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2.2 With SenseUI Aug 3!!

"Google" The EVO Update As I'm Not Allowed to post links.. BOO.
The EVO gets 2.2 presumably with the SenseUI on August 3rd.. When this is released is there any chance that we will see this flavor of custom rom for our Hero devices?! Hopefully Darch and the other XDA experts wont let us go without.. We can ONLY HOPE!! Hint, Hint, Nudge, Nudge.. Surprised there isn't a leak already.. Or is there!?

There is, i am running full 2.2 100% working on my Evo, and HTC also posted the update.zip on their website, but Devs from the Evo have had sense working for awhile now, but it still hasn't been ported over because of the huge differences in frameworks

I really wish I knew what people liked about SenseUI. It just seems so bulky and slow to me.

darchstar told me many times tonight there will be no 2.2 sense port for the hero. (from the evo) the arch is different

Nfinitefx45 will be working on porting 2.2 sense here soon
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Thanks for the info!
I flipped through the EVO dev forum (reluctantly) and saw that they are already up and running on the latest froyo build which is awesome! I'm glad to see that all hope is not lost and that there will be some development for 2.2 with sense. To answer Zardos66 I personally like the facebook contact linking and the look of the UI. It has nothing to do with performance and everything to do with functionality and usefulness. The SenseUI is a bit clunky but I haven't found a happy medium with any of the roms that don't have the SenseUI. Just something I'd like to see and If it can be done I trust that the XDA Pros will knock it out of the park.. I'm very excited to see what can be made of this!! XDA FTW!

Zardos66 said:
I really wish I knew what people liked about SenseUI. It just seems so bulky and slow to me.
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I thinks it mainly the widgets. other then that idk.
Im running senses, i've tried an aosp rom, it just didn't feel right, i guess i got used to sense.
But will install cm6 when darch gets into the RCs.

eltrutgnik said:
I thinks it mainly the widgets. other then that idk.
Im running senses, i've tried an aosp rom, it just didn't feel right, i guess i got used to sense.
But will install cm6 when darch gets into the RCs.
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Even with OC, Sense still lags. It's is easy to mimic with less ram taken up.
Launcher pro
2x4 people widget - free
Messaging Widgets - free
Weather and toggle widgets - $1.99
feels good man.

Supposedly we can't port the EVO 2.2 release over to the Hero because the EVO build is designed for a much faster processor. Our Hero couldn't handle such a port without A LOT of tweaking....in other words, almost impossible.
Whenever the HTC Legend gets their 2.2 release, that is probably the build that the devs here will try to port over for us. A couple people have already committed to doing this.

eltrutgnik said:
I thinks it mainly the widgets. other then that idk.
Im running senses, i've tried an aosp rom, it just didn't feel right, i guess i got used to sense.
But will install cm6 when darch gets into the RCs.
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Darch released RC0 a few builds ago, i am currently running Not my dog too build and all is pretty well. Camera app is still pretty much useless but Camera Magic is a quick fix. The gallery is pretty messed up with auto rotate and such, but aside from pictures it is a MAJOR improvement over eclair. My Hero runs like a champ!

does it change anything that the desire got a sense 2.2 today also?
http://goo.gl/fb/Z0kfj
I'm not familiar with the desire to know if it would work... hopefully it's closer to ours.

surrealbliss said:
does it change anything that the desire got a sense 2.2 today also?
http://goo.gl/fb/Z0kfj
I'm not familiar with the desire to know if it would work... hopefully it's closer to ours.
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no still built on the snap dragon processor and is HDPI (high res) this is why we are waitng on the legend , it is the cousin to the hero in terms of processor and the fact that it is our exact resolution MDPI (medium). the legend is supposed to be on froyo within the next two months.

nfinitefx45 said:
the legend is supposed to be on froyo within the next two months.
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If it is gonna be anything like eclair release, I'm not holding my breath till around christmas, which is when the next major version of Android is supposed to be released. I bet by that time Sprint drops all support for their 6 month old Evo like they did with out Heroes, too!

Sigh I want froyo with sense.
(Sprint: "What's the evo? Oh that ole thing )

thatguythatdid said:
Sigh I want froyo with sense.
(Sprint: "What's the evo? Oh that ole thing )
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the bottom line is the hero should of got the 2.2 update. sprint isn't doing a good job of supporting their phones at all. i owned the evo for a week and while i liked the speed & size the pitfall was the battery life. none of the tweaks worked and you had to disable every feature of the phone.

