This is my review for the CM7 build. Hope you like it.
http://youtu.be/CVRPB2Nu7YM?hd=1
I'm loving cm7. Speed, debloat, a little freedom. Only thing better would be an unlocked bootloader and/or ics
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If you have a DX2 this ROM is a MUST!!!!!! You have to down load it! Why Motorola would let Verizon fill the phone with some so crap is beyond me. Stock, the phone was a little buggy and made me wish asurion would give me back my cracked DX. It was choppy and the 512MB of RAM got was used up quickly with all the BLUR (Yes its good now but 512MB isnt enough). Stock google with no blur equals a dual core phone that flies!!! Take your time, follow the directions and you will never look back!!!
+1, your insight is well outspoken.
Thanks for the review brandon. It made me switch from liberty to cm7. I'll never look back! (except for miui )
Is 2780 on cm7 using quadrant benchmark a good score?
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Cant go wrong wit cm7 at all except if u can live with no hdmi which i can
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alright well so far what i have noticed with this rom (and i came from the most recent version of eclipse) are the following:
1.) Battery life is much worse than before. i used to have 70 to 80 percent on days i wouldnt use or touch the phone and it would sit in my pocket for 90 percent of the school day. i barely touch my phone in school and when i got home today after practice, i was already down to 30% which made me slightly depressed.
2.) ive noticed there are small amounts of lag sometimes with the phone, granted when i was running eclipse, i was running speedy and a 3g script.
3.) i have had a little trouble with the gallery but it might just be the fact that my memory card is starting to poop on my face because its overstuffed to the brim
so now for a few questions. can you run any of the good scripts with cm7 because i really dont see alot of this speed that everyone keeps talking about compared to when i was running eclipse. is there also a way to increase the battery life like delete the file that saved the previous battery stats?
thanks for reading btw
Regarding your question about scripts, I believe the general consensus is that the scripts that we had run on the other ROM's should not be necessary.
However, someone in another thread posted this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21689117&postcount=3 and claims it helped w/ his battery life. He doesn't say by exactly how much, but he seems happy.
I haven't had many issues w/ battery life and I've seen improvement over the Eclipse rom, but you might want to monitor your current battery usage for patterns.
thanks! but yeah ive also noticed with this "hacked" cm7 recovery that when i try to install it it wants to force close, and when i click wait, a few seconds later it says install success! and when i click recovery mode it just shuts off and never reboots. whats the problem?
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and another problem ive found is that sometimes when my phone starts up, i get the roaming triangle next to my service strength bar and it flashes. why is it doing that?!
Are you plugged into the wall charger?
Reference: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318083
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alright well so far what i have noticed with this rom (and i came from the most recent version of eclipse) are the following:
1.) Battery life is much worse than before. i used to have 70 to 80 percent on days i wouldnt use or touch the phone and it would sit in my pocket for 90 percent of the school day. i barely touch my phone in school and when i got home today after practice, i was already down to 30% which made me slightly depressed.
2.) ive noticed there are small amounts of lag sometimes with the phone, granted when i was running eclipse, i was running speedy and a 3g script.
3.) i have had a little trouble with the gallery but it might just be the fact that my memory card is starting to poop on my face because its overstuffed to the brim
so now for a few questions. can you run any of the good scripts with cm7 because i really dont see alot of this speed that everyone keeps talking about compared to when i was running eclipse. is there also a way to increase the battery life like delete the file that saved the previous battery stats?
thanks for reading btw
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Did u come from a clean sbf?
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Did u come from a clean sbf?
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yes i did i did a full sbf. mem wipe, cache wipe, the works lol.
and lex it says you dont need to be plugged into anything. ill take a cap if you would like.
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also, my gallery will force close and do other funny things, but i think this could all be due to the mem card problems ive been having. i think its time to upgrade to the 32 gb class ten!!
and should i try sbf'ing again with a different sbf file? because i just rebooted my phone again and it flashed the roaming triangle again :/
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yes i did i did a full sbf. mem wipe, cache wipe, the works lol.
and lex it says you dont need to be plugged into anything. ill take a cap if you would like.
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also, my gallery will force close and do other funny things, but i think this could all be due to the mem card problems ive been having. i think its time to upgrade to the 32 gb class ten!!
and should i try sbf'ing again with a different sbf file? because i just rebooted my phone again and it flashed the roaming triangle again :/
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Idk thats weird mine hasnt had any problems except battery life drains a lil fast but that could be due to me being a heavy user other than that i havent had any problems at all so idk
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what to do now lol that is the question.
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what to do now lol that is the question.
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Are u using titamium backup to restore data or apps
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Are u using titamium backup to restore data or apps
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no i just reinstall all apps via market. sounds lazy i know
Its what i do to i was gona say that it might be causin your problems but nvm idk id sbf one more time and wipe like 5 times before and after flashin cm7 again lol
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Great review, enjoyed the video as well! I am so stoked about this rom! I just flashed it last night. I have not been this excited about my X2 since the first Gingerbread rom was released.
