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[Galaxy S I9000 General] Oct-Al:
Best SGS ROM/kernel?

I personally use RemICS-UX v.1.3beta, and find this very satisfactory.

The question is not an easy one to answer, since many factors come into play. What services do you have running? What apps are you using? What do you use your SGS for? And so on...

And at the end of the day, does the ROM you are using give you what you need on a day to day basis? Do you want TouchWiz? Or do you want a minimalist approach? Does it matter to you if certain functions aren't yet implemented on a particular ROM? You have to be happy and comfortable with what you are using! RemICS-UX has given my old SGS - and me - a new lease of life!

I find the battery life very good for what I want. Nevertheless, I always carry a charged Dexim power pack with me!

The speed of my SGS is good. There is an option to set the governor: I keep mine at 'on-demand', which seems to be a good compromise. But if you want 1.4 quad-core speed, then you are going to have to shell out for a new phone!

In ROMs/kernels - as in life - a balance has to be struck. So see what others have to say; look at the current popular ROMs; see what difficulties people are experiencing on a particular ROM forum. And don't be afraid to try out different ROMs and see what suits you.

EDIT: go to the Android Development section and see what is available: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=665. The journey is as enjoyable as the arrival!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] the-weatherman:
ICS roms are really enjoyable but I have found them more battery greedy for a daily use than Gingerbread (3g and GPS especially consume more battery on Ics)

I have come back to Gingerbread recently (JW6), good old Samsung firmwares will always be more responsive and energy-efficient than custom ICS roms to me (if well used of course)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] polska2180o:
Anybody know of an app/widget/button that would allow me to assign specific app to an area of a screen. I'm doing it now with gTabsimiclock which is not very efficient. Basically all I want is my wp to display and if i divide the screen to 6 different parts it will start different apps.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] TTmineTT:
Couz i'm using a ICS MIUI android 4.0.3, confusing witch ROMs are BEST, the alpha 2 or the ICS MIUI ?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] dosangst:
I've tested many ROMs and thus far the best is Godzilla ICS,

Sent from my killer Skyrocket!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] TTmineTT:
Anyone can give me a link of godzilla rom ,?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] naturist:
Please read the rules :

DO NOT POST A "What's the best ROM/Kernel/Theme?" THREAD

Thread locked.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] tommyvirus:
okay guys i need some help

at the moment i have doomkernel and sspeed rom installed on my xperia s

but i only have big problems for example the phone crashes very often and the battery drains like hell

what i want now is install stock kernel and stock rom and ONLY add root access

so i need something like a small guide to install stock rom and kernel and after that how to add root access to the kernel

thanks in advance

and sry for my bad english
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] adam1000rr:
Just download the pre-rooted system image from Bin4ry's thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1723610

Flash with FlashTool: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1723610

;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] hhhhyy36:
Ya that's right for sure and it's so easy

i just wanted to tell you that you can flash the stock (kernel and rom) and hangout for a little while because sony announced the source so you will see CM soon enough though !!!!

thank you
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] tommyvirus:
wow cyanogenmod on xperia s would be awesome
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
And the award for the worst thread title ever goes to...
[HTC One S] 6370:
So some how over night my Sd card got wiped ou to stock, all pics gone,music gone, backups gone, all my downloads gone. All the apps still seam to work fine. Any ideas. This is really bothering me.the phone was not on the charger when I went to bed because the battery was full.

Rooted running stock T-Mobile USA

Sent from my HTC VLE_U
[Nook Color General] ufkal:
I have/had my nook color rooter (1.4.2) and then the lovely update came by...now, I find I can not power off my nook. I hold the power button for minutes and nothing. I normally would run quick boot, but since root was taken away, I can't even get that to work.

I need to fix this so my wife doesn't yell at me too hard.

