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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] eMJaaay:
I always left the phone rest a few minutes while media scanner is running after every boot (I waited a full 5 minutes or so after first boot after installation) and haven't had any problems. Then again, I'm on GOV3.2.

how_weird: I don't personally like Lightening Launcher either and replaced it with ADW. Try 3.2, replace launcher with ADW and install Google Search (if your wife uses it) and you can make a verrry nice and stable phone :)

Vomar: Congrats :p have fun playing :p the first thing I did after checking that my network, etc worked was to get it rooted and installed this ROM :P GOV3.2 is pretty stable.

I'll post screenshots soon.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Lightning Launcher may not be beautiful, but it gets the job done and well if you take a little bit of time to get used to it. It uses the least amount of RAM out of any home screen launcher currently available and the least amount of RAM on your phone being used, the cooler it runs, the longer your battery runs, and more importantly, the faster your phone runs. That being said, if you can't handle how barebones Lightning Launcher is...you can install LauncherPro which is the next best thing. ADw launcher is big fat bloat boat and I will include it in GOV3.3 BULKY-ESSENTIALS, but NEVER EVER in Performance builds due to it's high RAM usage, and low-speed.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Vomar:
Root was done after few minutes phone comes to my house using the simple and complete tool found here on xda but I get some troubles to obtain the root access, After changing the cable (I was using the cable insert on package, but I think is a faulty chinese copy), using my original nexus cable, the root was finally made in less than 2 minutes, after that I freezed some Tmobile useless tasks with titanium backup, installed my old swiftkey 3 and some other things.

On my sim card I have a internet promo wich allow me to use gprs, 3g and hspa data, but on sidekick I can only use gprs, maybe the HSPA frequency is only for America despite the phone is quadriband??

I tried to lock the phone on only 3g but no internet was avaiable.:rolleyes:
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] pitflyer:
Got my Sidekick 4G back from a friend who borrowed it (stupid iHomer wanted to play around with Android) and flashed 3.2 of this ROM, works fine. Only problem I had was that I got error 429 on Google Play updates when I first tried. Rebooted and everything worked fine the second time.

I used the LEAN version and it does seem snappy compared to the usual bloat I remember with this phone. Glad to see someone is keeping this alive. Still love the keyboard and basically this is my 'beater' Android for when I don't want to ding my newer Galaxy Nexus, and also reminds me of how far we've come with Jellybean :)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] eMJaaay:
I find ADW easier in terms of custom icons, resizing widgets, etc. which you get in the free version while Launcher Pro free is quite limited :/
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Thank-you for the feedback!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] rpmccormick:
Yeah, I told you that long ago. Voice-search needs to launch in Browser (will not launch in Dolphin, etc.) and will FC without it. (afaik that's the only FC removing browser causes)

Is ADW really that bad on RAM? Like eMJaaay said, it is the only FREE launcher I have found that can have 5 columns on the home-screens, and stretch widgets across those 5-columns. This is a must for me!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sevenslugs:
Where can I find a link on specific installation directions for the sidekick 4g supercharger v6?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Installing v6 supercharger is pretty straightforward and is the same for every phone. You download the script. Run it as root in a program such as script manager. And follow the built in instructions. If you need more help feel free to message me. Don't forget to use that thanks button it helps the whole community
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
If you told me before, sorry for not taking advice. I probably don't remember seeing it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sevenslugs:
I followed instructions after I ran script...phone doesn;t seem any faster..
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Did you reboot and run I again to see if tour values stayed?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] eMJaaay:
Jin, can someone flash ROM without wiping? lipico is having problems with wipe on CWM and wants to know if he can install without it / wipe on Samsung recovery before installing on CWM. His threads: 1 & 2. If anyone could help him ... I haven't been able to so far :/
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] lipico:
Thanks a lot to eMJaaay, now I have the ROM working.

Just have a few questions.

