Hey all i just want to say how amazing the guys on theis site are. I've got my first smart phone a week ago and flashed it to death ever since!
I've experienced every kind of problem you can imagine but i've also learned alot about what to do and what not to do all through reading this website and others!
I'm now using Ice Cream Sunday on top of CM7 and i love it. It's lightening fast and strips out all the rubbish that comes with the phone...great!
ROM manager doesn't work with CM7, goes into boot loops so forget it, use CWM seems to work fine with it.
Bricked my phone about 10 times but always brought it back to life!
Do be careful and read the stickies enjoy the device!
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I couldnt find another thread like it, so decided to make one, mainly to see if everyone, or just some people have a phone that pretty much takes just about everything you throw at it and then some.
I bought mine brand new out of contract (I wasnt due for a upgrade for a long time) a few days after it was released, and Ive had the same one ever since. Its been through alot, I dont consider myself to be anywhere near a n00b with the phone anymore, but looking back, putting, or attempting to put, some of the things I did on there, flashing God knows what, deleting important things that probably should never be deleted, etc.
I used to have this "try it first, read about it later" thing going on, but once I switched it around, I learned alot. Im still learning alot.
Maybe one day when they start giving me medicine for ADD I can give developing a shot lol.
So have you had to send yours back yet to get a new one? Had it all this time? Just got it recently? From my experience you have to mess up pretty bad to actually brick one of these phones.
I've had mine since sept 2010. I've had to use odin once. Been stuck.in a few a few bootloops. Other then that its been a great phone. My first rom was bionix 1.9 with jacs oc /uv kernel. Its taken everything I've thrown at it.
Powered by Axura with a dash of Voodoo
I did return mine because it was hardware locked. The new one was unfortunately locked also. But the ota update to ji6 fixed it for me.
Powered by Axura with a dash of Voodoo
I've had mine since last week because I traded it for my mytouch slide and yesterday I rooted, bricked, and rooted again. My first rom was bionix v and I don't think I can send it in for a replacement ...
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My first ROM was Obsidian, then I almost immediatley switched to Onyx. I didnt switch to a custom ROM for a while because for the most part I changed and edited the framework myself. Then I decided to say screw that, lol.
The one thing my phone wont take is a OC kernel. It works for about 2 minutes then decides to freeze up and I usually have to flash the stock kernel back. Ive tried just 1280, up to 1400 and it doesnt want any part of it. Which doesnt matter I guess. I only have about 1GB used of the 20GB available to the phone, so its fast enough.
Also, as far as Odin, Ive only HAD to use it twice, but every once in a while I like to back everything up, Format everything in CWR and go back to JFD, to kind of "start fresh".
I've had mine since late july or early august, can't remember which. But it kept powering off randomly so I did get it replaced in november i believe. I didn't start rooting/flashing until december because i was scared as **** about messing something up. I use to hate the vibrant and all its laggyness/gps issues but the devs have allowed me to have a usable phone again!
I've had mine since early september, I just recently got another one, I was complaining about my data always not connecting and t mobile went ahead and sent me another phone. Turns out I was just being throttled lol. I really have no problem with the vibrant, even before the froyo update when everyone hated their vibrant since they didn't have the update, its never bothered me, especially with all the custom roms everywhere anyway
This is starting to sound like a "vibrants anonymous" support group.. not that i've ever been to AA LOL
Had mine since july 16th. This is still my original one. I've flashed countless .zips. flashed about 10 ROMS. Used ODIN once. Taken it apart a few times to install and adjust the ffc. All of that and it still runs like a champ. Aside from the gps which used to work and now doesn't, I've had minimal problems with my device.
Sexy Vibrant featuring Nero V3 w/Voodoo, and FFC installed
Before I got my first Android I was a dedicated Iphone lover and I swore nothing would beat it until I got my hands on a Nexus 1 which was my first android and it just happened to be rooted and I had no clue what flashing was but when I figured it out ive been a crack flasher ever since.... So what's your story?
Upon a quick glance at the question and then the "high guy" avatar, I thought someone was asking for drugs.
I used to be until CM7 came out for the INC and then I stayed with that. With the TB I was switching between CM7 & BAMF, but i've stuck with BAMF for a couple weeks now.
