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Did anyone recieve the NEW UPDATE yet?

if it isnt gonna come out then i'm gonna root my phone.

the update being? the only one i can think of is the T-MO market

if you wanna wait, wait til spring

The OTA update to Android 2.0? That's still a rumor at this point.

it was just confirmed today that the g1 and mytouch are getting android 2.0 by the end of january.

markshield07 said:
it was just confirmed today that the g1 and mytouch are getting android 2.0 by the end of january.
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Source? 10 Characters

pjcforpres said:
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Best evidence so for http://www.androidguys.com/2010/01/...m_campaign=Feed:+androidguyscom+(AndroidGuys)

That seems reliable...

So did Toyota
In the past the rumors have rarely been reliable in regards to timing, so I wont be holding my breath. The Eclair roms that are available in the developers section work very well for now

That's definitely the most trustworthy-looking 2.x rumor so far. However, I won't believe it until it's officially confirmed by T-Mobile USA.
What timing! Just after finally rooting and installing CyanogenMod, an official OTA for 2.0 might be right around the corner. I wonder what would be considered preferred by most XDA users...a good modded 1.6 ROM like CM, or an offical T-Mobile 2.0 ROM.

The good modded 1.6 roms have a lot of 2.0 in them. Really besides aesthetics and the hella cool live wallpapers there are not a lot of changes that are noticeable. Speed wise there doesnt seem to be any issues either- they seem about equal. Might as well wait unless your into testing out roms and such. I am, so I have to have the latest daily

If this comes out I might actually Un-Root and Force Update.

G1BRICKED said:
If this comes out I might actually Un-Root and Force Update.
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It will be on here faster than you can unroot and force update! No need to worry about unrooting so you can get the newest update, there will be a version within hours of the OTA's starting on XDA, and if history is anything to go by, they will probably have it on here a couple days early.

G1BRICKED said:
If this comes out I might actually Un-Root and Force Update.
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cyan or enom would have a update before you even put the RC29 onto your sd.

Ace42 said:
cyan or enom would have a update before you even put the RC29 onto your sd.
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Are you referring to a CyanogenMod build with 2.0, or simply a regular 2.0 dump put out by Cyanogen? I'm keeping my fingers crossed for CM with 2.0!!!

TeeJay3800 said:
a good modded 1.6 ROM like CM, or an offical T-Mobile 2.0 ROM.
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CM is not a good rom. It is bloated and slow.
Official rom is also not good. It lacks some basic necessities, like wired tether and apps-to-sd.
The preferred choice should be an AOSP 2.something build with minor kernel customizations, and using the drivers that will finally be available from the official rom.

I would stay with my un-rooted G1 if there was a simple app to let me put my apps on the SD.

Ace42 said:
cyan or enom would have a update before you even put the RC29 onto your sd.
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Don't remember this being the case when Donut was released. At least not the stable versions.

try manups 2.1 rom.
if you can do with out hd youtube and videorecording its faster than cyanogens latest. it's actually the first rom i've stuck with more than a day that isn't cyanogens.

Just to let you guys know the G2 is the Hero in Europe.
So if that post is true. The G1 and the Hero will be getting 2.0/2.1 and 2.0/2.1 sense by the end of january.

Which 2.XX Rom is the best so far? What are you using?

im currently running AOSP 1.6 rom with gbhil custom kernal with setcpu, I really wanna switch to a newer ROM im reading alot about.
1. flipz n toast 2.1 v1.8-7
2. darchstar Cyanogen (like) 2.0.1
3. darchstar AOSP 2.1
which seems to be the best ROM with the most features and close to everything working correctly?
What is everyone using?

BAttitude7689 said:
im currently running AOSP 1.6 rom with gbhil custom kernal with setcpu, I really wanna switch to a newer ROM im reading alot about.
1. flipz n toast 2.1 v1.8-7
2. darchstar Cyanogen (like) 2.0.1
3. darchstar AOSP 2.1
which seems to be the best ROM with the most features and close to everything working correctly?
What is everyone using?
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Still using fresh 1.1 Rom, going to try darchstar's AOSP 2.1 today. I will post when finished and let you know how it goes.

i won't use any 2.1 rom until the official comes out.

