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[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] cwbcwb:
[MENTION=4529348]AkiroX[/MENTION] what lollipop were at and cm11 OK but still some bad activities on it like blue tooth it lags some what and it volume systems all messed up but everything some what works on it is lollipop even stable or what are the down falls of it
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] AkiroX:
The lag issue will be fixed when Google throws 5.0.3. Unfortunately the lag is even on the Nexus phones that have ORIGINAL Lollipop lol.

Also what volumes are messed up? It works fine.

Bluetooth is a bleh thing for me, I don't use it atleast.

Everything else works perfectly tho.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] cwbcwb:
Speaker phone its high volume even when I try to turn it down still high I know there way to go throw file explore to change the number I for get were tho
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] pandyag:
Plus expanded desktop.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] 4b3ck:
Recently got i437Z version.... successfully installed CWM, but now need to unlock.... does anybody have ICS image flashable using cwm? flashing ICS image from sammobile via odin fails... :(

PS. sorry for offtopic!
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
If it's from AT&T you might be able to have them give you the unlock code even if you're not supposed to have it (I did). You just have to find the right guy who will believe your story, and they'll eventually open a case and give you an unlock code after a week or so. You can then use it to unlock the phone with any stock ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] satva49721:
cm 12

Wheres the latest release of cm12 for the i437, or is it still just the one preview build that was released? Is there another thread or forum people are communicating on?

Thanks, and extra thanks to the developers.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] k1l14:
Just the preview...

Does anyone have any news, is he still working on it?
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] invert_nexus:
It doesn't look like Jt's been working on anything at all since January 4th. He mentioned something about moving and/or his computer having problems or some such, didn't he?

https://github.com/jt1134

Hopefully he'll get back on it at some point. His last post in here seemed pretty annoyed. All I can say is that I appreciate all the work he's put into it, and even if he doesn't do any more, we got to hand it to him for doing what he's done already. I'm up for an update in another month or so, so I guess my feelings won't be hurt too bad by a stop on development, but hopefully others with this phone will still be able to get the most out of it in the future. I just wish I had more time to devote to learning how to do the development myself. I've always meant to, but just... haven't.

Thanks for everything, Jt1134. Your work has been appreciated. Also, have to thank Shabbypenguin for getting the ball rolling from the very start... Others have also contributed if I remember... But, it was Jt who did the lion's share.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] k1l14:
Indeed, a lot of work goes into this stuff and I appreciate it. Its the only way we will ever see an update, we sure as hell won't see one from Samsung... I just hope he comes back, i would love to check out lollipop...
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
I might upload some lollipop builds in the following days. It all depends on my internet connection as I have to download all the source and on whether jt's patches still work with the current code: I'll eventually try to fix any issues but i can't guarantee anything.

I'm also trying to port multirom to our device.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
Hello guys, I ported MultiROM and TWRP to ExpressATT but I didn't port kexec-hardboot. In other words that just means that even if you have multirom installed, you can't boot to any ROM other than the main one. So if anybody of you is willing to help me to finish the job, that would be great, PM me :)

Enjoy! http://davideddu.org/blog/posts/multirom-and-twrp-for-expressatt

(Please don't repost the direct links, post the link to the article above! Thank you :) )
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] jt1134:
Good to see someone else working with the code. Lately I haven't the time nor inclination for android in any way other than daily use of my phone. I don't plan on making any further contributions for this device, if the msm8960 gets moved to cm12 nightlies I will likely ask the expressatt to be removed as I no longer wish to officially maintain it.

As far as a forum for this phone, the download counts for the ROMs haven't even broken 100 in quite some time. I personally see no point for an entire forum section for this device. There are just not that many users. I haven't even compiled a new cm12 for my own device in over a month. Someone else must step up, or at the least just enjoy what you currently have. Or do what I'm going to likely do soon, buy a new device.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] jt1134:
I just pushed my only remaining non-published change to the device tree on my personal github.

It requires the 2 following as of yet unmerged changes:

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/79136/

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/82924/

Without those changes the compass will not work correctly.

Good luck.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
Thank you jt. As I said I'm going to try and provide some more lollipop builds (I was going to start syncing the cm-12 branch right now). However by no means I am an expert developer. I barely know C and Java, I only know well Python which doesn't really help with Android development. I am not willing to continue the development of this ROM. If some more expert developer wants to help, good, but I don't have the competence to do it.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] AkiroX:
Luckily, Jt did an excellent job, he left us a mostly working device tree and I truly love him for that. At least we're covered for LP in the functions-needed-for-usability area. Everything works except BT, I believe? And that is epic.