When I receive an sms the phone doesn't vibrate, neither the led works. Is this normal on this ROM?

And on the original ROM, when receiving an SMS it could reply by clicking on the top and reply there instead of going to the messaging. This ROM doesn't have that function?

Other than that, I think it is working fine!

Thanks a lot.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Good work eMJayyy! You've been of help to a lot of users lately.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] :
DUMB FAST... Honestly cannot believe how fast...

will update with battery review

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:( only issue so far is txt for contact dropdown in messaging is white on white so you cannot see what it says unless highlighted. easy fix?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ultraprimeomega:
I thought it was easy but seems no one can figure out what it is, I thought first its because the cm merge but no one has commented on that, and I have no skills on this to figure it out. I have seen this also on the twiter app when you select a person to block or add and it shows a dark background with what I guess grey or black letters

Does anyone know if we can change the background of pop menus to something else or remove the transperancy which I'm starting to notice might be the problem.

Can the problem be that the letters or background are transperant? Or the default is set to have both letters and background to dark and also white color at the same time.

Can some one give me a tip on where to start reading on editing font and background colors on android, not a specific app but default settings.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
The problem would be in the framework somewhere
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ultraprimeomega:
As i cant do much i give up, but yes its the framework, i tried following a guide but the framework is different, still good rom
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] :
one other question.

anyone have a keyboard backlight fix?

ive spent hours figuring out how to modify files trying to turn off the light sensor or make it always think its dark

ive also tried using tasker

the keyboard timeout is annoyingly short

thank you!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Yes, there's a build.prop entry for this. Most people prefer the backlight so I left it. If you'd like it off, please insert it thru ADB to your build.prop.

Not only the build.prop however, there's an app. You may want to check this out and figure out which method works best for you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1472730

good luck!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
OP has been updated with 3.3, go get it!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Sakuryu:
Anyone have a stat compare vs RAGE? I am using it as my daily and i currently dont have my data cable, I might be interested in this but if it's not that much of a difference or anything..... Something like a load time comparison, latency, how long it takes certain things to run while programs run in the background.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] achaps81:
Can i just upgrade my old Glorious Overdose Rom to this one without wiping? what would happen if i did?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Too many changes between the ROMs, in apps, settings, build.prop and even the kernel is different. I'd STRONGLY ADVISED AGAINST IT!!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Sakuryu:
Is home locked in memory? can we disable it? will the turbo 3g and KAK work on this too?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Turbo 3G? Not sure, as we are a 4G phone, and this already has build.prop 4G tweaks...wouldn't recommend it.

#2 : What's KAK?

#3 : Yes, launcher is locked in home memory because it's SO SMALL that it's beneficial to keep in RAM. You can disable manually by adb'ing and changing the build.prop setting.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Sakuryu:
Few other things from the creators os Supercharger. KickAssKernalizer, it optomizes the kernel somehow, and okay no turbo 3g
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
I'm not sure KAK would play nicely with this kernel. Considering this build is optimized as we can get it, and I'm no kernel dev. I'm confident in this ROM having AMAZING battery life, and stability however.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] insanedrunk:
Correction we are on turbo 3g HSDPA+ we dont have true 4g. True 4G is a myth.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Tsloble:
This is the first ROM I have used and liked since GOv2, which I was using until yesterday. This is also the first time I have used v6 SuperCharger and Tegrak OC. (I prefer longer battery life, and the most extensive thing I do is stream mp3 so I am assuming conservative governor is OK as per OP?) (Should I use Aggressive in v6 if I am going for battery life or is that performance)

Anyways, great upgrade. I am using Lean and LL takes a bit of getting used to - I am coming from ADW. Maybe you guys have a couple pointers... Depending on where I have my icons placed, when phone switches to landscape mode they are then "below" viewing area and need scrolling to access. I also miss my customized icons - I see that there is an option in LL to change icon, is it possible to use pictures from my ADW packs ... I'm being lazy on that one.

