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So I decided to buy ROM Manager to support the project but have to admit I was a little disappointed. Sadly I prefer the candy coating of Sense to that of CM. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to like in CM too. I just tend to like the polish of Sense. Regardless, I had thought I might have direct access to many of the ROMs I've seen throughout the forums. Apparently that's not the case. Does ROM Manager only support CM ROMs?
No worries. I know I could get a refund for the App and return it but I'm cool with it. Maybe in the future more ROMs will become available for it for the Incredible.
Rom Manager supports virtually any rom, it's just a matter of the author setting up his server to work with Rom Manager AFAIK. More will be added eventually.
The chefs have to opt in to be included in ROM manager. Moto Droid had tons of stuff to choose from and I loved it. I have yet to see anything interesting in ROM Manager for the Incredible. Urge your favorite chefs to participate!
Ok, thanks guys. Hopefully things will get more active in the future then.
ROM Manager will gain more roms in due time, there isn't really alot of roms out for the inc as it is now. Also like mentioned its up to the rom devs to put them on there. They will come.
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I used to be a fan of Sense, but the fact of the matter is that it's bloated.
There are plenty of alternatives in a ROM like CM for all of the Sense features you'd miss.
Also u can download any ROM and use ROM Manager to install it. Just download rom go into rom manager and choose install from SD. Imho its easier than booting into recovery and installing. So, i. A sense it does support everything else. Its also ez to manage and restore ur backups through ROM manager. Once u use it for a while and figure it out it can b a very handy tool if u are addicted to flashing ROMS. Goodluck i hope this can b of assistance to u
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Yeah the developer of ROM Manager strongly encourages all devs to submit their ROMs... Other phones such as the Moto Droid have a much larger selection... As ROM development gets further along, there will be more on ROM Manager for Incredible as well.
I think the incredible has been hurt by the lack of phones available. I don't recall the original moto droid having inventory issues like the incredible. I think this has hindered rom development and availability of different roms. Imagine if we did not have months of no incredible phones available. The popularity of the incredible might be different, thus in my mind making the demand and supply of roms more available.
I am a big fan of Cyanogen's roms so not that big of a deal for me. I know that once the drivers are released the camera will be fixed. I am wondering if we will be able to have video out with cyan's roms?
Either way - rom manager is a great program and has a lot of different functionalities and uses. Some listed below:
flashing other roms (duh)
nandroid
partition sd card
fix permissions
Let's hope that HTC releases the drivers soon
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I used to be a fan of Sense, but the fact of the matter is that it's bloated.
There are plenty of alternatives in a ROM like CM for all of the Sense features you'd miss.
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No there isnt ... there are a few similar apps that just dont quite do it and there are others that are such crapware you would be embarrassed to show your phone to anyone. Seriously when i went with a vanilla UI and tried to find alternatives to Sense widgets and apps, I found out just how crappy the apps were on this OS.
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No there isnt ... there are a few similar apps that just dont quite do it and there are others that are such crapware you would be embarrassed to show your phone to anyone. Seriously when i went with a vanilla UI and tried to find alternatives to Sense widgets and apps, I found out just how crappy the apps were on this OS.
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Well I'll have to half agree with you there, there are some Sense widgets that I could never find replacements for. It's really a trade off, although it would be nice if we could somehow extract some of those to be used with a 3rd party or even stock launcher
Looks like SkyRaider was added to ROM Manager
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Looks like SkyRaider was added to ROM Manager
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LOL! I'd like to think I may have had something to do with that. I PM'd him earlier and in short time he replied letting me know he was going to add it. Maybe he was going to do it anyway, I don't know.
Regardless, it GREAT that other cookers are starting to get in on the action. I think more people will end up trying their ROMs too. It's a win - win for everyone.
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Well I'll have to half agree with you there, there are some Sense widgets that I could never find replacements for. It's really a trade off, although it would be nice if we could somehow extract some of those to be used with a 3rd party or even stock launcher
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Launcher Pro is going to support that.
Sounds interesting, but it'd be nice if your battery lasts longer than 20 minutes on a full charge, unlike when you're running Sense.
Btw camera is working on cm6 for the inc supposedly. So maybe the dev of skyraider can implement the fix some how.
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Btw camera is working on cm6 for the inc supposedly. So maybe the dev of skyraider can implement the fix some how.
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Where did you hear that the camera is working for cm 6?
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CM6 Inc test 8 is on ROM Manager now (under the Koush section). Camera works, camcorder still broken.
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Btw camera is working on cm6 for the inc supposedly. So maybe the dev of skyraider can implement the fix some how.
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I think I saw something posted in ROM Manager in the Sky Raider area to fix this. Don't know the specifics or if the video is working. I plan on installing the ROM when I get some free time later.
I'm willing to pay $25 to $30 for someone to port over the MIUI ROM over to the Droid X. I'd pay more if I could buy maybe others will chip in?
I can pay half up front but only if you're a well known developer with some reputation behind you. Let me know!
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I have seen quite a few of these posts on varioius droid forums.
I would be interested in checking this out if it is ever done.
