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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
If doesn't work with stock kernel I doubt it. Someone should show up soon that uses Tasker or Llama to help. It's still pretty early. If have full data and IEMI is reporting correctly it should work. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sweeds:
Try both Ziggy/Stock. They are both compatible. If your Tasker issue still remains, then it's highly unlikely the kernel.

PDroid is built into the framework no matter what. The option while flashing is for TrevE's PDroid manager app. I would try downloading that (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2077839) and manually 'trusting' Tasker to see if that helps.

Lastly, how familiar are you with Tasker? Is it possible it's not configured how you think it should be? What exactly do you mean by "context based on cell near"? Provide some more detail on how you configured it, or head to Q/A if it cant be resolved in the ROM Development thread.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jimstratus:
Not that it means anything necessarily but I've ran both Ziggy and stock with no tasker issues, do not run PDroid though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pelo88:
I was looking at TWRP to see what encryption support that exists over there and as of 2.4.0.0 it seems to support the S3 (as it TWRP can decrypt an S3). After a quick chat over on their IRC I have a couple avenues to try.

One suggestion was to revert to stock and encrypt that THEN try to dirty flash synergy over that.

Another, TrevE suggested, was to modify the updater script:

My concern with the above was the failure mentioned a while back with the guy who tried it with several builds. That failure made mention of having no space on the partition for the crypto footer region, which seems to need 16KB at the beginning of the partition. He mentioned a couple links, but this being the more informative one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1754771

Correct me if I'm wrong, TrevE, but the above mod to the updater script still doesn't address the issue with the data partition.. In fact, it seems the appropriate spot in AROMA for this would be when choosing what type of wipe... wipe and prep for encryption would format data leaving the space needed for the footer. But there could also be a resizing. The other link that guy had suggested was a resizing/prep script that doesn't work on our phones (probably due to the oddity the S3 has over its data partition):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2122702

But the method is sound. Folks have encrypted rooted, custom modded even AOSP devices using the methods above.

TrevE, I'd like to take a crack at beta testing a superwipe with support for encryption mod. Perhaps this can be a zip we flash before dirty flashing (not really dirty since the phone would be wiped) the latest Synergy. This would keep things sane while we test out the wiping/partioning independently of the install. Should it install just fine and allow me to activate, I'd reboot (always reboot once before truly testing anything) and attempt encryption. Should the encryption go well, the next thing I'd try is a wipe dalvik in TWRP. If that works and doesn't mess anything up it should stand to reason we can use TWRP to dirty flash AFTER we encrypt.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jeremyumo:
Not working for me either, there are a lot of people not working since the last update 4/2/13. And mostly S3 Customers
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mushu13:
I too would be down to test flash. I still have not been able to get encryption to work and I'm going crazy not being able to get notifications for my email and other gapps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eidylon:
I just use ROM Toolbox and freeze all those bloatware apps. Not like phones today are lacking for space, and this way you have them ... just in case.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Digital DJ:
I'm having issues with this Rom. My phones keeps freezing, and sometimes it gets stuck in a deep hibernation. I literally have to pull the battery to get they phone back up. I flashed back to the stock kernel. I only wiped the dalvik cache, is that ok or do I need a full wipe to reinstall this Rom? I'm running r443
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bill15872:
I believe the Verizon link is down. I keep getting a 404 error when trying to download the Rom. Anyone else have this problem?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dirtfoot:
Just about everybody in the last 15 pages.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
In Recovery:

Wipe Cache

Wipe Dalvik

Wipe Data

Superwipe in Aroma, or you may have some issues ;)

Don't forget to install r443 onto your extSdCard, including what you want to save from your Internal, as your Internal will be Vaporized!

Oh, and make a Nandroid Backup, and move that to your extSdCard also.

TiBu and My Backup Pro are your Friends ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TrevE:
Really good work with this bud, the kinda posts I like to read. Your right on /data. I made a really delayed edit to the post when I thought about it after, obviously its encrypting data too.

