[Q's] New to Vibrant - Vibrant General

I will b switching from my Hero to a Vibrant on friday and after browsing around here for a few days I have a couple of questions.
1. Whats with flashing through ODIN?
2. Are ROMs and certain fixes not flashed through recovery after root?
I'm pretty excited about this phone. I look forward to see what it can do with froyo.

nice, im getting mine tomorrow or Wednesday,

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Froyo Hero Port

found this link today
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could be promising. im getting a hero tomorrow. friend at telus doesnt like his.
It's already here
i had trouble finding it
getting my hero ... this morning i guess. late enough now lol.
cant sleep. too excited. burned (literaly. dont keep ur phone next to ur ash tray.) the screen on my vogue. so time to upgrade.
Not to discredit the dev of this port in any way, because a lot of people are working on Froyo, and many have got together, but don't plan to use a froyo port as your everyday ROM.
Nobody has got microphone working yet, which is a pretty fundamental part of a mobile phone. I think we are still on the hunt for a driver for the legacy stuff, but don't get too excited about running froyo just yet

It's only been like a week, but it feels like a month, since cyanogenmod rc1.

Yes, I have a little ADD tendencies.
:-(
/pat There, there. You're not the only looking out for a new CM, but I'm back to using BakedSnack (2.2) and the Mannup Theme. Very Hot.
I'm also tired of flashing ROMs, lol, so I'm thinking to stick to BS for a while and just grab theme updates.
And until there's a rooted, stock froyo tomorrow sometime, that's gonna seem like a long time too.
Why? There's nothing wrong with the current one unless you really need 4g.
Just start flashing the nightly's. Others have said its addicting like "crack".
The only crack I'm into is the non smoking kind and i haven't even been into that as much since I started flashing. Maybe I need help. Wait, let me ask my wife
Land Master said:
Just start flashing the nightly's. Others have said its addicting like "crack".
The only crack I'm into is the non smoking kind and i haven't even been into that as much since I started flashing. Maybe I need help. Wait, let me ask my wife
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It is like crack. I wake up every morning, download the new CM6 nightly and flash it while getting ready for work. It's a sad sad existence. lol
i was there once myself, until my homerun battle 3d backup got corrupted
nightlies are now a part of my daily routine. btw, anyone know why the nightly thread got locked?
probably got too big, someone should start a new one, I liked hearing everyone's impressions of the various nightlies. I'm holding off on CM6 until a2sd is brought back in. I don't have enough apps that allow sd storage in froyo so I need it.

[Q] Where do i start?

I finally got my droid x about 2 weeks ago after waiting almost a month on backorder.. Since i ordered it ive gotten an pneumonia lung infection as of saturday tonsilitis and fevers.. Plus two weeks in i got laid off so this hasent been the greateast of time. Ive been pretty out of it and yea.. anywho. I got this and first thing i did was Root via the "DroidX Root" with the Root Me and UnRoot Me " buttons. Ive owned a G1 and a Droid Eris prior to all this and loved em both. Rooted them gotten the recovery image's custom roms ect. With this im getting confused. I think its partially because ive been so ill and disoriented half the time. Also because of this efuse crap and what not. Yes ive googled and searched but again ive been fairly out of it so im still not certian what i should do here. I downloaded some apk file Recovery Bootstrap v1.0.0.3 that i was told i needed to get but again...
I want or at least i think i want to get to 2.2 im currently still on the 2.1 build it shiped with. i have *228'd it or changed the firmware in any way all ive done is rooted it.
Im having issued with the data connection. My browser seems to hang a good 50-60% of the time wether im on my wireless g connection at home or on 3g. Ill listen to slacker radio and often it stops for sometime and either wont resume playback until ive closed and re-opend it or just does it on its own.
Ive heard of people getting roms on it but others tell me there not "real".
Also its "fluid'ness speed" seems to be jotty at times. I havent hardly installed much on this and its slows down really bad at times.
Basicly i like modding my phone and really enjoy all the work people put out to fully give us the full capability's of these pieces of hardware we buy. But i dont feel like im getting that.
What other suggestions can you all give me to do to my phone, to speed it up back it up remove this crapware like dlna ect. I have seen some threads about doing this but then people telling me they get stuck at the boot logo cause they messed something up and i dont really wanna do that.
What have you done with your phones? How well do they run?
Thanks for taking the time to read my post and i look forward to everyone's reply
-Mort
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Sorry to hear about your problems. I just went through a week of hell before being diagnosed with pneumonia this June. So I know how it felt.
Basically, even though 2.2 OTA is available, if you mess up your phone while modding, there is no stock image to fall back to, so you'll be stuck with a bricked phone.
The best solution right now is to upgrade to original 2.2 leak. Then you can install leaked 2.3.15 which is the same as OTA (with a difference of being deodexed and rooted). In this case even if you have problems, you can always flash original 2.1 back and start from scratch.
rootzwiki has a good amount of info on how to do all of this. But of course feel free to ask questions.
http://rootzwiki.com/index.php/Smartphones/Motorola/Droid-X/Droid-X.html

