Guys.. I've been using bionix 1.3.1 since yesterday and its been sucking the crap outta my battery. It consumes around 1% every 5mins even in the standby mode. And the gps too isn't working. I even reinstalled the rom.
Any help?
What kernel are you using? I'm on bionix 1.3.1 with the Tiger's Blood kernel - undervolted the CPU and always have the screen on lowest brightness (which is still too bright IMHO), and did some tweaking with the XDA superpower app... I've gotten 40 hours out of the battery once. The majority of the time cellular data was completely disabled and I was using Wifi (have it at home and at work). But I can normally get at least 24 hours out of it.
Hmm .. My kernel version is 2.6.32.9. And I keep my brightness at the lowest level. I had to charge my phone 4 times in just one day by only moderate use, previously when I had toxic darky hI had to charge only twice and it would have been on till the next morning.
stanton93 said:
Guys.. I've been using bionix 1.3.1 since yesterday and its been sucking the crap outta my battery. It consumes around 1% every 5mins even in the standby mode. And the gps too isn't working. I even reinstalled the rom.
Any help?
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try the new KB5 modem.
Tried and it still does the same....
Tried and it still has no effect...
rabeatz said:
What kernel are you using? I'm on bionix 1.3.1 with the Tiger's Blood kernel - undervolted the CPU and always have the screen on lowest brightness (which is still too bright IMHO), and did some tweaking with the XDA superpower app... I've gotten 40 hours out of the battery once. The majority of the time cellular data was completely disabled and I was using Wifi (have it at home and at work). But I can normally get at least 24 hours out of it.
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Could you give me some more info on this.
Do I need to download an app for under volting?
I did not install anything extra, no CPU mods, no voltage mods and I get about 22 hours of light-to-moderate use.You might want to Odin back to stock and reflash.
Do I really need to flash back to stock? I mean re-flashing bionix or odin back to stock and then flash bionix what's the difference? I might as well just re-flash bionix.
Ps: now the pace has picked up and it consumes 1% every 2mins with bionix 1.3.1 and kb5 modem
Well Iam thinking of reverting back to toxic darky 9.5. Does kb5 support the rom??
stanton93 said:
Do I really need to flash back to stock? I mean re-flashing bionix or odin back to stock and then flash bionix what's the difference? I might as well just re-flash bionix.
Try flashing different modems n see which one works. Recondition ur battery. Im running bionixv with kb1 kernel and kb5 modem. 3days battery life with moderate use.
Ps: now the pace has picked up and it consumes 1% every 2mins with bionix 1.3.1 and kb5 modem
Well Iam thinking of reverting back to toxic darky 9.5. Does kb5 support the rom??
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An ODIN back to stock is sometimes recommended - it can fix some issues. It might help with your GPS issues, I've never had a problem w/ GPS on Bionix (other than the standard vibrant GPS problems)
I'd ODIN back to stock and then try installing bionix again, as recommended before. ODINing will supposedly completely overwrite some potential remnants/problems that are going on.
To undervolt, you must first install a kernel that supports undervolting. I use Tiger's Blood - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=994694 . Once you have a kernel that supports it (it'll usually say "UV" in the thread) then you can use Voltage Control (available on market) to change the voltages.
I also use the XDA superpower app, available on the android market.
You may want to recondition your battery. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12586421&postcount=384 is one suggestion on how to do it, everyone has their own method of how to do it.
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Tried and it still does the same....
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i would try overstock 2.2.1 with KB1 or KB5 modem. i'm running that combo works good. any ways bionix bettery use not as good as trigger or sweet honey 2.7.3.
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Total NOOB here, but I get confused on all the posts.
At one point I ran the Eugene's Vibrant4 rom with one RyanZA's one click lag fix on the one click root.
I ended up going back to stock and waiting for the JI6 OTA. I got impatient and downloaded the JI6 OTA zip from ttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=802240
Now I'm just running that on an unrooted Vibrant. I was wondering what is the best Kernel / Rom / LagFix to go with after this update? Are there any yet for the version listed in the link as it is not the leaked version of JI6? (having a hard time deciphering Roms and kernels for leak vs OTA JI6)
Also I have the larger nand chip according to the post here ttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8322865&postcount=131
I was wanting to try the JAC XMOD ttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791478
or the kingklick ttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=787410 but I don't wanna mess up my phone, I'm poor as heck and need my phone.
I also want to speed up my phone if at all possible and maybe lengthen battery life... (might be asking too much lol )
Any posts appreciated, and yes I know I'm noob!
yes you might be asking too much. I am currently running Simbionix 1.7 with jac's kernel with voodoo on the J12 modem O/C to 1.2. You will instantly see the speed of your phone increase.
