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I have the opprunity to get an hd2 plus $100 for my Vibrant (was suppose to get a nexus S) but I don't know what to do, this place is pretty boring now (not bashing you guys) I seriously love all of you devs/Vibrant owners,ect, but there's nothing really going on here anymore, while the hd2 is getting new roms left and right, and kernels, and it also has wp7 (yuck, well not that bad) my question is WHAT SHOULD I DO? ;] If you were in my shoes, what would you choose?
PS: Please don't get upset (that would be a bad idea), I love my phone, and our devs
If you're bored with the Vibrant then get a new phone.
If I were you I would get the hd2. You wont believe how much development that phone has. It has more than the nexus one. The build is pretty good also. Aluminum back plate, 4.3 inch screen.
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About the only thing the HD2 doesn't have is our fantastic screen. Other than that, it is THE flashers phone. So many choices, you wont ever be bored. I love my Vibrant, but everyone has their specific wants/needs.
CrazyCharlie said:
If you're bored with the Vibrant then get a new phone.
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Good idea? Duh
hitman818 said:
If I were you I would get the hd2. You wont believe how much development that phone has. It has more than the nexus one. The build is pretty good also. Aluminum back plate, 4.3 inch screen.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking the phone has a lot going on, I just don't want that feel of "oh man I downgraded"
thegreatcity said:
About the only thing the HD2 doesn't have is our fantastic screen. Other than that, it is THE flashers phone. So many choices, you wont ever be bored. I love my Vibrant, but everyone has their specific wants/needs.
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Another down fall, The screen resolution isn't the best, this made me wonder also.
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Good idea? Duh
Yeah, that's what I was thinking the phone has a lot going on, I just don't want that feel of "oh man I downgraded"
Another down fall, The screen resolution isn't the best, this made me wonder also.
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Yeah I've got an HD2 in the house, the screen is noticeably worse, a little washed out. But Im jealous of the dev activity there.
Me too. i want a new phone. :/ But i'm stuck at vibrant for years.
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Hd2 comes with a small battery 1300 something mah
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Im in the same exact boat as the OP.
I have an offer to trade my Vibrant for a HD2 also.
Also having a hard time deciding. Its been almost a year since I been on Android/HD2 not to mention it has the ability of WP7 now.
Trying to decide if I want to loose my SAMOLED Screen / 2 Batteries / 720p Cam for the HD2 which has plentiful of Roms / bigger screen / 3 OS choice / *Stable GPS*
Even though there isn't much development going on for the Vibrant we do have a Android phone that is a whole more stable than Android on the HD2. But then again its been months since I had a HD2.
I have up to tomorrow morning to make my decision LOL.
hypersonicx said:
Im in the same exact boat as the OP.
I have an offer to trade my Vibrant for a HD2 also.
Also having a hard time deciding. Its been almost a year since I been on Android/HD2 not to mention it has the ability of WP7 now.
Trying to decide if I want to loose my SAMOLED Screen / 2 Batteries / 720p Cam for the HD2 which has plentiful of Roms / bigger screen / 3 OS choice / *Stable GPS*
Even though there isn't much development going on for the Vibrant we do have a Android phone that is a whole more stable than Android on the HD2. But then again its been months since I had a HD2.
I have up to tomorrow morning to make my decision LOL.
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Your going to miss vibrant when cm 7 gets fully functional!
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Yeah but CM7 has been fully functional on the HD2 for a little while now.
I personally have a vibrant and a hd2, and I must say I am torn on which to use daily. If you want android, then stay with the vibrant. Though the hd2 nand android is fairly fast and stable, there are those small quirks such as freezes and not being able to charge when the phone is off. However, if you like tinkering, then hell, go for it. Sd builds, nand builds, wp7, winmo, and hopefully meego soon.
Get the hd2
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Coming from a hd2 its nice flashing different roms asop to sense. I was just there from the start so the bugs got old. My digitizer went out and I didnt feel like doing it anymore .
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hypersonicx said:
Im in the same exact boat as the OP.
