[ROM][KK 4.3] Avatar ROM for Samsung Galaxy SII (I9100) - Updated [Feb 17, 2014]

[ROM][KK 4.3] Avatar ROM for Samsung Galaxy SII (I9100) - Updated [Feb 17, 2014]


Details:



Instructions:

If it's the first time flashing avatarrom  or coming from another ROM

Our Changes:


Recent Changelog

23/10/2013 - 3.1.7 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed a crash that would occasionally occur while scrolling in the apps drawer
• ThemeChooser
  • Fixed an issue with WallpaperActivity
  • Fixed an issue with ThemeMix Manager reset
  • Fixed Font UI
  • Added Countly support
  • Changed the font display
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 22nd Oct.

Oct 19th 2013 - 3.1.6 nightly changelog

• Launcher:
  • Fix for Market Launcher UPDATE issue in our Avatar Rom
  • Fix for double tapped on Home button where animation was stopped in between
  • Minor fix for seekbar paddin
• ThemeChooser:
  • Tone stop issue fix
  • null check for appcount display in store tab View
  • Feature: play tone on clicking tone select item in ThemeMixManager (Missed file added back)
  • Default Image changed
  • Boot animation and font renderer added in theme Mix
  • Feature: play tone on clicking tone select item in ThemeMixManager
  • ThemeMixmanager enabled

Oct 4th 2013 - 4.0.4 and 3.1.4 nightly changelog
-> Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 1st october.
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Sep 29 2013 - 3.1.3 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed double tap Widget issue
  • Preview image fix
• ThemeChooser
  • Fix a gap with breadcrumb text gaps
  • Fix an issue with search
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 27th Septmeber.

Sep 29 2013 - 4.0.3 nightly changelog
->CM merges till Sep 26, 2013.
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Sep 26, 2013 - Nightly changelog 3.1.2

• Sending Network operator Country code and Carrier id to config server Network operator
• country code and Carrier id addded for config server
• Theme downloaded to internal memory
• Some issues fix
• CM Merges Sep 23 Mid night

13/09/2013 - 3.1.1 Nightly changelog

• ThemeChooser
  • Fix store names
  • Feature: Show notifications for new themes
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 13th Septmeber.

14/09/2013 - 4.0.2 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fix an issue with icon scaling
  • Fix an issue with transparency in drawers
• ThemeChooser
  • Fix store names
  • Feature: Show notifications for new themes
  • Feature: Automatically install scheduled themes when wifi is connected
  • Fixed a bug with featured page not loading correctly
  • Fixed a bug with pause button not displaying
  • Fixed a bug with the search icon
  • Fixed a bug with the keyboard not hiding
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 13th Sept.

Nightly release 4.0[JB43] - Sep 10, 2013
Reddit (r/android) users had problem with the voulme slider coming in the middle of screen. We had the same problem too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1ja6dg/can_we_get_the_main_volume_slider_to_not_be_in/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1l0g3o/i_made_a_mockup_of_volume_controls_that_i_would/

• Added option in settings -> Sound -> Volume Panel Positioning to move the volume slider.
• Volume slider can be moved to Top, offset from top, center, offset from bottom, bottom.

04/09/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fix an issue with icon scaling
  • Fix an issue with transparency in drawers
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 3rd August.

29/08/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• ThemeChooser
  • Feature: Automatically install scheduled themes when wifi is connected
  • Fixed a bug with featured page not loading correctly
  • Fixed a bug with pause button not displaying
  • Fixed a bug with the search icon
  • Fixed a bug with the keyboard not hiding
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 28th August.

24/08/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed a bug with folders not working correctly
• ThemeChooser
  • Bug fix: download themes when wifi is on
  • Fixed a bug Theme Engine Versioning
  • Fixed a bug with System Theme
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 22st August.

19/08/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed a bug with an extra gallery icon appearing at times
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 16th August.

14/08/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed a bug with hot set for landscape
  • Fixed a bug with dock disappearing in Landscape mode
• Theme Engine
  • Fixed a Launch Crash
  • Added support for MIN_THEME_ENGINE_VERSION
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 13th August.

08/10/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Black shadow in Landscape
  • Drawer default transition -Cube In and out
• Removed icon showing for themes in installed tab and showing default gray image
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 8th August.

Previous releases

Download Avatar ROM Samsung Galaxy SII(i9100):



Videos:

Sample Video - checkout our MIUI style lockscreens, statusbar, messaging, etc and the smooth transition of themes:


Review by Phone tech kid


All Videos

Credits:

• Cyanogen Team
• Trebuchet launcher
• MiUi Theme creators

If there are any errors let us know in the comments or file the bug at http://issues.avatarrom.com

You can find more information at http://www.avatarrom.com

Feature request page - https://avatarrom.uservoice.com/forums/193652-avatarrom-feature-request

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XDA:DevDB Information
[ROM][KK 4.3] Avatar ROM for Samsung Galaxy SII (I9100) - Updated [Feb 17, 2014], a ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S II

Contributors
bippi79
ROM OS Version: 4.3.x Jellybean
Based On: CyanogenMod

Version Information
Status: Testing

Created 2013-06-27
Last Updated 2014-02-20

5.0.4 nightly changelog - Jan 26 2014

Jan 26 2014 - 5.0.4 nightly changelog.

