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GB Impressions

Ok, aside from the bootloop issue upon install, I have to say so far, not bad. The blur aspect is definitely better, however I dont care for it any more now than I did before. The color scheme is quite visually appealing. Very much like lucid steel theme for fission. I would prefer the scheme from the fission gb theme but this is absolutely an improvement over the stock froyo appearance.
Overall system speed seems to be somewhat improved, and there is a big issue w/ launcher pro which sucks. with launcher pro there is some heavy lag in transitions and the general feel of the phone is kind of clunky and choppy. Without launcherpro, phone tends to run quite smooth. no status bar controls kinda sucks, and the reduced screen density w/o launcher pro is also kind of a downer, but overall im not going to complain. Its definitely progress.
One big downside I noticed after 2 days is battery life is very hit or miss. On fission 2.6.1, i was making it easily 1.5-2 days on a single charge. Yesterday I made it home with 40% left, today I was at 10% when i left work. I can attribute this heavily to Blur, but this is definatley somethign that a new fission or UD build should fix

I have to say that since the devs seemed to have abandoned the Fission project, I haven't looked back since upgrading to GB Blur. it's snappy and attractive and while it still has alot of the blur bloat i hate, root + ti backup makes things a little more manageable.
so far, i've managed to remove teh global unplug, task manager, the blur text messenger, backup asssistant and city id. my battery life is probably slightly better than it was on fission, depending on what i'm doing (games seem to destroy it).
we still have to recognize that this IS a leaked version and there are still some misses with the build. data services randomly failing, inability to make calls/send texts and the weird keyboard backlight issue. other than that, i've been pretty pleased.

I just upgraded yesterday and I am very happy with it
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They are making a fission GB right now.. I'm almost positive that Angdroid was busy with some stuff but now hes back

GSletta said:
They are making a fission GB right now.. I'm almost positive that Angdroid was busy with some stuff but now hes back
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Seems he indicated he was looking at it, but made no promises of an updated ROM on teamdefuse's website, twitter, or this forum...
Did you see something else where he said he was specifically working on GB Fission?

I think GB for the D2 makes some major improvements, but I can't give up liberty for it. Just have to wait and see if Liberty GB comes out.

dudeSDCA said:
Seems he indicated he was looking at it, but made no promises of an updated ROM on teamdefuse's website, twitter, or this forum...
Did you see something else where he said he was specifically working on GB Fission?
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yeah i thought that topic came up when the sdk was made available, but nothing ever really came to light. i feel like after p3droid's recent tweets/posts, etc., the landscape has been drying up.

I got the impression from what p3 said that the devs were under some fire as google seems to be having second thoughts about open source, as well as unpaid tethering raising some eyebrows with teh carriers, which is understandable.
Hopefully once things get ironed out we'll see some ovens refire and some cool stuff gettin rolled out.
I'm still kind of split and definitely agree that gaming on gb is a battery killer in a huge way. Overall battery life is good, however i've had a few days where it just sucked down. Ive been off charge since 6am, 12 hours later with minimal-moderate useage i'm at 70%, however there have been days where I have used the phone way less and been getting charge warnings by 2pm.
Hopefully the official release will solve the rest of these issues.

All I can say is that I hope some custom ROMs are available for Droid 2 Gingerbread soon, because what I have now is buggy to the point of being frustrating. Besides being a memory hog, I sometimes lose my data connection for no apparent reason and my keyboard backlight doesn't always work. Also, even when I do have a data connection, my phone has problems loading web pages much of the time.
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Oh, and I forgot to mention that the screen sometimes randomly shuts off without warning.
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if you have an issue with the screen randomly shutting off try unchecked the in pocket detection setting. I found this was way to sensitive and would consistently shut my screen off in dimly lit areas.

yeah, battery life has become sketchy, like one day i'll make it through the day with 60% left with moderate useage, similar useage next day i'll be charging by noon. USB reboots have reared their ugly head in the last 48 hours to the point where im charging off of the wall outlet and seriously considering sbfing back to fission 2.6.1

