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[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] MLX:
New rom? Great!

I could buy an Ace only to test that rom.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Ahaha thank you bro XD , the first release is almost ready :o
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] MLX:
Great!

great! I'm counting my savings xD
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jaymore95:
Hello.

I'm interested too. I recover from dust my old Galaxy Ace II (GT-S5839i), but it is very limited in memory right now. There is no easy way to extend memory with an SD card.

Some apps are not supported on the old Gigerbread 2.3.6 (Whatsapp will not have any update anymore). I was not aware of the "4.4 draining battery probelm"
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Thanks to you for stopping by :) Which rom did you flash?

I'm not working on themes and appearence for now, but you can show me some icon packs you'll like for this rom
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Hi jaymor,

Regarding 4.4 :

the 4.4. battery consuption problem is caused by Jellybean itself. Devs that made 4,4 roms made a wonderful job, but the the ace hardware doesn't have enough power to work on a so new new/heavy os.

Regarding Whatsapp :

I don't see any reason to don't use WA on Android 2.3

1) they stopped updating it just 4 months ago (I don't know if you have the latest version)

2) they aren't adding new features, and the most important one that is messages criptografy is supported on 2.3

3) WA does nothing else that increasing in size with each version, and you just tell us how limited storage could be annoying on old devices

Regarding GT-S5839i

I checked its specs, it seems to have 158mb of rom and support for micro-sds up to 32gb. Using a custom rom you shouldn't worry about memory.

Unfortunately you can't flash my rom (it's for s5830) I'll surely make a rom also for this device if I had a device for testing it, but first of all I have to complete this rom ;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jaymore95:
Hi Mich-C.

I agree with you : Whatsapp work for now on 2.3, but they announced (I cant post link in XDA, but search Google for "WhatsApp-support-for-mobile-devices" ) it will not work anymore in 2020. Same for Symbian and iOS 6 (and old dino-smartphone).

Not a big deal, but if I could refurb this phone to my kids for free, it will be cool.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
ok thanks :)

but did you know that this is not an actual Lollipop rom? It's a rom themed to look like lollipop. It was posted here on the forum, if I'm not wrong it's based on cm7.1 (so Android 2.3)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Ok, anyway we still have almost 2 year to keep using whatsapp. ;) I hope that until then it will be replaced by something else.

I would also recompile those apks to make them working on 2.3, but apps like Whatsapp (or even Telegram) are not opensource...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
The showed android version can be modified by the dev.

The name of the author is probably hidden in settings or in the easter egg (touch 7 times "about phone")

Last "actual" android version that was developed fo ace is kitkat
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jaymore95:
build.prop indicates :
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Thank you! So I was right :)

Did you download the rom just to check this? Great XD
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
It's the first time I see this rom.

Do you mean that you like its non-lollipop look? Or that it's a real lollipop rom?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Ah ok :D I just finished watching the video, the guy said a lot of shareable things about planned obsolence and privacy!

Thanks for your opinion about the theme :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Well, it's a very nice rom but I find useless to fuse both the look of iOS and LineageOS on a CyanogenMod rom, it would be better If he just made a pure iOS or LineageOS looklike rom.

I like the fact that he didn't install GApps and the full Facebook app, I won't include them too in my rom too! (I'll try to do it without losing features)

My rom should also be faster than this one, or at the least I hope so ;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Erpinoob:
[MENTION=5128870]Mich-C[/MENTION] haven't you shared your ROM eventually? I'd be interested too.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Hi [MENTION=5488354]Erpinoob[/MENTION]

I'm sorry for making you and other users wait, the reasons are

1)I'm busy for the university

2)Recently I got a boot-loop I'm going to fix

3)I don't want to release 99999 versions of the rom

4)I'm including several "old" tools for android 2.3, often links are not working and so I'm still waiting for developers to provide me new links

4)I'm learning how to develop apps in Android Studio at the university, and I'm taking advantage of this creating 2-3 exclusive apps for my rom

