Heyo everyone,
Like everyone else I was tired of not seeing any releases for the Samsung Indulge. In fact, just to root this phone, it took nearly 3 months after release. Thanks to our friends at ACS, K0nane, Shabby, Tanimn, and many others; we got root. Thanks to Mikestoolz, the creator of the Bloatware removal app, and one of the first people I met "day 1" of the release of the Samsung Indulge. Thanks to all you fellows at AF who have worked hard to find new things, and help others in regards to the Indulge.
Since then; we been toiling away with settings, apps, tethering, battery life, and 4G. But I'll cut the chat short, and get to the point. With a lot of help I was able to make a custom rom. Doesn't have much, and obviously need a lot of work, but its a start.
K0nane will probably release a rom soon that will blow mine away, but in the mean time to hold you guys over here's a little treat
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I. The Rom so far has the following:
Deodexed apks
PermRoot
Zipaligned
Bloatware removed
Without a custom kernel, and a custom recovery, not to much else that can be done for speed/tweaks. I'm looking to try to make it more visual, but at first I decided to keep it fast and simple. I tried to maximize the amount of free memory, and speed of the touch.
II. Instructions for Installing:
1. Please backup everything before attempting to do this.
2. First and for most before doing anything make sure you have the drivers:
Samsung
3. Make sure your phone is in debugging mode. To do this without your phone plugged into usb, settings>applications>development and then enable usb debugging. Then plug your phone in.
4. Download and extract all the files from the Exodus0.4.zip
Link is here:
Exodus.zip
5. Then inside whatever folder you extract it to you'll see a file called Indulge.bat. Click on it, and you should see a dos looking like screen, hit enter, and it'll start running. I would not do anything to the computer your using to do this in the mean time. You will notice probably that your phone is having a lot of crashes, this is because the old files are being removed and the new files are being installed. When it finishes, it will automatically reboot your phone.
6. After your phone reboots, I would turn it off, and then do a factory wipe. (With the phone off hold R+PWR button to go to recovery, and select factory wipe). Then restart your phone, and enjoy
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There is still a couple known issues, I myself experienced gmail app not wanting to connect the internet whether I had 4g or Wifi. I would suggest if this happens to delete the app, or uninstall it with sdk app remover (also from the market) and redownload it from the market.
If you guys find anything else let me know. Again I tried to keep this as basic as possible. In the future I will probably try to add more tweaks, and alot more on the looks and interface of the phone. But for those who wanted some speed, and all the crap off the phone, here ya go
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Credits to:
T3xan my new fellow co-owner of the Rom, he's the graphics side
Aerei - for some bad ass backgrounds
All of ACS
Shabbypenguin (for helping me make my rom)
Markolo25 (for testing my rom)
Edits:
Version 0.4:
Removed a couple non working apks like Voodoo, added some new ones for better app and widget management.
Added some etc tweaks: (speed ups of): GPS, .nomedia. Adhost (blocking popups)
Unblocked package blocking
Version: 0.6
Removed browser.apk, and put in Dolphin HD along with bookmarks to sd
Added custom framework
Added custom font
Added custom wallpaper
Added custom Market