I do notice a big decrease in battery life but I am going to try and calibrate the battery and see if that helps. Also, I'm going to give it a few days too since I've been using the phone more than usual too setting everything up.
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Hi guys,
I was wondering if anyone can give me a hand on this. After installing / using gingerbreak I am getting rapid drain on the battery. The battery manage says its "Media" (?program) thats doing it. Any ideas to a solution?
Posting in that thread would be a starting point. This thread will be moved or deleted.
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Thanks for using your energy on a useful answer.
Nevermind, trying out ginger blur instead.
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Try going fresh and gingerbreak it, i have no issues so far with 1.8.3 , look for the offending service in titanium or under settings > applications > services
Use the guide to root 1.4.2. Works perfectly and just makes sure the exploit is used and nothing else but SU is copied over.
Safest way to do something is to do it yourself. No apk and you get to see what you install.
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I was actually going to post the opposite. Went to a BBQ yesterday around 4 with a full charge, on HSPA the whole time, ran a bunch of speed tests periodically, checking NFL draft updates, checking for gingerblur 3.0 a bunch of times, and other useless tomfoolery. Left at 1:30 am, got home with 70% charge. Not bad, eh?
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I was actually going to post the opposite. Went to a BBQ yesterday around 4 with a full charge, on HSPA the whole time, ran a bunch of speed tests periodically, checking NFL draft updates, checking for gingerblur 3.0 a bunch of times, and other useless tomfoolery. Left at 1:30 am, got home with 70% charge. Not bad, eh?
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wow my battery goes out fast. i unplugged around 9 am 9:15 a. same things as you basically speed test tumblr xda i was down to 30ish bye 3 pm.
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wow my battery goes out fast. i unplugged around 9 am 9:15 a. same things as you basically speed test tumblr xda i was down to 30ish bye 3 pm.
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thats not normal time for a reflash
Try charging to full and then wiping the battery stats. Probably won't help but it's worth a shot. Flashing a lot can confuse the battery and wiping the stats after a bunch of flashes can help regain some of the batteries lost performance due to this confusion.
Good point. I forgot to mention I had wiped the battery stats while updating to 1.8.3.
Calibrate the battery? Drain it completely once or twice and recharge to 100%. That should calibrate your battery but then try using Battery Calibration.
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Try charging to full and then wiping the battery stats. Probably won't help but it's worth a shot. Flashing a lot can confuse the battery and wiping the stats after a bunch of flashes can help regain some of the batteries lost performance due to this confusion.
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been there done that. gonna return the phone to best buy for a new as the phone is exactly a week and a day old. and the screen lag is already killing me. i belive that for some reason rooting it it causes the screen lag. i factory rested the phone and rooted and lag still there.
You done been motoblur'd. Strip away that crap.
i actually do like motoblur. when i first got it i went the whole day from 7 am to 10 pm and still had 20 % left.
They don't call it bloatware for nothing. Your choice
the bloatware that you call it can actually be uninstalled. att navigator code scanner family map yada yada yada can be uninstalled.
what you all dont really get, is that motoblur is for basically a teenager. someoen who is constantly witht hier facebook updates emails blah blah.
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I was actually going to post the opposite. Went to a BBQ yesterday around 4 with a full charge, on HSPA the whole time, ran a bunch of speed tests periodically, checking NFL draft updates, checking for gingerblur 3.0 a bunch of times, and other useless tomfoolery. Left at 1:30 am, got home with 70% charge. Not bad, eh?
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I agree I was gonna post the same thing. After 1.83 and gingerbreak i get about twice as battery. I am using the same apps as I was using before. I never got over 24 hours on Atrix before but now I get 24 hours easily with pretty heavy usage. I play with is most of the time. Checking XDA every 15 20 minutes etc. This 1.83 has definately done some battery improvements to my phone. I do not mind the stock firmware now. I just have two mods, rooted and a pretty decent Blue theme.
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the bloatware that you call it can actually be uninstalled. att navigator code scanner family map yada yada yada can be uninstalled.
what you all dont really get, is that motoblur is for basically a teenager. someoen who is constantly witht hier facebook updates emails blah blah.
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I do get it. I just don't like the interface. I use launcher pro plus scrolling widgets for facebook, gmail, calendar, bookmarks, etc, way more to my liking.
i think i have tried the best of both worlds here. HTC Sense and MotoBlur.
i really dont lean towards one or the other as the both apeal to me. btu what i have learned it is HTC Sence is more media-centric while MotoBlur is for the more "socially connected" person. being my self a teen. i enjoy both.
Running stock with bloat (havent done GingerBlur until 3.0 comes out) Gingerbreak, Systemrecovery, nothing else installed except root explorer, advanced system tools, DEBAndroid, attempted Full Ubuntu (bombed as expected.)
My install was flash 1.26, OTA upgrade of 1.57, flashed 1.83.
Anyways, with little use, still at 100% unplugged for 10 hours.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/android-os-what-is-it/
this is crazy no wonder are phones battery dies fast, I wish the devs in xda can find a solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020
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From my understanding, this is an Samsung driver/kernel problem (not really clear as to which one) and doesn't affect the Evo 3D. Also, I think this bug prevents the phone from sleeping, which isn't a problem in the Evo 3D.
