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im running fresh 1.1 and loving it but i may want to try a 1.6 rom...just something to play with until android 2.1 comes in march. which one would you guys recommend? im looking for speed, almost no crashes and pretty much everything works, oh yeah looks are important too.
Far as I know there's only two. Both pretty much Vanilla. Neither has BT. Neither will send an SMS for some handsets.
Try them both.
There are only two 1.6 ROMS, quietcblongs and gbhil. Both are basically the same, as gbhil just takes the "core" of quietcblongs 1.6 and makes some tweaks here and there. Either one has the same stuff working, just keep in mind quietcblongs intention is to have a clean 1.6 AOSP ROM and gbhil has put in some eclair icons and some other aesthetically appealing stuff. Read their threads to find out what's working and what's not, basically bluetooth is a no go, some people have sms issues, no visual voicemail (although MMS was resolved on the last update and that may make the visual voicemail work).
Read on..
Well, fchipm beat me to the punch and offered a recap of my post LOL
Actually gbhil's & quiet's don't have the same working things. gbhil's AOSP is still based off of quiet's 12.31.09 build, so gbhil's speakerphone, BT & MMS don't work. In quiet's latest build, he fixed the speakerphone & MMS, but in turn broke headphones.
Use quiets. It's being actively developed. Mine was just a proof of concept that I used as a testbed to see what I can and can not do while cooking a ROM for the Hero. I keep trying to say that, but it keeps falling on deaf ears
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Use quiets. It's being actively developed. Mine was just a proof of concept that I used as a testbed to see what I can and can not do while cooking a ROM for the Hero. I keep trying to say that, but it keeps falling on deaf ears
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Yeah but headphones work in your ROM THat beats out anything else in the other 1.6 ROM.
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Yeah but headphones work in your ROM THat beats out anything else in the other 1.6 ROM.
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Which you can just flash the 31.12.09 build of quiet's & have the same working things also...
I'd just skip 1.6 and go to 2.0.1 if I were you. I flashed 1.6, and SMS didn't work with my phone. Other than that, I liked it. But I flashed DChadwick's 2.0.1, and WOW. I LOVE it.
im running quiet's AOSP 1.6 + Googlebits
...then metamorphed my way to having all eclair icons + eclair dialer + nexus launcher + nexus power control widget
beyond satisfied now. beautiful, functional, AND blazing fast.
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I'd just skip 1.6 and go to 2.0.1 if I were you. I flashed 1.6, and SMS didn't work with my phone. Other than that, I liked it. But I flashed DChadwick's 2.0.1, and WOW. I LOVE it.
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Does your camera work?
No it doesn't... that's the only downside. But I can live without my camera, since all I use it for is taking pictures of ridiculous things I find and putting them on Facebook. If the camera is a deal-breaker, then definitely use 1.6 (if SMS works for you... hopefully it will).
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No it doesn't... that's the only downside. But I can live without my camera, since all I use it for is taking pictures of ridiculous things I find and putting them on Facebook. If the camera is a deal-breaker, then definitely use 1.6 (if SMS works for you... hopefully it will).
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That's what kills me
No camera on the 2.x roms and no SMS on the 1.6's
All I want on my Hero is an AOSP plain Vanilla ROM with those two things working.
"If not now, then when?!"
soon.
andyriot said:
im running quiet's AOSP 1.6 + Googlebits
...then metamorphed my way to having all eclair icons + eclair dialer + nexus launcher + nexus power control widget
beyond satisfied now. beautiful, functional, AND blazing fast.
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Would you mind sharing which Metamorph packages you used. I have never used the program before and am a little overwhelmed with all the option by various different people. Thanks in advance.
-Nick
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No it doesn't... that's the only downside. But I can live without my camera, since all I use it for is taking pictures of ridiculous things I find and putting them on Facebook. If the camera is a deal-breaker, then definitely use 1.6 (if SMS works for you... hopefully it will).
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Hey!! That's the exact same thing i do with the camera. There's not one picture of my face on my facebook, any posts, or updates..just awesome random pictures i upload. Its basically an easy central photo storage.
I plan on updating later today now they we finally have working camera! Has anyone had any problems with it so far?
