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[Q] Can someone tell me how to Deodex my phone?

Hey guys,
First of all I wanna say how frustrated I am with how slow the development of themes and roms is going. I'm so anxious to unleash the BEAST inside of the Fascinate. It's an amazing phone with so much potential, but it just needs a few things. I had an Incredible since it came out, and the options were endless with roms/themes/kernels, you name it. Nevertheless, I won't complain because I'm not a dev and I have so much respect for those guys.
Anyway, I'm really looking to port over some themes from a few other different phones. However, from what I understand my phone needs to be deodexed. Can someone tell me how to go about doing this? Any help would be great!

nshemi714 said:
Hey guys,
First of all I wanna say how frustrated I am with how slow the development of themes and roms is going. I'm so anxious to unleash the BEAST inside of the Fascinate. It's an amazing phone with so much potential, but it just needs a few things. I had an Incredible since it came out, and the options were endless with roms/themes/kernels, you name it. Nevertheless, I won't complain because I'm not a dev and I have so much respect for those guys.
Anyway, I'm really looking to port over some themes from a few other different phones. However, from what I understand my phone needs to be deodexed. Can someone tell me how to go about doing this? Any help would be great!
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I believe you soak it thoroughly in white vinegar for a few hours, then let it dry and you should be good.

nshemi714 said:
Hey guys,
First of all I wanna say how frustrated I am with how slow the development of themes and roms is going...Nevertheless, I won't complain because I'm not a dev and I have so much respect for those guys.
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Hmmm, really now?
If you're that anxious, quit your job and start developing fascinate ROMs full time.
I'm sure these guys are doing their best, and it's only been a few weeks.
We have root and clockwork so far, the rest will be coming soon.

Wow, I love how quickly the flaming starts. I stated in my first post about how I appreciate everything the devs are doing, I'm just anxious that's all. I thought by asking a question like this I'd get some productive feedback from someone so that I could start theming my phone. But apparently that's not the case.
So does anyone want to help or does everyone just want to flame me?
Thanks
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You guys flaming must be really bored. Of all the posts that deserve a jab, his seemed pretty innocuous.
Anyway, I have deodexed other android phones (Incredible, Droid X) and the manual process was, if not brutal, at least time consuming and buggy. Better to just wait for one of those developers you were good naturedly poking for some advice to release a pre-deodexed zip.

nshemi714 said:
Wow, I love how quickly the flaming starts. I stated in my first post about how I appreciate everything the devs are doing, I'm just anxious that's all. I thought by asking a question like this I'd get some productive feedback from someone so that I could start theming my phone. But apparently that's not the case.
So does anyone want to help or does everyone just want to flame me?
Thanks
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Hey, no need for flaming anyone. We understand that the process is moving slowly. We just have other things that we want to get finished first. There are a few people just trying to get the kernel to boot from the source samsung posted. There has already been some breakthroughs, wifi and sound is what they are working on now.
As for roms, fallingup posted a semi-clean rom. It's not deodexed, but it gets rid of alot of the bloatware.
Matt4542 is trying to get his running and it is deodexed, he is also trying to find a phone lol.....
frost posted a nextheme remix, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788294
I posted a mod to get your lockscreen back to stock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791089
We pretty much all work other places, so no one is fully giving their time. This weekend i'm sure we will have some more progress. So just go out and enjoy your weekend and when you come back on monday hopefully there will be some new stuff.
Edit : feel free to join the #samsung-fascinate irc chat room on freenode, its the best place to keep up with the movement.

Thanks so much guys for the info. I wouldn't call myself a newbie when it comes to this stuff but I don't think I'm ready to take on this project alone.
So I'll just wait patiently like I have been and try theming some other ways. Thanks for posting the manup theme and the stock lock screen. Those lookpretty good. I can't wait for a good aosp rom!
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THIS is the guide that I found the other day, however I've been working 12+hr days all week so I haven't given it a go yet, but I should have time Sunday if you are nervous.

Just found this
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/sa...5-frost-remix-nextheme-samsung-fascinate.html

Didn't know about the lock screen mod, many thanks!

