Serendipity VII install from stock

[buckwheat-phd]

Some initial thoughts on this ROM (coming from stock 2.2):

1) All this talk about quadrupling your battery life is BS. It drains just as fast as Froyo, period. The backlight on an Infuse uses 400ma/hr, no exceptions. Power usage is, and always will be the Infuse's achilles heel.

2) A good # of older apps that run fine with 2.2 cause all sorts of bizarre behavior with 2.3. This certainly isn't a Serendipity issue though

3) Basic apps like Email etc are excluded from the distribution, and you have to spend another 3 hours searching this forum - to find out he threw them in the corner of his website, and they require a separate download and installation. But they won't install anyway, get "Application Not Installed" on all of them. It's an authentication issue, and you'll have to search again to find a non-signed version. ALL of this could have been avoided if these little apps were just thrown in to begin with. No excuse on this one. Size doesn't matter anymore.

4) You'll need recovery.zip, and you'll have to spend the usual 3 hours searching and finding the right /latest one. Then you'll have to purchase a root file handler to rename/install. This should somehow be bundled with this and ANY ROM

5) 2.3 mangles Call blockers, voicemail etc. You'll have to reconfigure them then they should work fine.

6) Phone now rings once or twice, after caller hears it ring for 5 times. You'll miss calls.

7) This version is simply MUCH quicker than 2.2. It loads everything from browsers to apps about twice as fast.

 

[631735]

1) Battery life, we are all mostly talking stand-by/idle. This rom & 2.3 has better memory management and keeps it going longer if you know what you're running in the background. Of course having the display on kills the battery faster.

2) don't know what the apps are so can't comment

3) I don't know the legalities, but I'm pretty sure I've read from the devs, the reason those types of apps are left out is it's illegal to compile them in their roms. Seems like AOSP type apps are there cooked in the roms. I believe Google Apps are a bit iffy if cooked in rom but a lot have shown up in roms. The email app is Samsung's which is why it's not in there. Also, I don't think you read the install right. You flash the zip from the add-on's that you've created in CWM Recovery. Not unzip it and install each apk from it.

4) What is the purpose of the recovery.zip file you speak? Never needed that to flash/run roms

5) never had that issue

6) never had that issue

7) yes


*are you new to flashing roms? 3 hours to find things? esp if you're on XDA, the first post has everything you need. even in this thread, i even left links to places in my first post

 

[buckwheat-phd]

*are you new to flashing roms? 3 hours to find things? esp if you're on XDA, the first post has everything you need. even in this thread, i even left links to places in my first post

Oh yea - I'm new at it. We've got the best android phone so far [Infuse], and it was killing me that Samsung and ATT tossed it in the desk drawer and forgot about it and 8 others just like it. To make it worse, these devs were ignored in order to babysit a hardware stream, each with severe concessions and lacking capabilities in the name of sales. People like yourself and others that are interested enough to donate time/effort when Samsung left off are to be commended.

Nonetheless it left me in a precarious position - flashing the device myself if I wanted it updated to something newer than a year-old version. After choosing from the dozens of roms available, each demand their own idiosyncrasies and levels of effort/research. True, to you and others who have the experience it's a no-brainer. But I would say this could easily cause some friction within our own ranks - and has even driven some back to the iPhone.

IOS is a much more robust OS than the Linux micro-kernel Android, but Apple suffers from only one choice of hardware (or two if you count the pad). On the other hand, we have a wealth of hw choices and manufacturers - who almost all are now back on their heels with the 4S being introduced. I mean what were they doing the last 12 months ? upgrading n 800mhz processor to a 900mhz and renaming the device?

So now the avg end-user is faced with two daunting issues - fighting the greed/laziness of the Android hardware developers, and the ever-hope that some x.y version of Android will come up to IOS's potential - like ICS perhaps. And if they don?t get a grip on competing with SIRI, they?re cooked - believe me.

The more I look at Android, the more it really wreaks of the same issues that kept Linux out of the limelight for the avg consumer. Only this time we aren?t forced to deal with a bastardized OS like Windows as our only alternative. IOS is a formidable piece of work and it?ll take all the Android community can muster to keep up, much less surpass. Let?s don?t get cocky about this just because we have the nicety of dozens of mediocre hardware choices on our side. IOS 5 is so far ahead of any kernel version of Android we need all the help we can get. Toss in the flippant attitudes of Samsung, Motorola, LG etc ? plus the carriers ? and this is trouble for us Android-owners. These mfgs should be WAY far out in front of the ONE Apple device from a hardware perspective. Instead, we get a dozen new models each month, each with huge issues and lagging specs. That's when we say [down here] that someone needs to take names and kick ass.

I was SO hoping that Google would have forced standards and policies (like Apple did with IOS). Sort of like big-brother that Redhat and others could never do. But I haven?t seen it.

So my comments above were frustrating in nature, and although asinine to you and knowledgeable others, these issues are quite real-world to a large percent of us. Go count the posts (just in this thread even) similar to "I'm lost" or "I've bricked it" ?where do I get primary file xxx.yyy? just trying to bring their damn phones up-to-date. Root file managers, specialty boot binaries we have to search for, licensing/authentication/signature issues with apps, GUI ROM managers, fixing all the apps after the migration, broken cell issues all do NOT bode well for the Android process.