I am finally getting the White on white in the drop down. Something between GOv2 and GOv33 caused it ... Then again, this is a different messaging app and perhaps it wouldn't happen in Universal Composer. I have had the dark/dark problem in the pulldown menu since first flash last year though.

Also, during the flash I saw that the modem said something like KJ2 [Flash Blaze Modem], was that a tip telling me that I needed to flash the modem or that it was flashing the modem? I assumed the first and therefore flashed Blaze.

Sorry for adding onto an already long post, figure it's better to put it all out there. After flash I installed FasterFix and set custom pool to 0.us.pool.ntp.org .. But when I open up Navigation, it says Waiting for location ... and times out before it can locate it. Same thing happens in maps. My location setting is wireless off, gps on, sensor on. I used this pool, or maybe 1,2,3 , on GOv2 and I was able to get a fasterfix ... am I missing something here?

And lastly, thank you and the other developers lately. A major reason why I didn't even bother on a lot of the newer ROMs was because of the attitudes around here - I figured no matter how cool my phone would be, I wasn't going to support that nonsense. It has been great to see attitudes changed and new devs and helpers come into our community to support a device that has all but been forgotten by the rest of the world.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Sakuryu:
I really see no difference at all between this and Rage 4......
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
I'm sorry, I'm not aware of the GPS bug. The newest gps.conf was added in, but it worked for everyone else (including me) not sure if it has to do with the fact we're in the US? Are you from outside of the US?

KJ2 Blaze 4G modem increases reception, battery life, and download/upload speeds. It's recommended, but not needed. You may switch out to ADw, but it may NOT be as fast, I'm not sure, go ahead and try it.

I'm working on the Messaging.apk problem.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
True. True 4G hasn't been released yet. HSDPA+ doesn't meet the requirements for 4G. But well, the tweaks are meant for "4G" as most of us know 4G anyways.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] insanedrunk:
You mean the tweaks are for hsdpa+ ;) just yanking your chain.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Tsloble:
I am within the US, I figured I would just get a more accurate gps reading and it backfired. It seems to work when I turn on wireless networks in location, but I don't like having that on - something about wireless data collection :S is there a way you coul link me up with original config, I'm not skilled to get it out.

Is there a way to get the old universal composer back? I see it is installed as system apk, but again I lack the skills to make that the functioning texter instead of messenger apk. Thanks for all your help, I'm extremely happy with the battery life on this thing which has always been my major gripe with this phone
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
As for the original GPS, sure I'll make a version with legacy GPS...

And I'll make another version of the ROM with original MMS.apk and I'll name it OLDSKOOL, try to make it as close to stock without being stock.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sevenslugs:
How do u add voodoo sound amp to the 3.3 lean edition?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Download it from the Play Store. It's called Voodoo Sound Control.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] lady vixen:
Does this rom have a hacked hotspot or ability to use wifi tether given the recent changes to T-Mobile blocking tethering apps?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
It was always able to tether natively without having the need to be hacked. And using a rooted hotspot app will still bypass T-Mobile's block. I tried it with Barnacle Wi-Fi tether and WiFi tether.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] lady vixen:
Oh ok cuz I jus rooted my guys sidekick & wifi tether doesn't work cuz of sumn T-Mobile just blocked with using wifi tether. Been reading up on it and every time he tries to access the app T-Mobile sends a msg saying to purchase the hotspot. I also read to use a VPN but that also charges.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
http://benbuchacher.com/posts/2012/06/bypassing-tmobiles-tethering-filters.html
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] achaps81:
just a quick question, im trying to get some themes off of theme chooser, and alot say cm7/cm9 based, what is this rom based off of? or will any of those even work? i snagged a theme pack from the forum and those work pretty good, just curious
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] :
This is not cm7 or cm9 it'd based on the T-Mobile rom
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
This is correct. This is a Froyo ROM, sadly. However, this coming Monday (with help from nxd) I'm shipping my Sidekick 4G off to trusted and successful developer Bhundven.He can work magic.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ultraprimeomega:
I wish I can do that, but I love my sidekick more and more. Even if it only has froyo it is good, so many times I've tried selling but I always seem to find a way to look at it and change my mind.

