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Hi all,
I have almost had it up to "here" with my x2, and i want a faster experience.
I have tweaked this thing as best as i can and finally figure it may be time to install a different ROM...
So far i am rooted with the soak test 2.3.4... i have the tenfar (? is that it?) recovery (the green one with an arrow down it, the same one that i used to install from froyo to GB.
I was looking at liberty, or eclipse...
Whatever is fastest, has a lot of AOSP in it and has a decent camera. Some of them have the bionic camera?
I hate the x2 camera.
So far i have rom toolbox to download liberty if i want it, i am nervous about installing it though since i came from iphone and understand its nearly impossible to brick an iphone, i have heard differently about android.
Additionally, i DO know how to SBF, i have done it twice once to go backwards and send a returned phone and the other to install the soak test on my current phone.
Thanks for any imput, i appreciate it!
I have Molten and its faster than any other ROM I've tried. Very impressed with it! I think. Eclipse would be next. And if you soft brick it, no biggy, its usually what happens versus hard brick.
I'd suggest flashing multiple ROMs though, try one out, go to the next, and if you land on one you really like, then great! That's the one for you. But be careful! Too many flashes could cause flash addiction!!
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Have you tried v6supercharger? I have that with 2.3.5 blur and im a happy camper. V6supercharger will work with any rom. Its a script made by zepp.
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densetsu86 said:
Have you tried v6supercharger? I have that with 2.3.5 blur and im a happy camper. V6supercharger will work with any rom. Its a script made by zepp.
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Yes, i have a widget to that actually lol.
No, that is what i HAD to do when i got the x2 in july and it was still froyo.
the 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 seem to fix most of it, but even running THAT i want a better UI and there are other little things i would like to NOT have to do that moto forgot:
1% battery
Better tray area
Better animations
Better battery life
Most of this was solved by me uninstalling most apps i have on the device that are not necessary, freezing pretty much ALL moto and vzw bloat, using Launcher Pro with NO transitions, juiceplotter and juicedefender to monitor usage and kill data connections and disabling the android battery management, installing battery circle...
I would like though to see a REAL dual core fast experience and i just do not think that anything coming from the motorolla rom builds will give me that to be honest.
The only time you are gonna het a real dual core experiance is if/when ics comes. Gb is not fully meant and not to many apps even make use of it.
And on 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 the 1% battery is useless since its not accurate reading and i think it cause more issues then working right. On eclipse 1.2rc i was getting really crappy battery life compared to blur 2.3.4 and i seem to have gotten my better batty life back on 2.3.5 so im staying away from 1% battery mod. And if your phone is running horribly get a new one. I barely have any problem with speed on my dx2 unless i use 3g cause 3g just sucks.
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densetsu86 said:
The only time you are gonna het a real dual core experiance is if/when ics comes. Gb is not fully meant and not to many apps even make use of it.
And on 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 the 1% battery is useless since its not accurate reading and i think it cause more issues then working right. On eclipse 1.2rc i was getting really crappy battery life compared to blur 2.3.4 and i seem to have gotten my better batty life back on 2.3.5 so im staying away from 1% battery mod. And if your phone is running horribly get a new one. I barely have any problem with speed on my dx2 unless i use 3g cause 3g just sucks.
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Huh... how can the 1% battery mod make battery life worse?
Sorry about your 3g speeds. I have excellent 3g speeds where I am, i can steam music, load web pages and get 1mb attachments while streaming shoutcast.
i have had terrible 3g in las vegas on att... my 1x on vzw though is terrible compared to edge on att so i am glad it (3g) works.
I highly enjoy/recommend eclipse 1.3rc2. Its the one that comes with bionic camera.
I feel like people think they are getting bad battery life due to how you can see the battery dropping with 1%increments as opposed to 10% stock increments. I have experienced about the same battery life with the same usage no matter which rom I run.
I find eclipse to be very smooth running rom. Worth a try. Just make a nandroid backup before flashing and if u don't like u can easily just restore ur stock nandroid and get back to where u were.
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ashclepdia said:
I highly enjoy/recommend eclipse 1.3rc2. Its the one that comes with bionic camera.
