yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
You are our hope :)

I'm glad you bought the phone, it is a very good phone, i have it from july and i can't complain, even with the stock rom this phone is pretty good.

I can imagine that this phone will fly on CM :)

Happy holidays to you and all forum members and i8730 owners!

edit: i don't know if you guys know, but besides MHL we have OTG support in kernel. I bought a otg cable and i can connect a usb flash drive, mouse, keyboard, and so on... :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
[DEV] GT-I8730 International Samsung Galaxy Express

Oh my god.

Finally, PROGRESS! :D

Could you take a logcat during boot?

Yes, you can derive from serrano, seeing as their only difference is the chip (MSM8930AB) and the clock speed.

I suggest you take note of your current build setup, so that we may be able to have somewhere to restart off between failed builds, if any.

Can you illustrate how you got to build CM that actually got to the bootanim? Just so that we can all learn.

That foggy blue screen is due to the wrong framebuffer, I think.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Tell me about it.

My friends envy me because a lot of apps that run sluggishly on their devices run like cheetahs on mine.

Also I'm getting awesome battery life with my recent modifications.

CPU Min Freq - 486, Max Freq - 1188 (Ondemand, cfq)

Sampling rate - 50000, Up threshold - 90, Down diff - 10, Sampling down factor - 4

Just wanted to share.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Thanks for sharing mate, i just changed mine with rom toolbox, I'll let you know what I think.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jjchico:
Everything is in Github right now. Search for the local manifest in the my device repo and you can clone my setup. Most recent changes are in the cm-11.0 branch.

I will be on holidays for a few days now so I hope some of you can push things a bit these days.

Enviado desde mi GT-I8730 mediante Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
I'd really like to do that but sadly I can't complete the CM sync with a sluggish connection.

But I'm not the only person on this [DEV] team besides you, right? :D
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] munlar:
Hi,

I also own a Galaxy Express LTE and can't wait trying CyanogenMod. I have no coding skills so I can only test your builds. I don't know if it's helpful, but I just found cm 11 builds for Galaxy Express AT&T here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...sprints-lg-g2-and-the-samsung-galaxy-express/

Good luck!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
Well,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2536378
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
Yep, the AT&T version has different CPU, that's why it doesn't work here... I'm porting the CM's msm8930-common kernel to our phones, that will make us AOSP compatible (also saves me from too much work :)).

Sent from my Galaxy Express GT-I8730 with xda-developers app
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Any new progress? :D
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
I'm on holiday in Belgium, so I can't really do anything here, cause I have no Linux. :p I'll get home at 5th of January. :)

Sent from my Galaxy Express GT-I8730 with xda-developers app
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Oh that's cool man. :good:

Anyway...

Happy New Year to the whole XDA community!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
Okay, but before I start, I have some questions. If I rooted my phone, is it possible to switch back to full stock for warranty? For example with a re-part ODIN flash? And if I flash CM, and CWM? Or this Samsung also has this feature that if you flash a different kernel a counter goes up after every flash?

Sorry for the n00b questions, but I have no experience in phones like mine (LOL). :) :o
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] munlar:
I think in Europe you do not loose warranty after rooting your phone, and if you go back to stock android you cannot prove any modification anyway can you?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
I never seen that yellow triangle in Sweden, that people talks about in other parts in the world.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114

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Please, make an CM11 Dev thread :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
I can confirm that Triangle Away works on the i8730. After rooting with Mottochopper you get the count when you go to install a rom with Odin.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jjchico:
Every time you flash a rom or recovery you will be incrementing the flash counter. It is said that OTA updates will stop working bit you can still upgrade via kies.

Triangleaway is a software that can reset the counter. I read a post reporting it working in our phone. Search xda for details.

PS. My flash counter is over 30 now :)

Enviado desde mi GT-I8730 mediante Tapatalk

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Have a happy new year by the way.

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
Thanks guys, so it's possible to go back to stock properly. :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Sent from my Galaxy Express GT-I8730 with xda-developers app
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] tanrsquare:
Yes... U are right! But just do take note of the 'Device Status' in the Settings app. Do note that upon connecting to any Internet or online source will render the status from 'Official' to ' Custom' again! Just take note for warranty purposes in case... Anyway happy new year to everyone in this community!

