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A quick overview about the most used Custom Roms on the Galaxy i7500.
1.) MoDaCo Custom ROM (download)
Features:
- Rooted with 'adb remount' permission and superuser APK
- Custom kernel based on Samsung source with swap enabled (install 'swapper' from the market, I recommend a SD swap partition), netfilter enabled (working on wifi tether fix), cramfs + squashfs and much much more
- Latest build of busybox included with relevant links, also other utils such as sqlite and parted in ROM.
- Added terminfo and settings to boot.img
- Added JBed Java
- Removed files wasting space in system directory
more info & download
2.) Galaxo / GalaxHero V1 (download)
Features :
- Based on I5
- Root (with superuser)
- ADB root whith personnalised bash prompt
- All applications optimised with zipalign
- Compressed modules and binary into squashfs images to save space
- Busybox 1.15.1 with full applets
- Moving all app to internal memory to keep space on /system for the future
- Tweaked CPU freq rules, improved responsiveness (sampling can be managed in GalaxoConf)
Optimized Kernel 2.6.27.35 with :
- Compcache 5.4
- Patched kernel with BFS
- Patched kernel with SQUASHFS 3.4 + LZMAcompression
- Full Netfilter support
- Swap support
- Build whith Cgroups (for the future ?)
- Tunneling support (tun.ko)
- New HW modules
- Tuned CPU Freq : 245Mhz/528Mhz
- Lot of another kernel modules : CRAMFS,EXT4,NFS Client, NFS Server,CIFS,NTFS, IPV6, VFAT, CPUFREQ*, TUN, and a lot of another (see in /system/libmodules)
.... etc- Patched kernel with BFS
- Patched kernel with SQUASHFS 3.4 + LZMAcompression
- Full Netfilter support
- Swap support
- Build whith Cgroups (for the future ?)
- Tunneling support (tun.ko)
- New HW modules
- Tuned CPU Freq : 245Mhz/528Mhz
- Lot of another kernel modules : CRAMFS,EXT4,NFS Client, NFS Server,CIFS,NTFS, IPV6, VFAT, CPUFREQ*, TUN, and a lot of another (see in /system/libmodules)
more info & download
3.) mustymod ROM (Android 2.0) (download)
Features:
ROM Base: Eclair 2.1
Version: 2.1.00
GPS: working
WiFi: working
Audio: working (fixed stereo headset bug)
Sensors: working
SDCards: both sdcards (internal and external) working
OpenGL: software renderer
H/W Audio Codecs: ToDo (MP3, AAC, AMR)
H/W Video Codecs: ToDo (H264, H263/Mpeg4)
Market: working
Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, Russian
more info & download
4.) GAOSP (download)
Port of the Android Open Source Project on Samsung Galaxy
Features
- Clean vendor
- RIL (telephony/data)
- Original galaxy keys
- Internal/External SD
- Sound
- LiveWallpaper (only some of them)
- GPS
- Sensors
- Bluetooth
- Wifi
- 3D
- AWD Launcher with native settings
- Spare Part
- Modified core from cyanogenmod (with all associated features)
- RC scripts
- Galaxo's app
- Overclocking from 19Mhz to 710Mhz with any overclock widget or application
- Video playback (youtube, gallery)
- Gallery3D
- ...
- Easy-to-build system by Linuzel
- Custom Kernel 2.6.29
- Clean shutdown/startup system by Cyanogen
- Tools included
- Lof of tweaks
- FLAC audio support from Kenny Root (from CyanogenMod)
- Perform zipalign-on-install of applications (merge with CyanogenMod)
- Lot of locations
- 360-degree auto-orientation by Optedoblivion and Elanthis (from CyanogenMod)
- OpenVPN integration thanks to James Bottomley (from CyanogenMod)
- Full ssh server with real authentication (dropbear)
- Custom bootanimation from Bioden (frandroid)
- Custom android logo on boot by Epervier (frandroid)
- Custom logo.rle by Alexandre (frandroid)
- Root & Superuser
- Reboot & Reboot recovery now included in shutdown menu
- Full busybox with symlink
- Lot of features from cyanogenmod
- ...
