Hi, I need a phone that's capable of running Cyanogenmod, and I'm considering buying the Moto G because it is relatively cheap and powerful. I just need the opinion of someone who already has this phone, would you recommend the Moto G to someone who wants to run CM and why/why not?
Is the last M snapshot usable (not having any serious bugs that are dealbreakers), in other words, is this phone a viable option for someone who want a cheap phone with CM, or should I stay away from it?
DigitalBroccoli said:
Hi, I need a phone that's capable of running Cyanogenmod, and I'm considering buying the Moto G because it is relatively cheap and powerful. I just need the opinion of someone who already has this phone, would you recommend the Moto G to someone who wants to run CM and why/why not?
Is the last M snapshot usable (not having any serious bugs that are dealbreakers), in other words, is this phone a viable option for someone who want a cheap phone with CM, or should I stay away from it?
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Well, the latest unofficial CM11 M9 on the thread in the general section works pretty amazing for me. The support is also improving. So I would go for it.
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DigitalBroccoli said:
Hi, I need a phone that's capable of running Cyanogenmod, and I'm considering buying the Moto G because it is relatively cheap and powerful. I just need the opinion of someone who already has this phone, would you recommend the Moto G to someone who wants to run CM and why/why not?
Is the last M snapshot usable (not having any serious bugs that are dealbreakers), in other words, is this phone a viable option for someone who want a cheap phone with CM, or should I stay away from it?
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What I have to talk about the "CyanogenMod 11" in "Moto G" (Dual SIM) is that it is running well. Use the "The Green Machine" kernel 1.2.5 because the latest (2.0.1) is closing the camera app.
Has some bugs .. at first were not important but are currently driving me mad ..
BUG: In WhatsApp when I get a great audio, it crashes while running the audio and closes the app.
BUG: In Multi-SIM settings, selecting data for the second chip it shows an error signature.
BUG: Audio delay in music player. It has been corrected with a fix audio.
For now these are what I found. I'm still constantly using and testing various functions and applications.
It is good for design and options it contains. However, sometimes, the little bugs make me mad.
I had no crashes system for now.
I did not test good games yet.
Sorry for the english .. Translated by GoogleTradutor.
avrtlg said:
BUG: Audio delay in music player. It has been corrected with a fix audio.
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Can I ask what this bug was doing? I'm wondering if it's the same problem I'm having. I'd try to change the volume and the app would freeze up and eventually stop responding. Can't figure out for the life of me how to fix it.
Enabling Bass boost in DSP manager fixes it. You can also flash the old audio libs. The flashable zip is available in one of the threads.
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I've had my Shield Tablet for some time now, but since I received my Recall replacement (LTE Model) I finally re-realized that this is in fact a fantastic little tablet. I haven't used my shield in about 4-5 months and I stopped using it because of the wifi issues and Horribly slow kit kat stock roms (as in, my tablet's IO was such a pain). But now that my recall replacement has the latest 5.1.1 and great wifi range, I again realize that this is still an impressive Gaming tablet (Emulators mostly).
So my question/request is this: I have added TWRP,and rooted the device but I can't seem to get Viper4Android to work (might be a BusyBox issue) even with SELinux set to permissive and I hate the AT&T/Phone app Bloat. So where are the Debloated Modded Stock ROMs?
I see the CM 12 based roms, but those are having issue with nvidia app (console mod) which I use. I'm just looking for a Debloated Stock 5.1.1 rom, rooted, with ViperAudio installed, and possible other mods (kernals, etc.)
I am in no way unappreciative of what we currently have, I know devs spend a lot of time on their roms :good:, but seeing that the Shield Tablet is still one of the most powerful tablet of the market, I figured there would be more choices (Spoiled with Nexus phones).
Maybe this already exists,if so please point me to it. If not I'll do what I can on my own for now, but I wanted to ask and see if others fell the same way.
Either way, sorry for the rant.
Thx everyone
I just rooted my tab and completely debloated it. Find that pure and clean stock runs best for games but with all the not needed google apps removed in system, its about 600~700 mb of bloat. And if you still need some of the G-apps you can easily download them from the Play Store!
cyraxx84 said:
I just rooted my tab and completely debloated it. Find that pure and clean stock runs best for games but with all the not needed google apps removed in system, its about 600~700 mb of bloat. And if you still need some of the G-apps you can easily download them from the Play Store!
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What did you use to debloat? Did you freeze/disable or actually uninstall bloated app? Also have you got Viper Audio to work?
Thx
Start here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=60961960
I don't mean to be rude to any other devs on here, but it seems that squid2's Squid Kernel hasn't been updated in a while, and now with eng.stk no longer having this device, no more updates will come to his kernel. So I ask: when will we get more devs to develop for the 2015 Moto G?
I wish I could help, but I have nowhere near enough ram for a build environment.
and new + stablr roms too. :/ less developers for g3.. no offence to current devs they did a gr8 job.