I used to flash my old WinMo 6.5 Omnia, and when I came over to Droid, it made it that much easier to really go nuts, there was just SO much cool stuff to play with. I'm on a quest for the "perfect" rom. So far, plenty of close calls, but there's always that little something that I want, or that isn't quite right. I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to teach myself to build ROMS so I don't have to hound these poor devs for mods all the time.
I guess I'm a flashing addict.
Lol, I flash a new ROM practically every day.
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Lol, I flash a new ROM practically every day.
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Ditto. I actually stuck with a single rom for about 2 months with my Droid X on Liberty 1.5 with the EpicBlue theme. That was a major record for me! I trend to install, on average, probably 5 roms/themes a week on my tbolt.
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i used to flash like twice a day on my OG till i discovered MIUI and then i started slowing down, now im much more moderate with flashing, back in the day though without nandroid, i wouldve been lost lol
The thunderbolt is my first android and I rooted and flashed it the day I got it. I flashed it with the perfect storm 1.4. I thought I was going to flash a bunch of other roms. But as it turns out, I haven't found anything in this rom that makes me want to figure out how to make a backup of my current setup. And if i don't have a way to get back to my current setup (all Apps and data), i dont really feel like flashing a different rom.
My gadget hacking days have an origin way before android phones. Started back when I was flashing custom firmwares on my PSP. The reason I got an android phone was for rooting and customization. None of my gadgets usually last more than a day or so before they're hacked some way or another
Definitely have enjoyed flashing on the Thunderbolt...although now pretty much the only time I flash is when Bamf gets updated...
I may or may not have a problem lol
First smartphone I ever had was an HTC Eris. I had never even heard of rooting till a few months after I had gotten it. I had just seen it mentioned somewhere on the internet, and I decided to research it (technology is a passion of mine). I was definitely a crack flasher with my Eris (mainly because tazz updated his ROM every day ) Then I had gotten a Droid 2. Not as bad of a crack flasher with that after liberty came out.
I just got my tbolt 2 weeks ago. I had it rooted within 4 hours of buying it. I am definitely not a crack flashed with it. I still can't decide if I want to keep it stock (or at least plain jane) or if I want a custom ROM. Right now, I'm using das BAMF 2.0 with adrynalynes 2.0 kernel, and it seems promising.
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had the OG droid and flashed tons on it.. now on the tbolt and seems to go between cm7 and bamf2.0.. mainly cuz of the recent bricking stuff..
gets bad i work at a verizon store and trying to get all my co workers to do it too..
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gets bad i work at a verizon store and trying to get all my co workers to do it too..
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"come'on all the cool people are doing it"
this is my first android phone, and im loving CM7, i can't get enough of the AOSP experience
kinda sickening most of my co workers are going iphone!!
Wanted to say thanks to elia222 for his SlimCM rom but could post in the development forum as being a newby... Ofcourse, I could send him a PM, but I am not going to as I wanted to give him the public credits he deserves. Also, since that rom is based on it, thanks to the Cyanogenmod devs for the Xperia U.
My story.
I am totally not into custom roms or development of them. Although I am somewhat a 'techie' for work, I am a regular user for private. I just want things to work, and if they dont, I get irritated by it. I got that irritation from the moment I bought my Xperia U. On the stock Sony Gingerbread my phone didnt last a day before it ran out of battery, even if I did almost nothing with it, and when I upgraded to ICS the phone got so laggy it became really unusable. I missed so many calls because I just couldnt answer them and stared at frozen screens when the phone was trying to show the keyboard or open an app.
I got to the point of trowing the phone away or try a custom ROM. Since I knew the hardware was good enough to run ICS properly I waited quite some time and followed threads here for about two months. Since I am just a user and dont want to try out rom after rom to see what would fit my needs I waited until I found a rom that most people were positive about.
That rom (for me) became SlimCM. Damn man, I didnt know the phone could be that fast! No more memory issues, always swift and snappy. It has two issues, namely WIFI that turns off when the screen turns off even when it's set to 'always on' (goes back on nicely when screen turns on again though) and photo's are a bit too dark, but hey, for the rest its only improvement improvement improvement. Stable, fast, snappy. It just does everything I want it to do.
And for that, I just want to say thanks to both Elia222 and the CM guys; guys, thanks!
