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I know the leak is out there in the dev section, but I'm having trouble getting a feeling or consensus on the quality of the rom. In particular, I'm most concerned with battery life and general crashing/incompatibilities that might occur going about basic operations. Anyone care to share their experience so far? Is it more worth waiting til Jan/Feb when I'm guessing Verizon might finally release JB?
dunderball said:
I know the leak is out there in the dev section, but I'm having trouble getting a feeling or consensus on the quality of the rom. In particular, I'm most concerned with battery life and general crashing/incompatibilities that might occur going about basic operations. Anyone care to share their experience so far? Is it more worth waiting til Jan/Feb when I'm guessing Verizon might finally release JB?
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I've been running the CleanRom ULE version of this since the day it was posted and love it. Quite noticeably faster and smoother than ICS. GPS lock is faster than it ever was on ICS. Mobile data is the same as it was - I'm in a pretty good 4G area and have no problems. One thing I have noticed is that Wifi is pickier when I'm on the fringe of the signal. Some places where I used to be able to connect, I can't any more. But if I'm in a stronger signal area it's just fine.
I hate that my notification bar isn't straight black. It's like, off black but not quite grey.
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I hate that my notification bar isn't straight black. It's like, off black but not quite grey.
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Lol, I thought I was the only one who cared about that.....kinda annoys me.
Other than that, it runs super great for me. I was on it for the first three days or so, but needed my cm10 fix again. Its so good that I usually spend about half my week cm10, half on one of the jb leaks.
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Lol, I thought I was the only one who cared about that.....kinda annoys me.
Other than that, it runs super great for me. I was on it for the first three days or so, but needed my cm10 fix again. Its so good that I usually spend about half my week cm10, half on one of the jb leaks.
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VRBLI5 JellyBean is better in certain areas and worse in others compared to ICS...overall I would give it a slight edge. I bet the official update will polish things up a bit. You have to remember the JB leak is dated oct. 8th. There was a reason it did not make it as a official ota...its still pretty good for a leak, definately not complaining by anymeans. :good:
The one from incubus hadn't given me a single problem yet. I think my battery life actually improved. After about 11 hrs yesterday mine was still at 30% (Bluetooth on, brightness up).
I think it's great. I'm using Synergy, which I think is excellent (always has been). If you use this ROM, you should also flash the radio update (I5) and RPM (power management) update. The radio is definitely improved - I'm not having my calls constantly dropped anymore in below-average signal locations!! Very happy with this update.
I flashed the Incubus RLS11 yesterday and it ran fine for a while. Things were smooth. Didn't notice any problems.
I'm in the sticks but I get pretty good LTE. To make sure I don't lose it when I need it I use the Phone Info app to go LTE only. That worked great on stock or stock-rooted-unlocked. It even worked good on CM10 and AOKP-M1. But for some reason on the Incubus ROM I started having real problems.
I tried forcing LTE only which would work for a few seconds and then would switch back automatically to the default LTE/CDMA/EvDo. After playing around with it some more it got stuck in CDMA auto (PRL) for a while and then GSM auto (PRL) and then EvDo only. It was really weird. I got tired of messing with it so I restored my stock image.
I didn't do the radios or RPM which was probably my problem. The links on the page I got the rom from were dead.
I'll try again, just didn't want to fool with it last night. Other than the radio issue it was real smooth. I'm a freak, I kinda really like TouchWiz. I was on stock or CM or KANG so much on my GNex, I'm enjoying the skinned experience. The biggest thing I miss from the GNex is JB though.
Been running JellyWiz RLS12 all week and it's been great. Battery life is same it was stock. Some have had issues with battery, but if you read through the thread for that ROM, I believe there are fixes. The only issue I have that is unresolved is I am not able to play movies or tv back through the Google Play Movies and TV app. The phone just reboots. Not a big deal for me right now, and Google Now easily makes up for it.
