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Shifted Gingerbread UPDATE V0.7

My goal with this ROM is to achieve that stock gingerbread look and feel. I'm one of those people that just prefers a fresh stock feel and I'm hoping quite a few of you guys are.
Much love to the guys at Cyanogenmod and everyone that helps them, please donate to them and continue to support all of their hard work.
This ROM is as close to what you get when you pick up a Nexus S as I can get it for now.​
This ROM features:
Gingerbread Stock Launcher
Nexus S live wallpaper
All Nexus S/Gingerbread Ringtones & Notifications
CRT Monitor animation for display sleep
Whats not working:
Microbes Live Wallpaper (I've got the wallpaper loading, but freezing after a few times locking the phone)
Trackball Wake/Unlock (Will work on making this standard tomorrow, should be an easy fix)
BUGS:
Wifi needs Fix Permissions & reboot on most devices.
Please note you must use Clockwork Recovery 3.0 or higher
V0.7
Changes phone model from Gingerbread to MyTouch 4G
Speed Increase
Phone will no longer default to "Silent" ringtone upon first boot.
Fixed USB bug when connecting to computer USB connection would crash.
V0.6
Update includes stock apps that were left out of V0.5 due to me rushing to complete.
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MOD: REMOVED

Do I have to flash the new clockwork recovery for thus?
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Does this have the CRT sleep animation?

MUNDO23 said:
Do I have to flash the new clockwork recovery for thus?
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Yes, as of now any gingerbread rom is going to need the newest recovery.
This ROM has the CRT animation, stock launcher as well as all ringtones found on the Nexus S.

shiftedx said:
My goal with this ROM is to achieve that stock gingerbread look and feel. I'm one of those people that just prefers a fresh stock feel and I'm hoping quite a few of you guys are.
Much love to the guys at Cyanogenmod and everyone that helps them, please donate to them and continue to support all of their hard work.
This ROM is as close to what you get when you pick up a Nexus S as I can get it for now.
Whats working:
Just about everything, looking for some bug reports though
Whats not working:
Microbes Live Wallpaper
BUGS:
The usual, Front Facing Camera gives upside down photos and so on.
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V0.5
http://www.mediafire.com/?9q8kqb3k365333x
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Thank you for putting this together! I'm downloading it right now! How did you make this one? Is it just a modded CM7 or Nexus S build, or is this a real AOSP build of Gingerbread?
That's what I've been lookin for is a complete AOSP build of GingerBread for the MT4G.

What Version clockwork do we need?
Can you post a link for it?

Thanks will give it a try.

Can anyone post this to a different mirror media fire sucks
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Running this now and it seems very good. I will continue testing it.
Question to Shiftedx what is the default wallpaper supposed to be? Mine came up with a mountain scene.

Yea media file is stupid it doesn't work right mine download to fast and only gave me 150k wtf
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Plz take this off media file it just gave me 124k what?
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Sorry guys, posted an incomplete rom, Default should be the Nexus S live wallpaper.
The ROM posted is incomplete due to lack of stock apps like google's music app & car home.
also next link will be megaupload, sorry about mediafire but its the site I get best speeds on.

shiftedx said:
Sorry guys, posted an incomplete rom, Default should be the Nexus S live wallpaper.
The ROM posted is incomplete due to lack of stock apps like google's music app & car home.
also next link will be megaupload, sorry about mediafire but its the site I get best speeds on.
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No problem just let us know when the new one is up

Everything should be good now, I also uploaded on Megaupload for everyone

Is the "MY PHONE NUMBER" working in your build?

I did a full wipe and installed the new version. I still have the mountain wallpaper?
I did not download the gapps again as I don't think you changed those?

bobsbbq said:
I did a full wipe and installed the new version. I still have the mountain wallpaper?
I did not download the gapps again as I don't think you changed those?
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I didn't change the GAPS, are you still able to go manually change the wallpaper to Nexus S live? I'm still working on getting the microbes wallpaper fixed I have it running but then freezing after a few times locking the screen. Hopefully I'll stumble across whatever it is causing the problems with the wallpapers.

im going to give this a shot im hoping it has alot of support im looking for a stock rom the cm7a has trackball wake/unlock working any chance of that being in your rom also this you can add this edit to your rom? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10339342&postcount=2671

shiftedx said:
I didn't change the GAPS, are you still able to go manually change the wallpaper to Nexus S live? I'm still working on getting the microbes wallpaper fixed I have it running but then freezing after a few times locking the screen. Hopefully I'll stumble across whatever it is causing the problems with the wallpapers.
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Thanks, Yes I know it can be enabled but as you said just above the Nexus S wallpaper was supposed to be default so I was just wondering why I'm not getting it?

cdw9800 said:
im going to give this a shot im hoping it has alot of support im looking for a stock rom the cm7a has trackball wake/unlock working any chance of that being in your rom also this you can add this edit to your rom? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10339342&postcount=2671
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I will for sure look at that and see if I can't port that into this rom here, I myself would also like to have that feature. The change to 14 is already implemented into this ROM
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Thanks, Yes I know it can be enabled but as you said just above the Nexus S wallpaper was supposed to be default so I was just wondering why I'm not getting it?
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I'm working on an update now again I will for sure check out the problem. Are you wiping your dalvik aswell?

