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I bought my htc inspire 4g on saturday and rooted, s-off'd, flashed clockworkmodrecovery and flashed CM7 last night. Big change! I love it though, but im a bit ocd and cm7 seems heavier than i thought it would, most likely because of ADW, Is there a flavor, build, etc of CM7 7.0 or 7.2 with gingerbread launcher like the nexus s?
Thanks!

Chrisj7 said:
I bought my htc inspire 4g on saturday and rooted, s-off'd, flashed clockworkmodrecovery and flashed CM7 last night. Big change! I love it though, but im a bit ocd and cm7 seems heavier than i thought it would, most likely because of ADW, Is there a flavor, build, etc of CM7 7.0 or 7.2 with gingerbread launcher like the nexus s?
Thanks!
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Isn't the launcher of CM7 the same as the nexus s? To me it looks the same.
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dooyoo222 said:
Isn't the launcher of CM7 the same as the nexus s? To me it looks the same.
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Nope it's ADW, themed, not as smooth or fast as the gingerbread stock launcher.
Maybe ill just stick with it for now, but does anyone know if theres a zip i can flash ontop of CM7.2 that will give me it maybe?

gingerbread launcher is available free in the market

gunnyman said:
gingerbread launcher is available free in the market
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Whats it called? i've never seen it, and does it matter im on the inspire?
Edit: and if it's that one from stevin lin i've heard it's not very good, and buggy compared to roms preinstalled with gingerbread.

Chrisj7 said:
Whats it called? i've never seen it, and does it matter im on the inspire?
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Why not go into Market and search for gingerbread launcher?
It doesn't matter that you are on the inspire.
Try MoDaCo's version

the gingerbread launcher on the nexus s is hardware accelerated for the app drawer portion, using the graphics chip. so it wont be as smooth on the inspire or other android phones...the homescreen and side swiping will be the same though, just not the 3d app drawer.

ROM Question (Another, i know)

I recently rooted my inspire, first android device, and installed CM7 because it seemed amazing, not saying it isn't. I like CM7, but i like pure Gingerbreads gingerygoodness even better. I am currently running CM7-Phunky Cow "flavored"
and i like it because of the actual launcher and runs higher quadrant scores.
I like pure gingerbread, but i think i may miss the cm7 settings, some i use, also i miss HTC widgets and camera, etc, but i cant stand sense anymore.
Anyone have recomendations on ROMS, or CM7 Flavours/Mods?

Use Ultimate Droid
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I have tried that and it seems alot heavier then CM7, and that's not really what im aiming for, plus the theme is wierd on it, im not sure how i'd go with changing that.
What's the reason you use it?

Its very smooth and fast and my speed increased and its just perfect for me
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Right now Cm7 is starting to make me not like my phone for some reason so let's put it this way, is there a Stable, User-Friendly, non sense rom out there thats gingerbread?

The nature of all custom roms are beta's nothing more, every rom including the stock non rooted rom is subject to hiccups.

Chrisj7 said:
Right now Cm7 is starting to make me not like my phone for some reason so let's put it this way, is there a Stable, User-Friendly, non sense rom out there thats gingerbread?
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Have you tried MIUI?

davidusr said:
Have you tried MIUI?
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+1. Gingerbread, works great, smooth, slick, and not an lick of Sense. If you are looking to try something different, you owe it to yourself to give it a go. C'mon over to the Dark Side, the water is great!

davidusr said:
Have you tried MIUI?
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Pure GB. Fully customizable. Great Quadrant scores (for what they're worth). No problems whatsoever...
And I jumped to the "Dark Side" straight from the latest CM7 build...and haven't looked back....
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knuckleheadAj3 said:
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Pure GB. Fully customizable. Great Quadrant scores (for what they're worth). No problems whatsoever...
And I jumped to the "Dark Side" straight from the latest CM7 build...and haven't looked back....
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Well i guess im going to try miui, but how do i get it looking more like gingerbread, that seems heavily modded visualy... And is it using gingerbread launcher or an app launcher

If you're looking for a Gingerbread build with Sense, try RCMix 5.9.x, available for download directly via CWM.