I flashed the J12 modem because its supposed to give you increased battery life. After following the instruction on reconditioning the battery, It still wasn't that great even though others are reporting great battery life. I am going for broke and flashing Bionix 1.7 w/Jacs OC/UV/VOODOO kernel w/ the J16 modem tonight.
First step is rooting your phone with the one click root program and try them all out if you like. Its hard to mess up this phone as you can always flash back to stock with Odin. Even there is a few bugs with Sim1.7 its still a great rom and will be using it this till Froyo is released.
ok, thanks badaphooko01. I guess I will try the Jacs but not sure if I should be trying the voodoo version cause of the larger nand chip.
Ok so I had installed the one click root and Rom Manager, used them to load the Bionix 1.7 w/Jacs OC/UV/VOODOO kernel w/ the J16 modem even tho I see that voodoo is disabled due to my nand chip...and I haven't bought the SetCPU app yet.
Seems like my battery life went up huge even though I haven't yet reconditioned the battery. It was too late to finish after I loaded the rom, had to sleep for work. I figured I would recondition tonight but as it's going I may not need to.
This rom DOES help battery life and it sped up my phone so I am truly happy with it.
Thanks for the input.
Side note, I haven't noticed any freezes or reboots yet due to not having setCPU installed. But I also haven't had time to get all the apps I had previously back on my phone either. :/
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Side note, I haven't noticed any freezes or reboots yet due to not having setCPU installed. But I also haven't had time to get all the apps I had previously back on my phone either. :/
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You shouldn't be getting freezes or reboots at all. The only way I could see that happening is if you installed SetCPU and set the minimum clock speed below 200MHz. Right now without SetCPU installed you are running on the stock speeds of 200min / 1000max which should be fine.
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You shouldn't be getting freezes or reboots at all. The only way I could see that happening is if you installed SetCPU and set the minimum clock speed below 200MHz. Right now without SetCPU installed you are running on the stock speeds of 200min / 1000max which should be fine.
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Makes sense now, thanks for the info, I was thinking the rom oc'd the processor by script or something, now I can stop worrying lol.
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I recently rooted my Vibrant 2.2 with superoneclick and I installed Juice Defender because ever since I got this phone the battery life has been horrible. Can someone please tell me the best settings I should use or a better app that I should use?
I recommend installing a custom rom like Bionix 1.3.1. Also putting a kernel like overstock 1.3. Its great on battery life. Run juice defender at aggressive and that should help.
Bionix 1.3.1
Theme..Scarlet Leftovers w/Flip Animation v.4
Overstock v1.3 Kernel
If you want remarkable battery life try the Axura......... It has the best battery life
The trigger from the edt group has great life as well
As far as the battery llife apps go, they do help but not as much as they advertise.
Try those roms each out you will find one that will make you happy.
42h 17m on a full charge so far (skewed stats do to specific uses/needs for me). Running Bionix-V 1.3 and OverStock 1.3.
I suggest just grabbing the free version of the XDA SuperPower App. I think its more straightforward than JD and it does all of the same basic things.
You will want data to be off unless you are using it. (i.e I schedule mine to kick on every 2 hours for 5 minutes so it syncs my e-mails.) and it shuts all data/wifi off when the screen goes off.
As others have stated. Grab a ROM from the dev section and peruse the different kernels until you find a good match. All of the ROMs are excellent choices and play nicely (for the most part) with the custom kernels.
They are right on with the playing with diffrent combos of kernels and roms. I am on trigger 2.7 and overstock kernel 1.3 and get 2 days of moderate use without JD.
k4ylr said:
42h 17m on a full charge so far (skewed stats do to specific uses/needs for me). Running Bionix-V 1.3 and OverStock 1.3.
I suggest just grabbing the free version of the XDA SuperPower App. I think its more straightforward than JD and it does all of the same basic things.
You will want data to be off unless you are using it. (i.e I schedule mine to kick on every 2 hours for 5 minutes so it syncs my e-mails.) and it shuts all data/wifi off when the screen goes off.
As others have stated. Grab a ROM from the dev section and peruse the different kernels until you find a good match. All of the ROMs are excellent choices and play nicely (for the most part) with the custom kernels.
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With screen off,most of the time,guaranteed.Good advice,none the less.
CWK another good kernel choice.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=962780
Just got a Fascinate and am trying to find a way to make the battery last longer. I did some searching and it seems like the only solution involves rooting. I don't know if i can do that to my phone with my limited computer skills. Are there some basic tips to making the battery last longer? Thanks
Use WI-FI whenever available.