I am using it. So far so good.
It has been really nice so far.
Only issue I have had is LWP in sense. Seems to drag the phone to a crawl.
Was there a new thread made about it? I can't seem to find it, and all I see is FreshToast 1.1 when I search. Care to link, please?
No thread. Only out to people who have donated right now.
Ohh I see. I guess I'll just wait around then. Thanks!
I'm waiting to charge my battery to try it. Sounds really promising though.
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How much is it?
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How much is it?
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how much is what?
I'm looking forward to it. It'll be cool to have setcpu and camera. Thanks to flipz, toast, and all other devs
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I'm looking forward to it. It'll be cool to have setcpu and camera. Thanks to flipz, toast, and all other devs
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I just setup JIT also and it is nice actually having the camera with it. I'm using GDE and getting 4.611 MFLOPS.
to pay for the rom...
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to pay for the rom...
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He isn't charging for the ROM. But those who donate do get earlier access to the beta releases from him. I don't know as there is a set price. Just what you feel I guess is the way he sees it.
I'm using it.
CPU is scaling perfectly to 768Mhz and the camera works!!!!
Haven't done any benchmarks yet.
Only thing I've run into so far, is that the weather animations on the sense home screen are busted. Just a bunch of gray rectangles. Like the texture pngs are missing...
I have not tried LWP. I'm done with LWP. Its cool and all... but I'll just wait for the EVO when it's done right
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I'm using it.
CPU is scaling perfectly to 768Mhz and the camera works!!!!
Haven't done any benchmarks yet.
Only thing I've run into so far, is that the weather animations on the sense home screen are busted. Just a bunch of gray rectangles. Like the texture pngs are missing...
I have not tried LWP. I'm done with LWP. Its cool and all... but I'll just wait for the EVO when it's done right
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I think the weather animations are a small price to pay for overclock and camera on 2.1
im using it and its great.. LWP as reported slows stuff down big time. Another problem i'm having is getting Ap2sd to work right. I had everything working great and then i moved dalvik and my apps to my partition and haven't been able to get the dang thing to boot after that.. Anyone else having this problem?
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Oh absolutely!!!
I'm using beautiful widgets anyways for my clock... Just thought I'd mention it.
Like I said... Ive given up on LWP. Its cool, but not worth the resources IMO...
No. My Dalvik-cache is working fine. I did a2sd cache and a2sd nocache without issues.
Do a2sd check and let me know the results.
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im using it and its great.. LWP as reported slows stuff down big time. Another problem i'm having is getting Ap2sd to work right. I had everything working great and then i moved dalvik and my apps to my partition and haven't been able to get the dang thing to boot after that.. Anyone else having this problem?
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Running great. Phone is flying.
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Dunno how long it's been out for, just giving us non-senseUI (the only real way to use a Hero ) users a heads up that it's available.
Edit: oh yea, and for the sense users that don't check often..
If you update and it gives you ****ty (my bad), worse service or whatever go HERE and look at either the OP or the 2nd post for links to download older PRL versions.
Must be relatively new. Wiped back to factory and rerooted on Wednesday. Did all the updates 3 times to be sure and mine is still at 60671.
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Must be relatively new. Wiped back to factory and rerooted on Wednesday. Did all the updates 3 times to be sure and mine is still at 60671.
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did you really "reroot", cuz going to a sense rom should not cause root loss i keep a nand of sense (nfx's rom) and just restore it, update, fastboot to recovery, restore CM and I'm good to go...
to the OP: have you noticed "****tier service"? or any difference really, usually prl does nothing noticable for me.... let me know
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to the OP: have you noticed "****tier service"? or any difference really, usually prl does nothing noticable for me.... let me know
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Service in my calc class went from 105db(basically none) - 100db. otherwise it's all relatively the same. Maybe 5db more in spots.. but nothing worse nor a drastic increase
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Service in my calc class went from 105db(basically none) - 100db. otherwise it's all relatively the same. Maybe 5db more in spots.. but nothing worse nor a drastic increase
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thanks for that, no need to do the 20 minute process for me then
The comment about nonsense being theonly way to use ahero isn't true anymore. The new Sprint ruu that nfx modded is better than aosop. Cm and all the rest. I've tried them all. Runs faster.no fc. Better batterylife. And has all the sense goodies. No lag at all.