I could be wrong. I'm tired and haven't read most of it.
That's one hungry bug. Interesting to read though. Thanks for the post, u haven't heard about this.
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Just skimmed this via the xda app and not sure I agree with it all. I don't see this happening on my phone nor did I on the EVO 4G. I use system panel pro to purely monitor battery and app usage. Never use any task killer as they do more harm than good.
Just would of thought if this was a real issue it would of been pointed out before now.
I don't agree with using the stock OS battery usage though to guage it though as its not detailed enough.
I'll wait till xHausx or Net or another respected dev looks into this before really taking a side.
Just the bug they explain with CPU getting pegged seems like it would of been found by now if its real.
Least the fact my EVO 3D sleeps just fine. Prolly a Samsung issue. Yet another reason to not buy Samsung. Lol
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ive had so many android phones and only the epic and epic touch (which i have or have had) suffer
I had it with the OG evo , not with the 3d nor my hero ,
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Just skimmed this via the xda app and not sure I agree with it all. I don't see this happening on my phone nor did I on the EVO 4G. I use system panel pro to purely monitor battery and app usage. Never use any task killer as they do more harm than good.
Just would of thought if this was a real issue it would of been pointed out before now.
I don't agree with using the stock OS battery usage though to guage it though as its not detailed enough.
I'll wait till xHausx or Net or another respected dev looks into this before really taking a side.
Just the bug they explain with CPU getting pegged seems like it would of been found by now if its real.
Least the fact my EVO 3D sleeps just fine. Prolly a Samsung issue. Yet another reason to not buy Samsung. Lol
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woah... whats this cpu is pegged bug? i think i may have it yet i have no idea what ur talking about.
dkdude36 said:
woah... whats this cpu is pegged bug? i think i may have it yet i have no idea what ur talking about.
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hope your being sarcastic. lol
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jonathaflores said:
I had it with the OG evo , not with the 3d nor my hero ,
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Never ever had an issue like whats described in the thread, on my EVO4G. Though I wasn't around for the GB update to it so if it came after that OTA then I would of missed it.
The thing with going by the Android OS % use thats built into the OS by default is that sometimes some apps that get stuck will get tossed into that %, making it missleading. Hence why I use SystemPanel Pro and have monitoring on so I can track detailed use of everything and it breaks down the system use too so you can see what process of the system is running the most. I've seen times where Android OS is high but then check System Panel and its not at all abnormal and its really a App that has gotten stuck.
regardless I have yet to see anything close to this happening on the 3D which leads me to think its not really an "Android OS" problem in itself as much as its to do with the manufactures modifications to he OS and kernel more likely.
I will say though most of the time that I have experienced any battery drain it has been an app that is continuing to chew CPU even after backing completely out of it and not using it for 10-30min even. Seen it with the xda app sometimes and it seems completely random as sometimes when i back out of it, it closes the app fully and it no longer is eating away at CPU. Also seen it in my DBSTalk app too, both clean installs also.
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EDIT:
I might be taking back what I said about it not being in the EVO3D here. Just checked systempanel and looked at a weeks worth of time frame when looking at the "suspend" process and there is in fact 1 day where that process is higher than the rest and battery life is worse that day too.....
Will keep a closer eye on that process and see if I can catch this real time doing it myself.
still looking forward to Treve, xHausx, or any other respected Dev to chim in on this from an EVO3D perspective and get their thoughts on the thing as a whole too.
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hope your being sarcastic. lol
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Surprisingly not being sarcastic. I get random reboots sometimes that happen after a cpu is pegged error in a logcat
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Hi all,
I have almost had it up to "here" with my x2, and i want a faster experience.
I have tweaked this thing as best as i can and finally figure it may be time to install a different ROM...
So far i am rooted with the soak test 2.3.4... i have the tenfar (? is that it?) recovery (the green one with an arrow down it, the same one that i used to install from froyo to GB.
I was looking at liberty, or eclipse...
Whatever is fastest, has a lot of AOSP in it and has a decent camera. Some of them have the bionic camera?
I hate the x2 camera.
So far i have rom toolbox to download liberty if i want it, i am nervous about installing it though since i came from iphone and understand its nearly impossible to brick an iphone, i have heard differently about android.
Additionally, i DO know how to SBF, i have done it twice once to go backwards and send a returned phone and the other to install the soak test on my current phone.
Thanks for any imput, i appreciate it!
I have Molten and its faster than any other ROM I've tried. Very impressed with it! I think. Eclipse would be next. And if you soft brick it, no biggy, its usually what happens versus hard brick.
I'd suggest flashing multiple ROMs though, try one out, go to the next, and if you land on one you really like, then great! That's the one for you. But be careful! Too many flashes could cause flash addiction!!
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Have you tried v6supercharger? I have that with 2.3.5 blur and im a happy camper. V6supercharger will work with any rom. Its a script made by zepp.
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densetsu86 said:
Have you tried v6supercharger? I have that with 2.3.5 blur and im a happy camper. V6supercharger will work with any rom. Its a script made by zepp.
