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Hi all,
My cousins atrix has started playing up (keyboard crashes, browser force closes etc) and ive advised that he change roms. Ive been looking though this forum for the past hour or so and am surprised to see so many roms - you guys have so much choice! (Ive got an optimus black and weve got maybe about 4 roms which is nothing compared to you guys!)
Anyway my cousin is a bit of a noob so I dont want to install a rom that will cause problems. Which rom should I install on his atrix please?
Thanks
The most recent releases of CM7, including CM7.2 RC1 and the most current nightly releases, have been pretty stable for me. I couldn't tell you about the non-CM7 ROMs (i.e. the ones based on the stock Atrix ROM) as I haven't used one for quite a while. There are several so-called CM9 ROMs out (based on ICS), but IMHO they aren't stable enough if you rely heavily on your phone, though they are getting there.
MJPollard said:
The most recent releases of CM7, including CM7.2 RC1 and the most current nightly releases, have been pretty stable for me. I couldn't tell you about the non-CM7 ROMs (i.e. the ones based on the stock Atrix ROM) as I haven't used one for quite a while. There are several so-called CM9 ROMs out (based on ICS), but IMHO they aren't stable enough if you rely heavily on your phone, though they are getting there.
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Im using joker's cm9. Its actually stable enough to be used as a daily driver. Yes the rom is in beta so there are bugs like video recording/playback, multitouch and small probs here and there due to missing ics drivers.
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Im using joker's cm9. Its actually stable enough to be used as a daily driver. Yes the rom is in beta so there are bugs like video recording/playback, multitouch and small probs here and there due to missing ics drivers.
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Wouldn't really consider that stable. Stable to me means everything works. Nottachtrix for stock look, and CM7 for AOSP
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Wouldn't really consider that stable. Stable to me means everything works. Nottachtrix for stock look, and CM7 for AOSP
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Lol technically your right stable means very minor bugs…i just meant that it won't mess up your phone or anything.
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Wouldn't really consider that stable. Stable to me means everything works. Nottachtrix for stock look, and CM7 for AOSP
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I agree - If your cousin doesn't need the fingerprint reader or webtop go with CM7 for now till the devs get the issues worked out on CM9.
Another vote for CM7. Its absolutely rock solid, and the weekly builds have fingerprint scanner support. CM9 is pretty good, but as has been mentioned its missing a few features and does have a few bugs that prevent some from being able to use it as a daily driver.
CM7 RC1 is where it's at now, no issues whatsoever for me.
Anyone know what is the progress of webtop on CM7 or 9?
Instead of CM7, I'd reccomend Neutrino. Install GO Launcher EX, ICS theme for the launcher and system and you've got yourself the best GB ROM with ICS-look.
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is cm 7,2 better than nottachtrix ?
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is cm 7,2 better than nottachtrix ?
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Yes because I feel that Nuetrino is so stripped down, you have problems. You have to flash add ins
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Yes because I feel that Nuetrino is so stripped down, you have problems. You have to flash add ins
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Useless things such as TTS, VPN and Languages have been removed to make the ROM smaller. You just gotta flash a few more tiny .zip's...
Neutrino is better than CM7 at the base level. I reccomend you flash Neutrino GT+ version and under/overclock the CPU according to your needs.
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+1 ╰☆╮Neutrino ROM V2.6╰☆╮ ....it is the best for battery and performance in my view....if you need the blur (webtop)... all three of Nottach roms are great although he supports only NottachTrix4G....
+1 for CM7.
I'd recommend you CM7 with faux kernel.
Formhault said:
Instead of CM7, I'd reccomend Neutrino. Install GO Launcher EX, ICS theme for the launcher and system and you've got yourself the best GB ROM with ICS-look.
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I found myself flashing around 20 add-ons to get the phone to work properly.
For a first time custom rom flash I'd go with Nottachtrix, very stable and Aroma Installer makes it very easy to customize to your liking.
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I found myself flashing around 20 add-ons to get the phone to work properly.
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I found myself flashing 20 times a day to get myself to like the phone
I reckon, CM7 is nice. Just use Faux kernel.
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I used stock 2.3.4 and CM7 - got no stability issues whatsoever.
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I found myself flashing 20 times a day to get myself to like the phone
I reckon, CM7 is nice. Just use Faux kernel.
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+1 for Neutrino and +1 for flashing 20 times a day to get myself to like the phone
I flash ROMs like crazy and I have to say Neutrino is by far the greatest rom! So what if you have to flash a few zips....thats how he made such an amazing rom...He stripped it down to the basics and you add the stuff that you want. I use the GT version but underclock to 1.00GHz most of the time...Saves battery but if I need the power, its available to me. 2.7 is out now....it has a wifi bug on the GT and GT+ versions though. You have to reflash faux's kernal to fix. Otherwise just use EE version. Its plenty fast enough without overclock.
