone. Perhaps if I put some big cooling on there I could try it out, but I'm too lazy.

For reference for people who don't know, the G3 has a 667MHz CPU... that will overclock to 1.4GHz on about 90% of peoples phones.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] shriom_manerker:
@hillbeast i've been doing sum reading about kernel 3.0 here > http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1644204

so by reading that entire thing i noticed that u cant flash stock roms on odin when kernel 3.0 is flashed .. so we need to flash a 2.3.6 kernel n then flash stock roms ? we can revert to stock firmware right ?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] loukalok:
hill

3.Xkernel is the best for ics??
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ale210:
2.3.6 is specific for gingerbread
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bscraze:
Hehe well it's good for Modding as there are sooo many great developers deving for it :p.

Cheers:)

Sent from my GT-i9003 powered by Stable and Smooth CyanogenMod 9!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Has anyone got a link to all the hardware inside the phone, as in a big list of what the sound chip is, the Wifi, all that stuff?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] quan815:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_SL_I9003

Hope it help :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
It's not specific enough.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bscraze:
Maybe you can contact one of the developers. We do not have many devs, not as much as the g3 forum, and thus also do not have many(or any) informative threads unlike what dharam did for the g3 forum :(.

Cheers:)

Sent from my GT-i9003 powered by Stable and Smooth CyanogenMod 9!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Alright I might just wait for it to arrive and make my own list.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vishal24387:
contact codeworkx or doomlord. They are master in case of hardware.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] deepanshu sharma:
soundchip is twl4030
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] chongns:
check this, hope it help

I9003 Service manual
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ale210:
Thanks it's very usefull !!!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Wahaha123:
did they send the phone to you yet or is it still with him? been almost 3 weeks and my phone is still on service center :(
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kancilpintar:
LOL at your sig, nice one man :D

Btw hillbeast, has Fuss send out his device? Do keep us updated :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] deepanshu sharma:
fuss has sent his device.Don't know when it will reach hillbeast.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ale210:
Cross fingers!!:D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
I will ask him.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] loukalok:
OK.wait your good news
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Gondya bhau:
http://blackscratches.blogspot.in/2012/04/how-to-build-android-kernel-308-for-ti.html

is this of any use ????

UT36104 posted it on the dev thread....
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
I pretty much knew all of this already.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Gondya bhau:
i thought that would be the case.....but one can always try :p:p:p:p
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] loneagl:
dude did u get the phone yet??? We are all anxiously waiting...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jamsori:
Pretty sure he'll post when he gets it.

Either way, it'll take a few weeks. Express postage is way too expensive... so have patience.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Well considering fuss only sent it yesterday due to time constraints, it won't be here for about two weeks.

Just be patient.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] xGiox:
2 weeks? o.o its year 2012,you can move the house to new zealand in 2 days,are they gonna swim over the ocean with it srsly.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] pulsar_swift:
Back off, observe professionalism when you talk.

Hillbeast is here to help us.

Even before the actual development has started, guys like you are experts at pissing off any dev who tries to help us.

To all members, don't ask for any updates. Your questions on this thread wont make the device fly.

If you are very eager, keep refreshing this thread to check if there is any update from hillbeast. Refrain from posting any comments or questions which don't add any value.

A new thread will be opened when the device has been received and the actual work has started.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] luiseteyo:
Guys I have been reading almost the whole thread. U are telling him there is a backlight issue. Yes, there is a backlight issue, but our devs found where the problem was, so I imagine when the 3.x kernel is built it will be very easy to fix sync bug (don't forget that), deep sleep bug, backlight bug... etc.

I imagine that devs will start working on the kernel to make it better. :) Don't worry about those things guys!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Sp8ky:
pulsar hold your horses, this is a general thread, not a development one so take it easy.

luiseteyo, what's wrong with sync? on ics my emails sync instantly, on GB i always had to refresh to check my emails
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
It's going in a boat. Boats can't go around the world in 2 days, let alone customs, sorting offices and through the mailman who will probably take it home with him before he finally decides to deliver it.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Wahaha123:
By boat, it'll take longer man. On Jan. we had a relative in the US deliver a dvd player over here in the Philippines which took 3-4 weeks. So pretty sure india-NZ delivery will take about 2 weeks.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] luiseteyo:
Hillbeast, you could start working in the kernel. If u need anything, u could ask us here to test, share, verify or whatever so ur work gets started before the device arrives...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] chongns:
Maybe you need to have uart to help up
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] simmer14:
just a suggestion for all these guys who are in hurry..

he must have given u a tracking no every company provides one to track the shipment why don't you share it with these unpatient users lol just a suggestion..
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] xGiox:
oh rly your comment is more offensive then mine,and has more reasons to piss some1 of,my was more like i joke,even though i don't get why don't they ship it with airplane its 150 g device.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kamilien:
May be that cost much more than the donation?

