I'm not sure I'm going to like the ICS update as much as Gingerbread. GB Blur looks and feels amazing not to mention the lockscreen. From the screenshots I'm not sure ICS is going to look better than GB. Your thoughts?
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ForeverZ3RO said:
I'm not sure I'm going to like the ICS update as much as Gingerbread. GB Blur looks and feels amazing not to mention the lockscreen. From the screenshots I'm not sure ICS is going to look better than GB. Your thoughts?
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I tried the .75 build. I really enjoyed the layout and features. Especially the lock screen. Makes unlocking it one handed easier.
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ForeverZ3RO said:
I'm not sure I'm going to like the ICS update as much as Gingerbread. GB Blur looks and feels amazing not to mention the lockscreen. From the screenshots I'm not sure ICS is going to look better than GB. Your thoughts?
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I second everything that's been said! I'm on the .211 leak and it's smoother, faster, benches higher, and is more customizable than Gingerbread. It has a better kernel(better battery life), better radios and a better interface. That all adds up to a massive increase in battery.
I've tried a few custom ROMs built from the gingerbread kernel back when I first got the razr and thought id never like ics, recently I flashed the 79 leak and a cm9 build overtop, it took about a day and I loved it, it is a big leap forward
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What about webtop app... Can You see any improvements?
jazzone said:
What about webtop app... Can You see any improvements?
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Totally transformed...
Now you have a Android Tablet... whit keyboard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVETKQl6tZ4
Thanks for all of the input everyone. Definitely makes me feel better about upgrading.
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Just wondering what if motto unlock the bootloader and what will happen?
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Custom kernels, more features, better battery life, AOSP ports.. Kholk & the Eternity Project crew are standing by with kernels already.
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Dev work would definitely explode, above all.
Better battery life on my Razr Maxx? That would be insane. lol
double rainbows all over the sky and unicorns, that what will happen
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double rainbows all over the sky and unicorns, that what will happen
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greeky510 said:
Better battery life on my Razr Maxx? That would be insane. lol
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As great as I hear it is already, it'd surely be better with an optimised kernel and less Moto bloat.
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As great as I hear it is already, it'd surely be better with an optimised kernel and less Moto bloat.
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I have to agree about the optimized kernel, but i have yet to see any of the motorola bloatwares show up in the battery usage.
Check using Better Battery Stats and under the running apps and a few things might show up. Also heartily recommend getting an app like System Tuner or Autostarts and disabling much of the crap that starts on boot.
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If moto unlocked the bootloader it'd be like chuck norris dividing by zero...
I have no doubt Gnex development would pale in comparison to the Razr and Razr Maxx.
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If moto unlocked the bootloader it'd be like chuck norris dividing by zero...
I have no doubt Gnex development would pale in comparison to the Razr and Razr Maxx.
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I would have to agree with this, since the Galaxy Nexus is already almost perfect right out of the box, there's not much for devs to do but add little tweaks and mods.
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double rainbows all over the sky and unicorns, that what will happen
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Was going to post some similar to this but I see you already have things covered....*moves along*
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I would have to agree with this, since the Galaxy Nexus is already almost perfect right out of the box, there's not much for devs to do but add little tweaks and mods.
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Except the Maxx is better built, has way better radios, and appears to be more durable
ETA: Motoblur was pretty non existent before the .173 update. And then it's like VZW and Moto jizzed motoblur all over it again.... I'm running Absym1.1 on my non safe side (safestrap) and ICS on my safe side w/ the .173 OTA.
Does anybody know if the install goes correctly, sorry if it's already been asked. I just don't want to brick my phone.
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I didn't want to bump this thread, but I really want an answer. Sooo, anybody know?
For me on the .173 software it failed but did not brick my phone. But until the bootloader is unlocked/bypassed the razr can not run an aosp rom. + juice defender ultimate ran horribly for me, ive used it on many other phones that it worked wonderful, the razr it did not.
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For me on the .173 software it failed but did not brick my phone. But until the bootloader is unlocked/bypassed the razr can not run an aosp rom. + juice defender ultimate ran horribly for me, ive used it on many other phones that it worked wonderful, the razr it did not.
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So that means that since my Razr isn't running an AOSP based ROM that it's highly unlikely that even on .181 it will be able to run, unlikely but not impossible?
Never mind, I put on my big boy pants and checked it for myself. It worked fine. And I love the new battery saving features.
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For me on the .173 software it failed but did not brick my phone. But until the bootloader is unlocked/bypassed the razr can not run an aosp rom. + juice defender ultimate ran horribly for me, ive used it on many other phones that it worked wonderful, the razr it did not.
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Black Widow is a AOSP Rom, isn't it? And juicedefender runs very well on my razr for three months now.