I hope to finish the rom after christmas holidays, anyway I'll tag in the post all those who left a comment in this thread

Greetings
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] MLX:
Don't worry about us! We'll wait until the project is becoming finished and more stable (at least i think that)!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] veloo:
Yes please, I would appreciate updated rom/kernel from source. I am also happy to help with dev. I am still using my GT-S5839i with stock rom by now too heavily customised. I think KitKat+microG perhaps SlimRom might be most efficient in terms of battery and usability.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Hi veloo, which Kitkat rom did you flash on your s5830 to get this amazing experience in terms of battery?! AFAIK In this case Gingerbread should win by a landslide.

P.S. I tryed slimkat+ microG on another phone, they were outstanding
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] veloo:
I tried slimkat + microg on another old phone which is stock gingerbread. yes it is outstanding performance and battery life, and hence why i think this combination would be best for our ace phone. battery life though i think is more dependent on kernel than rom. but yes gapps are very bad for performance and battery life too. eliminate that with microg. as i said in my previous post, my ace has stock gingerbread. do you think we should have github repos and start collaborating with others too?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] veloo:
GT-S5839i
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Do you mean you' ll like a Kitkat rom that keeps the stock gigerbread kernel?

That's an interesting idea! But Correct me if I'm wrong, the problem is that a Kitkat rom must run on top of a kernel that is newer than the stock gingerbread one to work properly (camera, calls ecc). I don't know if the developers that worked on Kitkat for the Ace in the past resulted to keep a GB kernel that included just the newer components required for the camera ecc... In the open source world everything is possible, it's only necessary to evaluate the effort/result ratio :o
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
I' ve never studied in deep kernels ecc about development, first of all let's see how this pure Gingerbread rom runs. Then If you and other users will like it, we could start working together on something more demanding
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] veloo:
i didn't necessarily mean that, but it's interesting you bring it up. As I have seen some custom roms for newer android versions, but keeping the same stock kernel.

but if you are pulling in gingerbread sources, then i think you should pull in the kernel sources as well. then your rom will contain all the later security fixes and patches for the kernel too.

most of the blobs are available as open source now only a few binaries left. kernel compiling is pretty easy. it just takes time, but not as long as compiling android for lunch.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Thanks [MENTION=3602108]veloo[/MENTION], I'll surely send you a PM the day I'll start to work for this thing
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ChingghisKhan:
Is there a download link yet?

Is there a download link yet?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Hi ChingghisKhan ! As I said I plan to release the first definitive version (1.0) after christmast holidays, so in January.:o

I would like to bring an out of the box experience as much as possible so the development is taking me quite time: I' m trying to avoid the installation of flashable zips after the rom flash. And just these zips are slowing me down!! I haven't found a guide that explains how to integrate them perfectly into the updater-script file so I'm learning by myself... :(

Anyway I managed to solve all the problems until now!

If you and other users are impatient to test the rom I can upload here the last version I flashed on my device.

The rom is already perfect for daily use (your phone won't overheat or stuff like that :laugh: )but at this state it's just a debloated aosp rom with a fast launcher and a fast internet browser

I haven't inserted yet all the features I promised you :p and as you can see the list of ideas I got is quite long
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] TestervonLOS:
So it would be a cool test, even if it's not finished yet. It is for GT-S5830i right?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
No, you can use it only on gt-s5830 (armv6 800mhz)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Download v0.5

Hello guys, since you liked the idea to test my rom...

Here it is !!! :D

This is Rom v0.5 by Mich-C (it's just a provisional name, next build will get a more appealing name XD )

I haven't flashed it yet but it should work well like the previous build I'm currently using.

My rom will be based on a specific rom compiled by [MENTION=3862405]SpaceCaker[/MENTION] up to version 1.0. Then I'll start working on sources ( [MENTION=3602108]veloo[/MENTION] wants to contribute)

v0.5

---contains just basic apps: a launcher and 2 browsers to choose from (let me know which one do you prefer)
---debloated!
---...but I dindn't remove GApps yet, I'll do it a later time to be sure to avoid conflicts
---let me know if the gallery apps works, it doesn't accept to be trated as a system app (installing it normally works fine)
---Modified system: you can choose to install every app DIRECTLY on the external-sd!

