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To Mod or not to mod?

Hey guys I was wondering if I should install CM7? I have a stock rooted g2x with no problems.
Should I wait for LG to release Gingerbread?
Does Peggle or Plants vs Zombies work on CM7?
I am really excited about the future of my phone but don't know which way to go. Any help/opinions is appreciated.
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Razorblood said:
Hey guys I was wondering if I should install CM7? I have a stock rooted g2x with no problems.
Should I wait for LG to release Gingerbread?
Does Peggle or Plants vs Zombies work on CM7?
I am really excited about the future of my phone but don't know which way to go. Any help/opinions is appreciated.
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I recommend you root the G2x at least once and see how that goes for you. 1 of 2 things will happen, you will either love it or dislike it. I personally keep my G2x stock because I find that it is more stable than rooted and also the camera app works way better than the custom roms. If you are gonna use CM7 then I recommend using a nightly instead of RC1. RC1 didn't seem that stable for me or try out Eagles Blood. Matter of fact try them all and see how you like it. Everyone has mixed feelings on whether to root or stay stock so you decide.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
I do prefer stability over custom.
One thing that does bother me is the inability to put the battery percentage where the battery icon is like in CM7 and other roms.
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Peggle does not currently work on CM7.

Razorblood said:
Thanks for the quick reply.
I do prefer stability over custom.
One thing that does bother me is the inability to put the battery percentage where the battery icon is like in CM7 and other roms.
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Your welcome. So what's your decision gonna be?
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Right now, stability does come from the custom roms.
Plus why torture yourself using stock? There are TONS of sweet features in CM7 that aren't in any stock rom I've ever seen. They literally make your phone experience SO much more enjoyable and easy that you will find running a stock rom is a pain.

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Peggle does not currently work on CM7.
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Thanks. Plants vs Zombies?
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player911 said:
Right now, stability does come from the custom roms.
Plus why torture yourself using stock? There are TONS of sweet features in CM7 that aren't in any stock rom I've ever seen. They literally make your phone experience SO much more enjoyable and easy that you will find running a stock rom is a pain.
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I agree that there are many options and features not available in stock. Its one of the reasons I do want to.
I have a stable stock g2x. I have experienced no problems what so ever. No reboots. Lag. Etc which is one of the reasons I haven't.
I haven't decided yet...
Any more comments?
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Razorblood said:
I agree that there are many options and features not available in stock. Its one of the reasons I do want to.
I have a stable stock g2x. I have experienced no problems what so ever. No reboots. Lag. Etc which is one of the reasons I haven't.
I haven't decided yet...
Any more comments?
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I finally bit the bullet and loaded up CM7. Coming from a stable stock g2x, I haven't seen much if any improvements. Maybe I'm missing something? Not too sure.
It was an easy process and I may go back to 2.2.2 if I get bored, but as of now, I'd say it's not life changing or anything.

Who cares about gingerbread?

Why does everyone always ***** about gingerbread? My phone got it recently and nothing has changed except for the fact that I can say I have gingerbead.I don't even have the cool screen off animation that would totally be worth it because HTC sucks. If you want gingerbread so badly then root your phone and shut up. And Im talking to all the people on Android blog's who complain about not getting gingerbread yet. If it was ics then people would have a reason to complain but since its not even a good upgrade.
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Makes your phone run faster
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It's not noticeable.
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Gingerbread brings many advancements under the hood you don't grasp - such as improved Dalvik garbage collection and better power management.
As far as the screen off animation - did you bother to even see if you could enable it in display options? It's typically disabled by default.
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gabezermeno said:
Why does everyone always ***** about gingerbread? My phone got it recently and nothing has changed except for the fact that I can say I have gingerbead.I don't even have the cool screen off animation that would totally be worth it because HTC sucks. If you want gingerbread so badly then root your phone and shut up. And Im talking to all the people on Android blog's who complain about not getting gingerbread yet. If it was ics then people would have a reason to complain but since its not even a good upgrade.
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1. gingerbread outperforms froyo (especially custom roms using gb); you dont like gb go back to froyo
2. you want the cool screen off animation, flash cm7, not htc's fault dont blame them
3. maybe those people that are complaining want official gb, not some unofficial, buggy custom rom
4. did you really make this thread to rant? i see no point in you making this thread unless you're trying to hit 10 posts

