I have to say that I love this phone, but the browser is almost unusable because it is so laggy. I've noticed that this phone needs hardware acceleration really bad...
The home screen isn't the smoothest either.
Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?
And pinch to zoom in the browser is a joke. Its laggier than a single core phone.
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speedy0339 said:
I have to say that I love this phone, but the browser is almost unusable because it is so laggy. I've noticed that this phone needs hardware acceleration really bad...
The home screen isn't the smoothest either.
Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?
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Have you tried restarting your phone, freeing up some RAM, or deleting some apps that may be giving the phone lag?
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yea probably some other app trashed your phone. sometimes the only way to get the performance back is to hard reset the phone. gosh Android is starting to feel a lot like windows...
You might also have to factory reset to fix the problem. Are up to date on your firmware?
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Yeah. Even when I played with the maxx at the store it just isn't smooth. I had a gs2, then an iphone, and now this. I just think I'm so used to the iphone smoothness that I just have to get back to the Android feel of things. And no I'm not an apple fan boy, the only reason i got the iphone was because sprint didnt have 4g in my area and i just wanted to try it. Now that i finally got a good service, i had to go back to the good os.
I've noticed even scrolling in apps, that the phone isn't very smooth for a dual core. I kind of expected more.
Does anyone know if ICS and hardware acceleration will fix this? Or maybe the soak test update coming whenever it comes?
I have no such problems. All my apps open almost instantly, and I don't get any lag when I scroll. I don't know what to tell you guys. Restarting your phones, update your firmware, kill some processes, and say 3 hail Marys.
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Leviathan26 said:
I have no such problems. All my apps open almost instantly, and I don't get any lag when I scroll. I don't know what to tell you guys. Restarting your phones, update your firmware, kill some processes, and say 3 hail Marys.
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It just isn't smooth as butter like the gs2, galaxy nexus, iphone 4s
Mine is as smooth as butter though. ^_^ That's why I keep saying that I don't have any of those problems.
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Leviathan26 said:
Mine is as smooth as butter though. ^_^ That's why I keep saying that I don't have any of those problems.
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Even in apps like scrolling and stuff? Ill hard reset tonight. That's so weird...
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Leviathan26 said:
Mine is as smooth as butter though. ^_^ That's why I keep saying that I don't have any of those problems.
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Are you running stock 2.3.6?
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Are you running stock 2.3.6?
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iPhone is very very smooth - almost as fast as amiga was. maybe you were spoiled by iPhone? i still think it's weird that all these years later with a thousand times the processing power there's still nothing as smooth scrolling as the amiga from 25 years ago.
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Are you running stock 2.3.6?
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Yes, completely stock. No root, or custom roms.
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iolinux333 said:
iPhone is very very smooth - almost as fast as amiga was. maybe you were spoiled by iPhone? i still think it's weird that all these years later with a thousand times the processing power there's still nothing as smooth scrolling as the amiga from 25 years ago.
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I guess I was just spoiled by the iphone. I love Verizon lte but this phone just isn't anywhere near as fast as the iphone.
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Get a cache cleaner. My browser began to get laggy and stopped opening pages, I looking in my cache and had over 30mb . I cleared it and it works fantastic now
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Get a cache cleaner. My browser began to get laggy and stopped opening pages, I looking in my cache and had over 30mb . I cleared it and it works fantastic now
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Didn't help at all bro
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If you look at page load times the Razr will kill iOS devices every time. The scrolling jitters is due to lack of hardware acceleration in rendering- Honeycomb and newer uses OpenGL to deliver a much better experience. Yet another reason I can't wait for ICS...
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If you look at page load times the Razr will kill iOS devices every time. The scrolling jitters is due to lack of hardware acceleration in rendering- Honeycomb and newer uses OpenGL to deliver a much better experience. Yet another reason I can't wait for ICS...
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I guess ill just have to wait or root and flash ics. I had the nexus before this but I couldn't stand the Samsung antenna and 3 hour battery life.
Thanks for explaining.
