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Hey guys,
Just curious what your thoughts were on changing the ROM from the original one on the phone to Epic, (whatever the newest one is I think it's 2.5 somebody correct me if it isn't). So I guess if you've done this what are the most noticable changes and is it worth the time it takes to do this.
-Jim
I'm really enjoying the epic 2.5 rom. I liked the phone stock but I found it to hang up quite a bit, blur seemed a little power hungry, and there were some apps installed that I did NOT want that constantly bugged me (city ID!). I switched to epic and my phone seems much much more responsive and my batter life seems mildly improved, by about roughly 10%. I'll more than likely continue to use epic until the bootloader gets cracked and we get something like cyanogen on the D2
I also use epic 2.5 and it sometimes randomly reboots, but otherwise its amazing. Battery life is great!
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what's your battery life like? because that's my main problem with my d2 since i text quite frequently and that seems to drain the battery like no other.
so you guys say go for it? also how do you back your contacts up when you change the roms?
hockeyhead019 said:
Hey guys,
Just curious what your thoughts were on changing the ROM from the original one on the phone to Epic, (whatever the newest one is I think it's 2.5 somebody correct me if it isn't). So I guess if you've done this what are the most noticable changes and is it worth the time it takes to do this.
-Jim
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If you are looking for a rom with little to no Blur left, try installing Motoboy's R2D2 SuperClean. It doesn't have all the Star Wars stuff and you are left with a solid system. I experienced a few bugs that were show stoppers on Epic 2.5. Those being the slide to unlock reboots, and the calendar not allowing me to add events. Matt has posted a fix for the calendar, but as of yet nothing stops the unlock reboots. Personally I find both of the roms to be better than what was shipped with the device. Ultimately which rom to flash should be your decision not someone else's.
Link?
zibrah3ed said:
If you are looking for a rom with little to no Blur left, try installing Motoboy's R2D2 SuperClean. It doesn't have all the Star Wars stuff and you are left with a solid system.
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Can you post a link for Motoboy's R2D2 SuperClean?
wecramer said:
Can you post a link for Motoboy's R2D2 SuperClean?
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Read the instructions carefully, then read them again. This is a slightly tougher install than Epic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=796908
Well I'm a new Droid 2 user. I had the original D1 and just got the D2 about a week ago. Epic was the first rom I downloaded and I like it a lot it reminds me of my D1 roms I had installed. It's pretty fast and hardly lags. I had a few problems at first. My phone rebooted randomly about twice and I'm not sure if this was a problem for everyone or if I just had a corrupt file installed, but whenever I would use titanium backup my messaging app stopped working. It really pissed me off because my messages still worked, but I couldn't see them. It kept force closing, but eventually it started to work. I'm enjoying this rom so far.
EDIT: I'm having the lock reboot problem now, it has happened maybe four or 5 times and it has been getting annoying lol. I haven't really looked for a fix, but I will be soon.
The lock screen reboots are a known bug in Epic 2.5 but I'm back with epic after tweaking R2D2 too much and I haven't had a problem after installing lock screen on/off widget and setting it off.
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What do u mean by the lock screen reboots? Just out of curiousity? I haven't had any reboots but I don't use a lock when my screen shuts off... is that what ur refering to or just the regular slide lock?
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Slide to unlock from screen off. If lockscreen is disabled it doesn't do the reboots.
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hockeyhead019 said:
What do u mean by the lock screen reboots? Just out of curiousity? I haven't had any reboots but I don't use a lock when my screen shuts off... is that what ur refering to or just the regular slide lock?
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Yeah I've heard that people without a slide-to-unlock feature are fine, but people like me that HAVE to have a lockscreen, are expeirencing problems. It has happened to me a couple times already
@Herromoto
Maybe you could disable the slide lock screen and put a pattern lock on. I don't know if the widget will disable the pattern or the pattern will make a reboot but it's worth a shot.
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newk8600 said:
@Herromoto
Maybe you could disable the slide lock screen and put a pattern lock on. I don't know if the widget will disable the pattern or the pattern will make a reboot but it's worth a shot.
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Yeah I heard that's a solution people use, but I am too hard headed to do that lol, I like the old school lock screen too much
Just received my Desire HD last night. At first it appeared ok. After a few hours of usage, the ram gradually drops and drops and drops.
At first it's around 390 or 420 free ram. After playing about for a few hours, the ram drops well below 200.
Even after using an app to free ram, it will free some more ram but will quickly use it all again for nothing.
Aside from this it's VERY laggy, much worse than my current HTC HD2.
