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For those of you who have used both of these outstanding ROMs on your MoPho, which one do you prefer and why?
Both are great ROMs. I am currently on cm7. I am really liking cm7. Its fast and battery life is outstanding. Downside to cm7 is you do need to edit build.prop to get youtube working. Also have to edit apn to get mms working. Fixes are easy to do though.
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i agree with above. both are great and will wake up your photon like no other. when it was all said and done, i picked CM7 bc thats what i ran on my EVO and was just more comfortable with it. personal preference really. neither will let you down.
I'd personally go with skinnyrev1. But I've been running CM7 for a long time on my evo shift and got bored with it. But if you have never ran CM7 before on any of your devices then its worth a try. But for the photon I'd go with skinnyrev1.
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Both are great ROMs. I am currently on cm7. I am really liking cm7. Its fast and battery life is outstanding. Downside to cm7 is you do need to edit build.prop to get youtube working. Also have to edit apn to get mms working. Fixes are easy to do though.
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Does CM7 include the 1% battery mod and is the battery life better than stock?
CM7 actually works ok now? Its by FAR my favorite (the only thing I miss from my EVO really).
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CM7 actually works ok now? Its by FAR my favorite (the only thing I miss from my EVO really).
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yes, CM7 works very well. others along with myself feel the build is better then many of the EVO ones. I have no complaints.
can you please help, im running cm7 how do i do that?
I'm also running cm7, its a great, looks nice, and well its cm7 whats more to say
What advantages does CM7 have over Skinny?
Im using skinny with undelvolt and im fascinated... i wanna give a try to cm7 but when i flashed keep looping in boot animation...
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yes, CM7 works very well. others along with myself feel the build is better then many of the EVO ones. I have no complaints.
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Really? I haven't really seen anything other than the Alpha builds. Everything works? The Evo worked great (minus 4g, but I don't live in a 4g area anyway). I can only imagine how fast it is. My Photon runs only a little faster than my CM7 evo.
Which build are you guys running?
I am loving life on my CM7 ROM. Not a big fan of Motoblur, so wanted to try something new. To be honest though...this is my only ONLY ROM that I have tried so can't offer anything new to the conversation other than I have had few problems from it. On reboot, I get a single phone.apt error that once dismissed, doesn't bother me again. The MMS issue is NOT an issue on mine...I send and receive picturemail daily and have not had any issues with that. I wish the built in buttons for the zoom on the camera app worked, but they don't...yet. Have to use the apps slider to control zoom. The Wifi is qwerky at times. I sometimes have to FORGET a known network, turn off Wifi, turn it back on...then reenter login info's to get a reconnection on a previously working wifi accesspoint that I use...but...just a minor annoyance. Considering it is still technically in alpha...it is very usable and stable...I say go for it!
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Im using skinny with undelvolt and im fascinated... i wanna give a try to cm7 but when i flashed keep looping in boot animation...
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How does one undervolt and what advantages does it provide?
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I am loving life on my CM7 ROM. Not a big fan of Motoblur, so wanted to try something new. To be honest though...this is my only ONLY ROM that I have tried so can't offer anything new to the conversation other than I have had few problems from it. On reboot, I get a single phone.apt error that once dismissed, doesn't bother me again. The MMS issue is NOT an issue on mine...I send and receive picturemail daily and have not had any issues with that. I wish the built in buttons for the zoom on the camera app worked, but they don't...yet. Have to use the apps slider to control zoom. The Wifi is qwerky at times. I sometimes have to FORGET a known network, turn off Wifi, turn it back on...then reenter login info's to get a reconnection on a previously working wifi accesspoint that I use...but...just a minor annoyance. Considering it is still technically in alpha...it is very usable and stable...I say go for it!
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I havent had any issues with wifi, got work, home, parents home, and two friends houses in college station. 5 networks total. is it the same router that you are experiencing this trouble or is it the same across all routers?
but to anyone that is in question between the two, dont base ur selection off others, its gonna boil down to your preference. its gonna be 50/50 based on reviews. best thing you can do is flash one and play around with it, then make a backup, flash the second one and see if you like it better or not. Still make a backup of the second in case you want to move back again. Thats the great thing about Android, its your choice
since you have it narrowed down between just these two, youre in a good situation. alot better then flashin all day to see what you like the best.
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Does CM7 include the 1% battery mod and is the battery life better than stock?
