So Who all prefers to run CM mod over the stock firmware? I`ve never been a fan of it but I loaded it on my Nexus 5 earlier and things seem a lot snappier how stable is it? Im running the latest Snapshot, and I like the idea that I can update without wiping. I`ve just never been a fan of it due to Ive always like say the G2 skins and such.
If your running m2 you should flash the latest nightly, there were kernel issues that have been fixed and things are pretty sweet right now, i was a little skeptical about the direction the rom was going at first but I'm really happy with it in its current state
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Hi,
I've searched but I didn't find this.
I've read that some phones never get a full "stable" release of cyanogen. I am currently running masters voodoo rooted rom but I quite fancy CM. Does it look like there will be a stable version, and does anyone have any idea how far in the future that might be.
Or is the current RC solid as a rock right now, or does it have bugs.
Thanks
Nexus S is a CM officially supported phone, it will certainly get CM7 final. I've been running CM7 RC1 since the day after I got my phone a bit more than a week ago, so far it works quite well and stable.
Si_NZ said:
Nexus S is a CM officially supported phone, it will certainly get CM7 final. I've been running CM7 RC1 since the day after I got my phone a bit more than a week ago, so far it works quite well and stable.
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Thanks for your reply. I'll hang on then. I'd prefer to get the stable version. Any idea how long they think it will take. I've been on cm forum googling, but not getting anywhere.
buachaille said:
Thanks for your reply. I'll hang on then. I'd prefer to get the stable version. Any idea how long they think it will take. I've been on cm forum googling, but not getting anywhere.
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Rule 1 of CM: Don't ask for ETAs.
Build #11 and above of nightlies are based on Android 2.3.3.
#12 probably seems the most stable. I'm using #13 and its fine for me although people have reported problems.
If you want pure stableness, it'd be RC1 but it is on 2.3.2
zephiK said:
Rule 1 of CM: Don't ask for ETAs.
Build #11 and above of nightlies are based on Android 2.3.3.
#12 probably seems the most stable. I'm using #13 and its fine for me although people have reported problems.
If you want pure stableness, it'd be RC1 but it is on 2.3.2
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RC1 is just a nightly that was the line where they thought it was stable enough to promote. I don't think it's any more or less stable than any other nightly.
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Just flash the RC1
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Nightly #13 is just as stable as rc1 at least for me anyways
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RC1 is just a nightly that was the line where they thought it was stable enough to promote. I don't think it's any more or less stable than any other nightly.
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i know that its a nightly but its also the one that brought new features that the previous nightlies didnt have such as the new lock screen.
RC2 coming tonight.
I had a lot of problems with CM7, but I was running Honity, as well. My experience was one of instability. I switched over to Axura and like it a lot.
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I had a lot of problems with CM7, but I was running Honity, as well. My experience was one of instability. I switched over to Axura and like it a lot.
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I tried Axura last night and didn't like it at all. Also tried cm7 nightly 14 and I wasn't keen on it either. So far I haven't seen anything I like better than masters deodexed 2.3.3, so I'm back on that.
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I tried Axura last night and didn't like it at all. Also tried cm7 nightly 14 and I wasn't keen on it either. So far I haven't seen anything I like better than masters deodexed 2.3.3, so I'm back on that.
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Just out of curiousity, what didn't you like about Axura?
On a more related note, as a flashaholic I've flashed every ROM available for the Nexus S and CM7 is the one I use as my Daily Driver. I'm on RC2 and can't remember the last time I had a random reboot. The other ROMs I have NANDroids of to be able to go between are Stock 2.3.3, Axura, and MIUI (I'm waiting for it to become a little more fleshed out before I really give it a go as a daily driver).
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Just out of curiousity, what didn't you like about Axura?
On a more related note, as a flashaholic I've flashed every ROM available for the Nexus S and CM7 is the one I use as my Daily Driver. I'm on RC2 and can't remember the last time I had a random reboot. The other ROMs I have NANDroids of to be able to go between are Stock 2.3.3, Axura, and MIUI (I'm waiting for it to become a little more fleshed out before I really give it a go as a daily driver).
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I thought Axura was nice and quick. The thing that made me remove it was the font believe it or not. It looks good in the menus but it was bad for reading emails and other small text.
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I thought Axura was nice and quick. The thing that made me remove it was the font believe it or not. It looks good in the menus but it was bad for reading emails and other small text.
