Hello ive brought the motorola atrix and i think its great but im afraid it has some flaws. Using a live wallpaper with golauncher gets everything laggy, the browser speed is awful. In somethings its lightning fast in others its even slower than other weaker phones. Im using the at&t atrix with the latest OTA update. Ah i forgot mention the touchscreen bug in games so called raindrop protection. I want to know if other roms like cyanogen mod would fix this issues. Because i cant believe they say that tegra 2 is better than an ipod touch 4g and in browser its slower. And will atrix ever recieve ice cream sandwich? Official or not? And i would be able to use webtop on cyanogenmod? Thanks!
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Lordareon said:
Hello ive brought the motorola atrix and i think its great but im afraid it has some flaws. Using a live wallpaper with golauncher gets everything laggy, the browser speed is awful. In somethings its lightning fast in others its even slower than other weaker phones. Im using the at&t atrix with the latest OTA update. Ah i forgot mention the touchscreen bug in games so called raindrop protection. I want to know if other roms like cyanogen mod would fix this issues. Because i cant believe they say that tegra 2 is better than an ipod touch 4g and in browser its slower. And will atrix ever recieve ice cream sandwich? Official or not? And i would be able to use webtop on cyanogenmod? Thanks!
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I'll try and answer some of these questions.
1) You should try using a custom kernel first of all, you should notice a huge difference in speed
2) Try using dolphin browser hd or opera browser and im sure your browsing experience will be much better
3) The atrix will receive ice cream sandwich for sure. Motorola is bound to release it for the atrix if it comes out before next july (which it will) as per the google handset agreement. The only way the atrix could not get ICS is if the hardware didn't allow for it. But the hardware on the atrix is better than the nexus S, and since that is getting ICS we are guaranteed our update.
4) Webtop on cm is being worked on
Thanks for the reply, ive been using dolphin and it is faster indeed. But yet not even close to ipod one. About the custom kernel can you point me to some instructions how to install it? Which relation it has with a custom rom? Thanks
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iphone and windows phone have hw acceleration. makes for better browsing and smoother everything. helps tremendously with battery too. hardware acceleration is something android is severely missing. let's hope ics brings it. it would breathe new life into even older phones.
Did the guys at google said sonething about it? I was hoping a stretch to fit feature so games with lower resolution would fit nicely and work too in bigger phones like atrix. I miss order & chaos so much :/
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Opera is lightning. It has hw acceleration
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I came from an iphone 4 and I love the ATRIX,
Then again I had many tweaks running lol but anywho try a custom rom, its like owning a whole mother phone now
I came from a Trash Zte Racer and an ipod touch 4g, and atrix is like the sum of their good parts. but in comparison to ipod touch i miss the game compability, display detail and speed =/ i dont think android is ugly nor "not usser friendly". its very intuitive too. ill try opera mobile. to see what it says, i just hope ICS brigs all those cool features plus the Android 3.0 and 3.1 features. I hope it be as tasty as a Real Ice Cream Sandwich. I was thinking abou custom rom. but nobody told me the diference of a custom kernel and a custom rom. and i'd like some features of atrix like the webtop, so ill wait a bit more till the cyanogen is stabilished to move to it.
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Whats the chance of getting CM7 on the SGS2?
Is the SGS a fully supported CM7 phone?
I'm a HTC man myself (DHD atm), but the SGS2 is looking mildly tempting due to the AMOLED screen, loud speaker and great .mkv playback capabilities as I watch quite a bit of video.
I am leaning more towards the Sensation due to the 16:9 qHD screen and the fact I've never been let down by a HTC device yet.
But I've really got used to CM7. Whilst I'm sure the Sensation will get CM7 on it... at some point, I reckon the SGS2 will get it first.
It's a big hmmmmmmmm from me atm
Very doubtfull you will see any custom roms on HTC now mate because there locking bootloaders
The device hasn't even been rooted yet but I'd say it's only a matter of time. If it's a deciding factor for you then hang fire but I'm actually quite liking touchwiz 4 and that's something I never thought I'd say.
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We will need scource
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bbm21 said:
We will need scource
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Samsung is very good about releasing source, just check http://opensource.samsung.com they will post the source within a few weeks I'm sure.
sorry to ask this noob question, but why do you need cm7 on this phone? is it laggy? lacking features ?
NIK516 said:
sorry to ask this noob question, but why do you need cm7 on this phone? is it laggy? lacking features ?