Let me say just one thing. My last device was the HTC Desire 601. Great phone but very very little dev support. We never got CM, maybe two roms that were never updated. Im thoroughly happy with the support this device has. This is just me though, but some is better than none
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I think this device is not getting too much ROM or kernel devs because, in my opinion, stock works just perfect. I tried CM and many others and I just love the stability of stock, and also using custom you loose what in my opinion is the best feature of this phone which is ambient display.
I had the 2nd grn moto g and I can say that phone had tons of devs compared to this one. But 2nd gen stock was quite awfull, being 5.0.1 so installing custom was the best you could do.
With 3rd gen I don't miss any feature nor anything from CM, just install xposed and that's it.
Just my opinion, but it would be really nice to have some new kernels to try. And I kinda miss to be trying ROMs, I flahed new build every day, and tried almost every one available on my 2nd gen hehe, but I just don't need it on this one.
feligoni said:
I think this device is not getting too much ROM or kernel devs because, in my opinion, stock works just perfect. I tried CM and many others and I just love the stability of stock, and also using custom you loose what in my opinion is the best feature of this phone which is ambient display.
I had the 2nd grn moto g and I can say that phone had tons of devs compared to this one. But 2nd gen stock was quite awfull, being 5.0.1 so installing custom was the best you could do.
With 3rd gen I don't miss any feature nor anything from CM, just install xposed and that's it.
Just my opinion, but it would be really nice to have some new kernels to try. And I kinda miss to be trying ROMs, I flahed new build every day, and tried almost every one available on my 2nd gen hehe, but I just don't need it on this one.
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I right with you, stock work perfectly, but with a custom kernel, perfomance and battery its better. I only wait for a custom kernel for stock marshmallow firmware. I have a stock 5.1 with blu_spark custom kernel, is really great, works better than cm12, resurrection remix and other custom roms, of course, kernel options edited by kernel adiutor.
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feligoni said:
I think this device is not getting too much ROM or kernel devs because, in my opinion, stock works just perfect. I tried CM and many others and I just love the stability of stock, and also using custom you loose what in my opinion is the best feature of this phone which is ambient display.
I had the 2nd grn moto g and I can say that phone had tons of devs compared to this one. But 2nd gen stock was quite awfull, being 5.0.1 so installing custom was the best you could do.
With 3rd gen I don't miss any feature nor anything from CM, just install xposed and that's it.
Just my opinion, but it would be really nice to have some new kernels to try. And I kinda miss to be trying ROMs, I flahed new build every day, and tried almost every one available on my 2nd gen hehe, but I just don't need it on this one.
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There are plenty of apps and xposed modules which can mimic ambient display, as well as improve on it greatly. I used to use one app called gravity for my N4 which lets you choose the sensors to enable to wake the display. This was probably a full year or two before Motorola released the original Moto X with its ambient features. Personally, I think Moto G's ambient display is pretty barebone, and I really would like to see more options. If you use the stock rom you won't get any light sensor wake, so if you wave your hand it won't wake up. That's actually just a Moto X thing, and CM found a way to add that into their app for Moto G.
I would love to see an official PA build with working ambient display. That has always been my favorite custom rom, and it hasn't gotten much attention for our device.
Also, as the OP requested, kernels...there are a literal crapton of modules that can be added which would not only improve our battery life, but the device's overall performance, web speed, charge time, display color, etc....the possibilities here are almost endless.
So there are definitely things which can be improved upon for this device, IMHO. Just remember, what's perfect for you isn't perfect for everyone. I'm coming from around 5 years of Nexus devices. Trust me when I tell you, this forum feels like a ghost town, in comparison. The N4 is 4 generations old now, and it still sees more daily activity in its forum than this device does. Amazon Fire tab is only a month old, but its bootloader is locked and is about as budget as it comes, and their development forum has CM and Slim rom already, with a ton of action in the general and Q&A sections.
I'm not complaining or taking any shots at our devs...believe me, I appreciate the hard work they put in. I just wish they had some help from a few more devs. This is such a cheap phone I really thought we'd be seeing a lot more action than we are at this point in the game, but we mostly only see users from countries that don't seem to harbor quite as many devs as some....or at least not devs who post here, to be fair
hp420 said:
There are plenty of apps and xposed modules which can mimic ambient display, as well as improve on it greatly. I used to use one app called gravity for my N4 which lets you choose the sensors to enable to wake the display. This was probably a full year or two before Motorola released the original Moto X with its ambient features. Personally, I think Moto G's ambient display is pretty barebone, and I really would like to see more options. If you use the stock rom you won't get any light sensor wake, so if you wave your hand it won't wake up. That's actually just a Moto X thing, and CM found a way to add that into their app for Moto G.
I would love to see an official PA build with working ambient display. That has always been my favorite custom rom, and it hasn't gotten much attention for our device.
Also, as the OP requested, kernels...there are a literal crapton of modules that can be added which would not only improve our battery life, but the device's overall performance, web speed, charge time, display color, etc....the possibilities here are almost endless.
