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Root First compcache rom?

Good point. What happened was after doing some stuff on the phone, logcat didn't work anymore giving invalid argument I believe.

Restarting the phone helped.
 
Bout to install this. I haven't updated in ages! Been using H2, but it's been rock solid so I've stuck with it.

Question first though, anyone know if this includes that default samsung flower wallpaper? It's what I've been using and I love that background. If it does not include it, does anybody know where I could copy off of my device from through adb?
 
I'm not sure what flower wallpaper you're refering to but you can always extract it from your current launcher.apk with a program that works with zip format. The wallpapers are located in the apk under \res\drawable and the apk is in /system/app/launcher.apk.

Extract the wallpaper you want and put it on the sdcard and use a 3rd party tool like wallpaper set and save to change the wallpaper. If you use the built-in way, it'll ask you to crop and recompress the picture hence decreasing the quality.
 
Weird, I pulled Launcher.apk, see the wallpapers where you said (thank you by the way) but after extracting everything from drawable to my machine so I could browse through them I do not see that particular wallpaper in there (what is weirder is the one named wallpaper_lake_small.jpg is the one I'm referring to but the wallpaper_lake.jpg is completely different...). I'll dig around in the Launcher.apk's other folders a bit and see if I can find it somewhere else, idk. and this http://www.techgadgets.in/images/tata-docomo-samsung-galaxy-i7500-handset.jpg is the wallpaper I'm talking about.
 
Yea I couldn't find it, went ahead and updated to II5 with odin, and flashed GalaxoHero, this first boot is painful. Thank god for logcat or I'd be sitting here freaking out lol
 
Well my flash to GalaxoHero didn't work. I am guessing it has to do w/ the restoration of google apps. I reflashed II5, redid recovery 4.1, and when backing up apps it's only taking like 10 to 12 seconds. I've read elsewhere it should take up to a minute. Have I possibly missed something?
 
I just wanted to add that I am yet another person who had been hesitating to go down this route, but now that I've upgraded my phone (upgrade, not just an update, as it's better than that), I can say that I am very pleased.

As others have said, you do want to be sure you feel confident about what you're going to do and to be prepared before hand with all the files. One of the nicest things about this process is that you only have to get the piece for the recovery partition sorted out first. Once you've done that, you can do a nandroid backup which will then enable you to have the confidence to know you can go back to that version (and state) at another time.

Btw, I know this is true, as I went through the process of upgrading, realising I wanted to go back, figuring out how, then doing it, and finally saving messages, notes, etc. and then repeating the process to get to where I am now. A bit tedious, but not really that bad.

The most awkward thing for me was actually downloading the files, as some of the links are on pages that make the downloads a tad annoying (delays for dld, load of ads, links for ads, etc.). But once I had the files I needed (or thought I did), the whole process was fairly straightfoward.

Lastly, this isn't some kind of major overhaul/speedup, but it is a noticeable improvement in many ways. For me, the benefits (such as the increased responsiveness, tethering, ability to run more apps, improved keyboard, etc.) more than outweigh the risks of not being able to do nps updates (what are those?) and running a non-standard, unsupported OS (or at least not without having to go back, lose all my new settings, etc. and re-flash to an old version with a csc). But having only had this firmware on my phone for a very short time, I hesitate to think of having to go back.

Go on...the information, files and support (this forum, hdblogs, etc) are there, so give it a try.
 
Vap1d- said:
Well my flash to GalaxoHero didn't work. I am guessing it has to do w/ the restoration of google apps. I reflashed II5, redid recovery 4.1, and when backing up apps it's only taking like 10 to 12 seconds. I've read elsewhere it should take up to a minute. Have I possibly missed something?
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Mine only took about 12 seconds as well. To check, you can always just mount the drives (in recovery mode or reboot into the os) and check for the gfile dir. 30 files, 5 folders (cant remember the size). I've actually made copy and saved it on my PC (adding the firmware v details) so that I can restore the right gapps to the right firmware if I had to go back.
 
Have done it multiple times, even loaded up into the default rom deleted the Gfiles folder from the sd went back to recovery and tried again. Still goes by super quick 10-12 seconds every time. Mounted the sd from recovery deleted Gfiles there tried to backup same thing.

Just now after backing up google stuff, applying update.zip then restoring it hung on multiple boot tries.. Upon trying to get back in to RECOVERY 3 times it would try to boot to the rom and fail. It was like it was ignoring the recovery key sequence I was holding at boot. Had to reflash II5. At this point I'm not sure what if anything I'm missing ( have followed instructions to a T )

Wow and now this is really freaking me out.. I just went into fastboot to reflash recovery and got this...

