Hi, it really all started with the 3.4 kernel.
I'm s-off, super CIC and sim unlocked. Have been trying the carbon roms and getting random reboots which lead to a boot loop. After 3-5 loops it usually settles down again, but it Will happen again.
Then switched to codename lungo which has the best battery life for me (latest builds for carbon and lungo) but still getting the same problems, this morning it was using maps.
Also noticed that the phone was really hot, checked the battery temp and it was over 50 deg C.
I'm just wondering if there's anything that you guys do to ensure a smooth ROM installation and experience, especially in connection with the kernels? This current codename lungo buid that I'm on was installed from a TOTAL wipe, including the sd card (I mentioned this total loss in the carbon thread) so its stock kernel. But still not stable! It couldn't have been a cleaner install!
So any advice would be warmly welcomed.
I'm pretty fed up with all the CM troubles with 3.4 kernel, is it possible to revert back to previous kernel and sense ROMs? They worked great for me.
Thx
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Dude do you realize that there is a Question/Answer Forum and this one is to be left just for developing? and by the way yes you can go back to sense by flashing a rom or running an RUU
My mistake, I just posted here as it's where I spend all my time!
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Frankyg said:
Hi, it really all started with the 3.4 kernel.
I'm s-off, super CIC and sim unlocked. Have been trying the carbon roms and getting random reboots which lead to a boot loop. After 3-5 loops it usually settles down again, but it Will happen again.
Then switched to codename lungo which has the best battery life for me (latest builds for carbon and lungo) but still getting the same problems, this morning it was using maps.
Also noticed that the phone was really hot, checked the battery temp and it was over 50 deg C.
I'm just wondering if there's anything that you guys do to ensure a smooth ROM installation and experience, especially in connection with the kernels? This current codename lungo buid that I'm on was installed from a TOTAL wipe, including the sd card (I mentioned this total loss in the carbon thread) so its stock kernel. But still not stable! It couldn't have been a cleaner install!
So any advice would be warmly welcomed.
I'm pretty fed up with all the CM troubles with 3.4 kernel, is it possible to revert back to previous kernel and sense ROMs? They worked great for me.
Thx
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Please also understand that most of the ROMs here are in beta/testing phase. That means that reboots/bootloops or other unexpected behavior is likely to appear. Event if for some of us a ROM may be stable, for others could be problematic or have some issues. This is depending on many factors even if you completely wiped as you said. hboot/firmware, radios, revision of your phone (hardware speaking) ar so many factors that influence the stability and smoothness of a ROM. The devs do their best to offer us a good experience and better ROMs but they cannot test in all conditions (even if they have testers). Even great teams like CyanogenMod had some issues with their ROMs for some of us
If you want stability, then go for a stock/sense based ROM with Android 4.1.1/4.1.2, anything else could prove to be not so perfect depending on your specific conditions
Also don't forget that such a thread will not help any of the devs nor this community....if you have issues it's is usually more helpful to provide detailed description of your problem along with logs that could reveal the root cause of it, than to complain about the instability of the ROM
Frankyg said:
My mistake, I just posted here as it's where I spend all my time!
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you can go back to stock rom or try a stock based rom. BUT it still would be interesting why you have these problems because most of the users do not have.
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I've S offed and rooted. I'm a bit skeptical of installing a rom. My concerns are of battery life, stability, and receiving calls. Is there any rom out there for the desire s now that is atleast 95% completed with a few bugs?
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For me, LBC v0.5.3 works flawlessly - 100% complete in my opinion. No stability issues for me whatsoever.. No crashes, FCs etc, no issues making or receiving calls, smoothness better than stock and battery life same/better than stock. It's a no brainer IMHO.
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For me, LBC v0.5.3 works flawlessly - 100% complete in my opinion. No stability issues for me whatsoever.. No crashes, FCs etc, no issues making or receiving calls, smoothness better than stock and battery life same/better than stock. It's a no brainer IMHO.
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ditto to the above comment, would have said the same but was beaten to it...
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For me, LBC v0.5.3 works flawlessly - 100% complete in my opinion. No stability issues for me whatsoever.. No crashes, FCs etc, no issues making or receiving calls, smoothness better than stock and battery life same/better than stock. It's a no brainer IMHO.
