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Use without cellular and get speed with life?

First off, I am new to Android devices.
I got a Nexus S 4g, and I really only wan to play games on it. I have AT&T, and got this used phone for free. So, instead of getting an Android tablet, I have a phone I can play with.
This includes flashing things as it's already unlocked!
So, I really only want three things (other the stability) if possible, the ability to turn off cellular usage and keep WIFI on, good performance for apps, and battery life.
Any suggestions on what Android OS to be running (ICS or JB) and a ROM & Kernel combination that would work? I have played around with a number of them, but I can't seem to notice any real difference.
I can and already have flashed a number of things, including having to flash the Android open source JB because of being stuck with Clockwork recovery not allowing a USB mount and the phone not booting from trying JellyBam.
Got TWRP on, and I'm happy with it. I also got an extended battery at 1850mAh.
hp420 said:
You should have done your homework. Ns4g is a CDMA phone. At&t is a gsm carrier. You can't activate it on any carrier but sprint.
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I suppose I should have been more clear, I plan on using it like a mini tablet. As such, I don't need the cellular option, and that's why I would like to if possible disable it so it won't try to connect with the Sprint network.

You should have done your homework. Ns4g is a CDMA phone. At&t is a gsm carrier. You can't activate it on any carrier but sprint.

You should still be able to use WiFi without activating it on Sprint.
SlimBean RC2 has been working well for me. No issues. WiFi always on. Battery life has been good as well with standard battery.
And this should have been posted in the Q&A section. Just sayin...

andrewddickey said:
You should still be able to use WiFi without activating it on Sprint.
SlimBean RC2 has been working well for me. No issues. WiFi always on. Battery life has been good as well with standard battery.
And this should have been posted in the Q&A section. Just sayin...
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I'll try that out.
Sorry... if someone wants to move it, they can.

andrewddickey said:
You should still be able to use WiFi without activating it on Sprint.
SlimBean RC2 has been working well for me. No issues. WiFi always on. Battery life has been good as well with standard battery.
And this should have been posted in the Q&A section. Just sayin...
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Yup...I noticed they mentioned in the OP they wanted to use att service, so in that circumstance this wouldn't work. But as you said, it will work with WiFi. That's what I'm doing with mine. I ordered my N4 this morning and I'll keep the ns4g as a dev device.

hp420 said:
You should have done your homework. Ns4g is a CDMA phone. At&t is a gsm carrier. You can't activate it on any carrier but sprint.
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Well you can use it on cricket or other providers like cricket.

1031982 said:
First off, I am new to Android devices.
I got a Nexus S 4g, and I really only wan to play games on it. I have AT&T, and got this used phone for free. So, instead of getting an Android tablet, I have a phone I can play with.
This includes flashing things as it's already unlocked!
So, I really only want three things (other the stability) if possible, the ability to turn off cellular usage and keep WIFI on, good performance for apps, and battery life.
Any suggestions on what Android OS to be running (ICS or JB) and a ROM & Kernel combination that would work? I have played around with a number of them, but I can't seem to notice any real difference.
I can and already have flashed a number of things, including having to flash the Android open source JB because of being stuck with Clockwork recovery not allowing a USB mount and the phone not booting from trying JellyBam.
Got TWRP on, and I'm happy with it. I also got an extended battery at 1850mAh.
I suppose I should have been more clear, I plan on using it like a mini tablet. As such, I don't need the cellular option, and that's why I would like to if possible disable it so it won't try to connect with the Sprint network.
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CyanogenMod 10. It is fast and stable on the Nexus S4g.