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Did you try flashing a different font or using font changer for root on the market? If that was really your only complaint you can very easily change such things.
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Did you try flashing a different font or using font changer for root on the market? If that was really your only complaint you can very easily change such things.
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I didn't know about either of the options you mentioned and I might just try them. I have no idea where you get fonts to flash, or what format they need to be in, and do you flash them the same way you flash everything else??
Been using RC2 with no issues ... love it.
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I didn't know about either of the options you mentioned and I might just try them. I have no idea where you get fonts to flash, or what format they need to be in, and do you flash them the same way you flash everything else??
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Sonny has a few on his theme thread over in that section and yes its just like flashing s theme or a kernel except you do it last. Just give font changer a shot it's free
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Is it just me or does anybody else experience random reboots with 4.4 roms? I love the 4.4 rom's that are available right now, but the reboots are starting to get annoying (yes, I do full wipes). It particularly happens during phone calls. I know every phone is different, but damn, it's every ROM!
I'm starting to wonder if this is normal or just my phone...
A lot of betas / nightlys are out but people as myself found stable builds. Try liquidsmooth 4.4/slimkat 2.1 beta. Those were my most stable kitkat roms i trie. Heard good word from ppl on beanstalk GideonX and gummy.
Yeah man...
I keep getting random rebboots particularly w/ cm..I get them outta the blue & I can't seem to pinpoint the cause of them..liquid & slimkat seem to be a bit more stable when it comes to this... In fact I Dont recall any for the short time I was using both of those ROMs
im on liquidsmotth is my DD right now . slimkat was a stable rom for me . CM releases nightlys often so some might not be stable some might . my experience was not . but people report good experience wen some nightlies .so keep flashing roms till u find one good and stable or use older nightlys . clean install i would suggest
Are you using the VRBMF1 firmware? You can tell by looking in Settings/About Phone/Baseband. I know that using older firmware before VRBMF1 can cause instability on AOSP.
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So I've just been running a stock rooted flashable ROM nothing else. I want to have CM or a CM based ROM due to easy updating etc.. Anyway I'm ocd when it comes to what's on my phone I just don't want any bugs or issues.
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Yes, CM and most other roms found in Android development forums are stable enough to be used as a daily driver. But obviously you will face fcs sometimes!
Why don't you try it out? If you're not happy with it, just restore the nandroid backup!
Don't use nightlies, use release candidates or releases those will be the most stable. I think the snapshot would be your best bet or read the CM thread and see what problems users are reporting if anything.
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=hammerhead
There are more ROMs besides CM. Those Devs work hard and don't want to be overlooked just because CM is the most well-known aftermarket ROM.
Depends how picky you are regarding stability/daily driver of a phone.
If you want to play it safe, just root phone and install Xposed + GravityBox.
If you want to explorer more capabilities, go with a stable build of CM.
However, from my past experience with CM/custom roms, it's really all random. I've had unstable experiences even on a stable CM build, and I've had fairly stable daily driver of a rom when using nightlies too. It's really all a gamble.
Always make backups.
But I will say from where you are coming at, I'd try the Xposed framework + GravityBox 1st before you attempt going CM.
I'm using CM11 snapshot M3 and it's working fine for me. No bugs so far. Give it a shot.
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Depends how picky you are regarding stability/daily driver of a phone.
If you want to play it safe, just root phone and install Xposed + GravityBox.
If you want to explorer more capabilities, go with a stable build of CM.
However, from my past experience with CM/custom roms, it's really all random. I've had unstable experiences even on a stable CM build, and I've had fairly stable daily driver of a rom when using nightlies too. It's really all a gamble.
Always make backups.
But I will say from where you are coming at, I'd try the Xposed framework + GravityBox 1st before you attempt going CM.
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Thats what I'm currently doing... Lol. I only use the status bar signal colours and nothing else. I like stock with a little changes.
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Thats what I'm currently doing... Lol. I only use the status bar signal colours and nothing else. I like stock with a little changes.
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I too recommend gravity box, but give cm a shot, Just back up, play around with CM, if you don't like it just restore, good as new :good:
I'll be flashing the latest nightly right now, 3-5-14
I'm a little OCD myself, I dislike having all those Play Apps to be honest lol, :silly:
You can play it safe with multirom manager. Use it to keep your current rom and dual boot into other rom to test them out. That's what I'm doing.