I have an offer to trade my Vibrant for a HD2 also.
Also having a hard time deciding. Its been almost a year since I been on Android/HD2 not to mention it has the ability of WP7 now.
Trying to decide if I want to loose my SAMOLED Screen / 2 Batteries / 720p Cam for the HD2 which has plentiful of Roms / bigger screen / 3 OS choice / *Stable GPS*
Even though there isn't much development going on for the Vibrant we do have a Android phone that is a whole more stable than Android on the HD2. But then again its been months since I had a HD2.
I have up to tomorrow morning to make my decision LOL.
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Ahh I see, I just have no idea what to do! Were basically thinking the same, but I don't want to think of losing the screen quality, and I barely know about making an ex2 partition for my apps (on the hd2) and I'll miss the 16gb of space. It's so hard, I don't want to get that (sucks for you, you downgraded) feeling, but then again, I want to tamper, and hack my phone, and the screen size would do a lot of justice.
Don't worry, the screen size makes up for the quality. And in reality, under decent light, the hd2 has a fairly good lcd screen that is comparable to my old nexus one. Just don't tilt the screen and change viewing angles. Strangely enough, when I come back to the vibrant it's screen feels cramped.
eunkipark92 said:
Your going to miss vibrant when cm 7 gets fully functional!
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With the LED display and 720p camera and forgot to mention the onboard 16GB +(my 16GB from older HD2) I might hold on to the Vibrant.
Iv'e had a change in heart, I'm going to keep my vibrant, and enjoy it until the sgs2 comes out! I love this phone!
In all reality, I forgot that I can flash i9000 due to Eugene's kernel, and the services.jar, so as of now, I'm okay, tomorrow.. who knows.
Had the hd2 also. I wasnt happy with the phone freezing all the time. I put android on it but after a few weeks the digitizer went out. Phone is now useless and literally collecting dust on my shelf.
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I have the hd2 and the vibrant. After I got the vibrant with its beautiful screen I just couldn't go back to looking at my washed out screen on my hd2 despite the Rom madness its been getting for ongoing month now. The amoled screen just has me hypnotized lol
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Is it just me, or does the S2 not have the cool screen off animation that looks like an old TV switching off? I thought it came as part of gingerbread?
Now there is a proper reason not to buy the phone, it's rubbish without this feature.
Intratech said:
Now there is a proper reason not to buy the phone, it's rubbish without this feature.
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Time to cancel my pre-order
On-topic: Can be re-added in custom rom or maybe even with a nice option through an app.
gruff83 said:
Is it just me, or does the S2 not have the cool screen off animation that looks like an old TV switching off? I thought it came as part of gingerbread?
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Only for Nexus S and One with pure Google experience.
BTW I hated it and disabled it on my HTC Desire custom ROM.
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Someone will make a flashable update.zip, don't worry. We need CWM first though
Ive had the phone for 5 days and have only just noticed, so no big deal really. Would be nice to have though as I think it's pretty cool looking.
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i have the screen off animation on my nexus one, and it really is worth it to have that little feature. HTC took it off their upcoming phones as well, who knows why they are removing it.
it will be added back with custom ROMs for sure.
If you want the old CRT TV-off animation try the program "Screen Off and Lock", has the same thing. I use it on my SGSI now, and from memory there was a recent update for gingerbread compatibility. You can check youTube for examples of it in action, unfortunately I cannot supply a link since I'm at work.
Is it just me or is the Vibrant getting boring? I use to flash a new theme/rom/kernel every day or so. I have not flashed anything new in over a month. They all seem to be the same over and over.
I see little to no difference in 2.2 roms some kernels are OCed and thats fun if you want to decrease the life span of your phone, but non of that is for me. Themes all have the same icons and colors used over and over. Once in a while someone comes out with something new which is awesome good job but it gets played out in about a week.
I started making my own themes and porting over things I liked but even that has gotten boring to me. I help out a lot of people with boot animations and themes but really there is nothing new that can be done to our phones that has not already been done. I use to hear this and would think no way but I have come to this conclusion myself. Every color theme has been done, every bit of speed has been squeezed out of this phone. Its all really boring to me now and I wondered if I was alone in this.
