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Woah! Love this phone.

After dropping my first captivate in a river early this year, I finally got a new one a couple weeks ago.
I must say things have changed a lot around here, after reading for a few days I am finally caught back up on everything I missed
Awesome job guys, thanks for all the hard work you guys have put into keeping this phone current and awesome. I can't see myself upgrading for a while

We even have ICS!!!
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i love it too!

lol. A lot of people thought I was crazy because I didn't want to wait a month for the atrix to come out.
Then another month for roms to come out.
So far I love my captivate.

ICS alpha 6
has anyone taken a look at the alpha available on pirate bay? i wanna know how to install it and if its legit. I can't post it cause i'm a new poster

There are already a lot of ICS threads on here. I believe the A6 ROM was posted on the "ICS ported to i897" thread in the development section.

kjdoug said:
has anyone taken a look at the alpha available on pirate bay? i wanna know how to install it and if its legit. I can't post it cause i'm a new poster
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I wouldnt touch any Rom from thepiratebay, even if it was trusted source. Jmo
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kjdoug said:
has anyone taken a look at the alpha available on pirate bay? i wanna know how to install it and if its legit. I can't post it cause i'm a new poster
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I would never go there for roms.
I am running A6 as we speak which I got from these forums.
Camera doesn't work (for video or pictures)
SU doesn't work (haven't toyed with workaround yet)
3g (I am trying work arounds now, doesn't work by default)
Still a really impressive interface to play around with, and I think I can live with the cons for a little while until a more stable rom gets hosted. I will say I am in love with this os though.
The interface alone is so modern and fresh feeling I can't entirely explain it.

kjdoug............THIS is the only site you need to mod your captivate. forget any torrent site when it comes to the OS on your phone.
BTW welcome to the forum! READ lots, you will learn, also there are a lot of top notch guys on here that will help you out.

Snow_fox said:
lol. A lot of people thought I was crazy because I didn't want to wait a month for the atrix to come out.
Then another month for roms to come out.
So far I love my captivate.
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I know what you mean....reading through the forums I've noticed that some of the veteran cappy users that left while I still had my first, have sold there newer devices and came back to the captivate.

b-eock said:
We even have ICS!!!
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I noticed. I'm watching the dev thread, with excitement.
Waiting for more of the bugs to be worked out before I flash it. I use my phone for work so it has to be almost 100% stable

It just fits nicely in my hand and my pocket, All the new SGS2s all seem to large. IMHO

We have ICS? Which Rom?
-Sent from a Galaxy far far away

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362092
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and ICS beta1 works mighty fine, i might add!

So does CM team's Build 3....

Yes I would recommend the CM9 version (or working towards it) if you want to try out ICS. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1363760
The 3g works without any manipulations, almost everything works as a matter of fact. Calendar sync did need some .apk switched in to get calendar working in beta2 but at least for me in beta3 I didn't have to redo anything. All my apps from tibu work and download correctly. It just seems to be very smooth.
PS. I also upgraded to the ATT SGS2 and love it but I also have my cappy as backup and love messing with all the roms for it still. Basically testing it all out. Plus I am pleasantly surprised that the cappy got ICS before the SGS2.
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yahh I'm on the Beta 1 dev version, I feel it is smoother, there is no need for scripts anymore, everything works without doing extra flashes(besides kernel and superuser). I get much better battery life out of this one too! The one from DemonWav's thread.
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Cyanogen?

