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Looking for the most stock rom available

I'm looking for the most basic stock 2.2 rom available. I mean really stock Android, no touchWiz or customizations. Removal of Sprint bloatware would be great of course. This is for a Samsung Epic currently running froyo right out of the box. This is for a totally blind user running a screen reader from the Google Eyes Free Project. All of the TouchWiz stuff and customizations make the screen reader perform poorly and it's especially bad with froyo 2.2 due to the TouchWiz stuff.
I'd be grateful if anyone can point me to a rom that would fit the bill. Hopefully, such a thing exists. Thanks for any responses.

Cyanogenmod 7 is the closest to AOSP you can get, but it does have some features not working (yet).

I know its not exactly what you are asking for but I have an idea that is pretty simple to do but you don't have t flash another rom.
I suggest launcher pro from the app market. To all you adw fans out there, I've tried that too but accidentally messed up things in the dock and it wasn't fun fixing them. Anyways, launcher pro could be used as your home replacement. I don't know your level of knowledge so I will explain it. Once it finishes downloading, hit the home key on the bottom four and select as default application then select launcher pro. Now hit menu then settings then general and there's a thing to hide apps you don't want showing in the drawer. Next go into appearance and select dock style for froyo or froyo wide. That is pretty much it. There are a few settings that can be tweaked to turn off the special effects and maximise the drawer's speed in regards to scrolling.
That is my suggestion because it is stable and not necessary to start flashing roms and converting the phone's default file system to ext4, which from my experience was opening a can of worms.

I havent used it, but I believe you're looking for this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922773

It's not stock, it just is themed to look like it.
Texted while driving

Why not just root the phone and use root explorer and take out the touch wiz launcher in the stock rom from the system/app directory.
Here is a post here that shows you all the prgrams that you can safely remove:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773142&highlight=safe+apps+remove
Then if you want stock, you can't be more stock than this. Maybe this can help you get to what you want.

I appreciate the responses. Someone suggested simply replacing TW Launcher but that isn't really the issue. Apparently TouchWiz changes more than just the launcher. Some of the apps that don't seem to be really stock Android are messaging, contacts and calendar. TouchWiz also seems to do some other stuff under the hood that gets in the way. Perhaps rooting as someone else suggested and removing the problem apps and replacing them with the stock Android ones might do the trick. Surely there has to be a bare bones rom out there but maybe not for the epic.
I have heard great things about Cyanigen but unfortunately it isn't ready yet.

Syndicaterom Frozen is very barebones and quick. It is the cleanest stable rom.
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marcusant said:
Syndicaterom Frozen is very barebones and quick. It is the cleanest stable rom.
Thanks for the suggestion, SyndicateRom Frozen looks interesting. May try that one first.
Rick
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ralfaro613 said:
marcusant said:
Syndicaterom Frozen is very barebones and quick. It is the cleanest stable rom.
Thanks for the suggestion, SyndicateRom Frozen looks interesting. May try that one first.
Rick
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2nd on srf.
Saying that you were looking for a stock rom is throwing everyone off (or at least me). Stock means you want it like it came factory from Sprint, with all the bloat and garbage attached.
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LunaticWolf said:
ralfaro613 said:
2nd on srf.
Saying that you were looking for a stock rom is throwing everyone off (or at least me). Stock means you want it like it came factory from Sprint, with all the bloat and garbage attached.
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Sorry, didn't mean to throw anyone off. By stock what I mean is Android stock, not Samsung stock. Plain vanilla like you might find on a Nexus 1. No bloatware, no customized UI like TouchWiz. Hope that clarifies it. Thanks.
Rick
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ralfaro613 said:
LunaticWolf said:
Sorry, didn't mean to throw anyone off. By stock what I mean is Android stock, not Samsung stock. Plain vanilla like you might find on a Nexus 1. No bloatware, no customized UI like TouchWiz. Hope that clarifies it. Thanks.
Rick
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The term for plain vanilla is AOSP, the ONLY AOSP Rom for the Epic is Cyanogenmod.
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063_XOBX,
Thanks for the correct term. I see now what I'm looking for is Android Open Source Project (ASOP). It looks like CyanigenMod is the only way to go. I wish it was finished. The plan is to work on it this saturday so we may wind up trying Syndicate Mod Frozen to see how that goes and eventually flash CyanigenMod. I'm really anxious for Cyanigen to be completed. Thanks for clearing this up for me.
Rick

