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Possible Landscape Mode On The Home Screen!!!!

http://i.engadget.com/2010/09/15/htc-desire-z-is-the-qwerty-slider-your-androids-been-waiting-fo/
Hopefully some of the great devs over here on xda can hack this up for us once this device is released......
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P.S......Don't bring our the torches on me...i was just posting here because i thought it would get the attention of a developer quicker here...
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rules are rules whether you want attention or not. im sure this will come to the evo when source or an ruu leaks.

CM6 already has Landscape homescreen... Just gotta make sure the fancy widget changes to whats above.
If you use launcher pro, the launcher icons rotate too.

CM 6 (stock vanilla froyo) does this. and its better than sence.

Example... The fancy widget needs a better landscape mode
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Just a notion here, but when did everyone start using CM6?

The day it came out

jm5503 said:
http://i.engadget.com/2010/09/15/htc-desire-z-is-the-qwerty-slider-your-androids-been-waiting-fo/
Hopefully some of the great devs over here on xda can hack this up for us once this device is released......
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When we see a non_TMobile Vision leak we should be able to obtain Landscape sense by using a few apk's from it.
cosine83 said:
Just a notion here, but when did everyone start using CM6?
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Never. And never will. Would rather use my own.

lifesgreat said:
CM 6 (stock vanilla froyo) does this. and its better than sence.
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Opinion noted, but far more people think Sense > Vanilla then you give credit for.

takmsdsm said:
Opinion noted, but far more people think Sense > Vanilla then you give credit for.
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+1...We have a monster device with lots of processor speed and massive amounts of storage, why don't we use it!!

takmsdsm said:
Opinion noted, but far more people think Sense > Vanilla then you give credit for.
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Agreed sense has the best looking widgets on the market!

Another CM fan here. Landscape home screen works awesome.
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erikivy said:
Another CM fan here. Landscape home screen works awesome.
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?. What widgets are those that show battery and such.
I am not running the CM due to lack of 4g and camera issues. But I am sure it will be on my rotation soon, right now Fresh has had the least force closes for me.

PAPutzback said:
?. What widgets are those that show battery and such.
I am not running the CM due to lack of 4g and camera issues. But I am sure it will be on my rotation soon, right now Fresh has had the least force closes for me.
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BatStat, it's in the market.

cosine83 said:
Just a notion here, but when did everyone start using CM6?
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I wouldn't use it. In my opinion its not very good. I don't like the looks of a lot of it. Lots of things still need a lot of work.

takmsdsm said:
Opinion noted, but far more people think Sense > Vanilla then you give credit for.
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+1...I prefer vanilla in a lot of areas compared to sense, but I always find myself going back to sense. LauncherPro is getting better though.

Works fine with LauncherPro as well. I have 4G and all that good stuff on a fast, stable ROM. I have not found any Sense widget that doesn't have an equal or superior replacement anyway. They're OK but not very customizable and kinda gaudy/glossy.

Just Horrible

Wow i came from the thunderbolt. I like the weight and screen of the Charge. But the software is just horrible!!! Another Fascinate in the making. And holly cow is the browser complete garbage. Even if i use a 3rd party it has the same problems.
I called verizon and they say its not an issue haha. I might get the incredible 2 instead.
Also 4g as of now is way overrated!! Well because works sporadically.
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I'm with you on the software, but who really uses the stock browser?
4G is definitely sporadic, but its pretty amazing when it works, IMO.
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Fascinate was a great phone for me.. This one not so much. I'm probably going to return this thing today

I just came from the Thunderbolt, for a reason. My Thunderbolt has been a nightmare since day 1. Battery issues, multiple reset issues, no data found issues. don't get me started on the Thunderbolt. The only thing I like more about the Thunderbolt is the solid build. However, the Thunderbolt software is ten times more flawed than the Droid Charge. Very happy I ditched the Thunderbolt in time to do a straight exchange for the Charge.

What exactly are your issues with the stock browser? I have yet to see a problem.