Hey guys I'm sort of disheartened.. it seems cm appears to be dead for this phone. I'm not trying to be an ass. I respect developers and even (provided I can figure it out) plan to make my own rom one day. I do not want an eta either. I'm simply wondering if cm and/or miui are perhaps being worked on or if they are abandoned (it seems some say it is being worked on, but I haven't seen any official posts or anything confirming this). again I'm not trying to piss anybody off. I'm within my 30 days and it seems the nitro hd just got cwm. The screen is really enticing since I won't have an option for the skyrocket hd. I'd love some opinions about cm/miui/and the pro's and cons of switching phones. Another thing (again not looking for eta's) the last alpha build was mid December it's been quite awhile which is one of my major concerns. Thanks guys!
Definitely the best forum I've been in so far!
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Cm7 is abandoned because the devs are working on cm9. Since we have broken cm7; there is no hope for miui. But cm9/MIUI will be here.
jerrygooch said:
Hey guys I'm sort of disheartened.. it seems cm appears to be dead for this phone. I'm not trying to be an ass. I respect developers and even (provided I can figure it out) plan to make my own rom one day. I do not want an eta either. I'm simply wondering if cm and/or miui are perhaps being worked on or if they are abandoned (it seems some say it is being worked on, but I haven't seen any official posts or anything confirming this). again I'm not trying to piss anybody off. I'm within my 30 days and it seems the nitro hd just got cwm. The screen is really enticing since I won't have an option for the skyrocket hd. I'd love some opinions about cm/miui/and the pro's and cons of switching phones. Another thing (again not looking for eta's) the last alpha build was mid December it's been quite awhile which is one of my major concerns. Thanks guys!
Definitely the best forum I've been in so far!
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why would they waste their time building CM7 when ICS and CM9 are right around the corner. the CM devs have been furiously working on CM9, so my guess is that anyone involved with the TMO/Skyrocket CM project would stick it out until 9 is ready for mass consumption. doesnt make any sense to do anything on CM7 with CM9 so close on its heels

So there is work being done on cm? I guest I was partially correct. Interesting.. I may hold off then. Especially since the nitro forums made a point that if they don't get ics before the skyrocket hd comes out they're royally screwed. If only the galaxy nexus would have found it's way to att. That was the phone of choice for me. But yet again that's life! Thanks for your comments!
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[Q] Stability of CM10?

I was running CM10 back in the day when it was not yet officially hosted by the CM team and I I went back to stock since there were a couple issues with the video recorder and other things. I see now that CM10 is officially being hosted by the CM team but they are still nightly, but I still would like to give it another go around. I was just wondering if there what are the major issues with the ROM right now (if any)?
The first posts don't really tell much except "it's a major work in progress" and the official change log might as well be gibberish to me, and I'm definitely not about to go through all 500+ pages, so if someone would give me a brief summary of what is/isn't working it would be much appreciated!

brob925 said:
I was running CM10 back in the day when it was not yet officially hosted by the CM team and I I went back to stock since there were a couple issues with the video recorder and other things. I see now that CM10 is officially being hosted by the CM team but they are still nightly, but I still would like to give it another go around. I was just wondering if there what are the major issues with the ROM right now (if any)?
The first posts don't really tell much except "it's a major work in progress" and the official change log might as well be gibberish to me, and I'm definitely not about to go through all 500+ pages, so if someone would give me a brief summary of what is/isn't working it would be much appreciated!
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Its definitely daily driver ready. Just some wake locks making it not have as good battery life as sense. But everything else works great. The build bot has been broken since 10/12 so when the next official nightly comes out, it should have a bunch of new things... Maybe new kernel?
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ethantarheels123 said:
Its definitely daily driver ready. Just some wake locks making it not have as good battery life as sense. But everything else works great. The build bot has been broken since 10/12 so when the next official nightly comes out, it should have a bunch of new things... Maybe new kernel?
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Sweet, I might just have to flash it again since I usually have a charger handy with me so battery life isn't a huge a concern. I'm sort of confused by what you mean about the next official nightly... I thought nightlys were released every... well night?

brob925 said:
Sweet, I might just have to flash it again since I usually have a charger handy with me so battery life isn't a huge a concern. I'm sort of confused by what you mean about the next official nightly... I thought nightlys were released every... well night?
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The night lies have been down because some changes were made to the code upstream that causes the Evita build to fail. They're working on the kernel fixes to get the night lies to compile again but apparently its very involved.
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There was an experimental one posted today

my wifi doesn't crap out on the experimental nightly which was my only issue with 10/12

One should always read at min the last 10 pages of a thread of a Rom you might flash, an really it's expected of anyone.
WR
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Just a heads up dont know if anyone else is having this problem.
I rooted my 2.2 with the new 2.2 root instructions and downloaded the latest (10/25:experimental[cm-10-20121025-EXPERIMENTAL-evita.zip ]) cm10 build, everything works great, even wifi, except MOBILE data. I'm on straight talk, and man im getting slow speeds, nothing changed to APN, i think its a radio problem. anyone got any suggestions? I attached the radio link, which radio should i flash?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1694012&page=99

