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Vibrant Satisfaction Poll

So there are a lot of people complaining about their phones, but I'm trying to get a quantitative sense of how people feel.
While I agree there are areas that need to be improved (GPS is about the only one for me), I'm pretty satisfied overall.
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Third option should read "Somewhat satisfied - have multiple issues or complaints" rather than "multiply".

Rooted, Removed Bloat, Better Rom, Better Baseband and I'm set.
Rather happy now.

rooted, bloat removed, eugene's rom, I'm happy. I would recommend the phone to family and friends.
PS.....where is the poll?

Updated with poll.

I love my Galaxy S Vibrant, the only thing I hate about it is the GPS and compass, hopefully a update will fix these issues.
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I'am really happy with the vibrant, i switch phone like 4-6 months once, and this phone, really stand out from what i had used for past 3 years.

I'm happy with the phone. Way better than the G1 and it'll last me until it dies. The next phone I will be getting is a quad-core processor phone. ;p

Gps is no long issue after applying fix. I use nav all the time now. Screen is still amazing to me, I watch alot of movies on it. Never been happier with a phone. Cant wait till 2.2 comes out to make a great thing better.
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This replaced my nexus and have no regrets whats so ever.
Only complaint is the compass but from what ive read its fixed in leaked rom so im sure its going to be fine in next update.
No issues with GPS since I have the gps fix with stock rom.

Once I got rid of TouchWiz the only complaint I have is the lack of ASOP but I am not a coder so there is nothing I can do about that but wait.

kizer said:
Rooted, Removed Bloat, Better Rom, Better Baseband and I'm set.
Rather happy now.
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Which baseband would that be? Just curious to see if I can improve mine, its choppy at times.
Now I use the lag fix & did the Gps lbstest thing but seems no big improvement, any pointers?
One more thing, why does the pole not show in the XDA app??
Stunner phone indeed!!
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Fully satisfied after flasing Bionix 1.3 ROM with voodoo lagfix and battery status indicator mod. The phone cannot be more perfect for 2.1. It will go to the next level if satsifaction when 2.2 comes out (mainly flash 10.1 support).
Can someone just post breifly what ASOP is?

lightyears faster than my old wm6.5 omnia II, Android just obliterates wm. GPS works alright, haven't tried compass. On my Omnia II, i had a new custom rom every couple weeks, but without recovery mode on my Vibrant, i'm a little reluctant to install one...

Hi all, newcomer here, thought i should finally say hi.
Love my vibrant. Its my first andriod phone, had a lot to learn to get up to speed, but I'm getting there. I have been trolling these forums for about a month or so, flashing this and that, trying to figure out adb, and working out odin. I was one of those anti-smartphone people, now I can barely put this down. I'm currently running bionix 1.3 with kingklicks kernel, and a few other mods. My thanks to the devs out there working on these roms and mods, keep up the great work!
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I like my Vibrant. I am somewhat disappointed with the battery life. I really rely on GPS so I'm very unhappy in that regard. My overall rating is 3 out of a possible 5 based on what I expect from my phone.
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I really do love this phone. It's elegant, lightweight, gives me more battery life than my G1 ever did, and does nearly everything I want it to do. I'd be completely satisfied if it would get some bug fixes so it could do everything I want it to do, but that's not really the phone's fault.

Love the phone...I just want up dates

I am really happy. I have a couple of complaints, though. Nothing major.
Rooted >> Removed bloatware >> Leaked update = Me happy.
I will be 99.9% happy when Froyo comes. But I can wait.

SamVib said:
I am really happy. I have a couple of complaints, though. Nothing major.
Rooted >> Removed bloatware >> Leaked update = Me happy.
I will be 99.9% happy when Froyo comes. But I can wait.
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I voted for very satfisfied but the truth is I'm pretty much completely satisfied. The battery could be a little bit better, but for the amount I use my phone I think I'd have battery issues with any similarly spec'd phone.

Has it's quirks here and there but seriously what phone doesn't? Nothing to make me change phones or anything like that. Very satisfied and content with my Vibrant.

any of you come from the droidx?