I feel like people think they are getting bad battery life due to how you can see the battery dropping with 1%increments as opposed to 10% stock increments. I have experienced about the same battery life with the same usage no matter which rom I run.
I find eclipse to be very smooth running rom. Worth a try. Just make a nandroid backup before flashing and if u don't like u can easily just restore ur stock nandroid and get back to where u were.
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yeah.. about that.
I made a titanium backup of all system/apps
but nandroid uses system recovery bootstrap. so is that a COMPLETE backup as in a snapshot?
If so, that sort of makes titanium as a BACKUP tool obsolete, does it not?
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yeah.. about that.
I made a titanium backup of all system/apps
but nandroid uses system recovery bootstrap. so is that a COMPLETE backup as in a snapshot?
If so, that sort of makes titanium as a BACKUP tool obsolete, does it not?
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I never use titanium.
A nandroid backup makes a backup of system, data, and caches. U cannot use titanium to get ur system back to where it was before a rom flash. Titanium is only uses for backing up apps and data.
Someone could explain it better than I do but a nandroid is basically a snapshot of your entire system. Framework, apps, data, settings, etc...
If I flash a rom without making a stock nandroid then the only way to get back to stock is via sbf, and rooting and setting up again. A nandroid backup eliminates the need to sbf to get back to stock.
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I have found titanium to be obsolete from the very beginning as I don't mind redownloading my apps. And im not crazy about keeping their data either
Aldo if u are backed up to google servers(via settings in privacy settings) and install eclipse then whatever apps u had installed before the flash will automatically start downloading after u sign in to google during initial set up. It will also save all your settings such as wifi passwords and browser bookmarks. Very useful.
ashclepdia said:
I never use titanium.
A nandroid backup makes a backup of system, data, and caches. U cannot use titanium to get ur system back to where it was before a rom flash. Titanium is only uses for backing up apps and data.
Someone could explain it better than I do but a nandroid is basically a snapshot of your entire system. Framework, apps, data, settings, etc...
If I flash a rom without making a stock nandroid then the only way to get back to stock is via sbf, and rooting and setting up again. A nandroid backup eliminates the need to sbf to get back to stock.
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I have found titanium to be obsolete from the very beginning as I don't mind redownloading my apps. And im not crazy about keeping their data either
Aldo if u are backed up to google servers(via settings in privacy settings) and install eclipse then whatever apps u had installed before the flash will automatically start downloading after u sign in to google during initial set up. It will also save all your settings such as wifi passwords and browser bookmarks. Very useful.
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okay, so a nandroid backup will be quite large in size but is a failsafe in case you completely mess up and then do not have to spend time redoing it all.
Its like a system file that you can install if all else fails.
LIKE AN IPHONE BACKUP... where you ultimately get everything the way it was?
I would likely want to keep this on a seperate SD card even or my PC just in case the worst ever happens and i lose my physical phone...
Good to know because i HATE having to get all my stuff running again like i had it.
I am not familiar with iphone backups and how the work.
When u make a nandroid it will ask u before hand if u want it on internal or external sd card. I ALWAYS choose external sd card. It will create a folder on your sd card called clockworkmod. Inside that will be a folder named backup. In that will be the files for each backup you create. You can make one at any point as long as u have enough space on your sd card u can make as many as u desire. I usually make one every morning when I wake up and delete the one from the day before this was I ha e a very recent backup in case I screw up during the day and need to restore. I also keep backups of certain points in which I liked my setup.
Do not changed the names of clockworkmod folder or the folder in it named backup.
If u check out the sticky in general forum by moon shadow on creating a backup u will see the only safe way to rename your backups. Or u can just remember how ur phone was on the date u created it since it uses the date u madebit to name the nandroid file.
That sticky thread on nandroid backup will give u all the info u need to know about making/restoring nandroid backups. Very well written.
ashclepdia said:
I am not familiar with iphone backups and how the work.
When u make a nandroid it will ask u before hand if u want it on internal or external sd card. I ALWAYS choose external sd card. It will create a folder on your sd card called clockworkmod. Inside that will be a folder named backup. In that will be the files for each backup you create. You can make one at any point as long as u have enough space on your sd card u can make as many as u desire. I usually make one every morning when I wake up and delete the one from the day before this was I ha e a very recent backup in case I screw up during the day and need to restore. I also keep backups of certain points in which I liked my setup.
