Notable improvements from ICS to JB - Motorola Droid RAZR

Hey all,
I recently updated my device to JB from ICS and I have suddenly started to enjoy my phone more than ever.
I want to share some things I've learned and liked the most:
1. Speed
The phone is notably smoother. It is way faster going from 1 home screen to another. Going from home screen to the menu etc...
The menu pages too scroll faster.
2. App drawer customization
Just today I discovered an amazing thing. I can customize the app drawer. One of the biggest reasons I wanted to leave Android land..a person gets lost in the menu, looking for that one app.
3. Apps perform better
The Twitter app for instance runs really smooth as compared to ICS. No app crashes whatever.
4. Memory management
I purposely leave many apps running in the background and the phone performs equally fast.
I'm posting this to share one's experiences with JB. There may be something I might have missed. Please feel free to add it here. Also, let's make this thread a complaint hub too. If u have any glitches or any issues, post here. A solution will come about.
I hope some mods won't mind me posting a thread here. BTW, I had plans to buy a WP8 phone, either the 820 or 8S. But as of now the plan stands cancelled.
Thanks all the great Devs here and therazrguy for making this possible.
Sent from my DROID RaZr.

PROGUERAM said:
Hey all,
I recently updated my device to JB from ICS and I have suddenly started to enjoy my phone more than ever.
I want to share some things I've learned and liked the most:
1. Speed
The phone is notably smoother. It is way faster going from 1 home screen to another. Going from home screen to the menu etc...
The menu pages too scroll faster.
2. App drawer customization
Just today I discovered an amazing thing. I can customize the app drawer. One of the biggest reasons I wanted to leave Android land..a person gets lost in the menu, looking for that one app.
3. Apps perform better
The Twitter app for instance runs really smooth as compared to ICS. No app crashes whatever.
4. Memory management
I purposely leave many apps running in the background and the phone performs equally fast.
I'm posting this to share one's experiences with JB. There may be something I might have missed. Please feel free to add it here. Also, let's make this thread a complaint hub too. If u have any glitches or any issues, post here. A solution will come about.
I hope some mods won't mind me posting a thread here. BTW, I had plans to buy a WP8 phone, either the 820 or 8S. But as of now the plan stands cancelled.
Thanks all the great Devs here and therazrguy for making this possible.
Sent from my DROID RaZr.
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Very cool, man! This only increases the anticipation for the arrival of this update officially elsewhere.
And how's the battery life?

The update is a huge improvement in the refinement of operation. Much quicker and smoother to make things happen.
Only issues I have noticed, had a couple reboots.
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ygorp said:
Very cool, man! This only increases the anticipation for the arrival of this update officially elsewhere.
And how's the battery life?
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Battery life is more or less the same. Lasts about 6-7 hours with heavy use.
And what amazes me is the fact that this is a complete ROM. Everything works. I wonder how.
Overall its just an amazing experience. I cancelled my plan to get a WP8..
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bwheelies said:
The update is a huge improvement in the refinement of operation. Much quicker and smoother to make things happen.
Only issues I have noticed, had a couple reboots.
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Is it? I've had absolutely no reboots. Not even one. The phone does stutter if u try to do more than two tasks at a time. But recovers in no time..like if I start Twitter and Chrome and then immediately go to the home screen, I won't see any icons for a couple of seconds. That's about it..
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I believe the first time it happened was while listening to Google play music.
Second time I was browsing web while listening to music.
Have had apps randomly shut down as well. Just a few times though.
A major leap forward from ICS though.
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bwheelies said:
I believe the first time it happened was while listening to Google play music.
Second time I was browsing web while listening to music.
Have had apps randomly shut down as well. Just a few times though.
A major leap forward from ICS though.
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Yea. Leaps and bounds ahead of ICS. I having tried doing that though...lemme try..
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You might find your app in your phone by typing the first letter or letters in the "search" blank jumping out every time you happened to touch its down-right corner.
One of the greatest things google has done with Android ever.
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Battery life is increased and boot time is decreased. Phone operates cooler under load.

bladedai said:
You might find your app in your phone by typing the first letter or letters in the "search" blank jumping out every time you happened to touch its down-right corner.
One of the greatest things google has done with Android ever.
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Oh yea...did this happen on ICS? I think not.
Also, one more thing. The app drawer customization isn't available on any JB. Neither S3, Galaxy Nexus NOR the Galaxy Tab.
HOW COOL IS THAT!! :angel: :cyclops: :laugh: :highfive:

How do you mean by customize app drawer? I didnt get that...