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I'm for GravityBox + stock honestly. Xposed gives me all the tweaks I really need.
IMO yes it is very stable. I've chosen to run PA purely because I love Pie. They are all very stable these days, only the ones which say that they are unstable are unstable.
Devs and contribs are getting pretty good
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Monthly, release candidates and releases are stable.
+1 to avoid nightlies w/out nandroid backup.
for example all of the nightlies sincd 03/01 breaking google dialer and voice+.
I have had many phones in the past and I always root and flash cm/aokp/etc roms. But for some reason I love the stock lg ROM. The only problem I am haven't is no one is making kernels for the 4.4.2. Rom and I don't want to back track too 4.2.2.
Has anyone switch to the asop ROM and has been happy with it?
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I have had many phones in the past and I always root and flash cm/aokp/etc roms. But for some reason I love the stock lg ROM. The only problem I am haven't is no one is making kernels for the 4.4.2. Rom and I don't want to back track too 4.2.2.
Has anyone switch to the asop ROM and has been happy with it?
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well you do need to remember that 4.4 just came out about a month ago but it rolled out slowly and even now there are devices which haven't been updated yet plus the kernel needs to be modified to support the old boot and thus supporting custom recovery so people would need to incorporate that and the stuff they used in there previous kernels so we must be patient, plus today I saw the first kk kernel surface sadly it was for t-mo but that means can get one soon too
Edit: seems dorimanx might finally start working on kk kernel
Yea having a nexus 4 spoiled me by bad. But the nexus 5 is "half" the phone the g2 is. I'm currently looking at the cloudy roms something that doesn't have a lot of bloat in it but I can't live with out these features lg has incorporated in this rom
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dondadah88 said:
Yea having a nexus 4 spoiled me by bad. But the nexus 5 is "half" the phone the g2 is. I'm currently looking at the cloudy roms something that doesn't have a lot of bloat in it but I can't live with out these features lg has incorporated in this rom
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I've read a lot of good feedback on the the cloudystock and cloudypro plus I think the nexus is kinda bland in development sure it has a lot roms but there all the same aosp here there is variety flex/pro 2 and good devs/people
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I've always run CM (since OG Evo) but I was pretty impressed with the G2 stock system. LG has one of the most bloated interfaces on the market, but the camera app was really good.
I pretty much immediately put CM on it, and I'm pretty happy. For one thing, the very important knock-on and knock-off work very well with CM11 M4. The camera isn't quite as good as it is from the stock rom, but it is solid. Certainly a step up from my Nexus 4 on CM.
I might go back and try the LG rom again some more, good luck.
I'm rehabbing my old S3 for my wife to use and the first ROM I tried was OctoPop... which is great but has some stability issues (at least on my phone) and I'm really trying to find a trouble free daily driver for her to use. I'm open to suggestions and I'm not fixated on it being lollipop... just very stable.
If you have not updated to the NC1 (4.3) bootloader, avoid doing so. It is locked and will limit your options on what is available to you.
I bought a used i535 to tinker with and it was on NE4 (4.4.2). This has limited me to a choice from three roms: stock, PaulPizz, and SuperLiteRom. Don't let yourself be forced into this position.
Yeah, fortunately I've stayed out of that mess. So I'm free to go with anything. I'm just not sure *which* anything is likely to be the most stable and compatible. I was using Slimbean with good luck before I upgraded to my Note 3. I may try SlimPop or SlimKat for the S3 for my wife.
I'm wondering if some of the problems she had on OctoPop like Twilight being finicky were because of Lollipop and if she'd be better off on KK.
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Yeah, fortunately I've stayed out of that mess. So I'm free to go with anything. I'm just not sure *which* anything is likely to be the most stable and compatible. I was using Slimbean with good luck before I upgraded to my Note 3. I may try SlimPop or SlimKat for the S3 for my wife.
I'm wondering if some of the problems she had on OctoPop like Twilight being finicky were because of Lollipop and if she'd be better off on KK.
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While the S3 can run lollipop it's not as stable as kk. I ran a few roms on my old S3, the lollipop builds and they lagged and were not as solid as a kk build. Honestly of all the roms I tried I kept going back to slimkat. Never any reboots or issues and is solid overall
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SlimKat it is. SlimBean was good stuff so that seems like a good next step. Thanks!