Thank you JT, srsly, you did great and I'm glad you shed some clean, stock, google love on an otherwise cheap and forgotten knock off of a Galaxy S3.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
Nope, everything works except for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. I'll try to debug it in a few weeks (I have other things to do now). I can upload the latest build I made but as I said, they don't work. If you're willing to help me debug it, let me know so we can find an IRC channel to talk about it.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
I uploaded a build I made last week but beware that Wi-Fi does not work! (or at least it doesn't on my phone)

cm-12-20150228-UNOFFICIAL-expressatt.zip - md5sum

I haven't tested NFC because I don't have an NFC battery at this time.

Everything else should work. I believe you can find Google Apps at https://basketbuild.com
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] cwbcwb:
OK ill test for you
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] pandyag:
Thanks man.. Just flashed it. Wifi is working for me. Haven't tested much but looks pretty good. (Flashed on jt's version).

Update:

Bluetooth not working.

Camera HD recording not working.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
OK, according to jt you have to use ClockWorkMod to flash the rom. If you use anything else (including my twrp), Wi-Fi will not work as it will fail to run a script that sets the Wi-Fi up.

Let me know if Bluetooth and NFC work as I'm currently running cm 11 and I don't have time to back things up and flash it now. I'll be uploading (and trying on my phone) a new build on Monday/Tuesday, but don't expect me to upload new builds very often as I need to upload them on mobile data and I have a metered connection (my Wi-Fi has a slow upload).

Edit:

Also please do not troll the site that's hosting my builds (don't use jdownloader/Axel with multiple connections to download them): they're good people, they offer free hosting for open source projects and I already feel bad because I had to upload there that large file. I'll be moving to basketbuild as soon as I recover my credentials.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] cwbcwb:
What gapps do we use
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] pandyag:
I used same as here.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=56902226&postcount=240
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
Here. Download the Android 5.0 installer.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] AkiroX:
On JT's build Wifi works flawlessly tho. x3

So no, it's working fine. You already posted how it works~ Told ya. xD
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] cwbcwb:
So been using android 5.0 it dose lag a lot and it force close a lot of apps like apex or audio fx and dialler going back to 4.4.4 I do like the way it looks because its simple but I use my phone for a everyday driver good work tho wish I new how to help out
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
If you haven't gone back yet, you might want to try switching your I/O scheduler to "noop". I tested it and I noticed a significant performance increase. I do not know exactly how row (the default) works, but I know noop works well on flash memory.

I'll be doing some experiments with f2fs in the next few days, I'm pretty sure the lags are due to ART using more I/O (a.ka. memory access) than Dalvik. ART relies on AOT (ahead of time) compilation, while Dalvik relies more on JIT (just in time) compilation. In other words, ART takes forever to do its after-update routine (and that does help, indeed, on devices with fast I/O like nexuses, but not our phone), while dalvik uses more CPU.

I'm currently building a CWM recovery from CM11 because CM12's sucks more than stock (and wifi doesn't work with it, either).
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
EDIT: I just realized my post is very long and boring. This is a summary if you're in a hurry:

CWM build from CyanogenMod 11 available for download.

New CyanogenMod 12 nightly build available as well

The ROM installer zip can now be used on any recovery - Wi-Fi will work - please read the notes in bold below

Hey guys, I have two new downloads for you, but you'll probably need only one..

The first one is the CWM recovery from CM11 I mentioned in the last post - it seems to work perfectly.

You can get it from here: cwm-20150310-expressatt.img (md5: b1e931257c5cfd2b28210e8c1e3adc7b)

The reason why you won't need it is that I fixed the Wi-Fi setup script that used to leave us with broken wi-fi when flashing it with any other recovery. (for geeks: the reason why it only worked with CWM is because of a bug in CWM itself and a bit of distraction from the original developer of the script: it was using dynamically linked busybox binaries directly from the newly installed system without setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH first. CWM happens to be including /system/lib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH by default, while the other recoveries don't (which is good). I fixed it by changing the hashang and making it point to the recovery's shell, and by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Let me know if you think other solutions might be better, like shipping a prebuilt busybox with the installer or anything else).

You can get the new build from here: cm-12-20150312-UNOFFICIAL-expressatt.zip (md5: f870d7d32e5e6e4b0b82b03eed8d27d4)

Notes:

You

have

to turn off signature checking in your recovery in case you turned it on: I had to swap the kernel with one I previously built as the current one panics when loading Android stuff. I'll debug it in the next days. TWRP works fine now!