[Q] MIUI force close

So I am running MIUI 1.5.13 and I am having nothing but problems. It worked well enough for a bit but now I am getting force closes every thirty seconds. To the point where it is unusable. On top of this, streaming media does not want to work correctly. IE, google listen is playing like ****, as is audio galaxy. Has anyone else had this problem? I have reflashed three times. Twice after doing a format with caulkins format all. Any insight that anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Did you do a full wipe using amon 2.3 works great for such. What kernel you using? Stick to stock one that it came with see how it does . Then if u want try something different flash a kernel if everything is stable.

Redownload then reflash, you may have a bad download. Don't just use the format all, wipe too. I wipe everything except the SD card and battery stats. Or, if you're going to redownload anyway, download Stiff's version of 1.5.20. I just downloaded it last night, I'll be flashing it as soon as I put the final touches on my theme.
Steaming works fine for me, by the way.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)

I will try the above and see if that works. I am using the stock kernel currently. Strangely it seems to have stopped. I was running beautiful widgets and I just took it off (just the widget) and changed the vm heap to 40 restarted then changed it back to 64 restarted again and it is working. I was using 1.5.20 for a hot minute but I had a problem with a lot of it being in Mandarin still. Is there a good thread to check out for the best way to theme this rom? Thanks for all of the help!

I am using clockwork is amon ra superior? Everything I have read seems to say it is just a personal preference, but my noob ass is open to any suggestion.

mge091 said:
I am using clockwork is amon ra superior? Everything I have read seems to say it is just a personal preference, but my noob ass is open to any suggestion.
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It works like a champ I recommend it man let's u do a full wipe they recommend it on there site also.

I am gonna give it a go. Thanks man!

mge091 said:
I am gonna give it a go. Thanks man!
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Anytime man hope it works out for you rom is stable. I like the different feeling to it don't like the iPhone look to it but Hell it's different from everything else.

mge091 said:
I will try the above and see if that works. I am using the stock kernel currently. Strangely it seems to have stopped. I was running beautiful widgets and I just took it off (just the widget) and changed the vm heap to 40 restarted then changed it back to 64 restarted again and it is working. I was using 1.5.20 for a hot minute but I had a problem with a lot of it being in Mandarin still. Is there a good thread to check out for the best way to theme this rom? Thanks for all of the help!
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Theming is super easy, especially if you have a base to start with. The theme I'm working on at the moment is mostly taken from other places then edited the way I want. A few pieces were actually made by me, but the framework was pulled from one theme, I'm using Aelous icons at the moment, but nothing else from that theme. I may change my mind and steal Raadius's status bar icons if I don't like the ones I'm using right now. I've themed the apps myself, using the official dark theme as a base. Even though I've switched back to WidgetLocker, I am using my own stuff for the lockscreen, just for those times that it pops up.
There are some themes over on Miui.us as well as the MIUI dev forums. I pretty much taught myself by using a complete sample theme and pulling the apks I wanted to theme - systemui, framework-res, phone, mms, etc. If you just want icons, they go in the icons folder of the mtz and should be named their package name and in png form. I'm sure there's a guide somewhere, but I don't know one off the top of my head. If you do find one, make sure it's fairly recent since they've been making a lot of changes to the UI.
Also, if you weren't using the miui.us English version of 1.5.20, try that one.
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reaper24 said:
Anytime man hope it works out for you rom is stable. I like the different feeling to it don't like the iPhone look to it but Hell it's different from everything else.
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I am with you man, its the most unique rom i have used so far. Definitely gives it a nice look and feel. The great battery life doesn't hurt either