I have been running the lastest leak for two days now, the biggest changes I noticed, are the following
1. the Driving mode on/off toggle seems to have been removed from the pulldown bar, but driving mode itself is still there. (I downloaded a home screen widget to turn it on and off quickly)
2. The entire phone itself, from games, to movies, to youtube videos seems.....smoother and more refined (I blame Project Butter)
3. Slight battery life improvement :good:
4. if you use facial unlock, they moved the camera bypass from bottom to top right corner
My only complaint so far is that when I get a text message, missed call, voicemail I get the "Swipe over Icon to view the missed event" alert.
Don't get me wrong those nice little alerts help introduce to you new features of the phone. I don't mind them once or twice, but this specific one on the lock screen, I can't get rid of. Any ideas?
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One thing I have noticed is that Wifi is pickier when I'm on the fringe of the signal. Some places where I used to be able to connect, I can't any more. But if I'm in a stronger signal area it's just fine.
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Under the wireless (WIFI) settings you have to disable "Avoid poor connections"..should help that
Just wantes to update that im having alot better battery life on J1...im at 20hrs, 2hrs screen on, 44% left.
Jelly Beans build running great.
Tapatalk'd / Galaxy SIII on Jelly Beans
Have the same hotspot issues but otherwise it's pretty smooth. Very quick and yes I know everyone says that but it's not a placebo. I even put my phone back to stock because I need foxfi and it is considerable slower... Not slower but just not as quick to respond
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Running Cleanrom 4.5 that is JB- Battery is awesome, rom feels fast and smooth.
These are the item I found wrong with the latest JB leak: (at least on my phone)
After an alarm goes off and you try and lock your phone, it won't lock. The screen will turn off but won't stay off. You have to unlock your phone to home screen then relock it.
New Samsung keyboard was incredibly laggy.
When trying to delete an extra home screen the phone would lock up and then say "touchwiz home has stopped working."
I don't think this was a bug but to get to the task manager, I had to hold down the home button for like 5 seconds!
There was another thing but I can't remember it. I was running the untouched leak, via Odin. I went back to stock.
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These are the item I found wrong with the latest JB leak: (at least on my phone)
After an alarm goes off and you try and lock your phone, it won't lock. The screen will turn off but won't stay off. You have to unlock your phone to home screen then relock it.
New Samsung keyboard was incredibly laggy.
When trying to delete an extra home screen the phone would lock up and then say "touchwiz home has stopped working."
I don't think this was a bug but to get to the task manager, I had to hold down the home button for like 5 seconds!
There was another thing but I can't remember it. I was running the untouched leak, via Odin. I went back to stock.
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I'm on the same leak your on and I'm not having the problems you had. I tested the alarm and turning the screen off.... No issue. I also tried deleting a page the same way you described and it worked fine. I use SwiftKey so I haven't tried the keyboard.
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I'm running Combination_i535VRBLJ1_381038_REV09_USER_LOW_SHIP(NO WIPE) on a Verizon phone.
I have been running it for two days, so far very stable, love Google Now.
The only thing I've noticed is that the icon for voice input in messaging is not there, and it is turned on. Never mind found that........
It was from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974114
Ryno77 said:
I'm on the same leak your on and I'm not having the problems you had. I tested the alarm and turning the screen off.... No issue. I also tried deleting a page the same way you described and it worked fine. I use SwiftKey so I haven't tried the keyboard.
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Wonder why mine was having those problems
sm.cbert said:
I have been running the lastest leak for two days now, the biggest changes I noticed, are the following
1. the Driving mode on/off toggle seems to have been removed from the pulldown bar, but driving mode itself is still there. (I downloaded a home screen widget to turn it on and off quickly)
2. The entire phone itself, from games, to movies, to youtube videos seems.....smoother and more refined (I blame Project Butter)
3. Slight battery life improvement :good:
4. if you use facial unlock, they moved the camera bypass from bottom to top right corner
My only complaint so far is that when I get a text message, missed call, voicemail I get the "Swipe over Icon to view the missed event" alert.
Don't get me wrong those nice little alerts help introduce to you new features of the phone. I don't mind them once or twice, but this specific one on the lock screen, I can't get rid of. Any ideas?
