yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
First of all, about this rom:

I promised to release v0.7 last week but I had an unexpected event, next week should be the right time :o

About the s5830i rom:

Since this Rom is having a good success yes, I could make a rom for the s5830i too.

Porting the whole set of apps I'm carefully choosen for my s5830 rom to this new s5830i would be a matter of 5 minutes.

But...The problem is that I don't have a s5830i device so:

1) you'll have to test the rom by yourself

2) I can't optimize performance too much since I can't make and compare benchmarks and I can't study new tweaks specific for ANOTHER device (it requires a lot of time)

3) Since editing the SystemUI requires testing on the device I won't touch it: You'll get a clean/stock notification panel like this one

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[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] MLX:
I'm not a specialist, but could it be a problem with Xposed? Have you tried to disable it and then running the app?

Also, what are the differences between the s5830 and i versions?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Thanks for your help anyway. I can try to disable Xposed but I don't think this is the problem: I extracted this app from a stock rom, the app works on the stock rom, and there Xposed isn't present obliviously. Moreover apps that require Xposed must be enabled from the Xposed app, thus Xposed couldn't create conflicts

As far as I know the apps are identical. But you have to deodex these apps to use them on another rom/device. And it's this deodexing process that probably creates a non working app in my case. Even if I tryed in maaaany different ways
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] needperformace:
is it for s5830i

will it be kitkat cuz i would like to use it with y music as mp3
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] LordJeremy:
I just bought an galaxy ace and I'd love to try out your rom once it arrives. I can't really help you with coding or rom building, but I'd love to test things for you to save you some time. Let me know if you're interested and still making this rom :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Hi! Currently it's just for s5830.

Is there any particular reason to use kitkat for listening to your music? Android 2.3 plays mp3 perfectly!

Welcome! Glad to hear you want to help me.

Did you buy an Ace just to try this rom? :D

I'm the first person who will love to complete this rom , my only problem is in finding time (university...)

Yes you can already help me doing a thing.

Do you have any experience with adb and basic linux terminal? (just moving between folders, renaming/delting files and setting permissions)

If the answer is no, I can assign you another task
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Small Updates

Guys I forgot to tell you that for the first time since my subscription in 2013 I changed my username from "Mich-C" to "Mik-el" , so it's still me! :D

About the rom instead:

Last time I worked on the rom it was 2 months ago probably.

I finally found the way to extract and adapt for my rom the only music player with controls from lockscreen!

I just need to test it.

I fixed other little things too
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] LordJeremy:
Hi, sorry for the somewhat late reply

I bought an Ace just for fun and to fiddle around with it (and see if it is still usable with today's standards), but I'm most definitely going to flash roms on it

I understand you don't have all the time in the world, just take your time and remember to have fun with projects like this :)

I honestly only used adb to flash a recovery on my device and not much else, I'm no linux user either. Sorry about that

Hope I can help you in different ways! (I'm still waiting for my device to arrive, so please be patient with me :p)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Hey, Did you receive your phone?

I have a work for you :) (you can use any Android phone anyway)

Another user offered his help, let's see what we can do together, I have many ideas for this and other ROMs but I need someone who follows my instructions to speed up the process :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] GT-I9515 csual user:
Modern browser for Gingerbread?

Does this ROM include a browser, that is compatible with modern web standards? I am asking, because the stock browser on my Ace alway gave me security warnings (I have deactivated them in the settings by now). Furthermore it does not render some websites correctly and cannot play most videos. I have tried many browsers for gingerbread but none of them gave me perfect results. (If you know any browser for gingerbread that is still fully supported, please let me know)

I currently use Opera mini on my gts5830 running stocklite v8 ROM.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Penguin:
I don't have galaxy ace anymore but this ROM sounds REALLY interesting! Can you take some screenshots please?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
[MENTION=10093499]GT-I9515 csual user[/MENTION] [MENTION=9057033]Francisco Funes[/MENTION]

Guys tomorrow I'm replying you with calm ;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
*error* (double post)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Penguin:
Thank you man :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Hi, my Rom uses Via Browser, it's the only web browser that still provides support for Android 2.3 in 2019.

