Still love this phone, rocking 4.1.2 - Motorola Droid RAZR

This "NoFrills CPU" app is fantastic for the 4.1.2 build on our phone. There's a setting in the app to prevent any other app from changing the clocks. After turning that on, I finally have true 1200mhz 24/7. I've been complaining about my phone up and down to my wife and after getting rid of setCPU and finding NoFrills, I feel really like there's no need for a new one. I'll rock this bad boy another couple of years!

chronster said:
This "NoFrills CPU" app is fantastic for the 4.1.2 build on our phone. There's a setting in the app to prevent any other app from changing the clocks. After turning that on, I finally have true 1200mhz 24/7. I've been complaining about my phone up and down to my wife and after getting rid of setCPU and finding NoFrills, I feel really like there's no need for a new one. I'll rock this bad boy another couple of years!
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I've had this device before my time on xda, bought 2011 but had problems with the display. But I really miss this device!

hellcat50 said:
I've had this device before my time on xda, bought 2011 but had problems with the display. But I really miss this device!
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I used it for 3.5 years,it's awesome phone!
And I still have it,I gave it to my wife to practice on it,she doesn't like touch screens

chronster said:
This "NoFrills CPU" app is fantastic for the 4.1.2 build on our phone. There's a setting in the app to prevent any other app from changing the clocks. After turning that on, I finally have true 1200mhz 24/7. I've been complaining about my phone up and down to my wife and after getting rid of setCPU and finding NoFrills, I feel really like there's no need for a new one. I'll rock this bad boy another couple of years!
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I've been using my Moto X for about a month now and after reading your post, I decided to restore my Droid RAZR MAXX back to 4.1.2 and start using it again :good:

I was one of the early adopters of RAZR XT910 and used it for about 2 years and sold it. No matter how many better phones i bought, Razr always had its special place here. I got a Droid Razr Maxx with dead mainboard in great cosmetic condition and i got a XT910 with cracked screen and working mainboard two months ago, made myself a Franken Droid RAZR MAXX XT910 in mint condition. I sometimes get it out of the drawer to listen to music.It is a great device of its time and beyond.
ps : it would be nice to watch a video review of XT910/912 in 2016

could you please tell me the fastest Rom for the moto xt910?android 4.1.2or4.4.2or4.4.4or5.1.1or6.0.1
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Lin Yongsheng said:
could you please tell me the fastest Rom for the moto xt910?android 4.1.2or4.4.2or4.4.4or5.1.1or6.0.1
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Lin Yongsheng said:
could you please tell me the fastest Rom for the moto xt910?android 4.1.2or4.4.2or4.4.4or5.1.1or6.0.1
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I can say the fastest and most stable is the official 4.1.2 and custom roms based on stock 4.1.2 like ArtMod 4.3 for xt910. I just added
Arrow launcher as home
Blackplayer as music app
Piktures as the gallery app
The thing have still plenty of life left in it. Using an S7 edge daily but you can't beat the classics like xt910. lol. :laugh:

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How excited is everyone about ICS