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I'm waiting for an AOSP rom (CM 8hopefully), because that's my preference, but for a sense rom LBC is the best I've used.
Does the rom need you to flash kernels or radios? I'm not very good with that. Also can anyone send me a link
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sayeed91 said:
Does the rom need you to flash kernels or radios? I'm not very good with that. Also can anyone send me a link
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Look in the development forum, titles LBC mod, see link in my signature, it is suggested that you flash a new radio, but, all instructions are provided within the first post and on the supporting website
You shouldn't really start flashing until you feel reasonably comfortable with the process, so I'd suggest that you spend a day or two day reading the entire thread and the site before you do.
You can then ask any questions regarding anything you are unsure or are un clear about in the rom thread
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You can try virtuous unity too
Try virtuous unity 1.29.0, its pretty stable too, running sense 3.0.
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monk
sayeed91 said:
Does the rom need you to flash kernels or radios? I'm not very good with that. Also can anyone send me a link
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DO NOT FLASH radio's unless you really need to, we know a lot about the Nand and can recover from almost any error there, but the nvram, radio etc is a different story. A bad radio flash, could mean you end up with a very expensive calculator!
The stock HTC European Baseband (radio) is: 20.28b.30.0805U_38.03.02.11_M. I did not need to change mine when I flashed LBC. Different carriers will have different radio's.
You can flash a Kernel any time after you flash your rom, otherwise the rom flash will simply overwrite your kernel flash. Pick the wrong kernel and it can cause you a lot of problems, although these should be easily recoverable. The only way to learn that, is experience.
I'm running opensensation cm9 (latest version). the last few builds have been hell on my battery, on a full charge im getting 5 hours with no wifi bluetooth and so forth. my phone like overheated today and took forever to finally boot back up. someone mentioned switching kernels, idk anything about how that works or which ones are safe to use on which roms. any help would be nice. thanks.
Installing a kernel is done the same way you flashed the rom. Flash the zip file in your recovery.
I think your choices right now are either stock opensense kernel or faux's cm9/aosp kernel. Also, I don't think developers release kernels dangerous for your phone. Worst case scenario your phone gets stuck in a bootloop and you have to go back to stock kernel or reflash your rom.
Just keep in mind that a rom like that which is in alpha stage will have bugs that won't be fixed by just switching kernels. Luckily Vorbeth has been working nonstop on Opensense. One would think he was getting paid to dev.. Lol
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I don't really recommend switching kernels since Vorbeth has done kernel-level fixes for OpenSensation. Flashing a different kernel has a good chance of breaking something in the ROM...until the wake lock issue is figured out, I suggest using a stable Sense ROM like Android Revolution HD or Virtuous Inquisition if you still want the ICS AOSP look.
Hi everyone, this is my first post in the sensation forums. Here is my question. A friend of mine has the sensation in stock form and wants to me to install AOKP on it. I've been reading up on how to get s-off and installing cwr. Now I have a vibrant and if on a stock or froyo rom installing a cm7 rom is recommended prior to installing any ics rom to get partitions and such correctly. Is there a rom that needs to be flashed before I can flash his sensation with the aokp rom or is it safe to flash straight from stock rom. Thanks in advanced.
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The process goes basically like this:
A) Unlock the bootloader by means of Revolutionary.io
B) Root the Stock Rom
C) Flash 4EXT recovery from the APK downloaded at 4ext.net
D) Download the 3.32 unlocked firmware from the dev thread.
E) Put firmware PG58IMG file on root of SD card and hit up the bootloader, apply firmware.
F) Remove firmware file from SD card so you can get to 4EXT recovery from the bootloader.
G) Put rom on SD card, reboot into recovery, flash rom.
Only one problem is that AOKP isn't really supported, or 100% ready to roll on this device. Virtuous Inquisition or ARHD + Shnizlon's AOSP mod is a much more stable, feature-packed approach.
Thanks sshede, that's a pretty good tut you wrote for me there. And I'll definitely search and look into the roms you recommend. And also time for me to start downloading all those files and the drivers for his phone. I probably won't mod his phone till this weekend so it will give me more time to do my reading up. Thanks once again.