The best ROM for my mom

My mom just got an Infuse 4G last night. She's unhappy with the stock ROM (rather, she's not liking it). Realistically I am using this opportunity to break the woman into smartphones, and the Infuse 4G is a great one with a screen that she can read (I love the look of that AMOLED, it's making me want a Samsung when it's time to upgrade).
The question is, which ROM is the most user-friendly? If you read my sig you'll see I have an Atrix 4G myself and am currently running an Alpha ROM so you'll know I am no stranger to the mod community. I just don't want to go from ROM to ROM to ROM showing her each one, wasting my entire day reflashing her phone. If anyone can come up with one or two suggestions for me to try for her, I would greatly appreciate it.
I'm looking for something ICS-like, smooth as butter, and not over-the-top like some of the Atrix guys like to go. Thanks for your help!

treehumper said:
My mom just got an Infuse 4G last night. She's unhappy with the stock ROM (rather, she's not liking it). Realistically I am using this opportunity to break the woman into smartphones, and the Infuse 4G is a great one with a screen that she can read (I love the look of that AMOLED, it's making me want a Samsung when it's time to upgrade).
The question is, which ROM is the most user-friendly? If you read my sig you'll see I have an Atrix 4G myself and am currently running an Alpha ROM so you'll know I am no stranger to the mod community. I just don't want to go from ROM to ROM to ROM showing her each one, wasting my entire day reflashing her phone. If anyone can come up with one or two suggestions for me to try for her, I would greatly appreciate it.
I'm looking for something ICS-like, smooth as butter, and not over-the-top like some of the Atrix guys like to go. Thanks for your help!
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Imho, find out what she wants out of the phone and tweak it with apps. Stick with stock froyo and avoid the grief.
Ex. Big text battery indicator to show battery. Business calendar is better than stock. Go launcher is better than stock. Show her how to put direct dial shortcut on the screen etc...show her the widgets.
Leave the rom alone because everything works.
From my experience, it's the app and how to use the phone...not the ROM

For better battery life, odin flash one of the stock gingerbread leaks and leave it. KK4 leak would be OK. KL2 is better but tw30 is messed up on it. I like the stock froyo but the battery life sucks.
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Infused 2.2.3 and s7 was the best for me when i was on froyo.
Fully customizable Galnet Miui

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Infused 2.2.3 and s7 was the best for me when i was on froyo.
Fully customizable Galnet Miui
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s7. I never had any issues with that ROM. Or gsinfuse....Had great battery too
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Cm7 is great. Simple and easy and fast
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But bt doesn't work properly on aosp roms (cm7 and miui) if your mom needs simple and stable...infused 2.2.3 or s7....I would recommend one of mine but mine have alot of add one and tweaks and are really for advanced users...like I said infused 2.2.3 or S7....everything works and stable and simple..
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dman3285 said:
But bt doesn't work properly on aosp roms (cm7 and miui) if your mom needs simple and stable...infused 2.2.3 or s7....I would recommend one of mine but mine have alot of add one and tweaks and are really for advanced users...like I said infused 2.2.3 or S7....everything works and stable and simple..
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See I'm attempting to throw CatyRom on it, the ICS app tray is really what I'm after. Something like that would keep it simple for her to find things without having to go through the app drawer which is what has overloaded her in the past. She absolutely refuses to use an iPhone because of this.

Catyrom is good...don't get me wrong. .just know what your doing when flashing is all bro...and thanks for choosing caty
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dman3285 said:
Catyrom is good...don't get me wrong. .just know what your doing when flashing is all bro...and thanks for choosing caty
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My sig says it all, I've been around the block a few times. New to Infuse, veteran to Android. And so far, Caty is doing the trick. Thank you

No prob bro
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Hah. I thought this thread was a joke when I read the subject line.
Well at this point it we have a handful of really good stable, infuse based roms. So it's all about what color she wants really lol.
Have her take a look at the screenshots for : Zeus, Caty, Bionix, Numas, Victory rom, or infused(old one but a goodie). And pick which one is astheticaly pleasing to her.