Sent from rSquare's Samsung Galaxy Express via XDA-Developers app
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
triangle away is working for our device, after i rooted my phone i reset my counter and the binary count was 0 and status changed from Custom to Official, so if you want your waranty back, reset your binary count, then flash from sammobile your country specific ROM. I am rooted now with 0 binary count and Official status :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
Okay, now my phone is rooted (Flamaroot), and Triangle Away says I'm totally official! :p Now Let's start the party... At first, we need a proper CWM...
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
We all wish you the best.

PS: Did you manage root without triggering the status in Settings > About phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
No, it said, that I'm custom. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Oh sorry lol

It's just that [MENTION=4331317]petraru1[/MENTION] here kinda did that
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
oh, in settings > about phone my status is custom too, i tought it was about the status in download mode
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Here is something that might help, it's not mine it comes from allstar rooting.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Here are the links
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] munlar:
Be careful.

1. I cannot find the tutorial for the Express on his site.

2. All firmware downloads for different phones point to the same downloads.

3. Same comments on every article.

4. My router reports the download site as dangerous.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jjchico:
It is clear that blog is just a spam source.

Enviado desde mi GT-I8730 mediante Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Well that could be, i can't get any were with it as well. It says you have to use a proxy, i tried that to, still won't work, i will investigate further, and let you know.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Fajreas:
Fake.. Why? Take a look at the link below..

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&...WBUrewrRQuZKgHCOt_UFu4g&bvm=bv.58187178,d.dGI

The person who did this scam tried to make this look real by making a thread on XDA but if you look closely it is not a real XDA website but a fake one. The different use of font, and all the side links are not clickable so that already gives it away....
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
I've started to work on the recovery, my first 2 builds were fails, no screen, only flashing backlight. I'll go deeper into it...
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
And he used Chromium's account.

:D

Keep going mate. The process of building the recovery for our device really is quite hairy. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
I've extracted the stock rom, I you need anything I can upload. Here's the framework.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/uqimyykbaumracy/framework.rar
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Could someone help me with gapps download for our phone please.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Do you already have a custom ROM or did you delete Google apps by mistake?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
No custom rom afraid, i deleted something that I shouldn't, and can't get Google play to download anything, keeps saying Google gapps. Com not responding, so just need to flash gapps again, because I've been trying to rebuild our rom, but no success, sorry.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
I found my stock gapps but the recovery won't flash it, I'm using 2.03.0.7 is there another one I've missed.

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
I was working on the kernel for a bit, but then I found out that the kernel source is wrong, the source-built kernel speeds up the audio on the phone, every sound plays with 1,5x speed. :D I'll check other sources today...
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
So it boots???

Omg.

Please share the build.

The audio problem can be worked around by using an app which controls play speed, such as Rocket Player.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
Yep, it boots. I can provide a screenshot, cause I don't wanna release it. You can't control it, the ringtone, call audio, everything is faster... :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Sure. :-/

Oh well, maybe it's just my desperation getting to my head.

Sure, screenshots will suffice :D
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
Here it is:

But it's unusable, cause if I call somebody, it's like that I'm talking with E.T. :(
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
Asseveration 1.0.0

I present the first custom ROM for the International Samsung Galaxy Express!

Asseveration

by

szezso

​

It's not a huge break-through, but at least something to play with. Sadly, I had to use the stock kernel, because of the audio problems...

Changes:

- Based on XWAMK1

- Deodexed

- Zipaligned

- Root

- Busybox

- Removed many-many Samsung and Google bloatware

- Ripple effect

- Turned off CPU acceleration, only the GPU speeds the UI

How to flash it?

