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Ok, so I just got this phone on the 2nd and have been extensively looking around for stable ROMs. I've found two ROMs I particularly love, SuperVillain and SparkMods HotSauce, I also rather enjoyed GingerVillain. But all of these seem to have some serious drawbacks with the G2, or maybe just the T-Mobile network, I have no idea. But with SuperVillain, my bluetooth won't work correctly. GingerVillain breaks my WiFi (won't stay toggled on longer than five seconds), and I've yet to accomplish getting the android market app onto HotSauce. And across the board of all the nonstock ROMs, picture messaging absolutely will not work.
So my question is, is there a stable ROM with full support for this phone or do I have to be stuck running this beautiful device at 800mhz?
Hello, everyone!
I have a Nexus S from Rogers, Canada.
The Build number is GRK39F
Baseband: I9020AUCKF1
I'm running 2.3.6 and I'd like to know if anyone here has updated to ICS successfully with this phone. I want to force the update but I'm in doubt if it is currently working well.
Anyone?
No official OTA for the I9020A yet, but you could always flash a custom ROM from the development section if you are rooted.
Still waiting for the official OTA for my Nexus as well, but I think I am going to try CM9.
I9020A ICS Update
My experience with the AT&T/US version is that I was on 2.3.5 and would not get any other OTA updates.
I did manually update to 2.3.6 and did not experience issues with it.
I then unlocked the bootloader and rooted. No change to experience.
I then flashed the official full 4.0.3 ROM for the I9020T (at my own risk!) and then flashed a compatible radio and did not have any serious functionality issues, but did experience quite a performance lag.
Based on this experience, my take is that there is much to be done for the official I9020A ICS ROM with acceptable performance, and if you are going to wait for official, you are probably going to be waiting for a while.
I have been very pleased with the performance of a custom ROM dedicated to the stock ICS experience along with the recommended custom kernel. Blazing fast compared to my short experience with the official. I have done this all at some risk, but the XDA community is pretty awesome and with a lot of reading of feedback put me at ease and made it very easy to experiment.
I feel your pain
Same situation as you, forcing the checkin doesn't work because there simply isn't an OTA yet for the 9020a
hope it get's here soon!
Cheers,
JM
Worked for me
I have a Nexus S from Fido and I'm using ICS.
I flashed this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20456900&postcount=1
I didn't have to flash a different radio or anything. It all seems to work great. Should be the same for Rogers network.
Hope that helps.
ICS on Rogers 9020A
I did the same as ProfBurz yesterday. So far so good. no issues with battery life of reboots. Having some fun with my work exchange account right now but I'm not sure that has anything to do with this ROM.
My exchange account works
My work email is functioning fine. It didn't work the first few times I tried though. No idea why, I rebooted the phone and it worked.
One thing I notice is my contacts with pictures show up pixelated when someone calls. Wrong image size or something? They look fine in text messaging, just show up enlarged when calling.
I have a i9020a on AT&T and here is my ICS info:
Verision: 4.0.3
Baseband Version: I9020xxKB3
Kernel Version (stock): 3.0.8-gb55e9ac; [email protected]#1
I am also running Nova Launcher (beta 13).
My experience with this has been very good overal. I had some initial problems with data speeds with an earlier radio (can't remember which one), but with the new one (XXKB3) I'm getting about 2mbps down and 1mbps up which is good for the area I am in. I was watching last night at work and I got about 10 hours on a battery and I was only at about 46% then with moderate use (internet job searching some pandora streaming ect).
And just for clarification, this is the 4.0.3 ROM for the I9020T, as mentioned by the_real_nwags.
The few complaints I have are minimal and forgettable, but the app drawer takes a few seconds to open (slight lag), but once your in the drawer everything is silky smooth. The other issue I have is Google Wallet doesn't seem to work. Now whether that is my fault or not I can't be sure . The only other issue I have is while streaming Pandora, sometimes it will get stuck "Loading" the next song, but that usually happens right before a comercial, it normally goes right to the next track without a pause.