Well, I assume this trick has been working since gingerbread.
Did not remember whether I had tried that with Android 2.1 or earlier.
And you got plenty chances to surprise that with your friends.
Little bother to use search to find an app even it is on the last page.
(Maybe google noticed that so they removed search from the soft buttons since ICS)
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romdroid. said:
How do you mean by customize app drawer? I didnt get that...
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Keep your eyes on 'All Apps' at the top..
1.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
2.
3.
See? I can make a customized app drawer!! This.IS.IT...
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What's the difference between verizon leak and the chinese leak? Beside the cmda and gsm
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Sisqo said:
What's the difference between verizon leak and the chinese leak? Beside the cmda and gsm
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I'm guessing the first and obvious difference is that it won't have Verizon apps. Otherwise I wouldn't know. sorry. But I'm so happy with this ROM that I cancelled shifting to WP8.
Its everything that I wanted from a ROM. And more.
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PROGUERAM said:
Keep your eyes on 'All Apps' at the top..
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See? I can make a customized app drawer!! This.IS.IT...
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I do believe this was possible on Gingerbread.
Also....two key upgrades with JB for me. Butter and Battery Life!
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Is this a ota official update you are running?
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r4zrm4xxx said:
Is this a ota official update you are running?
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Yep. It is official. I just got it unofficially...

JerseyFF said:
I do believe this was possible on Gingerbread.
Also....two key upgrades with JB for me. Butter and Battery Life!
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Yup yup. Me too. I didn't know it could happen on GB though..this isn't available in any other JB yet. I checked three devices:
1. S3
2. Galaxy Tab
3. Galaxy NeXus
All are on 4.1.X or 4.2.X but NONE have this app drawer option.
And oh the currents widget...BOOM! :cyclops:

PROGUERAM said:
Yup yup. Me too. I didn't know it could happen on GB though..this isn't available in any other JB yet. I checked three devices:
1. S3
2. Galaxy Tab
3. Galaxy NeXus
All are on 4.1.X or 4.2.X but NONE have this app drawer option.
And oh the currents widget...BOOM! :cyclops:
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Its available on ICS as well. Oh well. Probably moto kept a good thing going.
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ICS Launcher

