FF18 Manual Update to ICS - Some features missing - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

As the title says. I performed the manual update to FF18 ICS update. Everything is working great, but I noticed there are some features missing. For exmaple,
- I still have the old GingerBread Action bar at the bottom.
- I cannot create a new folder by dragging another app on another (like iOS)
- I do not have the black system bar at the bottom
- When I click and hold an app.. there is no "circular background" behind it.
That being said, the facial recognition, picture panorama, data usage, all that is there.
Can anyone help?

you would have to change your launcher from Samsung Id....
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As Mrcharmz says you need to change launcher with Sprint ID to Stock and do factory reset to refresh SystemUI layout because when upgrading from GB to ICS some areas of UI remains GB style.
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Omar04 said:
As Mrcharmz says you need to change launcher with Sprint ID to Stock and do factory reset to refresh SystemUI layout because when upgrading from GB to ICS some areas of UI remains GB style.
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Thank you both very much for the response. I am a n00b, and am not familiar on how to do this. I am sure it is in the forums though, so I will look. Thanks again!

badmojo_77 said:
Thank you both very much for the response. I am a n00b, and am not familiar on how to do this. I am sure it is in the forums though, so I will look. Thanks again!
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That did it! Thanks!

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[Q] Personalize Touch Wiz?

Does anyone know if we can change icons in touchwiz without root access? I like the ability to change our fonts and feel icons should be an option as well but do not see an option.
Thanks
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ellac49 said:
Does anyone know if we can change icons in touchwiz without root access? I like the ability to change our fonts and feel icons should be an option as well but do not see an option.
Thanks
Samsung SGH-T989
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The most that can be done in your case without root is to download a launcher from the market ADW, launcher pro etc.
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Thanks for the quick reply.. I'll probably wait now that samsung has released the source code for our kernal.. I'm guessing we'll have ported roms in no time!
ellac49 said:
Thanks for the quick reply.. I'll probably wait now that samsung has released the source code for our kernal.. I'm guessing we'll have ported roms in no time!
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We'll have some roms, but the question is how soon. I would assume we'd have to wait 2 more weeks for a rom and probably a few more days for root access. Btw your welcome.
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you can change fonts by going under settings display..and clicking the first option there should be something under there to change fonts...and if you want different icons on your home screens download desktop visualizer and an icon pack and put those there instead.