---Free and Safe Download

here

(Click on "slow download" -> "continue download")

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[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] rusiu559:
I'm interested
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
recap?

Guys I saw that some of you downloaded the rom. Have you tryed it yet?

Do you need a quick recap about what and how to install to get the custom recovery and flash the rom? I had to spend a few minutes too to remember how to it properly :)

(thx [MENTION=7239427]rusiu559[/MENTION])
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] tiger_kj:
Camera app doesn't work.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Thanks for downloading the rom tiger!!

Understood. It's not a problem caused by divers anyway. I tryed several camera apps on my rom I simply got confused so I icluded the apk that doesn't work properly. Can you show me the icon of the faulty camera app so I can "mark" it as unusable?

I am attaching here one of the most complete camera I found for the ace. Videos seem very smooth and it also has a lot of options.

Can you also give me more some other opinion about this first version? What do you like and and what did you appreciate less?

Thanks again :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Hi thanks for the test! Do you mean that you flashed the rom but that you got a bootloop that doesn't allow you to go beyond the boot logo?

You don't need any root app to install the custom recovery nor to root the OS after flashing the rom (since my rom already includes root)

I'm using ClockWorkMod 5.0.2.6 Recovery, but since that the rom installation went ok both for me and for [MENTION=1756266]tiger_kj[/MENTION] ... I ask to you the same question: which recovery are you using??
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
TUTORIAL : How To Install Mich-C Rom

This is a quick and easy tutorial How To Install Mich-C Rom on your Galaxy Ace. The rom has not reached its definitive version yet but procedure will always be the same:

Step A: Download the right files

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1) Download the recovery file from here;

2) Download Mich-C Rom from the first post of this thread

3) Copy these 2 files to your sdcard​

Step B: Install Custom Recovery (ClockWorkMod Recovery)​

1) Turn off the phone. Now restart it in recovery mode (just hold down the middle button and the power button);

(Now that you are in Recovery Mode you scroll items using the volume rocker and you confirm them pressing the physical center button)

2) Select “Apply Update From SD Card”;

3) Select the file previously downloaded and copied to your SD card;

4) Select "Reboot System Now" and your phone will restart;​

Step C: Install Mich-C Custom Rom​

1) Reboot the phone to recovery mode (key combo already described);

2) Select the "wipe data/factory reset" item;

3) Select the "wipe cache partition" item;

4) Select the "advanced" item, then select "Wipe Dalvik Cache", then use your touchscreen "back" button to reach agin the Recovery main menu;

5)Select the "install zip from sdcard" item;

6)Select the "choose zip from sdcard " item to search in your sdcard the ROM file. Confirm and wait for the installation to complete;

7) Select "Reboot Sytem Now" and wait a few minutes more compared to a standard boot;

8) Congratulazioni :laugh: you installed the rom!​
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Strange... I want to solve this thing

1)Can you describe me better the crash? Does the phone crash during the first Google account Configuration Wizard or when using the launcher? Do you get any error message?

2)Which rom was previously installed on your device?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Yes, I rember when I discussed about that rom.

In my case the stock the samsung rom was installed on my device before flashing my rom.

A friend of mine is going to install my rom, but his ace comes with the stock rom too... I'll let you know anyway.

Wait also for the new version of the rom and for more test-reports from other users :o
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
ICONS?

Hello guys!

Which icons/style do you like the most for the rom? https://www.xda-developers.com/top-icon-packs-android/

You can link me also other stuff :) (For example I think a miui 10 style-rom could be very nice too)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] YuriRM:
Instructions should be at the initial page of this thread too!

Hi Mich-C!

