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Hey guys!
Wanted to know what you guys prefer/are using - Android Revolution or CM7 on your Inspire. Currently I'm using the stock rooted ROM and I'm loving it. I was using Android Revolution, but the tinny sound was unbearable for me after a while. Now that there's a fix for both AR and CM7, what do you recommend I flash? I don't mind Sense at all, but GB sounds pretty nice as well.
Opinions? Thanks!
I started with revolution but moved on to cm and will probably stay till some 2.3 roms come out, for no real reason I just "have" to have the latest os, always have... windows ME almost ruined my life
I think u have to ask ur self if u really enjoy sense or not... I personally love it after coming from the xperia x10's timescale ui, but if u don't then cm7 all the way for speed cuz it zips... plus u could use the colorize widget to get a sense like feel on cm7
How is battery life on CM7?
I like cm7 but I like the fact more that HTC sense downloads high quality FB images for my contacts. I dont think there is a way to do that on CM7, just the horrible quality images. That is what made me go back to sense... That along with the cm7 keyboard is tiny compared to the htc one.. Im sure I could find an apk somewher for it, but Ill just stick to sense for now.
earhog said:
I like cm7 but I like the fact more that HTC sense downloads high quality FB images for my contacts. I dont think there is a way to do that on CM7, just the horrible quality images. That is what made me go back to sense... That along with the cm7 keyboard is tiny compared to the htc one.. Im sure I could find an apk somewher for it, but Ill just stick to sense for now.
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Download the GB Keyboard from the market. The free one is bigger than the CM one and if you pay $.99 you get even more customization. Not saying this to try to get you to switch though. I even used it on Sense. It seems to be the best kb out there right now.
I noticed that CM7 was just released. I'm on Revolution and love it. CM7 makes me a bit nervous though. Install directions say to pick a radio to install, but then say that if you pick the wrong one you will brick your phone. That scares me. I didn't have to do that with Revolution. Are there benefits to CM7 that out-weigh that risk though? I can't find out a whole lot in the way of a comparison between CM7 and Revolution. I'd love to hear from people that have tried both to see what their impressions were.
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I noticed that CM7 was just released. I'm on Revolution and love it. CM7 makes me a bit nervous though. Install directions say to pick a radio to install, but then say that if you pick the wrong one you will brick your phone. That scares me. I didn't have to do that with Revolution. Are there benefits to CM7 that out-weigh that risk though? I can't find out a whole lot in the way of a comparison between CM7 and Revolution. I'd love to hear from people that have tried both to see what their impressions were.
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Obviously you have a radio installed so it's not an issue. If you are rocking the stock radio just do a full wipe and flash CM7 and you will be good to go. I did that and then changed my radio and everything has always worked well for me. The battery for me isnt too bad and I haven't run into many issues that bother me. I LOVE having CM7/Vanilla Android on this phone. CM7 also has built in capabilities to OC up to 1.5Ghz.
I liked cm7 and it might be a little faster but .......the reason i got the inspire 4g is cause of the screen size. I get alot of MMS slide shows and on cm7 the pictures are TINY unless you want to go to the trouble of saving them to get a full screen pic. With that being said I'll stick to AR for now so I get full screen MMS slide show pics like the stock htc rom did.
So, since I already have a working radio on Revolution, can I just back up the ROM with Tibu and then use Rom Manager to install CM7 to check it out?
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So, since I already have a working radio on Revolution, can I just back up the ROM with Tibu and then use Rom Manager to install CM7 to check it out?
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Also wondering about this. Currently have CM7 and have it set up just how I like it. If I do a tibu backup of user apps and system data, can I install another ROM, then go back to CM7, restore backup, and have everything like it is now?
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Also wondering about this. Currently have CM7 and have it set up just how I like it. If I do a tibu backup of user apps and system data, can I install another ROM, then go back to CM7, restore backup, and have everything like it is now?
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Use Nandroid too. Restore that, then apps ONLY with TiBu, not system data.
