Infinity ROM

Here is the ROM Retrokid223 and I have been working on. This is a Gingerbread ROM for the DROID Charge (SCH-i510) based on the latest available leak, the EP1W build. The ROM is mostly stock, with only a few non-TouchWiz apps. The reason the TouchWiz apps were left in place is due to their increased functionality (for the most part) over their AOSP equivalents. To make things look good, Retrokid223 did a great job with theming, and ported the TouchWiz 4 look for the Samsung Galaxy S II and got rid of the generally ugly orange and brown color scheme that is the default. On top of all of that, a few graphical updates were made to enable the CRT Off animation as well as the over scroll glow effect. More options for restarting the phone were also added to the power menu that shows up when you long press the power button, for easy access to recovery, and should you need it (lets hope not), download mode.

Then, what good would a ROM be if all we had was the stock kernel to run it on? While not much can be done, a few tweaks were made to help keep things nice and snappy for the user without hindering the overall performance or functionality. A few settings were changed related to memory management to try and keep unused apps out of memory. The kernel will also auto-root your phone on boot (if not already rooted), you just need to install Superuser from the market. To help speed things along, the kernel compression for the ramdisk was reduced so you spend less time waiting for your phone to start up and more time using it. To make the system a little faster, EXT4 support was also added for the four primary partitions on the phone as well (/system, /data, /dbdata, & /cache). To top it all off, the SDCard read ahead setting was changed to help with transferring things to or from your SDCard.

What all of this adds up to is a slimmed down ROM that retains all of the usefulness of the stock ROM, but gets rid of many of the unused things that carriers like to throw in that no one ever uses. And, with all of those small changes and removed programs, you get a slightly faster running phone with less battery wasted on programs and services you’ll never use. Now, since you’re likely bored with reading this, here is the Cliff Notes version.

ROM Features

• Removed Carrier “Bloatware”
• Deodexed
• Zipaligned
• TouchWiz 4 Theme
• AOSP MMS, DeskClock, Browser, Google Talk, Keyboard, and GenieWidget
• CyanogenMod Wallpapers
• TouchWiz launcher replaced with TSM Launcher2
• All Google Apps available in the Market have been removed so you are on up-to-date versions
• Install Superuser from the market for root access
• Compatible with Voodoo Sound with Voodoo Control Plus
• Overscroll Glow and CRT Screen-Off animation
• Accurate Battery Mod
• Reboot Options added to the Power Menu
• Custom Shutdown Animation
• Replaced the Boot Animation
• TSM Parts – in progress

Kernel Features

• EXT4 Support
• SDCard Read Ahead Speed Tweak
• Auto-root device on boot (su binary only)
• Memory management adjustments
• Minimal compression for faster boot times

Installation Instructions

1. Backup your data
2. Flash CWM Recovery if you do not already have it installed
3. Download one of the two ROM packages below and transfer it to your SD Card
4. Restart into CWM Recovery, wipe data, and flash the ROM that you downloaded (please take note of the order)
5. Restart your phone and enjoy

Downloads
Kernel Only
ROM Only
ROM+Kernel on EXT4 – This will format /system, /data, /cache, and /dbdata to EXT4 before flashing the ROM and Kernel