[Q] Stability of roms for the g2x

Hi, I have a wind mobile lg-p999dw (T-Mobile G2x)
I wanted to know that since official updates never came out for the g2x cyanogenmod and other roms were created.
Since it was an abandoned phone, developers put this phone in their priority list.
CM7 was very successful and it went all the way to a fully stable version of CM 7.2.
Ever since CM9 came out these teams lost hope.
Cyanogenmod, Eaglesblood, Hellfire, Paranoid Android, ...
When jellybean came out CM 9 for the G2x was abandoned at an early stage and development of CM 10 started.
My question is why, WHY WHY WHY hasn't a perfectly stable version of a jellybean rom for g2x not come out that is perfectly as stable like CM 7.2 while other phones like htc one x and samsung galaxy s iii that already get official updates and get the stable version of the rom?

Different reasons for different ROMs.
For some older ones there wasn't HWA, but a hacked together version that still wasn't perfect and things like the camera had issues.
For newer ones the only major problem seems to be that the radio just isn't working.
It came down to LG not releasing drivers/code. People could hack together some things, but that could only get us so far. LG did a lot of weird things with their code, I believe.
At least, in my lurking and search, that's how I understand it. I'd love to see a fully working jellybean rom for the G2x since my girlfriend got it from me as a hand me down.
Take a look through adampk's CM10.1 thread in the development section and it's User Thread here in the general section. You'll get a good view at what's not working and what everyone has tried. Maybe you can even help out.

Shamoy said:
Hi, I have a wind mobile lg-p999dw (T-Mobile G2x)
I wanted to know that since official updates never came out for the g2x cyanogenmod and other roms were created.
Since it was an abandoned phone, developers put this phone in their priority list.
CM7 was very successful and it went all the way to a fully stable version of CM 7.2.
Ever since CM9 came out these teams lost hope.
Cyanogenmod, Eaglesblood, Hellfire, Paranoid Android, ...
When jellybean came out CM 9 for the G2x was abandoned at an early stage and development of CM 10 started.
My question is why, WHY WHY WHY hasn't a perfectly stable version of a jellybean rom for g2x not come out that is perfectly as stable like CM 7.2 while other phones like htc one x and samsung galaxy s iii that already get official updates and get the stable version of the rom?
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You have to understand that most of CM9 and CM10 builds right now are based on a deprecated kernel and a modified android framework, known as "hackfest", which lacks many functions needed in the newer OSes. If you try Adampk's build 6 with, optionally, my kernel, you will see that it is really stable and works well, but not the radio. This is being worked on actively.
Most of the teams you specified simply switched to a newer model, not because of a compatibility issue. Cyanogen left us because our phone maintainer, RC, couldn't fix the radio. If he did release it anyways he would've received a lot of complains, which he didn't want.

Why why why... Wah wah wah..
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Mazout360 said:
You have to understand that most of CM9 and CM10 builds right now are based on a deprecated kernel and a modified android framework, known as "hackfest", which lacks many functions needed in the newer OSes. If you try Adampk's build 6 with, optionally, my kernel, you will see that it is really stable and works well, but not the radio. This is being worked on actively.
Most of the teams you specified simply switched to a newer model, not because of a compatibility issue. Cyanogen left us because our phone maintainer, RC, couldn't fix the radio. If he did release it anyways he would've received a lot of complains, which he didn't want.
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Thanks for someone whose actively working on it and replying. Glad to have someone with the knowledge xP
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How do I install google apps with CyanogenMod 10
Which Gapps do you recommend for the TMobile LG G2X P999?
Currently running:
gapps-jb-20120726-signed
cm-9.9.9-JB-p999-2(OS)
Issue I am having is major feedback when making a any calls on...

