wich Rom do you recommend that is stable and goes beyond 4.1?
Hi Roberto,
I was fed up with the stock ROM (and lack of updates), especially because the firmware was getting slower over time - maybe because the (out)dated firmware is not quite compatible with some newer apps, or - perhaps - even worms got into the phone because of dated firmware? I can only guess. Doing a factory reset didn't help at all.
So I tried Cyanogenmod 12.1. Haven't tried other ROMs yet, but I quite like Cyanogenmod. Overall it is way more usefull compared to stock so far, mainly because it is way faster than the latest OTA. However, I'm missing a few features from the HTC ROM / Sense; To name a few, the Camera application is way more spartan (i.e. no HDR, no Panorama mode). The phone application / contacts management is less featurefull and the keyboard is different (I got used to the one in Sense). But some of these might be remedied with some installable applications, but haven't had time to try them yet.
However, even with the 12.1 Cyanogenmod, I still had the issue of storage space running out for applications (I had the same issue with stock / latest OTA), which I was hoping the ROM would fix. I could only install a few applications before running out of space (and, moving apps to the "sdcard" offers very limited help). As you may know, this issue stems from the stock ROM (and all subsecuent OTAs) partition scheme, where ~4GB is available for apps (with the HTC system taking ~2GB) and ~10GB available for media as /sdcard/. (I believe the remaining 2GB is reserved for recovery etc.).
However, upgrading to hboot 2.16 will also modify your partition scheme, so that there is no separate partition mounted ad /sdcard/. This means there is just one storage space for apps and media. But also, you will not have a vfat formatted /sdcard/ anymore partition, which means no UMS mode (but, the stock ROM does not provide that, either). So no easy access to the phones file system via USB, but at least for my use case, this configuration is way more usefull!
Whatever ROM you will choose to try, make sure it will support the hboot you are going to use.
I agree with Wild Penguin
I use Snapshot release of Cyanogenmod 12.1 (since October 2015) and it's better in every way than stock. The only thing that is missing for me is the HTC Camera App which had superior photo quality and burst mode etc...
Big games automatically put files on 9GB partition so it's not that bad but 2GB system partition is a pain if you like to have more than 2-3 screens of apps.
There is no reason to stay on stock rom other than Camera App.
For my usage, I find that battery life is a bit better on Maximus HD 10.
After posting the above I noticed that the Google Camera app (I hadn't installed it previously) has some of the missing features the HTC Camera app had (HDR and Panorama), although some are still missing.
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I've searched in the forum but i cannot find anything about that.
Which are the main differences in having a program integrated in a ROM or to install it in the main memory after the ROM has been flashed in the device??
I mean, are there any benefits in integrating a software in ROM in terms of speed, memory footprint...or any others?
Thanks
integrated don't take up storage space
integrated can't be upgraded to a newer version without getting a new rom
application memory foodprint is the same
So with latest device that have a good amount of internal storage the integration doesn't have real benefits...
The possibility to upgrade a program to a newer version for me is more important than some more MB of free space in the internal storage...
Thanks for the explanation
it saves time installing random apps after flashing if they are already there for you.. certain usefull ones like total commander and such.. Ditto on the not being able to upgrade, some program are able to, but most arent, you just get errors. Someone here on XDA made an app that allows you to store cabs in a specific folder on a storage card and on first boot those cabs will be installed, thus making the issue of having your favorite preinstalled apps less of a hassle after a reflashing, or moving to a new device.
Hi guys,
I have a Desire which I am more than happy with however after getting the low storage message I decided to change to a more minimalist ROM - opting for the Oxygen Gingerbread (2.0.1).
At first I was very impressed with it's minimalism and went a good week or so without any major faults. However, this has changed and I've had enough of the small niggling problems - touch screen not responding, randomly rebooting and getting stuck in a boot loop only curable by pulling the battery, etc.
From what I can gather its HTC Sense takes up a lot of internal memory on the Android software which brings me onto the area of which I'm after some help.
I know the Desire and the Nexus are virtually the same piece of kit, however the Nexus is shipped, obviously, HTC Sense free. Is it possible to flash a stock Nexus ROM onto my Desire? If not, can I relosd tthe stock ROM that came with my phone but remove HTC Sense and all related apps such as Footprints, etc?
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
You should not try flashing stock Nexus ROM on a Desire.
Even a minute difference between devices could cause a problem, and they do have different bootloaders.
(plus there is a minor hardware difference - Nexus one has a trackball while the desire has a pad)
Note, that removing apps from stock ROM will not increase your storage capacity by it self.
Those apps are installed on system partition which is mounted write only by default and is not counted as available storage space.
There would be a need for a special ROM package that resizes partitions.
One peace of advice I can give you, is to look for odex'd ROMs.
And odex, is a file which contains an Android application in ready to run state.
Usualy, when you install an app, the binary is extracted from the apk file (the package the app comes in) processed and placed in the cache.
So it takes up additional storage space.
Manufacturers like HTC ship their release ROMs with the applications preprocessed, so the odex files resides on the system partition and so the built in apps do not take up any space in cache.
