Which Rom? - Droid X General

Hey guys im coming over from the captivate and they have some nice roms on there. I was wondering what the best rom for Droid X is? im Not looking for total speed im looking for usability and functions. also Is there a tutorial on how to do it? i remember using Clockwork on Captivate

First your gonna need the droid x bootstrap which you can get from the market to load a rom. Are you rooted? As for a rom I've been running gummyjar and I am very happy.
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Yes i am rooted and what does gummyjar offer differently because i actually like the stock but i do get addicted to change

gkallivrousis said:
Yes i am rooted and what does gummyjar offer differently because i actually like the stock but i do get addicted to change
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apex 1.3.1 offers the best of both worlds ,,,it has just enough of the blur components while taking out the useless stuff...its fast and very stable and i highly reccomend it

myboygino said:
First your gonna need the droid x bootstrap which you can get from the market to load a rom. Are you rooted? As for a rom I've been running gummyjar and I am very happy.
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I like gummyjar right now too, but if you like stock, load up apex. I was using apex before and it is very good.
I like the aosp feel of gummyjar better personally because I used to use a nexus one with cm. Anyway, I don't think you can go wrong with apex or gummyjar.
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+1 for apex if you want a highly stable and easy install. I just switched from the stock rom to apex and could not be happier. Talk about fast!
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+1 Gummy Jar
I just installed Gummy Jar and it's very fast. Highly recommended

This doesnt really help haha some say gummy others say apex. anyone have experience with both? ill read up on both of them now and decide.

gkallivrousis said:
This doesnt really help haha some say gummy others say apex. anyone have experience with both? ill read up on both of them now and decide.
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Go Fission!! Haha

Try apex for a day, backup, try gummy for a day... go from there
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do either of these build maintain the voice control that is stock in the droid x? I recently switched to the droid x from the droid and one of the things I most love is the voice control over bluetooth works and is very good. This is the one feature I'm most not wanting to loose.
Also I'm having a bit of a problem. I rooted my phone. I installed rommanager and loaded clockwork. Then I tried to backup my rom but the phone just reboots. I went into rommanager and tried to reboot into recovery and again it just reboots.
Is this a known issue? I have not dug around too much on it. How do you reboot manually into recovery on the droid x.
thanks

I am a long time phone flasher, and the ROM that I have had on each phone in the past has just been flatout horrible. So in anticipation for receiving my new DroidX phone in the mail, I started amassing tools and rom file downloads, and bookmarking how-to pages (since every phone flash process is different)...then I got the actual phone I realized that the stock ROM is amazing. Of course, I am coming from a VX6900 that ran Donut via NAND, but I still do not see how the stock ROM could be any faster.
I use Advanced Task Killer, that automatically kills apps when the screen backlight goes out and at any given time when I turn on the phone, I always have 200MB or higher in free memory. I guess I need to know if anyone else has run the stock ROM with Advanced Task Killer, and would still describe it as "slow". I would not describe this as slow...I am literally never waiting on the phone to do something, it keeps up with everything I do, and I have installed about 30 apps/games, I swipe back and forth between apps a lot and use the back/home button quite a bit without closing things. So while I REALLY want to flash, I cannot find a good reason to do it (which is actually a first for me since owning a flash-able phone).
If anyone can weigh in I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

fission or gummyjar. period.

crobs808 said:
I am a long time phone flasher, and the ROM that I have had on each phone in the past has just been flatout horrible. So in anticipation for receiving my new DroidX phone in the mail, I started amassing tools and rom file downloads, and bookmarking how-to pages (since every phone flash process is different)...then I got the actual phone I realized that the stock ROM is amazing. Of course, I am coming from a VX6900 that ran Donut via NAND, but I still do not see how the stock ROM could be any faster.
I use Advanced Task Killer, that automatically kills apps when the screen backlight goes out and at any given time when I turn on the phone, I always have 200MB or higher in free memory. I guess I need to know if anyone else has run the stock ROM with Advanced Task Killer, and would still describe it as "slow". I would not describe this as slow...I am literally never waiting on the phone to do something, it keeps up with everything I do, and I have installed about 30 apps/games, I swipe back and forth between apps a lot and use the back/home button quite a bit without closing things. So while I REALLY want to flash, I cannot find a good reason to do it (which is actually a first for me since owning a flash-able phone).
If anyone can weigh in I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
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If you think it seems fast now, wait till you flash a custom ROM... and also, all task killer apps do is slow your phone down.
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them

pCarson92 said:
If you think it seems fast now, wait till you flash a custom ROM... and also, all task killer apps do is slow your phone down.
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
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What a terrible article. No empirical evidence at all...just opinion and conjecture based on....what? Nothing. The user's conclusion is to reboot your phone multiple times a day or just uninstall any apps that do not come with the phone. Is he serious? Since I installed this specific task killer app (yes I tried a lot of them) I only have to reboot my phone about once a week. What a poorly written article. No research at all.
I will definitely try the custom rom route. I can always go back to stock I guess.