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Had the same problem, froze Help 1.0 with TiBU, no more problem. (credit some other post, cannot recall where)
Hey guys,
With the communities help, I've rooted my phone, and have begun experimenting with roms, I'm pretty excited about all this -- but so far, I haven't found one yet that meets my needs.
The only roms I could even find are the ones linked to by this thread. But I can't comment there because I'm an uber-n00b. **** yeah, n00b status! XD
So here's some of the issues I'm having, maybe someone can point me in the right direction:
I'm using CWM to flash roms, and I can't flash the "Debloated Jelly Bean stock image" linked to in that thread, CWM tells me there's an error in the zip halfway through. Though if I do an "unzip -test" on it from the command line, it verifies okay -- so I'm guessing the package is either borked, or intended to be used differently than how I'm trying to use it.
That being said, I've had great success flashing the unofficial, and experimental Cyanogen 10.1s -- but none of them that I have tested have all of the features I want working. Is there a recommended version? The features I want are pretty basic things:
First and foremost: Wi-Fi tethering (I'd pay for it if T-mobile had an option for it, but they don't -- not on unlimited anyway -- and I always hit my data-cap even without tethering, if I went on a non-unlimited plan, it would cost me $20/more a month and for about the last 10-15 days of each month I'd be stuck on EDGE/2G -- to me, that's unacceptable.)
Being able to connect to Wi-Fi networks (obviously not at the same time as tethering, but I expect both to work).
GPS
Bluetooth!! (The latest "stable" the Unofficial 13-03-09 does not appear to be able to connect to my headset.)
The Stock Clock: Alarms App (Also seems to be broken in the 13-03-09 release.)
And obviously: Calling, Texting, Camera, Flashlight
Basic Battery Stuff (Latest "stable" and nightlies both have issues with determining if the battery charger is connected or not, reboot seems to fix it most of the time).
The one thing I don't use (that I know about) on my phone is NFC. I like the idea of NFC, especially to pay for things, I just have never bothered to **** with it to set it up.
So, Is there a list of the nightlies and like some quick indicators that say which key features are working or not? If not, I might be willing to set one up for the most recent ones (at least until I find one that has features that I want all working more or less). If this already exists though, it would be a great time saver. If not, is anyone willing to help me set this up? The testing will go a lot better with >1 person testing things.
I figure stock does almost everything I need except tethering, but I can't figure out how to get the debloated stock rom on, and installing the tethering fix for regular stock (or Cyanogen for that matter) just makes the phone not boot.
Thanks for reading, any thoughts / comments -- and even moreso: answers -- are greatly appreciated. [And hopefully, none of the above is taken as criticism to anyone, as it's not meant that way, clearly, I'm a little frustrated, but I'm also very much excited to be finally modding my phone, and it wouldn't be possible without all the community support that has gone into this development!]
DERP
OH MAN! I just flashed the MC5 modem; BLUETOOTH WORKS NOW ON THE UNOFFICIAL 2013-03-09 RELEASE!
I haven't tested everything yet, but pretty much everything seems to be working now it seems!!! :good::good::fingers-crossed::good::good:
Man, I wish this was all in a guide somewhere so that I wouldn't have to stumble around in the dark like this. :silly:
I've been fighting with the cm11 d2lte builds since I updated to a nightly in the beginning of September; since then (I believe the 9/7 nightly was the last one that worked), I've had trouble with GPS losing locks, or getting locks at all. I tried several nightly updates in hopes this was a known and fixed problem, as I've seen many complaints about GPS in cm11, but none of the nightly or snapshot updates helped, and some made things worse.
I have tried everything I could find, including toggling between Maps and other map/GPS related apps, full ROM wipes and fresh installs, wipes to flash stock firmware and then come back to cm11 after getting a GPS lock in stock, 3rd party apps like GPS Status to update/wipe aGPS (assisted) data, etc. The state my phone is in now is:
- Did a full wipe of data and cache partitions
- Installed stock backup, got a GPS lock, and rebooted
- Wiped again and installed the most current cm11 snapshot for d2lte (11-20141008-SNAPSHOT-M11-d2lte)
- Using GPS Status and toggling between Maps and Waze to try and get GPS locks
I'm able to get a lock sometimes, but not often enough and not when I need one most: Maps recently turned a 1.5 hour trip into a 3.5 hour nightmare with a really bad route and no ability to reroute.
