[Q] About to flash from Froyo to Gingerbread... - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is there anything I need to know beforehand? Do I need to manually upgrade any kernels or just flash the ROM.
I'm new to flashing Thunderbolts but have experience with many other devices. This is for a friends phone so I'm
taking extra precautions before doing any work on it. Thank you.
This is the ROM that I'm looking to flash to from the stock froyo ROM.

dude, that rom is almost 6 months old, he must not be much of a friend lol, make sure you get the latest radios, new ones rolling out as we speak, so they'll be available soon.. but seriously consider something more up to date, eternity is kicking some major ass right now...
infectedrom.com its everywhere you want to be...

androidsupra said:
dude, that rom is almost 6 months old, he must not be much of a friend lol, make sure you get the latest radios, new ones rolling out as we speak, so they'll be available soon.. but seriously consider something more up to date, eternity is kicking some major ass right now...
infectedrom.com its everywhere you want to be...
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lol, he is a good friend, hence why i'm reaching out to be sure he'll be satisfied. that's the ROM he was interested in but i'll take a look over on infectedrom.com
thank you

Eternity
The Eternity is great. I am running build 185 and it is liquid smooth and great for battery life.

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The End of Eris?

I had to post this because the only to working roms are the Gingerbread ones and thats it. Did all the developers stop working on their roms and moved on? or can we expect updates on their exsisting roms?
There are some really good roms out there and it seems as though the Eris is coming to an end.
Hmmm the only two working roms are the Gingerbread ones? I beg to differ....
It seems like most of the froyo roms have been updated around mid-late January.. I didn't know a few weeks was the end of our eris' lives! Your right though, in the sense that CM7 is now the new popular choice, and subsequently the most updated/talked about roms. Also alot of our devs have moved on to different phones and only drop by occasionally here to maintain their work and lend an expert hand
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xtrROM was just updated to version 5 a couple of weeks ago. CELB gets updated every few weeks. My guess is that Workshed and Tazz are concentrating on GB rather than Froyo these days, though I think Tazz is still working on the Froyo Sense build.
I think that Froyo has matured, obviously Eclair has as well, and obviously Gingerbread is getting a lot of attention right now.
Tazz is still updating his Froyo rom's, workshed is still updating his Froshedyo build, punk.kaos is still updating his froyo build as well as his GB build. New themes and complete theme roms are being built for cm7 AND cm6 constantly. Just gotta check the forums frequently and watch for updates. There's actually quite a bit of action going on in the Eris forums now a days, on the CM6 side as well as CM7. Also I am about to have a CM6 rom in the works.
Tazz and Workshed are perfecting their CM7 roms at the moment but are still dedicated to their CM6 roms too. There are some amazing devs here at the Eris forums that are working hard through sickness and all kinds of personal issues to give the people what they want. The 1st post is kind of like an insult to their work. Don't give up on them, they just have a lot on their plate right now.
Oh no don't get me wrong, I love my Eris. I do like the new GB roms its basically the same style and it makes it confusing which one to load on the phone. Zenexp, Energyexpress, tenzoRCmix those roms I wish were updated too. Especially those roms with apps2sd which makes it better for the Eris being that the Eris doesn't have lots of space.
But I understand these Dev's working hard to ensure that our phone become part of the whats new in the market on other phones. I commend their hard work.
just fyi both the gingerbread roms now have app2sd and cache2cache working. also, tazz had commented recently in his gingerbread thread about working on the camera for froyo sense.
Any of the 2.1 roms have been taken as far as they can go.
The 2.2 ROMs are almost 100% perfect... so no reason to update.
2.3 ROMs make the most sense.
Hungry Man said:
Any of the 2.1 roms have been taken as far as they can go.
The 2.2 ROMs are almost 100% perfect... so no reason to update.
2.3 ROMs make the most sense.
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OR... you could take those ol 2.1 roms and with the permission of their respected devs, and work on them yourself. Use the android kitchen to change some stuff n tweak it around. Then maybe YOU sir can update them for US!
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spc_hicks09 said:
punk.kaos is still updating his froyo build as well as his GB build.
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He doesn't seem to be. KF last update was two months ago, and his GB ROM hasn't been updated since Jan 10. I'm not complaining about it at all, but he seems to be spending a lot of time working on his Fascinate ROMs right now.
I think Conap, Workshed, Tazz, Tenzo, and Zach.xtr are the developers most actively working on Eris ROMs right now.
Not so fast, Ranger Rick! They're developing on MANY levels. The Eris is still a big deal, okay? Okay
And now there is another new dev on here..... ME ! Put up my 2.2 rom a few days ago !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=963722
Started working on a CM7 build yesterday as well and should have it done by the end of the week hopefully !!!!
Thanks for the feedback guys. I didn't mean to sound like a jack, but you're right about the roms. I would love to create my own or better yet take a rom and change to my liking. But don't know how. These roms you guys make are awesome but its like I always want more and always love new updates or new roms.
I'm good with PSCS4 but not coding or even trying to create a rom. I would love to learn and create my own or mod someone elses rom. How?
I think that first learning app creation might be a good place to start, get the basics of programming down. Then try to go deeper with a ROM. Idk, maybe that's just my own idea. I personally am kind of in the process od learning Java coding to make apps and have a few ideas for apps. The developer of one of my favorite apps called Ethereal Dialpad is helping me learn. He suggested Processing. Seems easy enough.
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Thanks for the feedback guys. I didn't mean to sound like a jack, but you're right about the roms. I would love to create my own or better yet take a rom and change to my liking. But don't know how. These roms you guys make are awesome but its like I always want more and always love new updates or new roms.
I'm good with PSCS4 but not coding or even trying to create a rom. I would love to learn and create my own or mod someone elses rom. How?
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Check out this post bro, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756775
As long as you follow it step by step and don't do anything wrong it's actually kind of easy. Once I got everything installed and running it took me about 2 days to get my own 2.2 rom up and working (very fast and stable if I might add lol) which is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=963722
Now I'm working on a CM7 GingerBread rom for the Eris which will hopefully be done by the end of this week. Main thing you need to do is download the Oracle Virtual Machine and install Ubuntu on it. That first link I posted tells you how to do everything ! Try it out man, gotta start somewhere ! If you need any help with making yours, just let me know and I'll help to the best of my abilities !
Great news!
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Not so fast, Ranger Rick! They're developing on MANY levels. The Eris is still a big deal, okay? Okay
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this is great news and I am glad to read this! My Eris was my first Android phone and I am glad to see it is still being developed for! yeah!
The Eris is still alive according to Droid Life's article. We might get an OTA update. AWESOME. I still love my phone and love creating icons and putting ideas on it. Its just that every other phone is getting more attention and the Eris is in the back burner.
I'm still keeping mine.
The update is confirmed and people are already getting it. Justrelaxing on the Android Central forums has already got the update along with a few others. Here's the page, go to post #27
http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/286167-just-had-system-update-eris.html

