yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stryfe2010:
If I'm on el29 stock rooted with cwr can I just do a current nandroid the use the format tool & flash your rom straight from cwr? Your rom includes your repacked kernel with custom recovery? Also if I experience the app to sd issue & have to flash the stock kernel do I still have your custom recovery to be able to flash the repacked one or do I need mobile Odin for that? One last question is once I have this all flashed & try it out for awhile & then decide to go back to el29, can I flash my previous nandroid from your custom recovery? Just want to cover all my bases 1st, been following your post & progress on these & with all the positive feedback you get plus your dedication to figure out any bugs made me finally want to try out your rom, which will be the first ics rom I've tried out on this phone. Thanks again for sharing with us
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
Running great! Thanks again for all the time and work. This is after only a few hours anda couple of reboots
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Shadow_God:
You're tha man Agat63.....love your kernels...keep up the good work:thumbup:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
Yes

Yes
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
Has anyone tried Agats FF18 repack v0.2.1 with AoKP? Milestone5 specifically? If so, please advise what broke. If this hasent been tested yet, I will do it shortly..

Is it recommended not to use the agat repacks on AoKP?

sj

Sent from my Wickedly Sensational E4GT
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
It is not recommended unless you're really fond of expensive paperweights.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
Nice.. glad I didn't run through that test..

You think it would really brick? Or just not boot/break apps..

sj

Sent from my Wickedly Sensational E4GT
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
This is a touchwiz kernel. It's just a recipe for disaster.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Gimmi the zImage from AOKP rom and I'll try to repack if with my recovery.

If it worked with CM I don't see a reason why it won't work with AOKP and/or AOSP kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
the latest AoKP kernel is the FF02 kernel.. if it was possible I would need an FF18 kernel updated to work with AoKP.. I just don't know how to do that otherwise I would try.. I sent a msg to tcp a while back to see if he'd show me how to do it.. never heard back.. :/

All versions can be found in rwilco's kernel repo.. I would attach the kernel but I can't post files..

sj

Sent from my Wickedly Sensational E4GT
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
To best of my knowledge AOSP/AOKP kernels are compiled from source. They should have had access to ICS source since they were able to compile FF02 kernel.

Recovery can be compiled with kernel from source but you would have to include it in initramfs or you can repack kernel later.

I never tried any of the builds except for TW stock and I don't know where the previous kernels for CM/AOSP/AOKP came from. I'm not much of a help here. But if someone who works with any of builds can provide info and/or zImage it would be possible to repack/rebuild kernel with recovery of our choice.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dragonOL2:
Hope this helps contribute to the discussion. Here's my situation.

I'm on Blazer's latest ICS build, which uses the FF18 repack. I was having the issue of not being able to install apps to the SD (which I do for all my large apps and games) so I used to solution noted above to enable the feature. I never did a battery pull or anything like that, but after a phone battery drain and reboot, all my SD-installed apps came up with the ghost icon and "app is not installed on your phone" error message. Tried rescanning media, mounting and unmounting the SD, and a bunch of other things with no success.

So the solution was actually going through the process again. Flash stock FF18, reboot to allow "applications to optimize", and then used Mobile ODIN to reflash agat's repack. Worked like a charm and apps are now accessible again, as well as everything else on the SD. Hope if anyone else has the same problems, they look in this thread to see that there are solutions. Thanks again agat! Your work is appreciated...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Hey Agat. I was one of the first users to flash your first Rom release and have been a big fan ever since. I've tried most of the custom leaked roms out there and always come back to yours. Some of them are prettier with deeper theming and more features, but I've backed up stuff from other roms and install it on yours to my liking.

Perhaps the biggest reason I always come back is because when I turn off my screen, your roms go into deep sleep and stay there. If I'm sleeping I want my phone to sleep too and that wasn't always the case on other roms I tried. Your kernel work has been a huge contribution also. Not sure if I'm getting an S3 yet but I'm going to wait a couple months to decide. Rumors of more unlocked Nexus devices with Jelly Bean in November might be worth the wait too.