Mordephi said:
Which Gapps do you recommend for the TMobile LG G2X P999?
Currently running:
gapps-jb-20120726-signed
cm-9.9.9-JB-p999-2(OS)
Issue I am having is major feedback when making a any calls on...
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Do a search for baseband.zip, or look in these topics, there should be links in them.
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redmonke255 said:
Do a search for baseband.zip, or look in these topics, there should be links in them.
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WOW that worked great! Thank you very much. Do you know if there is a solutions for the bluetooth not connecting or no audio on bluetooth?

Downgrading your baseband to 2.3.3 is only known way to get working audio for Bluetooth calling at the moment
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Pain-N-Panic said:
Downgrading your baseband to 2.3.3 is only known way to get working audio for Bluetooth calling at the moment
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Or stock 2.3.4/based ROMs. It's not too bad you know : angel:
-- The noob says:
From first-hand experience, a smartphone is incapable of making you smarter!

mansa_noob said:
Or stock 2.3.4/based ROMs. It's not too bad you know : angel:
-- The noob says:
From first-hand experience, a smartphone is incapable of making you smarter!
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LOL yeah I guess you could do that too. I'm just way too much of a tweaker/modder/flashcrazy to keep a stock phone!

Pain-N-Panic said:
LOL yeah I guess you could do that too. I'm just way too much of a tweaker/modder/flashcrazy to keep a stock phone!
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Lol my wife won't let me mess with her nexus 4 but it drives me nuts that she can't change her battery icon to percentage and change lockscreen background and...omg I could go all day.

TwitchyEye said:
Lol my wife won't let me mess with her nexus 4 but it drives me nuts that she can't change her battery icon to percentage and change lockscreen background and...omg I could go all day.
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Based on experience, it is generally not a good idea to mess with your wife's phone . LOL.
-- The noob says:
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mansa_noob said:
Based on experience, it is generally not a good idea to mess with your wife's phone . LOL.
-- The noob says:
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Lol so true! I'm just glad she's done with this one. The first day she got her new phone she goes how do you pull the battery? I go you won't need to. She goes
If only they had a head exploding emoji

Lollipop?

In the past few days, I've seen that a lot of devices have started to get Lollipop ROMs, such as the 1+1, Xperia Z3, Galaxy SIII Mini, and even the SII. I am wondering, is there any developer currently working on Lollipop for the d2vzw/d2lte? If not, does anybody have any idea how to compile Lollipop for the SIII?

Been lurking around as well. Noticed that the i9300 and the i747 models (no longer unified) both have Alpha Lollipop roms in production. Currently on Moto X (First Gen) but would love to dust off the old GS3 to get an early taste of 5.0. Been looking into porting but it's well over my head, plus I don't want to be the guy who bricks his backup by trying to port an early rom build. Would love to see a thread pop up tho about a release

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Been lurking around as well. Noticed that the i9300 and the i747 models (no longer unified) both have Alpha Lollipop roms in production. Currently on Moto X (First Gen) but would love to dust off the old GS3 to get an early taste of 5.0. Been looking into porting but it's well over my head, plus I don't want to be the guy who bricks his backup by trying to port an early rom build. Would love to see a thread pop up tho about a release
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Carbon Rom is moving in that direction, but it will take some time to see a build I'm sure. They don't tend to release unpolished roms.. Especially on a new version of Android
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Deliquified said:
Carbon Rom is moving in that direction, but it will take some time to see a build I'm sure. They don't tend to release unpolished roms.. Especially on a new version of Android
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Makes sense. Haven't been around the scene in a while (my Moto X is locked down tight) so I thought I'd take a peek and see if you guys were getting any Lollipop love just yet lol Thanks for the response and I look forward to what the devs push out soon!

Welp, did a bit of digging and got the rom working on my GS3 but unfortunately I have no signal (voice) but LTE is working. At this point I imagine it's a kernel issue unless someone knows otherwise. gonna do a bit more digging tonight to see if I can't fix the problem.