As an afterthought, I realized that when I'm in my car, I'm usually using the phone for 2 things:
- GPS/maps
- audio output from headphone jack to car aux input
While playing with GPS on the way home today, I unplugged my audio cable from the headphone jack ... and I suddenly got a GPS lock. Plugged the audio cable back in, and lost the lock. Pulled it again, and got a lock. WTF? I've been fighting with this for a month, and don't think I've seen a single mention of audio affecting GPS.
Can anyone else possibly verify this? And any suggestions on a fix?
Thanks!
I've read before that tightening the screws inside the back of the battery sometimes solves this issue
From my Wicked S3 on SOKP
Could be the rom. I'm on the latest AICP nightly and don't have either of those issues, which I have had on other roms.
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I've read before that tightening the screws inside the back of the battery sometimes solves this issue
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Not sure what you mean, but if you mean the 10 screws surrounding
the frame, I've tried tightening them. I don't know of any screws on or beneath the battery.
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Could be the rom. I'm on the latest AICP nightly and don't have either of those issues, which I have had on other roms.
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I'm pretty sure it's the ROM too, as it had no problem getting a lock when I downgraded to the old stock ROM. But was hoping for a fix as I don't see a lot of lingering complaints. How do you like AICP?
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I'm pretty sure it's the ROM too, as it had no problem getting a lock when I downgraded to the old stock ROM. But was hoping for a fix as I don't see a lot of lingering complaints. How do you like AICP?
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As of right now, it's my daily driver. Previously, I was on Task650's AOKP Build. You can find the latest on Google+ and a thread in the SGS3 AT&T section. Your two issues were mine as well and not may ROMs worked as I wanted. Task650s was the first I found that did work. Unfortunately he's not able to maintain the build any longer, so I started looking for other actively-maintained ROMs.
AICP fit that bill for me. They are constantly updating it. A little too much so in my opinion because they have a new release nightly. However, it's a solid mix of what AOKP with some added goodies that take it to the next level. GPS is rock solid. I use an iBolt Car Dock for my SGS3 and audio out works fine when docked. I haven't had any Bluetooth or SMS/MMS issues as people have reported on other ROMs.
Give it a try and see what you think. Make a nandroid first and you can always revert if it's not to your liking.
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As of right now, it's my daily driver. Previously, I was on Task650's AOKP Build. You can find the latest on Google+ and a thread in the SGS3 AT&T section. Your two issues were mine as well and not may ROMs worked as I wanted. Task650s was the first I found that did work. Unfortunately he's not able to maintain the build any longer, so I started looking for other actively-maintained ROMs.
AICP fit that bill for me. They are constantly updating it. A little too much so in my opinion because they have a new release nightly. However, it's a solid mix of what AOKP with some added goodies that take it to the next level. GPS is rock solid. I use an iBolt Car Dock for my SGS3 and audio out works fine when docked. I haven't had any Bluetooth or SMS/MMS issues as people have reported on other ROMs.
Give it a try and see what you think. Make a nandroid first and you can always revert if it's not to your liking.
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Thanks MrBrady. This sounds good, and I think I'll give it a try.
But I'm still curious about the cm11 issues, and whether anyone else has seen them -- and has some weird fix they might not mind sharing.
Edit: BTW, possibly just a coincidence, but in checking out AICP, I see that the latest "release" ROM from AICP is 'aicp_d2lte_kitkat-6.0-RELEASE-20140909' -- 20140909 happens to be the same dated cm11 nightly i had to keep reverting to because there were so many problems with nightly ROMs released within the first few weeks after that, and GPS hasn't worked properly since. Again, possibly a coincidence, but I wonder if there's a connection.