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Because this forum is for developers and development of ROMs, otherwise why would you be on this forum
some people want root regardless as they like to tinker.
also enables useful features like
titanium backup / Clock recovery so you can easily backup/clone your phone state
overclock (speed) / undervolt (battery)
CIFs for mounting windows shares or presenting itself as a windows share (very useful esp over wifi, look ma no cables)
get rid of touchwiz and other preinstalled stuff (I haven't used touchwiz 4 but I like stock android and I'm a speed freak)
I never rooted/custom ROMed my nexus one (as I love stock android) but it was the first thing I did to my galaxy tab and will be the first on my list with any non stock android phone
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Whats the chance of getting CM7 on the SGS2?
Is the SGS a fully supported CM7 phone?
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There's a chance it might get cm7 but it'll require a lot of work, the current sgs has cm7 but its still in alpha stage since samsung doesn't release the source for its proprietary drivers, everything has to be made from scratch(ie. time consuming). I don't think anyone whose working on cm7 for the sgs wants to do this again.
vinokirk said:
Whats the chance of getting CM7 on the SGS2?
Is the SGS a fully supported CM7 phone?
I'm a HTC man myself (DHD atm), but the SGS2 is looking mildly tempting due to the AMOLED screen, loud speaker and great .mkv playback capabilities as I watch quite a bit of video.
I am leaning more towards the Sensation due to the 16:9 qHD screen and the fact I've never been let down by a HTC device yet.
But I've really got used to CM7. Whilst I'm sure the Sensation will get CM7 on it... at some point, I reckon the SGS2 will get it first.
It's a big hmmmmmmmm from me atm
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all upcoming HTC devices will have locked bootloader, plus i strongly doubt we're going to see CM7 on SGS2 since Samsung doesnt release (or at least not so far) the source code of the drivers.
wait, does this mean no custom ROMs for SGS2 or rather they will just be less drastic modifications?
for example I don't think the galaxy tab custom ROMs use written from scratch drivers.
sorry new to custom roms.
There will be plenty of custom ROMS. Just not AOSP rom anytime soon.
Basically with AOSP you will loose a lot which includes all the multimedia capabilities ( ability to play many containers and codecs natively with hardware acceleration ), hardware GPU acceleration in browser, probably MHL link and HD recording.
There are very few people who will be ready to give up all this to get AOSP rom for this phone.
well it's rooted already isn't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lVft5HoKP8
but re CM7 .. again ..why? i use custom sense roms for my desire but CM7 and it's god awful cam ... yeh ..no thanks.
vinokirk said:
Whats the chance of getting CM7 on the SGS2?
Is the SGS a fully supported CM7 phone?
I'm a HTC man myself (DHD atm), but the SGS2 is looking mildly tempting due to the AMOLED screen, loud speaker and great .mkv playback capabilities as I watch quite a bit of video.
I am leaning more towards the Sensation due to the 16:9 qHD screen and the fact I've never been let down by a HTC device yet.
But I've really got used to CM7. Whilst I'm sure the Sensation will get CM7 on it... at some point, I reckon the SGS2 will get it first.
It's a big hmmmmmmmm from me atm
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Man,never been a big fan of CM Roms,have moved to MIUI Froyo Rom{now with Formels MIUI Android 2.3 Rom},,tried CM many times but battery drain & other force close issues were in plenty.MIUI works best with my Nexus 1,,extremely fast,smooth,less battery drain ROM.
As far as Sensation goes,i hope it will be rooted,also it will be by June end when both SGS 2 & Senation will be launched in my region,so will have clear idea as to which one is getting more devs support{as xda support is what is most important for me rather than the phone itself}.
Have such a great time with N1.
NIK516 said:
sorry to ask this noob question, but why do you need cm7 on this phone? is it laggy? lacking features ?
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Not only Cyanogen,there are various different devs with their custom roms,but CM is used in most of the droids.
Samsung Galaxy S has a pathetic lag issue/faulty gps issue.
Even after so many lagfixes & workaround{in various roms},it still is very fragile.
Therefore you will definitely see people asking about SGS 2 lag issue or any GPS issue{hopefully GPS is great here in SGS 2 by default compare to quite pathetic in SGS}
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Very doubtfull you will see any custom roms on HTC now mate because there locking bootloaders
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That being said, I'm sure (hope) some boffin will get custom ROMs on there at some point!
steve228uk said:
The device hasn't even been rooted yet but I'd say it's only a matter of time. If it's a deciding factor for you then hang fire but I'm actually quite liking touchwiz 4 and that's something I never thought I'd say.
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I'm not a fan of Sense/TW et al, but I love ADW Ex. I know I can still use ADW Ex on the SGS2 but it would make me feel better inside knowing that I have a totally AOSP ROM ands not ADW running ontop of the TW stuff
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sorry to ask this noob question, but why do you need cm7 on this phone? is it laggy? lacking features ?