It lags like crazy through the menu, not smooth at all and sometimes takes a few seconds to open something/go through the menu, it's like it will suddenly freeze completely and will not respond until it finally decides to wake up and continue what it was doing.
Worst of all is the picture gallery!! There are only around 17 pictures, 5 of them I took on the camera and the other pictures are sample pictures that came with the phone.
Now, when opening the gallery, it takes quite a while to display the pictures.
The pictures range from 500kb to around 1mb which is tiny and when opening pics in full size and going through them, it really struggles and lags, sometimes evening freezing for a few seconds before going to the next pic.
This is really bad and is pissing me off. My current HTC HD2 FLIES through pics without a lag.
I have pics ranging from a few kb to 5, 6 and even 7 mb and it's silky smooth and zooming in/out is effortless.
That said, why is my htc desire hd so laggy and performs so poorly?
What can be done to solve my issues?
It could very well be an app causing this but I doubt it as the apps I have installed onto the phone have also been used on my previous HTC Hero and Samsung Galaxy S.
Now, the HTC Desire HD is higher spec than the 2 above android phones but performs poorly.
Could someone PLEASE try to help me fix the lagging issues?
Apps on phone should it help:
KK Boxing Game
Air Hockey Game
Classic Tetris Game
File Manager App
Barcode Scanner
Vizbattery App
Uninstaller App
Rockplayer App
Beautiful Widgets App
Barcode Scanner App
Best Keyboard App
Mixzing Media Player App
Thanks in advance everyone
Go to settings applicactions development and turn on USB debug will fix all your probs, it is to do with the /init process using almost 90% CPU seems to be a system process
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Also bluetooth on seems to make the phone lag after a bit as well.
You haven't ever read why you sholdn't use any task killer on an android system?
e. g.: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826647
The usb debugging solves it but still takes me ages for pics to load up on screen and I am slightly angry with its performance still.
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Someone reported the barcode scanner is eating quite a lot of the system resources. I think it was here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819266 but don't flog me if it's not there! Although the uselessness of the task killer is explained there as well.
Thanks all for your reply. Thanks to many of you the lagging issue has been solved! As many of you mentioned the problem was the usb debugging mode. It was disabled and was causing extreme lag/slowness in everything, it was unbearable. The phone is now super smooth, fast and responsive. Going through pictures now is fantastic and at least 5-10 times quicker than before. Menus are also a lot smoother. Now my htc desire hd is quicker than my htc hd2! Once again many thanks for your help everyone.
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Thanks all for your reply. Thanks to many of you the lagging issue has been solved! As many of you mentioned the problem was the usb debugging mode. It was disabled and was causing extreme lag/slowness in everything, it was unbearable. The phone is now super smooth, fast and responsive. Going through pictures now is fantastic and at least 5-10 times quicker than before. Menus are also a lot smoother. Now my htc desire hd is quicker than my htc hd2! Once again many thanks for your help everyone.
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Music to my ears
Been testing my stock G2 with Quantant and noticed that its been really slow. I use to get 1500-1600, now 1000.
Anyone know how I can see is using all my resources?
Best way to clean up the G2?
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Wipe it and see if it helps.
Quadrant is very inacurate. I wouldn't trust it.
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does it feel slow in day to day use? if not then I wouldnt worry what quadrant tells you.
I have read in another thread somewhere in the forums that many people are getting lower scores in Quadrant since the recent update to the application.
Before the update, I scored in the 2200 range (running @ 1.5/performance). I just ran Quadrant now, with the same settings and scored 1600...
The device is running the same, its just some tweaks with Quadrant that are delivering the lower scores. Unless the phone is lagging or having problems, I wouldn't worry about it.
The only thing I have noticed over the last 3 months since I have been using my G2 is the time to load the "Gallery" seems to take much longer.
Sometimes it loads right up, sometimes it loads up showing the placeholders, and other times (more often then not now) it opens up the "Gallery" to a blank/yellow background, then just hangs there for up to about a minute or so without showing anything and then either crashes or finally opens/shows the pictures/gallery.
Throw CM7 on there and crank that ***** up to 11. I OC'd to 1.5 and got a 2500 quadrant last night. I am perfectly happy OC'd to about 1.1 though, so no need to risk damage to the CPU by leaving it OC'd so high.
When I am in landscape mode with keyboard open...then close the keyboard and make it portrait, the home icons don't show up until 10-15 seconds later. Anyone know why? Otherwise, it seems ok in speed except for this switching from landscape to portrait and the icon shortcuts are not there.
