[Q] Is this normal? - HTC One S

Hi everybody,
Just taken delivery of a HOS from Orange France....it's a great piece of equipment ....but...is this "normal"?
Have Galaxy I/O 10.1 tabs (2), Galaxy S2, DHD, Sensation, Prime etc; but have obviously grown to love ICS and its' look....Sensation running ICS and looks great, like the prime etc. but this One S looks like the screenshot below of settings window....sh*t! It looks like bloody touchwiz (YUK!!!!!!!)
Is this the standard HTC offering with this version of Sense or is it something that Orange france have added to their rom to try to make it look like a Samsung? Hoping that it is unique to the Orange offering that way at least when we get S-OFF I can get rid of it.....
But if it is common to all your HOS models I find myself thinking "oh my God why have I purchased something that's trying to look like a Samsung?"
Cheers my fellow XDA-ers

wheres the screenshot ?
are you referring to the white settings menu ? If so, Thats how it is !!
unless you flash an AOSP ROM or something

azzledazzle said:
wheres the screenshot ?
are you referring to the white settings menu ? If so, Thats how it is !!
unless you flash an AOSP ROM or something
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Screenshot just mysteriously appeared after you read the post....
And thanks for the reply.....Mein Gott as they say somewhere in Europe WTF were HTC thinking of....real bummer.....will look into possibly bunging in a custom rom but this is my primary work phone so a bit wary for the time being...
What supplier are you on? Is it the same as screenshot?
Cheers m8

yes, That is Sense 4.0 And im on vodafone UK
Its not the carrier what makes it look like that, Its HTC

What a shame....like I said, for me it looks just too much like TouchWiz

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Expresso ROM wanted on Nexus One

Hi, I recently have been so obsessed with the espresso and sense integration on the mytouch 3g slide. The bubble icons and all of those different customizations are great! Nobody has created a Rom of this for the nexus one? I would actually trade my nexus for it if it had a 3.7 inch screen and not a 3.4. A major difference to me.
Prob one will be out once code for froyo drops! It's getting the update to froyo in a few weeks!
I just bought my girl the Slide to replace her G1 and I have to say I really do like the UI and features, if it came to the Nexus, I'd probably use it.
Espresso ROM here for N1: http://thedroidsector.com/roms?id=57
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Espresso you mean?
Kingklick did one back in Feburay. It's not bad actually. Maybe you can bug him to pick it back up and finish it since its still in beta he says. I think he stopped on it because the Desire was more "in" and demanded more than Espresso.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=635783&highlight=espresso
I don't care for the Sense UI but it looks much better than the Hero/Desire Sense UI.
Sistum Id said:
Espresso you mean?
Kingklick did one back in Feburay. It's not bad actually. Maybe you can bug him to pick it back up and finish it since its still in beta he says. I think he stopped on it because the Desire was more "in" and demanded more than Espresso.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=635783&highlight=espresso
I don't care for the Sense UI but it looks much better than the Hero/Desire Sense UI.
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The Espresso ROM you guys keep posting is not the one that HTC specially customized for the Slide. I haven't tested it myself, but I am a sure it isn't - I believe it is that one that was leaked forever ago. Also if it was it, King would have titled Slide2Nexus or something similar. I don't even believe the Slide was announced then.
Therefore it isn't really what the OP is looking for.
hey
thanks for yall help. and thats right... i am not going to flash an alpha and probably isnt the my touch slide expresso UI.. scared to brick or something and imma just keep running the froyo rom from modaco
Eclair~ said:
The Espresso ROM you guys keep posting is not the one that HTC specially customized for the Slide. I haven't tested it myself, but I am a sure it isn't - I believe it is that one that was leaked forever ago. Also if it was it, King would have titled Slide2Nexus or something similar. I don't even believe the Slide was announced then.
Therefore it isn't really what the OP is looking for.
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OP asked for Espresso Rom, it was provided, sorry for trying to assist. He didn't ask for the Slide Espresso, just stated he likes it and wanted an Espresso Rom.
King didn't title it Slide2Nexus probably because the rom was leaked from a phone of unknown origin and name. So it became Espresso2Nexus instead. Maybe he should of called it Unknown2Nexus instead?
HTC myTouch Slide codename is Espresso... wonder if that means anything. As far as I know, no other phone officially runs the Espresso UI. So its safe to say (I think) that it came from an early developed myTouch Slide.
Kings Espresso rom looks and acts just like the myTouch Slide with a few apps missing. It has the pretty bubbles around the icons and a sleek looking launcher. It's been months since I ran it but from the reviews of the MTS, it looks the same.
When it's time I could see a 2.2 Expresso ROM in the future for the N1. I can't wait!
Sistum Id said:
OP asked for Espresso Rom, it was provided, sorry for trying to assist. He didn't ask for the Slide Espresso, just stated he likes it and wanted an Espresso Rom.
King didn't title it Slide2Nexus probably because the rom was leaked from a phone of unknown origin and name. So it became Espresso2Nexus instead. Maybe he should of called it Unknown2Nexus instead?
HTC myTouch Slide codename is Espresso... wonder if that means anything. As far as I know, no other phone officially runs the Espresso UI. So its safe to say (I think) that it came from an early developed myTouch Slide.
Kings Espresso rom looks and acts just like the myTouch Slide with a few apps missing. It has the pretty bubbles around the icons and a sleek looking launcher. It's been months since I ran it but from the reviews of the MTS, it looks the same.
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when I used HTC Magic, once I flashed an Espresso Rom, it was fancy especially its dialer and contacts. But that rom was buggy. But now switching to N1, I really hop to use Espresso even it is buggy. Hope someone could cook one for us haha
Has this ROM been abandoned?
No updates in a while.
I too have a girlfriend with the mytouch and love hte sense ui its packin.
ESPECIALLY the lock-screen music controls!!