Leave wifi and gps off when not in use, keep screen brightness as low as is tolerable, use dark wallpaper. Your display uses most of the battery. So are you stock 2.1? If so, you have WAY better battery life than froyo.
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I'm running version 2.2. When I look at batt usage, 95% is display. One of the things that impressed me the most about this phone was the display. I have it on auto brightness but I'll try to dim it down.
You can try juice defender in the market, I've had decent luck with that in the past.
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Leave wifi and gps off when not in use, keep screen brightness as low as is tolerable, use dark wallpaper. Your display uses most of the battery. So are you stock 2.1? If so, you have WAY better battery life than froyo.
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I can't agree with that statement... I'm sure it's user-specific, but
I ran stock for a few days before jumping into rooting my device
At the time, it was all DJ05 builds and THOSE had phenomenal battery life.
But stock sucks my nut cuz of all the bloatware that's running constantly.
I had been getting comparable battery life to 2.1 stock on the EC10 stock kernel, and so far seeing slightly better battery with JT's source built kernel (only been 2 days since I flashed)
And if u're on stock 2.1, i don't think it's necessary to leave wifi and gps off as the 2.1 builds didn't have the sleep problems if i remember correctly
I don't mean this to be a smart ass...
But if you don't want to customize the software the only thing you can change is the hardware. So, buy yourself an extended battery and you won't have to worry about charging.
the extended battery makes the fascinate look like its 9 months pregnant. Do some research on rooting and roms. There are plenty of How to's in the Dev form. Follow them step by step and you shouldn't have any problems. Once i started flashing i haven't been able to stop, its addicting....
I've had the phone for five days now and the batt lasts all day. I use battery doctor and also task killer. Love this phone, learn new things about it every day.
On another note, is there a way to boost reception?
personally I would root it first and do a backup of your your apps with titanium backup and then flash superclean 2.9.2 using the odin files at http://forum.androidcentral.com/verizon-fascinate-rooting-roms-hacks/59348-odin-froyo-leaked-packaged-custom-roms-w-root-clockwork-updated-3-25-a.html .Then after that flash an under volted ec10 kernel like JT's = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010102 or The PeanutButta Jelly Time = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1012571 . nemesis2all's ec10 kernel = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1011626 is good also, but with the ability to overclock you wont be able to resist going to 1200mhz and that wont help your battery life.
cbalt said:
personally I would root it first and do a backup of your your apps with titanium backup and then flash superclean 2.9.2 using the odin files at http://forum.androidcentral.com/verizon-fascinate-rooting-roms-hacks/59348-odin-froyo-leaked-packaged-custom-roms-w-root-clockwork-updated-3-25-a.html .Then after that flash an under volted ec10 kernel like JT's = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010102 or The PeanutButta Jelly Time = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1012571 . nemesis2all's ec10 kernel = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1011626 is good also, but with the ability to overclock you wont be able to resist going to 1200mhz and that wont help your battery life.
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Since my carrier is Telus and not Verizon, will these programs still work or do I need ones specific to Telus?
Hey guys,
I was going to actually post this under the Bali thread in Vibrant Developments but as I'm a noob on this and haven't posted anything, it wouldn't let me.
So explaining my situation, I installed Bali 1.8.8 UV on my samsung mythic two nights ago. It seems to have a lot of good reviews but due to the timespan used, I have not seen any improvements as of yet over the stock kernel that came with Bionix V 1.3.1. Anyways, from time to time, I find the phone freezes up (creating an event on the calendar, texting, scrolling contacts...) just during basic use as I don't play any games or plan on it.
I understand the concept behind the UV as I have looked it up and it makes perfect sense. So getting to my question, is it expected to freeze from time to time? Or if it does, I should just go to the non UV version?
Thank you for your time guys!
Bali has been smooth sailing for me since I started using it around the 1.8.6 phase. My guess is your problem is unrelated to the kernel. Flash any new modems or roms lately?
You haven't seen a difference in battery life? Did you calibrate after flashing it?
With the instability, I'd just start over from stock, flash Bionix, flash Bali, and see if that doesn't help. If you still get the instability, it probably wouldn't hurt to try the non-UV.
To be fair, Bionix 1.3.1 w/ Bali UV was rock solid for me when I used it. Something might have happened in the flash. It happens.
some phones cant run UV as well as others can they ?? just like overclocking, some phones cant go as high as others
so might be just that your phone doesnt like UV
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Bali has been smooth sailing for me since I started using it around the 1.8.6 phase. My guess is your problem is unrelated to the kernel. Flash any new modems or roms lately?
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Not really. I have just flashed Bionix V 1.3.1 and tried using the Bali Kernel with that.
