[ROM] ACE ROM v2.0 (No Further EC05 Development)

[EmersonHart13]

Paul,

Thanks again for a great ROM. Just updated my wife from 1.7 to 2.0. I hope you decide to take this ROM to the next level sometime soon. I really enjoy your builds.

Thanks,

John

 

[Paul627g]

Thanks John, hope everything works out good on the update.

 

[ZiggSVO]

Thanks John, hope everything works out good on the update.

Hey. Where's that sweet boot animation?

 

[Paul627g]

You funny Zigg..

 

[Paul627g]

Custom Boot Animation available

Well I did say a while back that I would eventually get this out to everyone. First off big thanks to Cyber Warrior for creating this in the first place. His work is tops in my book.

To my partner ZiggSevo for helping get this boot animation configured to run almost perfectly with our device.. Thank you.

Results may vary from device to device... On Ziggs it played fine, on mine it still seemed to cut a bit short of the complete animation... Not sure why its doing so, must be something with the kernels and the way each of our devices handle a kernel just a bit differently than the next...

Download Link: ACE ROM v2.0 Custom Boot Animation (Flash in CWM)

Also available in the second post of this thread.

 

[TexasEpic4G]

Re: Custom Boot Animation available

Well I did say a while back that I would eventually get this out to everyone. First off big thanks to Cyber Warrior for creating this in the first place. His work is tops in my book.

To my partner ZiggSevo for helping get this boot animation configured to run almost perfectly with our device.. Thank you.

Results may vary from device to device... On Ziggs it played fine, on mine it still seemed to cut a bit short of the complete animation... Not sure why its doing so, must be something with the kernels and the way each of our devices handle a kernel just a bit differently than the next...

Download Link: ACE ROM v2.0 Custom Boot Animation (Flash in CWM)

Also available in the second post of this thread.

DANG ! That only seemed to take forever , Paul ... LOL ! I've gone thru more ROMs than I can remember since I first loaded-up this one ... LOL ! This one is still COOL though ( except for that pesky problem of NOT being able to Power Off / Shut Down ) ..... U still the man Paul ! Looking forward to some GingerACE !

 

[TexasEpic4G]

That Boot Animation is NICE ! the stargate effect is OK , but what really rocks is the spinning ace

 

[gondo]

I thought I'd share my experience with ACE ROM, good and bad, for those who are experiencing freezes and other bad behavior.

I bought my Epic the day of release, and never had to pull my battery due to a lockup once while running Eclair and then ACE ROM 1.7, which I installed not long after Paul released it. In fact, I was dreading ever having to take my "Fort Knox" case off the phone to remove the battery, as it looked pretty formidable (fortunately, it wasn't bad at all).

I upgraded to ACE ROM 2.0 shortly after Paul released it, figuring it would even better than 1.7, which I was very pleased with. Not long after, I got my first bad lockup that forced a battery removal, and it's been about a daily occurance since then :-(. Camera photos are often the culprit, and I would say about half the time when I would attempt to power down the phone, it would freeze, forcing another battery removal. Rather annoying and unexpected, especially after the smooth ride with 1.7.

Last night I'd decided I'd had enough. First thing I did was buy SetCPU through the Market, and I set the minimum and maximum values to 200 MHz and 1000 MHz. The phone promptly froze on shutdown, out came the battery. After powering back on, I set the upper value to 800 MHz, which seemed to help. I didn't create any Profiles in SetCPU, and I checked "Set on Boot" so it would retain those values on power down/up.

I then flashed the Vision 1.1 kernel, replacing the default ACE ROM 2.0 Twilight Zone 1.1.1 kernel. Yes, you must be rooted and have ClockWork installed along with the other goodies to do this, plenty of instructions at the front of this thread on that.

It's only been a day, but I haven't experienced a freeze since installing these 2 items. I have powered down my phone at least a half dozen times, and no lockups . As Paul had mentioned several times previously, kernels are often the source of freezing and erratic behavior and that appears to be good info, at least for me. It appears when it comes to kernels and the Epic, one size does not fit all.

I'll check back in a few weeks with an update, hopefully my Epic continues to avoid stop motion. Thanks Paul!

 

[ZiggSVO]

I thought I'd share my experience with ACE ROM, good and bad, for those who are experiencing freezes and other bad behavior.