Do not changed the names of clockworkmod folder or the folder in it named backup.
If u check out the sticky in general forum by moon shadow on creating a backup u will see the only safe way to rename your backups. Or u can just remember how ur phone was on the date u created it since it uses the date u madebit to name the nandroid file.
That sticky thread on nandroid backup will give u all the info u need to know about making/restoring nandroid backups. Very well written.
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Right, an iPhone backup is a data file that is installed after a restore or iOS update.
It essentially starts the phone fresh, but then reinstalls your apps, sms, missed calls, browsing history, notes etc.
So you look as you did right before you went to work on the device.
This sounds the same. I have been reading the sticky, thanks for your help. I also made sure to click thanks.
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Right, an iPhone backup is a data file that is installed after a restore or iOS update.
It essentially starts the phone fresh, but then reinstalls your apps, sms, missed calls, browsing history, notes etc.
So you look as you did right before you went to work on the device.
This sounds the same. I have been reading the sticky, thanks for your help. I also made sure to click thanks.
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Me too. Now I know more about iphone backups
stevenjcampbell said:
yeah.. about that.
I made a titanium backup of all system/apps
but nandroid uses system recovery bootstrap. so is that a COMPLETE backup as in a snapshot?
If so, that sort of makes titanium as a BACKUP tool obsolete, does it not?
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I have found TiBU very useful for backing up user apps/data. If you don't have the time/Patience to re-download everything between rom changes, it comes in handy. A simple batch restore and all my apps, launcher and their respective settings are there. (system settings are not restored, I think there might be an option but have heard nothing good comes from restoring system data across roms) I have also found TiBU very useful when swapping different camera/gallery apks. Simply go in and uninstall one and restore a backup of another for easy comparison of shot quality and speed. Just my 2¢
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I have found TiBU very useful for backing up user apps/data. If you don't have the time/Patience to re-download everything between rom changes, it comes in handy. A simple batch restore and all my apps, launcher and their respective settings are there. (system settings are not restored, I think there might be an option but have heard nothing good comes from restoring system data across roms) I have also found TiBU very useful when swapping different camera/gallery apks. Simply go in and uninstall one and restore a backup of another for easy comparison of shot quality and speed. Just my 2¢
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would you freeze the old ones? that is pretty good idea.
I was thinking was there any reason i cannot just find the bionic camera app, for example and use that?
stevenjcampbell said:
would you freeze the old ones? that is pretty good idea.
I was thinking was there any reason i cannot just find the bionic camera app, for example and use that?
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I uninstall them once i have a backup made, that way i don't have any chance of duplicate names or anything, freezing may work though.. I would imaging if you get the Bionic camera and hacked gallery from eclipse 1.3rc2 it will work. I think the have to be pushed to /system/apps manually. Just remember to correct permissions. see if they work.
stevenjcampbell said:
Hi all,
I have almost had it up to "here" with my x2, and i want a faster experience.
I have tweaked this thing as best as i can and finally figure it may be time to install a different ROM...
So far i am rooted with the soak test 2.3.4... i have the tenfar (? is that it?) recovery (the green one with an arrow down it, the same one that i used to install from froyo to GB.
I was looking at liberty, or eclipse...
Whatever is fastest, has a lot of AOSP in it and has a decent camera. Some of them have the bionic camera?
I hate the x2 camera.
So far i have rom toolbox to download liberty if i want it, i am nervous about installing it though since i came from iphone and understand its nearly impossible to brick an iphone, i have heard differently about android.
Additionally, i DO know how to SBF, i have done it twice once to go backwards and send a returned phone and the other to install the soak test on my current phone.
Thanks for any imput, i appreciate it!
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I too was in the same boat. My experience thus far has been to go with Eclipse 1.3 RC2. It seems to be the fastest out of the box with no additional modifications. I consider myself a min/maxer. I don't play games or do any silly stuff with the phone. I want performance with calls, texting, email, GPS, and web browsing/forum posting. I've tried just about all the ROMs I could find and thus far, I have to say Eclipse 1.3 RC2 has met my needs.
