[ROM][KERNEL][JZO54K][01.12.2013] GeeWiz 3.4 (Retired)

[Cookiemonster21]

I've got an idea, but not being a developer I'm not sure how simple this would be...
I really like the looks of touch wiz, but stock roms are awful and I love jellybeans speed. Anyway that you can make a theme for this? There's definitely no pressure, just wondering if it is remotely possible, and if its something you would even consider. Thanks anyways!

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[djp952]

I've got an idea, but not being a developer I'm not sure how simple this would be...
I really like the looks of touch wiz, but stock roms are awful and I love jellybeans speed. Anyway that you can make a theme for this? There's definitely no pressure, just wondering if it is remotely possible, and if its something you would even consider. Thanks anyways!

Sent from my SCH-I500 using xda app-developers app

I'm not really ambitious enough to get into themeing, for this ROM I've even shied away from custom battery meters (although they can be made with an online tool that come to think of it I promised to link up and never did - doh). I don't have any problem with it, but from what little I do know there is a lot involved if you venture beyond just changing the graphics files and XML resources (lock screens, the dialer, the status bar, the launcher, etc). The Android code isn't laid out very well (just my opinion), and rather than put all the look and feel stuff into one place that could be swapped out easily, it's intermixed with base code, which is why applying themes can break ROMs they weren't designed for. In an ideal world, themeing should be easy, and it does bother me that Google hasn't addressed that yet since every single OEM does it (and most custom ROMs, too!). You would think it would save the OEMs a ton of time and money.

I try hard to never say "no" to anything, but it's doubtful that I would ever have the ambition to theme this. Stranger things have happened, though ... I change my mind all the time!! :laugh:

I really do wish Android was more modular so generic themes could be developed and then utilized by everyone without the need to worry about breaking custom code. One thing I wanted to do here, but have yet to even attempt, is to modify the system so that you could put .zip files on your SDCARD with battery meter images and have them selectable through Settings, as if they were a ringtone. Something like that could ultimately be extended to all the system graphics and resources ... kinda like an override. It wouldn't solve all the details involved with a good theme (at first?), but it would be easy for people to develop themes and if done properly wouldn't ever break anything. Maybe someday!

 

[Cookiemonster21]

Thanks so much for giving it a thought. I guess I'll start to do some looking and give it a go myself.

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[djp952]

GeeWiz 3.4 has been uploaded and posted to the DOWNLOADS section of the first post.

GeeWiz 3.4

• Adds ability to control Vibration Intensity to Settings/Advanced (GW Patch 3.3.1)
• Mostly fixes the compass (GW Patch 3.3.1)
• Disables 360 degree tablet-style rotation (GW Patch 3.3.1)
• Changes description of Settings/Display/Pulse Notification Lights to simply "Notification Lights" (GW Patch 3.3.1)
• Emulates a Digital dock audio device instead of an Analog dock audio device (GW Patch 3.3.1)
• Addresses a potential race condition with voice call audio in the audio HAL (GW Patch 3.3.1)
• Resolves continuing occasional issues with Wifi Toggle ON appearing to hang up (GW Patch 3.3.2)
• Alleviates kernel memory pressure when Wifi is toggled ON by using pre-allocated memory buffers (GW Patch 3.3.3)
• Resolves ongoing issues with Ringtone/Notification/Alarm tones appearing in Settings as well as Force Close and database corruption issues with certain Google Apps (Music/Gallery/Google+) (New -- GW 3.4)

For the most part this is just a roll-up of the three GeeWiz 3.3.x patches, but it finally addresses the long-standing issue with the Ringtone/Notification/Alarm tones disappearing from Settings, and in conjunction certain Force Close issues with Google Apps (Music/Gallery/Google+) that access the Android media databases.

If you continue to have problems with Settings not showing all the ringtone/notification/alarm tones after this update (and giving the system a few minutes to re-scan the internal media), please let me know!

 

[Cajaks2]

Hey all,

I flashed an fascinate with this Rom with Odin and current its patched at 3.3.2. I've given the phone to a friend who has reported several problems with it.
It spontaneously shuts off. sometimes in the middle of the phone calls sometimes when its sitting on the table.
It also does not send/receive call audio when an incoming call comes in, she has to call them back to make it work.
Snapchat also fails to work on occasion but that may well be snapchat's fault.

Any ideas guys?

