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I'm using the new venom ROM. I've tried buoyancy, nexusmod, and super stock. I like venom so far. I'll probably switch before to long. That's the beauty of Android - lots to choose from.
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personal preference my friend. Try a couple out and see which one you like
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Agreed, you have to try some out and pick your favorite. If you ask 20 people on this section by PM randomly I bet you'd get at least 5-6 different answers.
SkyICS + Venom depending on your personal taste get my vote right now for multiple reasons, but the biggest being support and production. A vast majority of the roms that have come out for this phone have never/rarely been updated (no offense intended, people have lives, things happen, you get new phones, etc...).

Often, the stock ROM is the best since at least all the phone's capabilities are accounted for. More often, a rooted stock ROM is better since you can freeze bloatware, get around tethering restrictions and the like. Beyond that, it's kind of up to you to do your homework to make sure that a particular ROM does everything you need it to do (Bluetooth streaming, both cameras work, etc) and that you like the layout.

On a side note......
Q: What's the best way not to spam the board?
A: You don't post the same question in multiple sections.
Please don't do it again. Thank you.

Running venom right now and very pleased.
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If you enjoy a nice, clean, look, I'd check out NeXuSMOD 2.0. It does everything I need it to do, and it's very easy on the eyes. Solid battery life as well.

xxsicknessxx said:
what's the best popular rom for us
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I've been enjoying Ice Cream Sandwich - Multiple Flavors. While I'm tempted to try some of the other ROMs out there, this one is really great.
It's the overclocked version, I scored a AnTuTu benchmark of 7284.

Does anybody when and or when I can drop Android 4.0.x on my baby?

appdroid said:
To all the New Xda Members !! patient is a virtue !!
Well to be honest there are tons of threads that can answer your question. The answer that i know is Sammy said they will release 4.0 for all galaxy variants in first quarter of this year and they said this back in December and have not heard any fixed time period since than.
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Does anybody when and or when I can drop Android 4.0.x on my baby?
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Jelly bean

For those that have taken the leap and tried the new version of android, what do you guys think of it so far?
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Seriously?
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Yeaaaaah ! YAJBT !!!

Just read for yourself man. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769861
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Dafuq
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what/10

I think the early work some of the developers have done here has given us an early preview of what we are in for. It looks great so far, best and smoothest my nexus has been.
I think you'll get a better idea though if you read the threads found in the developers section. When reading a thread titled "jelly bean" I get all excited expecting to find OTA is here and ready to flash. Instead I'm leaving my opinion on an SDK based version of 4.1 I feel like a child who just found out Santa has still not been.
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pollux_x said:
I think the early work some of the developers have done here has given us an early preview of what we are in for. It looks great so far, best and smoothest my nexus has been.
I think you'll get a better idea though if you read the threads found in the developers section. When reading a thread titled "jelly bean" I get all excited expecting to find OTA is here and ready to flash. Instead I'm leaving my opinion on an SDK based version of 4.1 I feel like a child who just found out Santa has still not been.
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I'm actually using it as my daily. I think its great so far. Definitely can't wait until an official comes out to experience the true feel.
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JB
JB feels so smooth,and voice recognition have improved a lot.Looks like i have got a brand new phone.....

nexussgeek said:
JB feels so smooth,and voice recognition have improved a lot.Looks like i have got a brand new phone.....
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Voice recognition is amazing. I can't believe how accurate it is
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I like that my contact pictures are finally in HD!!! Even after flashing ROM after ROM

I haven't seen the crt animation on any jb rom... is it gone ?
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raducux said:
I haven't seen the crt animation on any jb rom... is it gone ?
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Screen off? Mine works, it's in the settings menu.
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Honestly, I'm not noticing a drastic difference but I've only tried the port so I'll reserve my judgement until a full asop or OTA arrives.

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Screen off? Mine works, it's in the settings menu.
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What rom are you using. Im also on NS4G and want some smoothness.

robogoflow said:
What rom are you using. Im also on NS4G and want some smoothness.
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I'm using hp420s ROM
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im still on Gnex port with sevice pack4.
what i can say is, that for now im in love with JB...
Those animations, smoothness, speed, new notification[ although i would prefer i u could take a peak with one finger, instead of two, cuz u cant do it with one hand}.
MULTITASKING- first time since ive started using android, i can finally say; ITS WORKING- fast and smooth..
not sold for now on GOOGLE NOW, ive found it not useful for me at all, i would like it much more interacting with other apps.
BTW jelly bean will shine on new phones, our is bit outdated ...