I don't even bother with Titanium Backup anymore, in fact, since you use Nandroid to create the backup, there's no need to use Titanium Backup. The Nandroid does the same thing and so far, I've had a few problems back on the Droid X with it, as opposed to no problems yet with Nandroid. I figure using less resources is always better so I scrapped using it.
Following the guides for SBF, Root, and Bootstrap are easy (although I'm not new to this). The camera is superb on the Eclipse ROM, and the theme is absolutely terrific.
My very close 2nd place is the Liberty ROM. I liked it alot but found that directly out of the box, it felt just a bit slower. I did not install any apps to measure anything, just going by how things feel but all in all, I would recommend either of the two for the best experience, if your usage of the phone is anything similar to mine.
Hope that helps my friend!
stevenjcampbell said:
Huh... how can the 1% battery mod make battery life worse?
Sorry about your 3g speeds. I have excellent 3g speeds where I am, i can steam music, load web pages and get 1mb attachments while streaming shoutcast.
i have had terrible 3g in las vegas on att... my 1x on vzw though is terrible compared to edge on att so i am glad it (3g) works.
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Well i do everything the same with which ever rom i run but on eclipse 1.2rc it was so very poor in battery life. Just listening to music via power amp through headphones in an hr and a half i will lose 30% in battery life and with blur 2.3.4 in same time frame i would still be either 90% or 100%.
My opinion is that 2.3.4 does not read right we all know that and now we have this 1% reading the wrong info so the function is continously running using battery power just to give you this update by 1% and its just wrong.
And now im runing 2.3.5 and im back to having great battery life. Still get the jump but the battery function on stock for my phone is much more accuate. Btw i gave it about a week or so and it never got better. After my typical day 11 or so hrs off the charge its at 15-20% on eclipse but on stock blur 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 i have about 50-60% after the same amount of time.
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Difference between nandroid and titanium is that supposedly u can use titanium to restore apps/data/system data after doing a data wipe before flashing roms. Nandroid will RESTORE u to the position u were at before flashing. U can't use it to get apps and data back after flashing a rom(theoretically u could restore just the data portion but doing that after flashing a new rom could create more problems) and I say supposedly because I have seen many problems, such as force closes and.etc., come from using titanium to restore datas after flashing. I personally don't see the need /use for it when if u just backup to google ur apps download automatically when u set up after flashing(if u chose that option)
A nandroid is EXTREMELY useful when it comes to bootlooping. If that ever happens to you after u have done something. And u have made a nandroid before whatever it was u did before bootlooping. And u had system recovery (bootstrap) installed. All u need to do is pull battery(to power down) and.plug ur phone in and wait for bootstrap to come up(since after installation of bootstrap charge only mode is hijacked) and restore the nandroid. Which saves u from having to sbf. Aldo nandroid is great for getting back to an exact set up u liked and wanted to be able to return to it at any point. Very useful thing to have.
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Well i do everything the same with which ever rom i run but on eclipse 1.2rc it was so very poor in battery life. Just listening to music via power amp through headphones in an hr and a half i will lose 30% in battery life and with blur 2.3.4 in same time frame i would still be either 90% or 100%.
My opinion is that 2.3.4 does not read right we all know that and now we have this 1% reading the wrong info so the function is continously running using battery power just to give you this update by 1% and its just wrong.
And now im runing 2.3.5 and im back to having great battery life. Still get the jump but the battery function on stock for my phone is much more accuate. Btw i gave it about a week or so and it never got better. After my typical day 11 or so hrs off the charge its at 15-20% on eclipse but on stock blur 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 i have about 50-60% after the same amount of time.
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The thing is that with stock the meter only changes every 10%...so readings can seem a bit different. I also thought I got "better" battery on stock until I stayed with it for about a week and wrote down and took screenshots of battery usage graph.
I have just compared those graphs to my graphs from almost a week on eclipse. All have pretty much the same HEAVY usage. And trust me...when I say heavy....its heavy(just look at my.post count...99 % of them were done using stock web browser. Along with surfing multiple web pages at the same time....and I have pretty weal 3g signal at home so I constantly switch between 3g/wifi all day long)
And after comparison I can say that I see almost the exact same amount of battery time on both stock, eclipse (and the couple days I ran liberty also) .when running roms some.of the days had a LOT better battery times due to.me having the data toggle in the pulldowns so I could kill data when I wanted to..which saves a few hours of battery every day when done often enough. But besides that they were nearly the same except for maybe an hour extra battery life(on roms as compared to stock) and I attribute that to bloat removal since there is less running to drain battery...
