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[Q] As a Bell Galaxy S user, what are my modding options?

I've had my phone for just over a month and I've only gone as far as rooting and flashing through Kies. I was one of the unlucky ones to have my 3BR disabled, and I managed to get that back through editing the registry of Kies. This is all I've managed to do with my phone, as I'm too scared to do anything else.
I'd like to use this thread as a guide of what we, as Bell Galaxy users, can do with our phones when it comes to flashing firmwares. Obviously we have to be selective of which ones we use.
My first question would be... Has any Bell Galaxy users flashed other firmwares besides GJ9 and JH2 with good results? When I say good results, I mean no further tweaking of the phone to get it to work the way it should. If you have flashed other firmwares, what did you find was the most stable?
EDIT: Holy crap guys... I'm so sorry. There's already a thread that's damn near identical to this one and I didn't spot it. Thank goodness I double-checked. Mods have my permission to delete this one if they'd like. I'm going to post a link to the other thread, which may help seeing how I think this thread title is a little more fitting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=781349

Confusion about all these newly released Roms...

Hi, I'm totally confused with all these new roms being released by multiple people. Do these reap any benefits? are they customized roms? are there new themes or something like the android roms and old WM phone roms? Sorry for the newb-like question, I just wanted to get things straightened out because they SEEM to be like factory ROMs but in diff languages or something?

XxGoKoUxX said:
Hi, I'm totally confused with all these new roms being released by multiple people. Do these reap any benefits? are they customized roms? are there new themes or something like the android roms and old WM phone roms? Sorry for the newb-like question, I just wanted to get things straightened out because they SEEM to be like factory ROMs but in diff languages or something?
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I totaly agree with you... it's extremly confusing. I've got a HD7 from O2 Germany, but I'm on t-mobile. The reception of my O2-HD7 is very poor compared to my old HD2, so I would like to switch from the O2-ROM to HTC-Europe version with the newest radio-ROM.... but those threads are so extremly confusing... I don't realy know what EXACTLY to do... flash this, than falsh that... and after that flash this... ;-)

Their simple. Just put some effort into reading it and less into whinning. Just read
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evolutionqy7 said:
Their simple. Just put some effort into reading it and less into whinning. Just read
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There you go with that whining crack again. WTF is wrong with you? Be more helpful or STFU.

Agree with you guys .. they are confusing that I dont even wanna try
But Yeah I am flash junkie with Android, so many tutorials and so easily done.
Am on O2 UK , but I guess I wait and see what the Official updates bring to us before experimenting with these custom roms.
I so love my BIG HD 7

+1 here.
With WinMo, I could even flash an Android rom and feel comfortable doing it.
With the HD7, just looking at the numbers of schubert roms, I hardly know which one to pick. And if I do pick one, I'm really afraid to even try it. Or if there really is a need to even try it.
But I can understand the enthusiasm of the guys doing the efforts of sharing these roms. It's just that some guys (like myself) are not really that much literate.

And what your doing isnt whining?
There was a point where i looked at it and said **** that. Too much crap there.
But once i sat down and read it properly. It was easy.

I somewhat agree with evolution, they are not difficult to understand if you take your time.
Nevertheless, I think fear & lack of knowledge/experience prevents most people from actually trying them or even bothering to read the whole thing, especially ao for people who have not done this before, I can see how it gets confusing.
I think well organized and newb-friendly threads will definitely make them very popular very quickly..

yeah yeah yeah, read this read that..... all i see on these threads is flash this to get 02UK whatever.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=876451
I dont see them writing the purpose to flashing these ROMs, you must be confused with my question about "how to flash" vs "the purpose of flashing"
I mean, in the android forums, or the older winmo forums, u can see that they flashed the phone to get some new flashy OS's or to fix out old bugs.

I'm with Goku here. I think it would help people to know what to expect when they flash a rom. Say "if you flash THIS you'll get THESE; 1.), 2.), etc.."
From that list it's like, "flash this rom & find out for yourselves what it'll do to your device." Or if this is the case, at least let it say it is.

all people are getting is updated firmware and radio ware.
Its not custom or anything its just updated software.

Thank you evo =]
One more question, what are the advantages to these updated firmwares and radio's?

Firmware update from HTC and a new Radio.
Theres only a few firmware roms. Most of them just have different radios for you to choose.
The latest O2 Rom i have now has weaker reception but reasonably better battery life than with the stock one.
As i said these roms contain the exact stuff as your one that came from the factory only with different firmware and radio. Radio is the main difference. Other than that i didnt see any performance improvements or anything.

ty evo, that clears up a lot =]
so radio's change signal settings with your provider, correct?