plainjane said:
Don't just use the format all, wipe too.
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Can you explain the difference between format all and wipe?
I am helping a friend with his Droid Incredible. I have an Inspire 4G and have become very comfortable flashing ROMs on my phone. When I flash a new ROM, I boot into recovery and choose all of the format options that are available, then I mount the SD card and transfer the ROM to the SD card. Next, I install the ROM and reboot. This has worked great for me.
My friend used Urevoked to root his phone and installed MIUI using this same method and he is having a lot of issues with force closes. In some apps, like Dropbox, he can log in but it never transfers data. My research to help him out let me to this thread and then your post intrigued me.
Maybe I don't have an understanding of what is meant by a full-wipe. I thought the method I did with my Inspire was providing that task. Can you help me understand further.
I did pass the information about Amon Ra to him and he may try that.
Thanks,
Roger

CM7 Help.

I'm on CM7.1 RC1 and really want to change the battery/signal/wifi icons to something other than the throwup green it is by default.
I don't want to go around flashing random icons without knowing which will work for sure. Any help?

GeneralSky2004 said:
I'm on CM7.1 RC1 and really want to change the battery/signal/wifi icons to something other than the throwup green it is by default.
I don't want to go around flashing random icons without knowing which will work for sure. Any help?
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I got just the thing for you: go to the THEMES section of this forum and search for CM7 ColorMOD. It is really nice...you can check out the pics before hand to see if you like it.

I actually really do like the color MOD, I had it on my Evo before. However, when I try to use it on RC1 of CM7, it reboots my phone when I make calls. Any idea as to why?
As far as the icons and theming goes, I really do like it, but I obviously need to be able make calls.

Themes Darkhorse, mixer6. black funk or caelum will do the trick
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GeneralSky2004 said:
I actually really do like the color MOD, I had it on my Evo before. However, when I try to use it on RC1 of CM7, it reboots my phone when I make calls. Any idea as to why?
As far as the icons and theming goes, I really do like it, but I obviously need to be able make calls.
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I haven't experienced that. If I were you I would do the following:
1. Go into Recovery
2. Wipe Cache
3. Wipe Dalvik Cache
4. Reflash CM7.1 RC1
5. Reflash gapps
6. Flash ColorMOD
7. Restart
If it doesn't work after doing that I would be pretty surprised!

Just go to the market and get a theme. Pick your favorite color, you might like it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1167075
There's about 180 themes for the theme engine that's built into CM7.

I'm also running COLORMOD on CM7 RC1 without any issues (at least not any caused by the theme).

[Q] Any Themes For The UnNamed ROM?

Hey guys. I just flashed to the latest UnNamed ROM and I was wondering if there were any themes out there that are compatible with it. I really hate the default android green color.

raveniselizabeth said:
Hey guys. I just flashed to the latest UnNamed ROM and I was wondering if there were any themes out there that are compatible with it. I really hate the default android green color.
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If you try mine please let me know if they work??

Venum,
I have your minimal theme for the unnamed, mostly black and white, and loving it.
Thanks, some fine work.
Dana

green to blue
All I really want is to change the green system color to blue (or purple or pink lol). I hate that android green color. Would be nice to have a transparent notification dropdown too.
I love the icons in the power button menu and in the settings and that is my problem. Most themes are like super themes that change everything. I really just want to change the green stuff like the download bar, highlights in the extended notification...and so on.
Maybe this can be a challenge for someone. LOL I will keep hoping.

Hey venum, if I change my avatar to a chick's face will you help me with compiling?? Haha
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HaHaHa I don't think it will help =)

bencozzy said:
If you change your real face to a chicks face.....
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Hahaha awesome.

