What would be a decent stable ROM that still includes most stock features, without MotoBLUR? I could give a crap less about 4G.
Stock just feels sluggish and stuttery compared to my Nexus S.
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Are you looking for close to moto stock, minus blur, or close to aosp? If the former, I'd recommend Rocko or Shadow. If the latter, CM7.
On a side note, I always laugh a little at threads titled like this. At my house, I'm the tech savvy one, and my husband is usually lost, lol.
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Nice. I wish I wasn't the tech savvy one. Gets old. But as far as AOSP or MB... honestly don't care. MB is going to have all the stock features, but she doesn't even use any Blur features.
I just want to put something on her phone that has a lot less lag, I suppose I could wait for the ICS OTA.
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CM7.2 is an absolutely solid ROM. And its even still being updated!
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I'm using cm9 on my photon. with the overclock kernal to 1.4. it runs fast for me and it looks awsome.
[KANG][ROM] CM7.2 by Photon Dev team is kickassss!!! Really fast and stable and greattttt battery life! I get 25hrs on an average when i use my phone moderately... ie about and hour of wifi and some calls
I get a quadrant score of 3600+ lol and its super quick! Use it with launcher pro.. thats what I like as i feel it makes the phone super fast..
Alternatively, you could leave it stock and try a 3rd party launcher. I am currently using Go Launcher EX and it's really snappy.
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So I was sitting in class, and couldn't help but notice the dude in front of me playing with his froyo DX in class. It looks like its nowhere near as smooth as my gingerbread Eris, and seems like it takes a lot longer to load his web pages. I'm guessing that its not rooted much less overclocked, and probably bogged down with a bunch of bloatware.
Even though its a higher performing phone, I'm happy to see that my Eris is outperforming on the small things thanks to some fantastic devs.
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So I was sitting in class, and couldn't help but notice the dude in front of me playing with his froyo DX in class. It looks like its nowhere near as smooth as my gingerbread Eris, and seems like it takes a lot longer to load his web pages. I'm guessing that its not rooted much less overclocked, and probably bogged down with a bunch of bloatware.
Even though its a higher performing phone, I'm happy to see that my Eris is outperforming on the small things thanks to some fantastic devs.
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I used to have an eris rooted and overclocked... It ran nice and smooth.
now I have a droid x, Rooted and overclocked and it's much faster than the eris... but the stock droid x was worse then the rooted eris... damn bloatware!
Hi guys, im going back to android (had a G1 a year ago) from blackberry (got tired) and im getting two good offers on these phones, but since these smartphones are SO different to what i used to have (G1 xD), im kinda confused wich one is better, so i want you guys to help me out here, wich is one should i get? Vibrant or myTouch 4G?
Internet speed its not important since i don't live in a 4G area (in fact, there isn't any 4G coverage at all in my country), but i like to play games and stuff like that. I like my phone to be fast and with very little lag. I have read on internet that Samsung's Hummingbird processor its better than the Snapdragon proccesor that the myTouch 4G have, but, i don't know why, i keep reading on forums that the myTouch 4G is faster than the Vibrant...how is that possible? The Vibrant have more RAM, ROM (16GB Internal, the myTouch have only 4GB), faster proccesor, better GPU...well, im a little confused there too.
Any opinions?
Mytouch 4G. It has way more features and has a bigger community of devs.
Camera with FLASH! Trackpad. Front Camera. Metallic build quality.
With both phones stock, the HTC has 700+ mb of ram available and the Vibrant has only 304+ available. The other issue is file systems. The HTC uses I think ext4 and the Vibrant uses its home grown system of RFS. I feel the RFS system is probable the biggest issue to slow the phone down. I have mine rooted with custom rom that uses ext4 (voodoo) and it is faster with much better battery life then all the stock MT4G's that I have seen. If you are not going to root anything then I would recommend the MT4G or even look at the G2x. But the screen on the vibrant is killer
myTouch4G has 768mb ram, Vibrant has 512mb (about 330mb is available for Android to use, depending on the rom).