Instructions should be at the initial page of this thread too. Readers should get immediate access to instructions and custom ROM. And the theme choice too!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Thanks for the advice YuriRM!

Actually I dind't insert a pool for the theme choice since it's possible to add just 1 pool for thread and I didn't add instruction to the ROM installation at the top since I'm going to create a NEW thread with screenshots, details ecc.

Anyway I'm just inserting a quick link for the installation instructions and the icons choice in one of the first post :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Music Players !

Hi guys!

I'm still continuing the research for my ROM!

It's been a few weeks since I started to search and test music players.

One of the features I absolutely want for the rom is a player with music controls in the notification area!

Here's everithing i collected in this last period:

1)HTC Modded Music Player

It didn't work for me!

I tryed to install the zip from recovery and I also tryed to manually install the apk inside its zip file but the player didn't start at all.

I don't know if it's incompatble with my rom of if it's just faulty... Can you install it too and let me if it works for you? download

2)APOLLO MUSIC PLAYER

It works well, but I just got a "static" notification... (and I didn't get any reply in its xda thread)

3)WIDGET TO CONTROL MUSIC

Another app I discovered on the playstore. It's not a music player, but a widget that allows to control the music started by our music players.

On my device this widget seems unable to detect the music I'm playing so I can't use it... again, if you want to test it...

4)SAMSUNG/TOUCHWIZ PLAYER

IMO The samsung music player is the only player that allows notification controls. Well, I flashed a stock samsung firmware , I found out the notification worked and I resulted to extract the player from the firmware! :o The sad news is that the player seems to work only on the stock firmware grrr

4)OTHERS

Can you list more music player with notification controls?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ashraftheboss:
So... Are you planning anything for the ace-i?

How about the ace-i when you finish this one. I think you can just port it (correct me if i am wrong). Any plans at all for the i model??
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
S5830i?

Hi asharaft! It would be a great idea since a lot of people own the s5830i.

Actually I haven't studied yet how to port the ROM to the s5830i

If you find a guide you can link it here and I'll work on it :good:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ashraftheboss:
I'll try to look into it. But I know how tedious it is to compile a rom so I won't bother you. If I find one I'll post it here. One question tho... is your rom based on stock rom or cm7?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Stock! (Compiled from AOSP source code precisely)

If you like any cm7 feature not present in the stock rom let me know! :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
I'm still here ;)

Hi sheinbo! Glad to hear you again!

Actually I collected new material for the rom in the last days but I decided to focus on some apps for another device (takee1) instead. Since I proposed 2 pools but noone has replied. :( (I asked for the music player and the general theme+ icons for the rom...) At this point I think I'll use the theme I like...

Here's the news :D:

1)no music player is capable to show controls in the notification panel on gingerbread, but I probably found a way to get one of them working

2)@Zane Kilgore is a developer who created many roms for the ace in the past years. He doesn't have his ace anymore but I gave him directives to help me in this project. He made a modern notification panel with several toggles a quick slider to control brightness. Now is optimizing it

3)I worked on a completely new icon pack for the ace. Every material rom for the ace contains outdated material fonts (google occasionally update its roboto fonts). So this will be the first rom for the ace with actual android OREO roms. I don't have much time to test them at the moment. Would you like to help me?

4)soon I'll show you many other things
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
You just need to copy-paste my fonts into the "system/app" drectory with an app like root explorer or total commander.

The phone could become unbootable, in this case you'll have to restore the original font giving a unique command from adb.

I extend this invite also to other users if they want to collaborate.

Certainly my rom will be smoother than last Zane roms, since it's one of my priorieties :)

P.S. For the icon pack choice I think I'll go for the Zwart style
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Yes I remember you tested my rom :) I forgot to tell you that the procedure to install my new fonts will work on any rom.

(the new fonts must replace the old ones, so same names. (and also same file- permissions)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
AUTHENTIC Oreo/Pie Fonts!

These are the AUTHENTIC Oreo/Pie Font I'm including in the rom.

