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[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
Almost 5000. Highest Antutu benchmark for any cm11 rom for SL with ART.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
Remarkable results! Any potential issue in switching to ART (e.g.: app incompatibilities)?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
I don't think there are issues in switching to ART with this ROM. Apps & gapps 4.4.4 are compatible so far. If you install new app check its compatibility. Some apps like xposed are not ready yet.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
Noobie question: what do you mean with kms? Kaspersky Mobile Security?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Hetalk:
It should be KSM = Kernel samepage merging :silly:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
Yes. Kernel Samepage Merging, as found in Device Control app > Performance > Extra...

:good: Now I can confirm that I'm a NOOB! :good:

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I'm switching to ART, too.

I can confirm that apps optimization takes more time to complete. About half of an hour for 120 apps...

AnTuTu testing returned me a mere 3869 score (anyway, I gained more than 200 points, not so bad...!)

A little more question: do you recommend to wipe Dalvik cache, or this procedure is unnecessary?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Articadrake:
I'm getting 4600 average without Art, i'm switching in this right moment, I'll let you know if it works (i've disabled KSM as you suggested and JIT that i had enabled for curiosity)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Jerry101923:
U mean the boot.img of build 27/07 is working?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Articadrake:
after 25min of boot i decided to restore a nandroid backup. i'll try to disable everithing such as overclock and other tweaks and then retry again. Are there some options that must NOT be enabled??
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
Yes.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Jerry101923:
Great, thx:thumbup::D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hemantkarandikar:
Can't boot in recovery. Help please!

I am on 25 July build. I can't boot the device in recovery mode by any of the methods - 3 button or from power menu. The updater downloads also fail for some reason (had chosen cw mode in updater)

I searched this thread and found that ODIN is to be used for flashing ROM. I could get the device in download mode and connect to odin but which ROM to flash? ODIN needs .tar files and not zip file. So what's the way out?

I had tried to flash bootupdate.zip after flashing the above build to avoid the above problem nut the device got stuck in bootloop hence had to rflash just the 27 July ROM.

Can someone help please?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
Start reading from post 291 in this tread and continue to read a few more posts upto post 304 and you will help yourself.

Remember odin thing is the last resource we have till now. If you cant make it pls let us know. Good luck.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bageraz:
Just find the final stock gingerbread 2.3.6 (forget the code name), download, follow the tutorial. Root the rom (also provided).Done that, just download the latest nightly, do full wipe, install. The link can be find in any previous lolation 4.4.2 custom rom thread. If link dead i will provide mirror.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Articadrake:
No ART for Me

[MENTION=4954552]sam_777[/MENTION] It seems i'm not pretty enought to get ART on my device. i've re odin gingerbread, re rooted, re installed 27/7 weekly...enabled ART without any tweak or similar.... played 1h Final Fantasy campaign with booting device.....still boot loop.....gave up hope....

My last hope to try art is Android L.

do you have any suggestion?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
A solution for the situation where rom is caught into a bootloop and only can go to download mode.

Step 1.

Download normalboot_20140128.tar.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49831009&postcount=841

http://dl-1.va.us.xda-developers.co....tar?key=OpbuKoDGDrUnPpUJ3fJ9GA&ts=1406572148

(this boot image is created by SL God Dhiru - big thank to him)

Step 2.

Fire odin

Place normalboot_20140128.tar in PDA slot and flash.

Step 3.

Now the device is with cm11 4.4.2 boot image and able to boot into recovery.

Once in recovery any desire rom can be flashed provided it is in sdcard.

Done. Done.

Mighty odin.

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Oh it hurts - when your device acts differently. Maybe some other day.

Attaching apps pages and find your differences. May help you.

I was in 27 jul build when I switched to ART. Today I flashed 28 jul buid over it and its using ART as default and doing as good as before.

Thanks to devs a LOT.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Articadrake:
Recovery works, so when i saw that i had booting loop i restored a nandroid backup.....phone works...sadly without ART :( thanks any way for your interest in helping me.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hemantkarandikar:
Got recovery working

Thank you.

I first tried flashing boot.img via terminal emulator (post 292 to 304) . It didn't work -couldn't reboot in recovery.

Then I flashed dhiru's normalboot_20140128.tar via odin. It worked!

I have now flashed 28 July nightly -could reboot in recovery on this.

Thanks for the help!

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Got recoverty working through odin \ normalboot_20140128.tar as per post 343. Thanks for your help
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hemantkarandikar:
ART on 28th Jully

Tried switching ART (turned off KMS). 20 min of boot animation. Pulled out battery and switched on. Same.

Going back to dalvik
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
ART was working well on my phone, but I reverted to Dalvik, too, because device began to lag too frequently. But with ART I left KMS enabled, so maybe that was the cause...?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
I think lag is a common phenomenon for our device in cm11. It was not that much in GB - the old days.