 

[djp952]

Hey all,

I flashed an fascinate with this Rom with Odin and current its patched at 3.3.2. I've given the phone to a friend who has reported several problems with it.
It spontaneously shuts off. sometimes in the middle of the phone calls sometimes when its sitting on the table.
It also does not send/receive call audio when an incoming call comes in, she has to call them back to make it work.
Snapchat also fails to work on occasion but that may well be snapchat's fault.

Any ideas guys?

Shuts all the way off, or reboots? I've never seen a Fascinate actually power down, but I've certainly seen them reboot for no good reason (the latter usually as a result of something I've done - lol) Could it be a loose, or perhaps failing, battery? Safety first: make sure the battery isn't puffed out in the middle at all, it should be perfectly flat on both sides -- immediately cease using it if it's not!

I'm not really sure what else would cause it to just power off like that, "random" reboots are typically the norm for software troubles. Did you by chance turn on either of the Settings/Advanced Clock Speed options? Lock-ups are what I would commonly think of for an overclocking problem, though. Best guess is battery, sorry that I've never seen that symptom before.

As for the call issue, there was a report on GeeWiz 4 that there was no call audio when dialing from contacts as well. I haven't been able to reproduce that or this, but I will keep trying. Is it on every single incoming call? Any VoIP software installed?

But please, as silly as it sounds, please have them check the battery, if it shows any physical signs of failure it could actually be dangerous.

 

[Cajaks2]

I was thinking battery as well but there appears to be no external signs of damage. It is an older phone so the battery could certainly be failing. Every setting is stock. She claims it is on every call. At this point I think I am going to flash the gingerbread based GeeWiz this weekend and see what happens if that resolves anything.

 

[djp952]

I was thinking battery as well but there appears to be no external signs of damage. It is an older phone so the battery could certainly be failing. Every setting is stock. She claims it is on every call. At this point I think I am going to flash the gingerbread based GeeWiz this weekend and see what happens if that resolves anything.

I don't know how deep you want to dig into this since it's a friend's phone (and they probably expect to be able to use it), but if you'd like I can build a version of the audio module for this version of the ROM like I did here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36748252&postcount=31

It's not hard for me to do, actually it takes about 10 minutes from start to finish, including making the rollback patch, but you'd need access to the phone to run ADB and capture the events during the course of the problem and be able to examine them.

Or ... if I made the patch and it was installed, you guys could send me a Bug Report on it as well (Settings/Developer Options/Take Bug Report). This includes a LOT of information, I cannot guarantee that nothing personal is in there, but there really shouldn't be. Heck, you could have her do that now if you want, perhaps the answer is already in there! If you do want to take a bug report, what will happen is a whole lot of nothing, or so it will seem, for about 3-5 minutes. You'll probably see a few "shell has been granted root permissions" pop-ups, but otherwise the phone makes a tone, gets real slow for a few minutes, and ultimately pops up in GMail with a draft message. By default, it will send to yourself, just forward it to ... well ... I'll PM ya. You can probably figure out my gmail address if you think REALLY HARD about it - LOL. Perhaps djp952@?

Let me know what you think, I'm happy to make the patch to enable the extra logging, but only if you want to use it. I cannot guarantee that it would reveal the issue, I'm hoping more for a clue I'm beginning to wonder if the "fix" I did in GeeWiz 3.3.1 to address a possible but extremely unlikely condition with in-call audio was ill-conceived for some reason. I reviewed it again and it looks OK, but I'm thinking this has to be my fault somehow ... too weird to not be!

 

[djp952]

It also does not send/receive call audio when an incoming call comes in, she has to call them back to make it work.

For what it's worth, I got a report of seemingly the exact same problem with GeeWiz 4 today and while I still cannot duplicate it, I decided to just try a couple changes to the audio code for that version to see what happens:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36816170&postcount=34

One possible difference is that the GW 4 user noted that he can enable and disable Speakerphone mode to solve the problem without a need to call back. This is worth passing on for her to try, it still sucks but not as much, I think.

I'm hoping that user will be able to test and get back to me before the weekend, and if it's successful I will make the same change available for GeeWiz 3 as quickly as possible, even if it's "experimental" in nature. I appreciate that you have a limited window of opportunity to either fix or get rid of GeeWiz from your friend's phone, and while I'm hopeful that a resolution can be found in time, I suggest at least considering replacing GeeWiz 3 with a CyanogenMOD or AOKP-based ROM.