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speedy0339 said:
I guess ill just have to wait or root and flash ics. I had the nexus before this but I couldn't stand the Samsung antenna and 3 hour battery life.
Thanks for explaining.
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And the pinch to zoom in the gallery is a joke!! Its SUPER laggy.
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This is serious i cant take this amount of lag it is very choppy???
When i scroll through here with the normal browser it scroll very laggy and choppy.
My Iphone 3GS does better its very choppy i cant look at it anymore,
i keep delaying my review as the phone till now sucks ass..
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This is serious i cant take this amount of lag it is very choppy???
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Where is the question in that statement?
runeazn said:
This is serious i cant take this amount of lag it is very choppy???
When i scroll through here with the normal browser it scroll very laggy and choppy.
My Iphone 3GS does better its very choppy i cant look at it anymore,
i keep delaying my review as the phone till now sucks ass..
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Yes, I get choppy lag while scrolling through the XDA app, or also on the market. It is annoying.
Figure out which app is causing it and close it. Pulse Is usually what causes mine to do that.
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Look at the bottom of the page and change the skin/style from XDA 2010 to XDA classic. HUGE difference! Plus it feels like home......
Stock browser sucks for scrolling, use Opera and it will be buttery smooth
PaulB007 said:
Stock browser sucks for scrolling, use Opera and it will be buttery smooth
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oh i thought it was only me..
well not it seems,
why does the iphone scroll better?
runeazn said:
oh i thought it was only me..
well not it seems,
why does the iphone scroll better?
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Cuz the iPhone uses a different browser as stock...use a 3rd party browser, I find miren to be the best
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Look at the bottom of the page and change the skin/style from XDA 2010 to XDA classic. HUGE difference! Plus it feels like home......
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Just did it, I forgot about the piss yellow and doo doo brown theme lol, but yea the choppy scrolling is gone. I always thought its because of the huge animated banners.
It's funny i was about to ask about this..I've gotten slow.lag scrolling sometimes and other times not..im rooted and oc'd to 1.8 using setcpu (until I can figure out the daemon) ..I noticed whenever I lagged setcpu had my CPU running like 300mhz..even when set to performance. All I want is for my CPU to go to the speed i select when the screen is on and back down when its off ..but instead it seems to bounce around too much..I noticed when I turn up both freqs up to 1.8 my browser is butter smooth..I get about 8000 in cf bench.. I wish I can get it to stay like that without having to keep it running so high while sleeping
Well my iPhone is smoother as well but actually is not the evo only is android in general, even tho I have a 3d and a nexus s the nexus seems to kick as out the 3d lol, anyways here is something you can read that way you understand why android is laggy
http://gamercore.posterous.com/why-is-androids-ui-so-choppy-when-compared-to
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Well my iPhone is smoother as well but actually is not the evo only is android in general, even tho I have a 3d and a nexus s the nexus seems to kick as out the 3d lol, anyways here is something you can read that way you understand why android is laggy
http://gamercore.posterous.com/why-is-androids-ui-so-choppy-when-compared-to
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Hmm...i didnt expect this from google.
Thats nowaday a crappy way of desinging a OS.
They need to make more improvements.
Makes sense.
Have you seen Windows Phone 7? It's sooooooo smooth its not even funny. I mean, it makes me smile every time I'm typing a text message and I switch it to landscape mode. In fact I switch between them because it just makes me smile.
On Android on the other hand.... its just plain bad and choppy even on a dual core device.
The accelerometer has always been one thing that I absolutely hate about Android. Its way too slow. On Windows Phone 7 its INSTANT. On Android its a wait of between 2-5 seconds. Very annoying. And when it finally changes orientation, the transition is crap. It doesn't even exist! (Although Motorola has added one in its Gingerbread builds)
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Well my iPhone is smoother as well but actually is not the evo only is android in general, even tho I have a 3d and a nexus s the nexus seems to kick as out the 3d lol, anyways here is something you can read that way you understand why android is laggy
http://gamercore.posterous.com/why-is-androids-ui-so-choppy-when-compared-to
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At what point did you guys think this was new? I'm curious because this is a known issue that there is no/limited hardware acceleration like iPhone and WP7.