I bought my Epic the day of release, and never had to pull my battery due to a lockup once while running Eclair and then ACE ROM 1.7, which I installed not long after Paul released it. In fact, I was dreading ever having to take my "Fort Knox" case off the phone to remove the battery, as it looked pretty formidable (fortunately, it wasn't bad at all).

I upgraded to ACE ROM 2.0 shortly after Paul released it, figuring it would even better than 1.7, which I was very pleased with. Not long after, I got my first bad lockup that forced a battery removal, and it's been about a daily occurance since then :-(. Camera photos are often the culprit, and I would say about half the time when I would attempt to power down the phone, it would freeze, forcing another battery removal. Rather annoying and unexpected, especially after the smooth ride with 1.7.

Last night I'd decided I'd had enough. First thing I did was buy SetCPU through the Market, and I set the minimum and maximum values to 200 MHz and 1000 MHz. The phone promptly froze on shutdown, out came the battery. After powering back on, I set the upper value to 800 MHz, which seemed to help. I didn't create any Profiles in SetCPU, and I checked "Set on Boot" so it would retain those values on power down/up.

I then flashed the Vision 1.1 kernel, replacing the default ACE ROM 2.0 Twilight Zone 1.1.1 kernel. Yes, you must be rooted and have ClockWork installed along with the other goodies to do this, plenty of instructions at the front of this thread on that.

It's only been a day, but I haven't experienced a freeze since installing these 2 items. I have powered down my phone at least a half dozen times, and no lockups . As Paul had mentioned several times previously, kernels are often the source of freezing and erratic behavior and that appears to be good info, at least for me. It appears when it comes to kernels and the Epic, one size does not fit all.

I'll check back in a few weeks with an update, hopefully my Epic continues to avoid stop motion. Thanks Paul!

Well to add alittle info to your situation the twilight zone 1.1.1 does not play we'll with the ondemand setting in setcpu. Otherwise you get wakelocks or screen of death syndrome where your phone won't wake up and has been known to caue some other issues. It also does not like any screen off prfiles at all. So if u decide to go back to twilight just set it to scale "conservative" min 200 and don't use any screen off profiles or you will experience some of the issues u were having
But ace is a good rom
Thanks for sharing!

 

[gondo]

Thanks for the info, good to know. Looks like I'm going to stay with the Vision kernel, since it appears to have solved the lockup problems I was having with Twilight (prior to installing SetCPU).

At some point, I will probably explore SetCPU further and create a profile or two, but for now I'm just happy to have a more reliable phone .

 

[GSF1200S]

Thanks for the info, good to know. Looks like I'm going to stay with the Vision kernel, since it appears to have solved the lockup problems I was having with Twilight (prior to installing SetCPU).

At some point, I will probably explore SetCPU further and create a profile or two, but for now I'm just happy to have a more reliable phone .

I myself am using the Genocide kernel, and am having no issues.

Paul, been using this ROM for months now- best rom ever. No lockups, great battery, stable, perfect.

Heres hoping you release an ACE when gingerbread isnt a leak anymore..

 

[Paul627g]

GSF1200S, glad to hear it

Thanks for the outgoing support.

 

[kedzzoo]

strange things on ACE

so I had ACE rom on my phone for a very long while with the best stability I've had. That went out the window yesterday. as I was uploading files to the epic with wifi explorer it rebooted in the middle. never a good thing, right? so i shrugged it off and resumed uploading. did it again. gave up, let the phone sit there idly-lke and kept rebooting every 5 mins or so. then it didnt load sdcard apps and the launcher kept hanging. after that I did a restore from 2 months ago. worked alright for a few hours until it rebooted again. thankfully the new leak came out the same time I had my problem, so I jumped the gun and said what the hay. any idea how ACE could have failed after so long?

 

[Paul627g]

Re: strange things on ACE

Just like any ROM after a while usually something goes nuts for some unforeseen reason and usually when it gets that bad a quick Odin job to clear things out is needed...

Just the side effects of ROMs or stock OS in general.... Stock OS usually ends up in a factory reset every month or few months....

 

[gondo]

ACE ROM 2.0 Takes a Major Dump - Help!

Today, out of the blue, my Epic basically took a major crap. At first it showed No Service, then finally got it to boot up again, but got lots of errors at startup and at least a half dozen program Force Closes, had to uninstall at least a dozen apps that didn't work, as they wouldn't open anymore, either force closed or showed an error. Further, when I attempt to power down the phone, it almost always freezes and I have to remove the battery.