• ThemeChooser:
  • Font size of message text in internet_alert_layout changed
  • Countly Download count issue fix
  • Hide default theme details
  • Memory Leak Fix
• CM merges till Jan 23rd

Nightly 5.0.4 - Jan 26 2014
gapps-kk

2.9b release

05/04/2013 - AvatarROM 2.9b release.

• CyanogenMod merges till May 2nd 2013.
• SystemUI fixes during expanded desktop (the background was not covering till the end. Also portrait - landscape transition, the notifications wouldn't expand fully)
• ThemeChooser : Fixes for text invisible in installed themes tab for dark themes
• ThemeChooser will not handle market links anymore and Memory leak fix.
• Old themechooser is removed completely.
• Launcher : Fix crash without wipe & make dockbar transperant.
• In OTA updater show that the gapps and rom is installed if they are installed. ( Previously it used to show new or downloaded).
• Change Cyanogen Mod Updates to Avatar Updates
• We have a global error reporter collecting the crashes reported by the user using ACRA. Error Reporter link

Explanations and facts. Our status as of now.

Lately there has been a lot of confusion as to our approach to AvatarROM and the support scenario for all the various devices. We have had a lot of negative, and must I say, important feedback, and we have also seen a slight wane in our download numbers.

First off the bat, let us lay it out there in front of you that AvatarROM is still up and running and very much alive. There have been a few problems lately, but more about that later. We would like to ensure to our users that our development pattern is still chugging like a well oiled machinery and soon things will be right back on track.

We received a lot of flak for the last 4.3 build that we came out with, which actually had a major flaw in the lockscreen, putting devices into continuous bootloops. Our immediate solution was to advice users not to upgrade at all, and to those who had, to downgrade to the previous build. Although we ended up promising users that we will soon release a new build, unfortunately it never ended up happening. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have not been able to push out a new build to our users, nor have we released any update for all those devices still on 4.2.2. The good news though, is that we will soon have a new build up and running. We are working on it and it should see the light of day soon.

The second problem, and in a way, a more grievous one was that a lot of older builds and in some cases, all the builds for specific device models got erased from our servers, as a result of which new users were never able to download our ROM. This lead to a lot of confusion, and in some cases, agitation that we might be wrapping up, which as we cleared up, is not the problem. We were trying to tweak the back- end servers and in the process, lost a lot of those older images. By the time we could salvage them, it was too late. Currently we are in the process of tweaking the servers (really carefully) and make sure that most of those missing builds are available.

So yes, in a nutshell, we really dropped the ball this time. We will like to thank all our users who stood valiantly alongside us, even though aware of the issues. We are looking into solving all these problems and should be able to alleviate them altogether in the coming days. So please be patient, just for a few more days.

Thanks

Find out about which apps can run in ART (Android Run Time), the easy way

A quick little post for something we have been working on lately.

Quite a few of you people would have heard about Android Kitkat and the bag of goodies that it brings along with it. One of those important changes though, is very much under the hood. It is called ART or Android Runtime. So what is it, and why is it important to us?

As described by Google, ART is a new Android runtime being introduced experimentally in the 4.4 release. This is a preview of work in progress in KitKat that can be turned on in Settings > developer options. Before this, all these days, every Android application used to run in its own process, with its own instance of the Dalvik virtual machine. Dalvik has been written so that a device can run multiple VMs efficiently. The Dalvik VM executed files in the Dalvik Executable (.dex) format which is optimized for minimal memory footprint. Now, with Android 4.4, Google has revealed that the Dalvik replacement, called Android Runtime (ART), should improve the performance of Android apps by a huge margin. The early version of ART in Android 4.4 already has been reported to have sped up apps by around 100%, though it is too early to know the whole truth. It might as well be a placebo till then.

ART straddles an interesting mid-ground between compiled and interpreted code, called ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation. Currently with Android apps, they are interpreted at runtime every time you open them up. This is slow. (iOS apps, by comparison, are compiled in native code, which is much faster.) With ART enabled, each Android app is compiled to native code when you install it. Then, when it’s time to run the app, it performs with all the speed and responsiveness of a native app.

Now, a lot of developers as well as enthusiasts will be really interested in this thing. It allows Android developers to continue writing the exact same code, and having their apps work across a wide range of hardware specs and form factors — but now their apps will now run significantly faster, feel more responsive, and your device’s battery life should improve.

And this is where our new website, www.androidruntime.com comes in. Right now, in these initial stages, people are still confused as to which apps can run in ART and which cannot. Our website solves this tiny issue by letting you search for any app, and see if ART supports it or not. Missing an app but you know the answer to the question? You can even contribute and add to the supported app list. We will do a quick verification and update the search results.

Now the website is still in its infancy, but we are sure that a lot of people might be interested in it. So spread the word and do what you guys really do best.

Oh, and have a great weekend!