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I've been pretty happy with SkinnyRev1 as a daily driver. I'm currently on CM7 testing the new 1.3OC. My phone hates the 1.4 kernels for some reason and on CM7, even with the modfied APN mms is very sketchy. I can send just fine but when I receive a message, that message gets repeated over and over again every couple of hours (sometimes minutes) until I get sick of it and restore my Skinny nandroid.
I've had it happen with several versions of this alpha and cannot seem to get it to stop once it happens. Deleting the thread does nothing, I just get a notification a little later that I have a new message. I've even gone from several of the yay leaked sbfs straight to CM7, skipping skinny altogether and still have the same mms issue
Well I haven't tried skinny rom but cm7 is awesome very stable been my daily driver for about 2 weeks and love it. Very smooth and fast. I had cm7 on evo 4g and needed it on this. it's very customizable (real word?) U can change lockscreen add gestures change overall color and much much more I feel like a spokesman for cm LOL but seriously give it a try u wont b disappointed
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If it helps my eventual goal after i finish some other projects would be cm7 with webtop. I might start work on it tonight actually. Ive been with cm since it started on the g1. Once kinks are worked out its definitely preferred. I made skinny because we didnt have any alternatives and my friend likes blur, lol.
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If it helps my eventual goal after i finish some other projects would be cm7 with webtop. I might start work on it tonight actually. Ive been with cm since it started on the g1. Once kinks are worked out its definitely preferred. I made skinny because we didnt have any alternatives and my friend likes blur, lol.
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Well, if YOU are saying CM7 is the way to go (once the kinks are worked out) then that settles it for me. Thanks!
Ok I'm a big HTC Evo fan and well sadly my evo's charger port messed up on me and no longer works...so I decided to upgrade to 3do I was just wondering if anyone had some rom/ kernel combo suggestions? Or recent rooting guides thanks in advance
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I would go with meanrom as rom wise.
as in rooting it all depends on what h-boot your on if its h-boot 1.50 then you need to do the HTC method on their website
You have to try Warm or Eternity. Sense 3.0 for a solid theme, or Sense 3.5 for smoothness.
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Ok I'm a big HTC Evo fan and well sadly my evo's charger port messed up on me and no longer works...so I decided to upgrade to 3do I was just wondering if anyone had some rom/ kernel combo suggestions? Or recent rooting guides thanks in advance
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Go with inbREDed rok its fast super stable and amazing battery life
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Warm!
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I'm on Eternity right now, but I switch between that and Warm. You can't go wrong with either one. As for the kernel just stick with stock for now. HTC hasn't released source for the kernel yet. So none of the custom one are fully working yet.
Alright I'm familiar with warm...I love warms theme... so ill try them all see what I like and that sucks they better release the kernel soon!!!
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spirithandler said:
I would go with meanrom as rom wise.
as in rooting it all depends on what h-boot your on if its h-boot 1.50 then you need to do the HTC method on their website
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Alright I thought about meantime I like speed mostly anyways and it was ultra plain and i have 100+ apps so I need space...also is their a way to get s-off with the HTC one?
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I've tried several different combos.. I started using Warm Two Point Three back in november. For some reason my dialer was locking up so I switched to MIUI. When I was on MIUI 2.2.17 w/duces super zip I was getting excellent battery. At which point I swore I would never go back to sense.
Then... all the ICS builds came out. I flashed around a few and then decided to give mikuney a chance. All I have to say is WOW. I really enjoy it. Anyway, good luck.
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I've tried several different combos.. I started using Warm Two Point Three back in november. For some reason my dialer was locking up so I switched to MIUI. When I was on MIUI 2.2.17 w/duces super zip I was getting excellent battery. At which point I swore I would never go back to sense.
Then... all the ICS builds came out. I flashed around a few and then decided to give mikuney a chance. All I have to say is WOW. I really enjoy it. Anyway, good luck.
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Alright ty I'm used to miui and cm7...kang project was my favorite ics rom.ill look into mikuney
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Its called MikRunny. I just upgraded not too long ago too and I'm still getting around to the million roms our phone has, but as of right now im rolling with Eternity with the stock theme. Ive tried Toast's, Joelz, and Kushdecks ICS's, Joelz ICS AOKP, Joelz ICS MIUI, Eternity, and ViperRom. The ICS roms are my favorite hands down, even ICS MIUI, but theyre still being worked on so I'm holding off for a bit til they get a little more stable. Im still getting around to others. I want to try the other MIUI, CM7, and the Sense 4.0 ROM being worked on. Im holding off on that til it gets a little more stable too though. We have so many great devs/ROMS its pretty difficult to get around to all of them. I kinda need to use it as a phone too lol. Try em all, theyre all great.