The nexus one looks so good. Still. So much support for it. Being googles baby it will probably get gingerbread. Just saying almost a year old and still one of the best phones. ("Did I get ripped off?" I sometimes wonder)

i just heard droid users are getting froyo today. this is a bunch of bull**** and im pissed at htc. i should of kept my evo. talk about dropping the ball with the hero!

There will be no port from the Ego since there's wayy to much things to change its almost impossible, but our hope of 2.2 is from the legend!
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Jsos said:
There will be no port from the Ego since there's wayy to much things to change its almost impossible, but our hope of 2.2 is from the legend!
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i hope so because im not digging the aosp stuff. id like a sense port so i can get the htc goodies.

Froyo is...

Still not here... Where the heck is it!!?
I'm getting a little tired of waiting for a gps fix.

not positive but i'm pretty sure samsung said the end of september :[
and trust me, we all are.

merrifield69 said:
not positive but i'm pretty sure samsung said the end of september :[
and trust me, we all are.
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At the earliest most likely... patience Lil grasshopper

samsung is holding an event on the 16th to show off the media hub on the galaxy s phones and to show off some new models. I'd expect them to make an official announcement then since they've been rather quiet recently.

Some tmo rep said the same thing. End of this month. He also had to mention the g2 end of this month too. Kinda wondered should have I waited
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tribalb said:
Some tmo rep said the same thing. End of this month. He also had to mention the g2 end of this month too. Kinda wondered should have I waited
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eh, the G2 isn't much of an upgrade over the slide so I'd say you made the right choice.

Well with verizon's version of the galaxy s out, i think there is nothing to hold a massive upgrade to all versions back.

given that the tab is going to be running froyo real soon, the galaxy s phones shouldn't be that far behind. in fact, i think they should get the update first, but hey, what do i know

is this the latest update we'll get? will we be getting 3.0?

rogerchew said:
is this the latest update we'll get? will we be getting 3.0?
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considering the number of devices sold, we'll probably get 3.0

Gingerbread would be great and a good pr move on the part of samsung. My expectation is low though simply because they will want people to buy new phones. Gingerbread will be an easy upgrade too because out would be vanilla with touchwiz and widgets being addons. The Tab has similar hardware and it may get it, making a custom ROM likely.
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Not the time to talk about Gingerbread right?
I need the froyo first!!

Tpavey said:
My expectation is low though simply because they will want people to buy new phones.
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ugh. i hope not. the galaxy s is pretty much future proof for the time being, as it smokes any snapdragons out there. if samsung doesn't want their flagship phone to sink, they will thoroughly support it
(i hope)

My expectation is low though simply because they will want people to buy new phones.
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Me too. Samsung known for their bad support for older models !
For example Samsung Omnia they stopped supporting the device after 1 year only !! NO WM6.5 !!
HTC is way better in supporting old mobiles !

The_wolf88 said:
Me too. Samsung known for their bad support for older models !
For example Samsung Omnia they stopped supporting the device after 1 year only !! NO WM6.5 !!
HTC is way better in supporting old mobiles !
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Last I checked, Samsung hasn't actually offered a phone to 100 carriers around the planet, including all 4 US national carriers.
As long as a single large American carrier demands the next version of Android, we ALL will get it.

I don't see the connection between froyo and the gps fix. If it was an android fix then we should have a fix already, I expect it is firmware based.
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aad4321 said:
disagree it is one of the best phones yet with a processor with less Mhz but still out preforms.
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its performance boost I would imagine is because of the JIT compiler found in android 2.2.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

jz9833 said:
its performance boost I would imagine is because of the JIT compiler found in android 2.2.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
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I believe you're on point with that statement. I too could be wrong though
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dalepa said:
Still not here... Where the heck is it!!?
I'm getting a little tired of waiting for a gps fix.
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What you didn't get the OTA last night
rogerchew said:
is this the latest update we'll get? will we be getting 3.0?
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Well I just got of the phone with my contacts at Tmo. and Samsung and they have it set for Xmas day......
On a more serious note...
jz9833 said:
its performance boost I would imagine is because of the JIT compiler found in android 2.2.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
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Im thinking this is also true, which leads me to think that this phone is going to be pretty damn awesome after 2.2. Then again this could just be wishful thinking...
Just wondering how the GalaxyS community is going to react if 2.2 isn't 100% PERFECT.... :grabs popcorn:

mmmm popcorn.... mmmm (visits microwave...)
anyone whining bout the gps fix needs to check out rooting and flashing eugenes vibrant 9 rom, ive made this comment like 15 times buuuuuut. i get a lock within 10meters in only 10 seconds with the gps on and the cell tower assist feature on. no nead to play around in Lbstestmode menus just turn on location settings in the menu open maps and find "my location"... and this is inside my apartment....
I cant wait for ALL the bonuses in 2.2 like flash and included wifi tethering but do we really need to make a million threads about it??? lol

Is N1 roms dev dead?

It's horrible but true!
Our beloved N1 losed the biggest devs:
-Paulobrien left several months ago
-Evil shows up very rarely
-Micromod sold his N1 so no more updates
-Rodriguez ''disapeared'' since january
Only a few devs are still here but the ''big heads'' left
No more Desire or Desire HD to N1 ports?
Oh the sweet times when we used to have incredible roms every 2 days and we didn't know what to choose...

It is a sad and inevitable decline. But at least we have Cyanogenmod. If the N1 lost support for that, i'd probably get a new phone. We look pretty safe for a good while now though.

Makes me sad cause I still don't wanna leave the nexus one:-(. What else is worth it? The nexus s ROM support hasn't really exploded yet, so I dunno where else I'd go.

I don't know about you.. but I've never had the need to try anything else than CyanogenMod, so I can't really say I'll miss or worry about the other devs being gone.

Paulobrien,Evil and Micromod were the ones who ported Desire roms into N1, without them we are stuck to ''plain'' roms
Desire HD port need some works and I doubt someone will port Desire gingerbread to N1

Desire ROMs are in decline - because nobody is interested enough to finesse them, but GB ROMs are crawling from under every corner - because it's new and fun. Even though they're mostly beta-quality - because everyone is waiting for the official GB update.
When GB will be on Desire, and only then, you'll see if there is any development. Right now there's nothing to develop.

You have lot people waiting for a faster and more stable Desire HD rom
But as I said the only one to really work on it is Evil, other devs are just cooking MIUI and CM7 instead of porting something new

You forget one of the best dev's in the list, Enomther.

Enomther has always been rare
Perhaps he's waiting for official gingerbread release before doing his new rom,he's very carefull

vegetaleb said:
Enomther has always been rare
Perhaps he's waiting for official gingerbread release before doing his new rom,he's very carefull
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He announced his stepping away from rom developement in his thread for his rom. Whether it is temp or permanent remains to be seen, but he will be missed. He was definitely tops on my list.

vegetaleb said:
Enomther has always been rare
Perhaps he's waiting for official gingerbread release before doing his new rom,he's very carefull
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unfortunately http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11089520&postcount=8305

The question is where are they going? Nexus s?
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onesavior said:
The question is where are they going? Nexus s?
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Took the words out of my mouth. Did a new worthwhile phone come out this past month or something? I suspect (as someone else mentioned), most are just waiting for Google to finally release GB. I myself have been bouncing around MIUI, and GB ROMs. Now I'm back to stock with a blackbar theme and I'm pretty peachy. Long live the Nexus One!

There is a lull simply because 2.3 isn't out. Look how the dev section exploded with the OTA for froyo. Once 2.3 hits I'm sure it'll heat up again

Hollow.Droid said:
There is a lull simply because 2.3 isn't out. Look how the dev section exploded with the OTA for froyo. Once 2.3 hits I'm sure it'll heat up again
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Your post reminds me of that old saying "the calm before the storm" lol. And yes this is true, the mytouch 3G I switched from went pretty dead after being stuck on 1.6 forever and once an "official" release of 2.1 let out, devs trickled back in and it heated up again, I think once 2.3 officially drops for the N1 that it is gonna start a firey oven of optimized tastey roms.. Personally I think the devs are just bored of 2.2 and want to play with something new and 2.3 just isn't in a good enough standing right now for them to attempt to "optimize" it..
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vegetaleb said:
It's horrible but true!
Our beloved N1 losed the biggest devs:
-Paulobrien left several months ago
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Paulobrien said on modaco site: I still have my N1 and i'm still planning new updates. It was at Jan 31 2011, 19:45.
Sorry can't write direct link due newbie status.

