[ROM] I9003XXKPM [28.09.2011]Android 2.3.5]

I9003XXKPM

Android 2.3.5


Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/132666832/c6474bf/GT-I9003_SER_I9003XXKPM_I9003XXKPM_I9003SERKPM.rar.html

Pass: sampro.pl

Mirror:
http://www.multiupload.com/H8PEAHFDFH

Unfortunately i saw this only now... i wish to build the cf-root tomorrow

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My View:

So far after playing with the new XXKPM I decided to throw in my 2 cent's so someone voice out their opinions/violent reactions if ever they feel that they need to state something for/against.

Tweaks: I've disabled any use of tweaks as for some odd reason the phone performs faster in the long run compared to them enabled. Weird? I've been doing this on the stock aswell and have experienced no lags whatsoever.

Note: For the battery I add this note so that people may be aware that this isn't supposed to be a sort of one sided theory.
Battery : The battery consumption has remained as it is, although there has been a slightly better battery life compared to before, I've heard alot of people complain about the drain rate at which the phone tends to consume, you open a million apps, you will have a million apps running in the background that you don't even know, some are passive apps that require you to open once before it secretly runs itself in the background--An example would be Glu Games like E.Warriors. Another would be the active apps like Skype which automatically keeps itself running in the background regardless of your attempt to close it, But before I proceed forward this has always been based off user integrity, the drain is prior to the amount of apps you use, By default apps like WhatsApp and Maps/Layar/Market have the tendency to reopen themselves constantly despite closing them. I shall dub these into two sections, System Apps I shall call them as Saps. Take note that SApps include/consist of those that tend to reopen themselves after constant closing.

SAPS Open
The drain is average as usual, The usual 1~2% drain per 5mins, This includes battery prefix at it's default 40% that's auto adjusted with stock. Battery seems to be draining at it's average rate, no real improvement's, I doubt there were any expectancy. [Rather I have seen in some Samsung models where they had the autoradio turnoff, this includes Wifi/Bluetooth in which if it wasn't used the phone would turn them off with a notice reminder. I hope they implement this, was a pretty good feature] Surprisingly though, I might add that the performance/RAM Management seems to be alot better, Even with GMaps open the phone doesn't lag with LW..That's new.

SAPS Closed
-GMaps
-WhatsApp*Not a system app I'm aware but it's multitasking system is similar*
-Layar
-GTalk
-Market
-Latitude

The list complies of those program's in which I've observed in the Task Manager that tend to reopen themselves after attempting to clear the RAM cache for space. Now this is somewhat, Unique and amazing in a sense because the average battery drain is about 2% every 14mins, Yes, counted and checked. Wifi is off for most of you pondering. In a sense their battery ratio consumption is well balanced, can't say that It had any issues in the first place, Take note that Maps, Is what consumes like 6% of your battery, wether you are on Wi-Fi or not, Maps and Whatsapp will suck the life out of your battery like a vampire so feel free to equip your nerfbat and smack these apps with the nerfbat. Better yet, Uninstall some of them if you don't use them. Infact removing GMaps/Layar/SamsungApps/Aldiko improves the performance of your phone by 23% and battery by 12-15%.

Apps:

The apps are somewhat outdated, This includes the Market and GMaps and most apps that some would have already been updated/obtained from xda members. The firmware is basically updated with what was believed to be "Stable", GMaps in it's 5.8.0 where there is now, 5.10.0 or 11 If i'm not mistaken, Market is at it's 2.3.6 which is overly outdated compared to the 3.2.0, Difference is massive!.
- Swype has been updated. *Who uses this?*

Performance/Bug Fix:

Performance is surprisingly smooth? This hasn't been seen in the XXKPH series for some reason, I feel this is a good base IMO for most custom ROM's to be based off. In a sense *I speak this with the tweaks disabled* the phone 's performance is blazing, Opening apps to closing them, tabbing aswell and typing, So far so good no glitches with keyboards, beta or stable releases. I'm a big fan of SwiftKey X and so far I haven't experienced hard lags compared with the XXKPH series where there lied jerks and stutters. So far so good the consumption of RAM has been somewhat stabilized, There has been few bugfixes I've noticed where some apps would overlap and cause the previous screen to stick onto the next one. Ever had an app open which needed a keyboard but phone had it's "DOTD aka known as Damnit of the day, where you phone hangs up randomly and a few secs later just throws whatever it tried/supposed to load but all buggy and a late vibration" and the keyboard sticks onto the next screen? Happens alot in the XXKPH series where the keyboard from SMS if the phone hung would just stick onto the homescreen and you couldn't do crap and your forced to turn on/off the screen to fix it, Well that's been rectified here aswell as the minor hiccups.

Keyboard Apps: So far so good keyboard app's I've used have had no hiccups, This ofcourse is different with the tweaks enabled.

LW: They don't seem to lag the phone as much as it used to, no RON issues here aswell, You can test for yourself, pick the water LW and tap anywhere on screen page [1] then while the ripple motion is active, quickly swap to page [7] by flipping backwards you will notice no lags, no sudden spike in RAM and the ripple action is fluid even when suddenly tabbing from app drawer to homepage. Sakura market LW still lags the phone, but it's ok, probably their side.

Camera: No improvements on this, Camera firmware remains the same, no changes, probably the same as XXKPH. But I did notice that the app opens pretty fast. By default the camera app takes about 10-12 secs to kick in, But upon closing and opening and attempting the same by clearing the cache, It launches in 3 secs. To some this isn't a big deal? But to me it's a major factor,especially when there's a moment you need to capture quickly and don't have to wait a million years for your camera to load while a cheapass nokia takes a picture faster than the phone can load it. Respect +10.

Phone: Signal reception seem's to be alot better than previously. I used to get 4 bars from where I live, But lately I've been getting 5 bars. And no, the signal pole remains untouched.

Also from what I've noticed, They added a Task Manager widget "Program Monitor", woo?
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Feedbacks?

Was able to flash this firmware and here's some quick review:

1. New market version is 3.1.5
2. smooth ui
3. GPS working great able to lock in 2 or 3 secs.
4. 3G is great
5. tethering working fine
6. has end scroll glow effect
7. GMAIL push notification is great
8. Email is working fine with exchange.
9. Camera is great
10. No GB keyboard
11. wifi is working able to test this on my neighbors free wifi
12. Able to root using skin's root
13. after applying the root tethering is not working
14. after applying the root wifi it gives error and does not work
15. after applying the root gps do not work
16. able to swap external(as the main card) and internal sd card.
17. I am able to flash custom rom (nexus rom in particular) but after flashing my 3g connection is gone
18. GMAIL issue sync is fixed - though were some delays about a min or 2

# Not able to test:

2. Battery ?


Will give more feedback later after i run some random test

What I did:

I did the usual procedure of flashing xxpe, and flash xxpm immediately so instead of flashing xxph I did xxpm.

Recommendation:

So for those who will be customizing you should look at the 3g settings/network settings/gps, I think all those xxph custom rom will run with a few modification on the 3g settings/network settings/gps.
So far so good this is stable, fast and smooth though this is stock. I recommend this rather than using xxph.
We need a CF-Root for this device hope skin or amit can make one on this


CIAO Im out

After testing for 2hrs..

Gps lock 3 to 4 secs
3g network work better than kph.
Overscroll glow added
Increased fps
Camera works fine
Video plays 720p
New market works better
RAM usage same as kph
No crt effect

its just like of the customROM that is available now on kph..

Bad;
Battery still sucks like other stock rom
Battery heats up when I rebooted after using 2hrs

I think it would be a great base for another custom ROM..

Still testing..later I will decompile to see what have been change and added.. I will send feedback again after that...




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