There is a slight lag to the system, but nothing horrible... I have used worse. So if your interested in trying ICS, this is a good start. I am thinking about trying a new kernal for increased cpu speeds, but I don't know about that yet.
I have a nexus s i9020A on rogers and as long as you flash a rom with no radio, like CM9 or cyberGR. I also have the AUCKF1 radio and 4.0.3 and all is well make sure to download the auckf1 radio just in case your radio goes wrong somehow. Good luck!
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Hi,
I rooted my phone a couple of days back & upgraded to ICS using Hellfire v1.8 rom.
Since I was getting lags, I also got the flak0's lag fix.
I have started facing an issue the phone would freeze post a long call on the phone screen, I can't even get it to reboot by pressing 'lock+vol up' button. The only way is to remove the battery & put it back.
I saw a similar issue seen in this thread from partzman2:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28342782#post28342782
But unfortunately, I am unable to comment on the thread as I don't have enough posts in my name. I searched the forums for this issue, but couldn't find a solution.
Any help is appreciated.
My sincere thanks to dev folks
Just wanted to take a moment to thank the dev folks who put in a lot of work in creating these roms/mods - experience is so much better, I can't even begin to explain.
I have had g2x for more than 14 months now & I had been running stock froyo 1st & then GB (2.3.3) - the experience was so bad, that I used it only for making phone calls or occasional emails, as i couldn't even browse or do anything w/o hitting some problem or the other. Even phone calls used to crash at times.
After updating to ICS, I haven't stopped using the phone be it browsing, watching you tube videos, trying new apps, emails etc, with occasional phone calls .
Again, thanks a lot for so much hard work, its really appreciated.
gg84 said:
Just wanted to take a moment to thank the dev folks who put in a lot of work in creating these roms/mods - experience is so much better, I can't even begin to explain.
I have had g2x for more than 14 months now & I had been running stock froyo 1st & then GB (2.3.3) - the experience was so bad, that I used it only for making phone calls or occasional emails, as i couldn't even browse or do anything w/o hitting some problem or the other. Even phone calls used to crash at times.
After updating to ICS, I haven't stopped using the phone be it browsing, watching you tube videos, trying new apps, emails etc, with occasional phone calls .
Again, thanks a lot for so much hard work, its really appreciated.
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Hi, welcome to XDA :fingers-crossed:
I have some sort of sad news for you. In general-- ICS on the G2X isn't really stable right now. A lot of rom's have problems with lag after a few weeks, graphical errors, rebooting, and phone calles (as you mentioned). I'm not sure exactly how to fix your problem, but I had it too. I couldn't find a suitable fix, so i went back to Cyangogenmod 7 (gingerbread)
The latest nightly (newest build uploaded on their server) is available here: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=nightly&device=tenderloin
If you are NOT using the march 2012 baseband, flash "old_baseband.zip". I am looking for the file (not sure what thread it is in).
What baseband are you one?
Also, If you must try ics, i suggest Owain's build 77. It's one of the most stable I've found so far.
I'll update post soon.
Blazing angel said:
Hi, welcome to XDA :fingers-crossed:
I have some sort of sad news for you. In general-- ICS on the G2X isn't really stable right now. A lot of rom's have problems with lag after a few weeks, graphical errors, rebooting, and phone calles (as you mentioned). I'm not sure exactly how to fix your problem, but I had it too. I couldn't find a suitable fix, so i went back to Cyangogenmod 7 (gingerbread)
The latest nightly (newest build uploaded on their server) is available here:
[//gg84 - I had to snip out the link as I am not even allowed to post a link which actually someone else had put & I am just quoting //]
If you are NOT using the march 2012 baseband, flash "old_baseband.zip". I am looking for the file (not sure what thread it is in).
What baseband are you one?
Also, If you must try ics, i suggest Owain's build 77. It's one of the most stable I've found so far.
I'll update post soon.
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Thanks for the info. Actually, I went through quite a bit of dev threads before deciding to go with ICS - I was quite curios about its features & was ready to take the risk.