Finally got xultimate working and is deodexing right now, will let everyone know if it works..
Hmm getting an error on the last vzwlbs file..

bblanski said:
Finally got xultimate working and is deodexing right now, will let everyone know if it works..
Hmm getting an error on the last vzwlbs file..
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If you get past the error on vzwlbs.odex at the framework part, let me know.

frostman89 said:
If you get past the error on vzwlbs.odex at the framework part, let me know.
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Yup I am going to work on it when I get home..
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Just skip the vzwlbs files. They have issues. Xeudoxus confirmed VZW's ****ty code is producing the errors. Just so you know I already tried this and applying the deodexed files borked my phone. I had to odin system. It may have been my method of applying the files. I believe it's best to do it in recovery. Best of luck. I hope you get it working.

Also had similarly bad success here. Pushed the deodex'ed files back into system/app and system/framework, and removed all odex files except the vzwlbs.odex.
Phone got black screen after the VZW boot up animation.

Let mine run and I am up and running... I also didn't put in the vzwlbs bs. Do I need them for something?? LMK if I am missing something. New to this
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About vzwlbs:
http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/verizon-wireless-3rd-party-lbs-developer-program-thezon/122964
It's their stupid developer program, that give us such greatness as VZNavigator or VZCast...

timeToy said:
About vzwlbs:
http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/verizon-wireless-3rd-party-lbs-developer-program-thezon/122964
It's their stupid developer program, that give us such greatness as VZNavigator or VZCast...
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Don't use that stuff anyhow, so far no issues!!!!

bblanski said:
Let mine run and I am up and running... I also didn't put in the vzwlbs bs. Do I need them for something?? LMK if I am missing something. New to this
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk
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Works after reboot? Would be nice if you can upload your compiled files, as I think I might have messed something up if I couldn't boot lol.

frostman89 said:
Works after reboot? Would be nice if you can upload your compiled files, as I think I might have messed something up if I couldn't boot lol.
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Just rebooted and it is fine. tell me what you need and how to do it...

Gingerbread ported to another galaxy

Anyone smarter than me know if we can work off of this at all?
supercurio said:
See, you just need to ask
Galaxy S with Nexus S kernel - Booting Nexus S Android Gingerbread
Videos are here:
http://www.youtube.com/supercurioxda
What's about this port:
- It uses the Nexus S kernel compiled from sources
- It runs the exact /system image release, we dumped yesterday. (I spent the night of it so it's still the same day!)
Am i French ?
Now you don't have any doubt anymore
Which filesystem ?
This early preview runs on Ext4. no RFS at all, the kernel don't support RFS.
Does everything work ?
Nope, but I must admit I didn't expect such a result.
Don't work: GPS / Voice / Wifi / some Buttons / camera
Work: everything else: like sound, GL acceleration etc
Will it work ?
I think most of it will work after countless hours spent on it.
Is it flashable with Odin ?
That's a good idea <Gregounech>, i think i'll do that tomorrow.
Do you work alone ?
I worked alone to produce this preview, but not to produce the dump yesterday.
Credits go the IRC channel #NSdev on freenode !
What about a team ?
That's the goal. Rendez-vous on IRC so we can produce ports and improve the quality very fast of this.
Is this opensource ?
Everything will be released after i get some sleep!
Edit: for inpatients, I pushed the latest initramfs : https://github.com/project-voodoo/nsonsgs-initramfs
Articles:
http://briefmobile.com/samsung-galaxy-s-android-2-3-gingerbread
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Yea I read this too.. Hopefully fascinate gets a port
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Not sure. Still more or less a noob dev. Not sure how difficult it its to adapt the gsm port for cdma. thoughts anyone?
Would definitely be interested in seeing this happen.
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pfarrelliv said:
Not sure. Still more or less a noob dev. Not sure how difficult it its to adapt the gsm port for cdma. thoughts anyone?
Would definitely be interested in seeing this happen.
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I have been obsessively following efforts at cyanogen forums and this forum... i am pretty on top of things, and i am NOT aware of any success taking kernels/roms/images from GSM and having them work on CDMA...damn right depressing

The problem is deeper than just kernel. There are fundamental issues as to why we're not already on 2.2...
I'd go into it, but this thread isn't about that. Plus, I am not a programmer, so I don't want to overstep my bounds.

It's significantly easier to port things on GSM versions of phones. We likely won't see it until at least Froyo is working on our devices, possibly later. This also shouldn't be in the Development forum...