Any thoughts/help? Please?
[Nook Color General] dparrothead1:
Plug it up to the wall charger....not to the computer.....and try it again.
[Nook Color General] ufkal:
I just tried that again. It didn't work, I appreciate the suggestion, but I'm not sure what being plugged into the wall would have to do with shutting of the nook, but I'm desperate, I'll try anything. I just need it to reboot, I have the crm card installed in the nook. The button used to work. I'm just hoping that when the battery runs down, I'll be able to restart the nook.
[Nook Color General] ufkal:
Ok, so got the battery run down, managed to get it charged enough to reboot into recovery. Got root back so that much is done. But the power button still won't work.

And I made the mistake of powering it down (quick boot app)

I was able to get it start booting, (got the skull and crossbones Loading screen) but now it is hung there.

Any thoughts? You guys here are usually really good with coming up with something off the wall that works :)
[Nook Color General] DublinLarry:
And buying one used on eBay before the notices just won't cut it?

Seriously, do you have a bootable recovery SD card?
[Nook Color General] DublinLarry:
Before the WIFE notices, of course..... when I totally hosed my nook from booting I was able to restore from last backup after booting into recovery off SD.
[Nook Color General] ufkal:
Yea I do have a bootable recovery SD Card. I re-ran it and still no love with the power button. Can I just use the old old 1.01 image (if I could find it) and take it back to that point?

I can't even to the 8 interrupted resets, because obviously the power button won't work :)
[Nook Color General] ufkal:
and unfortunately I never got to make a backup yet. :(
[Nook Color General] DublinLarry:
Wow... I've hosed my nook many times but never had the power button fail. Is it physically just not working?
[Nook Color General] ufkal:
I think the button is still good. About a month ago I was able to do the interrupted boot process. When I rooted her NC, was when I noticed the button didn't work. Don't know if something with the flash or if I beat the button to death.
[Nook Color General] thewaywardgeek013:
From my POV the Physical Button is dead… If you have tried turning off the NC while it was runing on CWM Bootable uSD using the Power Button and it did not turn off then the Button is dead.
[Nook Color General] ufkal:
Well, at least I have it rooted, and quick boot installed, I also have a CWM sd card in there, so if it happens to bork again, I can just let the battery die and then when it recharges it will power up....

I guess the button is dead, and I've not seen much in the way of instructions on how to repair the button. And out of warranty its probably cheaper to buy a new one than take it in to get repaired, cuz I can't actually get it back to factory state without having the power button to do the factory resets...:p
[Nook Color General] computerist:
There is an app on play store called NookColor Power Button. It is a widget you can configure to do all of the power functions, sleep, power off, reboot, etc. I suggest you get the donate version. I think it is only 99¢. You can configure it for what you need.
[Nook Color General] ufkal:
Yeah, I saw that one, forgot about it. Thanks. I need to try the free just to make sure it will do what I need it to.

Thanks!
[HTC One S] malimal:
I have flashed some AOSP ROMs like CM and Kang and the although the camera works the quality of pictures especially in low light is terrible.

I have tested a couple of times taking pictures with CM and then the same picture with stock Sense. The ASOP pictures come out with a greenish hue.

This leads to my question, is this something the Devs can improve with time or is this a trade-off of not using a ROM based on the Sense framework?
[HTC One S] BiteBlaze:
It can be improved, but there are much more important things to do/fix as of now. And it may require a lot of work. It is at the bottom of a lot of developer's lists.
[HTC One S] malimal:
yeah I totally respect the Devs work and for the most part just wondered if it was technically possible.

thanks for the answer.

Will wait patiently..lol
[HTC One S] RepusJonathan:
Same I am very thankful to the Dev's.

Curiously though, so it seems that my best bet is to root my phone but to keep the stock ICS android on it becuase otherwise I lose sense4 and the supposedly better camera software htc preinstalled on it?

Thanks so much! cheers.
[HTC One S] WCCobra:
If you like sense, then stick with the Sense-based ROMs. As for the camera, the hardware is still fully capable of taking the same quality pictures whether you are using AOSP or Sense ROMs.