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enoch861 said:
Makes sense.
Have you seen Windows Phone 7? It's sooooooo smooth its not even funny. I mean, it makes me smile every time I'm typing a text message and I switch it to landscape mode. In fact I switch between them because it just makes me smile.
On Android on the other hand.... its just plain bad and choppy even on a dual core device.
The accelerometer has always been one thing that I absolutely hate about Android. Its way too slow. On Windows Phone 7 its INSTANT. On Android its a wait of between 2-5 seconds. Very annoying. And when it finally changes orientation, the transition is crap. It doesn't even exist! (Although Motorola has added one in its Gingerbread builds)
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Yeah I had play with windows 7 really nice ui no as big as android but smooth as hell, hopefully ice cream fixes most of the complaints so I hope, only reason I have the nexus s is to try ICS lol
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Well sir, bad news for you : your gonna be waiting for awhile for ICS. At least officially.
But yes ICS should fix most of the problems. I still wonder if it will ever reach iPhone/WP7 smoothness.
Microsoft did one thing right with WP7: they made sure it ran the same no matter what hardware you were using. Including the unsupported HD2 haha.
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Yeah I had play with windows 7 really nice ui no as big as android but smooth as hell, hopefully ice cream fixes most of the complaints so I hope, only reason I have the nexus s is to try ICS lol
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Any rumours or posts that give a hint that ice cream sandwich will fix the lag and add more hardware acceleration?
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Any rumours or posts that give a hint that ice cream sandwich will fix the lag and add more hardware acceleration?
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So we hope, nothing official from Google
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I'm do for a upgrade. I have a Droid incredible now but i have been looking at the razr and the nexus. Only thing that concerns me is the internal battery for the razr. I love everything about the razr better than the prime but the internal battery. Of something goes wrong during rooting or flashing roms and the razr freezes how do u go about getting it to unfreeze if you can't pull the battery. Thanks. maybe question will help me make up my mind.
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If anything drastic happens, then you can remove the battery.. it is not a BIG activity.. the Kevlar back is held by 2 clips at the bottom and some sticky "something" at the top. Just lift from the bottom and you can open the back by fingernails itself..... inside it is the same battery....
But 99.9% of the times you would not be required to open it...(I opened due to my curiosity)...The phone doesn't freezes...it simply restarts ....
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If anything drastic happens, then you can remove the battery.. it is not a BIG activity.. the Kevlar back is held by 2 clips at the bottom and some sticky "something" at the top. Just lift from the bottom and you can open the back by fingernails itself..... inside it is the same battery....
But 99.9% of the times you would not be required to open it...(I opened due to my curiosity)...The phone doesn't freezes...it simply restarts ....
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How are you liking the razr. And thanks for the quick reply.
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You can't go wrong, I love my Razr and have had zero issues with it so far. I like the external SD slot,USB mass storage,build quality is superior,love how thin and light it is , and it's Android 4.0 upgradeable(should be coming sometime in Q1 of 2012).
It's a great device.
it is quite brilliant....head-turner most of the times....
Pros:
1. Looks
2. More Looks
3. Build quality(far far superior than any Android till date....)
4. Music quality, again top notch, but to discover them truly, need to get some really good pair....not that good with the stock headphones.... I am using it with AudioTechnica ANC-23
5. Extremism in terms of eye candy....no animation is gaudy enough and no transition can be more superfluous...
Cons:
1. Partially Android Gingerbread is letting it down. Dual core support is not really going though, but with ICS coming next year it can be fixed.
2. Random reboot problem. The phone simply reboots itself, whenever it thinks that you have done something awful, or it has done something wrong.... NOTE: It never freezes, it just reboots.... but got a new update this evening, did not have a reboot till now.....hopefully it is fixed...
dey.santanu2011 said:
it is quite brilliant....head-turner most of the times....