If anyone has an update on some cool themes for the UnNamed Rom for the Epic 4g Touch please let me know, I've tried a couple but I want to change it up a bit more with different themes, though I haven't really seen many themes, around two.
Love this rom....and I don't want to ditch it for for some other rom bc of the lack of themes

skhatri15 said:
If anyone has an update on some cool themes for the UnNamed Rom for the Epic 4g Touch please let me know, I've tried a couple but I want to change it up a bit more with different themes, though I haven't really seen many themes, around two.
Love this rom....and I don't want to ditch it for for some other rom bc of the lack of themes
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Apparently, most of the current themes out there work on UnNamed.
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You will loose most of the UnNamed custom edits if you flash any of the themes out there. None of them are made especially for UnNamed. Check the UnNamed Goodies thread in themes and apps for a few things you may like.

Like playya said... I have found that most of all the themes work. Sometimes causing modificaions of the rom itself... I WAS using Unnamed with a combination of the ICS theme made for Blazer and some add on made for another rom.. All worked fine. But i got tired of all the "blue" color, so i flashed back to regular unnamed with rogue " gunslinger "... Nice colors.. Great batt life and 5000+ quadrent score @1400-200 LAZY...
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alright thank you for the replies!!

Eh, still kinda confused. I went to the themes section in the E4GT section. I see themes, but a lot of them say they work only on some specific roms. Should I still try them and see if they work? I'm worried about messing up my phone. :/

Okay, so I just themed my phone. Once it restarted, it said I had an update...so I restarted it like it told me to do. But the little android guy with the triangle and ! mark in the triangle came up....
what gives?
please help if no one is too busy :/

skhatri15 said:
Okay, so I just themed my phone. Once it restarted, it said I had an update...so I restarted it like it told me to do. But the little android guy with the triangle and ! mark in the triangle came up....
what gives?
please help if no one is too busy :/
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You are on a custom ROM, and Sprint was unable to update your phone because of that. Not that you want to update the stock ROM considering you installed a custom ROM in the 1st place...

skhatri15 said:
Eh, still kinda confused. I went to the themes section in the E4GT section. I see themes, but a lot of them say they work only on some specific roms. Should I still try them and see if they work? I'm worried about messing up my phone. :/
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Honestly every theme out there will work as long as it's not for a source the too different from yours (eg. EK02 rom using and EL29 theme). The worst that can happen with some themes, especially with UnNamed's rom, is that you'll lose certain functionalities. For instance, using suwu10's red or blue themes will cause you to lose the scrolling toggles in the drop down notification bar.
Other than that everything will be pretty much the same. Keep in mind that it will replace your rom's apk's with the themed apk's from whatever rom that theme was built for. So if you like say, the mms app from UnNamed, you'll want to delete it out of the theme's .zip before flashing.

[ROM] TeamRejectz FF18 De-Odexed | Touched by a SGSIII v2.2 7/16 Fixed (Hotspot Hack)