To this point I haven't had any major problems whatsoever ...
Only thing is browser sometimes crashes ...batt life is amazing!
9hr shift on work barely drops to 70% with wifi always turned on moderate txt n web
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SIgh WTF getting whitescreen ....cant get back to CWMR, tried every thing....wtf ..... is this bootlooping? NO MATTER WHAT I do can not get back into recovery.
I have a trick to acces any files but most of them seem corrupted? Im only guesing as there is now a "?" by the file icon.
I tried loading bootsrap recovery
phone appeared bricked. rebooted and again cannot get into recovery.
I laready had 2.3 rom ...did I miss something? IM usually pretty good on this stuff. Modded my hd2 and rooted my g2x no issues....what dee hell is dis sheot
(mods move if I am posting in wrong section)
SOB me having bad day...lol...just realised this is the dev thread not general...I suck .....POINTS!!!!!
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AH HA!!!! I was able to get to CWMR by an interesting method! I had previusly DL mini task manager(took it off the market for some reason) and thats THE ONLY ap that was working!
so anyways in the info bar at top it was showing mini task coming up .... Somehow it was acting as a backup! (has any one else experienced this?) so I long tapped on bootstrap rec icon and voila! it asked if I wanted to go into bootstrap and of course I did and .....yes!!! thank you cwm i got to the recovery green screen!!
FIrst I tried Tpro recovery....would not work....tried loading bootstrapzip....nothing...so....I figure since all my shizzle is backed up through my google act I did a factory reset, wipe data, and redid the new GB hack.
VOILA! it loaded ! no bootloop! just had to re-register phone and accounts!
so I leave you with this narcissistic picture of myself....
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Hey everyone,
I've been running GB and ZS for about a week now. The one thing that I noticed was that there isn't anywhere where you can turn off mobile data? Maybe I'm blind, but it's not in wireless and networks? Any ideas? If not, oh well. I still think I found something in GB that's keeping me from going back to 2.2. It's just as stable as 2.2 only faster! Anyways, cheers all!

Seanydizzley said:
Hey everyone,
I've been running GB and ZS for about a week now. The one thing that I noticed was that there isn't anywhere where you can turn off mobile data? Maybe I'm blind, but it's not in wireless and networks? Any ideas? If not, oh well. I still think I found something in GB that's keeping me from going back to 2.2. It's just as stable as 2.2 only faster! Anyways, cheers all!
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It should be under
-settings
-data/battery
-enable data saver mode
That should only downloads over wifi only

tnygigles66 said:
It should be under
-settings
-data/battery
-enable data saver mode
That should only downloads over wifi only
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Of course its there. Lol. Didn't even think of that. A nice thanks coming your way!

Epics on its way out. A discussion.

First off let me start off by saying that i deeply appreciate all the dev work that has been put into this phone. I've been rocking midNIGHT faithfully since it started and I've been extremely happy with it. I've tried all other roms but it seemed that there would always be one thing that steered me to try others. Now ever since I flashed 5.2 my phone has been doing some strange things. Things that i can't blame on the rom because when it's going it goes well. But from time to time I've been experiencing lag. Like the kind of lag that came along when ext4 was first out. Fb, the music player widget. The phone was miraculously draining battery while off... yes off. Went from 54% to completely dead overnight. Then I decided to reflash the rom. Same thing. I odin3d back to ec05 successfully. Everything seemed to be working pretty well on stock. (Surprised) decided to do a master reset along with formatting the sd card. Phone wouldn't boot past Sammy logo. Decided to odin3 again. Went through the process of flashing midnight again. When midnight finished flashing rebooted I was met with another infinite Sammy logo. Went back into cmw. Wiped and reflash to the same result. I'm assuming my phones on its way out. I'm back on ec05 and everything is running well... for now. I'm under the assumption that I've flashed my nand and its on its last breathe. What do you guys think?
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Just brick that ho.
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Stay away from EC05 like its the plague. The only thing you need to odin is the modem + flash custom rom. IMHO, the EC05 Sprint dropped was a POS.
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Top Nurse said:
Stay away from EC05 like its the plague. The only thing you need to odin is the modem + flash custom rom. IMHO, the EC05 Sprint dropped was a POS.
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Enlighten me. It's been running well so far but If there's something I should know spill it lol
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RushAOZ said:
Enlighten me. It's been running well so far but If there's something I should know spill it lol
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Yes, please, because I've not noticed a single problem with mine, and I'm stock.
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I don't think your epic is on its last breath. You probably had some corrupt data. Also u probably had an app nit letting g your phone sleep properly. I Doubt your nand is about shot. Sometimes all the custom stuff and apps don't play well together.
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Sometimes you just have some bad hardware that doesn't show up until the right circumstance, as well. This is still electronics.
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I guess so. Maybe it has to do with the fact this unit was a refurb.
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Did you reformatting your sd card in your pc before you flashed Midnight. Id try reflashing again with a fresh sd card and a completely wiped device.