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The comment about nonsense being theonly way to use ahero isn't true anymore. The new Sprint ruu that nfx modded is better than aosop. Cm and all the rest. I've tried them all. Runs faster.no fc. Better batterylife. And has all the sense goodies. No lag at all.
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Mine runs plenty fast, no lag, no fc's ever. I'm running a custom compiled CM6.1 rom. Battery lasts longer than I need. More internal space as compared to sense for installing apps. LauncherPro's widgets look nicer and run smoother imo, I can set it to have only 2 homescreens without the extra bulk UI on the phone. Native a2sd. Slicker stock keyboard.
CM addons/settings are a plus too. Notification power control widget, lockscreen controls, UI color edits, etc.
umad?
But to be serious and all that; I'm partial to aosp mainly because I can compile it relatively easily and the android SDK is aosp. So it's practically all I've used for the past 8 (i think) months.
As you said - it's not particularly true anymore since there are senseUI roms that run extremely smooth and quick. It usually comes down to what exactly a person is looking for in a rom.
I still use lp over sense with the new ruu. But I ran cm and aosop for about a year. And I never went more than an hour without some kind of problem. That's why I was so happy that the new Sprint ruu runs so great. It even has aps2sd. And launcherpro adds some extras that you get from froyo. I honestly can't tell the difference. Not to mention my iheartradio would not work on cm or aosop. I'm so happy to have rovers morning glory back. I'm not mad. Lol. Just letting you know that there is a better Rom out there for heros than the cm6.
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The other thread has made me increasingly mental trying to find some decent information on what is working and what isn't working for SGS users upgrading to 2.3.2. I upgraded on Sunday evening without any issues and have been using it for the past 48hrs and have come across the following:
bad:
- no sip configuration options
- when integrated with MS exchange server, the unread count for emails never changes even after you read the mail
- default internet browser is horrifically slow, even with no other apps running in the background
- no samsung apps available (probably because this isn't an official samsung release)
good:
- android market works fine for me in Switzerland
- GPS works well with all the different apps i have
- wifi is interesting. it works, but i don't get full signal strength notification even when next to the access point
- FM radio, the most used app i have continues to work nicely
Overall I have been pleasantly surprised with this version. It's nice, although it's not an official release and is still leagues better than 2.1.x and 2.2. Would get a good argument from me about how it compares with 2.2.1..
gingerbread
its only a beta the official version will be better!
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- default internet browser is horrifically slow, even with no other apps running in the background
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Is this with plugins enabled or disabled (on demand)?
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... wifi is interesting. it works, but i don't get full signal strength notification even when next to the access point...
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What makes the wifi interesting? Should it really be in 'Good' seeing as though you dont get full signal strength?
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felleese said:
What makes the wifi interesting? Should it really be in 'Good' seeing as though you dont get full signal strength?
Thanks
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Well, for me, I am not downloading torrents on my phone. When I want to download, via wifi, apps from the market or something with dropbox, the wifi isn't not letting me down. I think there's a disconnect between what the graphic is reporting and the actual level.
It's good because it still works and is functional and allows me to keep using this on a daily basis despite its status.
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its only a beta the official version will be better!
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no doubt. not at all complaining. just wanted to document on my side what was working and not working so that i can compare in the future or maybe someone has a suggestion .. like the one about my default internet browser and plugins.
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Plugin setting is configured to "on demand"
Swype don't work.
GPS no satellites found.
Maybe we can compile a buglist?
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well its very early to give impression but its memory hungry battery hungry proned to black outs but to be honest when the bits all run nicely its good ive been running it over 24 hours now apart from mentioned problems its smooth looking forward to updates maybeys they will change ui and give us a few of the gingerbread goodies we all wanted ie tv of --3d apps screen and so on if you go settings then about and repeatadly press on version 2.3.2 i think about ten presses see gingerbreads easter egg at least they left us that lol enjoy egg hunting
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Thats a good idea.. Not only might it help Samsung, but it will discourage people from running it (and later whinging).
i got it running for a few hours and i generally enjoyed it, but the keyboard has no bulgarian (well it have in the options but it does not work) and if you run out of ram you are screwed (the phone hangs or gets tooo slow ).
as said samsung apps doesn`t work and the gallery freezes very often...
i hate that samsung removed the fancy animations and the black menu bar....