Use without cellular and get speed eith life?
Type *#*#4636#*#* into your dialer and it will open a testing menu. Open phone info and scroll down and turn off radio. Now the cellular radio will not operate at all or use any battery, so your battery life will jump quite a bit. Also some roms have a function to hide the radio signal indicator. As an added bonus, you can use google voice and grooveIP to make and recieve phone calls and texts over a wifi connection for free!
Edit: this works on every rom I have tried.

ttakacs said:
CyanogenMod 10. It is fast and stable on the Nexus S4g.
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True, but the battery died in about 2 hours of WiFi usage. When I got the phone, it had CM9 RC2 on it already. That's with trying a couple different kernels and setting the CPU to "On Demand". It wasn't worth it.
hlxanthus said:
Type *#*#4636#*#* into your dialer and it will open a testing menu. Open phone info and scroll down and turn off radio. Now the cellular radio will not operate at all or use any battery, so your battery life will jump quite a bit. Also some roms have a function to hide the radio signal indicator. As an added bonus, you can use google voice and grooveIP to make and recieve phone calls and texts over a wifi connection for free!
Edit: this works on every rom I have tried.
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I went into there, and it already said it was off. I guess turning off cellular data kills the radio as well.

hp420 said:
You should have done your homework. Ns4g is a CDMA phone. At&t is a gsm carrier. You can't activate it on any carrier but sprint.
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I was simply saying that I don't want the radio on because I am on AT&T. I should have explained that because I can't use it, I would rather disable it so it's not using any of the battery.

OP first you need to familiarize yourself with the Forum Rules on posting in the correct section, Moved to here. Thank You.

andrewddickey said:
SlimBean RC2 has been working well for me. No issues. WiFi always on. Battery life has been good as well with standard battery.
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Oddly enough, I have had SlimBean RC2 preform random reboots. It's a shame as it seemed to go so well and I really liked the custom DPI settings.
Update : Seems that I had something of an improper flash. I used TWRP and ran multiple flashes in a row.
I ran it again, and flashed the ROM, restarted into recovery, flashed GApps inverted, repeated, and flashed the Matr1x CFS kernel.

Is there a way to replace the per-installed Holo launcher? I like the Nova Launcher as it seems to use less RAM and I can have everything with a cube animation. If possible, I would like to remove the Holo HD Launcher as I have no need for it.

1031982 said:
Is there a way to replace the per-installed Holo launcher? I like the Nova Launcher as it seems to use less RAM and I can have everything with a cube animation. If possible, I would like to remove the Holo HD Launcher as I have no need for it.
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You can use titanium backup to push nova to system and then freeze holo if you like or ever remove it.

I have found after replacing the launcher, SlimBean has become unstable. Every so often, it crashes and reboots. Aside from re-flashing, any other advise?
Also, the battery life seems to be just so so. I tried the kernel included and Matr1x 25.

AOKP with Matr1x seems to be rather stable and ok with the battery.
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Just thought I would post a screenshot of the battery meeter so you all know what I can get.

[Q] Latest Stable Rom? [Galaxy S Relay 4G]

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:

Custom ROMs... Are they still worth it?

I have been a flashaholic for some time, probably the Eclair days, but I really question if it's worth it now days.
Most Lollipop and newer ROMs, except for Nexus devices, seem to have some kind of issues... If not immediately, then over time. While at the same time factory ROMs get better, partially because the base code is better and because many manufacturers are getting better at it.
And now, some features are being blocked just by unlocking of bootloader, even if you're otherwise stock, like Android Pay and others like Pok�©mon Go.
I find all I really do now on custom roms is some interface tweaks... Change the battery icon, add a clear all button to recents, and add arrows to the navigation bar, all minor stuff. Otherwise things like Nova Launcher, SwiftKey, and GSAM largely don't even require root anymore much less a custom ROM. Part of it used to be for battery life, but now, at least on modern Moto devices, most custom roms struggle just to match the battery life of stock.
I've tried every rom for this device I can find, here and other places, and they all seem to have a variety of things that fail, from minor annoyances to major services broken like GPS, or they fail over time.
My question for discussion is it still worth it, and why do you ROM or even root anymore?