Even if or when 2.3 comes out for the vibrant we already have so many clones out right now its not even funny. So it feels as if I have nothing to really look forward to.
Having said all that I loved this phone when I got it best phone ever to learn on. So I cant hate it but it does get boring to me now. I broke out my old blackberry just for something new yesterday....sad.
I agree. This is basically maxed out for me and I'm not touching gingerbread until gps is available. I'm getting close to getting an LG G2X.
I was feeling the same. I even reflashed back to stock KB5 through Kies just to a break from custom roms. The fact is that Samsung based roms are already tweaked as much as they can be, they really isn't much else to do. MIUI and CM7 offer something new, but even those get boring after a while. Other phones will really be the same after a while, and the fact remains that even after all these mods, its still a phone.
The theme and dev aspects are getting stale, but I can't bring myself to get another phone because no other phone I know of (other than Nexus S) can match or beat both the screen and the sound quality. Sound us huge for me. I'm waiting for something equal or better in all aspects.
same...
a few months ago i used to be like "DAMN THESE ROMS MAKING MY BATTERY LIFE HORRIBLE"
now i'm like "why isnt my rom making my battery life go down " because before i slept with 5% left, now i sleep with like 40 lol.
Tired, yes, bored, yes, is this the end? no.
we just need something big to happen..
like a GB leak or actual thing (wink wink to samsung)
All phones will get stale after sum time
I feel the reason is that once we had the knowledge to do all this **** to our phones we started to over do it. How many of you out there flashed 4 different ROMs in just one week? Had a different theme for everyday of the week? And when that was not enough when the average flasher figured out how to edit the framework-res/twframework-res hand started to mix themes to create our own (guilty also)...and then the apps, boot animation, etc. Its just like that song on the radio that gets overplayed or those skinny jeans that alot of you shouldn't be wearing... we just over did it. Plus the life of a phone now is as short as the life of a new rapper on the radio so that doesn't help.
I own two Vibrants (bought a toilet dweller from my girl's sis that still ended up working) so I'm pretty sure ima be sporting one till I break/loose it and then the other comes im play till the same happens. Unless the next gen of phones out there could make me coffe and/or give me a lap dance I think I will be stuck with the Vibrant for a while but cuz people like Team Whiskey and all ya other Devs like u made me like this phone ALOT and I'm proud to say I own one. THX every1.
Yeah it is getting stale, but I will always keep my vibrant. Im in the market to buy another phone and currently debating on getting the G2X or wait til the SGS II comes out for the US carriers (hopefully soon).
Yeah I will keep it. I am going with the sgs2 for sure if or when it comes.
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Hey Tonic can you please make
a/some themes for the Bionix 2 Rom for the G2X!
Runnix Bionix 2! Yeeee!
Yes, getting bored with the pentile screen,
and the 2.3 without GPS
htc2364 said:
Hey Tonic can you please make
a/some themes for the Bionix 2 Rom for the G2X!
Runnix Bionix 2! Yeeee!
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lol gtfo
We dont wanna lose him on vibrant section.
xriderx66 said:
lol gtfo
We dont wanna lose him on vibrant section.
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Haha, I don't want him to leave! Still have a vibrant my bro uses and I update for him!
Just want him to share his talent with the G2X!
Runnix Bionix 2! Yeeee!
What if it is the bigger picture. With gentoo or any Linux you build your box and then fix and tweak everyday until one day you stop working on it because everything works or of one thing 'Gps via gingerbread' makes you frustrated enough to lose interest temporarily .. you will get back into it... watch. Hahahaha
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Team whiskey leaving vibrant has been a big disappointment for me. I've been running bionix 131 for over two months now lol. All the roms except miui and cm7 look the same to me and I don't even wanna look at them anymore. Having said I still love my vibrant and like someone mentioned earlier I don't see any phone that is superior to vibrant. I will most likely get sgs II. I really wanted it to have a 4" screen as I think its the beat screen size for me. 4.3" screen has been a bit of disappointment for me.