Any suggestions?
I use this as a backup phone. Most of the time I use my evo 3D.
Want to see which is good ICS rom to try!
okmsdn said:
Any suggestions?
I use this as a backup phone. Most of the time I use my evo 3D.
Want to see which is good ICS rom to try!
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Try jokersax's CM9 ROM. Its pretty stable and in beta. The thing is if you are going to install an ICS rom, you need to do it now before Sprint releases the 2.3.5 maintenance update which locks the bootloader.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413349
All our ics roms are based off jokers so try any of em. If I had to pick oit of stability, id say go with cm9 or cna.
Miui has been the most stable ics rom for me. I don't really care for the iphonish stock launcher, so I use one of the ics launchers instead. Looks just like cm9. AOKPCB is also good and has great battery life.
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All our ics roms are based off jokers so try any of em. If I had to pick oit of stability, id say go with cm9 or cna.
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Where is CM9? I don't see the Photon as a supported device on the cyanogenmod website. Is the camera working? That's kind of a deal-breaker for me as I use it quite a bit with Evernote in recording receipts and quick pics with my kids.
I have it on my TouchPad and love it, but of course no camera there. Just wondering if that has changed with Photon.
Many thanks.
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Where is CM9? I don't see the Photon as a supported device on the cyanogenmod website. Is the camera working? That's kind of a deal-breaker for me as I use it quite a bit with Evernote in recording receipts and quick pics with my kids.
I have it on my TouchPad and love it, but of course no camera there. Just wondering if that has changed with Photon.
Many thanks.
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Joker's CM9 thread in the post above by ericdabbs:
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Try jokersax's CM9 ROM. Its pretty stable and in beta. The thing is if you are going to install an ICS rom, you need to do it now before Sprint releases the 2.3.5 maintenance update which locks the bootloader.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413349
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Camera works...might still be some rotation issues but it works. Overall a very functional/stable ICS rom. As far as I know it has been submitted to the CM team to be added as a supported device.
Any of the ICS ROMs are a good bet. CM9 or CNA are very stable. AOKP and AOKPCB are cool, too. There is also MIUI. I have tried all of them. Main issues are video isn't working without a third party app like camera 360 and tge web browser will close if you rotate the screen. These probably won't be corrected until some official ICS libs and/or drivers are released. Over all they are very good ROMs, very stable, lots of nice features, too.
One thing you need to be aware of. In order to flash any ICS ROM you have to be on an unlocked bootloader. Unlocking Borks 4G, if that matters that is the only real drawback.
My MoPho's in the kitchen sink!!
I was surprised to see how stable the ICS roms are. After reading the threads up until now, I was worried for a headache but I installed AOKP and have only about 5 bugs with it and they are definitely annoying but I have been using my phone daily for a few days without any major problems.
ericdabbs said:
Try jokersax's CM9 ROM. Its pretty stable and in beta. The thing is if you are going to install an ICS rom, you need to do it now before Sprint releases the 2.3.5 maintenance update which locks the bootloader.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413349
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If the 2.3.5 update has asked me to install it, but I've said "not yet", is it too late to try this?
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If the 2.3.5 update has asked me to install it, but I've said "not yet", is it too late to try this?
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As long as you haven't installed the update your fine.
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Puzzlegal said:
If the 2.3.5 update has asked me to install it, but I've said "not yet", is it too late to try this?
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As long as you haven't installed the update your fine.
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What he said^^^^^
Once you install the update to 2.3.5 you are hosed. The update will lock your bootloader.
My MoPho's in the kitchen sink!!
okmsdn said:
Any suggestions?
I use this as a backup phone. Most of the time I use my evo 3D.
Want to see which is good ICS rom to try!
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every ics rom ported by th3bill at jokersax.com are more than stable.awesome
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ericdabbs said:
Try jokersax's CM9 ROM. Its pretty stable and in beta. The thing is if you are going to install an ICS rom, you need to do it now before Sprint releases the 2.3.5 maintenance update which locks the bootloader.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413349
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ya it locks it down tight..no sbf. but there is a root now...google qbking77 photon root for 2.3.5
Hi, I am using Photon for my GSM. I have unlocked my phone and right now using MIUI ROM.
Can anyone suggest me which is the best available stable ROM for my photon with very less issues. Please help.
peetr's 2.3.5 Hybrid. It offer's the most in advantages vs stability. The current version has very few bugs and is extremely stable. It may not be "cool" but then again neither was Imperium.
1. Can we ange the status bar to be like MIUI ?
2. Do the softkey light works fine ?
3. Can i able con to sync facebook contacts and displays their photos and details in contacts with native apps without using Hexsync or something ?
