Im thinking about getting a xoom and i just want to know from you guys how the performance on JB is.
The OS itself and games/emulaoters(n64oid)
Freddy
It's more than acceptable.
sounds good.
Now that l am rooted in jelly bean, l have over clocked my Xoom to 1504 and now it not only is very stable but super fast as well.
Good luck in finding one.
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would 200€ be okay for a used one? (32gb wifi)
Motawa88 said:
would 200€ be okay for a used one? (32gb wifi)
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only if its brand new or comes with a lot of accessories.
Browser crashes more often than ever. Reboots on video playback.
I'm not very happy with it.
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Browser crashes more often than ever. Reboots on video playback.
I'm not very happy with it.
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You Sir, must have a bad flash. None of the issues you've listed is a known problem on stock JB, or EOS builds.
I flashed the JB Rom about two weeks or so ago, and I have not had one complaint about the overall experience. Its fast, its smooth, its pretty to look at. I would defiantly recommend you to go through and to get a Xoom. The games are amazing on the little device, I haven't had anything crash on me, but maybe I am lucky and maybe the Xoom I have was made on a Wednesday Hope to help.
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I flashed the JB Rom about two weeks or so ago, and I have not had one complaint about the overall experience. Its fast, its smooth, its pretty to look at. I would defiantly recommend you to go through and to get a Xoom. The games are amazing on the little device, I haven't had anything crash on me, but maybe I am lucky and maybe the Xoom I have was made on a Wednesday Hope to help.
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my xoom runs as well or better than my evo lte in some aspects (specifically launcher/general UI)
rubber guard said:
my xoom runs as well or better than my evo lte in some aspects (specifically launcher/general UI)
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Very true, I just got my Galaxy SIII and the Xoom is just about as fast, if not faster since I updated to JB. Once I root the GXYSIII then the Xoom won't be so fast
I went to flash the Jellybean backup that was "leaked" and I think I bricked my Xoom in the process, got a fail in the restoring of the /system file. Now my xoom wont start or go past starting fastboot protocol however I still have clockworkmod 4.0.0.4. Any ideas? Bricked you think?
Xoom on JB is zippy and snappy. Much improved experience. Thanks Motorola and Google for this wonderful device.
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You Sir, must have a bad flash. None of the issues you've listed is a known problem on stock JB, or EOS builds.
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You are having a laugh, have you read the development section, loads of poeple complaining about crashing on eos build including latest build 131 which still does not stream without crashing.Its still good work but work in progress thats why its a nightly build.
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Hi,
Probably a cheeky post, I can distil the info from the other threads...but just wondering if now is a good time to try out ICS? Looks like EOS's nightlies are coming along well, but seems to be some issues.
So I'm just wondering if its suitable yet for general use, or is it only suitable if you really want to play with ICS - would it be best to wait a few weeks for a main release?
I use my xoom for most stuff now - skype, reading, even streaming movies from my network, wouldn't want to lose any functionality, or have it less enjoyable to use than with HC (Moray ROM - wonderful!), but am chomping the bit to play with ICS
Thanks a mill,
Justin
I have a wifi only Xoom and could not imagine going back hc. I have tried EOS and cm9 and like both of them. Everything works that I use. Small issues here and there. Make a backup, if you don't like it flash back.
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I agree with the above poster. I couldn't even dream of going back to Honeycomb. ICS is a real step up. I personally don't think you'll regret it. Like he said though, make a backup and just revert if for any reason you don't like it. But I really doubt that will happen.
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That's all I needed to hear, I went off and flashed the latest EOS nightlies....so far so brilliant, everything still works, and some!!
Thanks a million, loving it
jcrosbie said:
That's all I needed to hear, I went off and flashed the latest EOS nightlies....so far so brilliant, everything still works, and some!!
Thanks a million, loving it
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Welcome to the club!
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Hi all,
My name is swagstr and I've been active in the OG EVO forums for a good part of the last year. I also have an EVO 3D and just picked up an OG Transformer from 1saleaday.
