Root [ROM] CTMod 3.80 (04/06/13)

Lordvincent 90 · May 8, 2013

fryguy2 said:
Ok, I'll try something from above. Will the Prevail recognize it, if done using Linux? If so what setting: EX4/Primary ?

I imagine it would, but why would you use the computer when you have all these easy-to-use tools available to you?

Trilakor · May 9, 2013

This is, hands down, the best and fastest ROM I have ever used for my Prevail. However, there are a couple of minor problems. When I watch a video on YouTube in fullscreen mode, there are a series of thin black lines on the screen. When I use my camera, there is a crosshatch pattern of black lines on the screen. I don't know if anyone has brought this up or not, but does anybody know what could be the problem?

mookdm · May 11, 2013

Ok so after using this version of CTMod for a few weeks now I've got a few lil bugs I've encountered. I also loaded it up onto my friends phone because he liked the last mod I put on there and hes not really tech savy so I told him id load him up a nice new mod on his new prevail.

Now I personally dont use a phone for to much other than internet every once in awhile, phone calls, text msgs, and music. My phone is mainly playing music all day long from the time I wake up til I go to sleep. I didnt bother loading any apps onto it yet just incase I didnt like it and wanted to change mods, I hate having to redo my phone over and over lol.

So lets get to it..

Music player stops randomly, not to sure why but atleast 5times a day I have to unlock my phone and hit the Play button again. Now its not really to bad or that much of a hassle, the player doesnt crash so its really no huge deal.

The notification bar when I get a text message sometimes clears it off as I slide it down before I get a chance to click on it. Also not that big of a deal considering I can just go to my messages and see it.

When people send me pictures via text it sometimes makes me reboot my phone to download them.

I usually keep my data off because I rarely use anything that needs it and when I do I can just turn on the wifi. But when my data has been off for long periods of time it wont turn back on from notification bar it makes me manually do it. But even then sometimes it just wont fully turn on. The box ticks but it never turns it on, which is always fixed by a reboot.

Screen lock sometimes freezes but thats really rare. Its happened maybe 4times since Ive loaded this rom.

Oh seeing the post above mine made me remember the videos in the browser dont really go full screen when you turn the phone, but im thinking that may just be the browser so ill just put a dif browser on. Not really a huge deal at all.

So all in all just very minor problems. None of any real concern. I love the mod and really cant wait for some themes to come out for it. Good work

cwhatever · May 12, 2013

mookdm said:
Ok so after using this version of CTMod for a few weeks now I've got a few lil bugs I've encountered. I also loaded it up onto my friends phone because he liked the last mod I put on there and hes not really tech savy so I told him id load him up a nice new mod on his new prevail.

Now I personally dont use a phone for to much other than internet every once in awhile, phone calls, text msgs, and music. My phone is mainly playing music all day long from the time I wake up til I go to sleep. I didnt bother loading any apps onto it yet just incase I didnt like it and wanted to change mods, I hate having to redo my phone over and over lol.

So lets get to it..

Music player stops randomly, not to sure why but atleast 5times a day I have to unlock my phone and hit the Play button again. Now its not really to bad or that much of a hassle, the player doesnt crash so its really no huge deal.

The notification bar when I get a text message sometimes clears it off as I slide it down before I get a chance to click on it. Also not that big of a deal considering I can just go to my messages and see it.

When people send me pictures via text it sometimes makes me reboot my phone to download them.

I usually keep my data off because I rarely use anything that needs it and when I do I can just turn on the wifi. But when my data has been off for long periods of time it wont turn back on from notification bar it makes me manually do it. But even then sometimes it just wont fully turn on. The box ticks but it never turns it on, which is always fixed by a reboot.

Screen lock sometimes freezes but thats really rare. Its happened maybe 4times since Ive loaded this rom.

Oh seeing the post above mine made me remember the videos in the browser dont really go full screen when you turn the phone, but im thinking that may just be the browser so ill just put a dif browser on. Not really a huge deal at all.

So all in all just very minor problems. None of any real concern. I love the mod and really cant wait for some themes to come out for it. Good work

Gus has a couple themes out for it.

fryguy2 · May 13, 2013

I partitioned the card using CWM "1024 and 0 swap" it looked to work. It's an 8GB card/Class 10. How much should the internal memory show? The phone says:

Internal Storage: 109MB Available
SD Card Available Space: 6.34GB

Thanks

cwhatever · May 13, 2013

fryguy2 said:
I partitioned the card using CWM "1024 and 0 swap" it looked to work. It's an 8GB card/Class 10. How much should the internal memory show? The phone says:

Internal Storage: 109MB Available
SD Card Available Space: 6.34GB

Thanks

You have to go to kernel settings and select one of the options.

fryguy2 · May 13, 2013

cwhatever said:
You have to go to kernel settings and select one of the options.

Could you explain a little further? Doesn't SDparter do the same as CWM?

Thanks

KoumaMod Settings?
(*) None is set
( ) Data
( ) SSM

vce2005 · May 13, 2013

After you partitioned in CWM to the 1024, you need to select DATA for the memory to show up....Select DATA, then reboot into Recovery ( CWM ) and format your sdext ( nothing else ), then reboot normally and your memory ( 1024 ) should show up !

fryguy2 · May 13, 2013

Hey, thanks for the help. That worked. Friend happy. Maybe that info should be added to the guide.

Would it be bad to overclock the phone? I know it's slower pulling from the memory card vs memory chip.