Pros:
1. Looks
2. More Looks
3. Build quality(far far superior than any Android till date....)
4. Music quality, again top notch, but to discover them truly, need to get some really good pair....not that good with the stock headphones.... I am using it with AudioTechnica ANC-23
5. Extremism in terms of eye candy....no animation is gaudy enough and no transition can be more superfluous...
Cons:
1. Partially Android Gingerbread is letting it down. Dual core support is not really going though, but with ICS coming next year it can be fixed.
2. Random reboot problem. The phone simply reboots itself, whenever it thinks that you have done something awful, or it has done something wrong.... NOTE: It never freezes, it just reboots.... but got a new update this evening, did not have a reboot till now.....hopefully it is fixed...
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That's good. Is yours rooted. Cause I will be definitely be rooting it if I get one. And I was comparing it to the nexus. And I see the nexus looses alot of signal. And personally I think the razr looks way better then the nexus. But the nexus will have a lil more development I suppose.
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Adauth said:
You can't go wrong, I love my Razr and have had zero issues with it so far. I like the external SD slot,USB mass storage,build quality is superior,love how thin and light it is , and it's Android 4.0 upgradeable(should be coming sometime in Q1 of 2012).
It's a great device.
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Sweet thanks alot for the input. And yes I will agree I love the thinness of it and the looks of it.
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yes, mine is rooted and it is quite brilliant...
Signal reception is quite okay, definitely better than Samsung and HTC ones, but not that of Nokia...
Nexus and Razr are two completely different phones.. both are great..but personally I would choose the slim and sexy one over the other....
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yes, mine is rooted and it is quite brilliant...
Signal reception is quite okay, definitely better than Samsung and HTC ones, but not that of Nokia...
Nexus and Razr are two completely different phones.. both are great..but personally I would choose the slim and sexy one over the other....
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I would have to agree. So if something goes wrong with rooting or flashing. And the phone starts resetting how do u stop it. Lol.
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snapper915 said:
I would have to agree. So if something goes wrong with rooting or flashing. And the phone starts resetting how do u stop it. Lol.
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Vandalise the back cover of the phone and take out the battery....
Steps given above.....
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Vandalise the back cover of the phone and take out the battery....
Steps given above.....
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Haha. Gotcha. Thanks for your help. You have really helped me make my decision. Lol. It just my main concern was the battery but u solved that for me. :-D
And yes I am a huge fan of animations and screen to screen transitions. Lol. I have a app on my phone that can change transitions and things like that. Lol.
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The accessories are awesome as well. I have the HD Station and am loving it. The RAZR just feels like a more solid phone as well.
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The accessories are awesome as well. I have the HD Station and am loving it. The RAZR just feels like a more solid phone as well.
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Yes i will have to agree. I think the razr feels and looks more sexy than the nexus.
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Also is there a easy way to unroot the razr if need be and get back to stock and how difficult is it. Lol
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Never owned a Motorola, always HTC and the Nexus brand. The lack of sd card and the overall build quality of the recent Nexus just turns me off. The Razr is just one knock out piece of hardware and the specs aren't too shabby either. I thnk the Razr wth ICS is going to give it wings. I am picking up a Razr at full price. Coming from the rooted Thunderbolt will be a big change. The Dev support for the Thunderbolt has been unbelievable, will still keep my Thunderbolt but I want the Razr and all the accessories to go with it. The accessories are just fantastic. Calling Verizon and putting in my order.
Agree. I am still on the Droid incredible and i love it still. I also have never used a Motorola phone. So let me knw how u like it. :-D
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I'm running .181 rooted, and when I hit the home button, all I get is my wallpaper for 5 seconds, then my beautiful Widgets clock pops up, then after maybe 7 seconds all my apps reappear. For a phone of this magnitude I think this is unacceptable. Can anyone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?
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Factory reset? I don't think I've ever had it happen on this phone.
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Factory reset? I don't think I've ever had it happen on this phone.
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Its been done multiple times to get me here.