EC05 has been flawless. Now the EB13 update, don't get me started...

Whosdaman said:
EC05 has been flawless. Now the EB13 update, don't get me started...
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Eb13 was perfect for me.
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I had a similar situation happen to me last night. The battery seemed to be draining faster than usual. Things started lagging like crazy. I was on stock ec05 rooted with cwm 2510. I noticed something was wrong when the phone would turn itself back on if I shut it off. I had to battery pull. As far as I could get it was to Samsung screen. I got it into recovery and somehow managed to get it to boot regularly. I then proceeded to uninstall everything except the bare essential tools needed to troubleshoot. After a shutdown or reboot it still acted the same. I went back into recovery after battery pull and wiped everything three times. That still didn't help. I tried wiping a bunch more times and restoring a fresh install of di18 and ec05 rooted and both froze at samsung. I tried one last backup I had, because those two failed, and everything worked after that. I have no theories on what happened. I wasn't near a computer for a few hours then because I was still at work. The restore I did that worked is still running as I type this and the battery is acting "normal".
This phone has only had stock rooted on it and never been overclocked. Gremlins...

Whosdaman said:
EC05 has been flawless. Now the EB13 update, don't get me started...
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lol DK28 before that was an absolute mess. There's a reason why ACS didn't even try and make something of it.

RushAOZ said:
First off let me start off by saying that i deeply appreciate all the dev work that has been put into this phone. I've been rocking midNIGHT faithfully since it started and I've been extremely happy with it. I've tried all other roms but it seemed that there would always be one thing that steered me to try others. Now ever since I flashed 5.2 my phone has been doing some strange things. Things that i can't blame on the rom because when it's going it goes well. But from time to time I've been experiencing lag. Like the kind of lag that came along when ext4 was first out. Fb, the music player widget. The phone was miraculously draining battery while off... yes off. Went from 54% to completely dead overnight. Then I decided to reflash the rom. Same thing. I odin3d back to ec05 successfully. Everything seemed to be working pretty well on stock. (Surprised) decided to do a master reset along with formatting the sd card. Phone wouldn't boot past Sammy logo. Decided to odin3 again. Went through the process of flashing midnight again. When midnight finished flashing rebooted I was met with another infinite Sammy logo. Went back into cmw. Wiped and reflash to the same result. I'm assuming my phones on its way out. I'm back on ec05 and everything is running well... for now. I'm under the assumption that I've flashed my nand and its on its last breathe. What do you guys think?
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I think you should leave all these roms alone. I had the same exact issues with my phone between flashing themes and roms I constantly got bootloops, fcs, and freezing. I tried everything. Reflashing, Odin, wiping...literally everything. So I said forget it...
Went to stock rooted ec05 on ext4...removed what I don't want...and couldn't be happier. Phone is fast, responsive, battery lasts about 10 hours with heavy use...the perfect phone. Much respect to all the devs and their work...but the roms I tried seemed to have more bugs than I needed. I tried syndicate, midnight and viper. The custom kernals gave me issues too but those seem to be screwing everyone's phones.
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Yea It may be the kernels not playing well or something. I'm on stock ec05. If I want ext4 all I gotta do is run cwm, let it convert, then reboot correct?
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RushAOZ said:
Yea It may be the kernels not playing well or something. I'm on stock ec05. If I want ext4 all I gotta do is run cwm, let it convert, then reboot correct?
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And you will need a kernel that supports EXT4.
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Wasn't is confucius gump that said ...
Every Epic is like a snow flake; in that you never know what you're gonna get.
It is frustrating for some that see others; using the same device, running custom ROMs with little to no issues.
I got my Epic last Christmas, after a couple of weeks reading here on XDA I settled on midNIGHT as my ROM of choice (2.5 at that time). I've used 2.9,3.3, 4.1,5 and 5.2.
I've have experienced no issues with the ROM. Now I make it a point to start from scratch and even reinstall my apps and set them up again. Never restoring ANYTHING - I just noticed those that do restore even just apps and data experience waaaaaaay more issues. To me it actually takes far less time reinstalling then it does trying to figure out what minor data restore caused the ROM to lose its mind.
The great thing about Android is that you have CHOICES !!!!! unlike iOS or Crackberry The devs are awesome; you literally can have a new phone when ever you want by changing ROMs or themes. It is too COOL