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Yes, i have a widget to that actually lol.
No, that is what i HAD to do when i got the x2 in july and it was still froyo.
the 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 seem to fix most of it, but even running THAT i want a better UI and there are other little things i would like to NOT have to do that moto forgot:
1% battery
Better tray area
Better animations
Better battery life
Most of this was solved by me uninstalling most apps i have on the device that are not necessary, freezing pretty much ALL moto and vzw bloat, using Launcher Pro with NO transitions, juiceplotter and juicedefender to monitor usage and kill data connections and disabling the android battery management, installing battery circle...
I would like though to see a REAL dual core fast experience and i just do not think that anything coming from the motorolla rom builds will give me that to be honest.
The only time you are gonna het a real dual core experiance is if/when ics comes. Gb is not fully meant and not to many apps even make use of it.
And on 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 the 1% battery is useless since its not accurate reading and i think it cause more issues then working right. On eclipse 1.2rc i was getting really crappy battery life compared to blur 2.3.4 and i seem to have gotten my better batty life back on 2.3.5 so im staying away from 1% battery mod. And if your phone is running horribly get a new one. I barely have any problem with speed on my dx2 unless i use 3g cause 3g just sucks.
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The only time you are gonna het a real dual core experiance is if/when ics comes. Gb is not fully meant and not to many apps even make use of it.
And on 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 the 1% battery is useless since its not accurate reading and i think it cause more issues then working right. On eclipse 1.2rc i was getting really crappy battery life compared to blur 2.3.4 and i seem to have gotten my better batty life back on 2.3.5 so im staying away from 1% battery mod. And if your phone is running horribly get a new one. I barely have any problem with speed on my dx2 unless i use 3g cause 3g just sucks.
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Huh... how can the 1% battery mod make battery life worse?
Sorry about your 3g speeds. I have excellent 3g speeds where I am, i can steam music, load web pages and get 1mb attachments while streaming shoutcast.
i have had terrible 3g in las vegas on att... my 1x on vzw though is terrible compared to edge on att so i am glad it (3g) works.
I highly enjoy/recommend eclipse 1.3rc2. Its the one that comes with bionic camera.
I feel like people think they are getting bad battery life due to how you can see the battery dropping with 1%increments as opposed to 10% stock increments. I have experienced about the same battery life with the same usage no matter which rom I run.
I find eclipse to be very smooth running rom. Worth a try. Just make a nandroid backup before flashing and if u don't like u can easily just restore ur stock nandroid and get back to where u were.
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I highly enjoy/recommend eclipse 1.3rc2. Its the one that comes with bionic camera.
I feel like people think they are getting bad battery life due to how you can see the battery dropping with 1%increments as opposed to 10% stock increments. I have experienced about the same battery life with the same usage no matter which rom I run.
I find eclipse to be very smooth running rom. Worth a try. Just make a nandroid backup before flashing and if u don't like u can easily just restore ur stock nandroid and get back to where u were.
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yeah.. about that.
I made a titanium backup of all system/apps
but nandroid uses system recovery bootstrap. so is that a COMPLETE backup as in a snapshot?
If so, that sort of makes titanium as a BACKUP tool obsolete, does it not?
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yeah.. about that.
I made a titanium backup of all system/apps
but nandroid uses system recovery bootstrap. so is that a COMPLETE backup as in a snapshot?
If so, that sort of makes titanium as a BACKUP tool obsolete, does it not?
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I never use titanium.
A nandroid backup makes a backup of system, data, and caches. U cannot use titanium to get ur system back to where it was before a rom flash. Titanium is only uses for backing up apps and data.
Someone could explain it better than I do but a nandroid is basically a snapshot of your entire system. Framework, apps, data, settings, etc...
If I flash a rom without making a stock nandroid then the only way to get back to stock is via sbf, and rooting and setting up again. A nandroid backup eliminates the need to sbf to get back to stock.
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I have found titanium to be obsolete from the very beginning as I don't mind redownloading my apps. And im not crazy about keeping their data either
Aldo if u are backed up to google servers(via settings in privacy settings) and install eclipse then whatever apps u had installed before the flash will automatically start downloading after u sign in to google during initial set up. It will also save all your settings such as wifi passwords and browser bookmarks. Very useful.
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I never use titanium.
A nandroid backup makes a backup of system, data, and caches. U cannot use titanium to get ur system back to where it was before a rom flash. Titanium is only uses for backing up apps and data.
Someone could explain it better than I do but a nandroid is basically a snapshot of your entire system. Framework, apps, data, settings, etc...
If I flash a rom without making a stock nandroid then the only way to get back to stock is via sbf, and rooting and setting up again. A nandroid backup eliminates the need to sbf to get back to stock.
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I have found titanium to be obsolete from the very beginning as I don't mind redownloading my apps. And im not crazy about keeping their data either
Aldo if u are backed up to google servers(via settings in privacy settings) and install eclipse then whatever apps u had installed before the flash will automatically start downloading after u sign in to google during initial set up. It will also save all your settings such as wifi passwords and browser bookmarks. Very useful.
