Hello, i'm a new wifi xoom user and i'm very tempted to use the eos rom because of the features it presents, especially the rooted parts. My hesitation comes from the fact that i know what i get, but i don't know what i lose abandoning the stock rom : hardware support, battery lifetime, application compatibility (i read that there may be problem with chrome beta for example), easy update mechanism. I hope some eos experts have answers to my interrogations.
Thank you
I think if you decide to flash the most recent Team EOS Nightly 79 you will be very very happy. If you are currently on Honeycomb it is a vast improvement in all areas that I can tell...the battery life is just as good as honeycomb, maybe even better. The new UI is much cleaner looking and just kinda sharper and more professional in my opinion than honeycomb. I have tried the stock ICS build and the latest Team EOS ICS build and to be honest the responsiveness of both are amazing compared to honeycomb, the window animations and transitions are much smoother and more fluid, the general feel is honestly that of a new tablet which I love. In my opinion, with the Team EOS build I haven't really noticed any bugs and the fact that it's rooted gives it more functionality, you can set the charging light which is a nice feature, and of course if you like you can over clock or undervolt although I find it to be perfect without doing either. Another great improvement is the browser, it opens and closes without any lag, and is much faster and cleaner when browsing, also sites that use flash seem to be much more seamless, same goes for Youtube videos. In my opinion this Team EOS ICS ROM is definitely the way to go, I have been using it as my daily driver since back when the first couple Nightly builds came out and I haven't looked back.
I would definitely recommend, if you are completely stock and on honeycomb that you go ahead and read up in these forums and then unlock your boot loader, flash a custom recovery and flash this ROM. If you took the ICS OTA update, then it's totally just personal preference as to whether or not you want to go with the rooted Team EOS ICS ROM.
In any case, hope you enjoy the XOOM experience as much as I do
Sent from my Suped up XOOM running Team EOS ICS Nightly 78!
Chrome beta works just fine.
Thanks a lot for your answers.
I currently have ics (i unlocked my french xoom to put the us stock rom in order to get it).
My wish to go on rooting is primarly for usb key and openvpn.
I would like to play some games too so that's why i wonder if the hardware support is the same or equivalent as stock rom ?
And does the eos team provides an ota update mechanism for the stable or for nighties ?
Are the same 3 languages available (us,fr,es) ?
Thanks a lot again
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Hi all
I've picked up a Xoom in the UK. I quite like the tablet but it has a few niggling issues. I'd like to know if these are fixed in ICS (I do not want to unlock the bootloader etc. to update in case I wish to return it). Is rooting and unlocking the bootloader reversible?
I've read ICS is notably faster and avoids the "keyboard lag" particularly evident on XDA, but would appreciate some comments on the following:
Screen Brightness: Auto sucks, it's always too low. Is this improved in ICS?
Browser: The browser doesn't fully load a page. Only the first portion is rendered, scrolling down the page means the next part is rendered. Scroll back up and the earlier part you've already seen is NOT in memory and is re-rendered. Most annoying!
Any comments appreciated.
ICS is most definitely an improvement over stock,in terms of speed and stability. Quite amazing, given that the ICS builds we have now are alpha engineering builds.
To your specific questions,I never really had a problem with autobrightness or with browser rendering... but I've been off stock so long I just may not remember the browser issues. I also converted pretty early on to Dolphin HD browser due to a few stock browser quirks, and am now playing with Boat Browser, which seems a bit lighter than Dolphin and which I like a lot so far.
At any rate, I'd suggest you read through the ICS thread of your choice thoroughly and if you like what you see, give it a try... you can always go back to stock and relock if you decide Xoom is not for you... but I can tell you it is a whole new,and much improved, device on ICS. I'm running Team EOS's version for 4g.
If you decide to giving it a try, the Universal Root thread is a must read.
Unlocking the boot loader and rooting the XOOM on 3.2 Honeycomb is absolutely reversible, I have done it myself several times with no problems
I followed this YouTube tutorial for both
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Dw1PNnmHE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSH14xI5c8s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Good luck, since it is reversible there is not much risk involved in rooting and unlocking your bootloader and Motorola website provides the stock system images to return your device to stock and re-lock your boot loader in just a few simple commands.....I suggest reading up allot before attempting, there are some great tutorials to familiarize yourself with ADB and the commands and such.
I rooted back on 3.2 and flashed the Team EOS ICS build and I have to say it runs amazing and I have not regretted it for a second.
Sent from my Xoom using xda premium
Thanks guys - much appreciated.