Image made by Lorjay589.
Inspired by Shadow_God.
Thanks to everyone. I love this pic.
Many thanks to all that helped me learn along the way
Announcement:
I will update the OP with this info shortly.
For the next few weeks my fellow team member Timmetal who is totally awesome by the way. Is going to take over this ROM. I will be in here and the other threads answering questions and helping as I always do but won't be doing any actual work on this.
Pretty much I have four weeks left on unemployment. I don't know if I will get an extension or not so I am redoing resumes and finding at least five good jobs a day to apply for instead of two. Doesn't sound like much but believe me. Between personality test and all the other crap its about 1-2 hours per job app. So it takes up some time. As soon as I get things squared away I plan on resuming this and also starting another project that I have had in mind called Super Clean Touchwiz. Pretty much its a super clean UI with some modifications that make it run and look soon much better. But anyway. Please give the guy the same love you have shown me as I'm sure you will.
I am not responsible for your phone not booting, damage to your device in any shape fashion or form. Follow my outlined directions and you should have no issue whatsoever.
This is my first ROM that I am publicly releasing. I have been making my own personal build for a while but never thought they were worth releasing. I figured I would share this one.
This is a stock, mildly de-bloated stock FF09 ROM that has been themed to include a look of the GS3 and Stock ICS.
There are a lot of people I would like to thank for help I have received but honestly this page would go on forever if I typed them all out. You know who you are. Thanks especially to my testers that help me when I am unable to flash a build. I helps me so much more then you may realize.
This ROM includes Mods from the following locations and Devs. If you have a minute. Please let them know how much we appreciate them by slapping their thanks button
Base ROM is the De-Odexed FF18 Build from Datajosh
Agats FF18 Kernel
Inspired by SALMAN ROM. Seriously awesome work by android_isda_****
Launcher from Galaxy S 3, Mod found here
SVoice Hack found here:
Themed MMS to mimic the SkyRocket MMS
Mildy debloated. Some apks left as not to effect functionality
Icons have been themed with the icons from the Galaxy S3
Used Icons from here
Used some icons from Tiffs ICS theme
SGS 3 Music Player can be found here
Dialer done by Avataroffrost
Note from Agat about his kernel.
Agat has informed me that after several users tested on his kernel. Him and Sfhub believe the EMMC bug MAY have been fixed. They had several testers wipe data and do several operations while on various ROMs and none of them bricked.
What does this mean to you? This means that if you so choose to, you may be able to resume flashing as we used too all that time ago before the EMMC bug was brought to light. Now I can't confirm or dispute this as I do not have a way to get another phone so I cannot chance it. But based on what I have heard so far. Many others are getting the same results.
If you have any further questions about this. Hit Agat up in his thread. It should be linked above somewhere and I am sure he will be able to go into more detail on it. Everyone please be careful.
Huge Thanks to all my Testers that helped me along the way.
joker2wild
shadow_god
guirae
downtrodin
Guide:
Download ROM from link below and place on your SD Card.
I personally recommend Odining stock EL29 before flashing.
Flash the EL26 Stock Repack Kernel (Linked Below as well if needed)
Boot to recovery and wipe data, system, and cache or use Calkulin’s Format all script.
Flash ROM, wait forever, reboot and profit.
Note: I did notice this ROM does seem to take a while to flash. So be patient.
I am open to all ideas and suggestions. Keep in mind I am not a Dev by any means. This is a project that I am going to keep working on. I would have done it as a theme only but I plan to make plenty of changes along the way.
Links.
ROM
Download Touched by a SGSIII v2.2 Here
Download Touched by a SGSIII v2.0 Here!
Add Ons.
Apks have to be pushed to system/app for now. I will make flashable zips later.
SGS 3 MMS
SGS 3 Music Player
EL26 Blue CWM Kernel can be got from the Repository located here
WiFi Tether for Root Users
Update 7/15
Removed Extended Toggles
Removed Placebo Tweaks
Both done to prevent issues present in 2.1
Update 7/13
Added in Phaker Tweaks
Added in Hotspot Hack
Removed TW Calendar widget, if for some reason I left it in there don't use it.
Misc tweaks.
Update: 7/4
Added Dialer by AvatarofFrost
Added SSugest
Added Flipbook
Added TW Calendar widget
Added Music Player themed for SGS3
Removed KOB Tweaks so users can choose which pack they like. Use the Standard TW FF18 KOB Pack
More I cant think of. There may be some issue. If so Please let me know.
Update: 6/24
Updated to FF18
Update: 6/13
Fixed missing MMS
Added back Exchange Apks
Updated to FF11 base
Updated to Agats 0.2.0 FF11 Kernel
Update: 6/9/2012
Finished out UI for the most part
Removed some widgets that was causing some problems
Added a few APKs from base ROM I am working with.
Mostly a stability update to help those that are having issues with 1.4
Update: 6/6/2012
Updated to FF02
Added Agats FF02 Repack Kernel
Thinned down some of the rom
Update: 5/28/2012
Fixed the Calendar Widget
Adjusted themeing some
Updated to latest hacked Launcher
Update: 5/27/2012
Added in Kobridge Tweaks.(Many Thanks to Kobridge!!!)
Added in Agats FE22 Plus Kernel (Many Thanks to Agat, Kernel runs great!!!)
Added in SGS III Live Wallpapers
Themed Statusbar Dropdown
Themed Settings Menu
Added HotSpot Hack (Thanks Calkulin and Team!!!!!)
Update: v1.1
Added in Svoice and all appropriate files. I tested this and everything seemed to work fine for me.
Oped a bunch of apps with it. It's actually pretty cool.
Added Stock Email and Exchange back. Sorry for those who needed it.
Themed some more of the build. Darkened the background for the notification buttons.
Themed the power widget
Themed the email apks
Please Check out my Team's other work. Between us you should be able to find something you really like if this ROM isn't your thing
SuperNova
StarPower

Very nice work, seems like more and more people are learning to dev. Maybe I should give it a try lol.
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reserved for later...!