ThaSik1 said:
Welp, did a bit of digging and got the rom working on my GS3 but unfortunately I have no signal (voice) but LTE is working. At this point I imagine it's a kernel issue unless someone knows otherwise. gonna do a bit more digging tonight to see if I can't fix the problem.
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Any update on the build? The d2att/ATT SIII has a working build already. http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-att/orig-development/cyanogenmod-12-t2944071
Would it be possible to compile this for the VZW SIII?

glman1 said:
Any update on the build? The d2att/ATT SIII has a working build already. http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-att/orig-development/cyanogenmod-12-t2944071
Would it be possible to compile this for the VZW SIII?
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i wonder if it would be safe to flash that. are all d2lte phones the same

kidhudi said:
i wonder if it would be safe to flash that. are all d2lte phones the same
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It's not safe. DO NOT flash an AT&T ROM on the Verizon variant.

kidhudi said:
i wonder if it would be safe to flash that. are all d2lte phones the same
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Absolutely not. Only if it specifically states d2lte. This one says d2att which can and will brick your device
From my CM11 S3

I am really excited for a lolipop ROM. Do you guys know of any developers working on one for the VZW GS3?

johnston9234 said:
I am really excited for a lolipop ROM. Do you guys know of any developers working on one for the VZW GS3?
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One of them may be updated, I'm not aware of any but I'm not always in the development forums anymore
From my CM11 S3

As the others have stated, I wouldn't recommend flashing the At&t variant even though we share similar hardware (basically the same). Since the GS3 is my backup, I tweaked their rom and it booted for me, but like I said, there is no voice/sms working even tho LTE does activate oddly. I went to the IRC to see what I needed to look into but the devs there confirmed that they are indeed working on a rom for you guys already and I know they have made better progress than me. Wasn't looking to duplicate efforts, so I said I'd just stop and wait like everyone else cuz it'll be so much safer in the end. Sorry if I got anyone hyped but legit builds are in the works by expert devs, so no worries!
Edit: What I tell ya http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57012966&postcount=1502

Theres a VZW Lollipop ROM from Mastamoon that works pretty well. Its under his CM11.X thread though, a link on that thread is a page back or so.
Camera doesn't work, but you can download open camera from the market which works.
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Didn't realize @TheSiK1 already linked it.
MastaMoon said hes not really gonna work on it much though...
Are there other devs you talked to that are working in it or just MastaMoon?
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XdrummerXboy said:
Theres a VZW Lollipop ROM from Mastamoon that works pretty well. Its under his CM11.X thread though, a link on that thread is a page back or so.
Camera doesn't work, but you can download open camera from the market which works.
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Didn't realize @TheSiK1 already linked it.
MastaMoon said hes not really find work on it much though...
Are there other devs you talked to that are working in it or just MastaMoon?
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CM12 official will be here soon enough. After reading a bunch of comments it's quite buggy. Personally I'm going to wait to flash it
From my CM11 S3

I'm using right now and considering, I found the first 4.4.4 ROMs much bugger than this one. Using it as a daily driver. Home button only works after screen is unlocked. Can't wake phone using home button.

sjpritch25 said:
I'm using right now and considering, I found the first 4.4.4 ROMs much bugger than this one. Using it as a daily driver. Home button only works after screen is unlocked. Can't wake phone using home button.
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If its buggier than CM11 how come the home button doesn't work properly? Sounds like a bug to me, this is a good reason why a lot of people don't test things out until the bugs are worked out
From my CM11 S3

ShapesBlue said:
If its buggier than CM11 how come the home button doesn't work properly? Sounds like a bug to me, this is a good reason why a lot of people don't test things out until the bugs are worked out
From my CM11 S3
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There's no question its not perfect.
I don't mind being a bit of a guinea pig as long as it doesn't brick my phone!
I'm just surprised its not more buggy than it is this early on!
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XdrummerXboy said:
There's no question its not perfect.
I don't mind being a bit of a guinea pig as long as it doesn't brick my phone!
I'm just surprised its not more buggy than it is this early on!
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True, but I'm not one to always jump on a rom right away. Plus CM from cyanogen mod will be out soon enough anyways
From my CM11 S3

ShapesBlue said:
True, but I'm not one to always jump on a rom right away. Plus CM from cyanogen mod will be out soon enough anyways
From my CM11 S3
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The build, at least for me, has been pretty great so far. The home button does in fact work, you just can't wake the phone with the home button. But I understand that people need something very stable to use, but I'm OK with a few bugs.