Sitting on the fence

So here I sit, on the fence, with my rooted stock Epic.
Nothing has really substantiated the rumors of Froyo for the 21st, and that just makes me think it's not coming (and if SamsungJohn was going to finally say something substantial, a yea or nay would be a nice start).
But this is not a thread about the OTA.
I'm just thinking... if OTA is really imminent, then I'll just wait and let the devs work on it. But if it's not... then it's time to look at one of the available ROMs.
ViperRom 4.0.4 looks damn sweet... love the ViperWheel widget... but it was held up from its Monday release (are they waiting for source code drop too?). And there is Midnight and Nebula which I kinda like also.
I guess I could start the process of checking them out.
Or I could just sit here and wait. I'm going out of town this weekend and probably should leave things alone until I get back home.
Until then I ask anyone who is running those ROMs... would I lose Swype if I switch ROMs? I really like Swype...
I am stock/rooted, pretty much in the same situation. Will wait until the end of the month if no stock Froyo materializes will look into roms and modding a bit. I depend on my phone's functions all working for my business and would rather not take a chance that I will lose functionality by flashing to the Froyo leak.
i was waiting like you guys til the other week and i went to bonsai, and everything is working superbly.
I was getting sick of stock rom and 2.1, not being able to have hulu or flash as well as a few apps that are must have like Humans vs aliens as well as Andy-83.
Im now just waiting for the official source so it can be improved, but ive had no issues on bonsai and reccomend it, if you want something fast and clean..
give the latest midnight a shot it works really good just wipe 3x before loading and be happy. swype works for me just have to switch text imput method from gb to swype.
Soooo. Oh., before that... I am so glad I rooted and mod. I ran midnight ... and cut my teeth on the ext4 .... the cwm .... and after root and rom messed around with themes. After my ver of midnight got a few weeks old I switched to bonzai and I love it too... it just works. Wait a few ... but its worth it.
Btw ... will we have to wait a while for the new stock 2.2 to get rooted or... is once root always root? Curious.
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VIPERrom 4.0.4 does look sweet. I'm currently running FRoZen 4.0.3, and it has been great. I highly recommend the VIPERroms. I be jonesin' for that 4.0.4 son!
I use Frankenstein.
Don't update.
There's too many bugs in dk28 which will make yu scramble for di18, but when you go back you will miss the little upgrades that did work so it'll be this constant struggle within.
Until official 2.2.1 ofcourse
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Also you can just copy the swype.apk from /system/app
Can't he?
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ROM's
I spent last weekend loading up all of the different (read more popular) ROM's and the most stable and straight forward one to me was Nebula Seven Sisters. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863154
The developer made it a point of keeping a lot of the stock look and features while improving on what Froyo brought to the table. I did not have any real functional issues with Viper, Midnight or TrulyEpic, it just seemed that Nebula was trying to keep the experience closer to stock than the others.
Other people will say they like the modified skins, the launcher pro, the Viper wheel, etc. For them, that is the case. That is the great thing about the developers of the ROM's, they are doing this to cater to different crowds.
So really, there is no need to wait for Sprint or Samsung here, download Odin, grab some ROM's and have fun with your phone! All I can say is to make Clockwork backups often, it makes the process of going back to the ROM you liked two days ago so much easier!
Randy
could try the Syndicate Rom, for 2.1.... see how fast the 2.2.1 roms WILL be after source... but other than that, they are all stable from what I read, some people have a few issues, depends a lot on you though. If you have a ton of stuff to reinstall after a clean wipe, might as well wait out the weekend, not for an OTA, slim chance there... but just so you have time.... sometimes things take longer, you may go thru 5 roms before you find the one you like... etc.
lazyart said:
I'm just thinking... if OTA is really imminent, then I'll just wait and let the devs work on it. But if it's not... then it's time to look at one of the available ROMs.
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DK28 is buggy but it is better than 2.1 by far. You really don't lose anything by going with one of the available ROMs right now. Presumably they will all have an update once the new version is sent out from Sprint (whether it be on the 21st or not). If you're running a custom 2.2 ROM, you'll just do a CWM backup, update to the newer version of whichever ROM you like, and then restore your data.
I went back and forth between Quantum and Bonsai ROM today. It takes no more than 10 minutes to fully swap ROMs. Just do it, you'll be glad you did. And if a new version of 2.2 comes out in the next 5 days, it will only take a few minutes (max) of your time to upgrade to it.
A_Flying_Fox said:
Don't update.
There's too many bugs in dk28 which will make yu scramble for di18, but when you go back you will miss the little upgrades that did work so it'll be this constant struggle within.
Until official 2.2.1 ofcourse
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What bugs are u getting? I running bonsai and have no issues.. even got Tue pre8 wireless tether working perfectly ...
Sent From My Bonsai Epic 4g
SF-IT-Guy said:
I spent last weekend loading up all of the different (read more popular) ROM's and the most stable and straight forward one to me was Nebula Seven Sisters. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863154
The developer made it a point of keeping a lot of the stock look and features while improving on what Froyo brought to the table. I did not have any real functional issues with Viper, Midnight or TrulyEpic, it just seemed that Nebula was trying to keep the experience closer to stock than the others.
Other people will say they like the modified skins, the launcher pro, the Viper wheel, etc. For them, that is the case. That is the great thing about the developers of the ROM's, they are doing this to cater to different crowds.
So really, there is no need to wait for Sprint or Samsung here, download Odin, grab some ROM's and have fun with your phone! All I can say is to make Clockwork backups often, it makes the process of going back to the ROM you liked two days ago so much easier!
Randy
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Is 7sisters smoother than bonsai?Im asking because I want minimal rom so I can add my own things to it.
Well, I've just flashed DK28 and CWM just finished converting to EXT4. It's party time.
Viper brings some great stuff to the table.
Nebula is stability first, which is important to me since my business and my phone are virtually inseparable.
I also like Midnight's BYOR modular format, keeping bloat to a minimum.
I'll have a fun time with this.
lviv73 said:
Is 7sisters smoother than bonsai?Im asking because I want minimal rom so I can add my own things to it.
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Bonsai is bare minimum and is great to add your own stuff and themes and its stable and fast, and for me the pre8 new wifi tethering app wits great, I live this rom!!!
Sent From My Bonsai Epic 4g
lazyart said:
Well, I've just flashed DK28 and CWM just finished converting to EXT4. It's party time.
Viper brings some great stuff to the table.
Nebula is stability first, which is important to me since my business and my phone are virtually inseparable.
I also like Midnight's BYOR modular format, keeping bloat to a minimum.
I'll have a fun time with this.
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More fun than I realized. After the conversion I got stuck at the www.samsungmmobile.com screen. Here we Odin again!
lazyart said:
More fun than I realized. After the conversion I got stuck at the www.samsungmmobile.com screen. Here we Odin again!
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No need to odin,odin only if nothing else works!
In ur case pull out bettery,put it back in,hold power+vol down+camera to get back into cmw3 and try again.
This will save you some time.
Everyone should be warned of one MAJOR issue. If you use you phone for primary internet access anywhere you go; whether at home or at work or wherever. The tethering drops you no matter what you use at random. It is very frustrating and annoying. If it wasn't for this I'd be 100% satisfied with nebula already; but it isn't the rom's problem, it's with DK28. Some people use wireless tethering but I cannot with 2 different desktops I use my phone for internet connectivity.
lazyart said:
More fun than I realized. After the conversion I got stuck at the www.samsungmmobile.com screen. Here we Odin again!
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Make sure you watch some of Randy Shear's videos on youtube if you're new at this. He very slowly goes through many of the basic steps in putting a new rom on your phone. If you skip a step you cause yourself triple work. Just take your time and watch a few of his video's and just put the rom on your want. His Viper Apoc 4.0.2 video is excellent.