I have been playing with my friends gnex and have to say that I have been happy with my maxx and didn't care about ICS but after playing with it a bit I am getting anxious about it coming to the RAZR. I got the 181 update a few days before some others I know I just hope I get ICS before my friends so I can show it off. I just realized I'm a f'ing nerd!!
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I just want to see ICS in my baby XT910 :c. I'm so desperate
I think that most people want to have the ICS on the razrs just because "it is not here yet but it definitely will come one day"...
You know - everyone wants exactly that what they can't have so that's the main reason of that ICS hype.... ;-)
...to be hones I can't wait to get it.... :-D
I want it and I want it now. I had the leak installed but it was a little too buggy for my tastes so I'm back on stock just waiting.
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I want it and I want it now. I had the leak installed but it was a little too buggy for my tastes so I'm back on stock just waiting.
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But you did use the chinese leak, I guess? Because from the new leak you cannot downgrade anyway.
btw: The new leak is working fine, very stable and fast.
Can someone tell me why they are crazy for ICS? I'm having 2.3.6 and it works pretty great.
I'm looking forward to trying out the new 'webtop replacement' because the performance of running linux on android is simply unusable.
I have both GNEX and Razr Maxx so I am not too crazy about having ICS...
In fact... I am (secretly) hoping the razr maxx ICS roll out later because I need to have a 2.3 device to test my app........
You guys are so silly...
I've had ICS 4.0.3 on my MAXX now for a few weeks using the first "official" supposed leak that came out. I even kept root on it. I've noticed SERIOUS changes!! First off the GUI is a whole lot smoother. The battery life? What can I say.. it's the MAXX.. I've noticed NO changes in battery life. In fact, I'm happier with the little things.. like on the email app that comes with ICS you can sync ALL mail, not just the last 30 days like on GB. (HUGE saver for me!) The keyboard.. I do miss the stock MOTOROLA GB keyboard. Sure wish I knew where I could get the apk for the MOTOROLA GB keyboard to bring it back. The camera even works faster (although the first photo still usually is ALWAYS blurry like it was on gb when trying to hurry and take a picture).
I'm overseas right now in Italy using my iPhone because I have the SIM activated but i'm SERIOUSLY wishing my MAXX would work over here because this iphone is crap compared to it! The only thing the MAXX has always sucked at is the camera, in which case the iphone spanks it all day long.
Any questions I can try to answer after using it for work for the past few weeks.
Later!
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CRAP! Forgot to mention the BEST part about ICS over GB. My data connect issues are COMPLETELY gone. I've been through 3 new micro sims, a replacement razr, about to give up and decided to give ICS a shot and bam, 4G switches back to 3G without any issues now. Mobile hotspot is even more stable as well.
BTW one more ICS advantage is call recording included right in the firmware! Very nice feature that worths encountering "Customer ID error", etc on chinese leak