Thanks again, bro. Your hard work and committment to get everything right has been highly appreciated. I'll never forget the time you updated something that was broken and posted it from 35,000 feet while on your way home from a business trip. Unreal.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] karikian:
AGAT!!!

Bluetooth is now working. Whatever you did, GREAT!! I no longer have to unpair and delete the phone from my car stereo and re-pair from scratch everytime I turn off the car!

THANKS!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rugalfury:
Has anyone tried the ff18 modem any good results?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
I'm using the FF18 modem. It's better than FF11 on my phone. I was data roaming more on 11 and had trouble sending texts sometimes. I try to match the modem with the Rom build unless it gives me problems. FF18 is working well with this Rom
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nevell:
I'm back. Is the leak any good ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Not much different although people are having less problems with Bluetooth. Got your S3 yet?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nevell:
Lol yes I have the GS3 white 32Gb, Evo LTE, Nexus LTE, and GS2.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MicrosoftBug:
Show off... :p

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nevell:
Lol well TBH the GS2 was a donation for carrier flashing purposes.

Having a problem with this ROM. Its like it keeps pressing my menu button..... My menu just keeps popping up. Lol

BTW is anyone using the XDA 2013 Beta theme? This thing is awesome !
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
So you are a phone hoarder? Haha. Have you tried flashing the S2 to Voyager Mobile? My wife's contract with Sprint is up in September and we are looking at alternatives
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nevell:
Yes I am Lol. Never heard of Voyager Mobile before. My guide is in the general section. Its universal too. Click Here to see it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Voyager is new. It just launched about a month ago. Uses Sprint's network with Wimax. If you don't use all your minutes you roll them over to the next month. They sell the galaxy S2 for $549 but I guess it's a pain to get the E4GT to work on their network.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nevell:
Guess I'll have to look them up and see what I can come up with.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Houndog101:
I don't know what you guys did, but my 4g is off the charts,, I'm lovin this rom/kernal/modem ...:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nevell:
Is this the final leak? Whats the difference between this leak and the others?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dericb11:
Can I use the zip file in Rogue ET Recovery 1.1.2? Was looking to install SuperNova and didn't know if I had to push through Odin or is it ok to update with CWM.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Yes but do not select factory reset/wipe data in Rogue if it is an ICS kernel. If it's gingerbread it would be OK though. If you are already on ICS, flash Calkulins format all zip to do your wipe. Get it here

http://db.tt/sUM1uH72
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Houndog101:
I think thats how I bricked my phone.. Thanks datahawg...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
Yikes. No reports of any bricks using Agat's new safe ICS recoveries. Hats off to him, sfhub, Chris41g, and the testers who risked bricking to try it. I'm a coward and still flash the EL26 kernel with Mobile Odin to do a full wipe or use the format all zip.

Just for fun I flashed Dazednconfused's pulldown with digital battery icon and fancy toggles just to see if it would work on this Rom. Runs great and didn't break anything. I used the one from the third post on the Wicked Sensations thread. There's a bunch of other status bar mods posted that should work too. I really like the digital battery icon. It's easy to see. The 4g icon says LTE on it. A good joke to play on a Sprint iphone user.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Houndog101:
Nice Datahawg, I flashed it after I saw your post,, Good for us old people...lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] miggy_2602:
Agat, I just want to tell you Thank you for all your hard work with everything that you do and make it possible for us to use and enjoy your work safely with your Roms and recoveries. Much appreciated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
You quite welcome.

I didn't do much lately since it's kinda crazy at work.

I'm traveling most of last few weeks and have almost no time to do anything.

However rwilco and I trying to come up with a way to make all custom roms one click executable files like sfhub's stock roms. This way we will be able to take the guess work completely out. With a PC that will be safest and easiest way to flash any custom rom without need to obtain root first.

