[ROM] Valhalla Black FB Edition (Build 4, May 29)

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FBis251

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RaverX3X's
Valhalla Black

FB Edition

PURPOSE
This is the version of RaverX3X's Valhalla Black Edition that I use and customized to my liking, which I'm sharing with you.

NOTES
  • This ROM is provided as is
  • I am not going to change the theme for you
  • I am not going to diagnose your random reboots
  • Don't come complaining when you flashed init.d tweaks that make your phone unstable
  • Don't come complaining when you use undervolt/overclock settings that make your phone unstable
  • I will only change things around in the rom if it's reasonable
  • No screenshots for you. This is exactly the same theme as Valhalla Black
  • I decided to use git to track my changes so you know exactly what got changed and when
  • I included a compress.sh script to create your own zip file in *nix or cygwin after you make changes. It even does and adb push for you for easy flash testing

FEATURES
  • AROMA installer
  • Uses a known good modem (KG4 modem, no long sms/gps bugs)
  • antonx's/bhundven's Basic with a Twist SGS4G KJ6 kernel
  • MIUI File Explorer
  • FB's bootanimation.zip
  • Latest version of Google Play
  • Heavily debloated
  • Apps installed by default
  • -- Titanium Backup
  • -- GO Launcher EX
  • -- SwiftKey (Keyboard)
  • -- BLN Control Free (Allows you to enable BLN support)
  • -- Tape-a-Talk Voice Recorder (Allows you to record wav files at much higher quality)
  • -- QuickPic (Gallery Replacement)
  • -- Go SMS Pro (Text Messaging)
  • -- MX Player (Video Player)
  • -- Android Terminal Emulator
  • -- Boat Browser (Web Browser)
  • -- Voodoo Sound
  • CLI Programs! (For all you people who like working in the shell)
  • -- 7zip (all the archive types that 7zip supports: rar, bzip2, zip, tar, gzip, iso, udf, etc)
  • -- curl (busybox's wget doesn't work. Curl does.)
  • -- /etc/profile support (you have to run ash -l to load all the aliases included)
  • Custom /etc/profile file for aliases
  • -- alias l='ls -lh --color=auto' (lists directory contents in long format and with human-readable filesizes)
  • -- alias zip9='7z -mx9 -tzip a' (creates a zip file with maximum compression)
  • -- alias zip='7z -tzip a' (creates a zip file with default compression)
  • Custom init.d scripts (runs on boot)
  • -- zipalign once a week (so your phone's boot will only be slowed down once a week :D)
  • -- permissions
  • Using SuperSU instead of Superuser (for a better interface and usability)
  • Custom /etc/hosts file for ad blocking out of the box

INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Download the ROM zip file to your SD card
  2. Reboot to CWM
  3. Flash the ROM using CWM (no need to set mounts or wipe anything!)
  4. Reboot to the ROM
  5. On the homescreen, press the Menu Button > Themes, scroll to the right and select Ice Cream Sandwich
  6. Enjoy the rom
  7. Thank RaverX3X for his work

CHANGELOG
Commit History

GIT REPOSITORY
Valhalla Black FB Edition on GitHub

DOWNLOAD LINKS
vb-fb-build-4.zip

CREDITS
raverx3x
bhundven
whitehawkx
Team Acid
 
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Biohazard0289

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Oh wow, I'm excited to try your "personal build". Its great that you're sharing that with us.

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tehgyb

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Mar 21, 2011
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Easton, PA
Nice man cant wait to try it out!

Sent from my MZ617 using XDA (yeah guys, rocking a xyboard to try it out lol)
 

hechoen

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May 7, 2011
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FB

Thanks for this. Instruction number 6 just made my day. I've been using TB forever and have never used market doctor. Learn something new every day as they say.
 

FBis251

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FB

Thanks for this. Instruction number 6 just made my day. I've been using TB forever and have never used market doctor. Learn something new every day as they say.

Yeah market doctor is super handy. It's one of the awesome hidden features. I found out about it from restoring a backup and not having my apps update. I read online that one of my apps had updated and I went to the market to check and sure enough there was an update available but my phone didn't warn me. I looked into it and found out that TB can fix the market links for you so that your apps will be recognized again and voila, I had updates for 15 apps. :)

Now that you can do scheduling in the newest version of TB, you can also run the market doctor on schedule, once a week for example
 
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vopezy

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hmmm

just when i flash unnamed you put this up!?! now ill have to check it out
 

xaocon

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Sep 27, 2010
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Atlanta, GA
I'd like to start using your build. Any plans to add zsh? If not would you accept a pull request with it added?

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FBis251

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Mar 21, 2011
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I'd like to start using your build. Any plans to add zsh? If not would you accept a pull request with it added?

