Root GAOSP Froyo Nightly Builds

[ct2020]

Are you attempting to download from the Market while on wifi or on 3G? I had noticed from your info that you're a Bell customer as well, and I have had this issue before. If you're connected to 3G, then you have to tweak your APN settings a little bit. Make sure that your proxy port is set to 80, rather than the empty setting that resides there. If you're on wifi, then sure that the box next to "Enable proxy on wifi" is checked in the Wireless & Network Settings menu. If those are set, and you've restarted (trust me on this, sometimes all you really needed was a power cycle) then you should be back in business and downloading apps like a champ.

I was on 3G. I found when I switched to Wifi (Finally went and adjusted my router so I will stay connected while at home) and it worked fine. I just added the port, so I'll check next time I'm off wifi. Thanks!

 

[anonymouz1828]

I have been following drakaz on twitter but not the android forum. I m thinking to finally move to froyo this week with galaxyupdater. Some questions:

1) Does newest build fix shut-down bug??
2) will galaxyupdater install google market or a will required a manual install??
3) I will wipe it. How do i JUST save SMS message??
4) OC to 610 mhz = higher ram??

Thanks

I've been using the new build, the strange shut-down bug is gone. (EDIT: I withdraw that comment, just happened to me. Turning the wifi off will fix it.)

I've also solved most of my issues, if not all (I still think it's weird that some features are gone from the stock SMS app...). Thanks to all of those who replied.

Here are screenshots of my new GAOSP setup, I like it! From left to right:

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In fact I already created a theme. I wanted to modify the Gingerbread theme so it would work on the latest nightly, but I don't want to steal credit, so I created my own. It only changes notification icons and the black "handlebar" from the notification tray. Seeing that those are minor changes, I didn't want to create a thread just for that, but thought that some of you might be interested (probably not).

Here's a screenshot of the new handlebar, the Cyanogen logo was annoying:

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NICE THEME!!!

 

[DaSchmarotzer]

I have been following drakaz on twitter but not the android forum. I m thinking to finally move to froyo this week with galaxyupdater. Some questions:

1) Does newest build fix shut-down bug??
2) will galaxyupdater install google market or a will required a manual install??
3) I will wipe it. How do i JUST save SMS message??
4) OC to 610 mhz = higher ram??

Thanks

NICE THEME!!!

1) No it was not fixed. This bug is caused by wifi, so you'll have to turn it off before the phone goes to sleep.
2) I am unsure about this one as I don't use Galaxyupdater but my guess would be no.
3) you would have to use an application to back them up before wiping, reinstall the application and then restore them. I don't know of any, but I'm sure it's possible to find one.
4) You won't get more ram by overclocking your cpu. The processor is simply going to perferm better/faster.

And thanks for the compliment about my theme.

 

[cyclometh]

A quick report on battery life.

No signs of strange drainage, the battery is at 75 % after 30 hours of idling, 30 min talking, all syncing enabled. Most of the time on wifi. Some GPS and 3G browsing while out. Min freq is 19.2 MHz, max 624 MHz, CPU sampling and sensors reaction on performance. I don't think the overclocking has any value for me, so I'll probably revert to the defaults.

Edit: I just switched to interactive CPU governor, and it feels way snappier now! I'll do some real comparison later.

 

[Frojd]

I have terrible battery life with all the latest nightlys. Screenshots of "Battery use" would be appreciated. Here's mine at 77% (almost no usage):

 

[r3dpuma]

I would gladly show you if only i could make that fckin Screenshot app to take the damn picture. I uninstalled it, i got angry.
Someone please recommend me another app, the Screenshot one from market is horrible, it takes pics when it wants.

 

[Naruvam]

I would gladly show you if only i could make that fckin Screenshot app to take the damn picture. I uninstalled it, i got angry.
Someone please recommend me another app, the Screenshot one from market is horrible, it takes pics when it wants.

Use shoot me it works great for me!

 

[r3dpuma]

Dont like that one either. It starts on its own and stays in memory.

 

[Frojd]

I'm using DroidExplorer on my computer.

 

[r3dpuma]

I know, i tried to install that, actually i did, but it couldnt see my device. I dont really know how to do it.

 

[weasel]

I am using screenshot from the market. Seems to work well.

 

[BamBam95]

The new nightly has been working great for me so far. But would you guys recommend I set my Min. and Max. CPU Freq. to?

 

[r3dpuma]

120-672 or 720

 

[Naruvam]

Gaosp beta 3 is out!

 

[Lelouch]

120-672 or 720

Which is your phones max O/C?

We all love Beta software.

 

[bitxboi]

Gaosp beta 3 is out!

I flashed it yesterday, and have to say it's great!

Already donated to drakaz! Thanks!!!

 

[500ef]

I flashed it yesterday, and have to say it's great!

Already donated to drakaz! Thanks!!!

I did the upgrade from an october nightly (i dont remember wich one) to beta 3 yesterday.

And I agree... The phone behavior is awesome!!!

 

[Turds]

Hi Guys,

I just got my first i7500L and I repaired its dead screen with a new one from china for $23 shipped. I paid $20 at fastgsm to unlock it so I can use it with my Speakout sim ($1/mo plus $.25/min). The firmware is version 1.5.

Since I hear most talk about Froyo when I hear about android, I guess this will give me the best choice of apps and features possible for the galaxy i7500L.

