yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Hey all, I managed to get an AOSP look and feel using the Xposed framework.

Thanks [MENTION=4419114]rovo89[/MENTION].

The AOSP circle lock wasn't removed by Samsung on 4.1.2 ROMs, they simply used their own lock. (Thanks MohammedAG)

It seems like I'm the only active person here. :(
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] w1040:
Nevermind. I successfully flashed cwm and rooted my galaxy express 15 minutes later after I ask my above question.

The problem if rooted, I cant checked for official updates. It says your device has been modified and update not available.

Is there a new update?? I forgot to check updaye before root. And now I want to unroot for a minute just to check if my phone has an update.

Btw, we need our own samsung galaxy express forum. How do we request?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
[MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION] you synced cm10.1 so can you try to build once with my device tree? (branch cm-10.2, I know that branch cm-10.2 should be for cm10.2, but who cares? :silly: ) obviously with custom mkbootimg files: replace in system/core/mkbootimg the files called mkbootimg.c and bootimg.h with the custom ones
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Garmus:
No new update yet for i8730.

If you rooted with Framaroot you can unroot by the same program in view to can check the OTA updates from the smart.

I tested this option on my i8730 and is working very well and easy :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
I can't, the sync isn't finished yet, I'm stuck on android_frameworks_base and the prebuilts.

I have slow internet, you see. :(

I already have your device tree in my virtual machine. (The cm-10.1 tree)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Hi again, i wonder if anyone else has the same problem as I do, i can't seem to get rid of the message count in the dock, unless i reboot, any one else..
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
That's weird.

Are you sure you have absolutely no unread messages?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
No i read the messages open them up and when I'm finished the number stays until I reboot, it happens with Facebook to.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Have you tried a factory reset or Odin stock reflash?

If you don't want to do that, then use a thirdparty launcher in the meantime.

I personally use Nova Launcher along with the "TeslaUnread" plugin for the unread counts.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] w1040:
Hey guys, how to sharpen image details when taking picture?

I realised most of my photos taken with express camera are washed out, not so sharp and mostly blur.

Had to ask this here cause we have no forums
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Yes I tried refreshing and that, and nothing works, so I decided to go for another launcher, that did the job, but still strange about stock launcher. But everything fine now?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Do you think we will ever get a custom rom for our phone,,,,?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Yes I do, CM (or any custom rom in general) can be ported to any device, as long as one has the correct skills. (Thanks [MENTION=2562109]jt1134[/MENTION])

I erased my hard disk and installed Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit, and I am currently installing required packages for compiling CM 10.2.

Seems Ubuntu 13.04+ needs lots more packages than 12.04 LTS :(
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Svennen:
What do we gain with a custom ROM?

The phone is really fast versus others I had before.

Please don't respond unpleasant to my ignorant question ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Haha it's not ignorant. :)

For starters, you can readily overclock, theme every aspect of the phone, and generally do stuff that the manufacturer doesn't want you to do. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
To everyone,

If you've got time, why not try building CM instead of waiting? It will give you lots of credits and maybe even help you be a recognized developer.

Tutorial Thread here.

Original post also updated with link.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Noisecake:
I would really like to download

" cm-10.2-20131017-UNOFFICIAL-expresslte.zip"

But for some reason that website wont let me download it.

I even tried with the app but I get the same message; that my download is starting.. but it wont lol
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Has anyone actually flashed the 10.2 zip yet, if so does it work. Because I for some reason thought it didn't work, or have i missed something along the way?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
If you want to try it, give this link a try.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Noisecake:
Can you copy paste the link?

I dont think it will make any difference because its the site that wont load 99% of the time.

And if it loads i wait for the 10 sec counter and nothing happens..
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=5222595]Noisecake[/MENTION] don't bother with cm-10.2-20131017-UNOFFICIAL-expresslte.zip. It will not work. [MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION], [MENTION=4166593]jjchico[/MENTION] and I have had a go. It hangs on the Samsung splash screen.

[MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION] thanks for tutorial. Very time poor at the moment (kids and job applications) but going to see if I can get the PC with the most grunt to boot of a USB sata drive with the latest Unbuntu. Have good bandwith and it can build overnight if I can get it going.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
I have a build ready from 2 days but can't upload as goo.im is changing servers and it's unavailable. I can upload only to that file host because it provides ftp
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
i gather still no go on goo. img yet,i can't see anything happening on g+ if they were up and running yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jjchico:
Hi!