I'm interested in the Team EOS build - I'll have a good read up! I'm not alien to the root and unlock process though - looks similar to my Sensation.
Cheers!
James
Stock HC is a disappointment, EOS is in a word awesome. I use the wingray variation and overclock stable at 1.6 Ghz. I ditched stock over 6 months ago and never looked back. The same folks that bring EOS ICS brought us Tiamat HC which is what I started on after unlocking. Motorola should outsource to these guys.
Can't agree more. Stock 3.2 sucked. Slow UI, default launcher was clunky - it made the Xoom a disappointment.
ICS EOS Wingray (wi-fi), is awesome. Even the nightly builds are usually stable . Sometimes not but most of the time yes. I'm running nightly 54 and rock solid. The only bugs I've encountered are: 1) camera flash over exposes picture, 2) wi-fi off when sleep does not work.
Battery life is good as long as its not over-clocked. Over-clocked, expect it to eat the battery quicker and for most things you do - OC is not needed.
Try it out.
yes yes oh god yes.
I've just moved up to the stock rooted ICS from Tiamat HC and whilst the visuals are fairly similar, it's definitely smooooooother Well worth the move. I've also never found overclocking to be a necessity on the Xoom.
Hi im using mz601 with eos 1.0.0
Which rom is the best do you think?
Too much of a hassle to switch when all of them are pretty stable.
"Best" is highly subjective. I have been very happy with the TeamEOS nightlies.
i saw codename 1.5 ics rom.All comments was good.Like "best rom i have tried".I wonder can it faster, smoother, stable than eos roms.I can guess you will say "if you wonder why dont you try it?".I dont want reinstall apps or doing setting again.
Sory for my bad english
y.sacin said:
i saw codename 1.5 ics rom.All comments was good.Like "best rom i have tried".I wonder can it faster, smoother, stable than eos roms.I can guess you will say "if you wonder why dont you try it?".I dont want reinstall apps or doing setting again.
Sory for my bad english
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I have tried CM9 Kang, xrazor's AOSP, Team EOS (nightly and 1.0), Bugless Beast and Codename and all of them are great to be perfectly honest. The only reason I'm staying away from Team EOS for the time being is because the media scanner app hates my Xoom. The problem, however, seems to be isolated to a very small percentage of users. Otherwise, it is great. I've found that the AOSP and Codename to be more stable and snappy, but the sheer number of features of Codename have me sold on it. You can customize virtually every aspect of the ROM, from the power menu, to the startup processes (you can have it fix permissions and zipalign on boot), to clock speed, the launcher, etc. I would highly recommend it to anyone who has not tried it. We are very fortunate to have some very good devs for the Xoom and very stable, bug-free ROMs. There are a lot of devices that have a string of betas and buggy ROMs on these forums.
Thank you very much im downloading it now
y.sacin said:
Thank you very much im downloading it now
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Good choice. I'm using TeamEOS nightlies without problems. 3G. WiFi, speed, tability... works just great.
Now, im using codename rom.Its faster smoother than eos 1.0.0 but eos rom less buggy than codename rom.In codename rom no 3g no opera mobile browser but i think codename is better rom
I may be a bit biased but let me jump in here. . Me and solarnz talk often on the path forward. One underlying philosophy of the Eos project is we were tired of the same old played out mods. "Oh oh zomg! I can change my battery text color! " (although that's coming ). We strive for fresh new innovative features that add real-life value and productivity to the users tablet. Anybody can clone the cm repo and checkout a device tree. My grandma does that by lunch And because we strive for said innovation, we discover what works and what doesn't. Take cornerstone. Its the buggiest software I've ever seen. But we had it first. And only due to popular demand, we added cornerstone builds for all 4 xoom builds into the nightlys. What other tablet can run backtrack and hack with aircrack and reaver? Innovation. That's what we do. Peace.
I will have to give a +1 to the Team EOS guys. I've been using the tiamat roms/kernels since the very first release and I'm always happy with the work they do.
EOS 1.0.0 is blazing fast, smooth. Has a lot of great features.
If you're a linux guy I would check out the BT5 with aircrack also. Works great on the EOS rom.
I like AOKP (Android Open Kang Project). Lots of features from CM9 runs smooth and are pretty bug free.
New to Transformer forums. There's a few good roms out there, cant seem to find what i want though I'm hoping i just missed it.
IS there a rom out there with this list of working things...
ICS
Fully working keyboard dock
de-odexed
no bloat
Aokp/cm features
stable
I'm not really into nightlies..
if anyone thats been around here longer can help me that would be super!