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okay, so a nandroid backup will be quite large in size but is a failsafe in case you completely mess up and then do not have to spend time redoing it all.
Its like a system file that you can install if all else fails.
LIKE AN IPHONE BACKUP... where you ultimately get everything the way it was?
I would likely want to keep this on a seperate SD card even or my PC just in case the worst ever happens and i lose my physical phone...
Good to know because i HATE having to get all my stuff running again like i had it.
I am not familiar with iphone backups and how the work.
When u make a nandroid it will ask u before hand if u want it on internal or external sd card. I ALWAYS choose external sd card. It will create a folder on your sd card called clockworkmod. Inside that will be a folder named backup. In that will be the files for each backup you create. You can make one at any point as long as u have enough space on your sd card u can make as many as u desire. I usually make one every morning when I wake up and delete the one from the day before this was I ha e a very recent backup in case I screw up during the day and need to restore. I also keep backups of certain points in which I liked my setup.
Do not changed the names of clockworkmod folder or the folder in it named backup.
If u check out the sticky in general forum by moon shadow on creating a backup u will see the only safe way to rename your backups. Or u can just remember how ur phone was on the date u created it since it uses the date u madebit to name the nandroid file.
That sticky thread on nandroid backup will give u all the info u need to know about making/restoring nandroid backups. Very well written.
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I am not familiar with iphone backups and how the work.
When u make a nandroid it will ask u before hand if u want it on internal or external sd card. I ALWAYS choose external sd card. It will create a folder on your sd card called clockworkmod. Inside that will be a folder named backup. In that will be the files for each backup you create. You can make one at any point as long as u have enough space on your sd card u can make as many as u desire. I usually make one every morning when I wake up and delete the one from the day before this was I ha e a very recent backup in case I screw up during the day and need to restore. I also keep backups of certain points in which I liked my setup.
Do not changed the names of clockworkmod folder or the folder in it named backup.
If u check out the sticky in general forum by moon shadow on creating a backup u will see the only safe way to rename your backups. Or u can just remember how ur phone was on the date u created it since it uses the date u madebit to name the nandroid file.
That sticky thread on nandroid backup will give u all the info u need to know about making/restoring nandroid backups. Very well written.
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Right, an iPhone backup is a data file that is installed after a restore or iOS update.
It essentially starts the phone fresh, but then reinstalls your apps, sms, missed calls, browsing history, notes etc.
So you look as you did right before you went to work on the device.
This sounds the same. I have been reading the sticky, thanks for your help. I also made sure to click thanks.
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Right, an iPhone backup is a data file that is installed after a restore or iOS update.
It essentially starts the phone fresh, but then reinstalls your apps, sms, missed calls, browsing history, notes etc.
So you look as you did right before you went to work on the device.
This sounds the same. I have been reading the sticky, thanks for your help. I also made sure to click thanks.
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Me too. Now I know more about iphone backups
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yeah.. about that.
I made a titanium backup of all system/apps
but nandroid uses system recovery bootstrap. so is that a COMPLETE backup as in a snapshot?
If so, that sort of makes titanium as a BACKUP tool obsolete, does it not?
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I have found TiBU very useful for backing up user apps/data. If you don't have the time/Patience to re-download everything between rom changes, it comes in handy. A simple batch restore and all my apps, launcher and their respective settings are there. (system settings are not restored, I think there might be an option but have heard nothing good comes from restoring system data across roms) I have also found TiBU very useful when swapping different camera/gallery apks. Simply go in and uninstall one and restore a backup of another for easy comparison of shot quality and speed. Just my 2¢
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I have found TiBU very useful for backing up user apps/data. If you don't have the time/Patience to re-download everything between rom changes, it comes in handy. A simple batch restore and all my apps, launcher and their respective settings are there. (system settings are not restored, I think there might be an option but have heard nothing good comes from restoring system data across roms) I have also found TiBU very useful when swapping different camera/gallery apks. Simply go in and uninstall one and restore a backup of another for easy comparison of shot quality and speed. Just my 2¢
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would you freeze the old ones? that is pretty good idea.
I was thinking was there any reason i cannot just find the bionic camera app, for example and use that?
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would you freeze the old ones? that is pretty good idea.
I was thinking was there any reason i cannot just find the bionic camera app, for example and use that?
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I uninstall them once i have a backup made, that way i don't have any chance of duplicate names or anything, freezing may work though.. I would imaging if you get the Bionic camera and hacked gallery from eclipse 1.3rc2 it will work. I think the have to be pushed to /system/apps manually. Just remember to correct permissions. see if they work.
stevenjcampbell said:
Hi all,
I have almost had it up to "here" with my x2, and i want a faster experience.
I have tweaked this thing as best as i can and finally figure it may be time to install a different ROM...
So far i am rooted with the soak test 2.3.4... i have the tenfar (? is that it?) recovery (the green one with an arrow down it, the same one that i used to install from froyo to GB.
I was looking at liberty, or eclipse...
Whatever is fastest, has a lot of AOSP in it and has a decent camera. Some of them have the bionic camera?