- You'll need jjchico's CWM recovery from the OP (till mine still doesn't boot)

- Make a backup of your current ROM

- Wipe data/factory reset

- Wipe cache partition

- Install zip from sdcard -> choose zip from sdcard -> choose the zip and flash

- Reboot ;)

​
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Thanks [MENTION=4622338]szezso[/MENTION]. Working well on the Australian networks. Was unable to install cwm from [MENTION=4166593]jjchico[/MENTION] but think that is my problem that i will figure out later.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Can you please help me out, the link for the new rom above is it a direct link, because if I press it it just stays as a screen shot, or could you please put up a link for me, thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Hi Barclac

here

http://www.mediafire.com/download/nju6wq41txdri7c/Asseveration_1.0.0.zip

or check your PM

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] w1040:
Has anyone tried crossbreeder or v6 on express?

My phone is getting slower everyday.

I already used greenify
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
You must of been lucky mate, all i can get is authorised download, won't go any further. Either from phone or pc, or it might be only Victoria, because it is so hot, lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
Deleted
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Can someone extract the boot image?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
[MENTION=4622338]szezso[/MENTION] how did you turned off the CPU acceleration? from the egl driver?

install clean master and delete your cache, i haved used the stock rom for 5 months without any problem
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
If you can wait till this afternoon, I can... ;)

[MENTION=4331317]petraru1[/MENTION]: Yep. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
i just wonder... ticking the force gpu render from developer option does the same thing right?

The only thing i notice from disableing CPU rendering from egl is a little battery drain, but ui doesn't feel snappyer, just my feeling :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
This ROM also have audio problems, my wife sounded like E.T when she called me :eek::laugh:​
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
But that's not my fault... :D
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
LOL. :cyclops:

But I think you used the wrong kernel, the one with problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
No, I'm sure that I'm using the latest kernel from XWAMK1. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Been using it 24 hours now and not experienced any problems at all. Nice to be rid of the bloatware that we get from Samsung and the telecom companies.Many thanks [MENTION=4622338]szezso[/MENTION]

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
I changed the kernel to XWAMB7 and now it's working :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
Really? Very, very strange...

I wrote to Samsung (at the Open Source Center) about the bad kernel source. I hope, that they'll reply with good news... :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
I've got request for my kernel by PM.

It's from my original stock rom [XWAMB7] that is made for the Scandinavian baseband.

Look in your CWM backup folder for your own boot.img

Replace the one in the ROM-zip with WINRAR.

http://www.ladda-upp.se/image.php?id=85362&size=full
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Is anyone working on CyanogenMod?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
Why not Compiling CM10, as it works with stock kernel?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
I am...
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
Nice, tell us - is it going well? :confused:;)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Could someone please help me, i think i flashed the wrong gapps file for stock rom, 2013031 if is wrong could you please tell me which one it is, thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Hi Barclac

Safest bet would be a restore using CWM. If you don't want to go that way this page suggests you use 2012011

http://goo.im/gapps

Maybe someone else has a better idea.

Personally I would use [MENTION=4622338]szezso[/MENTION]'s rom. Nice and clean and my others apps mostly reinstalled without prompting once I logged onto google.

If you are having trouble downloading it PM me and I will give you a dropbox link

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Thanks mate I've been trying to download his rom but not getting anywhere, for some reason, couldyou do that with Dropbox that would be great.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
You have PM

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Sorry mate there was no link there just your message.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Yes the cm rom is good after signing in and all that stuff what a refreshed phone i have good work cant wait for updates.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] w1040:
This must be dumb question but how to enter cwm recovery again?

Ive went into cwm recovery before long time ago now i forgot how to
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Fajreas:
Make sure phone is off.

Hold Up + Home button + Power button

Hold all three buttons until the Galaxy Express logo appears then let go.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
I have found one problem with the cm is the volume very low. But that is all is there a way to fix that.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Hi Barclac

[MENTION=4622338]szezso[/MENTION] rom is not CM. He has taken a stock rom and removed a lot of the vendor apps and a few other tweaks. Not had the problem with the volume. Why not try the kernel [MENTION=4462970]Svennen[/MENTION] gave us in post #507. He was having audio problems with the stock rom and it seems that his kernel has fixed it for a few people as he had requests.

[MENTION=5049816]w1040[/MENTION] I use apps like Rom Toolbox Lite and Rom Manager that give you an option to boot straight into recovery from the your main screen. Sure there are others that do the same.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Thanks mate silly old me i new i would have missed somthing along the way ill do that its not that bad .better than what was on there. He has done a great job.