Now that multi touch and open gl is out thanks to toast, the sense 2.1 build has everything but the camara , mms receive at least for me it isnt working, and vvm
But I like the cyogen like 2.0.1 build a lot

I'm having problems in all of 'em. I like the live wallpapers, market, and maps of the AOSP 2.1, but there are quite a few bugs of things working then not working, then crashing, then working a little.
The Sense 2.1 is kinda nice, but no paid apps in the market and no live wallpapers.
I like the browser in AOSP more than the sense browser.
I haven't tried the 2.0 yet.
I don't think any of 'em are ready for prime-time. They're need, but all have critical issues.

official 2.1 is coming out soon, so I don't see much motivation to go for a custom 2.1 ROM.

Using darchstar's 2.1 right now and it is really fast!! The camera not to big of a deal(not working), But other than that should really give it a test try!!

ro_bro said:
official 2.1 is coming out soon, so I don't see much motivation to go for a custom 2.1 ROM.
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The date of release for sprint/htc 2.1 was pushed to 2H2010.

I'm using *LOOK IN SIG* right now. works great!

kel_o91 said:
The date of release for sprint/htc 2.1 was pushed to 2H2010.
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Really? I thought it was 1H2010 and then 2Q2010, which is practically the same damn thing....

Darkshneider said:
Really? I thought it was 1H2010 and then 2Q2010, which is practically the same damn thing....
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Aye, he's wrong, it's 2Q. I think I heard that sprint said it should be out next month.

kel_o91 said:
The date of release for sprint/htc 2.1 was pushed to 2H2010.
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nah, it was officially set at 2Q2010, which should be not too far off.
I agree with others, despite the massive amounts of work going into getting the kernels and roms working correctly, I will wait untill the official 2.1 as well...

wow either no one else here is trying Darchstar's 2.1 or 2.01 or im just lucky. I think his 2.1 is the best rom out, and I am including all the 1.5 and 1.6 roms in argument. Its my everyday rom, and I am a HEAVY user.

No camera = deal breaker for some.

no mms.. deal breaker.. But I use Sprint PIcture messaging website to get the missing pictures.. lol... and so I still use Darch's 2.1

the main purpose of the eclair i dev for is actually hopes of getting all hardware working in eclair with a .27 kernel. with that being said once sprint releases a 2.1 build for us we will be able to use a custom kernel in it. allowing for mods that extend beyond the build itself. the gsm hero devs know about this advantage as the .29 kernel they have runs slower then their .27 kernel in the builds. ive actually been passing my work on to lox as we fix things. trying to get them closer to a fully working 2.x build with .27 kernel under the hood also. all the 2.x builds will be buggy until we get atleast one official one to nab apps from and such. im thinking of the future right now. when sprint releases a rom and everyones pissed about source again. plus what we learn now will help us all later. i cant say one build is better then another. i guess its if u like sinse or aosp. or want this but not that. to me im just glad we are as far as we are. think about this... the dream guys dont even have opengl (as dream devs have come already looking to use our work) in their 2.x builds and the camera is half baked. also multitouch is a app hack. we have all but camera supported in a little .27 kernel and weve only had source for a few months. most said we wouldntve gotten this far in such little time. but we proved them all wrong.

I have been happy with every rom that I've found on this forum.
Gumbo 1.5c was the first I tried, and it was great. Some minor lag issues, but everything worked.
Now using toast + flips 2.1, and it's amazing. I miss my camera, but I'm not going to complain about it, because having multi touch and the consistency of how the phone runs is whats doing it for me. Thank god, I don't have to wait until Sprint releases one!