I hate the x2 camera.
So far i have rom toolbox to download liberty if i want it, i am nervous about installing it though since i came from iphone and understand its nearly impossible to brick an iphone, i have heard differently about android.
Additionally, i DO know how to SBF, i have done it twice once to go backwards and send a returned phone and the other to install the soak test on my current phone.
Thanks for any imput, i appreciate it!
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I too was in the same boat. My experience thus far has been to go with Eclipse 1.3 RC2. It seems to be the fastest out of the box with no additional modifications. I consider myself a min/maxer. I don't play games or do any silly stuff with the phone. I want performance with calls, texting, email, GPS, and web browsing/forum posting. I've tried just about all the ROMs I could find and thus far, I have to say Eclipse 1.3 RC2 has met my needs.
I don't even bother with Titanium Backup anymore, in fact, since you use Nandroid to create the backup, there's no need to use Titanium Backup. The Nandroid does the same thing and so far, I've had a few problems back on the Droid X with it, as opposed to no problems yet with Nandroid. I figure using less resources is always better so I scrapped using it.
Following the guides for SBF, Root, and Bootstrap are easy (although I'm not new to this). The camera is superb on the Eclipse ROM, and the theme is absolutely terrific.
My very close 2nd place is the Liberty ROM. I liked it alot but found that directly out of the box, it felt just a bit slower. I did not install any apps to measure anything, just going by how things feel but all in all, I would recommend either of the two for the best experience, if your usage of the phone is anything similar to mine.
Hope that helps my friend!
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Huh... how can the 1% battery mod make battery life worse?
Sorry about your 3g speeds. I have excellent 3g speeds where I am, i can steam music, load web pages and get 1mb attachments while streaming shoutcast.
i have had terrible 3g in las vegas on att... my 1x on vzw though is terrible compared to edge on att so i am glad it (3g) works.
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Well i do everything the same with which ever rom i run but on eclipse 1.2rc it was so very poor in battery life. Just listening to music via power amp through headphones in an hr and a half i will lose 30% in battery life and with blur 2.3.4 in same time frame i would still be either 90% or 100%.
My opinion is that 2.3.4 does not read right we all know that and now we have this 1% reading the wrong info so the function is continously running using battery power just to give you this update by 1% and its just wrong.
And now im runing 2.3.5 and im back to having great battery life. Still get the jump but the battery function on stock for my phone is much more accuate. Btw i gave it about a week or so and it never got better. After my typical day 11 or so hrs off the charge its at 15-20% on eclipse but on stock blur 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 i have about 50-60% after the same amount of time.
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Difference between nandroid and titanium is that supposedly u can use titanium to restore apps/data/system data after doing a data wipe before flashing roms. Nandroid will RESTORE u to the position u were at before flashing. U can't use it to get apps and data back after flashing a rom(theoretically u could restore just the data portion but doing that after flashing a new rom could create more problems) and I say supposedly because I have seen many problems, such as force closes and.etc., come from using titanium to restore datas after flashing. I personally don't see the need /use for it when if u just backup to google ur apps download automatically when u set up after flashing(if u chose that option)
A nandroid is EXTREMELY useful when it comes to bootlooping. If that ever happens to you after u have done something. And u have made a nandroid before whatever it was u did before bootlooping. And u had system recovery (bootstrap) installed. All u need to do is pull battery(to power down) and.plug ur phone in and wait for bootstrap to come up(since after installation of bootstrap charge only mode is hijacked) and restore the nandroid. Which saves u from having to sbf. Aldo nandroid is great for getting back to an exact set up u liked and wanted to be able to return to it at any point. Very useful thing to have.
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Well i do everything the same with which ever rom i run but on eclipse 1.2rc it was so very poor in battery life. Just listening to music via power amp through headphones in an hr and a half i will lose 30% in battery life and with blur 2.3.4 in same time frame i would still be either 90% or 100%.
My opinion is that 2.3.4 does not read right we all know that and now we have this 1% reading the wrong info so the function is continously running using battery power just to give you this update by 1% and its just wrong.
And now im runing 2.3.5 and im back to having great battery life. Still get the jump but the battery function on stock for my phone is much more accuate. Btw i gave it about a week or so and it never got better. After my typical day 11 or so hrs off the charge its at 15-20% on eclipse but on stock blur 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 i have about 50-60% after the same amount of time.
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The thing is that with stock the meter only changes every 10%...so readings can seem a bit different. I also thought I got "better" battery on stock until I stayed with it for about a week and wrote down and took screenshots of battery usage graph.
I have just compared those graphs to my graphs from almost a week on eclipse. All have pretty much the same HEAVY usage. And trust me...when I say heavy....its heavy(just look at my.post count...99 % of them were done using stock web browser. Along with surfing multiple web pages at the same time....and I have pretty weal 3g signal at home so I constantly switch between 3g/wifi all day long)
And after comparison I can say that I see almost the exact same amount of battery time on both stock, eclipse (and the couple days I ran liberty also) .when running roms some.of the days had a LOT better battery times due to.me having the data toggle in the pulldowns so I could kill data when I wanted to..which saves a few hours of battery every day when done often enough. But besides that they were nearly the same except for maybe an hour extra battery life(on roms as compared to stock) and I attribute that to bloat removal since there is less running to drain battery...
