I had used ICS for sometime since the update was available for my phone (Live with Walkman) and I was very happy with the new UI of the new Android 4.0. I really liked the Holo interface and everything but there was a "little" problem: I use to play games a lot, and since I updated my phone, there were a lots of games that aren't compatible with ICS. The task manager from ICS will be the things that I will miss the most, but however I do not regret to had taken this decition. Now that I downgraded to GB everything seems to be better (specially the games part) and the first thing I do is search for a new launcher, since Apex Launcher isn't compatible with GB. I used to have Go Launcher installed on my phone before the ICS update, but I really hate the new interace that this launcher has right now. But I found a really good alternative: Holo Launcher. It is pretty much the same as Apex, I really recommend it. :good: and i installed advanced task manager too, since GB doesn't have one.
There are a lot of possibilities to have Holo skin interface on GB (Xperia S + ICS theme for example) found on this forum.
So I just want to say Gingerbread rocks! :laugh:
and I will never upgrade my phone again.
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I had used ICS for sometime since the update was available for my phone (Live with Walkman) and I was very happy with the new UI of the new Android 4.0. I really liked the Holo interface and everything but there was a "little" problem: I use to play games a lot, and since I updated my phone, there were a lots of games that aren't compatible with ICS. The task manager from ICS will be the things that I will miss the most, but however I do not regret to had taken this decition. Now that I downgraded to GB everything seems to be better (specially the games part) and the first thing I do is search for a new launcher, since Apex Launcher isn't compatible with GB. I used to have Go Launcher installed on my phone before the ICS update, but I really hate the new interace that this launcher has right now. But I found a really good alternative: Holo Launcher. It is pretty much the same as Apex, I really recommend it. :good: and i installed advanced task manager too, since GB doesn't have one.
There are a lot of possibilities to have Holo skin interface on GB (Xperia S + ICS theme for example) found on this forum.
So I just want to say Gingerbread rocks! :laugh:
and I will never upgrade my phone again.
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Yes, i absolutely agree with you. I like the battery and packet data management from ICS. But many my apps doesnt compatible on it. For example apps that need J2ME runner, all fail. And the UI, i like GB much. If i want such a thing that comes with ICS i'll search it on internet. And .... yuhuuuuuuu .... found everything i need :laugh::highfive::good:
Mine: SK17i
Well actually i upgraded to ICS then downgraded to GB (To play games of course ). But i missed ICS (especially google chrome) so much that i reverted back to iCS in a week Waiting for Jelly Bean now
i agree that GB still the best for gaming performance and compatibility with the most app
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Well actually i upgraded to ICS then downgraded to GB (To play games of course ). But i missed ICS (especially google chrome) so much that i reverted back to iCS in a week Waiting for Jelly Bean now
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Really? Google Chrome is nothing compared to Dolphin Browser man, haha you should check it out, I think is the best browser out there.
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Really? Google Chrome is nothing compared to Dolphin Browser man, haha you should check it out, I think is the best browser out there.
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Actually the updated firefox is the best, in my opinion. No problems with the new version, the only bad thing is its a big install.
If you remove bloatwares, lww gives good battery backup on ics. Also games such as riptide gp, cut the rope run very smoothly.
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Really? Google Chrome is nothing compared to Dolphin Browser man, haha you should check it out, I think is the best browser out there.
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Actually the updated firefox is the best, in my opinion. No problems with the new version, the only bad thing is its a big install.
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I use google chrome in both my desktop and mobile, So i have my bookmarks & live tabs synced across both the devices.. That's what i missed in chrome.. Not the browser as a whole
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Really? Google Chrome is nothing compared to Dolphin Browser man, haha you should check it out, I think is the best browser out there.
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agree... Chrome used to take 50mb of my internal memory, and didn't run that smooth at all, also if you sync your bookmarks with Chrome for Desktop you need to keep Sync activated on your Cellphone or it would lose all saved bookmarks :\
i also reverted to hybrom 17 and i am very happy with it.
Totally agree ...I reverted to cm7. Hope jelly bean is smooth like GB
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Totally agree ...I reverted to cm7. Hope jelly bean is smooth like GB
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I don't know but I don't think a Jelly Bean Update is coming for the 2011 Xperia phones, maybe it would be exclusively for NXT series (Xperia S, etc....) But I'm not sure, I mean if we have a Jelly Bean Update it would be great!