I would recommend Revolver. The extra features will come in time as the dev is working hard at it but it would satisfy all your other requirements.
I've tried Revolver, Codename Android, and Android Revolution HD.
They are all pretty much beta right now but my opinion is that...
Revolver was amazing on HC so I am sure it will be amazing on ICS too.
Codename Android has good features and seems to have a good team behind it with frequent updates.
Android Revolution HD is meh. Doesn't add anything extra that is perceivable. It seems like stock. Yes, it's optimized, deodexed, and all that but so are the other roms. Comes with Maxthon browser that made me go wtf.
Revolver 4 Beta 1.3.1 is really stable. I was running that but jumped to the TeamEOS Cornerstone builds. Can't imaging going back to a non-cornerstone now.
Was wondering should I just wait for OTA JB update or just flash custom EOS JB rom.Just restored my Xoom to factory about a month ago.I know how to flash/restore/recover from brick but just wanted some opinions on this.
Try it and see yourself. You might love JB so much, you won't want to wait for OTA.
Besides, EOS will give more features and performance enhancements.
my opinion
Use JB from team Eos is a GREAT experience...
You will love with its smoothness and responsiveness.
Now I use build #93, and its blazing fast. I love it.
I started use it since #84, #88 and #92.
I love this ROM, but now I think about going back to stock ICS, why?
1st, I notice that battery life still greater on ICS, even working on the same 3g network all the time. (I rarely use WiFi)
2nd, I found that on #93 'auto' brightness didn't work correctly, the screen won't decrease its brightness on darker surrounding.
3rd, I can't use Google voice translator, it won't recognize my voice.
That's why I wanna go back to ICS. Maybe my reason didn't bother you, but that's matter for me.
So, if you can ignore a little problem that you might find on JB, I can say that you should try it now, you will amaze for its smoothness.
But now, I will wait for a moment and go back to ICS.
It such a great great great experience with JB, an Amazing work by Team EOS:good:....
ota JB will have JB kernel and new binary file ( dirver ?) for camera etc , anc can upgrade radio baseband
EOS JB have ICS kernel , ICS (some HC ) binary file ... but have some tweak like over/down clock , color change of clock ....
no waiting
I didn't have to wait. I'm not rooted or invited to the soak test. On a whim I deleted the cache from the framework app and then checked for updates.
The OTA downloaded and I'm on 4.1.1 now. Your mileage may vary...
one more for EOS
I would consider EOS especially since returning to stock is relatively simple. My options for the update were limited - Canadian Eh
Also I've been using the ICS from EOS since I got my tablet -- May 3 rec'd the tablet and on May 5 I installed ICS using the nightlies from EOS, never looked back and have had few issues, none serious.
EOS roms and the Xoom- makes that 3 year old tablet perform like some of the newer wonder tabs and for way less money.
However you go, I am sure you will like JB android... it seems to be somewhat smoother and troublefree.
Hi Guys,
Been running a pretty unstable JB ROM for a while. Need something that is very stable and won't act up. Suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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Hi Guys,
Been running a pretty unstable JB ROM for a while. Need something that is very stable and won't act up. Suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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From my experience as a user only, not a developer:
Gingerbread is going to be arguably the most stable, although I would run into strange issues with the keyboard disappearing and nonsense like that. It's not actively developed currently since everyone is into JB ROMs at the moment so there's that. It's also not as aesthetically pleasing as JellyBean in my opinion.
- r.e.v.e.n.a.n.t - Most current GB ROM. Desirable over other GB ROMs because it's inclusion of the Synthesis Kernel by Zen Arcade which fixes a few notable GB bugs like Wifi drain.
- I got tired of the look and feel of this ROM pretty quick and decided to flash an old GB ROM (You can find a list here and there's a post somewhere with better organization) and manually flash the Synthesis kernel which is pretty straightforward.
If you want to stick with JB, they all have similar issues. It really depends on what matters to you.
- Unofficial CM10.2 is fairly stable in my experience. Issues I've had with it always seem to go back to improper flash with Odin or just that my power button is on it's way out.
- SlimBean - I can't speak to the day to day stability as I've just flashed it last night, but I may like this one the best out of the currently available ROMs for our Infuse. The resolution is what does it for me, so much detail. It's also hasn't been updated to 4.3 yet, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
- AvatarROM - Never tried this one, but the sell seems to be good battery life on a JB ROM. I can't get passed the MIUI look myself.
Stability is up to the users usage and needs. As these threads become discussion over which one is better, they are summarily closed.
Please make your determination based on trial runs. Thanks