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Hello-
First off, please excuse my n00bness - I'm from the world of Windows Mobile hacking, and this Android stuff is really confusing me.
I've been tolerating stock for a while, but the slowness is really getting to me - today I clocked my Hero at 12 seconds to wake up from standby, which is just unacceptable. I'd like to know if there are any significant speed benefits to going from stock to the latest MoDaCo rom? Are there any downsides? I read the post over at modaco.com, but couldn't see any "known issues".
Thanks for any input,
TM
Take the plunge.
I went from stock to Fresh and overlayed Modaco. My uptime shot to 90%, 80% and stuck at 70%.
I reflashed to Stock then back to Modaco. I am now at around 15% uptime. I removed the bloatware from Sprint and LOVE the speed of this phone now. Its what I expected when I bought it.
I have no doubt that you'll see a speed increase with Modaco. Especially if you remove the sprint apps once you load Modaco.
Thanks for all the replies. One more question though, are there any big known issues with the latest MoDaCo? I thought I read something about BT not working, or something to that extent.
it's worth it to switch to any custom rom. bluetooth is just something thats messed up with our 1.5 builds.
ffolkes said:
Thanks for all the replies. One more question though, are there any big known issues with the latest MoDaCo? I thought I read something about BT not working, or something to that extent.
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you will notice a big difference switching to modaco 2.2... and im not experiencing any BT issues at all... matter or fact, im not experiencing ANY issues with anything using this rom...
Heck, anything is better than stock.
especially since we have a custom kernel now its definitely worth it to go to any custom rom, especially modaco 2.2
Im using fresh. I used the kitchen to root my phone and installed 1.1. No problems so far except that the voice recorder app keep crashing for some reason. I did an upgrade without wiping though so that might be my problem.
Its a lot faster and the tether app is awesome!
Ok, so far so good. Got everything flashed, but how do I get rid of things like Stocks/Sprint TV/NFL/etc? Just follow the generic guide (for any rooted Hero) I saw?
I ran stok for about 6 hours and decided that I didnt pay that much money for a smart phone that was that slow.
I flashed Fresh 1.0 to start and I have tried just about all the roms that are out there. Including modaco 2.2 and it may just be that I started with fresh but I always seem to go back to it over the rest, and add onto that the modaco kernel with compcache and then doing the config tweak found here my phone just flies now.
I now have it set to where I feel a phone at this price point should be to start.
edit: to remove the apps follow the instructions found here
ffolkes said:
Ok, so far so good. Got everything flashed, but how do I get rid of things like Stocks/Sprint TV/NFL/etc? Just follow the generic guide (for any rooted Hero) I saw?
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Use the Fresh Kitchen to pull any you don't want.
You know what? I've flashed MoDaCo's ROM before, but it was just too much like stock (except for the obvious speed increases). I flashed Fresh 1.1, and loved it because it had the speed of MoDaCo's, plus the Espresso UI. Then I recently flashed Gumbo Kernel to my phone, and omgwtfzorz my phone is RIDICULOUSLY fast. Not noticeably, but RIDICULOUSLY. I can't believe you've been living with stock for this long >.< Custom ROM's and kernels are necessary for this phone haha.
I've found a handfull of issues with this int he DX stuff but nothing real substantial or conclusive in the d2 forums i've looked at. The only complaint i've had with this phone is the unlock slider is choppy as hell. I remember seeing somewhere that someone modified something in the build.prop to alleviate this however I have been unable to find that thread. I've noticed it on every rom ive run, fission 2.2.2, epic 2.0, 2.5.
What am i missing!?!?!? lol.
Thanks in advance.
infiltwb said:
I've found a handfull of issues with this int he DX stuff but nothing real substantial or conclusive in the d2 forums i've looked at. The only complaint i've had with this phone is the unlock slider is choppy as hell. I remember seeing somewhere that someone modified something in the build.prop to alleviate this however I have been unable to find that thread. I've noticed it on every rom ive run, fission 2.2.2, epic 2.0, 2.5.
What am i missing!?!?!? lol.
Thanks in advance.
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Check out the Apex rom thats been ported over from DX. I know exactly what your talkin about with the slider, but the rom has an awesome animation when you unlock and it better than any rom ive run before. Plus,its just a great rom
You're not missing anything, really; it's just an unfortunate but minor characteristic of the D2 slider. I have also run several different ROMs with no change, so it must be inherent to the D2 system itself.
Dammit jim!