I used to run a variety CM ROM's on Samsung Galaxy & Note devices. Starting with the Galaxy S2 Skyrocket and then every decent device Samsung released until the bootloaders stopped getting cracked.
There was always something that just didn't work right and I'd have random crashes.
But for me it was semi-worth it. I like to tinker and customize a lot.
Fast forward to the last thirteen months with my first non-Samsung since. A Motorola Moto X Pure.
Best damn phone I've ever had.
And there is CM available, but I quickly discovered AOSP ROM's like Dirty Unicorn and Broken OS.
Both these ROM's are FULL of customization not found in Xposed modules, and both ROM's have been 100% reliable.
I may have had one lockup in the last 13 months. And everything from GPS to Bluetooth, etc. have all worked perfectly.
So for me, yes... custom ROM's are more than worth it once you find the right ROM. My phone is heavily customized to my needs and super reliable.
The only thing lacking with MotoX was kernel development. Which I guess is where you start losing some reliability.
But it's also where I'm hoping the Pixel will get some good development and I'm looking forward to it. :good:

Non-rooted stock MM has been going great for me lately. Lots of great built in features like Moto actions, etc. I play Pokemon while walking on my breaks at work, and the last few updates forced my hand to go back to stock. I was (am) also a flashoholic, and it was mainly to have custom features and better performance on outdated and mfg abandoned phones. It was also a must for my Kindle Fire. I really don't see myself going away from stock MM (soon to be Nougat) on my MXPE at this point. I still flash ROMs on my G2 and Note 3 though, but barely use them outside the house.

CZ Eddie said:
I used to run a variety CM ROM's on Samsung Galaxy & Note devices. Starting with the Galaxy S2 Skyrocket and then every decent device Samsung released until the bootloaders stopped getting cracked.
There was always something that just didn't work right and I'd have random crashes.
But for me it was semi-worth it. I like to tinker and customize a lot.
Fast forward to the last thirteen months with my first non-Samsung since. A Motorola Moto X Pure.
Best damn phone I've ever had.
And there is CM available, but I quickly discovered AOSP ROM's like Dirty Unicorn and Broken OS.
Both these ROM's are FULL of customization not found in Xposed modules, and both ROM's have been 100% reliable.
I may have had one lockup in the last 13 months. And everything from GPS to Bluetooth, etc. have all worked perfectly.
So for me, yes... custom ROM's are more than worth it once you find the right ROM. My phone is heavily customized to my needs and super reliable.
The only thing lacking with MotoX was kernel development. Which I guess is where you start losing some reliability.
But it's also where I'm hoping the Pixel will get some good development and I'm looking forward to it. :good:
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Hmm... I have been on that "rom that shan't be named on XDA" for a while now. After a month started suffering SoD randomly and Play Services has stopped issues. DU 10.6 couldn't maintain GPS lock, but 10.5 was fine, seemed to effect only a handful of devices, lucky me.
Anyway, thanks for your input.

acejavelin said:
Hmm... I have been on that "rom that shan't be named on XDA" for a while now. After a month started suffering SoD randomly and Play Services has stopped issues. DU 10.6 couldn't maintain GPS lock, but 10.5 was fine, seemed to effect only a handful of devices, lucky me.
Anyway, thanks for your input.
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I also have been a avid user of the "rom that shan't be named on XDA" for many months now with no real issues. By chance have you tried a fresh install again. The latest release was back in late August a 4.9.1 version that made corrections to some issues on the 4.9 release.

Jimi Mack said:
I also have been a avid user of the "rom that shan't be named on XDA" for many months now with no real issues. By chance have you tried a fresh install again. The latest release was back in late August a 4.9.1 version that made corrections to some issues on the 4.9 release.
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Not yet... I have been on 4.9.1 already, and have been working with the devs a bit on it but seems mostly isolated to my device.

acejavelin said:
Not yet... I have been on 4.9.1 already, and have been working with the devs a bit on it but seems mostly isolated to my device.
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If anything try a fresh install and see if your issues were only from maybe a bad original install. If they show up again then I would say they are isolated to your device.

Jimi Mack said:
If anything try a fresh install and see if your issues were only from maybe a bad original install. If they show up again then I would say they are isolated to your device.
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I'm out of town for the weekend, in a rather rural area, so maybe will try tomorrow evening.