Our updater already has 3 different /data/ format methods built in. The first line to run fsk is controlled by the second option in aroma to checkdisks for bad blocks

"Wipe: data w/ rm -r","<b><#ff0000>*Keeps internal storage intact*</#></b>",0,
"SUPERWIPE","<b><#ff0000>*Erases data and internal storage*</#></b>\nMust be flashed from externalSD",0,
"SUPERWIPE w/ EXT4 Align","<b><#ff0000>*Erases data and internal storage*</#></b>\nMust be flashed from externalSD",0,

Wipe: data w/ rm -r: Obvious, uses rm -r and ignores /data/media (internal sd)

SUPERWIPE This passes off to recovery to handle /data/ formatting

ui_print("-- Checking gs3 /data filesystems for errors");
run_program("/tmp/synergysetup/fsck.ext4", "-fy", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p15");
endif;

ui_print("-- Formatting /data partition in GS3 Mode");
run_program("/tmp/aroma/sleep","3000");
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p15", "0");

SUPERWIPE w/ EXT4 Align - Uses the following data alignment script

ui_print("-- Checking GS3 /data filesystems for errors");
run_program("/tmp/synergysetup/fsck.ext4", "-fy", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p15");
endif;

ui_print("-- Formatting /data partition in GS3 Mode with ext4 options");
run_program("/tmp/aroma/sleep","3000");
run_program("/tmp/synergysetup/mkfs.ext4", "-O", "^ext_attr,^has_journal,^huge_file", "-L", "DATA", "-b", "4096", "-m", "0", "-F", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p15");
run_program("/tmp/synergysetup/tune2fs.ext4", "-c", "1", "-m", "0", "-o", "journal_data_writeback", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p15");

So if youu use ext4 align, and then only wipe data with rm -r after, even if you switch roms you will keep that alignment. The only way to get rid of it is to hit the standard recovery format, which is called just plain SUPERWIPE in our aroma. I would try using the regular SUPERWIPE option for data, im guessing the standard way recovery formats that partition would have correct structure for /data encryption if recovery itself has support

The only thing that was unknown really is the /system partition. You might need to make it just pass off to recovery with the below as well.

format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p14", "0");
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TrevE:
see
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stargate125645:
I've noticed my GPS is always on whether the toggle is set to on or off. Maps locks on and everything. Has anyone else noticed this? I haven't seen comments on it, but you wouldn't know unless you were looking.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Digital DJ:
Yeah I have tibu pro and live it. Everything is installed on my extsdcard. Guys I just was wondering if it was the xiggy kernel. I don't seem to be having the problem with stock kernel...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
You can try the Stock kernel and see how it works for you.

If you have already Superwiped installing 443, you can just dirty flash the Stock kernel and try it out.

No 2 device set ups are the same (well almost none. There may be a few lol!) so what works for one may not work for the other.

The only way to see what works for your set up is to get your feet wet, so to speak :)

Watch out for those Pirranha :eek:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] wingtytn:
anybody know how to make the sidebar transparent. ive been lookin all day
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pelo88:
Ok after a bit more research and a face palm or two, I realize the encrypt footer is at the END of the partition, making it completely plausible to resize the 16KiB needed away. The encryption routine kicked off within the settings screen is what actually triggers the proper format of that 16KiB so I think the only thing necessary is the resize of data.

For what it's worth, using some of the code found here: https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project/commit/6ff55cefd060b4c8f6c0fa97d5521516f9ee43f1

It's pretty clear to me that we can put right within AROMA the ability to scan a dirty flash system for the presence of encryption -- in fact the recovery may do it for us. TWRP has code within it (thanks to a3955269) that SHOULD prompt for a passphrase (the key used to encrypt the system in the first place), then allowing that partition to be mounted. We also should be able to use TWRP's keyboard to key in such passphrase and continue.

Either way, I vote for the future versions of Synergy to leave that 16KiB footer free and unpartitioned.