Also you really want to turn off "Update Cyanogen recovery" from the development settings before you flash it because the recovery that ships with it does not work!

F2FS work is in progress, I have a new kernel build that - unless it still panics - should not throw a fit if it finds F2FS partitions. A TWRP build with F2FS support is also on the way.

Last thing, I have a question for you: I think the DPI needs to be decreased a little bit. Its native value is 240, but I think the UI looks better if decreased to 220. I want to know your opinion though, as it would have two side issues: the font size will be slightly smaller, and measurement units in "ruler" apps will be wrong, unless you configure them to take the change into account manually. Let me know what you think. You can change the DPI by editing /system/build.prop - look up "density", it's set to 240 so you can't miss it.

Have fun!
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] cwbcwb:
I want to say think you for your hard work and for keeping this phone alive [MENTION=5175709]davideddu96[/MENTION] and i say go with 220 it look way better
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
I managed to build a working kernel, it will be bundled in the next build. The F2FS-compatible recovery is being more problematic, I'll let you know.

I made a survey for the display-density issue. You can take it here. After submitting it you'll be able to see other people's responses.

Thank you all for your help.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Samkitpalecha:
Hi david! Thanks for the support for express! I installed your latest update and its very improved from the previous one! Just one issue, the launcher's app drawer is not 5×6 which is very annoying and makes it laggy! Also, the wallpaper becomes noisy somehow! Please give me a fix for them.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
Use another launcher. You may want to set the i/o scheduler to noop (in performance settings) if it's laggy.

I'm not going to fix non-device-specific issues.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Samkitpalecha:
No its just laggy in the app drawer! Otherwise its all smooth!! Anyway to get the launcher3 to normal?
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
Launcher3 is the default launcher. Check its settings. If you don't like it use another launcher. I'm using Google Now Launcher, but you can find others on the play store. Anyway the launcher is not a device specific thing. If you think it has a bug you should first try it on an officially supported device, then file a bug on cyanogenmod's jira (look it up). Look up for "cyanogenmod report bug". Or you can fix it yourself.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Samkitpalecha:
Ok so I found something else unusual! The colours of whole system are different! I don't know, maybe the contrast has changed. I observed it when I opened clash of clans lol. And the brightness is more because of this maybe
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] pandyag:
Followed your suggestions. Changed I/O scheduler, reduced animation scale. After installing latest build device runs real smooth. Thanks a lot.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Rodney SANK:
I just want to thank you for your hard work. I'm using your rom and really love it. I'll update it with the new nigthly.

I just don't understand why you don't begin a cm12 thread for this rom. It's quite stable and juste have minor bugs, wifi and bluetooth are working and even wifi-thetering (i just can't stand a rom where it doesn't work).

Thank's again for your keeping this phone alive.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
I was considering that, but it's not my work, the only work I've done is fixing the WiFi script...

[MENTION=4771935]Samkitpalecha[/MENTION] check your color settings.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Rodney SANK:
But if you'll continue to maintan the nightly unlike the proprietary of the work, can you ask him the permession to create a thread for cm12 ? I ask it cause it really difficult to know that there're cm12 roms hidden in cm11 thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Bamofo666:
Working nicely with noop. I'm running epic launcher as I did with cm11 and it works perfectly for me. I did have to uninstall and reload some apps to get them to run right. All of the Google apps had to be uninstalled and reloaded for some reason, but it's running smooth now.

Thanks to the contributors! :good:

Edit: Google maps does not like this ROM. It won't run at all.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Samkitpalecha:
David I checked them and they were all ok. I don't know what the issue is, but is no one else having this issue? No pixelated backgroung of the launcher? I tried switching back to jt's build but that's giving me a bootloop w/o formatting system.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
I'm not having that issue. Make sure the display is not damaged. Also make sure it doesn't happen with other ROMs (e.g. CM11). You can use PipeDroid (for Linux, may work on Mac) from my GitHub to make a nandroid backup of userdata directly to your computer. To use it, make sure you either have my TWRP or that you run the "install_busybox" script first, and that you have both "adb" and "pv" installed on your computer. Make sure that data is not mounted and (if you're using TWRP) that MTP is disabled from the Mount screen, then run in a terminal:

./pipedbackup_img /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata file_name_for_backup.img no_compression # To backup
./pipedrestore_img file_name_for_backup.img /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata -n # To restore backed up image

You can use it to backup any other partition, just check what's available in /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/ on your phone. If you happen to find a bug in PipeDroid (e.g. backups don't work) , make sure you followed my instructions, that the issue happens again if you try again and if so, send me the content of ~/.pipedroid (through PM).

