Now, I'm currently running Gingerbread, and touchwiz is fine. But I've been looking at the leaked ICS for Note and its wrapped in touchwiz and looks kinda bad.
I was wondering if there is a way to disable/uninstall touchwiz on gingerbread (this would give me hope for ICS).
I mean disable, not cover up with another launcher or something similar.
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Gingerbread 2.3.6
You cant uninstall twframework, but you could if rooted do what you want.. Like remove the twlauncher with rootexplorer and push a orig launcher in there
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You cant uninstall twframework, but you could if rooted do what you want.. Like remove the twlauncher with rootexplorer and push a orig launcher in there
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Can you give some more details on how to do this. Thanks
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Can you give some more details on how to do this. Thanks
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Do you have root on your Note ?
Install an AOSP ICS ROM or the new MIUI ROM...Touchwiz free...and better than any stock firmwares.
Edit: I've honestly never run any Android device that wasn't rooted or running custom firmware. Most people don't around these parts anyway. Your everyday Jo probably couldn't even tell you what phone they have, let alone the operating system.
if you just don't like Touchwiz you can install another launcher, regardless of root and whatever ROM you are on.
Similarly, when Touchwiz ICS comes out you can just install nova launcher and a minute or two after the update already get rid of the gaudy colors and icons.
Probably the best will be when we get a post-alpha build of CM9 with everything including s pen apps working, but that may take a while
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No not rooted yet. I have previosly rooted HTC Desire without problems and the Odin method looks pretty easy.
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im looking for a superclean froyo rom.. stock froyo debinged debloated zipaligned deodexed..
these are easy to find on fascinate forums. but im having difficulty finding them in your forums as there are so many custom roms..
mods please stop closing my threads. this is a valid question. i have a rom chart from my last thread (closed) but they all look like custom roms to me.
what is your stock froyo rom called? ex ours in fascinate are called things like (eb01)
KB1
But you probably won't find anyone with a debloated zipaligned deoxeded version, it's still crap without all the fixes from the custom roms.
Cognition 4.x was close to stock Froyo, but it has since gone custom crazy. Andromeda 1.2 is based on a stock Captivate ROM for the Armani version and while it has some nice tweaks, it is still pretty close in appearance and function to stock, but without all the bloat.
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Cognition 4.x was close to stock Froyo, but it has since gone custom crazy. Andromeda 1.2 is based on a stock Captivate ROM for the Armani version and while it has some nice tweaks, it is still pretty close in appearance and function to stock, but without all the bloat.
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What do you mean armani version? Whats that?
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i second the Andromeda 1.2 vote. It is running flawlessly on my cappy, and is what the stock install should have been like (you get the bonus of a georgio armani splash on boot)
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It was a limited version of the Captivate designed for Georgio Armani. Electronically, it is the same as our Captivate in every way. Software-wise, it has a customized version of Froyo with some Armani touches like the bootscreen and system font. Andromeda simply removes the carrier bloat and adds performance enhancements like Voodoo lagfix, working GPS and some other nice touches. It runs flawlessly on my Captivate.
For lite and quick, I've always relied on Andromeda or Paragon RC6.
As for just a stock 2.2 without the bloatware, I've never actually seen any.
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For lite and quick, I've always relied on Andromeda or Paragon RC6.
As for just a stock 2.2 without the bloatware, I've never actually seen any.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11538934&postcount=51
includes bloat, but also includes titanium backup and root for you to remove yourself
Thanks Piratghost, I've favourited that. It'll be handy to have!
Why don't you just do it yourself?
Root
Use titanium backup to remove the aps you don't want
Follow the how-to and deodex
I am not sure about zip aligning, but I know you can so everything else pretty easily.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11538934&postcount=51
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PG. Is that .zip flashable with CWM?
Yes it is.
Andromeda is 100% flawless. You could flash cognition 4.2.1 non OC. pretty much stock with a few bonuses
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im looking for a superclean froyo rom.. stock froyo debinged debloated zipaligned deodexed..
these are easy to find on fascinate forums. but im having difficulty finding them in your forums as there are so many custom roms..
mods please stop closing my threads. this is a valid question. i have a rom chart from my last thread (closed) but they all look like custom roms to me.
what is your stock froyo rom called? ex ours in fascinate are called things like (eb01)
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You're trying to boot a captivate Rom on a fascinate?