Holy smokes people getting mad cause i said software sux? Wow
The browser is non responsive while scrolling or using pinch to zoom. Browser is dealbreaker especially cause of cost of data.
As fas 4g goes yes when its working its great. But the 3g to 4g handoff is bad vice versa.
Anyone else hate the browbish colors of UI?
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I came from the Incredible and so far the T-Bolt and Inc 2 are looking better every day. Aside from the screen and 4g (when working), I can't find anything redeeming about the phone so far. This coupled with my fears over Samsung's spotty update history are really pushing me towards returning my charge.

Install launcher pro. Its not hideous like the default launcher and it can hide the bloatware.

I put launcherpro on. I love it but its the browser thats garbage. And 3rd party browsers have same problem
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All browsers eh? Maybe its not the browser but the phone...
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adrynalyne said:
All browsers eh? Maybe its not the browser but the phone...
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Or maybe it's the user...

adrynalyne said:
All browsers eh? Maybe its not the browser but the phone...
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We need you here too Adrynalyne!!!

I agree that all other browsers suck. On everyone android phone I had when you double tap an article it auto formats it to fit the screen. But not with the Droid Charge! POS

Opera mobile is the best for the Charge, smooth scrolling and fast but wont load all images on large heavy sites.. Thats when I use Miren

Yeah i like 3rd party browsers...... I meant that none work well on the charge. But whats killing me is..... i like the design of the charge over the thunderbolt..... Just fix the Touchwiz man......
Samsung is the worst man!!!! Id wait for a dual core 4g but im scared if i do that ill miss on the unlimited data plan.
Ahhhhhh

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Or maybe it's the user...
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Right, blame the user. That's the first thing they teach you when you take Human Computer Interaction courses. /s

The performance of the phone pretty much sucks it seems. My question is. . is it a hardware or software issue?

I love my charge. Battery life is great, screen is awesome, and it is fast. I agree though that the colors are terrible. Here's what I modified and mine runs smooth as silk:
1: Install a rooted Rom.
2: install titanium backup
3: remove bloatware
4: install ADW Launcher
5: install and use Opera Mobile. Seriously, its wicked fast.

Opera mobile is my favorite. But touchwiz makes the phone slow and clunky. Also anyone notice that when you hit power button to shut screen on and off its a slow shuttery fade?
A true working asop or custom Working Rom never came to fascinate will it come to charge?
Theme / skin Rom. ... I don't count these if touchwiz is what Rom is based off of.
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Sherwood1 said:
Opera mobile is my favorite. But touchwiz makes the phone slow and clunky. Also anyone notice that when you hit power button to shut screen on and off its a slow shuttery fade?
A true working asop or custom Working Rom never came to fascinate will it come to charge?
Theme / skin Rom. ... I don't count these if touchwiz is what Rom is based off of.
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Extremely unlikely that a fully working aosp ever.comes to the charge

Sense 3.0 ROM vs CM7 - Decisions!

So, is anyone else as confused about what to do here? I really want CM7 and an AOSP-like experience. But after using the Das Bamf 2.0 ROM, which only contains flashes of Sense 3.0, and seeing the Preview ROM as well, I am truly torn. The Sense that comes with the TB--to me--leaves alot to be desired. But 3.0? There is a HUGE upgrade! But there is just something about CM7 without the manufacturer bloat, the simple Dialer/Contacts/Notification bar. It's just clean.
I am not sure which one we will have working first as a daily driver (although some are already using both as daily's--I prefer to wait until they are somewhat more refined).
What are you guys going to do given the choice?
CM7?
3.0?
Wait for Unrooted Gingerbread?

I love BAMF GingerREMIX v2.0 Beta #6..It works great, and its stable. Great Battery Life.

Well waiting for unrooted gingerbread is silly. I feel that like the ASOP cm7 is a strong driver but its a bit too plain for me. Also gingerbread isn't that great by itself. I mean cosmetically speaking it isn't much of a change from froyo. I really do like the sense 3.0 aspects. They just add so much but that's just one guys oppion.
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What's so great about Sense 3.0? The only major difference I saw was the lock screen icons. I just got widget locker from the market and that lets you fully customize your lock screen.