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Black Widow is a AOSP Rom, isn't it? And juicedefender runs very well on my razr for three months now.
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A fully aosp rom includes the kernel, and since we cant boot custom kernels no rom for our phone can be built solely from the android open source project. I might have to give jd another try, do you guys still get the lag when it initiates 4g?
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AOSP works for 65.1.40 2.3.6 asia stock rom.
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A fully aosp rom includes the kernel, and since we cant boot custom kernels no rom for our phone can be built solely from the android open source project. I might have to give jd another try, do you guys still get the lag when it initiates 4g?
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What do you mean lag? I haven't botched anything service damaging like that. But I just set up jd and leave it.
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A fully aosp rom includes the kernel, and since we cant boot custom kernels no rom for our phone can be built solely from the android open source project. I might have to give jd another try, do you guys still get the lag when it initiates 4g?
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But now we can boot custom kernels using kexec, right? Ok, second core doesn't work but a good ICS custom ROM with a good kernel running on single core beats a stock ROM which is running on dual core. So I think it would be nice if a custom kernel could be built.
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What do you mean lag? I haven't botched anything service damaging like that. But I just set up jd and leave it.
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It's been a while since I've tried jd, the last time I did I had horrible lag when I turned on the screen to data connectivity initiating. The dev might have updated since then.
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But now we can boot custom kernels using kexec, right? Ok, second core doesn't work but a good ICS custom ROM with a good kernel running on single core beats a stock ROM which is running on dual core. So I think it would be nice if a custom kernel could be built.
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Kexec is close, I can't use it on my DROID RAZR yet, but very promising. I'd guess most devs will wait for the official update to ics's source drop by moto, giving how hard it is to find/build drivers for the h/w.
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What the title says.
From what I read, the leak isn't running quicker than meanrom. Personally I'm just going to wait for the official since I rely on roaming. What do you guys think about ICS so far?
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Its amazing man. I love it more than mean Rom which was ny favorite sense 3.0 rom. Battery life is amazing and I did update firmware and am having no problems at all. I love it hah
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What the title says.
From what I read, the leak isn't running quicker than meanrom. Personally I'm just going to wait for the official since I rely on roaming. What do you guys think about ICS so far?
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I feel like ics is amazing and you're missing out on alot! Don't flash the firmware and you shouldn't have an issue with roaming, as far as I know. ICS has brought alot of nice improvements. I say flash it and just give it a try for yourself man.
I went from mean to clean and I love the Ics and sense 3.6 combination. Battery life is definitely better
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Wow I didn't know it was that much of an improvement! I was on the mean thread the whole time and everyone there is pretty much loyal to Mike and aren't switching. He's a good dev and they won't switch till he releases one himself
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I feel like ics is amazing and you're missing out on alot! Don't flash the firmware and you shouldn't have an issue with roaming, as far as I know. ICS has brought alot of nice improvements. I say flash it and just give it a try for yourself man.
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Oh so the firmware is the culprit for the roaming issue
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Definitely an improvement, battery life seems to be better than almost any GB rom I had (aside from CM7 & og Anthrax RLS9). It's nice to have working ICS roms with WiMax though!
All I'm gonna say is I can never go back to Gingerbread!
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I have yet to mess around with the official ICS ROM due to my carrier not providing it yet. But from what I have seen it looks awesome and can't wait to test it out. I am currently playing with the ICS NonSense RC1 ROM by VladBelsky, I love the stock look and feel of ICS.
like ics. dislike sense 3.6. wish we had 4.0
I think people tend to exaggerate about how much better it is.
It's a definite improvement, but, if it had the same menus/look as GB.. You wouldn't really notice much difference. It's still worth using tho
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It breathed new life into the Evo 3d. I still dislike sense but it will be enough to hold me over until the next Nexus.
Aside from my personal dislike of sense it does run great though. I wish they didn't ugly up the notification bar and change around the settings but for the most part sense doesn't detract from the ICS experience. Battery life is exceptional and it seems to perform better at stock clock speeds than any other rom I have used @ 1.7ghz.
I roamed a bit yesterday and don't seem to get data while I'm roaming but that could be an issue on my part or area.
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I think people tend to exaggerate about how much better it is.
It's a definite improvement, but, if it had the same menus/look as GB.. You wouldn't really notice much difference. It's still worth using tho
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I don't know about you but I was using newts sense 4 amazing and almost fully working in beta state...flashed a 3.6 and while it seemed a little faster its horrible compared to 4.. then I flashed back to gb and I already hate it...doesn't seem as smooth and seems "clunky" IMO
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It seems to be much smoother, especially the browser. No reason to not upgrade really, except for the fact that most Rome are missing some minor features.