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As I said, I'm a HTC fan, but one thing I am not is a Sense fan! I can only presume that will extend to TW, although I have never tried it. I also like to run my phone at 190dpi instead of the standard 240dpi that most phones run at. And with Sense at least, when you change to anything other than 240dpi, it does not like it one bit!
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well it's rooted already isn't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lVft5HoKP8
but re CM7 .. again ..why? i use custom sense roms for my desire but CM7 and it's god awful cam ... yeh ..no thanks.
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It's not rooted... it's bootloader unlocked. Not the same. Bootloader unlocked can lead you to root, root can't lead you to bootloader unlocking.
Hey all, I just got my used Atrix from ebay and noticed that there was a bit of lag when usin LWPs. Is there any custom ROM i could flash make things a bit smoother? Dual-core + Tegra = Laggy LWPS?
Thanks!
A search would have turned up many results for lwp lag. I have been using Deadmau5 lwp with ADW EX and Alien4, no lag here.. Do the search tho and see what else has worked for others..
Is this normal for MotoBlur? The immense lag? Kind of disappointed as I was expecting something with this much power to be a beast out of the package. The lag is horrible...not even my old captivate would lag this bad between homescreens.
The only screen it'd be smooth in is Launcher Pro Plus + a static wallpaper. Other than that its choppy poppy.
I want to flash some ROMs, but coming from the Captivate, I don't know where to start.
Do i first
Root
then unlock
then flash base
then flash ROM?
This is coming from factory fresh MB860 with Android version 2.3.4; system 4.5.91
Thanks!
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Is this normal for MotoBlur? The immense lag? Kind of disappointed as I was expecting something with this much power to be a beast out of the package. The lag is horrible...not even my old captivate would lag this bad between homescreens.
The only screen it'd be smooth in is Launcher Pro Plus + a static wallpaper. Other than that its choppy poppy.
I want to flash some ROMs, but coming from the Captivate, I don't know where to start.
Do i first
Root
then unlock
then flash base
then flash ROM?
This is coming from factory fresh MB860 with Android version 2.3.4; system 4.5.91
Thanks!
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In fact the motoblur launcher for Android 2.2 was one of the best with live wallpapers. Motoblur launcher with gingerbread was not laggy alteast for me. Although it was not the best.
For all the cool stuff of rooting , unlocking and roms look at the Stickies or search for in the Atrix forums. There is also an Atrix wiki. There are ample of guides maintained for new joiners.
Hope it helps.
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Thanks for your response.
I've seen a couple off posts where updating to 2.3.4 severely lagged the phone. Had anyone else been getting thief issue?
I guess my last question is, how much smoother will my atrix be after flashing it? Was it wrong to expect the phone to be blinding fast in all aspects (lwp included)
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Dont think this is possible, but just a thought. I seen a video of the Atrix 2 and the new UI looks awesome. Very fluent and smooth as well. And with the ability for HDMI mirroring, this would be of definite interest.
Problem is, Atrix 2 is using omap and we have the tegra 2. Im not sure if there are some hardware specific settings/programming/kernals etc.
Just a thought peoples so dont chew me out lol. When the Atrix 2 gets rooted it would be interested to see the system dump file and compare it with ours. Maybe Moto actually upgraded the webtop and made it quicker.
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Dont think this is possible, but just a thought. I seen a video of the Atrix 2 and the new UI looks awesome. Very fluent and smooth as well. And with the ability for HDMI mirroring, this would be of definite interest.
Problem is, Atrix 2 is using omap and we have the tegra 2. Im not sure if there are some hardware specific settings/programming/kernals etc.
Just a thought peoples so dont chew me out lol. When the Atrix 2 gets rooted it would be interested to see the system dump file and compare it with ours. Maybe Moto actually upgraded the webtop and made it quicker.
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Maybe there would be more of a "skin". It just depends on how many people want it.
For me I would probably still use LP just because that's the best Android experience since Vanilla IMO...