AOSP for Desire S

i did start this thread in the general section when i had fewer than 10 posts, so sorry about the repost.
i have been wondering if any work has been done porting aosp to the desire s or if anyone could point me to the proper tutorials on how to do it, though i will have little time to work on it during the next 3 months or so.
cheers
Ep1cF4il said:
i did start this thread in the general section when i had fewer than 10 posts, so sorry about the repost.
i have been wondering if any work has been done porting aosp to the desire s or if anyone could point me to the proper tutorials on how to do it, though i will have little time to work on it during the next 3 months or so.
cheers
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cm7 for incredible s is on the way. i think, it will complete for desire s in 1 month too.
proxuser said:
cm7 for incredible s is on the way. i think, it will complete for desire s in 1 month too.
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it would indeed seem that way. just pulled the cm sources to see if adding a new device wasn't too hard a task and it seems there already has been some work done towards porting it to the saga (aka desire s). finally some good news
Hope the port for Saga comes soon. Really look forward to getting rid of Sense.
rubbish said:
Hope the port for Saga comes soon. Really look forward to getting rid of Sense.
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as do i...
rubbish said:
...Really look forward to getting rid of Sense...
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as do i...
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Then why in the world did you guys buy an HTC phone?
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Then why in the world did you guys buy an HTC phone?
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for hardware?
i'm waiting for aosp too
Hmm... It is pretty great piece of hardware but Sense is great IMO (and no, I'm not an HTC employee )
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for hardware?
i'm waiting for aosp too
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NexuS has pretty same hardware. Even better cam..
I sold NexuS because I missed some of the sense things:
the stock dialer has NO t9 search - most dialer from market are crap or slow or somehow frickled on the stock dialer. Even old nokia do have a quick search option...
Stock contacts are ugly.
GAL (global adress list for exchange server) is NOT implemented in android 2.x - only in 3.0; but it's implemented since sense1 (hero)
CM had some issues - espacially with the notification bar/speed settings - on 2.3 - the new sense 3.0 lockscreen and notification bar are very good - so no need for CM at the moment - for _me_
So I deleted most of sense.apk from /system on my DesireS (all widgets, all "htc", like route66, amazon, stockexchange..) and do use adw-launcher instead of rosie (don't delete it cause is needed for lockscreen settings!) - but do have integrated company exchange and a good biult in dialer, cool contacts (with flickr and fb content) and nice lockscreen..
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NexuS has pretty same hardware. Even better cam..
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there was one thing i didn't like about the nexus s. had i been able to use my 32GB microsd card, i would've gone for the nexus s.
Dr.Romca said:
Hmm... It is pretty great piece of hardware but Sense is great IMO (and no, I'm not an HTC employee )
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Sense is THE BEST ANDROID UI, EVAR. Don't know why people wanna "DE-SENSE" their phones. I'm gonna flash CM7 to see what the fuss is about , but sense 3.0 first Hopefully, the new official version of CM7 will come for DS too. I'd rather let the ports pass on...........
to each their own. i'm still waiting to see someone make a WebOS like UI for android ^^
Dr.Romca said:
Then why in the world did you guys buy an HTC phone?
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In my case I obviously liked the phone much enough to neglect my dislike towards Sense
I don't complain about having Sense and can live with it but would prefer to run clean Android build when/if it becomes available.
Ep1cF4il said:
to each their own. i'm still waiting to see someone make a WebOS like UI for android ^^
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That would be EPIC !!!!!!!!!!!
shrome99 said:
That would be EPIC !!!!!!!!!!!
