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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.
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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.
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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.
Jakobby93 said:
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!!
I know I have seen several people indicate they too had a 3vo that would randomly reboot, even before rooting or adding any apps. I was in the same boat but after hassling with best buy/sprint I decided to suck it up and flash like crazy until October since I had another upgrade coming in the family plan I could steal. Since then I have noticed that I don't have reboot problems on any of the ICS roms . Not sure why but, just thought I would share for anyone else out there still dealing with reboots for no apparent reason. Thx for a glimmer of hope all you devs out there!
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Umm, cool story bro...
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I know I have seen several people indicate they too had a 3vo that would randomly reboot, even before rooting or adding any apps. I was in the same boat but after hassling with best buy/sprint I decided to suck it up and flash like crazy until October since I had another upgrade coming in the family plan I could steal. Since then I have noticed that I don't have reboot problems on any of the ICS roms . Not sure why but, just thought I would share for anyone else out there still dealing with reboots for no apparent reason. Thx for a glimmer of hope all you devs out there!
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Never had a reboot or random issue stock and unrooted even when I rooted .. Only reboot I would of had was due to a rom being in alpha mode or a nightly that had issues..
doubleCwitte said:
I know I have seen several people indicate they too had a 3vo that would randomly reboot, even before rooting or adding any apps. I was in the same boat but after hassling with best buy/sprint I decided to suck it up and flash like crazy until October since I had another upgrade coming in the family plan I could steal. Since then I have noticed that I don't have reboot problems on any of the ICS roms . Not sure why but, just thought I would share for anyone else out there still dealing with reboots for no apparent reason. Thx for a glimmer of hope all you devs out there!
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Its just the devs perfecting their work, no one ever thinks about smaller but important jobs that have to be completed, I can have an ICS rom with full HWACC, camera AND 4g but if my phone reboots every 20 mins the experience dies.! So thank your local developer for a job well done and consider a donation or two if you have the funds to do so
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truly doubt it's the rom, i have never had random reboot that weren't my fault, if it was ocing or just a unstable kernel, on most customs roms on stock kernel, never had a issue.... so i wouldn't chuck it up to ICS rom
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truly doubt it's the rom, i have never had random reboot that weren't my fault, if it was ocing or just a unstable kernel, on most customs roms on stock kernel, never had a issue.... so i wouldn't chuck it up to ICS rom
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A alpha can have issues and cause a reboot.. A beta is more stable. Always check the OP and the log they have to make sure what issues it may have.
Tho the OP was talkin about Stock phone ... I have no idea why you would get a reboot stock unless you messed with a funky app...
Also could be hardware related .. But I am leaning more to a app.
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truly doubt it's the rom, i have never had random reboot that weren't my fault, if it was ocing or just a unstable kernel, on most customs roms on stock kernel, never had a issue.... so i wouldn't chuck it up to ICS rom
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Than you are lucky, my first 3D started randomly rebooting even after reverting completely to stock. The replacement one I got would randomly reboot, it was stock with s-on straight from sprint. My current one would randomly reboot but not as bad as the other two, but it has been a lot better since i have been running joelz's ICS kang.
My first Evo 3D started rebooting about 30 minutes after I bought the phone and took it home. It would reboot at least once every 24 hours. I never rooted that phone, ran 100% factory stock. Later exchanged the phone for a new Evo and never had anymore issues.
When mine was stock, I had random reboots happen maybe once or so a day and it got worse as time went on. I flashed the RPM zip (and the radio I believe) from this thread and it has worked perfect ever since! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223979
Hello, long time DX2 rom user here. I have been using CM7 for awhile now, and the phone has slowed itself down considerably since I first flashed it. The biggest problem is that I think some of my text messages are taking a really long time to reach the person I'm sending them to.
I'd really hate to have to re-flash CM7 or even switch to Eclipse, but that right now looks like the only option. Has anyone else ever had this issue with a ROM? Thanks.
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Hello, long time DX2 rom user here. I have been using CM7 for awhile now, and the phone has slowed itself down considerably since I first flashed it. The biggest problem is that I think some of my text messages are taking a really long time to reach the person I'm sending them to.
I'd really hate to have to re-flash CM7 or even switch to Eclipse, but that right now looks like the only option. Has anyone else ever had this issue with a ROM? Thanks.