Related
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.android.chrome
It says it's incompatible with my Touchpad (maybe it's because of the 132dpi) so can anyone extract it upload the .apk? Thanks.
don't worry pal, got u covered ;-)
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...et-the-chrome-for-android-beta-apk-right-now/
It is compatible, I am using it now. I will post the apk when I get on my desktop. Works really well after 5 minutes of testing. Clicking on a youtube link closes the browser for me though.
installed it on mine from the market - works nice - just like the desktop version so far
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.android.chrome
It says it's incompatible with my Touchpad (maybe it's because of the 132dpi) so can anyone extract it upload the .apk? Thanks.
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Just an FYI if you want to use 132 dpi you should use this to fix the market, however since alpha 0.6 now officially supports 120 dpi (as an add-on option) you are probably better off just using that.
I am running at 120 now and have no issues with this or any other app in the market.
Pretty damn stupid that its only available in less than a dozen countries. Thanks for the side load link
No problem
Works well, unfortunately no flash support due to the fact that Adobe has pulled support. I've found myself using the default browser, I like all the improvements they have added since gingerbread.
wonder where the option to load "desktop" version is
EDIT: nvm, it doesn't support desktop view nor flash
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No flash support, and no user agent choice. Not even a "request desktop site". Kind of embodies the reason I felt CM7 was unusable. Beta? Feels like alpha.
Back to ICS Browser + for me. Uninstalled Chrome already.
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I really am liking it, running it on my nexus and touchpad. Maybe my chromebook will get a little less use, sadly my touchpad feels twice as fast.
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Shame about the Flash support, this is HOT.
So I guess in Android 5.0 this will be the stock browser?
Installed, works(there is some bugs).
http://chromestory.com/2012/02/goog...-questions-and-answers-it-wont-support-flash/
no info about extensions
no flash support
Running classicnerd ICS buttah
Somebody has same problems? Let's check if it is chrome bugs or classicnerd's or because of some apps installed.
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So I guess in Android 5.0 this will be the stock browser?
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Yeah, I'm betting that from Jellybean forward this will be the main browser. I think Flash on mobile is really done whether we, or the rest of the web, likes it or not. Once we upgrade out of ICS I don't think we will have Flash anymore. Adobe very begrudgingly updated it for ICS and I'm pretty sure that's the last time they are going to do that. They certainly don't seem willing to make any exceptions here for Chrome mobile.
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Running classicnerd ICS buttah
Somebody has same problems? Let's check if it is chrome bugs or classicnerd's or because of some apps installed.
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your problem is that little green guy in the lower right corner! i havent seen anyone use a task killer since froyo! LOL jp
as far as the browser goes it seems a tad slower than the stock browser. if you dont like mobile view you can usually go to the bottom of most web pages and manually select "classic version" like on yahoo.com. i still use the stock browser but once chrome will support desktop view i will for sure switch makes my TP look like a desktop
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Running classicnerd ICS buttah
Somebody has same problems? Let's check if it is chrome bugs or classicnerd's or because of some apps installed.
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Even I am having the same problem and no I don't use any task killers . I think we should wait until it gets a final release. How is it working in cm?
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Yeah, I'm betting that from Jellybean forward this will be the main browser. I think Flash on mobile is really done whether we, or the rest of the web, likes it or not. Once we upgrade out of ICS I don't think we will have Flash anymore. Adobe very begrudgingly updated it for ICS and I'm pretty sure that's the last time they are going to do that. They certainly don't seem willing to make any exceptions here for Chrome mobile.
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I wouldn't be too quick in talking about the death of Flash. There are 10's of millions of sites using flash on the web. It'll take years to change them all. Btw, in all the notices I've read of Flash being developed for ICS, not once did I read a hint of it being grudgingly developed by Adobe. As well, if that was to be the last of Flash development, why are Adobe right as we speak developing Flash Player sandbox for Firefox?
Chrome beta is not running well on this release of buttah. Erratic and some weird stuff. Both are early releases of course.
Anyone experienced this? The launcher reloads when using the browser.. :S
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I have the same issue. Normally it's after using something memory intensive like games or a long browser session my launcher would blank out and take 3 secs~ to reload all the icons.