So there are definitely things which can be improved upon for this device, IMHO. Just remember, what's perfect for you isn't perfect for everyone. I'm coming from around 5 years of Nexus devices. Trust me when I tell you, this forum feels like a ghost town, in comparison. The N4 is 4 generations old now, and it still sees more daily activity in its forum than this device does. Amazon Fire tab is only a month old, but its bootloader is locked and is about as budget as it comes, and their development forum has CM and Slim rom already, with a ton of action in the general and Q&A sections.
I'm not complaining or taking any shots at our devs...believe me, I appreciate the hard work they put in. I just wish they had some help from a few more devs. This is such a cheap phone I really thought we'd be seeing a lot more action than we are at this point in the game, but we mostly only see users from countries that don't seem to harbor quite as many devs as some....or at least not devs who post here, to be fair
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Totally agree with you. It's really strange there's so few devs, its just an awesome budget phone. I'm with you with PA, best ROM IMO. When I saw the post from it I got really excited and after 2 builds the guy disappeared.
Maybe we will have to start compiling ourselves I have no idea, but I would like to learn.
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Totally agree with you. It's really strange there's so few devs, its just an awesome budget phone. I'm with you with PA, best ROM IMO. When I saw the post from it I got really excited and after 2 builds the guy disappeared.
Maybe we will have to start compiling ourselves I have no idea, but I would like to learn.
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@scritch007 never disappeared he's maintaining 6.0 CAF
What do you want more?? Blu_spark kernel is good for me
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What do you want more?? Blu_spark kernel is good for me
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there are so many things kernels can do that none posted here offer....
screen gamma (color correction)
TCP congestion control (aka web speed boost)
charging voltage (speeds up charging)
volume boost
multi boot roms
i/o read/write speed
touchscreen accuracy
wake lock control
ram tuning
cpu and gpu governors (we only have a few built into our available kernels)
....and that's just a short cherry-picked list!!
We have a whopping TWO...no joke....two....custom kernels to choose from. Seriously, no offense...I really appreciate the work the devs have both put in, but having only two kernels to choose from just seems absolutely pathetic to me. This may not be an officially branded Google device, but it's easily the closest unofficial Google device I've ever seen. We should EASILY be keeping pace with the Nexus forums right now. Hell, Nexus 4 is now 4 years old and they get more posts in their forum in a few hours than we get all day.
There is a HUGE amount of things we are missing from kernels, and an even larger number of roms we don't have access to because they haven't been built.
I really don't think it's very unreasonable at all to ask capable devs to join our forum and build for us. Honestly....when was the last time you thought more choices was a bad thing?? I don't see this as being any different!
feligoni said:
Totally agree with you. It's really strange there's so few devs, its just an awesome budget phone. I'm with you with PA, best ROM IMO. When I saw the post from it I got really excited and after 2 builds the guy disappeared.
Maybe we will have to start compiling ourselves I have no idea, but I would like to learn.
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christopherrrg said:
@scritch007 never disappeared he's maintaining 6.0 CAF
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At that time with CM12.1 going official for surnia I didn't have time to keep on with the PA builds + builds were partially broken for some time (some API issues), and now with CAF 6.0 builds I still don't have time to work on PA. I'm sorry for that.
The osprey was started in the official repo and I was hoping someone from PA would take it over, but it's not the case.
HelpMeruth said:
What do you want more?? Blu_spark kernel is good for me
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Blue spark developer discontinued the project. That's the problem!
scritch007 said:
At that time with CM12.1 going official for surnia I didn't have time to keep on with the PA builds + builds were partially broken for some time (some API issues), and now with CAF 6.0 builds I still don't have time to work on PA. I'm sorry for that.
The osprey was started in the official repo and I was hoping someone from PA would take it over, but it's not the case.
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Don't say sorry. You are doing hell of a work with caf. And PA is kinda dead now, I think they are preparing mm builds, but in the community from g+ they are saying project has not enough devs so they don't know if they are going to continue. Anyways man, great work with caf, o tried a few days ago keep it up!
hp420 said:
there are so many things kernels can do that none posted here offer....
screen gamma (color correction)
TCP congestion control (aka web speed boost)
charging voltage (speeds up charging)
volume boost
multi boot roms
i/o read/write speed
touchscreen accuracy
wake lock control
ram tuning
cpu and gpu governors (we only have a few built into our available kernels)
....and that's just a short cherry-picked list!!
We have a whopping TWO...no joke....two....custom kernels to choose from. Seriously, no offense...I really appreciate the work the devs have both put in, but having only two kernels to choose from just seems absolutely pathetic to me. This may not be an officially branded Google device, but it's easily the closest unofficial Google device I've ever seen. We should EASILY be keeping pace with the Nexus forums right now. Hell, Nexus 4 is now 4 years old and they get more posts in their forum in a few hours than we get all day.
There is a HUGE amount of things we are missing from kernels, and an even larger number of roms we don't have access to because they haven't been built.
I really don't think it's very unreasonable at all to ask capable devs to join our forum and build for us. Honestly....when was the last time you thought more choices was a bad thing?? I don't see this as being any different!
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Ah i see the problem, i hope there will be more kernels in the feature