I haven't received the unit yet, but I am trying to figure out exactly what I'm going to do with it when I receive it.
Before I start, I AM NOT A NOOB... But I've never used/rooted a Transformer, so bear with me. I've been doing a lot of research for this device too (and I know how to hit search )
If the device comes with Honeycomb... should I leave it there? I'm going to be sharing it with my gf and I'm sure she is going to become agitated if our new tablet is rebooting periodically.
Also, is ICS that unstable? What causes the reboots? It seems to be the "Sleep of Death" but I'm still a little fuzzy
I know a lot of what I can do is going to depend on what my serial number is Just looking for a good general direction.
In summary:
Does ICS suck as bad as everyone makes it out to be?
Is AOSP as bad (or worse) than stock ICS
If it comes with HC, should I leave it there?
General list of ROMs and kernels that are bad ass
Thanks for reading! I hope I will be able to contribute to this awesome device and learn as much as I know about the OG EVO soon
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Hi all,
In summary:
Does ICS suck as bad as everyone makes it out to be?
Is AOSP as bad (or worse) than stock ICS
If it comes with HC, should I leave it there?
General list of ROMs and kernels that are bad ass
Thanks for reading! I hope I will be able to contribute to this awesome device and learn as much as I know about the OG EVO soon
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1. No. Its the loud minority that makes it seem bad. Yes, there are issues. Yes, some gets RR/SOD's quite often (a lot of people, myself included, gets it very rarely or not at all).
Random reboots during use is extremely rare. Its when its sleeping it usually happens.
2. No, its a hell a lot better in every aspect.
3. Up to you, I say no. The goodies in ICS makes it more appealing than HC, despite its issues. But if you want a really really stable device - then go with HC (but not stock).
4. I like team EOS builds. reports say that guevenors kernel is very good, but I havnt tried it myself.
I suggest you try out the roms available in the dev. section and stick with the one you like best.
Thank you!!
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I suggest you try out the roms available in the dev. section and stick with the one you like best.
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And always a good policy
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Goatshocker pretty much hit the nail on the head with the loud minority thing, in my personal experience ICS actually fixed a bunch of problems I had with HC. I did flash a custom rom and kernel, which I Highly recommend you do. If you get your tablet on hc and you can root with razorclaw use that then flash a rom, if not upgrade to the proper ics version for vipermod opt. 1 and use that.
I suggest android revolution hd, it's ics and very stable
Stock hc is stable but is not using all capacity from tegra2
Stock ics is using the power of tegra2 but is unstable.
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When is 3G 4G Xoom going to get Ice cream?
i been asking that forever. I don't know what the deal is with Verizon not pushing out updates. I just don't get it. From what I read on Droid life is its ready to go but up to big red to push it out.
Just like the gnexus still stuck on 4.02 first carrier to have the phone last one to push out the ota WoW
Yeah it's very annoying. The problem is Verizon's testing procedures (or so I've been told) are VERY strict. Add to the fact that the Xoom isn't a priority device for VZW anymore, and yeah...we continue to wait. The WiFi-only Xoom has had ICS since December, and (again, so I've heard), Google had the ICS ROM for the 3G/4G Xoom ready not long after that. To add further insult to injury, Google and VZW pushed out an update to the 4G Xoom in February that was just a Honeycomb update (3.2.6) to fix data connectivity coming out of airplane mode. Annoying.
With the Galaxy Nexus, at least two 4.0.4 builds have been pushed to devices as part of a soak test (IMM30B and IMM76K), but neither made the cut apparently. But since they went out over the air, we have the files and can run those if we want to. With the Xoom, there hasn't even been so much as a soak test, that we're aware of anyway.
I wish I knew as well.
I've tried all of the custom ROMs and have had problems with each one. I've gone back to the Honeycomb stock ROM in each instance. As snappy & nice as the ICS is with the custom ROMs, the stock Honeycomb has been the most stable ROM ever, imho. I'm very excited about ICS coming out, but only if it's as rock solid as Honeycomb is. I'll wait a couple of more months so that VzW can get it right the first time.