He said he "can't stand Sense anymore".
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Chrisj7 said:
Well i guess im going to try miui, but how do i get it looking more like gingerbread, that seems heavily modded visualy... And is it using gingerbread launcher or an app launcher
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It's using a home launcher.
If you want a pure GB home launcher, or have it look like CM7, just download ADW Launcher or Launcher Pro.
I'm currenrly running ADWEx on mine...
MIUI is fully customizable, and even has its own dedicated dev forum...
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Why does everybody want Gingerbread?

just wondering why everybody wants gingerbread, can somebody explain the benefits of gingerbread versus stock? Thanks and sorry for the noob question

gingerbread takes more advantage of the cpu and gpu which makes a smoother less laggy device and it has more features, plus touchwiz isnt stock like you said it was, gingerbread is actually stock 2.3 and touchwiz in this device is touchwiz 3.0 as basically a theme over froyo 2.2 stock

rickyc19 is right! I have and hd2 htc running GB(cm7) and it is so fast and snappy u wouldnt hardly believe it(and thats being that it is a windows phone underneath!!!). Battery life was incredibly improved and i am so anxiously awaiting and hopeing for it on our galaxy 4g's!!!!!!!!!!!

fatherof4 said:
rickyc19 is right! I have and hd2 htc running GB(cm7) and it is so fast and snappy u wouldnt hardly believe it(and thats being that it is a windows phone underneath!!!). Battery life was incredibly improved and i am so anxiously awaiting and hopeing for it on our galaxy 4g's!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sounds awesome!! but if you have gingerbread do you have to have the gingerbread theme? or can it look like the stock froyo because i don't really care for how the gingerbread themes look.

Bryanb82 said:
Sounds awesome!! but if you have gingerbread do you have to have the gingerbread theme? or can it look like the stock froyo because i don't really care for how the gingerbread themes look.
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Froyo will look like froyo...gingerbread will look like gingerbread, simple as that, if you ask me, gingerbread looks better so I dont see why you would prefer froyo
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rickyc19 said:
Froyo will look like froyo...gingerbread will look like gingerbread, simple as that, if you ask me, gingerbread looks better so I dont see why you would prefer froyo
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i also like the look of froyo, the layout, but i have a question, you said you have gingerbread on a sgs4g? where did u get it, or did i misunderstand you, total noob here

I didn't say i had gingerbread i said i like how it looks from having it on my old phone.
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Speed is one thing...stability is another...and the biggest one is better power management (better battery life).

video and audio call with gtalk
built in SIP client

So will we get this update? Officially?
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well for one battery life also from what I understand is if we have gb we have a good chance of getting the netflix app to work cause its not working on 2.2

It's simply a step forward - there are few (or a dozens) of little features added throughout whole system, everything is tweaked and made faster. It's simple better and faster.

Wow! You guys have a lot of dev support!

