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I wanna move from CM7a3.5 to CM9.
I don't need gapps, I use touchpad mainly for reading, my main request for CM9 ROM - to be not worse than CM7a3.5 and that I could live with it until 2013 at least without reflashing. Also would be good if it lives longer than CM7a3.5 in standbye mod.
So which ROM should I choose?
I would recommend just going with the official CM9, personally. I've tried a few of the "kang" roms and always seemed to have one issue or another. Also, you may as well just flash the gapps so you can have access to the market and everything.
I skipped over CM7 entirely, but you should plan on doing a nandroid and titanium backup before installing CM9 so that you can wipe everything and start clean. That said, I cant' comment on how battery life on CM9 compares to CM7 for the Touchpad, but I also have a Nook color and actually went back to CM7 because battery life and UI performance were way better (the CM9 rom is still behind where the Touchpad's is at).
I'm running the latest offical CM9 and I couldn't be more happy with it.
So I should stick to the latest nightly CM9, right?
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This is actually the right place for questions (well, actually the Q&A section). The Dev forum isn't for questions, it's only for posting actual work like Roms and Kernels.
anyway, I'd go with one of the regular CM9 builds. The latest nightly should be fine, though I'm using Oat's latest CM9 build which is just his version of a standard CM9 with a few fixes.
Just remember these are all still in development, and CM9 will be continued to be updated, so I don't think you will want to stick with the same ROM until 2013
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but you should plan on doing a nandroid and titanium backup before installing CM9 so that you can wipe everything and start clean.
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Pfft 'real men' don't do backups seriously, I installed cm7 then upgraded to cm9 without any issues cm9 is definitely better, I would install the latest nightly version.
sombrerro said:
Asking here, can't post in Dev section.
I wanna move from CM7a3.5 to CM9.
I don't need gapps, I use touchpad mainly for reading, my main request for CM9 ROM - to be not worse than CM7a3.5 and that I could live with it until 2013 at least without reflashing. Also would be good if it lives longer than CM7a3.5 in standbye mod.
So which ROM should I choose?
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The unofficial cyanogenmod nightlies plus harsh's kernel, oc'd to 1.7 max, 384 min using Antutu CPU Master (free in market). I use this with hardly any problems.
I also use webos quite a bit. The battery life is much better than android. It's fine for reading.
I recommend either the latest CM9 nightly or the latest AOKP. CM9 Alpha 2 is now far too old and has more bugs than the newer nightlies so there is no benefit going for the alpha build. I'm not sure why they don't just release a new one and call it a beta. Everything works.
I'd recommend what everyone else said, just stick with the Nightlys.
Although, I do find myself reverting back to using WebOS more lately for stuff like browsing and the Kindle app. Battery life just seems to last longer and the whole OS is very smooth, compared to CM9.
Thank you guys! Will stick to nightly.
+1 on the nightly
both the official and unofficial works great!
what are you guys' benchmarking scores on them? i get like 94k on browser mark and 6400 on antutu
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Running CM7 1.4 with no stability issues at all.
What are Nightlies and how do I get them? Do I even want them?
I noticed I can download Nightlies through Rom Manager. I clicked download, but nothing happened.
EDIT: I was a noob for creating a puppy account
DontCome2MyHouse said:
Running CM7 1.4 with no stability issues at all.
What are Nightlies and how do I get them? Do I even want them?
I noticed I can download Nightlies through Rom Manager. I clicked download, but nothing happened.
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Asking those questions, imo you are probably better with the RC's instead of nightlies. If there is anything big that is added to CM, most likely slayher will come out with a release to update the TB build with it. Nightlies can be fine one build, and then next build may not even work.
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Asking those questions, imo you are probably better with the RC's instead of nightlies. If there is anything big that is added to CM, most likely slayher will come out with a release to update the TB build with it. Nightlies can be fine one build, and then next build may not even work.
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Good to know. I'll go that route. What is a RC? New build?
Would I have to wipe everything or just flash over?
Also...the kernel that came with this newest CM7 release....is it good or should I go with the latest leanKernel?
