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[Vibrant Android Development] reddragon72:
Battery Icon changer

This seems to work for all roms(from what I read in the thread) and it worked for this ROM as well. I now have a sectioned battery icon with the % in the middle.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=862230

read everything VERY thoroughly and remember ALWAYS make a rom backup before making any system changes. If you don't do this properly and by the directions you phone will NOT boot anymore.

and I have attached my zip that I made and is currently up and running perfectly on my phone, but again use at your own risk and I cannot be blamed for your phone blowing up or 500 cats showing up at your house.
[Vibrant Android Development] dan0zone:
Thanks guys ... getting off work soon ... going to flash this,but still wish it was 2.2.1.,.,..,.,
[Vibrant Android Development] exploit777:
Short manual for superoneclick or how i got root:

1. Power on device

2. Go to Menu-Settings-Applications-Development make USB Debugging ON (check the check-box)

3. Connect device to PC USB port

4. Start superoneclick.exe

5. Press Root

6. Wait and watch the process

7. Well done! You have root.
[Vibrant Android Development] Xtazy305:
Im getting 3G with only one bar :( so far
[Vibrant Android Development] knurdle:
Just ODINed this on my phone. Working pretty well so far.

I was coming from JI6 rooted with OCLF.

This feels almost as fast as JI6 with OCLF.

I'm going to wait a day I think and then put voodoo on here.

ODIN was really easy. 2nd time I've done it, last time was when the OTA soft bricked my phone.

Much easier this time and it kept all my apps and settings. Only thing I had to redo was reset my widgets and wallpaper. For some reason, those didn't stick.
[Vibrant Android Development] lexluthor:
I'm on stock jl4 rooted. I can just odin to ka5 without clearing data and I'll still have all of my apps, app data and home screen icon setup intact, right?

Does sending mms work right on this one?
[Vibrant Android Development] donalgodon:
Icon setup, no. The rest, yes.
[Vibrant Android Development] MicBeast:
I agree

The T-Mo forums defend T-Mo with an almost militaristic stance

on anything that has a negative impact on T-Mobiles image
[Vibrant Android Development] bestwebs:
Hi

For the icon and app restore, I use

Titanium backup

My launcher is launcher pro,

I have found that it is the fastest.

:)
[Vibrant Android Development] lexluthor:
Wait, so if I go from JL4 to KA5, I'll have to rebuild all my homescreens? I'm using the stock launcher.

I'll lose all of the icons that I have on my homescreens?

That's what I meant by icon setup.

That takes a good while to get things back if I lose that.
[Vibrant Android Development] Scoobyracing03:
I got root access with this but busy box didn't install and I have tried to unroot and reroot with no luck getting busy box installed.
[Vibrant Android Development] kcp877:
Ok, to clarify, if you're on a deodexed JL4 running voodoo, you can just flash the kernel that supercurio posted for ka5 with voodoo without disabling? I'm not seeing a benifit to flashing the whole rom if I can get the updated kernel, modem and keep voodoo without redoing the whole system.

Anyone want to clarify? I've already downloaded the kernel, I'll flash it now if thats the case

edit....flashed over, added the voodoo reboot toggle at another users request, works great, saves some three button combos and lets you toggle voodoo quicker if needed.
[Vibrant Android Development] presence06:
I should have waiting to try and re-flash but I didnt and went back to stock JFD. just for ****s and giggles I downloaded GPS Test after getting JFD installed. Turned on Use Wireless networks ( I know it's not how it's supposed to 'truly' work) and it connected to 7-10 in a few seconds with accuracy (inside) of ~20FT.

So afterwards I flashed to KA5 and set it up, checked UWN and this morning I tested it. It didn't connected or even show sats for a bit (not sure why) so I left it, started my way to work. I disabled the UWN and loaded up GPS test, found 8 sats and connected to 4 with in a minute or so (faster than it was on JL5) and with accuracy as low as 15FT (that is without the Wireless networks on, just the GPS) :D

So far it's much better than JL5, Voicemail issue I had is gone, Gallery seems a bit faster and battery life seems the same if not a little better than JL5.