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Im running cognition 4.1 and it is so close to stock I cant really tell a difference except that it doesnt lag and no bloatware
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You're trying to boot a captivate Rom on a fascinate?
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Ok just to try something, I flashed the zip PG posted. Everything went smooth. The only extra thing I had to do was use super one click to enable non market apps.
One tip I learned: if you use ti backup to remove unwanted apps before resorting, you will save yourself a lot of extra scrolling!
Btw, I am now running at&t 2.2 rooted, sideloading enabled, CWM, voodoo lagfix, matted blue theamed, plumb bob gps fixed, with 6 unlock screens, extended power menu, H (hsdpa) icon, and blackout gingerbread live wallpaper.
Scored 1576 in quadrant.
Whats side loading
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Ok just to try something, I flashed the zip PG posted. Everything went smooth. The only extra thing I had to do was use super one click to enable non market apps.
One tip I learned: if you use ti backup to remove unwanted apps before resorting, you will save yourself a lot of extra scrolling!
Btw, I am now running at&t 2.2 rooted, sideloading enabled, CWM, voodoo lagfix, matted blue theamed, plumb bob gps fixed, with 6 unlock screens, extended power menu, H (hsdpa) icon, and blackout gingerbread live wallpaper.
Scored 1576 in quadrant.
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I think I an explaining this correctly, enabling sideloading allows you to install apps from sources other than the market. Ie: you can DL an apk right to your phone and install it.
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I think I an explaining this correctly, enabling sideloading allows you to install apps from sources other than the market. Ie: you can DL an apk right to your phone and install it.
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Ok.. On fascinate this was not an issue.. Note taken. Thanks
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Hello, i recently updated my SGS to JVK 2.3.3 and i want to use it with the gingerbread laucher, but, i cannot find a "decent" apk. I can install gb launchers from the market, but those are the ones compiled for 2.2, 2.1... and they feel a bit laggy... Does anyone have a 2.3 gb launcher that is compatible and compiled only for 2.3., taken directly from for example nexus s? I would really appriciate it. Thanks!
Why not install ADW with gingerbread theme it's better than stock gb launcher IMO. Search under android development or apps&themes of this forum, think I've seen it there.
You happy with 2.3.3 ???
Pozdrav zemo.
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Why not install ADW with gingerbread theme it's better than stock gb launcher IMO. Search under android development or apps&themes of this forum, think I've seen it there.
You happy with 2.3.3 ???
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I've tried almost every launcher out there but, i really like the stock launcher, clean&fast, i really like the app drawer. Launcherpro & adw ex come close, but the stock launcher is my fav. 2.3.3 is great, great battery, but missing root & cwm, and themes I don't like samsung stock stuff, AOSP is my thing. I'll try to find decent gb launcher, all of the ones that i've tried are not good, 2 of them showed blurry icons in the app drawer.
Pozz
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I've tried almost every launcher out there but, i really like the stock launcher, clean&fast, i really like the app drawer. Launcherpro & adw ex come close, but the stock launcher is my fav. 2.3.3 is great, great battery, but missing root & cwm, and themes I don't like samsung stock stuff, AOSP is my thing. I'll try to find decent gb launcher, all of the ones that i've tried are not good, 2 of them showed blurry icons in the app drawer.
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The problem is not with the Launcher, it is because of 2.3.3 graphic library has some bugs. I already fixed it, see my post.
I just purchased a Motorola Droid 3 XT862. It came loaded with a whole lot of Verizon stuff, and assumes I'm living in the USA. I'm living in Australia and would really prefer to have a choice of locale, and just get all of the pre-installed stuff off there because I'm not gonna use most it. From what I can tell, my only option is to flash the phone with a different firmware.
While I'm aware of the additional features of a couple of the mods such as Cyanogen, because this is my very first Android phone and I'd just like to play around with the stock OS before making any decisions regarding mods, I'd prefer to just stick with vanilla Gingerbread.
So my question is, for someone who has no idea what they're doing, how do I go about putting the stock Android OS on my phone?