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Thanks MrBrady. This sounds good, and I think I'll give it a try.
But I'm still curious about the cm11 issues, and whether anyone else has seen them -- and has some weird fix they might not mind sharing.
Edit: BTW, possibly just a coincidence, but in checking out AICP, I see that the latest "release" ROM from AICP is 'aicp_d2lte_kitkat-6.0-RELEASE-20140909' -- 20140909 happens to be the same dated cm11 nightly i had to keep reverting to because there were so many problems with nightly ROMs released within the first few weeks after that, and GPS hasn't worked properly since. Again, possibly a coincidence, but I wonder if there's a connection.
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Most custom roms are based off other roms, aicp is one of the many. I switched directly to CM11 today because I was on another version of a cm based rom and the reboots were too much for me.
From my CM11 S3
I saw a new "nightly" has been pushed out for the Relay. Based on the changelog (fixing integer overflows and underflows), this looks like a fix for Stagefright.
I've updated from within the 20150607 nightly, and so far, everything looks good. My GPS and camera still work fine, and I didn't bother toggling any settings before updating.
At least I have ONE phone with a Stagefright fix. It's kind of ironic that it's the oldest of my Androids.
After looking through the various codebases of Omnirom and CM, it looks as though Omni's android-5.1 branch, and cm's 11.0, 12.0 and 12.1 branches all have the stagefright fixes. I did not look at anything any earlier than that for CM, and I can confirm that anything earlier in Omni than 5.1.1 will not have the fixes.
So I guess it's time to bite the bullet and do the double-twist-and-backflip GPS fix. Let me go over this for a moment, to get it straight.
I need a new CWM recovery, latest'n'greatest.
I need and old 10.1 or maybe 10.2 ROM image.
I need the old baseband firmware to go with the old ROM image.
Is this the full list?
There have been numerous links to all three of these, but I tried last week, and at least some of them have gone stale. Does anyone have a current and working set of links for them?
My wife's Relay is still at CM11M8, and really it's about time I got her properly flashed forward, especially now with Stagefright and Freak both fixed. We've locked out on Stagefright so far because we have voice-only through PureTalkUSA, only do data on wifi, and therefore don't do MMS.
GPS fix:
You need a CM10.1 build (Only ones ever produced were 'experimental'), the ICS stock baseband (modem) and the JB stock baseband. Recovery doesn't particularly matter, so long as you can flash images, but I still recommend the CWM that has been around for a while (I've tested it, it works fine even with upcoming Images)
Procedure:
Boot into recovery, run a full backup on your device.
flash ICS baseband
Flash CM10.1 Image
Factory Reset
Boot into system (Not sure if this is needed, but I always do.)
Once system boots up, shut system down.
Open phone, pull battery.
Wait ~30 seconds, replace battery.
Boot phone.
Once system boots up, (If you have a way to test it, GPS should work now). Reboot into recovery.
Flash JB baseband.
Restore your system backup.
Reboot into system. Your GPS should now work with your current system.
I posted a reply into a thread, there was an up to date link with just the modem... I can confirm that running on CM nightly (june something) I have no issues with GPS, wifi 2.4ghz band doesnt work with bluetooth enabled though
Last night I bumped both my wife's and my Relays to the latest nightly. There was a new version of clockworkmod recovery posted, so I flashed that, first.
My wife's phone is a bit of an odd one, on two counts. First, it was still at M8 with working GPS. So before doing anything, I went out in the yard, got a GPS lock (using M8), and pulled the battery. I then brought it inside, put the battery back in, and did the flashing. After that, I was able to again take it out in the back yard and get a GPS lock, this time with the latest nightly. (I've done it once, I hope it will work again.)
The second thing about my wife's phone is that it's acting really oddly. Most of the time when the screen blanks, it won't come back. None of the buttons will light the screen. Eventually long-pressing the power button will reboot it. I've verified that when in this "stuck dark" situation I can plug it in and run adb commands against it, so there's a light on in there, it's just that the curtains are drawn. With this in mind, I'm not sure what the story is about getting it to reboot.