Fission, Apex, GummyJar are all great options. I have backups for all 3 of them.

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Flashed my 1st ROM today (Very Exciting:) Have a ?

Today I flashed my 1st ROM (MYN's Warm 2.2) very exciting and exhilirating. I also downloaded HTC Kernel #17. I used Unrevoked 3 to get superuser and used My Backup Pro to backup. I used this guys instructions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvWcIBcZvxw
Everything seem to go fine. I did what he said and wiped Dalvik and Cache after I installed Myn's ROM. Will that automatically install the HTC Kernel #17 after a reboot or do I have to manually do that like I installed the ROM in Recovery. Also what does the Kernel do? I follow you guys alot on XDA and you guys are VERY HELPFUL. Thanks for any help
Also, what are some other cool ROM's. I can see this becoming an addiction
Myn's ROM comes with the HTC #17 kernel already, so you don't have to flash it. If you'd like to install a kernel though, it would be flashed the same way as the ROM.
The kernel is the primary system components of the OS.
Thanks for your quick reply. After I installed Myn's ROM I wiped Cache and Dalvik again, will this hurt me and will I need to install MYN's ROM again. Everything seems to be working fine.
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Thanks for your quick reply. After I installed Myn's ROM I wiped Cache and Dalvik again, will this hurt me and will I need to install MYN's ROM again. Everything seems to be working fine.
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Everything is fine. The Dalvik cache is built upon first boot of a new system. You wipe it after installing a new rom to remove the remnants from the old one. You can wipe the dalvik as much as you want honestly, it's just going to make your next reboot take longer because of having to build the dalvik up again
Cool. Thanks. This whole flashing ROM's is pretty darn cool.
Welcome to the club!
Myn is a very popular ROM for good reason. Another popular ROM is CyanogenMod 6.1. It is missing 4G and HDMI at the moment, but the team is working on getting those included. A lot of people swear by it!
I have heard about CyanogenMod 6.1, but keep reading good things about MYN's Warm 2.2. So far so good
No need to change if you are happy with what ya' got!
I know a dude who has the Fresh ROM and when he turns his EVO to landscape and if he is ion Apps, they will turn landscape as well. That's really nice
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Also, what are some other cool ROM's. I can see this becoming an addiction
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Addicting indeed!!!
I just flashed my first last week, I think I flashed my 4th ROM this past w/e but I wound up going back to the 2nd one. I've tried the following ROM's if you're interested??:
- MIUI (12.3) Awesome ROM, imho, but it was somewhat buggy still related to MMS, receiving voicemails and 4G no worky. It DOES have some really cool features built into it that most other ROM's you'd have to download the app for it's features.
- Evo NonSense (3.3) I really like this ROM too, somewhat similar to the stock but has a cooler look and like the way it navigates via ADW.
- Myn (RLS4) I liked this ROM but, honestly, was a little let down by it's simple layout, I think the hype I've been reading about Myn ROM's got me a little over anxious........lol.
- CyanogenMod (6.1) I think I had this one up and running the shortest, it didnt really do much for me but I will admit that I think I was in too grumpy of a mood possibly so I might try it again. The biggest reason for it's short lived existence is the lack of 4G, like a few others above.
I wound up going back to Evo NonSense just cuz I like the way it navigates around, the slide lock screen and overall look/appeal of it. I'm about to upload it's latest version.....
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Everything is fine. The Dalvik cache is built upon first boot of a new system.
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Man, thanks for that explanation, I was unaware of it's importance since I didnt know what it really did.
Not to raid the O/P thread but I think the answer might benefit him as well. One thing that I've noticed jumping around different ROM's is that I lose important information cached in my Apps. Is there anyway to recover that information from the back up and reinstall on a freshly installed ROM?
For an ex. I use PasswordSafe Lite to store all my important pw's and account info......I just noticed when I sync'ed up to AppBrain the information is gonzo.......is there anyway to avoid this from happening or backing it up or actually getting into a backed up copy to copy n paste that data in???
TIA!
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I know a dude who has the Fresh ROM and when he turns his EVO to landscape and if he is ion Apps, they will turn landscape as well. That's really nice