No offense to toast or anyone working on the 2.1 Sense ROM, but I tried it, and for me, it just didn't feel right. It was somehwat fast, but it did have moments of lag. Also, I didn't like all of the HTC stuff that came with it. I flashed darchstar's 2.1 AOSP, and WOW. It hit the spot. It's snappy because of the AOSP, and it has nothing "junky" in it. All I've done is flashed the HTC keyboard to it, and now it's wonderful Snappy, 2.1, AOSP, it's great. I don't really care about the live wallpapers, althought the Duck Hunt one was pretty nice.

tyrnight said:
no mms.. deal breaker.. But I use Sprint PIcture messaging website to get the missing pictures.. lol... and so I still use Darch's 2.1
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Can we access picture mail from our phone browser and how do you know when you get a new message?

I'd like to throw it out there that after removing HtcCopyright.apk from darchstar's 2.1 AOSP, I've gotten rid of a lot, if not all, lag from the ROM. The speed also got ridiculously faster.

AOSP Rom

Is there just a bug-free non cyanogen ASOP rom out right now, i am not feeling adventurous.
what im thinking is like a vanilla Ivans. I'm guessing there isn't one?

Framework's Senseless ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686870

Marisa said:
Framework's Senseless ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686870
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It buggy and I think there were things that dont work. Framework has never updated it, so I wouldn't expect any updates to what doesn't work.
I suggest giving cyanogen elb a try, it is the most complete aosp rom we have right now.
Kaosfroyo would be a good choice in the near future for you. In the next rev of kaosfroyo, he will prolly have more of the devices working. Right now all the things like wifi, bluetooth, camera and such arnt working yet.

ramseyja said:
It buggy and I think there were things that dont work. Framework has never updated it, so I wouldn't expect any updates to what doesn't work.
I suggest giving cyanogen elb a try, it is the most complete aosp rom we have right now.
Kaosfroyo would be a good choice in the near future for you. In the next rev of kaosfroyo, he will prolly have more of the devices working. Right now all the things like wifi, bluetooth, camera and such arnt working yet.
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Yeah, I have tried ELB, I like it, but it is still choppy and not smooth as i would like. yeah, I am waiting for the next rev of kaosfroyo, but i need something to hold me over, i guess i will stay with senseable.

Fresh (should be out very soon) supposedly has an aosp version.

I think the choppiness you describe is inherent with ADWLauncher that is included with CELB. I removed it and went to Launcher Pro. It can be choppy, but the latest update includes memory management that allows you to allocate how much memory the launcher uses. I also disable "wallpaper scroll" and it really brings it a lot closer to a Sense like experience. You could also add the original Android launcher or Launcher2.
Just some thoughts. It is the closest you are going to get to AOSP right now. I'm also waiting for KaosFroyo to get more stable.

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I think the choppiness you describe is inherent with ADWLauncher that is included with CELB. I removed it and went to Launcher Pro. It can be choppy, but the latest update includes memory management that allows you to allocate how much memory the launcher uses. I also disable "wallpaper scroll" and it really brings it a lot closer to a Sense like experience. You could also add the original Android launcher or Launcher2.
Just some thoughts. It is the closest you are going to get to AOSP right now. I'm also waiting for KaosFroyo to get more stable.
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I can vouch for this too, ADW on CELB was choppy for me as well. Simply installing LauncherPro fixed that. Other than that CELB has been pretty damn good to me as far as stability goes.
Senseless is good, as far as pure vanilla non Cyanogen roms go, it just hasn't been update in a while. That isn't a bad thing, there really isn't anything that it needs changed.

Hungry Man said:
Fresh (should be out very soon) supposedly has an aosp version.
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the devs won't be releasing it here on xda. All the whiny *****y people in their thread pissed them off. They were *****ing bc the dev delayed the promised update bc his truck broke down. Its just a phone. People really need to calm down around here. Eh back on topic, if you want the rom when available, see their blog. Sure their thread will give directions in the op on where to find it, unless they change their minds.

Froyo upgrade path for Google Ion (dev phone)?

So with T-Mobile releasing Froyo for Magic, is there an official Froyo update for ADP2 (Google Ion) from Google or HTC? Should one be expected?