How many of you disappoint with your SGS3 after purchased

As the tiltle says How many of you disappoint with your SGS3 after purchased
What features you want to add in your s3
No disappointment here, pleasantly suprised actually.
It's my dream phone so far.
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As the tiltle says How many of you disappoint with your SGS3 after purchased
What features you want to add in your s3
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As OP, why dont you "break the ice"?
I got one disappointment - why Samsung didn't launch this awesome phone earlier.
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As OP, why dont you "break the ice"?
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because it seems MR op doesn't have the phone yet He is looking out for potential sellers (who are dissappointed with their phone - at least thats what is happening in the Indian thread for SGS3)
only disappointment was the price...khe khe.
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Coming from galany note I'm disappointed that the s3 didn't come with the social and readers hub.
Social hub being the more important app.
I was originally a HTC user and loved the friendstream widget..so I welcomed the social hub app on my note as they similar.
Seems the s3 gave replaced it with flipboard WTF
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I do wish people didn't start these kind of threads, either research the phone properly before buying or if you think the problem can be resolved then log it in the QA section.
Not any regrations yet ..coming from sg
s2 missing some apps like Solaris office but it's okkk
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Coming from galany note I'm disappointed that the s3 didn't come with the social and readers hub.
Social hub being the more important app.
I was originally a HTC user and loved the friendstream widget..so I welcomed the social hub app on my note as they similar.
Seems the s3 gave replaced it with flipboard WTF
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Coming from a Desire/One X, I missed the Friendstream widget. Flipboard is not as good. However, I saw the Android Pro Widget recommended which I download from the Play Store. It is excellent - much more like Friendstream, the only downside being that you need to run separate widgets for Facebook and Twitter feeds.
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only disappointment was the price...khe khe.
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Price was fair, I mean thats what you expect for flagship range...Some NZ retailers ran a limited time price of approximately $650USD...ordered my 32GB for approximately $700USD
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because it seems MR op doesn't have the phone yet He is looking out for potential sellers (who are dissappointed with their phone - at least thats what is happening in the Indian thread for SGS3)
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Smart...Cunning...haha. I dont expect many to let go and sell so quickly...and for those who do...it wont be too little anyways with a relatively shortage on the market? hows the stock availability in India? not much in NZ...waiting 3 days and counting for mine...
Just got mine yesterday. Feels really good so far.
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Price was fair, I mean thats what you expect for flagship range...Some NZ retailers ran a limited time price of approximately $650USD...ordered my 32GB for approximately $700USD
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Smart...Cunning...haha. I dont expect many to let go and sell so quickly...and for those who do...it wont be too little anyways with a relatively shortage on the market? hows the stock availability in India? not much in NZ...waiting 3 days and counting for mine...
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stock is close to nil here. 7 days and counting for me (waiting for blue). even the white one is hard to find
Not much that can't be fixed with custom roms/mods/etc, and most of them will probably be fixed with official samsung updates too, but anyways:
- Smoother scrolling in messages (fixed by using Go SMS)
- Customizable settings widget in the dropdown menu
- Better optimized "deep sleep" to reduce the unlock lag
- Better optimized Wifi (many reports of "sudden stop" while still connected)
Other then that, I couldn't be happier with it. Such an amazing phone.
Nothing to complain about if you ask me, came from an crappy iphone
so this is like being in heaven
Well i'll bring the niceness down a little
I'm disopointed with gestures, swipe to take snapshot, hold palm to pause.
they are hit and miss for me, in fact i've not been able to pause it yet, and yes the funtion is turned on.
After a while the phone isn't super smooth, i mean dont get me wrong its silky smooth, but sometimes to maybe the untrained eye the phone takes that plit second to actually move (swiping pages on homescreen)
Gaming, is the smoothest i've played on a phone however stutters are visible on nova 3 (literally only for a split second) but i didn't expect this! (and yeah its not a S3 edition as its not out yet, so here hoping they optimize it better!
And the wake up lag was annoying, luckily got rid of that by turning s voice off!
But i believe as ICS is newish and the phone is brand new, these annoying things will be fixed in future updates.
I'm pleased with the phone but it doesn't have a gamepad like my xperia play does, lol
Superb, but the audio. Expecting Voodoo shall fix that hopefully. Sounds like my SG1 pre voodoo. Any sound playing that is quiet, you can hear static. Sounds like bad audio filtering etc.
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I love my phone, but my only disappointment (as of now) is that there is hardly any development (ROM, Kernel) for this phone yet, compared to Galaxy S2, new ROM's and Kernel was coming out a lot faster at launch. Hopefully it start's to increase after the blue peddle version of S3 starts delivering.
Very disappoint !
The phone is too fast ! Now I do not need my PC ! Outrage !