It doesn't work yet but we hope to get it to work soon.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
That's right. I usually use that Battery Status Bar app which puts a large icon over on the left side, but dont need it anymore with the digital icon
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nevell:
Damn didn't mean to quote lol. Still getting used to this new 2013 theme.

Am I the only one with these effing buttons going crazy? Worked fine on the previous rom.

Side Note:

JellyBean on my Nexus LTE is erm........effing awesome!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Houndog101:
Well I tried and I tried but I can not find anything wrong with this rom..

I'm on [UPDATE][KERNEL][ROM]tFF18 with FF18 repack with AGAT recovery 0.2.1 rom with ff18 modem and its a big improvement over other roms/modems I've tried.. Net speeds are up from around 1.5 mbs d/l to almost 3 mbs and I get 3-4 bars on the phone signal instead of 1 maybe 2.. And I'm in the mountains of Tn. Also signal strenth went from -96 to -106 to -64 to -7+..

Awesome rom, Thanks agats from me as well...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
We have a TWRP FF18 kernel for AoKP and I'm hoping we can just swap out the recovery from that kernel and replace with yours. Would you like me to send you that kernel? Or I can post the link from the repo too.. you can find the kernel here: http://kernelrepo.chris41g.org/?startFolder=\Recovery+Kernels\ICS+AOKP\Times_Infinity+TWRP+Repack

sj

Sent from my E4GT with a Blended Goodness of FF18 ICS
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
I'm at the airport right now but I'm flying home.

So I might be able to take a look at it tomorrow. Just give me a link to zimage file and I'll try to repack it. Unfortunately I can't test it since I'm running TW based rom. Testing will be up to you guys. You not risking a brick. Worse that can happen you won't be able to boot to system and/or recovery so you would have to resort to sfhub's one click's or any other ODIN rom.

If you willing to walk that path just drop AOKP zImage you're using with TWRP recovery and if you have one with any other recovery (stock or CWM) gimmi link to that too.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
Thanks Agat, that would be OK, I flash sfhub's one clicks when needed so I don't have any issues with having to do that. I'm fairly familiar with testing procedures and have all of the necessary files needed to restore back to stock if soft brick occurs.

I will see if I can extract the zImage for the TWRP FF18 AoKP kernel and advise further on that.

Update: I have the "boot" file extracted from Times's b40 AoKP. (FF18 TWRP). This file is the boot.img but im not sure if its able to be renamed to z-Image. http://db.tt/3DqRGUjx

sj

Sent from my E4GT with a Blended Goodness of FF18 ICS
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Never tried boot.img.

I'll give it a shot. No promises tho.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mjs2011:
Just wondering, is there any difference between this ff18 ROM and datajosh's version other that the recovery?

Also, does anyone know if ROM Tools will work with this ROM? I was interested in modifying status bar icons but obviously don't want to break anything. ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
Thank you sir :) .. how can extract z-Image format? I just extracted from the zip of the rom.. would I need to pull from the rom when installed? Like on the emu or something?

sj

Sent from my E4GT with a Blended Goodness of FF18 ICS
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
If you got the zimage in a folder after downloading the Rom, that should work. That's the kernel. BTW. What is TWRP?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
TWRP is the touch recovery that team win has made. (team win recovery project) They started releasing their builds with FF11 first I think.

After downloading the rom, (AoKPb40), I have extracted a boot.img file, but what the ultimate goal is, would be to have a compatible kernel for the latest AoKP rom but change the recovery from TWRP and replace with Agat's recovery.

sj

Sent from my E4GT with a Blended Goodness of FF18 ICS
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] evilsock:
There are several links in OP. I just want the latest recovery kernel. Do I flash the 1St link at top or the one that says agat 2.1 closer to the bottom?

Edit , reason I ask is BC of the placement of them. I assume the latest is at top but I don't want the ROM just the newest recovery kernel

Sent from my Motorola StarTac
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
The first two links are kernel only..