Good news: I have built cm-10.2 for the expresslte (thanks to [MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION] tutorial)

Bad news: It does not boot.

Behaviour: stays in the initial "Samsung Express" screen for a few seconds, vibrates twice and reboot. The same that happened with the first [MENTION=5093942]KINGbabasula[/MENTION] build.

I tried to substitute the kernel by the original samsung kernel. Same behaviour as already reported: screen goes to full while slowly for a few minutes.

In case it helps, I post boot.img config information extracted with abootimg:

Built CM ROM

bootsize = 0x3f0800

pagesize = 0x800

kerneladdr = 0x80208000

ramdiskaddr = 0x82208000

secondaddr = 0x81100000

tagsaddr = 0x80200100

name =

cmdline = console=null androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31

Original Samsung ROM

bootsize = 0xa00000

pagesize = 0x800

kerneladdr = 0x80208000

ramdiskaddr = 0x82200000

secondaddr = 0x81100000

tagsaddr = 0x80200100

name =

cmdline = console=null androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31

I see there is a mismatch in ramdiskaddr and bootsize but do not know if it is important. I had to use the origina configuration to produce a boot.img with the original kernel which is much bigger than the cm-built kernel.

My time and knowledge is very limited but I can apply any changes you consider useful.

Best.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Up and running.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
Yes but ftp is still unavailable
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
The boot size will really differ since the ramdisk of the CM boot image contains different files from the stock boot image.

But we have to do something about that ramdisk address. It looks like the system will not boot unless it finds the ramdisk at that address.

I will try to modify my mkbootimg.c later and recompile a boot image.

Will post my results later.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] kieronspitter:
I know this is not the correct thread but I was wondering if anyone had some ideas about rooting the new Galaxy Express 2?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Is there an Express 2?

Please post some pictures and possibly some links to websites regarding the new phone.

As for root, try Motochopper or Framaroot.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] kieronspitter:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...=C_jyy9VpYljmQzgFfrcMbQ&bvm=bv.56146854,d.d2k
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jjchico:
But our working recovery image actually use the same addresses than CM:

$ abootimg -i recovery.img

Android Boot Image Info:

* file name = recovery.img

* image size = 8376320 bytes (7.99 MB)

page size = 2048 bytes

* Boot Name = ""

* kernel size = 6170960 bytes (5.89 MB)

ramdisk size = 2201564 bytes (2.10 MB)

* load addresses:

kernel: 0x80208000

ramdisk: 0x82208000

tags: 0x80200100

* cmdline = console=null androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31

* id = 0x75d563f7 0x355492fe 0x6db542f1 0xb1054141 0x70e54bf7 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000

I do not know if abootimg is reliable but I repacked the boot.img with samsung's addresses and it did not work.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
That's because the two images were made using only one tool (mkbootimg) with same configs.

I may be mistaken here but since the boot image is on a different partition from the recovery, then there is a possibility that they use different addresses.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Oh my gosh. Updated original post.

A new Express with a 1.7GHz dualcore CPU, preloaded 4.2, and 1.5GB RAM?

I'll be damned if this doesn't get CM support.

Maybe we can even use it as a codebase or port stock 4.2 from there!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
I updated mkbootimg.c to match the ramdisk address. I compiled. But can't upload -.-

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jjchico:
Can upload the updated mkbootimg.c?

Also, is it necessary to build the whole ROM again or can we just repack boot.img with the new mkbootimg.c?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Updated post. New thread for CM 10.2 here.

Can anybody extract the boot image from the new build and report if there has been any change in ramdisk offset / address (and does it match Samsung's addresses now?)

I will try the build later and do whatever I can with mkbootimg if it does not boot.

I can feel that CM is really close now.

:D
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
excellent work [MENTION=5093942]KINGbabasula[/MENTION], [MENTION=4166593]jjchico[/MENTION], [MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION] and others. New thread for CM10.2 is a good idea. Can anyone confirm a successful download? Tried numerous times and it keeps timing out. Would love to try it out

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Please upload to different server if possible, [MENTION=5093942]KINGbabasula[/MENTION], because goo is still having issues which they describe as "syncing data to our new system" and if "anything goes wrong" we should "hang tight".