And im not trying to come off as a prick or argumentative with this post. Just stating what my findings have been. Everyone battery.life will be different than mine due to individual use and also the fact that it seems like every X2 is picky/different in its own way
But I do get ur point of the 1%mod causing slightly more drain due to its constant need to update/call to system...but I can't see it as having that much of a noticeable difference besides the fact that you can "see in real time" how quick your battery is really dropping.
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Well i do everything the same with which ever rom i run but on eclipse 1.2rc it was so very poor in battery life. Just listening to music via power amp through headphones in an hr and a half i will lose 30% in battery life and with blur 2.3.4 in same time frame i would still be either 90% or 100%.
My opinion is that 2.3.4 does not read right we all know that and now we have this 1% reading the wrong info so the function is continously running using battery power just to give you this update by 1% and its just wrong.
And now im runing 2.3.5 and im back to having great battery life. Still get the jump but the battery function on stock for my phone is much more accuate. Btw i gave it about a week or so and it never got better. After my typical day 11 or so hrs off the charge its at 15-20% on eclipse but on stock blur 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 i have about 50-60% after the same amount of time.
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Not quite sure why you were getting bad battery life. I'm running Liberty ROM and I used ROM Toolbox to set my battery icon to 1% and I get great battery life. In fact, I had to go to the hospital and I was there for almost 24 hours. I forgot to bring my charger with me and by the time I got home (around 20 hours), I was at 14%. This was with texting, making and receiving calls, playing some Angry Birds and even listening to an NFL game for about 10 minutes.
The appearance of draining is more in how 2.3.4 is inaccurately reporting the battery life. When I reboot, it usually jumps back up about 5%, sometimes 10% and then it creeps back down slowly.
I probably rebooted 4 or 5 times that day since I was just waiting around having nothing better to do. And like I said, it lasted me 20+ hours and was at 14% when I finally got home and was able to hook it up to a charger.
What other apps are you running? I'm also running Juice Defender Ultimate and that has helped immensely. It will shut down the 3g connection when I turn off the screen and go into standby mode. I also have Blue-Tooth turned off as well as GPS location. I only turn it on when I need it.
I should also mention that I'm on an extended battery as well which has helped.
hey guys. after installing juggernauts battery fix v2 2 days ago I have been getting horrible
battery life I'm on cm7 bell attic with faux 1.45 kernel here's a screenshot of my usage I did everything I should have when I flashed this Tom and the fix and calibrated it and stuff
And why exactly did you need to apply this fix? Was anything broken before this? Not trolling, just want more info on your problem. This screenshot really looks horrible.
Dude, are you oc'd min/max at 1,45 GHz, playing a game at full screen brightness while you're downloading something in an area with low hspa signal as your maps where calculating a route..?!
Can't think of any other way a battery can die like that. Hell, I don't even think all the above would deplete it like you did..
brightness is turned all the way down and my phone is id's at 800 :/ I applied this fix cause my battery life was only 10 hours but now it's like 5
You're doing all the above minus the brightness..?
Go through this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333 process, that will sort it out.
Also get betterbatterystats and look for whatever is eating battery.
P. S. What do you do in those 5 hrs that it lasts..?
It's the wake locks! I have the same issue but my battery still goes about a max.. probably 10 hours right now.....
all I do is text and play games for an hour at the most :/ and my brightness is all the way Down. it started doing this only after I applied the battery fix. which is very odd but I'll try calibrating it tonight
why haven't you charged your battery completely in 2 days?
I have the same issue .. battery is draining like hell .. !
I haven't had time to charge it but I did last night and its not draining that much anymore. ill try deleting the Facebook app and see what happens. I text quite alot though. probably send /receive 400 a day in total and go on Facebook all the tiem..kinda hard not to when you have al 6 gigs a month
also it says error when I try to turn on wifi and my phone shuts off randomly alot and it gets super hot..not sure if that's normal cause its underclocl when I use it :/
juggernaut fix only resolves the issue with the battery percentage jumping when you reboot phone. It doesn't resolve any battery draining problems.
The only thing I have to say to contribute here is that I'm on CM7, stock CM7 kernel, and my battery life has never been better. Many many users have reported the same.
some users report having like 20+ hours on their Phone..how is this possible? I'd be happy with even 16 hours. and ohh. yeah I was hoping that my battery percentage was just off and yeah haha. what do you mean. like your battery life got better since then or it never got better then any other rom?
Thought id post this cuz its been a while since I've had this kind of battery life.
Using cm7 nov23 weekly with Clem's 1.4Ghz kernel. =]
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Jugs battery fix is for battery jumping its a fix for that. Cm7 doesn't have battery jumping issues. Why would u apply it in the first place.
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Thought id post this cuz its been a while since I've had this kind of battery life.
Using cm7 nov23 weekly with Clem's 1.4Ghz kernel. =]
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What app is that?
Sent from the bowels of hell...