jdelano said:
Every Epic is like a snow flake; in that you never know what you're gonna get.
It is frustrating for some that see others; using the same device, running custom ROMs with little to no issues.
I got my Epic last Christmas, after a couple of weeks reading here on XDA I settled on midNIGHT as my ROM of choice (2.5 at that time). I've used 2.9,3.3, 4.1,5 and 5.2.
I've have experienced no issues with the ROM. Now I make it a point to start from scratch and even reinstall my apps and set them up again. Never restoring ANYTHING - I just noticed those that do restore even just apps and data experience waaaaaaay more issues. To me it actually takes far less time reinstalling then it does trying to figure out what minor data restore caused the ROM to lose its mind.
The great thing about Android is that you have CHOICES !!!!! unlike iOS or Crackberry The devs are awesome; you literally can have a new phone when ever you want by changing ROMs or themes. It is too COOL
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Yeah midnight ROM is the way to go. The one thing I had to do was extra leg work to stop the autosyncing in the background and dimming my screen and what not to make the battery last longer.

jdelano said:
Every Epic is like a snow flake; in that you never know what you're gonna get.
It is frustrating for some that see others; using the same device, running custom ROMs with little to no issues.
I got my Epic last Christmas, after a couple of weeks reading here on XDA I settled on midNIGHT as my ROM of choice (2.5 at that time). I've used 2.9,3.3, 4.1,5 and 5.2.
I've have experienced no issues with the ROM. Now I make it a point to start from scratch and even reinstall my apps and set them up again. Never restoring ANYTHING - I just noticed those that do restore even just apps and data experience waaaaaaay more issues. To me it actually takes far less time reinstalling then it does trying to figure out what minor data restore caused the ROM to lose its mind.
The great thing about Android is that you have CHOICES !!!!! unlike iOS or Crackberry The devs are awesome; you literally can have a new phone when ever you want by changing ROMs or themes. It is too COOL
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I'm truly genuinely starting to believe my epicis ****ting the bed. I flashed acs yesterday and the phone was running like a dream. This is after being on eb13/ext4/visionkernel1.0. (Which was crap)
Anywho I boot up my epic after a full nights charge and was hit with a force close. First, I use launcher7, and it crashes at boot guaranteed everytime. This is normal? It happened on midNIGHT and stock. So then I'm hit with a framework crash. (Android.acore?) And (something.gapps). The phone has been flat out crashing and freezing on me which has never happened before forcing me to pull the battery. Than I was doing some browsing and I got a freeze but this time the screen went really bright with a yellow tint and an artifact white line across the screen. Oh ****. Then on one of the other crashes the screen went completely black except for a few pixels on the bottom which remained red and blue. I've never had these issues until I started this thread. I'm lucky I haven't crashed yet...
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Also email crashed on me a few times. I can trigger a freeze by visiting the same website. its the ctdol and it happens with both stock browser and dolphin. My epics gonna off itself!!!
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I also wiped and reflashed. I just tried to set a wallpaper and got another dead freeze.
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ICS a place to chat

Ok I thought I would start a page for everyone trying out the new beloved ICS alpha roms to talk. This way the developers can work and their pages stay clean.
I have installed the latest preview 1 plus the zip labled as hardware acceleration. plus the inivisable tweaks. This thing is running like a champ now. the keyboard is responsive. I turned off the animations and forced the 2d gpu settings. I also have v6 supercharger installed. Been running for almost 4 hours without any random reboots. 3d games will suck but the 2d ones are running good.
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Preview 4
What I have found that works
sms
wifi
1x
3g
Bluetooth
calls
gallery
hardware acceleration
gps
sound
moms
headphones
What does not work or work correctly
camera
4g (not that it will ever work for me Cricket does not support it)
this is all I have had time to test.
I would like to thank all the developers for all their had work. This is great so far!!
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Seems like people keep having hissy fits in the development thread.
But anyway, I'm excited to get proper HA and headphone port fixed, when that happens, this will be my daily.
I use Netflix too often to live without using headphones.
There's been great progress so far though. I popped over the Epic 4G Touch thread and they're nowhere near as close to getting a workable ICS like we are, just makes me happy I didn't upgrade to the Touch, I was very close to it.