LMT pie, adaway, naptime, and general tweaking are the only reasons I root on a phone this close to stock android.
I didn't run custom ROMs on this phone until about August of this year. That was when battery life on aicp started to get comparable with stock for me. I can get most of the features I want from gravitybox, but I prefer them baked into the ROM. Xposed always seems a little problematic even when you don't install janky modules. I really like the notification led; missed that when I got this phone. I know we're supposed to use moto display, but I think that makes more sense on amoled than a great big LCD. Never had good luck with lightflow or the led enabler apps, but the custom roms work great. I really like slim recents too. I haven't found any modules that work to put KitKat like recents on M ROMs.

TruPureXMM + GravityBox
Loved my MXP so much I bought one for my mom who was hating her iPhone5. Kept it stock (for obvious reasons), so I have a good baseline to compare to my MXP running TruPureXMM + GravityBox. I've tried a bunch of ROMS for this phone but I always come back to TruPureXMM + GravityBox. Oh, and Tasker.
There is no way in hell I would go back to stock.

I used Cyanogenmod on my HTC Incredible and Verizon Galaxy Nexus. Didn't root or ROM for a while due to using the stock ROM on the 2nd generation Verizon Moto X 2014 and stock Android on the Nexus 5X and 6P. But, I had the itch to unlock the bootloader on my Moto X Pure, due to curiousity, and because it's likely that we will only see one more Nougat update. I tried CM13, but I was getting UI freeze ups and slowdowns on multiple builds, so I tried Dirty Unicorns 10.6, and that has been working fine. I may return to the stock ROM after the Nougat update, but in the meantime, I'm happy experimenting with different ROMs on the Pure.

I'd be cool with stock- as long as I could debloat it.
And it was updated fairly quickly.

Stock for this phone is great. Better than most. Only issue really is Moto is so far behind on security updates. They are on what, May I believe? CM13 is Oct.
Sent from my XT1575 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Stock here, never a issue. With Nougat in the horizon, a custom ROM is a big NO for me.
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I would say TruPureX with a few mods is a very solid and stable way to go. I myself am on TurboROM which has ceased current development, but have ZERO issues. AICP's MM build is the most feature filled and works flawlessly aside from one issue I don't have on other ROMs, where my bank app only shows black when using the camera to deposit checks, making AICP unusable for me, but highly recommended for others to try as that's the absolute only issue I could find after a week full of testing (Kind of what I do as a hobby is push ROMs to their limits to find the issues.)
So in short: TruPureXMM, TurboROM, AICP - are all great choices without the negatives associated with many custom ROMs.

Pretty sure we are all here to push the ROMs to he limits lol?
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Speaking of custom ROMs, I just searched android file host for Clark and there are new 7.0 builds of zephyros, pure nexus, aosp, and cos.
I'm in a limited data area so I haven't downloaded or tried them out yet.

jason2678 said:
Speaking of custom ROMs, I just searched android file host for Clark and there are new 7.0 builds of zephyros, pure nexus, aosp, and cos.
I'm in a limited data area so I haven't downloaded or tried them out yet.
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Running the latest Zephyr after trying AICP and CM14. Uses substratum and SuperSU. Camera recording isn't working with snapdragon camera (FC), google camera (records but doesn't save). Had an android.phone FC but replaced with google phone/contacts and no problems so far. Still need to test speakerphone and bluetooth, but assuming those work as well as 6.0.1 I'm pretty impressed by Birdman.

Any roms that anyone can recommend? CM13 and OrionOS both have very bad stuttering after some time of use. Has anyone tried Pure Nexus or Slim6? Just need a good daily driver that can handle games without heating up so hot, and handle most social apps great...

jason2678 said:
Speaking of custom ROMs, I just searched android file host for Clark and there are new 7.0 builds of zephyros, pure nexus, aosp, and cos.
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Seriously? We've got like one and a half here.

Problems with service and GPS after flashing.