Nah, no joke. I made some modifications that allow single-touch activation of apps/tools but other than that she seems happy with Caty. She's a blue person, so it worked in my favor.
It seems odd that someone who has had no experience with smartphones minus playing with someone's iPhone and hating it would want to jump head-long into the ROM world but she's seen the difference it made in my phone. ICS on my Atrix is great, and I am hoping that one day you guys get it running on the Infuse, it seems like a good phone and you folks seem like an intelligent bunch.

Zeus (gb rom).
Plus:
Bluetooth and wifi are working good. Good battery. GPS is good.
Minus (common to ALL gb roms):
HDMI out does not work

[Q] Best rom for efficiency?

Just got my mom this phone and i got the rooting bug, lol.
She's basically just using it for web browsing, text messaging, and taking pics.
What's the best rom out there for efficiency? I want to take off all the sprint bloat & get some better battery life.
Would also like a rom i can add themes to.

You may consider the combo in my signature.
Works well on me.
Very stable with no reboots.
It has the 4G version as well unless I'm mistaken.
My usage is similar to your mom, though.
No gaming at all.
As for theming, I don't know if this ROM can be themed or not as I just like the way it is.
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i dont see whats in ur sig
anyone else?

glennkaonang said:
You may consider the combo in my signature.
Works well on me.
Very stable with no reboots.
It has the 4G version as well unless I'm mistaken.
My usage is similar to your mom, though.
No gaming at all.
As for theming, I don't know if this ROM can be themed or not as I just like the way it is.
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mrmondaynight said:
i dont see whats in ur sig
anyone else?
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the combo might be in the sig.. but theres no sig there

mrmondaynight said:
Just got my mom this phone and i got the rooting bug, lol.
She's basically just using it for web browsing, text messaging, and taking pics.
What's the best rom out there for efficiency? I want to take off all the sprint bloat & get some better battery life.
Would also like a rom i can add themes to.
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Slim ICS has what ur looking for...
Good luck
Vs Nexus S 4G

Probably want to keep it stock and simple, if you are going to root and theme it it'll make it more frustrating. In fact, setting up for other people, I'll enable root for certain apps and then set it automatically deny.
I have the perfect combination for you:
Kang CM7: http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/gigglebread/?id=crespo
Google Apps: http://goo-inside.me/gapps
Stock Launcher: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11421338&postcount=3
CM7 themes:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonny.theme.icsgingerbread
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.david1171.minimalbread
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.achep.theme.sense

CM9 Nightly 20120310 is the best until now from ICS roms

Can we update this?
After so long, i was finally able to root. Well, not able..but i got lazy and didn't bother with it.

This one is super basic and I think the best for the Nexus S. Fast, stable, and great battery life, 1%/h during night with wifi on
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1854366
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Update it to JB4.2.1 and that should do. If not, try AOKP for 4.1 I used it for months and it was quite good.
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seibott said:
Update it to JB4.2.1 and that should do. If not, try AOKP for 4.1 I used it for months and it was quite good.
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He wants a stable rom for his mom. Not the unstable rom causing battery drain.
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Stock gingerbread
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All those satisfied with g2x GTFIH

Now i know LG abandoned this ship. I'm just as pissed off as the next guy about that one. I wouldn't mind an official jb or at least an ics update. But either way, I'm honestly quite satisfied with this phone and its performance. I'm running standard cm7 nightlies (latest) with Trinity t15 kernel and wolf script mod. Battery life is decent and bad when i whore wifi but that's the biggest iissue with my g2x. With all the hate threads around this forum there have to be others who have positive experiences with this device.

This phone is awesome. Since I started carrying around my portable nuclear power plant all my battery issues are gone.
Seriously though, if you use the phone the battery will drop. That is a law of physics you can't avoid. My problem with this phone was that with stock ROM the battery dropped a lot even when I did absolutely nothing. CM7 solved that, so I am happy.
I still don't get sufficient standby life so I am working on fixing an old HTC amaze (fixed bootloop, now waiting for screen to arrive). My wife's amaze can get over 4 days of standby and I just noticed that she has not rebooted it in close to 400 hours.
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Believe you me... Apple suggested LG for Nexus 4

4 days of standby time? Sorry this is the g2x forum I don't know what that means.
Lol that's crazy!
I have about six months left until I'm available for an upgrade. Thinking the new s4, razor or nexus.