I've never had problems with security warnings :)

The rom I used as base to develop this rom was very similar to stocklite v8. You can try my rom and let me know if you like the improvement

Hi Francisco, I'm sorry for your Ace!

Posting screenshots inside this post is a bit slow.

You can find them in the blog section of this channel of mine.

I think I'll use it as a sort of telegram channel to keep my friends updated!

There are also other infos that could be useful to anyone (@GT-I9515 csual user)

Let me know what you think, cheers! :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Penguin:
Ok, i just saw the screenshots and this looks amazing! I like how you made the quicksettings look like nougat! I miss my ace now...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Thank you!

I'll try to do even better so stay subscribed to this thread :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Penguin:
I am already suscribed :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] GT-I9515 csual user:
I tried your ROM. Nice work! Your rom was fast and stable and had a decent startup time. Maybe I will change to your ROM once its fully functional, because I like using the fm radio of my ace. Also the gallery did not work properly. But the rest worked fine (Camera, Wifi, etc.)

You said, that your ROM is based on a ROM, that is very similar to stocklite. Which one?

I tried via browser earlier on stocklite. It is a nice browser with a small memory footprint, but it does not render all websites correctly and sometimes fails to make a connection with a server. Just try accessing this very site using via. Surprisingly, youtube works on your ROM in via but not on stocklite.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
New clarifications

Wow! Thanks for the review!

I completely forgot about the fmradio! No problem, I can add it.

Which fmradio app do you like the most?

The gallery bug is already solved for the next release!

Another user reported problems with the camera, but not you luckily. Anyway another camera app with more settings is included in the next release.

I don't know what can cause the youtube problem on stocklite. I'm happy it works on my rom!

Via can have more bugs on Android 2.3 since this OS is used by fewer people nowday.

Anyway we can't lose this fantastic browser for all Android 2.3 devices!

I advice you (and the whole xda community) to keep requesting support and bugfixing for Via on Android 2.3

To do this:

Send a mail to Via developer---> [lakor]****[at]****[foxmail]****[.com]

Object---> Android 2.3 support

Message--->Kindly describe your error or just encourage the developer to still support Android 2.3

Attachement--->If necessary you can attach a logcat (tutorial)

The slower startup time is intentional!

I optimized the apps of my rom through a process called odexing (not so easy to do on 2.3). Now apps run faster (without increasing cpu usage!) but the rom weight a few Mbs more and the startup time.

To avoid these 2 drawback I used a super light bootscreen and I odexed just the most used apps. For instance the same Via Browser is more responsive on my rom than any other rom. Nothing is casual ;)

You can find the link in this thread. Anyway you won't get improvements from it. It's a dead rom, the apps are not so lightweight, updated and optimized like mines. Moreover in the next updates of my rom you'll find exclusive feaures like music controls from lockscreen and notification panel, new apps, and some new optimizations for performance! :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jaspernv:
I'm glad I decided to look into the Ace development stuff. My main phone broke recently so I decided to give my old Ace a look, as I still had it in a drawer fully functional. I've now got this installed, and it runs so smooth! I'm definitely excited to see the next update!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Updates for 2020

OK, so 2020 is here. I think we should update the thread title again :D

Again, even if I didn't update you here, in these months I worked on the ROM.

This time I concentrated more on code, since working and spreading opensource apps could help my ROMs to reach more devices.

I backported the Android 10 keyboard to make it working on Android 2.3 and above. It keeps working correctly on new devices but unfortunately it still has some bugs that cause a crash.

The other project I worked on is an updater tool that allows you to update my ROMs with one touch (or even autoupdate them). I think it's something really worth it that we haven't seen before.

(obliviously it works on any device with Android 2.3 and above).