As described by [MENTION=3308850]bazzan[/MENTION].
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
I can't sorry. I said it many times

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Oh sorry.

Can I just upload to Mediafire when goo is working again? Just so people won't have trouble.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
Yes but probably goo.im will be working when the build will be downloadable

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Can anyone download these boot images and replace the one inside the zip?

Just to try if one boots.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
As anyone downloaded the file yet, and flashed it, there doesn't seem to be a lot of reply to the the rom, If it works or not, i can't seem to get it to download.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=4649127]barclac[/MENTION] don't think goo is working. Goo times out and each of those supposed downloads is a fail. Tried a few different browsers.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Noisecake:
Is there a way to install CWM from the phone?

My pc is f*cked up and odin mobile isnt supported for this device :/
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Noisecake:
EDIT: Nvm got it to work

DAMNIT srry for double post.. this new xda app is really confusing me lol
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Goo working now. See CM 10.2 Thread

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
It's strange you know, it says there as been 524 downloads, but there is no reports on the rom, or am i missing somthing?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=4649127]barclac[/MENTION] I think each failed download is recorded as download. Goo gave me a full download this morning. As I said in the other thread, it stayed on the splash screen, went dark, buzzed twice and back to the splash screen. Not tried the alternate boot image yet. Got very important job interview shortly so will have to wait

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Thanks mate, and good luck with the interview, all the best.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] gustavopinto:
Record Nº1 on CM10.2 GalaxyExpress

Well after numerous atempts to download, tired of dictatorialship samsung appliances in the factory rom, I got another bricked rom. Does not boot at all. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but on my galaxy tab never had a problem on flashing anything.

Just for the record anyway. Guess I lost the hope on CM.

Thank you anyway.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jjchico:
Do you mean that your phone got bricked or that your ROM did not boot?

Did you do a backup from recovery?

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
I've been trying all day and i can't even get half way through, i recone I've gone through about 2gig trying, on my PC and phone, i guess goo still isn't working right yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
file is 184MB and using Optus cable in Sydney consistently pulling it down in about 3 minutes

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Noisecake:
Okay so I managed to download it but it isnt safe to install right?

Dont want to get in a bootloop xd
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
As long as you have cwm installed and a backup you shoukd be fine. I just unpacked it using ubuntu and created 2 versions usung the boot images that [MENTION=4679488]aural[/MENTION]jad supplied. Then rezipped. The cm boot did the same as the untouched version from the Goo. Splash screen for about 20 seconds, dark, flash buzz twice and back to splash.

The one with the standard boot developed a white line at the top and the screen got progressively brighter with a pinkish tinge. Appeared to be some sort of shadowy image in the background.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Noisecake:
Should I backup via CWM or nandroid?

And the backup is a .zip I install just like cm if I mess up?

Srry Im noob at all this and I just want to make sure I can fix this when I mess up :]

Also Ive got a lot of music on my phone and I only need my current rom backed up and not all my music
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
I back up and restore using cwm. The devs on this thread did a great job on it. Done maybe 6 backups and 20 restores. Rock solid

Do a cwm backup but don't bother with this version of cm 10.2 as not working yet . I am pretty much a noob as well but finding my way. Hard to brick Samsungs

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Yes I'm using optus in Melbourne and it's doing the same, i can only get about 15 min then stops, and won't download again.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Just getting of the topic, is anyone going to try the cyanogenmod installer which is available on the play store at the moment?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Noisecake:
Link?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
i should also add I wonder how many people have checked to see if there is a custom rom for there phone before they download it, reading the response from many on the cm thread not many.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Garmus:
On the CM site it is not mentioned i8730 as supported device...

