You guys prob have a lot of dudes like me coming here and asking this q over and over. Should be a sticky maybe in every forum.
So here goes: I have the Vibrant and want to switch. I don't like the G2x. So was thinking of the SENSATION. How do you like yours?
Battery life? Good ROMs in the Dev section? ICS is coming to it? Overall - are you happy?
Thanks a million! Good year to you all
with ICS out sensation is outstanding phone battery life is better with this rom, everything has improved, and thats only the test build of ICS
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with ICS out sensation is outstanding phone battery life is better with this rom, everything has improved, and thats only the test build of ICS
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You guys already got ICS??? I would never imagined! Great to know that, and this does motivate me to go and get one for myself.
Yes we do! 3 devs have ICS roms out and running outstanding! i have ICS now and im loving it!
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Yes we do! 3 devs have ICS roms out and running outstanding! i have ICS now and im loving it!
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Devs, but is it official? I thought you meant official HTC ICS roms
Do you feel that his conclusion (14:00) is still valid today???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqfkzlGxiHc&feature=relmfu
Personally, I'm pretty satisfied with the phone. Had to send it in for warranty though due to a dead pixel
If you can get it at a cheaper price compared to the S2/Galaxy Note, I'd say go for it
Blodia said:
Personally, I'm pretty satisfied with the phone. Had to send it in for warranty though due to a dead pixel
If you can get it at a cheaper price compared to the S2/Galaxy Note, I'd say go for it
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Dont see why anyone would want the NOTE. It's a tablet. but that's besides the point 9:
10000% HappY
I Love my Sensation XE . As my first android phone, I was getting confused between XE/GS2 . but when i practically handled them side by side...GS2 were a "Big NO" for my taste. i admit the screen is....but that's it..actually it hurts to see so over saturated color & the exterior look of total body is waaaayyyyyy inferior than XE. I dont give a damn about "benchmark"..as i do play..Shadowgun/ Asphault6 on my XE...and games like these literally fly..in terms of both look and performance. To me, my XE RockS.
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Dont see why anyone would want the NOTE. It's a tablet. but that's besides the point 9:
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That's what I thought until I tried my friend's Note, it's so big that it makes the Sensation look tiny
love my sensation - now that i've flashed ARHD rom..it turned into XE with beats audio with speed bump to 1.5ghz and enhanced audio quality. the phone is very smooth but i have yet to try ICS roms on it. Will wait for more stable release before i try flashing one.
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Hey guys long time since I've been here since moved on to an iPhone 4 however played on a Desire S and am seriously tempted.
I was just wondering because my only quibble is Sense UI, I hate it!
I just prefer stock android.
Is there a way to get rid of Sense UI or possibly a ROM that is just Gingerbread on it's own no custom UI on the top that I could flash the phone with ?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
you can try ADW launcher or there is a CM7 port which has everything other than bluetooth working you can flash that
Wingzer said:
Hey guys long time since I've been here since moved on to an iPhone 4 however played on a Desire S and am seriously tempted.
I was just wondering because my only quibble is Sense UI, I hate it!
I just prefer stock android.
Is there a way to get rid of Sense UI or possibly a ROM that is just Gingerbread on it's own no custom UI on the top that I could flash the phone with ?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
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Check out the threads in the development forum
The CM7 or MIUI roms are probably what your after.
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Literally just want stock android 2.3 like you get on the Nexus S.
Not sure if it is possible though.
Wingzer said:
Literally just want stock android 2.3 like you get on the Nexus S.
Not sure if it is possible though.
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I'm tempted to say why buy a htc
Device if you dislike sense so much, as you can probably tell already I personally love it
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ben_pyett said:
I'm tempted to say why buy a htc
Device if you dislike sense so much, as you can probably tell already I personally love it
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The construction of the phone and the screen, the size and just the device.
I just like it.
All Samsung phones are just plastic slabs, HTC seam to be the only quality phone maker at the moment.
Desire S with stock Gingerbread like the Nexus One or S would be perfect for me.