Seems to happen more frequently than GB
yeah indeed i have the same feeling that it's happening more often. never seen this issue on any other ICS device though.. my friend has a galaxy S2 and i can do what i want without the launcher redrawing ..
Do other browsers like dolphin etc do it too?
Same problem here. Looks like launcher have a really low priority.
Ben36 said:
Do other browsers like dolphin etc do it too?
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I'm using Dolphin and my launcher doesn't redraws.
Ben36 said:
Do other browsers like dolphin etc do it too?
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I am using Dolphin and it did redraw.
I have a feeling though because I was updating and reinstalling apps left and right that the ram was eaten by the running processes. As of yesterday and today it hasn't refreshed on me. But then again I haven't been using the phone intensively.
Is it not the home launcher rather than the browser?
i dont have this problem. browsing via chrome beta, opened tapatalk (and whatsapp n trillian running) while listening to Walkman, the launcher doesnt redraw whatsoever.
i freeze several apps though, like google maps, powersaver, update centre, basically any apps that i dont use but in the Running Service.
Maybe the fix I used for previous android versions will work with ICS also? I'm pretty sure it fixed the issue on my Arc with ICS, am yet to try it with my Xperia S. Will need root however
In a terminal:
Code:
$ su
# echo ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 >> /data/local.prop
Enjoy
Value is already set by 1 as default
:cyclops:
Adding
ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1
To the bottom of the build.prop has solved the problem for me! :-D
Since this is kinda like the same issue i thought I post it here...
Since I have Nova Prime installed I redraws everytime I unlick the phone after I havn't touched it in a while.
Any suggenstions? Thx
Try what I said, works perfectly for me
Ben36 said:
Try what I said, works perfectly for me
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Well, thank you! I gues I have to root it then. So I will wait a few weeks. Currently not I the mood to do that.
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Well, thank you! I gues I have to root it then. So I will wait a few weeks. Currently not I the mood to do that.
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Lol unfortunately it seems the only way to do it which is a pain. But it def works!
Have you rooted your fone?
Never mind fixed it. Thx guys
I uninstalled some apps and works great now no lag on unlock or in games....
Hope it stays. Thx for advice guy
Its realy laggy in 3d games on 2.3 was great but sinds 4.0 my tablet lagg noting is smooth....
But when i restart tablet it works great for 30min
No lag and then i let it a little and voila gta3 lags even internet or worms....
Ow ad every browser closes it self dolphin chrome opera just browsing and then click and gone no FC just back to home screen....
Can any one explain why? Or what i sould do? Have rohan tweaks....
And now downloading lastest nightly and maybe titanuim backup all and do factory reset and update? Hope it will work donr think soo:'(
But is mostly the browser thats anoying.... every time when i have more tabs or sometimes downloading a thing. Cant be because the sites are to heavy.... its not a old tablet....
reggiexp said:
Its realy laggy in 3d games on 2.3 was great but sinds 4.0 my tablet lagg noting is smooth....
But when i restart tablet it works great for 30min
No lag and then i let it a little and voila gta3 lags even internet or worms....
Ow ad every browser closes it self dolphin chrome opera just browsing and then click and gone no FC just back to home screen....
Can any one explain why? Or what i sould do? Have rohan tweaks....
And now downloading lastest nightly and maybe titanuim backup all and do factory reset and update? Hope it will work donr think soo:'(
But is mostly the browser thats anoying.... every time when i have more tabs or sometimes downloading a thing. Cant be because the sites are to heavy.... its not a old tablet....
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Did you do a full wipe (not just factory reset)? Are you overclocked or undervolted?
Also what ROM are you on, some older ones don't have the best drivers...
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Also what ROM are you on, some older ones don't have the best drivers...
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Latest nightly cm9
Update it did full wipe and formate system. Put it on and install rohan tweaks and dpi 132.
And works for now... but browser still same went on a site and ping gone browser... re open it. No restore tabs or some thing.... it not cool on some sites hw does that....
The only way I managed to get decent video performance was buying Chainfire 3D and enabling the EGL drivers (yu need the purchase version for EGL.)