Anybody here get the chance to use that yet? It looks nice from the Android Market screen shots, but it won't let you download the App for whatever reason right now.
Anyone try it yet? Thoughts about it?...
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Is it the same version as shown here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268003
polaris441 said:
Is it the same version as shown here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268003
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Yeah it's made by the same dev, but the version in the market looks newer.
Didn't see the original thread that you posted. Thanks...
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too bad google took it of the market, and deleted the developers account
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Alcapone263 said:
too bad google took it of the market, and deleted the developers account
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Yeah that's BS. I liked what I saw, and the developer was trying to improve it...
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According to their website they are still up and running, just have to go through other routes to DL their stuff.
I've been using icsl and even more his most recent hcl update and quite like it just because its different. Cm7+hc3d theme+ hcl= sweet honeycomb atrix.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268003
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D_one said:
I've been using icsl and even more his most recent hcl update and quite like it just because its different. Cm7+hc3d theme+ hcl= sweet honeycomb atrix.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268003
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I'm a Launcher Pro kinda guy, but I've been liking what I see with ICL.
ICL will help hold me over until ICS comes out...
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malickie said:
According to their website they are still up and running, just have to go through other routes to DL their stuff.
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True but still miss the Market for reading comments other than the XDA thread dedicated to it where they might be a little bit more biased...
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Garbage.
Motorola Atrix 4G
what about spd shell 3d launcher roflmao its $14.00
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ltdanno360 said:
what about spd shell 3d launcher roflmao its $14.00
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I messed around with that on my Symbian phones. They had a trial version of SPD, but it didn't do anything for me.
Since I've been on Android, I've used pretty much all the major launchers and try to keep up with the new ones.
LP is my all time fav, but ICS is nice to have until the fw upgrade comes out...
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Apparently Google wasn't very happy that we finished before them but ICSL will be back on the market soon and in the meantime you can find all updates and release information on the site http://syndicateapps.com/main/ICS_Launcher.html
We've been making a lot of changes in the last week to get the dock and app drawer to look more like the video on engadget so stay tuned
D_one said:
I've been using icsl and even more his most recent hcl update and quite like it just because its different. Cm7+hc3d theme+ hcl= sweet honeycomb atrix.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268003
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Hey glad to hear you're liking hc3D I feel bad that it hasn't been updated in so long, all of my spare time has gone into ics3D and the launchers but I've been working on a major update that I'm finally gonna be able to finish up and release now that the first few subversions of the ics cm7 theme are done
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Apparently Google wasn't very happy that we finished before them but ICSL will be back on the market soon and in the meantime you can find all updates and release information on the site http://syndicateapps.com/main/ICS_Launcher.html
We've been making a lot of changes in the last week to get the dock and app drawer to look more like the video on engadget so stay tuned
Hey glad to hear you're liking hc3D I feel bad that it hasn't been updated in so long, all of my spare time has gone into ics3D and the launchers but I've been working on a major update that I'm finally gonna be able to finish up and release now that the first few subversions of the ics cm7 theme are done
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Looking forward to seeing it back on the Market...
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ADW question
I have a custom dock and icon pack that is in a zipped file. The instructions say to "The docks and icons in the folders meant for custom launcher such as launcherpro, adw launcher, go launcher and so on. Don't apply with cwm! Just extract the zip file in desktop." but not much else...
How do you get ADW EX to recognize this package? THNX
link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1207586
Ice Cream Sandwich Loader 2.3
ccrows said:
Anybody here get the chance to use that yet? It looks nice from the Android Market screen shots, but it won't let you download the App for whatever reason right now.
Anyone try it yet? Thoughts about it?...
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Yes, I am running on my LG Optimus V. It has run smoothly so far (one fc, minor) but does have a minor issue with the app drawer. On the LG, the screen is kind of small and the apps extend up into the header area (Apps | Widgets) and the lower bar doesn't show up at all. Doesn't seem to matter much to me, I am pretty happy with it and think the guys did a great job on it. HCL looks pretty cool too.
This launcher works great on the Atrix, the devs are doing a great job and they've promised an ICS lockscreen for this week.
Keep an eye on their thread/site this is going to rock even more soon!
davinchi27 said:
This launcher works great on the Atrix, the devs are doing a great job and they've promised an ICS lockscreen for this week.
Keep an eye on their thread/site this is going to rock even more soon!
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Yep I've been going back and forth between the launcher and the theme...
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I was able to Jerry rig ics launcher by enabling keep home screen in memory choice in cm7.1
Now the dock and home keys also rotate
I installed it, am using it, it's definitely not 100% but it gives a nice look. It's making me want ICS that much more though

Anyone notice how unsmooth all the launchers are when scrolling?