This discussion is needless.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Actually it's Germany to NZ.

You need UART.

Guys, stop. Don't start arguing over pointless crap. I'm not interested in anyone bickering or trying to defend themselves. Just don't reply.

Yeah it was going to be over $150.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Gondya bhau:
ok...just for general knowledge purposes, is kernel 3.4 the last one our processor is gonna get from TI ??? our will they release a kernel 4 once JB comes ???

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Kernel 3.4 is the latest kernel that exists on Linux. There is no such thing as kernel 4 unless you are speaking about Windows or Mach
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Gondya bhau:
hmm..ok i thought this kernel 3.x was just our processor (TIOMAP3360) related....

so while there was 2.xx for GB, then 3.xx for ICS...and maybe 4.xx for JB whenever it comes out.....

apparently this kernel 3.x is more of a large scale thingy....
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] santoshsadani009:
@hillbeast, just out of curiosity, can you tell us how is the Kernel 3.x Project for Galaxy 3 going on? Is the kernel booting yet?

Sorry for offtopic. Thanks :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
I can't get any output from UART and I don't know if its because

the mach code is wrong, the UART code is wrong or a combination of the above. Kernel 3.0 dropped support for the S5P6442 in the Galaxy 3 which means I have to rewrite it all over.

Nah the kernel versions don't match up with Android versions like that. Android is based upon whatever the latest Linux happens to be.

You have to remember that Linux dates back way farther than just Android. They won't make kernel versions just to keep Android happy.

Jellybean will most likely be 3.4 or 3.5 based.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Gondya bhau:
so basically linux comes out with new versions...then google implement the latest one in their android project.....

TI makes these kernels compatible with our processor.....and then we modify the kernel specifically for our phone...right ????
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Pretty much, yes. Samsung already made an old version work, but Samsung are terrible at coding and break a lot of code.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Gondya bhau:
2.6.x based kernels is what you are referring to..right...the one samsung used in their stock roms.....

but these "breaks" must have been fixed in custom kernels for our phone ??
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Yeah those ones.

And the problems, some of them will be fixed but some of them won't have been fully fixed.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] geco4u:
Calm down

Even if shipped with CHEAPER option,

it always goes BY AIR

(i don't really think in the 21st century there is any "by sea" postal service between Europe and Oceania) ;)

The difference is that, if shipped EXPRESS (=$$$) it uses top facilities and direct flights to reach destination asap.

By "cheap" service, the parcel uses standard sorting centers (held longer before shipped to next step) and so on...

I'm pretty sure in few days (if not delayed by NZ customs) the phone should safely arrive into HillBeast's hands :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] samisax:
So, what's the time-frame for a kernel to be written? I'm not asking for an ETA, I'm just wondering as to the order of magnitude of time. A few weeks? Months? A year? I can see that Dhiru's work is moving at a very fast pace and I just wondered if that's a medium tempo in coding terms. I'm new to XDA and ROMs and the sort, though I'm deciding whether or not I should learn coding and modding using my i9003, or stick with music for now haha. I was inspired by that front page Cyanogen opinion piece. :)

Cheers

EDIT: I'm not computer illiterate, I just don't code and don't cook ROMs.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
I can't say because I simply don't know. It could take a month, it could take a year. It just all depends.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Gondya bhau:
dhiru has backported quite a few things from kernel 3.0(i think).....so once you have a booting kernel, will you start fresh or just go through dhiru's kernel and copy paste the backported stuff ????
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Best not to copy and paste drivers. Best to start fresh. It's something I learnt from a developer for the Galaxy Spica who told me that moving drivers between kernels is an extremely bad idea. It will bring the problems from one kernel to the other.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skander1998:
I wish you goodluck :)

Our device really needs you. I can't express how i love you and dhiru.. thanks! :)

I'll wait even a decade, the only important thing is that there's people interested in helping. :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Gondya bhau:
a decade from now the hardware will be soooo good that we wont need devs trying to make roms work on older/less powerful hardware(as claimed by samsung).....similar to how today's games dont need the best of graphic cards to just work....or windows 7 doesnt need the best of specs to install...

plus as we can see from the galaxy s3....soon manufacturers will start making better roms than the pure android one.....

sure you can always get something better from devs though :D:D:D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skander1998:
It was just a figure of speech.. lol.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Gondya bhau:
yes it was....but i was sitting free here :p:p:p
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Under03Ground:
@hillbeast would you mind if i ask? did you receive the device already sir? any update?