If so. Why did you come over to the fascinate? I owned one right when it came out but the signal at my work was bad where my x has a great signal. I never had the update so I was wondering how the signal is now? And im not happy with my x batterylife. Is the fascinate better or worse on battery life? I miss the fascinate...my x just does not seem as fast....

The signal issue also seems to be fixed in the upcoming DJ05 update. If u thought the fascinate was fast then, mi e seems like a new phone e with DJ05
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I purchased my phone from Costco, which gives you the ability to swap your phone for three months, so I had the fascinate for a few weeks, tried the droid x, and ultimately ended up with the fascinate. The droid x wasn't that bad until it recieved the 2.2 update. Then the wifi started cycling on and off, which is a known issue, and honestly the ui additions just make it harder to do things in comparison to stock android. I know what you're saying in terms of signal strength, it seems the DX was able to get better reception, but I haven't dropped a call with the fascinate. I haven't been able to try the update yet (if someone is feeling generous please help) but apparently, it helps to even out the signal reading. The only things that I miss about the DX are the much better gps, which is supposedly now fixed, the ability to set alert alarms in calender, which is supposedly now fixed, and the volume of turn by turn navigation, which I don't know if it has been fixed. The DX's washed out lcd was a turn off, also, the gpu is substantially weaker, and with the rumors coming down the pike of either gingerbread or honeycomb allowing gpu acceleration, I wanted to futureproof myself as much as possible. Just my thought process. I hope it helps you.

I had 2 dx's before i got the fascinate. I had wifi issues with both dx's , plus a ton of other glitches that i could no longer stand. Fascinate is an awesome device.
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great info guys..
but how about the battery life compared to the X?

I didn't have the DX, but I expect to charge my battery every day or every other day, and that's pretty much what I've been doing now that my usage has become more regular. I could probably get 2 full days out of it if I charged it all night and unplugged it in the morning, but I usually unplug it at night and just go through the day.

With the StupidFast kernel, my battery life is crap, but without it I've gone 65 hours with moderate usage. That's pretty good.

I came from DX and i miss it it was so fast and with grate signal
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i came from the dx , wouldnt go back . DX was a great phone , but im hitting higher quadrant scores running stupidfast kernal on my fascinate than i was overclocked to 1.4ghz on my dx . and battery life is great if you get the superpower app.
...and the screen is amazing haha

Battery life on the DX stock is a little better than a stock fascinate (at least in my area, where I can actually roam off of verizon's 1x network and there is only 1 3G tower in town), but you can reflash the fascinate kernel and/or change the software to make it last much much longer. The short of it is that the battery life for either device is dependent on what you do with it and what apps/widgets you have running at all times. From a technical standpoint, the fascinate battery can carry more of a charge, but from talk time numbers alone, the DX battery will last longer. Again, that is only for bone stock handsets running android 2.1

I had the Droid X
Pros: Screen Size
Battery Life was Great for Me!
Build Quality was the best!
Signal was the best of any droid Ive had!
GPS was Amazing and Fast!!
Cons:Size it was to big for me
Camera was horrible and I hate the button
Now I came to the fascinate because of size, screen beauty, capactive keys at bottom, weight super light (trade off is its made of plastic), faster CPU, better GPU for future games (as of now i feel theres no good ones)...but madden soon!!
Now i said faster CPU but because of touchwiz.....it will feel slower!!! But thats because of touchwiz not the phone!!
touchwiz sux ass......and not untill froyo will you be able to trully disable it and install a true rom. Devs prefer to work on froyo.
But i know a few guys are porting sense over to it!!!! But you can use launcher pro as of now which I love.
All around the galaxy s phones are better........but get ready for sloooooowwww support!!!

I have had all the Droid phones for Verizon and I just feel that the size of the Fascinate is the sweet spot for me.... kinda like goldilocks. Not too big, not too small, just right. lol
I like the hardware on the Fascinate... it has sooooo much potential we just have to get the software to make it right!

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With the StupidFast kernel, my battery life is crap, but without it I've gone 65 hours with moderate usage. That's pretty good.
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And when you mean moderate you mean not at all right ????
Seriously, thats sick. I wish any phone of mine could last more than a day, let alone 2.