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that's pretty normal. I don't think the early Sprint roms did that, but I think the later ones do. Also pretty much any other launcher you install will do the same thing.
I keep hearing about launchers (like launcher pro). What do they do and do you install them like a ROM? What is a good Launcher?
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I keep hearing about launchers (like launcher pro). What do they do and do you install them like a ROM?
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They allow you to use a different launcher other than sense, which means you can customize it to your hearts content also you can do landscape mode which is what you are after. Launcher pro and adw are the most popular I prefer launcher pro but try them both out for yourself also they are both found in the android market which means you dont have to flash them like roms or kernels GL man if you need anymore help pm me bro
Thanks bro. I just dl'ed Launcher Pro. Will try it out. I do LOVE that loop scrolling. That's really cool
Edit: Quick question. One of the main things I like about HTC Sense is the Flip Clock with My Location and Temp. I don't see a Clock Widget for Launcher Pro. Is there a clock like this for launcher pro? thx
You want fancy widget my friend. Sense style clicks for launcher pro. You can get it in the market.
Or even better go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853832 there and get a cool themed one from the third post care of stoney 666!
xfbo said:
Addicting indeed!!!
I just flashed my first last week, I think I flashed my 4th ROM this past w/e but I wound up going back to the 2nd one. I've tried the following ROM's if you're interested??:
- MIUI (12.3) Awesome ROM, imho, but it was somewhat buggy still related to MMS, receiving voicemails and 4G no worky. It DOES have some really cool features built into it that most other ROM's you'd have to download the app for it's features.
- Evo NonSense (3.3) I really like this ROM too, somewhat similar to the stock but has a cooler look and like the way it navigates via ADW.
- Myn (RLS4) I liked this ROM but, honestly, was a little let down by it's simple layout, I think the hype I've been reading about Myn ROM's got me a little over anxious........lol.
- CyanogenMod (6.1) I think I had this one up and running the shortest, it didnt really do much for me but I will admit that I think I was in too grumpy of a mood possibly so I might try it again. The biggest reason for it's short lived existence is the lack of 4G, like a few others above.
I wound up going back to Evo NonSense just cuz I like the way it navigates around, the slide lock screen and overall look/appeal of it. I'm about to upload it's latest version.....
Man, thanks for that explanation, I was unaware of it's importance since I didnt know what it really did.
Not to raid the O/P thread but I think the answer might benefit him as well. One thing that I've noticed jumping around different ROM's is that I lose important information cached in my Apps. Is there anyway to recover that information from the back up and reinstall on a freshly installed ROM?
For an ex. I use PasswordSafe Lite to store all my important pw's and account info......I just noticed when I sync'ed up to AppBrain the information is gonzo.......is there anyway to avoid this from happening or backing it up or actually getting into a backed up copy to copy n paste that data in???
TIA!
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Titanium backup will backup all apps eith data so you can transition inbetween roms with little to no setup.
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You want fancy widget my friend. Sense style clicks for launcher pro. You can get it in the market.
Or even better go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853832 there and get a cool themed one from the third post care of stoney 666!
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Thanks bro. Appreciate the help. I will check it out now
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Titanium backup will backup all apps eith data so you can transition inbetween roms with little to no setup.
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Thanks a lot!
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I used My Backup Pro and it backs up Apps and Data as well. It will backup to your SD Card OR their Servers
This ROM is eating battery quickly I have the 3500mah battery and as soon as I take it off of AC Charge it drops 5% in a matter of a couple of minutes and drops 10% in about 10 minutes. On stock it would take about an hour to drop 10% (this is all without doing anything). I am doing the same as before, nothing has changed other than I put on this ROM. Anyone have any suggestions?