If you want to be updated more often you can subscribe to my a telegram channel I just created.

(Don't worry, I'm not a spammer )

https://t.me/mikelupdates

Here you can also find apps that maybe you could find useful.

Cheers!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Penguin:
Hello, i have a small question, will this ROM still be based on android 2.3? Because whatsapp will be obsolete in 1 month (sorry for my english)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mozzafar alali:
Best work ?

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Waiting for you rom
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
whatsapp alternatives and new look!

Hi Francisco. Yes, it will still be based on Android 2.3

Actually I prefer to use Telegram instead of Whatsapp. Personally I've never used them but there are also other alternatives like Signal and so on that still works on 2.3.

(by the way, one of my tester is testing Signal, I'll let you know how it works.)

Anyway since many users keep asking me a rom for s5830i rom and I don't have a device for testing the compiled rom and so on I think I'll make a script that will remove all the apks from any android rom and install my optimized apks.

So everyone can try the major part of my rom.

I want to thank you and [MENTION=6737393]mozzafar alali[/MENTION] for the subscription to the telegram channel I made (t.me/mikelupdates).

NEWS:

Mozzafar provided me icons and wallpapers for Samsung Galaxy S10 that will be included on the next release! He'll also send me the Samsung S10 fonts and taskbar icons too in the next days! :o

Thank you
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Stormman34:
Wow, I haven't even tried the ROM or read the entire thread and I'm already impressed. Keep up the great work! Anyway, when is the next release coming out?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Stormman34:
I personally think that the newest stock Android Icons look really good (even though it's probably too late to post opinion about this :D)

Also, (I don't know if you tried it yet) Rocket Player is a good music player.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Aj.GaLaxY aCE:
This was my first device. Back in 2012 I think. Quite surprised a thread is still alive.

Nostalgic

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This was my first device. Back in 2012 I think. Quite surprised a thread is still alive.

Nostalgic
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Am I alive? April 2020 updates

Thanks for the support guys! :o

Sorry for the late reply, I'm facing problems surfing XDA in the last days. (it happens with every browser after I login :confused:)

Some people could think "Your developing this rom from 2018, how is it possible that it's still in development"?

Well these are the reasons:

1) The new realease for the rom was ready 2 months ago. The corona virus started to spread in Italy, I left my external hard disk with the rom in the city where I study and I returned home thinking "a few days at home and I'll return at the university"... Unfortunately the lockdown started and I think I won't be able to return to my study city up to september (I suppose) :crying:

Yes, I could start the rom again from scratch but it will be a useless loss of time. In these months I'll work on other and similar project that will support this rom too, but I won't strictly work on this rom.

2) I didn't just collected Rom tweaks from the web these months!

These months I learned (by myself) how to CODE android apps and how to USE GITHUB.

3)This rom is just a starting point!

The Galaxy Ace is the most "ancient" device I own so, I developed this rom just to start making some of my ideas concrete.

This rom belongs to the "Mik-el Android" project that will be something like a Lineage OS you can install on any old device.

I read a lot about planned obsolescence and I want to give a strong signal with the ideas I've in mind. (Obliviously updating old android phones it's very fun too XD )

4) I need help deodexing some strange apks. I need someone with a rooted snapdragon phone (I don't want to root my Xiaomi at the moment)

[MENTION=6737393]mozzafar alali[/MENTION] tried to help me on Telegram, I sent him a guide but he just owns an hexynos device.

5) You're not following my Telegram channel.

Xda will always be my favourite place when talking about development and roms but leaving you quick messages with updates will be easier and faster for me!

Sometimes I just don't have the time to post on XDA too.

For example I posted on telegram a link with an article where I explained how to develop apps for old devices even in 2020. (I think you missed it)

Tomorrow instead, I'm posting a video showing an iconic 3D game running on my ace to show how powerful is "Mik-el Android".

----the channel is in my signature, cheers.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] thoklo:
Video call supported

anyone know any video call apps that will work with GT-S5830? I have tested some versions of Skype,WhatsApp and Messenger without luck. Some install but never login.