Until we can bring the discipline of one-click control and updates to Android, manufacturers who incessantly place at least ? dozen aggravating/outdated design features in each new model, until then I think we?re screwed. For instance: the iPhone has a Samsung 535 graphics chip, almost 8x faster than the same Samsung chip Samsung is shipping in their own phones. The Samsung Prime has a 531 chip, circa 2007. Inexcusable. I don't care if Steve Jobs did buy them all up from under Samsung - that still leaves us (the consumers) with pitiful hardware.

I think we?ll simply languish in our own mediocrity and pool of manufacturing greed until some authority steps in and slaps us silly. Apple had that discipline built into it?s own bureaucracy. We don?t have that luxury and must do it ourselves. And we SURE can?t count on executives from Verizon and the phone company (ATT) to get a conscious in the near future.

So in the meantime, I was lucky enough to find a ROM with Clockwork that was a one-click flash, now it?s running the latest Infused. A quick format of the internal SD, a reload of all apps and I was in biz.

But believe me ? the ?Infused? rom is not nearly as sexy as the serendipity, nor as fast IMHO. I?m going to switch back to Serendipity here in a min just as a benchmark ? wish me luck. And thanks SO much for your and all other Android developers out there. My complaints may be common, but they?re not meant to be inflammatory by any means ? especially to the android developers out there that are both providing us users with a service, and carrying the torch.

All the best

 

[iceface]

So I downloaded cwm-community-kernal-v8.zip (which shows up as SetupV1.exe on my internal SD card) and when I open SGS kernal flasher and tyr to flash it I get an error message that says the zImage file is not a valid kernal image and the kernal flash failed. Do I need to unzip it on the internal SD card?

 

[iceface]

anyone?????

 

[jgruberman]

Not sure if this thread is dead or what, but I followed instructions exactly, phone came back up perfectly, but NONE of my old apps that I had before are there... ideas?

 

[lnwlfprz]

It really works!!!

 

[dan in la]

Not sure if this thread is dead or what, but I followed instructions exactly, phone came back up perfectly, but NONE of my old apps that I had before are there... ideas?

I'm new to this and no expert, but I think that just happens when you flash a ROM. Supposedly you can use Titanium Backup to recover your apps and data, but the developers seem to say that's not such a good idea. I don't have that many apps, so it wasn't too bad to just download them again from the market. I did use an app to save my text messages.

It's been a huge improvement having Serendipity on my phone, and well worth the price of losing my progress on Angry Birds.

 

[Cranky]

I'm new to this and no expert, but I think that just happens when you flash a ROM. Supposedly you can use Titanium Backup to recover your apps and data, but the developers seem to say that's not such a good idea. I don't have that many apps, so it wasn't too bad to just download them again from the market. I did use an app to save my text messages.

It's been a huge improvement having Serendipity on my phone, and well worth the price of losing my progress on Angry Birds.

You should back up your apps with titanium, but after you flash a different rom, only restore apps, NOT system data.

And, if your phone is running good, you should make a back up using Red CWM, before flashing a different Rom. If you have a custom kernel the you should haveRed CWM. Boot to recovery and choose back up.

 

[Cranky]

So I downloaded cwm-community-kernal-v8.zip (which shows up as SetupV1.exe on my internal SD card) and when I open SGS kernal flasher and tyr to flash it I get an error message that says the zImage file is not a valid kernal image and the kernal flash failed. Do I need to unzip it on the internal SD card?

You downloaded the wrong file it should be listed as: cwm-community-kernal-v8.zip

 

[Cranky]

Not sure if this thread is dead or what, but I followed instructions exactly, phone came back up perfectly, but NONE of my old apps that I had before are there... ideas?

When you or the rom do a wipe from cwm, all user data is wiped.

 

[Daz77]

Love the rom but, I can't seem to get my contacts back. I backed them up in the stock contacts app as recomended. But when I try to restore them it says can't find vcard on sd.

 

[joe1987]

Love the rom but, I can't seem to get my contacts back. I backed them up in the stock contacts app as recomended. But when I try to restore them it says can't find vcard on sd.

When you log back into Gmail on the phone your contacts should be restored, I have tested 6 diff ROMs and each time I log into the phone for gmail under settings/accounts all my contacts are fully restored.

 

[Cranky]

Love the rom but, I can't seem to get my contacts back. I backed them up in the stock contacts app as recomended. But when I try to restore them it says can't find vcard on sd.

Can you access your external SD Card?

 

[aurum555]

The link for cwm-community-kernel-v8.zip is broken. It will not open the page and I cannot find it anywhere that actually works. If you could post a new place I could download it from or seed a torrent of it; it would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

[naveederson]

thank you so much! this is the only method that worked because for some reason i couldn't get modded 3e recovery! HUGE thanks

 

[rickoidINfuse2g3b6]

trying this ROM 7/24/2012 10:36pm eastern
Using the infuse toolbox to clear cache
then install zip .
phone is talking " saying 2 minutes ".

Im looking for some NEW INFUSE ROMS TO TEST.