Forum pool on when we get an official ICS update

I read the forum rules and online gambling isn't mentioned. Any good guesses on when we will be getting 4.0? I am betting $5.00 on 3/30/12.
I'll take the end of February for $0.00... They have to add all the unneeded bloatware.
Way too optimistic dates above me ^
Id say about a month after the sgs3 is released
as soon as bubby finishes cm7 they can do ics, lmao
$5 we won't see it until August
xSaint21 said:
Id say about a month after the sgs3 is released
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You beat me to it ISaint! That's what happened with official Gingerbread on the Epic. After I got this phone it got released after like 10 leaks
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What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.
What about never. Lol. Who knows maybe Sammy will surprise us and drop it on us soon.
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SantinoInc said:
What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.
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Besides Bubby, it Looks like Darchstar is working on an ICS build
https://github.com/darchstar
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I will take May 16.
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SantinoInc said:
What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.
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Okay, then you just throw on the Trebuchet launcher from CM9, or even the vanilla ICS launcher, and your problems are solved.
Dang, you wouldn't even have to have Root for that. Just like when I bought this phone: Touchwiz 4.0 didn't even make it out of the Best Buy parking lot before I had ADWEX running. (and Touchwiz 4 actually had a slim chance of survival, because it's the best version they've made so far, to be sure.....)
However, ADW won out merely because of the sheer speed factor.
(And yes, I know that Touchwiz is still there, lurking underneath, but it's really almost transparent compared to HTC's Sense or Motorola's Blur thing....)
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EDIT: Oh, yeah, the pool for "official" release: February 21st.
I think you should make the launcher look more in favor of the new flavor. The people app is royally renovated and I am looking the look. Any idea if you can make the theme of the whole phone look like that?
1. Making the status bar transparent
2. Vertical scrolling of the apps menu. Scroll horizontally to go to widgets menu.
3. Changing the whole background to white (pearl white) with black roboto font, or at least an option to do so.
4.to make apps on the dock bar run continuously so that there a no lag when trying to open them.(everyone I try to open the people app, it takes sometime to load and it's irritating)
5 instead of grey background on every pop up menu, a blue white themed menu options would be great. I am new to xda, so if this is in a wrong forum, please feel free to post the same in the right forum.
I greatly appreciate the work your are doing. Good luck!
Dr. Droid
Dr. Droid
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Official ICS? I'm guessing April or May probably.
Unofficial? January is looking pretty likely so far.
raghucares said:
I think you should make the launcher look more in favor of the new flavor. The people app is royally renovated and I am looking the look. Any idea if you can make the theme of the whole phone look like that?
1. Making the status bar transparent
2. Vertical scrolling of the apps menu. Scroll horizontally to go to widgets menu.
3. Changing the whole background to white (pearl white) with black roboto font, or at least an option to do so.
4.to make apps on the dock bar run continuously so that there a no lag when trying to open them.(everyone I try to open the people app, it takes sometime to load and it's irritating)
5 instead of grey background on every pop up menu, a blue white themed menu options would be great. I am new to xda, so if this is in a wrong forum, please feel free to post the same in the right forum.
I greatly appreciate the work your are doing. Good luck!
Dr. Droid
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Your making a theme request in a ICS launcb date guessing game thread? Lol did i miss something....
I was told we will not have it until ....wait for it....sometime in April the latter part of the month. QUOTE me on this
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eao1991 said:
$5 we won't see it until August
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that's more like it! 6-9 months for me as well. gentleman's bet of course though.
My request was not exactly a theme. the status bar becoming transparent can be viewed as hiding the status bar. scrolling options is definitely launcher. and keeping the dock icons in homescreen running use definitely launcher again. and yeah dude you missed something. And as long as you don't do anything productive there's no need to lol. And this is me being polite.
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bluefire808 said:
Your making a theme request in a ICS launcb date guessing game thread? Lol did i miss something....
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My request was not exactly a theme. the status bar becoming transparent can be viewed as hiding the status bar. scrolling options is definitely launcher. and keeping the dock icons in homescreen running use definitely launcher again. and yeah dude you missed something. And as long as you don't do anything productive there's no need to lol. And this is me being polite.
Dr.Droid
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Launch date is no fun to talk about. If you are waiting for the update you are in the wrong website.
Dr.Droid
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Icon Size and Text removal AKA Bigify for Android?

Anyone came up with an app for this?
I am not a fan of launchers running on top of any ROM and I read a lot about issues with apps and playstore after using LCD Density.
I currently switched from iPhone to Galaxy S3 and while the phone is great, icons are just not adequate to the screen.
There is an app called Bigify for iOS, is there anything at least similar for Android devices?
The main 3 options I am looking for:
1. change icon size
2. change angle of the icons by xy degrees (it looks fantastic!)
3. remove icon text
Here is a SS:
This actually would be very nice as it bothers me when the apps name is cut off because it's too long.. So being able to remove the text would be great!
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Ls1ssz28 said:
This actually would be very nice as it bothers me when the apps name is cut off because it's too long.. So being able to remove the text would be great!
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Apex Launcher allows you to remove the app text or modify the title/icon. You cannot rotate it though.
Op running a different launcher has no actual problems
Say your using nova as default the phone won't have stock tw launched running in the background unless you open again
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I am sorry but how are these answers to my question? As far as I am reading it correct I need to have a launcher and I cannot get a any angle and no name icons at the same time
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It's what you asked for. They honestly helped you as much to their abilities.
That being said if you want angled apps look into making it yourself. I know that is not much of a answer you're looking but as of right now as far as I have seen there are no apps or mods to rotate apps.
eMi111 said:
I am sorry but how are these answers to my question? As far as I am reading it correct I need to have a launcher and I cannot get a any angle and no name icons at the same time
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There's one launcher that'll let you have the customization you want. It's rather expensive though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU
Ascertion said:
There's one launcher that'll let you have the customization you want. It's rather expensive though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU
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Thats truly an amazing launcher, no other one allows such customization, I gotta have it. Thanks for the tip
Very nice
It does look pretty amazing! I might give it a whirl this weekend when I get paid.....still worth getting.
evoer said:
Thats truly an amazing launcher, no other one allows such customization, I gotta have it. Thanks for the tip
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Price is a bit high but I took the plunge and I believe it can only get better love it so far.
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Well, thank you all. I guess there is no way for me to achieve what I want without running a launcher on top of my ROM. :thumbup:
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eMi111 said:
Anyone came up with an app for this?
I am not a fan of launchers running on top of any ROM and I read a lot about issues with apps and playstore after using LCD Density.
I currently switched from iPhone to Galaxy S3 and while the phone is great, icons are just not adequate to the screen.
There is an app called Bigify for iOS, is there anything at least similar for Android devices?
The main 3 options I am looking for:
1. change icon size
2. change angle of the icons by xy degrees (it looks fantastic!)
3. remove icon text
Here is a SS:
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Root your phone install a recovery and install paranoid android, google it, i think youll like it.
I got TFS Launcher and it runs great. I do have one question though.... Isn't there always a Launcher running over a rom? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to run any apps.
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Blackbean Theme from S3