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Hey everyone, this is my first thread (huzzah), and I am happy to join the Droid X2 community on the XDA forums. Anyway, I was in an unfortunate but funny situation yesterday, I was wanting to try out a new ROM for my Droid X2 (I had previously used the CyanogenMod 10 Alpha ROM for quite some time), so I invited my best friend over to join me in the process of searching for a new ROM. I first tried out the MIUI ROM for my Droid X2, and I found it to be slow and sluggish. After I decided I didn't want the MIUI ROM, I proceeded to restore my phone to CyanogenMod 10. I finished restoring it, rebooted the phone, and found that it was stuck on the Motorola boot screen and would not do anything else. So, to my surprise, I soft bricked my phone by restoring it to the back up I had created before I installed the MIUI ROM. I never knew that you could soft brick your phone by restoring it, I found it to be kind of ironic. Maybe I just have really bad luck, haha.
I ended up fixing the problem by SBF'ing my phone with the Slitaz Linux disc (which I forget whom provides it), and I ditched CyanogenMod 10 for the small amount of bugs I encountered while using it. I installed the CyanogenMod 9 stable ROM and have been loving it ever since.
Well, that's my story, thanks for reading and feel free to comment whatever you like. Also, I look forward to becoming more interactive with the community.
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Hey everyone, this is my first thread (huzzah), and I am happy to join the Droid X2 community on the XDA forums. Anyway, I was in an unfortunate but funny situation yesterday, I was wanting to try out a new ROM for my Droid X2 (I had previously used the CyanogenMod 10 Alpha ROM for quite some time), so I invited my best friend over to join me in the process of searching for a new ROM. I first tried out the MIUI ROM for my Droid X2, and I found it to be slow and sluggish. After I decided I didn't want the MIUI ROM, I proceeded to restore my phone to CyanogenMod 10. I finished restoring it, rebooted the phone, and found that it was stuck on the Motorola boot screen and would not do anything else. So, to my surprise, I soft bricked my phone by restoring it to the back up I had created before I installed the MIUI ROM. I never knew that you could soft brick your phone by restoring it, I found it to be kind of ironic. Maybe I just have really bad luck, haha.
I ended up fixing the problem by SBF'ing my phone with the Slitaz Linux disc (which I forget whom provides it), and I ditched CyanogenMod 10 for the small amount of bugs I encountered while using it. I installed the CyanogenMod 9 stable ROM and have been loving it ever since.
Well, that's my story, thanks for reading and feel free to comment whatever you like. Also, I look forward to becoming more interactive with the community.
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i about a month ago upgraded and got an s3. i still from time to time check back here to see if anything is going on, and fire up my x2 just for nostalgia purposes. to me, the droid x2 was sold kind of short on the hardware front, but was an awesome phone with more than enough processing power .
cm9 was my go to rom after trying EVERY option we had. it has the most bang for your buck in terms of a fully functional 4.0+ rom.
i dont know if you are aware, but under develolper options, changing maximum background processes to 3 helps out with performance a great deal.
really wish that there was still development on this phone. i loved it while i used it. well at least most of the time. lol
it is my music player now. :good:
Hello guys ! I currently have Cyanogenmod 11 on my Samsung Galaxy SIII and I love it, it's smooth good battery life and I like the overall Stock Google experience.
But once I read here on xda and other sources that the persons phone just shut down and he couldn't turn it back and it was bricked or something like that and he returned the phone to Samsung which didn't do anything for free since the warranty was void for having a custom rom.
Now I'm afraid that this could happen to my phone too. I still normally have warranty so if I put back Samsung back and use Triangle away I could get it back. What should I do ?
Sorry if I put it in wrong place
Well not much a problem if you do everything correctly and as per instructions.. The key thing is that you read a lot before doing anything to your phone..
The case you are talking about happens but not very commonly it is called sudden death syndrome.. And can happen even if you are not rooted..Samsung patched that bug in 4.1.2 android release.. so above that would be all fine..
Anytime you feel you are facing bugs our any problems return to your stock rom by just making a backup of that...
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I'had the same worries. Now i'm using custom roms, and guess what? There's nothing to worry. The phone can die using stock or custom roms, and the cm11 is rock solid. I'm using Omnirom and is great. Think about the people who use custom roms and never have any problem. In the end , the hardware can have problems, independently of the rom.