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why port Atrix 2 ROM, which is Gingerbread... Im more interested in flashing ICS to our beloved Atrix Would that be possible (via the marriage of Motorola and Google) im crossing my fingers.
why, I bought a new motorola razr, the first thing I see its this phone is really choppy and have too much lag comparing with samsung or htc devices I have =/
I just don't understand why, my droid 3 is more faster than razr and only have 512mb
soo, what I think, its related with motorola ui and version off android?! Can we have a clean cm7 with everthing working, including the webtop and tv mirror?
please tell me, because I'm start to be desapointed with my razr. I have a rezound with stock rom and 2.3.4 version, and runs pretty well.....more, the evo 3d and droid 3 are fast too....
this razr is like galaxy ace with performance and opening applications
into the phone option when I press one character it will take like 3 seconds to apear one name with the character I press....the others phones only take 0.10ms
another thing...the WIFI connection....why its soo week
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why, I bought a new motorola razr, the first thing I see its this phone is really choppy and have too much lag comparing with samsung or htc devices I have =/
I just don't understand why, my droid 3 is more faster than razr and only have 512mb
soo, what I think, its related with motorola ui and version off android?! Can we have a clean cm7 with everthing working, including the webtop and tv mirror?
please tell me, because I'm start to be desapointed with my razr. I have a rezound with stock rom and 2.3.4 version, and runs pretty well.....more, the evo 3d and droid 3 are fast too....
this razr is like galaxy ace with performance and opening applications
into the phone option when I press one character it will take like 3 seconds to apear one name with the character I press....the others phones only take 0.10ms
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try using other launcher. im using go launcher. its pretty smooth with email n calendar widget on screen.
I already try, I have the ics launcher for now. but its not normal you see =
soo I've got a score with quadrante 2491....=/ its too low comapring to 3000 from my droid 3
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I already try, I have the ics launcher for now. but its not normal you see =
soo I've got a score with quadrante 2491....=/ its too low comapring to 3000 from my droid 3
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I'd experienced the same laggy with stock system I got with my first Raz. Got a replacement, a new system but same sdcard wich I though was bad. It's running flawless now.
I think it's related to system version (or a bad intallation). Try a new rom. Do wipe data and cache. If the issue persist you may have got a defective device. Mine is running smoothly now.
Also I tried the Chinese ICS leak and the system get even better.
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another thing I found is my second cpu is offline
EclipseX said:
why, I bought a new motorola razr, the first thing I see its this phone is really choppy and have too much lag comparing with samsung or htc devices I have =/
I just don't understand why, my droid 3 is more faster than razr and only have 512mb
soo, what I think, its related with motorola ui and version off android?! Can we have a clean cm7 with everthing working, including the webtop and tv mirror?
please tell me, because I'm start to be desapointed with my razr. I have a rezound with stock rom and 2.3.4 version, and runs pretty well.....more, the evo 3d and droid 3 are fast too....
this razr is like galaxy ace with performance and opening applications
into the phone option when I press one character it will take like 3 seconds to apear one name with the character I press....the others phones only take 0.10ms
another thing...the WIFI connection....why its soo week
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I'm still asking myself why I still have this phone. It is laggy and choppy and I hate it. I bought a $300 phone and its **** honestly. The only thing that is keeping me from selling this phone is that I flashed the first leak of ICS and boy it our phone smooth. The first leak was fast, smooth, and just amazing. If official ICS isn't here by the end of may im getting a better phone.
really...its soo smoth? whats don't work? I almost want to install the leak one
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really...its soo smoth? whats don't work? I almost want to install the leak one
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I am using the ICS leak 6.14.75 with Apex launcher and for me it's smooth. Quadrant score is around 3000 plus or minus. What's not working varies case by case from what I read in the forum but for me, only three issues so far.
1. Battery level is way off when I first flashed it but now seems fine after I wiped cache and reset. I also used a free battery calibrate app from the market.
2. Sometimes I need to press power button twice to wake up the phone. Maybe it's because I don't have screen lock on but I don't care much. I am pretty sure it's a bug in this version.
3. 3g/4g icon sometimes shows in notification bar even when data is off. But again I don't care because I mainly use widgets to show my data ON/OFF anyway.
I am actually debating if I want to move on to official ICS when it's available. There are a lot more bloats to be add on the official release. With the leaked version I can uninstall any bloat in the system app without worrying about future OTA since leaked ICS won't get OTA anyway LOL. This is just a personal preference. I don't like anything that I don't use in my device.
Are you using Rom Toolbox (or some other tool), and changed the governor?
You want mot_hotplug unless you have a specific reason NOT to use it.
You'll get very choppy response with the ondemand governor.
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I don't find any lag on mine..its rooted and on stock ROM 2.3.6, Asia version. And I am using Go Launcher EX at the moment.. Its smooth as butter..
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im having the same problem with the stock, never rooted latest update. before it was butter, now its laggy as all hell.
I have the original mode in processor
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Anyone missing GB yet? I love ICS, don't get me wrong but I got to say I miss GB a lot. It was a lot nicer looking and I miss the lockscreen. It also seemed a bit more stable. Your thoughts?