Don't yell at me...

First things first...don't yell at me for creating this thread
Relatively new to android (I was an old school winmo guy for a long time *dcd!*) and now I wanna root my E3D and flash some other roms on it.
So the question is, what kinda roms do you all suggest? I love sense so any suggestions?
If you don't want to be yelled at...why not post in Q&A? This is a question right...
Anyway, Android Revolution HD is my favorite sense ROM now. MIUI is awesome if you want something radical, but is buggy. CM7 is good too but a bit buggy.
Sent from my fingers.
JokeZony0u said:
First things first...don't yell at me for creating this thread
Relatively new to android (I was an old school winmo guy for a long time *dcd!*) and now I wanna root my E3D and flash some other roms on it.
So the question is, what kinda roms do you all suggest? I love sense so any suggestions?
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I've been using Deck's (kushdeck) sense rom for eons now. I've tried a bunch of other Sense roms, many of which were awesome, but a lot had some issues because they were nightlies or whatever. With deck's, I get unbelievable battery life in comparison to any other rom. It's a pretty standard sense rom, doesn't have much extra themeing, but it's extremely solid. (my nandroid of that rom is named KushSuperStable, lol).
If you don't wanna be yelled at, give your thread a legitimate name...
k2buckley said:
I've been using Deck's (kushdeck) sense rom for eons now. I've tried a bunch of other Sense roms, many of which were awesome, but a lot had some issues because they were nightlies or whatever. With deck's, I get unbelievable battery life in comparison to any other rom. It's a pretty standard sense rom, doesn't have much extra themeing, but it's extremely solid. (my nandroid of that rom is named KushSuperStable, lol).
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I'm gonna have to agree here that Deck's ROM is wickedly awesome, but it's sad that he's gone ghost.
DDiaz007 said:
I'm gonna have to agree here that Deck's ROM is wickedly awesome, but it's sad that he's gone ghost.
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Yea, it is sad that he's gone ghost. I hope everything's alright with him in 'real life' and that all is well. Hopefully when he has some more free time he comes back over here. At least the way he left the rom is perfect, I have not one complaint about it and see no need to update it.
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Lmao!
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AndroidRevolution is great. Stock, but with ALOT of enhancements as well as having one of the best development teams on XDA!
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The most stable I have used thus far have been clean rom, steel rom, and virus' eternity roms (builds 1.1, 1.2.2, and 1.4)....
Either one of those will be solid and reliable. Virus 1.4.2 rom seems very solid as well but I haven't made the jump yet simply bec#use I want to put this one through the long haul test... been on this rom and the bc kernel v3 for over two weeks, over clocked at 1.62 ghz with not one issue.
I would give eternity 1.4 a shot
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Yea, it is sad that he's gone ghost. I hope everything's alright with him in 'real life' and that all is well. Hopefully when he has some more free time he comes back over here. At least the way he left the rom is perfect, I have not one complaint about it and see no need to update it.
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A g-g-g-ghost!?
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A g-g-g-ghost!?
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Yeah GhostFaceKillah.
I use CleanRom its stock with bloatware removed and some other enhancements.
SteelRom is my absolute favorite Sense based rom. But nothing will ever beat the awesomeness of CM7
Lot of good suggestions in here, but when it really comes down to it you need to read up and just try stuff.. Doesnt take much to nand and try a rom for yourself.
Another thing that matters is what YOU use on your phone..
For example, someone said that MIUI is radical which is very true but its awesome once you get used to it and that its buggy.. but that may not be true for everyone because for me its flawless for what I use it for.. I dont have 4g in my area so I could care less about that, I dont use any hotspot apps so that doesnt matter for me as some are having issues with that. 3D doesnt work but honestly I barely ever use it anyways..
Although I wouldnt recommend MIUI as your first rom to flash because it does take some getting used to.. and you also mentioned that you like sense.
Eternity is one of my favorites and I used it for a while, its sense but has some cool features that make it different then stock sense.
Again its hard to say which are best because there are so many talented Devs around that are making awesome roms.. so get used to nanding and dive in..
another vote for Eternity Rom.
Ive been with Eternity for several weeks now. I flashed MIUI temporarily and didnt like it, back to Eternity.
I am currently on 1.4.1 and Ziggy dual core kernal. Great benchmark scores @ 1.7
1.8 seems unstable on some of the benches like cf and antutu. But I typically just keep it at stock CPU speed anyhow, so Im not worried about it.
Some people seem to have more issues than others. Some the screen locks up on them while charging, others it wont go to sleep, some people the screen wont wake up during an incoming call.
Myself I havent had any issues really. My facebook app seems to force close quite a bit whenever I try to post on someones wall. I would like to see that fixed, but as far as I know, no one else really has that issue. So it may just be something glitchy on my phone.
But yes. Definitely try Eternity. You wont regret.
Thanks for all the suggestions guys, will definitely try out some of your suggestions!
Aside from the poor choice of thread title, we know nothing about the device. I guess I could've missed it skimming through all 2 pages. What Hboot is on the device? Figuring out which method to use and how far you'll be able to go is a good start. You should be checking out the root threads before asking about ROMs. Just a thought, not intended to be rude in any way.
Miui is the best rom hands down for looks and feel. And it gets better every week!
JokeZony0u said:
First things first...don't yell at me for creating this thread
Relatively new to android (I was an old school winmo guy for a long time *dcd!*) and now I wanna root my E3D and flash some other roms on it.
So the question is, what kinda roms do you all suggest? I love sense so any suggestions?
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You were dcd? I remember you back in the ppcgeeks days, I am thinking around the mogul and touch pro days. Maybe you should get back into cooking roms like you used to.
DDiaz007 said:
I'm gonna have to agree here that Deck's ROM is wickedly awesome, but it's sad that he's gone ghost.
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I agree on Deck's ROM too, but because he has gone AWOL, I've switched over to CleanROM 2.7. It's just as reliable as Deck's ROM, battery life is almost as good, but you can OC and make it FLY while still retaining excellent battery life. And... it's more customizable than Deck's ROM.
I've run both Deck's ROM and CleanROM 2.7 long term and can recommend both. I'd give the edge to CleanROM though (there's a CleanROM Developer's Edition too).
Mike
themuffinman said:
You were dcd? I remember you back in the ppcgeeks days, I am thinking around the mogul and touch pro days. Maybe you should get back into cooking roms like you used to.
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hahaha- no! I'm not the great (almighty) dcd. Don't know where he is nowadays, I was simply referring to how I used to flash his things

