So I love the phone, hate the software.
Already swaped my launcher and keyboard... can you do the dialer?
Id like to remove all the sprint software too, any news/rumors on rooting and rom dev?
any other ROMs we can swap?
I miss my HTC... but they dont make anything comparable....
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Couple of Silly Questions:
1). Is it possible to modify the open source ROMs available to use TouchWiz? I happen to be in the minority that like it. If not, however, no big deal.
2). Question for those that have flashed a new rom: Is it possible to get the Avatar app and the Sims 3 app to continue to work? Or do they just work out of the box?
s73v3r said:
Couple of Silly Questions:
1). Is it possible to modify the open source ROMs available to use TouchWiz? I happen to be in the minority that like it. If not, however, no big deal.
2). Question for those that have flashed a new rom: Is it possible to get the Avatar app and the Sims 3 app to continue to work? Or do they just work out of the box?
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It depends on what you mean by open source. Eugene373 was playing around with an AOSP build for the Vibrant, but it hasn't gone much of anywhere lately. His latest custom roms (Vibrant9/VibrantR3) were built primarily for getting rid of as much of Touchwiz as medically possible and they are basically stripped down and customized versions of the stock ROM. CyanogenMod 6.1 is the only other open source ROM being worked on and it's still in alpha. I don't see Cyanogen or any of the team members working on our port caring about Touchwiz as it sort of defeats the purpose of stock Android in the first place.
The basic point behind custom or aosp roms is that you don't like Touchwiz and prefer stock android, so it's a bit of a self-defeating strategy to think about adding back what the mods are deliberately removing.
If you like Touchwiz (as I do) then I'd say stick with stock and tweak/customize from there. It's too much work to approach from the other end and makes little sense. I'm basically stock, rooted, lots of the bloatware removed, MobileAP and the Captivate Camera installed, EXT3 lagfix...and that's about it. Phone is smooth as butter.
If you are running a custom rom, it is possible to simply push back the Avatar "app", as it's just a shortcut to the movie file on the sd card. You can also just run the VideoPlayer and start it from there regardless, so I guess that's a matter of preference. I got rid of the pointless icon. The Sims 3 install apk can be found in one of the system dump threads in the development section.
Yes, I know this sounds dumb. But im noob here so... yeah.
Uis like Touchwiz 3.0, Sense, etc.
If there is no way. I would appreciate alternatives since Im tired of using Launchers. :/
Also might help: My device is an Archos 101 running 2.2.1
Any suggestions? Thanks
Perhaps you can flash a zip containing one?
hi,
i'am a new hower of a galaxy s2.
i ask here as last change as i read in internet this the best forum.
i have android 2.3.6 italian but I am not satisfied of the default phone dial search.
i became from iphone 3g and when i search (with qwerty keyboard) i found all my contant.
my contact are all stored in the field "name" and if have a people called "steve jobs senior" in field name. With t9 defaul search of phone dialer i can't find "jobs" or "senior".
it's possible whit defaul t9 dialer search in each word of field and not only first word? i need to install a roms ?
second question : the tab "logs" is at the top of the screen, there is a skin with this tab at bottom ? like iphone. ?
thank in advance.
i hope in you
danielotti said:
hi,
i'am a new hower of a galaxy s2.
i ask here as last change as i read in internet this the best forum.
i have android 2.3.6 italian but I am not satisfied of the default phone dial search.
i became from iphone 3g and when i search (with qwerty keyboard) i found all my contant.
my contact are all stored in the field "name" and if have a people called "steve jobs senior" in field name. With t9 defaul search of phone dialer i can't find "jobs" or "senior".
it's possible whit defaul t9 dialer search in each word of field and not only first word? i need to install a roms ?
second question : the tab "logs" is at the top of the screen, there is a skin with this tab at bottom ? like iphone. ?
thank in advance.
i hope in you
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Try different dialers. There are a ton in the market. As far as I know, you can't change this behavior in the default dialer on a stock Samsung firmware.