I'm torn as well but decided on using BAMF Stripped V1.7. I use ADW EX as my launcher for it and I love it! It gives me the feel of CM7 but it runs much smoother than CM7 ever has on my device. I love CM7/AOSP type stuff but with the BAMF Stripped version my phone runs great and still has some nice stylings to it as well. So basically if you like AOSP/Sense you can run the same ROM as I am and kind of have elements of both.

skinien said:
What's so great about Sense 3.0? The only major difference I saw was the lock screen icons. I just got widget locker from the market and that lets you fully customize your lock screen.
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Lol, because your lockscreen looks like mine and has twitter integration?
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Sense 3.0 FTW! Running Gingeritis Final with Imoseyon's lean 3.0.1 kernel, it's a sweet eye-candy laden setup..

MsSassypants said:
Lol, because your lockscreen looks like mine and has twitter integration?
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haha, yeah. If I cared about twitter that much I'd just add a twitter widget to my lock screen.
My lock screen currently has:
Pandora widget
Winamp widget
Sound toggle widget
phone, gmail, handcent icons
Clock widget
alarm widget
battery % widget
slide to the right to unlock
slide to the left to open camera
AND I can drag down the notifcation bar from the lock screen.
Beats the hell out of the Sense 3.0 lock screen. But forget that... what's so cool about Sense 3.0?

CM7/AOSP over Sense any day for me.
I'm getting better battery life on CM7 now than on any previous ROM as well.

I started with the OG Droid and ran CM most of the time and loved it. My wife had the Eris and whenever I picked up her phone I could not stand Sense so I ended up putting CM on that as well.
Now that I have had my Thunderbolt since launch day I'm loving Sense. I flashed CM and played with it for about 4 hours, set everything up the way I like it and then went back to Sense without even making a backup of CM.
CM just seems very plain to me now that I have been using Sense for 3 months.
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I've Always have had an HTC device but i did like CM6 on my incredible
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my 50 cent....
skinien said:
haha, yeah. If I cared about twitter that much I'd just add a twitter widget to my lock screen.
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Haha, yeah. And the twitter widget is not scrollable, and it's fugly.
Bottom line is, if you want pretty go with Sense. If you want better battery life, go CM7.

"What should I use?" is such a loaded question. Everyone that likes sense is going to tell you to use Sense. Everyone that likes CM7 is going to tell you to use CM7.
I love CM7. But up until recently I felt it was unusable. Mostly bc of battery life. On my phone I could literally watch the meter go down. But when I saw a couple of new releases I had to go back. Battery life pwns Sense now (which for me was also horrible -just less horrible).
I think the 3g/4g/wifi hand-off is still having trouble. But I am in a 3g ONLY area. No 4g to connect to and not 1 public wifi hotspot in my community of 2000 people. So that is no biggie for me.
Bottom line is Cm7 is 10000xinfinity better than Sense. But I love CM7.

MsSassypants said:
Haha, yeah. And the twitter widget is not scrollable, and it's fugly.
Bottom line is, if you want pretty go with Sense. If you want better battery life, go CM7.
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There are two widgets and one of them is scrollable.
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MsSassypants said:
Haha, yeah. And the twitter widget is not scrollable, and it's fugly.
Bottom line is, if you want pretty go with Sense. If you want better battery life, go CM7.
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So false. Everyone is getting varied battery life with CM7 and Bamf... I'm pretty sure I got battery with Sense.
I REALLY like CM7's speed. Navigating between home screens/texts/into the dialer and contacts is so fluid and smooth. I also really like that I can use ADW to make my **** look cooler.
I liked Sense a lot though too, and I'm torn. I thought the lock screen was awesome and had a lot of functionality. I like how my contacts pretty much sync with facebook instantly... I've been on CM7 for 4 days now and only about 1/4 of people's profile pictures have synced. Sense is pretty, and has a lot of pretty awesome apps (the clock app kicks the **** out of the aosp one).
I'm torn.