DontCome2MyHouse said:
Good to know. I'll go that route. What is a RC? New build?
Would I have to wipe everything or just flash over?
Also...the kernel that came with this newest CM7 release....is it good or should I go with the latest leanKernel?
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The newest officailly released version of CM7 is RC1.4, I don't know if it has been updated over here, but you can get it here
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?392-ROM-CM7-for-Thunderbolt.-RC1.4-Updated-7-29-11-20PM-EST
RC stands for Release candidate.
Coming from an older build of CM7, you don't have to wipe unless you have problems after. Coming from a different rom, you must wipe everything.
The kernel is all about choice. See how the stock one runs for you, speed, performance, batt. life, etc. Then try the leankernel. Each phone is different and may react differently to each kernel. That's more of a trial and error game for everyone
Flashed CM7 RC1.4 yesterday. Loving it so far. GPS is a little slow to lock on, but that's about it. I also would like to see a 6 bar signal strength meter.
I was coming from BAMF GingerREMIX v2.1.
DontCome2MyHouse said:
Flashed CM7 RC1.4 yesterday. Loving it so far. GPS is a little slow to lock on, but that's about it. I also would like to see a 6 bar signal strength meter.
I was coming from BAMF GingerREMIX v2.1.
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Coiming from that you should have wiped everything. If you didn't and aren't having any problems though, keep it how it is. Don't know about that one, but you can have the statusbar transparent and the clock in the middle
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php...Trans-StatusBar-WIP-USB-FIXED(UPDATED-7-30-11
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Coiming from that you should have wiped everything. If you didn't and aren't having any problems though, keep it how it is. Don't know about that one, but you can have the statusbar transparent and the clock in the middle
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php...Trans-StatusBar-WIP-USB-FIXED(UPDATED-7-30-11
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Thanks again. I wiped EVERYTHING before flashing CM7, including battery stats.
No problems...so far.
Is there a central location where I can download themes or should I go to Market?
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Thanks again. I wiped EVERYTHING before flashing CM7, including battery stats.
No problems...so far.
Is there a central location where I can download themes or should I go to Market?
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Not really sure, I'm not a big theme guy so I can't really say. Probably just google search CM7 themes and can find a bunch.
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Is there a central location where I can download themes or should I go to Market?
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Many can be found in the Android Market: https://market.android.com/search?q=cm7+theme&so=1&c=apps
XDA thread listing a lot of them: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1167075
Making your own is more fun
Hello,
I have cognition 1.6 and everything is fine by now, but i want to try something different on my SGS2.
I had cyanogenmod on my hd2 (android) and i liked it a lot cause of it's customizing abilities.
So i'd like to ask for your opinions.
Is cyanogenmod as stable and good as the cognition rom on SGS2?
Should i flash it or stay with cognition?
Thanks all!
It runs well, not stable but stable enough for daily usage. Downsides are that the camera is much poorer than original.
If you like cognition do a nandroid and then try out CM7, if you don't like CM7 on the SGS2 you can always restore back.
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As nikzDHD already said:
CM7 is relatively stable, but has too many bugs for daily usage. I had it for some time, but it had random crashes, freezes and changed my ringtone randomly. Create a backup and try it out.
You said that you like customization. If it's that what you like, I recommend you to try MIUI. It's the most customizable Rom I've ever seen.
If you are disappointed by both of them, you can just restore your backup.
I'm using CM7 and i'm on Nightly #95. I guess the guys who answered you haven't tried the recent nightlies. There is a stable version available but the nightlies are awesome. Highly recommended. Try it out.
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I'm using CM7 and i'm on Nightly #95. I guess the guys who answered you haven't tried the recent nightlies. There is a stable version available but the nightlies are awesome. Highly recommended. Try it out.
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I've tried them last one I tried was version 96, just taking a break from CM7 while I try out some Sammy based roms, there is NO stable version, only RC, which was based on a much earlier nightly and things have improved since then. I have no issues with CM7 apart from the camera hence switching back to a Samsung based rom as I needed to record some footage and take photos.
That's my only gripe with CM7, there are fm radio issues but I don't use that.