The only smooth launcher is motorolas own launcher, every single market launcher is unsmooth when scrolling, is this true for everybody else? Does anybody else know a launcher which would scroll smoothly on our razrs?
Launcher Pro works flawlessly, before and after updating.
My tab's Flyer than yours! Unless this is posted in a Flyer thread, then it's just as Flyer...
http://android-gz.com
Yes horizontal scrolls are lagging for me
I use go launcher ex and it is smooth as silk. Blows every other phone I've ever had away. Makes my GF's DX feel ten years old, and even my DX2 is slow in comparison.
Using Launcher2, the stock Android Gingerbread. Seem OK to me. The default Motoblur also OK and not bad at all.
I am not picky about the smoothness of the icons' scrolling, just what one of my iOS fan friends told me. The overall system performance, reception and stability are more important than menu scrolling. IMHO.
Thank you.
If you want smoothness then you should go for a WindowsPhone, but ADW Launcher is coming close. In fact, even launcher pro has been running very smooth on the Razr so maybe there are some settings you've missed?
Go launcher, ADW and launcher pro all work smooth for me. Both horizontal and vertical scrolling are flawless.
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Go Launcher Is the smoothest launcher that I have tried way smoother then the stock launcher b 4 the update
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Bulletproof your launcher. Google it. Involves using terminal.
Makes it buttery smooth. I do it to every phone/launcher I touch.
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Yes I noticed laggy Launcher... I use 360 Launcher beta 1.2 (the best launcher ever)
He works smooth on my HTC Desire HD
But with my new Razr, Lags...
ADW Ex working very smoothly on my Rogers branded razr.
B407 said:
ADW Ex working very smoothly on my Rogers branded razr.
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+1 here. ADW Ex is amazing. I really enjoy how configurable it is!
bbabiuk said:
+1 here. ADW Ex is amazing. I really enjoy how configurable it is!
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I believe ADW is so smooth due to the fact it uses harware accelerators. Go Launcher simply runs off the phones RAM so it can become laggy at times.
ddemlong said:
I believe ADW is so smooth due to the fact it uses harware accelerators. Go Launcher simply runs off the phones RAM so it can become laggy at times.
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Pretty sure Ander Webs said hardware acceleration is not utilized as it breaks backwards compatibility. That's close to quotable. It was on Google+. He wants to use it but to fully upgrade ADW it would have to be a separate app.
Again guys, use the terminal suggestion I mentioned. Works wonders. Takes away redraws as well.
Here it is for those that don't Google:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/bu...draw-launcherpro-adw-credit-samsonite801.html
It works for all launchers. Makes a significant improvement in stock blur. Trust me.
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^^Thanks, Ill have to give that a try
I run adwex and its always been my launcher of choice but it does hang up at times and gives a unresponsive screen at times also. I also don't think it likes to play nice with the moto launcher periodically as i get com.home.motorola fc's a lot with it running,don't know if anyone else has had that happen...maybe just my device. Still, it isn't a problem I can't live with just occasional nuisance.
mcleaver84 said:
I run adwex and its always been my launcher of choice but it does hang up at times and gives a unresponsive screen at times also. I also don't think it likes to play nice with the moto launcher periodically as i get com.home.motorola fc's a lot with it running,don't know if anyone else has had that happen...maybe just my device. Still, it isn't a problem I can't live with just occasional nuisance.
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Read above, and do it.