Well finaly someone is making sense,lol .
I was lost too, glad i didnt flash my phone .

One thing this dose not say are these offical so called ROM's Firmware what ever there called
can I flash the phone and use it as if I had it out of the shop, in other words can I play games and buy appllications (NOT JAILBROKE)

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Check the following:
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when they talk about "ActiveSync" are they talking about Zune?
or are they talking about "Windows 7 Active Sync"

Check this thread out, it might help you out a bit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-903769.html

sirandrew said:
Check this thread out, it might help you out a bit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-903769.html
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Ok thanks
So Active Sync is only done when holding down these two buttons
Phone Off
Volume Down Button
Power Button
what one do I need to download to have no branding on it at all I rebranded as telstra who ever they are :S
would like unbraded, think im downloading HTC EU atm

So rooting and flashing roms on sprint tab...

I have several smart phones and I have been able to root and flash roms now so far it seems like working on the tab is not as easy.... Is this true? im afraid of bricking it.... But is it worth rooting it?
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from what I can gather on these boards thus far is that we went with the wrong carrier (sprint) for the tab, since tmobile seems to have more development going for it, AND at this point I am not seeing much advantage to rooting anyways. Let me know if you digested the boards differently as this is the only thing that is stopping me from rooting as well

well its because sprint is cdma and tmobile is gms which is found everywhere in the world... i am still within 30 days so i could return it, and I am thinking about switching to tmo anyway maybe going with the streak 7 as it has the tegra 2 processor
Thanks for replying buddy.

Hey guys, this might help you. Did a quick video on it and tested it myself on a Sprint tab, worked fine
How To Root -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Flash a Custom Recovery Image -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-flash-a-custom-recovery-image-on-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Good luck guys!

Awesome, but...
dcogen said:
Hey guys, this might help you. Did a quick video on it and tested it myself on a Sprint tab, worked fine
How To Root -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Flash a Custom Recovery Image -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-flash-a-custom-recovery-image-on-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Good luck guys!
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Those How To's are AWESOME! Thanks! NO ONE has broken it down for we (the sad and lonely) CDMA SGT owners...
The question remains, however: Is it worth it?
So far, my answer is hell to thuh naw... With so many reports of brickage, and so little dev work being done, keeping the CDMA SGT stock seems to be the only way to go. I received my Tab for Christmas from a gorgeous santa (who also recently gave me another gift, my daughter (haven't rooted that device yet, either)) against my suggestions to wait (to get me a Tab, not to have my daughter). A few short months later, here we are:
XOOM dominates, SGT 2 and 10.1 (along with TONS of other Tabs) are announced and with Samsung's reputation for damn near NEVER updating their device's OS' (KIES SUCKS!), I'm thinking the SGT will never see the light of Honeycomb, which really is the only worthwhile upgrade for the device. As other tabs gain popularity, the dev work for the SGT decreases, with more and more messages like "This is the last update to this ROM, as I just got a XOOM".
So here I sit, with an oversized phone that can't make calls, watching Tron Legacy over and over while flashin' anything and everything on my EVO, longing for a XOOM...
That being said, anyone HATE the XOOM, and wanna' trade for an SGT? The SGT RULES!

For god's sake STOP POSTING QUESTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT FORUM. And search beofre posting. Thread reported.

dcogen said:
Hey guys, this might help you. Did a quick video on it and tested it myself on a Sprint tab, worked fine
How To Root -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Flash a Custom Recovery Image -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-flash-a-custom-recovery-image-on-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Good luck guys!
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thanks for the links, this makes a lot of sense to me, its just like flash an android phone. Thanks a bunch

so general question, when doing the custom recovery on the sprint tab, if samsung/sprint releases the upgrade to 2.4 / 3.0 (god willing), will that upgrade have any impact on the custom recovery, or are the mutually exclusive?

So far, this has been a bust for me since I've been completely incapable of syncing with Kies. I've searched and tried every possible solution I could find to no avail.

dcogen said:
Hey guys, this might help you. Did a quick video on it and tested it myself on a Sprint tab, worked fine
How To Root -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Flash a Custom Recovery Image -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-flash-a-custom-recovery-image-on-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Good luck guys!
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Dear dcogen,
I was able to verify that I have an adb connection, now when I downloaded the sprint kernel the file says flash_image_VZW_zImage.zip is this the correct one?
Also your guide says to install CWM for your tab version but I didnt find one for sprint, there are version for Verizon, ATT and TMO thats it.
I just dont want to end up with a brick
Thanks for your help

jcaf77 said:
well its because sprint is cdma and tmobile is gms which is found everywhere in the world... i am still within 30 days so i could return it, and I am thinking about switching to tmo anyway maybe going with the streak 7 as it has the tegra 2 processor
Thanks for replying buddy.
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lolwut
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Anybody follow this and have success? Are there any worthy ROMs out for our tab?
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AlpineM3 said:
Anybody follow this and have success? Are there any worthy ROMs out for our tab?
Sent from my SPH-P100 using XDA App
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can we use roms from other models if we find a way to not flash the wrong modem as part of the process?