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zsh would be awesome, pull request would be greatly appreciated. I wanna make this a really technical build so I'll keep throwing in CLI binaries compiled for Android. We have PLENTY of room on the /system partition, there's no reason why we shouldn't use it
 
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mguelph

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I would like to say thanks to FB, awesome build, and really dig it. Although I am experiencing unstable wifi connectivity.

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    presents.png


    RaverX3X's
    Valhalla Black

    FB Edition

    PURPOSE
    This is the version of RaverX3X's Valhalla Black Edition that I use and customized to my liking, which I'm sharing with you.

    NOTES
    • This ROM is provided as is
    • I am not going to change the theme for you
    • I am not going to diagnose your random reboots
    • Don't come complaining when you flashed init.d tweaks that make your phone unstable
    • Don't come complaining when you use undervolt/overclock settings that make your phone unstable
    • I will only change things around in the rom if it's reasonable
    • No screenshots for you. This is exactly the same theme as Valhalla Black
    • I decided to use git to track my changes so you know exactly what got changed and when
    • I included a compress.sh script to create your own zip file in *nix or cygwin after you make changes. It even does and adb push for you for easy flash testing

    FEATURES
    • AROMA installer
    • Uses a known good modem (KG4 modem, no long sms/gps bugs)
    • antonx's/bhundven's Basic with a Twist SGS4G KJ6 kernel
    • MIUI File Explorer
    • FB's bootanimation.zip
    • Latest version of Google Play
    • Heavily debloated
    • Apps installed by default
    • -- Titanium Backup
    • -- GO Launcher EX
    • -- SwiftKey (Keyboard)
    • -- BLN Control Free (Allows you to enable BLN support)
    • -- Tape-a-Talk Voice Recorder (Allows you to record wav files at much higher quality)
    • -- QuickPic (Gallery Replacement)
    • -- Go SMS Pro (Text Messaging)
    • -- MX Player (Video Player)
    • -- Android Terminal Emulator
    • -- Boat Browser (Web Browser)
    • -- Voodoo Sound
    • CLI Programs! (For all you people who like working in the shell)
    • -- 7zip (all the archive types that 7zip supports: rar, bzip2, zip, tar, gzip, iso, udf, etc)
    • -- curl (busybox's wget doesn't work. Curl does.)
    • -- /etc/profile support (you have to run ash -l to load all the aliases included)
    • Custom /etc/profile file for aliases
    • -- alias l='ls -lh --color=auto' (lists directory contents in long format and with human-readable filesizes)
    • -- alias zip9='7z -mx9 -tzip a' (creates a zip file with maximum compression)
    • -- alias zip='7z -tzip a' (creates a zip file with default compression)
    • Custom init.d scripts (runs on boot)
    • -- zipalign once a week (so your phone's boot will only be slowed down once a week :D)
    • -- permissions
    • Using SuperSU instead of Superuser (for a better interface and usability)
    • Custom /etc/hosts file for ad blocking out of the box

    INSTRUCTIONS
    1. Download the ROM zip file to your SD card
    2. Reboot to CWM
    3. Flash the ROM using CWM (no need to set mounts or wipe anything!)
    4. Reboot to the ROM
    5. On the homescreen, press the Menu Button > Themes, scroll to the right and select Ice Cream Sandwich
    6. Enjoy the rom
    7. Thank RaverX3X for his work

    CHANGELOG
    Commit History

    GIT REPOSITORY
    Valhalla Black FB Edition on GitHub

    DOWNLOAD LINKS
    vb-fb-build-4.zip

    CREDITS
    raverx3x
    bhundven
    whitehawkx
    Team Acid
    9
    going to work with fb to add some updates to this which will also work with my version case anyone still using that.

    Things to do

    Remove drive smart from settings menu

    Add screen capture to power menu mod
    Add swipe abale notification possibly swipe able widgets.
    fix the audio pop that some people experience with it doesn't happen to much in un named.

    Few other things we can think of :p
    7
    Build 3 is up!
    Changes:
    Updated kernel to antonx's Basic with a Twist SGS4G KJ6 1.0 Beta5
    Added Voodoo sound
    Added Go Launcher Ex
    Added Go Launcher Ex ICS theme
    Added MX Video Player Video Plugin (For more video codec support)
    Updated MiFileExplorer
    Updated other apps to the latest versions
    Updated init.d scripts
    Removed LauncherPro
    4
    4
    Registered trademark. Made me chuckle.

    EDIT

    Well it looks like this rom is getting abandoned, as you can see I haven't updated it since May 29, 2012. Raver has said that he's going to continue development of Valhalla Black so you'll most likely be able to use his awesome rom that way. Installing apps along with the rom is just a convenience but you can always do it by hand from Google Play. I think he mentioned that he was using some of the modifications I made to the rom in his next update but we'll have to wait and see.