Art is working with 29 jul build. I use to reboot at least thrice after switching to ART. Works for me with my SL.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
At full default settings and Dalvik my phone wasn''t so laggy as with ART. My test lasted only a day, maybe not sufficient for a comprehensive evaluation of overall performance.

But after all I think that the mean goal with this ROM is to improve battery life. At the moment is rather short, if compared with dhiru's previous CM11.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
We are getting regularly deodexed rom. Though we suppose to get odexed rom weekly but last weekly was not.

A nerds of odex says

Odexed Rom = +fast -difficult_customization +more_battery_life +better_stability

Give a try to odex the rom to get some more ++. See the blog

http://terserahelubacanya.blogspot.com/2014/03/odex-deodex-all-rom-gampang-method-d.html

Odexed>deodexed = True

Prove it yourself.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
I supposed that 20140727 WEEKLY was odexed... My mistake! Unfortunately I haven't the time to try to odex the ROM, so I'll wait for an already odexed one... Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Articadrake:
Glad to hear that I'm not the only one. same your problem!!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Jerry101923:
Feeling a bit lucky of not switching to ART too carelessly...

Which build is your phone in?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Articadrake:
27/7 works well but no Art....or to be more precise...if you enable you'll probably get infinite boot loop.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ashishsaggu:
One tip, if your phone thakes time to wake up from sleep. i.e you get the black screen with the keypad lights on. try pressing the volume down/up button. it wakes up my phones instantly.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
My SL is good enough to boot with ART using 27/7, 28/7 and 29/7 builds. Now I am in a remote area and has limited internet band so unable to test new builds. Tomorrow night i am going back to city and then will test the new builds.

UPDATE:

Build 31jul is good to boot with ART. And again this weekly build 3aug is not odexed. Flashed dirty over 31 jul . Odexed and running good for over 2 hours. Boot to recovery works with power menu as well as 3key combo.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bageraz:
In my previous build, i always get a black screen issue and had to constantly reboot my device. I just flash the latest weekly and will test it for a day. Hopefully the black issue will be gone.

Update - its been half day and this rom is very stable and smooth. No more black screen issues. Will try ART testing tonight.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
I have faced that black screen in old builds but haven't seen that yet on last few builds. With this 3aug build uptime shows 21:35:14 without an single issue, though my use covered only phone, sms, email, news, store, camera and limited browsing. Use any cpu monitor to find out which app/service overloading the cpu and act accordingly.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
Anybody knows if latest weekly (20140803) is odexed?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
Expected but NO.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
Thanks for the answer.

So what's latest odexed build? the "weekly" 07202014?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] navinash.avi:
imei gone

hai friends

in my phone imei number gone

i had an backup which created Automatic Backups with CyanogenMod of efs

but i dont know the instrustions to restore the files

please help me
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
Maybe these may help:

DDLF2 Full (PIT,BOOTLOADER,PDA,PHONE,CSC) Orignal Firmware (by sgatechwork)

[IMPORTANT] Backup your EFS IMMEDIATELY. [Backup and Restore Guides] (by dhiru1602)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Hetalk:
If you have a nandoid backup, just restore it and you should be fine.

If not, go to the link posted in the previous post and follow thru it.

All the best. :good:

Also, I apologize for not responding to your pm, but i've been busy all day. :(
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] navinash.avi:
its ok but not worked as dhiru told in previous post cwm

now what to do
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
As Hetalk said, you'll have to go back to DDLF2 stock firmware (1st link in my previous post).
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Hetalk:
Just wondering, how did you manage to lose your imei. Were you flashing some build? How exactly this happened?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] navinash.avi:
im on stock rom only ddlf2

but restored but not working

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dont know how its happen but imei was gone
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Hetalk:
Try whatever's stated in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2329937

If it doesn't work, or you get stuck somewhere, post in that thread and tag the OP.

I'm not sure I have any other answers that can help you.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] navinash.avi:
ok thanks i tried all dhiru told in the link but dosent work

and basenumber also missing and imei also

restored efs but didnt work
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Hetalk:
Sorry man, I have no other ideas.

Maybe [MENTION=4197544]chongns[/MENTION] can help.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] navinash.avi:
ok thanks

ill it work in custom rom ?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Hetalk:
Try it out. You have nothing to lose now.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
nameless-4.4.4-20140622-galaxysl-WEEKLY.zip 2014-06-22 221.2 MB

after that we are not getting any odexed weekly build.

Nothing to tweak so I use to do odex manually and it runs well and good.

I caught in black screen couple of times today after dirty flashing 5 aug build but after clean flash it is now safe and sound.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] navinash.avi:
tried but same thing happen no baseband version and imei number

feeling so sad
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
Do you use a script to odex your ROM?