cheers :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] redflash52:
He will recive the device in few weeks..
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Not yet. It's only been about 7 days. I'll wait until at least next week before panicking.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] loukalok:
yes.:D:D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] marshygeek:
hello guys im just curious, what are the goods stuffs beneath kernel 3 in our device? :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] santoshsadani009:
For our device, first there will be fixed bugs + Stability in ICS roms. And i think it would be able to support just every feature that comes with AOSP roms.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skander1998:
Making everything work, including H/W and video recording etc..
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] shriom_manerker:
the device still isnt shipped ?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
http://www.nzpost.co.nz/tools/tracking?trackid=RT038189005DE

Its somewhere between Germany and my doorstep.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] loneagl:
Can we use something from the new value pack?????
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] santoshsadani009:
Dhiru already said no to this. The value pack is more laggy than the CM9 itself. Nothing of use.

However i feel dhiru can use something from face unlock to make the face unlock and the front camera image perfect in CM9.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] luiseteyo:
Value pack's kernel has nothing different than othet gb firmware. Here we are talking about KERNEL, not ROM. For 3.X kernel building value pack has the same utility than for example kpe
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
What is this value pack? Is it a collection of proprietary components or something?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] loneagl:
Well Samsung denied our phone official ics and instead promised a ginger bread update with some ics features (face unlock, pic editor etc)

We had rather hoped that the value pack would come bundled with something we could use for the cm9 like kennel 3.0.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bscraze:
Hillbeast look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1544571

Cheers:)

Sent from my GT-i9003 powered by Stable and Smooth CyanogenMod 9!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Samsung confuse the hell out of me. Why did they go to the effort of PORTING Face Unlock and all that crap to Gingerbread when they could have put the same effort into porting ICS. Considering they already have all the files necessary to port ICS for this device, it would have been easier to just do that.

That's Samsung for you...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bscraze:
True true... Whats more is that thy ported it to any devices :p

Cheers:)

Sent from my GT-i9003 powered by Stable and Smooth CyanogenMod 9!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Wahaha123:
+1 Yes! Samsung is just lazy and only gives all their attention to their newer products. they do not care about the problems with s3's predecessors... they no longer have time for us.... Yes, they might have given effort to make a value pack, but do you think that they have given alot of effort on making it? based on how laggy it is i believe not. Just like what Hill Beast said, They could have ported an original ICS firmware for our device.

I still love samsung's products and stuff, But i no longer trust on their efforts and support to their customers.

---------- Post added at 09:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:58 PM ----------

im going to take out the new Swype from the value pack :) hahaha, i really liked it!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rockyddroid:
Can you post it here please?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Well actually the effort involved for a large company to make this so-called value pack would be less than it would for them to adapt the android_device_samsung_latona files for ICS and build it and debug it. They know ALL the ins and outs of the hardware, they hold all the documentation so fixing any bugs with ICS would be minimal...

But instead they'd rather keep people on GB. Why? Because if they give everyone a good OS, then there is no need to upgrade. I am still waiting for ICS to be released on my S2 (I know it's there, but it won't update in my country). I don't give a rats ass about the S3. The screen is nowhere near as nice as the S2, and the build quality is trash. The S3 is only a shadow of the excellence the S2 was, and yet they absolutely butchered ICS for it because they didn't want people to keep the S2, rather they want us all to upgrade to the S3.

And yet, my next phone... will be another Samsung. Why? Because it's still the best despite all this. You have to think about the options:

HTC: Lock their phones down and say "we help customers unlock the bootloader". Why not just not lock it in the first place? And there are some phones that won't unlock at all. And they always use Qualcomm chips which might as well be Lucifer himself.

Sony: Haven't had much experience with their phones, but if the PS3 is anything to go by, one day you will turn it on and find they disabled Linux because someone found a loophole.

LG: I actually like LG, but I don't like some of their styling, and their top phones aren't that special. They never try to push the boundaries.

I am probably missing some other big brands, but I digress.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rockyddroid:
I was going to buy an S3. I have gone through the reviews done by reputed sites. Everyone says that S3 is par excellence, closely competed by the One X though. Now I read your views. Kinda confused now. Will you back your views with something solid, please?

Not that I am condemning your opinions or something, but when all are saying that it is the best Android smartphone till date, why do you disagree?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] santoshsadani009:
Hillbeast is right about the Screen part he said. The screen uses pentile matrix which, without going into much detail, means the pixels can be seen easily on the screen. The Super Amoled 'Plus' screen of Galaxy S2 doesn't uses pentile technology and is better than Galaxy s3. However colors and resolution on S3 are superior.