And im not trying to come off as a prick or argumentative with this post. Just stating what my findings have been. Everyone battery.life will be different than mine due to individual use and also the fact that it seems like every X2 is picky/different in its own way
But I do get ur point of the 1%mod causing slightly more drain due to its constant need to update/call to system...but I can't see it as having that much of a noticeable difference besides the fact that you can "see in real time" how quick your battery is really dropping.
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Well i do everything the same with which ever rom i run but on eclipse 1.2rc it was so very poor in battery life. Just listening to music via power amp through headphones in an hr and a half i will lose 30% in battery life and with blur 2.3.4 in same time frame i would still be either 90% or 100%.
My opinion is that 2.3.4 does not read right we all know that and now we have this 1% reading the wrong info so the function is continously running using battery power just to give you this update by 1% and its just wrong.
And now im runing 2.3.5 and im back to having great battery life. Still get the jump but the battery function on stock for my phone is much more accuate. Btw i gave it about a week or so and it never got better. After my typical day 11 or so hrs off the charge its at 15-20% on eclipse but on stock blur 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 i have about 50-60% after the same amount of time.
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Not quite sure why you were getting bad battery life. I'm running Liberty ROM and I used ROM Toolbox to set my battery icon to 1% and I get great battery life. In fact, I had to go to the hospital and I was there for almost 24 hours. I forgot to bring my charger with me and by the time I got home (around 20 hours), I was at 14%. This was with texting, making and receiving calls, playing some Angry Birds and even listening to an NFL game for about 10 minutes.
The appearance of draining is more in how 2.3.4 is inaccurately reporting the battery life. When I reboot, it usually jumps back up about 5%, sometimes 10% and then it creeps back down slowly.
I probably rebooted 4 or 5 times that day since I was just waiting around having nothing better to do. And like I said, it lasted me 20+ hours and was at 14% when I finally got home and was able to hook it up to a charger.
What other apps are you running? I'm also running Juice Defender Ultimate and that has helped immensely. It will shut down the 3g connection when I turn off the screen and go into standby mode. I also have Blue-Tooth turned off as well as GPS location. I only turn it on when I need it.
I should also mention that I'm on an extended battery as well which has helped.
I used to be a on a stock KG2 carrier specific ROM until i realized the battery was unbearable and thus flashed to the stock KI3 ROM
"GT-I9100_XEU_I9100XXKI3_I9100XXKI3_I9100XEUKD1" specifically with the "CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KI3-v4.1-CWM4" kernel; things were great including battery life, performance (HSPA performance was a tad worse than the stock KG2 but nothing major), however, I would randomly get these restarts every now and then -which, knowing Android and the fact that it wasn't stock and all, were understandable- but recently I tried these new batteries (Anker 1900mAh) for the GS2 and well as soon as I tried them (both), the phone went into a boot loop (not just rebooting without booting up but it would load everything, including homescreen and media scanning etc and then restart - continuously).
Thankfully I had made a nandroid backup of my phone right before trying then new batteries and well even after restoring that or reflashing the KI3 ROM/kernel etc it still won't fix the issue.
Is there any solution besides wiping and factory reset? Took me months to set up my phone and I really can't afford to take a hit.. again.. (had issues with custom ROMs before and had to wipe it all) and no.. I don't even have a Titanium backup (up-to-date at least - perhaps a way I could still make that with this reboot issue? ..could make things easier).
Check out the various random reboot threads.
Might not be anything at all to do with your software.
Could be hardware like battery terminal connections etc.
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I've heard about phones doing these kind of things when used with bad third party batteries that could be whats happening. I would only stick a samsung battery into the precious galaxy s2 for fear of it combusting.
Hi all!
