yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
That's actually a great idea. I can see where that would be useful. I've never used that app. What happened when you tried to use it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxprolmracerxx:
i havent tried using Home2 but im sure itll work perfectly fine. im just trying to avoid having too many apps running (for better battery life/less home button lag?) and would rather have that configuration built in if possible. not sure if it would really affect it that much or if im just being too nit-picky about it haha
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Version 2.9.1 update changelog:

-Fixed battery drain with dirty flash from old version

-General battery life and performance improvements

-Some apks moved to user applications

-GPU page rendering

-init.d script edits and fixes

-Newest AdAway included

-build.prop edits

-updater-script edits

-Alliance ROM Boot animation added

-Galaxy S4 weather widget added

-Play Store updated to latest version

Thanks again to enewman17 for working with me on this one. It really helped speed up the process. I tested this directly overtop of v2.8 and then overtop of v2.9 to make sure there was nothing weird happening. That being said, a clean flash is always recommended for best results.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
You'll always have apps running. It's how the android kernel works. Unlike Windows, where ram is best freed up, Android populates the ram. Freed up ram is wasted ram. If more memory is needed, the kernel will automatically kill off processes (these are called low memory kill, or lmk, settings). Constantly trying to free up memory will actually cause a decrease in battery life. This is why task killers are a bad idea.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] boostmx:
Just picked up an S4 and I must say the S3 on this ROM runs so much smoother! No joke. I miss it already...:'( Hopefully the bootloader gets unlocked and strat and the fam make an S4 ROM. Now I'm jealous of my mom who doesn't even know how great she has it lol.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
That's very nice of you to say. It depends on what happens. We need an unlocked bootloader as you said, and I don't know if I'll be getting an S4. My upgrade shouldn't be available until around the end of the life of the S4 or the beginning of the life of the S5. Unless I win a contest to win an S4, I don't think anything will happen anytime soon. I can blind-dev, but it's always better to have a test device first. I'm sure someone will be able to cure your itch for the S4 other than me I hope. I would love to do an S4 ROM of Intergalactic, but I don't have the means yet.

That being said, it's rumored mrvirginia is working on an S4 ROM and has asked me for help. So something should be coming out of the family at least. ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] justin860:
What's swappa representative
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
I work for Swappa.com. It's the official marketplace of XDA. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] balrog558:
The splash screen is badass. I'm restoring my apps, did a clean install this time. Let you know how it is tomorrow. Thanks strat
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cloudyphiz:
The new boot animation is gorgeous, and it seems to be running great on a dirty flash so far. The only downsides are that it still has the white icons on the settings pane and worse there is now the hideous fade on its background. Otherwise... absolutely the best rom on the device.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Thank you, I really enjoy that Alliance boot animation. As for settings: that's the way I want it and the way Nun designed settings. I think he did a beautifully minimalistic and ideal job. For now, you can just pull SecSettings.apk from 2.8 and replace it with the new version as well as flash the Intergalactic theme.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Chuckd610:
Great find with Home2.......it works perfectly and is highly configureable.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] balrog558:
Strat will bad things happens if I freeze media server?

Since that's whwre most of my battery drain is coming from will listening to music. Or is it something really important?

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I like the Minimalist design
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
That's not a good idea. Media server scans your phone for media and runs when you play music or videos etc. I think it's pretty important if you want to listen to music. I'll have to look more into it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] balrog558:
I'm not really too serious about it, on 2.9 it just ate up so much battery. 2.8 I'd listen to music all day and have almost five hours of screen time consistently. Hopefully this new version will Solve that issue. I'll let you know tomorrow

Thanks strat

Sent from the galactic core on my rocking S3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] scorpiopantera:
I believe it. My friend has a stock S3 and he thought my phone was super special or something because of the crazy battery life and overall speed. Nope, just pimped out with Intergalactic.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] juniorkid95:
I'm new to this ROM, yet so far, it is the best ROM I've ever flashed, but besides that, is multiwindow supported? I see it as selectable as a toggle, but does it actually work?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Thank you, I'm glad you are enjoying. Multiwindow is not supported in this ROM to avoid issues. The popup browser is the closest thing I can do for now without causing anything funky to happen.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dB Zac:
That's why I picked this rom. The multi window roms have a lot more bugs, besides I never used them.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cloudyphiz:
Thanks that's perfect, I don't mind the white icons but I'm definitely happy to be rid of the gradient now. Just sent you another few dollars on PayPal as a small thanks for the rom that'll keep me content with this phone until I'm eligible in another year or so.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gvsukids:
A great app for minimizing running programs without killing them is greenify. If u want the app button in the middle, use Apex or Nova