Phalanx7621 said:
Jugs battery fix is for battery jumping its a fix for that. Cm7 doesn't have battery jumping issues. Why would u apply it in the first place.
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If that question was for me.. I didn't apply it. Just sharing stats.
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What app is that?
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Its the built-in battery-use info in about phone for cm7
7 hours later and its only dropped 10%.
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Ive always found the default CM7 kernel as having the best battery life. Faux kernel is more responsive but even with the enhanced 1ghz with/without undervolting, my battery drain is a lot worse.
Ive created a CWM zip just with the default kernel from weekly 3, its newer than the nightly ones and works great for me with the miui alpha as well
Heres the link for anyone that wants it
www.multiupload.com/FRRMWITO3X
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Ive always found the default CM7 kernel as having the best battery life. Faux kernel is more responsive but even with the enhanced 1ghz with/without undervolting, my battery drain is a lot worse.
Ive created a CWM zip just with the default kernel from weekly 3, its newer than the nightly ones and works great for me with the miui alpha as well
Heres the link for anyone that wants it
www.multiupload.com/FRRMWITO3X
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Thanks. perfect.
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Jugs battery fix is for battery jumping its a fix for that. Cm7 doesn't have battery jumping issues. Why would u apply it in the first place.
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This is just not true. There are times when CM7 has battery jumping when I use it and the fix fixes it for me. He clearly has jumping issues from his attached img.
There are many settings to fix it.
Greatings
I own a Droid 3 but my dad has the x2 and he needs better battery life so I plan on rooting the phone and putting a custom rom on it for him so I wanted to know which rom would be best for him. He uses e mail phone calls and texts a lot and sometimes YouTube videos. If someone could post links for the best suited rom for him along with any scripts that help performance as well as battery that would be great. Also, do I need to install a custom recovery from somewhere else or do I use cwm from rom manager?
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Here is everything you need for this phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313103
Any rom will essentially have better battery life since they are all pretty much stripped down versions of the stock ROM. I suggest eclipse. The speedy script and battery fix script are very highly recommended too.
EDIT: Rom Manager doesnt really work with the Droid X2. So you will need the Bootstrap Recovery in the link I posted.
jsgraphicart said:
Here is everything you need for this phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313103
Any rom will essentially have better battery life since they are all pretty much stripped down versions of the stock ROM. I suggest eclipse. The speedy script and battery fix script are very highly recommended too.
EDIT: Rom Manager doesnt really work with the Droid X2. So you will need the Bootstrap Recovery in the link I posted.
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Thanks, there's a lot of scripts, which would u recommend flashing over the eclipse rom?
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The battery fix is a must if you want accurate reading. I am running eclipse 1.3 with speedy v7. Also v6 supercharger but that is more for my gaming. And also the mash up v .5 I am getting between 10-14 hrs on a charge and that is pretty heavy use. On my day off I can go between 8 and 10 hrs but that is very heavy use then. Oh ya make sure you wipe battery stats when you flash or calibrate it after.
All are safe to use, which is why they were put in that thread. Just read every threads OP before flashing since they usually have instructions to wipe certain things. And I believe the mash up script tells you to turn wifi off before flashing. Just read and you will be good.
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All are safe to use, which is why they were put in that thread. Just read every threads OP before flashing since they usually have instructions to wipe certain things. And I believe the mash up script tells you to turn wifi off before flashing. Just read and you will be good.
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+1 thanks I should of mentioned that.
Ive had my best battery life with Eclipse. Ive been pulling 20+ hours with moderate use. Mostly texting, checking some web pages and trolling XDA and Facebook.
Ive also seen an increase from turning off network provided time under date/time in settings.
T3HBR1AN said:
Ive had my best battery life with Eclipse. Ive been pulling 20+ hours with moderate use. Mostly texting, checking some web pages and trolling XDA and Facebook.
Ive also seen an increase from turning off network provided time under date/time in settings.
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I can vouch for the turning off of "network provided time"if settings. It seems the phone "sleeps" better when it is idle.
Also another way to ensure better battery life is by getting into the habit of REBOOTING the phone(power off/on) after EVERY TIME you take it off of the charger. There is a thread explaining why this helps ...I just don't feel like looking for it right now sorry lol
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I can vouch for the turning off of "network provided time"if settings. It seems the phone "sleeps" better when it is idle.
Also another way to ensure better battery life is by getting into the habit of REBOOTING the phone(power off/on) after EVERY TIME you take it off of the charger. There is a thread explaining why this helps ...I just don't feel like looking for it right now sorry lol
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Does the unplugging go for all droids? That's interesting that turning it off helps battery haha I assume its cause it stops everything that's running.
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I think this might be the thread ash is talking about.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225689&highlight=battery+life
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I think this might be the thread ash is talking about.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225689&highlight=battery+life
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Ya I found that. Is that same issue in the custom roms or just the stock?
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Ya I found that. Is that same issue in the custom roms or just the stock?
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I think its a problem with stock GB (seems to be a few issues with stock). But it transfers over to the ROMs because there is no fix for it yet other than to restart.