[Q] CM10 Issues

I have Fixed permission also ... still the problem remains in CM10,
1.Chrome , Opera and firefox all three force closing .......
2.Battery life is too low... keep on discharging
3.In gallery and maps also having some "shaking" is there
4. Facelock is not supporting
5.NO Touch screen response while playing games.....
6.and it keep's on heating too
pls somebdy help me to solve!....
Note: I used cm-10-20120929-UNOFFICIAL-sunfire by Th3Bill....
Somebody there?
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ganeshshas said:
I have Fixed permission also ... still the problem remains in CM10,
1.Chrome , Opera and firefox all three force closing .......
2.Battery life is too low... keep on discharging
3.In gallery and maps also having some "shaking" is there
4. Facelock is not supporting
5.NO Touch screen response while playing games.....
6.and it keep's on heating too
pls somebdy help me to solve!....
Note: I used cm-10-20120929-UNOFFICIAL-sunfire by Th3Bill....
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Maybe you need to read issues before posting. We have no properly running drivers for ICS or JB. So things like this won't work perfectly soon or possibly even ever. Since Motorola is not updating us we will not be getting these drivers to make these things work properly. Reasons for heating are it being overclocked. So drop it to 1ghz to keep it from heating up.
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Thanks for reply.....
There's no official update for moto photon.....
Atleast moto can release drivers... Let see about this ltr........
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Thanks for reply.....
There's no official update for moto photon.....
Atleast moto can release drivers... Let see about this ltr........
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sadly it's unlikely. they need to also unlock the bootloaders. since i'm moving off to the Note II, i really don't care what moto does from this point on. i'm getting rid of their junk. good luck to you and everyone who has a moto. i hope the drivers become available!
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sadly it's unlikely. they need to also unlock the bootloaders. since i'm moving off to the Note II, i really don't care what moto does from this point on. i'm getting rid of their junk. good luck to you and everyone who has a moto. i hope the drivers become available!
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Hey....the Photon isn't junk. It's a seriously nice piece of hardware. Just because the manufacturer is making douche moves doesn't make the device not worthy of praise.
We'll miss ya on here...I've seen you in my threads for a LONG time. I'll be most likely upgrading in Jan, though I am not sure what to..LOL
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Thanks for reply.....
There's no official update for moto photon.....
Atleast moto can release drivers... Let see about this ltr........
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I doubt they will release them. I am going to play around with using ones from other Tegra2 devices once I get a chance...just going to take it easy for tonight...I'm a bit tired.
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Hey....the Photon isn't junk. It's a seriously nice piece of hardware. Just because the manufacturer is making douche moves doesn't make the device not worthy of praise.
We'll miss ya on here...I've seen you in my threads for a LONG time. I'll be most likely upgrading in Jan, though I am not sure what to..LOL
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I doubt they will release them. I am going to play around with using ones from other Tegra2 devices once I get a chance...just going to take it easy for tonight...I'm a bit tired.
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Haha. Yeah. I agree! It's not junk. I'm just upset over it ): I'll still have this phone and continue to help out until it's dead. I'll even keep my site up to help everyone until the end of time. Thanks to you and joker this phone has been amazing!
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@ganeshshas
i) For Opera, the latest version does not work. Try (i know it will work because it has worked for me always) to get version 11 of Opera and i bet it will work.
ii) I use CNA, and it has a reputation over here for its battery life on the Photon. Try that. But, keep in mind, even if u use the stock or CNA and use the phone heavily, it would not work for more than 4 hours. Sure of that. Plus, WiFi is always going to suck on the battery, so if u think any ROM will give u more battery life on WiFi, the answer sadly is No.
iii) We do not have drivers. Th3Bill and Joker have been giving this phone the best and i know it will get better, but issues are always going to be there. For Jitter, try the latest versions of CNA and AOKP and CM10 by Th3Bill, jitters have been reduced by 95% on his builds.
iv) Facelock is a show off feature right? i mean come on....who uses it on a regular basis...but Th3Bill is the man, he would do something for sure....
v)I Play Minecraft on a regular basis, and else than just a little bit of stuttering, there is nothing wrong with the touch response...have even played Riptide and only the Music stuttered.....
vi) I have only noticed the phone heating up when constantly searching for 3G (when one sets WCDMA Only in the *#*#4636*#*# menu) otherwise, it never heats up. Not even when playing any game for long.
I advice u to update the ROMs to the latest from Th3Bill.
Regards
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Still,
I'm facing shaking problem while playing games like,. bad piggies, jetpack joyride and granny smith like such games,...
and battery is too worse
And mainly chrome Force closing...
No touch response while playing big games like TinTin,..
And Nova 3 is not supporting CM10 photon. But it is supported in 2.3.5.... ?
I've been sporting Joker's CM10 for a while now, and now that it's gotten some love from th3bill, I'm loving it even more. Battery life is poor, but I've accepted that and carry around a spare battery when I know I'm going to be away from electricity for a few hours. lol
Thanks a bunch th3bill for taking this on, it's greatly appreciated.
I want to upgrade new cm10 build with existing cm10 on my mobile.with out losing data....
Can somebody pleas help me to update with out losing data?
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You just wipe dalvik cache, and cache partition, install new zip, fix permissions and reboot. To make sure you don't lose anything do as full backup first so you can go back if something goes wrong.
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Anyone else regret this phone?