Honestly CM is as close for Gingerbread you will get. There are some good stripped down ROMs based off of stock.
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You should try Ice Cream Sandwich.
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I'm not quite ready to try Ice Cream Sandwich just yet.
Do you think it simply isn't possible to get a stock version of Android for my phone?
I use Mavrom myself http://www.droidforums.net/forum/maverick-rom-d3/200510-maverick-rom-v3-5-droid-3-a.html
use it with a different launcher to get rid of the blur launcher, and the rom is pretty close to stock android. You can choose google mucisc and stock messaging too.
No verizon-crap either.
If you don't want mavrom i heard liberty is close to stock too, but never tried it myself and not sure if's being updated still
I'm not sure what the launcher is, sorry. I literally have no idea what I'm doing.
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I'm not sure what the launcher is, sorry. I literally have no idea what I'm doing.
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Well, motorola uses blur launcher.. which is basically the way your homescreen looks (=desktop) and your app drawer. So if you don't want blur use something like go launcher, or stick with blur if you don't care.
You can use morelocale2 (app) to choose your locale.
You could also just root and use the de-bloat script (stickied) to remove all the bloat-ware
You should root your phone and install CyanogenMod 7. It's not ICS and it's quite stable. It's an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM so all those useless apps (bloatware) will be removed.
The link to the thread is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308924
I'm not sure if Australia is GSM, but here's the link for the patch if it is. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357350
I have not tested the patch as I live in the US
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I'm not sure what the launcher is, sorry. I literally have no idea what I'm doing.
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I'll give a counter point to all those saying "root your phone" or flash this ROM or that ROM. Since you say, " I literally have no idea what I'm doing" and elsewhere you say this is your first Android my recommendation would be to just stick with stock for a while and learn how things work before diving into rooting, custom ROM's etc.
In the meantime, one pretty harmless thing you can do is to try different launchers. These give you a somewhat different look and feel to the "desktop" but since they are really an app, you can easily get back to stock by just uninstalling it. That would be much more of a pain free way to go while you try things out and learn. I would ignore those telling you to root at this point.
The only reason I would root is because the battery life is better when you make some tweaks that are only available on root. Even if you just tweak the stock ROM with a couple things it can be worth it.
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I'll give a counter point to all those saying "root your phone" or flash this ROM or that ROM. Since you say, " I literally have no idea what I'm doing" and elsewhere you say this is your first Android my recommendation would be to just stick with stock for a while and learn how things work before diving into rooting, custom ROM's etc.
In the meantime, one pretty harmless thing you can do is to try different launchers. These give you a somewhat different look and feel to the "desktop" but since they are really an app, you can easily get back to stock by just uninstalling it. That would be much more of a pain free way to go while you try things out and learn. I would ignore those telling you to root at this point.
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This was my first android phone and the first thing I did was root it. With pete's tool it couldn't be easier
so is there still no way to flash back to stock if you do the stage upgrade to 906?
hello everyone. first post as you can see. i m not new to the android world, but i m not into modding, so after the buggy stock rom bugged to death, i installed a early CM7 for the SGM. it was maybe 6 months ago.
right now it pretty much ruined. the cache or some inner app folder started to build up, and i tried all kind of things to free up space, till 2 hours ago when i did something and now i cant install any new apps, and having only 13 MB left is not good. i want to start over, but this time i want to do it my way.
what is my way? well, tell me my taste sucks, but i think all of the GO EX apps are awesome, so i'd like to flash a new rom, if possible using just the CWM, that will have the GO: Launcher, SMS, Dialer, Contacts, Calander and Keyboard. the full monty. i dont want wallpaper manager, or google voice (doesnt work in israel), or "Car Home" (what ever that is :| ). for mediaplayer i use playerpro. i want it to have all of those as the basic package, and also opera mobile.
so, the questions (after all the demands lol) are:
1. is there a very basic, flashable from CWM, ROM, that can do the job i need?
2. if the answer for 1 is no, how hard is it to take a basic rom and mod it to suit my needs?
3. since i learned to live with my buggy CM7 and pretty much not using many apps, i can also just install some good rom (using CWM) and let that be. but is there one good rom out there? it seems that in the development forum its all about beta rom's witch S voice and ICS or something like that.