I'm borrowing my buddys inspire for two days to see how I like it. I own an Atrix. Right away I can see that the screen and build quality of this phone is much better than my Atrix. I also really like sense.
I asked my friend to put gingerbread and 3.0 sense on this phone so I can try it out. While the features are great the phone just doesnt feel as fast as my Atrix I need to find out exactly what Rom is on this phone so I can tell you guys, but my question is, is there anyway to put REAL sense 3.0 on this phone as well as gingerbread? Or are these things just themes?
I would try to find this info myself but you guys have like 30 roms listed in the dev forum. Also can you tell me if its possible to make the inspire very snappy while having sense 3.0 and gingerbread? So far I'm very much liking the phone and am considering making the switch.
If I'm understanding correctly, sense will backup all my settings and apps so that if I switch phones I won't have to do anything to get it back to the way I had it. Is this accurate?
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Shoot another thing sorry. Everything on this phone appears zoomed in and the fonts are big. Does this have something to do with the resolution of the phone. I expected the opposite since the screen is a tad bigger.
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seh6183 said:
Shoot another thing sorry. Everything on this phone appears zoomed in and the fonts are big. Does this have something to do with the resolution of the phone. I expected the opposite since the screen is a tad bigger.
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Motoblur is the worst UI you can have. The sense 3.0 rom is a tad clunky but it looks nice I suppose. Try out cm7 or miui and you'll think this phones hardware runs circles around your atrix.
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akira02rex said:
Motoblur is the worst UI you can have. The sense 3.0 rom is a tad clunky but it looks nice I suppose. Try out cm7 or miui and you'll think this phones hardware runs circles around your atrix.
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Is cm7 a gingerbread Rom?
Will cm7 remove sense from the phone? I would like to keep sense.
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CM7 is basically vinilla android with some improvements so no sense, miui is the best rom ever period, rcmix kingdom is sense 3.0 but is still not a solid rom. i had an atrix, hjad hardware problems with it and got it traded, then i started looking at the inspire fourms and i became more and more unhappy with my atrix and switched it for an inspire and it was the best desision ever but if you want to back up all your apps and restore them it wont work when switching roms 100% of the time so i would recommend BUYING titanium backup because if yourestore apps with the free version it takes forever due to the fact that you have to hit yes for every app, wait for it to install, then hit done, for every app

cordell507 said:
CM7 is basically vinilla android with some improvements so no sense, miui is the best rom ever period, rcmix kingdom is sense 3.0 but is still not a solid rom
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I disagree. Miui is horrible. Blah.... It lasted 12 hours on my phone. And that only cause I went to sleep.
I am using Gingerbeast. Its awesome. Fast...I Have been OC'd on it @ 1450mhz for like 2 weeks straight. No Issues. No Sense tho. But sense, its garbage man. Sense is bloatware..... .. Install a launcher, install GO SMS and GO contacts.. Its all you needs. If you want sense for the social stuff, just down load the social apps. But with this phone why? I just use the browser and log into them normally...
Leedroid is the only other Rom I would recommend for Sense. I used it for weeks. Fast, OC-able and All the Sense you could want.
I also +1 Titanium Back up. Its awesome.

tweaked said:
I disagree. Miui is horrible. Blah.... It lasted 12 hours on my phone. And that only cause I went to sleep.
I am using Gingerbeast. Its awesome. Fast...I Have been OC'd on it @ 1450mhz for like 2 weeks straight. No Issues. No Sense tho. But sense, its garbage man. Sense is bloatware..... .. Install a launcher, install GO SMS and GO contacts.. Its all you needs. If you want sense for the social stuff, just down load the social apps. But with this phone why? I just use the browser and log into them normally...
Leedroid is the only other Rom I would recommend for Sense. I used it for weeks. Fast, OC-able and All the Sense you could want.
I also +1 Titanium Back up. Its awesome.
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i cant get off of miui, i've flashed 8+ different ROM's but keep going back to MIUI for amazing battery OC to 1.997, ridiculous speed, stability, and over all beautiful, and the music app is unbeatable, but titanium backup is the best

seh6183 said:
Shoot another thing sorry. Everything on this phone appears zoomed in and the fonts are big. Does this have something to do with the resolution of the phone. I expected the opposite since the screen is a tad bigger.
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I'm a coredroid fan, sense 3.0 items, gb, oc'd. Pretty stable

It's strange to see one person love miui and another hate it haha
I basically like sense for its ability to keep everything backed up for me. Not for the widgets.
I think I'm going to make the switch from the Atrix based on the build quality alone. Do like the option for sense though.
Is there any other ATT phone that can be reccomended over the inspire at the moment? Or is the inspire at the top of the food chain for build quality, power, and modability?
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cordell507 said:
i cant get off of miui, i've flashed 8+ different ROM's but keep going back to MIUI for amazing battery OC to 1.997, ridiculous speed, stability, and over all beautiful, and the music app is unbeatable, but titanium backup is the best
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PowerAMP is better and I can over clock to 1997mhz on Gingerbeast ...But why would you want to burn your CPU out? I get awesome battery life with GB.. Over nite in standy ---Less then 6%...With miui it was half dead over nite... /Reflashed.