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With the StupidFast kernel, my battery life is crap, but without it I've gone 65 hours with moderate usage. That's pretty good.
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Did you try the solutions found in the Stupidfast 1.2.3 thread ????
They really worked for me, and quite a few others.

As I've said a million times Dj05 update that is in the pipeline for xda is a huge bugfixers my phone is far more faster and fluid than my old x ever thought about being.
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i went from the droid 2 and i prefer the screen size, it is just right like a lot of people are saying. only thing i would really have to consider if i was you was the software issue... samsung has a terrible rep and they are kinda living up to it w/ this device.. i hate to say it but we are following the same path as the behold 2 right now..
where as the droid x there is absolutely no doubt that you will see gingerbread and possibly beyond..

well i had X for about 2 months then with all the locked bootloader issues and moto update probs I decide to try the fascinate and it has been great, with the new DJ05 update its even better. still have X but selling to get Galaxy tab

No more 2.1 rom developing?

What happened to all the 2.1 fun? A leaked 2.2 drops and all of a sudden 2.1 dev'ing is a ghost town. 2.2 leak was ok, but I prefer the flawlessness of my TW2.1 set-up.
I take it everyone moved on?

2.2 brings alot of benefits to the platform as a whole, as a result alot of developers were actually waiting on 2.2 before starting development (ie. Cyanogen - however not sure where it is heading at the moment). There are some developers who started on 2.1 just because it was all we had at that time, but now that 2.2 is available there's no point in going back.

Why not? 2.1 is stable as hell. Until CM is released I see myself staying on tw final r1.
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And...I know it is all about moving forward, but I didn't really see much difference on a 2.2 rom. Our devs are so good, no discernible difference was to be had (for me).

TheSneakerWhore said:
And...I know it is all about moving forward, but I didn't really see much difference on a 2.2 rom. Our devs are so good, no discernible difference was to be had (for me).
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Just because you didn't notice the differences, doesn't mean they are not there. Flash player, copy/paste features, voice actions, etc...

I know it sounds silly, but I really like the drag tool when you are editing a line of text with the little drop down.

Like you said, 2.1 was already, "flawlessness" and "stable as hell" why mess with something thats not broken and room for little improvement as opposed to 2.2, where the development ceiling is much higher

Yea...I like seeing progress and will update to 2.2 once things get a bit more stable (admittedly I haven't used the new features--I'm pretty boring). I just feel like sometimes everyone looks to the future asap and once a dead horse is almost beaten no more support goes that way and those who like to play it safe only have a few flavors left.
I just really like 2.1--and would want a 2.2+ that makes me smile just as wide.

there are several 2.2 roms that are stable. i have tried them all and i am currently running obsidian v5 for now. having flash and all of the other goodies makes it worth it.

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I know it sounds silly, but I really like the drag tool when you are editing a line of text with the little drop down.
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+1!! such a small feature, but it is so useful!!!
TheSneakerWhore said:
Yea...I like seeing progress and will update to 2.2 once things get a bit more stable (admittedly I haven't used the new features--I'm pretty boring). I just feel like sometimes everyone looks to the future asap and once a dead horse is almost beaten no more support goes that way and those who like to play it safe only have a few flavors left.
I just really like 2.1--and would want a 2.2+ that makes me smile just as wide.
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there are plenty of solid 2.1 roms. when tw has a bionix final and a fusion that's either final or close, plus aosp like roms, plus all of eugene's roms, 2.1 has been done thoroughly.
i'd recommend you try one of the good, new 2.2s like axura, obsidian, or macnut and see if it changes your mind. it's not just new features of 2.2, i went from 1.2ghz oc/uv core kernel with fusion to stock kernel obsidian, both with no lagfixes, and was benchmarking about exactly the same, which i found pretty impressive.

hows ur battery
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I tried onyx...it was really nice.
I tried mac nut...it was nice as well.
I just love my bionix final and core r310 more. It's just me being picky...when I had a mt3gs I had tons of options. Samsung has screwed the pooch and thus we are limited. Like I said earlier, I'm kind of boring...i like flashing, but rarely use things to the entire extent.
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hows ur battery
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1day 13hours 50min since unplugged (at full charge, i'm reconditioning the battery) with 35% remaining... with what's probably considered light usage: some web browsing (mostly on wifi), moderate texting, a little angry birds and sudokus, etc.
i'm using axura 2.0.4, first time i've flashed axura and i've been very impressed with it.