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I've noticed the same thing after upgrading to 181. Honestly I would go back if I could as my phone isn't nearly as stable as it was.
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Yea,I've never had it happen on stock nor any of the ics leaks except for the most recent one (.210) kinda really sucks:-/
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Perhaps try forcing launcher to stay in memory? Or maybe its related to 2d hw acceleration option?
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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AKShotgun said:
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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Im just getting a poll. I might start developing roms for this again. Just post in the comments if i should. :laugh:
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Im just getting a poll. I might start developing roms for this again. Just post in the comments if i should. :laugh:
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I do. Running Eclipse 2.3
I just got one today.
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I use it on occasion. Not often enough for you to make a ROM just for me though.
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a developer comes back now???i just ditched my poor x2 for a gnex :/
Yep! My daily phone since my Droid Inc 4G broke. Don't think I'm getting another HTC phone but that's beside the point. I'm using the Jelly Bean ALPHA CM 10 rom. It's extremely buggy. Usable, but extremely buggy.
Motorola Droid X2
Just got one for my wife on straight talk , running eclipse v 2.3
Just got 2 of them from my parents.
Upgraded the wife and myself from our OG Dinc's
Unfortunately it seems the Incredibles were better phones.
Even after rooting, running Eclipse, debloating and running V6 Supercharger.....these are the laggiest pieces of crap ever...
My wife says if she ever needed to call 911 she'd get on her computer.....go to the verizon website.....deactivate the DX2....re-activate the Dinc and make the 911 call on that....it'd be faster than trying to dial on the DX2....
But hey - the larger screen is nice....
Dan
better idea..
Or, instead of developing for this phone your self you could teach me how to develop ROM's for android and I could do it myself! :laugh:
I have newer devices for work, but I still use my dx2 as my personal phone.
Heck Yeah!
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I have newer devices for work, but I still use my dx2 as my personal phone.
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My DX2 rocks. CM7 if very fast...only 2 real issues are wifi dropping out sometimes and dialer lagging when dialing out a bit... Still a solid phone.
Yes...do it for Tracfone Users
This phone is getting a lot of interest as an eligible BYOP alternative for Tracfone Android users. It would be great if someone could help folks like me find a decent, cheap phone that would work for this network.
Is the phone really as slow and doggy as some have mentioned?
Tracfone BYOP requires a non-LTE CDMA phone...users are looking for larger than 3.5 inch screen with more than single core 1Gb processor...any suggestions?
My X2 is still in use. Running Eclipse and working great.
That is exactly why I bought my dx2, except for straight talk byop. I've found eclipse to be the most stable and feature inclusive ROM so far, and am really enjoying this phone even if it doesn't have ics, jb, or kk. Especially like that it's on Verizon - best coverage hands down in my neck of the woods.
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I am also running eclipse on my x2, no issues except my RAM gets pretty low sometimes
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yep, daily
Yes, using this phone daily. Just flashed it for the first time with eclipse 2.3 last night and I'm happy with the functionality so far.was hoping to see an improvement with battery life, and fix some issues I had with stick, and so far so good.
I am still using the X2 with Eclipse ROM. It does seem to be slowing down though so I'll probably need to reset it.
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Yes, using this phone daily. Just flashed it for the first time with eclipse 2.3 last night and I'm happy with the functionality so far.was hoping to see an improvement with battery life, and fix some issues I had with stick, and so far so good.
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Where would be a good jumping off point for this phone? I have a friend who's stuck with it, and I've tried a few of the root guides but there's missing files, bad redirects, and just generally dated info. I just want to root it and probably put a slim rom, and by your review I'll probably go with Eclipse. I tried the zerg root but it threw an error that the phone was write protected. All help is greatly appreciated
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I use Pete's Motorola root tools for Droid 3 and it worked for my X2. At work right now. If you can't find it, I will upload a link when I get home in 6hrs
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I actually just got finished with a new computer set up today, im considering (don't hold this against me) getting 4.4 on this phone.