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I never was on cm7 long enough to notice the delayed sms. I have experienced lag on virtually every ROM I've been on with this phone. I would check to make sure you aren't running too many apps or widgets that use data in the background. You can always clear cache and dalvik. Or wipe data if you don't mind starting over. All of the ROMs I've used have run smooth and quick right away. I would guess that you have some background processes running. Even if our phone had 1 gb of ram we would still notice it slowing down a bit, but it would take a while longer. I am loving cm10 right now because I'm able in developer settings to limit background processes to 3 and it really seems to help. I'm not sure that cm7 has that option.
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I used this ROM for about 1 week and after the first day I started receiving delayed messages, and my phone started sending them late too. Honestly this is a know issue about CM7 so yes SOME people may experience this, I'm currently using liberty 3 and I love it! I used Liberty 3 for about 2 months and so far it runs smooth with no lag whatsoever. :laugh:
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I used this ROM for about 1 week and after the first day I started receiving delayed messages, and my phone started sending them late too. Honestly this is a know issue about CM7 so yes SOME people may experience this, I'm currently using liberty 3 and I love it! I used Liberty 3 for about 2 months and so far it runs smooth with no lag whatsoever. :laugh:
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Really? I didn't know that it was a known issue with CM7. I CANNOT have it because the girl I'm talking to is starting to think I'm purposely waiting 5 hours to reply to her texts LOL.
Looks like I'll be going back to Eclipse when I have the time.
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Really? I didn't know that it was a known issue with CM7. I CANNOT have it because the girl I'm talking to is starting to think I'm purposely waiting 5 hours to reply to her texts LOL.
Looks like I'll be going back to Eclipse when I have the time.
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That is the exact same problem I had with my girl when i was using this ROM ! XD she would get mad when it wasn't my fault
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That is the exact same problem I had with my girl when i was using this ROM ! XD she would get mad when it wasn't my fault
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LOL that's funny. They're crazy enough as it is, I can't afford to have my Custom Rom making things worse HAHAHA
Just remember girls are never wrong XD haha and sorry for getting off topic here ha
Same problem with CM7, I think at this point it's a known issue. I was also receiving the same messages 3-7 times in a row, which I thought was weird. Wiped and Reflashed. Fixed both issues.
After a few days of playing with my S4 I would have to say I'm not very happy with it. My smart stay setting don't work but maybe a 1/4 of the time if that. My voice commands don't work but half the time and I get a bit of lag from time to time. I've always used the stock browser in the past cause of flash player and now that don't work right, along with every now and then not being able to click links like its lagging but yet the url, bookmarks, Window manager, and menu button work. Plus the battery life hasn't been to great but that may be me being used to the note 2 battery. If anyone else is getting the same thing or knows of fixes please let me know. I have had these problems on fully stock, rooted with stock debloated, and now on rooted stock. Should I just wait and see what roms come out or should I try to return it and if I should return it is there a way back to non rooted fully stock? Thank you for your time.
edit 5/30: i just got done formating the int and ext storage to start from scratch. after that i noticed hyperdrive was just released so i installed that. phone softbricked cause i tried to install the ads mod from the app he has on the rom. was getting missing file errors and i/o error when tring to restore/wipe/install anything. did the no-wipe factory image and had to wipe data and factory reset after to get it out of bootloop. now im back and phone seems to be running great (but not sure about the voice commands and smart screen stuff just yet). i think my problem was i didnt change the save folder for titanium backup to sd card and i had some rom backups in the int. storage. figured this out when i went to make a backup and it said not enough memory. so if your having problems with lag double check your int. storage to make sure you have plenty of space.
Sounds like every S 4 I have ever seen.
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After a few days of playing with my S4 I would have to say I'm not very happy with it. My smart stay setting don't work but maybe a 1/4 of the time if that. My voice commands don't work but half the time and I get a bit of lag from time to time. I've always used the stock browser in the past cause of flash player and now that don't work right, along with every now and then not being able to click links like its lagging but yet the url, bookmarks, Window manager, and menu button work. Plus the battery life hasn't been to great but that may be me being used to the note 2 battery. If anyone else is getting the same thing or knows of fixes please let me know. I have had these problems on fully stock, rooted with stock debloated, and now on rooted stock. Should I just wait and see what roms come out or should I try to return it and if I should return it is there a way back to non rooted fully stock? Thank you for your time.