I agree this is still a pretty slick phone. I'm loving the dual boot setup with CM7/Trinity ELP as my runner and CM10.1 as my gaming/test platform. I'd probably be way more disappointed with the phone if I was stuck with stock software, but thanks to the awesome devs and their work I'm very happy with this phone.
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For sure, if it weren't for the devs, we'd be screwed lol

Pain-N-Panic said:
4 days of standby time? Sorry this is the g2x forum I don't know what that means.
Lol that's crazy!
I have about six months left until I'm available for an upgrade. Thinking the new s4, razor or nexus.
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I will try to take a snapshot and post it here for the disbelievers ... lol.
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I am currently running cm7 with Mazout360's kernel and wolfscript. I have themed my phone to be as similar to ICS/JB as possible, as that was the only way I could return to GB. I am very content with how it turned out.
In the end, I have accepted that I will probably never have fully functioning ICS or JB on this phone. But, I guess all that I was really looking for was that updated look and crisp feel, which I have since obtained!
Although I will move on to some sort of Nexus when I have better funding, I am satisfied with the g2x.
The only problem I seem to have with cm7 is this noticeable static flicker that appears very quickly after turning on the display. It only seems to do that with cm7 roms.

EricTheLuminant said:
I am currently running cm7 with Mazout360's kernel and wolfscript. I have themed my phone to be as similar to ICS/JB as possible, as that was the only way I could return to GB. I am very content with how it turned out.
In the end, I have accepted that I will probably never have fully functioning ICS or JB on this phone. But, I guess all that I was really looking for was that updated look and crisp feel, which I have since obtained!
Although I will move on to some sort of Nexus when I have better funding, I am satisfied with the g2x.
The only problem I seem to have with cm7 is this noticeable static flicker that appears very quickly after turning on the display. It only seems to do that with cm7 roms.
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Not trying to hijack the thread, but is it possible to get the jellybean notification bar on gingerbread? Like with notifications you can swipe away and quick message replies to texts and all that. That might be the only thing keeping me on jellybean right now because I love the way it feels so intuitive and such.
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I can swipe away notifications, that's something GB can do already I think. As for quick replys to messages and emails and such, I don't think so.
At least as far as I know.
I miss those features too, but I guess we can't have everything.
There are apps for pop up notifications though.

I can also swipe away notifications. Actually i found that out on mistake, had a few too many whisky cokes and tried responding to a text and swiped it away lol

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I can also swipe away notifications. Actually i found that out on mistake, had a few too many whisky cokes and tried responding to a text and swiped it away lol
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Oh I went straight from Froyo on my old Optimus V to Jellybean on the G2X (I rooted and installed Paranoid Android right away) so I thought swipe notifications was a Jellybean thing. I'll install a Gingerbread ROM when I get back from work and try to make it look and feel like JB.
On topic, yes I'm very satisfied with my G2X, but that might also be because I wasnt expecting a high end phone when I bought it from eBay a few months ago. Also I have a Nexus 7 for any apps that I use that require a hardware accelerated jellybean.
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AFAIK swipe notifications is a CM7 thing in GB ROMs.
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The g2x works best if you chant "humba lumba humba" while standing on one leg!

I though problems would be fixed by updates.
And once rooted and a with custom rom
Everything was going to be working good like the days of the HTC G1.
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Can't wait till the Nexus 5 comes out. I'm gonna buy it and forget about this phone.
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plasmamax1 said:
Can't wait till the Nexus 5 comes out. I'm gonna buy it and forget about this phone.
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I'm saving up

I'm wanting to get the new blackberry q10. That thing looks sick. Waiting until tmobile has it.
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For those of you who are content with cm7, even though it is old software, I am working on my "Speedster" rom. It is still quite alpha but my goals is to optimize CM7 for our G2xs. I am also doing a bunch of software updates inside and using Mazkrnl to have speed and stability. I use the latest ADW launcher in it and JB sounds so it really gives CM7 new life and gives it a great CM10 feel. I can't do anything about play store, still limited to 2.3 aps. No google keep/now

Pie, I'm willing to flash your rom whenever its out of the alpha stage. Or let me know if you need a tester

I use this for the theme.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2003484
And this guide for everything else.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19705898#post19705898

Are any of you good themers because I would like some help with that so I can focus on software and hardware optimization.
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