i love the phone itself but sort of regret getting it. I guess its my own fault for not looking up more into htc phones but coming from a GN where all you need is unlock and root when i saw we had that i got it, didnt realize with htc you need soff too. Then i foudn out no htc phones with no sdcard have soff yet. Im not a fan of sense and prefer the stock android experience or aokp only. anyone else feel like this? i love the phone, but dont like the soff situation with htc, and cant think of a better phone to switch to either cus i dont want the s3. and unfortunately nexus 4 isnt for verizon
I can relate to what you are saying.
For me, I set my expectation of this phone to be a great consumer phone, not a developer phone. So I decided not to root it or installing custom rom on it. Just use Android as a daily phone this time.
I have spent way too much time and energy on GNex switching between rom , which is something I really regret after a while. Not just full wipe everytime, but there is simply no single best rom can meet all asks. many of them are great initially, then slowly become slow and buggy, which I really can't figure out why, including CM10.
So that's why I look beyond such issues for HTC DNA, but evaluate it from a consumer point of view, "apple-type" user, if you will.
And I keep my galaxy nexus to play with, "in my lab".
If your expectation was to make this to be a full developer unit... it may not be the right phone, and verizon is not the right carrier in this case.
Many says playing around with all roms are "fun", but after long time of "playing around the roms" with more than 5 state-of-the-art smart phones in past 2 years, I will control myself on such "fun".
just some thoughts.
I feel the same
I feel the exact same way. No doubt about it though, the phone is great and the screen is amazing! I am just not a fan on Sense. I love me some AOSP. The phone also feels a little too big for my likes.
I am contemplating returning the DNA and getting the Developer Edition of the Razr HD. But if I did that, I might end up in the same boat as I do NOT have the skills needed to complile AOSP from source and get it running on the Razr HD.
Matt
Jiwengabg
I agree. I knre it wuldnt be much of a developer device. My main hope was jus for it to get aokp fully working. But not as much dev as the nexus with all their highly featured kernels, tbh i wish my nexus didnt break cus id still be on it. Im not a fan of "consumer" devices just because i like full access to my electronics. But its my own fwult for not researchin roms with htc lol. I dnt switch off verizon til december
Pudge
Can that be swapped out with the 14day return period?
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Dri94 said:
Jiwengabg
I agree. I knre it wuldnt be much of a developer device. My main hope was jus for it to get aokp fully working. But not as much dev as the nexus with all their highly featured kernels, tbh i wish my nexus didnt break cus id still be on it. Im not a fan of "consumer" devices just because i like full access to my electronics. But its my own fwult for not researchin roms with htc lol. I dnt switch off verizon til december
Pudge
Can that be swapped out with the 14day return period?
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So return it...done...no regrets. The phone has been out 6 days...u guys have to be kidding me...there will be plenty of ROMs to choose from in no time.
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So return it...done...no regrets. The phone has been out 6 days...u guys have to be kidding me...there will be plenty of ROMs to choose from in no time.
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Side effect of these guys being from the "Now" generation.
adrynalyne said:
Side effect of these guys being from the "Now" generation.
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No kidding. But also - just because we don't currently have S-Off, and correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no reason we won't have custom ROMs to play with. We can still write to the System partition in Recovery, which means you can flash a custom ROM in recovery.
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Pudge
Can that be swapped out with the 14day return period?
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Not that I know of. If I decided to swap phones, I would have to return DNA to Verizon and then buy the Razr HD from Moto. Should not be difficult though.
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No kidding. But also - just because we don't currently have S-Off, and correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no reason we won't have custom ROMs to play with. We can still write to the System partition in Recovery, which means you can flash a custom ROM in recovery.
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You are correct. ROMs and kernels will still able to be flashed with the phone being unlocked and s-on. Just can not make changes to /system while outside of recovery.
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No regrets.
For those of you that don't like sense, install Nova launcher... problem solved.
No regrets. We'll get ROMs soon enough, the phone has only been out a week. Massively impressed with the battery life and screen, and my only gripe is sense.
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Not that I know of. If I decided to swap phones, I would have to return DNA to Verizon and then buy the Razr HD from Moto. Should not be difficult though.
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You are correct. ROMs and kernels will still able to be flashed with the phone being unlocked and s-on. Just can not make changes to /system while outside of recovery.
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On the ROM flashing front - I'm trying to think of a scenario where you would make changes to /system while outside of recovery. Every time I flashed a ROM on my GNex I would reboot into CWM anyway - I'm assuming the only things that actually made changes to /system while not in recovery would be things like kernel controls?