Holding off on GB

Am I the only one who is holding off on GB?
I personally hate flashing. I try to do it as little as possible. I like having a smooth stable ROM, and as long as it's stable, I'm pretty happy.
Right now, I'm tempted to flash mainly because I'm having issues with my GPS getting a lock, but I know as soon as Liberty releases a GB ROM, I'll want to reflash.
It's just a pain to me to wipe, install the rom, redownload apps (I have horrid reception in my apt and WiFi has always seemed buggy), reset ringtones, notifications, app settings. It's just a pain in the behind, so I try to do it as little as possible.
I see all the Gingerbread hype, I'd just rather wait for Liberty or Apex GB.
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Am I the only one who is holding off on GB?
I personally hate flashing. I try to do it as little as possible. I like having a smooth stable ROM, and as long as it's stable, I'm pretty happy.
Right now, I'm tempted to flash mainly because I'm having issues with my GPS getting a lock, but I know as soon as Liberty releases a GB ROM, I'll want to reflash.
It's just a pain to me to wipe, install the rom, redownload apps (I have horrid reception in my apt and WiFi has always seemed buggy), reset ringtones, notifications, app settings. It's just a pain in the behind, so I try to do it as little as possible.
I see all the Gingerbread hype, I'd just rather wait for Liberty or Apex GB.
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I'm polar opposite. I like new things and challenges.
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I'm polar opposite. I like new things and challenges.
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I agree. My DX just came today. Couldn't beat the price. As soon as i get off work I'm rooting that sucker! Putting GB on asap. Love tinkering.
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I also have been waiting but this is because I have bricked my phone beyond repair once and gotten to the point where all I could do is sbf twice. And if you haven't done it, SBF'ing is a pain in the ass. So I like to make sure that things are going to work before I try it
You could always use titanium backup for your app settings, also you won't have to redownload your apps each time. I jumped right to gingerbread as soon as I could, and I'm loving it. I've never had a problem with flashing roms. Really not that big of a deal to me.
If you want to hold out, that's on you, but believe me, it's well worth the upgrade. MotoBlur on gingerbread is really quite bearable, and it's growing on me.
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See now, I didn't know that Titanium backed up apps...I'll have to read up on it. I too haven't flashed because I hate redoing my setup. I like the idea of a couple of GB features though (like the sliding text editor ) so its been tempting.
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Yeah, Titanium backs up apps, but more importantly (or just as importantly, I suppose), it backs up application data too, so then you have settings maintained across roms. It saves everything to your SD card so you'll always have it. Also, if you like to save text messages, search SMS Backup & Restore in the market. It's free and very useful.
In my opinion, using Titanium free becomes tedious, and it's well worth the money for the pro version.
I've been using the new Gingerbread rom, extremly stable and fast. I can't imagine the speed with out the bloat ware.
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No need to hold back we got rootz baby!
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I am waiting. No real hurry to flash anything. I've tried Liberty, Apex, etc...I like the stock rom with root and Launcher Pro ..I obtain the best battery life using it and controlling the cpu/battery/voltage the way I want.
When GB OTA comes out I will update it. Not sure how my phone can get any faster...everything opens and moves instantly now..especially with Launcher Pro.
Bone stock with 2.2 I was hitting 1450 with Quadrant benchmark, 2.3 stock I am hitting 1750. Nice!
Messaging widget is cool. Some other nice stuff also.
IM waiting for more work to be done to it.
The only thing I backup is Angry Birds Scores... 3 stars on all levels and all golden eggs !
I don't really need to save settings otherwise, other than ringtones. I just hate reconfiguring it.
I guess I just don't have a whole lot of stuff to tinker with things like I used to. I might wait for the OTA as well just to make sure I don't have any issues like others did when they used the leaked SBF.
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IM waiting for more work to be done to it.
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What work?
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What work?
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What, you don't think any developers are gonna play with it?
After reading of all the "issues" with GB (rooted and non) on various sites, I'm thinking I'll just wait for DS 4.3 or even DS GB! I'm currently using Rubix Focused but that's mainly because the email app in Rubix works with my Hotmail account and the dialer actually knows how to enter my VM password after it connects. I really like DS and miss it but I've grown spoiled not having to read my Hotmail messages twice. I'm toying with the idea of replacing the email.apk in DS with the one in Rubix but being fairly new with the Android stuff, I don't know what that entails and how bad I could mess things up (though I guess I could SBF and reinstall (and yes, I do have several backups)). All the stuff I'm reading makes me think that GB is not quite ready for prime time, but again that's my exceedingly humble opinion.
I have seen on numerous forums all the " how do I fix" questions. I will wait. I will flash when the dust settles. Liberty 1.5 is really smooth right now. Just my 2cents.
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I am just glad that GB is out. I will wait for the over the air, and then for it to get rooted.
Untill then, rubix focused 2.0.1 kicks butt. I don't mind flashing, but I remember when froyo dropped and everyone was sbf'n and having problems etc.
patience, when there is a Rubix like Gingerbread rom, my X will be complete
Titatnium won't restore a bunch of stuff on GB.
Don't rely on it to do your restore. Almost every application had to be re-downloaded from the Marketplace.
Lost all my game settings.. 8-(
Also if you like NFS, it doesn't work.
Also OliveTree Bible reader doesn't either.
Home switcher is broken, if you like to run multiple Launchers.
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Titatnium won't restore a bunch of stuff on GB.
Don't rely on it to do your restore. Almost every application had to be re-downloaded from the Marketplace.
Lost all my game settings.. 8-(
Also if you like NFS, it doesn't work.
Also OliveTree Bible reader doesn't either.
Home switcher is broken, if you like to run multiple Launchers.
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Titanium won't restore some system data because the version increase. Otherwise, it restored all of the applications that I had backed up.
If you like to run multiple launchers, use Home Smack. Seems to still function well in GB.
This GB leak isn't quite ready for prime-time, but is very good. Noticeable performance increase, and I was already having a good time with Fission rom. I can't wait to see how fast it is when developers kill the blur bloat.

com.htc.bgp is chewing up battery and CPU!