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

Need help and or question about 3.5 sense

Well for about 2 weeks I have been running nocturnals bliss version 6 and I love it. There's bugs yes but the smoothest Rom I have had since I can remember. It's a great Rom just needs more bugs worked out but I can't seem to figure out why no ones doing it anymore. It's a great Rom and I have tried other 3.5 and nothing matches up. I love the two buttons app drawer and the call and the quick lunch. But over all its so smooth. So I'm just wondering if anyone picked this up or want to with me or if there's something that's the same but different. So just pm or message me if you guys have any ideas or want to help ect. So please help.
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Can anyone help me? Simple stuff needs fixed like usd disk drive wont pop up and that if you turn off or reboot the phone all the apps you installed get uninstalled but the app manager says there still in stalled just no as like facebook mor like .comfacebook and has a picture of the android market. So all in all can someone help me?

Or can someone help me with putting the little features like the app drawer button and the phone button on the main screen on another 3.5 sense rom? Because thats the best part other then the quick launch widget and how smooth it is. So anyone please help.

I don't specialize in sense, but you may want to back it up and try another sense rom, as nocturnal pulled their work on that rom due to drama basically.

Well can someone point me in the direction of fixing up this rom my self or mod others to have what i love about this the most?

those sound like some big bugs. dono if you want to try another rom as others mentioned but im running fearmede, they just released rc1 last noight after numerous betas and its butter, sense 3.5 and the fastest smoothest rom ive had so far.

But none of them have the two buttons thing that is my favorite.

You could try extracting the framework-res.apk and then flashing it in the new rom.

Hmmm Ill try it

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Hmmm Ill try it
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You'll have to move it to the /system/app directory I believe, and once you replace it, you'll most likely get fcs immediately, just reboot at that point.

teh roxxorz said:
You'll have to move it to the /system/app directory I believe, and once you replace it, you'll most likely get fcs immediately, just reboot at that point.
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So your saying it wont work?

lil-tom7 said:
So your saying it wont work?
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I'm saying it should work, but you'll get fcs because you replaced an apk in use, and need to reboot to make it stop.

teh roxxorz said:
I'm saying it should work, but you'll get fcs because you replaced an apk in use, and need to reboot to make it stop.
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Can i replace it in the zip and then flash?

Well that didnt work Anymore ideas?

Possible New Note II User, couple of questions?

Hi Guys,
Been an HTC guy, all my Android life. Thinking of picking up my first Sammy with the Sprint's version of Note 2. Just had a couple of questions about software and ROMs:
1. Are you guys expecting a Port or Updates from the new S4, coming to the Note 2? If so, when? Or if they've been ported already, can someone point me to the ROM or mods for those?
2. Been familiar with Sense and AOKP/CM10.1 for some time now. Never used TouchWiz. What are most of you driving with here? TouchWiz light and snappy enough with balance of pretty to be used as your Daily Driver, or are you guys AOKP kinda guys here as well? Either way, can you make some ROM recommendations for a new guy? I'd like to experience the Sammy experience, before moving on to AOKP, if possible?
Any other tips you can give me before I switch? I will be switching from an EVO LTE with CarbonROM running on it. Thank you for your time.

It's pretty much a 50/50 when it comes between TouchWiz or AOSP. There is already an s4 system dump.
For Rom recommendations I would suggest if you want TouchWiz stay on stock that's my opinion. And if you want AOSP is suggest CyanogenMod.
PAC rom is good too but for me I love simplicity. So that's why I'm currently on stock right now or CyanogenMod
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app

I was an HTC guy before coming to Sammy. I can say I wasn't all that thrilled with Touchwiz, compared to Sense.
I ended up ditching Touchwiz for Nova Launcher and a couple extra widget paks (HD widgets for clock and Android Pro Widgets for Timeline aka Friendstream and Contact favorites).
I am very happy with this combination.
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S4 firmware (4.2.2) will hit out device by the end of May.
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Chuck_IV said:
I was an HTC guy before coming to Sammy. I can say I wasn't all that thrilled with Touchwiz, compared to Sense.
I ended up ditching Touchwiz for Nova Launcher and a couple extra widget paks (HD widgets for clock and Android Pro Widgets for Timeline aka Friendstream and Contact favorites).
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I was the same at first, but in the long run, I actually Prefer TW to Sense. By miles. Stock TW is (usually, with perhaps a small bit of configuring) faster, and makes more intuitive sense (haha).
AOSP is of course loverly, but TW has a few features w/o totally obscuring Android that I think are ok, even worth it.