There's like no gingerbread keyboard and launcher
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1-3D performance
It's not as good as it was on 2.2.1. If you test some 3D games like NFS Shift, you culd see that it doesnt run so well as it did on 2.2.1
Some people even reports that they can’t even run lot of 3D games.
2-GPS
There are reports of a good gps performance, but I have read somewhere that it's contanstly throwing some kind of errors or bugs, I don't know how to check that. I guess they know it thanks to logcat or something like that.
According to what I could read on another forum they changed lot of gps files nad not is very similar to the ones of Nexus S, that's a good thing...
3-Keyboard
It’s also a shame that they didn’t include gingerboard keyboard…
PS: Some people might think that this thread isn’t useful, but as we are being kind of betatesters for Samsung it would be nice if we use this post only to report the most common bugs founds, so maybe Samsung could have a look at it and solve it faster.
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Try to use supercurio kernel with voodoo lagfix enabled and it should solve the problem. Works for me when I used to have same internet browser issue like you
Skyfire is working very slow, I'm unable to watch ***videos
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Skyfire is working very slow, I'm unable to watch ***videos
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Same here, it was so slow till i had to restart my i9000.
I've been using it for the last two days now (one of them with Supercurio's Voodoo Hack) and I've been happy with it in some parts, but quite unhappy in others.
Lag:
First of all, it seems the "Lag" that was fixed in 2.2.1 is back. Especially with memory-Hungry applications like the Browser, the phone tends to just freeze up for a few minutes without really doing much. I even had to pull the battery one time. This does happen less with the voodoo-fix, but it's still noticeable. Flash also does barely work.
Gingerbread features:
The new Gyroscope-Driver seems to work and it works really well. Skymap and Starchart both looked a LOT better when using them, no fidgeting around all the time anymore.
The new Gingerbread animations are NOT present in this rom. It seems like Samsung thinks they don't fit into TouchWiz, which is a shame. So no glowing edges when overscrolling and no screen-off or screen-on animation.
3D Performance pretty much seems to be the same as on 2.2.1 Games load a little slower, but I think that's mostly because we're using an un-optimized kernel.
The Bluetooth-Driver unfortunately still is the same as in Previous versions. So Neither Wiiremote nor PS3 will pair with the SGS, unlike on Cyanogenmod.
Samsung-Stuff:
As was stated before, Swype does not work. However, I am in the Swype beta and was able to install the Beta of Swype into this rom after deleting the normal swype with root explorer. It works fine, even Voice input does work.
All in all, it is clear that this is beta-firmware and it doesn't really offer much in terms of improvement over 2.2.1, at least not yet. Cyanogenmod 7, even tho it supports less hardware and is more unstable, runs a LOT faster and smoother than this, is more customizable and uses more of the new Gingerbread features.
For now, I'll be going back to 2.2.1, it's more useful as a daily driver, but this at least looks promising so far.
Reverting back to 2.2.1. 2.3.2 is way too slow.
Well considering this is a beta it seems alot of the features that are suppose to be in the final build are here left out. That will give the reason for quite some things missing ( some animations, effects, lock screens, keyboards....) Plus also cause of the beta build maybe even alpha who knows, the performance for me is really bad, it feels twice as laggy compared to the 2.2.1 releases. All in all this build is an striped down, not optimized build for the samsung devs i guess. We will have to wait for a better build leak. Cheers !
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Reverting back to 2.2.1. 2.3.2 is way too slow.
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Agreed, I switched back to JS5, but for the moment I'm keeping JVE modem. It performs WAY better for me. No random UMTS-disconnects.
But as others said, it's just a beta.
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Is it stereo ?
Well guys, I don't honestly know what to think about the new OTA. I tried it but wasn't overly impressed with it. However the speed and battery life is kinda nice. I still feel like it is lacking some features that a GB update should have had and I also feel VZW and HTC rushed this one. What do yall think?