I hope once he gets it he will post a thread of his progress
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Well my SK4G should be with bhundven anyday now. I just sent it today, so maybe Wednesday I believe? Or I could have misheard the guy and he said NEXT Wednesday. Regardless, it should be there very soon on a Wednesday.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
I'll be keeping progress over here, since TheLastSidekick already set the stage and I've thrown up a couple DOs and DONTs, and most of the progress has been there already.

There is personal turmoil in my life, such as not having a job and being Mr. Mom around the house. I am also hoping to be receiving a specially hacked fascinate so I can start working on a new bootloader for galaxy s devices based on either u-boot or lk. Then there are my pre-existing obligations with the SGH-T959V.

It should take me two weeks of undivided time (which may be a month) to get a few different kernels on this phone.

By doing that, we can start getting more roms on this phone, as well as getting MTD. Since I know this device is very similar to the sgs4g and epic4g (essentially, second gen sgs) and you guys have documented this very well; there are still some challenging aspects to getting what I'm talking about getting done, but I don't see this as being as hard as the initial work I've done on the sgs4g.

I will definitely have more news when the phone arrives. I will most likely be very excited to just jump right in and get cm6 punched out. Then off to GB on the teamacid kernel. See more here.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Precisely in a nut shell. This goes without saying, but I will soon be donating a small amount of money as a thank-you. A note from me guys ; if you appreciate bhundven's work here, please make a contribution. It's the least as a community we can do, he's working on this phone for us and isn't currently employed. That is all.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ultraprimeomega:
I found a bug have not seen it but when i try to search on the stock browser url space i just get google.com and no search results, i use opera so not a problem for me

Aside from me not wanting to change the subject of this thread i will soon donate, as im also currently un-employed but soon a promising job in cellphone repair is coming.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Not aware of this bug. Though, if it's related to the browser itself, I'm afraid I can't fix it. I'm not sure, but I think PDT modified the stock browser. I tried removing stock browser and replacing it with something much more efficient like Dolphin Mini, but the SK4G continuously forced closed.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Wanted to supercharge v6, but I don't have the phone at the moment. However, I'm making a small changelog and bumping the version up to 3.4, I feel it warrants a new release #.

1. Rid of some font.apk in /system/app.

2. Sony Sketch Font is now default font.

3. Updated apps.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] rpmccormick:
I must say this phone still frustrates the heck out of me. Ever since the upgrade to 3.3 a few weeks ago, it likes to lag on the dialer a lot (new issue). In ExDialer I will drag over a contact to Text or Phone and it will just slide back and do nothing. Then I will do it again. About 10 seconds later, it will finally show the phone screen with the second one dialing and an error saying call failed on the first one. It also locks up while using GPS in maps and navigation (just like every ROM for this phone including stock always has). Often the phone is laggy, especially when low on battery (re-occuring problem, seems bad on this latest ROM install... probably need to flash 3.4 fresh and not restore any backups... that's hours of work though - and lost game scores and such).

On the other hand, sometimes it runs smooth as silk and the only thing I hate about it is that it can't run Chrome and doesn't have the JellyBean Google Now. Those are the good days, when even without those 2 things and a horrible camera, I would not want to trade my SideKick for any other phone on the market. Other days, when I have to pull the battery after navigation locked up 4 turns from destination, I want to smash this pos in to bits.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
LOL. I hear ya. I have always had the issue of Wifi error after turning off packet data and switching over. A reboot always fixes it but is quite annoying due to the fact that it takes forever to load the homescreen and scan the sd. Oh and this happens with GenericGinger 4.1 and the Rage rom.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vikramkhalsa:
I've also had google maps lock up/FC/ reboot on every rom on this phone, its so annoying and frustrating to have to wait for it to reboot while I'm on the way to somewhere. Now I just take a screenshot of the directions beforehand just in case. It always seems to work fine after the reboot. No one has found a fix or solution to this problem?