Only thing is that owain's recent 79 build seemed to have quite a bit of issues from the posts, & hellfire seemed a bit old/stable, so went with that. I didn't consider using old owain's builds (which might be an overlook from my part).
Is there a way I can find what I might lose (& possibly gain), if I switch to owain's 77 build?
I am using Jul15, 2011 baseband & kernel is 2.6.32.59-CM9-faux123-050.
Is there a better baseband/kernel that I should try?
I switched the kernel to harsh kernel & I feel that the speed has improved, but "freezing on a call randomly" issue still exists. Also, it crashes & reboots once in a while but I still feel that its worth all the pain as now I am actually able to make use of the phone.
Blazing Angel, did you find the latest baseband which I can try using?
Another bug I found is that I cannot really configure the lock screen buttons/shortcuts - as in adding a an app to be able to accessed from the lock screen like we do for camera. I see the option of changing this in setting but it doesn't persist when I try to change it.
Anyone seeing this?
gg84 said:
I switched the kernel to harsh kernel & I feel that the speed has improved, but "freezing on a call randomly" issue still exists. Also, it crashes & reboots once in a while but I still feel that its worth all the pain as now I am actually able to make use of the phone.
Blazing Angel, did you find the latest baseband which I can try using?
Another bug I found is that I cannot really configure the lock screen buttons/shortcuts - as in adding a an app to be able to accessed from the lock screen like we do for camera. I see the option of changing this in setting but it doesn't persist when I try to change it.
Anyone seeing this?
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The latest baseband is march 2012. To update, you need to install Tmobile's V21Y update.
Follow this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1674901
Note: If you install this, and try to use a rom other than CM7 7.2.0, you need to flash owains New_baseband fix after flashing a rom from here
http://owain.hopto.org/T-Mobile LG...w_baseband.zip
Hi just want to add info with new baseband the bluetooth doesn't work.
Blazing angel said:
Hi, welcome to XDA :fingers-crossed:
I have some sort of sad news for you. In general-- ICS on the G2X isn't really stable right now. A lot of rom's have problems with lag after a few weeks, graphical errors, rebooting, and phone calles (as you mentioned). I'm not sure exactly how to fix your problem, but I had it too. I couldn't find a suitable fix, so i went back to Cyangogenmod 7 (gingerbread)
The latest nightly (newest build uploaded on their server) is available here: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=nightly&device=tenderloin
If you are NOT using the march 2012 baseband, flash "old_baseband.zip". I am looking for the file (not sure what thread it is in).
What baseband are you one?
Also, If you must try ics, i suggest Owain's build 77. It's one of the most stable I've found so far.
I'll update post soon.
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some of that i experienced my self , most of the times the camera and hdmi port is sacrificed in the g2x
Thanks for the info guys. Say my gps works/locks already (takes a bit of time though) with the hellfire ICS, is there anything I get by flashing this new baseband?
Does it or would it fix the random freezing on calls by any chance?
Basically, I read the instructions & it seems that I'd have to go back to stock, unroot & then re-root + reflash + restore my apps etc - seems like too much if I am not getting something out of it.
If it doesn't add much value, then I will consider doing it once another stable version of hellfire or owain's rom is released..
BTW, did anyone experience the lock screen config issue I posted in my earlier post - basically I can't add custom short cuts to the lock screen, there is an option to do this in the settings but they dont stick (I am on hellfire v1.8 right now)
Hi folks,
I've spent most of the month since I got my G2x messing around with different combinations of roms and kernels for the best experience and I thought I'd try to share some of that with you, as well as some unanswered questions.
First off, I am no stranger to android and even custom roms in general. I flashed custom roms for my windows mobile phones (two of them), before I went to android with the G1. I used the Tmobile HTC HD2 for a while after that, flashed to Gingerbread and eventually ICS roms with full HW acceleration thanks to the hard work of developers.
