Well after mastering the davik/factory reset/and cache wipe process when installing custom roms, i went from 1.8.1 BB/AMSS/DSP1 345 to Froyo2.2.2 BB/AMSS/DSP1 345 and quite frankly it blows!
Quandrant doesnt even run properly, MY FPS are slower than an old goat with one leg
Have I done something wrong?
Quadrant says: 827
no overclocking.
old goat lol... That sounds average for a stock rom without perfmod tho...
I installed 345 last night from 318. I used titainium backup and backed up everything from my old rom, then restored it to the new rom. Just about every 2nd program crashed, and I simply couldn't use it. Maybe I've gone wrong somewhere. So I did a factory reset and manually installed the apps, but it just seemed so slow for some reason. Dell Stage wasn't even responding. So I quickly went back to 318
Awesome running 1.9.0 no over clocking got 1920 on Quadrant DJ_Steve is so cool
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Hi,
I'd like to start off saying I'm a newbie...
I originally thought it was a requirement to root you HTC Hero phone to get andriod 2.1, and I did root it I got Villain 12.
I later discovered you can update without rooting, to the offical firmware, now I have two heros (one is my bro's).
I was doing a comparison his has offical 2.1, mine has Villain 12, I can't really see much difference between the Official & Villain 12, other than Villain 12 takes about 55 seconds longer to boot up. So as far as that goes, that's a serious downgrade to the official version. Many people say it's faster and better, but my tests show that its much slower to boot and the same while using apps etc.
I was wondering if there was actually any benefits to the custom rom...
Also I was wondering how to unroot the phone, just incase I need to return under warranty etc...
Well with a rooted phone you can overclock your phone via Overclock Widget(Market) or SetCPU (search XDA to get it for free and put it on your sd card and download Astro Filemanage to install it) I use Cronos Droid 2.1.2 so I cannot speak for VillainROM 12. The phone does take a bit longer to boot up but I find it worth it because I can flash themes, change my bootanimation and do other crap such as try new kernels or try out experimental ROMS (basically any 2.2 Froyo ROM), so it is a matter of opinion if root is worth it. Also a simple search and there are threads stating the pros and cons of rooting
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Forgot rooted phones get app2sd (saves space on your phone so you can have more apps)
I would love to know the official 2.1 boot time. For a comparison to other boot times. FYI if VillainROM is taking 55 seconds longer to boot that would mean that the official boots in about 15 seconds (based upon my results). So my thinking is that something went wrong with your VillainROM install (for whatever reason). I would recommend wiping everything and reinstalling VillainROM or another ROM and seeing if you get the performance improvements that I am seeing in almost all rom's.
GPU Benchmarks
CPU/Boot time Benchmarks
If i remember correctly the official 2.1 took about 1:50-2:00 to boot up. Villainrom12 took 1:20, and Kimera2.1 takes 1:00 (very impressive)
Not as impressive as Chocolate Eclair 1.0 which takes about 50 seconds to load IIRC.
Hi all,
I have been on xda-dev for years and my new Streak arrives tomorrow. I have read a ton of posts all over this section including the wiki and faq's but if someone could help me with a few basic questions that would be great.
I'm assuming my streak will arrive with 2.2 (froyo) or do they still come with 1.6 on ?
What is the best course of action for me rom wise ? I run a very lightweight rooted 2.3.4 rom on my Nexus S and would like something similarly light on my Streak. Can I just root the standard 2.2 (and strip out the bloat) or am I best off installing a custom rom (maybe Streakdroid 1.9) right off the bat ?
Really excited about my new purchase and looking forward to contributing.
Thanks in advance.
maltloaf
The closest thing to 2.3.4 is djsteves gingerstreak 2.0
It still needs a little work but is looking pretty good.
Sent from my Dell Streak using Tapatalk
I don't particularly need gingerbread just lightweight, fast and rooted
Streakdroid 1.9 with baseband 354 is super light. You can root through rom installation or through flashing superuser.zip.
You'll need clockwork recovery or streakrecovery (or whatever) to do most of this.
When I got my phone in feb/march it had 1.6. When I got my replacement it had 2.2. You'll want a launcher (i'm sure you know) because the dell launcher is meh.
it arrived this morning with 2.2 on it. I updated with the official update to 2.2.2 and rooted by fastboot flashing streakmod recovery and then superuser.zip.