3.If u want a good and stable rom use MORe or Mebitek and kittenlinux's cm7 is very stable too
2.There are plenty of guy in the developement forum about how to make custom rom
1.Use stock
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Well go launcher is a huge resource hog man especially using all of them!!!! It will use aloooottttt of memory ..battery..and so on
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3.If u want a good and stable rom use MORe or Mebitek and kittenlinux's cm7 is very stable too
2.There are plenty of guy in the developement forum about how to make custom rom
1.Use stock
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3. are those flashable from CWM? like, i move the zip to the SD, boot in recovery, few clicks and i got a new and exciting ROM?
2. looked there, it looks complicated :|
1. the stock got samsung crap. TW, samsung apps and all that. is there a vanilla android ROM? (again, if it works the easy CWM way it would be great).
Achiron said:
3. are those flashable from CWM? like, i move the zip to the SD, boot in recovery, few clicks and i got a new and exciting ROM?
2. looked there, it looks complicated :|
1. the stock got samsung crap. TW, samsung apps and all that. is there a vanilla android ROM? (again, if it works the easy CWM way it would be great).
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1) ikr and emanon is vanilla
2) IKR
3) yep yep and emanon is flashable by CWM tooooo!
hurraaay!
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3. are those flashable from CWM? like, i move the zip to the SD, boot in recovery, few clicks and i got a new and exciting ROM?
2. looked there, it looks complicated :|
1. the stock got samsung crap. TW, samsung apps and all that. is there a vanilla android ROM? (again, if it works the easy CWM way it would be great).
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3. Yup, Just remember to wipe data l, cache and dalvik cache before and after flashing
2. It not really that hard search the one by mv_style
1.MORe and emanon v3 are good vanilla the new emanon is a libit bloat.
If u don't like any bloat app use titanium backup to remove them and u can also use titanium back up to convert the apps u like to system (long press the apps u like and thre will be an pop up)
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3. Minisense v3. Based on cm7 with mix of adrenaline engine and slaidy boost for better performance, also beats audio for sound tweaks...
Its awesome...!
Hello, I only recently upgraded my Note via the OTA to 4.0.3. I like the look and feel of it but the appearance is not so good in my point of view. I was wondering if anyone could suggest ways to delete TouchWiz or a good stock ics ROM like the one of the Galaxy Nexus. I have never rooted before but i'm open to the possibility if I can find a good tutorial.
Thanks in advance for coping with my n00b question.
hey
hi this is a new member
Well, if you want to get a stock ICS look (or something close to it) without the need to root or tamper with your device, check out Nova launcher. It looks almost identical to the stock ICS, minus the widgets being in the app menu which can be done to with root, and also it has the ability to have 7 wide dock bar like the Nexus 7.
precisely, as stated above, do you want to change the launcher or entire ROM? there's plenty of launchers in the market, as for room, you may find few with clean, un-samsung-ed Android, like CM9, paranoid etc.
What is better?
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precisely, as stated above, do you want to change the launcher or entire ROM? there's plenty of launchers in the market, as for room, you may find few with clean, un-samsung-ed Android, like CM9, paranoid etc.
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What would you as a senior member suggest to just get the clean stock ics look rooting or not doesn't make a difference?
blasty_blast said:
What would you as a senior member suggest to just get the clean stock ics look rooting or not doesn't make a difference?
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If you're feeling adventurous, I'd recommend paranoid android, cm9 or aokp for pure ics feel.
If not feeling adventurous go with an alternative launcher.
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Hello again, after extensive research I have come across a forum post here on xda that says I can root my Note and using root explorer remove the twlauncher which is basically the touchwiz interface.
I was wondering if this can really work and will it just be like a stock ics like on the Galaxy Nexus?
blasty_blast said:
Hello again, after extensive research I have come across a forum post here on xda that says I can root my Note and using root explorer remove the twlauncher which is basically the touchwiz interface.
I was wondering if this can really work and will it just be like a stock ics like on the Galaxy Nexus?
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TW Launcher should be removable, however, I'd install another launcher first - otherwise you mught end up with no possibility to run anything. Besides that, removing tw launcher, will not give different system look, it's just an app launcher.