It kills me that people buy an HTC phone and complain about Sense. It isn't like they "snuck" Sense on this phone behind your back.
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No regrets.
For those of you that don't like sense, install Nova launcher... problem solved.
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lol
This was the choice for most people that were tired of their GNex's, since Verizon won't work with the N4. Most of those people are used to stock AOSP, so its understandable. I came from the Inc, to Inc2, to GNex, and it was still a bit of a shock for me to go back to Sense.
I think most people also assumed that the development on this phone would be similar to what it was like on the GNex, which is not the case. Hopefully we get some stock android stuff going pretty soon so we can all rest easy
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It kills me that people buy an HTC phone and complain about Sense. It isn't like they "snuck" Sense on this phone behind your back.
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No kidding! Although I have to say that while I always liked Sense (way back from the Windows Mobile days), I stopped using it once phone screen sizes got bigger because Sense just made everything too big... and with some DPI tweaks I have actually found Sense to be quite usable on the DNA... I'm still trying to settle on my favorite launcher for this phone, but at least this time around Sense is in the running.
If I could get a zip that modifies it to a 5/4 or 5/5 layout it probably wouldn't even be a competition. For the record, other contenders are Chameleon Launcher, Apex, and SPB Shell 3D (in either Smartphone or Tablet mode)... Still can't make a decision. :silly:
dweidman said:
It kills me that people buy an HTC phone and complain about Sense. It isn't like they "snuck" Sense on this phone behind your back.
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i love this too. I got this phone because of sense and the screen! you all know it has sense I just love to hear people complain and it somehow puts up better numbers than the nexus 4 with aosp right out of the box. This phone hasnt even got roms yet just got unlocked! wait until s-off and then people will have their flavor of aosp or sense! And also remember how long it took for galaxy s3 to get unlocked? it could take awhile so we will see how many true HTC followers there is here or just people jumping ship for the next great quad core 1080p phone. should be interesting. The positives outweigh the negatives for me! Whenever i use phone i dont regret it for a second! Sense is one of the most extensive and nicest setups in android by far to me!
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No kidding! Although I have to say that while I always liked Sense (way back from the Windows Mobile days), I stopped using it once phone screen sizes got bigger because Sense just made everything too big... and with some DPI tweaks I have actually found Sense to be quite usable on the DNA... I'm still trying to settle on my favorite launcher for this phone, but at least this time around Sense is in the running.
If I could get a zip that modifies it to a 5/4 or 5/5 layout it probably wouldn't even be a competition. For the record, other contenders are Chameleon Launcher, Apex, and SPB Shell 3D (in either Smartphone or Tablet mode)... Still can't make a decision. :silly:
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What did you end up setting the lcd density to?
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What did you end up setting the lcd density to?
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Well, I like a lot of screen real estate, and sharp, small-ish text (I bought a 13" Macbook Pro just for that 2560x1600 resolution - and I'm using Windows 7 on it), but I have my DPI set to 370. Android Pro Widgets replace any of the Sense widgets where possible (SMS, Agenda) because they can render a smaller font, but I still use the native 4x1 Clock/Weather widget, and of course the Mail widget - and I have all my quick launch items set to use folders - System, Social, Travel, and Multimedia.
s-off is coming
s-off is coming dsb said that is was close. I was a strong "htc" until the galaxy s3 came out back in July. After being frustrated with Samsungs weak radios i came back home to HTC. I was on the fence between this and the note 2 but after playing with the phone on launch day I bought it. And now the note 2 comes out in 2 days and i could care less.
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This was the choice for most people that were tired of their GNex's, since Verizon won't work with the N4. Most of those people are used to stock AOSP, so its understandable. I came from the Inc, to Inc2, to GNex, and it was still a bit of a shock for me to go back to Sense.
I think most people also assumed that the development on this phone would be similar to what it was like on the GNex, which is not the case. Hopefully we get some stock android stuff going pretty soon so we can all rest easy
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I went from Sense to AOSP, back to Sense. Its definitely some culture shock, but I wouldn't have done it if I disliked Sense.
gramsey1911 said:
s-off is coming dsb said that is was close. I was a strong "htc" until the galaxy s3 came out back in July. After being frustrated with Samsungs weak radios i came back home to HTC. I was on the fence between this and the note 2 but after playing with the phone on launch day I bought it. And now the note 2 comes out in 2 days and i could care less.
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I wouldn't expect s-off anytime soon, regardless of what dsb says.
Now if jcase says it, I will believe it (assuming he isn't doing his regular rickrolls).