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If you mean semi-officialy, there will soon. As you've deduced, the Mt3G is a rebranded magic, just like your ION. We're just waiting for someone to dump the ROM, so it can be packaged up ready to flash. You'll need root for that of course.
The Froyo source code has been out for a few months, so you could have installed Froyo ages ago. I'm currently using a community build on my magic, but I'm going to flash Tmo's build just to see if they've changed anything.
Personally I don't see Google or HTC releasing Froyo officially fo the ION. If they were going to they would have done ages ago. So if you want 2.2 you're going to have to flash a custom ROM.
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I think u can find atleast one link to it in the source code!!!!!! Give that phone to someone who can use it
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You dun make no sense.

Oh, I've been running CM6 on it for a while, I was wondering about update coming from either Google and/or HTC (just as I have posted).
PS. My Ion came with Eng SPL and rooted -- there was no need to do anything to flash any of the community ROMs.

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Oh, I've been running CM6 on it for a while, I was wondering about update coming from either Google and/or HTC (just as I have posted).
PS. My Ion came with Eng SPL and rooted -- there was no need to do anything to flash any of the community ROMs.
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I should have read between the lines
It's just a matter of time before tmo's build gets dumped. Either way, it will be a lot better than *shudder* CM6.

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chrisgto4 said:
Tmobiles version is going to run decent, but only because its missing a lot of features that you would find on newer phones running froyo. The hardware is just not there to run full froyo.
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So do you happen to have a list of what exactly is going to be missing?

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chrisgto4 said:
Better how???? Blasphemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cyanogen did exactly what everyone wanted him to do. Bring froyo to the g1/mytouch. He busted his ass to bring u almost all of the features that froyo brought to the n1. Tmobiles version is going to run decent, but only because its missing a lot of features that you would find on newer phones running froyo. The hardware is just not there to run full froyo.
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CM6 runs like crap, lets face it, standard AOSP runs way faster.

AdrianK said:
CM6 runs like crap, lets face it, standard AOSP runs way faster.
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CM6 doesn't " run like crap ", there is some things that we would like for it to have but 2.2 to g1's and Mytouch's was completely out of reach and Cyanogen gave it to us and remember that it's only 6.0, there will be more releases. Partition your SD Card the right way and maybe it wouldn't run like crap for you... maybe. I'm not sayin' I'm just sayin'.
And lets not forget Cyan gave us 2.1 and T-mobile NEVER acknowledged it.

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CM6 doesn't " run like crap ", there is some things that we would like for it to have but 2.2 to g1's and Mytouch's was completely out of reach and Cyanogen gave it to us and remember that it's only 6.0, there will be more releases. Partition your SD Card the right way and maybe it wouldn't run like crap for you... maybe. I'm not sayin' I'm just sayin'.
And lets not forget Cyan gave us 2.1 and T-mobile NEVER acknowledged it.
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Each to their own, I guess. In my experience it's slow and straight-up AOSP is way faster. Partition how? I don't need ext, swap is a con, really.

Ok, its one thing to stand up for CM6 another to blindly nut hug.
CM6 sucked....
Not only did i ditch CM6 for Biffmod, i ditched all root for 1.6 and im loving it.
CM6 could never keep a single thing opened.
Yes, i had my card paritioned right, yes i had custom MTD partitions for massive internal memory, yes i used firerats swap patch for CM6 and swap option in Biffmod, NO nothing would stay open.

best froyo experience

this may be outdated/unnecessary but i figured that i'd share / hope others would share too
im still skeptical about moving on to ICS for the vibrant just bc i need a phone that works 100% correctly all the time... so im still on froyo.
currently running bionix fishman mod final2 w/ bali-x @ 1.2ghz
essentially froyo tweaked in many ways w/ the appwidgetpicker
along with the miui camera, s.gps2 for gps fix, setcpu, and bln
is anyone else flashing any additional necessary files when they flash their roms??
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jonen said:
this may be outdated/unnecessary but i figured that i'd share / hope others would share too
im still skeptical about moving on to ICS for the vibrant just bc i need a phone that works 100% correctly all the time... so im still on froyo.
currently running bionix fishman mod final2 w/ bali-x @ 1.2ghz
essentially froyo tweaked in many ways w/ the appwidgetpicker
along with the miui camera, s.gps2 for gps fix, setcpu, and bln
is anyone else flashing any additional necessary files when they flash their roms??
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I'm on the newest version of ICS Passion that released yesterday and my phone is 100% functional.