In my experience, on a Desire the difference between an odex and unodexed ROM containing same apps can result in around 40MB of storage.
Ok great! Thanks for the advice, I've done some reading up about odex'd ROMs and have a much better understanding now.
Cheers again.
Hello-
I currently have a stock TF700 32gb and am sick of the lag. I'm not what you call a "power" user; I use the tab mostly for games, web browsing, document reading. Cash is tight so I'm looking into flashing CROMi-X. I'm an absolute newbie when it comes to rooting/unlocking/flashing etc so please pardon what may seem to be naivete.
Just a few questions before I go ahead-
What kind of performance boost (re: lag) can I expect to see? Is it dependent on apps used?
Will my apps all work with the new ROM as they work on stock? Will they be able to be updated properly as devs release updates?
How does updating Google apps work? If I flash CROMi, do I need to reflash a new CROMi version every time Google updates Gmail, Keep, etc?
I see that CROMi makes use of Data2SD (pardon if I'm incorrect) - does that mean that the device will now completely ignore the 32GB of internal memory and use the microSD exclusively? I currently have a 32gb Sandisk UHS-1 Class 10 microsd in there with about 20gb free (space used by mostly music/vids). Is it recommended to use a larger capacity SD card?
Thanks!
ayoldguy1 said:
Hello-
I currently have a stock TF700 32gb and am sick of the lag. I'm not what you call a "power" user; I use the tab mostly for games, web browsing, document reading. Cash is tight so I'm looking into flashing CROMi-X. I'm an absolute newbie when it comes to rooting/unlocking/flashing etc so please pardon what may seem to be naivete.
Just a few questions before I go ahead-
What kind of performance boost (re: lag) can I expect to see? Is it dependent on apps used?
Will my apps all work with the new ROM as they work on stock? Will they be able to be updated properly as devs release updates?
How does updating Google apps work? If I flash CROMi, do I need to reflash a new CROMi version every time Google updates Gmail, Keep, etc?
I see that CROMi makes use of Data2SD (pardon if I'm incorrect) - does that mean that the device will now completely ignore the 32GB of internal memory and use the microSD exclusively? I currently have a 32gb Sandisk UHS-1 Class 10 microsd in there with about 20gb free (space used by mostly music/vids). Is it recommended to use a larger capacity SD card?
Thanks!
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Slightly biased view point :silly:
What kind of performance boost (re: lag) can I expect to see? Is it dependent on apps used?
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I think you'll be reasonably happy
Will my apps all work with the new ROM as they work on stock? Will they be able to be updated properly as devs release updates?
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All apps that work now *should* work on CROMi-X as it uses an Asus base for the ROM.
How does updating Google apps work? If I flash CROMi, do I need to reflash a new CROMi version every time Google updates Gmail, Keep, etc?
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It works the same way as now - you will continue to get updates on the PS.
I see that CROMi makes use of Data2SD (pardon if I'm incorrect) - does that mean that the device will now completely ignore the 32GB of internal memory and use the microSD exclusively? I currently have a 32gb Sandisk UHS-1 Class 10 microsd in there with about 20gb free (space used by mostly music/vids). Is it recommended to use a larger capacity SD card?
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This is for more advanced users (very advanced?) and is entirely optional. You don't have to use it to start with and your sd card will continue to function as it does now. In fact you can create the same performance as data2sd with the stock rom - just disable fsync in the setup installer
Good luck!
A (very) slightly more un-biased view:
Installing CROMi-X will make you feel as if you bought a new tablet. The one you actually thought you bought when getting the TF700.
Data2SD and ROM2SD are just options for this rom. You don't have to use them and the average user misses out on nothing IMHO without them.
The biggest performance improvement is selecting to set fsync to "off" during the installation process. The risk involved with it is minimal since this rom is stable as a rock. Establish a solid backup routine for your important data (Dopbox, Google drive etc) and it is nil.
CROMi-X is Asus stock based, so using and updating your apps works just like on stock - no difference.
Go for it. You will never look back.
Can you turn fsync off post-installation?
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The biggest performance improvement is selecting to set fsync to "off" during the installation process.
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davidboyd said:
Can you turn fsync off post-installation?
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You can use trickster mod to turn it off if you want.
I am having two weird problems with my tablet since I installed CROMi-X
The first is that one site stopped showing in all of my browsers, except Opera in Offroad mode. It just affects one site (www.terra.com.br): when I was in stock, the site appeared as in desktop version. Now with CROMi-X, it just shows a derranged menu in plain text, and nothing eles: is not browsable anymore.