Yes I have other phones, but this is a backup for an elderly in Corona lockdown times

Cheers
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Penguin:
I have 2 rooted snapdragon devices (Galaxy J5 and Galaxy S Duos), i can help you.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Guys here's Wolfstein 3D running on my Galaxy Ace from a microSD.

[youtube]gKo5lDLstG0[/youtube]

(I posted it 2 weeks ago on telegram and I was forgetting to post it here too)

Thank you Francisco. I'm sending the instructions to you on telegram :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Tareku:
Just got my nasty dusty Galaxy Ace from a box and found this little golden-post.

I hope that you are not giving up with the coronavirus and you will finish this project.

P.S. Assumo che parli italiano :P ? Sono interessato nella rom
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] rcky844:
Just got an Ace at my local markets for 2 cents, here's my questions about the phone:

Q: Which ROM is the most smooth and great for example daily use in your opinion?

Q: Did any Lollipop kernel booted or is it too big?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Penguin:
As far as i know there is no lollipop for this phone
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Great! Let's save all Galaxy aces! :)

The most updated ROMs you can install are KitKat ROMs (4.4) but they're slow and the battery drains fast.

If you want a smooth and fast ROM you can test my ROM and let me know what you think.I can't guarantee that is the fastest ROM on xda but it surely is one of the fastest. (For now ;) )
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Maybe the Deodexing went good :)

Ok I said you I wanted to port some stock samsung apps to use that on my clean aosp rom. (I don't want the classic FULL samsung rom)

To "port" samsung apps I need to deodex them, I have tried 10 different ways ot more in the past but without success.

When I try to install these apps I always get "corrupted apk"... but maybe the apks are not corrupted, they just requires higher permission that I can't get with a classic installation!

At this point read about forcing the installation copying the apks to system/app or system/priv-app and adjusting permissions.

When possible I'll try this method for the last apps I deodexed, I hope they'll finally works! :o
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] eiPeiDweP:
Do you have other devices OTHER than Ace-i?

Also do you have knowledge in building a custom kernel from a source?

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Doesn't "corrupted apk" or the infamous "parsing error" means you're installing an apk that's targeting higher android version? That's usually what it means.

Scratch what I just said. Corrupted apk isn't the same as parsing error. My bad ;(
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
I have a chinese device with Android 4 and I resulted to port Android 7 to it (xda thread).

No, I've never built a custom kernel but I think I'll had to build a new kernel for this device since the guy who made the kernel before me did not include drivers for the air touch sensor. (anyway the rom is already almost perfect for normal use)

Yes, the apks I want to run on my 2.3 rom come from a stock 2.3 rom so it's not matter of newer/older android versions. (the problem comes from the deodexing process)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] MLX:
Hi! After 2~3 years I finally got an S5830 to mess with, how is this all going? Seems promising!

EDIT: Okay, after waiting like 20 min. downloaded the ROM, what a trash host you used :p

Here I uploaded it to my AFH account, if anyone needs better speed: https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=17248734326145717624

Already installed the ROM, looks somehow good (but actually strange). Nice launcher! I was going to use my Ace as a music player, will tell if find an interesting one!

EDIT2: After trying to use the stock music app and read the logcat, noticed that it closes because it can't find the TouchWiz quick panel:

E/AndroidRuntime( 1710): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 1710): java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: android.app.Notification.twQuickPanelEvent
E/AndroidRuntime( 1710): at com.android.music.MediaPlaybackService.makeMusicNotification(MediaPlaybackService.java:683)

So, in order to create the notification controls, it just (at stock rom) used the quick panel. As we don't have that here, it will not work. Nice idea, to use a custom quick panel just to have notification controls (I dont know if somebody will implement it, though).
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Hi, sorry for the late reply. As you can see it's a few months that I'm not working on the Ace and on my general retro compatibility project. As you can see from my telegram channel I have quite little time for development and I decided to spend it to finish a project and a video player for a holographic 3D smartphone.