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Lol wut. Aokp is faster, more stable and smoother than VI. I have been using it for like 1 month without a single reboot. Only few bugs (480p camcorder) that don't affect the experience at all. Give it a try, you will think CM is a joke after using AOKP's ROM Control (which is a compilation of a LOT of tweaks/mods/etc).
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Lol wut. Aokp is faster, more stable and smoother than VI. I have been using it for like 1 month without a single reboot. Only few bugs (480p camcorder) that don't affect the experience at all. Give it a try, you will think CM is a joke after using AOKP's ROM Control (which is a compilation of a LOT of tweaks/mods/etc).
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Totally subjective. Some people prefer 480p because it doesn't use nearly as much space. Bluetooth isn't 100% functioning either. It may not bother you, but some people need them. And I've tried my fair share of both Sense and AOSP-based roms, nothing is more stable than Sense-based roms right now. All the drivers are straight from HTC, nothing's been patched together.
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Totally subjective. Some people prefer 480p because it doesn't use nearly as much space. Bluetooth isn't 100% functioning either. It may not bother you, but some people need them. And I've tried my fair share of both Sense and AOSP-based roms, nothing is more stable than Sense-based roms right now. All the drivers are straight from HTC, nothing's been patched together.
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Yes. The main problem I had with VI was the random black screen of death. Had to pull battery away every couple days as the phone wouldn't turn back on. That's why I don't like that ROM.
And, well, its personal preferences
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I've been googling and browsing XDA most of today... went on a short adventure in unlocking my Xoom and rooting it (finally), and am even happier with it running 4.0.4.
However short of flashing entire new roms and all that jazz, I think I'd like to overclock a bit.
From what I've found, it seems like there isn't many options for doing that yet? I've just setup and restored all my apps and widgets today so I'm hesitant to wipe everything again, so my question is:
Am I able to overclock presently? After rooting I now have some experience navigating to CWM, and kind of understand the process. Just want to make my Xoom that much better
Thanks!
edit: if there is a way to do it... perhaps some instructions would be great? Everytime I look at those Development threads I get so confused.
Option 1: flash a custom ROM. Most ROMs have an overclocking kernel installed.
Option 2: flash the EOS kernel. You can find it in the development section.
Also, since you are already on ICS 4.0.4, all you have to wipe is the caches when you install a different ICS ROM, such as AOKP, CM9 or Team EOS.
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d3athsd00r said:
Option 1: flash a custom ROM. Most ROMs have an overclocking kernel installed.
Option 2: flash the EOS kernel. You can find it in the development section.
Also, since you are already on ICS 4.0.4, all you have to wipe is the caches when you install a different ICS ROM, such as AOKP, CM9 or Team EOS.
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Thanks for the reply!
Seems like this thread is most relevant?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1484770
Not sure what to use though, as it seems to be more about the rom.
For wiping the caches, do I still need to do it if I flash a kernel? Before or after? I might try switching roms in the future but I'd like to try just the kernel now.
edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488059 okay I did some googlng and JUST flashed this. Fingers crossed! This must seem silly, but it's my first time flashing a kernel so I'm nervous.
edit2: Woo I'm running at 1.7ghz! Thanks for the help! Hm restarted, maybe 1.7 is too high. Will experiment with lower...
Jeffu said:
Thanks for the reply!
Seems like this thread is most relevant?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1484770
Not sure what to use though, as it seems to be more about the rom.
For wiping the caches, do I still need to do it if I flash a kernel? Before or after? I might try switching roms in the future but I'd like to try just the kernel now.
edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488059 okay I did some googlng and JUST flashed this. Fingers crossed! This must seem silly, but it's my first time flashing a kernel so I'm nervous.
edit2: Woo I'm running at 1.7ghz! Thanks for the help! Hm restarted, maybe 1.7 is too high. Will experiment with lower...
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I'd exercise a little bit of caution when overclocking, especially to 1.7. Because every xoom is different, there is some risk. If your xoom randomly restarts when overclocked, it means you've gone too far and a lower frequency would be better. Also remember that OCing could potentially ruin your xoom if one is not careful enough.
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I'd exercise a little bit of caution when overclocking, especially to 1.7. Because every xoom is different, there is some risk. If your xoom randomly restarts when overclocked, it means you've gone too far and a lower frequency would be better. Also remember that OCing could potentially ruin your xoom if one is not careful enough.