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i was sorta kidding, but yes it would be. so would an actual port of WebOS
Ep1cF4il said:
i was sorta kidding, but yes it would be. so would an actual port of WebOS
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I get the sarcasm, but well, imo WebOS is a really good os. It's too new and has veeeeerrry less apps. In abou 1-2 years maybe, it'll become as good as android is today.
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shrome99 said:
I get the sarcasm, but well, imo WebOS is a really good os. It's too new and has veeeeerrry less apps. In abou 1-2 years maybe, it'll become as good as android is today.
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had there been better WebOS devices on the market, i would probably have bought one of those instead. i've been told that app development is a lot easier than on any other platform. and as soon as i get some time, i might just look into writing apps for android.
Dr.Romca said:
Then why in the world did you guys buy an HTC phone?
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There's plenty of HTC phones out there that are running custom ROMs and customised user interfaces that don't rely on Sense. It may be the "out of the box experience" as far as most HTC phones are concerned, but isn't that what all THIS (ie these forums) is about - customisations, and thinking "out of the box"? (no pun intended, haha).
If we all concentrated on Sense and variations on that theme then this community would be a much poorer one.
Peace
sense ftw!
Well, i love sense, but i am porting the cm7 just so people have the choose, and also to make the development on this device more alive
But personally, Sense is the thing!

HTC Sense Expresso -Sucks??

Well im planning on getting the phone as soon as it drops this Wednesday, however i couldnt help to notice how the phone is build with a HTC Sense Expresso 3.0 build, which honestly sucks. coming to think about it...
-no customization of lock screen
-no 4 icon shortcut at lock screen
-boring black and white customization screen
-only 5 home screens
-no HTC Hub with extra themes download capabilities...
those are the big things i kinda noticed with this HTC Sense build. even though its 3.0 and what not, it doesnt offer that much customization as the HTC Sensation 4G..
it should have the regular HTC Sense 3.0 stock built, no skinned 3.0..
anyone think the same way? share your thoughts
Just give it like a week and all will be available!
If I hate it ill keep using my favorite home replacement, go launcher ex.
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Who had the bright idea to make it impossible to remove contact suggestions in sense without root.
Also T-Mobile contact sync ignores you when you click the checkbox off to not sync so T-Mobile is basically stealing all your contact information without asking you.
I feel like I have a rocket engine in my pocket running a pretty ****ty stock build.
thanks to everyone who has replied to the thread, greatly appreciate it,
anyways
-they call the expresso build phones "stalkers" down where i live because wheather yu ask it to or not, it will sync facebook contacts and all their info into yur phone..
-and UNCLESPOON are yu implying that they will like release an update of some sort?
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I think he's talking about S-OFF.
CJ_ said:
I think he's talking about S-OFF.
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Yeah I'm just referring to the fact that the devs here on XDA are awesome and with S-OFF coming we'll be able to overclock and run a fuller version of Sense 3.0 and I'm not worried about it at all!
oh yes! the guys down here at XDA are truly incredible when it comes to all that good stuff and yeah ima wait for them to come out with something like that, i wish i could help somehow though....
either way, thanks guys!
-has anyone with the MT4G Slide have any reasons to why keep the HTC Expresso Ui build?
oh guys i have read and seen that devices that are retail (which i guess means bought at the store and what not) are all S-ON
theres no S-OFF for retail devices, i think HTC lied -_-
so without that...theres no custom ROMS? (
Someone will S-OFF this bad boy like they did with the G2, give it a week.
We'll either have a way to flash it with the S-off bootloader or we'll have a ENG S-OFF bootloader, or something like g-free
And HTC will unlock the bootloader with an update in August or September anyway.. probably around the same time as the Sensation.