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When I am in landscape mode with keyboard open...then close the keyboard and make it portrait, the home icons don't show up until 10-15 seconds later. Anyone know why? Otherwise, it seems ok in speed except for this switching from landscape to portrait and the icon shortcuts are not there.
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Oh yeah that's no good...... have you tried different ROMs?
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I'm still on the stock rom. I'm actually pretty happy with the stock rom, except for this problem.
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hipertec said:
When I am in landscape mode with keyboard open...then close the keyboard and make it portrait, the home icons don't show up until 10-15 seconds later. Anyone know why? Otherwise, it seems ok in speed except for this switching from landscape to portrait and the icon shortcuts are not there.
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I have the same issue. I'm so used to seeing it that I forgot it was a "bug" :-/.
Running stock btw.
well im glad im not the only one with the landscape to portrait switching lag... but I wish someone can help in finding what is causing this....anyone?
There are two other posts on this - no one has any solution.
I have that problem as well using stock launcher.
But many people use launcher pro, or ADW, with those launchers you do not get this problem. I'm guessing the majority of people on XDA use a non-stock launcher so this problem doesn't really get any attention.
I don't know if it's Launcher Pros fault or not, but after I installed it my phone started shutting down randomly. Reflashed and restored using TB and it's still doing the same thing with it uninstalled...
Same problem here. With the Gallery lag thingy too. And now all HQ or HD videos on youtube epically fail when playing. I uninstalled and reinstalled youtube but the same keeps happening...very annoying :/ I heart my G2 idk what happened. I don't have many apps that would make the phone lag or have video problems (yes I just checked...even gallery videos are choppy)
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I havent seen this anywhere on here so I thought I would post it.
www [dot] droid-life [dot] com/2011/03/29/how-to-root-gingerbread-on-droid-2/
I may jump to this to check it out.
You obviously did not look very hard. Been on rooted gingerbread for almost a week
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Sorry... Didnt see anything on THIS forum.... My bad....
On the note of Root GB... How are you liking it? I really hated the original Blur so I am apprehensive to go back to it....
I"m running Liberty now.
BDC1980 said:
Sorry... Didnt see anything on THIS forum.... My bad....
On the note of Root GB... How are you liking it? I really hated the original Blur so I am apprehensive to go back to it....
I"m running Liberty now.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013290
The new blur is far far far superior to the old blur. Much smoother and snappier. GB in itself is very smooth, even without overclocking. Its worth a try.
Agreed. Sorry to come off that way. Between folks semi bricking their phones and posting a thread about it. I kinda was like o_0 . I used to not like blur. But now stock GB at 1.25 GHz is great.
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Put my phone on GB this morning. Cant comment on its battery life. I came from fission 2.6.1 and this seems alot smoother. I also got a 300point boost on quandrant. I have not OCed it yet but I am sure I will soon.
Exchange setup is different that before which threw me for a little loop but got it figured out.
Hope Pandora works ok this. on 2.6.1 after I unplugged my headphones pandora would pause and if I waited several hours before pluggin headphones back in and playin pandora again it would play the cached song then would close. Wouldn't give me a FC but just close out and then I couldn't get it to work again unless I rebooted phone..
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Put my phone on GB this morning. Cant comment on its battery life. I came from fission 2.6.1 and this seems alot smoother. I also got a 300point boost on quandrant. I have not OCed it yet but I am sure I will soon.
Exchange setup is different that before which threw me for a little loop but got it figured out.
Hope Pandora works ok this. on 2.6.1 after I unplugged my headphones pandora would pause and if I waited several hours before pluggin headphones back in and playin pandora again it would play the cached song then would close. Wouldn't give me a FC but just close out and then I couldn't get it to work again unless I rebooted phone..
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i never had this issue on any of the fission ROMS, it may have been the version of Pandora you were running. the only recent issues i've experienced with Pandora is how it will sometimes kick out of the "station" and go back to the selection list. if you're walking along, you don't know if it's buffering or quit or what!!
new blur is big improvement. still hate the app force-feed of backup assitant and city ID, but nothing a little rooting can't take care of.
Ya that is what my pandora is doin. but it wont let me select a channel then. well it does but it kicks back out to station selection.
On GB haven't had that issue yet. I have had it close. so I am sure its Pandora's problem.
Has anyone got Corperate Sync to work on this GB. I can not get it to work I get failed to logon message everytime.
OC'd GB and got 2235 on Quandrant FYI 400 higher than I seen with fission i was getting 1800's at 1350.