Okay, I searched A TON on this, and while I found posts on this forum and others that address it, the accepted solution doesn't seem to be working for me. In my battery usage panel, htc.com.bgp is always near the top of the list. After the battery usage panel loads, htc.com.bgp turns into "Calendar", and when I click on it I see that there are many many different things "packaged" within it. Anyway, the consensus in other threads seems to be "clear cache for gmail and calendar" which I've done and it has no effect. It is consistently ALWAYS at the top of battery drainers, and sometimes goes above threshold (via Watchdog).
So...does anyone have any more info on what might be causing this, and how to stop it? I actually use my calendar so deleting it isn't an option, and ideally I don't want to completely disable sync, but I will if I must. There must be a way to just use the calendar as it was intended without eating up 20% of the battery usage!! Anyway, a little background on where I am in case it has an effect, I'm perm-rooted, s=off, still running stock, but with LPP as my launcher, and the only system tweaks I've made are installing faux's kernel and setting up setCPU, and doing a battery mod. But since rooting, the htc.com.bgp thing seems to have become a bigger issue. Any ideas?
Is this process strictly tied to the calendar? What happens if you're using a different calendar?
This probably isn't the answer you want to hear, but one solution is to flash a custom ROM that doesn't have any of HTC's overlay on it, but I suppose you're sticking to stock for a reason.
I'm stickin to my guns here by saying that stock Rom doesn't play well with root..
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Wow, I hadn't even considered or heard that the stock rom doesn't work well with root, but it makes sense when I think about it because ever since rooting my phone has been a little wackier than normal. Freezes up sometimes, and battery hasn't been great at all. The main reason I hadn't flashed a new rom yet was because since I'm running LPP I didn't think it really mattered what rom I was on...but I may just flash Cyanogen7 and then run LPP over that if you think it'd make that big a difference. Certainly worth a shot! Thanks for the tips guys.
Don't want to beat a dead horse, but just had to come back and say that I've flashed cm7, and so far my phone seems to be operating MUCH better, with LPP running over it. Thanks for the tip about stock not playing nice with root!!
stock rom is pretty trash with the mysense..
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stock rom is pretty trash with the mysense..
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Yes and no. Some people really like it and there are definitely some features which even I miss now that I'm on CM7 (I personally liked the contacts app on sense). What kills it for me is the framework and everything that has to run in the background in order for all that to work. I like ROMs under 100MB.
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Yes and no. Some people really like it and there are definitely some features which even I miss now that I'm on CM7 (I personally liked the contacts app on sense). What kills it for me is the framework and everything that has to run in the background in order for all that to work. I like ROMs under 100MB.
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This +1. I actually liked a lot of aspects about mysense, like the contacts app you mentioned, as well as the dialer in general. But the benefits of switching to AOSP have so far greatly outweighed the negatives. I'm happy to trade down on the dialer/contacts and a couple other things in exchange for an overall smoother, faster experience with what seems so far to be much better battery life.
I can say this is a problem for non-rooted, stock MT4G as well. Has nothing to do with root. No one has been able to identify a source of the problem or a solution from what I have found.
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I'm stickin to my guns here by saying that stock Rom doesn't play well with root..
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Nah, i seemed see more issues with gfree posted, i used visionary and the stock rom works great.
*edit: radio s-on is stock rom friendly. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9540801&postcount=29
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[SUPPORT/REVIEW THREAD] WanHU 2.2.1 with Mioze7Ae Patch