[Q] Downgrade????

Ok, I should really kick myself in the a$$ for this cause lack of me not looking into things. First things first, I had the Note 2 sense it came out and had everything under the sun done to it and for some reason back in September AT&T sent me a S4 and I just put it away for awhile. My good o'l t0tlteatt was running SlimKat - 4.4.2.beta.1.9-WEEKLY-2150 with a bunch of other stuff, sadly the other day i got out of my car and my phone fell out of my pocket and into a storm drain. I went home got the S4 fired it up and all that good stuff and I got a notification sayin there was an upate, so I update the phone. Sense I have off work today I wanted to root the S4 and all that good stuff. I'm seeing that the phone has the MK2 build and the only way to root is with saferoot and the only recovery is Safestrap and there is only a couple compatible roms. Is there anyway I can downgrade to a older build so I can do what wish? Can Someone please get back to me about this cause I wanna get my Flash on!!!
Thanks For everyone"s time!!
thatmetaldude85 said:
Ok, I should really kick myself in the a$$ for this cause lack of me not looking into things. First things first, I had the Note 2 sense it came out and had everything under the sun done to it and for some reason back in September AT&T sent me a S4 and I just put it away for awhile. My good o'l t0tlteatt was running SlimKat - 4.4.2.beta.1.9-WEEKLY-2150 with a bunch of other stuff, sadly the other day i got out of my car and my phone fell out of my pocket and into a storm drain. I went home got the S4 fired it up and all that good stuff and I got a notification sayin there was an upate, so I update the phone. Sense I have off work today I wanted to root the S4 and all that good stuff. I'm seeing that the phone has the MK2 build and the only way to root is with saferoot and the only recovery is Safestrap and there is only a couple compatible roms. Is there anyway I can downgrade to a older build so I can do what wish? Can Someone please get back to me about this cause I wanna get my Flash on!!!
Thanks For everyone"s time!!
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No you can't.
Alright Thanks..

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