Just flash cm7 from the development section, that's essentially stock.
hookguy said:
Just flash cm7 from the development section, that's essentially stock.
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Used it before was painfully slow and ate battery like nothing on my Nexus S.
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Used it before was painfully slow and ate battery like nothing on my Nexus S.
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i thought cm7 was faster than stock & had better battery consumption
i have never used official cm7 before (have used some ports) so i maybe misguided
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i thought cm7 was faster than stock & had better battery consumption
i have never used official cm7 before (have used some ports) so i maybe misguided
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I've tried the current CM7 port and its certainly faster than stock and even faster than LBC.....I believe that they're still looking into improving the battery issues....but great progress is being made with the rom in a very short amount of time....so watch it ....
To think that Sense is the best overlay UI on any Android device not to mention Sense 3.0 that I have right now with Virtuous rom. Why hate it?
Or you could just flash TouchWiz UI on DesireS, though I haven't tried it.
I just want to know if it's possible to have a Desire S without Sense UI ?
Its possible, and someone will make it eventually, its my plan after finishing the cyanogen port
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Its possible, and someone will make it eventually, its my plan after finishing the cyanogen port
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Good to hear man!
I'm still on the fence on the Desire S, time will tell.
why don't you consider the incredible s? It seems to have a lot more support. Not that i wouldn't want you to get the desire s
Well, the incredible s is a great phone.. but cost more money and is bigger
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Well, the incredible s is a great phone.. but cost more money and is bigger
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& the desire S has unibody aluminium & feels nicer to hold
Yeah pretty much I'm not too fussed for a 4" screen it's ok as long as the resolution is high enough.
But yeah the construction and feel of the phone is a real strong point for me.
All i can say is i am extremly happy with it. i am coming from the moto atrix, which was horrible. it was worse then my mytouch 4g. the difference is like night and day, even with less RAM.
there is something i want to know though. the bar at the bottom of the homescreen isnt exactly "smooth". i posted a pic, you cant tell much on it since it is blurry. not really much of a problem, just weird
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All i can say is i am extremly happy with it. i am coming from the moto atrix, which was horrible. it was worse then my mytouch 4g. the difference is like night and day, even with less RAM.
there is something i want to know though. the bar at the bottom of the homescreen isnt exactly "smooth". i posted a pic, you cant tell much on it since it is blurry. not really much of a problem, just weird
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yes, the jagged edges on top of the ark... it's normal, don't worry.
not sure why it does that but...
anyway, congrats. Welcome to the club.
Mainspring said:
yes, the jagged edges on top of the ark... it's normal, don't worry.
not sure why it does that but...
anyway, congrats. Welcome to the club.
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at least its not just me aha. sucks having ocd about those things though lol.
and thanks!
Welcome to the club yooooooooo! PM me if you need to know something
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Welcome to the club yooooooooo! PM me if you need to know something
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thanks! and no prob
Great choice!
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Great choice!
Click my sig if you want a 10 minute, easy, straightforward guide on rooting, unlocking, flashing a great ROM, and overclocking.
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yeah i already rooted it and flashed insertcoin i think it was. it flys now it was weird rooting a HTC phone, got a little used to the moto software
stratax said:
yeah i already rooted it and flashed insertcoin i think it was. it flys now it was weird rooting a HTC phone, got a little used to the moto software
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Is that a stable build? I have a Sensation from work and rely on it to work all the time so I don't want to screw things up.
glennk said:
Is that a stable build? I have a Sensation from work and rely on it to work all the time so I don't want to screw things up.
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sorry for late reply, and yes it is very stable i havent had one force close. its also much faster and looks better than the stock ROM. you should try it out, make sure you download the TMOUS tweaks thats on the site where you download the ROM from. if you have the US version that is.
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yeah i already rooted it and flashed insertcoin i think it was. it flys now it was weird rooting a HTC phone, got a little used to the moto software
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you liking Insertcoin?
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you liking Insertcoin?
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There are 3 most Stable ROMs that I have come accross without any issues..