RacerXFD said:
The problem is deeper than just kernel. There are fundamental issues as to why we're not already on 2.2...
I'd go into it, but this thread isn't about that. Plus, I am not a programmer, so I don't want to overstep my bounds.
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I'd really like someone to help me understand (in noob terms) why porting is so hard for CDMA devices. Expect a thanks if you can explain it to me!

A thanks is what I am not after. It's that for anyone that has had this device since september this topic has been beaten to death.
Give this a read.
good day.

chopper the dog said:
A thanks is what I am not after. It's that for anyone that has had this device since september this topic has been beaten to death.
Give this a read.
good day.
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Well, thanks anyway. I haven't had the device since September.

I just wanted to remind anyone new to Fascinate Modding, that there is NO GINGERBREAD ROM for the SAMSUNG FASCINATE at this time.
So if you are itching to flash a ROM from a different phone. Please DO NOT BE MISLED by this thread and flash Gingerbread for a i9000.
You have a Galaxy S Variant, Not the Galaxy S phone.

Blurry Bread

Is anyone out there using Drod's blurrybread rom? If so, is the CRT animation enabled? Or can I just use the same file I used for the stock gingerbread for it?

Yes. Yes. and Yes it works well.. ..I'm not sure what file your referring to for stock gingerbread though.

I was refering to the zip file that I flashed to enable it for the stock gb but since it's already there I wont need it. I'll be flashing as soon as I can

+1 for blurrybread.
My only complaint so far, is my swype license doesn't want to stick around after reboots and has to be regenerated.

Jmoney47 said:
I was refering to the zip file that I flashed to enable it for the stock gb but since it's already there I wont need it. I'll be flashing as soon as I can
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Oh ok. Well yeah if needed that can be flashed again.

anyone know if blurrybread is going to be updated to the official GB release? i really like it and don't really want to load the official until drod has had his way with it.

I could be wrong...but Im pretty sure drod said on twitter that hes developing solely for the thunderbolt now.
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Yep looks like that..he doesn't even reply to inquiries ..beginning to hate these devs..

ram130 said:
Yep looks like that..he doesn't even reply to inquiries ..beginning to hate these devs..
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That seems to be a characteristic for almost all the devs these days. No offence to their work, but they could be a lot more supportive of their followers

Jmoney47 said:
That seems to be a characteristic for almost all the devs these days. No offence to their work, but they could be a lot more supportive of their followers
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Yep or at least say "im moving on" or not working on it again in their thread damn .

well... that's a bumber. at least it didn't seem like he had done a ton with blurry bread anyway. hopefully someone with the skills will do the same. it was really just some "basic" tweaks to the base rom. nothing particularly major. i'd do it but don't have that level of skill... but surely someone out there will do something similar. i hope at least.

Compile SalvageMod

Here is a little how-to I wrote up on our google.code site. This is how to compile SalvageMod and make use of the different stable and development branches. Let me know what you guys/girls think!
http://code.google.com/p/salvagemod...Mod?ts=1310221345&updated=CompilingSalvageMod

"Go get a beer" worked perfectly for me

alaman68 said:
"Go get a beer" worked perfectly for me
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Are you compiling it now?

not yet, still closer to the beginning. Just figured I 'd start there and work back.
This is my first time compiling anything since 1994, so it is a major learning process.

alaman68 said:
not yet, still closer to the beginning. Just figured I 'd start there and work back.
This is my first time compiling anything since 1994, so it is a major learning process.
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O yea, I hear ya man if you need anything let me know.

I started a attempt at a port of this for the evo shift again for the second time awhile back and was able to get to the compiling of the framework where it crapped out on me again for the camera lol. Before that happened I was able to get passed some simple overlay issues with the device easily. It's just the framework that was was being a pain for the camera.

Hmm, this is great. Loved SalvageMod might have to give this a whirl. Thanks!
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[ANDROID] How to Install Gingerbread 2.3.5 on HP Touchpad - Touchdroid Build

Big happenings recently in the Touchpad realm. Touchdroid, one of the groups who was developing Android for the HP Touchpad, has decided to release a dump of their build, along with instructions on how to install it. I have recorded my own installation in hopes that others might benefit from it.
Two things:
1. Please follow the steps listed here http://touch-droid.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2
2. Be aware that this is not the Cyanogenmod version, and there are a few items that are not quite working yet.
Here is the link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWVmMYquYY
Happy Flashing!
Now, the usual disclaimer: If this bricks your Touchpad.... bummer, dude.
Also, I am aware that an amazing build will eventually be released from Cyanogen. I am excited about this. The touchdroid build is just to tinker with.
:::UPDATE:::
If you want to uninstall this, here is a video explaining how:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKRp3ldtAjU

agreed. Even if their devteam is knowledgeable I will not install their port because of the logs I've read.
Craig

This is the beginning of it all...^^ Android is damn near now... thx!