I am liking fission a little too much to give it up atm lol.
mikeyinid said:
Check out the Apex rom thats been ported over from DX. I know exactly what your talkin about with the slider, but the rom has an awesome animation when you unlock and it better than any rom ive run before. Plus,its just a great rom
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And, just to see what would happen, I flashed 2 DX roms on my d2 yesterday. Not only did they flash, but they were, ummm, id say 90% functional. The slider on those roms are faster and smoother than any on D2 roms. So they will get better in time. The slider and the haptic feeback on the capacitive buttons are the 2 things I dislike the most about my D2
Widgetlocker
Spend 2 dollars on the widgetlocker app. You will never have another issue with lockscreen sliders
This doesn't eliminate the issue, but it greatly reduces it. The Squidly 2.3.20 ROM with the "hapticless" add-on (i.e. zip file) did the trick for me. I've been using it for months now. I'ved tried other ROMs but keep coming back to this. Links below (or if I can't post them you need to google; they are on droidforums net).
It looks like squidly is up to 2.3.20.1 but I've only tested hapticless (or nohaptic) on 2.3.20.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/squidlymandingo/95156-hapticless-d2-regular-bottom-lock-bar.html
I have Fission 2.3 and at first I noticed some slider lag when unlocking until I ran the overclocking 1200 mhz @ 58v script in the rom manager and sure enough the lag went away. I'd suggest doing this if you wanted to keep the Fission rom.
EDIT: Nevermind sorry saw that you were OC'ed already in your sig haha, my bad. Just thought it may help.
Hi
Since there has been lot of activity in the Development of Gingerbread Rom for our Heroes( thanks to the wonderful Dev's).
Just wanted to find the popular as the days go by
good call
it does make sense to do it this way
I'm on ele right now. cronos is great but a couple of bug fixes still needed before I'm 100% happy. ele's is quite amazing. want to try tasty but waiting for known a2sd fix and I'm unfortunately not a fan of almost pure aosp. Some cm things are really useful like notification bar power widget etc.
wow over hundred views and not much votes... is it that people aren't using gingerbread roms?
I think I just wore out everybody's voting fingers in my all encompassing rom poll started a few weeks ago.
hahaha
I tried CM7, elelinux and TastyGinger and honestly i am gonna switch back to froyo. Within first hour or so, ROM works pretty good but as soon as i sync with Google (for contacts) and send/receive some text messages, keyboard slows down, my messaging slows down.
for now none ... waiting for a good custom rom, the final version.
I'm waiting for Feeyo to come back with his kernel in Cronos GB rather than Flykernel.
wow - ele's gb is great, totally finished feeling. tasty's pretty amazing from what I've read. cronos is possibly the most complete and really great too. cm nightlies are iffy as always - they're nightlies and that's how nightlies work - but beta3 or whatever his last official one was (lox) was pretty cool.
time to weigh froyo's speed but constant market issues and older features versus gingerbread's great features but slower UI speed.
I've used CM7 but it got lag too much xD....
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time to weigh froyo's speed but constant market issues and older features versus gingerbread's great features but slower UI speed.
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you should really try cronos ginger instead of re-posting somewhere read bullsh.t. i'm using CG1.0.1 since it was released and there is no single problem at all.
which market issues are you talking about?
I'm back on cronos. ele's gps let me down big time for some strange reason (app locked up, couldn't quit, restarting phone bootlooped LoL).
I used the Elinux 2.3 and its great..
The Tasty is faster but the screen resolution still not compatible with beautifull gidget...
So i return to elinux!
Ele's hasn't let me down at all, only problems i had were due to me xD nice and snappy, stable. ^^
I have used 0.9 cronos and ele's one like bot of them but I seem to have issues with Gingerbread roms in general
Basically after a while the bottom keyboard Keys dont seem to work , an I have to press really hard. or not work at all
But works perfect If I flash original 2.1 rom so am back on the official ROM
But if new rom comes out I do a quick adb root and try em I love the excitment of rom flashing
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I have used 0.9 cronos and ele's one like bot of them but I seem to have issues with Gingerbread roms in general
Basically after a while the bottom keyboard Keys dont seem to work , an I have to press really hard. or not work at all
But works perfect If I flash original 2.1 rom so am back on the official ROM
But if new rom comes out I do a quick adb root and try em I love the excitment of rom flashing
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uh oh. gb might get warmer which is showing teh beginning of a touchscreen hardware issue with your phone probably.
definitely stay away from hot running roms on that phone
I have used the 5th and 9th nightlies of CM7 so far. Build 5 was slow in some areas, particularly with LauncherPro (I removed ADW because I honestly don't like it), but it was otherwise usable in day-to-day situations. Build 9 is significantly better so far; the only thing that would make me completely happy with it would be fully-working on/off animations (if it's possible on Hero hardware).
