enigmadroid
Android Enthusiast
OIC, well someone needs to deodex it then.
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Killah1994
Android Expert
OIC, well someone needs to deodex it then.
Diago was working on it but moved on to the motion 4g
M
Member 893895
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OIC, well someone needs to deodex it then.
I'll try and see if i can. I know nothing about deodexing but it doesn't hurt to try i guess
enigmadroid
Android Enthusiast
From what I've seen it looks like a PITA just to be able to theme stock. Some folks over at xda created scripts for certain devices. There's another program that does your device live, xUltimate, but even that's not fail proof.
jpizle
Android Expert
Thanks but I don't much care for abc
PlayfulGod
Extreme Android User
a whole dev team cant deodex one stock rom??? :banghead:
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
jesus, someone odin back to stock do the normal update method until youve hit 2.3.6. from there root by flashing cwm and using a superuser.zip flashable. once you have done that load up adb shell
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/stl12 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.rfs
if you wanna download terminal emulator from the market and use that:
dd if=/dev/block/stl12 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.rfs
from there pull it off your sdcard when its done and upload it. ill deodex it so you guys can start getting your themes, just so everyone knows tho.. you can make a rom taht is odex:GASP: it just is a bitch to theme but you can add all the regular tweaks and crap still...
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/stl12 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.rfs
if you wanna download terminal emulator from the market and use that:
dd if=/dev/block/stl12 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.rfs
from there pull it off your sdcard when its done and upload it. ill deodex it so you guys can start getting your themes, just so everyone knows tho.. you can make a rom taht is odex
:GASP: it just is a bitch to theme but you can add all the regular tweaks and crap still...
SacredBloodlin
Android Enthusiast
I know what you mean, I don't use any of their throms anymore. All they are is the same five bases that are themed. They don't have anyone that actually develops anything for a phone, they just theme the eff out of it. They claim "added tweaks for extra speed and performance" but I'm sure its nothing more than a simple V6 or 3G script, which none of them actually made. Sometimes the themes look cool, though lol
genovdot
Android Expert
jesus, someone odin back to stock do the normal update method until youve hit 2.3.6. from there root by flashing cwm and using a superuser.zip flashable. once you have done that load up adb shell
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/stl12 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.rfs
if you wanna download terminal emulator from the market and use that:
dd if=/dev/block/stl12 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.rfs
from there pull it off your sdcard when its done and upload it. ill deodex it so you guys can start getting your themes, just so everyone knows tho.. you can make a rom taht is odex
Ill pull it and send it to you in the irc today shab.
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PlayfulGod
Extreme Android User
you have a few good contacts if you encounter issues.
viperdink
Android Expert
you have a few good contacts if you encounter issues.
Honestly Why all the drama over file formats. this phone is dead , the resources it has were designed to do its required functions with no hardware modification needed to do its designed functions.
Short of just themeing any stock ROM package the way you want and creating backup of this phone it seems to have been optimized .
What significant improvements do you think were made on this device.
I personally don't get it. I am interested in your insights due to your known skills.
thanks
viper
Slickinator
Android Enthusiast
Well the Admire's in the same boat as the Attain then, **** lol
genovdot
Android Expert
PlayfulGod
Extreme Android User
rfs, which is just fat32 with some journaling that samsung added to it, making it a samsung proprietary/only thing. For most intents and purposes you mention it works fine, but even Samsung is moving away from using and using emmc/ext4 more n more and has been on their highend devices.
Personally I dont know many details on rfs other than I do not like it or that bml bs samsung does as its hard to work with and why not just use the proven linux standard.
And its hard for me to say anything on the improvements it may have had on this device, as I did very lil with it when my wife had one. Some great work was done to this lil pos device, ton of themed rom's, been better if they were done as themes so one could easily just flashed a theme and not a whole rom to get a new look, but oh well. lol
Far as theming, rfs/ext4 doesnt make a difference, that process is the same regardless of file system. And as Shabby stated, deodexing just makes theming easier, not impossible. Having the odex files actually makes booting faster.
genovdot
Android Expert
rfs, which is just fat32 with some journaling that samsung added to it, making it a samsung proprietary/only thing. For most intents and purposes you mention it works fine, but even Samsung is moving away from using and using emmc/ext4 more n more and has been on their highend devices.
Personally I dont know many details on rfs other than I do not like it or that bml bs samsung does as its hard to work with and why not just use the proven linux standard.
And its hard for me to say anything on the improvements it may have had on this device, as I did very lil with it when my wife had one. Some great work was done to this lil pos device, ton of themed rom's, been better if they were done as themes so one could easily just flashed a theme and not a whole rom to get a new look, but oh well. lol
Far as theming, rfs/ext4 doesnt make a difference, that process is the same regardless of file system. And as Shabby stated, deodexing just makes theming easier, not impossible. Having the odex files actually makes booting faster.
Mystery put me up on how much faster odexed files are actually makes the system faster. A deodexed/themed will actually make your phone faster. Not drastically but maybe a tad bit that you will may or never even notice.
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PlayfulGod
Extreme Android User
I never noticed a difference myself, but research says odex's makes it boot faster... but aosp doesnt use odex's by default, so that says something to me. lol
I do know deodex'ing doesnt do a thing for space tho, as it just converts it to a classes.dex and adds it to the apk.
M
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After noticing that it takes up a little more space i always wondered why people prefer it over odex aside from themeing.
PlayfulGod
Extreme Android User
to make theming easier is about it really lol
genovdot
Android Expert
That's the only thing. Lol. I prefer odex myself
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viperdink
Android Expert
rfs, which is just fat32 with some journaling that samsung added to it, making it a samsung proprietary/only thing. For most intents and purposes you mention it works fine, but even Samsung is moving away from using and using emmc/ext4 more n more and has been on their highend devices.
Personally I dont know many details on rfs other than I do not like it or that bml bs samsung does as its hard to work with and why not just use the proven linux standard.
And its hard for me to say anything on the improvements it may have had on this device, as I did very lil with it when my wife had one. Some great work was done to this lil pos device, ton of themed rom's, been better if they were done as themes so one could easily just flashed a theme and not a whole rom to get a new look, but oh well. lol
Far as theming, rfs/ext4 doesnt make a difference, that process is the same regardless of file system. And as Shabby stated, deodexing just makes theming easier, not impossible. Having the odex files actually makes booting faster.
I think ?
for some strange reason it sounds like we agree.
I do like this little phone and as for myself i do have better ones.
but the limitations on this one got my attention.
but thanks again for your insight.
thanks
viperdink
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I'm Sorry GENO i missed your previous post.
So you too, funny how things turn out hunh.
i guess in the end the theme and rom thing just came down to influnces.
there isnt THAT much differences in the amount of work.
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