[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brothermoose:
Thanks for the OC1 files and *ahem* instructions. After a couple failed tries, (most likely cause I was wiping 3 of 4 partitions, damn oxford comma) I got really hung up on firmware vs. kernel...and started looking for a third file which doesn't exist? or are they the same? cause you do flash the kernel as firmware, afaik. Legit question for clarification. Thanks.

First time I got it to work, it was so sluggish with only half the Aroma package, definitely noticeably slower than stock. So then, I just tried to rip the verizon/samsung heart out of stock using various xda threads on bloatware, but other apps just started disappearing, most notably the play store. So I gave this ROM one more try and so far pretty darn smooth. Even got my old Whatsapp account working by messing with the data file permissions for an hour, titanium was pretty useless in this regard.

Cheers

P.S. Any idea how to tweak the tiny notification text?

---------- Post added at 02:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:55 PM ----------

I did that the first couple of times for various reasons...first of which was just trying different versions of odin for the wipe flash. If you've gotten as far as the root, make sure you have root after uninstalling kingroot. Then..and this is the part I messed up a couple times, you need to check 4 boxes on the wipe in the first step of flashfire: System data, 3rd party apps, Dalvik cache, and Cache partition. That last one messed me up a couple times until I narrowed it down as the culprit.

Also make sure you're using v53 flashfire, not the v55 that is in the play store atm. Finally, don't be afraid after 15 minutes of boot screen (also happened to me a bunch of times on various tries and steps of the process) to either battery pull and reboot, try going into recovery on the reboot and first wiping the cache again, and if that doesnt work, then doing a factory reset (don't worry, it never affected my root)...and/or, I know this one is hard, but just let the poor macine sit open with no battery to cool for 15 minutes (this trick actually gave me my best stock reflash of the night). And the final successful reboot with the new rom did take about 15 minutes on the splash screen "the trippy new Samsung one" before it started ennumerating the apps (little white box). Then, succe$$. Good luck!

---------- Post added at 02:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:10 PM ----------

I did that the first couple of times for various reasons...first of which was just trying different versions of odin for the wipe flash. If you've gotten as far as the root, make sure you have root after uninstalling kingroot. Then..and this is the part I messed up a couple times, you need to check 4 boxes on the wipe in the first step of flashfire: System data, 3rd party apps, Dalvik cache, and Cache partition. That last one messed me up a couple times until I narrowed it down as the culprit.

Also make sure you're using v53 flashfire, not the v55 that is in the play store atm. Finally, don't be afraid after 15 minutes of boot screen (also happened to me a bunch of times on various tries and steps of the process) to either battery pull and reboot, try going into recovery on the reboot and first wiping the cache again, and if that doesnt work, then doing a factory reset (don't worry, it never affected my root)...and/or, I know this one is hard, but just let the poor macine sit open with no battery to cool for 15 minutes (this trick actually gave me my best stock reflash of the night). And the final successful reboot with the new rom did take about 15 minutes on the splash screen "the trippy new Samsung one" before it started ennumerating the apps (little white box). Then, succe$$. Good luck!