Definitely. That Honeycomb 3.2.6 stock ROM is solid as a brick ****house. That's why I love it.
Don't know about you but I have had ICS on my Xoom for a while. Thanks Team EOS. And it is much better than anything Verizon would put out.
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Don't know about you but I have had ICS on my Xoom for a while. Thanks Team EOS. And it is much better than anything Verizon would put out.
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The stock ROM on the Verizon Xoom is still created and updated by Google. It just needs VZW approval before it gets released. TeamEOS isn't stable enough for my liking. Tried playing SimCity lately?
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The stock ROM on the Verizon Xoom is still created and updated by Google. It just needs VZW approval before it gets released. TeamEOS isn't stable enough for my liking. Tried playing SimCity lately?
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What's wrong with SimCity? (I don't game, so I'm really asking.)
Is the real issue perhaps merely that the game's not ICS-tablet-aware?
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It freezes constantly. It'll run fine, then all of a sudden just hang forever, giving you the wait/force close dialog box. I don't think it's an ICS or app issue since people running stock ICS on the WiFi Xoom say it works fine.
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[SimCity]freezes constantly. It'll run fine, then all of a sudden just hang forever, giving you the wait/force close dialog box.
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Interesting. I haven't seen any indications of that in the main EOS threads.
Did you see anyone else collaborating this issue? Were you overclocked at all? Also, at one point we switched to overclocking the GPU by default, and I wonder if that's the issue (after all, my kernel improvements wouldn't have made any difference to a game, and we're nearly stock in anything else that matters).
I wasn't overclocked. OC always makes me nervous! Could be with the GPU...not sure. What I do know is that the issue was still there as of the stable 2.0.0 release.
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Pls share a link with the instructions to install ICS on an LTE Xoom. Thanks in advance.
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Pls share a link with the instructions to install ICS on an LTE Xoom.
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Uh, didja maybe check here on XDA?
My answer is "never." VZW will never release ICS for this thing. It was seriously doomed from the start.
That said, EOS has created an excellent stingray rom. Again, STINGRAY. And again, EXCELLENT rom. I'm not playing SimCity, but the Sims works very well and since the app was updated, it works even better. It was freezing on restart but now it doesn't do it anymore, which is something to say about how solid EOS' rom is--a problem with the app and not the rom.
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My answer is "never." VZW will never release ICS for this thing. It was seriously doomed from the start.
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Oh dear, not this again. Last year it was "We'll never get LTE" and/or "We'll never have writable SD-Card". It's obvious the tech is there, most likely it's due to either compliance issues (and with VZ that probably means they're trying to lock something down or take something away in the ROM they're intending to release ... the bastards) or they're waiting 'till some as-yet-unannounced LTE tablet(?) device comes out first. Apparently there's a ROM in testing at VZ, if the leaked screenshot has any credibility.
Tomorrow
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Tomorrow
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Well there's a blast from the past! Hit the irc sometime
Hello ,
I've a question about teameos 2.0
I have a motorola xoom 601 and it has official rom 3.2.
I want to flash teameos 2.0 rom, but my device hasnt been rooted yet.
Yo flash this rom mention about that on this link [ROM][ICS] Team Eos ICS 2.0.0 [Updated 2012/4/27] Do I have to root my device or Can I apply these installation steps directly ?
Thank you..
Just wanted to get your opinions.....
What Android version do you like on the Galaxy Blaze and why? (Battery life, speed, functionality stability ???)
I am ruining 4.1.2 CM 10 and everything seems pretty smooth. The SD CARD for me is a little bit of a pain but nothing I cant handle. Wondering how stock ICS rooted compares!
I can't speak for how CM10 is, but I can say that it's nice having no errors, reboots, crashes, or quirks of any kind on rooted stock. After stumbling across a thread describing how to get google now on ICS, the only reason I personally have to be envious of CM10 is the superior lock screen.