Could someone make this compatible...much thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805013
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Jt004 said:
Could someone make this compatible...much thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805013
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Here you go buddy. I removed the SystemUI from the theme, because its the only one that included a resources.arsc which could cause a boot loop.
Everything else is just images.
Flash in recovery.
Thanks a lot!
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There are a lot of white and black images in the systemui. But your battery will change and everything else.
I could just replace the images. And remove the battery icons.
None of my toggles and status bar and notification changed. Thanks again!
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Would this work on any ROM?
kirkla79 said:
Would this work on any ROM?
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Should! It just replaces images and nothing else.
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Thanks.
Works with Jedi 6.1
antiochasylum said:
Here you go buddy. I removed the SystemUI from the theme, because its the only one that included a resources.arsc which could cause a boot loop.
Everything else is just images.
Flash in recovery.
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What would be needed to change the system ui to Jedi so the entire theme could work?
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moustro said:
What would be needed to change the system ui to Jedi so the entire theme could work?
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Well I dont know what has been done to the .xml's in the resources or the layout. I suppose I could compare them but that's super tedious.
I can move the XML and and resources and it would flash just fine.
If you want, use anything from here. Its all from my S2 ROM. I have Djdarkknight's status bar icons and several inverted apps although he may not have included them.
R.I.P to my Epic Touch ROM
http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=/
Edit...he missed half of the features it had..Hotspot hack (3g&4g) all inverted apps, odexed and deodexed versions, great had Wallpaper pack, flashable Metamorph battery icons, ripple and AOSP lock options, etc. I just don't know this phone (or AT&T) well enough to port it yet
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Thank you for workong on this.
Somethings to report:
Settings force closes.
If that and the colors of the clock battery and status icons were white white this qould definitely be my daily driver on jedi 6.1.2.
Let me know if you need me to test anything.
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Android The Greek said:
Thank you for workong on this.
Somethings to report:
Settings force closes.
If that and the colors of the clock battery and status icons were white white this qould definitely be my daily driver on jedi 6.1.2.
Let me know if you need me to test anything.
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Believe me, if I had the time and knew my Note 2 a little better I would be on the project already. What the heck did you flash? The Sprint Note 2 version from my teammate Sleshepic? Did dialer and contacts work? OK, it had to be the Sprint version because if my Epic Touch worked then that would be impressive. I already have djdarkknight's permission to use icons and themed apps from Dark Jelly
OK I lied. I have Venum Ice and Jedi 6.1.2 sitting next to each other on my laptop. I was going to offer some cash for a pro to do it because a pro could knock that out in a day it would take me some time ...I think. Those background lines would have to be solid black and I! Would switch up the status bar icons
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I like to keep it super clean. It would be more like this...the blue bar at the top of status bar is a charging animation....let me know what exactly you flashed
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I fpashed the them posted by asylum
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Android The Greek said:
I fpashed the them posted by asylum
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Oh crap...lol...totally missed that! Right after he asked for it!:banghead:
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Android The Greek said:
Thank you for workong on this.
Somethings to report:
Settings force closes.
If that and the colors of the clock battery and status icons were white white this qould definitely be my daily driver on jedi 6.1.2.
Let me know if you need me to test anything.
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All that zip does is replace images. If your settings is FCing you have another issue at hand.
I can add it back the battery that is, but all the resourses I do not know what was done to them. So the layout will be messed up
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All that zip does is replace images. If your settings is FCing you have another issue at hand.
I can add it back the battery that is, but all the resourses I do not know what was done to them. So the layout will be messed up
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You were very right asylum. Jedi has a weird setup for their status and toggles. I flashed a stock intl rom, and many mods now work flawlessly. No more $&$&$&/ forced close.
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[Theme](touchwiz) Shiftr182 blue theme