+ 1 for working roms for sprint?
Help wanted!
Ice cream/beer money on me!!

+2 i want a sprint tab rom to use it on cricket and enable the phone portion.
It's the phone portion I need to figure out.

I rooted but not sure why no real reason to on a sprint tab to root cant find any wireless tether apps that will work

i rooted to get rid of some sprint crap bloatware

On the Sprint SGT you need to use New PC Studio instead of Kies. Follow the instruction exactly, but replace with NPC. Worked like a charm!

Pardon me for coming late to the party. Have been trying to root my Sprint (CDMA) tab for months. All fail for one reason or another (Z4Root doesn't work, Kies doesn't work on my Win 7 PC, SuperOneClick comes up as a virus and requires the use of Kies, PCStudio can be downloaded from a site that Firefox says is untrustworthy). I've spent endless hours reading msg boards and how-tos. i'm a resonably savy computer user. Is there a set of intnructions to root a Sprint-branded Tab anywhere???

MrZeroo00 said:
For god's sake STOP POSTING QUESTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT FORUM. And search beofre posting. Thread reported.
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This isnt the DEV Forum... It is Q&A. Retard.

[Q]Samsung Dart roms

hi
i just got a samsung dart from my girlfriend
it says that this phone also is galaxy mini so i have a question will ANY of these roms work on a rooted samsung dart?

Apparently yes, since Samsung Dart is a Galaxy Mini renamed by T-Mobile. But only testing can confirm...

hmmm.....im going to try one im running cm7.1 i found on a dart forum but ill report back

Some work done don't even boot
Sent from my Galaxy Mini (SGH-T499) using Tapatalk 2 Beta-2

squidbutt said:
Some work done don't even boot
Sent from my Galaxy Mini (SGH-T499) using Tapatalk 2 Beta-2
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Too bad... could you at least return to the original ROM (assuming you were using original stock ROM)?
If you could give us more details...

shame
i just purchased the t-499 myself and its a shame that such a new/great phone has so little support, ive looked all over google and only gotten mixed answers and dead end threads. icant even figure out if galaxy mini roms are cross compatible to the dart or not. its actually a good phone with a decent screen if u change the lcd_density to 100 the resolution is pretty decent.
if someone can help me a little it would be greatly appreciated, atleast point me in the right direction.

Not sure where else to post this, but can someone tell me if I can use a bootanimation.zip on the Samsung Dart? I've looked at a lot of threads on how to do this, used ROM toolbox to move files around, but haven't had any luck. I'd just like to know for sure so I don't drive myself crazy and waste more time!

D1358531 said:
Not sure where else to post this, but can someone tell me if I can use a bootanimation.zip on the Samsung Dart? I've looked at a lot of threads on how to do this, used ROM toolbox to move files around, but haven't had any luck. I'd just like to know for sure so I don't drive myself crazy and waste more time!
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On he stock Dart rom, no.
Samsung apparently uses some weird proprietary bootanimation format.
I am running the CM7 port in my sig from the MadTeam Forums and it of course uses bootanimation.zip's and I even have enabled boot sounds on it.
It's a good rom, couple of really minor bugs like button lights don't work and slow to wake on incoming calls, but overall quite stable.

Bummer....I guess I'll have to wait til I can upgrade to a new phone

they have make new rom for dart

ShawnnKushh said:
i just purchased the t-499 myself and its a shame that such a new/great phone has so little support, ive looked all over google and only gotten mixed answers and dead end threads. icant even figure out if galaxy mini roms are cross compatible to the dart or not. its actually a good phone with a decent screen if u change the lcd_density to 100 the resolution is pretty decent.
if someone can help me a little it would be greatly appreciated, atleast point me in the right direction.
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How do you change the lcd_density to 100 in the stock ROM?

[Q] (Verizon) ROMs for Galaxy Tab?

I looked here and things seem dead on this subject. I see a bunch of ROMs that never went anywhere. What exactly is the deal on this device? Did any legitimate ROMs ever get made for it? Did cyanogenmod ever come out for it? I got my tablet late and it works fine, but I really would love to get all the Verizon crapware off of it.
Thanks for any ROM suggestions.