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Root Galaxy/Stock android on behold 2 - It flies!

A quick note on system performance and battery performance after Galaxy install. I installed both Open Home and Sweeter Home. On day one I toggled between Open Home and Sweeter Home. While system performance was excellent I was very disappointed with battery performance. I had about 10 minutes of phone calls and while I was getting email via ActiveSync I had no material use of the phone, yet after 6 hours I was down to 15% battery life. Day 2 and 3 we're a bit of a blur so I can't really comment in detail although I will say I re-call consistently thinking that the performance was excellent and that the battery seemed ok, but not better than stock. End of Day 3 I rebooted. Day 4 (this morning), I unplugged from power at 8 am, I have spent nearly 2 hours on the phone and after 6 hours I have 52% battery left. The difference I think is that I have only had one "Home" application in use. I think that what was happening was that any application that was on the desktop of either Home replacement was causing extra network and update traffic. Just a guess at this point - but it seems to make sense. I have to continually fight my "PC" experience and understand that most of the time closing an application neither closes it nor releases any resources. It would be nice if all apps could be actually closed like the Dolphin browser by long holding the back key when the application is running.
 
Hello all!

I need help please... I have tried everything listed above! I've downloaded all the files,I have elipse and sdk. My PC see my behold2 phone form the CMD comand prompt:adb devices... But i keep getting a "permission denied" or "read only" when placing the codes... FYI: I am new to this and I just got the phone brand new from ebay and just installed my "exsiting" (t-mobile) sim into this behold2 phone .. Does that have anything to do with it (not using the new sim that came with the behold2)? I can make calls, text and even surf the net when connecting to my wifi... Please please please help! Thank you all in advance! oh oh and what is ODIN and where is the root located (I just placed the files into the sd card)???
 
rcullet, Try to Odin it back to stock and run the mod again. The first time I did it bluetooth wouldn't turn on, I ran it again and now it's working fine.
 
rcullet said:
I have to hand it to all of you. I am brand new to this and managed to install the Galaxy ROM with nothing more than this forum in under an hour. And yes, my phone is now amazingly fast.

Are there solutions yet to these:

1) Bluetooth will not switch on through 'Switchers' or Menu> Settings> Wireless Controls> Bluetooth.

2) Speakerphone

3) Vibrate

4) Camera Firmware (error)

I'd like to offer a reward of $300 paid by paypal to the first person who posts everything needed to load 2.1 with multi-touch before Feb 13th.

Thanks Again. Rick Culleton Discount Electronics
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Bluetooth and speakerphone should work. Vibrate doesnt work, and the camera error is because it is using the stock android interface wich is expecting the (old) galaxy camera firmware. The behold one is newer and backward compatible.

There's now two ways to proceed.

1) Take the stock behold 2 system, allow touchwiz to load and therefore load the vibe modules and touchwiz libraries. Then kill of the touchwiz process and run the galaxy system apps instead. All of this would be automatic and transparent to the user on boot.

2) Find a way to replace the behold 2 kernel.

option 1 has the advantage that its alot easier and likely to happen fairly quickly. However we really need to be able to replace the kernel to have any hope of running 2.x firmware.

The lack of a behold 2, and particularly time means I havnt had a chance to look at either of these options. If anyone is interested in looking at it, here are a few ideas:

1) This is fairly easy, you just need to cat the init.rc to see whats loaded on boot. Since the init.rc is on the boot partition we can't modify it. However we do have access to the hijacked playlogo and can use it to run commands as root _after_ init.rc. You can therefore kill off touchwiz and other useless services and run the standard home from the galaxy images. Be carefull of the dependancies on the libs. You can run the debugger from the sdk to check these dependancies. Just copy the new apk into the apps directory and see if the debugger complains. Remember dalvik will try to convert to bytecode right away and identify any dependancy problems.

2) This is dificult. However there is an exploit in the image format handler. I think its being used for the moment right now. This allows you to flash a custom zimage to the phone. If the same works on the behold problem solved! We need a sacrifical lamb and some time to try it :)

Re rewards/donations etc. There's a big project working on 2.x for the galaxy. We're not accepting donations of any form, and rewards are kinda the same thing.
 
paul89 said:
should i download this kernel? SDX-Developers Forum

im not sure exactly what you want be to do! lol
sorry im a little bit of a noob on developing, im just good at what you developers tell us what and how to install!
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I believe that these are the instructions:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-moment/32097-how-load-zefies-custom-kernels-dummies.html

I think you would use behold2 ops from the original odin files though... not to sure though.
Again if you try this it is possible you might brick your phone, so do it at your own risk.
 
kam187 said:
Bluetooth and speakerphone should work.
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I went stock-->firmware 3 times (ODIN between each try) and still cannot get speakerphone or MMS to work. The MMS fix said it was writing to the phone (in adb command window) and then I did a factory reset and then several reboots...still no MMS. I'm using APNDroid (dont have a data plan) and have MMS enabled and everything else off, but still no luck. And speakerphone refuses to work during calls but the speaker works fine with other apps. What's going on here?!!
 
paul89: if that's you're skill level DONT try anything! I was looking for someone with more experiance to have a look at it.

Mastermind278: Just using a standard behold zimage wont be enough. You need to modify the image for the exploit to work

bones: that means you're /data directory didnt get made. Check your playlogo file. Also consider deleting the dalvik cache.
 
Kam, I'm interested in helping out to find a more viable solution here. I'm not a 'hacker' by any means but I do have a bit of experience with *nix environments, programing, and hardware.

I just got the Behold II two weeks ago and its my first Android at that so I'm still learning its idiosyncrasies. I'm still not sure where the overall state of ROM development for the Behold II or the Galaxy lie at the moment.

I would like to do what I can but would prefer that it doesn't lead to bricking my phone :D My time is limited as well. I'll look you up in IRC next time I'm free.
 
kam187 said:
paul89: if that's you're skill level DONT try anything! I was looking for someone with more experiance to have a look at it.

Mastermind278: Just using a standard behold zimage wont be enough. You need to modify the image for the exploit to work

bones: that means you're /data directory didnt get made. Check your playlogo file. Also consider deleting the dalvik cache.
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is there anyway to fix the speakerfone without having to flash back to stock and start over?.my speaker doesnt seem to be working as well..and i did factory reset before and after
 
several said:
I finally edited my wave to tell people to visit the above link instead. :)
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Thanks, I hadn't looked at that page before, and it's excellent--definitely looks dummy-proof, and I am definitely a dummy when it comes to this. Can't wait to see stock on this phone! :D
 
The MyHangoutOnline tutorial is great but there is one line where it differs from Kam187's writeup and it kept giving me an error until I used Kam187's writeup on post one.

the line is "/system/bin/busybox –install -s /system/bin/"

and it kept giving me an error until i used kam187's write up which has it as
"/system/bin/busybox –-install -s /system/bin/" with 2 dashes.

I don't know the reason why this happened but it only worked using the second line. I was cutting and pasting. A heads up for anyone getting an error.

And how do I reset the dalvik cache? I did a factory reset. And is the /data directory on the SD card? Thanks again.
 
kam187 said:
that means you're /data directory didnt get made. Check your playlogo file. Also consider deleting the dalvik cache.
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how do I delete the dalvik cache? I did a factory reset. And is the /data directory on the SD card? What should I check about the playlogo file? Sorry for the newb questions but thanks again.
 
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