[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] erikalin:
build-a-rom​

This is not a daily driver. If you have never been on a TW JB deodexed stock ROM, then this is not for you. Flashing this ROM will boot up to the following stock, unmodified apps as packaged by Sprint: If it is not listed here then it is not included:

Phone, Contacts, Settings, Internet, Sprint Hotspot, Play Store.

Also included are ROM Toolbox Lite (jrummy), SuperSU (chainfire), and erikalin-stock app. This ROM flashes Agat63’s v1.3.0 kernel, and it has the boot animation from the S3, sound removed.

The pure Stock GB27 TW ROM zip is 507MB. Build-a-ROM is 242MB.​

Why try out build-a-rom?

We have always been able to flash the nice custom ROMs on here, flash the mods we like which other people have figured out and packaged into flashable zip files for us, and just enjoy the phone. And you should keep doing that, and click the thanks button all over the place while you do it. Build-a-ROM is for you to give some of this a shot for yourself. There are exactly two stock apk files left in here that you can delete and still boot to a phone, and that is the browser and the play store.

What can I do with build-a-rom?

The work for build-a-rom comes in two categories:

(1)	Easy: Installing custom mods and apps that are already available for you. This involves either flashing a prepackaged zip file, or pushing an app into the system/app/ folder, setting permissions to 0644 (RW-R--R--) and rebooting. You can go get whatever mods and apps and tweaks and kernels that you want. I’m not naming any of them because I didn’t include any of them. You know what they are. Go nuts. Make sure they are made for deodexed GB27 TW ROM for our device. There’s nothing in the way here. It’s a blank slate. If you don’t know how to do these things, use the site search. There are a zillion guides of people telling how to push an app into the system partition, set permissions, and reboot. And flashable zips are flashed in recovery. The recovery in build-a-rom is fine for flashing mods. Wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, flash one mod per session to be safe, reboot.

(2)	Do the first part first. This is a little more advanced but still not difficult. Learn how to decompile and recompile apk files. There are easy-to-use & free programs that allow you to do so. I just typed: "how to decompile apk files” (without quotes) into xda search and got 92,400 results. The benefit of learning these basic tools is that you can then follow the guides on xda. You know all of those things we’re used to having automatically in a custom ROM? ... tabbed settings, extended power menu, transparent things, hacked things, colored things, pretty toggles… etc etc... you can make them, and a lot more, by hand on your own. There are guides. You don't have to beg someone else to make the mod you want for you. You don’t even have to figure it out. You literally copy-and-paste from the guides in which other people have figured out & explained exactly what to modify. No, it’s not “development” but it’s something to feel like an accomplishment you can be proud of.

Want transparent stock toggles? Want to rearrange them? Want to put your toggles down on the bottom of your pull-down and use the top space for notifications? Search XDA for the guides. These are quick mods...:) You'll be amazed at what you can do. You can build this up to 100% your dream ROM – starting from a blank slate so you can feel good about the end result.

Thanks​

[MENTION=4431358]kobridge[/MENTION] – for pure stock GB27 deodexed ROM as base: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=38923705#post38923705

[MENTION=1042140]tdunham[/MENTION] – for the guide on how to make the extended power menu. Check it out. This is a model for what I’m talking about with how clear and straightforward a guide can be: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2125196. This is the one modification I think I left in here for the version of build-a-rom that I am sharing.

[MENTION=4644109]g_ding84[/MENTION] – for suggestions and being nice

[MENTION=5179324]bigmike6200[/MENTION] – for testing earlier version of build-a-rom

[MENTION=2953465]agat63[/MENTION] – for kernel http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2244781

[MENTION=4310299]bilgerryan[/MENTION] – for modeling how to click the thanks button appropriately ;)

crawrj - for hacked native hotspot, used with permission (if this is included - I need someone to verify that this ended up in this build or not)

Why say thanks?

Can you even guess at how many people have downloaded and used noobnl’s EL29 direct boot to CWM zip?? It's probably well over 10,000. There are 40 thanks on that post. Ridiculous. And tdunham’s JB Format All X 2 zip?? At the time of my typing this, there are 7454 downloads of that script, and 125 thanks. Also ridiculous. So many people give so many hours of their time making things for us to enjoy. Click the buttons, folks, please.

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Install instructions

- Flash at your own risk. I am not responsible for your choices. Etc.

-	Make a backup.

-	Before you do anything further please read my disclaimer below.

-	Directboot into EL29 CWM recovery. Thank noobnl: here.

-	Flash tdunham’s JB.Format_All_X2.zip. Thank tdunham here

-	Flash BAR-V1.0.zip.

-	Reboot

Disclaimer

: The mods and apps and guides and tutorials on XDA are everywhere. Use the site search. I cannot possibly answer your questions on implementing any of those changes. Some of those guides have hundreds of posts of Q&A for just one certain modification. Read them. I assure you that whatever question or problem you have, it's addressed already on xda. Search and read. I’m giving you a stable blank slate called build-a-rom. It comes with nine apps and it works. You take it from here. I want to be clear upfront what I can and cannot support. I can support this ROM, which is build-a-rom and its nine apps. So, for example, if you have a question about how to make a phone call, ask. ;) The building part is really up to you. Browse XDA. The amount of information is astounding... If you’re not sure what you’re doing, then don’t use build-a-rom. If I knew all the answers to all of your questions, I’d answer them. I don’t.

Download

BAR-V1.0.zip md5 checksum: 8812D9F6B520D11AE180B5E660F1EE26

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=13858085825318748191

DO NOT MIRROR.

DO NOT QUOTE THE ENTIRE OP.

DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE.

Each carries risk. ;)