My next step would be to search for any settings that might cause this behaviour. It's also giving me the yellow triangle in the notifications, and when I open it, it takes me to some sort of time-date settings area, but I'm not sure what's wrong there. It's possible that a timing problem could cause the symptoms I'm seeing - I'm not sure. My other option is a full wipe.
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Last night I bumped both my wife's and my Relays to the latest nightly. There was a new version of clockworkmod recovery posted, so I flashed that, first.
My wife's phone is a bit of an odd one, on two counts. First, it was still at M8 with working GPS. So before doing anything, I went out in the yard, got a GPS lock (using M8), and pulled the battery. I then brought it inside, put the battery back in, and did the flashing. After that, I was able to again take it out in the back yard and get a GPS lock, this time with the latest nightly. (I've done it once, I hope it will work again.)
The second thing about my wife's phone is that it's acting really oddly. Most of the time when the screen blanks, it won't come back. None of the buttons will light the screen. Eventually long-pressing the power button will reboot it. I've verified that when in this "stuck dark" situation I can plug it in and run adb commands against it, so there's a light on in there, it's just that the curtains are drawn. With this in mind, I'm not sure what the story is about getting it to reboot.
My next step would be to search for any settings that might cause this behaviour. It's also giving me the yellow triangle in the notifications, and when I open it, it takes me to some sort of time-date settings area, but I'm not sure what's wrong there. It's possible that a timing problem could cause the symptoms I'm seeing - I'm not sure. My other option is a full wipe.
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Funny, two people in Burlington using the Relay?? I haven't touched mine in a while but I'm itching for something different and I'm sick of my Xperia's stock firmware. I'm gonna give this new build a shot...
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Funny, two people in Burlington using the Relay?? I haven't touched mine in a while but I'm itching for something different and I'm sick of my Xperia's stock firmware. I'm gonna give this new build a shot...
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I got my Relay about a year and a half ago for Christmas, mostly as a learning vehicle, but also for the convenience. The plan from the get-go was to put Cyanogenmod on it. For a while it was wifi-only, then a few months later my wife decided she wanted one, and I found the Family Flex Plan at PureTalkUSA that let us have two phones for the the cost of a Virgin Mobile and TracFone. (What we had before) It's also one of the few ways to get voice-only, and use wifi for data.
The Relay is getting a bit long in the tooth, and perhaps most discouraging "aging" side of it is the ramp-down here. However anything I get will be CM-ready from the get-go.
Flashed the latest CM11 nightly today. No major bugs so far with moderate use throughout the day. So much faster than my Xperia with the stock firmware, actually enjoying Android again.
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I had been running M8 since it came out until last weekend. Decided to do a complete wipe and try for the newest nightly to fix the Stagefright bug. Things went real smooth. GPS is working faster than ever.
Everything runs like a dream... except the adaptive light sensor. Adaptive brightness is not working at all. I've check the sensors and the Lux sensor is working fine. If I turn on adaptive brightness, and then adjust, the settings crash. Anyone else experiencing anything like this?
Yeah that is one thing that I have noticed as well, the auto brightness doesn't work. Can't say I've attempted to diagnose it at all though.
We're still getting nightly releases for this dinosaur?
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=nightly&device=apexqtmo
Crazy! I thought it was all but abandoned!
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We're still getting nightly releases for this dinosaur?
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=nightly&device=apexqtmo
Crazy! I thought it was all but abandoned!
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It is, the nightlies are really monthlies. Still, I'm happy to have that, even. Google has issued more Stagefright fixes, and I hope to pick those up as they make it into CM. (Last I knew, Google was only fixing new stuff, but CM was back-porting.)
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It is, the nightlies are really monthlies. Still, I'm happy to have that, even. Google has issued more Stagefright fixes, and I hope to pick those up as they make it into CM. (Last I knew, Google was only fixing new stuff, but CM was back-porting.)
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I would like for updates to CM12, but we only have unofficial versions of CM12. I am a noob at compiling and I hear it is an arduous task to get it working.