But I run underclocked/undervolted just needed to try it out
when pandora acts like that (can't choose a channel), i usually quit it and open it again, seems to fix it, for a little while at least. not sure if it's a network issue.
pandora hasn't FC'd on me yet (knocking) and the headphone/phone call "coordination" seems to work better (unplugging headset pauses music, etc.). something weird that seems to happen is after i plug in a headset, pandora pauses, but only eventually. i don't think it's instant, usually it's like 30s or something.
Bluetooth and regular media volume are know linked together vs before headphone jack and bluetooth were seperate. Use headphone jack for car and bluetooth for my S9's. Kinda a bummer since I blar my music on S9's because i use them at the gym and then when I go to plug it into my car my car speakers about blow up LOL..
Has anyone seen the keyboard and botton 4 buttons not light up. Its a hit or mis if they light up on me. I noticed it last night when I was tryin to type in the dark. the lights are lighting up today but early this morning they did the same thing.
Looking for the best guide to root Droid 2. Any links please thanks.
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What guide did you use to root the Droid 2 Gb?
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Howdie
Does anyone know why Dilaer and Settings menus appear so slow on Jelly Bean ROMs from time to time? I am running 4.1.2 AOSP ROM, MDO by knzo (based on Rasbean Jelly) to be exact but I find this behaviour on every single JB ROM I tried. It is very annoying when you need to make quick call, dialer enters, but not single contact appears for about 2-3 seconds. Same for the settings menu, you get black frame and then you need to wait for few seconds that actual menu items appears. Where is the problem?
Thanks
I might add. Every time I click on a box to type, the keyboard allways takes it sweet time to pop up.
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I agree with you. And this problem is worst in 4.2.1.
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I started a thread on this quite a while ago and no one found any solution to this... But it seems like the lag is not that bad in jellshot... The menu and dialer are appearing without any lag with Beladus 7.3 kernel
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From my experience, after you flash a ROM everything is super fast and smooth! Start restoring back and/or adding apps, then
that's the point of no return! The occasional reboot helps things a little bit. Also if the dialler and settings haven't been accessed
for a while, I find this lag but if they've already been used and you can see them in the list of Recent apps, then they open up
a little faster.
Flash a GB ROM like oxygen (links are in this general section) or cm7 and use holo launcher/a browser with hardware acceleration. Runs super fast. Dialer and keyboard and other lags are nonexhistant on newer phones ( my girl has a Verizon gs3 with the jb update). Its just a 2 year old phone with a very small amount of ram for today's standards. Not much you can do about it.
Its like running windows 8 on a computer from 2004 that was built for windows xp. Difference is cell phones evolve at an alarming rate compared to computers... And the prices suck.
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I was considering Oxygen for a while but I really hate GB browser and complicated UI. What kernel is suitable for Oxygen? I am surely gonna try it when I get some time.
At the moment I am running completely stock odexed 4.1.2, and lag still exists. Its like app enters but it needs few moments for data loads into it. I dont run heavy apps in memory, only ****ty Facebook client and Whatsapp...
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Ted Mosby said:
I was considering Oxygen for a while but I really hate GB browser and complicated UI. What kernel is suitable for Oxygen? I am surely gonna try it when I get some time.
At the moment I am running completely stock odexed 4.1.2, and lag still exists. Its like app enters but it needs few moments for data loads into it. I dont run heavy apps in memory, only ****ty Facebook client and Whatsapp...
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Trinity kernel I was using for a few weeks. Was awesome.
http://derkernel.com/odk/index.html scroll down to last nexus s builds for gb
As for browsing on gingerbread do yourself a favor and get opera browser. Its got proper hardware acceleration and is smooth
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This shows an example of how good opera is. I just nanded back to my oxygen backup to confirm it as well. Smooth as stock browser in ics/jb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cETPUJ0-7sM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Tried Oxygen 2.3.2 with polobunny's launcher fix - partially fixed. Dialer is a lot, and I mean a lot faster, feels lighter to. But settings menu isn't, I think that the speed of opening is pretty much the same as JB, RAM management is killing it from time to time.
Second thing I don't like about GB is lack of butter. It really feels, for instance Facebook app is choppy from time to time, YouTube app is always lagging. Stock Browser, OTOH, isn't that bad as i remember on my other device (Huawei U8650) that i owned previously. Third thing, multitasking, I am not sure is it because of lack of this "bigmem" 60 MB more RAM or something, but multitasking for me is not as good as JB.
Opening some other apps aren't much faster than Jelly Bean. Camera is starting faster, Dialer as i previously mentioned is way more faster, Messaging and Play Store about the same speed, Google Maps and Gallery feels *slower* than JB. I am going to stick with it for couple of days more, but even now I think that there is no point in running GB ROM, custom JB ROM's are pretty darn good on NS.