Update: works on MD4 as well
Hey guys, this is a update to shiftr's old theme, updated to work on MB1 and tested by me and confirmed working. He updated this theme for me and ALL credit goes to him and I have his permission to post it for everyone since he has a note II now and no longer has a s3. Enjoy!!!
Ps. I've only tested on stock rooted touch wiz Rom (freeza) so not sure if it will work on others
http://www.mediafire.com/?aoyyjync4avka3b
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Nice. Isn't this very similar to the elegant theme on goodness ?
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/ThePeoplesROM-KennyGlass123/daniel4653.png
Wouldn't know,I never used goodness Rom
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Any chance of getting a link to that wallpaper?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fq8n6i22gvgtqg1/1064861_1280x1024.jpg
Here ya go
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Love the theme. Simple yet very sleek unlike many of the other gaudy colorful crazy themes on here. This one is a winner! :good:
Used this on MOAR and everything changed except the battery icon in task bar.
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youngpro83 said:
Used this on MOAR and everything changed except the battery icon in task bar.
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Same here. Go to recovery and flash moar. Select only the option to run Morphology. Then go through everything and select Leave it Alone until you get to the battery. Change that to Stock ICS Blue or whatever you wish
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Went right on a stock rooted phone with no problem. Wish the pattern trace was blue on the lock screen,but I don't know how to do this stuff so I can live with it. Installed it mainly for the notification bar mods anyway. Brighter and the contrasting blue helps me old eyes see it much better now. Thanks
Any chance of an update for MC3?
ioos said:
Any chance of an update for MC3?
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Tested on the latest MD4 update and works great, even themes the multi window side bar
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Just installed in pure stock MD4 that sextape provided and profit worked flawlessly. Thanks for this i hate that nasty green
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Thank you. So damn tired of that green...
I'm on MD4 as well but the battery and the toggles in the drop down didn't get themed this time. I've used this theme before and it worked fine except the battery. Kind of scared to use Morphology because I've had boot loops trying to change colors before.
88EVGAFTW said:
I'm on MD4 as well but the battery and the toggles in the drop down didn't get themed this time. I've used this theme before and it worked fine except the battery. Kind of scared to use Morphology because I've had boot loops trying to change colors before.
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Did you wipe cache/dalvik after flashing?
Is this compatible with the native hotspot mod?
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HashTagHell said:
Did you wipe cache/dalvik after flashing?
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Yes I did but I was informed that the theme might not have worked because I have lidroid toggle mod installed and aosp pulldown.
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Yes I did but I was informed that the theme might not have worked because I have lidroid toggle mod installed and aosp pulldown.
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Oh yes. Makes sense. Since this was made for stock, those additional part would likely cause an issue.
Installed this from link in op but download name had color black listed. Flashed anyhow but no difference at all from stock. Running freezas md4 deodex. Have installed native hot spot mod, note 2 keyboard, modded shutter sound and camera during call in the xml files. Does that mean I'm out of luck for blue.
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