Aren't the Rohan tweaks outdated for use with the most current CM9 Nighlies?
and maybe i wil buy other tablet
If the nexus 7 comes for 100euro i buy one.... because like i saw in other thread. The touchpad isnt smooth..... not for me atleast. Webos was good but yeah im a gamer so webos got bored with 20games....
But yeah. I would only buy the nexus if it goes for100 euro. 200 to much for me and to much for something without hdmi or sd or even 32gb and 7" screen.
But yeah... and the touchpad is heavy after somw time in your hands... 700gr is a lot... to hold hole day..
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Aren't the Rohan tweaks outdated for use with the most current CM9 Nighlies?
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Ow maybe i shouldnt install it then....
You all have smooth experiance?
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Ow maybe i shouldnt install it then....
You all have smooth experiance?
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Mine is pretty smooth without any tweaks. Are you restoring these games or installing them clean from the Play Store?
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The only way I managed to get decent video performance was buying Chainfire 3D and enabling the EGL drivers (yu need the purchase version for EGL.)
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Whats that egl?
And video is good but gaming lags.
On 2.3 was very good fast but iics is good but after somw playing it goes laging.... rreboot and ibcan play for 1h again etc....
Loooks like after some time the tablet forgets the 3d drivers or something...
Sorry for bad explaination not so good in english...
But the most anoying is the browsers who closes them selfs.... hate it.... and cant find a fix.
no
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Mine is pretty smooth without any tweaks. Are you restoring these games or installing them clean from the Play Store?
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Noo cant will take long and its anoyng one by one every time. Because all will take days.. never used that...
To restore 100 apps no thx and install 40 non market apps...
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Noo cant will take long and its anoyng one by one every time. Because all will take days.. never used that...
To restore 100 apps no thx and install 40 non market apps...
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I would try doing it clean once and install one of these games clean from the Store, and see if it still lags. At least that will help diagnose your problem. I've played several shooters without major lags on mine.
bananagranola said:
I would try doing it clean once and install one of these games clean from the Store, and see if it still lags. At least that will help diagnose your problem. I've played several shooters without major lags on mine.
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Thx but its not ony gaming everyvthing lags..... btowser scrols not nice.. but no it works will report back tomorow when come back from school....
But i think my tablet has a big bug...
That browser closes him self even with 500mb free ram... one page can take all that...
Maybe rohans tweaks kill the apps dont know... but hate it....
I have 9/30/12 nightly smooth as glass, you may have something installed working in background?
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drfp said:
I have 9/30/12 nightly smooth as glass, you may have something installed working in background?
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Mine is running god awful as well. I have no idea why. I'm running apex launcher currently, but none of the launchers are smooth. They chug badly scrolling from screen to screen. Any advice anyone?
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Mine is running god awful as well. I have no idea why. I'm running apex launcher currently, but none of the launchers are smooth. They chug badly scrolling from screen to screen. Any advice anyone?
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Try backing up and doing a clean flash. See if it's still slow. If it is, it's probably some app in the background or some app misbehaving.
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Mine is running god awful as well. I have no idea why. I'm running apex launcher currently, but none of the launchers are smooth. They chug badly scrolling from screen to screen. Any advice anyone?
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Thats true they all lag i have ex launcher on my lg o2x and it isnt smooth but i just claen cache and its smooth
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It can be that.
I just did a fresh install from OaTs LnT to the latest nightly and I do notice the lag when swiping on the home screen (using Apex). Everything else works fine though, so far. However now that I think about it I reinstalled Apex plus data through Titanium BU, gonna try a fresh install to see.
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Mine is running god awful as well. I have no idea why. I'm running apex launcher currently, but none of the launchers are smooth. They chug badly scrolling from screen to screen. Any advice anyone?
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Apex Launcher version 1.3.0 and newer lags on the touchpad. I reverted to an older version (1.2.5), things are silky smooth.
Re: [ROM][UNOFFICIAL] Stock JellyBean 4.1.2 V4
Does this ROM not support multi taking? When I played a song and opened another app (agent dash) the song stops playing and when I exit the app It goes to the home page and the launcher reloads. The same thing happens even when I browse.
Am I the only one who has this problem? :\
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Does this ROM not support multi taking? When I played a song and opened another app (agent dash) the song stops playing and when I exit the app It goes to the home page and the launcher reloads. The same thing happens even when I browse.