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mistawolfe said:
Pretty sure Ander Webs said hardware acceleration is not utilized as it breaks backwards compatibility. That's close to quotable. It was on Google+. He wants to use it but to fully upgrade ADW it would have to be a separate app.
Again guys, use the terminal suggestion I mentioned. Works wonders. Takes away redraws as well.
Here it is for those that don't Google:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/bu...draw-launcherpro-adw-credit-samsonite801.html
It works for all launchers. Makes a significant improvement in stock blur. Trust me.
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Well, on anderwebs website it says "Use of hardware acceleration on specific features when possible."
Not sure if that means it device specific or what, but all the websites I usually read from even report ADW uses it.
and this was listed under the latest update too
Posted by anderweb
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/
I'll have to find the Google+ article and link it. I read your link though. That sounds very vague though, almost like he's covering his you know.
He almost sounded frustrated in the post I'm referring to. Now I have to find it. Lol.
But I do agree with a lot of you, ADW is the best. New update was nice too. But use that trick I mentioned. It'll make it better
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mistawolfe said:
I'll have to find the Google+ article and link it. I read your link though. That sounds very vague though, almost like he's covering his you know.
He almost sounded frustrated in the post I'm referring to. Now I have to find it. Lol.
But I do agree with a lot of you, ADW is the best. New update was nice too. But use that trick I mentioned. It'll make it better
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Yeah definitely if you can find it post it. I would LIKE to believe what dev's claim but sometimes it can too good to be true.
I haven't rooted my razr yet, I did my bionic and my other droids. Not having a fastboot in case I get into trouble was a little bit of a turn off. I know there is a process but it sounds like a pain.
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Yeah definitely if you can find it post it. I would LIKE to believe what dev's claim but sometimes it can too good to be true.
I haven't rooted my razr yet, I did my bionic and my other droids. Not having a fastboot in case I get into trouble was a little bit of a turn off. I know there is a process but it sounds like a pain.
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It's just as easy as the bionic man. Put Safestrap on afterwards, make a backup immediately, and you're fine. Safestrap is a wonderful safety net. Boots into recovery everytime. As long as you make that stock backup you're good.
I can help if needed.
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---------- Post added at 05:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:37 AM ----------
Here you go: https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s
You will have to scroll down through the comments to find Ander Webb. However, it's a great read, so I would recommend reading the entire article and all of the comments.
EDIT: Here is his quote: "This is a great post, I wish 99% users would read and understand it. But unluckily they just want their hardware acceleration turned on and the magic powers of it doing everything fly.
On a more technical note, I've noticed how expensive canvas operations (save layer, porterduff filters, etc) run about 2-4 times faster in software layers than hardware layers, and noticed how great hardware layers perform when using drawing caches.
The bad part is: for a developer, usually there's no easy way of changing the rendering pipeline while maintaining backwards compatibility. So I end up still doing almost everything on a canvas and loosing the benefits of the hardware acceleration for new devices: (" --Ander Webbs (ADW creator)