I bought my SGSII around January and already am noticing a big performance drop. It lags quite bad while watching videos, when listening to music it lags also, even something as small as unlocking it from the lock screen its quite laggy. My phone is not rooted at all and tbh would rather not until my warranty expires or until I don't care anymore lol. I also notice a high amount of RAM being used, I know that RAM not being used is a waste but to me this is unusually high; at the best of times I have around 150 MB free (~680MB used) going as low as having only ~50MB free.
Any suggestions on how to improve performance, anything short of rooting it, or any ideas on what could be causing such a drop in performance/high amount of RAM being used would be a great help!
Thanks in advance.
Root it, clear cache/Dalvik every now & then. If you're not rebooting regularly (say every day), try that if you don't want to root.
You could also back everything up to external SD/PC, format the internal SD card & reflash stock firmware via Odin.
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Root it, clear cache/Dalvik every now & then. If you're not rebooting regularly (say every day), try that if you don't want to root.
You could also back everything up to external SD/PC, format the internal SD card & reflash stock firmware via Odin.
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Even running stock I never had more than 450-500mb of ram used. Should definitely root it to remove some bloat and run a custom rom
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Root it, clear cache/Dalvik every now & then. If you're not rebooting regularly (say every day), try that if you don't want to root
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Haha I feel stupid now, rebooted and that cleared up a lot!! Im now using around 300 MB lol thanks!
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could try format or just factory reset it to get rid of some old rubbish
my sgs1 started going slow so i did factory reset and was alot faster even after reinstalling my apps
I know this has been mentioned in a few threads already, but it made such a difference for me I felt as if it should be on the front page, at least for a bit.
After I reset and manually reinstalled my apps from the market it's like I bought a new tablet. No lag, no anr, stock browser performs almost like the browser on my beastly gaming pc, games all work with much better frame rates. Everything is just so SMOOTH. I can even use the thing like normal when installing huge games from the market and not even notice its multitasking. All this with no tweaks of any kind.
Obviously YMMV but I can't recommend a reset highly enough from my own experience.
I'm gonna factory reset once I can get root and back up my apps
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Yeah I kind of wish I still had root, but to be honest apart from ad blocking it only really used it to apply much needed tweaks, which I don't seem to need ny more.
Also, I I read in another thread someone managed to restore root on JB after a reset, going to try that tonight and I'll report back.
Yeah, I was able to restore root (I was rooted from ICS before the upgrade and factory reset). I think if you are able to get a root prompt from adb shell you will be able to restore. I used the debugfs method, it gave me a number of error messages during the process but by the end I had root again.
Happy days
ian1 said:
I'm gonna factory reset once I can get root and back up my apps
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I lost root but it was worth it (lost root during the upgrade and couldn't get it back anyway). Non-rooted JB after the factory reset is far smoother than 4.03 with root. It is a good trade off and I'm assuming someone will figure out how to root again anyway.
fatski said:
I know this has been mentioned in a few threads already, but it made such a difference for me I felt as if it should be on the front page, at least for a bit.
After I reset and manually reinstalled my apps from the market it's like I bought a new tablet. No lag, no anr, stock browser performs almost like the browser on my beastly gaming pc, games all work with much better frame rates. Everything is just so SMOOTH. I can even use the thing like normal when installing huge games from the market and not even notice its multitasking. All this with no tweaks of any kind.
Obviously YMMV but I can't recommend a reset highly enough from my own experience.
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Project Butter. Google it. Understand.
I'd say to play around with it more before giving your final verdict, that's why I Ended up with a custom rom
I've factory resetted plenty of times but browsing doesn't perform as fluid as my og razr
I second this - my experience was
ICS to JB = not bad
Factory reset JB via JB 3x but did not wait too long between each reset = Slower I/O scores via benchmarks
BUT
Factory reset via Volume down and power - loaded to Home screen (but not setting up anything) and waited 1 hour with screen turned on, WIFI off and performance.
Then setup = Faster I/O scores via benchmarks by about 10 secs and after 3 days I really think it is now faster than it was - ALL STOCK.
Can't wait for root method - as I would like to try some of the tweeks to see if I can put the PRIME just a little bit more...
Overall very happy - but I was before!
youngnex said:
Project Butter. Google it. Understand.
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I'm aware of Butter man, but it wasn;t even close to buttery till I did the reset, it was more like fudge.
