Root Easy guide to update to Galaxo or GAOSP!

DaSchmarotzer said:

Going from 1.5 to Beta 3 should work.

Start over, but this time:

-Remove the battery
-Boot into recovery mode
-Wipe (factory reset)
-Fix package permissions
-Apply GAOSP beta 3
-Reboot normally, you should get into the os
-Reboot into recovery mode again
-Fix package permissions
-Apply the GAOSP zip
-Reboot normally

Make sure to wait for a couple minutes when it's booting.

Keep us posted!

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Thanks ! it works !! Finally !!!
i guess it's all because i have both zip file apply at the same time
thanks again ! and now i have to check if everything is working

imsoman said:

Thanks ! it works !! Finally !!!
i guess it's all because i have both zip file apply at the same time
thanks again ! and now i have to check if everything is working

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Camera doesn't work, also flash. Bluetooth is buggy,... ...anyway you should have checked issues still remaining. Plus, this is also a Beta version (first) of GAOSP with Gingerbread and according to bukington when some issues are fixed we will have another release.

Have fun with Gingerbread.

Lelouch said:

Camera doesn't work, also flash. Bluetooth is buggy,... ...

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The wiki says bluetooth is 100%. Now camera works in video mode, just not for pics.

Anyone else tried gingerbread? Not sure there is any useful feature with it except for VOIP/SIP.

I am unclear on overclocking in gingerbread but it sounded like it is still not possible. In GAOSP beta 3 I am running at 720 MHz and that is what made the galaxy useful again.

In the next release it will be possible.

lelouch u convinced me. I am just finishing my upgrade to gingerbread. I bought the Galaxy Updater app from the marketplace to support Drakaz and to prevent me from having to reinstall the software to communicate with my galaxy (reinstalled windows a couple days ago).

I hope this will make my phone more stable, it was constantly locking up or randomly rebooting with GAOSP Beta 3 and a handful of apps I had installed. No more angry birds until the gingerbread beta allows overclocking. Angry birds was almost unplayable anyways, even at 720MHz.

Did anyone else have a problem with GAOSP beta 3 where you use voice "navigate to mcdonalds . . . " then the next time you tried to use the mic there would be an error. Even after pulling the battery it wouldnt work again, I would just have to wait until the next day and it seemed to come back.

When I boot my phone into fastboot mode and press enter on cmd it says that it can't preform that action cuz I don't have some .dll

Did you download Android SDK for Windows? There you have your missing .dll file (now did I copy them to Windows/System 32 that's a real question ). I'm guessing that .dll that are missing are AdbWinApi.dll and AdbWinUsbApi.dll (those are in platform-tools folder of Android/Android-sdk-windows
Also in order to have better success at flashing Recovery press enter in cmd before you use fastboot (you will not loose anything) cause it always works this way.
BTW, did you install all the drivers that are posted here?

I bought the Galaxy Updater to support development a little bit. I used it to update . . .

I went to the new nightly build from the Gingerbread beta 1, since it supports overclocking now. I said YES to the wipe so I would not risk getting stuck in a reboot loop.

Now I am stuck in a reboot loop. It shows the new boot screen, then it goes to the old boot screen, then it loops. Pulled the battery but it didnt fix it. I think I should start to cry not but I am still pretty new with this stuff, so I thought I should ask if it is time to start up my tear ducts.

Holding menu or home on hard reboot doesnt do anything. Holding Call button starts fastboot mode but I dont have the SDK anymore

Which version of GalaxyUpdater have you bought?

Okay now about problems. First boot runs for about few minutes so you should not freak out. Did you try to go to Recovery mode? Does it work?

Lelouch said:

Which version of GalaxyUpdater?

Did you try to go to Recovery mode?

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I got the new updater that came out in the last days to enable overclock in gingerbread. I cant see which version coz the phone is a wreck, but it is the goasp 3 nightly.

I cannot goto recovery mode. All I can do is hold Call button to go into fast boot.

I did a recovery backup when I 1st upgraded to GAOSP as per this thread. When I did this most recent update, I installed the latest recovery but I did not do a new backup (I wasnt happy with gingerbread 2.3.3 st version).

I just received a class4 8GB microSD card with SD adapter so I can physically copy files around in case that will help.

Download mode does work

Above I said I couldnt get into recovery mode. I made a mistake about recovery mode, I re-read the guide and realized it is Volume Down+Call+Hangup. It does work and it is the new 6.6.1 version.

Looks like I am in luck!