But yeah, as mrnovanova mentioned its good enough for daily use and I for experienced no freezes and such.
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Thanks everyone.
After some thinking, considering also your replies i'm staying with cognition.
Exept if you have a better rom to suggest.
mrnovanova said:
I'm using CM7 and i'm on Nightly #95. I guess the guys who answered you haven't tried the recent nightlies. There is a stable version available but the nightlies are awesome. Highly recommended. Try it out.
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You're right. I haven't used the nighties. I would wait for as stable, a people on the forums are reporting problems. It's just not 100% reliable yet.
@angelossssss:
As I said. MIUI is definitely worth trying. If you don't like it, just restore your backup.
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ive just come from the miui rom to cyanogenmod 7.1, the muiu rom is awesome, very customizable and feels quite different from normal gingerbread that we are all used to but...
I have the i9100p (orange uk nfc version) and I couldn't get the nfc to work. I tried the fix that Nathan created over at this post...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1204&order=desc&page=1
Didn't work, installed the zip (twice as someone said that worked for them) but no joy. So thought id give it a whirl on a different ROM. In came cyanogenmod 7.1
I haven't had any crashes so far (granted i've only been using it for a day). Its got a lot of features (like adw launcher and rom manager). Best of all battery life is way better and I seem to have a 3g signal more of the time.
Unfortunatley ...... nfc is still not working
So I bought a SG2 a couple days ago (moving from Iphone 3gS). I'm kinda disappointed in battery life and my friend recommended installing a custom rom. I have CM9 on my Touchpad so I figured I'd give it a go on my phone too. As it is, I like the look/feel of the stock device (maybe I just don't know better) so I am thinking that using something more stable like CM7 would be more beneficial. Is there any major differences?
Cm9 is based of ICS and Cm7 of gingerbread.
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Yes, I knew that, but is it worth using a more unstable build vs CM7?
mojoe_24 said:
Yes, I knew that, but is it worth using a more unstable build vs CM7?
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Cm9 isn't unstable. I'm perfectly fine on it.
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CM9 is real stable for nightly status
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In my opinion, CM9 is more stable than CM7 ever was on I9100/I777.
There's a variety of reasons for this, it's mainly that 6 months later, everyone involved knows MUCH more about the device than they did when ICS was first released and most of the CM maintainers either took breaks or started working CM9.
This especially holds true for I777 - When atinm took a break and codeworkx started working ICS, we didn't know a fraction of what the REAL differences between I9100 and I777 were that we do now. As a result the I9100/I777 device trees are MUCH closer together now than they were for CM7.
Just guessing, but I think CM9 will end up being better overall. Each version of Android brings unique challenges for the devs. For instance, CM7 on our device suffers from a Market bug that will cause periodic freezes. I don't think anyone is reporting that with CM9.
On my old phone, under CM6, they had a hell of a time getting the OS to read the voicemail number from the SIM card. When Gingerbread came out, it was never a problem from the beginning.
If battery life is your main concern, I recommend Entropy512's Daily Driver kernel. (Samsung-based ROMs only). He's working on one for ICS but his GB kernel has been used by thousands across what I guess to be dozens of ROMs.
EDIT: ^^The man himself^^
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CM9 is real stable for nightly status
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Never had a single problem with it so far. CM7 would only last 30 mins on my phone before I had to uninstall it due to stuff not working or crashing.
No clue what matters to you, but here are some specific differences as of April 9:
CM9 does not have the headphone volume bug that CM7 did, BUT...
...on CM9 the correct volume does not get restored after playback is interrupted by a notification
CM9 does not support notification LEDs, BUT...
...on CM7 Notification LEDs causes a wakelock (battery drain)
CM9 does not have as many extended features as CM7 (yet)
CM9 GPS is (at least anecdotally) not as good as CM7 (for now)
CM9 overclocking/undervolting support is brand new
Edit: CM9 does not have Theming (yet)
CM9 does not support USB Mass Storage, need to use MTP (inconvenient on Linux)
CM9 will not have Phone Goggles
The biggest factors (for me):
CM9 is ICS
CM9 has developers' attention
halfsoul said:
No clue what matters to you, but here are some specific differences as of April 9:
CM9 does not have the headphone volume bug that CM7 did, BUT...