I used Rom Manager to backup my current system and then Tibu to backup all existing apps and data. Went back to Rom Manager and told it to download CM7. It installed great. Tibu put all my apps back as well. I see three BIG advantages to CM7 over Revolution so far. First, it seems MUCH faster. Second, it allows me to sync my Splash ID to my desktop. That was impossible with the stock ROM (both before and after rooting) as well as with Revolution. It also runs the Fox News app, something else that would never run on prior ROMs. Finally, I love all the new settings. There are a lot more configuration options available than on Revolution or even the rooted stock rom that I started with. All in all, I think I'll be sticking with CM7 for a while.
At first i put CM7 on my inspire...Hate it...after few hours was very slow...I removed it and using now android revolution 3.3...Very very happy...good battery life...
That's odd. I had the exact opposite experience. Of course I was using Revolution 4, but CM7 seems to be a whole lot faster for me. Only issues I've had with it so far is that I keep losing some of my App Tray folders in Go Launcher EX. But I'm also running a beta of that, so no telling where the problem lies.
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That's odd. I had the exact opposite experience. Of course I was using Revolution 4, but CM7 seems to be a whole lot faster for me. Only issues I've had with it so far is that I keep losing some of my App Tray folders in Go Launcher EX. But I'm also running a beta of that, so no telling where the problem lies.
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i downloaded the latest nightly CM rom. few things were very odd. first when you attach usb cable the only supported mode was charge only. to transfer file i had to manually take out microsd card. that was a big for me...second after few hours my phone started crawling...i have inspire 4g
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i downloaded the latest nightly CM rom. few things were very odd. first when you attach usb cable the only supported mode was charge only. to transfer file i had to manually take out microsd card. that was a big for me...second after few hours my phone started crawling...i have inspire 4g
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With mine, it DEFAULTS to charge only, but when you tap on that in the notifications, you are given the option to mount the SD. And I'd make sure to reset the battery stats and give it some time (a full day?) and then look at what is using up your battery and CPU. I too had some sluggishness until I found that a certain utility that I had downloaded but never set up or used was chewing up 50% of my battery. Once I deleted it, I was fine.
been using revo. my favorite.
Hey guys. I switched from my slow, glitchy, and just aging captivate to the nexus S a few days ago, and I love it.
There are a couple things I miss though - the big one being the quick setting widgets in the drop down menu. I don't care if it's an app/widget from the market, or something I have to flash in to the rom. I just want those settings up there.
Is there a way to add those without flashing another rom? I like stock gingerbread (and I'll be switching to ICS when it comes out OTA for 9020A) and I don't want to flash a custom rom like CM or something. I'm rooted, but other than that I'm stock 2.3.6.
Other things I miss are a predictive dialer, and swype. If you can help me out there too I'd be greatly appreciative!
Edit: Oh, and the music controls shown in the menu would be nice too! (but only if it will work for google music)
When I moved to the NS from a Vibrant I felt the same way. There is no way to do it without some modding and I don't remember ever seeing a simple flashable zip to add it to GB. I ended up having a love hate relationship with CM7 but have moved to ICS and there is a mod to add it to some ICS roms in the dev section. I have yet to bother adding it.
Anyway, yes it can be done but not without some flashing or modding but if you aren't wanting to do that you are out of luck.
You can get similar functionality to pics with widget locker or extended controls, you get an icon or space in the status bar though. GB doesn't support it.
Music widget as above is available in stock ics too.
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When I moved to the NS from a Vibrant I felt the same way. There is no way to do it without some modding and I don't remember ever seeing a simple flashable zip to add it to GB. I ended up having a love hate relationship with CM7 but have moved to ICS and there is a mod to add it to some ICS roms in the dev section. I have yet to bother adding it.
Anyway, yes it can be done but not without some flashing or modding but if you aren't wanting to do that you are out of luck.
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I really like stock, but I can flash if I *have* to... I've had a love hate relationship with CM myself, I felt like it took a little too much effort to keep up and running.. With the Google apps packs, and the nighties and constant backing up and flashing, you know. Is CM up to ICS for the Nexus S 9020a yet?
I also recently came from the captivate. I was also determined to stay stock and wait for the ics ota but....