So, it is suppose a risk for backup restore after triyng to install it...
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Can someone please tell me if I download the firmware to put on my pc, Sam mobile has two, firmware version or kernel version, which one should i download.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=4398436]Garmus[/MENTION] it is not supported. That is why we are trying to do it on XDA. Any one can try and port it across as CM is opensource. Now we have CWM we can keep multiple backup (as long as your SD is large enough) so can revert back to a functional system if things do not work out

Bazzan

---------- Post added at 01:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:18 PM ----------

[MENTION=4649127]barclac[/MENTION] there are two versions of the Rom for Australia - XSA - one has the Optus branding and the other does not. My Express was Optus and I reflashed it with the unbranded Rom almost straight away. Less of the Optus bloatware though you continue to get all the Samsung stuff. That is why I want CM as you can get a leaner rom with what you want and need. Did not look at the Optus stuff in detail so cannot really comment on how much better the plain vanilla rom is compared to the Optus

Hope this helps.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Yeah thanks mate, i realize the mistake i made, when i said there was a kernel one and firmware one, one was six mb and the other was seven hundred and fifty eight mb, but i just can't seem to get hotfile to finish the bloody download it gets half way through then says download interrupted every time, i just about give up with hotfile. Ps i worked out what to download by pressing *#1234#on the dial pad, and that told me it was xda.

---------- Post added at 02:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:02 PM ----------

That xda is meant to be xsa.

---------- Post added at 02:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:06 PM ----------

That xda is meant to be xsa.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
Can anyone please upload a stock zImage? [MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION]

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] w1040:
Has anyone tried flashing Crossbreeder on express?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Come on everyone let's try and get this phone on cm, i gave it a go but stuffed up everything, lucky i had a backup, so I'm not much help, so come on let's get with it.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Garmus:
Why to flash it? I dont have annoying lags and for the moment I can see (for my smartphone) the need on.

If you have some interesting examples, please share them.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] pc boy:
Got the same issue!

Any solutions yet?!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Everhez:
And the picture uploaded???? Is CM???

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Yes.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] pc boy:
Sorry if it's not the right place but I couldn't find any better place!

I used to root my phone using motochopper. but today I updated my phone to latest version ZHAMG2 and from then on I can't root my phone!

neither motochopper nor unlockroot methods work!

any one knows a solution?

Thx in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
guys, please test this cwm its from s4 mini wich have identical chipset and i mean it, Qualcomm MSM8930 Snapdragon 400 1.7 Ghz Krait and adreno 305, maybe in future we can look into s4 mini sources and build a kernel with OC :D

i can't test this because my laptop HDD is burned, only next week i will buy a new one.

1. Turn off the phone.

2. Press and hold home, volume down and power. Download screen should appear.

3. Connect USB cable, and press volume up.

4. Start Odin, uncheck "F. Reset Time", and then click PDA button.

5. Select "recovery-clockwork-6.0.3.5-serranoltexx.tar.md5" file that you previously extracted, and press Start button. The phone will reboot when finished.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] tanrsquare:
But Petraru... Can I clarify is tis CWM created by some dev frm S4 Mini n is it tested n working on the S4 Mini first. It will b gd also if u can advice on how to revert to stock recovery for our i8730 if tis fails... Thanks for everything! Actually I had the idea long ago of using the tools n advantage of S4 Mini during the development of our device haha. I planned to mention tis later on but haha since u mentioned it! ;)

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
just reflash your stock rom, you will not lose any data
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] tanrsquare:
True... I understand reflash the rom will be a sure work solution. But ya, upon flashing firmware via Odin, it will eventually erase the flash mem, n tis includes the data too. So is there a stock recovery tht can b flash thru Odin too?

Sent from rSquare's Samsung Galaxy Express via XDA-Developers app

P.S: Thanks for the info... I'll test it when I'm free and upon dl-ed the stock SG firmware frm Sammobile first. :) Yeah go Express!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
if you uncheck F Reset will not wipe data :)

i will test this in 2 day after my HDD arrives
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] pc boy:
Checked that!

Works, but not perfectly!!

Comes up with a blue screen and the options don't show completely!!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Perhaps we need to adjust some graphics. Idk.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
please test the new version

i am at work right now :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] pc boy:
That would be an option!!

Tried that too!!

It's the same!!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] trattkantarell:
Is it just me or does anyone else has a problem with the sound when you unlock it in the lockscreen? I also dont have any sound when im typing.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
i don't have any problem, for sound when typing go to settings>sounds
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] trattkantarell:
Ye, i solved it! Now my only problem is that I cant transfer apps to my SD card, do you guys have any tips how to do it?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
you can't, only if you root your device and install folder mount or directory bind to move the data