5.) Italy Custom ROM (based on IK5 Firmware) (download)
Features:
- Custom Kernel 2.6.27-44
- Superuser
- SWAP (Configuration via GUI)
- Busybox
- Tethering
- Default Root for ADB
- Supports moving Apps from System to Data.
- Brain****Scheduler BFS Support
- Available System Memoryr 98,048MB
more info & download
6.) GALAXO VERSION V1.6.3.4 (download)
Features:
- Based on last 1.6 (Donut) update from Samsung
- Most Europian languages
- Wifi Tethering
- Root (with superuser)
- ADB root whith personnalised bash prompt
- All applications optimised with zipalign
- Full market
- 2.6.29 custom kernel (netfilter, Compcache 6.2, BFS, Swap, Cgroups, VPN(tun.ko), CPU Freq : 19Mhz/710Mhz)
Applications :
- MMS app from rgv151 on XDA(Modified Mms.apk-Discontinued till I have free time [Discontinued: 08/21] - xda-developers)
- Loccy's BetterBrowser (Loccy's BetterBrowser - now in Donut edition (v1.5: 8th Oct 11am/BST) - xda-developers)
- Donut Advanced Launcher (rogro82/irrenhaus on XDA (Advanced Launcher - Now with more sweets [Version 2.1 - 25.09] - xda-developers) :
- New applications Galaxo : GalaxoParameters & GalaxoApps :
- GalaxoParameters : enable/disable camera button, remount fs in rw/ro, shown hidden menu (does not work because samsung apps are removed)
- GalaxoConf : manage galaxo (vnc, sshd..)
System :
- Overclocking to 614Mhz/710Mhz (GalaxoConf)
- Default min freq fixed at 19Mhz (preserves battery in sleep mode)
- Audio Volume hack
- rc with configuration (GalaxoConf)
- Full SSHD/SCP support (/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow..). Changing the root passwd : adb shell, then "changepasswd"
- Script to activate/deactivate the camera button (camenable/camdisable with adb)
- Script to remount in rw/ro the filesystems in both recovery/system (remountro, remountrw). Already exist with adb (adb remount) but usefull in recovery to remount correct partition, and with connectbot.
- VNC server on port 5901 (can be activated in GalaxoConf).
- Busybox 1.15.1 with full applets
- Moving all app to internal memory to keep space on /system (like app2sd)
- New adbd where replacing default shell from sh to bash with custom bashrc
- Recompile some tools for android-arm : zsh, nano, vim, inadyn
- Lot of tools in xbin/
- Telnetd
- Debug tools
- Access phone, contacts, market and other without sim cards (wifi)
Other tweak/improvment :
- Dialer theme from Eclair
- Tweaked CPU freq rules, improved responsiveness (sampling can be managed in GalaxoConf)
- Mount rw device with noatime option
- Disable some services (NPS service, debug devel binary)
- Remove all samsung apps
- Home app is now locked in memory to avoid reloading of it
- Remove too heavy audio hack
- Restore service mode application (audio tunning,be carrefull when using service mode app, and take a look at http://www.drakaz.com/2010/05/13/audio- … n-galaxo/)
- Add an option to Galaxo+, provide access to service mode (audio tunning)
- Rewrite thresholds rules
- Geolocalisation patch
- Fix battery indicator (thanks to bluemax – Fix for status bar battery indicator
Restored min_freq to 120000
- New way to restore gapps
- Only one recovery for galaxo and GAOSP
- Reduce aggressivity of thresholds
- Updated superuser app from ChainDD on XDA – http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682828
- Super Circle Battery with % from Fightspit on XDA – http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=724778
- Optimised libdvm by jakax (no debug ect) – http://forum.frandroid.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=13996
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