If this doesn't happen on other ROMs, send me a copy of your logcat and your dmesg and I'll see if there's anything wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Samkitpalecha:
I managed to change some settings and now everything is good. Thanks for the support, its just now app to sd is not working and one more thing, can you send me the ss of colour settings in live display? I changed them to 75 to all RGB it was 100 before as default.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
Here you go.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
I made the new thread as you requested. Bugs are to be reported either there or here as comments.

Let's leave this thread open for discussion on CM11.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] cwbcwb:
Dose any one know whats wrong with the last cm11 update i tried to get it but it would take me to a page 404 is something like that
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
They don't stay up forever. Ask if anybody can upload a copy of it if they have one.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] cwbcwb:
Can any one upload a copy plz thank u my system acting up need update on last build thank you everyone
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] DarkPrognosis:
Everything that had anything to do with the nightlies seems to be dead. I guess all of those files were thrown in the garbage as I have not been able to find any for this phone since cyanogenmod was destroyed as a project. Such a waste as there were tons of files before the implosion.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
Yes, it's dead and it won't be coming back to life.

This phone is somewhere in my closed and has been there unused for something like 2 years. I'm a lot happier with my new OnePlus 3T and I'm definitely not going to do anything for the Galaxy Express ever again.

The source code is on GitHub, if you think it's a waste you can go ahead and port them to Lineage source or whatever you prefer.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] DarkPrognosis:
If I knew how I would but it is a HUGE waste to have stuff like this lost in the sands of time and if you don't think so then...

Doesn't matter I dug around enough and have 5.0.2 on the phone now and to be frank I don't use a smartphone I only use it for apps and not any cell service so buying a new phone just for that is nonsense. Eventually I will have to as Google forces yearly to bi-yearly phone upgrades so their stock prices can keep soaring.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Depau:
I couldn't care less. The code is up on GitHub for you to fork and bring back to life, if you think it's a waste. Unless you want to pay me to do it I have no time for that.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] DarkPrognosis:
LOL.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] notsa03:
Upload files again please

Hi! you guys can upload files again? 'll appreacite it!!

Thanks for your hard work!! :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] SuperDave1685:
Is there any possibility JT that we'll have the ability to overclock in future kernels?
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] AwesomeTurtle:
jt, I would love you forever if you implemented faux's kernel mod for boosted audio.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] JDC2389:
The app IS compatible because all the nexus 5 users with ART are using youtube, it's a build issue on this one.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] illtww:
c an't wait to see the netx release of this rom!!! Keep up the good work!
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] CrusherJoe:
I'm blown away but this -- great work, JT!

Considering this is the only build of CM11 I have seen, I'm wondering if the CM Team has removed some things for 4.4 compatibility? i.e., cLock seems to be absent? I'm not complaining, just wondering if I managed to miss it somehow...

Also, if you're an Apex user, you'll be d your a disappointed as there is a problem with the current beta that doesn't play nice with wallpapercroppet (issue with READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission missing preventing you from choosing "non-stock" wallpapers).

Other than that, though, (and that's an Apex issue, not an issue with this ROM) looks like a solid build from our man JT!
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] E_Phather:
Both Apex and Nova launchers aren't playing well with CM11 (or KitKat as a whole as of yet it seems). Holo launcher works well though and gives similar usability to Apex and Nova.

It seems that there might be an external storage read change from 4.3 to 4.4? Rocket Player won't read my SD card.

Also, what happened to the Buttons customization page in settings? I rather liked being able to customize my options, back, and home buttons.
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] JDC2389:
Nova works just fine, thank you very much. Also Nova beats every other launcher. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Everhez:
Error SDcard

I've also had problems with reading the microSD with File Explorer app apparently these should be updated to support kitkat and system partitions
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] JDC2389:
Good news! Viral Floating Youtube Popup works with ART and runs better than any other youtube app anyways, cheers! Last thing I need is the color temperature changes back, specifically Cool, it's too warm stock. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] cargohook:
So, is there a fix to enable "MOVE APPS TO SD CARD"? Anybody?
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] E_Phather:
Sorry if I ruffled any feathers. I was having force close issues with it so I switched to Holo. I do agree that Nova rocks and it's what I've been using on my 4.3 installation. Did it recently get updated for KitKat support?
[Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] JDC2389:
It works amazing for me with no problems but I don't run any freaky custom animations and I don't use the persistant google bar. What was wrong with Nova for you?