You can always use the repo when looking for specific kernels (Agats kernels on the repo found here): http://kernelrepo.chris41g.org/default.asp?startFolder=\Recovery+Kernels\ICS\Agats+Recovery\ZIP

sj

Sent from my E4GT with a Blended Goodness of FF18 ICS
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
I don't know if it makes a difference, but the rom has a slightly newer version. If you pull the zimage file, you can flash it in mobile Odin.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ntborg:
What modem works best with these roms? So many to choose from. I keep seeing people using EL29 with all the roms, made me curious.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
Each phone is different and certain modems work differently with different devices..

Test them to see which your device likes best.. :)

sj

Sent from my E4GT with a Blended Goodness of FF18 ICS
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
Just checking. Anyone else having their phone just shut off? I've been tinkering and I'm checking if I caused this completely by myself.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nevell:
This forum has been boring for the past week or so. Glad I got a Nexus LTE with JB on it. Wow the Nexus forum is on fire LOL.

Not gloating or anything though.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Hope those 3g speeds (1x speeds on any other network) are working for you until lte is live.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
The JB update might convince me to wait for the next Nexus phone. Rumored for November perhaps. Not a big fan of the current GNex. I take a lot of pics and would not want to degrade my camera
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nevell:
Nah getting full 3G over here buddy Lol

Getting 1.5+ Also JB made the WiFi signal 6 times stronger. I'm getting crazy speeds from 3G and Wifi. But I seriously wasn't trying to gloat.

Took this screenshot just now for you
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
Over the past week and a half I've tried over a half a dozen other ROMs. Most are really good and some have some nice additions (native hot spot hack, extended toggles) but nothing I can't get around.

I keep coming back to this one - it's by far the smoothest and fastest. And everything works flawlessly for me.

Thanks for the great work Agat! Can't wait to see what happens if we ever get source. Or another leek. :P
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Pretty sure this is just themed stock, which isn't a bad thing but just pointing that out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Not exactly.

It's themed, debloated and slightly tweaks.

Nothing special tho but makes it kinda run smoother.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] buggerritt:
Can't search to see if this was covered but, this kernel breaks apps2sd. It's nice to have recovery but after using it, I'm forced to flash back to stock rooted kernel. Not complaining, just making it known, in case you would like to perfect it.

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
It has been covered.

It's not just this kernel but pretty much any repack.

If you have flashed stock kernel you can flash this kernel back and you won't have apps2sd problem till next full flash.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
When you coming to sgs3? :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Don't know yet.

Putting money together. Have a lot to do around my house and I'm only employed person in the family.

I hope soon tho.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tt281gt:
Agat,

I been having issues mounting sd while in recovery. I had got real busy for a few weeks and now had time to play with the phone again. On my work computer I can only get it to mount as MPT or whatever, I have uninstalled drivers and installed again.

On my laptop I got it to mount external sd card ONCE as mass storage, but I also wanted to get it to mount the internal SD, so I uninstalled drivers and installed again. Now it wont mount at all [while in recovery] but does mount properly while phone is on. Yes I checked that mass storage is selected in that one app. :silly:

Running FF18 and latest recovery. Maybe I should try a FRESH install formatting all including internal SD since the last couple of times I did a modified wipe [no data] and updated roms.

Also, you should get other ways of getting donations, for some people like myself paypal is not an option, we don't play nice together :laugh: :crying: :D

;)

EDIT: I changed nothing on computer / rom did one click root to a rouge recovery and internal and external both mount as mass storage in recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigpeng:
Solution! Stay on E4GT... :p;):D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
1. For now recovery mounts sd card only.

That works on versions 2.0 and 2.1

I'm planning to look into mounting internal as well but kinda busy lately and traveling a lot so it's bit hard. But it's on my to do list (if I can).

Since it worked before and not working after reinstalling drivers it's hard to say what went wrong.

2. Honestly I don't know any other donation method except for paypal. :(
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
If I get GSIII my E4GT will go to my wife.