Okay, I'm creating this thread so that all users can post their experiences/bugs here because its annoying some of the devs when people post questions in the dev threads. So all you guys like me who need to ask questions or talk about this ROM please post here. I hope they will be kind enough here to answer everyones questions.
I flashed this ROM 3 days ago and I have to say im pretty goddamned impressed. A few words and questions.
First off, I love the stock look from 2.1. 6 Bars for signals, stock moto launcher. That has got to be the most important for me because everytime I flashed a froyo build the launcher would include just the app drawer and no dialer or message buttons like in stock 2.1. The haptic feedback is crisp and works in a few places. Like the dialer and 4 buttons below. The thing I love most about this ROM is is the built in moto LED notifications. I always missed that on the froyo builds and tried using apps like LEDme now and others but it just didnt cut it. The media button works. Its really fast and overclocked its a beauty. The only problem I found with the dialer was the number format and I dont know WHY that should be a problem for anyone. A cool thing I noticed with the dialer was you can block calls from inside the dialer. Love the stock appearance. Okay I dont know what issues you guys have with SMS. All I did was install keyboard for gingerbread longpressed the text input space and chose the input method. It replaced the stock keyboard and everything is fine. The SMS has nice solid black background compared to the grey in dexters and CB's which I assume saves battery. Also you have extra SMS options like pop ups. All apps work great and fast. Over clocked at 1000 mhz, 74 vsel it works as a charm. I use autokiller at moderate and never felt any lessening of RAM or slowing of the phone. About the APN settings yes I cant choose them but for some reason it picked up the settings itself and my data connection is active. I have an unlimited plan so its always on, for those who dont theres a power control app called switch pro you can turn off data along with another bunch of functions. Its basically an extended power control menu. It also has a nice UI. Camera works nicely and over all I just love the stock feel. I have had no signal problems its actually really good. WIFI signals are keeping well even though my router is far away and with froyo I used to get only 1 bar. Apps like Google+ work nicely.
Issues/Questions: I fastbooted into fjfalcons boot4.img. For some reason it became really slow and I had to reboot without it and now its fine. In set CPU half of my swap was active without even running any apps. I use 91 mb linux swap on my SD card like in reverends video from the old khal rom days. Besides that I want to ask about the super sleep mode button, what does it do? When do i activate it? How does it work? etc. By the way im using M7's patch with extended menu's. Umm besides that I tried installing root explorer but it already has its own korean RE, and I cant install root explorer on top because it says system app cant remove. Theres also another browser which in in korean but I just ignored that.
Besides that I have had no Issues with this ROM. Seems very solid and suitable for everyday use. I flashed directly from CB's froyo without reformatting my SD. All my apps were preserved and I had no issues booting this ROM up. I did loose the calvin bootloader img in the start which is now replaced by the official moto M and a sexy T logo after works. All in all I feel this is a keeper, after trying literally every ROM on this forum atleast 2 dozen times. Thats my review as a normal moderate user. I don't play many hardcore games and use my phone for calling, sms, browsing and photos.
Please post your opinions and experiences. And any bugs. Thanks!
How is it's speed compared to miui? does it beat miui?
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It feels like an official update from moto
If the dialer and messaging were fixed (americanized), I bet cincy bell would backtrack and call this the official update, especially with a swype keyboard.
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Just curious, does swype really feels that great? Cos im using swiftkey and i feel that i type much better there :/
I'm not a huge fan of swype. My favorite keyboard actually is the stock gingerbread keyboard. I really fly with that one.
Swype is perfect for me when it understands my words correctly.
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cancrippler said:
Swype is perfect for me when it understands my words correctly.
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Yeah, well that's kind of the issue. Sometimes works well and types fast, other times it misses my words. Too many misses makes the gingerbread keyboard my default for speed and reliability.
But Swype also lets you type normally as well as swype to type.
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spectacle said:
How is it's speed compared to miui? does it beat miui?
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I think the speed is comparable to miui, but its way more stable with very few reboots or any other problems. Could someone comment on the battery life? I'm getting a day with low use. I flashed from the CB Froyo does that make any difference if I don't flash 2.1 Korean first. Kernel issues?
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Nice review! But how did you get LED-notifications to work? They don't work here w/o LEDmeknow.
Battery life here is somewhere between 2.1 stock and 2.2-ROMS on here.
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Nice review! But how did you get LED-notifications to work? They don't work here w/o LEDmeknow.
Battery life here is somewhere between 2.1 stock and 2.2-ROMS on here.