I got my G2x off Craigslist for use on Wind Mobile. Immediately looked up guides for nvflash and cwm, upgrading to the latest baseband (march) and trying a variety of different roms. At one point, I must've tried every rom out there in the forum, but decided to stick with owain's domination ICS because of the constantly updated codebase. The latest ones (build 78 and 79 have been having some lag issues suspectedly due to the linaro improvements), but that shows how cutting edge it is.
With all of them except my current, latest setup (which I will explain), I had a number of glitches, namely:
1. Flickering of the screen brightness when turning screen on and flickering of the screen-on for a millisecond after turning it off (with and without CRT-off animation enabled)
2. I had a little glitch with the LED lights where when it timed out, instead of turning off, it brightened brighter for a bit before turning off completely.
I understand that ICS is highly experimental, and it is a testament to how good those developers are to even get it running with hacked HWA and no official nvidia support (hopefully, yet).
I HAVE managed to solve those both problems in a very peculiar way. I applaud EaglesBlood for the slick look of their website, designs, and AROMA installer, not to mention their very slick AOSP rom. Latest news is that they're even starting to merge JB source.
Right now I am running EaglesBlood; not the AOSP, but their decommissioned CM9-based ICS build 3. Their last released version with the latest version of the trinity kernel. It's missing many of the latest CM commits, CRT-off animation (without modifying framework-res.apk) and a few features I admit, but it's blazing fast and most importantly, none of the two glitches I listed above are happening.
I am curious if there is any opportunities for information exchange here. I tried trinity kernel on build 77 and 79 of owain's domination build, and I experienced the flicker bugs, but not the LED lights. Clearly, something in the build changes could be the reason. If that could be identified, and EB's CM ICS build could be updated to the latest codebase, we could all have ourselves a more stable, and updated build with no glitches.
I am excited for the next builds of both the EB AOSP and domination builds to see what they could bring in the meantime.
Just my two cents, keep up the great work folks!
The other end of the spectrum of experience
I have very little experience "managing" an Android phone. I'm no technophobe, as I have 25+ years experience developing hardware and C firmware for embedded Real Time systems (none using Android nor embedded Linux). But I have a wife, kids, grandkids, and music performance is my #1 hobby, so I can't make time to "play" with my phone. I've had two G2x for my wife and I, and the only thing I did was root and freeze bloatware. I stuck with Froyo because I needed Wifi calling, a2db and BT calling, and tethering. We also got the dreaded Screen Of Death (g2x locks up, gets hot, and drains your battery, requiring a battery pull), and random reboots. I recently moved our phones to LG V21y (rooted with bloatware freeze), and my wife now gives me the evil eye. We lost the wonderful camera LG put into Froyo, we still get SOD and reboots, plus now we get frequent lag. Example: now when I'm playing music over a2dp, if I get a text or anything, the music has a momentary pause. wtf.
So, since you (Timekeeper) are trying out many ROMs, I'm curious as to which one you stay with. If anyone else wants to suggest ROMs, I'm all ears. I've also searched for a ROM of the original G2x Froyo, but the only links I come up with are dead. I want/need the above features (Froyo LG camera, WiFi calling, a2dp + BT calling, and tethering or Hotspot, and (gasp) stability) - my wife would sacrifice WiFi calling and a2dp for stability. But since she is a technophobe and I am the IT Dept, I'd prefer to have us on the same ROM.
Thanks in advance to any and all that give input.
-Bob
I suggest cyanogenmod 7.2 stable, though if you're on the latest baseband you won't have blue tooth calling. If you downgrade to July 2011 you'll have all working features. If you want you can also use faux 050 kernel if it works better than the cyanogenmod kernel.
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namklak said:
I have very little experience "managing" an Android phone. I'm no technophobe, as I have 25+ years experience developing hardware and C firmware for embedded Real Time systems (none using Android nor embedded Linux). But I have a wife, kids, grandkids, and music performance is my #1 hobby, so I can't make time to "play" with my phone. I've had two G2x for my wife and I, and the only thing I did was root and freeze bloatware. I stuck with Froyo because I needed Wifi calling, a2db and BT calling, and tethering. We also got the dreaded Screen Of Death (g2x locks up, gets hot, and drains your battery, requiring a battery pull), and random reboots. I recently moved our phones to LG V21y (rooted with bloatware freeze), and my wife now gives me the evil eye. We lost the wonderful camera LG put into Froyo, we still get SOD and reboots, plus now we get frequent lag. Example: now when I'm playing music over a2dp, if I get a text or anything, the music has a momentary pause. wtf.