Jusf my $0.02.
What do u guys think.
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i love my vibrant and i will be having this untill my sgII comes out!!
No its not getting that.
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Except for the goddamn GPS, vibrant is really an awesome phone for me. Tell me what this phone cannot do when compared to the latest dual core android phones??
Interesting that what some people call boring, others, including me, would call stable. I recently switched back to Vibrant after several months with a Nexus S. The NS made me feel comfortable about flashing new roms, and really, the stock UI experience was the only thing I disliked about the Vibrant.
I've been using Axura pretty much since I returned. I tried out a couple others, but it seems like I always return to my back-up, and I'll probably continue to until I get a new phone. It runs fast and smooth, I consistently get a day--sometimes almost two--out of a single charge (with light use, obviously), my GPS seems to work well, and I rarely get FCs.
Boring? Maybe. I like having a phone that just works, and that I'm not tweaking every day. I also love the community here, which is anything but boring.
Its still 1of d best swish abd u might be dissapointed
Had a quick look around & a quick google but didn't really get anywhere.
I'm pretty much in love with the new Sidekick inspired MIUI lock screen, To the point where I switched to MIUI just to have it, My problem is I really don't like how MIUI works, even with a different launcher it just doesn't compare to CM7 (Well atleast for me anyway)
So my question is, Is there a way this can be ported over? I'm going guess its not but no harm in asking
Thanks in advance
I was wondering if there is a way now that we have root to enable the Gingerbread on / off animation that HTC removed, without having to flash a new ROM?
This is different than the power up / restart / down animation that is listed elsewhere in this forum.
Thanks!
I just searched around, and maybe it's lack of proper wording but all I turned up was "it's in Gingerbread" Nothing relating to how to activate/deactivate/change it. What I would surmise from all of this is that HTC chose not to implement it in their build, so an AOSP build would/should have it vs the HTC build.. Sucks but it seems like all we have right now.
Of course the last link I try, I find this: http://droidmodderx.com/old-school-crt-animation-for-gingerbread-tv-off/
Don't go flashing it, but we should be able to pick it apart and determine what we need to add in.
I was able to add it in but HTC messed something in the code up and the animation plays extremely slow. I'm still looking around to see if i can figure out how to speed it up and once i do it'll be in my rom.
Awesome. This is my first Android and I've seen it in videos. Seems pretty cool!
u can try spare parts+ to speed up the animation.
Ndaoud360 said:
u can try spare parts+ to speed up the animation.
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Wish it was that simple... Lol
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Good stuff, thanks for the reply guys. Seems like it should be something to easy to add in but I guess not.
Are you talking about the animation that comes up when you turn your phone off/on? The animation on the CM roms? If thats the one your talking about I would love it too.
bal1985 said:
Are you talking about the animation that comes up when you turn your phone off/on? The animation on the CM roms? If thats the one your talking about I would love it too.
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No, this is when you put the screen to sleep(tap the power button, or wait for the screen timeout).
It's called the CRT animation, is mimics the screen "twitch" old CRT computer monitors.
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It's called the CRT animation, is mimics the screen "twitch" old CRT computer monitors.
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yeah thats it, is this out yet for rezound?
Negative, according to Newt and Chingy, the animation does work but there's something within the OS that slows it down dramatically, so it's pretty much useless.
We'll have this soon enough, the dev's are awesome and they'll figure it out. I do like having those animations.
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Negative, according to Newt and Chingy, the animation does work but there's something within the OS that slows it down dramatically, so it's pretty much useless.
We'll have this soon enough, the dev's are awesome and they'll figure it out. I do like having those animations.
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Good ol' HTC crapping on native Android code again...
MrSmith317 said:
Good ol' HTC crapping on native Android code again...
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Eh, at least our bootloader is unlocked... (LOL @ Motorola)
Droid 2 deja vu. That was such a pain to have a locked bootloader
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Coming from EVO 3D, I know it took them quite a while to get CRT working there, as well.