i'm scared to try this......:/ *must wait for 2.0/1*
Haha yeah man it would be scary with the possibility of bricking your phone thats why I am waiting for a finished product with all the feature that samsung made right. or just do like you and just wait for 2.0
Oh and one more question to the developers. This fixes the crappy "mass" texting on the behold 2 right? like I can send to more than 10 people at a time?
I have a system dump of my behold II on my site if anyone needs anything inside the /system folder. I have all the original APKs, etc if anyone want to try those out once they update their BH2>Galaxy
You must resync your contacts afterwards
Vibration doesn't work
Handcet Sms does not work
Messaging doesn't work ("Message Centre" number is missing)
Messaging FCs
You'll have to make sure you copy down the message center number.
And I suppose now that they figured out how to do this, that maybe the source code from Samsung could be tweaked. I for one am holding off on doing this as I'm one of the few who like TouchWiz(don't hit me :P ). Though since they haven't cracked the boot loader, it may still be a while.
Keep up the good work.
PS: It would be nice to see a complete noob's guide to this. I for one dont know what it means "to odin"
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You must resync your contacts afterwards
Vibration doesn't work
Handcet Sms does not work
Messaging doesn't work ("Message Centre" number is missing)
Messaging FCs
So no messaging is working on this at the moment? Would ChompSMS work or all together no messaging is working?
Are those the only 2 issues - vibration and messaging? I'm really excited about this and want to get TouchWiz off this phone as soon as possible!
I think its because the galaxy image hasn't been told how to lookup its network settings. From the messenging app on a non-modded behold ii, in the menu you can find the tmobile settings.
Hearing this I wouldnt be surprised to hear you had to enter in the apn settings as well. If thats the case you'll also have to enter in the pic msg settings too.
You'll have to make sure you copy down the message center number.
And I suppose now that they figured out how to do this, that maybe the source code from Samsung could be tweaked. I for one am holding off on doing this as I'm one of the few who like TouchWiz(don't hit me :P ). Though since they haven't cracked the boot loader, it may still be a while.
Keep up the good work.
PS: It would be nice to see a complete noob's guide to this. I for one dont know what it means "to odin"
to odin means to boot your phone in download mode, then connect your phone via usb, and dowload the odin files for the behold2, then extract the files, open the folder that you extracted, open the odin multi downloader application, then select all the correct files, then click start! After a couple minutes it all done!
I think its because the galaxy image hasn't been told how to lookup its network settings. From the messenging app on a non-modded behold ii, in the menu you can find the tmobile settings.
Hearing this I wouldnt be surprised to hear you had to enter in the apn settings as well. If thats the case you'll also have to enter in the pic msg settings too.
You must resync your contacts afterwards
Vibration doesn't work
Handcet Sms does not work
Messaging doesn't work ("Message Centre" number is missing (T-Mobile US = +12063130004)
Messaging FCs
Woah woah whoah! I've been using the galaxy rom on my BH2 for the past day and a half. Messaging has worked like a charm. Also I disabled the default notifications and I use Handcent SMS.
I live in California and I'm under the T-Mobile network. Aside from the vibration and speakerphone not working everything else has been working very well.
Extract them to your desktop or somewhere you can get to them easily. Then open up the extracted folder and you will see "Odin Multi Downloader v4.03.exe". From here shut down your phone completely. Then boot it up by holding Volume Down + OK(Middle of dpad) + Power. Once your booted into "Download Mode" start the odin multi downloader. You will need to select all the files and such then click start.
Extract them to your desktop or somewhere you can get to them easily. Then open up the extracted folder and you will see "Odin Multi Downloader v4.03.exe". From here shut down your phone completely. Then boot it up by holding Volume Down + OK(Middle of dpad) + Power. Once your booted into "Download Mode" start the odin multi downloader. You will need to select all the files and such then click start.
SMS works fine. You need to make sure you factory reset otherwise the dalvik cache will be for old files, and the apks won't create their data in the datadb sqls.
Also speakerphone is also working.
Vibration might be working soon, everyone is too busy to test it
This is one thing I miss about my old blackberrys, you could download any rom specific to your model, strip out any modules you did not want, delete the vendor.xml file, & load it up.
SMS works fine. You need to make sure you factory reset otherwise the dalvik cache will be for old files, and the apks won't create their data in the datadb sqls.
Also speakerphone is also working.
Vibration might be working soon, everyone is too busy to test it
So SMS does work!? Sweet. I'm wanting to do this and get rid of TouchWiz, so I think I might do it now since vibration is the only thing that doesn't work at the moment.
Do you think it will be just a couple days until vibration is fixed? Should I wait for that?
SMS works fine. You need to make sure you factory reset otherwise the dalvik cache will be for old files, and the apks won't create their data in the datadb sqls.
Also speakerphone is also working.
Vibration might be working soon, everyone is too busy to test it
Ok, miss read factory reset. Menu -> Settings -> SD card & phone storage -> Factory data reset.
Yea! Got it working on my first try. Now to install apps and see how battery life and performance goes. First impression is that it is much more responsive.
I bought a N1 so I can experiment with this phone some.
Kernel Source code from Samsung for the Behold II is out... anyone wanna tweak it?
Is there a possible way to tweak in a sort of emulator before getting it on the phone? I might take a hit at it but don't want to risk bricking this awesome phone I got for free.
Is there a possible way to tweak in a sort of emulator before getting it on the phone? I might take a hit at it but don't want to risk bricking this awesome phone I got for free.
I believe you can tweak it, build it and run it on the AVD system in the Android SDK... I don't know how to do it but i believe you can.
Thanks, I actually knew most of these steps when I was setting up the SDK to use Tools/DDMS to get screenshots. It was the terminology that was throwing me off.
I have a question... So we can compile a "Vanilla Android 2.1" from the SDK. Can we use the drivers/kernel from the kernel source code... mix it in with the SDK 2.1 version and throw it on the phone???
Is the kernel specifically made for a version of android or is it universal to all versions?
In the source:
I found: kernel\drivers\ps3
with files inside to control/manage the PS3 system. (Turn on, off, etc)
Is there a way to activate those modules/drivers and actually connect your phone through bluetooth to the PS3 and control it? On, Off and move around in the menu?
That would be pretty interesting... specially if you can get Remote Play to work on an android device!
You'll have to make sure you copy down the message center number.
And I suppose now that they figured out how to do this, that maybe the source code from Samsung could be tweaked. I for one am holding off on doing this as I'm one of the few who like TouchWiz(don't hit me :P ). Though since they haven't cracked the boot loader, it may still be a while.
Keep up the good work.
PS: It would be nice to see a complete noob's guide to this. I for one dont know what it means "to odin"
You know, I was cool with the phone, until I tried to add a contact, from someone who called me. That was the most frustrating event ever...Took me all of 10 minutes. I've been happy ever since!!!! give it a whirl.....everything really works except the speakerphone, and I don't use it anyway...
I cant thank you guys enough for all your hard work!
I installed it with zero problems, only thing let is vibrate and I believe we have ourselves the first custom stable rom for the behold 2
The Samsung Behold 2 for T-Mobile greatly improves on the first version of the phone by adding Android to the mix, providing for a powerful combination of hardware and sowftware. With Android, Samsung's custom TouchWiz UI, a 3.2-inch AMOLED Tou... Read More
If it doesnt boot its because the OS is messed up.. Odin restores it totally back to factory.