man i posted a long post pertaining to getting email to properly work on the preview in the thread where they were ranting about the ics thread being locked and a min later the thread is gone ha should have copied it to a .txt document... o well ill write it out again
aside from everything already listed as working or not working..
market now lets you download and install which didnt work in A5
I had issues getting my exchange server at work and my phone to work.
The process i went through to get this to work was:
reboot into recovery
wipe data/reset to factory
wipe cache partition
wipe dalvik cache
Flash ROM
Flash hw_eccel
Flash uninvisibletweaks
Reboot phone
Then i setup all the incoming server configuration settings and connected finally everything is syncing
Rebooted into recovery
Flashed GAPPS for ICS
Rebooted and was good to go

On my second day of daily use and cannot believe how well this is running. No reboots. My only dislike is the lack of buttons in the notification bar. I can't wait for a beta version to be released. Having the camera working would be awesome. I want the lock screen that recognizes my face! That would be super cool.
Evo 4g on Cricket.

anybody having issues getting the home key to work? when i flashed a4 for the first time, i didnt have it working, then after a i wiped it and tried a few times i got it working...now on the latest update i havent been able to get it to work no matter how many times i try

I have had no issues with it so far, but as we know not all evos are created equal. The next release is due out later tonight or tomorrow. Headphones will be working along with a few other things. They are testing a new kernel. Will post more as it becomes available. Till then have fun with your new play toy!
Evo 4g on Cricket.

Preview 3 ics is out. Headphones now working and hardware acceleration is a go!
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I've been running Preview 3 all day, pretty awesome, way faster than all the previous releases

Well I just got preview 3 installed and must say it is great! Although I was wrong about the headphones they still don't work but the gallery does. Preview 4 is scheduled to be released tonight and headphones and mms is claimed to be fixed.
ICS evo 4g on cricket

Preview 4 got released earlier, can't try it right not but might later, btw, the download links are here: http://infectedrom.com/showthread.php/632-EVO-4g-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-from-source
Seems headphones are fixed, i still can't wait for proper HA to be implemented though, but the development has been going very speedy.

I have installed preview 4. Gallery is working along with the headphones. I had some issues with the browser closing immediately after opening but a couple of reboots later and it worked fine. Also a few display anomalies in landscape view but nothing consistent. Google is now syncing my apps. Still no camera yet but its on the way soon. Mms will send and receive! 3d games I use are working but are little bit slow yet usable. Newest version of script manager does work and so does v6 supercharger.
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I can confirm that if you wipe Cache and Dalvik Cache, you can flash P4 over P3 with no ill effects.

Preview 4 is good enough that I am now using it as a daily rom. But it has some weird issues, like after awhile apps won't open. They open then close right away, like the browser problem in the post above me. Hmm...ctually it may be that I have to close some apps from the multitask menu. I just thought about that idea. lol.
And the screen has a hard time coming on. But besides the obvious it's working great.

Did a benchmark test on this rom and it is right in line with the scores I got using cm7.
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I have v6 supercharger installed but have not installed the unvisabletweaks.zip on preview 4 yet.
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Ive been running the ICS P4 since last night and am loving it! Its butter smooth and I've only ran into a few snags. The primary being my home button isn't working and neither is flash. I'll try reflashing to see if i cant get the home button to work. These guys have done some amazing work! (Post 1 of 10, damn developers restriction)

Im having some problems with my ICS flash. The phone is flashed fine, did a minimal data, cache, & dalvik cache wipe but when flashed & running the menus a laggish on mine. But when loaded into an app it runs quickly. My market is all jacked up not allowing me to download some things, as i know some apps arent compatible. Help?

Second day on preview 4 with only one reboot. While using the xda app it froze and rebooted. Most of my apps work but I had to update a few to get them working. My gps is good within 15 ft. No sluggish menus but I also did a full wipe of everything. Market downloads have also not been an issue for me either. I am using the gapps listed as preferred. On the ics keyboard I can't get all caps to stay on, but I use SwiftKey X so it is not even a issue for me. Last night I flashed unvisable tweaks and only made about 3 point difference on the benchmark.
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Well just did a full factory wipe then a data wipe & all that biz & got the rom flashed with everything else & the rom is working absolutely awesome! Got no complaints besides my messages not going out if they exceed a certain character limit... Wonder whats wrong? Any fixes?
jlmancuso said:
Did a benchmark test on this rom and it is right in line with the scores I got using cm7.
I have v6 supercharger installed but have not installed the unvisabletweaks.zip on preview 4 yet.
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Btw jlmancuso how do you get the v6 script running on your phone? I got the zip file but it doesnt install says it needs update.txt or something like that.