bp328i said:
I started with the OG Droid and ran CM most of the time and loved it. My wife had the Eris and whenever I picked up her phone I could not stand Sense so I ended up putting CM on that as well.
Now that I have had my Thunderbolt since launch day I'm loving Sense. I flashed CM and played with it for about 4 hours, set everything up the way I like it and then went back to Sense without even making a backup of CM.
CM just seems very plain to me now that I have been using Sense for 3 months.
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cm7 on D1 was good but not better then Buglessbeast! He needs to come the thunderbolt

I've been using BAMF since the first preview as a daily. I wasnt a fan of sense before but now I'm hooked.
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wad3g said:
CM7/AOSP over Sense any day for me.
I'm getting better battery life on CM7 now than on any previous ROM as well.
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second this!

I was on Bamf 2.0.5 for about a week. I tried CM 7.1 r4 and had issues. I really liked the lockscreen "ring" on Sense 3.0. Especially how you could set 4 apps on the lock screen and drag them to the ring.
However I tried CM 7.1 R6 and I am sold. It is fast, bloat free and my battery life is the best I have ever had on this 4G phone.
3G to 4G can still be a little squirrelly sometimes, but the AOSP ROM is quick and bloatfree.

Can anyone talk about the camera app in CM7 vs Sense 3.0? I heard that stock AOSP camera app has a lot of problems?

Gingerbread update

i personally hate the update.. no changes to the UI or the lockscreen or nothing,... u shouldnt have to D/L other programs just too change the UI, the update should do that.. just my personal opinion

I did the update and I seen a lot of changes Like speed when you install aps they added some more setting and the phone don't lag speed increase
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The only reason i updated was for gingerbread and quicksettings. Speed-wise it seems to be about the same as froyo.

I agree with you on the speed. Everything seems to fun better. Like browsing cnn.com on desktop mode. Before the update it would lag pretty bad for me while scrolling. Also noticed that using my bluetooth headset works better.
It would have been nice to see changes to the default UI but I am totally happy with the update.
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I did the update and I seen a lot of changes Like speed when you install aps they added some more setting and the phone don't lag speed increase
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Why would they change the ui?
Take a minute and think about it. How many people have this phone and do nothing to mod it... or have any clue how to.
So... if they changed the ui from what the phone was sold with... do you think the average dumbass human would take the time to learn.... or just take the phone in or call freaking out.
You don't buy a car then expect a new paint job when you took it in for an oil change do you?
Just saying. Topics like this make me want to boat over a dolphin and club a baby seal.
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do any of your guys facebook contacts sync with your phone book contact after the update?

lol, facebook won't sync with 2.3.4 facebook refuses to follow the android standard, google gave them a ”grace period” to comply and they haven't so it's not going to work until facebook gets off their high house. I lol because this is really old news, guess you don't follow tech blogs/sites
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lol, facebook won't sync with 2.3.4 facebook refuses to follow the android standard, google gave them a ”grace period” to comply and they haven't so it's not going to work until facebook gets off their high house. I lol because this is really old news, guess you don't follow tech blogs/sites
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My facebook sync's just fine on 2.3.4

From what I have read facebook is going to put out their own o/s for phones. I don't see it going very far though.
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Mine syncs fine with 2.3.5 too.

Battery life. AMAZING. I would get 10 hours on froyo. 1gb data a month..web browsing YouTube Facebook etc.. hundreds of texts a day. Push email. Take a couple pics a day with flash.sync and auto brightness on. Occasional GPS.
16 hours of battery life. 11am - 3am. Wow. Today I only charged it a little to 65%. I got 9-10 hours from that with the same usage.
If I use it from 7am on, im confident it'll be on low battery at 11pm, rather than after dinnertime.

lucky bastards

Interesting, it shouldn't.. Do facebook contacts appear in your contacts list?
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Bupahs said:
Interesting, it shouldn't.. Do facebook contacts appear in your contacts list?
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Yes they do
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Humm, going to have to look into this a bit, maybe facebook decided to play nice
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When, its the next update scheduled also it,does lag we hen using a launcher like awd
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Tez MyTouch said:
When, its the next update scheduled also it,does lag we hen using a launcher like awd
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Been using AWD no lag here.. I use the pro (paid version) though

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Been using AWD no lag here.. I use the pro (paid version) though
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lol awd?[All wheel Drive!] The launcher is called ADW[Anderweb] named after its developer. Just thought it was funny seeing awd here.
Unless ya are referring to overclocking.