...on CM9 the correct volume does not get restored after playback is interrupted by a notification
CM9 does not support notification LEDs, BUT...
...on CM7 Notification LEDs causes a wakelock (battery drain)
CM9 does not have as many extended features as CM7 (yet)
CM9 GPS is (at least anecdotally) not as good as CM7 (for now)
CM9 overclocking/undervolting support is brand new
Edit: CM9 does not have Theming (yet)
CM9 does not support USB Mass Storage, need to use MTP (inconvenient on Linux)
CM9 will not have Phone Goggles
The biggest factors (for me):
CM9 is ICS
CM9 has developers' attention
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Brilliant explanation! Thanks! Should be linked to by the CM9 thread!
halfsoul said:
No clue what matters to you, but here are some specific differences as of April 9:
CM9 does not have the headphone volume bug that CM7 did, BUT...
...on CM9 the correct volume does not get restored after playback is interrupted by a notification
CM9 does not support notification LEDs, BUT...
...on CM7 Notification LEDs causes a wakelock (battery drain)
CM9 does not have as many extended features as CM7 (yet)
CM9 GPS is (at least anecdotally) not as good as CM7 (for now)
CM9 overclocking/undervolting support is brand new
Edit: CM9 does not have Theming (yet)
CM9 does not support USB Mass Storage, need to use MTP (inconvenient on Linux)
CM9 will not have Phone Goggles
The biggest factors (for me):
CM9 is ICS
CM9 has developers' attention
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There is an app for USB Mass Storage. I prefer using it over MTP.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24084600&postcount=113
CM9 is based on Android 4.0 ICS and is currently in the Alpha/Nightlies status.
CM7 is based on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is currently the Stable branch of CynaogenMod
I just figured CM7 would have been more stable. Maybe I'll look into CM9 then. I plan to root my phone today. Part of the reason I wanted CM7/9 was to get rid of bloatware, but it seems a root can do it too.
mojoe_24 said:
I just figured CM7 would have been more stable. Maybe I'll look into CM9 then. I plan to root my phone today. Part of the reason I wanted CM7/9 was to get rid of bloatware, but it seems a root can do it too.
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You know there are other options than CM, right? If you aren't one of the ridiculous TouchWiz haters (doesn't seem that way since you mentioned you like the default look of the phone) then go download and install SHOstock2 from the development forum. It's fast, stable, and just flat-out works. Easily the best of the ICS ROMs, IMO. When CM9 gets to a stable release state I'll give it a try, but the AOSP ROMs (mainly CM9 and AOKP) just aren't quite ready for prime time IMO if you look at the issues/bugs that still exist in them. Some people enjoy flashing new builds all the time and taking part in the dev process...personally I just want something that works. That's not to say that SHOstock2 is a finished ROM yet, but it's way farther along than the others. Give it a try - as someone who only recently made the leap from stock, I couldn't imagine ever going back.
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You know there are other options than CM, right? If you aren't one of the ridiculous TouchWiz haters (doesn't seem that way since you mentioned you like the default look of the phone) then go download and install SHOstock2 from the development forum. It's fast, stable, and just flat-out works. Easily the best of the ICS ROMs, IMO. When CM9 gets to a stable release state I'll give it a try, but the AOSP ROMs (mainly CM9 and AOKP) just aren't quite ready for prime time IMO if you look at the issues/bugs that still exist in them. Some people enjoy flashing new builds all the time and taking part in the dev process...personally I just want something that works. That's not to say that SHOstock2 is a finished ROM yet, but it's way farther along than the others. Give it a try - as someone who only recently made the leap from stock, I couldn't imagine ever going back.
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Ditto... I'm running ShoStock2 for the better part of two weeks and can't deny that I'm in love. Previously to that I ran UnNamed and ShoStock for GB and loved both. The best thing to do is give them a try to see what you like. Our opinion may be biased based so I suggest you give the ROM's a try so you know what you like.