I'd say the MSM8255 Snapdragon is probably on-par with the Hummingbird in the SGS - the SGS does have a much better GPU for 3D gaming, though.
The Vibrant may have a 16gb ROM, but only 2gb is available for app storage, the rest is treated as an internal SD card.
They would both be great phones, but the Vibrant has the better screen.
I have a vibrant and my wife has a mt4g. I would say if youre going to root and flash roms get the vibrant, but if youre going to leave it stock get the mt4g. Both phones were laggy stock to me. Im much happier with the dev community for the vibrant though. I've flashed 6 or 7 different roms on the mt4g (including cm7) but none of them seem as complete as bionix or trigger
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Ok, i forgot to say this, but im TOTALLY going to root the phone. In fact, is one of the mains reasons that im comming back to android (and here plays the song "Im comming home" by Dirty Money ), i love flashing roms, looking for bugs in new roms, the excitement of someone releasing a new rom (like Cyanogen), trying out weird apps in the market place and all that kind of stuff, i DON'T like stock phones at all...i installed OS6 on my Blackberry 9300 as soon as i got it, looking for something different (running away from stock), still was a pretty boring phone tough.
You have told me guys that both phones stock, the MT4G its faster, but what about both phones rooted? Should i get the Vibrant? Or even both phones rooted, the myTouch its still better?
EDIT: Also, are the Samsung Vibrant and the Samsung Captivate the exact same device? Under the hood, of course.
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Thanks for your input.
Anyone else?
Both rooted running custom roms with no overclock my vibrant and my wifes mt4g scored within 6 points of each other on quandrant. I'd say it come down the ffc if that's important to you or super amoled screen (more important to me)
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Both rooted running custom roms with no overclock my vibrant and my wifes mt4g scored within 6 points of each other on quandrant. I'd say it come down the ffc if that's important to you or super amoled screen (more important to me)
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FFC? Whats that? Sorry for the noobie question...
EDIT: Nevermind, just guessed what it is...Front Face Camera, right?
Hm, if i guessed right, then having a FFC its not important to me, i don't like video calls.
Any more inputs?
do you use your phone as a media player? if yes get the vibrant.
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do you use your phone as a media player? if yes get the vibrant.
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Thats a yes for sure. Every single moment im alone, in the bus or something alike. im listening to music.
Anyone else?
Well, I absolutely love my vibrant. Plenty fast (q score 1600+), amoled screen rules, and camera takes amazing pix. Flash isn't an issue since I don't really take pix in the dark lol.
It has less ram, but its near impossible to hard brick from what I've read. I'd say go vibrant, and if you don't like it, flash back to stock and exchange for the mt4g.
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Well, I absolutely love my vibrant. Plenty fast (q score 1600+), amoled screen rules, and camera takes amazing pix. Flash isn't an issue since I don't really take pix in the dark lol.
It has less ram, but its near impossible to hard brick from what I've read. I'd say go vibrant, and if you don't like it, flash back to stock and exchange for the mt4g.
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My problem its that im buying it second hand, so its not as easy as i"f i dont like it, i just take it back..." So thats why i have to make the right choice, because oncei buy the phone, its going to be difficult to sell it again.
Well, I'd say that if you don't have 4g coverage, why buy a 4g phone. Its like buying a Ferrari when you live in Poland. Maybe not as expensive, but you can't take full advantage of it. Lol.
Do you have any questions about the phone itself? Not spec wise?
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Vibrant all the way, I'm telling you its a wonderful phone. Samsung captivate and the Samsung vibrant are exactly the same under the hood.
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Vibrant all the way, I'm telling you its a wonderful phone. Samsung captivate and the Samsung vibrant are exactly the same under the hood.
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Amen to that.
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If you are into gaming, then vibrant hands down. Here are the things I would take into consideration.
1. Bigger dev community for the mytouch4g. I think most of the people with the vibrant will be leaving for the Sensation or the galaxy 2 if they have the funds. I am going with the galaxy S 2 myself. With that being said the development will dwindle down to nothing by the end of the summer.