seh6183 said:
It's strange to see one person love miui and another hate it haha
I basically like sense for its ability to keep everything backed up for me. Not for the widgets.
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Dude, Go SMS, GO Contacts. Bye-bye Sense... Both are free and themeable.

tweaked said:
Dude, Go SMS, GO Contacts. Bye-bye Sense... Both are free and themeable.
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My contacts are synced by Google, I'm not worried about that. I would like the feature of all of my settings and apps to be restored after a phone change or phone wipe.
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if you think you like sense learn to use titanium backup and flash CM7 or MIUI and you wont be able to go back

cordell507 said:
if you think you like sense learn to use titanium backup and flash CM7 or MIUI and you wont be able to go back
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As I am not experienced much yet with an unlocked bootloader, ill take your word for it. I already purchaser TB for my Atrix do that's not an issue. I just never fully understood how to use it so I kinda just sits in my app drawer.
If you could please just briefly highlight the diffrences in cm7 and miui I would really appreciate it. Also do you think flashing to cm7 will remove this "zoomed in, big font issue" I was referring to earlier? Or is it maybe that MOTO blur is zoomed out? Everything looks smaller on the Atrix.
It's strange to see such dislike for Sense. I've seen on many occasions in other phones forums, people asking how to put sense on their non HTC devices. I was under the impression it was the best.
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seh6183 said:
As I am not experienced much yet with an unlocked bootloader, ill take your word for it. I already purchaser TB for my Atrix do that's not an issue. I just never fully understood how to use it so I kinda just sits in my app drawer.
If you could please just briefly highlight the diffrences in cm7 and miui I would really appreciate it. Also do you think flashing to cm7 will remove this "zoomed in, big font issue" I was referring to earlier? Or is it maybe that MOTO blur is zoomed out? Everything looks smaller on the Atrix.
It's strange to see such dislike for Sense. I've seen on many occasions in other phones forums, people asking how to put sense on their non HTC devices. I was under the impression it was the best.
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Out of all the UI's Sense is the best. I've used miui once but it looks too similar to the iphone so I don't really know what the appeal is there. However there is a large number of people who like the stock look with CM7 because of how you can customize literally everything, after a while that gets repetitive and boring. Personally I prefer Sense because of the hardware acceleration in the UI and the eye candy. Out of all the UI's it's the only one that doesn't look like it was designed by a 10 year old kid.
Go flash Leedroid with all the patches and you'll see what I mean.

seh6183 said:
As I am not experienced much yet with an unlocked bootloader, ill take your word for it. I already purchaser TB for my Atrix do that's not an issue. I just never fully understood how to use it so I kinda just sits in my app drawer.
If you could please just briefly highlight the diffrences in cm7 and miui I would really appreciate it. Also do you think flashing to cm7 will remove this "zoomed in, big font issue" I was referring to earlier? Or is it maybe that MOTO blur is zoomed out? Everything looks smaller on the Atrix.
It's strange to see such dislike for Sense. I've seen on many occasions in other phones forums, people asking how to put sense on their non HTC devices. I was under the impression it was the best.
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internally MIUI and CM7 are very similar the biggest difference is the way they actually feel when using them, its mainly the ui, with CM7 you can customize EVERTHING but with MIUI most of its their you just have to see if you like it but if you do flash miui id recommend Rey's coustom rom MIUI in the desire hd fourms. but with titanium backup what it does is makes very precise backups of all your apps and saves it to your sd card and when you move roms you just download titanium backup and restore, most of this is done thorough batch which you go to backup/restore, hit menu, and select backup all user apps with data, but NEVER select system data when moving roms because it can cause some serious problems