And if you like a Devs rom be sure to donate. No one works for free
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MIUI (which is the most innovative Android ROM) and CM are still going strong for the Nexus, so no, development is not dead.

Sexy nexy still the best!!!!!!! It has everything what i need, like amoled cam flash GPS ...... i stay with my sexy nexy
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It's sad that's lots of devs are leaving the N1.
But be optimistic and patient everyone as we wait for the official OTA.
Right now I'm using cyanmod 6.1 and it's been great. I'm just glad we still have him around. I'm sure cyanogen ain't never gonna leave us.

Are the G1 devs leaving?

Well??
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Alanrocks15 said:
Well??
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what makes u think that lol

When I was here we had
Jac
Sparks
king
red
Cyanogen
[email protected]
benbuchacher
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It's still a fairly active device.
I have ezGingerbread on mine and lots of people are using CyanogenMod7 and a few others based on Gingerbread. As far as Froyo ... well yeah there probably isn't much left to do other than bugfixes.

landoftheeskimos said:
It's still a fairly active device.
I have ezGingerbread on mine and lots of people are using CyanogenMod7 and a few others based on Gingerbread. As far as Froyo ... well yeah there probably isn't much left to do other than bugfixes.
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you got a point gingerbread is where to be its much better then froyo to me ^_^

The older the hardware is, the less likely it is that people will stick around working on it. Also be aware that most of your list is made up of non-devs.
Most people who worked on Dream have gone to VISION. At some point, you should consider the fact that although Dream was a revolutionary piece of hardware, it is now OLD.

dhkr234 said:
The older the hardware is, the less likely it is that people will stick around working on it. Also be aware that most of your list is made up of non-devs.
Most people who worked on Dream have gone to VISION. At some point, you should consider the fact that although Dream was a revolutionary piece of hardware, it is now OLD.
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even with it being old it still gets the newest android before even some high end phones and its able to use it as a dd ^_^

yohshua said:
even with it being old it still gets the newest android before even some high end phones and its able to use it as a dd ^_^
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Yes, but you miss the point. There are newer, higher end phones, like HTC VISION, that get the updates faster than *ANYTHING* else.

landoftheeskimos said:
It's still a fairly active device.
I have ezGingerbread on mine and lots of people are using CyanogenMod7 and a few others based on Gingerbread. As far as Froyo ... well yeah there probably isn't much left to do other than bugfixes.
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a perfect, working cm6.1 with the ram upgrade and no battery issues, etc. would be the ultimate rom for g1

Well, the Vogue has been out for a looong time and it still is in support (miraculously).
What annoys me about the G1 is the stupid chin lol

The G1 still gets more rom development than the G2 (although it's started to even out). Maybe some devs are leaving, but there are plenty left.
P.S. Thank you devs for all your work

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Yes, but you miss the point. There are newer, higher end phones, like HTC VISION, that get the updates faster than *ANYTHING* else.
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i see your point thought if iam not wrong ginger and honeycomb came out for the g1 before the g2

yohshua said:
i see your point thought if iam not wrong ginger and honeycomb came out for the g1 before the g2
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i hope so

Im jealous of you guys
In the vibrant there's like half the development here
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^^switch it up next time then samsung sucks imho in what they have done to vibrant users,sure they have probaly the best display for a phone ever but they should really just stick to making their hdtv's which imo are the best. G1 has the best support ever from devs and it should as it's the OG android device of them all. I will probaly check out the lg optimus2x or htc pyramid next as I believe those are the game changers that will have the same/hopefully better support even then g1.
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Good devs are still here. Pl Laszlo for instance and his excellent FBL 5.2 ROM, Ezterry, Shadowch31, sisterchick, Yoshua and many more.