Nothing really new that I've seen yet.
[Vibrant Android Development] mapinkerton:
Use titanium backup to backup system and apps before you flash, then restore twlauncher 2.2 after the flash. This will recreate all your icons, but you will still have to recreate any widgets.
[Vibrant Android Development] lexluthor:
Ok. That I can do. I also backup with mybackup root and that should work.

The thing I didn't know is that the icon setup/positions are housed in the twlauncher 2.2 app data.

Widgets aren't a big deal.

Thanks!

So, basically backup, ODIN, my system settings, apps and app data will be in place, restore twlauncher 2.2 and my widgets manually and I'm 100% back where I was?
[Vibrant Android Development] deeoh1084:
wow i didn't really realize till now this modem has better data speed than JL5 by a lot i just did a speed test (i don't know why i didn't do it yesterday) but before with JL5 the maximum download speed was about 1500 kbps but now i'm getting 2600 kbps average (maximum i got so far was 3500 kbps!! what the!!) how is this possible?? wow!!! thanks Master for this wonderful modem :D
[Vibrant Android Development] Dvalin21:
Can someone do a complete review of this new rom KA5 and the new Modem upgrade? Thanks. It will be nice to see the comparisons from Jk2 to KA5 and the singal strenghts. I'm really looking to do the upgrade due to I keep having problems with sending MMS messages. I keep getting Error in Server Response. Not sure if it was because of the ROM that was flashed on here when I brought it or what.
[Vibrant Android Development] mapinkerton:
Yes, that'd what I did yesterday and it worked great. As long as you don't wipe, repartition, or use a pit file in odin, your data should remain intact. The full backup is good insurance in case you soft brick and have to take drastic measures.
[Vibrant Android Development] reddragon72:
I did a speedtest on JL5 and KA5 and they remained the same for me. Both average 5m down and 1.7m up. Late at night with full bars I can hit 6200k down and 2100k up.
[Vibrant Android Development] Zylograth:
I always do a full nandroid backup of whatever i am running and then try upgrading to the leak, that keeps mt apps and homescreens intact as i use launcher pro. Then I usually do a factory reset so I can test the leak out from it's base level. I flash between ROMs several times a week, so the only thing I care about are my contacts and email which is all stored on Google servers. Seems I always end up going back to JI6 for one reason or another
[Vibrant Android Development] kobesabi:
They probably want the free extra debugging (guinea pigs) and reading feedback on here I guess before they release it to the mass.
[Vibrant Android Development] tjsynkral:
Free QA testing
[Vibrant Android Development] Shinwrx:
Yeah just give us your pin number ;) lmao
[Vibrant Android Development] vibranthz:
You'd be disappointed :D :D :D
[Vibrant Android Development] DKM119:
i flash the rom from post #90 and it's already rooted so after deleting all the bloatware and i did a master reset,did a new set up and all my phone is faster i really like this "froyo"(i was running on rooted stock eclair,this's my first froyo)

one thing that bugs me is that when i use the camara i think the gps autostart did anybody know how to desable this?
[Vibrant Android Development] Dvalin21:
KA5 and FFC

Has anyone tested this with the FFC mod installed? Does it have the drive already in place in this mod?
[Vibrant Android Development] marsupial99:
Thank you to the OP for making this available. I flashed the original and then the rooted version after I found it on page 9.

One quick question. It seems that some market apps are not available - searched for Airport Remote and it cannot be found but it's there when I search for it from TMO G2. Can anybody point me in the direction of the fix for this?

Much appreciated in advance.
[Vibrant Android Development] insanemonkey:
What i got

this is jk6 I believe came with axura rom

Ka5

So I didnt really see a big difference.. I havent checked gps yet but I will look into soon when im around working tomorrow and update.
[Vibrant Android Development] Dvalin21:
What is tje difference between jk2 and jk6
[Vibrant Android Development] Quiketaz:
I have flashec and rootef but I cant install recovery it fails with the sign somebody can help me
[Vibrant Android Development] hitman818:
Did you flash via odin or cwr?
[Vibrant Android Development] Quiketaz:
Odin
[Vibrant Android Development] pepperbreath:
Grab Titanium from the market and download and install busybox with that by tapping the "Problems?" button. Worked for me.
[Vibrant Android Development] lexluthor:
Worked perfectly. Only had to manually restore a few widgets, otherwise the system was 100% intact.
[Vibrant Android Development] Pig Vomit:
This ROM appears to be finished. I'd kinda be surprised if it wasn't the final 2.2 ROM. Everything works, it's fast.