Sounds like you want it to work like an iPhone. I'm not trying to be combative, but if that's so, why did you get rid of your iPhone?
You could always try installing MIUI, that ROM seems popular with ex-iPhone users.
The only way to get what you are talking about is to root your phone and install a custom ROM that is themed to how you like and has different mods to change things such as the dialer.These things cant be changed if they are stock.There are enough ROMs around to suit everyone.The hardest part is finding the one you like.
cooza said:
The only way to get what you are talking about is to root your phone and install a custom ROM that is themed to how you like and has different mods to change things such as the dialer.These things cant be changed if they are stock.There are enough ROMs around to suit everyone.The hardest part is finding the one you like.
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A third party dialer app may suit his needs...
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@ cooza
can you suggest some roms for s2 perhaps with ics ?
danielotti said:
@ cooza
can you suggest some roms for s2 perhaps with ics ?
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Take this for what it's worth... you're entering dangerous territory. You said yourself you are new to Android. Installing ROMs is not trivial, or something that should be taken lightly. I see more threads than I can count started by people who need help getting their phone working again because they blindly started flashing stuff when they really had no need.
And your only complaint at the moment is how the dialer functions. Why don't you slow down, and try out some dialer apps from the market? There are a ton of free ones. I know I suggested the MIUI ROM above, but I think this is better advice.
Lastly, ICS is still not officially released. Any ICS ROM out there right now is either based on a leak (and therefore full of bugs and is probably less than stable), or really a Gingerbread ROM themed to look like ICS.
thanks ctomgee
i try for some dialer, and i wait for official ics for s2
danielotti said:
@ cooza
can you suggest some roms for s2 perhaps with ics ?
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ICS is still in beta stage and giving advanced users problems so if you dont want to root and flash a custom ROM(GB not ICS) them maybe on the market you can find a 3rd party launcher while you wait.
I know it's possible because manufacturers are able to add custom UI sounds to the OS but I'm yet to locate the files to do so. I want to be able the default sounds that my phone came with like the Charger_connection.ogg and the Power_On.ogg which custom devs seem leave out of their builds for some reason.
Any help on this topic would be very appreciated!
Yes... I know i could just add them to media/audio/UI/ but if the OS is missing the code to load these sounds, the phone will ignore/not know they are there for use.. just to clear things up a little
Bump...
C'mon, someone must know..
You mean like iSounds for iOS? It's a little app that adds UI sounds for every occasion. I want to see something like this in Android, but no one has done something like this yet.
OMG I'M REVIVING A THREAD YAY.
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no one know ?
Hi. I have acquired an iphone 5 clone, model number MF353ZP/A, although I have no idea who manufactured it. It has an iphone theme to it which i want to remove and just have stock android running on it. I have looked but there seems to be no apps or skins running on it giving it this theme so I'm thinking I will need to reload Android to get rid of the current OS completely. I am also pretty sure it isn't as easy as that so have come on here to basically ask how! Any help appreciated, I just want to see/run a normal android environment on it but don't know how to. Thans, Steve.
fredfernacapan said:
Hi. I have acquired an iphone 5 clone, model number MF353ZP/A, although I have no idea who manufactured it. It has an iphone theme to it which i want to remove and just have stock android running on it. I have looked but there seems to be no apps or skins running on it giving it this theme so I'm thinking I will need to reload Android to get rid of the current OS completely. I am also pretty sure it isn't as easy as that so have come on here to basically ask how! Any help appreciated, I just want to see/run a normal android environment on it but don't know how to. Thans, Steve.
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Unfortunately Android doesn't work like that. You can't just reinstall the OS and it come out with no skin. Without knowing who made it or what firmware is being used then even trying to make changes like this could end up in a brick. Your best bet for the time being would be to just install a 3rd party home launcher like Nova, Apex, Go, etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cpuid.cpu_z&hl=en
Something like that app will help narrow down what you have by giving you some details on the chipset, RAM, resolution, etc. With that info, it might be possible to see if there are other options for your phone.