My friend [MENTION=6870379]Zane Kilgore[/MENTION]ilgore tested them and they are working on his CM 7.2 device, but all of them are not completely working on my rom (stock based)

If you want to test them, just:

0)enable usb debugging on your ace from Settings

1)backup the original fonts of your ace to your pc using adb

2)using root explorer for Android 2.3 copy my fonts to the "system/fonts" folder of your device

3)again on root explorer, set the permissions of the fonts' files like the permissions of the original fonts

4)reboot, now you have new fonts!

5)if the phone can't boot just replace my new fonts with your original fonts ONE by ONE until the phone can boot again

P.S. Me and Zane already have a NEW and working Android notification bar for my rom, we're just optimizing it for performance :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] eiPeiDweP:
Oh shoot. This device is still kicking!? Know that I support you 100% even though I don't have this device anymore, and I don't think it's available in the market any longer (well, here in my location anyways). Good luck!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Thank you eiPeiDweP !!! :o Message like this really give you the charge!

You can still buy tons of used s5830 and s5830i (at least here in Italy).

I'm sorry that many users are waiting for updates on the project but working on Android 2.3 in 2019 is really challenging! It's hard to find: infos, people that can help you, people that remeber how things worked.... (especially if you are working to include updated features to this Android 2.3!)

Regardless of time I think that waiting for this project will be really worth it, and anyway it will be surely fun! :D

For example today I spent the whole day on a music player. I'm trying to make working the only music player that allows you to control music from a notification (like any modern smartphone) on Android 2.3 .

The only music player that has this capability is the stock samsung player, but it doesn't work on custom roms since it's odexed, and deodexing an Android 2.3 apk is not that easy. I got myself another ace with a stock rom and I started working to deodex the apk: I used 2 different tools on my computer, without success, then I installed and used another 2 apps on my ace (called apktool), again without success, then I installed a newer version of this last app on my Nougat smartphone, no success.... XD

Now the solution would be ask me a friend of mine to lend me again its android 4 tablet and using it for apktool, since I made a rom for that device too and I know that the deodexing works on that device.... guys, as you can see it's a really time consuming process!!!

In the last days I also worked on other stuff for this rom:

---I tested tons of viper4android versions since I resulted to include the most updated one in the rom

---I removed every google dependency that avoided [MENTION=9329218]sheinbo[/MENTION] 's installation to reach the main launcher

---I studied how to tweak the video drivers to fully improve performances

See you soon
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dodo34:
Can you update the rom ?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
I'll try to upload a new version this week.

Let me know what you would like to see in this next version :)

P.S. Have you tested v0.5 yet?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Viper The Ripper:
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!

We're still alive! :cool:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] GreatGodvin:
Shouldn't we update the title?

2018 to 2019 ???????

Anyway it was started in 2018:cyclops:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Thank you [MENTION=4938641]Viper The Ripper[/MENTION] I remember the huge number of posts in the s5830 forum section. I also remember when you tought me how to enter in recovery mode (link)... and now I'm making a custom rom... Time flies! :)

You're right. I started in 2018 but I should update the title to 2019 since I'm updating it :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Viper The Ripper:
Hellyeah my friend! :cool:

BTW great work trying to reviving our beloved Ace :highfive:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] GreatGodvin:
How about [2018-present] ?

By the way forgot about the title.

Yes I am very much interested
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] nnlabrada:
Can I use it, present 2019, on s5830i?

Thanks.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Is there anyone familiar with s5830 (I) porting?

Thanks to you.

Not yet.

I found a

general

guide to port Roms for similar devices.

I'll try the porting process will begin after I release a definitive version.

Anyway I wish someone that resulted to port a rom from s5830 to s5830i (or viceversa) will tell me what porting method works the best for these devices
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] eiPeiDweP:
Are you building for S5830i or without the 'i'? I might buy a second hand one and give your works a try?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mik-el:
Before replying to your question, why not an "s5830" at this point? ( just curious :) )
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] eiPeiDweP:
Without the 'i' it is?