But for the build quality part, its a Personal preference. You can decide whether you like Glossy Plastic which is good to look at (without fingerprints OFC) or you want the textured plastic which is comfortable to hold and scratch resistant. Looks vs Functionality in this case.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Alright well I used the S3 briefly on display in a store to get my opinions, and here's why I said what I said:

Maximum screen brightness is very low. It's about the same as my S2 on 50% brightness. I actually thought there was something wrong with it, but I read a few reviews and a couple of them mentioned it too. I don't know why it hasn't been voiced that much, maybe most of the people reviewing the phone are blind, but holding the S2 next to it, it's extremely noticeable.

People say that at this resolution you can't notice Pentiles subpixels, but I definitely saw it. It didn't look right. I can't explain what it looked like, or how you can spot it, but it's there and it made it not look sharp. Again, with the S2 next to it, I could see it.

The screen isn't as colourful as people are boasting, and this is most likely due to the fact that it's really not a bright screen at all. The colours just aren't as vibrant as the S2.

The back of the phone is nasty. Very cheap feeling. I was glad with the S2 that they tried something to make the back not feel so cheap, by putting a texture on it. It made it look sleek, stopped fingerprints and it feels nice in the hand. I still wish it was made from a metal like aluminium or something, but the S2 feels good. The S3 with it's glossy back just doesn't feel like a premium device in the hand.

I've also seen videos of the S2 and the S3 being dropped from equal heights and the S2 seems to hold up better, but I can't confirm that for myself.

I think it's simply too big. Sure side by side it's not that much bigger, but on my S2, I can reach from one side to the other in one hand using my thumb to swipe between screens. I just can't do that on the S3. It's far too big for it's own good.

Yes the S3 is a better phone. It's more powerful, the notification LED is good, and the phone looks good, but when the S2 came out, it was a no compromise device. The entire device was excellent in every way and you could tell it was a $1000 phone. The S3, you can only tell that if you look at the specs. It's just not a worthy successor in my book.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] loneagl:
@hillbeast

have u tried galaxy sl i9003? What do u think of it (obviously not comparing to s2)?? Cuz i really think it's kind of side stepped....
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] quan815:
The phone is finally arrived to New Zealand..Yeah~~

http://www.nzpost.co.nz/tools/tracking?trackid=RT038189005DE
[GT540 Optimus General] -Grift-:
......................................................................

Project is On standBy......... T_T

Reason:

Aint got the mood...

Software issues are pain in the ass... (Need to rethink, Getting lots of freezes)

Hardware is not on my side....

What would have been part of the Rom

And some other nice stuff but here is a extra bonus (was part of the Rom)

Custom Settings.apk for Tejas12's cm7 build 2 (this app was made by him too !)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ch4720h8cf7um7a

To install

(Must rename the file to Settings.apk before you continue!!)

Use adb to push it to /system/app

or

Use RootExplorer and move it to /system/app (over right it)
[GT540 Optimus General] smg72523889:
i would suggest, no bootanimation and no splash screen, but really fast boot-up!
[GT540 Optimus General] -Grift-:
cool stuff 1 more thingy ! :D na no diff if no boot animation it will just use the default android animation and if i use cyanogen settings to disable it it will just use the splash screen and if i take away splashscreen then it would just use a black screen :/ whew....
[GT540 Optimus General] lucasvrd:
unfortunately i dont know nothing about programing, but i'm waiting to see this soft-mod! I am using your soft-mod from SDSL and it rox!

Good luck and nice work =)
[GT540 Optimus General] -Grift-:
I think this and my old mods will be worlds apart! But it will come with some short comings like you have to set the themechooser theme after the first boot.... (at least till i get a workaround)
[GT540 Optimus General] lucasvrd:
These short comings are nothing xD

The most important (to me) is to be fully functional, no reboots, lags etc

Good luck! Do you have any idea when does is come out?
[GT540 Optimus General] -Grift-:
Im getting all of it collected and on friday i will flash it all onto my bros phone and then from there convert it into a update.zip for you all :D wont take too long most is sunday
[GT540 Optimus General] Di@mond:
+1 I totally agree.
[GT540 Optimus General] bataya:
ICS StatusBar LayOut [Having problems] -> what is the problem? This is easy to do. :)
[GT540 Optimus General] -Grift-:
Darko94 and I are working on it:)
[GT540 Optimus General] bataya:
ok, dont forget that you need to flash ics_patch.zip reboot, then isc_undo.zip, reboot, then ics_patch.zip to make it work. I just try, and it work ok. :)
[GT540 Optimus General] Di@mond:
I tried to make a difference boot animation but the resulting images were too pixelated also the file size was too large.
[GT540 Optimus General] -Grift-:
its ok seems like layout errors are caused by some other tweaks :) fixing what we can :D

Edit: :D new clean installed fixed everything :/

Edit2: Mother of god now me bros phone is refusing to boot :/ even after a fresh install of a rom... still trying other methods....