To be more specific, the script located at THIS link you posted earlier?

By the way, seems to be the same script found in THIS other XDA discussion.

In the above thread it was stated that when odexing a KitKat ROM the options "Remove classes.dex" & "Zipalign" must be disabled. So you did it, or not?

Thanks,

Leonardo.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
Leads to same file

OdexerTool_1.2_ARMEABI.zip

I could not find where to disable those things and ignored it. No problem for nameless.

By the way todays build is good to go with odex. Uptime 3:05:43.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
Thanks! I had just odexed my ROM!

Now my very last question: before odexing, did you removed all *.odex files from /system/app, /system/framework and /system/priv-app? Or it can be considered an unnecessary practice, because all previous odex files were overwritten?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] dhiru1602:
Weekly builds are odexed by default.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
Sir Dhiru,

First of all, thanks for your great work.

Excuse me, and correct me if I'm wrong.

Seems to me that the latest weekly build (20140803) was deodexed.

When I ran for the first time MatrixDJ96's script found HERE with the above weekly, it said that Framework, System apps, System priv-apps were Deodexed. I choosed the "all" option, rebooted phone and cleared cache and Dalvik.

Now if I run that script again it says that all is Odexed, so I think something has changed... Or not?

Greetings,

Leonardo.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] alejandro.pastrana:
It seems that the boot animation could be related to some problems. Is there any easy method to remove or modify it? I'm thinking about removing or replacing a file from the ROM zip file.

Is it enough to change the animation file with another one? (look pic)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] CristianCRS:
Yes,i changed the boot animation with another one ,much lighter ...a simple google animation ,and it works with no problem.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] catarifrangente:
What to say... WOW!!! This rom is just fantastic, it seems to work more flawlessly than CM11.

I did a clean installation and all went well.

As other people said the bootanimation is very laggy, maybe due to its weight (about 6 mb); after changing that with this one http://www.filedropper.com/bootanimation_2 that iI found in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2528130 all went sssupergood.

Just one thing: I'm used to restore apps from Nandroid backup with Titanium, but with this rom, and only when I'm in the Titanium's interface, the menu's softbutton of my device is not working...very strange thing. Anyone having this issue? Any solution? Thanks for answering and very thanks to you [MENTION=244777]dhiru[/MENTION]. Cheers
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
We have 480x800 pixel display but nameless has 720x1280 pixel animated images - hence the slow or paused animation.

Regarding TB - Tap on "Problem?" and select "Preference".
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] catarifrangente:
And what do I have to check or uncheck then?

Edit: solved. If menu softbutton doesn't work in Titanium Backup this is a solution: go to system settings>>buttons>>menu button long press action>>open/close menu.

In this way doing a long press of the menu button in tb you can see the menu.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
By the way Menu button is not functioning. Its a near alternate.

Noting to check really but you can show/set backup directory by scroll down one page and tap "Backup folder location" and use back button to select storage and titanium backup folder. Once done TB will read backup data and allow to restore.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] catarifrangente:
You're right, but this is not my case. I do not have a titanium backup folder, I usually use titanium for restoring apps from a cwm backup, this is the reason because I needed the menu button working, cos the only way to restore apps from cwm backup is getting access to that menu.

Btw I solved in the way told above.

Thank you Sam for your quick replies!:good:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
For those not loving the buggy boot animation - use a root access capable file manager to delete \system\media\bootanimation.zip and you will see shine android animation at boot time.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] pratik_s:
i am not able to install apps in this rom. i checked the unkown sources too but its not working.anybody has a solution :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] CristianCRS:
You must download any File Manager ,from google Play, with Documents app is not working to install apps.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vishal24387:
Rom review

No doubt this is another great creation by Dhiru. Let me first thank him for this rom :)

Rom is really smooth. Camera works completely fine. Image capturing, vdo recording is good. VDO playback is also fine. Music playback is fine.

Till now no problem like random reboot or FC. App installation is fine here. We just need to download file manager from market.

Great customisations are with this rom. No need to install xposed installer.

Downside with this ROM are that there is buggy boot animation. Also in Tit Backup we cant use menu button. Still somehow I am able to use it. I have attached screenshots ;) Next thing is that RAM consumption is too high. I am getting 50 mb free ram only :eek: but in CM ROM I was getting easily 120 mb ram. Hope to see improvements in further updates :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] dhiru1602:
The bootanimation is for HD devices and currently doesn't work properly. It has nothing to do with normal ROM usage.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] alejandro.pastrana:
Found some bugs

Hi. First of all, I want to say thanks to Dihru for his great job.