The development for the ns is light years ahead of what you and I were used to and i am impressed after flashing a pretty much stock ics rom with a custom kernel. No toggles in the drop down but it sure is nice having everything working like it should. Fast and smooth! Peter Alphonso's ics
Eugene's Speedy 3 kernel
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I recently updated to CM10 from a superlight stock rom. I am getting to know JB and one issue I am having is that contacts birthdays will not show up in calender.
I refuse to sync with google and just can't get it to work locally. it worked on the old rom without sycning.
Does anyone know how to fix/workaround this?
Ideally I want a completely local calender/contacts app. I have no need at all to sync anything to google/cloud/internet and refuse to do so.
P.s. While I am posting a thread anyways, does anyone know of a good alternative to the stock samsung/ATT dialer/contacts/phone. I HATE the CM10 apps with a passion and best I have found so far is rocket dialer/DWcontacts and both fall short of the stock apps.
Thanks for any help.
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I recently updated to CM10 from a superlight stock rom. I am getting to know JB and one issue I am having is that contacts birthdays will not show up in calender.
I refuse to sync with google and just can't get it to work locally. it worked on the old rom without sycning.
Does anyone know how to fix/workaround this?
Ideally I want a completely local calender/contacts app. I have no need at all to sync anything to google/cloud/internet and refuse to do so.
P.s. While I am posting a thread anyways, does anyone know of a good alternative to the stock samsung/ATT dialer/contacts/phone. I HATE the CM10 apps with a passion and best I have found so far is rocket dialer/DWcontacts and both fall short of the stock apps.
Thanks for any help.
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I don't think you can on CM. The only way is to sync. I am not a 100% sure though.
If you desperately want this, install stock based ROM like embryo
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I considered a stock based rom but prefer most features of CM over it. Only real catch points are the above mentioned dialer/phone/contacts and that the birthdays don't show up in the calender.
I much prefer some of the security features of CM such as being able to run PDroid. Along with being able to ditch ALL the bloat and build the rom to my specs.
Maybe I should see if this even works in the stock based rom, if not then it is a moot point anyways.
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I considered a stock based rom but prefer most features of CM over it. Only real catch points are the above mentioned dialer/phone/contacts and that the birthdays don't show up in the calender.
I much prefer some of the security features of CM such as being able to run PDroid. Along with being able to ditch ALL the bloat and build the rom to my specs.
Maybe I should see if this even works in the stock based rom, if not then it is a moot point anyways.
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Embryo has pdroid and an option to install the att bloat or not install it
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Embryo has pdroid and an option to install the att bloat or not install it
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Interesting, I skipped over embryo before due to it being MASSIVE (think it was 650mb) and figured it had to be nothing but full bloat.
Why is it so large? I much prefer lightweight roms that are simple/direct over a bloated rom with tons of things I will never use. Can you cut the size down post install?
Right now I am on CM10 superlight and love the fast boost/lightweight of it.
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Interesting, I skipped over embryo before due to it being MASSIVE (think it was 650mb) and figured it had to be nothing but full bloat.
Why is it so large? I much prefer lightweight roms that are simple/direct over a bloated rom with tons of things I will never use. Can you cut the size down post install?
Right now I am on CM10 superlight and love the fast boost/lightweight of it.
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Its big because it has all the bloat apks that you can install through rom costomizer
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Its big because it has all the bloat apks that you can install through rom costomizer
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I see, I will have to give it a shot when I get some time.
Anyone know what the "actual rom" size is with the bloat removed?
Been looking into embryo and got to say it looks interesting. This does bring up another question I have never been able to find a clear cut answer to (messing with my phone is just an as needed hobby of mine).
What exactly can CM do that a stock rom can't? Besides the super compact/clutter free ness of it, what other reasons are there to go with CM over something like embryo from a purely technical standpoint? I could not find a clear cut answer to this when searching, so gave up and decided that CM must be better so gonna make it work.
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Been looking into embryo and got to say it looks interesting. This does bring up another question I have never been able to find a clear cut answer to (messing with my phone is just an as needed hobby of mine).