Please give a reply .
ic4 roms not stable as u think
i tried 3 diffrent rom parinoid aokp and cm9 none were stable my phone wold randomly reboot when not being used , net flix dosent work issues with the kick stand mode i thought they all lacked the attension to detail since motorola makes things a lil harder soposidly
I second the choice of peetr's 2.3.5 rom. It works great and has been virtually bug free. I've tried stock, Imperium, paranoid, cm9, and cm7 also and the only one I can get data on aside from peetr's is cm7. I'm trying out simplemobile on my photon to see how t-mobiles network is.
Back to Stock
I unlocked my Photon to work with the AT&T and then decided to try some different roms. I think I want to go back to stock rom but keep unlock, how can I do that?
cbrtp said:
I unlocked my Photon to work with the AT&T and then decided to try some different roms. I think I want to go back to stock rom but keep unlock, how can I do that?
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just nandroid restore your stock ROM. given you backed that up like you should have.
or do you possibly mean restore your radio to go back to the stock ROM / CDMA?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664212
na7q said:
just nandroid restore your stock ROM. given you backed that up like you should have.
or do you possibly mean restore your radio to go back to the stock ROM / CDMA?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664212
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Sadly I didn't do a nandroid backup... Is there another way?
cbrtp said:
Sadly I didn't do a nandroid backup... Is there another way?
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sbf
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So, guys, I´m using an international GSM network. Is there an ICS rom that works fine with GSM network?
I Use 2.3.5 Hybrid (Stock/CM7), Multilingual, Deblur
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i am using miui 2.6.1 ics rom and i am in sweden
Thanks for answering. So then, there are only 2 roms with stable GSM network?
I am using cm9 aokp build version 38
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I am using cm9 aokp build version 38
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How is that rom going so far?
Did you used some fix or something?
peetr_'s 2.3.5 Hybrid is the best.
but for the adventurous people; cm10 alpha is getting along well with gsm network. better than cm9 alpha.
all CM9 have bugs
as i tried different CM9 ROM, all of them had major bugs, unless if you are considering camcorder not major part of the phone, even the alpha CM10 have the same bug and more.
for me i had to wait until an official release from Motorola
I think cm10 beta by jokersax with gapps v3 is better even though in the beta stage smooth and fast with small issues like white screen in camera application(but mind you jelly bean camera takes awesome photos even with the white screen) camcorder issues and themes not able to apply
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I hope the GSM function will keep working on the new versions of CM10 that are going to come...
Any updates on stable roms? I just unlocked my gsm radio on att orginal2.3.4 looking for somehing good but.dont wanna brick my phone or lose my gsm inlock any ideas;please
I've been using CM9 for 4-5 weeks now, and I like it. It's nearly perfect, but the rotation and camera bugs aren't exactly deal breakers for me, though I would like to have full use of my phone. CM9 just got an update, but CM7.2 is updated almost daily, and I suppose everything works due to the Gingerbread drivers being available. Plus, Gingerbread uses fewer resources. It's not overclocked, but I imagine in running at 1GHz it gets better battery life.
So just wondering what the Photon/Electrify users think, and a poll for nice statistics.
I was using cm9 as my daily for many months. When the newness wore off I started experimenting with other roms including cm7. And I must stay, after using cm7, cm9 seems to feel very sloppy and forced. This is no fault of joker, just the current tools he is given. Cm7 is absolutely a dream and is leaps and bounds more customizable than cm9 in its current iteration. You'll find that everything works without flaw and that battery is much better. All in all, if you need to be on the bleeding edge, run cm9. If you want full functionality and everything to just work, run cm7.
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I'm still waiting on HDMI mirroring to work on cm7, has it been fixed?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1456298
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I was using cm9 as my daily for many months. When the newness wore off I started experimenting with other roms including cm7. And I must stay, after using cm7, cm9 seems to feel very sloppy and forced. This is no fault of joker, just the current tools he is given. Cm7 is absolutely a dream and is leaps and bounds more customizable than cm9 in its current iteration. You'll find that everything works without flaw and that battery is much better. All in all, if you need to be on the bleeding edge, run cm9. If you want full functionality and everything to just work, run cm7.
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Thanks for the input. That's all very helpful. I love the hell outta ICS/CM9 and I have it set up nice, but I'm going on vacation in a couple months, and, while I'd like to show off ICS, stability and fluidity will be more important, as well as battery life.
And no, I don't wanna knock Joker either, he does great work, I'm just not sure if I'm a bleeding edge kind of guy. Part of me is (the whole geek thing) but another part of me wants something that just works. I'll get something that's risky and cool (Paranoid Android in tablet mode, for example) and then I'll go back to something safe. Actually using Paranoid Android in phone mode right now. I like the centered (yes, iPhone-like) clock.