[Q] anyone know if there is a way to put sense 3 or 3.5 on the samsung roms?

i like everything about this phone but the ui
then you shouldn't have gotten the phone .. and this is a Q and should not be in the dev section
cjindustry said:
i like everything about this phone but the ui
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seeing as u have 98 posts u should know by know where to post... smh
cjindustry said:
i like everything about this phone but the ui
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Then you should've gone HTC... Normally we're not like this. Post things in the right section and we're much nicer.
You did try the phone before you bought it, right?
1. Print this out.
2. Acquire scotch tape
3. Tape to phone
4. ?????
5. Profit!
cjindustry said:
i like everything about this phone but the ui
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well do you just want the launcher and widgets or the whole set of menus dialer and more?
you can use 3rd party apps like go contacts and launcher pro and go weather or beautiful widgets or fancy widget and replace the lock screen with a market ap but to port the ui takes work both ui's have some kernel integration and the phones use completely different hardware so it takes a lot of work from experienced developers and none here have any interest in that. best i can tell you is to buy a sensation or it's canadia equivelant if you are not satisfied with market app.
though i do like mikeys suggestion.
I prefer Mikey's suggestion, agree with Dani's and suggest you look at how the proposed Sense port went for the original sgs and then come back......
I used Sense with Cookie's improvments. The GO Launcher and ALL of its addons are actually far superior - then add 2 quicklauncher - and this phone DESTROYS sense. Just a bit more work to get all assembled - but its all there and WAY MORE.
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I used Sense with Cookie's improvments. The GO Launcher and ALL of its addons are actually far superior - then add 2 quicklauncher - and this phone DESTROYS sense. Just a bit more work to get all assembled - but its all there and WAY MORE.
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Thanks BSW11 for your feedback I'll try that
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1. Print this out.
2. Acquire scotch tape
3. Tape to phone
4. ?????
5. Profit!
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I LOL'D! HAHA
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Getting TRUE sense UI on samsung based rom is (impossible??). Porting them is a lot harder then anyone might think.
sense is very heavy. i remember even 2 years ago on windows mobile phones it consisted of thousands of files. and it seems to only have gotten more bloated. its definitely not impossible, but its so intertwined with the framework, it would take alot of work. htc is not going to make it easy.
Bandit_Kaine said:
Getting TRUE sense UI on samsung based rom is (impossible??). Porting them is a lot harder then anyone might think.
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yeah I didn't know.. I know they port all the time from htc to htc so didnt know how it was from htc to another model or another model to htc.. the sense 3.5 for my inspire was great but the phone button broke, so i got the samsung infuse until the next htc came out.. I do however like some of the feedback i got and with a few free apps from the market ive got it dialed in with the htc looks without the battery cpu and mem hog.. may just get the galaxy 2 and mod it the same way and see if i can hold off on the htc.. but i hear the htc holiday aka raider is going to be amazing

Help me replace my HD2

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!
BUMP
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.
TheRomMistress said:
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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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
D4rkSoRRoW said:
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!
[★] said:
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..
D4rkSoRRoW said:
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)

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