What exactly can CM do that a stock rom can't? Besides the super compact/clutter free ness of it, what other reasons are there to go with CM over something like embryo from a purely technical standpoint? I could not find a clear cut answer to this when searching, so gave up and decided that CM must be better so gonna make it work.
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Only dif I really know of is cm is pure android where stock Samsung has there touchwiz stuff through the hole phone
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Only dif I really know of is cm is pure android where stock Samsung has there touchwiz stuff through the hole phone
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If that is really it, I actually much prefer the touchwiz interface personally. :good:
My last superlight stock rom severed me very well. Biggest reason I wanted to switch over was for the PDriod/other security options.
I've just gone from ICS to JB.
I'm on android 4.1.1 and sense 4+
I've noticed the gallery image effects are all different.
The new ones actually suck major ass.
Can I get the previous effects without downgrading rom?
Are they built into the gallery or the camera or both or are they separate to?
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As far as I know mate, the camera/gallery are tied into the framework of the ROM pretty heavily. I'm not 100% on this but I think it's right.
The Sense 5 gallery stuff is pretty cool, have you given that a shot? Also, there are plenty of image effects/adjustment apps that do a much better job than the ones found in ICS Sense.
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As far as I know mate, the camera/gallery are tied into the framework of the ROM pretty heavily. I'm not 100% on this but I think it's right.
The Sense 5 gallery stuff is pretty cool, have you given that a shot? Also, there are plenty of image effects/adjustment apps that do a much better job than the ones found in ICS Sense.
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So for example the effects wouldn't be packaged outside of the internal gallery, or alternatively the gallery isn't available for standalone install?
I know it's gotta seem fairly basic, but there's actually 3 or 4 preset effects that I'd lean on quite frequently. Though I've got a few good apps, I'm not one to spend time adjusting photos manually, I really just want those single click presets back lol.
Is the new OTA out yet, last post I read from turge said end of week yeah?
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The Telstra OTA has been released today, you'll find it here.
Alternatively there are a few new ROMs based on the official T-Mobile Germany OTA which was released last week. There's a couple of stock ROMs and MagioRom has updated to 4.2.2/Sense 5 using that update (minus the bloat).
You could always test whether the ICS gallery will work with JB Viper. Backup the existing gallery app in JB, extract ICS gallery app from ROM zip and install. If it doesn't work you should be able to just uninstall it and restore the original backup.
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There's a couple of stock ROMs and MagioRom has updated to 4.2.2/Sense 5 using that update (minus the bloat)
You could always test whether the ICS gallery will work with JB Viper.
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Forgot i posted this thread.
Yeah i think im gonna wait for Turge to release his next Viper OTA.
Looks like a few teething problems from all the comments so far.
And if i read correctly blinkfeed cant be disabled yet?
So anyway i unpacked system/app from the 1.2.4 Viper ICS ROM.
Had a glance through the apk's and swapped out;
- HTCAlbum.apk
- HtcPhotoEnhancer.apk
The first time around, after backing up and removing the current versions, only album.apk copied.
When i went into the album - old version, working fine - and opened effects from the edit menu, nothing happened.
So i copied again the HtcPhotoEnhancer.apk, quick reboot, and voila, effect editing is back.
Only thing is, its still running the new effects.
Where would the app be drawing the presets from, framework somewhere?
Being Sense it's probably got many lib files it needs for the effects to work. It's a real PITA.
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I just came back to Verizon from AT&T and in the AT&T G2 forums we had a thread like this...
This is NOT a best Rom thread... Just a poll to gauge what roms everyone is using for others to get an idea what's out there... If you select other in the poll please tell us which rom in the thread.
Enjoy! Keep it light and friendly and have fun!
I'll start it off by saying I currently bounce back and forth between stock and CleanRom.
If I forgot any in particular I apologize in advance... Please select other and tell us in the thread!
To the Devs of InsertCoin I apologize for misspelling it in the poll as InsertKoin
Hi my name is thunderbls and I'm a flashoholic... I have tried most every Rom, gpe, aosp on the Verizon forum as well as the general m8 but I keep coming back to viperone.
I'm a flashaholic as well..I switch it up about once a day. A few of my favorites I keep coming back to are insertcoin, clean rom, liquid and renovate. Viperone is a great as well.