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hows ur battery
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Great!
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kizer said:
I know it sounds silly, but I really like the drag tool when you are editing a line of text with the little drop down.
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+1. I love that too.
And yeah, honestly, even though it's a "leak", 2.2 has made it to the stable levels of 2.1 ROMS. I've been using Axura since it came out, and even the first build was just great, and now everything seems to have worked itself out, I literally don't have one feature I cannot do on this ROM, everything works. And if for some reason something doesn't, it must not be that important to me because I haven't noticed haha.

Lol this is an insult someone complaining for old firmware..... how retarded move on everything your had in 2.1 plus more in 2.2 lol
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ColbyRyptos said:
Lol this is an insult someone complaining for old firmware..... how retarded move on everything your had in 2.1 plus more in 2.2 lol
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Eh, the term "leak" scares people off, including myself actually. But once I saw so many positive comments about Axura that's when I finally took the dive. I know people seem to love Obsidian, but everytime I enter that forum it's just posts upon posts of people not only having problems, but with bricked phones/having to odin to stock/ etc etc. I highly recommend Axura, I've never used Odin to recover or get anything working. It's real easy, and even more rewarding.
PS This isn't a post to spark defense for Obsidian, obviously it works for some people, but just my observations.

kinda goes without saying, but: you are always free to carry on the 2.1 development torch if you think it's a worthwhile venture.

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Why not? 2.1 is stable as hell. Until CM is released I see myself staying on tw final r1.
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I agree...at this stage 2.1 baked firmwares are stable as hell...which is also why there's little reason to bother tweaking them further.
It's really about resource and time management I think. We're weeks away from 2.1 being a distant memory officially, so there's little reason to play in that pond anymore.

To beat the dead horse even more:
Not much more can be done with Eclair.... and frankly, now that there is a froyo (with JIT compiler) why would you want to keep wasting time on it? I understand (and agree) that the Eclair builds we have are incredible ones... and there is of course things that could make them better, but why bother?
Froyo is a daily driver, incredibly stable and it brings a lot more to the table. Any developer is going to want to play with the new toy, and this is it. When there is another leak or OTA, THAT will be the new toy. And THIS leak did come from a T Mobile employee (who will continue to go unknown for his services) so there is no real worry issue here.
People on XDA tend to want this too... I flashed my phone probably 7 times in the past 2 weeks. Not because I needed to, but because there was a new rom or a new update... always going to want the latest/greatest.
Also, I am positive my froyo is faster than any eclair you have, it has very good battery life and it can do more....
REALLY wanting to see Axura 2.0.5 available....

DI18 2.1 unrooted > DK28 2.2 rooted

I've been playing around with this phone a lot since I got it. Today, I flashed back to DI18 and left it unrooted and found myself astonished at how much better the overall performance is.
DK28 is garbage.
If this is old news, I apologize... I just got this phone a week ago.

huh? i've only had my phone since tuesday, i haven't rooted it as of yet... but i wanted to see what that froyo is all about.

Don't do it. It's fun to play with, but like the OP said, if you want something that works reliably and well, stay stock.

Bonsai dk28 works great for me, but to each his own.
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I have nothing against people who experiment with different baked ROMs on their phones--after all, where would we be without 'em?--but the performance of stock 2.1 on my Epic was already solid enough that I only really felt I needed to root for a few specific apps. I think any flashing I was going to do was always going to wait until official 2.2 was out and more development is done. I am jonesing for the new features and hopefully speed but am patient.