My question is:
do I have to worry about re-locking the phone (I know not to write amss file to the phone, delete it from any tarball). This only happens when restoring the phone or does the Drakaz stuff have amss as well?

 

[Lelouch]

You have no worries at all.
Just either use Galaxyupdater app for installing GAOSP or Galaxo. The free version allows you to install recovery and paid version recovery + GAOSP or Galaxo.

Just ask, if you don't understand something. And don't forget to read the sticky (links to some guides).

 

[Turds]

use Galaxyupdater app for installing GAOSP or Galaxo.
. . don't forget to read the sticky (links to some guides).

From what I understand so far I need to:
1. root my phone
2. let the paid version of galaxyupdater do the rest automatically

The sticky has very old info, the only link there I think may be valid is
http://androidforums.com/i7500-all-things-root/24540-simple-rooting-guide-without-galax0-galaxher0-roms.html

Do I really need to do all of that or can I skip the recovery part of the rooting, since galaxyupdater is going to do that soon enough?

Question: Do I need to progress from
1.5 --> 1.6 galaxo --> GAOSP
or can I go right from
1.5 --> latest GAOSP (beta3)

PS for anyone else reading this, it seems you do not have to pay fastgsm to unlock your galaxy, you can flash the brazilian baseband and then flash back to unlock

 

[DaSchmarotzer]

From what I understand so far I need to:
1. root my phone
2. let the paid version of galaxyupdater do the rest automatically

The sticky has very old info, the only link there I think may be valid is
http://androidforums.com/i7500-all-things-root/24540-simple-rooting-guide-without-galax0-galaxher0-roms.html

Do I really need to do all of that or can I skip the recovery part of the rooting, since galaxyupdater is going to do that soon enough?

Question: Do I need to progress from
1.5 --> 1.6 galaxo --> GAOSP
or can I go right from
1.5 --> latest GAOSP (beta3)

PS for anyone else reading this, it seems you do not have to pay fastgsm to unlock your galaxy, you can flash the brazilian baseband and then flash back to unlock

You can go directly from any firmware to any other. Yes, you could root the phone and then let Galaxy Updater do the rest, but the "hard" part is rooting. It takes more time to install the app if you know what to do (which you should after the first time).

If you want to install Galaxo or GAOSP, you could use this guide which I wrote some time ago. If you need help, I'm sure people like Lelouch, r3dpuma (or me) will help you out.

The link you posted would still work, it's pretty much the same thing now that I look at it.

EDIT: Forgot to answer your question about the recovery part. Well, the recovery is an easy way of rooting, so you should probably pick a guide and then follow it instead of experimenting with other stuff. There are other methods (rooting with Odin, easyroot, etc) but you should probably stick to the guide for now.

PS: I never used the app Drakaz made and I thought the "install recovery" option was pretty much only used when an update is released since most people root by installing the recovery. I might be wrong though.

 

[Turds]

you could use this guide which I wrote some time ago.

The guide has a bad link in this section:

The GAOSP Google apps (also known as Gapps) Thanks to Obihoernchen for this version or the Galaxo Google Apps.

There is now a version 3 out.

 

[DaSchmarotzer]

The guide has a bad link in this section:

The GAOSP Google apps (also known as Gapps) Thanks to Obihoernchen for this version or the Galaxo Google Apps.

There is now a version 3 out.

Alright, fixed it, thanks. I linked to the download page instead of the file to prevent it from happening again.

 

[Lelouch]

[cut]PS: I never used the app Drakaz made and I thought the "install recovery" option was pretty much only used when an update is released since most people root by installing the recovery. I might be wrong though.[/cut]

I think you're right on this part.
I'm sure if you're phone is not rooted already you will not succeed in installing the recovery. Instead you will get a warning stating that you need to have your phone already rooted (need root access). So the Galaxyupdater app will be useless unless you root your phone beforehand.

So DaSchmarotzer has already answered some of your questions regarding that. I think there was a link for a 1.6 firmware with a custom recovery for flashing via ODIN. Or via ADB, use existing guide for that (I hope you don't use 64 bit Windows), never tried from Ubuntu or Linux.

About flashing brazilian firmware.
That's unnecessary now with the newest version of GAOSP. Some previous builds needed that. So skip this.
One thing I'm not sure off is. If you flash Bell firmware back on your phone ,that the phone will get locked back again.

Anyway, first try flashing recovery via ADB (use guides for that). If you have questions just ask, someone will answer you for sure. Also about gapps there are 3 versions you can choose from: ultralight, light and normal one. So choose carefully which you want, I think that Obi has a read me files on his site for each of the option except for the normal ones.

 

[Turds]

Guide needs an update in step 3.

I copied the 2 .zip files to the internal storage:
gapps-gaosp-light-31032011-signed.zip
GAOSP-2-PUBLIC-BETA-3.zip
and
RECTOOLS.tar.gz

I installed android-sdk-windows and copied
recovery-6.5.1.img
to the /tools

I did the fastboot and got a dll error. So I found out that adb was moved to a new folder /platform-tools, so I copied it over to /tools with the dll file
adb_has_moved.txt
AdbWinApi.dll
AdbWinUsbApi.dll
adb.exe



Question: Where does galaxyupdater come into play? I assume the guide is rooting my phone and i have the option of finishing it or using the updater?

Update: In the meantime I finished the guide, it was very clear and the automated scripts did all the work for me Thanks guys.