Flashing: What's the big deal?

I would call myself an intermediate level flasher. I've used stock rooted, eclipse 2.3 and cm7 and cm10 roms. What I don't get is why would someone want the look of an ICS or JB rom if half or even a few of the things on the phone don't function. If someone wants their phone to look cool or wants to be able to customize it more, they generally gravitate to a cm rom. I understand that cm7 is more stable than 9 or 10. I've been on cm7 and can't say that I was all that impressed. Before that I was on eclipse using adw ex launcher and I was able to customize my screens as much as or more than cm7. Cm7 uses adw as the default launcher but it's not the updated or ex version of it. When I was on it, I had issues with wifi and my music on my sdcard was all screwed up. So I have a hard time understanding why anyone would sacrifice functionality over having a rom that talks the talk but can't walk the walk. ICS and JB roms promise but can't deliver. I do hope that the dev community can find fixes for the many bugs with them, but until then I'm happy having a fully functioning phone that I can customize just about as much as anyone running an ICS or JB rom.
Also, how many of you use your DX2 as your primary phone as opposed to a secondary or Guinea pig? I'm sure that this has a lot to do with what people are willing to put up with just so they can say they are running ICS or JB.
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It's different strokes for different folks. Just there mere fact of being able to try something different or simply dress up your phone drives alot of people to being habitual flashers.
My bride uses my X2 every day. It's running CM7 mashed up and supercharged. Runs like a top and doesn't skip a beat. Sometimes I miss my lil buddy and pick it up for a cache wipe or simply just to tinker with it.
I dont remember CM7 being that bad. The only issue I remember hearing about was staying connected to wifi. I used an app that kept my wifi on as long as I was connected to my wifi so I never had that problem. The SD card wasnt screwed up. It made it so you had more room for apps and stuff. It was always reversible if you didn't like it. And I dont remember ADW being the default launcher in CM7. Cyanogenmod has always used the launcher that came with stock Android until they started making their own, I believe.
But as far as updating to ICS or Jelly Bean, I did it obviously to try it out first. I found out that, yes, some stuff didnt run as well but it usually wasnt something I used that much, if at all. For me, everything still worked good. Dragonzkiller did a great job with what he had to work with. I keep hearing people complain about some features they cant use in ICS or Jelly Bean but I really have no issues with Jelly Bean for what I use my phone for. It works great for me. And it really does look better that Gingerbread. Gingerbread was really ugly in my eyes.
The Droid X2 is the only phone I use so its my primary phone that I flash everything on.
CM7 runs great, read the entire thread to find the various tweaks and workarounds.
My DX2 is my primary, for about one more week anyway, then it fall backup to the DNA.
I love cm7 the rest are ok I appreciate everything that any dev does for the community! I would and have tried all roms for all of my devices
And yes this is my primary phone
don't be scared it's only a phone
ogd x d2g x2 sg3
old ladies ^
The wifi at my work drops and reconnects periodically through the day. Probably about 4 or 5 times an hour so cm7 for to be annoying. I would have to toggle wifi off then on for it to reconnect. Whereas eclipse automatically reconnects to my network at work.
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Juice3250 said:
The wifi at my work drops and reconnects periodically through the day. Probably about 4 or 5 times an hour so cm7 for to be annoying. I would have to toggle wifi off then on for it to reconnect. Whereas eclipse automatically reconnects to my network at work.
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In the wifi settings, do you have the option to "keep wifi on during sleep" selected?
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Also, there are some apps in the play store that will help with wifi:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shantz.wifikeepalive&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wahtod.wififixer&hl=en
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In the wifi settings, do you have the option to "keep wifi on during sleep" selected?
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Also, there are some apps in the play store that will help with wifi:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shantz.wifikeepalive&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wahtod.wififixer&hl=en
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I've tried those apps and they don't help. It doesn't disconnect when it's sleeping. It will randomly disconnect while the screen is awake. I experience this only with the network at work. Everywhere else it stays connected. It did it on stock as well as all roms I've installed. The problem isn't my phone.