Thank you everyone for the response guys!
Just was wondering that I should try out TW for a bit, since I have never used it daily before. The gimmicky features from Sammy on the S4 though... like the Camera app and gestures and eyes thing for scrolling... do you guys think those will be/can be ported to the N2?
Thanks again for everyone's input... getting excited! Just not sure if the N2 will be too much of a phone for me to hold LOL!

ProFragger said:
Thank you everyone for the response guys!
Just was wondering that I should try out TW for a bit, since I have never used it daily before. The gimmicky features from Sammy on the S4 though... like the Camera app and gestures and eyes thing for scrolling... do you guys think those will be/can be ported to the N2?
Thanks again for everyone's input... getting excited! Just not sure if the N2 will be too much of a phone for me to hold LOL!
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Those are coming to our device either this month or next month. And before this device, I as a big time rooter, but I say stay stock, it has everything you could ever need.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app

I too switched from HTC for 3 years.. And I can say I haven't been happier!!! Tw does take some getting used to after sense, but none the less its every bit as good as sense IMO... If I want a tweaked stock tw ROM, I suggest checking out the lab rats ROM.. Its pretty cartoonish stock, but the updater is chocked full of themes and different apps. Its been an amazing ROM. I used to be a flashaholic til the rats came my way. Not to mention they gotta be the friendliest, goofiest, most entertaining group of devs I've seen yet and as for requests, if its possible its usually pretty quick turnaround and they enjoy all they do probably even more than we do!!! Give it a shot and I can almost bet you will keep coming back to the lab!! Of course this is just my opinion, but there are many more who share it!! As well as, of course, some that don't..
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Everyone,
Thank you for your wonderful responses. I just brought home the N2 and it's a MONSTER !!! LOL!
I do want to stay TW for a bit though... so can you guys recommend the most UP TO DATE, and MOST CUSTOMIZEABLE TW ROM with hopefully the LEAST about of bugs and MOST amount of speed? (LOL! I know, talk about Eutopian demands, right !?)
An example of that ^ from the EVO LTE world is Team Venom's ROM...
I will Root though,because I need apps like Titanium Backup to fully set me up on the new device...
Thank you again for all your help! Looking forward to loving the Sammy world !
And oh, for the folks saying that GS4 camera and other features are coming to N2... do you think there will be some features that will NOT work on the N2 for Hardware or Kernel (firmware) issues? Thanks again!

ProFragger said:
Everyone,
Thank you for your wonderful responses. I just brought home the N2 and it's a MONSTER !!! LOL!
I do want to stay TW for a bit though... so can you guys recommend the most UP TO DATE, and MOST CUSTOMIZEABLE TW ROM with hopefully the LEAST about of bugs and MOST amount of speed? (LOL! I know, talk about Eutopian demands, right !?)
An example of that ^ from the EVO LTE world is Team Venom's ROM...
I will Root though,because I need apps like Titanium Backup to fully set me up on the new device...
Thank you again for all your help! Looking forward to loving the Sammy world !
And oh, for the folks saying that GS4 camera and other features are coming to N2... do you think there will be some features that will NOT work on the N2 for Hardware or Kernel (firmware) issues? Thanks again!
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There will be some things that won't work properly due to hardware restrictions, but most everything that doesn't rely on hardware, we should be getting at some point..
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Thanks again for the responses guys. Tried my first few ROMs last night... JellyBomb... LabRats... Nice ROMs, but they are too "modded" and touched for my taste...
What ROM can you recommend that's kinda Stock, debloated, keeps the original spirit of Stock at it's heart, with performance enhancements?
Is Synergy a good one?
Also... what's the later build? M7 or something after that? I am forgetting the name right now ...

ProFragger said:
Thanks again for the responses guys. Tried my first few ROMs last night... JellyBomb... LabRats... Nice ROMs, but they are too "modded" and touched for my taste...
What ROM can you recommend that's kinda Stock, debloated, keeps the original spirit of Stock at it's heart, with performance enhancements?
Is Synergy a good one?
Also... what's the later build? M7 or something after that? I am forgetting the name right now ...
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Mc2 is the latest... Not sure on which ROM would be to ur liking tho as I've been stuck on lab rats for months. They practically cured my flashaholism... Lol
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Mc2 is the latest... Not sure on which ROM would be to ur liking tho as I've been stuck on lab rats for months. They practically cured my flashaholism... Lol
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Hey sparytrainor,
Thank you for your response. Per your recommendation, I tried the Lab Rats ROM, but found a NUMBER of issues with them:
1. I didn't like the annoying PnB Bootanimation, and tried changing it via their built Customization app, but it just booted into Recovery and did nothing ...
2. The kept prompting an update, annoying
3. Flashlight toggle didn't work
Just seemed way too customized to me, without a whole lot of value for those changes.
I am now trying Stock MC2, Rooted and DeOdexed, but I can't seem to boot in. TWRP says, it needs to fix Root permissions at the end of the flash and in both cases (Fix or Not), the phone reboots and sits at the Samsung GN II screen...? Am I missing some firmware requirements here?
When I get that ROM going, I hope to debloat it with TB, and find ways to tweak it a bit, like find a Battery mod or something maybe...?
Thanks again for everyone reading my thread!