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All i got on 507 was boot.rar if this correct how do i flash it i flashed the rom from recovery that went fine but how do i do this.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Duplicate
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Got me there [MENTION=4649127]barclac[/MENTION]. Looks like he is replacing a zip in backup in recovery with his winrar. Not sure how that works. Maybe restore that package? Can we have some more detail [MENTION=4462970]Svennen[/MENTION]?

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
Unpack the boot.img from my dropbox. Open the rom-zip with winrar, replace boot.img with mine.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Thanks for explaining what to do but it isnt that bad only notifacations volume is down everything else is normal .
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
I just got an awesome idea for that reboot to recovery problem :)

[MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION] you have to apply this commit to kernel https://github.com/KINGbabasula/u8500_kernel/commit/c26c8af0a9e0287a94c540559884bebff7f909c0 changing mmcblk0p1 to your /mnt/.lfs partition
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] w1040:
Anyone use a mod on express? If so what mod do you use?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] pon3yu:
galaxy express i8730

Hello KINGbabasula i found this page ....http://uselessweaponry.blogspot.ro/2013/09/upgradeupdate-galaxy-express-i8730-to.html it`s real or fake?is that possible? but when i want download apear survey :(
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
I think it's a fake. And google's blogger service is blogspot.com but this website is blogspot.ro. So i think it's a fake
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
I apply it to which kernel, the stock Samsung 3.4.0 or the msm8930-common?

Beamed from my Galaxy Express using Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
Maybe increase the volume on the audio file?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1432379
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
Guys, if you want to flash szezso rom without any problem, open de zip with 7zip or winrar and delete boot.img and build.prop. [MENTION=4622338]szezso[/MENTION] the egl driver shouldn't be 0 0 adreno200? on my old s advance was 0 0 mali, but maybe because its a different hardware
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
First booting CyanogenMod on Samsung Galaxy Express!

What works:

- Screen

- Touch

- SDcard

- Camera (without preview)

- Bluetooth

- Audio (but with the same problem, the audio is faster)

What doesn't:

- WiFi

- Video Recording

- Video Playback

- NFC

- Random reboot may happen
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jjchico:
Great!

Any progress with cm11?

Do you have the source in gh?

I am sorry I do not have time for development these days.

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
No, I won't upload my sources till I can figure out the random reboot stuff. :) You're a bit impolite. I've just made something possible on this phone, and you're asking about a newer one. I don't care about Kitkat till the CM10.1 won't work properly. Then with a small work, the CM10.2 will work, then CM11...
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
Thank's your a saint :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
if i had 10 accounts on xda, i would use them all to thank you :)

Respect, and yes, any CM would be great because it performs 10x times faster than stock touchwiz...
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
You're awesome! Thank you so much! :D

We'll wait till things are ironed out; after all, we've been waiting since May, and it wouldn't hurt to wait a bit more.

Keep going, and soon you'll be regarded as one who did the seemingly impossible :D

Beamed from my Galaxy Express using Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
Hmm, I have ideas for all of the issues. The WiFi is a module problem, Vrec/Vplayback/Hot reboots -> wrong display setup in the kernel, Camera -> missing libs, RIL -> also. :) Today night I'll have time to solve them... But, I have to say, this CM is BLAZING fast on my phone! :p Can't be compared to TouchWiz!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jackgar:
Hey, can't wait to have a reason to donate to you, man!! I'm happy with the phone... but many times it's very slow in comparison to my other chinese mt6582 quad core (s4 clone) phone...but when I see my 4G downloading at 52mbps, I remember why I bought it ;)

Keep on, fellow!!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] szezso:
A small video of CM10.1

[YOUTUBE]p1QrJQUIu74[/YOUTUBE]​
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Wow...just...wow.

So apparently we're dealing with:

- Random lags and lockups, possibly reboots

- No preview in camera

- Video recording / playback

- Audio playback speed

Which is quite acceptable as a daily driver IMHO.

When will you release it?

Beamed from my Galaxy Express using Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Please don't keep us in suspense with those small problems i already have those, but would be nice to have something after all this time, lol.