Bender3012 · May 13, 2013

The Samsung logo and the KoumaKernal2.5 logo alternate on the screen endlessly-I can only go back to CWN and try again. Followed the directions to a tee, in fact for 5 different ROMs. I have been struggling with this for about 3 hours. What am I doing wrong?

vce2005 · May 13, 2013

You might not do anything wrong..........

It's just the case that some microSD cards don't work well in the Prevail or with the sdext formatting...... Give another card, another brand a try !!!

Usually Sandisk, Kingston and Verbatim work fine for me......

Good luck !

Bender3012 · May 13, 2013

thats what my instincts were pointing toward, but ive never done this before. I still have the samsung 2gb sdcard. I guess its off to walmart for me.

vce2005 · May 13, 2013

LOL, better get it online, it's cheaper !

Make sure you get a " class 10 " card.... It usually shows on the card a little circle with a number 4 - 6 - 1 ( 1=10 ) !!!

Bender3012 · May 14, 2013

Best I could find was a sandisk class 4, now it just shuts down after the KoumaKernel2.5 appears, I guess thats an improvement. I'll track down a fancy class 10 SDcard tomorrow.

fryguy2 · May 22, 2013

I reloaded my friends phone a week ago I guess. He said it hasn't been keeping the correct time and is running slow. Sometimes apps crash.

I have it set to use the memory card (Class10 8GB) as the storage area for apps. I installed 15-20 apps maybe.

Any ideas on fixing this?

Crimsimonia · May 22, 2013

Hmmm. When I used Cyanogen 7 I had that problem. I've not yet had that issue with CT final, or this update version. As far as the apps, I know what they'll say if anyone thinks it may be an app. Get rid of them all & only put one back on the phone every couple days so you can pinpoint which app is conflicting. I may be wrong, but I've never had any problem with an app messing with my cell keeping time. Once I switched back to this CT update from Cyan, I haven't had problems with the clock. Or anything else for that matter.
Good luck!

jmfg187 · Jun 2, 2013

Does anyone have a mirror for 3.80? I have been trying for 10 minutes and keep getting server error. Thanks in advance.

Sorry it just decided to work after 50 tries so nevermind! lol

fryguy2 · Jun 3, 2013

My friend use the standard "email" app on the phone. Doesn't look like this ROM included it. Anyway to get that back?

He still complains about the phone running slow and when using the TuneIn app that it buffers a lot. I might reflash the phone and not use the storage card for app memory and see how it does and just put very few apps on.

vce2005 · Jun 3, 2013

First post in this thread :

How to add removed app's:
➯ Download this: RemovedApps.zip and CLICK HERE for instructions on how to add them

The slow running might be the TuneIn app by itself, maybe it needs a faster processor, or your friend uses an old, slow class 2 card.... Might want to try a faster class 10 card !!!

fryguy2 · Jun 4, 2013

I just decided to reload it and not use the card as app storage. Just put very few apps back on. He was using a Class10 card that I bought.

I used a ROM for a family member on the ZTE Merit phone. I don't think it's better than the prevail and I used a Class10 on that phone and the phone using the card as app storage. I've gotten zero complaints from them on speed and they placed a bunch of apps on the phone.

Wonder it there's a test utility to make sure the card is running at the correct read/write speeds?

vce2005 · Jun 4, 2013

AnTuTu Benchmark can test that for you.........

x432hz · Jun 5, 2013

I want to know what are the right steps in order aside from preference when it comes to doing a new install of CTMod. In different posts I see more steps and sometimes less.

I realize it can be different related to what setup and mode is being used, so I'm generally talking about things like reformatting/wiping and resetting after doing certain steps before and after the actual install and any post configuration being done.

I use a 4 partition (3-1gb's) SSM mode setup on a 16Gb sd card, [fat|ext4|ext4|swap].

Using the latest CTMod 3.80 these are the steps I used for a fresh install:

1) in recovery run SSM setup, sdparted -i
2) stay in recovery, mount usb, put ctmod on sd, install
3) boot, run & config sdparter, reboot
4) koumamod, choose ssm, save, reboot
5) koumamod, setup swap settings, save, reboot

Now anywhere in between these steps I've read to run SD2EXT4.zip (formats both sd-ext & sd-swap to ext4), SSM_Wipe_Dalvik-swap2ext4formatter.zip, or at some point go back into recovery mode and delete/reformat all the user data etc.

I don't do any of the above mentioned steps myself, as far as I understand it the CTMod zip install formats the pre-created partitions to ext4 made from running sdparted -i in step1 above, and then after CT is installed and boots and SDParter is ran, that formats the partitions to ext4 as well.

So I want to know if my own 5 steps listed above are fine, should I be doing anything else in between any of those steps like the others I mentioned, or am I good.? I think a good explanation might help any newbs and others that come along and might want a better understanding of it as well.

Thanks.

Lordvincent 90 · Jun 5, 2013

Simply put, if it boots... And everything is mounted accordingly... Then ur fine.

In terminal do

Code:

df

If it shows listings for /data/app &/data/dalvik ur good

Then do

Code:

free

If it shows a listing under swap you're golden

razzyrosie · Jun 6, 2013

I'm sorry to ask such a silly question but I cant seem to find the answer, as far as the installation of CTMod I get all the steps but the first one...how to I copy the zip to my sd card, do I do that through CWM also or should I be in DL mode? Thanks.

irishobo · Jun 6, 2013

If the Rom is downloaded onto your computer then you can hook up your phone via USB to the computer. Then select the mass storage option on your phone so that your computer will see your phone as a drive. Last, copy the file onto the root of your sd card.

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