Yea I miss the good ol g1 days when we had a bunch of them and donut was being ported and eclair was hella slow and cm was only for g1 and hero ports were being made, those were the days
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darbear5610 said:
Good devs are still here. Pl Laszlo for instance and his excellent FBL 5.2 ROM, Ezterry, Shadowch31, sisterchick, Yoshua and many more.
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Lazlo has been here since donut ezterry came when the official 2.2 for mt3g came out shadow was here from eclair and yoshua I don't know who that is
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I'm using Ezterry's AOSP OTA and I must say it's fast and stable but I miss installing cm builds...
Last time I tryied Ginger Yoshi the phone was unstable, slow and most of the time the notification bar crashed, the work the developers are doing is great but it's true the G1 is old and lacks, a lot, ram.
I will stick to my G1 for some time, I was thinking in getting a SGS which are cheaper now, but I'm not very sure about the community support. The G1 is great and will be great for some time.

guille26 said:
I'm using Ezterry's AOSP OTA and I must say it's fast and stable but I miss installing cm builds...
Last time I tryied Ginger Yoshi the phone was unstable, slow and most of the time the notification bar crashed, the work the developers are doing is great but it's true the G1 is old and lacks, a lot, ram.
I will stick to my G1 for some time, I was thinking in getting a SGS which are cheaper now, but I'm not very sure about the community support. The G1 is great and will be great for some time.
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Is ezterry's faster than biffmod? Honestly I'm new to android and smartphones in general. Just got this g1 last week and I love it still!
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CyanogenMod 9 in the works!!!! With Ice Cream sandwich!

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/16/ice-cream-sandwich-based-cyanogenmod-9-in-the-works-slated-for/
Hmmm...I wonder if this will be available for our baby Aria....

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Dont be too hopeful. Google said that ICS wont be available for Nexus One and that's a more powerful phone than the Aria. Maybe they lack manhours to do it, but in that case, we would need a big Dev backing up the Aria, and since it aint such a popular phone...

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Dont be too hopeful. Google said that ICS wont be available for Nexus One and that's a more powerful phone than the Aria. Maybe they lack manhours to do it, but in that case, we would need a big Dev backing up the Aria, and since it aint such a popular phone...
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Unfortunate truth...I was surprised we got support for CM7 to be honest. I suppose no ICS for me until April (or later if I decide to wait for a certain phone)

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Hmmm...I wonder if this will be available for our baby Aria....
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Way too early say absolutely, but I doubt very much that ICS will not be properly ported to msm7227 devices - including Aria.

attn1 said:
Way too early say absolutely, but I doubt very much that ICS will not be properly ported to msm7227 devices - including Aria.
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Then again, one thing is to be ported, another differently is that it runs smoothly, aye?

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-first-android-ever-the-htc-g1-gets-ics-port/

I have already ported the ICS, but the HTC Aria slows as everyone else!

dimon2242 said:
I have already ported the ICS, but the HTC Aria slows as everyone else!
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have you tried overclocking at all?

kaboose01 said:
have you tried overclocking at all?
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No! Not did overclock

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No! Not did overclock
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It should help.

i think, kernel not stable! But still try!

I'm sure there will be a stable ics rom for the aria even if its not cm9. I have a very early one on my aria atm which runs well. Its not my everyday phone so idc that it does not have mobile or wifi lol. I just wanted to play around with ics.

IMO the sense 2.1 + 3.0 rom is more resource intensive than an aosp build of ICS. We'll see a smooth port on the aria, I'm sure of it. Not supporting the N1 was a business decision on Google's part not to support legacy hardware.
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And here's an update: http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cm9-progress-update.

From the sounds of it doesn't look like we gonna get Cm9. Good thing we have a build in the works already.
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Love my Aria but I really think its the end for this little guy.

fallingcowdude said:
Love my Aria but I really think its the end for this little guy.
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Really? I think with CM7, the Aria still has a lot of juice left.
I still cannot justify an upgrade at this point, even if we do not get CM9 or another ICS port.

Like me little ARIA.
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Really? I think with CM7, the Aria still has a lot of juice left.
I still cannot justify an upgrade at this point, even if we do not get CM9 or another ICS port.
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Concur!! Still like the smaller phones with a very versatile functionality. Would liike to see ICS on this fine phone, but will still keep the ARIA if that never transpirers.

Looks like Cyanogenmod 9 add ARMv6J and ARMv6VFP support
http://r.cyanogenmod.com/10301
http://r.cyanogenmod.com/10290

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Looks like Cyanogenmod 9 add ARMv6J and ARMv6VFP support
http://r.cyanogenmod.com/10301
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Which means "hooray, we are getting CM9" or is it too early to cheer??