Magamo said:
After looking through the various codebases of Omnirom and CM, it looks as though Omni's android-5.1 branch, and cm's 11.0, 12.0 and 12.1 branches all have the stagefright fixes. I did not look at anything any earlier than that for CM, and I can confirm that anything earlier in Omni than 5.1.1 will not have the fixes.
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Some time between then and now (some time in September, I believe) the stagefright fixes were backported to the omni-4.4 branch. I have a build from this running on my relay right now and Zimperium gives it a clean bill of health.
I had sort of given up on "everything works" in one rom and changed when I got to annoyed. Especially issues with GPS, battery drain and hardware keyboard have been bugging me. However, I recently flashed the latest CM 11 nightly (after doing the 10.1 and modem dance) and now: everything works!!! Also customizing keyboard layout to danish ........
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I had sort of given up on "everything works" in one rom and changed when I got to annoyed. Especially issues with GPS, battery drain and hardware keyboard have been bugging me. However, I recently flashed the latest CM 11 nightly (after doing the 10.1 and modem dance) and now: everything works!!! Also customizing keyboard layout to danish ........
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Do you have the files to do the 10.1 / modem dance? Do you have a way to share them?
I postponed doing it, and all of the links died. Subsequently, someone suggested that the GPS fix could be done with 10.2, which doesn't require a new modem, but I haven't tried that, and I thought that the old modem was an inherent part of the fix.
Thanks
i have a rooted stock rom, can i move to the latest cm11 nightly build?
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Do you have the files to do the 10.1 / modem dance? Do you have a way to share them?
I postponed doing it, and all of the links died. Subsequently, someone suggested that the GPS fix could be done with 10.2, which doesn't require a new modem, but I haven't tried that, and I thought that the old modem was an inherent part of the fix.
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https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user...10.1/cm-10.1-20130305-UNOFFICIAL-apexqtmo.zip
http://junk.sandelman.ca/junk/r2s3/RelayMC5modem.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/103520801/RelayLJ1modem.zip
LJ1modem is the old baseband....
Good luck
kodimagnyl said:
https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user...10.1/cm-10.1-20130305-UNOFFICIAL-apexqtmo.zip
http://junk.sandelman.ca/junk/r2s3/RelayMC5modem.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/103520801/RelayLJ1modem.zip
LJ1modem is the old baseband....
Good luck
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Can't reach the second link, but I've already got a copy of the current modem, the old one is what I've been missing. Things are starting to get busy, so I don't know how soon I'll be able to try it.
BTW, I've been told to do a "nandroid backup", then wipe and load the back-level stuff, do the GPS fix, then a "nandroid restore". I'm going to presume that the backup / restore doesn't handle the modem, and on my way back from back-level, I'll first have to use heimdall to reload the current modem?
Thanks
Has anyone attempted to install the base LineageOS on their Verizon m8?
If so, what was the level of success? Does everything work?
yes its sweet
yatman60 said:
Has anyone attempted to install the base LineageOS on their Verizon m8?
If so, what was the level of success? Does everything work?
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I am using LineageOS on my VZW m8. I am having issues with my data disconnecting intermittently. Everything else seems to be working fine.
So ...glad I found this thread, as I was going to create my own (though I think general might be a better place for it...I'll suggest to mods).
Hopefully this can be a good place for all of us VZW M8 users to discuss our LOS experiences.
I just started looking for a new ROM after months of hating the stock MM update. I'm hoping to get another year or so out of my M8.
So far I have narrowed it down to:
NuSenseSeven - A really nice Sense 7 MM build that doesn't seem to have the performance issues of stock MM.
Wolla - Nice clean Sense 8 MM build with a healthy collection of tweaks to configure.
Lineage (LOS) - Nougat build for M8 (only one?). Clean, fast AOSP-like ROM with ability to build extremely light and add what you need from gapps.