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my signal has been really ****ty compared to miui, sense 3.5, and sense 3.0 roms
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alexnaoumi said:
my signal has been really ****ty compared to miui, sense 3.5, and sense 3.0 roms
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If you've flashed the virgin mobile firmware, thats why.
i haven't had much of an enjoyable experience so far, i don't really have signal issues unless you include occasional LoS but no notice in decrease of signal strength.
I'm mostly disappointed with the mobile network settings missing that would allow me to enable data roaming, i have flashed Chubbzlou's Booster but that begins to FC and have performance issues after a day or 2 with the annoyance of Bluetooth issues.
not to trash one ROM, they all so far have the same issues and i can't find one to make my daily.
i am looking forward to sense 3.6 as it looks really good and has some great features.
i will politely and contently await the sprint leak or the official release, hopefully the firmware release included with the sprint leak will fix my "virgin mobile" banner
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If you've flashed the virgin mobile firmware, thats why.
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I did not flash any firmware. I only flashed the ics ROM.
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So much smoother than Sense 3.0 & battery life is great.
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I just came back from ICS. It was kinda unstable for me and I did pull out the superwipe before flashing
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I'm running stock OTA ICS .211 with SafeStrap, and wanted to flash a ROM.
Just wondering, which one is your favorite for the .211 OTA with everything functional (can't have one with camera not working)?
If you want everything go with Eclipse. If you can stand not having hdmi then try CM9 or Axiom Infektion. Just my favorites.
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If you want everything go with Eclipse. If you can stand not having hdmi then try CM9 or Axiom Infektion. Just my favorites.
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Are both of those on droidrzr.com?
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killjoy1179 said:
Are both of those on droidrzr.com?
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INFEKTION is on droidhive, here.
Leviathan26 said:
INFEKTION is on droidhive, here.
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Thanks!!! Do u by any chance know if the battery life on the infektion is as good as the liquid smooth 1.5?
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killjoy1179 said:
Thanks!!! Do u by any chance know if the battery life on the infektion is as good as the liquid smooth 1.5?
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Sorry, but no, I haven't run it yet. Development is so high for the Razr that I haven't done Dualcore, Eclipse or INFEKTION yet. I would suspect that it's at least as good.
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Sorry, but no, I haven't run it yet. Development is so high for the Razr that I haven't done Dualcore, Eclipse or INFEKTION yet. I would suspect that it's at least as good.
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Cool!...sounds like its got some bugs..I'm gonna wait a while then test it out...I have eclipse on my SD card and still haven't used it..enjoying liquid smooth to much lol
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Battery life on Infektion and Eclipse are pretty good. I can go two days easily. I dont believe that there are any bugs in Eclipse. As far as infektion the B2 update is running awesome.
I'm ready for a rom to do I need to be rooted I already have safe strap
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brulecr said:
I'm ready for a rom to do I need to be rooted I already have safe strap
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Of course you have to be rooted
Full-Throttle themer.
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killjoy1179 said:
Cool!...sounds like its got some bugs..I'm gonna wait a while then test it out...I have eclipse on my SD card and still haven't used it..enjoying liquid smooth to much lol
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Is the Liquid Smooth rom on droidrzr forum?
Another question, what is safe strap and boot strap? Are these names of recoveries? I see them mentioned alot.
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Here is one vote for Eclipse, super stable and super smooth and im on .215
I'm running cm9 on my regular xt912 razr and I love it. Pretty stable and way better battery life then stock. Only had a couple of times I had to reboot since switching for problems. Just a quick question, on nightlys can I update through settings or do I have to reflash?
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Here is one vote for Eclipse, super stable and super smooth and im on .215
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How are you on .215 on Eclipse? I thought the latest Eclipse was .211? At least Eclipse I installed from the Eclipse thread is .211.
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Liquid v1.5
Axiom infekted
My 2 favorite Roms
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Where can I find the liquid rom?
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Just curious. Has there been anyone whom found a method of returning to the ICS software, after sideloading the JB leak? I wish to return to .211 and use the dual boot method, if at all possible.
Because of the locked bootloader, once you upgrade to the JB kernel, you can't go back to the ICS kernel. I know there is a thread somewhere in here though about dual booting with ICS and JB by using methods to get around the kernel limitation.
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Why would u want to go back to ICS battery life and other stuff are better on jb
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Battery life?
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Why would u want to go back to ICS battery life and other stuff are better on jb
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I personally do not know this, but many are saying the battery life on JB is not as good...or they are playing around with the phone more on jb lol!
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I personally do not know this, but many are saying the battery life on JB is not as good...or they are playing around with the phone more on jb lol!
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Battery life is just as good on JB. I find signal not quite as good - but really, the experience is much smoother on JB.