It lags when scolling thru my apps that's all using, cyo gen antique theme
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Tez MyTouch said:
It lags when scolling thru my apps that's all using, cyo gen antique theme
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On the MT4G launcher pro is the fastest for me and then it's GO launcher after it, both have no lag for me.

New ROM Ideas?

Hey guys FatalityBoyZahy Mister Hat(??? is that it sorry) and I are going to be developing a new ROM for our beloved G2x and we need some ideas on what you guys would like to see so post em here and we will try to incorporate everything that gets a lot of votes.
Alright guys have fun and well see what happens.
Votes:
Theme for ICS: 1

Should make a theme from the leaked pictures of ics.
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Bump
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fully working o2x lockscreen

Sense 3.0
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Keep it clean and smooth. Don't need all the junks.

Usable
-GPS Lock
-A2DP
-Good Camera
-low battery drain
-A good, fast launcher that's fully customizable
-I love notification toggles
Make it all work and you'll get the devotion of the entire community!

Notification toggles are a must. I can't use a rom without them.
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-HDMI output control
-Ability to use both Netflix and HBO Go.
-Colorized theme
-Toggle controls (sound, wifi, data, gps, etc) in drop down.

Battery life is the most important aspect for my daily needs. Not of big fan of CM7. I would prefer a Rom setup similar to stock regarding internal and external storage.
Add lots of color but keep the fonts stock. Theming the black and white icons found on stock would be great.
+1 on the NetFlix comment.
Thank you for your efforts.

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Battery life is the most important aspect for my daily needs. Not of big fan of CM7. I would prefer a Rom setup similar to stock regarding internal and external storage.
Add lots of color but keep the fonts stock. Theming the black and white icons found on stock would be great.
+1 on the NetFlix comment.
Thank you for your efforts.
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Plus a million on adding some color.
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Personally I would like to see a pure Gingerbread rom with OC'ed kernel and just adding the Theme Chooser. I don't need notification toggles because I can just use the power control widget on a homescreen in order to toggle. I'm more interested in speed and stability myself and don't worry about battery life like others. Though I can see how battery life would be important. I OC right now to 1.55/1.55 with performance governor, so my personal battery life is crap, lol.

Just something simple, stable Kernel (but without sacrificing performance and battery life), and definitely gotta have the LG camera.

So, I'm guessing most of you would like a 2.3.3 based ROM?
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FatalityBoyZahy said:
So, I'm guessing most of you would like a 2.3.3 based ROM?
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Would be nice if it were 2.3.5, lol.

2.2.2 has Enables for Background sync, and Auto-sync. I'd like to have a timed sync - like while "screen off", every n minutes allow background and auto syncing, then disable syncing.
It appears that when WiFi calling is active, the cell radio is enabled or occasionally enabled? I'd like to see the cell radio totally disabled when WiFi calling is active.
Maybe the wrong thread, but it'd be good to be able to "nice" individual processes.
I suppose some of these are already do-able, I just hadn't found it yet.
Thanks.

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-GPS Lock
-A2DP
-Good Camera
-low battery drain
-A good, fast launcher that's fully customizable
-I love notification toggles
Make it all work and you'll get the devotion of the entire community!
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But Weapon G2x has been out for quite some time now.

C0dy said:
But Weapon G2x has been out for quite some time now.
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That's what I was thinking, they're giving features that ROMs already have.
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That's what I was thinking, they're giving features that ROMs already have.
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Weapons does not have the ability to play Netflix. CM7 does, but HBO Go doesn't work; plus CM7 doesn't allow you to adjust HDMI output.

C0dy said:
But Weapon G2x has been out for quite some time now.
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Here's the problem...Weapon was serious buggy. GPS wouldn't lock, battery drain and it would freeze up on me. After the last Black screen of doom I had to wish it goodbye.