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Juice3250 said:
I've tried those apps and they don't help. It doesn't disconnect when it's sleeping. It will randomly disconnect while the screen is awake. I experience this only with the network at work. Everywhere else it stays connected. It did it on stock as well as all roms I've installed. The problem isn't my phone.
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Oh, well then yeah...thats your works wifi thats screwy. It just sounded like you were blaming CM7 in your first post.
Juice3250 said:
The wifi at my work drops and reconnects periodically through the day. Probably about 4 or 5 times an hour so cm7 for to be annoying. I would have to toggle wifi off then on for it to reconnect. Whereas eclipse automatically reconnects to my network at work.
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Never had a problem with Wi-Fi I can run it for hours I don't know what I tweaked that you didn't had a 3g problem at first but I was able to tweak that away
don't be scared it's only a phone
ogd x d2g x2 sg3
old ladies ^
on eclipse using adw ex launcher and I was able to customize my screens as much as or more than cm7. Cm7 uses adw as the default launcher but it's not the updated or ex version of it.
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then update it, no one was making you stay with default
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adw ex launcher isn't default on eclipse
sd_shadow said:
then update it, no one was making you stay with default
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adw ex launcher isn't default on eclipse
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One of the reasons why I switched over to cm7 was because I heard there was a lot more customization from the default launcher, which if used instead of downloading another launcher to run on top of it, would save me some ram. So I figured if I was going to use ads ex launcher, I would use it on a rom that actually was bug free.
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So I switched back to eclipse. I wanted a rom that I could flash and just go and not have to run any scripts or workarounds to get certain apps or features to work on my phone. I depend on my phone on a daily basis and can't afford to not have everything working. I primarily use my phone for pictures, music, videos, both taking and watching, Facebook, email, and moderate browsing. Stock provided me with all of these things but my ram would be used up in no time and wasn't as fast. After I rooted I deleted some bloatware but wanted to be able to somewhat customize my screens and stock rooted didn't offer me that.
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Juice3250 said:
So I switched back to eclipse. I wanted a rom that I could flash and just go and not have to run any scripts or workarounds to get certain apps or features to work on my phone. I depend on my phone on a daily basis and can't afford to not have everything working. I primarily use my phone for pictures, music, videos, both taking and watching, Facebook, email, and moderate browsing. Stock provided me with all of these things but my ram would be used up in no time and wasn't as fast. After I rooted I deleted some bloatware but wanted to be able to somewhat customize my screens and stock rooted didn't offer me that.
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I think you are being a little picky with the ROMs we have. You have to understand, this phone is not like others. It is locked down big time by Motorola so its hard to do major developing for. This is the reason anything other than Gingerbread ROMs are going to have a lot of bugs. Motorola never updated this phone past Gingerbread and even the stock ROM has bugs so thats got to tell you something. I'm running Jelly Bean and it fits all my needs for what I use it for. But everyone is different. Honestly, I have loved the year and a half experience I have had with this phone but it is getting outdated fast and the only way you will have a perfect Android experience is if you update your phone. Thats what I'm planning on doing as soon as I have the money to do so. My suggestion for you is to stay on Eclipse. Thats the best you are going to get out of this phone.
I use the DX2 as my primary phone. I run JB AOKP and it works fine as a daily driver.
P.S. i use it most to say i have JB
Have my Droid X2 rooted to CM10 right now. It's my primary (well, only) phone, which is the primary reason I even bothered putting the time into rooting it. I had too many issues with the stock rom, and CM7 just made things worse for me. The WiFi issue, among others, just broke the phone for me.
All in all, I'm not completely happy with CM10, but I prefer it IMMENSELY over stock/CM7. It's enough to last me until I get a new phone, at least.

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