1) Insert Coin 3.4.4 by baadnewz
2) HyperNonSense v7 by kristofpetho
3) Sensation 2.08.401.1 | Stock Rooted Rom by EddyOS..
Remaining all I found buggy, battery drainers or unstable..
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most deffinitely! not one thing i dont like about it. there is lag every now and then but not as much as stock. thats just sense/non optimized for the hardware, etc
jjdoctor said:
There are 3 most Stable ROMs that I have come accross without any issues..
1) Insert Coin 3.4.4 by baadnewz
2) HyperNonSense v7 by kristofpetho
3) Sensation 2.08.401.1 | Stock Rooted Rom by EddyOS..
Remaining all I found buggy, battery drainers or unstable..
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yeah im on 3.4.5 of insert coin and its deff stable. i am suprised how good the battery is too on it, even better than my old atrix
http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-says-first-ice-cream-sandwich-updates-coming-march-adds-more-phones-list
According to HTC, the Desire HD is confirmed to get an official ICS OTA! As we all know, the DHD and MT4G have nearly identical hardware and ROMs are very easy to port between the two. The stock DHD ICS ROM would make a perfect (read: fully functional) base for the MT4G. Assuming we still have decent devs in a few months, we should have a very nice ICS ROM.
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http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-says-first-ice-cream-sandwich-updates-coming-march-adds-more-phones-list
According to HTC, the Desire HD is confirmed to get an official ICS OTA! As we all know, the DHD and MT4G have nearly identical hardware and ROMs are very easy to port between the two. The stock DHD ICS ROM would make a perfect (read: fully functional) base for the MT4G. Assuming we still have decent devs in a few months, we should have a very nice ICS ROM.
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nice!
but we need a Sense ICS kernel... :3
but hopefully they'll be able to port it with a multidevice kernel!
*crosses fingers*
saranhai said:
nice!
but we need a Sense ICS kernel... :3
but hopefully they'll be able to port it with a multidevice kernel!
*crosses fingers*
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I would think that DHD kernel would make a great start.
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I would think that DHD kernel would make a great start.
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haha hopefully by then i'll have the knowledge on how to build a kernel
What about the cameras? Do they use the same exact camera hardware?
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What about the cameras? Do they use the same exact camera hardware?
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As far as specs, yes. Historically speaking, DHD ROMs do still have to be ported to an extent. However, I would expect a fully working camera will be extremely easy with a DHD dump as a base.
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As far as specs, yes. Historically speaking, DHD ROMs do still have to be ported to an extent. However, I would expect a fully working camera will be extremely easy with a DHD dump as a base.
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True but you would still have things such as flipped ffc and other small bugs as the libs aren't identical
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Nicgraner said:
True but you would still have things such as flipped ffc and other small bugs as the libs aren't identical
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Also true, but we've found solutions to minor issues like that in the past.
Who knows maybe we get it too.
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That is good news
good to hear
the kernel is the biggest issue right now and hopefully the dhd's ICS kernel can help
well guys, look at this:
The MT4G is "expected by HTC" to get ICS, but nothing's official yet
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/htc-update-list-on-android-ice-cream-sandwich-upgrades/
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well guys, look at this:
The MT4G is "expected by HTC" to get ICS, but nothing's official yet
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/htc-update-list-on-android-ice-cream-sandwich-upgrades/
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I saw that, but isn't that complete crap? Just seems highly unlikely to me. My bet is HTC doesn't consider it worth it, because the myTouch series of phones has that ugly TMO-customized version of Sense. So they'd put a lot of work in customizing that UI to work on ICS for only two phones, one of which is nearing a year and a half old. I just don't see it happening.
Guess I might just keep my phone.. Sounds good...
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I saw that, but isn't that complete crap? Just seems highly unlikely to me. My bet is HTC doesn't consider it worth it, because the myTouch series of phones has that ugly TMO-customized version of Sense. So they'd put a lot of work in customizing that UI to work on ICS for only two phones, one of which is nearing a year and a half old. I just don't see it happening.