Vulcan001 make sure you have the newest script manager installed and supercharger update 9.
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[ROM] [TESTING] Mozilla Boot to Gecko -- 4-27-2012 CWM Flashable!

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General Info
It "worked", but don't set your expectations high (read the rest of the bullet points)
No hardware accleration (we knew this already)
I couldn't get a data signal (no 2G/3G), though it did see my AT&T SIM
Preferences/Settings are slim so I couldn't mess with APN settings to try to get data to work
Wifi will now connect (fixed in Build 2)
Couldn't test much at all due to no data connections working
Power button functionality was erratic. This seems to be fixed in Build 2.
Keyboard was actually very smooth
The OS became smoother after a few reboots, scrolling through windows felt Android 1.6ish, instead of being Windows Mobile 6ish
It shows a LOT of promise
Boots in about 5 seconds, shuts down in 1 second
Pictures of build 3 running on my Nexus S can be found here: http://uberamd.com/post/22200022691/build-3-nexus-s-boot-to-gecko
Changelog
Code:
Build 3:
- Code base from 4-27-2012
- Some tweaks made to get wifi working better (got some pages to load around 4-23-2012)
- Wifi now connects AND loads pages. This means that you can finally utilize the web browser and bundled apps.
Build 2:
- I now made it so the ROM can be flashed via CWM just like any Android ROM
- Code base from 4-12-2012
- Now connects to wireless (pages still won't load, looking into it)
Build 1:
- Initial release
- Restore via CWM "Backup/Restore"
Directions
Ensure you have ClockworkMod on your Nexus S with a unlocked bootloader
Boot into Android
Copy b2g_nexuss_uberamd_signed.zip to your devices SD card
Boot into recovery
(optional) create a backup of your current setup
Flash the b2g ROM
Reboot
Boom, B2G awesomeness
I tested it, and it works. It is a fresh B2G build for the Nexus S
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Please do not use any version earlier than 2012-04-13! The earlier version is NOT flashable via CWM (it is a CWM backup archive).
About
These CAN now be flashed like any other Android ROM. Be sure to do a backup within CWM. You can always restore the CWM backup.
This ROM is compiled from official b2g sources, with occasionally modifications sprinkled in by me. Credit goes to those main b2g devs who are making awesome headway here!
These will be built and uploaded daily using the latest sources. The goal of this is to allow people to test B2G without having to setup a Linux build environment as well as download multiple gigabytes of code, and mess with udev. ulimits, and more.
You can follow any updates I have on this thread as well as the boot to gecko section of my website.

Will this work on the ns4g?
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jralabate said:
Will this work on the ns4g?
Sent via Tapatalk using a Nexus S 4G powered by Kangs ICS
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From what I understand, yes.

uberamd said:
From what I understand, yes.
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when u upload a flashable zip ill give it a shot

I tried it on the ns4g and the wifi seems to be not working so im guessing that its only meant for regular ns? and it looks like its not connecting thru the 3g either so im guessing its not for the ns4g

t2noob said:
I tried it on the ns4g and the wifi seems to be not working so im guessing that its only meant for regular ns? and it looks like its not connecting thru the 3g either so im guessing its not for the ns4g
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In my OP I state that 3G and Wifi also didn't work on the GSM Nexus S. Could be an issue with the current code base. I'm going to do a full rebuild tomorrow and see if it improves.

uberamd said:
In my OP I state that 3G and Wifi also didn't work on the GSM Nexus S. Could be an issue with the current code base. I'm going to do a full rebuild tomorrow and see if it improves.
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I should have read the whole post i just read certain things lol
MY BAD....

t2noob said:
I should have read the whole post i just read certain things lol
MY BAD....
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No worries Hopefully we'll have more functionality in tomorrows build.

uberamd said:
In my OP I state that 3G and Wifi also didn't work on the GSM Nexus S. Could be an issue with the current code base. I'm going to do a full rebuild tomorrow and see if it improves.
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to add on, the reboot is insanely fast, and i really mean it. shutdown is instant. NOT even almost. Yes instant.