I selected "Nandroid..." and I am restoring my orginal (and only) backup from slot1.
Rebooted and downloaded the Galaxy Updater App again. Had to reboot in recovery mode to Root the phone again. Tried to install the 0519 nightly gaosp again, and same problem. It just loops on the Galaxy AOSP boot screen.

Lelouch, I saw you posting at drakaz forum a week ago saying drakaz "did it again", I think it means the nightly worked for you. Hmm... what am I doing wrong?

Is there a way to move your personal data off and bring it back after upgrading images, or do you have to start over every time?

Okay, now download the nightly directly from here. Copy it to your SD card internal, go to Recovery (do a Nandroid Backup), apply full wipe (key stuff), fix permissions, apply any zip (Nightly), reboot to system (wait a few minutes for first boot), again restart to Recovery mode, fix permissions again, apply any zip (gapps - I presume you have them, if not get them from here - CM'ones 7 now work).

And try your luck again.

EDIT: camera still doesn't work with the latest nightly. Issue remains while taking picture(s) the phone freezes.

Works. Too bad the marketplace updater does not. I guess that was the hold up, have to install this one manually.

Thanks Lelouch.

Which settings do you reconfigure each time (eg. overclock, screen timeout)?
Any apps u always reinstall, eg.. swipe, dropbox, chrome to phone?

How do you copy files onto your phone for updates. I am struggling with dropbox breaking on big files, and SSH is a pain to setup because you must input a bunch of code with the keyboard to make a password 1st.

I have external SD card so swipe is manually activated in GAOSP conf. You have option of creating swap file on you external SD card in Recovery. And the next release will be great (you should have taken a look in GAOSP sticky).

O/C to 720 MHz, CPU governor is on demand (you can change it to performance), no compcache, no JIT, use purge of assets (very important), lock messaging app in memory, VM heap size 24 or 32 what works best for you (that all is in CyanogenMod setings/Perfomace). In GAOSP conf choose memory presets that work best for your use.
Regarding apps I always use Titanium Backup so I always restore them (hotreboot).

EDIT: maybe DaSchmarotzer has any ideas which apps would be useful

Hey guys, that samsung galaxy was killing me with bugs, lag, horrible battery life (less than 2 hrs), GPS takes 10-20 mins to lock, and intermittent wifi. Out of frustrattion, I bought an Optimus One (p500) which has a 600MHz CPU. It should have been slower than the Galaxy which I overclocked to 720Mhz but the p500 is muuuuuuuuuuch faster. My galaxy lagged and lagged and lagged and I couldnt even have a good game of angry birds (when it would run). I thought the cpu was too old but that is not the reason.

Even though this new phone is more than 20% slower (cpu), it doesnt really have any lag and angry birds runs great, it rarely drops frames. Snappy.

The only explanation I have for the awful performance of the galaxy is inadequate ram. Do you guys use a swap space on SD card to expand the virtual ram and make the phone usable? Since you have used yours for a long time, I am sure yours run better than mine did because it was lagging all the time.

I tried the stable version of Froyo and Gingerbread, and the latest nightly as well. Is it swap space that would fix the problem?

P.S. if you are in Canada PM me BEFORE JUNE 10, 2011 and I will tell you how to get a p500 for under $70 with no contract.

To add more memory I am going to try creating a swap space on a 2gb microsd card. Here is the tutorial I found- it says that afterwards I will be able to run Angry Birds smoothly. I use angry birds as a benchmark.

Download "Swapper for Root" <--- Typed exactly like that and run it makinf 128mb Swap on SD Card FAT Partition
This will create 128mb swap file named swap.swp
After this. Download Swapper 2 from market
Open swapper 2 and go to preferences. Set swappiness to 15-60 and change the file size to match the previously created, and the name of the file. Then go back to the main screen of Swapper 2 and press ON
Swapper 2 should now be able to set Swap on @ the previously created file.
Also. Replacing the default ADW launcher with lighter one (Zeam or Launcher Pro <- Dont know if its lighter, but surely runs smooth.) helps to gain performance.
And one more thing. Dont even BOTHER to OC your phone. Trust me.
In GAOSP Confg change the setting to match these:
Min CPU 120
Max CPU 528
CPU Performance
Sensors: Battery (Unless you use GPS make it Performance)
Cyannogen Mod Settings:
Disable Comcache
Set VM heap to 16
Lock both home and msg app in mem
Memory Thresholds:
1st 7MB
2nd: 9MB
3rd: 17MB
4th: 34MB
5th and 6th 26MB
Phone is faster than before atleast for me. Even Angry birds runs without problems.
Please thank if this guide helped you
Last edited by Vakuumi (2011-02-15 21:56:23)
Current build: GAOSP BETA 3 (Flawless build so far)

Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 POWAR!