The camera software is different in AOSP and may not have all of the features included in Sense (yet) and the picture quality might be a little worse off in AOSP, but the AOSP ROMs are still in alpha. The developers are working hard to create a stable, fully functional AOSP ROM... it's just going to take a little time. It doesn't hurt to try the AOSP roms out and see for yourself, just don't expect everything to be working flawlessly.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] kharnage:
Hey everyone what app are you all using to control voltages and profiles? I remember an app a Dev posted on xda for free but I don't rememeber the name. Anyway, what are you all using?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Jake101:
SetCPU with a Kernal that supports OC/UV so the performance is great and the battery life is better.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] stevesprivateaccount:
Agreed, but if you aren't ready to go down that route yet, just enable the included power saving option.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Sidneymac:
What CPU settings get you the best battery life ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Jake101:
Im still playing with it but it looks like:

Charging any

1890-384

Screen off

594-384

Battery <= 15%

594-384

Battery <=30%

810-384

The real trick to better battery life seems to have been debloating, and installing the fixes (mainly the Cell Standby fix). Right now I am at 82% with 6h 43m on this charge. (41m Screen time, 16m calls with GPS on, and Wifi off)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] kharnage:
What cell stand by fix are you talking about? Where can I find it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Jake101:
There is a Cell Standby fix in the Additional Downloads section of this thread. I don't know if it works on any other phones than T-mobile so if you have another carrier I would do some research to make sure it wont damage your phone.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] scriccio:
Hi!!!!

Anyone know how to get a windows phone's like status bar for our galaxy????

:cool:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] maxidad35:
Using launcher 7 you have that option

Enviado desde mi GT-S5830 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] thedisturbedone:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tombarrasso.android.wp7bar&hl=en
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] harizraze:
USE StatusBar +
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] IMMORTAL_ACE:
yeh....u can but u r in wrong section......check wp7 thread u can download rom wp7 v2 from there......its nice one.....&if u just want statusbar then then....???...idea if urs and wp7rom have same baseband then u can try copying systemui.apk and paste in urs respective folders and as usual rw-r-r permission

note:-1)this doesn't work all the time...so make a back up first..&do this if urs baseband is same as wp7 roms

2)after u paste phone will show force close again &again dont panic just restart and set permission

3)if then also doesnt work dont panic just replace it with ur original one and set permission as usual rw-r-r

and try the market link given in above post

4)iam not responsible for any damage to ur phone bcoz i am not doing this thing:D its u...if u do this properly u will not be left with bricked ace

so good luck use human intelligence any doubt pm me or just quote my reply
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itm:
I'd like to have different sync intervals for different types of Gmail data - e.g. email every 10 minutes, Calendar every hour, contacts once per day. There doesn't seem to be a way of doing this from the Accounts & Sync settings page.

Is this possible?

(I'm running stock ICS, rooted)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] O_Black:
What i did:

- Flashed Jelly Bean.

- had to reboot and endup in a bootloop

- tried to restore backup (recovery menu)

- md5 sum mismatch

- tried to fix the nandroid.md5 on a other phone

- reinsert the sdcard

- tried to restore the backup again

- failed to mount sdcard

- tried to flash other kernel (looked up in internet) but not very helpfull as you can see

- Now searching for a simple small rom to flash via ODIN to work on

Can anyone send me a link for a small simple rom to fix the backup.

Secondary has anybody a good answer to do it next time better ;)

Thanks

P.S Sorry for my bad english
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pittoreski:
Flash the proper version which can be found in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1457458
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonas h:
I had the same problem. At first I tried flashing the LPH from the Thread Pittoreski mentioned. But it did not work. Then I tried the one for gingerbread (KI3 i think). And that works! The .pit file and re-partitioned did the trick! :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] O_Black:
but i have just the I9100 version without G/P/M extention
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pittoreski:
Try to flash the Gingerbread version.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] O_Black:
at the gingerbread installation i have to insert ROM, Kernel and Bootloader into

ODIN patch field ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pittoreski:
Scroll down in the guide it's explained there how to use Odin properly.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NZed:
From the FAQ section from the porting team: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739763

If this bricks your phone, and you cant boot or get kernel panic. AT YOUR OWN RISK try re partitioning and flashing a stock sammy rom in ODIN. This is what i did and it worked