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Bonsai dk28 works great for me, but to each his own.
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Agree bonsai is fantastic, no bugs what so ever and very clean and fast. Way better then 2.1 stock battery life ia about the same.
i wont go back to d118, i will miss hulu and, humans vs, aliens and andy 83 those apps only work on 2.2 and my phone has been running fantastic and way better then d118.
GPS works better!
Wifi Works perfect!
Orientation switch is fast!!
And what ever other bugs people are having im having 0

I'm running stock DK28 and it works absolutely flawless, dunno why so many have issues, I have none
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I agree with the OP. I was running Nebula 1.0.7 and things were smooth for me but I went back to stock and outside of the progs that require 2.2, things are solid at least for me. Now I'm running Syndicate with Xtreme kernel and I'm loving it until we get the official Froyo
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I want to go back to 2.1, but the ONLY thing that stops me is that I NEED GPS.
GPS on 2.1 is poop. I would have a hard time finding my peepee if it weren't for GPS.

I just did the exact same thing!
Running Nebula, was getting weird issues, so I went back to Syndicate with Xtreme kernel v1.2.
Ahh, everything is so snappy. I'll stick with this for a while.
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I agree with the OP. I was running Nebula 1.0.7 and things were smooth for me but I went back to stock and outside of the progs that require 2.2, things are solid at least for me. Now I'm running Syndicate with Xtreme kernel and I'm loving it until we get the official Froyo
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It sounds like most of the people who are noticing problems are using nebula. You guys should give bonsai a try.

Ryjabo said:
I've been playing around with this phone a lot since I got it. Today, I flashed back to DI18 and left it unrooted and found myself astonished at how much better the overall performance is.
DK28 is garbage.
If this is old news, I apologize... I just got this phone a week ago.
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Lolol! I have been saying exactly this for as long as I remember. Froyo is freaking jerky. The animation transitions are not smooth.
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Flashing to Midnight ROM 3.2 is the best thing I ever did.
I love my Epic 4G…I loved it with Eclair, and I am now using midNIGHT 3.2 BYOR and I love it. It’s benchmark scores are twice as fast as Eclair, and you can tell how fast and snappy the phone is. Here is a list of the things I like best that Froyo was needed for.
1. Chrome to Phone – Huge time saver and way more useful than I thought it was going to be, and I thought it would be useful, lol
2. Flash 10.1
3. The apps that needed Froyo for enhancement… Gmail, Youtube, Winamp (there is a station I like on Shoutcast and Winamp required Froyo for Shoutcast)
4. Google Docs – being able to edit Google Docs on the go. The reason I wanted a phone with a keyboard was for doing long emails and editing documents and spreadsheets. The on-screen keyboard is OK, but takes up a lot if real estate.
5. Moving apps to the SD Card – I am an app junkie and I need the space, lol
There are more things, but those are the most important to me. It is was like I got a new phone for a second time. Some of the other things I think that help make the phone better that are not Froyo “items” are the Gingerbread Keyboard (really, really good, better than iOS in my opinion), ASOP Lock Screen, and the EXT4 file system.
I still liked the phone when it had Eclair, and I wouldn’t go back and buy a different phone (and I like it on Froyo even better), it is nice hardware, awesome 5-row keyboard, and it’s AMOLED screen rocks and everyone who see’s it immediately compares it to their own back lit LCD screens, and develops a serious case of envy, lol. I am old enough to know that companies will be companies and will always make and break promises(Apple customers have to put up with a company that said their alarm was fixed in November to have it happen again in January and tells them they are holding their phone wrong). It would be nice if they always kept their promises, but they can’t. If companies were 100% honest, no one would buy their products just like if politicians were 100% honest, no one would vote for them. It would be nice to think we still would, but if we would….wouldn’t there already be 100% honest companies and politicians, lol

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I'm running stock DK28 and it works absolutely flawless, dunno why so many have issues, I have none
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Agreed.
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If Froyo is jerky and not smooth, you are doing something wrong. It works fine with a rom that isn't a piece of ****.

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If Froyo is jerky and not smooth, you are doing something wrong. It works fine with a rom that isn't a piece of ****.
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+1 bonsai runs way better then 2.1 and bettery life us slightly better...
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Been running TrulyEpic 1.5 and quite pleased with the performance, features, battery-life, etc. I really really like that it now boots in < 30 seconds. (I swap batteries instead of charging, so quick boot times are especially nice).
2.1 Eclair simply unusable because of the Calendar and Bluetooth Voice Search bugs.
But beyond that you're just wrong on performance in Eclair vs Froyo.

