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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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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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
I wonder if it's just me, but when i install other apps liek GoSms, or the GoContacts app, they never run smoothly and constantly lag especially when i need to access what these apps handle quickly! Do any of yall experience such a problem? Thanks!
Are you rooted? I don't have any problems with apps like miui camera or handscent sms. Are you having problems with other apps or just what you mentioned? because I didn't have good experiences with Go sms, maybe experiment with other apps.
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Lol thanks for the reply, but I'm not rooted and its not that I'm having problems with the apllicailtions, its more along the lines of the applications beiglng more laggy than the stock applications which never is pleasant
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ThroughHymn said:
Lol thanks for the reply, but I'm not rooted and its not that I'm having problems with the apllicailtions, its more along the lines of the applications beiglng more laggy than the stock applications which never is pleasant
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I'm running gosms and it works smoothly for me. Obviously I'm rooted and running VU as my rom.
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ahhh i see, so think i need to root and flash a good rom?
ThroughHymn said:
ahhh i see, so think i need to root and flash a good rom?
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Couldn't hurt.
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So I've noticed that we have three UI's to choose from. Sense, stock(ASOP) and MIUI. How come we don't other choices like touchwiz or Motorola custom UI?
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That is due to none of those will work on devices not made for it. Samsung and TW. Moto and blur. HTC and sense. Hope that helps
I actually wonder if anyone has even tried to make it happen.
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I actually wonder if anyone has even tried to make it happen.
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I'm sure they've tried many times on multiple kinds of devices (I know 2 teams that tried to port sense to the cappy I don't think they got anywhere near a stable release) its just a whole lot more effort than a rom made for your phone
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its more than just the OS. those UI's arent just skins. they rely heavily on kernel support, and the framework is deeply integrated and dependent upon the core device. sense relies on it being HTC, TW relies on it being samsung, and blur relies on motorola....
Back in the day when I had the original droid i remember seeing a sense rom made for it. I never used it or even thought about it since it was pretty unstable. But I guess it is possible, just impracticle and way too much work for all the super awesome devs.
actually there is a motorola ui rom for the evo 4g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=nuwCK4VJ4cw
caddyman1989 said:
actually there is a motorola ui rom for the evo 4g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=nuwCK4VJ4cw
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No working data/wifi/camera, probably no working Bluetooth, its about the same stage that most of the UI ports get to before its realized that its beyond hope or the devs have worked on it so long that they grow tired of working on it.
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Seems like a task that's more work than its worth. I remember there being a Sense port for my old Galaxy S but I don't think it ever left the alpha stage
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Yeah I figured that much. Eh but one can dream
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So I stumbled into all this rootin tootin bootin recently with zero experience (a vagigantic thanks to rootjunkys vids and my djbliss for providing fall-of-a-log easy instructions) Just upgraded my phone to this kick ass HD (without hardly any research!) and now its all ready to do whatever I want so.... now what?
I installed a bunch of gaurdian project apps (Orbot, TorBrowser, Gibberbot, etc) for anonymity. But where do I learn about the Android file structure and safely deleting "things"? I mean, I still have Real Racing 2 on here because I am not confident with navigating ES File Explorer and uninstalling it yet.
Who's can point me to resources where I can better learn Android? Is the Android dev site the best we got?
Big thanks!
Hue
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Congratulations on doing all of that, you're on your way!
The way I taught myself all of the dos and donts was to simply install safe strap, flash ROMs, and just experiment. There are a ton of resources out there that can help you along the way, but the best way to learn is to definitely jump right in.
my recommendation, would be to install safestrap, install the stock droid RAZR HD rom into a ROM slot, root that one too, and try deleting apps, seeing what works and what doesn't. When in safe strap, you're in a separate "partition" from your stock slot, so you can't damage anything precious, but its always a good idea to back everything up! If you're looking for good tweaking applications, the one I use is "Pimp my ROM", Its free on the Play Store, and it is loaded with all kinds of features that can make your rooted ROM work like a dream! I can't get to a computer right now so I can't provide you any specific resources, but just PM me if you want and I can hook you up with some more information!
Cheers!
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Congrats. I personally wouldnt remove apps via any file manager app. Too messy, to prone to errors. You would be much better off installing Titanium Backup. with it, you can first "Freeze" an app, which disables it. You can then decide if that didnt break anything, and then go ahead and actually delete the app in a similar fashion. I do disable all those bloatware apps so that none of them can run in the background, but unless my phone is low on storage, no real reason to delete them, just in case you change your mind.
OK great thanks.. Just dl'd the Titanium Backup. Will play with it later.
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OK so I get the "check Unknown sources box" message from Titanium Backup. When I go to Settings, Apps, I have no options to choose from. Just shows Running, Cached and All apps listed. Where the heck are these all settings at?
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OK so I get the "check Unknown sources box" message from Titanium Backup. When I go to Settings, Apps, I have no options to choose from. Just shows Running, Cached and All apps listed. Where the heck are these all settings at?
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Oh jeez. There it is. The Titanium App has it under "Apps". Danka!
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