ProFragger said:
Hey sparytrainor,
Thank you for your response. Per your recommendation, I tried the Lab Rats ROM, but found a NUMBER of issues with them:
1. I didn't like the annoying PnB Bootanimation, and tried changing it via their built Customization app, but it just booted into Recovery and did nothing ...
2. The kept prompting an update, annoying
3. Flashlight toggle didn't work
Just seemed way too customized to me, without a whole lot of value for those changes.
I am now trying Stock MC2, Rooted and DeOdexed, but I can't seem to boot in. TWRP says, it needs to fix Root permissions at the end of the flash and in both cases (Fix or Not), the phone reboots and sits at the Samsung GN II screen...? Am I missing some firmware requirements here?
When I get that ROM going, I hope to debloat it with TB, and find ways to tweak it a bit, like find a Battery mod or something maybe...?
Thanks again for everyone reading my thread!
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OK, in the updater, go into settings and select reboot type and select the recovery u use. This will fix the reboot and install not working.
Also there are fixes in the updater for all the other issue u mentioned with the ROM other than the flashligt , which I use one from the play store anyway..
Check out the updater website for previews of the mods and themes.
http://updater.team-nocturnal.com/labrats/
And as for the other issue, mine says it needs to fix root sometimes as well, but I swipe to fix and everything goes fine. If you didn't update to mc2, u may need to. Here's a link for that as well..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240961
Good luck to u.. Happy flashing and enjoy your new favorite phone!!!
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OK, in the updater, go into settings and select reboot type and select the recovery u use. This will fix the reboot and install not working.
Also there are fixes in the updater for all the other issue u mentioned with the ROM other than the flashligt , which I use one from the play store anyway..
Check out the updater website for previews of the mods and themes.
http://updater.team-nocturnal.com/labrats/
And as for the other issue, mine says it needs to fix root sometimes as well, but I swipe to fix and everything goes fine. If you didn't update to mc2, u may need to. Here's a link for that as well..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240961
Good luck to u.. Happy flashing and enjoy your new favorite phone!!!
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Thank you again, friend, that seems to have worked !
Couple of follow up questions:
1. In the LabRats ROM, if your Swipe to Capture function working?
2. Is there a "safe list" available for the apps I can uninstall to de-bloat?
3. If you run into a faster, less bulky ROM, please share with me , thanks!
Actually that goes for everyone else, as well. Please share your thoughts and inputs if you happen to have some cool ROM recommendations for TW ROMs that are the lightest and the fastest an least buggy !
Thanks guys!

You'd have to search around for a list of what can and can't be removed.. Or u can do like I did and make a backup so if u remove something that breaks the ROM, u can restore ur backup in twrp and be right back where u started..
Swipe to capture has to be turned on in settings. By default it is off.. I used it to take this screenshot for u..
As for a debloated ROM, you might do well with nowiz aosp in development section..can't get much more debloated than that..
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You'd have to search around for a list of what can and can't be removed.. Or u can do like I did and make a backup so if u remove something that breaks the ROM, u can restore ur backup in twrp and be right back where u started..
Swipe to capture has to be turned on in settings. By default it is off.. I used it to take this screenshot for u..
As for a debloated ROM, you might do well with nowiz aosp in development section..can't get much more debloated than that..
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Couple of questions bro:
1. What's the eye icon in your screen shot in the notification bar? I never get that...
2. What theme are you using? Link to that theme and other cool ones like it? (I love Red themes )
3. As for the swipe to screen, I've had the right settings enabled, but for the life of me, I cannot get that feature to work ... Even tried it on a friend's stock GS3, nothing. Saw videos on YouTube as well, mimicking the same thing, still no go ... wonder what's up?
As always, much appreciate your kindness and help !

We can help a lot more if you post in our lab rats thread.
I removed about as much as I could without complaints. I personally would remove more, but I wanted to keep the users happy. I would remove s voice, email, calender, Google search, Google now, voice recorder, and voice search. Themes are in the updater and screen shots are on our Web site. All PATB can be removed via the updater.
The eye is smart stay that you must turn on. Flashlight works perfectly fine for everyone else as well as swipe to capture.
Thank you sparytrainor!
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