GPS is no better on this ROM.

Battery life is unchanged from JL5.

The only functional difference is I'd say this ROM is just a bit faster.
[Vibrant Android Development] gagb1967:
Ok I downloaded original version and rooted.

Phone seems to be always charging, once i turn it off, won't turn on unless it is pluged in and charging

Anybody else with this issue?
[Vibrant Android Development] gagb1967:
yes it works OTB (need to change camera.apk or use mirror
[Vibrant Android Development] marsupial99:
Seems that private apps are not showing up in the market. Any pointers on how to fix this? The ROM and any help are greatly appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] Stoneofhelp:
From what I read in different articles, the hardware specifications of the Xperia X10 and the Xperia Arc are almost the same. (Camera 8.1 MP, HD Video frame rate, etc) The Arc is what the X10 should have been. According to Google, there are no hardware limitations for running Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread. What if you let SE do all (or most) of the work for you? If the Arc is almost identical to the X10, then surely the final released firmware version by SE for the Arc, could be ported to the X10 by just tweaking the firmware in some way or the other? (To make the software of the Arc thinks it's on the Arc, but actually X10 running and functioning the same as the Arc). As this is not my field of expertise, would something like that be possible?
[Fascinate General] BSayre18:
AndroidSpin and BGR are reporting that a reliable T-Mobile Source told them that there is a fully functioning 2.2 OTA for the T-Mobile Vibrant, but that Samsung is holding the OTA back. The report then says that Samsung fears that if the OTA is released then this would devalue the upcoming T-Mobile Vibrant 4G. (I would post a link, but I do not have 8 post. If someone could for me that would be great.) Now, I know that the hardware is different, but does anyone think that Samsung may be doing the same thing to us fascinate users considering that a new Samsung LTE phone is coming out soon? This would make sense condersidering the Telus fascinate got 2.2 before we did. Now again I know the hardware is different, but it doesn't make sense they would get it before us considering the fascinate has been out longer for us and that they are more of us. It would also explain the DL09 release. Samsung may just be trying to hold us over until they decide to release 2.2 once the LTE phone sales are up. This is just something to think about. I personally am just going to flash Kaos's 2.2 once the data works :)
[Fascinate General] doobieking420:
Source:

http://androidspin.com/2011/01/12/breaking-t-mobile-internals-confirm-samsung-is-holding-the-android-world-hostage/

Is there a new Vibrant-style Sammy coming to Verizon that might put us in the same boat as our T-Mobular comrads?

"SamsungMobileUS Samsung Mobile USA

We want Galaxy S owners to have simple/reliable upgrade. We r running tests due to complexity/unique functionality.

4 Jan Favorite Retweet Reply

SamsungMobileUS Samsung Mobile USA

We are working to make the Android 2.2/Froyo upgrade available to all U.S. Galaxy S owners as soon as possible.

4 Jan "
[Fascinate General] DarthCivicus:
That is complete and total crap..... they shouldn't be holding back Froyo just to "improve" sales of the Vibrant 4g... the 4g should make enough incentive if someone really wants the 4g version of the phone. Also, isn't it a little early to be releasing a 4g phone when it is just now becoming available? I could be wrong!?!?!?
[Fascinate General] imnuts:
T-Mobile has had their "4G" out for some time now. Not quite as long as Sprint, but it's been around for a few months at least.
[Fascinate General] BSayre18:
Just some more information. The Samsung LTE phone is suppose to hit Verizon in February. There are a few Samsung Galaxy S phones rumored to be getting froyo in March. This would leave a month for 3g galaxy s phones to still be on 2.1 while the new phones are on 2.2 or 2.3.
[Fascinate General] DarthCivicus:
So the samsung LTE is probably to complete with the Iphone release 2/10/2011?
[Fascinate General] Natamos:
Seems totally non-bogus to me. If they already have working builds of froyo on the Galaxy Tab and 4G phones, which all contain pretty similar hardware, it's no doubt that Samsung has working froyo builds for the Fascinate.

It makes perfect sense in regards to their effed up strategy plan of continuing the release of updated phones but delaying software updates on already released ones. It's clear that these guys are holding back the 2.2 update on our device so that they can make more sales on the upcoming devices.