You need to download this http://hotfile.com/dl/146321681/7a02...1_OXA.zip.html in odin

CODE_I9100 goes in PDA GT-I9100-CSC-Multi goes in CSC and MODEM_I9100 goes in Phone the .pit file goes in PIT in ODIN then hit start

To easily root and return to CM9(if you want) flash this http://codeworkx.de/download/cyanoge...laxys2.tar.md5 in ODIN. That will flash CM9 and CWMR

---------- Post added at 03:52 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:51 AM ----------

I had one.. i didnt thank flashing a cm9 zip would almost brick my phone, and it shouldn't
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] O_Black:
Now it works

i had to flash first the kernel

than flash the rom with pit and without bootloader

thanks to neerajganga :good:
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] chauhanjayc:
hello

i am looking for this theme or wallpaper
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] JSS³:
Cool!

Why not put the link?
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Pandemic:
Because there is no link, he search it, its a theme from a rom, i also search that wallpaper

Sent from my Neo V with Supercharged ICS 4.0.4
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Silesh.Nair:
Its so easy to find.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xperia+high+speed

If you still can't find it, links are given below.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26228421

Direct download link.

http://www.xdafileserver.nl/index.p...ltimate+Xperience/Xperia+High+Speed/XHSthemes
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] pveyes:
that app drawer icon looks awesome :D
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] tieunguno1:
nice, true it sony.very nice
[Acer Iconia A500] Shappy:
The device is stuck in APX mode, I can't find CPUID. Recovery flashing via SD doesn't work.

How can I ressurect the device ?

Thanks and best regards,

Ivailo
[Acer Iconia A500] VelosCohagen:
This should be of interest for you to get your cpuid and sbk. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1751978

Gesendet von meinem Iconia A501 mit Tapatalk 2
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] FC127:
Is anyone else having issues with the Facebook app? It extends to every Facebook related application including Friendcaster as well as sharing to Facebook from Instagram.

The issue is one of the inability to access any Facebook information while using my data connection. If I switch to wifi it works flawlessly.

Any Ideas?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Triscuit:
Yep having the same problem...glad to see its not just me
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nitsua98:
What rom are you running?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Triscuit:
I'm running AOKP build 40. Aerovans 10.5 kernel. Confirmed not working on the FB app and BARELY working on mobile web.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Triscuit:
Also, I've noticed that if I don't kill the FB app it ends up sucking up 75MB of RAM and hogs the CPU
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] FC127:
I'm running Aeroevan's cm9 with the v10 kernal. It happens with sense roms as well... I have got seesmic to work properly over 3g but i had to turn on wifi to get it to connect to Facebook initially.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] klabit87:
Same here. CM9 aero v10.

Using Stream, it's very slow if it does work at all.

Seems to work ok through wifi though.

I thought it was just me also. lol
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Triscuit:
I would love to see one of our devs jump on this and fix the damn app in minutes lol
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bsmitty83:
Glad it's not just me having issues, I've tried every rom I got to get the fb app to load, if I'm on 3g ill get a few kb of data to transfer, then nothing I gave up and am using friendcaster, it's running as of now

Sent from my energized vivow
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] jessicahll:
I'm having the same issue on both my DINC2 and my Nook Color. Not having the issue on my Original DINC. The Facebook app will login and I can upload photos/comment on photos/comment on statuses, but I can't update my own status or post on someone's wall. It says "Unfortunately, Facebook has stopped" anytime I try to update my status. Very frustrating.

I can't login to Spotify, Foursquare, Instagram, or any other app that is linked to my account. I can't even login on Friendcaster. It just sticks in a login loop. On my Nook I'm able to login to Draw Something but that's it. (I know this is the DINC2 forum, I just wanted to throw that in there...)

I don't know how to tell the kernel version. Here is my phone info.