Sent using xda app-developers app
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pickupman66:
So far so good. However, normally I fire up Morphology to get a circle battery bar and some other custom tweaks. one thing that i have noticed i since 2.8, I have not been able to apply the framework background themes. the backgrounds have just stayed black as they were before theming. Otherwise, everything else seems to work perfectly.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ozark_8125:
Is a factory reset after installation 2.9.1 the same as wiping / formatting / reflashing?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Thank you very much, sir. That's incredibly generous of you to do that. I really appreciate it. When finals are over, I'm going to get a free moment and update the reversion package for the theme that reverts the icons as well.

Greenify is highly recommended. You can throw apps like maps in true standby and not have to worry about them misbehaving. enewman17 recommended it to me and recommends it to his users as well.

All these changes have most likely rendered the current version of morphology not fully functional. You can try reverting to the stock theme and them running morphology. I believe that should work. Thanks pickup :)

If you factory reset from the OS, you wipe your internal SD as well. I do this occasionally, but I also go and do it from recovery. In recovery a factory reset does not wipe.your internal SD, just resets your ROM back to the way it was when it was newly flashed with no user apps installed. I'd still wipe cache and d-cache to be on the safe side when updating. My script takes care of it but it never hurts to be safe. Let me know if you have any more questions.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jaketc:
Anyone else getting download errors from goo?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Jake, that doesn't surprise me. goo gets so much traffic and they don't have the servers to handle it anymore. Some days they're buggy as anything. They're upgrading hardware in June which is nice, but we'll see how that goes. Luckily, the dev-host mirror is available for you guys. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pickupman66:
Gotcha.. If I get anal about it ill go do that, otherwise, in just running it since this morning, I can already see HUGE battery gains. BIG TIME>
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
That's so good to hear. I made some really specific under the hood changes and I noticed an improvement as well. :) I need to update the OP with new screenshots soon.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] RTBee:
Probably a stupid question, but how do you factory reset from the OS? I've only ever done it thru recovery. :confused:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Menu>Settings>Back up and reset>Factory data reset

That should be the proper method to do an OS factory reset. Be warned that it's going to erase all your data from the DCIM (pictures, etc) as well as any internal SD data.

And it's not a stupid question at all. In my thread, nobody will ever feel stupid for asking a question. It's the best way to get answers and learn. Hope that helps. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BYOBret:
Settings menu - Back up and reset - Factory data reset

edit: Well I feel a little stupid. Twice in the last 10 minutes I have been too slow to post and someone else answered, but thats a good thing.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Sometimes being a little slow is a good thing.

The ladies must love you ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] RTBee:
Duh, thanks for that! Does doing it thru the OS like that return it to its original state out of the box? Or do you have to Odin the firmware to do that?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Good question. It will not take you back to Samsung factory settings. You need to use ODIN OR Kies (my preferred method) to do that. This will just reset the ROM to its original, untouched state.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ozark_8125:
Just a paranoid reminder - I would pull your ext SD card when you do this. One time I got flashy fancy flipper fingers (the ladies don't like that :silly: ) and wiped it by accident too. Lost some pictures but did have a recent backup so wasn't too bad, but did lose a nandroid also.

I see Strat mentioned Kies also - I'm assuming that's not Kies Air?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
Correct. Have to have a physical connection.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] scorpiopantera:
Flashed 2.9.1 this morning. I have 12 minutes of screen time (busy day) and it idled all day on LTE and only dropped to 89%. Beginning battery before I wiped everything was 96%. Ten hours of idle and only 7% battery use! Tits bro!!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sparky4017:
I just bought a new s3 and rooted it now looking for a ROM this one looks nice does it have hot spots working or do I need to download a app:cowboy:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] RTBee:
Everything's working on this rom, especially the hard working developer and his support group. You won't find a better rom, better support, or a better, more helpful thread than this one. I'm dragging my feet to upgrade to an S4 cause my S3 it's running sooo good. If we could just get Intergalactic/Alliance on the S4 all would be right with the galaxy! :cool:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Yes tethering is unrestricted. I'm happy to have you aboard.