I'm quite impressed of how Boot to Gecko developed since it was announced. Although it has no hw acceleration it performs pretty well when scrolling through wondows. I hope that it will be developed to become something big.
What bothers me is that it wants an internet connection for apps like Cut The Rope - does that mean that it will need a permanent internet connection?
Edit: I tested it for half an hour and it only ate up only 8% of my battery.. wow.

kostastoupas said:
I'm quite impressed of how Boot to Gecko developed since it was announced. Although it has no hw acceleration it performs pretty well when scrolling through wondows. I hope that it will be developed to become something big.
What bothers me is that it wants an internet connection for apps like Cut The Rope - does that mean that it will need a permanent internet connection?
Edit: I tested it for half an hour and it only ate up only 8% of my battery.. wow.
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I believe it takes/will-take advantage of HTML caching to store applications offline after they are used once.
And yeah for having no HW acceleration, thus using a lot of CPU, it really was light on the battery. I'll see if the build today fixes anything, it'll be up this afternoon.

uberamd said:
I believe it takes/will-take advantage of HTML caching to store applications offline after they are used once.
And yeah for having no HW acceleration, thus using a lot of CPU, it really was light on the battery. I'll see if the build today fixes anything, it'll be up this afternoon.
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I think we need a new sub forum .
Nexus S B2G development
Nexus S4G B2G development
Waiting for improved results. Great work buddy .
Sent from my Nexus S

That's really good and interesting! calls and sms working, no lucky with wifi
Thanks for this build

Subscribing , great work!
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I'll test the build this afternoon on my ns4g. hopefully we'll have data working. this is totally necessary for me. great work so far, btw!! I was wondering if we'd be seeing another b2g soon after the last thread was closed for stolen code.

Flashed it just now on my i9023. ignoring the bugs stated in the OP, all I can say is wow!
Even though it doesn't have HW acceleration, it runs pretty well...and almost instant on and INSTANT off...that's awesome!
Wasn't able to make calls or sms, but that'll be fixed at some point.
Really nice! When it's fully completed, I might even consider migrating

Subscribed and downloading. Let's see what happens .
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App

I tried it just now, and I must say it runs decently. It's exactly what I would expect on such an early stage.
I also found out you can access those pages it uses on your regular browser (homescreen.gaiamobile.org, sms.gaiamobile.org for example).
Also, if you long-press home you will get a 'recents' menu.

I'm assuming my i9023 wasn't able to get any signal because the baseband list didn't include the one for ICS.
Maybe you could add it in the next build? it's I9023XXKI1

skaboy89 said:
That's really good and interesting! calls and sms working, no lucky with wifi
Thanks for this build
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How did you get calls and texts to work. I tried with no prevail on my ns4g.
This is amazing! its crazy how fast it boots and turns off!! If only data worked! It would be amazing!
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[Official] Google Play Edition General Discussion

This thread is for any talk related to the Google Play Edition HTC One. If you have any questions on how to convert use the forum linked below.
How to convert: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358781
The Google Play edition phones automatically receive updates of the latest Android software. Optimized for the latest apps, more storage for your content and a fast, clean user experience all come standard.
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Related:
Android 4.4 update delivered to Google: http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/htc-one-kitkat-update-ready-delivered-to-google/

Mines fine

What app could we download to see if the readings are correct? Mine is fine.
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define "mine is fine"
because is common that the thing that uses more battery is the screen, but in android 4.3 is android system, but I think the battery is not bad at all...
In the other hand:
- super smoth
- ir enable
- better bluetooth
- sixasis support
the only fault that I see in 4.3 GPE (beside the battery report) is the camera app, it is just not good =/

SLver said:
define "mine is fine"
because is common that the thing that uses more battery is the screen, but in android 4.3 is android system, but I think the battery is not bad at all...
In the other hand:
- super smoth
- ir enable
- better bluetooth
- sixasis support
the only fault that I see in 4.3 GPE (beside the battery report) is the camera app, it is just not good =/
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My definition just means i can use it all day without the bigbdrain sense 5 was giving me. (4.1.2). I guess I'll look more into it since I just flashed yesterday. Also for camera, at least for me, it works fine. Of all the phones I've owned I've never messed with the settings (filters, iso, etc) just because I've never needed to. Plus I have a DSLR camera to do that . but that's me.
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I am thrilled with the 4.3 update. I have had zero issues and battery life is very solid. My wife finally took the plunge from her iPhone 4 and I picked her up a ONE yesterday. While settings hers up, I realized how much better Stock Android is just due to the smoothness and simplicity of it. In my opinion, Sense 5 is still the best manufacturer experience to date but it's still too cumbersome compared to plain ole Stock Android