I would use Meanrom if you want everything worming and good battery life.
MIUI is ok... If you like a iphonish setup.... But bluetooth audio doesn't work with MIUI as well as 4g or 3D camera.
I have had this issue lately, my Rezound will freeze up and reboot randomly after taking a pic. Not every time, just randomly, here and there.
One time I couldn't get the phone to turn on until i did a battery pull.
anyone else experience this?
I Must be the only one, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
first thing i do when something like this happens to my phone is ruu.
then if still happens, i use warranty.
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first thing i do when something like this happens to my phone is ruu.
then if still happens, i use warranty.
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curious, do you do that with your computer every time you have a problem...
In this case the OP hasn't provided enough info about his device, what ROM, is the unit really hot... Has he flashed something new lately... He could be stock...
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curious, do you do that with your computer every time you have a problem...
In this case the OP hasn't provided enough info about his device, what ROM, is the unit really hot... Has he flashed something new lately... He could be stock...
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stock rom don't usually get random reboots so i assumed that either the rom or kernel have been changed and when you ruu the phone, usually the problems disappear.
and yes, for the question about computer.
when i get a problem with my computer, i backup my stuff to an external hard drive then i do a factory reset and start over.
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stock rom don't usually get random reboots so i assumed that either the rom or kernel have been changed and when you ruu the phone, usually the problems disappear.
and yes, for the question about computer.
when i get a problem with my computer, i backup my stuff to an external hard drive then i do a factory reset and start over.
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I just hit mine till it submits to my authority
Not rooted yet, I was going to root and flash Nil's ICS rom but the phone started getting flakey on me so I thought Id wait.
I have a replacement on the way from Verizon. This will be #3
Hopefully 3's a charm
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Not rooted yet, I was going to root and flash Nil's ICS rom but the phone started getting flakey on me so I thought Id wait.
I have a replacement on the way from Verizon. This will be #3
Hopefully 3's a charm
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i wish u a good luck, but if the third one gets another problem, u may get a fourth or want to ask for a different device like razr or galaxy nexus
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i wish u a good luck, but if the third one gets another problem, u may get a fourth or want to ask for a different device like razr or galaxy nexus
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my local Verizon store mgr told me if the 3rd phone has issues, then they will put me into another phone for free. I like sense and until HTC comes out with something else for Verizon, I dont think i'd swap out
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my local Verizon store mgr told me if the 3rd phone has issues, then they will put me into another phone for free. I like sense and until HTC comes out with something else for Verizon, I dont think i'd swap out
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i like sense too, but sense 3.5 is too laggy. i was really hoping for ics with sense 4.0, but sense 3.6 makes me sad.
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i like sense too, but sense 3.5 is too laggy. i was really hoping for ics with sense 4.0, but sense 3.6 makes me sad.
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I read that 3.6 will be better then 3.5, How much better? well see
After I get a phone that works and root it, Im sure the devs will have ICS w/ sense 4.0 baked in for our pleasure.
My Dinc came w/ sense 1.0 and i wound up with sense 3.5 on it before I retired it and it worked great w/ nil's Rom
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I read that 3.6 will be better then 3.5, How much better? well see
After I get a phone that works and root it, Im sure the devs will have ICS w/ sense 4.0 baked in for our pleasure.
My Dinc came w/ sense 1.0 and i wound up with sense 3.5 on it before I retired it and it worked great w/ nil's Rom
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well, sense 3.6 and up are ics so yes it's much better than 3.5 which is gb,
but sense 4.0 is totally different than 3.6. its like a new ui.
I was due for an upgrade a few months back and never owned a smart phone but was able to get this phone free 2 weeks ago so obviously took it. Was hoping to get a few of you photon lovers to guide me in the best direction to get the best perfomance out of it. I have gotten the phone rooted and that is as far as I went. Due to so many mixed messages as to what are the best setups I was just wondering if a few of you that have had long time success with a particular setup could give me some steps. Thank you very much for any help.
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I was due for an upgrade a few months back and never owned a smart phone but was able to get this phone free 2 weeks ago so obviously took it. Was hoping to get a few of you photon lovers to guide me in the best direction to get the best perfomance out of it. I have gotten the phone rooted and that is as far as I went. Due to so many mixed messages as to what are the best setups I was just wondering if a few of you that have had long time success with a particular setup could give me some steps. Thank you very much for any help.
