[Q] What firmware do I currently have? Orange uk phone + best stock rom debranding???

xjairusx

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Hi all, so I've rooted by phone using the amazing one click script and have managed to unlock the phone using sgs unlock tool but sgs2 could not find my unlock code.

Before attempting this I backed up my EFS folder.

Its been a while since i've flashed anything (a few years ago on my old old htc hero, had a desire hd since that which I didn't feel the need to flash at the time) and Now I have my SGS2 which came locked on the orange UK network.

Not amazed with the colour scheme and much preferred the blue battery etc of the virgin simfree sgs2 I had previously lol. It appears to have lots of orange bloatware present on the ROM aswell as annoying boot animation which i'd like to remove.

I do quite like the signal boost app idea although not sure how well it works as not had chance to try it!

I've added Go Launcher and a nice ICS theme on there to play with and a HTC sense theme but not overly impressed with go launcher and it seems to stop my search button function from functioning for some reason. I've got plenty of apps installed and configured although one thing that has annoyed me is being able to remove googlemail and gtalk from the social hub program as having google account sync on, I get 2 notifications about my emails.

*#1234# has provided me with the following details if anyone can decipher it. I'm actually using a t-mobile network card at present.

PDA: I9100PBVKI3

Phone: I9100PBVKI2

CSC: I9100PORAKI3

Build Info: Mon Sep 26 20:37:02 KST 2011

Whats the latest best stock ROM in peoples opinions? How do I remove orange bloatware via adb and is it possible to modify the orange boot screen? Alternatively... so I just wipe and flash a new stock simfree rom to start with?
 

xjairusx

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Just looked at ICS Domincation with Soulbound, the theme looks very nice... whats the overall opinion on the ROM from majority of people? Should I switch from the stock rom optins possibly? :).
 

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Just looked at ICS Domincation with Soulbound, the theme looks very nice... whats the overall opinion on the ROM from majority of people? Should I switch from the stock rom optins possibly? :).
I would recommend flashing hyperdroid (personal favorite) v5 final if you want to use ics domination.

Most themes won't work on odexed roms like the totally stock Samsung ones. You would need a deodexed custom rom.

To freeze bloatware or remove it I would use titanium backup or Gemini app manager (this also manages auto runs)

When installing a new rom you will need to wipe data, so use titanium backup to backup user app data and apps only, SMS backup+ to backup sms's and sync your contacts to Google.

Your internal and external SD cards won't be wiped but always backup stuff you can't afford to lose.

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