Can we keep all JB releated posts into the one JB related thread here --> Jellybean Countdown to OTA Thread: Nexus S Edition
Thanks.
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How can I change the JellyBean lockscreen?

Ok so I have the X-TremE CM10 1.5 Pure ROM on my Samsung Galaxy SII but the loclscreen is different than it should be, the icon that looks like a lock is replaced by some kind of dragon .. i've gone through all the settings a few times but I can't find out how .. I guess some place in the framework.
Can you ease tell me how to do this? And be specific because i'm a huge noob ...
I'll put a screenshot of how to lockscreen looks right now.
Thanks!
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Really? .. Nobody?
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Have you tried widget locker lockscreen? Its a paid app ($3 US)definitely worth purchasing if you find yourself tinkering a bunch though.

ItzCrooK2UxD said:
Have you tried widget locker lockscreen? Its a paid app ($3 US), but i found it on a site for free, just google it...definitely worth purchasing if you find yourself tinkering a bunch though.
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Discussing pirated apps is not allowed here on xda. The widgetlocker developer is actually a member here.
@OP I suggest asking in the ROM thread since this is very ROM specific and it looks like the dev added it in himself. Otherwise, unless you are completely glued to this one ROM I'm sure there's another JB ROM without this dragon.
(Personally though, it looks pretty bad ass. I'd love it if it were my phone)
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ItzCrooK2UxD said:
I apologize I never said pirated, bootleg or anything to infer that. furthermore I did encourage paying for the app. This attitude is why I have now 11 posts in nearly a year but in other Kernel specific forums I have hundreds a month. Gonna mind my own business and take what I bring to the table elsewhere.
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You cannot get it officially outside of the Google Play store, unless its directly from TeslaCoil himself. When you download a paid app for free on another site, that is pirating.
If I said took this guys iPhone and sold it, isn't that stealing? But no I didn't say anything to infer that.
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Please tell me isn't there anything I can replace in the framework files? What's the name of the lockscreen file?
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maybe some problem at rom... have u tried a new rom?

Getting a One X (ROM suggestions)

I'm getting a One X for my girlfriend either tonight or tomorrow. She's very technically incapable, she just wanted something better than that Lumia 900 she's had for a while and I found this One X on the cheap lol. Basically I'm gonna root, unlock, and flash a ROM on day 1 cause I've had HTC devices before and the battery and stock performance is usually....meh, to put it nicely. So I'd rather avoid that headache and just cut the problem straight at the beginning.
I'm looking through the development section and I've narrowed it down to 3. Maximus, Android Revolution, and ORDroid. Now the key things I'm looking for here are:
1) Ease of use
2) Stability
3) Battery life
4) Preferably OTA updates cause it's so easy even a girlfriend can do it.
5) Preferably no compromises on camera, wifi, bt, or anything.
I know it seems like I'm asking a lot, but really I just want to know what's my best option here and since I don't have a One X myself to test these ROMs out there's nobody better to ask than you guys. Thanks a lot for the feedback!
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International One x? Or at&t one x?
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Sorry forgot to mention that, AT&T.
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I think some of those listed Roms are for the international one x. If its att make sure you flash correctly. If not your gf will not have a phone and be mad... That's never good
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Ok, so what would be my best option for AT&T? I'd rather not flash CM for her, so a sense based ROM would be best.
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Try cleanrom or viperxl. Those are the most popular sense roms
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iiDeadSeriousii said:
Ok, so what would be my best option for AT&T? I'd rather not flash CM for her, so a sense based ROM would be best.
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The first 2 are for the international version. Be careful and don't flash them...
I would recommend from the bottom of my heart Cleanrom 5.1 (no theming) together with elementalx 3.0 kernel (using stock values to avoid issues)..
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Yea those are all international roms, all very capable of turning that sexy phone into a paperweight. If she likes stock, go for cleanrom. Really quick.. Likes stock but can mod, try viper, it has everything. Likes the look and feel of jellybean? I say flash dirty rom. Want best of both? MergeX is sense themed out like aosp.
We have any and everything you want
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iiDeadSeriousii said:
I'm looking through the development section and I've narrowed it down to 3. Maximus, Android Revolution, and ORDroid.
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Oh, dear. At least you asked. In order, this is what you get:
1. Brick
2. Brick
3. Brick
All three of those are for the international One X. Please go to the development section in this forum and start over.
Edit: Whoops. That's what I get for letting my reply dialog sit for 10 minutes.