Please keep in mind that this build is incomplete and buggy. That being the case, this is only recommended to those that care less about the source (we already know all about that) and more about tinkering with it. Use it if you like, but keep the arguments out. Thanks.

Interesting, although its VERY incomplete. I can only surmise that this is a "just to get it out there" kind of thing.
Flood of newb installers complaining that it isn't working in
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ecapox said:
Interesting, although its VERY incomplete. I can only surmise that this is a "just to get it out there" kind of thing.
Flood of newb installers complaining that it isn't working in
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2
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The comments on the video are already entertaining.
People, if you don't have any idea what this is, where it comes from, or why it's being posted..... DON'T INSTALL IT!!!!
If some idiot (me ) puts a video on the intertubes, it does NOT mean that you need to follow it. Watch it, learn from it, but if you don't like the outcome.....DON'T INSTALL IT!!!!!
Also, I total get why people bail from giving even the smallest amount of help to others. Nobody asked me to do this video, I just saw a need for it and made it. And... I'll do it again once cyanogen's stuff comes out for it.
Haters gonna hate, I guess.

Hi,
wow... its working fine here...good job Touchdroid Team...
hope soon we have HC on touchpad...
here is my touchpad loaded with Android...

coolexe said:
Hi,
wow... its working fine here...good job Touchdroid Team...
hope soon we have HC on touchpad...
here is my touchpad loaded with Android...
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Sweet man. I'm glad it worked for you.

Touchdroid stole cm7 special thank cm7
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Thanks CM
Sent from my Samsung Galactic Superstar S II

reverendkjr said:
Sweet man. I'm glad it worked for you.
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what...just follow the instructions will get booted too...
mattmiller said:
Touchdroid stole cm7 special thank cm7
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
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hmmm did not know that... just got my touchpad yesterday...

hey thanks for the video, i can not wait to see the first roms ;-)

coolexe said:
Hi,
wow... its working fine here...good job Touchdroid Team...
hope soon we have HC on touchpad...
here is my touchpad loaded with Android...
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How did you go back to previous screen without back button?
Also does anyone know if once the CM version is released the flashing process might be a little easier for the average user? I am not too comfortable with entering commands everywhere. reverend made it look easy because he was obviously familiar with entering command prompts. Either way I will be attempting it, just thought I would ask.
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CM's release will be soon enough and will be fool proof. Unless you're reasonably familiar with the Linux terminal and ADB you're probably better off waiting. There's not much properly working on this version. You'll install it, play for ten minutes and them have to go back to waiting for a proper release. This is pre-alpha.
Sent from my Nexus, fool

smark72 said:
How did you go back to previous screen without back button?
Also does anyone know if once the CM version is released the flashing process might be a little easier for the average user? I am not too comfortable with entering commands everywhere. reverend made it look easy because he was obviously familiar with entering command prompts. Either way I will be attempting it, just thought I would ask.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
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you can see he shot over adb commands

after have following the drama, around the stolen/lost code, I really think people should stop there personal [mod edit], and focus on getting android to the tp. As I see it this, android dump, is touchdrods way of saing: We [mod edit] up, and we are sorry. I also understand that they are stopping the project. So lets all stop the flaming, and wait for the CM, or another teams build! Just my 5 cents

Whats the point of tinkering with the Touchdroid build when the team has disbanded. I would stay away from this build since the CyanogenMod seems to be way ahead of the Touchdroid team anyways.

ericdabbs said:
Whats the point of tinkering with the Touchdroid build when the team has disbanded. I would stay away from this build since the CyanogenMod seems to be way ahead of the Touchdroid team anyways.
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issent the point, that other teams can see touchdrods build, and use what they can from it. Like small twinks and stuff like that.

So, I'm going to try to bring this thread back on topic so,
for those of you still navigating using adb or whatever, Button Savior works great. Download it, adb install it.

Has anyone tried to install the back and home buttons from an app on the market yet?
Edit: I see button saviour works, niceeee
JD