My battery life seems to be decent. I don't notice much difference than when I was on sense. I do notice the high android usage but as gunny said, I think it's being misread as it doesn't seem to be having a negative impact.
Also I know some have mentioned low signal. Again its just the way its reported because last night I had two bars and I was pulling speeds in the 20,30,40mbps range. Which I think they must have upgraded some towers because here in NYC with all the network congestion I usually pull 9-15mbps on average(depending on location)
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My only issue on 4.3 is a lower LTE signal. I am only getting 1 bar now, and I used to get 3-4. The battery is good, even with that weird bug.

Does GPE 4.3 still has the 3 dot menu button?

proximity sensor bug is back,
pulling phone away from my face doesn't turn the screen back on.

gunnyman said:
proximity sensor bug is back,
pulling phone away from my face doesn't turn the screen back on.
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How often does this happen? I was on a call yesterday and I was testing the sensor and it was super sensitive I thought. I barely put my hand over it about 2 inches and it shut off the screen .
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GrimStranger said:
Does GPE 4.3 still has the 3 dot menu button?
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with stock kernal yes

How do you receive the new 4.3 update.
I have been trying "System Update" under "About" for days now, and there are no update from Google.

gunnyman said:
proximity sensor bug is back,
pulling phone away from my face doesn't turn the screen back on.
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True, I still have this bug.
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monkeypaws said:
How often does this happen? I was on a call yesterday and I was testing the sensor and it was super sensitive I thought. I barely put my hand over it about 2 inches and it shut off the screen .
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It seems random

Yeah, 4.3 is all sacked. LTE ping is slow as a turtle. 4.2.2 everything was snappy. ADB doesn't work, screen off proximity sensor, when phone is off the charge animation doesn't work when rooted. Its not the root process. My nexus 4 & 7 have stock ROM and supersu installed.. No problems. What has HTC done!? Back to 4.2.2 I go. This 4.3 blows.
Look at this junk! Wow.. Horrible Horrible update. 4.2.2 was at 20-30% system this is at 80%+!?!? Horrific.
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gunnyman said:
It seems random
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Regarding the proximity sensor bug, I briefly flirted with the complete Google Play edition conversion then decided to return to completely stock sense. I started blindly messing about with mids, cids , firmwares etc. I eventually managed to run RUU 1.28.401.7 successfully. :laugh:
I factory reset my device for good measure then proceeded to install every subsequent update and I am now on 2.24.401.1 and I factory reset my device after every update. Everything appeared good and I have set my device up again with what I would consider to be a very clean install of the stock sense rom.
......Then ring ring and there it is...the dreaded proximity sensor bug
How can this be??

bobsie41 said:
Regarding the proximity sensor bug, I briefly flirted with the complete Google Play edition conversion then decided to return to completely stock sense. I started blindly messing about with mids, cids , firmwares etc. I eventually managed to run RUU 1.28.401.7 successfully. :laugh:
I factory reset my device for good measure then proceeded to install every subsequent update and I am now on 2.24.401.1 and I factory reset my device after every update. Everything appeared good and I have set my device up again with what I would consider to be a very clean install of the stock sense rom.
......Then ring ring and there it is...the dreaded proximity sensor bug
How can this be??
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My good buddy has the HTC One for AT&T. I rooted it for her and all was well. Next thing she finds out her proximity sensor borked. She called att and they went thru a process to see what the sensor was on.. The sensor should be at 50 and the reports came back that her sensor was at 0. Hearing more and more of this sensor bug, makes me think its more of a hardware fault. Its only a matter of time till the sensor completely flakes out and dies.
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luckylui said:
My good buddy has the HTC One for AT&T. I rooted it for her and all was well. Next thing she finds out her proximity sensor borked. She called att and they went thru a process to see what the sensor was on.. The sensor should be at 50 and the reports came back that her sensor was at 0. Hearing more and more of this sensor bug, makes me think its more of a hardware fault. Its only a matter of time till the sensor completely flakes out and dies.
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Any idea how they found out what the sensor was at?