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I guess my personal input is
1 -- if you are in an area where you can get 4G speed, then stop and just enjoy it
2 -- use it awhile and if it does what you want to do, then stop and just enjoy it.
3 -- remember that ICS is coming soon. if you are willing to use an alpha ROM without 4G, and there is also something you Must have, then consider a custom ROM. And then enjoy it!
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I guess my personal input is
1 -- if you are in an area where you can get 4G speed, then stop and just enjoy it
2 -- use it awhile and if it does what you want to do, then stop and just enjoy it.
3 -- remember that ICS is coming soon. if you are willing to use an alpha ROM without 4G, and there is also something you Must have, then consider a custom ROM. And then enjoy it!
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1-- 4G isn't a big deal to me since it is in limited areas around here and my 3G isn't horrible.
2-- I am enjoying messing with it, just figured if I can give it a performance boost I would.
3-- As far as ICS goes, I have it on my asus tablet and love it but been getting mixed messages on when that will be available for us if at all. If we do get it, I'm assuming any changes I make can be reversed ( correct me if I'm wrong ). Also thanks for your reply.
i love the photon but it will never be 4gbunlocked so that sucks. i run gummy rom installed with kitchen sink. i have zero problems with anything. ive ran every rom on here. kitchen sink gummy is best. be careful about installing bravia through kitchen sink i could never get it to boot so i left it out. beats audio is cool though, as is the bigger ics keyboard.
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Seatttlereign said:
i love the photon but it will never be 4gbunlocked so that sucks. i run gummy rom installed with kitchen sink. i have zero problems with anything. ive ran every rom on here. kitchen sink gummy is best. be careful about installing bravia through kitchen sink i could never get it to boot so i left it out. beats audio is cool though, as is the bigger ics keyboard.
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I would really appreciate if you could give me a run down on how to get this on my stock photon, also did you happen to oc you cpu? I have read alot of the threads on different roms but it becomes a little confusing for first time, also knowing how to revert back would be good too. Thanks alot.
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1-- 4G isn't a big deal to me since it is in limited areas around here and my 3G isn't horrible.
2-- I am enjoying messing with it, just figured if I can give it a performance boost I would.
3-- As far as ICS goes, I have it on my asus tablet and love it but been getting mixed messages on when that will be available for us if at all. If we do get it, I'm assuming any changes I make can be reversed ( correct me if I'm wrong ). Also thanks for your reply.
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If 4g is of no concern to you then i would definitely suggest that you unlock. The little tweaks and such you can make to stock rom just doesnt even compare to what throwing a custom on it would do for ya. The reason i would suggest doing that as soon as you can is because the latest updates will permanently lock your bootloader, this also includes the ics update that is soon to come. It cant be reversed at this time unfortunately. Do yourself a favor and dont get locked down to a rom that you will never be able to get rid of.
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willysp said:
I guess my personal input is
1 -- if you are in an area where you can get 4G speed, then stop and just enjoy it
2 -- use it awhile and if it does what you want to do, then stop and just enjoy it.
3 -- remember that ICS is coming soon. if you are willing to use an alpha ROM without 4G, and there is also something you Must have, then consider a custom ROM. And then enjoy it!
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you and your 4g addiction. 4g is overrated.
unlock that phone and get some ICS on it! you will surely enjoy. even some of the GB custom roms. all of it's quite fun! :silly:
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If 4g is of no concern to you then i would definitely suggest that you unlock. The little tweaks and such you can make to stock rom just doesnt even compare to what throwing a custom on it would do for ya. The reason i would suggest doing that as soon as you can is because the latest updates will permanently lock your bootloader, this also includes the ics update that is soon to come. It cant be reversed at this time unfortunately. Do yourself a favor and dont get locked down to a rom that you will never be able to get rid of.
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That to me was well said thank you. That being said,unlocking is the first thing I am to do correct? Then I will be able to explore different roms and such correct? If this is the first step then I'm off to learn how to unlock this thing.
Here's a great reference: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393519
Ok so I managed to get this thing unlocked and would now like to know the best roms....thanks everyone.
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Ok so I managed to get this thing unlocked and would now like to know the best roms....thanks everyone.
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Cybiks pure CM7 if you want everything to work flawlessly. Cm9 if you can stand a couple bugs and want bleeding edge ics. If you choose cm9 be sure to read the cm9 fixes thread for proper installation procedure.