2. There are great roms for the vibrant right now. Trigger, Bionix, and a bunch of stable 2.2.1 roms to choose from.
3. I don't know if a stable cm7 will ever happen for the vibrant. They have it working ok. Plenty of bugs, and bad battery. Also no 2.3 rom has working gps because of drivers. You will have to wait on a leaked 2.3 rom for the vibrant I think.
I love my vibrant for gaming. I have about 5 Gameloft games.. bogo for $2.99 . Can't beat that. And the phone handles them beautifully. I am running Trigger btw, just because I wanted a stable rom until I get the galaxy 2 .
I hope this helps with your decision, I know I rambled a bit. But I think i covered everything on the development side for you.
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Cm7 runs fine for me. However, I don't use GPS so it suits my needs. Runs fast needs daily charge, but meh, that's what sleep is for lol
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On top of what everyone else said, Voodoo sound on the vibrant makes listening to music through the 3.5 mm jack a dream. I can't go back now. It's just too good.
so it's been a few months since the last thread regarding how the atrix is.
I currently have a Inspire 4G and I'm debating on getting the Atrix.
You own it, I want to know about it! What do you think? Should I make the switch?
The answer to your question is entirely subjective.
Was it ever bad? Debuted a super phone?
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It was good when it was locked, now that it is unlocked it is turning into a behemoth. Just wait until you see a polished CM7 rom on this thing.
it was never bad, otherwise this forum would be desolate.
If you are willing to unlock and flash custom ROM, its a beast.
If you have to live with the stock firmware, there's probably better options out there, unless you really hate 4.3 form factor.
put it to you this way the locked bootloader was why alot of people didnt care for it but the bootloader can be unlocked now and the custom rom train is going to pick up steam, as some one else said cm7 for one thing
It's better than the Inspire that I owned.
Don't listen to what they say in the Inspire forums. The Inspire isn't the best AT&T has and the Atrix is a lot better than what people think. It's a very nice phone.
Not trying to put the Inspire down at all--I just know because I've owned both of them. The Atrix beats it and the Nexus S that I have...
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so it's been a few months since the last thread regarding how the atrix is.
I currently have a Inspire 4G and I'm debating on getting the Atrix.
You own it, I want to know about it! What do you think? Should I make the switch?
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Honestly, it was never bad. As a stock device that was incapable of installing kernels, it was good. I still found myself using my Captivate while the bootloader was locked. Now that there's ROMs and kernels available, I haven't touched my Cappy at all.
wow! I wasn't expecting that many responses so fast!
I want to root the phone, play ff7 (of course) and ENJOY the phone.
I put a custom rom on my inspire so I don't see why I wouldn't put a custom rom on the atrix...
Trying to get the inspire back to "out of the box" state so I can return it.
The only issue I have with the inspire is running fpse and ff7. little laggy at times. hoping the dual core will remedy the issue.
hell, it's the same price and you get more internal memory, hdmi cable, and a better CPU..
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wow! I wasn't expecting that many responses so fast!
I want to root the phone, play ff7 (of course) and ENJOY the phone.
I put a custom rom on my inspire so I don't see why I wouldn't put a custom rom on the atrix...
Trying to get the inspire back to "out of the box" state so I can return it.
The only issue I have with the inspire is running fpse and ff7. little laggy at times. hoping the dual core will remedy the issue.
hell, it's the same price and you get more internal memory, hdmi cable, and a better CPU..
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I've never had any lag on any emulator I've tried. I don't think I've lagged once in a game.
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Atrix is the best phone i've used, honestly. I wouldn't trade it for anything, except maybe SGSII.
Sure, it has some bugs and issues at the moment, but those will be fixed or bypassed eventually. Atrix has a great dev community.
People here there using the CM7 PRE-BETA for daily use.. And they are sh****** their pants..
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People here there using the CM7 PRE-BETA for daily use.. And they are sh****** their pants..
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Get CM7 on this baby and she flys
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Yeah CM7s pretty nice. It definitely makes this phone 10x better.
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awesome. I'll get the phone this evening and start in on the hacking
btw, does the phone still get really hot?
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Yeah CM7s pretty nice. It definitely makes this phone 10x better.