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I'm actually kinda confused on what exactly Touchwiz is. If it's only the launcher than I switched to Launcher Pro, but I can't imagine it gaining that much hate if that is all it is.
mojoe_24 said:
I'm actually kinda confused on what exactly Touchwiz is. If it's only the launcher than I switched to Launcher Pro, but I can't imagine it gaining that much hate if that is all it is.
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It's built into the framework. It's not just a launcher and theme.
AOKP is pretty damn stable. The only bug is the mentioned CM9 issue with notifications lowering music volume. Also GPS is slow to lock sometimes for me. Other than that it's a great ROM. I gave ShoStock a try but just prefer the look of AOKP
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I'm actually kinda confused on what exactly Touchwiz is. If it's only the launcher than I switched to Launcher Pro, but I can't imagine it gaining that much hate if that is all it is.
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touchwiz is so much more than a launcher
its the entire UI, the phone dialer, the contacts, the lockscreen, the SMS app, nearly everything you see on your phone is a Touchwiz UI. it is an overlay over the real android lurking below.
mojoe_24 said:
I'm actually kinda confused on what exactly Touchwiz is. If it's only the launcher than I switched to Launcher Pro, but I can't imagine it gaining that much hate if that is all it is.
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TouchWiz is a launcher and is Standard for Samsung GSII. It's all about taste if you ask me. I personally enjoy using ToichWiz or Apex launher over anything else. It's really up to you to determine what you like and how you want it to function.
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I have Eclipse 1.1 (old I know) it was great when it first came out and I flashed it. But now I need something new bc its not working as good, and I know theres better versions and other ROMs that are possibly better.
Any suggestions on which ROM to flash and why?
Depends on what you want. If you want a fully functional ROM I'd check out the latest edition of Eclipse.
Cyanogenmod 7.2 rc1 has a small amount of bugs, but is for the most part fully functional. HDMI mirroring doesn't work and that's the one and only downside to me. I still use CM7 as a "daily driver" so to speak. Lots of customization and with the hacks/mods found in this forum I get excellent signal strength, connection speeds and battery life. Wifi still sleeps when the screen's off, but with the v3 build.prop mashup it reconnects on waking within seconds every single time.
Cyanogenmod 9 alpha 3 is somewhat buggy as it's in its early alpha stages. There's no camera yet, but DZK already said there will be a fix for alpha 4. Same with aces miui. It's real slick, being on ics. I like it, but won't stay until there's a working camera and more stability. When that happens this rom will be simply amazing. Overall it's pretty sweet and at the very least, worth checking out/playing around with.....
MIUI4 will be awesome too once the bugs are sorted and fixed. As stated before- the next release will also have a working camera. MIUI is probably one of my favorites if not my favorite but right now its way too buggy for me to use. More so than cm9. Couldn't deal with the bugs Ace is hard at work bringing us more updates and when he finally gets this where he wants it MIUI will more than likely replace cm7 as my daily rom. It's a great ROM in general but I couldn't stay on miui for more than like an hour, personally.
Definitely go into each roms topic and check out the screenshots and videos if there are any. Also look for the working features and known bugs/issues. Honestly I say give them ALL a try and see what best suits you. I only really posted about the newer ones. If I remember correctly molten isn't being updated anymore after 2.3 and I keep forgetting liberty even exists, lol.......
Cyanogenmod all day
I started with Eclipse 1.3 and then went to 2.1 running scripts and about everything else with it. Then when CM9 alpha came out, I had to try it. CM9 alpha works great for me. I needed my camera, so I flashed back to CM7. When the beta version of CM9 rolls around, that's gonna be the ticket!
IMHO- CM7
I can't believe how smooth and FAST my phone is with CM7. The camera works great, very little to no lag at all with anything I have found. There's all kinds of customizations for it. I'm not running any scripts, only CM7 and SD Increase from the market. My phone is fun again and I'm not hesitant to show somebody up with a whyphone like I was before. Try it and see.