(thing is, Terra is one of the main news portals of my country, and I am really missing it)
The second problem: it seems unable to display video in lower resolutions. I am trying to watch some live streamings, and it locks on a frozen image with only audio running or choppy images with no audio, and crashes soon after. In my mobile phone (Sony Xperia SP, stock rom ), I am able to watch the videos, as when the quality falls for any reason, it seems to "re-calculate" the displaying, and keeps showing the images (just in a smaller screen). In the TF700 it got impossible. I am using the very same players in both devices (MX Player)
Perhaps is just a small tweak, a thing of settings that I am missing, but I really don't know what adjust should I do to have things working again around here. Somebody have any idea about what I should do?
drhode said:
I am having two weird problems with my tablet since I installed CROMi-X
The first is that one site stopped showing in all of my browsers, except Opera in Offroad mode. It just affects one site (www.terra.com.br): when I was in stock, the site appeared as in desktop version. Now with CROMi-X, it just shows a derranged menu in plain text, and nothing eles: is not browsable anymore.
(thing is, Terra is one of the main news portals of my country, and I am really missing it)
The second problem: it seems unable to display video in lower resolutions. I am trying to watch some live streamings, and it locks on a frozen image with only audio running or choppy images with no audio, and crashes soon after. In my mobile phone (Sony Xperia SP, stock rom ), I am able to watch the videos, as when the quality falls for any reason, it seems to "re-calculate" the displaying, and keeps showing the images (just in a smaller screen). In the TF700 it got impossible. I am using the very same players in both devices (MX Player)
Perhaps is just a small tweak, a thing of settings that I am missing, but I really don't know what adjust should I do to have things working again around here. Somebody have any idea about what I should do?
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The first problem is related to adblocking - that site must be infested. Open the /system/etc/hosts file in edit mode and search for terra and remove all the entries or disable adblocking form adaway.
The second one - what are some examples?
I understand that for security reasons, google thinks phones should not have sdcards and has recently made changes to restrict how sdcards can be used on kitkat: KitKat and SD cards — what's fixed, what's broken and what's misunderstood
Motorola made some changes to allow some parts of some apps to be movable to sdcard. But this also has some problems. For example, if I replace the chrome icon in the quick launch area with firefox and firefox has been moved to the sdcard, the icon disappears on reboot because the partition apparently isn't mounted yet when it needs the icon. Apparently, they made some changes to the default launcher to compensate for this but because I'm using the google now launcher, the icons disappear.
I am getting ready to go through the process of unlocking my bootloader and rooting my phone which will, of course, wipe it and I get to reinstall all my apps and media. Once the phone is rooted, are there any options for moving apps to sdcard that work on 4.4.4 and beyond? In previous android versions, we used apps like link2sd and mount2sd but I assume these won't work on 4.4.4? One of my main motivations for rooting is being able to tweak min free so it doesn't kill and restart apps every time I switch between them. Another is being able to remove protected apps I don't need, like quickoffice - at least this will free up some internal memory!
How about cyanogenmod - does it have the same restrictions on what can be moved to the sdcard? It seems cyanogenmod is coming along but may still have some important issues to be resolved.
I bought my phone when they released the LTE model because it had the sdcard as well as the faster data. It seems that Motorola has solved the problem of some sdcards not working - probably by slowing down access to it to make it work with more cards. The problem is that the LTE version only comes with 8 GB of internal storage. So I have lots of free space on my sdcard but my phone is still full and I have problems updating some things due to lack on space on the internal memory. Some of the applications I had moved to sdcard were no longer there so I'm assuming what happened is that it deleted them prior to installing an updated version but then the installation of the new version failed due to not enough space in internal memory.
Hello, I'm new to the forum and I would like to start by thanking anyone that will take the time to read this.
So I've had an xperia E3 d2203 with Android 4.4.4 (factory default) for nearly 2 years now, and I'm quite happy with it, except that given the numerous updates that have been stacking on top af each other, the internal memory is now full and i can't seem to find a way to make it better.
I have no pictures, audio or videos on the internal memory, installed a small numbers of apps on the SD card, and disabled all pre-installed apps I don't use and uninstalled their respective updates.
However, I keep getting a notification the the internal memory is more than 85% full, and I can't figure out a way to free any more memory.
So, is there anything else I could try? I really don't want to give in to planned obsolescence and buy a new phone I can't afford.
I have taken a look in installing a new Android ROM. If this is necessary, which ROM should I install? It seems to me AOSP would be the lightest, since every other ROMs are built off this with more stuff added, but I might be wrong.
Thanks for your input !
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Hello, I'm new to the forum and I would like to start by thanking anyone that will take the time to read this.
So I've had an xperia E3 d2203 with Android 4.4.4 (factory default) for nearly 2 years now, and I'm quite happy with it, except that given the numerous updates that have been stacking on top af each other, the internal memory is now full and i can't seem to find a way to make it better.
I have no pictures, audio or videos on the internal memory, installed a small numbers of apps on the SD card, and disabled all pre-installed apps I don't use and uninstalled their respective updates.
However, I keep getting a notification the the internal memory is more than 85% full, and I can't figure out a way to free any more memory.
So, is there anything else I could try? I really don't want to give in to planned obsolescence and buy a new phone I can't afford.
I have taken a look in installing a new Android ROM. If this is necessary, which ROM should I install? It seems to me AOSP would be the lightest, since every other ROMs are built off this with more stuff added, but I might be wrong.
Thanks for your input !
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More info about u bootloader will be necessary, try firs to get root .