iElvis said:
Oh, dear. At least you asked. In order, this is what you get:
1. Brick
2. Brick
3. Brick
All three of those are for the international One X. Please go to the development section in this forum and start over.
Edit: Whoops. That's what I get for letting my reply dialog sit for 10 minutes.
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Hehehe.. you have to write fast here...
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InflatedTitan said:
Yea those are all international roms, all very capable of turning that sexy phone into a paperweight. If she likes stock, go for cleanrom. Really quick.. Likes stock but can mod, try viper, it has everything. Likes the look and feel of jellybean? I say flash dirty rom. Want best of both? MergeX is sense themed out like aosp.
We have any and everything you want
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Thanks, so I'm assuming without checking it out that Cleanrom is ICS based? I'd like something JB based so I can steal her phone every once in a while to check out Google Now lol (Optimus G has practically zero development going on right now lol)
And yes I realize that I listed a bunch of international ROMs, I accidentally posted this thread over there not knowing there was an AT&T One X forum so I just copy and pasted without looking in the development section over here. Thanks for the feedback though guys.
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iiDeadSeriousii said:
Thanks, so I'm assuming without checking it out that Cleanrom is ICS based?
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CleanROM is based off one of the most recent ICS and Sense 4.1 bases. There are no Sense Jelly Bean roms just yet, except only very alpha port from the international phone.
If you want JB, you need CM10.

iElvis said:
If you want JB, you need CM10.
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Or AOKP, or King Kang, or Liquidsmooth etc...
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Stick to ROMs in the AT&T One X specific section of the forum, and you'll be safe: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1538
Don't flash any ROMs from the forum that is labelled simply "HTC One X" as that versions has completely different hardware internally, and any ROMs from their will either not work, and/or will brick your phone.
There is no best ROM. Everyone has different preferences and expectations. To recommend one over another is an insult to our devs that work so hard to give us free software, as saying one is not 'the best' is implying it somehow inferior, when it is not.

I know about the International One X, like I said earlier that was my fault for looking through the wrong forum. As far as asking for the best ROM I was asking what's the best one for my needs that I listed. I'm not trying to make somebody's work seem like it's "less" than someone else's but obviously one ROM is gonna fit me better than another. And if I tell everybody what I'm looking for and ask for help on which would suit my needs then that shouldn't be misconstrued as insulting other developers.
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If you want a basic sense Rom with the bloat stripped out. Cleanrom. If you want customization. Viper. If you want jellybean. Cm10 aokp king kang liquid etc
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iiDeadSeriousii said:
As far as asking for the best ROM I was asking what's the best one for my needs that I listed. I'm not trying to make somebody's work seem like it's "less" than someone else's but obviously one ROM is gonna fit me better than another. And if I tell everybody what I'm looking for and ask for help on which would suit my needs then that shouldn't be misconstrued as insulting other developers.
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All due respect, those are the same rationalizations that are often given when someone starts a "best ROM" thread.
You're parameters aren't anything special. Its not like people are walking around requesting ROMs that get bad battery, or are hard to use.
Its not that hard to look through the features of the ROMs, see which ones fit your need, and try out a couple.
"Best ROM" threads are simply not allowed here (whatever you think your rationale may be), and mods will close this thread soon.

You'd be surprised how impossible it is to actually try out a ROM before you get the phone. And I wasn't trying to flame a best ROM thread, if you just read through the posts you'd realize I was looking for a stock ROM that wouldn't be overwhelming for someone completely unfamiliar with this sort of stuff. I said options and tweaks weren't important and stability definitely was. Sounds a little less generic than you're making it out to be.
Could I have looked through the development section myself? Absolutely. Was it lazy and more convenient for me to do this? Of course it was. Is it undermining the entire concept of a Q&A section when you say which questions can and can't be asked? A little. Especially when the whole point of this was that I don't have the phone myself so I HAVE to ask people what their opinions are.
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Obviously, regardless of whether you start a thread asking about ROMs, or research them yourself, its all purely academic until you actually get the device and start flashing ROMs. If you want to do some preparation before you receive your phone, your time is probably better spent reading about how to unlock the bootloader and root the phone, as the steps are not completely obvious or straightforward.
I'm not trying to beat on you, seriously. But if every person new to this phone made a thread asking what ROM is best "for him" arguing that their needs were somehow unique and special (and therefore deserved their own thread), the Q&A forum would quickly be rendered useless by a flood of hundreds of such threads.

redpoint73 said:
But if every person new to this phone made a thread asking what ROM is best "for him" arguing that their needs were somehow unique and special (and therefore deserved their own thread), the Q&A forum would quickly be rendered useless by a flood of hundreds of such threads.
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And, they are against xda rules. Period.
Whether we like it or not, that's the decision that the forum operators made, and the mods have asked us to abide by.