I recently got my phone S-off'd and I flashed LineageOS 14.1 on it. Everything seems to work except my mobile data says "No Service" most of the time (even though it still works all of the time) and the GPS has become terrible.
When I try using Google Maps, it rarely updates my position and it always says im facing north. Waze straight up tells me I have no GPS reception.
So what did I do wrong? I'm fairly new to the whole flashing scene but I did at least try to search my problem. I came up with a bunch of "radio" version problems but that was tough to google because it kept linking me to actual FM radio apps.
specs:
Verizon HTC One M8
ROM: LineageOS 14.1
Android version 7.1.1
Radio version: 1.14.20.0930
Any help is appreciated

Sandi315 said:
I recently got my phone S-off'd and I flashed LineageOS 14.1 on it. Everything seems to work except my mobile data says "No Service" most of the time (even though it still works all of the time) and the GPS has become terrible.
When I try using Google Maps, it rarely updates my position and it always says im facing north. Waze straight up tells me I have no GPS reception.
So what did I do wrong? I'm fairly new to the whole flashing scene but I did at least try to search my problem. I came up with a bunch of "radio" version problems but that was tough to google because it kept linking me to actual FM radio apps.
specs:
Verizon HTC One M8
ROM: LineageOS 14.1
Android version 7.1.1
Radio version: 1.14.20.0930
Any help is appreciated
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i havent taken the N plunge yet, so i am not sure if this applies. for the gps issue, try flashing a sense rom, let it fully boot then use maps or a gps tool like gps test. give it a few mins to lock on. then flash your aosp rom, or restore a nand maybe. ive had to do that in the past with mine. while its on the sense rom, compare signal, aosp seems to get lower readings, but i honestly think its just the way the oem and carriers code their s/w. if the signal seems a lot better it may just be something in the rom, could try a diff N one or even MM for better comparison

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i havent taken the N plunge yet, so i am not sure if this applies. for the gps issue, try flashing a sense rom, let it fully boot then use maps or a gps tool like gps test. give it a few mins to lock on. then flash your aosp rom, or restore a nand maybe. ive had to do that in the past with mine. while its on the sense rom, compare signal, aosp seems to get lower readings, but i honestly think its just the way the oem and carriers code their s/w. if the signal seems a lot better it may just be something in the rom, could try a diff N one or even MM for better comparison
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Do I have to full wipe my phone if I want to switch between roms? I will try switching back to N after flashing a sense rom but if that doesn't work I may as well just stay on a sense based MM rom. Speaking of which, know any good ones? It's kind of heard to like Sense imo.

Sandi315 said:
Do I have to full wipe my phone if I want to switch between roms? I will try switching back to N after flashing a sense rom but if that doesn't work I may as well just stay on a sense based MM rom. Speaking of which, know any good ones? It's kind of heard to like Sense imo.
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full wipe when you flash between any rom. lol good sense rom... um, last one i used was fluent, by andybones. that was solid for me and i liked his tweaks. although i will most likely update to aicp's N rom when i get around to it

izzaeroth said:
full wipe when you flash between any rom. lol good sense rom... um, last one i used was fluent, by andybones. that was solid for me and i liked his tweaks. although i will most likely update to aicp's N rom when i get around to it
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It's been a while but I finally got around to doing this. I flashed to a sense rom where the GPS and service was working. I opened Google Maps to turn on the gps then shut the phone off with the app in the foreground. Now I reflashed back to Android Nougat and everything works as it is supposed to!
Although I did flash an entirely new ROM for nougat so that also might be the reason. It's still CM based and not Sense, so I don't think that was the reason.

Sandi315 said:
It's been a while but I finally got around to doing this. I flashed to a sense rom where the GPS and service was working. I opened Google Maps to turn on the gps then shut the phone off with the app in the foreground. Now I reflashed back to Android Nougat and everything works as it is supposed to!
Although I did flash an entirely new ROM for nougat so that also might be the reason. It's still CM based and not Sense, so I don't think that was the reason.
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its a htc thing actually. ive had this happen on m8s and a few other htc devices