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When I tried to get rid of the latest nightly I managed to wipeout my nandroid backup. I reinstalled GAOSP 2 beta 3. I did a factory reset/wipe then rebooted.

It boots up but I am greeted by:

"UIDs on the system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable"

I redid it all, I had forgotten to Fix Package Permissions. My nandroid backups are permanently lost, but it doesnt seem to matter
Froyo and angry birds with swap partition.... here I come.

DaSchmarotzer said:

I'm glad you got a new phone. Yes, the low RAM is the Galaxy's culprit and since I don't have any fast external SD card, I never really looked into using swap. I tried compcache but it didn't work wonders either. I wonder why your battery life was so bad though, and to me even though it isn't the fastest the phone is usable.

Also, you might have noticed that overclocking your Galaxy didn't do much in terms of performance, simply because the (lack of) RAM is what causes most lag.

Being in Canada, I sent you a private message, I am really interested in getting an upgrade for only $70! (Sorry Lelouch )

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Yep, I'm using external SD card for swap files for almost a year now. It fixes some problem regarding lag (angry birds will suck on Galaxy) but don't expect miracles. It seems the new fugeswap will make things interesting on Galaxy (you should see fugeswap in work in GAOSP 3 sticky).

@DaSchmarotzer - so you're jumping from the ship, huh? Well my contract ends in first days of August so...

Thanks for the Fugeswap tip! I am going to prepare this phone for my family so I will leave it with Froyo (camera works). I had angry birds running on it once with no swap space but it was laggy when trying to shoot, the birds would just take off. In GAOSP 3 gingerbread I couldnt even run it. Downloading it took about 80 attempts because the wireless kept disconnecting.

1. Are you ok with the gingerbread nightly wireless and GPS, Lelouch?

I replaced the burnt out LCD in the galaxy with a chinese screen, it seems to have better resolution than the optimus one (O1). I never saw the original screen. So the galaxy still has a nicer screen, it feels better to touch, the camera is much better and has torch.

2. I dont suppose anyone tried soldering on some more ram to the galaxy? Swapspace should do a similar job but I dont have a class 10 microsd card to test, only an old 2gb.

3. Do you have any youtube videos of how your galaxy runs lelouch?

DaSchmarotzer said:

Probably, the Optimus One is a better phone and for such a ridiculous price I'll gladly accept. It's not top-end either, I'll wait for my upgrade to get that.

I still have a long time on my contract, especially since my carrier decided to push back my upgrade eligibility by almost 6 months.

Any idea what you'll get?

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I'm at the crossroad.
Saving money to buy a new PC (damn AMD and their buldozer CPU) and monitor, so...
...my only option is to go via the line off less resistance (save money on mobile unit).
So, LG Optimus One is a option (how many memory does it have - I read 512 MB, but my believe is shaky to say the list), but it depends on the situation (who knows maybe Sam*censored Ace - there goes my no more Sam*censored policy ). My wish is a dual-core one (something that CyanogenMod supports or future Drakaz ROM), but that will must wait a year or more to have more choices to choose from. But my priority this year is a brand new PC (saving money for it and waiting for CPU reviews on Xbitlabs.)
Optimus One: to bad the camera is 3 MP (my preference is from 5 MP+) and no LED flash (if it did, it would be better then Galaxy). And no flash support or am I wrong???
How do you look at it DaSchmarotzer? Which preference do you have for camera?/How many MP's is enough to make you satisfied?

@Turds Gingerbread nightly works like a charm for me, almost instant GPS fix and Wi-Fi works like it should (no bugs). And no I don't have a Youtube video of my Galaxy. You should try some memory presets and also installing new GAOSP conf in order to remove some unneeded system apps and "clear CACHE" widget which makes our Galaxy snapier or wait for the next nightly. Don't forget to try using different "Launcher" in order to make easier weight for Galaxy (Zeam comes to mind, or other with presets) - uses less memory.
Also to make things clearer: Gingerbread uses more RAM than Froyo, so...
...you get the point. But it has better memory management and better graphics for gaming. We must be clear on one stuff - our Galaxy was never meant for gaming.

EDIT: regarding camera - it seems nopy will take a look why it hags while taking pictures

P.S: while at gaming Sony's future smartphone dedicated for gaming sounds yummy (I'm JRPG fan thru and thru ). Enough for now... ...going to sleep.