Feels a bit sluggish at the mo so have installed SPB Shell 3D (as I had already bought it) and that's a bit more spritely than stageUI but will have a look at streakdroid 1.9 before I play too much I think. I quite like the dell widgets but I can see how the novelty would wear off quickly.
ok noob question. My baseband reads as GAUSB1A135100-EU
am i ok using that with streakdroid 1.9 or do I need to flash the one in the streakdroid thread (or some other) ?
many thanks again.
maltloaf said:
ok noob question. My baseband reads as GAUSB1A135100-EU
am i ok using that with streakdroid 1.9 or do I need to flash the one in the streakdroid thread (or some other) ?
many thanks again.
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That's ok
Sent from the Almighty Streak!
my suggestion is to upgrade to stock 354.
remove the bloat
remove dell stage ui and widgets and go with adw launcher or launcherpro
don't load more then 20-30 apps..
you will be screaming...
you can use a flashable zip to root, or use gingerbreak to root.
Thanks for the replies...
Which one is 354 and where do I get it ?
I've installed streakdroid 1.9.0 and it's really nice but i'm getting random reboots, even through factory resets. I think stock/rooted/lightened is the way forward for me personally.
This page is full of great info and links to all the roms http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Dell_Streak#Official
OK, now I'm on 354 rooted, installed ADW launcher and much happier with it.
What method do people use to remove unwanted apps ?
cheers,
malty
maltloaf said:
OK, now I'm on 354 rooted, installed ADW launcher and much happier with it.
What method do people use to remove unwanted apps ?
cheers,
malty
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root uninstaller.
( from my personal experience , i have not seen any benefit from removing system apps
I'm inclined to agree after some investigating. On other handsets certain system apps are sometimes loaded into memory even if not being used.
I installed system panel lite from the market to see what was running and only saw items I had started.
Tomorrow I will be battling with locking the default orientation to portrait!
Cheers,
malty
i use titanium backup to uninstall apps.
Getting occasional internet drop outs. Data just stops even tho signal is good. (Doesn't happen on the same sim in my nexus). Would this be common and might a different baseband help?
Thanks again
I'm liking the 351 baseband more than I did the 354. My internet connection is more stable and I am able to switch between HSPA and WiFi in one click, whereas I wasn't able to with 318.
For unwanted apps, I use Root Explorer and go to the system apps and just delete it, it's worked better for me than Titanium.
But then I flashed StreakDroid 1.9 with the noapps in my install.txt and there really isn't anything left to get rid of if you flash that route, that's about as bare as it gets.
Although I do go and eliminate the stock browser and the stock gingerbread launcher and replace them with my preferences
Ok how do I go to a different modem firmware? Do i have to flash a whole Rom?
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Ok how do I go to a different modem firmware? Do i have to flash a whole Rom?
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Nope, you just flash a different baseband through fastboot, like I mentioned before, I decided to go stick with the 351 and have been happy since.
Had a look round but couldn't find the amss file (or any others for that matter) for 351. Are they all stored somewhere I haven't come across?
I had a go at downgrading to the full 351 Rom too but ran into problems. It seemed not to want to restore a Rom with an older date than I was running. I think the amss file will do fine for now though. My net connection really is hit and miss! Almost like the cellular radio is going to sleep.
Thanks,
malty
maltloaf said:
Had a look round but couldn't find the amss file (or any others for that matter) for 351. Are they all stored somewhere I haven't come across?
I had a go at downgrading to the full 351 Rom too but ran into problems. It seemed not to want to restore a Rom with an older date than I was running. I think the amss file will do fine for now though. My net connection really is hit and miss! Almost like the cellular radio is going to sleep.
Thanks,
malty
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Ok bro, did the legwork for ya.... (hit that Thanks button) and here's Manii's page where you can find the basebands and most anything else
http://mirror2.streakdroid.com/manii/
I have used tegrak overclock and pushed my phone to 1.66 GHz. I am running VillianRom 1.1 and CF-Root kernel.
When I run Nenamark2 I only score 44.2 fps, yet my friend who is running the same as me, expect he has no over clock, scores 43.6 fps.
Should I do a factory reset, how do I COMPLETELY whipe the phone, including all data, cos factory reset from the menu doesnt COMPETELY whipe the phone.
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I have used tegrak overclock and pushed my phone to 1.66 GHz. I am running VillianRom 1.1 and CF-Root kernel.