Am I the only one who has this problem? :\
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it is because of ram lack
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it is because of ram lack
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Unfortunately this is case, although depending on what apps you need on your phone you may be able to get a more usable rom by removing things you don't want such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.
I have v3 of that rom and have removed a lot of the apps that came pre-installed as I simply don't want them. Also, certain kernels will help, (such as the experimental v8 kernel) and can also be configured to use zram which will help slightly, although it's not perfect. Even with all of the above I regularly get launcher redraws after web browsing or playing a game.
... there's a reason Sony didn't release Jelly Bean on our device.
The good news is that some real progress is being made on various versions of Cyanogenmod, so while Sony may have given up on us, it's not time to go out and buy a new phone quite yet!
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Unfortunately this is case, although depending on what apps you need on your phone you may be able to get a more usable rom by removing things you don't want such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.
I have v3 of that rom and have removed a lot of the apps that came pre-installed as I simply don't want them. Also, certain kernels will help, (such as the experimental v8 kernel) and can also be configured to use zram which will help slightly, although it's not perfect. Even with all of the above I regularly get launcher redraws after web browsing or playing a game.
... there's a reason Sony didn't release Jelly Bean on our device.
The good news is that some real progress is being made on various versions of Cyanogenmod, so while Sony may have given up on us, it's not time to go out and buy a new phone quite yet!
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I know about cm but the ui is not of the taste for most of the users!
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I know about cm but the ui is not of the taste for most of the users!
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To be honest I'm a big fan of Sony's UI. My other half has a Samsung Galaxy and although I will say that it feels much more fluid than my phone to use, I'd still rather have my phone, just working better! Such a shame that Sony underspec'd the hardware, but then this is nothing new -- I've had three other Sony (Ericsson) phones and they've all been underspec'd. You'd have thought by now I'd have learned my lesson!
hello. I'm using gingerbread rooted. and i want to port to new touchwiz nature ux which preinstalled in jellybean.
pls don't suggest me to upgrade to jb . because jb lags alot. i already used it and I also have used many cocore kernels but still it is laggy.
everybody is on jb, I don't think anyone would be able to help you out!
There might be someone who can..but nobody's on gb now. Most of the users are now shifting to cm10.1 as it is ALMOST stable!!!
lols
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everybody is on jb, I don't think anyone would be able to help you out!
There might be someone who can..but nobody's on gb now. Most of the users are now shifting to cm10.1 as it is ALMOST stable!!!
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i also tried cm10.1 (13/09)
first its not stable
and we can't use stock apps in this rom
jagdeepsingh4022 said:
i also tried cm10.1 (13/09)
first its not stable
and we can't use stock apps in this rom
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Whixh such 'stock' apps you can't use?
And I said its ALMOST stable, not fully!
there are only 2 bugs, that are offline charging not working and low in-call vol on incoming calls.
It's impossible because of different APIs.
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Whixh such 'stock' apps you can't use?
And I said its ALMOST stable, not fully!
there are only 2 bugs, that are offline charging not working and low in-call vol on incoming calls.
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secnotemyfiles, music player
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secnotemyfiles, music player
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I'm not sure what secnotemyfiles is. But if I read it as my files, you can use es file explorer and delete cm's and for music player, there is apollo, if not, you can install some other player and delete apollo if you don't want to use that!
He is talking about Samsung's stock apps.The apps must be ported to CM
It would be interesting if it could be ported to GB
Having such apps in a stable ROM
If it would be possible to port those apps to cm10.1 then that would be nice too!!!
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hello. I'm using gingerbread rooted. and i want to port to new touchwiz nature ux which preinstalled in jellybean.
pls don't suggest me to upgrade to jb . because jb lags alot. i already used it and I also have used many cocore kernels but still it is laggy.
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I am running GB 2.3.6 too. JB for I9070 is so laggy and frustrating. I dont mind using GB which is very smooth and stable. The only downside is the almost useless stocj launcher. I cant even hide app icons in this launcher and folder creation is not to my liking. I searched for TW 5 launchers but came across a Android Kitkat launcher which was tested and confirmed working in I9070. I have been using it for a couple of days now. It is smooth and problem free. Positive so far. You can get it from here. Hope this helps. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2514743