So, since you (Timekeeper) are trying out many ROMs, I'm curious as to which one you stay with. If anyone else wants to suggest ROMs, I'm all ears. I've also searched for a ROM of the original G2x Froyo, but the only links I come up with are dead. I want/need the above features (Froyo LG camera, WiFi calling, a2dp + BT calling, and tethering or Hotspot, and (gasp) stability) - my wife would sacrifice WiFi calling and a2dp for stability. But since she is a technophobe and I am the IT Dept, I'd prefer to have us on the same ROM.
Thanks in advance to any and all that give input.
-Bob
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You could give this a shot:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5vsodk99a6k6y8y
found from here: http://forum.frandroid.com/topic/86314-rom-videotron-stock-22-froyo-p999/ (in french). It's of a stock froyo rom from the provider Videotron, if you are wanting to go back to Froyo. All my roms are ICS roms (I vastly prefer it over CM7.2 after trying some), and so might not be too suitable for you. One of the things you mentioned you missed was the original Froyo camera. As always before trying this rom, do a nandroid backup of your current.
You can also try this, it contains stock nandroid restores for stock froyo and gingerbread and the links appear to still be live:
http://www.igottadroid.com/ModMarket/Listings/TGA_Gunnman1048274.html
namklak said:
I have very little experience "managing" an Android phone. I'm no technophobe, as I have 25+ years experience developing hardware and C firmware for embedded Real Time systems (none using Android nor embedded Linux). But I have a wife, kids, grandkids, and music performance is my #1 hobby, ....
-Bob
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I personally find best EB 2.3.7 Rom to work wonders paired with Faux50. I have my max set to 1408MHz and 389 MHz min with just -25mv undervolted all day and get no gliches no hiccups. Im on 6h 54m on battery and my percentage is at 66% not to shabby considering i watched an episode of Futurama during my lunch break on netflix.
forgot to add the link to the EB 2.3.7: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124522
Hello ,
I am tired of changing roms and experiencing new bugs while the developers has already left the thread and the Rom is already abandoned --> "trying" the newer roms that are going to be abandoned soon again and again and again for getting to the mirage land of stability. AT&T D850 users, PLEASE introduce me to the most stable rom that you are using for months with the "least" random reboots, overheating, boot loops, bluetooth bugs, wifi password resets, compass calibration problems (if it is not the LG built-in gift), etc.
I will really appreciate you sharing your experience with me.
All the Best,
i try Candysix v1.0 he is nice rom
I'm running CM12.1 (Unofficial) with nightlies and TWRP 3.0 and I've had it for about a week now.
I use this phone for my business, so I MUST have it be reliable. So far I've been ecstatic with the performance and stability.
Everything runs smoother, faster, and the phone feels like it's brand new. I also hated most of the LG apps and feel that Google's apps are simply better all the way around.
I even like the CM camera app over the stock LG camera (even though I lost the laser focus... which I never thought worked that well).
This is by far the best experience I've ever had with a phone. This is my first Android phone after owning several iPhones. It took some time to get used to the customizability of an Android phone over an iPhone. CM12.1 is customization on steroids. EVERYTHING is changeable.
The ONLY thing I've encountered is this...
Sometimes (only about 2% of the time) a call only rings once and then immediately go to VM. The caller reports hearing the phone ring over 4 times before the VM picks up. I haven't figured out what is doing this... But I'm working on it.
HTH
CM13 unofficial. I've only been using it for a few days, but it far surpasses any other ROM I've tried, especially stock. It doesn't have problems with the SD card like that stock junk does.
Hell Yeah Fulmics
Flumics 2.7 is the most stable Rom for G3...