Evangelion NERV Theme

Hey guys, was wondering if some one out there in this awesome world of XDA would be a to make a universal themed ROMS that is inspired by the Evangelion franchise.
Several years ago Sharp released a below standard phone with what I can only describe as the BEST looking theme I have ever seen to date... and this was bk in the days of gingerbread!
Since then the hardware has increased ten fold and although some themes or mods have come close, no one has, in my mind surpassed the way this themed ROMs looked.
Please find below a link to a video regarding this, forget it's in Russian but focus on the ROMs.
Anyone out there reading this who knows of any ROM builders that could undertake this?
Again not looking for themed widgets, looking for either a port or ROM.
http://j-phone.ru/index.php?page=sh...d=11&vmcchk=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=17
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP GUYS.
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The current look of my device
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http://www.taringa.net/posts/manga-anime/16108483/Theme-SH06D-NERV-para-Android.html

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Hey Silver thanks for getting back to me, the information you gave me was really cool of you to do but I have already tried this method on my old S2, it works fine but what I'm looking for is the full customization from the NERV ROM.
Thanks for taking the time to get in touch
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apanayis said:
Hey Silver thanks for getting back to me, the information you gave me was really cool of you to do but I have already tried this method on my old S2, it works fine but what I'm looking for is the full customization from the NERV ROM.
Thanks for taking the time to get in touch
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i would be happy just to have some that work on the duel sim .. you have no idea how frustrating it is not to have it.

Being an Eva fan myself, I find this very relevant to my interests.
However, it seems that your request for a Rom or Launcher port isn't coming until an interested XDA member gets ahold of the phone themselves.
The closest that was gotten can be found in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290194
Basically a Chinese Blogger got ahold of the phone, wrote about it, and dumped some System files.
People tried to get them to port, but were unsuccessful, for the most part.
Seems some things, though, such as the official MAGI Widgets were able to be Deodexed and Signed and working on phones.
The thread died in September, however.
QNBT has managed to recreate the feel and performance of the SH-06D launcher using Nova and UCCW.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2025464
I know it's not exactly what you are looking for, but it's close for now. (Though I'm sure you are aware of it.)
In this thread, someone found a Japanese blog where someone else configured it through a different launcher called Glaeja.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1666996
So, there you go.
Seems nobody's quite done what you're asking yet.
But perhaps you can find some skilled people to assist the first thread in picking apart the system files.
Best of luck!

Ryo I think this challenge will be unanswered as there's not enough people who think this is worth the effort... :'(
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It is not dead...I've been working at this for a few days now..the major issue is the SH-06D has a glass free 3d interface just like the Nintendo 3ds...MAGIhome depends on that hardware..cracking it is proving difficult.
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johndillinger1932 said:
It is not dead...I've been working at this for a few days now..the major issue is the SH-06D has a glass free 3d interface just like the Nintendo 3ds...MAGIhome depends on that hardware..cracking it is proving difficult.
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This is fantastic news, I sincerely hope you manage to get a solution, was wondering if this would be gingerbread, jellybean or possibly kit Kat?
I'm currently using a Note 3 and would love to be rocking this ROM on it. I look forward to hearing from you
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Well I am running dirty unicorns 4.4 on my note 2, so kit kat will be first. I'm really just concentrating on getting Magi working...
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johndillinger1932 said:
Well I am running dirty unicorns 4.4 on my note 2, so kit later will be first. I I'm really just concentrating on getting Magi working...
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Excellent, well I'm really excited to see what you can achieve, thank you in advance for your efforts
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johndillinger1932 said:
Well I am running dirty unicorns 4.4 on my note 2, so kit kat will be first. I'm really just concentrating on getting Magi working...
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Just sending out some good vibes and wondering how yre getting on so far, any break through?
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It's proving to be beyond my ability level....but I'm not giving up.. plus I've run into an issue with the widgets.. they just stop refreshing... was almost late to work because the clock widget was telling me it was 3 hours earlier than it really was
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Guess the threads dead....
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