To be honest, it's not that my fascinate doesn't already do what I need it to do or gives me certain issues on its current software, but I just can't stay loyal to a company that continues to disregard their customers' concerns.
[Fascinate General] doobieking420:
My sentiments exactly. The question is, will this rumor affect their timetables? This whole thing is so political...
[Fascinate General] Kevin Gossett:
I don't buy it. The draw of the new phones is 4G, or LTE, not the version of Android it's running. The fact that it's running 2.2 wouldn't sway someone to buy one phone over the other for the general consumer. And that is the market that matters most to the manufacturers. To the more advanced users it might make a difference, but they make up a very small percentage.

Doesn't hold weight in my opinion.
[Fascinate General] madcow706:
Its a bullet point. Since Samsung did not opt to be part of the droid line on verizon, any additional bullet points adds to the selling factor of the phone. Sales people will use this to push people to the newer phones, saying things like "Its got the latest Android 2.2" or "It has the version of Android that supports flash". Its just in poor taste for Samsung to do this, and to me, its the same with Apple releasing the same iPhone for verizon that's been on at&t for 7 months or so now. I wouldn't get an iphone until after there announcement later this year, because since 2008, they have released a new iphone every year. Ok, sorry, I got off topic, but as you can see other companies do similar things just to sell more phones. Looking at all the companies with android smartphones, HTC and MOTO have done good jobs keep their android phones up to date. Samsung needs to step it up.
[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
If said source is referring to JL5, there is a reason they are holding it back...its a piece of garbage.
[Fascinate General] J Shed:
Count me as skeptical, the source seems contradicts himself, unless I'm misreading:

In a subsequent correspondence:

Still, who knows. It wouldn't surprise me if they scheduled the update to be closer to the release date (VZW released 5.0 for the Storm 1 a day or two before the Storm 2 went on sale). If it does exist, and isn't a POS, it will probably get leaked.
[Fascinate General] superchunkwii:
I can see this, but it is stupid as the LTE feature alone should be enough to push people to upgrade. Additionally, those with Galaxy S phones have all had them for less than two years (typical upgrade timeframe). So how many people do they really think they can pursued to switch? Seems far more harmful to continue to piss off your existing user base who might consider later LTE phones at end of year or next when upgrade option is available.
[Fascinate General] bradlove17:
I don't think they want to try and get people to switch. Its more for new sales. If the vibrant is sitting there for half the price (galaxy S phones are reaching the discounted portion of their lifespan) running nearly the same specs, minus the 4G, it will look pretty attractive to a decent chunck of consumers. If salesmen can say "this new one is faster and has a newer operating system" most people will think "new MUST be better" and blindly go for that.

Like someone else already said, it would just be a bullet point for salesmen.
[Fascinate General] preymond:
from a business point of view, samsung did the right thing. Why fix what isn't broke, while making something in the future look much more desirable. They will make most of their money this way.

Honestly, the dev community is a very very VERY small portion of their clients. A couple thousand out of however many million phones they've sold... Most people are perfectly happy living in ignorance about all these damn desert names. ESPECIALLY now that they have a working GPS on the phone.

So why please a couple thousand, when they could be making millions on future phones?

Unfortunately for us, this blows! But they are a business. Businesses lie. ultimate goal is to make the dough...
[Fascinate General] mexiken:
I wouldn't count on a Feb release....
[Fascinate General] mexiken:
The ONLY LTE phone that would be able to meet a Feb 10th deadline would be the HTC Thunderbolt. And thats not even a for sure, BUT, its the only shot, if any.

I guarantee it will be out by Valentine's Day, not that anyone cares, except for me. But you have my word, nonetheless.
[Fascinate General] attitudes1:
Two words:

Screw Samsung.
[Fascinate General] s44:
Wtf does a Vibrant story have to do with us? Nothing.

Those guys have a zillion Froyo variants leaked anyway. Don't cry for them.
[Fascinate General] Avelnan:
It has a lot to do with us. If they have froyo held back, we have froyo held back.
[Fascinate General] GoogleAndroid:
The Galaxy S is on other carriers, that's why it isn't a Droid device.