jalaldaniel said:
I'm on the newest version of ICS Passion that released yesterday and my phone is 100% functional.
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i was looking for froyo experience comments to compare to
i have been reading up on way too many accounts of various ICS issues so i wanted to consolidate the best of the best for froyo users for those who don't want the newest software just for the sake of having it
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Fishman is good. My needs are different. I need a Rom that is atleast 2.2.1. So the capacitive buttons dont blind me on each screen press. I'd recommend ultimate rom or biwinning with the sense or sgs2 theme. I also use Bali undervolt kernel. If you haven't already test out the modems for your area. For instance for me its KB1.
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jalaldaniel said:
I'm on the newest version of ICS Passion that released yesterday and my phone is 100% functional.
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I was on ICS Passion and 100% functionality is a stretch. Browsing through the thread reveals that damn near everyone else has problems too. I have issue with these devs that claim everything works when it's clearly a lie.
I'm using Fishman's 2.2 rom right now. No need to flash any other files for my needs. So far it's been pretty good.

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I was on ICS Passion and 100% functionality is a stretch. Browsing through the thread reveals that damn near everyone else has problems too. I have issue with these devs that claim everything works when it's clearly a lie.
I'm using Fishman's 2.2 rom right now. No need to flash any other files for my needs. So far it's been pretty good.
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i agree... im still on the fence of flashing an ICS rom but i think ill wait another couple of weeks bc im in no hurry to move on from a 100% functional rom
personally i think the miui camera is essential and am not sure why more people dont flash it over their roms. i use that & the stock hd recorder for a better camera experience

i also went back to a 2.2 rom...TARD...can yall post the links to the extras...i would love to try that s.gps fix...think what it was...

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i also went back to a 2.2 rom...TARD...can yall post the links to the extras...i would love to try that s.gps fix...think what it was...
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couldn't find the thread but... here it is
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15511362/S.gps.2.zip
just flash through cwm. (be my first thanks if you would please )

CM9's 16B is so functional that I put it on my Dad's phone, and he says it's running much better than it did before on Bionix. The only issue he and I have been having is the GPS, which never has worked from the beginning for us anyways, and very minor things (like the menu for toggle widgets is called lockscreens or something).
ICS is pretty awesome. You may want to give it a shot... I recommend the Icy Glitch kernel to go with CM9.

Is the official GB available for this yet?

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Is the official GB available for this yet?
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No, I'll be amazed if it ever is since the vibrant is close to 2 years old.

Oxirane said:
CM9's 16B is so functional that I put it on my Dad's phone, and he says it's running much better than it did before on Bionix. The only issue he and I have been having is the GPS, which never has worked from the beginning for us anyways, and very minor things (like the menu for toggle widgets is called lockscreens or something).
ICS is pretty awesome. You may want to give it a shot... I recommend the Icy Glitch kernel to go with CM9.
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when you say never worked, do you mean it as GPS ideally should? or even to the low standards of how the vibrant's GPS is supposed to work?
personally since everything works 100% as best as it possibly can right now on my vibrant with bionix fishman mod without a hardware gps fix, i'm very reluctant to move onto ICS if the GPS wont even lock within around 30 secs or so like i can get it to do with froyo especially if it is something i need eventually
minor things like menu names i can definitely deal with, but if froyo's GPS works better overall compared to an ICS rom, i see absolutely no reason to make the switch with this phone. if i need ICS that badly, i will get a new phone
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No, I'll be amazed if it ever is since the vibrant is close to 2 years old.
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Is the official GB available for this yet?
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agreed on that point... i would money down that an official GB release will never happen for the vibrant.