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If it is true, that's another kick in the ass to people who thought we would never get it. I hope we get an official version
If I helped, give thanks, if you please.
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I saw that, but isn't that complete crap? Just seems highly unlikely to me. My bet is HTC doesn't consider it worth it, because the myTouch series of phones has that ugly TMO-customized version of Sense. So they'd put a lot of work in customizing that UI to work on ICS for only two phones, one of which is nearing a year and a half old. I just don't see it happening.
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lmao HTC likes to troll
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lmao HTC likes to troll
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How's that?
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How's that?
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tell people that they're "considering" on an upgrade, excite everyone, and then don't upgrade...
Could anyone modify some files in order to achieve tablet ui on our ICS Roms?
SII Atrix and other cm9 devices has this mod, and im wondering if it possible Sensation to have it. Any help?
Here are some reference posts;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23345856&postcount=10499
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1467051
http://blog.sola-dolphin-1.net/archives/4076628.html
This looks frigging bad ass. It would definitely be awesome if our Sensations get a lil taste of this.
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+1 for this idea
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It seems that no one is capable of helping. "Devs" are just busy making hundreds of Sense roms, and kanging every aosp rom. One dev brings something new, the rest 99devs are just copying. Thats how it goes on our Sensation forum. Im gealous on the SII and GNex comunity.
Seems like that Japanese blog post has instructions on how to build a Tablet UI. Would be awesome if someone jumps on this for the Sensation. If only I knew how to code :/
I am looking into this now. I just got it going on my galaxy note and my buddies nexus, and I must admit, anything 4.5"+ is definitely better suited for the tablet UI. I havent tried it on anything as small as the sensation, but I am going to give it a go. I have already knocked the lcd density down to 213 with the Virtuous Rom and it doesnt attempt to kick down to the tablet UI. So finding the cutoff is step one...
You must be new here.
Already found a sollution thanks anyways.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620616&page=4
ccs16rocks said:
You must be new here.
Already found a sollution thanks anyways.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620616&page=4
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Awesome. I am not a fan of aokp, so I am going to see if I can get it going on the virtuous aosp rom.
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It seems that no one is capable of helping. "Devs" are just busy making hundreds of Sense roms, and kanging every aosp rom. One dev brings something new, the rest 99devs are just copying. Thats how it goes on our Sensation forum. Im gealous on the SII and GNex comunity.
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Gs2 is worse believe me
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Hey guys
I'm kind of out of the smartphone loop. A couple years ago I had a HD2 and it was a beaufitul thing, mainly due to the amount of different things you could do with it. However about 7 months ago the touch screen stopped responding and so its not just a beautiful paper weight. For a while my friend leant me her old desire which worked nicely for me with a custom rom. However she had to take it back and now im stuck with my old SE z530i...
So basically im looking for something equivalent to the HD2 in terms of its abilities and what not, I do like high spec phones but Im not willing to go as far as the £500 I spent on my HD2. Is there a phone out atm between the levels of a desire and a Hd2? Whats the galaxy nexus turned out to be like?
Cheers!
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Good luck with that.....The HD2 is probably the most developed phone out there. You can always just replace the screen? I have heard it is pretty easy.
Just hold out for the SGSIII, it will be out this month. Of course it is not as highly developed but at least it can see when you look at it.....
Oh, and Bumping is prohibited. If someone wants to answer you, they will.
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Good luck with that.....The HD2 is probably the most developed phone out there. You can always just replace the screen? I have heard it is pretty easy.
Just hold out for the SGSIII, it will be out this month. Of course it is not as highly developed but at least it can see when you look at it.....