advice from everyone please

so ill start off with please dont go tell me to read google things. iv been on this site for awhile with many different phones i read a lot. now to the topic. iv had my photon since it came out i love it and it does all it needs to but i miss flashing roms and getting that "new phone" feeling when you do. iv been running stock on the photon since the start with no real reason to flash. mainly because the loss of hardware or other things on our roms. dont get me wrong im very happy and thankful for those who put hard work into this bad boy every day. now im getting tired of it and i want to flash just wondering in anyone thinks one thing over the other, i dont mind unlocking but i do want reliability and a bit a flash to it. i need my mms, my camera, video. can anyone suggest whats doing the best on your own photon rom, kernal, locked unlocked. i do understand that each phone is different and acts different with different set ups. i just wanna head in a good direction and not mess with the odd stuff. thanks always xda members for making my phone more addictive then crack with your wonderful hard work. thank you so much. happy holidays to everyone and their families.
ruthlessbeatle said:
so ill start off with please dont go tell me to read google things. iv been on this site for awhile with many different phones i read a lot. now to the topic. iv had my photon since it came out i love it and it does all it needs to but i miss flashing roms and getting that "new phone" feeling when you do. iv been running stock on the photon since the start with no real reason to flash. mainly because the loss of hardware or other things on our roms. dont get me wrong im very happy and thankful for those who put hard work into this bad boy every day. now im getting tired of it and i want to flash just wondering in anyone thinks one thing over the other, i dont mind unlocking but i do want reliability and a bit a flash to it. i need my mms, my camera, video. can anyone suggest whats doing the best on your own photon rom, kernal, locked unlocked. i do understand that each phone is different and acts different with different set ups. i just wanna head in a good direction and not mess with the odd stuff. thanks always xda members for making my phone more addictive then crack with your wonderful hard work. thank you so much. happy holidays to everyone and their families.
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I mean we have CM7, MIUI, and about what 4 I think modified moto roms we have themes.
There is alot of roms in other phone forums and most of those are just themed roms
You have to flash a kernel and play some tegra games
I'm running MIUI now
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im personally on stock.. but magnifier is a good one as long as you dont mind teh update notification until he puts out the newest version
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im personally on stock.. but magnifier is a good one as long as you dont mind teh update notification until he puts out the newest version
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thanks ill check it out.
Some people like stock with just a kernel flash. Some like it simple and bloat free like skinny. Everything you listed works on all of them except maybe miui for the moment. The most stable and complete is skinnyrev2-test3, because its based on 198-7/254-5. Cm7 and miui are awesome and a must try(im partial to cm because i helped in the beginning and was there when the very first version hit the g1, but i like webtop). Magnifier is great too. Its 154 based but its compiled from source i think. Correct me if im wrong shabby. If moto actually updated their source i would build from source too. Jokerstock-test1 was source built.
My advice, titanium backup and flash them all. Few days on each, with updates you should feed your flashing needs. Plus webtop is soon to be flashable.
Unlike other phones we got pretty much everything you would want fully working. Enhanced stock roms with better battery/performance. Cm7, miui, and roms in many languages. You can find my kernels in 6 different countries. Each with local roms. All blur based roms can be flashed in bootstrap with little edits, giving you 4g. Pretty soon im going to help cybik and miui guys get a bootstrap method up with a dual boot option.
Lets the flashing commence
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no is not from source. he just was under the impression that newer firmwares wouldnt boot with custom kernels so he went with 154 hes working on updating everything to 198_7 as i continue to yell at him about it
stupid holidays and people claiming they cnat do any work...
Oh, i just assumed 154 would be source built. You must bug him harder to update to 198-7 then.
shabbypenguin said:
no is not from source. he just was under the impression that newer firmwares wouldnt boot with custom kernels so he went with 154 hes working on updating everything to 198_7 as i continue to yell at him about it
stupid holidays and people claiming they cnat do any work...
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for some reason i stayed with stock so far but sense or ics would convince me to root!
What about better battery life
Kent_Davis said:
for some reason i stayed with stock so far but sense or ics would convince me to root!
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Trying not to become a crack ROM flasher - please help

