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Looking for the most stock rom available

I'm looking for the most basic stock 2.2 rom available. I mean really stock Android, no touchWiz or customizations. Removal of Sprint bloatware would be great of course. This is for a Samsung Epic currently running froyo right out of the box. This is for a totally blind user running a screen reader from the Google Eyes Free Project. All of the TouchWiz stuff and customizations make the screen reader perform poorly and it's especially bad with froyo 2.2 due to the TouchWiz stuff.
I'd be grateful if anyone can point me to a rom that would fit the bill. Hopefully, such a thing exists. Thanks for any responses.

Cyanogenmod 7 is the closest to AOSP you can get, but it does have some features not working (yet).

I know its not exactly what you are asking for but I have an idea that is pretty simple to do but you don't have t flash another rom.
I suggest launcher pro from the app market. To all you adw fans out there, I've tried that too but accidentally messed up things in the dock and it wasn't fun fixing them. Anyways, launcher pro could be used as your home replacement. I don't know your level of knowledge so I will explain it. Once it finishes downloading, hit the home key on the bottom four and select as default application then select launcher pro. Now hit menu then settings then general and there's a thing to hide apps you don't want showing in the drawer. Next go into appearance and select dock style for froyo or froyo wide. That is pretty much it. There are a few settings that can be tweaked to turn off the special effects and maximise the drawer's speed in regards to scrolling.
That is my suggestion because it is stable and not necessary to start flashing roms and converting the phone's default file system to ext4, which from my experience was opening a can of worms.

I havent used it, but I believe you're looking for this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922773

It's not stock, it just is themed to look like it.
Texted while driving

Why not just root the phone and use root explorer and take out the touch wiz launcher in the stock rom from the system/app directory.
Here is a post here that shows you all the prgrams that you can safely remove:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773142&highlight=safe+apps+remove
Then if you want stock, you can't be more stock than this. Maybe this can help you get to what you want.

I appreciate the responses. Someone suggested simply replacing TW Launcher but that isn't really the issue. Apparently TouchWiz changes more than just the launcher. Some of the apps that don't seem to be really stock Android are messaging, contacts and calendar. TouchWiz also seems to do some other stuff under the hood that gets in the way. Perhaps rooting as someone else suggested and removing the problem apps and replacing them with the stock Android ones might do the trick. Surely there has to be a bare bones rom out there but maybe not for the epic.
I have heard great things about Cyanigen but unfortunately it isn't ready yet.

Syndicaterom Frozen is very barebones and quick. It is the cleanest stable rom.
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marcusant said:
Syndicaterom Frozen is very barebones and quick. It is the cleanest stable rom.
Thanks for the suggestion, SyndicateRom Frozen looks interesting. May try that one first.
Rick
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ralfaro613 said:
marcusant said:
Syndicaterom Frozen is very barebones and quick. It is the cleanest stable rom.
Thanks for the suggestion, SyndicateRom Frozen looks interesting. May try that one first.
Rick
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2nd on srf.
Saying that you were looking for a stock rom is throwing everyone off (or at least me). Stock means you want it like it came factory from Sprint, with all the bloat and garbage attached.
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LunaticWolf said:
ralfaro613 said:
2nd on srf.
Saying that you were looking for a stock rom is throwing everyone off (or at least me). Stock means you want it like it came factory from Sprint, with all the bloat and garbage attached.
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Sorry, didn't mean to throw anyone off. By stock what I mean is Android stock, not Samsung stock. Plain vanilla like you might find on a Nexus 1. No bloatware, no customized UI like TouchWiz. Hope that clarifies it. Thanks.
Rick
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ralfaro613 said:
LunaticWolf said:
Sorry, didn't mean to throw anyone off. By stock what I mean is Android stock, not Samsung stock. Plain vanilla like you might find on a Nexus 1. No bloatware, no customized UI like TouchWiz. Hope that clarifies it. Thanks.
Rick
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The term for plain vanilla is AOSP, the ONLY AOSP Rom for the Epic is Cyanogenmod.
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063_XOBX,
Thanks for the correct term. I see now what I'm looking for is Android Open Source Project (ASOP). It looks like CyanigenMod is the only way to go. I wish it was finished. The plan is to work on it this saturday so we may wind up trying Syndicate Mod Frozen to see how that goes and eventually flash CyanigenMod. I'm really anxious for Cyanigen to be completed. Thanks for clearing this up for me.
Rick