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Oh I looked into it before but apparently it wasn't worth the money to replace itm might look into it again though. Fair enough my bad
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Oh I looked into it before but apparently it wasn't worth the money to replace itm might look into it again though. Fair enough my bad
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It's hard times for ppl like us... i changed after 30months with a HD2 to the HTC One X.
the One X has a perfect screen and amazing specs, it's really cool, but development seems to be very slow, and nowhere as near the HD2
I'm really thinking of going back to the HD2! it was just pure freedom, nothing gets near it
i don't have much info about the Galaxy Nexus though. you could visit the forum and see yourself
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It's hard times for ppl like us... i changed after 30months with a HD2 to the HTC One X.
the One X has a perfect screen and amazing specs, it's really cool, but development seems to be very slow, and nowhere as near the HD2
I'm really thinking of going back to the HD2! it was just pure freedom, nothing gets near it
i don't have much info about the Galaxy Nexus though. you could visit the forum and see yourself
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Hmm I know what you mean, you can do anything with the HD2. Maybe I'll just pay for the screen to be replaced on it. I don't know but I'm not a huge fan of the Galaxies, they seem to plasticy and tacky, maybe its cause im used to the metal behind of the HD2.
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Hmm I know what you mean, you can do anything with the HD2. Maybe I'll just pay for the screen to be replaced on it. I don't know but I'm not a huge fan of the Galaxies, they seem to plasticy and tacky, maybe its cause im used to the metal behind of the HD2.
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same here.
i can't stand the crapy plastic on those sammy phones, thats why i choosed the One X, wich feels really really amazing
just the development is the problem here.. :/
D4rkSoRRoW said:
same here.
i can't stand the crapy plastic on those sammy phones, thats why i choosed the One X, wich feels really really amazing
just the development is the problem here.. :/
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Is it just slow? or not many developers working on roms etc?
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Is it just slow? or not many developers working on roms etc?
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There seem to be enough devs, but we still don't have S-OFF. not many are looking into this prob..
we still need to flash the "boot.img" kernel via the PC, with phone in fastboot mode..
this, everytime when we change to a ROM with a different base.
but we have a working CM9 ROM now, I'm very happy with it.. I can't stand sense >.< and most ROMs are just stripped down sense ROMs, or modified ones
but maybe i'm just too spoiled from the time with my HD2.. >.<
I was in town yesterday and I had the chance to try out the HTC one X. Its specs impressed me and its build quiality seemed closer to the HD2 than anything else I'd seen. Anyone got anything bad to say about it?
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I was in town yesterday and I had the chance to try out the HTC one X. Its specs impressed me and its build quiality seemed closer to the HD2 than anything else I'd seen. Anyone got anything bad to say about it?
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Not really... Im going to get a HTC OneX aswell... I have a review model... you can read it via the website on my signature logo thingy... Im also waiting for the next Nexus phone too ;D
heres the review i wrote : http://theandroidcity.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/htc-one-x/
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Not really... Im going to get a HTC OneX aswell... I have a review model... you can read it via the website on my signature logo thingy... Im also waiting for the next Nexus phone too ;D
heres the review i wrote : http://theandroidcity.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/htc-one-x/
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Yeah I just checked up cheers! The only thing that I'm not keen on is it hasn't got expandable memory, bit of a shame really!
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I was in town yesterday and I had the chance to try out the HTC one X. Its specs impressed me and its build quiality seemed closer to the HD2 than anything else I'd seen. Anyone got anything bad to say about it?
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like i said, the device itself is amazing, only bad point is that you can't exchange the battery, and it doesn't have a SDCard slot.
Besides this, develpment is slow, but i'm satisfied now, that we have a really good working unoficial cm9 ROM.
Theres even an AOKP ROM now, wich i want to try soon
But if you like sense, there are enough ROMs for this available..
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like i said, the device itself is amazing, only bad point is that you can't exchange the battery, and it doesn't have a SDCard slot.
Besides this, develpment is slow, but i'm satisfied now, that we have a really good working unoficial cm9 ROM.
Theres even an AOKP ROM now, wich i want to try soon
But if you like sense, there are enough ROMs for this available..
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Well at least theres a few? very tempted to go for it, do you know if anyones working on a MIUI rom?
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Well at least theres a few? very tempted to go for it, do you know if anyones working on a MIUI rom?
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yes i saw two MIUI ROMs, and the cm9 ROMs are getting better now
like it much more, now that we have more AOSP/CM ROMs x)