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It was in the display options. LED Notifications and periodic notifications just like in 2.1. After I selected them I got the flashing 4 bottom LED's which would stop after a few seconds and restart every 4-5 minutes.
My battery life for me sucked bad even after calibration, so I flashed stock 2.1 signapore sbf to see if that changes anything. I heard there are kernel issues if you dont go back to stock. Also memory leaks.
sohrab.naushad said:
Okay, I'm creating this thread so that all users can post their experiences/bugs here because its annoying some of the devs when people post questions in the dev threads. So all you guys like me who need to ask questions or talk about this ROM please post here. I hope they will be kind enough here to answer everyones questions.!
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Im being an annoying DEV because of morons that post **** like this in a thread about a Deving from 2.1 stock to WanHu's then applying the Deved patches.
Ps..I installed wanhu straight over dex 1.3 and was working perfect straight from the start...or so I thought ...I think cos I used mybackup and saved and then restored "system settings" in the upgrade process.
Im on stock 2.1 and rooted, i use link2sd too. i also see
And on and on.... no relevance.
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Im being an annoying DEV because of morons that post **** like this in a thread about a Deving from 2.1 stock to WanHu's then applying the Deved patches.
Ps..I installed wanhu straight over dex 1.3 and was working perfect straight from the start...or so I thought ...I think cos I used mybackup and saved and then restored "system settings" in the upgrade process.
Im on stock 2.1 and rooted, i use link2sd too. i also see
And on and on.... no relevance.
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Relax. He didn't say you were annoying, he respects you guys and doesn't want to annoy you in that thread.
I for one can't wait till you guys get the phone numbers fixed. This rom will rock!
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hellmonger said:
Im being an annoying DEV because of morons that post **** like this in a thread about a Deving from 2.1 stock to WanHu's then applying the Deved patches.
Ps..I installed wanhu straight over dex 1.3 and was working perfect straight from the start...or so I thought ...I think cos I used mybackup and saved and then restored "system settings" in the upgrade process.
Im on stock 2.1 and rooted, i use link2sd too. i also see
And on and on.... no relevance.
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Lol, im sorry but I didn't understand whether you're happy or pissed off about this thread. Hopefully its the former, and thanks again for all the good work!
Just a small update. I was getting really crappy battery life, so I decided to flash the stock singapore SBF and then reflash WanHu's ROM. I took it right from scratch. Root with Universal android root which is so much easier than superoneclick. I tried superoneclick though and it didnt work, maybe because i was trying to do it under MONO in linux. After that I applied the Mioz Patch!
Okay here's where the weirdness starts. First all you guys must remember that annoying ugly korean keyboard and the weird gestures keyboard in the sms, well after the sbf flash my ROM has kept its old android 2.1 keyboard WITH the original haptic feedback. This wasnt there when I flashed directly from the CB froyo. Also Im getting haptic feedback on long touch in the homescreen along with the 4 LED buttons.
Hope this helps. Im going to do some more exploring!
EDIT: Okay so the keyboard is FC on me. It was fine when I was putting in my google info
sohrab.naushad said:
Just a small update. I was getting really crappy battery life, so I decided to flash the stock singapore SBF and then reflash WanHu's ROM. I took it right from scratch. Root with Universal android root which is so much easier than superoneclick. I tried superoneclick though and it didnt work, maybe because i was trying to do it under MONO in linux. After that I applied the Mioz Patch!
Okay here's where the weirdness starts. First all you guys must remember that annoying ugly korean keyboard and the weird gestures keyboard in the sms, well after the sbf flash my ROM has kept its old android 2.1 keyboard WITH the original haptic feedback. This wasnt there when I flashed directly from the CB froyo. Also Im getting haptic feedback on long touch in the homescreen along with the 4 LED buttons.
Hope this helps. Im going to do some more exploring!
EDIT: Okay so the keyboard is FC on me. It was fine when I was putting in my google info
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I get haptic feedback with long press now over the cbw sbf. And I have 3 and a half out of the 4 flashing led's. I think he said the only thing that won't work without flashing over korean sbf was the tv out. I don't currently use tv out (no cable) but i plan too so can you test this for us bud?
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I get haptic feedback with long press now over the cbw sbf. And I have 3 and a half out of the 4 flashing led's. I think he said the only thing that won't work without flashing over korean sbf was the tv out. I don't currently use tv out (no cable) but i plan too so can you test this for us bud?
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Sure ill test it out for you in a day or two
sohrab.naushad said:
Lol, im sorry but I didn't understand whether you're happy or pissed off about this thread. Hopefully its the former, and thanks again for all the good work!
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Nah im not mad Bro, it's a good idea actually
Can you add some screenshots?