I love the ROM, is fast and beautiful. I like some of the UI improvements. Anyway I have found some bugs:

-I cannot play videos: I have tried browser, built-in video player and VLC. No luck

-Titanium backup menu button does not work (physical button)

-I had to set up PIN to unlock phone due to email account restrictions. I wasn't able to unlock phone. I press the keys but is like the numbers were not written on the PIN box. I tried many times with some reboots, but in the end I had to wipe and install again

I agree with the large RAM consumption, and also, some elements are laggy, but I think that this is due to the low RAM size of our device, not the ROM itself.

Hoping those bugs could be resolved

Best regards
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] CodexLink:
I have that issue to.. On TB(Titanium Backup)... The possible i can do is enabling the navigation bar through interface option
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] catarifrangente:
In system setting, buttons, you can set the menu button long press action to open menu. Then, in tb, you can reach the options menu by long pressing the menu button.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Hibble:
This ROM is already better than CM11. I love it, great work Dhiru!

BTW: I took this gif for my bootanimation: http://www.funatlol.com/picture-3551-android-vs-apple-funny-animation-gif.html

If someone needs the bootanimation.zip, pls PM to me ;)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jutopa:
Video play works fine on mine. Best Rom I've ever tried on SL. Never felt so smooth

-Screen record doesn't work.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] CristianCRS:
+1, I just wanted to ask :D Screen recorder is working for anybody:confused: ? And by the way that On-the-go thing is real deal !!:good:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] tranceformat:
founded another minor bug: sometimes I press the power button, screen turns on but the sensor does not respond to touch, then I press again power button to turn off and when I turn on the display again pressing the power or home key button the sensor is working...

hope somebody will understand what I told here :D

great rom I love it more then cm

I cold not beleave that i will say this few weeks ago :D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jitendragarg:
So, I installed this last night, and boy, am I impressed. It is definitely better than CM11's current version. No issues I can encounter till now, and settings are plenty to configure. That wakelock blocker is godsend, if coupled with betterbatterystats. And those theme options are nice to have.

Although, I have couple suggestions for future versions:

1) Include any file manager. Seriously, any file manager will do. All I need is a way to click on the "superbackup.apk" to install it. I know I can download and install one from store. But, this is something more important than a flashlight. Better to spend that 10mb on this than an inbuilt flashlight. Seriously, replace flashlight.

2) Transparent status bar in low ram mode. Turning low ram mode off, causes a lot of crashes (system runs out of memory and automatically reboots). And the only thing we turn it off is for that status bar. We can do without an option to change animation speed, if it means transparent bar.

3) GPS tile mode should switch between "High accuracy", "Device only" and "Completely off". Right now, it just switches between two of these 3. An option in settings similar to "Sound tile" will be more appreciated, but isn't really necessary.

4) Contacts should display all contacts and not just google contacts. I have 200 contacts restored and saved, but contact app shows just 30 from google's backup list.

Apart from these suggestions, I found one bug. Mobile network still keeps going back to 3g. I thought it was specific to CM11, but it happened here too.

Oh, and thanks for switching away from CM. This is way better option for our device. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
If *.odex files are present that means its an odexed rom. No need to odex it and odexing script will skip odexing.

The whole game of odexing is to generate .odex files. All *.odex are containing required parts of a file to optimize execution. These are no derbies or byproducts.

No, I dare to delete these.

But we can always flash a odexed/deodexed rom over it. No worries.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fastleo63:
I checked files creation date a minute ago. Is today.

So I suppose they were created when I ran the odexing script.

Surely I will not delete them!

Thanks,

Leonardo.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] chongns:
there is no 100% working step to restore imei and baseband for your similar cases.

you can just try every possible step which you can think of like below

1. flash back to froyo and than GB

2. turn airplane mode on and off.

3. set your phone ask for the simcard code.

all and all is to force your phone to read the sim card.

good luck
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
[MENTION=4197544]chongns[/MENTION]

Goto the tread (created by once one of the most active contributor for SL, LOLATION)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45180928&postcount=1

Read and follow the section

If you want to unlock your phone is now on STOCK SAMSUNG ONLY !!!

Even you are not locked though it it will try to put some nv data in efs partition.

What to loose? Nothing at all!

If it doesn't work goto post#10 and flash it to get the blank structure.

Good luck.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] javoxo:
whatsapp is not compatible with the ROM ??
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam_777:
I confirm it installed in 6aug build. Go ahead and dig it.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bageraz:
whatsapp is compatible. want some extra google whatsapp+
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bageraz:
Found something interesting in the changelog.

[IMG="Android L is coming?"]http://dl-1.va.us.xda-developers.com/2/8/8/7/6/5/1/untitled.JPG?key=zgaeJn26jwJNMdifeT8dBQ&ts=1407399756[/IMG]
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Jerry101923:
One question (not for the vuilds): How can I help translating? I have a Nameless ac.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bageraz:
go to this link (official google+ community) and join. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111682533298374492637