My opinion:
Love sense. My favorite UI, and I like all roms on this forum. Tried every single one. My absolute favorite aosp rom is gingerbeast. Favorite sense rom is stock rooted and gtg's inspired ace. Then comes miui. As for the atrix, forget it. I had the atrix and it kept overheating, so I got the inspire and it was the best decision ever! Best part-no motoblur
As far as the people who don't like sense, go spend a year on touchwiz or motoblur
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seh6183 said:
It's strange to see one person love miui and another hate it haha
I basically like sense for its ability to keep everything backed up for me. Not for the widgets.
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Well then you might as well flash an aosp rom. Sense wont keep all you stuff backed up throughout roms(I don't remember it restoring any of my stuff)
aosp roms will keep EVERY app backed up and will restore them when you reflash or update the rom. If you uninstall an app, it wont restore it.
Works perfect.

shawn1224 said:
Out of all the UI's Sense is the best. I've used miui once but it looks too similar to the iphone so I don't really know what the appeal is there. However there is a large number of people who like the stock look with CM7 because of how you can customize literally everything, after a while that gets repetitive and boring. Personally I prefer Sense because of the hardware acceleration in the UI and the eye candy. Out of all the UI's it's the only one that doesn't look like it was designed by a 10 year old kid.
Go flash Leedroid with all the patches and you'll see what I mean.
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What's the snappiest gingerbread Rom that has sense bundled?
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I've become a big fan of CoreDroid, Sergio promised us a new version tonight or tomorrow.
Inspired Ace was good, but I wanted the Sense 3 bits

[Q] CM7 vs CM9? Differences? Should i bother?

how is the cm7 different from cm9?

qs504792 said:
how is the cm7 different from cm9?
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CM9 is Ice Cream Sandwich :O

Z3US911 said:
CM9 is Ice Cream Sandwich :O
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I know this. I guess i should have elaborated on my Q.
I would like to know the differences/new features and what not..
What are the key features or upgrades to look forward to experiencing/having.

If your phone is a slow one like mine,I wouldn't upgrade.
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usaff22 said:
If your phone is a slow one like mine,I wouldn't upgrade.
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define slow? i have a moto triumph and it seems to do the job.

CM9 isn't out yet right? When is it coming out? I want it so bad

There are many alpha and beta builds of CM9 for many phones out already however unless you know what you're doing, I wouldn't use them yet.

its out already but still in dev

Can't wait to get a working version on my G2X to try out but I need my phone for school so it has to be stable :S lols

CM9 ICS SHOULD be a better performer, depending on processor. I have Deck's 4.0.3 ICS running on my HTC EVO 4G and I can say it's definitely snappier than CM7 on the same phone. Some of that is due to hardware acceleration using the GPU, I believe. I'm currently using NovaLauncher but I've tried Trebuchet and they are very similar in look and feel and I like that alot, NovaLauncher just seems to be a bit more mature. I'm anxiously awaiting CM9 on the EVO and will be on that like white on rice when it becomes available.

Ooo do you have a picture? that would be cool to see. I'm still running gingerbread on my g2x lol

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CM9 ICS SHOULD be a better performer, depending on processor. I have Deck's 4.0.3 ICS running on my HTC EVO 4G and I can say it's definitely snappier than CM7 on the same phone. Some of that is due to hardware acceleration using the GPU, I believe. I'm currently using NovaLauncher but I've tried Trebuchet and they are very similar in look and feel and I like that alot, NovaLauncher just seems to be a bit more mature. I'm anxiously awaiting CM9 on the EVO and will be on that like white on rice when it becomes available.
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where can i find nova launcher and treb..??

CM9/ICS is more refined than previous versions of android IMO: More consistency, swiping gestures are well used everywhere... list goes on!!~~
Funnily enough, CM9/ICS seems to run fine on my older devices. On the Galaxy tab 7, ICS is running smoother than CM7/GB did for me. Some things don't function perfectly (camera) but then in GB other things didn't work either.
On a much older device, like the Nexus one, CM7/GB seems to run smoother, CM9 lags a bit more.