That may sound counter-productive for my own interests, but I'm a realist about this ... if GW doesn't work out for you, I'd much rather see you dump it for something that works for all your needs than having to deal with waiting for a problem the developer can't even find yet to be "maybe or maybe not" fixed

I still got no clue on the power-off issue either. I asked around a bit this afternoon, and nobody I pinged has ever seen a Fascinate just power off like that -- it's always reboots or lock-ups. Hopefully just need to replace the battery or clean the contacts or something simple like that. Crossing my fingers for ya :fingers-crossed:

 

[djp952]

edit: removed update 3.4.1 ... my phone locked up entering deep sleep after applying that. My apologies.

Thankfully nobody downloaded it before I found the issue. *phew*

 

[moparfreak426]

Re: [ROM][KERNEL][JZO54K][01.12.2013] GeeWiz 3.4

Getting this rom for a friend

Sent from an Apple killing JellyBean

 

[djp952]

Getting this rom for a friend

Sent from an Apple killing JellyBean

Cool! Just a heads-up, while I haven't been spending much/any time working on this due to all the problems/glitches with the newer Android 4.2 version, I did want to let you know that at least one person has had problems with this ROM having muted in-call audio. if this happens, try switching to speakerphone and then back again. It wasn't a wide-spread issue with this version, but it exists.

I've been working the problem on the newer GeeWiz 4 baseline since it had far more problems relating to in-call audio. When I get that sorted out, those changes will be back-ported to this version. Hopefully more successfully than the mysterious 3.4.1 patch I posted and immediately deleted (It solved a problem that is extremely rare on this version, it wasn't worth the problem it ultimately caused).

I hope your friend likes it -- thanks!

 

[moparfreak426]

Re: [ROM][KERNEL][JZO54K][01.12.2013] GeeWiz 3.4

Any other bugs? Shes bone stock can i just do the odin all in one install u have posted and have everything needed?

Sent from an Apple killing JellyBean

 

[djp952]

Any other bugs? Shes bone stock can i just do the odin all in one install u have posted and have everything needed?

Sent from an Apple killing JellyBean

That's the only important one I can think of, and to date only 2 people have experienced it, so chances are she won't. Just wanted to give you the heads-up there.

If she's stock, yes, just ODIN the "full wipe" and she'll be good to go! Nothing special needs to be done in advance.

 

[moparfreak426]

Re: [ROM][KERNEL][JZO54K][01.12.2013] GeeWiz 3.4

That's the only important one I can think of, and to date only 2 people have experienced it, so chances are she won't. Just wanted to give you the heads-up there.

If she's stock, yes, just ODIN the "full wipe" and she'll be good to go! Nothing special needs to be done in advance.

Alright.... Sorry for so many questions but one more... I think the original galaxy s is single core and does that mean it cant deep sleep? Hows battery life compared to say on stock with everything turned on?

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[djp952]

Alright.... Sorry for so many questions but one more... I think the original galaxy s is single core and does that mean it cant deep sleep? Hows battery life compared to say on stock with everything turned on?

Sent from an Apple killing JellyBean

Fascinate is definitely single core, deep sleep works, and battery life is pretty great IMO (previous versions were so-so from mistakes/bugs), from what I've heard it's the best there is for Jelly Bean on the Fascinate! From my experience, the biggest battery killer is Wifi, closely followed by a paired Bluetooth device and then an attached 4-pole headset (it constantly monitors for button presses). It won't be as good as stock Gingerbread was, don't get me wrong, but I think it's comparable to stock regardless of what's turned on and what's turned off. If you guys find otherwise, please let me know, maybe I can fix it.

For what it's worth, on my test device with the original battery from 2010, with wifi and bluetooth turned off and a decent 3G signal, I see something like a 6% drop overnight. I think that's about 2-3% worse than stock, but these OEM batteries are getting old, any difference could very well be from age.

If for some reason this doesn't work out for you, I highly recommend seeking out a ROM from jt1134 for the Fascinate (check "rootzwiki"). His stuff is top-notch and given that it's based on CyanogenMod rather than pure AOSP, it will have more features as well as the support of more than just one person :silly:

 

[djp952]

ROM has been retired

This ROM has been retired as of March 5, 2013 and I will request that the thread be closed by a moderator.

I had promised to keep this ROM version alive until the newer Android 4.2-based "GeeWiz 4" was able to duplicate it's feature set, and as of GeeWiz 4.3, I believe that feature set has finally been matched and/or exceeded. Regardless, I allowed this version to slip for far too long and any attempt to bring it up to date is not justified based on the download counts (close to zero for the past 45 days).

GeeWiz / GeeWiz Media 4.x thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2088224

Thank you so much for using/enjoying my ROM, and I hope that you will consider updating to the more current version! Long live the Verizon Fascinate!!

Regards,
djp952