My adventures in creating a custom kernel are ongoing, but in the meantime I decided to see exactly how far I could push the stock kernel. Since the Gravity SMART uses the same CPU as the Galaxy Ace, I decided to build a franken-ROM. A (very) simplified outline:
1) I downloaded the stock...
I am making headway in working on a custom kernel for this phone, but the latest hurdle is the fact that the phone has the console hardwired to NULL in the firmware (arm11boot, to be precise). What that means is that this project is delving into "you might hard brick your phone" territory...
I have been working on creating a customized kernel for this phone (no luck on that front..) but on a lark I went back to opensource.samsung.com to see if maybe Samsung had uploaded an updated package. What I found was the sources for a mysterious device, the SGH-T589W! I don't know much about...
This ROM is very minimalist. I have not added any wallpapers, ringtones, or extraneous apps. Nothing is themed. What it does do is provide you with a minimum baseline to avoid the inherent design flaws with the stock ROM.
Why use a custom ROM?
The phone has very little internal memory. In the...
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