I wondered why there is no further development on the camera function for GB. I had tried the latest Elelinux GB and then Cronos GB. The camera pictures captured were just terrible (colour almost washout)! Camera on Froyo is still fairly good and very useable. Otherwise, GB really offers something nice for our Hero. Too bad for the camera (on GB), I'm back to Erasmux's Floyo again.
Elelinux is by far the best GB ROM.
I think Elelinix is great enough.........
Using the brand new Cronos Gingerbread 1.1.0 (the non animation version)
Sooooo fast now.
I flashed 2.3 GB about 2 weeks ago, and noticed it wasn't as snappy as I thought. It got to the point when I got too many FC's and lockups, when I decided to go back to Darch's 2.2 Froyo Rom. All I can say is I feel like I got a new phone, by.... downgrading to froyo(?) My question is, why did 2.3 run like a slideshow for me vs. 2.2 which runs nearly as smooth as my brother's LG Optimus? I want 2.3 to run faster than Darch's 2.2 rom, and expected it to do so, but it is completely backwards. Has anyone else incurred this problem?
Also, as far as game playability, I was expecting a slight performance boost from 2.2. to 2.3, but games like Mx Moto Mayhem ran like a slideshow on GB, and once I reverted back to 2.2, it ran perfectly fine.
I am just baffled and disappointed out of the performance I have gotten out of GB so far. I have tried changing the VM heap size, JIT on/off (and on a side note, 2.2 is running good without JIT enabled), and nothing seemed to help. What needs to be done to get GB running faster than Froyo?
Just to try to remove as many variable as possible, Ill let you know that this is based off of "stock" cpu speeds to the respective roms (stock meaning I didn't touch the OC speeds). Also, when I installed GB, I followed the exact instructions he gave, and the installation itself went smoothly. The only thing extra I flashed to BOTH roms is GAPPS.
If anyone has input, please let me know! Thanks
Might have something to do with the 3 or 4 month headstart froyo roms have over gingerbread.
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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Gingerbread-on-Hero action here!
CM7 runs smoother/faster than CM6 ever has for me. Dunno what to tell you.
If you remember, when CM6 WAS released the early builds weren't nearly close to what they are know. I think devs just want us to taste Gingerbread, while they are working to make the roms more stable. If you stay on froyo and come back to CM7 in 3 months you will notice the difference.
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Will you post a link to which Darch Rom you are running? I am looking for the best 2.2 Rom right now...thanks.
I used this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755795
Which is the fastest rom I have used; you might want to get other people's opinion as well.
Uhh guys and gals?? - i'm not sure if anyone have noticed this but i sure have.. had my mt4g unrooted device upgraded to 2.3.4 gb via OTA last month (using Froyo 2.2.1 temp root prior to upgrade GB) and it was hella slow due to all the bloatwares it came with but now i'm just recently started to notice the rom acceleration picking up and its faster in terms of surfing through app widgets and loading response (even with bloatwares). I mean, is this a no-brainer improvement that we've all come to expect coming from Froyo to GB? sorry, it's a very NOOB question as I'm not so fond of reflashing roms and rooting devices... could someone please confirm this for me??
I don't know what you are talking about man. I had the OTA gingerbread and i had to push clock speeds to 1.4 ghz to get it smooth....
well sounds to me that yours is rooted.... but mine isn't.. however, prior to noticing the speed improvements, i've cleaned out the cache and kill tasks to free up more memory (duh yeah i know what it'll do lol) but i've done that in the past and it was still hella sluggish... now, my device all of a sudden functions like its rooted.... I really have no other way to explain the cause of it but i think its pretty damn cool... -shrugs-
THEindian said:
I don't know what you are talking about man. I had the OTA gingerbread and i had to push clock speeds to 1.4 ghz to get it smooth....
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could it be that i'm running a different launcher as oppose to stock GB?.. i currently have the Go Launcher EX as my default launcher... but i don't know much about its impact on performance...
Go launcher slows my phone down. Badly. Btw, rooting your phone doesn't make it faster. Altering things once you have root CAN make it faster.
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