[ROM] [FROYO] EC03 Odin ROM

First things first, all credit goes to imnuts for bringing us Froyo! I'm not going to name this anything special, since all I did was download a little from the market here, delete and replace a little there, and make an Odin image. Since I can't in good conscience take any donations for this, if you're so inclined to donate to anyone, donate to imnuts!

This is a modified build of the stock EC03 ROM. I'll spare you all the boring details and just give the main points. As an aside, I take no responsibility if you brick your phone! I've tested this myself on my own Continuum with the actual uploaded ROM, so I can confirm that this works, unless you have already completely screwed up your phone! I have included the link to One Touch Unbrick for such a scenario (credit to AdamOutler)

- I've replaced the TouchWiz launcher with Go Launcher
- Stock browser has been replaced with Dolphin HD
- Bing, MS Streets, VZW apps all removed
- Google Search is the default, and Google Maps is included.
- I haven't figured out how to open Google Voice Search with a long press on the search softkey, but the softkey does open up Google Search
- When starting up, you may get a nag from Go Launcher. Don't worry, it will go away and you'll never see it again.
- For some odd reason, once the shortcut buttons for Go Launcher appeared in the wrong place. If this happens, tap Menu, Preferences, Operation Settings, and check Screen rotation. This will fix it, and you can disable Screen rotation if you'd like

Here's some useful links for what you'll need. This way, you don't have to go searching through threads to get everything you need. To flash, do the following:
1. Download the update.zip file and place it on the root of your SD card. It is probably best to do this first before flashing anything.
2. Place your phone in download mode by removing the battery and holding vol-down while connecting the USB cable.
3. If you want to do a NAND backup before proceeding, then flash just the CWM recovery listed below under PDA in Odin. Otherwise, proceed to step 4.
(a) Remove your USB cable, insert your battery, and power on the device while holding both the vol+ and vol- buttons until the Samsung logo appears
(b) To get into CWM, use the vol- to highlight apply sdcard:update.zip, and tap where the menu softkey normally is
(c) Once in CWM, the power button becomes select, and the back softkey is to go back. Use vol- to highlight backup and restore, select, then select Backup.
(d) Once backup is complete, remove your battery, and while holding down the vol- button, connect your USB cable. Keep holding until you are in download mode.
4. Unzip the ROM file to a tar.md5 file, select this file in Odin under PDA, and flash away!
5. Place the update.zip file linked below and boot into recovery by holding both volume buttons and the power button until you see the Samsung logo.
6. Once in recovery, apply update.zip. This is the CWM recovery, so you'll need to use the menu soft-key to select. Once in CWM, the power button is select and the back soft-key is back.
7. In CWM, make sure you do a wipe/factory reset and wipe cache partition, then reboot.
8. Profit!


Odin3 v1.85: http://www.4shared.com/file/DxGjuFFQ/Odin3.html
Cyan CWM update.zip: http://www.4shared.com/file/cLdwKNsU/update.html
ROM: http://www.4shared.com/file/2hM6e4B2/I400_Froyo.html
One Click Unbrick: http://www.4shared.com/file/u2e5ow7y/OneClick.html
Adrynalyn's CWM Restore: http://www.4shared.com/get/G2sff5Sg/cwm_recovery_test4_adryn.html

TraMaI said:

Doesn't selecting wipe/factory reset and wiping cache partitions totally just uninstall the mod?

Confuuuuuused LOL. I'll try it following your directions exactly (though you should put the "Place Update.zip" part at the very beginning. I foresee a lot of people getting confused on that lol) and see how it goes Thanks!

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No need to get confused! I might just take your suggestion and edit my post. Flashing an Odin image is a lot easier than it sounds, and if you mess something up, there's always a way to get back to stock.

Even though Android devices have a single internal flash drive, there are separate mount points that are used by the OS with different permissions for each. Remember the underlying OS is essentialy a Linux/Unix derivative, and what you see on the UI of the phone is nothing more than a well designed GUI. That being said, the system partition/mount point by default is set as read only. When doing a wipe/factory reset, you are deleting all the user-defined parts of the OS, such as downloaded apps, email, contacts, calendar, etc. The cache partition is just that - a location where parts of the OS are placed when in transition, such as when updating an app that is part of the system partition.

When you root an Android phone, you are essentially unlocking the system partition so you can not only see what data is on the internal storage itself, but by using a file explorer that can make use of the root permissions, you can add and delete content to the system partition, which is how I made this ROM. Once I had everything the way I wanted it, I then extracted those mount points and combined them together into the flashable Odin image.

When you install a custom ROM, you are replacing the system partition located on the internal flash drive, and typically the recovery and kernel partitions as well.

I'm guessing this may be more information than you wanted, but I thought I'd throw it all out there to make things, hopefully, a little clearer.

tanru said:

Does the "Ticker" area still function like the factory version?
Will Flash Player 10 work?

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Yes and yes.

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got long press working with google search xD I'll upload it later xD
you have to do some smali editing to fix it, that's why it wouldn't work xP

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are you on mac or linux