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I suspect that the OTA will be a good base for future mods. I like it, but some of the features that I take for granted after using CM7 are missing.
I ran the leak for a while, I really liked it because of speed, but I can't believe they took mobile network, airplane and silent mode out of the power menu.
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I suspect that the OTA will be a good base for future mods. I like it, but some of the features that I take for granted after using CM7 are missing.
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Thats a good point. I love CM myself, been a long time fan.
I've been using the rooted leak version for about 24 hours now, moving from an EVO based mod. The new one is definitely zippier, even on scrolling, etc. I'll keep using it, but looking forward to new custom builds once the source is out and modders get their hands on this kernel.
Well, this wasn't supposed to be as big a thing compared to when FroYo was released. Expectations of that magnitude for this release were not realistic.
Differences aren't visual per se, rather just a few functional ones.
All in all, gingerbread, meh.....
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For me, it's a few things.
Feels unfinished. What I mean is some things are not what i expected. For example, i use google talk alot and with Froyo, the icon in the bar was a Sense based one. Now it's just Google Talk. This is fine, but i have to ask - was this on purpose? or a slip up?
next, I don't like NOT being able to disable ALL animations. In froyo, i could turn off the clock animations, weather ones and even the OS ones. I like that. In this one, I can't... only OS.
I have a had a few FC's with google voice setup (cleared up once configured) and Scrabble rarely notifies me of a move, but those could be app related.
battery life remains to be seen since I need to charge my phone all the way up while powered off.
it's definitely quick, but it took like 5 minutes before I started missing Synergy. Looking forward to seeing what can be done with the update.
It's a nice temporary fix for my ocd rom flashing but i think devs and most others are waiting for the final ota with some bug fixes. Isn't this lacking the new radio as well? Otherwise I am really happy it looks like they fixed the low space /data/data notification.
If we are lucky the devs will pump out some amazing roms for us that are stable and fast. Just gimme pulldown widgets, 5-row apps, recent apps in notification, and remapped rosie buttons and i'm set!
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snip Isn't this lacking the new radio as well?
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The ones posted in this forum are missing the radio but that is because the source that gave it to our devs asked that they not include the radio when they compiled and uploaded the rom. For what reason? Who knows....
I think the update should've added sense 2.1..
I miss power toggle pull downs and right rosie, but other than that, everything for me just works and works fast. If someone can add some 2.1 features, that would be nice. Been on this since it came out, zero issues, zero lag. I use my phone for business with some music, dont install more than zbout 4 apps. Everything flies. Look at it this way, if no other roms could ever have been ported over, is this a good update from when you first got your dinc? I say hell yes. The ports are great, im not baggin cause ive flashed every rom here, but this was made for our phone. Could it have had 2.1, sure, would it have worked as good, i doubt it. All ports have some issues, all be it very minor, but they also develop lag and more issues the longer you use them. Im willin to wait a week and see what happens, im sure we will see a different ota eventally, fat lady aint singin yet.
curious about battery life
I've been using miui and have been getting good battery life. I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the new ginger
All I could think about was how ridiculously fast Sense 1.0 would be on any Gingerbread ROM.
If i were a dev I would definitely be cooking up a clean, streamlined, unbelievably fast Sense 1.0 ROM for users who don't need what 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 have to offer.
That being said, as far as the OTA goes... We'll see?
I like the speed of this OTA, too. It's very snappy. But I'm having a problem with voice input recognizing speech. Is this a problem for anyone else?
I was using bluetooth and I said open calender and it would randomly pick a number to call from my contacts.
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It's a problem with GB in general. Try using voice search while driving and you can scream in the mic until you're blue in the face. It won't recognize anything you say.
Is that just for GB Sense based roms? I have never had a problem with voice input on CM7.
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Is that just for GB Sense based roms? I have never had a problem with voice input on CM7.
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It might be a combo of things. All I know is it worked perfectly for me on Froyo.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=4399393a95831baa&hl=en
It was fun to try it out and it's fast, but I went back to Community RC5. I won't be looking back, im sure OVO will rip whatever is good and stick it in community.