So I'm running [MikRoms] Ineffabilis v1.0 and have it tweaked to the way i like it. It's running perfect! I just saw CleanROM 1.3. Am I gonna notice any real performance tweaks if I go through the trouble of flashing it??
I'm trying not to flash every ROM as they come out so I'm looking to what the perks would be.
Thanks!
You're not gonna see customization from other roms like you have in Ineffabilis. I flashed 3 different Roms in 3 days since I was unlocked.
Sticking with Inef....
Your experience will be different in every ROM, and it will continue to be different in every new update.
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So I'm running [MikRoms] Ineffabilis v1.0 and have it tweaked to the way i like it. It's running perfect! I just saw CleanROM 1.3. Am I gonna notice any real performance tweaks if I go through the trouble of flashing it??
I'm trying not to flash every ROM as they come out so I'm looking to what the perks would be.
Thanks!
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Why dont you just run benchmarks on infellabilis and see what you score.
IF they are lower then you will see performance gains. IF they are are the same or higher then stick with what you have.
Good luck.. I got rom flash addicted with my OG droid and it starting to carry over to the Rezound
My take is these guys are all so talented and we need to support the Developers. You certainly have a good setup now which I also have with Cleanrom 1.2. Do a nandroid and try out the new releases available to us when you have time. The Developers appreciate feedback and you may find that you like the next one better or not. But that's why we root to have the freedom to do these things I think we all get burned out from time to time as do the devs so it doesn't hurt to keep that nandroid of your favorite rom available. Good luck man.
having said that, flashing 1.3 now
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My take is these guys are all so talented and we need to support the Developers. You certainly have a good setup now which I also have with Cleanrom 1.2. Do a nandroid and try out the new releases available to us when you have time. The Developers appreciate feedback and you may find that you like the next one better or not. But that's why we root to have the freedom to do these things I think we all get burned out from time to time as do the devs so it doesn't hurt to keep that nandroid of your favorite rom available. Good luck man.
having said that, flashing 1.3 now
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I completely agree. I try out EVERY ROM that comes out for the Device I am currently using, and make nandroids of the ones that I want to come back to. Every ROM has their own tweaks and perks via the Developers and they put a lot of time into making us users happy, the very least we can do is try out the ROM and give feedback.
Happy flashing!

FISHMAN

i know your gone for a little bit on the Vibrant end but some one needs to revamp an older miui release and bring it up to par for those of us who dont want to use miui V4 and want the Gingerbread snappy feel :laugh:
FYI sorry OKA1 if i wasnt suppose to start a thread here just for this reason
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i know your gone for a little bit on the Vibrant end but some one needs to revamp an older miui release and bring it up to par for those of us who dont want to use miui V4 and want the Gingerbread snappy feel :laugh:
FYI sorry OKA1 if i wasnt suppose to start a thread here just for this reason
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You know, this is a tad off topic from my end, but I was wishing way back when that Fish would revamp this Rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1214562&highlight=sensation
But I figured it wasn't my place to ask, and more so...I wasn't sure if he liked working with GB since he does awesome Froyo work.
Sorry for the tangent, this made me think of that lol
Anyways, I love Miui GB.....Prime was one of my favorite roms...I was getting 2 days of life easy with every charge. An optimization would be absolutely sweet.
You know who would be your man? N00B_IN_N33D.
He has the Miui ROMs and was an avid supporter/user before he came rom Zen. I would hit him up before he starts back up at school.
Btw, anyone know why Fish left? Read his threads but don't know. Just time off or moving on?
Woodrube said:
You know who would be your man? N00B_IN_N33D.
He has the Miui ROMs and was an avid supporter/user before he came rom Zen. I would hit him up before he starts back up at school.
Btw, anyone know why Fish left? Read his threads but don't know. Just time off or moving on?
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yes im going to have to to some hellafied research on here as for FISH if im correct he has a HTC one s now ..he said he wasnt going to abandon us but he said he will be taken a break from the vibrant he is always around and looking tho which is great as for miui i was always stuck on revamped ss when the 360 clone and all the ncmin and others were coming out but yeah im stuck on froyo for battery and stablness i will always love miui to death for the customizations but FROYO has came along way as far as all the 2.2 apps and tweaks there are now im stuck on 2.2
Xenoism said:
You know, this is a tad off topic from my end, but I was wishing way back when that Fish would revamp this Rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1214562&highlight=sensation
But I figured it wasn't my place to ask, and more so...I wasn't sure if he liked working with GB since he does awesome Froyo work.
Sorry for the tangent, this made me think of that lol
Anyways, I love Miui GB.....Prime was one of my favorite roms...I was getting 2 days of life easy with every charge. An optimization would be absolutely sweet.
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thats another reason why i love the vibrant community everyone is so friendly and willing to help others with the selected few lol but everyone is always willing to help or provide you with something of some sort look how long i been a member but look at my post i been flashing HARD!! since the G1 and still have lol but yeah that crisis rom is awesome !! and FISH actually lives like 20 minutes from me so he is very resourceful if i ever did need something he was always quick to respond to my PM etc he is really down to earth guy AND OMG PRIME was the SHIIIIIzZZIT!!!! that and REVAMPED ill always be a die hard miui fan but FROYO has came such a long way to throw it away IMO

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