Out of the game - Rom Recommendations

So its Feb 2021, I feel like my HTC U11 is dying, I've been stock since day 1, but after not being able to take pictures of videos of my kids yesterday because my camera was stuttering like mad, I can't take it anymore.
I wanted to hold out just a little longer for a 5G phone, but I am so close to pulling the trigger on a Pixel 4a 5g because I'm just done with third party manufacturer's crappy software.
My issues:
1. Wifi goes to crap after a few months after a factory reset - not sure what's causing this, but factory resetting usually cleans it up for a time. Half the time in my house I cannot connect to wifi. Reset network settings doesn't fix it.
2. SD-card no longer readable (this might be physical because doesn't come back after a factory reset).
3. Camera is SLOW 50% of the time.
I hacked the hell out of my HTC M7, but I haven't done a custom rom on my u11. I just want something as stable as possible where everything works. There are only 4 threads on the sprint HTC-U11 forums (my variant) and Lineage looks like it never officially supported the U11.
I read that Stock Pie is garbage and that's what I have, so maybe I should go with a non-aosp custom rom based on Oreo 8.1?
I don't need android 10, I'm sure that will bring more issues than it will solve, I used to love my U11, now I want to throw it against a wall.
I'm going to spend the next 2 days getting up to speed on the roms for this device, I used to use Viper on my HTC-M7 but IIRC viper rom has a million tweaks which I do not need. Just want my camera and wifi to work and not have a ton of things that are listed in the "wont work" section of the rom.

why you don't need android 10? I have the pixel 10 from here and it's perfect.
your other choices are Lee's rom which is also on oreo or viper.

aristidis_halk said:
why you don't need android 10? I have the pixel 10 from here and it's perfect.
your other choices are Lee's rom which is also on oreo or viper.
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I guess since android 10 was never supported I was worried about compatibility. Lineage looks like it has tons of issues but I hadn't looked at the pixel rom.
This the one you are using?
[ROM][10.0]&[11.0] Pixel Experience PLUS (ocn) [Unofficial][AOSP] (11.0 - upd 2021-12-26; 10.0 - upd 2020-12-18)
Thread restored after forum upgrade. You can continue the discussion again. (y)
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Looks promising!
I downloaded Leedroid overnight but I will take a good look at this one as well, would be cool to be on Android 10 if its stable.
Thanks!

Oh spoke to soon:
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Known Issues:
the same as for LOS 17.1 thread
"
LOS thread:
Known Issues:
On dual SIM devices, a SIM cannot be re-enabled once it has been disabled
VOIP calling (problem with the microphone when making VOIP phone calls using Viber, Skype, Telegram, Facebook)
Wi-Fi calling (checked it for mcc="310" mnc="260" only, but I cant check it for me. My carrier supports Volte only for our device and VOLTE works fine for me)
SeLinux permissive (will be fixed when the bugs are fixed)
You tell me
That's why I was going to stay away from LOS, I use VOIP calling as well as WIFI calling. Are you not having those issues?

To be honest I dont use these features so I don't know. you can send a message to the developer and ask him. if these are solved then just put the rom. if not choose another.

So leedroid started out great, after a week I'm having issues again, things are sluggish, a few times apps force close.
I was going to try viperU but downloads no longer available.
Not sure if I should try another kernel or what.
I'm starting to think my phone is just dying. Been three years now, the SD card reader is broken so maybe other things inside are busted as well. The first few days of leedroid was wonderful. Same things happen after a factory reset to stock, works great for a time, then slowly starts to degrade.
Maybe its time to move on ='( I'm eying the pixel 4a 5g because I'm sick of manufacturers abandoning older devices, my Dad has a nexus 6 that still works to this day, I replaced the battery for him 2 years ago since it wasnt lasting long and it gave it new life.
Should I keep trying new roms or give up hope?
Lineage seems to have a host of issues, and I need wifi calling and video calling in mesenger which it lists as issues.

I was on custom ROM since day one. It was working great all the time. Since Jan I'm back on stock ROM. I'm excited about how well the phone is doing since. The biggest benefit is battery life. It is almost like a new phone. Of course, some root settings is missing but it fades out. My Favs after HTC is the Sony Xperia 5ii, it still has sd card or Nubia Red Magic 6 maybe, it is more powerfull but I can wait till the end of the year. It is because the SD 888 has the wifi module included which make it more efficient compared to the SD 865 if I understand it right.
When I was back on Stock tried to lock the bootloader I had to go back to a custom ROM to do so. The only one which works with the new firmware was "ROM 9 unofficial pixel experience" at this time, it seems it is a clean ROM in my short view. It is an option maybe. Good luck.