So it will stay in the family and I'll be able to develop for it as well.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
Hey Agat, would it be still possible to see if you are able to embed your recovery in the current AoKP FF18 kernel? (Its currently packed with TWRP only)

sj

Sent from my Wickedly Sensational sgs2e4gt with Tap@Talk 2.1.2 (WSv1.5 FF18)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Honestly I'm trying to find a good guide to extract boot.img and can't find one.

I've download few different scripts and tools and none of them helped me to extract zImage/recovery from boot.img.

It might be also a wrong boot.img I'm playing with.

If you running AOKP rom can you upload boot.img that came with rom?

I would try it again. The img I have is only 5MB and I'm getting empty folders for initramfs/recover/zImage when I try to extract it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
Just wanted to say that your kernel repacks are awesome. Thank you and keep up the good work. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Thanks for support.

I'm still breaking my head trying to make one click flashable custom rom.

damn factoryfs.img doesn't wanna flash.

Yet.... I hope.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
That boot.img was extracted from the latest b40 from Times. http://db.tt/3DqRGUjx

I do not currently have the rom installed, but if you had the .md5 file of the same kernel, would that help?

You can get the same kernel that I posted the boot.img file of here in rwilcos repo.

This is a One-Click and .md5 tar of the same file are both located in the repo here: http://bit.ly/NbVNmi

I hope that helps :)

sj

Sent from my Wickedly Sensational sgs2e4gt with Tap@Talk 2.1.2 (WSv1.5 FF18)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CyberpodS2:
Does sfhub have any insight into your problem?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Not yet.

Chris41g helping me with that but no dice yet.

If we can't get it done I'll pm sfhub then.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tt281gt:
Google wallet ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Finally a good news.

Chris41g walked me thru and a working factoryfs.img and a working tar file have been created.

Now we can convert custom roms into one click as well and take the guess part out of flashing process.

Any dev should be able to provide a tar file to be flashed with ODIN.

Next step rwilco12 and I will try to make a one click exe files so users won't even need to download ODIN and navigate thru it themselfs.

We getting safer.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MiguelHogue:
Hi agats.. First of let me say, I'm honored to find your thread.. I've heard about the great work you do with all the reading I do on XDA (new to rooting; been at it for 5 months now) but I have a question, I'm running blu Kuban and was wondering between the FF18 kernel or the FE22 kernel, which would be best for battery life.. Been trying to squeeze a little more out lately
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
Freaking A. You guys are great! I love the spirit of camaraderie and innovation in this forum.

Building one-clicks should go a long way to reducing the 'I think I just bricked my phone' posts. And it will certainly help people like me trying to help others get some of the benefits of these great ROMs and tweaks with out being the nerd I (we?) am.

I will soon be able to just send people to the 'depository' and give them some simple steps.

Thanks again to all here - Agat, Chris41g, rwilco12, sfhub, SteadyHawking (gone but not forgotten), sextape, Calkulin, and all the other way too many to mention - especially those too that test and provide mirrors!

It's cool to come home and see sh^t like this happening.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] j0hnnyth3f0x:
Honestly, the best solution is to try them each for a few days/battery cycles and see which works best for you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ssconceptz:
Can someone pm me stock ff18 kernel in tar format
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MiguelHogue:
Thanks for chiming in, and currently doing that now.. Going well so far
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CyberpodS2:
Having run both on Blue Kuban I saw no difference in battery life. The bigger question is do you plan on flashing stuff from recovery or just using the Rom Updater. From a safety perspective running Agat's kernel affords you the price of mind to flash whatever and not worry. It just doesn't support the auto reboot from the Rom Updater. I just keep a shortcut to quick boot. Of you not going to be flashing another rom for a while and you don't see any battery gain then go back to the default kernel and get your auto reboot back.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Sorry,

But it looks like I missed somehting.

Did you say my repack doesn't support auto reboot?

If yes what reboot are we talking about?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
This is terrific news. Your persistence always seems to pay off. You and Chris41g are doing great things along with many others