Also check out this thread for sure!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26801347
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Are you pretty good with computers, tech, etc.? If you want a fast update, just flash CM7 since it is on the same kernel as the version of Eclipse you are on. If you try to update to the latest Eclipse, you have to go through the process of using the SBF to get to stock, updating to 2.3.5 then flash the new version. Its up to you though. CM7 and Eclipse are the most stable ROMs we have at the moment until some bugs get worked out in CM9.
Thanks everyone. I am on Eclipse 2.2.1 as of right now (w/speedy script 7 and other tweaks/apps). Ill probably try CM7 in the future since its already on my sdcard.
xxbgjhn159xx said:
Thanks everyone. I am on Eclipse 2.2.1 as of right now (w/speedy script 7 and other tweaks/apps). Ill probably try CM7 in the future since its already on my sdcard.
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Just remember you need to be on 2.3.4 before flashing CM7.
Man I don't know what it is but.....
I used to run Eclipse 2.1 and scripted to the 23498457890345th power maxed out turnaround wing dinger squared. I thought it was as good as it could get. But when I went to CM7, I giggled at what I "thought" I had. Hands down the way to go, until CM9
I would use cm7. Just because its stable and has the best UI in my option and has pretty good performance. or you could wait for cm9 to get more stable with a working camera and better performance.
Liberty 3
Just Rooted and Flashed for the first time.
I went with Eclipse 2.2.1 - because the HDMI support was kind of a deal breaker for me. (Netflix, FPSE, SnesEX, etc. on a big screen!) But I was wondering why none of you mentioned Liberty 3? I haven't tried anything other than Eclipse 2.2.1 so I don't have an educated opinion to share, but other than CM7 it seemed like Liberty 3 and Eclipse were the two other "stable" ROMs in the DEV section.
Is Liberty "bad" or do you guys just not use it, and why?
Also, I flashed what I *thought* was the latest build of Eclipse 2.2.1 (from the official thread) but there are only 5 pull down toggles on my notification panel - I thought there were supposed to be 7? Did I miss something?
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Just Rooted and Flashed for the first time.
I went with Eclipse 2.2.1 - because the HDMI support was kind of a deal breaker for me. (Netflix, FPSE, SnesEX, etc. on a big screen!) But I was wondering why none of you mentioned Liberty 3? I haven't tried anything other than Eclipse 2.2.1 so I don't have an educated opinion to share, but other than CM7 it seemed like Liberty 3 and Eclipse were the two other "stable" ROMs in the DEV section.
Is Liberty "bad" or do you guys just not use it, and why?
Also, I flashed what I *thought* was the latest build of Eclipse 2.2.1 (from the official thread) but there are only 5 pull down toggles on my notification panel - I thought there were supposed to be 7? Did I miss something?
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I haven't been on eclipse in a while so I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly, but I thought there was an option in settings to set those.
I can't say for sure why nobody mentioned liberty though, it might be because it doesn't offer much compared to eclipse. Also, it was supported for maybe 2 months max while I'm pretty sure nitro is still pushing out updates for the x2(somebody correct me if I'm wrong).
RoyJ said:
Depends on what you want. If you want a fully functional ROM I'd check out the latest edition of Eclipse.
Cyanogenmod 7.2 rc1 has a small amount of bugs, but is for the most part fully functional. HDMI mirroring doesn't work and that's the one and only downside to me. I still use CM7 as a "daily driver" so to speak. Lots of customization and with the hacks/mods found in this forum I get excellent signal strength, connection speeds and battery life. Wifi still sleeps when the screen's off, but with the v3 build.prop mashup it reconnects on waking within seconds every single time.
Cyanogenmod 9 alpha 3 is somewhat buggy as it's in its early alpha stages. There's no camera yet, but DZK already said there will be a fix for alpha 4. Same with aces miui. It's real slick, being on ics. I like it, but won't stay until there's a working camera and more stability. When that happens this rom will be simply amazing. Overall it's pretty sweet and at the very least, worth checking out/playing around with.....