Kernel Version

2.6.35.14-cyanogenmod-g39a50c9-dirty

evan@aeroevan)

#1 PREEMPT Tue May 22 15:52:42 EDT 2012

Build Number

cm-vivow-eng 4.0.4 IMM76I eng.

evan.20120529.204121 test-keys
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] FC127:
I am running mikrunny and am stillhaving the issue, so it doesn't seem to be isolated to aosp.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ericsdeadinside:
It has to be the Facebook mobile site servers because if you request desktop site it's fast. Facebook app has even gone to **** on my iPod touch
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] FC127:
It's not a matter of being slow, though. Unless I am on wifi I cannot access it at all... also, apps that require permissions from Facebook (ie. Instagram, foursquare etc) won't be able to access Facebook to get the proper permissions unless I am on wifi.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Triscuit:
OK so I'm guessing its either the ****ty FB servers or our custom roms.....I'm thinking its the FB servers
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] tincbtrar:
Its not the ROM's - definitely a Facebook issue.

I am pretty sure they are trying to figure out a way to serve mobile ads thru the server similar to the desktop. It cant be a server issue, its Facebook - lol.

They can more than afford and service high quality servers.

I dont use the app on my phone (or my tablet) anymore cause it took up a lot of space even while 'dormant'. I found three processes running at one time.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] FC127:
Oddly, I found a Rom that the Facebook app works on. Andybones stock Rom works flawlessly.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bsmitty83:
I disabled the ad blocker app I had installed and fb app works like a charm again

Edit : scratch that doesn't make a difference

Sent from whatever rom is the chamber
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ericsdeadinside:
Possible solution. Go to your security settings in facebook on a computer, Remove all of your recognized devices, clear data on the facebook app. Log back in. FB on 3g is working for me right now. We'll see.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Triscuit:
Awesome I'll try this later today
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bsmitty83:
I quit using the official fb app awhile ago, but recently I installed it again and I changed the permission to user r/w, and executable in rom toolbox and It's been about 6hrs now and it seems like it's running fine, probably got figured out on fb side and what I did probably meant nothing but figure I'd share anyway
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Triscuit:
Its still not working on 3g for me, I will have to try this when I get home tonight. This is what I get every time I try to load FB on 3g only:
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ninjasailas:
I was having trouble with 3g until I did this... I used zeplinrocks 3g Turbo charger script and selected option 4. Fastest I believe. And after that I edited my build.prop persist.ril.uart.flowctrl=20 and now my 3g is improved. I still show a signal from -80 to -100 at any giving moment but it has done wonders on actually using Facebook and youtube.

Edit: **** Facebook I'm getting the same thing again.

Doing this has improved my 3g though as far as using other apps and browsing the web. I am going to try a different Facebook app and see what happens
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ninjasailas:
I just got fast for Facebook beta off the market and its running nicely on 3g.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bsmitty83:
That was exactly what I was getting but now it takes a second to load, but it will load, it's still a pos in my opinion but I need the app to link YouTube videos otherwise I use 3rd party apps

Sent from whatever rom is in the chamber
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] MJL99:
Oh thank God I'm not the only one with this issue. I searched Google for hours trying to find other people with this problem. Shoulda known to just check here. It honestly seems to be a dinc2 issue. Wife's phone works fine on 3g/4g. I've tried everything to access it on 3g and nothing works but friendcaster actually does most of the time for me. I'd try putting the desktop site on the browser but it keeps defaulting to the mobile version. Any work around for this? I'm running the 7/20 cm7 nightly.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Triscuit:
Thanks for this, its running great and I love the layout
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Triscuit:
Make sure that in your browser settings you have your preferred client set to desktop and not android.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ericsdeadinside:
It seems like something is blocking fb on the 3g network
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] MJL99:
Thanks i decided to try that right before i saw your response and got that to work. So the desktop site is also accessible for me on 3g.

Is it 3g or just rooted incredible 2? I think if it was all 3g, even if just Verizon, you'd hear a lot more than just on here. Someone has mentioned it working fine on Andy's bone stock Rom. My guess is that none others will work for some reason. Not sure what changed but i think it's something on the fb side.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ericsdeadinside:
I don't know what it is. I can't even get to the m.facebook.com reliably now.