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I can't speak for how CM10 is, but I can say that it's nice having no errors, reboots, crashes, or quirks of any kind on rooted stock. After stumbling across a thread describing how to get google now on ICS, the only reason I personally have to be envious of CM10 is the superior lock screen.
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That and BLN...
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That and BLN...
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Hah!
Thanks for the comments...I am trying out the stock ICS on there now.
Interested in your feedback on how Google Now works with ics.
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Interested in your feedback on how Google Now works with ics.
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It works fairly well I think, the thing I like about it the most is when I have a calendar event with an address, it will automatically display travel information to get there at the appropriate time. The card shows up before I have to leave. Since google maps even supports public transit, this works with public transit as well, which I like. This saves me so much time it's not even funny!
I'm in the same ROM searching boat as a few others on here but can't find a definitive answer.
Recently got the Tab 2 and after reading some good reviews I'm really disappointed with the endless glitchyness. I've got an Ipad2 which is smooth as silk but I don't get on with IOS at all. Have an Android phone and love it and originally bought a Motorola Xoom and ended up selling it because of the glitchyness and bought the iPad. Couple of years on whilst I didn't expect the Tab 2 to match the Ipad I just wasn't ready for the constant sticking when even doing the simplest of tasks such a browsing and I'm not overloading it at all. On the face of it the Tab 2 seems no better than the Xoom. I hope I'm wrong.
I didn't want to start rooting as I did with the Xoom (then in an effort fo make it smoother) so I feel I'm back to square one but am hoping there is a Rom that can make the Tab 2 as smooth as the iPad. If there is or if there is another way to smooth it out if I'd really appreciate any help there is out there. Have done a hard reset a couple of times also without much, if any, improvement. Thx.
Have you updated to Jelly Bean? It's pretty much smooth. I use the stock JB without root and don't have anything to claim about, and I also use Nova Launcher Prime since the 4.0.3 wasn't that smooth.
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Have you updated to Jelly Bean?
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Yeah, running 4.1.1, was running it when it arrived.
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I'm in the same ROM searching boat as a few others on here but can't find a definitive answer.
Recently got the Tab 2 and after reading some good reviews I'm really disappointed with the endless glitchyness. I've got an Ipad2 which is smooth as silk but I don't get on with IOS at all. Have an Android phone and love it and originally bought a Motorola Xoom and ended up selling it because of the glitchyness and bought the iPad. Couple of years on whilst I didn't expect the Tab 2 to match the Ipad I just wasn't ready for the constant sticking when even doing the simplest of tasks such a browsing and I'm not overloading it at all. On the face of it the Tab 2 seems no better than the Xoom. I hope I'm wrong.
I didn't want to start rooting as I did with the Xoom (then in an effort fo make it smoother) so I feel I'm back to square one but am hoping there is a Rom that can make the Tab 2 as smooth as the iPad. If there is or if there is another way to smooth it out if I'd really appreciate any help there is out there. Have done a hard reset a couple of times also without much, if any, improvement. Thx.
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I ram Zapblaster for a while if you like stock but CM 10.1 is butter
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I ram Zapblaster for a while if you like stock but CM 10.1 is butter
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So are we saying this is the smoothest ROM out there currently? Is this ROM also stripped to the bone? I'm tired of bloatware.
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So are we saying this is the smoothest ROM out there currently? Is this ROM also stripped to the bone? I'm tired of bloatware.
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Do try ripper rom by txr33 and use kkboot kernel by ketut..you will get a smooth debloated rom. You can have as high as 9000 antutu score.
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Do try ripper rom by txr33 and use kkboot kernel by ketut..you will get a smooth debloated rom. You can have as high as 9000 antutu score.
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Thanks for that, will give it a go. Is it a reliable Rom? Roms on my old Xoom used to crash all the time, I'm assuming things have moved on.
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I ram Zapblaster for a while if you like stock but CM 10.1 is butter
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No immediate out of box issuses with my GT-P5113 I too ran Zapblaster for a bit, but was having Dropbox issuses. Switched back to Shackatus' stock rooted deodexed ROM. Very nice, smooth and pretty much no bloat