Anyway my dream to build a new Android 2.3 project is still here and I could start working back on it soon.

Thanks for having read all my crazy posts here :ROFLMAO: and for the help with the logcat of course.

Anyway it would be better to ask before reposting anything, I use that file host for many reasons: it does not waste my google drive space, it's safe, It doesn't spam ads or adult stuff, it allows me to know how many people download my works and their nationality.

Moreover reposts could be bad because if my files register 0 downloads in 2 months (or something like that) they'll be lost forever, and I don't have access to other people's accounts on Android File Host and so on.

About the rom: yes the rom is strange because as I said looked at performance only, the look is the last thing to tune up on this kind of devices. Anyway let me know if you are still using this rom and if you're available to test something (if you prefer a faster communication Telegram it's ok too)

Regards, Mik-el
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] MLX:
Uhm I've sold my Ace just two days ago, sad that didn't read this message otherwise I would not have done so (I changed it for a Moto Defy and some money, pretty weird but good deal :P)

Anyway, if you need help with development just tell me! I have some time on this thing, and learned a lot while porting roms for the galaxy pocket plus (I'm the only dev it seems).

If you want to contact me on Telegram I'm @mlxprojects :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] keeper18:
Works perfect on my s5830:)Thanks:)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Lee James:
Hi Mik-el,

i saw your reply on released v0.7 but i cant find the download link, is it that i should download the oldest one ( v0.5 ) and it came with an updater?

Sorry for inconvenience dude, this is my first time using forums.

if possible send me the link for the latest rom download, Thanks XD.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Guys many thanks for all your kind comments, I can't believe that this Rom keeps getting downloads and compliments after 2 years of its release, 🤯 I think I should really start to work again on this project ASAP!! 👊

I still have amazing stuff on my external HDD to improve the Rom!

Great, I'm happy!

Hi James! Sorry for the late reply!

I've never released v 0.7 (if I remember correctly), but you can install v 0.5 since it's bug free!

Don't worry for the forum features, I didn't know them too when I started, tell me anything if you need 🙂

Oh no, what a shame that you sold your ace!

I see you miss messages on xda like someone else here too 😅🤣

Thanks for you telegram contact, I sent you a message! Hoping to do something new to update Android 2.3 😊
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] cambr1an:
Been lurking this thread since I ordered from China an Ace to play with two weeks ago. Package arrived yesterday and I'm just a wee bit excited to install the latest update for this ROM. I hope this wonderful project is not abandoned. Hope to hear from the dev soon.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
@cambr1an

I can't believe that to test this ROM you have bought an Ace too.

It's incredible, many thanks :D

I hope the ROM has satisfied you.

-GUIDE UPDATE?-

By the way, I should still update my guide on GitHub "How to backport and Develop for Android 2.3 in 2021", I backed up some Android 2.3 SKDs from Android Studio (could be lost forever) and an Android 2.3 emulator for Windows (rare).

I should upload these in a MEGA folder and put the link in the Github guide.

-APP MADE WITH THE GUIDE-

I don't remember if I had already shown this screenshot to you... I took it from the "Mik-el Updater" app running on my Xiaomi Remdmi note 4. I made it using the super clean development template included in the Github guide.

The app was just a dummy but the size is impressive (a few kbs) and it can run on any new Android version.

-TELEGRAM?-

Are you subscribed to the TG channel too?

I should work on the 3D ROM for Takee 1 too, I apologize for my months of inactivity, finding the time and energy to work on Android stuff is more and more difficult for me :( moreover, if I make a small update in 2 months (like for example the development stuff uploaded to MEGA) I ask myself: "should I quickly post it on the TG channel too?... in the end it's not that much". But maybe I should change this approach, do you agree? :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Otus9051:
I can help in development if you are interested
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
@Otus9051 I'll send you a PM here! Many thanks :)