[Q] Facebook App?

Alright...so I just downloaded the Facebook App for my phone, and when I attempt to upload a new status message, the app just force closes itself. I want to know if anyone else is experiencing this and if there is a fix for this?
I am not sure if this makes a difference, but I am currently running on Slim ICS.
Facebook has been...and probably will be the single most hated app ever created that everyone has.
Every single version made never works right.
I've actually sat my phone on to of my router...with all other processes off......and still took 4min to even open the app
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Dagan_ said:
Facebook has been...and probably will be the single most hated app ever created that everyone has.
Every single version made never works right.
I've actually sat my phone on to of my router...with all other processes off......and still took 4min to even open the app
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Yeah, I am starting to hate it myself now, however, mines does not load that slow. My only problem is I cannot post status updates..and I don't feel like using a web browser to log on and do it.
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Yeah, I am starting to hate it myself now, however, mines does not load that slow. My only problem is I cannot post status updates..and I don't feel like using a web browser to log on and do it.
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Friend of mine using samsung 7plus on stock rom also having the same problem..still cannot resolve...if u dont mind..u can use other facebook apps..such as friendcaster..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsInVrLmNvLnNlbmFiLmJsdWVOb3RpZnkiXQ..
i strongly suggest this. its not perfect, but i would say its the best facebook app out there. def better than the default. one major feature that makes it stand out is PUSH notifications for EVERYTHING...not just messages, friend requests, etc.
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u can use other facebook apps..such as friendcaster..
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Same **** happens to me. It will work like once or twice when i flash a fresh rom. But after a few days it starts force stopping. Im tired of that
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsInVrLmNvLnNlbmFiLmJsdWVOb3RpZnkiXQ..
i strongly suggest this. its not perfect, but i would say its the best facebook app out there. def better than the default. one major feature that makes it stand out is PUSH notifications for EVERYTHING...not just messages, friend requests, etc.
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I'll try it out and see if it would work for me. If not, then I guess I am stuck using the web browser method.
orphan22 said:
Same **** happens to me. It will work like once or twice when i flash a fresh rom. But after a few days it starts force stopping. Im tired of that
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Haha, but mines does not work at all ever since all the updates. Has been really annoying having to log on to FB using a web browser (I use Chrome Beta or Dolphin. Either works for me) and having to update my status like that. Mines does not FC, but only when trying to update my status. Otherwise, I can basically do everything else, just cannot write a new status update.
It seems to work perfect in diferent roms. I been using euphoria for a few days and it works like a charm
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Mine makes my battery its biznitch. I'm talking like losing 8% in about 2 minutes. I just don't use it. Twitter on the other hand...
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Yeah, I know what you mean about the battery thing. That's why I just stopped using it, and from one of the suggestions on top, used Friendcaster up until when I deactivated my account about 5 days ago. I agree with that person that it is not perfect, but at least it gets the job done.
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Is XDA the rouge app?