[Q] Help! Setup Wiz Crashes after Factory Reset!

I just rooted my (R2-D2) Droid 2 two days ago using the app z4root (via 4shared). I'm on stock 2.2 (and by that I mean what came on the phone, so it's actually a light Blur 2.2)
Then I wanted to get rid of some of the bloatware, so I downloaded Bloat Freezer (still available on the Market) to do that. After freezing whatever apps I saw fit, I returned to see my homescreen black. I did some research and apparently this stems from "freezing" something to do with MotoBlur. I know for sure that I froze "Files" and "AccountSync", which apparently caused this problem with other people.
Supposedly a factor reset would fix it, but it didn't. So that's why I'm here.
So first I tried a normal reboot. That didn't work. Then I did a factory reset. I got all the way through the Setup Wizard, and then it took me back to the "Touch the Android to Begin" screen instead of closing to the home screen like normal. When I try to go through the Wizard again it crashes after syncing an account. I've tried three or four factory resets and this happens every time.
People had this problem while they were on other ROMs and supposedly flashing back to the original OS (not stock, but "stock" i.e. what Motorola put on the phone before), but I'm not on any other kind of ROM so I don't know if that would help.
Should I flash back to the original? Can I even do that if I haven't flashed an alternative ROM? Should I just try flashing to a different ROM (MIUI or Bugless Beast)? Can you even flash a ROM if you can't access most of the phone (the only things I have access to are my email [when the message icon pops up] and the hard reset menu thing)?
Note: Sorry if this isn't in the right thread, I couldn't figure out where to put malfunction type things. Mods can move it to where ever is appropriate. I also searched both XDA and the entire internet and either no one has this problem in the EXACT way I do (i.e. not on any special ROM) or the thread is extremely, extremely dead. So that's why I made the decision to post a new thread about it. Thanks!
Edit: I re-flashed my phone with RDS Lite, and while the homescreen is back it's extremely, extremely laggy. At first I thought it was broken again until I realized it was just taking so long to respond to my finger swipes. Right now it's trying to download 46 apps in the background, so I'll wait until that's done to try again. But I had faster responses even when everything was all broken and it was trying to install 46+ apps..
Those people were right. Find the .SBF file for your version of the Droid 2 and sbf back to "stock". That should fix you problem.
I'm in the process of RSDLite-ing right now, I wasn't sure if it would help though.. Stay tuned!
JJTheJetPlane5657 said:
I'm in the process of RSDLite-ing right now, I wasn't sure if it would help though.. Stay tuned!
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It should. Good luck.
Is this going to un-root my phone?
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Is this going to un-root my phone?
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I believe so. But it should be relatively easy to reroot.
UGH, IT TOOK AWAY MY R2-D2 BOOT ANIMATION......
Also, I noticed that you have the MIUI ROM. Do you feel like it performs better than stock? Faster? Sometimes I feel like the Blur-lite was a little laggy..
JJTheJetPlane5657 said:
UGH, IT TOOK AWAY MY R2-D2 BOOT ANIMATION......
Also, I noticed that you have the MIUI ROM. Do you feel like it performs better than stock? Faster? Sometimes I feel like the Blur-lite was a little laggy..
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Did you use the file specific to your phone? Either way, you should be able to get it back. Someone ripped out all the stuff from the R2D2 phone back when it came out. It's on the net somewhere.
I love Miui. It definitely performs better than stock and is much faster. I love the polished menu system and the included GB features are great. I especially love how you can customize practically everything. It has also greatly improved my battery life. I've been getting up to 20 hours on my standard extended battery. Good stuff. And if you don't like the iOSuck look of Miui, you can always download a different launcher (like ADW) and use that (like I did). Overall it performs surprisingly well considering it's on a locked phone.
(I've played with CM7 on my Incredible and PE on my now retired OG Droid. Miui definitely performs better.)
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Did you use the file specific to your phone? Either way, you should be able to get it back. Someone ripped out all the stuff from the R2D2 phone back when it came out. It's on the net somewhere.
I love Miui. It definitely performs better than stock and is much faster. I love the polished menu system and the included GB features are great. I especially love how you can customize practically everything. It has also greatly improved my battery life. I've been getting up to 20 hours on my standard extended battery. Good stuff. And if you don't like the iOSuck look of Miui, you can always download a different launcher (like ADW) and use that (like I did). Overall it performs surprisingly well considering it's on a locked phone.
(I've played with CM7 on my Incredible and PE on my now retired OG Droid. Miui definitely performs better.)
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Well apparently not.. I'll have to try and find the boot animation again.
And yeah, a lot of people have been saying the stuff about the battery life.. Have you ever tried Bugless Beast? Because that's the other ROM I'm stuck between. So I'm not sure which one is performing better on people's Droids
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Well apparently not.. I'll have to try and find the boot animation again.
And yeah, a lot of people have been saying the stuff about the battery life.. Have you ever tried Bugless Beast? Because that's the other ROM I'm stuck between. So I'm not sure which one is performing better on people's Droids
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I haven't used it yet, but I have heard good things. I probably will try it at one point though.
Like others have told me, you're just going to have to try them and see for youself. Different people have different experiences so it is difficult to determine which is better without some kind of experience with them.
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Is MIUI all in English now? I know about a year ago there were sill some things in Chinese (like the call button for example). From the pictures they showed on the official site of the Droid 2 port it looked pretty English, but I can't really find much more information on it than that..
JJTheJetPlane5657 said:
Is MIUI all in English now? I know about a year ago there were sill some things in Chinese (like the call button for example). From the pictures they showed on the official site of the Droid 2 port it looked pretty English, but I can't really find much more information on it than that..
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Yeah it got fully translated. It's all english. And very polished.

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