Other than that I'm pretty happy with this phone and its performance (besides not being able to have google now and chrome like rpmccormick.)

I also get the wifi error which is pretty annoying, I only started getting it on GOV3 and above.. I just clear the ram/running processes and then it usually works after a couple of tries. But then you have to wait for it to scan the sd card and load the luancher which does take forever like RicAndroid said.

Can't wait for some progress! - Thanks to the devs for everything so far, at least we're way better than stock..
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
This noob needs some help....lol.

My question is....what process is involved with the merging of CM with Froyo? Any help would greatly be appreciated!

EDIT: Question answered by TLS. Thanks, man.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Don't use Google maps on this phone I've always used the free telenav app and never had any problems with it on the sidekick.

Sent from my Team Nightmare Amaze4G with Sense 4.0
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] rpmccormick:
Thank you for that info... so only Google Maps/Nav cause the crash? Interesting... maybe some one could rip the old maps.apk from the earliest FW image we have?

I hate that though... google maps is my #1 most used app other then GMail, ExDialer, and GoogleVoice for VM and TXTing. I will try your suggestion, but I already know it will not be a perfect replacment for GMaps and all that it does for me (yellow-pages, friend locations, location history graphs, navigation, stared places, streetview, dining guide, etc... I love GMaps! ).
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Yea I've never liked gmaps on the sidekick its a battery killer and a memory hog and with the amount of ram available on the sk4g its not a good choice and if your interested in grabbing an older version of it just download one of the older roms I reposted them all. Just unzip the rom and pull it out and put it on your SD card and install it.

Sent from my Team Nightmare Amaze4G with Sense 4.0
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Jurai:
does this rom automatically adjust the keyboard delay timing on boot?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vikramkhalsa:
I tried using the free telenav app and for the first few days it worked fine and I was all happy and then it started doing the same thing.

Within a few days it started freezing/crashing and causing reboots. Another thing was in either of the nav apps when they cause a reboot the tough screen would stop working and I'd have to reboot a second time.

Any other options? I'm thinking of just getting one of those nav apps that have all the maps downloaded on the sd card beforehand and just trying those.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
updating with some small things, and changing the name to prevent confusion as this is not using the 4.x branch.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Khizar hayyat:
I have sidekick 4g when I trying to flash a rom my phone gives a error signature verification failed.please help me out
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
Did you already follow the steps to root and then copy over the recovery file to your system folder? And, finally install the update.zip from CWM?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] orange808:
Uninstall all the updates to Maps.

I also recommend using old versions of software. Apps that were designed and tested on Froyo are going to perform better...

Avoid anything that runs as a service in the background. Apps that do this sit in your limited memory and stay there--until your SK crashes and reboots.

I had great luck with my SK when I used it carefully. It was stable and the Maps that shipped with the phone did well. But, it stinks to avoid the Play Store and always be hunting old versions of old apps...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
Should I hold my breath for MeMoRY v2? :confused:
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Exit_Only:
I wouldn't hold my breath my friend :P You will surely pass out and/or die as this is a dead project. ;)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Correct.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Exit_Only:
I'll go head and get a moderator to lock this down sense its dead.

Edit: Thread has been reported. Should be locked soon.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
It appears the OP agrees on this...Thread Closed and OP if you require this thread to be reopened, just PM a Moderator, Thanks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rehkhan97:
hi i have recently heard that since the ics update the droid razr is now a world phone. does this mean i can use my phone with a tmobile sim?

thanks
[Motorola Droid RAZR] tommy2727:
Good question did you ever get a reply on this?