[ROM][Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660][2.3.5] Particle 2011-11-17 (beta)

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I've created a custom ROM based on the S5660XXKS5 stock ROM that has the following changes / features:

Custom kernel:

• Overclocking using SetCPU (stable for me at 883MHz but frequencies up to 1GHz are provided).
• TUN driver (for OpenVPN).
• EXT3/4 filesystem support (useful for DT Apps2SD).
• CIFS (SMB) filesystem support to mount windows shares over WiFi (or 3G + VPN).
• Support for swap.
• SmartassV2 and interactive cpu frequency governors (enable them using SetCPU).

Other modifications:

• DT Apps2SD pre-installed.
• Enabled native SIP calling.
• The openvpn binary so you won't have to use OpenVPN Installer.
• Rooted (includes ChainDD's Superuser 3.0 and the latest su binary).
• CRT animation (enable animations from the display settings to enable).
• Disabled fully charged notification (still visible on the lock screen).
• init.d subsystem.
• Juwe11's ram script.
• Re-odexed (optional) and zipaligned for speed and save space in /data.
• Added busybox and sqlite3.
• GPS fix speed fix (hopefully).
• Updated/added Chrome to Phone, DSP Manager, Gmail, Maps, Market, Music (from Ice Cream Sandwich), Samsung Apps, Talkback, Voice Search, YouTube.
• Removed unwanted Samsung apps (Hangman, Book Store, Music Store).

Distinctive features inherited from the stock rom:

• Overscroll glow.
• Compass appears to be working without patches.

Notes:

• If you're experiencing problems with the new Market application, clear its settings and cache.
• This ROM doesn't have a boot animation. Somehow it doesn't stop showing the animation at the end of the boot sequence so I've disabled it. As a positive side-effect, it shaves a couple of seconds off the boot time.
• To prevent you from doing silly things, this ROM will wipe the dalvik-cache on first boot and then reboot.

Downloads:

• The latest beta is available from my website, Particle Android.

*reserved*

Hello, congratulations for the excellent work you have done and are doing ...
you may also adding to it a "theme chooser" as in Cyanogen? bye

Originally Posted by .:AbboZ:.

Hello, congratulations for the excellent work you have done and are doing ...
you may also adding to it a "theme chooser" as in Cyanogen? bye

I'll look into it but from what I recall this requires some very rigorous changes in the framework.

great rom i wonder why the boot animation wont work/isnt changeable. i've tried changing the boot splash image in the recovery.img (gio.rle) but wasnt sure how to replace the modified recovery.img. anyhow keep up the good work!

Originally Posted by .:AbboZ:.

Hello, congratulations for the excellent work you have done and are doing ...
you may also adding to it a "theme chooser" as in Cyanogen? bye

and maybe cf-root also

Originally Posted by hyriand

I'll look into it but from what I recall this requires some very rigorous changes in the framework.

Thank you. .. if you could do that would be great! again congratulations ... great rom!

Originally Posted by bromhexine

great rom i wonder why the boot animation wont work/isnt changeable. i've tried changing the boot splash image in the recovery.img (gio.rle) but wasnt sure how to replace the modified recovery.img. anyhow keep up the good work!

The problem is not that it won't start (I deliberately disabled it), the problem is that it won't stop.

Originally Posted by klebengan

and maybe cf-root also

cf-root? what's that?

Originally Posted by hyriand

cf-root? what's that?

CF-Root takes the kernel from an original Samsung firmware, and just adds root, busybox, and ClockWorkMod (CWM3) recovery.