Root GalaxHero v1.1 and Recovery v4.3 are out!

KlaymenDK · Dec 3, 2009

I'm very interested in trying one of these new roms (Galaxo or GalaxHero), but I have a few questions:

:thinking:

Most importantly, the keyboard: according to the GalaxHero video (from HDblog), there's a new custom keyboard, but I would like to use another one (currently using "Scandinavian Keyboard") to get

KlaymenDK · Dec 3, 2009

By the way, I needed to register in order to access the HDblog forum.

I've created the following registration for our common use, so we don't all need to create a throw-away profile.
User: "androidforums.com"
Pass: "password"

MichaelW · Dec 3, 2009

KlaymenDK said:
I'm very interested in trying one of these new roms (Galaxo or GalaxHero), but I have a few questions:

Most importantly, the keyboard: according to the GalaxHero video (from HDblog), there's a new custom keyboard, but I would like to use another one (currently using "Scandinavian Keyboard") to get

MichaelW · Dec 3, 2009

Oh and Drakaz just posted an update for the Galaxo Config app APK HDblog - Forum - Visualizza un messaggio singolo - SAMSUNG Galaxy ROMS: GALAXHERO FINAL VERSION V1.1

You now no longer need to reboot when changing config items.

mrqs · Dec 3, 2009

@KlaymenDK: love your bullet points

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KlaymenDK · Dec 3, 2009

@MichaelW
Excellent answers, thanks Michael!

The "APN dropping" issue means that the APN list is blank, and when you create&save a new APN it just never appears in the list. Rebooting a couple of times seems to fix this, for a while. FYI, I've seen this on every rom (bought with G8, I think), but then my phone is also suffering from sensor errors (see other thread).

aTrackDog reports 54 apps, and I really don't feel that's a lot. Many of these are just small things such as the Scandinavian Keyboard, its dictionaries, and Locale plugins. In any case, there's a ton of space left on the device, and it would be kinda dumb if Android can't handle that. On my old Palm I used to have way more than that, with no performance impact whatsoever, so that's why I expect the Galaxy to keep up.

I may go for the factory reset, though, to make a definite fresh start.

At HDblog, I just wanted to spare them from having a horde of inactive 'leech' users. So far I can log in but can't download anything. Any chance to host the files in this thread, too?

MichaelW · Dec 3, 2009

KlaymenDK said:
The "APN dropping" issue means that the APN list is blank, and when you create&save a new APN it just never appears in the list. Rebooting a couple of times seems to fix this, for a while. FYI, I've seen this on every rom (bought with G8, I think), but then my phone is also suffering from sensor errors (see other thread).

Yeah I never experienced that.

KlaymenDK said:
aTrackDog reports 54 apps, and I really don't feel that's a lot. Many of these are just small things such as the Scandinavian Keyboard, its dictionaries, and Locale plugins. In any case, there's a ton of space left on the device, and it would be kinda dumb if Android can't handle that. On my old Palm I used to have way more than that, with no performance impact whatsoever, so that's why I expect the Galaxy to keep up.

Ah I see yeah lots will be system stuff so not quite as many user installed apps. It shouldn't matter whether you have 5 or 500 apps though

KlaymenDK said:
I may go for the factory reset, though, to make a definite fresh start.

At HDblog, I just wanted to spare them from having a horde of inactive 'leech' users. So far I can log in but can't download anything. Any chance to host the files in this thread, too?

They like their exclusivity over there, and don't want the files hosted anywhere else.

Rastaman-FB · Dec 3, 2009

KlaymenDK said:
By the way, I needed to register in order to access the HDblog forum.

I've created the following registration for our common use, so we don't all need to create a throw-away profile.

dont think thats a nice thing to do
least people can do fir his work is register to hdblog

benner · Dec 3, 2009

I used instructions from here when I installed it:

samsung i7500 galaxy - Dan Dascalescu's Wiki

I installed 'better keyboard' and some skins for it. I imagine you can install any keyboard you like if the language is supported.

frostering · Dec 4, 2009

Anybody is having problems installing some apps? Specially gps apps, who want an "device id" (like sygic, for example) and there is no way to know it and install these apps...

wallysh · Dec 5, 2009

MichaelW said:
Galaxo (non-Hero themed version)

Version 1.1.1 available now, fixes the issue with enabling/disabling VNC in the GalaxHero 1.0 ROM.

