[Miscellaneous Android Development] brienj:
Since people continue to only download part 1, even though I've explained fully that you MUST download BOTH parts before extracting, I have now added this at the beginning of the post, so hopefully people will actually follow the directions properly. DOWNLOAD BOTH PARTS BEFORE EXTRACTING, IT WILL NOT EXTRACT PROPERLY ONLY DOWNLOADING ONE PART!!!

This is a custom stock ROM for the Samsung Conquer 4G that has many advantages over a completely stock image. It was developed by me, Brien Johnson of XHPCreations aka brienj.

The link to the files for the ROM are at the very end of this post, but I recommend you read the FULL post while downloading the files.

- Your phone will be rooted.

- The complete FC17 update that shouldn't nag you to update to FE16. (may help to delete the FE16 update in the cache if you already had it pushed to your phone)

- Clockword Mod Recovery for making easy backups and restores.

- Completely Deodexed and ZipAligned for better performance or being able to hack further.

- All bloatware removed, i.e. SprintID

- Stock Launcher replaced by ADWLauncher. (the stock Launcher could not be deodexed, but ADWLauncher is much better and more robust)

- Debuggable.

- Custom power menu that includes, reboot, reboot into recovery, and reboot into download. (Currently the reboot into download does not work, will try to get it to work if possible in the future)

- Custom battery icons that show the actual percentage of battery power left.

- ICS Fonts for better appearance of text in phone's menus.

- Memory and network tweaks for best performance and battery savings.

- Support for running scripts on boot in init.d folder. I've included one script to help sdcard performance, feel free to add any more that you want.

- Support for standard bootanimation.zip files.

Along with these tweaks I will give instructions on improving the network performance further and changing the boot sound, as well as give links to useful programs and hacks that can be added on this phone.

I suggest only using this ROM if you have not successfully applied the FE16 OTA Update to your phone. If you have a stock FE16 phone, it MAY still work however. I can not guarantee this ROM will work for you, and I am not liable for any damage to your phone if you try to install this ...

Here are the instructions to install the custom stock ROM on a Samsung Conquer 4G with the FC17 update. It is installed in two parts, the first is if you do not already have Clockwork Mod Recovery installed, in which case follow the Odin instructions. If you have installed the CWMR already from my instructions here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1610534 then go ahead and follow the CWMR instructions.

Odin installation instructions (Use if you do not have CWMR already installed):

To enter Download Mode on the phone, make sure the phone is turned off and plugged into the wall charging. You should also make sure the phone has a good charge on it. Then turn the phone on by pressing the volume down and camera button and holding them while pressing the power button for a few seconds.

Unzip all the files on your computer and follow these steps.

1) Enter download mode on the phone and plug it into your computer.

2) Open up the Odin program in Windows, run as administrator if on a version of Windows that has such a feature, such as Windows 7. Sorry, there is no Odin for Linux based systems that I know about.

3) Press the OPS button and select the SPH-D600_FC17_CWM_XHP1.ops file.

4) Press the PDA button and select the SPH-D600_FC17_CWM_XHP1.tar.md5 file.

5) Press the Start button, the images should install and the phone reboot.

Congrats, your phone now has my Custom FC17 ROM with a CWM Recovery.

CWMR installation instructions (Use if you have CWMR installed):

Unzip all the files on your computer and follow these steps.

1) Copy the clockworkmod folder and merge it with the folder already on your SD Card. If you do not already have that folder on the SD Card, you may not have CWMR already installed, or you've never made a backup before with it.

2) Boot into CWMR by holding the volume down button and the power button while pugged into the wall charger, or by using the adb command "reboot recovery".

3) Select the menu item "backup and restore".

4) Select the menu item "restore".

5) Select the restore named "SPH-D600_FC17_CWM_XHP1".

6) Select the menu item "reboot now".

Congrats, your phone now has my Custom FC17 ROM with a CWM Recovery.

Now that the phone has the custom ROM, here are some things you can add or do to further improve performance on the phone if you wish.

First of all I recommend installing AdFree, Terminal Emulator, Titanium Backup, and if you wish ScriptManager, which can all be found on the Google Play Store. I can help you find them if needed.

For better 3G follow these steps (enter commands into Terminal Emulator or use the adb shell):

Type this command: getprop ril.MSL

It should show your MSL. Write it down.

Open the dialer and dial ##3282##

Enter your MSL

Click on "Others"

Click on "Multimedia"

Change the settings as follows:

RTSP Proxy Address: 0.0.0.0

RTSP Proxy Port: 0

HTTPPD Proxy Address: 0.0.0.0

HTTPPD Proxy Port: 0

The stock settings are:

RTSP Proxy Address: rtsp.vog.sprintpcs.com

RTSP Proxy Port: 554

HTTPPD Proxy Address: pd.vog.sprintpcs.com

HTTPPD Proxy Port: 8085

Here is how to change the boot sound:

First of all get the "poweron.snd" file from the /system/etc/ folder. It is a raw sound file which can be opened in any audio editor, such as Cool Edit Pro.

Here are the settings to select when opening it up in Cool Edit Pro for example:

Sampling Rate: 441000

Channels: Stereo

Resolution: 16-bit

Data Formatted As: 16-bit Intel PCM

Offset Input Data By: 0

Now you can listen to the boot sound in the audio editor. You can change it to your liking and save it in the same format. Remember to keep it a RAW audio file with the settings above. Replace the "poweron.snd" file with your edited audio file, retaining the same filename.

To replace the boot animation, you can find the "bootanimation.zip" file in the /system/media/ folder. Replace it with a bootanimation file of your liking. I've included a custom bootanimation that was modified to match the custom boot logo I made. I made all of it from a popular bootanimation of which I can not remember where I found it. I am not taking any credit for the original bootanimation, I just modified it to say Samsung Conquer 4G at the top and to speed up and spin faster at the end. If anyone remembers the original creator, I will add a link to it.

A great cpu tuning program that works on the phone (although won't save settings on boot for some reason), is this - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1584508. From the screenshots below you can see that the phone will last almost 3 days without this program, although the other screenshot was using the program setting of PowerSave and after 20 1/2 hours it was still at 70%, but I also didn't use the phone, I just had it locked. However, when running in PowerSave mode, the phone will be very sluggish, so is only to use if you are just waiting for phone calls or just texting.

These are all the tweaks I have for now. I hope you enjoy the ROM.

I hate to bring this up, but if you like this ROM, please consider making a donation. I don't do this just for donations, I enjoy helping everyone out, but I was in a near fatal accident over two years ago and can no longer work. If you find yourself enjoying this ROM, please click on the Donate button under my name, I would really appreciate it. I can try to improve the ROM over time, but please remember that this ROM is strictly made for performance and battery life and to give you more control over your phone. I don't plan on doing any theming, and most people do ICS themes and such. Personally I hate the look of the ICS themes and the only thing I've taken from ICS, is the fonts, which I do like and look much better than the original. If you want some fancy theme, or mods like Beats Audio, I'd suggest looking for another ROM. If you want performance and longer battery life, I think you'll enjoy mine.

Take care and thank you for trying my ROM.

You must download BOTH of these files before you can extract them. After downloading them, put them both in the same folder, and open the part1.rar file up, and you can then extract the files properly. If you only download one of the two files, the files will be corrupted or not work:

Here is the link to the first file of the ROM - SPH-D600_FC17_CWM_XHP1.part1.rar

Here is the link to the second file of the ROM - SPH-D600_FC17_CWM_XHP1.part2.rar

I apologize for having to split it into two files, but I have a maximum of 200MB I can upload, as I don't have a premium account at MediaFire.