I'm off to play with this code now to see if I can resize my dirty data partition as is and encrypt and wipe dalvik from recovery (if all goes well it'll ask me for my passphrase) :P

DATA_PART=$(cat /etc/fstab | grep "/data " | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
NUM_BLOCKS=$(tune2fs -l ${DATA_PART} | grep "Block count" | awk '{ print $3 }')
BLOCK_SIZE=$(tune2fs -l ${DATA_PART} | grep "Block size" | awk '{ print $3 }')
BLOCKS_TO_SHRINK_BY=$((16384 / ${BLOCK_SIZE}))
FINAL_NUM_BLOCKS=$((${NUM_BLOCKS} - ${BLOCKS_TO_SHRINK_BY}))
resize2fs ${DATA_PART} ${FINAL_NUM_BLOCKS}
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlyle:
We have 80 percent trans in Bandit theme.. If it's full trans it may look a little messy... :cool:

Not to mention all the ones in the theme section
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] uberbdon:
Of course the Androidfilehost is down again... I think Team Synergy needs to consider hosting their files elsewhere.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mike3.14159:
Has anyone else had any problems with Verizon Backup Assistant Plus - the one that shows up as an account?? Contacts back up alright but every time I try to back up media I get " . I know it has worked in the past and showed that I had successfully backed up on 3/28, so guessing that back up was on the last build.

When I got on r443 did a dirty flash, wipe cache/davlik then fixed permission in TWRP(2.4.4.0). Never checked to see if it was working and just assumed it was.

When I try to "Setup media backup" it has the "Please wait" thing loading then there is always a popup - "Unfortunately, Verizon Login has stopped", I click okay and it seems to try to keep loading until I get "Server not responding. Please try again later". Wouldn't be too worried about it but I like to have redundant backups and I paid for something like a total of 25gb of space - was only a couple bucks more so said what the heck!

I checked in running apps and cleared the data on everything that looked like it could be associated: 'Verizon Sync Service', 'Backup+ Media' and 'NewBay Service' then reboot but still won't work!! Also tried on wifi, 4g,and both - all with full signal

Any ideas???
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mapatton82:
TrevE posted this 7 posts before yours:

if link in op doesnt work

http://beta.androidfilehost.com/?a=s...files&flid=660

try to use the www subdomain instead of beta

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=660

Androidfilehost is having some issues and is moving host providers and machines. Depending on what is up for the time, one of the above links should work
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mike3.14159:
Also just unfroze the setup wizard in TiBU and tried to see if I could set it up that way but same results!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
Hey, is the download link broken?

Ha, just kidding. OP has been updated with a working link. Our server admin had a bit of a spat with his host and ultimately had to migrate everything so it's been a bumpy ride this past week. We should be good from here on out though.

To those wondering why we don't host elsewhere: Each Synergy release results in over 10 million megs of bandwidth (and yes, I did say that like Dr. Evil). Each. And we often do several a month. Not all hosts can handle us for that reason :p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markkal123:
an update to previous posts this morning...

i'm not quite certain what is happenning. i'm running tasker 4.0u1 and synergyrom v443. attempting to create a new context based on "cell near". a scan for cell towers appears to search (phone vibrates) but does not return any values in cell tower/last signal.

"cell near" scan was working, now it's not. was running cleanrom 6 r2 and tasker v. 4.0m and "cell near" scanned and populated cell tower/last signal as expected.

i did a nandorid restore to cleanrom 6 r2 which was the last known working state. once again running tasker v. 4.0m and poof! "cell near" scans and returns values in cell tower/last signal field as expected. the same for tasker 4.0u1

i tried ziggy and stock rom

i installed "cell ID collector" from the market. it's an app desinged to collect and display unique cell ids near my phone. it will not return any values when running synergyrom but does return values in cleanrom.

this is all pretty much beyond my understanding. i have wifi, strong phone signals, gps. and can send and recieve texrts.

i really like synergyrom otherwise and would like to stay with it. the support has been excellent, battery excellent, this forum lively, and developers seem responsive and active with updates/releases , but i have several tasks dependent on the "cell near" state in tasker.