FYI, I was having problems early on with freezing in ACE ROM 2.0 and installed the Vision kernel v1.0 a couple of months ago, which fixed the problem;

I figured it was time to Odin and start fresh, but after installing the Samsung driver (Win 7 64-bit) on my desktop PC and connecting via USB, I get the 3 options of charging, mass storage and tethering, when I select mass storage, is says "SD card is not present". At this point, I'm not sure the Samsung driver installed correctly. Astro File Manager (after reinstalling) shows the SD card "Directory is empty" and the camera does not work at all when I press the button.

Can I proceed with an Odin Factory Restore without SD card access? Is there a way to fix the missing SD card problem first before the Odin reset? I'm going to do the Froyo EC5 restore.

This is the first time my Epic has truly stumped me, so I'd appreciate any and all help, thanks!

 

[gondo]

Re: ACE ROM 2.0 Takes a Major Dump - Help!

Today, out of the blue, my Epic basically took a major crap. At first it showed No Service, then finally got it to boot up again, but got lots of errors at startup and at least a half dozen program Force Closes, had to uninstall at least a dozen apps that didn't work, as they wouldn't open anymore, either force closed or showed an error. Further, when I attempt to power down the phone, it almost always freezes and I have to remove the battery.

FYI, I was having problems early on with freezing in ACE ROM 2.0 and installed the Vision kernel v1.0 a couple of months ago, which fixed the problem;

I figured it was time to Odin and start fresh, but after installing the Samsung driver (Win 7 64-bit) on my desktop PC and connecting via USB, I get the 3 options of charging, mass storage and tethering, when I select mass storage, is says "SD card is not present". At this point, I'm not sure the Samsung driver installed correctly. Astro File Manager (after reinstalling) shows the SD card "Directory is empty" and the camera does not work at all when I press the button.

Can I proceed with an Odin Factory Restore without SD card access? Is there a way to fix the missing SD card problem first before the Odin reset? I'm going to do the Froyo EC5 restore.

This is the first time my Epic has truly stumped me, so I'd appreciate any and all help, thanks!

Happy to say the problem was with the drivers not being installed, once that happened Odin was able to proceed with its magic.

Never been so happy to see that stock Yosemite arch wallpaper!

 

[gondo]

Re: ACE ROM 2.0 Takes a Major Dump - Help!

I keep answering my own thread here ...

Looks like I may have a hardware problem now ...what proceeded the above mess was when it started, the phone froze and I had to remove the battery. When I did, I noticed some liquid inside both the back of my protective case and inside the back of the Epic case - not a lot, pretty sure just some sweat from when I was holding it during a humid walk within the last hour. When I removed the battery, I wiped out the back of both cases thoroughly, but perhaps the damage had been done.

Now one of the vertical rows of keys on the physical keyboard is not functional - the 6, Y, H and B. Further, when I just installed the SwiftKey X predictive typing app, it would not launch, Force Closes every time. Also, the camera will not launch from the side button, but will through the Applications menu, although it always says "Insert Memory Card to Use Camera" every time on launch.

My guess is that bit of sweat apparently did some damage to the phone's electronics. I've carried this phone on many a sweaty walk and it probably just decided enough is enough.

So it looks like I'll take it to Sprint for a repair look-see...and expecting the worst

 

[Paul627g]

You would never figure that you could trash your device that way. Best of luck down at Sprint. Sorry to hear about the problems with Ace, unfortunately after a while most ROMs get funky and need a wipe and flash but it sound like yours was hardware issues.

 

[rpankoe]

So anyone still using this and getting the constant GB update notification now? I'd like to stay on it until a good GB ROM is out. It's been very stable for me, but now I'm getting constant notification today about the GB update!

 

[GSF1200S]

So anyone still using this and getting the constant GB update notification now? I'd like to stay on it until a good GB ROM is out. It's been very stable for me, but now I'm getting constant notification today about the GB update!

Nope- I havent got that notification yet. The only "issue" Ive had is my superuser app complaining its out of date, and I cant seem to update it. Not really sure why.. Still works fine though, so it doesnt really matter. Ive had the ROM so long it doesnt really surprise me.

Paul, roms get crappy over time?? Ive had this ROM for I dont even remember how long, and I have yet to have a single issue. I use it quite a bit too, so...

I mean it- we at android central (epic forums) will riot if you dont release ACE v. 3.0 for Gingerbread

**EDIT** Though it appears you have another device now, so