AOSP Launcher

Hello humans, finally managed to build working Launcher2 for our galaxies. I am running 2.3.4 leaked KG1 version with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077004 kernel. It should work on any version, but it is not tested.
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1) Grab your copy here: http://ge.tt/8yFx1v5?c
2) ./adb remount
3) ./adb push /pathto/Launcher2.apk /system/app
("adb push C:\pathto\Launcher2" for virus addicts)
4) Press home button
5) Send thanks to http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2611650 Renan (aka Python), it is from 99% his github sources build.
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Launcher is a application which have big rights on your system. You should install this kind of application only from trusted sources.
Launcher is not odexed, because odexed build for crespo don't work on sgs2. Perhaps I need different TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT or something like that.

Hi!
Many thanks! Could you please tell us something about the speed? Are there any lags? How smooth the scrolling is in the app drawer/between the home screens, etc.
I really appreciate your work!

H377 said:
Hi!
Many thanks! Could you please tell us something about the speed? Are there any lags? How smooth the scrolling is in the app drawer/between the home screens, etc.
I really appreciate your work!
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Smooth as 15yr old girl butt, it is opengl accelerated (this is forced in code). AOSP launcher have a different sliding behavior, so it feels slower until you get used to it, but it is definitely smooth. I have to say that even touchwiz seems to be mostly smooth on my sgs2.

vorcigernix said:
Smooth as 15yr old girl butt
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should i even ask?

Great! THX! Will give it a try!

Thanks for this & great work Might have to use this version in my ROM

tjjensen23 said:
should i even ask?
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Ok, 25yr old girl (if this is any better)

nitrozk said:
Thanks for this & great work Might have to use this version in my ROM
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Sure, no probs. Don't forget mention Renan work

Could you post the modifications you made ?

vincenzo91 said:
Could you post the modifications you made ?
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Well, as said, it is mostly sourced from https://github.com/renan-/Launcher2
I changed some code related to autorotate (rotate only in cardock) and set back a tension parameter in Workspace.java
public float getInterpolation(float t) {
//_o(t) = t * t * ((tension + 1) * t + tension)
//o(t) = _o(t - 1) + 1
t -= 1.0f;
return t * t * ((mTension + 1) * t + mTension) + 1.0f;
}
I am at work now, cannot look at my code. I will probably fork AOSP code and upload it to my own repo soon.
Adam

Thanks for this, will try it now.

Cool. Havent had this since my old gt540. Not sure why but since installing, my phone no longer rotates when using launcher pro and the stock one too. Anyone else had this?
Solved. So ignore.
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Is it possible to modify it to have a 5x5 drawer?

Razer(x) said:
Is it possible to modify it to have a 5x5 drawer?
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No, from settings it's not. It is possible to change code to display 5x5, but I will definitely don't do that. I am now playing with some next launcher ideas, but this will stay as close to AOSP code as possible.

[Q] Launcher

I may just be asking to be flamed, but I have to know how come the stock launcher (NON TOUCHWIZ) hasn't been put out yet. Yes I know of Launcher pro and others. The sprint ID one that has been removed from the good roms was pretty good. Also Marcuant from the Epic forums has a ICS beta that's awesome and the launcher on it is cool. Anyway to port that or is the Source files from ICS needed to make that happen?

Truballa11 said:
I may just be asking to be flamed, but I have to know how come the stock launcher (NON TOUCHWIZ) hasn't been put out yet. Yes I know of Launcher pro and others. The sprint ID one that has been removed from the good roms was pretty good. Also Marcuant from the Epic forums has a ICS beta that's awesome and the launcher on it is cool. Anyway to port that or is the Source files from ICS needed to make that happen?
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I'm a little confused as to what you are looking for. If you mean the stock Gingerbread launcher (since that is what we are on) there are a handful of them available in the market.

ASOP Launcher. Or the new ICS launcher. Maybe it's a clone but it's the [email protected] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295515 He has no pics but I did flash the rom on a buddies epic and it runs smooth. The launcher doesn't have the bugs that the other clones do.