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Has anyone had good success with Kitchen Sink and Gummy rom other than the guy earlier in the thread?
na7q said:
you and your 4g addiction. 4g is overrated.
unlock that phone and get some ICS on it! you will surely enjoy. even some of the GB custom roms. all of it's quite fun! :silly:
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In http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28393959#post28393959
I said
4G is Much faster, but I travel a lot and rarely am able to keep a 4G connection for more than 30 seconds or a minute or so. And more like 1G in my house, but I use 6M WiFi so OK. So, 4G for me is worthless.
Addiction? LOL!
Peace !
I have tried CM9 and Gummy from Kitchen Sink and for both roms can not get past the boot screen.
Ignore this. Didnt mean to double post, i is drunk.
Yep, success with both. Tell me your entire installation procedure for each and ill try to point you in the right direction. Its probably just a simple mistake. Also, the versions from kitchen sink are not the latest versions. Installing a rom the good old fashioned way is less convenient but less prone to error.
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I have tried CM9 and Gummy from Kitchen Sink and for both roms can not get past the boot screen.
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I don't think kitchen sink has been updated lately. there are more recent threads for each rom. this will help with cm9 questions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22915493
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Which version of cm9 are most people using? I grabbed the latest from Jokers site and seems good except I have no phone service lol.
Two different versions of cm9 and neither have a mobile network. I am using jokers recovery v3 to flash. not sure what I am doing wrong and damn the rom runs soo smooth, any help is appreciated. I am putting the roms on my sd card booting into recovery, doing a data wipe and cache then installing the zip from my sd. It boots into the rom fine although it does say something about an error once booted but the only problem I see is no mobile network.
Go to cm9 fixes thread, grab cm9 version 3.1. Wipe system/dalv/data/cache, install 3.1, boot, reboot to recovery, wipe cache and dalvik, install latest cm9, install gapps, reboot.
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I flashed nils business sense 2.8 sense 4 last week. It runs awesome, I love it. However since then all of a sudden, all the pics I have taken since the flash are no longer there. I even plugged the phone into the computer and they are gone. have accepted that many of my pics are gone. (I do have drop box, so that alleviates some of the missing pics)
I cannot get the kindle app to run. It works on my gtab, so I know it's not me. But I open it, select the book I am reading,and it comes right back to my home screen. I have in installed and installed a few times, deregistered it on amazon and reregistered it as well. Just frustrating that it's not working at all.
My last frustration is with the profiles, I have the phone on vibrate, yet it still rings, not good for work lol.
I even tried wiping everything and reflashing the entire Rom.
Any help would be great.
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I flashed nils business sense 2.8 sense 4 last week. It runs awesome, I love it. However since then all of a sudden, all the pics I have taken since the flash are no longer there. I even plugged the phone into the computer and they are gone. have accepted that many of my pics are gone. (I do have drop box, so that alleviates some of the missing pics)
I cannot get the kindle app to run. It works on my gtab, so I know it's not me. But I open it, select the book I am reading,and it comes right back to my home screen. I have in installed and installed a few times, deregistered it on amazon and reregistered it as well. Just frustrating that it's not working at all.
My last frustration is with the profiles, I have the phone on vibrate, yet it still rings, not good for work lol.
I even tried wiping everything and reflashing the entire Rom.
Any help would be great.
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Sound like your having bad flash problem, the pictures sound like they got erased when you flashed the Rom.. try reflashing everything with a complete double wipe (cache,dalvik,factory,and system)As for kindle its been known not to work on alot of the sense 4 roms released lately as well as adobe.. I'm sur there will be a fix eventually.. as for the sound profiles I believe theirs more than one way to control your sound I.e. settings, quick. Settings, tweaks.. play with them all you might have one all the way up and the other down.. I hope any of this helps you..
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Sound like your having bad flash problem, the pictures sound like they got erased when you flashed the Rom.. try reflashing everything with a complete double wipe (cache,dalvik,factory,and system)As for kindle its been known not to work on alot of the sense 4 roms released lately as well as adobe.. I'm sur there will be a fix eventually.. as for the sound profiles I believe theirs more than one way to control your sound I.e. settings, quick. Settings, tweaks.. play with them all you might have one all the way up and the other down.. I hope any of this helps you..
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This all helps thanks so much!
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Try biz sense 3.6. I would think it would work.
Use can use File Scavenger on your PC to scan and recover deleted files from your sd card on your computer.
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