i dont know if this is a rom issue, kernel issue, or something else.

any thoughts?

thanks

mark
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TrevE:
have youo tried this? Even if you dont use pdroid maybe try just installing it, allow all, test tasker, from there you can prolly freeze in titanium if you never want it, its all applied to a db in the backend so i think it should be chill. If allowing in pdroid really is a fix, we can mod it to allow all out of the box by default or something.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jpmcnown:
Clearly something is missing from these instructions. Precisely how many times does one need to dirty flash before they can expect to see LTE on Sprint?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] wingtytn:
side bar transparentcy is wat im tryin to achieve and yes i know the risk but will say themes has nothing to do with ive already tried. and thanks again for helping but anyone else know how to change the sidebar color for standard to transparent
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
As Jlyle (aka DillWeed) said there are ones already done in theme section. If wanting to do yourself pull the 15 or so pngs from flashbarservice.apk and change to trans in Gimp, Paint, Photoshop or editing software of your choice. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
See post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=40078595&postcount=20784 by eschelon for the Host update, which is now in the OP (Post #1)

I'm posting a redundancy because I know some new downloaders will read this and see the post about the older servers, I think ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
That seems to work for Llama. Allowed in Pdroid , found tower and then froze Pdroid with TIBU. Once Pdroid was frozen was able to still see tower again after killing Llama and restarting.. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markkal123:
just to clarify my thinking....

i did all the wiping necessary. flash the rom, in aroma i elect to install kies for example and for question sake elect no other options . i reboot.

after reboot i want to add gmail. i go back into aroma and select

only

gmail. is kies now going to be uninstalled or left alone.

thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
To test I wiped cache and dalvic in recovery. In Aroma I did no wipe. I rechecked everything I use as it said if you uncheck it will remove them and I interpreted that as will uninstall. Still didn't take long just lost my theme. Aroma saves what you picked last time anyway. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markkal123:
.

wow. this was exactly the fix. thanks trevE really weird (at least to me) considering i never installed pdroid in the custom setup process in aroma.

thanks:good:

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hey prdog1 thanks for all of your help with these issues!!!:good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlyle:
So what are you looking for ? I will hook you up with an entire full 100% trans multi window theme :laugh:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nooblube:
I have a question.. Im rocking the sprint gs3 and just flashed this rom and I cant seem to find the gtalk app? Dose it not come in this rom?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
You must have missed it in Aroma. It is an option. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
As prdog1 said,

and you can dirty flash it Aroma so you don't have to wipe anything again ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nooblube:
sweet! Thanks guys :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquila76:
Had the best experience of my life with this ROM today. Sitting at a local coffee house, gal asks if I know where the nearest grocery is. I popped open Maps in a floating window, and showed her how to get there. She was just staring at the phone, and after a while said: "How did you DO THAT?" Told her about Synergy, but she's running a Nexus. I love when technology unites me with fellow geeks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mike3.14159:
Can anyone confirm whether Verizon "Backup Assistant Plus" is working or not? Isn't working for me but was in r373!

Thanks!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
@ Aquila76

I gotta give up vodka, and start drinking coffee lol!

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It works.... With a glitch

Just let it do what it's doing ;)

When it says can't connect, close..... Just close it, and press continue when prompted, and it will continue until you see your account info.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mike3.14159:
Every time I try to "Setup media backup" I get "Unfortunately, Verizon Login has stopped" and it won't let me get any further than that.....

Tried a clean install with no luck, also pulled the VerizonLogin.apk from the stock zip and replaced in system apps but no luck either!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] darkhawk3383:
Have you logged into my verizon while on data first? I remember an issue a while ago with verizon login not liking to work if run on wifi for initial connection.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
I'm always on my Virgin..... Virgin Broadband2Go that is :) Wifi, and have connected to My Verizon without issue, except for those I've mentioned.

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'Set up media backup'

Not sure what that is?

I just installed it in Aroma, or the Playstore. I forget :(

But works using both, as I've tried them.