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You haven't seen a difference in battery life? Did you calibrate after flashing it?
With the instability, I'd just start over from stock, flash Bionix, flash Bali, and see if that doesn't help. If you still get the instability, it probably wouldn't hurt to try the non-UV.
To be fair, Bionix 1.3.1 w/ Bali UV was rock solid for me when I used it. Something might have happened in the flash. It happens.
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No I didn't. Actually afterward, I reflashed Bionix V, fully recharged the battery and calibrated it, and had over 3 days of battery life and on the second recharge, the battery life dropped...
Anyways, yes I did calibrate after flashing the kernel as well as the ROM.
Ok, I have a question with regards to your suggestion of going back to stock. I do have a nandroid backup of that, but is that the procedure I would have to follow? I have only read about odin and have never attempted it if thats what I would have to do, but also I am afraid of losing my data (as titanium backup and mybackup root wouldn't work under stock correct?) or it does not have to be unrooted?
If you could please just give me an overview of what I would have to do to go through your suggestion, it would be appreciated, thanks!
Hey guys I love all these custom ROM's but honestly the battery gets drained so fast it takes the fun out of it. I was wondering if there was any specific ROMs that were easier on the battery>?? The only feature I truly use on these things is the wifi tether, other than that I don't care if the phone is a litte slower etc, i just want to be able to make it a day on 1 battery..TIA
I can easily make it a full day with the PowerWashed 2.0b3. Yet I also have Juice Defender Ultimate installed.
Ill be quite honest, gingerbread is not what its cracked up to be imo... I have found that powerwashed 1.2 ed05 froyo w/ pbj 0808 kernal is one of the most stable roms out there. Im getting between 1.5-2% percent battery drain per hr. That means I go 2 days without charging the phone with normal use. Heavy use such as browsing the internet for a couple hrs and sending dozens of texts usually equates to charging the battery once a day or slightly better. The only issue is not all fascinates play nice with the -100 undervolt that the pbj kernal has built in. If thats the case, then just run the otb fusion kernal that come with pw 1.2...battery life is still good(2.5% per hr) and you can overclock with that kernal, but truthfully overclocking does not really improve much imo.
Wow thanks guys! Yea I am on MIUI and its horrible.. I will look into the ROMs you guys suggested..thanks!
vanilla gb is insane. running with the glitch 9/15 kernel, undervolted, smartass, noop and usas tweak applied, simply the fastest rom i've ever used battery is also holding up really well, but I have the naztech 2400 installed just yesterday, so battery should only get better with more charges. pwgb is also really good, but the file system is still samsung rfs, which is really slow. Pw froyo is probably the better choice for most people with pbjt kernel which has voodoo. Ill stick with vgb and see how battery does and if it doest yield me 6hrs of screen on time ill switch back to pw froyo and see how it does.
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Ill be quite honest, gingerbread is not what its cracked up to be imo... I have found that powerwashed 1.2 ed05 froyo w/ pbj 0808 kernal is one of the most stable roms out there. Im getting between 1.5-2% percent battery drain per hr. That means I go 2 days without charging the phone with normal use. Heavy use such as browsing the internet for a couple hrs and sending dozens of texts usually equates to charging the battery once a day or slightly better. The only issue is not all fascinates play nice with the -100 undervolt that the pbj kernal has built in. If thats the case, then just run the otb fusion kernal that come with pw 1.2...battery life is still good(2.5% per hr) and you can overclock with that kernal, but truthfully overclocking does not really improve much imo.
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I went ahead and did the switch to ed05 pw 1.2... What kind of probs would I have if the pbj -100 didn't agree with my device?
I honestly do not know how to overlock/mess with uv settings. I am just looking for the most stable rom with the best battery life..battery life being the most important
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I went ahead and did the switch to ed05 pw 1.2... What kind of probs would I have if the pbj -100 didn't agree with my device?
I honestly do not know how to overlock/mess with uv settings. I am just looking for the most stable rom with the best battery life..battery life being the most important
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your phone will freeze up...if it didnt your good to go! Make sure you wipe battery stats in cwm or it will take few charge cycle before you get good battery life.
droidstyle said:
your phone will freeze up...if it didnt your good to go! Make sure you wipe battery stats in cwm or it will take few charge cycle before you get good battery life.
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Ok sweet! Yea, everything seems to be good, only issue I am having is in BLN it says the Biblight isnt working or something like that..Voodoo control is g2g, just the BLN. I'll have to look into it
I had the same problem with bln not working on this kernel. What worked for me was to flash the older 0531 kernel first,then flash the 0808 kernel. Bln works fine after that.