MIUI4 will be awesome too once the bugs are sorted and fixed. As stated before- the next release will also have a working camera. MIUI is probably one of my favorites if not my favorite but right now its way too buggy for me to use. More so than cm9. Couldn't deal with the bugs Ace is hard at work bringing us more updates and when he finally gets this where he wants it MIUI will more than likely replace cm7 as my daily rom. It's a great ROM in general but I couldn't stay on miui for more than like an hour, personally.
Definitely go into each roms topic and check out the screenshots and videos if there are any. Also look for the working features and known bugs/issues. Honestly I say give them ALL a try and see what best suits you. I only really posted about the newer ones. If I remember correctly molten isn't being updated anymore after 2.3 and I keep forgetting liberty even exists, lol.......
Cyanogenmod all day
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I totally agree with this guy. It all depends on what you want out of your phone. If you can sacrifice the extra cool doohickies I say CM9 all the way cause alpha 4 just came out and it's pretty sweet, working camera too.
Specter597 said:
Also, I flashed what I *thought* was the latest build of Eclipse 2.2.1 (from the official thread) but there are only 5 pull down toggles on my notification panel - I thought there were supposed to be 7? Did I miss something?
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The toggles are scrollable. You have to scroll to the right to see the rest.
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I loved cm7 as my first and only rom but my 3g sucks,dolphin force closes, camera is buggy etc I'm going to reflash before jumping to eclipse which I've heard is most stable ...
I loved cm7 but the broken orientation sensor in the kernel killed it for me. I now run eclipse 2.2.1. It was a bugger to get installed. Having to wipe cache at a different point than instructions indicate. And also I have a little touch-screen delay.
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I'm currently running cm7.1, and really love it. I'm also really curious about trying out the ics roms and don't know which one to try. has anyone run both? which one did you like most and why? also, if I do a nandroid backup, is that the same as a windows image backup? ...meaning I can reinstall cm7 and glitch kernel, then flash my nandroid backup and be right where I was before I changed anything?
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Yes you can restore a nandroid like you said as long as you are on the same ROM.
This is kind of an opinion, but I prefer Teamhacksung, as it is clean and bug-free.
ok cool. sorry about being in the wrong forum at first. so one for team hacksung, anyone else? I just want opinions as I don't think I have the time to try all the ics roms right now
aokp is by far the most solid ICS rom. its more how cyanogen use to be....lots of options to customise. THS cm9 is vanilla, meaning barebones.
droidstyle said:
aokp is by far the most solid ICS rom. its more how cyanogen use to be....lots of options to customise. THS cm9 is vanilla, meaning barebones.
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+10!
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This subject is opinionated and the OP should install both for a day to determine what he likes better.
Personally I used AOKP for the last six months, Yesterday I switched to CM9 experimental Linaro Build.. In my views way better than aokp..
Gearrion said:
This subject is opinionated and the OP should install both for a day to determine what he likes better.
Personally I used AOKP for the last six months, Yesterday I switched to CM9 experimental Linaro Build.. In my views way better than aokp..
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Why?
i have the infuse but i started off using aokp switched to cm9 its been about a month.. goin back 2 aokp as of now cm9 isnt like cm7, i like tweaking and customizing as much as possible and i love the navigation bar aokp has..
Ok cool I think I'm about ready to try some out. One last question, I keep seeing things about how it's not easy to got back to cm7 from ics? Can someone give me some insight on this incase I don't like ics? Something with the different file types? I also want to keep my eh03 radio if I do end up going back to cm7
I'm now a little confused, after reading the guide for installing ROMS, in particular the ICS ones, arent all the ICS Roms based on what is stated- MTD CM9? So is there a difference aokp vs cm9? I guess what would be the large differnces between any two for example? Different kernels?