I have not seen this happen before that an app using the display takes more juice than the display itself. In my case the display was on for 54 mins and Xda app was used for 40 mins. How is it possible that xda app itself is draining more battery than the screen?
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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I'm not 100% sure but I thought I read that the app drains battery because of the ads. If you use the paid version it doesn't. Can't remember where I read that. Are you using the ad supported version?
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I'm coming from a galaxy nexus and this is different usually the screen would be the highest in battery usage by far and everything else would follow suite not the case
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jasvncnt1 said:
I'm not 100% sure but I thought I read that the app drains battery because of the ads. If you use the paid version it doesn't. Can't remember where I read that. Are you using the ad supported version?
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I am using the ad supported version. I read that in one of the comments in play store that ads are draining the battry. Immediately rooted the phone (yes, I was waiting for a good reason to root) and installed Adaware. Lets see how it goes. Thanks for your reply!
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I am using the ad supported version. I read that in one of the comments in play store that ads are draining the battry. Immediately rooted the phone (yes, I was waiting for a good reason to root) and installed Adaware. Lets see how it goes. Thanks for your reply!
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I see you're using Good (notification) - does it still work after you rooted? Thought it had a root check built in.
Ever since I switched to this phone the xda app becomes horribly choppy and slow and will eventually crash after some use. I've cleared cache and data, but haven't uninstalled and reinstalled yet. I've just been exiting and manually fc'ing every time it begins to get slow.
Have those that are getting high usage statistics experiencing this too?
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flonker said:
Ever since I switched to this phone the xda app becomes horribly choppy and slow and will eventually crash after some use. I've cleared cache and data, but haven't uninstalled and reinstalled yet. I've just been exiting and manually fc'ing every time it begins to get slow.
Have those that are getting high usage statistics experiencing this too?
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It happens to me too. It force closes on me once in a while when I'm on the app for an extended period of time. Using the ad supported. If the ads are indeed draining the battery faster, I might end up getting xda premium.
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neotoky said:
It happens to me too. It force closes on me once in a while when I'm on the app for an extended period of time. Using the ad supported. If the ads are indeed draining the battery faster, I might end up getting xda premium.
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flonker said:
Ever since I switched to this phone the xda app becomes horribly choppy and slow and will eventually crash after some use. I've cleared cache and data, but haven't uninstalled and reinstalled yet. I've just been exiting and manually fc'ing every time it begins to get slow.
Have those that are getting high usage statistics experiencing this too?
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i had the fc issue for a while but just had to clear cache. It hasn't happened for quite a while. I have ad version and have NEVER seen it use power like that! At most 3%
Something has to be wrong here, haven't seen cell stanby that high either.
Android is upgrading...
flonker said:
Ever since I switched to this phone the xda app becomes horribly choppy and slow and will eventually crash after some use. I've cleared cache and data, but haven't uninstalled and reinstalled yet. I've just been exiting and manually fc'ing every time it begins to get slow.
Have those that are getting high usage statistics experiencing this too?
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I'm using XDA Premium, and I'm definitely getting the choppy scrolling, too. The app becomes almost unusable. It's ridiculous, because my Evo 4G ran the app like a champ. No battery drain, but the scrolling lag is getting on my nerves.
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I see you're using Good (notification) - does it still work after you rooted? Thought it had a root check built in.
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Yes I was using Good for almost a year on Vibrant which was rooted and it worked well. It seems working on Galaxy S3 too after root. Have to see tomorrow if sending and receiving emails work. Its corporate email, so today being Sunday not much work email traffic.
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I'm using XDA Premium, and I'm definitely getting the choppy scrolling, too. The app becomes almost unusable. It's ridiculous, because my Evo 4G ran the app like a champ. No battery drain, but the scrolling lag is getting on my nerves.
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Yeah I too have noticed that on the ad supported version. In fact XDA is the only app that lags occassionally on this phone. I hoped may be adblock will resolve it, but since you are having premium I guess not.
JediNinjafication said:
i had the fc issue for a while but just had to clear cache. It hasn't happened for quite a while. I have ad version and have NEVER seen it use power like that! At most 3%
Something has to be wrong here, haven't seen cell stanby that high either.
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Cell standby is high cause it was overnight and I was sleeping. So thats expected. But its really abnormal that 40 mins of XDA app has drained more power than 54 mins of screen on time!
I'm not sure if this is related or not, but I have noticed what I believe to be high app caches for the xda app. Just checked and it is 56mb. That's a bit excessive, isn't it?
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I'm not sure if this is related or not, but I have noticed what I believe to be high app caches for the xda app. Just checked and it is 56mb. That's a bit excessive, isn't it?
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Mine gets high occasionally and i clear cache. Am a gnex. Wonder if cache is also downloads from threads? I also noticed apps don't really close out when exit. Will be same exact spot as left them. Maybe that's the high cache..?
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Interesting thread, I've never seen that before, it certainly is acting rogue.
I'm using Tapatalk, the paid app that the xda app is built from, and I have no issues with it consuming battery, nor has it given me any kind of choppy scrolling. Tapatalk, being paid, contains no ads, so that does make me think the ads are at least to blame for the high battery usage.
I would contact an administrator from xda and ask them about it.
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Interesting thread, I've never seen that before, it certainly is acting rogue.
I'm using Tapatalk, the paid app that the xda app is built from, and I have no issues with it consuming battery, nor has it given me any kind of choppy scrolling. Tapatalk, being paid, contains no ads, so that does make me think the ads are at least to blame for the high battery usage.
I would contact an administrator from xda and ask them about it.
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I don't get choppy or have high battery usage, but occasionally get force close but i think i may have just figured that issue out. I use the free one, not taptalk but just had a fc and haven't had one in while but I wanted to share an app to another thread so hit home key, went to play store, found app, did share button but since xda doesn't show up in share list I'll pick another app just to open it then cut the link and THEN use my recent apps key to paste. I think its either from not closing out all the way and having another one open while accessing it from recents. Just a thought, at least from my end and how I use different settings to open stuff.
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EDIT: Another possible fc reason. whenever I get a notification in status bar and I attempt to open it there it goes to the app but never opens the thread or anything so well click my icon on home screen then force closes.