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I'm a flashaholic as well..I switch it up about once a day. A few of my favorites I keep coming back to are insertcoin, clean rom, liquid and renovate. Viperone is a great as well.
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Wow... Thank you so much for sharing jax. Would anyone else like to share? Don't be affraid we are all in this together and you have an excellent group here for support. Lol
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Wow... Thank you so much for sharing jax. Would anyone else like to share? Don't be affraid we are all in this together and you have an excellent group here for support. Lol
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Anytime..I almost forgot about bad seed customs rom. They did a phenomenal job. One of my favorites as well.
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I use Clear Rom with
HK Mod
Jishnu's Camera
Extreme PS
Updated Adreno Drivers
HBoot red text fixed
My Tweaked Faux Kernel
I use the Stock Rom. Unlocked, S-Off, and Rooted. Run some custom mods. Sense Toolkit, wifi nag removal, Power Saver, Mobile Hotspot fix for Unlimited Data, OTA Killer, with Stock M8 Browser for auto fit to zoom text. The important thing is to use the Rom that you are going to be happy with the most, and I'm the most happiest with stock. I think I'm getting too old and don't want to bother with getting other Roms to work right. Everything just works on stock without any issues or problems. I have thought a lot about trying Google Play Edition Rom, but, correct me if I'm wrong, I would lose slow motion camera, most of the features of dot view including calls, some gestures like voice dialing, htc messaging which I love. But I would gain "ok google" google search, better battery life with minimal apps running, and photosphere.
In short, every Rom has there pros and cons. The important thing is to use the Rom that makes you happy.
I flash a new ROM every few weeks, but so far I keep going to Clean ROM.
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I stayed stock for nearly 2 months. It was working great, but with my flashaholic past I just couldn't take it anymore. I read up on my options and was intrigued by GPE but went with CleanROM to keep some of the HTC goodies. However, I use the Google Now Launcher with XGELS to get the GPE feel. I use a combination of Sense 6 Toolbox, GravityBox, and other various mods for additional tweaks.
I've been using Viper for months now...but every now and then I feel the urge to switch ROMS...which I end up deciding against. I guess I'm reluctant to wipe my data, download/install the ROM, etc. (the entire flashing process) since I'm unsure as to whether or not I'll be content with the switch. I'm currently running Theme Launcher on Viper, so things are still going well, but has anyone made the switch from Viper to another ROM and never looked back? I'm not trying to create a post that discusses the best ROM, it would just be nice to hear some ideas I suppose.
ViperOne
Badseed has been everything I wanted. Good bit of mod options and some really cool color choices. I also bounce back to liquid every now and then. Liquid has been the best AOSP Rom for me. Tried a majority of sense rom's out there have been sticking with badseed since it got released.
Back on CleanRom for now still gotta give Badseed and BoneStock a try
for the flashaholics, is there any easier way of restoring settings and everything else? or just doing it manually each time
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infamous84 said:
for the flashaholics, is there any easier way of restoring settings and everything else? or just doing it manually each time
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Titanium back up with apps and their data works for me. I have been using nova launcher so when I back that up and restore its all the way I want it outside of some system settings. I hope that is what you were asking.
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Titanium back up with apps and their data works for me. I have been using nova launcher so when I back that up and restore its all the way I want it outside of some system settings. I hope that is what you were asking.
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+1 I use titanium for everything but system apps and settings... For home screen layout on stock launcher and settings I use mybackup pro
If I'm feeling brave I'll dirty flash but only over sense to other sense roms... I don't condone it cause it can cause issues but knock on wood not one problem yet doing this on the M8 so far
If you do dirty flash always make sure to have a nandroid and don't expect help from the roms devs as it's too unpredictable
Currently CleanROM. Before that it was BareBones and SkyFall.
I like the nearly stock feel and then either make my own mods, use other's mods or use xposed to customize to my taste; which is a minimal look generally dark with awesome icons and runs smooth.
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Using the GPE release right now. Still got an older version loaded but now that i have the broken roaming bandaided I have literly had 0 problems with the rom