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username8611 said:
I also want to keep my eh03 radio if I do end up going back to cm7
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Here check out this link to the guide for Installing a Rom/CWM recovery/Root or going back to Stock. Go to the fifth section. You can revert to stock gingerbread with EH03 radio from any rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070&highlight=odin
well i got impatient and went ahead and did it lol. i went with aokp 40.1 and devil kernel .79. the first try was a disaster, what seemed to work went straight to crash and reboot when waking from the lockscreen. i thought it was my oc i was messing with so i turned it back to stock volts and frequencies. low and behold it did it again but this time would not boot up, would not flash anything from recovery, would not format anything from recovery, it was totally bricked. i even tried reflashing cwm though odin and it was a no go.
finally after a few hrs of gathing info, i flashed the stock froyo rom and it unbricked it and i tried aokp again. this time i used aokp build 40, and devil kernel v.72 and everything is beautiful and works perfect, rock solid stability with 1200mhz multiplier oc, 110% fsb oc on liveoc totaling 1362mhz i think. the ics launchers suck and are laggy for me, i dunno why but go launcher is smoooootthhh and so is everything else on the phone. i cant find anything that doesnt work, im not regretting this or looking back at all, thanks a bunch for the help guys. im also pretty sure its snappier and quicker than cm7.2 was for me on my 1.3ghz overclock and glitch 13.1
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well i got impatient and went ahead and did it lol. i went with aokp 40.1 and devil kernel .79. the first try was a disaster, what seemed to work went straight to crash and reboot when waking from the lockscreen. i thought it was my oc i was messing with so i turned it back to stock volts and frequencies. low and behold it did it again but this time would not boot up, would not flash anything from recovery, would not format anything from recovery, it was totally bricked. i even tried reflashing cwm though odin and it was a no go.
finally after a few hrs of gathing info, i flashed the stock froyo rom and it unbricked it and i tried aokp again. this time i used aokp build 40, and devil kernel v.72 and everything is beautiful and works perfect, rock solid stability with 1200mhz multiplier oc, 110% fsb oc on liveoc totaling 1362mhz i think. the ics launchers suck and are laggy for me, i dunno why but go launcher is smoooootthhh and so is everything else on the phone. i cant find anything that doesnt work, im not regretting this or looking back at all, thanks a bunch for the help guys. im also pretty sure its snappier and quicker than cm7.2 was for me on my 1.3ghz overclock and glitch 13.1
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try devil_0.85, this build works the best on my device.
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try devil_0.85, this build works the best on my device.
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will do, thanks
edit: im having a hard time finding that version, do you have a link?
http://android.encounterpc.com/stevespear426/tests/Devil3_0.85_fascinate_CFS_BLN_CMC_20120625.zip
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will do, thanks
edit: im having a hard time finding that version, do you have a link?
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http://android.encounterpc.com/stevespear426/tests/Devil3_0.85_fascinate_CFS_BLN_CMC_20120625.zip
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Is there a voodoo color version?
There is color options in the galaxy s settings menu.
Devil98.3AOKPMilestone6Test Fassy Unicorn!
XxStechxX said:
There is color options in the galaxy s settings menu.
Devil98.3AOKPMilestone6Test Fassy Unicorn!
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ive seen it but was a little wary of it lol. for those wondering and addicted to voodoo color... at first i was worried i would loose the deep color and gamma control that i have with voodoo color, but the device color options do a really good job with it and there is a gamma control and it works great, no washed out colors or anything of that nature. im pretty hardcore on my vivid colors so i have the gamma maxed out minus a tad of green but it looks great.. to me.
for the guy who originally mention v0.85, so far its working great, cleared cache, dalvik, and ran ultimate kernel cleaning script then installed and it seems to be running great. the only thing now is the long term stability test, over a week ive had zero freezes FCs, or any issues with .72, i hope i can get this with .85. it seems a little snappier and nandroid is working again. thanks a bunch for the link, a few hours of searching for it and google still didnt help me. ill get back to everyone on the stability of it for me, running 110% fsb oc on nstools and slightly undervolted. im sure theres a ton of info already on other threads but ill still report back. thanks guys
edit: im still having issues with bln, is there a quick fix with it? it worked right away with my botched install of 40.1 and .79 kernel, witch was completely unstable, but now on 40, and .85 its still not working, any ideas? also on first boot from cold soft keys were unresponsive but seem to be working now. im not complaining as i know there are newer versions of the devil kernel but im trying to find a very good balance of functionality and stability.