h0tw1r3's CM10 discussion thread *Discontinued until further notice*

Figured I would start one so people have a proper place to talk about it.
Inb4 people asking where to find the builds, they can be found on goo.im or the goomanager app that can be acquired on the part store. They can also be found on his github under his forum name.
I would like people to know that every device is different. If you don't occur one of these bugs, then you are fortunate. If someone brings up something that i do not know about, i will add it to the list
Known bugs (that i know about):
-Google Hangouts ~ Video but no sound
-Sound is out of whack in 8/23 build
~Possible Bugs
-some have also said their Wi-Fi wasn't working
-possible hardware acceleration breakage
Users must be on CWM 5.8.4.8 (non-touch), 5.8.4.3 (touch) RomManager Recoveries Page
OR
TeamWinRecoveryProject (TWRP) 2.2.1.1 TWRP2-i717
Else user will see "abort 7 errors."
If user is able to flash CM9/CM10, and get no abort status 7, yet still is having problems with a ROM itself, the problem is not likely the recovery image being used.
Many users have used the latest CWM and TWRP (mentioned above) to flash all of the latest ROMs, including: CM9, CM10, PA, AOKP, GB, ICS, etc. without any problems.
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Build #10 is out
http://goo.im/devs/h0tw1r3/SGH-I717/cyanogenmod/10
New Gapps at http://goo.im/devs/teameos/roms/eos3/gapps/gapps-jb-20120802-eos.zip
And I'll just place these right here too
gapps-jb-20120802-eos.zip
Gallery2.apk
Just making sure, since I haven't seen anything discussing it, but no one else's camera is working? I get the error cannot connect to camera, just like when I had the Atrix on ICS.
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there was a camera-related commit last night, so maybe they figured it out. We'll just have to wait and test the next nightly that has it.
Torch worked for me when I ran it.
Video Accel. I think is broken.
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Torch worked for me when I ran it.
Video Accel. I think is broken.
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I agree on the hardware acceleration but i didn't want to put it in the OP until i got more opinions on the matter.
Torch is blacked out in the notification settings and my flashlight app won't turn it on either.
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I can confirm torch working. Quite nicely, in fact. On CM9, there would be some lag trying to turn it on. Turns on instantly in CMX!
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Sinful Animosity said:
I can confirm torch working. Quite nicely, in fact. On CM9, there would be some lag trying to turn it on. Turns on instantly in CMX!
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YouTube worked fine for me..
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Works fine for me:
Torch
WiFi
Oc up to 1.83
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Is it just me or does cyanogenmod have a shaky relationship with cameras? Its nearly a deal breaker for me. Is it possible to put Samsung camera on CM?
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I think it has to do with drivers. When ICS came out, almost no one had a working ROM with camera.
Anyone having a problem with YouTube going all grey in landscape? In portrait mode its fine.
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I think it has to do with drivers. When ICS came out, almost no one had a working ROM with camera.
Anyone having a problem with YouTube going all grey in landscape? In portrait mode its fine.
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I've updated the OP a couple times since the thread was created.
I personally am also having trouble with landscape mode in YouTube, but i took a screenshot and it came out fine in my gallery. So it must be in the display drivers, might be related to the hardware acceleration, and the video i tried to watch earlier didn't load HD or HQ when i tried it earlier, I've been watching anime so i haven't tried any more videos
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The tabletUI kicks in too low... the gui looks awful at 172 dpi. Particularly notifications.
Thanks for starting this thread. I can't figure out Goo.im interface for the life of me lol..
I tried out the rom briefly (twice) and my experience with it is as followed:
Not working: Camera, Google Now, LTE not connecting [only Hspa (5%) and 3g (95%)], and Youtube, MXPlayer, Super Video in landscape had gray grainish playback. And weird thing when you flash and boot, in setup screen there is Emergency Call: Mother. I don't know what that means but it was weird.
Otherwise, the rom is super fast and smooth. However I think JamieD81's rom was much faster and smoother for whatever reason.
Keep us updated when next release hits
dsp0704 said:
Thanks for starting this thread. I can't figure out Goo.im interface for the life of me lol..
I tried out the rom briefly (twice) and my experience with it is as followed:
Not working: Camera, Google Now, LTE not connecting [only Hspa (5%) and 3g (95%)], and Youtube, MXPlayer, Super Video in landscape had gray grainish playback. And weird thing when you flash and boot, in setup screen there is Emergency Call: Mother. I don't know what that means but it was weird.
Otherwise, the rom is super fast and smooth. However I think JamieD81's rom was much faster and smoother for whatever reason.
Keep us updated when next release hits
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when you say google now, what exactly do you mean? and the LTE can apparently be fixed by changing your bearer to LTE in APN settings and possibly changing the interface from ipv4 to ipv4/ipv6.
no idea about the emergency call but there's something with the build that has to do with the landscape being gray, i couldn't give a cause with my current knowledge.
and about goo.im, you just have to go to to devs > h0tw1r3 > SGH-I717 > unsupported for the cm10 stuff
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when you say google now, what exactly do you mean? and the LTE can apparently be fixed by changing your bearer to LTE in APN settings and possibly changing the interface from ipv4 to ipv4/ipv6.
no idea about the emergency call but there's something with the build that has to do with the landscape being gray, i couldn't give a cause with my current knowledge.
and about goo.im, you just have to go to to devs > h0tw1r3 > SGH-I717 > unsupported for the cm10 stuff
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This is Google now. Tap your search button
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How about battery use? I was almost dead after 7 hrs....
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This is Google now. Tap your search button
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It's working as i can see.
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It's working as i can see.
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Except for voice
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