So far these are my main issues with Lineage after trying for only a few days:
Not HTC specific. So you are going to lose out on some HTC tools and menus. Something like HTC Connect to cast media, or the comprehensive gesture support HTC has. Some of these you can get back through third party apps, but not all of it and not really as well integrated as you get with HTC/Sense. There are about 5-10 things that a ROM like Wolla has that I can't find the same settings in LOS. Basically I'm deciding if I want to lose out on those to get the benefits on being on the latest possible Android for the phone.
Right now I'm leaning 80% yes on LOS, but I might decide to go back to Wolla or NuSenseSeven. I would need to do some more testing between those two before I decided on which one though.
Although there is a lack of some features in those ROMS, there are other features that you will only get in LOS like the updated Nougat notification system, Privacy Guard, and maybe a few others. So you need to choose what is best for you.
As far as speed/stability/etc. So far I have been really impressed with LOS, though all builds I mention have been way better than stock MM in the few days I've been testing. Here are the only known issues/bugs that I have had with LOS so far:
1) NFC icon. The NFC icon doesn't appear in the status bar, so you can't see at a glance if it is enabled (you can see it in quick launch though). I think this is a regression and there is a bug listed for it. I actually haven't tested the NFC yet though, but it appears that it works, just no notification icon.
2) Double list of APN in mobile settings. This is just a display bug...for some reason the menu option is there twice.
3) I too have had some data/connection issues, but I am not ready to rule the ROM as the issue yet. Basically on the quicklaunch bar it was showing my data connection as "No service" instead of "Verizon Wireless." It would say Verizon sometimes, but not always. I couldn't tell if this was an issue with the display or not because my other ROMS didn't have a comparable icon, so I had to start looking at the hidden phone menus to see what my connection was saying. Sure enough, my phone didn't appear to be getting a carrier name listed when I was using LOS most of the time, but it was there all the time (at least all my testing time) on other ROMs.
As I was trying to compare/troubleshoot this by flashing different ROMS and radios at some point I got to a point where my 4G wouldn't work at all (stuck at 3G). This was the case even when flashing back to pure stock everything. I spent the better part of a day working on this and couldn't find the solution until I found a few other threads of people discussing no 4G connection and the only solution was a new SIM card. Sure enough I got a new SIM from Verizon today and 4G came back immediately. I reflashed LOS and on boot it shows I'm on Verizon, so I'm hoping it stays.
Stumbled into this thread last week, and was curious. Currently running LineageOS 14.1-20170727 and I'm impressed. Been running fine for about a week now with no major issues. Getting a slightly better battery life, better responsiveness, and good 4G connectivity.
Only minor issues have been spotty WiFi connection, though it might have just been due to a weak signal. That and USB tethering doesn't appear to be working yet. Wifi Tethering seems to work fine though.
**Edit** USB tethering does work. Don't know why it wasn't earlier. Perhaps a bad USB cable
How to get it?
I'd like to try this ROM on my M8. Did you guys just flash the ROM for the regular M8 not a ported Version?
If yes, is it safe to do that. I have the GPE ROM installed on my M8 running GSM not CDMA.
Thanks!
Mohamed Yehia said:
I'd like to try this ROM on my M8. Did you guys just flash the ROM for the regular M8 not a ported Version?
If yes, is it safe to do that. I have the GPE ROM installed on my M8 running GSM not CDMA.
Thanks!
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Yeah, I just tried out the regular M8 version "One 2014 (m8)", and it worked just fine. No special setup coming from the GPE Rom, other than a full wipe. ( That's what I was running as a daily driver before ) It took a long time for the first boot, and it even rebooted on its own after the initial flashing and reboot. Give it a try. I've been really happy with it thus far.
working well except roaming
I've been running lineage on my verizon M8 for a couple months with excellent results - except when I'm out of the country roaming. In Canada and now Chile the same thing is happening - the network appears for one second, then gone the next, and repeat. Sometimes it's connected long enough for a text to get through, but not enough for any data usage. And it keeps asking me to select my sim card, and of course I have only 1.
LOS 15 is amazing. Everything works perfectly fine. I just wish LOS performed as smooth as Sense based ROMs
Any custom kernels available for M8s running LineageOS?