Another rumor that I saw on Droid Life is that the RFS file system was breaking SD cards and giving them trouble with updates. Who knows what's true. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if Samsung was holding back 2.2. I love this phone, but Samsung doesn't show any care for their customers.
[Fascinate General] s44:
SD cards don't use RFS.

The anti-Samsung frenzy is getting into tinfoil hat territory.
[Fascinate General] woolster22:
This really is a debacle. They push these phones with the assurance of fixes coming "within weeks," and then can't even get out updates so you can truely utilize all the hardware on the phone (my gps was CRAP when I purchased, needless to say I soon learned the meaning of root, flash, odin, kernel, etc). If it wasn't for the great dev community i know my experience would be vastly different. Huge props to the devs, trying to figure out when I can get something more substantial sent out to jt, kaos and whoever it is that made the rom I've been using (name is escaping...don't worry, I'll find you!). Keep up the good work guys. And to the rest of you users, make sure to keep these miracle workers around with dontations to their respective coffee/beer funds!
[Fascinate General] ksizzle9:
It's disheartened me to see how little Sammy cares for their customers. I am talking this up as a lesson learned I just consider it a waste since this phone is so far ahead of its day with CPU/gpu combo. Oh well that's why I've lid the phone down for a little while because even tho almost 99% of the features I truly need are n 2.1, there are some exchange features in 2.2 that are a must. By the time we see group I'm afraid it will be a case of too little to late.
[Fascinate General] GoogleAndroid:
Actually, it might have been the internal memory it was rumored to break. I'll find the article and link to it.

EDIT: http://an.droid-life.com/2011/01/11...-ready-is-definitely-not-froyo/#disqus_thread "We’ve heard rumors that Samsung’s file system can’t work with Froyo and SD cards, so this could be a while."
[Fascinate General] s44:
These guys are idiots -- and permanently discredited -- if they believe that.

Seriously, does the fact that the i9000 (with the EXACT SAME FILESYSTEM) has working official 2.2.1 not register on anyone?

Like I said, tinfoil hats. People are so ready to pile on that they'll believe anything, no matter how stupid.
[Fascinate General] RacerXFD:
Just read an article on engadget. HTC, motorola, and samsung in that order give the best rom updates in that order.

Verizon, sprint and t-mob also update their roms in that order.

Bogus is all I'm saying.
[Fascinate General] s44:
Pfft. Ask Eris or Milestone users about HTC/Moto greatness.

Samsung and the carriers have issues, but that's no reason to start believing nonsense.
[Fascinate General] BSayre18:
I had an eris and loved it. That was only because of kaosfroyo though :)
[Fascinate General] fwdixon:
It's a load of bull (the "whistleblower"s statement, that is).

The only Galaxy S phones out currently that are not laready updated to Froyo or slated to be updated to froyo (that is, have update dates published) are the ones on the Big 4 carriers (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T Mobile). The minor US Carriers and Canadian carriers with the virtually exact same hardware aren't having updates held back by Samsung. No my friends, I think the cause of our frustrations lie more with the crap the carriers put on the phones than the basic OS from Sammy.

Also, as other have stated elsewhere, samsung could care less how many phone t-mobile sells. The sell to T-Mobile, and I'd be willing to bet that T-Mobile isn't placing a large quantity of new orders from Samsung for the current vibrant, which means that as far as Samsung is concerned, they've already made the sale. It's T-mobile that would have to be worried about furture sales of the phone against an upgraded phone.
[Fascinate General] denpad2010:
Agreed completely
[Fascinate General] GoogleAndroid:
I don't believe it, that's just what it says. Kellex from that site, the one who wrote the article, always bashes Samsung devices. So I never took it seriously.
[Fascinate General] martouf13:
All I know is that as soon as the HTC Thunderbolt comes out I am jumping ship. Samsung clearly doesn't care about users. HTC on the other hand has always been super quick about updates and have great phones!
[Fascinate General] BSayre18:
Even though I posted the article, I just brought it up for the purpose of discussion. I don't really necessarily believe that they are holding back froyo. I just believe that samsung is slow at putting together updates. However, we don't have to worry about that anymore cause we have some awesome devs :)
[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
So you like the idea of using aged and slower hardware, tacking on a bigger yet less vibrant screen, and LTE?

Have fun.