Root Serendipity 6.0 is IN THE HOUSE

Timberline · Mar 12, 2011

Odin'd back to stock and then loaded 6.1 this morning then converted the kernel to Paragon. Speed is notably faster than 5.12 w/ Paragon kernel (to me at least).

I am noticing a couple strange things though:

(1) When I connect to my computer via USB I'm getting a message on the Cappy saying "Security policy restricts use of external SD card". Never had that before and it doesn't seem to stop me fro mdoing anything I've needed to do.

(2) the "clear" button on the notification window now says "%-I%P"

(3) anytime the system re-scan the internal and external SD cards it flashes "01234....WXYZ" in the notification bar

redvettez06 · Mar 12, 2011

May be a stupid question but do we have to flash to stock or can we flash the new 6.2 from 5.12?

Rootmepls · Mar 12, 2011

redvettez06 said:
May be a stupid question but do we have to flash to stock or can we flash the new 6.2 from 5.12?

Yes its highly recommended.

redvettez06 · Mar 12, 2011

Rootmepls said:
Yes its highly recommended.

Thanks bud. Flashing it now as I write this...

redvettez06 · Mar 12, 2011

I forget what I'm supposed to do at recovery. 4 options:
-reboot now
-re-install packages
-delete all user data
-delete cache data

I'm not seeing an option to install the .zip from the SD. Any ideas?

CrimsonPride · Mar 12, 2011

redvettez06 said:
I forget what I'm supposed to do at recovery. 4 options:
-reboot now
-re-install packages
-delete all user data
-delete cache data

I'm not seeing an option to install the .zip from the SD. Any ideas?

you need clockworkmod recovery

redvettez06 · Mar 12, 2011

CrimsonPride said:
you need clockworkmod recovery

hmmmm...I flashed clockworkmod. What next?

EDIT: NM I re-installed packages and it stuck this time for some reason.

Rootmepls · Mar 13, 2011

I used AIO this time around and I must say its great. Its totally automated and gives you a step by step list of what to do. Its everything rolled into one tool. Flash to stock, root, even TIBU if needed. It installs the CWM for you during the flash to stock phase. I'll be using it from now on.

Timberline · Mar 13, 2011

Rootmepls said:
I used AIO this time around and I must say its great. .

I got about 1/3 way through downloading that when I saw the note that it does not work with Windows XP.

iffrett · Mar 19, 2011

update to 6.2 from 5.12 last night. GPS still not working. Anybody else have the same problem?

redvettez06 · Mar 19, 2011

Hmmm...I seemed to recall it being wonky at first. I will say that it disabled the ability to connect to the data network and I had to go into the settings and recheck the "send data packets" box to get it working again. Did you go into settings and make sure that everything is enabled?

iffrett · Mar 19, 2011

yea I tried it. Still not working

reinbeau · Mar 20, 2011

I keep reading that the GPS doesn't work on 6.2, but mine works as well as it ever has. I did use GPS Status to clear GPS data and redownload the A-GPS data. I just turned mine on and got a lock in 22 seconds - it would be better outdoors.

iffrett · Mar 20, 2011

I did the same thing as you reinbeau, but Im still not getting results. could it be the paragon kernel?

Riehlthing · Mar 20, 2011

I switched to Paragon kernel and my phone has been running a lot slower. What other kernels do people recommend?

jetpuck73 · Mar 20, 2011

iffrett said:
update to 6.2 from 5.12 last night. GPS still not working. Anybody else have the same problem?

My GPS works great!!

reinbeau · Mar 20, 2011

iffrett said:
I did the same thing as you reinbeau, but Im still not getting results. could it be the paragon kernel?

No, I'm on the SpeedMod kernel. I just used it to navigate to a friend's house I'd not been to before, it worked well. What have you done to your GPS, what settings or programs have you applied?

ETA This just occurred to me. Those of you who have had no luck with Serendipity 6.2, when you restored your devices (probably using Titanium Backup, but I don't think it matters), did you restore system settings? There are too many of us having relatively good, or the same, GPS with 6.2 as we had on the version 5's - and too many who aren't. There's got to be a reason, and I'm thinking it's something in the system settings that's being restored.

If you are going to reflash to try to fix this, only restore apps and data, no system settings, and see if that makes a difference.

Riehlthing · Mar 20, 2011

My GPS has been working pretty well, but I didn't do a TB at all, and had to reinstall everything. Forgot to do the backup, oh well. Didn't take me long, since I was used to Cognition and having to do that every time I updated. That's my biggest love about Serendipity, the way the updates are done.

iffrett · Mar 22, 2011

Hmm it might be the system settings being restored using TB. I'll give it another go next time. I just switched to back to speedmod after flashing to paragon. for some reason the battery life drained 80% in less than 8hours while I was sleeping. And the weird thing was that nothing was running besides my alarmdroid app. No wifi or anything else.
Thank god i woke up before my usual alarm today, otherwise I wouldve been late for school

bword · Apr 1, 2011

Anyone else having a issue where a MMS just wont send it just stays saying "sending" I have good service and have tried rebooting. Running 6.2

reinbeau · Apr 1, 2011

bword said:
Anyone else having a issue where a MMS just wont send it just stays saying "sending" I have good service and have tried rebooting. Running 6.2

No problems here, but I have to say, I can't wait until you get old.

bword · Apr 1, 2011

reinbeau said:
No problems here, but I have to say, I can't wait until you get old.

Are you talking about the firmware??
Btw once I disabled the wifi my picture text sent fine.

reinbeau · Apr 1, 2011

bword said:
Are you talking about the firmware??
Btw once I disabled the wifi my picture text sent fine.

No, I'm talking about your signature.

bword · Apr 2, 2011

reinbeau said:
No, I'm talking about your signature.

ha yeah i gotta change that

Andrewdroid · Apr 5, 2011

I'm on Serendipity 6.3 now. I came in from Cognition 4.0. This time I used the AIO Captivate toolbox to install the rom. It works really great, makes it much easier to install a rom. So far, I really like Serendipity there are only a few things I noticed.

First, I had to use the Rom Kitchen on the website to get back the unthemed gmail. The theme was cool, but it was hard to read my messages. I kept the black themed Market though.

The speed is great, and the GPS works MUCH better, and the Camera actually works much better as well. Turning off GPS will also actually disable location tagging in the Camera app. (Before it would tag location based on wifi as well unless every single location option were turned off).

One thing that annoys me is the lack of a scrollbar slider now in the Contacts. It used to have a scrollbar slider on every other rom including all the stock.

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