Unless there is something else going on?

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I gotta question I can't figure out........

Why is Synergy so Frigg'n Awesome!!!!!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mike3.14159:
In settings under Accounts I have a an account that is "Backup Assistant Plus". Clicking on the account takes me to a screen that has a check box for "Contacts" - which works. Right underneath that it has a button for "Setup media backup" - that is where I'm running into trouble.

Have logged into My Verizon Mobile app with no problem......

There is "Verizon Backup and Sharing" app that I have never been able to get to accept my password and another "Backup+ Media" app I just found - not on play market - and that also crashes the VerizonSSO process......
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] greatdaneduke:
+1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
Oh, I see.

I thought you were having an issue with My Verizon.

My mistake.

I don't use back up assistant, as I use TiBu and My Backup Pro, in addition to contacts backed up with Gmail.

Someone will have an answer, I'm sure ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sweeds:
Does using SetCPU to change frequencies save / override the initial settings from flashing?

Sent via SGS3 using Tapatalk
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] greatdaneduke:
It appears that VZW Backup assistant is not yet compatible with 4.1.2 at least that what the playstore reports

Just cleared data for ba+ and my Verizon. I was able to log in. Once logged in it stated that their server is down.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mike3.14159:
That must be the case. A time or two - out of about ~30 - I was able to put in my password then I got some sort of server error.

Appreciate it!! Been replacing system apps with ones from stock update and everything else I could think of, would have had a hard time letting it go without figuring it out!!

Appreciate the suggestions from everyone else too!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bajasur:
I have to say thank you to team synergy for this latest build... it is absolutely flawless.

Thanks guys
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] spearoid:
First Sunday I've been on SynergyROM. Had the Bible app and a notes app open simultaneously. It was so smooth. Easy to flip pages and write notes without switching anything!

And catching up on this thread reading the past ten pages, I have to say, you devs are freaking fantastic. You never seem to get annoyed with whatever question is thrown at you and your responses are thorough and clear and demonstrate great patience.

I have found my permanent GS3 ROM home!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] daniel4653:
Not true. Lol

Synergy ROM + Ktoonz w/ Team Kernelizers tweaks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Zool4nd3r:
Coming from Paranoid Android (Android 4.2.2)

Just flashed the newest version (443) and I need some help. After restoring everything through TiBu, I restarted my phone, and now I haven't been able to get it to actually boot up. It will turn on and go to the Samsung splash screen for probably 15 seconds, then the screen goes black and the device is completely non-responsive. The only thing I can go is battery pull and try again. I am able to get into download mode, but not into recovery. When I press up, home, power, it just boots up like any other time, with the splash screen then black screen.The only thing I've done aside from battery pull was I did get into recovery once and I tried to reboot from there. It told me that the ROM would try to replace recovery with the stock recovery. I said don't do that, and proceeded. Now I can't even get clockwork to open :( Everything was working before the first restart after the flash, now I have no idea what could have happened or how to go about fixing things. This is NOT the first time I've flashed my phone, I've been through several ROMs on this particular phone and have yet to have an issue so far so before you ask, yes I did a factory reset before the flash, rooted, bootloader unlocked, etc.

Any ideas would be great.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
Did you do a Superwipe, and have the ROM on your extSdCard to flash from? as your Internal gets Vaporized!

And have your Nandroid and anything else you want saved into your extSdCard also?

Your device is looking for a Recovery.

Hmmmm.....

I believe I had this issue once before when I used to use CWM.

I forgot the fix, but I installed TWRP Recovery, and never had the issue again, and never looked back ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nyr2k2:
I'm getting a random freeze once or twice per day. The power button will turn off the screen, I get haptic feedback from the soft keys, and can still open the pull down. Home doesn't work, can't actually power down, nothing from the pull down will actually activate. I'm forced to do a battery pull. IDK if it's something with the build or an app that's causing it, but I've never had the problem before.

Otherwise, this is the best ROM build I've had on any device.