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I guess you missed the right section
But no, I don't wanna to go back to GB. I'm looking forward to nice ICS Custom Life :thumbup:
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Well when I finally get it I will be glad to post my thoughts
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Im happy with ics. I love the way it looks. Happier with the way it works. There are some things i would change but not much.
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No, I absolutely LOVE ICS in comparison to GB. It runs much more smoother. My only issue is that the battery life seems slightly worse than it was on GB. But the thing is, every upGRADE will eventually receive an upDATE once people start complaining of various issues/bugs etc.
I actually miss the GB text messaging app. It was cleaner looking to me. I dont like pictures of myself when I type a reply and I dont really like using a 3rd party app. Might have to though...
Other than that, I am happy with the .211 update. I actually really like the new lock screen.
I don't miss anything in GB but IMO, ICS is not as exciting as some people make it out to be. I think some people will be disappointed.
I think the more I use ICS the more I love it.
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I'm not on ice cream sandwich yet, but i've been looking at review after review, and see people going insane because they dont have it. They go as far as even switching phones because they didnt get the update soon enough, what is this stupidity? The phone version of ice cream sandwich looks great, as does the tablet version. However, the new webtop sucks in comparison. It seems much less useful, and it really sucks. I want to dump standard computers and use my phone as my main machine, i was one step closer to that with a ubuntu based webtop. This is frustrating.
Moved to Q&A
Well i updated to the ice cream sandwich OTA last night, and i say "updated" instead of "upgraded" because this is no upgrade. I will admit, this thing is blazing fast and super responsive, i love that. Also the camera, it is a lot better than the gingerbread one, so that's a plus. That, however, is where the positives end. I have been using Launcherpro for its calendar widget for 3 years now, and there is none that are good enough aside from that, and the damn thing crashes contantly on ice cream sandwich. Not to mention, you can't have a seperate launcher for webtop, so you're stuck with the stock sucky one, or having one built for a phone on the webtop. The webtop itself is just terrible, it's not even a tablet image, it looks like it's just a scaled up version of the one already on the phone with the tablet status bar. I used to run firefox in one window, and something else in the mobile view on the old one, can't do that anymore. From what i've seen, i cant go back either. Finally, i havent been able to get any usb mass storage devices to mount on the phone via OTG cable, but a usb mouse works just fine. Neither fat32 nor NTFS would work, even though they both work on my ice cream sandwich tablet, and are supposed to be supported. This "update" is just terrible and i have no idea how any of you can say it's so much better....
i miss ome things fro GB, but i love some of the things of ICS, it goes both ways for me. i like the loook of ics, the lockscreen, camera. hate the home screen, appdrawer (cant long press home screen for widgets), this ics is slower then my GB, smoother but slower, it does a better job at hiding lag. and the battery life on my ics is about 3-5 hours less then it was on GB. i hate how there is no google chrome for this ics version, really annoying cause i was using it on some of the other ics leaks and fell in love with it. but now its not on this ics version and by far one of the best things about ICS is webtop 3.0. GB was on 2.0 and i hated it compared to the 3.0, 2.0 was ugly and lacking customization and had poor and ugly UI. webtop 3.0 just makes me so happy.
as more updates roll out (eventually) ill be a little more satisfied with ICS
I just received a GSM XT910 Razr a few days ago, and have been holding out on even using it in hopes of the ICS update rolling out for it within the next few days or so. I'm starting to wonder if I should even bother waiting anymore and should just keep it on Gingerbread, given how much complaints I'm already reading on ICS. This is the exact same scenario with my current phone, an Sony Xperia Arc...the ICS update did NOT do it any favors and there's been widespread reports of ICS being incredibly laggy on it. I ended up deciding to leave my Arc on Gingerbread.
It's ironic how everybody's been making ICS sound like it's an absolute must-have for months upon months now, and yet when it's finally released, it seems like such a botched job for most phones thus far. I know somebody with a T-mobile Galaxy SII that got their ICS update only to find all sorts of problems with it as well. I think the bottom line is, unless you're running a Nexus device, ICS is nothing to write home about.
If I hear about any more possible delays to an ICS update for the unlocked XT910, which it's starting to look more and more like what will happen, I may very well just forget about ICS and stick to Gingerbread...
me me me..!
i miss BEATS AUDIO plugin..!
is there any way to port it in ICS???
ICS has gotten way more hype than it deserves, but it is a major improvement over GB. I like the look much better, although there are a couple of things I wish MOTO had incorporated, like power toggles on the pull down notification and the accurate battery.