My problem with change

I hate change. So, since I have worked on specializing NY CM7 for just me, then ics coming out, makes it hard for me to want to go to it. I love my setup as well as my performance here on gingerbread. But, I have pulled myself to download oICSv41 as well as the GLaDOS kernel. Is there any big bugs with v41 I should know about..? As well as with GLaDOS. I know of the reboot problem, but it sounds like its just people using set CPU. And if I do have problems ill just go to mathkids trusty matr1x kernel that I've been using since 6.0. Although none of you will provably care I just felt the need to say this, thanks guys
PS. If you have problems like this, post then below, weather it be with phones or not.
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michaelg117 said:
I hate change. So, since I have worked on specializing NY CM7 for just me, then ics coming
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I haven't had any issue at all except for slight launcher lag.
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I hate change too... I've flashed and tried just about every ICS rom and kernel out right now, but still find myself nandroiding back to my latest GB MIUI setup. Not once did I get excited about ICS coming out... honestly I don't see what all the hype is about. It took a year to get GB to what it is today, so I wonder what ICS will be a year from now.
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I feel exactly the same way. I absolutely LOVE my gingerbread the way it is. And about five minutes ago, I flashed back to good ole gb. I wont flash ics until an official ota cones out.
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Idk bout you guys but I'm not afraid to try new things, have fun living in the past cavemen lol. But things about ics right know are all known issues that Google already knows about. Bad battery life due to android os keeping the phone awake, home screen lag which gets resolved by using either kernels you mentioned and depending on the from you settle on, incoming mms doesn't work but outgoing does. Other than that, its bad ass and something new.
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I tried ICS for a day, straight back to GB for me, it seemed like a step backward for me coming from MV roms.

Matr1x v13.0
(Oc 1300/200 smartassv2 and live Oc 105% raise voltages by 15)
Nexusbeam 4.0.1
Perfect combination. Everything works, no complaints.
Quadrant scores of 3434, which is respectable.
ICS is the way to go!
Hope this helps you decide.

Even though I finally have a decently running ICS ROM.. I'm still disappointed by ICS. I think a lot of it had to do with the very large overhyping it got.. I mean we all thought our phones would be ****ting rainbows and unicorns, and didn't, not even close. It's a cosmetic re-design with annoying hardware accelerated web browsing..
The accelerated web browsing is so poorly implemented one of the first features I'd love to see in a ROM is the ability to turn it off. I'm much rather put up with the occasional "hitching" while scrolling instead of the "Scroll, scroll scroll, wait for it to render and make the blur go away" craptacular experience it is now.

styckx said:
I think a lot of it had to do with the very large overhyping it got.. I mean we all thought our phones would be ****ting rainbows and unicorns, and didn't, not even close.
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And that's the story with anything new that comes out. Everyone hears about something new and runs with it and praises it to the heavens and back without knowing anything about it (true hands on experience). Its always best to form your own opinion on things and not let hype or anything like that to get in your way of judging something.
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styckx said:
Even though I finally have a decently running ICS ROM.. I'm still disappointed by ICS. I think a lot of it had to do with the very large overhyping it got.. I mean we all thought our phones would be ****ting rainbows and unicorns, and didn't, not even close. It's a cosmetic re-design with annoying hardware accelerated web browsing..
The accelerated web browsing is so poorly implemented one of the first features I'd love to see in a ROM is the ability to turn it off. I'm much rather put up with the occasional "hitching" while scrolling instead of the "Scroll, scroll scroll, wait for it to render and make the blur go away" craptacular experience it is now.
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It's weird because the render time is insanely long on the OTA. But, when I had installed Kwiboo's or CM9, the browser experience was amazing!
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I dunno, i look at GB now and it look ugly and clunky. Stock ICS is running just as fast (or faster) and stable as stock GB did for me. I don't even have the desire to play with custom ROMs and kernels anymore, ICS is so close to perfection for my needs. Unless CM9 offers something really great, I'm sticking with stock ICS.