When I run Nenamark2 I only score 44.2 fps, yet my friend who is running the same as me, expect he has no over clock, scores 43.6 fps.
Should I do a factory reset, how do I COMPLETELY whipe the phone, including all data, cos factory reset from the menu doesnt COMPETELY whipe the phone.
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Your friend is likely running another rom, like lightning rom? Villainrom doesn't perform well with benchmarks
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Your friend is likely running another rom, like lightning rom? Villainrom doesn't perform well with benchmarks
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No, hes running the exact same rom as me.
Hi all,
I've had a search but can't seem to find the answer to this query:
I've seen a few posts now that say you need to do an update via a .pkg to put a new baseband on, rather than just pushing the amss via fastboot.
What I'd like to find out is what's missing if you just flash the baseband?
I went from O2 2.1 to various Streakdroids (1.4 to 1.5.3 to 1.7, 1.8.1 and now 1.9.1). I flashed baseband 318 at some point and recently flashed 354 to the 1.8.1 build before upgrading on Monday to 1.9.1
Im not happy with battery life currently and also feel the performance should be better, compared to other people's posted figures.
Also a lot of folk are claiming over double the battery life I'm seeing.
What do I gain, if anything, by installing say the official 2.2.2 or 2.2.3 update.pkg and then re-installing Streakdroid 1.9.1? Can anyone give me a few pointers?
cheers.....
Read the last few posts in gingerstreak thread where they have very good explanation on this debate.
Sent from the Dell Streak
thanks!
Ideally I'd like to discover a bit more about what there is and what does what but that certainly tells me i need to go do the .pkg update and re-install!
much appreciated
Yes I had a issue with just flashing the baseband. Market and any other app would not update or install on my phone. Once I did a update pkg then install 1.9.1 all is good now.
Sent from the Dell Streak
quick answer would be, is that an official update.pkg will flash all the images built specifically to be compatible with eachother, including some core code.
afaik, flashing baseband on its own shouldn't really make a huge impact on stability..
I use 318 BB just cause its the last official 00 regional update in australia.. I could use 351 BB, which is the last 00 BB, which I've tried, but 318 works best.
cheers!
Stability is very very good, in fact it doesn't hang or reboot at all (as long as the CPU is kept at 1152 or under)
I was really thinking about battery life (there are rumours of the batterystats from 2.2.2 showing longer life and mine is currently awful), signal strength, wifi, graphics performance (my quadrant score seems low at 1571) etc.
i'll probably give it a bash anyway - all good for experience!
I am having the same issue with my streak. Battery performance does not seem as good as others report on 1.9.1, and I am unable to overclock past 1152 without freeze/eventual reboot.
Phone originally had ATT 1.6 on it, then upgraded to OS2 2.1, then to various versions of StreakDroid and currently 1.9.1.
Today I tried using the 351 recovery.img and flashed the 351 update.pkg for the stock ROM. After successfully booting and using the stock rom for a bit, I did a factory reset then I flashed back to streakmod recovery and then re-loaded streakdroid 1.9.1. Then I did another factory reset.
This made no difference on the overclocking issue for me. Any ideas what I could/should i try next?
I think thats purely a hardware factor. The CPUs have varations in clock speed limit and it looks like yours is the same as mine
Gonna play with .pkg updates over the weekend and see what if anything happens to battery life. Maybe I just use it too much
hi
apologies in advanced, but i have spent all of my saturday morningbsearching , and got no where.
im on stock froyo, and ive used titanium backup o remove loads of crap from my phone and i get 0 crashes etc,
but now i wanna overclock, but i cant find no threads or guide for froyo bb 351, build 15609 overclock.... ive only found performance fixes for oldr builds.
any links are appreciated
PS will overlocking method wipe any apps from my streak ?
To overclock you need a custom kernel. The stock kernel can not be overclocked.
if you are that far back with your Streak I would recommend you flashed StreakDroid v1.90 or one of the other modified Froyo ROMs and that will allow you to do what you please
hi
I found a kernel on spidlas simple streak thread, so I done streakmod via fastboot and done a nandroid backup, and then done the kernel.
I also deleted the dalvik cache.
everythings good, except that none of my gameloft apps run after deleting the dalvik cache.
I don't know why I deleted it, I read somewhere that it's recommended.... but thats a minor. I have like 90 games on my phone but play none. I just like to have a massive selection for my streaks e-penis!
thanks for replying.....
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