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The last super rom I had (battery wise) was superdark dj05... I could listen to music for 8 hours and have 70% battery left... 10 hours of light use 87%.. There has been no gingerbread rom to come close to that sweet sweet rom
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neh4pres said:
The last super rom I had (battery wise) was superdark dj05... I could listen to music for 8 hours and have 70% battery left... 10 hours of light use 87%.. There has been no gingerbread rom to come close to that sweet sweet rom
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Edit... I'll search for my screen shots of the battery usage.. Prob. Take a few days tho
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neh4pres said:
The last super rom I had (battery wise) was superdark dj05... I could listen to music for 8 hours and have 70% battery left... 10 hours of light use 87%.. There has been no gingerbread rom to come close to that sweet sweet rom
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Actually pwgb beta 3 with adrenaline shot mod is yielding some crazy results for me. Screenshots to follow when battery decides its held on long enough.
Only my 2nd day on ED05 powerwashed w/ pbj0808, but man I must be doing something wrong. At BEST my battery is draining roughly 5% an hour and thats with practically little to no use. NO clue how you guys are getting such good battery life...
Seriously, just odin the pwgb and flash the adrenaline v7 and thank me later.
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Seriously, just odin the pwgb and flash the adrenaline v7 and thank me later.
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What kind of programs do you have open/on, on a daily basis? I found that twitter absolutely destroyed my battery. I actually turned notifications off unless its a DM or @ me, otherwise I just open Plume and refresh to read the timelines.
Its doing A LOT better since then. I haven't used the phone much, but its only at 75% and Its 140pm, been off the charger since 6am
I am gonna see how it is this weekend when I am actually using it more
@Droidstyle: I was thinkin of trying out for starters the rom you recommended "powerwash 1.2 ed05 froyo w/ pbj 0808 kernal" but when i did a search for powerwash 1.2 the thread mentioned that it was outdated and to try gingerbread...just a little confused since i'm still new at this: considering my samsungs fascinate uses this base band (this is the general info of my phone Model : SCH-I500
Firmware Version 2.2.2
Baseband Version: S:I500.04 V.ED05
Kernel: Version 2.6.32.9 )
i will have to use a rom that supports ED05? or am i okay to try out any of these roms? did a lot of reasearch today, just trying to narrow it down as to which rom will be the most apt for me (meaning which one will i get the best use out of) and what will i be able to do after that? do i apply themes from the themes section, or i can only do that if they correspond to that specific rom? to anyone in the room please enlighten me, i've spent almost all of today researching this and would greatly appreciate help from the experienced...
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@Droidstyle: I was thinkin of trying out for starters the rom you recommended "powerwash 1.2 ed05 froyo w/ pbj 0808 kernal" but when i did a search for powerwash 1.2 the thread mentioned that it was outdated and to try gingerbread...just a little confused since i'm still new at this: considering my samsungs fascinate uses this base band (this is the general info of my phone Model : SCH-I500
Firmware Version 2.2.2
Baseband Version: S:I500.04 V.ED05
Kernel: Version 2.6.32.9 )
i will have to use a rom that supports ED05? or am i okay to try out any of these roms? did a lot of reasearch today, just trying to narrow it down as to which rom will be the most apt for me (meaning which one will i get the best use out of) and what will i be able to do after that? do i apply themes from the themes section, or i can only do that if they correspond to that specific rom? to anyone in the room please enlighten me, i've spent almost all of today researching this and would greatly appreciate help from the experienced...
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Im not sure why he did that... Its a very functional rom and is up to date as much as it needs to be. Read my guide, uses that rom for an example on how to install a froyo rom. You are not limited to what your base band shows, you can flash 2.3.4 gingerbread roms if u like,, but they still have a few minor bugs. Actually 2.2.2 pw 1.2 ed05 is the most functional rom up to date imo... everything lse still has minor bugs to work out.
@DroidStyle thanks man, your guide to flashing power wash is pretty direct, but i'm a little lost here...Isn't the Rom mgr. program you install for the market used for flashin the Roms so that you don't have to odin the rom to the fascinate? also, can I apply whatever themes? ...ie: are those used to customize ur GUI?
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@DroidStyle thanks man, your guide to flashing power wash is pretty direct, but i'm a little lost here...Isn't the Rom mgr. program you install for the market used for flashin the Roms so that you don't have to odin the rom to the fascinate? also, can I apply whatever themes? ...ie: are those used to customize ur GUI?
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Stay away from rom manager!!!! It only works for the mtd based roms such as cm7, miui, aosp... even then odin is a much more reliable way to work with the fascinate. imo just get use to the fact that your going to have to use odin most of the time when flashing.