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Cleanrom would be nice right about now but I heard it will be a while till he can get his hands on one. Looks like I may have to just wait it out for some roms to come out And hope the wonderful devs can get this thing running good. God knows verizon cant do it.
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Cleanrom would be nice right about now but I heard it will be a while till he can get his hands on one. Looks like I may have to just wait it out for some roms to come out And hope the wonderful devs can get this thing running good. God knows verizon cant do it.
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Looking at his site, he got his donations, and was about to purchase the device. He should just be waiting for its arrival. Give it a week or two and he will likely have a ROM cooked
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Thanks for the heads up! I ran it on my note 2 and loved it. Can't freaking wait!
Glad I brightened things up a bit for you!! Heck I am looking to upgrade soon and am considering the gs4. Been testing the waters in anticipation. I ran one of scotts roms years ago on my Optimus S (moved to the nexus s 4g, to currently the epic 4g touch) and he made a solid rom then, I know that.
I came from a note 2 as well. I can't wait for custom roms. The stock rom Sucks. I miss clean rom and beanstown but I'm sure everything will be here soon because the S series devices always have more development because they're more popular and more of an everyone phone unlike the note which isn't for everyone.
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I've seen none of that. This phone hasn't lagged once. Huge upgrade over my Galaxy nexus.
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I've noticed the Verizon S4 lags when compared to the T-Mobile variant.
the issue with links you cant click is an bug browser freezing up.hopefully they will fix it soon.temp u can clise tge broswer and then fire back up and it should work.
I wonder in Verizon applied the latest update like all the other carruers did that took care of lag etc...I remember something in early may that the other carriers were getting an update to address the lag issue and since our phones were just released last week...it may be a little bit before Verizon catches up.
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The Galaxy S3 was the first android phone that I could say finally solved the laggyness that has been there since the droid. I have an iphone 5, S3, and the S4. The S4, at least mine, is clearly faster then my S3, and the even the iphone (which has always been pinnacle of non lag phones)......can't even compare with the S4 smoothness, and that is saying something.
I hate lag, hated it since the OGDroid, and can see immediately. I'm sorry you're having issues with you're S4, but I really don't know what alternative phone you could buy as of now.....because, if i'm not mistaking, the S4,HTC One or Iphone.....are the only phones you can buy with the least amount of lag as of todays date.
Best of luck to you.
Well I need to do some more testing with the voice command. I went outside today (were is bright) and noticed that some of the clear stickers on the side of the phone were still there. Just not to sure if the ones I pulled off was covering the mic. If it's better from here on out I will definitely feel like a de de deee.
edit: still having a little of trouble but it may have to do with background noises and the phone volume being all the way up.
Tks
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Cleanrom would be nice right about now but I heard it will be a while till he can get his hands on one. Looks like I may have to just wait it out for some roms to come out And hope the wonderful devs can get this thing running good. God knows verizon cant do it.
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Tks for the tip.
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I've seen none of that. This phone hasn't lagged once. Huge upgrade over my Galaxy nexus.
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Same here.
I turned off all the Air gestures, and other 'features' that I don't need or care about and switched to ADW EX launcher.
Very pleased with the S4.
I'm happy with my GS4. No issues with me. My battery has been treating me much better compared to my old LG Revolution. I haven't noticed any lag on my phone and that's something I noticed all the time on 2.3.6
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That sucks. I'm glad I haven't had any issues.
I kept reading posts about the S4 being laggy, so I was a little worried when I picked mine up yesterday. Luckily, I seem to have a lag free version.
I came from an iPhone 5, and this S4 is much faster. Prior to that I had a gnex, and there is night and day difference between that and the S4.
Omg, Clean Rom is coming!!!!!! I cant wait, his roms are seriously top notch, I have renewed faith!!!!
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I came from a note 2 as well. I can't wait for custom roms. The stock rom Sucks. I miss clean rom and beanstown but I'm sure everything will be here soon because the S series devices always have more development because they're more popular and more of an everyone phone unlike the note which isn't for everyone.
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What are you guys talking about here, you can run other carrier roms, what is your hold up? You can run any rom the ATT I337 can, to include sprint and t-mobile roms. you just need to use the loki patch (verizon) within the recovery apps. Smile and start here...Cheer up Charlie!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295557