[English] Samsung Galaxy ROM : Galaxo V1.1 - HDblog - Forum

Alternatively if you already updated to GalaxHero 1.1 (with broken VNC swith off) you can download GalaxoConf.apk version 2 by itself, I had to download it from some external link I found (I think from twitter source somewhere). The one that came with the GalaxHero1.1 didn't have it and I had problems deactivating VNC as it was always running. The new version GalaxoConf 2.0 solved it and you can change SSH on/off and VNC Oon/off without rebooting.

pasxal · Dec 5, 2009

Can somebody post here the rectools which had backup gapps option?
I really need it an i cant find it.

Lucifer · Dec 5, 2009

It is on this page:
UPDATE 24/11 - V4.3! - ROOT/RECOVERY IMAGE update, wipe, backup and restore GALAXY - HDblog - Forum

pasxal · Dec 5, 2009

It not there. This option was in version 4.1. I want to try it because with 4.2,4.4 im getting aborted error.

Here is the recovery.log

Code:

Install from sdcard complete.

-- Restore Google apps
-- Press HOME to confirm, or
-- any other key to abort..
-- Restore started...
.Fichier mise

wallysh · Dec 7, 2009

Anyone having issues with the Market App crashing while doing searches or installs (no force close, just disappear and having to open it again.). It started happening after upgrading to GalaxHero1.1.

Rastaman-FB · Dec 7, 2009

pasxal said:
It not there. This option was in version 4.1. I want to try it because with 4.2,4.4 im getting aborted error.

Here is the recovery.log

Code:

Install from sdcard complete. -- Restore Google apps -- Press HOME to confirm, or -- any other key to abort.. -- Restore started... .Fichier mise

pasxal · Dec 7, 2009

Whats the point of doing that? In this step im restoring gapps and not libhgl. Also the restoring of libhgl is not a must cause the default file is included. I have about 4gb free space.

Rastaman-FB · Dec 7, 2009

pasxal said:
Whats the point of doing that? In this step im restoring gapps and not libhgl. Also the restoring of libhgl is not a must cause the default file is included. I have about 4gb free space.

i know i was just mentioning it if you want to fix the graphiocs issue with 3d games

its weird tho, for you to be getting no space left on device i read that as there not being enough room for the recovery to extract ii5.tar and get the gapps files from it.
4 gigs of internal storage is plenty of space so im at a loss as to what your
problem is

did you doing this from a freshly wiped device or are you retaining your data.
id be interested to find out how many apps you have installed as i believe 1gig is saved for shared internal programs/apps and if you have alot of stuff there maybe its blocking it?

pasxal · Dec 7, 2009

The wierd thing is when i flashed i wiped first. I thought the same thing with u. I wiped again cause i thought sth has gone wrong and flashed again and again with no result.

Always i got stuck at the restoring gapps step. I also tried to push the gapps using adb getting with the same error. The only way i got it working was, flashing a rom with the gapps embedded.

I still cannot understand what was going wrong but i would like to know.

spottyelephant · Dec 7, 2009

pasxal said:

RellikZephyr · Jan 12, 2010

is it hard or even possible to make Galaxo/GalaxHero Rom able to be flashed onto phone via odin??

same way firmware updates and Mustymod are done??

i want to try galaxo but flashing it looks involved

RellikZephyr

informale · Jan 13, 2010

i want to try galaxo but flashing it looks involved

Installation of Galaxo/Galaxhero is literally an extraction of files from a zip archive, overwriting some system files and adding some new files. It is not a ROM in classic sense. Which is why you need to upload a custom recovery image to the phone, which will get root access to make such an operation.

It's worth a try and it's not THAT hard. Just be patient and follow the instructions.

Although I wouldnt' recommend installing Galaxo if you've updated to IK4 or IK5. Latest Galaxo is based on II5, so who knows....

Kouske · Jan 13, 2010

Mine runs on IK5 because I used nandroid when I already had IK5 instead of reflashing to II5...works fine though. I don't really know if its really IK5 or w/e but it works fine.

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