While I don't notice improvements in the responsiveness (it was already fine for me), doing a factory reset after JB update solved annoying FC of the stock gallery and the stock camera apps.
(reset done using the power+vol down method)
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For me a cold reboot improved response times and smoothness for me.
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fatski said:
I'm aware of Butter man, but it wasn;t even close to buttery till I did the reset, it was more like fudge.
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i know but resetting is making sure you feel the butter. :silly:
Something has to be done.
youngnex said:
i know but resetting is making sure you feel the butter. :silly:
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My prime is running so poorly. I get many FC and things are not smooth. Multi-tasking is impossible. Browsers take forever to launch and load previous tabs. I hate to start over... but I'm getting to the point where I think it's for the best. My butter is more like molasses on a cold Wyoming morning.
After the update to JB I have a lot of spontanious reboots.
Maybe I should try a factory reset....
I'm also considering doing a factory reset...
So just to be clear, I'm not rooted and from a data/application/settings loss perspective, what do I need to make sure I have backed up? All my apps / widgets will re-install upon reset I assume, but what about my settings and files?
when i hold the power+vol down, i see: RCK android usb data wipe. what am i suppose to do from there?
I factory reset my Prime a week or so before JB, and when I installed JB, there wasn't much installed. Is it still worth the factory reset?
I've installed plenty of apps and games, hate to have to reset and re install everything again. Does a factory reset make it like CM10 speeds on the HTC One X like this video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_eFGpET3dc ?
frazbox said:
when i hold the power+vol down, i see: RCK android usb data wipe. what am i suppose to do from there?
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Press vol down 3 times to highlight ''wipe data''. Then, press vol up to execute it. It will take a couple of minutes to complete.
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jynlude said:
I'm also considering doing a factory reset...
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Try cold boot first (power off, volume down & power button and leave to boot). I have not done a factory reset yet, but after a cold boot made a definite improvement.
- Stv
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I don't get it, aren't you able to root the device again after the JB update? Right now I am running rooted JB (rooted in ICS then OTA update).
I appreciate if anyone could help me out here since I am debating if I should factory reset or not, I really want to stay rooted. Mainly so i can use my ps3 controller.
A couple of months ago I installed the AOKP ICS rom Then JB and found it about as good as you could want, but this is not about how good the rom is. I have been flashing a couple of years and know enough to get by. As much as I loved the rom i was almost ready to flash back to stock because I was unable to get any battery life. I would always use at least 8% at night and up to 15% during the day. I just couldn't understand how so many people were saying they were getting great battery life. I went through all the posts and tried every option i could find, watching wakelocks every time I picked up the phone, changing my router settings, turning off everything on the phone that made it a great phone. When I originally installed ICS I did a total factory reset, cleared all cashes. Spent hours reading everything I could find about battery life problems. When i flashed JB it was the same thing. I have been flashing the updates every week. Clearing everything every time.
Last night i was about done and figured I would try this one more time. I downloaded the rom and Gapps again, but this time i did a factory reset 3 times and cleared the cashes 3 times. Then when the system was installed I downloaded clean apps from the the Play store. I installed everything normal, all sync settings on, the phone is set up just like you would want it with full functional apps. This morning I woke up and checked the battery and it was down 2% for 5hrs! That is the best I have ever seen and I think about all you could ask for. The history had no wake locks, No awake times when the phone was sleeping. Now at 10 hrs and and 5 hrs of lite use I am at 82% and still no wake locks or anything unexpected by any apps like I always had before. Google Now is running, sync is on, like I said the phone is set up normal not everything shut off.
I am not saying that you need to clear everything 3 , 4 or 10 times when you flash a rom or not use TI to restore your Apps. What I am saying is, if after flashing a rom you are not getting good battery life or you are having any strange lock ups with your phone THEN start from scratch and make sure every app on your phone is perfect. BTW my phone was getting terrible battery life but working as smooth as butter all the time. I didint have to wait 3 battery cycles to get get 10 hrs out of my phone, it worked as I said from the start. If you phone isn't doing as good as other people are and your not expecting to get 2 days with 10 hrs of screen time, Clean out everything and start over, esp on a Rom like AOKP, these phones should work GREAT and it only takes one bad app to kill things.