Truballa11 said:
ASOP Launcher. Or the new ICS launcher. Maybe it's a clone but it's the [email protected] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295515 He has no pics but I did flash the rom on a buddies epic and it runs smooth. The launcher doesn't have the bugs that the other clones do.
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The launcher works perfectly on our GS2 FYI.

https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.SyndicateApps.ICSv2&feature=search_result

Thanks for the quick responses. I've played with that one before and it's still laggy and the quicklinks on the right doesn't work well. I really just want someone to abstract the launcher out of the sprint id that's stock android so I can use that as my daily. Oh Snap. This one works well. SMS doesnt work.

Truballa11 said:
Thanks for the quick responses. I've played with that one before and it's still laggy and the quicklinks on the right doesn't work well. I really just want someone to abstract the launcher out of the sprint id that's stock android so I can use that as my daily. Oh Snap. This one works well. SMS doesnt work.
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The one I linked you to is what Marcusant is using in his ICS themed rom. If you wanna use the stock gingerbread launcher, you've already got it. Just clear defaults on TouchWiz launcher and hit home, select it from the menu. Or use the app 'Home Switcher' and select it in there. Done and done.

I love this launcher. Is there any way to reduce the number of screens from 5 down to 3?

Jelly Bean Launcher

Can I pull launcher2.apk and tweak it? Or is this something that I need source for?

You might be able in this ROM (as it's deodexed though it would depend on what you're trying to tweak) but otherwise, I doubt you'd really be able to do much without the source.

Eventually, I would like to try and figure out enabling homescreen rotation. Think that's something I could do with the deodexed one?

Nova
I remember Apex having that and I used to have Apex. Nova is pretty similar and not sure if it has that.
However, Nova works with Jelly Bean, I am using the ROM that the previous poster put up above.
You can try that

Wasn't really trying to use another launcher. Just trying to see if I can do it, learn a bit while I'm at it.

I would like to know that also, cause im trying to remove google search bar from stock launcher..

kastleberg said:
Eventually, I would like to try and figure out enabling homescreen rotation. Think that's something I could do with the deodexed one?
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That I don't think is a odex/de-odexed problem and will most likely require the source for the launcher.

Laynee1 said:
I would like to know that also, cause im trying to remove google search bar from stock launcher..
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1741038
This mod for the stock launcher will do the trick for you
To the OP, there are a lot of mods around for you to change things other than that its just Nova and the other launchers
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

[REQUEST] MIUI Power Control Widget

I was wondering if someone could port the MIUI Power Control Widget to AOSP or Stock Samsung Roms.
I think it looks really good. It has got the same function as the AOSP toggles but if you click the 3 dots, a bigger menu opens (see screens attached).
Thanks in advance!

Don't shoot me for asking again, but does anybody know of this or of some kind of alternative that looks this clean?

herbivoor said:
Don't shoot me for asking again, but does anybody know of this or of some kind of alternative that looks this clean?
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I've been asking this for a while in different forums but it seem to fall on deaf ears. I would like to see it replace the stock power control widget that you seem to get in all roms as the miui one look soo much nicer.

use mihome app from market, its only working with miui launcher
here is the link
this app is already included in my ROM
check the signature
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miui.mihome2

Chaos ^_^ said:
use mihome app from market, its only working with miui launcher
here is the link
this app is already included in my ROM
check the signature
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miui.mihome2
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thanks mate but all I would like is the some help on how to extract the widget from mihome launcher app and add it to miui roms as I use the full Miui v5 for my phones. thanks anyway
but if you know what and how I am very willing to learn. :fingers-crossed:

Ya know, i have never even seen that get brought up before. It is a beautiful widget and would be great if someone can port it. Im not too sure if it is possible though because it may require the miui framework which has quite a few changes from aosp. If your interested, I have a section in my thread (link in sig) that has all (at least to my knowledge) MIUI ports to date.

tp2215 said:
Ya know, i have never even seen that get brought up before. It is a beautiful widget and would be great if someone can port it. Im not too sure if it is possible though because it may require the miui framework which has quite a few changes from aosp. If your interested, I have a section in my thread (link in sig) that has all (at least to my knowledge) MIUI ports to date.
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hey thanks mate will have a read I'm currently using miui v5 from HERE
it's the unofficial miui v5 so as far as my thick skull knows with it's less than average knowledge of these things it should be compatible/work.
would I be right in thinking that getting the right xml files and graphics from the mihome launcher app and putting them into the rom somewhere e.g. framework-res.apk, frameworkmiui-res.apk or miuihome.apk should add the widget to the rom? or am I way off?