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (2966 KB)... OKAY
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

And the device rebooted.
 
Vap1d- said:
Have done it multiple times, even loaded up into the default rom deleted the Gfiles folder from the sd went back to recovery and tried again. Still goes by super quick 10-12 seconds every time. Mounted the sd from recovery deleted Gfiles there tried to backup same thing.

Just now after backing up google stuff, applying update.zip then restoring it hung on multiple boot tries.. Upon trying to get back in to RECOVERY 3 times it would try to boot to the rom and fail. It was like it was ignoring the recovery key sequence I was holding at boot. Had to reflash II5. At this point I'm not sure what if anything I'm missing ( have followed instructions to a T )

Wow and now this is really freaking me out.. I just went into fastboot to reflash recovery and got this...

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (2966 KB)... OKAY
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

And the device rebooted.
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i had this issue
you are not using the standard data cable that comes with the device.
i changed back to the original official samsung data cable and it worked fine
 
after that reboot and a re-attempt to flash recovery it worked. dunno what that was all about. but now i'm hesitant about galaxohero since i have no idea why every attempt so far has failed, and the gapps backup has gone by so quickly each time. I haven't skipped anything in the instructions. I've re-downloaded galaxohero from the mirror just to be sure it wasn't a bad download. don't know where to go from here.
 
Rastaman-FB said:
i had this issue
you are not using the standard data cable that comes with the device.
i changed back to the original official samsung data cable and it worked fine
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actually it was with the default cable, plugged in to the front of the only computer i've got adb going on here (running xp (unfortunately)) not my regular box- which is vista, the driver installs seemed like a pita when i first tried on this pc..
 
Vap1d- said:
actually it was with the default cable, plugged in to the front of the only computer i've got adb going on here (running xp (unfortunately)) not my regular box- which is vista, the driver installs seemed like a pita when i first tried on this pc..
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yeah installing drivers are a pain.

how long are you waiting for it to boot, it can take up to 10 minutes

make sure you do a wipe before you apply update.zip do not wipe after youve applied update.zip
after update.zip is applied then do gapps and then reboot

ive seen a few people applying update.zip then doing wipe and it fails
 
- Make sure you have the 4.1 recovery and it shows v0.4.1 on it when you boot
- Make sure you copy the rectools.tar.gz and update.zip to your sdcard (mount the SD to your PC and copy it). Delete any gapps backups at this point too

- Boot into recovery and do a G.apps backup. It should take 10 to 12 seconds. Anything like 1 or 2 seconds means it failed - reboot into recovery and go again

- Wipe in recovery, it'll reboot into recovery when done
- Apply sdcard:update.zip it'll reboot into recovery when done
- restore g.apps
- reboot

The key thing is
- never boot II5 after a wipe and BEFORE applying update.zip
- never boot after update.zip without g.apps resotred
- make sure g.apps backup takes about 10 seconds and no less
 
Yea I wiped first, then applied the update.

As far as how long I was waiting for it to boot, more than long enough... I ran adb shell logcat and it kept looping w/ a crash message.
 
Did you use the II5 with cache.img or without? i.e. with or without a CSC? It may be the CSC customisations messing things up.

You definatly restored g.apps before rebooting right?
 
i removed the cache.img from ii5, I'm in the states

btw hi kam! welcome back, you'd left for a bit last time I was around ;)
 
Hmm thats wierd. Can you paste the logcat of the crash?

Yeah i went away for work, then went on a holiday hiking through the himalays :) I hiked up some huge mountain - amazing holiday!
 
Well I'll stand out on my own from the general feeling on this thread, i've tried both roms and with the exception of tethering which is useful I'm not overly fussed. I can match everything else cosmetically with apps ive found on the market/online, I dont care about compcache etc how much multitasking it can handle cos its a phone not a laptop, and its done everything fine on the approved I4 with O2 CSC. I appreciate what people have done here and its good there is an alternative and if you like it great, but for me the difference is marginal in terms of performance and cosmetically its easier to use one of the skin apps out there already.
 
How's the battery life for everyone?

If I turn compcache ON the phone is a little resistant to go to sleep and it still does some work in the background. Sucking the battery dry.

Without it enabled its more or less fine. I guess it's because an app wants to do check something and it needs to be decompressed and compressed afterwards. :\
 
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