I like CM9 but the camera stuff is a deal breaker for me. I've used the CM7/2.3.5 hybrid from peetr. It's smooth, fast, battery-sipping, and wonderful. I love the 1080p video camera. I tried overclocking it (you can do that with CM7 roms, by the way), but I didn't really notice a difference in speed, and it seems just a bit unstable. I think the biggest difference people notice in speed with overclocking, other than benchmarks, is the fact that they don't have a bunch of apps and settings slowing their phone down when they first load a new ROM, so of course it seems faster than what they were just working with.
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I'm still waiting on HDMI mirroring to work on cm7, has it been fixed?
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HDMI mirroring works on the Photon Dev
Teams CM7.2 version of Cybiks work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1456298
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fester30 said:
I like CM9 but the camera stuff is a deal breaker for me. I've used the CM7/2.3.5 hybrid from peetr. It's smooth, fast, battery-sipping, and wonderful. I love the 1080p video camera. I tried overclocking it (you can do that with CM7 roms, by the way), but I didn't really notice a difference in speed, and it seems just a bit unstable. I think the biggest difference people notice in speed with overclocking, other than benchmarks, is the fact that they don't have a bunch of apps and settings slowing their phone down when they first load a new ROM, so of course it seems faster than what they were just working with.
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Forget both joker is working on vanilla jellybean that's almost release ready! He day man!
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photon4glover said:
Forget both joker is working on vanilla jellybean that's almost release ready! He day man!
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Jellybean will be less stable than cm9 and hellaless stable than cm7 for a while. Try to remember that it's taken joker months of hard work to make cm9 this stable on a gingerbread kernel and components from other devices. Jellybean is exciting, but it's a generally small update that is meant to fix bugs and introduce a couple new apps. The problems we have with cm9 (lack of libs, kernel) will still exist.
You forgot its gonna make things extremely smooth.
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You forgot its gonna make things extremely smooth.
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What do you mean?
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He's talking about Project Butter, I think. That should work on Tegra 2...
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Dark Reality said:
He's talking about Project Butter, I think. That should work on Tegra 2...
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I hope Motorola needs to get off there asses and release the drivers its amazing how one developer can push ics out in a few monthes and Motorola needs a year
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I would use CM9 as my daily, but without the right drivers and the resulting issues with navigation, it's a deal breaker for me.
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He's talking about Project Butter, I think. That should work on Tegra 2...
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Butter is considered by many to not be all that its cracked up to be. And again, considering our lack of libs and kernel, butter will be of limited help for us as of yet.
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He's talking about Project Butter, I think. That should work on Tegra 2...
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I'm pretty sure Butter will require working drivers to work properly, so as excited as I am to see a JB port to our Photons, I doubt it'll be nearly as smooth as it seems until we get proper drivers =/.
I'm currently on CM 7.2 and loving it, but will move over to CM9 once we get some leaked drivers/kernel from Motorola. Joker does some great work, and it's impressive to see how much is working on ICS without those bits from Moto.
I agree. I am using Cm7 because it is stable. I really like Cm7 but am ready to move back to a more stable CM9.
I love both ROMs, but after using AOKP i can't go back to a GB ROM
What does AOKP have over CM9?
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Im using Codename android 2.0.0
When i rotate the screen while in browser, it force closes. It also does this when i try to select something while it is loading. I've tried installing multiple browsers and it happens to each one.
maybe its a kernel problem?(kernel version 2.6.32.58-MB855-CM9-g5bd1732)
ive been searching all day to a fix for this
This is an issue with every CM9 based rom. I've had some success with Firefox Beta. I keep multiple past versions on my SD card because each rom I flash seems to work differently with each browser. Jokersax did just release a version of his unofficial cm9 build that has a rotation fix if you'd like to try that:
http://www.jokersax.com/developer-pages/jokersax/cyanogenmod9-photon/
It's the one called special 0.7.0.0.
I am enjoying this CND from
Is there an estimated patch time for this bug? While CM9 is interesting isn't it still in alpha?
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Is there an estimated patch time for this bug? While CM9 is interesting isn't it still in alpha?
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Eta for patch? When we get official ics from moto.
At this point cm9 is way past what the cna you are running is. It says beta but real close to a rc
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Patch is either coming around October or not coming at all (official ics release)
I guess I could try CM9 later. Though I don't feel like re-installing all this stuff haha
Edit: also a link to the newest version of CM9 would be nice I guess?
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XxCE0xX said:
Patch is either coming around October or not coming at all (official ics release)
I guess I could try CM9 later. Though I don't feel like re-installing all this stuff haha
Edit: also a link to the newest version of CM9 would be nice I guess?
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You "should" be able to flash 0.7.0 right over your cna without wiping. Just look on jokersax.com in the cm9 for photon section
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Yeah I'm running .7 right now
Any eta on the flash fix for it?
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