I want an S4 really badly. But I'm really happy with this release too. I have a lot longer to wait :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sparky4017:
Thanks I'm excited to flash it I'm a old guy but really love my toys I looked at the S4 but at $325 for a new S3 outright it was a no brainer my everyday driver is the optimus g one fast phone :cowboy:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gocats7:
How old is old these days sparky? I ask cause I may be old now....not sure what is considered old!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Sounds like a no-brainer to me. This phone is the best phone I've ever used. And I've used a lot. Hopefully we can get you situated so the s3 is your new driver. Come to the dark side.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sparky4017:
I'm 57 farm part time work a 12 hr a day job as a refrigeration engineer and can out work most 20 year olds sometimes I think I'm stupid for working so hard but it's all I know not sure I would change a thing keeps me young :o
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
I'm not sure how many of you use Twitter but you're more than welcome to chat or ask questions there too. :) [MENTION=4124359]stratatak7[/MENTION]

https://twitter.com/Stratatak7
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Duffman14:
Got joo

Funny you were just talking about wiping the internal SD. I also find it help full to do that occasionall. I just did it for a fresh install with 2.9.1 as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nickovtyme:
I've been trying for what seems like days to get updates.

I was so stoked to finally get 2.9 installed and what to my wondering eyes did appear?

2.9.1! Not that I'm complaining mind you...but goo.im and goo manager are real ball breakers.

I'm forever having it get almost download and then it fails.

I have a dozen almost but not complete files...from desktop to laptop to tablet to phone.

Good thing I have unlimited data.

Thanks Strat! Its worth it :D

if you choose not to decide; you still have made a choice. - Rush "Freewill"
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] baghera1979:
Link is in op for downloads. More reliable that way
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nickovtyme:
Hmm...tell that to every device I've tried. I've tried IE, firefox, download managers...wifi, hardwire, you name it.

It does not like me and is not willing to cooperate.

if you choose not to decide; you still have made a choice. - Rush "Freewill"
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] baghera1979:
Worked for me using tapatalk. I use dolphin browser just fine
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nickovtyme:
I don't doubt it...I think my issue is location for the most part.

Ill keeping chipping away at it. Eventually enough pipe will open up around here and it'll be OK.

if you choose not to decide; you still have made a choice. - Rush "Freewill"
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] scorpiopantera:
I always download using Chrome, right to my phone. Too lazy to transfer from a PC. Lol

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I always manually backup my internal SD, then wipe everything except External. That way I can blame Stratatak when something goes wrong.

I haven't been able to blame him yet though, for anything.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Good luck buddy. Try using the DevHost mirrors as they seem to be a bit more stable and reliable (better servers). Let me know if you need help with anything.

Hah. That's the idea scorpio. ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pickupman66:
Ssssoooooo. 2.9.1. Clean flash. Wow. 1.5 hhours screen. I'm happy.

Sent from my Galaxy S 3 with Tapatalk.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pickupman66:
I have sseveral. [MENTION=4284167]lhuffhines[/MENTION], [MENTION=2268860]USST[/MENTION]ove (work)

Sent from my Galaxy S 3 with Tapatalk.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nickovtyme:
Yeah I finally was able to get it downloaded and installed. But lord help me Jesus I ain't got time for that! No offense...I know its not you.

It's stupid goo.

As I suspected it was worth the effort.

After I get it tweaked/supercharged and ktooned up....it"ll make pancakes.

Thanks for your efforts.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sparky4017:
+1 on the pancakes add some bacon please :cowboy:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
Someone say bacon ?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] radtech777:
Mmmmmmmm
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Chauleyboii:
The battery life on this v2.9.1 is the truth bro great work haven't had battery life like this in a long time whatever you did bro please don't stray away :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
Lot's of careful tweaking went into this. I think it's safe to say I got the tweaks right where I want them finally. I'm glad you're enjoying. Please let me know if you have any questions.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PaulExcellent:
Just finished installing this ROM!

Man, it is just beautiful. So smooth.

Loving it quite a bit! If anything, it might be my favorite!

Is there any way of installing the AOKP messaging app, though?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nickovtyme:
Will the on the fly battery mod work on the newest? I supposed I could just flash it and see...

Everything about this ROM is put together well..'cept not a big fan of the notification icons. Even using Nova Launcher Prime, I'm kinda stuck looking at a blue battery.

Morphology is fine but my experience is it has a tendency to break things in the process of Modding...wish we could go back to the days of the UOT Kitchen...even though it was sometimes limited with what you could do with it...it made for amateur themer like me some options.

if you choose not to decide; you still have made a choice. - Rush "Freewill"
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mis3:
I used on the fly battery mod and brightness toggle, and it worked great.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nickovtyme:
Much better...

if you choose not to decide; you still have made a choice. - Rush "Freewill"
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] seanpr123:
In the process of downloading right now.