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Thanks for the warning. It's been going at 1.5 so far with no problems, and is still a big improvement... if even that causes problems I'll tone it down.
Do some kernels OC better than others?
Jeffu said:
Thanks for the warning. It's been going at 1.5 so far with no problems, and is still a big improvement... if even that causes problems I'll tone it down.
Do some kernels OC better than others?
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I am not that well informed about kernels specifically. But I know that many kernels can allow overclocking, yet some kernels are more stable and play much nicer with certain roms while others could do the opposite. I think it is a matter of mixing and matching until you find a kernel that is both stable and suits your needs.
I just bought a new Nexus 5. I love all the extra features custom ROMs come with, and I bought this phone because it has the best ROMs
How good are the various custom ROMs in terms of stability and battery life at present? Should I switch to a ROM rightaway or is it better to wait for better/more stable builds (the ROMs I'm considering are still in beta)?
Imho the best rom is purity for n5, stable and rock solid. For kernels there are a lot but i personally use faux
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Hello,
Please read the stickies before creating a new topic. ROM Comparison threads are not allowed here. You can head over to the development section and try the various AWESOME roms which have been developed and settle on the one which suits you the best!
I would reccomend you to stay stock for at least a few weeks so that you feel the stock experience for a while and then jump on to a custom rom as you will now have something to compare the custom rom with and the awesome feeling when you jump from stock to custom!
Almost all the custom roms which are there in the development section are stable enough to be used as a daily driver...
Just a friendly reminder that this thread is about the stability about custom ROMs, not which ROM's the best/better than...
Discussions about stability are ok, but please don't slide into "best ROM" discussions, or else I have to close this thread
Stock works very well. I would recommend you unlock the bootloader right away, then run stock for awhile. Rooted stock with xposed+ gravity box will get you just about anything a custom Rom will have.
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jd1639 said:
Stock works very well. I would recommend you unlock the bootloader right away, then run stock for awhile. Rooted stock with xposed+ gravity box will get you just about anything a custom Rom will have.
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The phone is already unlocked/rooted/running CWM. That's the first thing I did when I unboxed it. And I'm already looking into the xposed modules that would fit my requirements.
vin4yak said:
Hello,
Almost all the custom roms which are there in the development section are stable enough to be used as a daily driver...
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When you say "stable enough", does that mean there are still some minor issues I might encounter? Also, how would the battery life be compared to stock?
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When you say "stable enough", does that mean there are still some minor issues I might encounter? Also, how would the battery life be compared to stock?
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Yes there are... I'm on AICP and I get SODs once every 2-3 days... Because of the various CM patches and other stuffs, it sometimes breaks Tethering (although it is fixed by the dev the very next day)... Some other patch broke the lockscreen wallpaper on other rom...
I hope you know what I'm trying to say... These are just minor issues which occur when you flash custom roms and are ironed out by the dev within days... but they seem negligible when you get the awesome experience in using a custom rom...
What seems stable to one person may not to the next. And vice versa. We all use our phones different ways for different things. The only real way to know is read through the rom threads, starting from the last page and going backwards for latest comments and/or flash them and find out for yourself.
Thanks to nandroid backups and restores....going back to our good setup is easy if you don't like something.
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I would stay stock for now and test out all of the custom kernels and see which has the greatest impact on impoving your current battery life. As said before in other threads what works for one Nexus 5 may not be the same on another one. As for the rom I prefer using stock+xposed. The modules I use are: gravitybox, xHaloFloatingWindow (with Floatifications from the play store) and greenify.
The custom dishes by our chefs are all great! Those who have to ask should stay stock for a while!
Stay stock . There has been no need for custom roms for a while. Kk is great. Kernels are another matter. I'd concentrate on finding a good kernel. All the features you want on a rom can be got with Xposed framework and modules, ie gravity box
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The N5 has been out for a while, alot of awesome dev's has made roms. At this point, a custom rom is a must for the N5!
I would recommend PA for a stock experience or PAC for a all in one rom.
Thank you for the suggestions everyone.
I've had this phone for just a couple of days, so I won't rush into a custom ROM. Gravitybox and other xposed modules have most of the features and customisations I wanted, so I'll stick to stock for a while, and explore stock KK thoroughly. I might try out a few custom kernels though.