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I'm running CM7 Pre-beta as daily use right now, with a few minor bugs, and it is sick fast.
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Mine doesn't ever get hot.
The only time mine gets warm is if it's hot outside and I use GPS.
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The only time my phone gets hot is when I'm using it with the car dock, where it's charging, playing Slacker/Pandora/Google Music, and sitting in the hot sun.
I tried UKB - which is very similar to stock, and then the Digital dream. The latter is gorgeous with its transparent apps menu. Only downside was the fatass Facebook app that I loathe. I could not uninstall it(let me know if I am missing something).
I just want to know what ROM you have on your DNA, and if you like it, why?
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I tried UKB - which is very similar to stock, and then the Digital dream. The latter is gorgeous with its transparent apps menu. Only downside was the fatass Facebook app that I loathe. I could not uninstall it(let me know if I am missing something).
I just want to know what ROM you have on your DNA, and if you like it, why?
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Im using battery plus rom and love it, the 320 dpi looks great, its stable i have yet to have any issues. only real gripe is that you have to unlock the phone to see whos calling but im using the app called Ultimate Call Screen which fixes that. and my battery on average lasts about 9-10 with a good amount of use. im waiting for a solid and stable CyanogenMod because i fell in love with it since my Evo
I'm on Viper, and you cannot dislike this ROM. It allows you to customize nearly anything you can think of. Tweaks galore.
Why would you want to reduce ppi from 441 to 321? DNA's selling point is its display.
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Does it tweak ur ppi? I love streaming my home movies through XBMC and watch HD in this phone. I love the 441 ppi that this phone comes with.
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Dpi not ppi ..software can't change hardware..so not ppi that's always there
Got it, stupid me
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Viper DNA rom. Its a beast :thumbup:
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Hatka DNA
Using Hatka DNA at the moment. Started off with MikROMs Codis because I was familiar with MikROMs from the Rezound and EVO3D but there were quite a few bugs in the rom and the Aroma installer, random reboots, freezing and so on with too much time in between updates.
Haven't tried any of the others yet. Taking a look at Viper. Getting great stability, battery life and speed with Hatka though.
Try digital dream. It's beautiful esp the app menu that's translucent.
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I use GSM Virtuous Rom is really fast and stable, battery performance is certainly a little worse but I can live with it, just as I recommend the Virtuous team know yourself, the better even with the battery life, I can only continue
I keep going back and forth between eclipse and A3. Can't seem to be satisfied with A3. While it's fun to play around with the themes, that quickly becomes old when not everything is functionable. Mainly the camera. I rely heavily upon it to take pictures of my two kids under the age of 3. They are daily doing new and awesome and funny things that I don't want to miss all because my phone camera is jacked up.
I'm really trying to find reasons to be satisfied on not running jb on this poc phone. It's only best that I stay away from anything non gb.
I'm willing to put up with some of the slowness and lack of customization of a gb rom for a while longer.
Needless to say, I know this isn't the developer's fault. They've done their best with this locked down phone.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions on how to upgrade this phone for less than $50 and without signing another contract, I'm all ears. My contract isn't up until December, at which point I will be ditching VZW and going to Straight Talk using a GSM phone so if I could get one now that would work on both VZW and Straight Talk, that would be awesome.
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What's the problem with the camera? It works great for me in alpha 3
Im in the same boat juice. I love cm10 and or anything jelly bean, i usually use cm10 for about a weekend and during the week i go back to stock(yuck). Cm10's battery life is terrible.
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Im in the same boat juice. I love cm10 and or anything jelly bean, i usually use cm10 for about a weekend and during the week i go back to stock(yuck). Cm10's battery life is terrible.
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i agree, i find myself not being able to deal with gingerbread. it just feels rigid. i have also found that cm9 has a bit better battery life than cm10 for some reason.
Yeah, i really didnt have much time to spend on cm9, im thinking of sbfing and installing later.
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Yeah, i really didnt have much time to spend on cm9, im thinking of sbfing and installing later.
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Its gotten much better. More of the apps have been ics and jb optimized that they actually run on our phones. Like chrome which use to fc
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