Nice work! THAT'S how Sammy should have made it look!
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Nice work! THAT'S how Sammy should have made it look!
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Thanks man. I'm going to really try and make this as close to the GS3 as I can while maintaining that hint of ICS.

Damn.....looks nice....nice job
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sweet gonna try

Good Job on it scarmon25 keep it up man don't let anyone stop you

yaa a latenight testdrive, ty op.

The theme looks spectacular!
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Gonna go try this in a bit ^^
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Looks great man, I'm going to try this now!
If you can, can you change the background on the Messaging app to black instead of white? In your screenshots, it looks white and I think black would be better suited for our phone, plus it saves battery!

Agreed on the black background for MMS! Looks great, though, gonna give it a try.

JSarella said:
Looks great man, I'm going to try this now!
If you can, can you change the background on the Messaging app to black instead of white? In your screenshots, it looks white and I think black would be better suited for our phone, plus it saves battery!
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I personally like the white. But I can make one that has a black background as a add on if that would be fine.

I'm sure that'll work.
How come you chose not to include the stock email app? I use exchange with my uni. account so I kinda need it in a rom haha.
Anyway, everything else looks awesome man! I really like how everything works on here, hell if I end up having enough free time maybe I should start doing this too lol.

JSarella said:
I'm sure that'll work.
How come you chose not to include the stock email app? I use exchange with my uni. account so I kinda need it in a rom haha.
Anyway, everything else looks awesome man! I really like how everything works on here, hell if I end up having enough free time maybe I should start doing this too lol.
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Honestly. I didn't even think about that. What I will do. Tonight or tomorrow I will make a full ROM version for those that would like the stock apps. You can always remove the ones you don't want. And also do a stock messaging app with the black background and those bubbles and icons.
Thanks for the feedback.

I think it would be good if you could theme the status bar to look more like ics

Nice work buddy.
If you want any help with themeing status bar and/or getting transparent pull down let me know.
I might be able to help you.
Congrats to you first official release.

Will have an update out in a few. Have been working on it for a while. One last flash to test it then I will upload. Here is the changes. I will add them to the OP once it's done.
Update: v1.1
Added in Svoice and all appropriate files. I tested this and everything seemed to work fine for me.
Oped a bunch of apps with it. It's actually pretty cool.
Added Stock Email and Exchange back. Sorry for those who needed it.
Themed some more of the build. Darkened the background for the notification buttons.
Themed the power widget
Themed the email apks
Added a Stock MMS Mod. This is the stock Mms themed with just the icons and bubbles.
So it has the darker background. I will do a solid black one but this will do for now.
Request. If you notice when you long press on the home screen it gives you some options for
homescreen or lockscreen. When you select those there are a few empty slots. Reason being that
the launcher needs the gallery from the SGSIII. I have a full System/app dump from the SGSIII
but adding in the apk isn't enough. Anyone that may have some insight into this please feel
free to throw out ideas. Once I get that app to work then I can move onto other things from the
SGSIII.
Enjoy and thanks for the nice responses.

agat63 said:
Nice work buddy.
If you want any help with themeing status bar and/or getting transparent pull down let me know.
I might be able to help you.
Congrats to you first official release.
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Wouldn't let me thank you from the portal. Phone is flashing so I can't thank you from tapatalk. Just wanted to say thanks man. I really appreciate all the compliments. I wanted to do something for this community for a while. Just couldn't find a project that I could really get into. This one has peaked my interest. So there will be plenty to come.