Just switched to an AT&T S3 (from International), and still can't get my idle drain in CM ROMs down where I'd like.

Looks like this is just AOSP theme with a bunch of tweaks based on stock firmware right?

Is messaging inverted/blacked out by chance?

Wouldn't even normally ask but my download from d-h is crawling (likely my connection) so figured I'd drop by and say Hi!

Oh is there a way to disable fast dormancy or is that not needed with this ROM/phone combination?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
You don't want to disable fast dormancy with AT&T because their network supports it. It saves battery and you won't notice it. It's a bit more than just an AOSP theme. It's not full AOSP. It has some aspects of it, but some personal touches as well. Messaging is not "inverted" as it was already dark-ish themed as it is and I enjoy the color combination of the blue and off-white (not yellow) message boxes. This ROM is hours upon of hours of work and tweaking behind the scenes. I do hope you enjoy.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] RTBee:
Well, my battery life was getting worse and worserer, and since I had dirty flashed over 2.8 and then again over 2.9 (I know, I know) I decided to wipe and start over clean this time. I wiped my caches and then did a wipe data/factory reset. Wiped caches again and let it reboot. It asked me all the setup questions and google sign-ins and whatnot. I still had root (which I expected) but what I didn't expect was that under the build it showed Intergalactic 2.9.1. It still had the 23 toggle pull down, 4-way reboot/recovery menus. Its as if I still have 2.9.1 flashed without having done so. :confused: I thought the CWM factory reset took me back farther than that.

If I want to remove all vestiges of 2.9.1 and start over should I use the OS's reset? Never seemed like I had to do that before, or am I missing something very simple? Old age is a terrible thing. :o
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] radtech777:
RTBee, just for my own curiosity, why are you wanting to revert back to 2.8? 2.9.1 has just as impressive battery life, awesome new boot animation, it's smooth as butter and has wonderful theming. Why not a clean flash of that?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] RTBee:
I did a dirty flash of 2.9 over 2.8 and then dirty flashed 2.9.1 over 2.9. My battery life is taking a nose dive and so I thought I'd do a clean install of 2.9.1, but in the middle, meaning after the wipe and before flashing the new I notice the residual 2.9.1 already on my device and was curious if that was normal or if it should all have been removed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
If you just did a factory reset, that will put you on the last version that you flashed (v2.9.1). You need to reflash a particular version if that's what you desire. Follow OP instructions and do a pure clean flash of 2.9.1. You will need to factory reset AND flash again for best results. That will overwrite all system files and should fix your issues from dirty flashing.

It's normal because you never reverted back to 2.8 or 2.9 through recovery first.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cubanghost:
Well i must say that the 2.9 clean install worked never had the drain anymore, so i just updated to 2.9.1 and im getting better battery life with no hassle...me like it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
If 2.9.1 was the last thing you flashed, that's what the factory reset from recovery reverts to. Whether or not something was flashed clean or dirty doesn't affect what Rom is installed. When you flashed 2.9.1, the updater script wiped the /system partition, making it blank. At that point, 2.9 was gone. And doing a factory reset from settings will do the same thing, as well as format/wipe your internal sd card.

Edit:

Ninja'd by Strat
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
I'm glad the changes are apparent this time. Thanks for sticking with me, cuban. You guys are great.

*typical aosp thread rant* "oh my god read the whole thread omg blah blah blah you're a horrible person blahblahblah get out forever n00b. nerdrage!" *end rant*

I'm glad that doesn't happen here. Thanks for looking out as always, Mike. Maybe your explanation will be easier to understand than mine. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jde984:
Mike can be useful sometimes ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
They don't keep me around for my good looks :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] radtech777:
Strat, 2.9.1 is perfect. Since my crack-flashing days are coming to an end with the coming v3, I've been trying every ROM I could just to see what's out there. Honestly, nothing gives my phone the battery and performance that yours gives. Thanks for the rom and the talent you have surrounded yourself with. Thrilled to see the Family/Alliance guys on here. Feels like home!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] scorpiopantera:
I couldn't agree more. I am so happy with 2.9.1. Battery life is killer, performance is crazy.

A friend of mine with the T-Mobile variant and I both restarted our phones, checked ram status, his was around 800, mine was a little over 400. Wow!!! He was instantly jealous.

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His is stock...mine is perfect, I mean has Intergalactic on it. Same difference.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
I'll get a T-Mobile port out eventually. :)