So listen to the developers and clean house if things aren't right !!!!!!! It takes more time at first but over the last 2 months I have spent about 10 times more trying to fix the phone.
Do some of you other users get 8+ hours of screen on time? I got my i777 around launch time and I don't think I have seen over 4hrs of screen on time. I have tried a lot of different ROMs, like aokp, shoshock2, and currently cm10, and my general consensus is 3+ hours is good.
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Trebla_Imein said:
Do some of you other users get 8+ hours of screen on time? I got my i777 around launch time and I don't think I have seen over 4hrs of screen on time. I have tried a lot of different ROMs, like aokp, shoshock2, and currently cm10, and my general consensus is 3+ hours is good.
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Never seen 8 hours with stock battery. Max I have gotten is 5 and a half. I could probably get more on Shostock but I was on AOKP JB
I'm going to have to do this tonight. I'm really not looking forward to it though because I've been trying to unlock things in Fruit Ninja but I want to get this thing working right so that's how it goes.
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SteveO390 said:
I'm going to have to do this tonight. I'm really not looking forward to it though because I've been trying to unlock things in Fruit Ninja but I want to get this thing working right so that's how it goes.
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Just back up data
im going to try this, i was using the wipe 3 or 4 times method when i had a sony x10 phone a year ago and it seemed to make a difference.
aokp is a really great rom and on the previous version my phone could last a full 24 hours (about 9 of those hours probbaly not really any use)
latest version the battery is a bit trippy for me so im going to try this and i wont be surprised if this is all true.
thanks!
Just an update. 16 hrs, 1 hr screen 69% battery left.
To SteveO I would not restore any apps you have with a backup. If you do the complete wipe it seems that the Play store actually downloaded all the Apps fresh on its own. I think that may have something to do with really getting a clean plate. I have wiped many times and only one other time did the Play store auto load my apps.
I also recommend wiping internal and external storage everynow and then. Backup pics, music and the such
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Just an update. 16 hrs, 1 hr screen 69% battery left.
To SteveO I would not restore any apps you have with a backup. If you do the complete wipe it seems that the Play store actually downloaded all the Apps fresh on its own. I think that may have something to do with really getting a clean plate. I have wiped many times and only one other time did the Play store auto load my apps.
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I had a feeling that's what you meant, to NOT restore a back up.
As for the "auto load" from the Play store, are you referring to when it asks you on start up if I want to restore my apps from Google Play you're suggesting I say yes, correct? Is that what you did?
I was planning on making a list of what's on my phone now and manually downloading each one and installing.
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So what's the point here?
In order to get great (or better in this case) battery life of AOKP, do
1. wipe 3 times
2. install and run one of the clean app from Google Play. Which app, actually?
For some reason, I "feel" that after performing TB backups (user data backups), the battery life gets worse.
There really isnt any "point". I was just letting others know what i did to GREATLY increase my battery life. I dont think it has anything to dowith this ROM. I think if you flash any Rom and your not happy with the Battery life it may be a bad apk that doesnt get cleaned out with the normal route.
I advise installing ALL your apps clean, not any one.
I mentioned that the PLAY store automatically offered to reinstall all my apps after this clean wipe. Other times i have flashed it didnt do this so it makes me think that for some reason something doesnt really get cleared as we think it should, again no expert, only telling what i found after about 20 Rom flashes over the last couple of years.
votinh said:
So what's the point here?
In order to get great (or better in this case) battery life of AOKP, do
1. wipe 3 times
2. install and run one of the clean app from Google Play. Which app, actually?
For some reason, I "feel" that after performing TB backups (user data backups), the battery life gets worse.
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I just had a really good test of this procedure. My usb port crapped out so I returned my phone for a warranty replacement.
My old handset has been laggy since upgrading to Jelly Bean. I'd always restore apps through Tibu, only restored data on a few apps.
Fresh clean I777 stock Sammy, runs smooth on ICS.
Newly rooted, AOKP 11/9, basic GAPPS and the same Tibu restore => laggy.
So I factory reset, wiped everything including internal storage, let Play restore my apps, input all the app data manually, and this phone is smooth.
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