D.
definitely would love some MIUI on the DX
I'll bite, what is MIUI, and if its a ROM then hell yes I would be happy to put cash down.
miui rom
unfortunately this rom requires a custom kernel to run meaning the droid x boot loader would need to be cracked
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A unlocked bootloader allows a custom kernel, in which we can use to make and compile very custom roms. For example, true AOSP, MIUI, and Cyanogenmod need a custom kernel to run.
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Breezer23 said:
I'm willing to pay $25 to $30 for someone to port over the MIUI ROM over to the Droid X. I'd pay more if I could buy maybe others will chip in?
I can pay half up front but only if you're a well known developer with some reputation behind you. Let me know!
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Do you know how many hours that would take? Would take a lot more to get a well know developer to do that for 25 or 30 bucks
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unfortunately this rom requires a custom kernel to run meaning the droid x boot loader would need to be cracked
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A unlocked bootloader allows a custom kernel, in which we can use to make and compile very custom roms. For example, true AOSP, MIUI, and Cyanogenmod need a custom kernel to run.
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There are many ways to get around that issue. I looked at it and I think it can be done but I would need about another 48 hours in a day to even think about doing it
I can't believe no developers have made one yet. Am i missing something?
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Do you know how many hours that would take? Would take a lot more to get a well know developer to do that for 25 or 30 bucks
There are many ways to get around that issue. I looked at it and I think it can be done but I would need about another 48 hours in a day to even think about doing it
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Well hopefully I'll find one who wants to do it for the fun of it.... haha
Its been ported to the Droid 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6yY53Kcc0w
Looks very interesting ...I was wondering what the fuss was about this and now I see why...its differernt....
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Its been ported to the Droid 1
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We know. We're talking about Droid X. Different animal.
If I ever get a droid X i will port it to you guys free of charge.
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If I ever get a droid X i will port it to you guys free of charge.
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Maybe you should see if people are willing to donate toward getting you a DX to develop it on. I've seen that work in the past. I was under the impression MIUI wouldn't really work with a locked bootloader, though.
well the milestone has a locked bootloader much like us and they have MIUI support
by the way here is the english forum site for MIUI www.miui-dev.com I think we need to be heard over there!!
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Its been ported to the Droid 1
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If you ignore the horrible music, this rom looks pretty flippin sweet! I would definitely give it a try
Agreed. I know that at our current state(likely forever) we will not be able to truly mod the kernel as far as I know. I've spent the last 6 months in the DInc and fascinate forums(reason for not being sure) but currently the milestone does have MIUI support and I'm sure, that with the right developer we could to. There would be some things in the MIUI rom we would lose due to this, but would still be worth it as it is a truly great rom with a solid skin on top of it. Its lightweight, and it will fly. I would gladly pay for this as well. I can compile kernels and what not, and prolly throw a ROM together but porting the MIUI to a phone with a locked bootloader that does not, by design allow unsigned zips, I cannot do. I know we can flash zips in clockwork but the way I understand it, ALL of the ROMS available for the DX, are based off the stock kernel for sure, and likely the framework(this is where my knowledge or lack there of for the DX hurts) and are still somehow tied into blur. I could be wrong. Don't quote me on any specifics about the X, I just came back to it because it offers superior to the dinc by far, and still somewhat better than the fascinate. Again the difficult part of this would be thatbthe MIUI rom is a COMPLETE rebuild of android. I loved it on my dinc. I would pay $100 to have it ported SUCCESSFULLY. As I just got married and don't have time to learn a new phone.
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Also, I saw the comment that the milestone has the locked BL, much like us. Your close. Its exactly like us. I don't know about encryption keys but wouldn't be surprised if it was the exact same key. Just saying. I don't know enough about this phone and the bootloader. But it sucks we got stuck with this. I would like to see the dx's full overclock potential. Not just the way we are doing it now. I think we are using modules. And that's not the same as compiling a built from source overclock compatible kernel .
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I had a dinc for a little bit. I installed miui and immediately took it off. If I wanted a phone to look like an iPhone I would've bought an iPhone...
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You can try GoLauncher from the market. Very stable. Themable and you can have up to 30 homescreens in a miui-type setup. Take a look at it.
brandon2x said:
I had a dinc for a little bit. I installed miui and immediately took it off. If I wanted a phone to look like an iPhone I would've bought an iPhone...
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If you run the ADW launcher over MIUI, it is pretty awesome... I don't like the IOS look either, but the ROM itself is VERY slick.
I'm coming from cm6.1RC5 on my d1, but the screen cracked and I'm getting a d2 as a replacement.
Vanilla and or blur, what's the best? Anyone as highly used/touted as cyanogen?
Sorry for noob questions!
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I'd like to know as well lol....
Personally I think blur does nothing but slow the phone down. I would go with fission. Great battery life and its super smooth and clean.
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Personally I think blur does nothing but slow the phone down. I would go with fission. Great battery life and its super smooth and clean.
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thanks for the reply, any other opinions, oh mighty XDA?
Fission 2.2.2 seems to be running great for me. Had some issues with earlier versions, but 2.2.2 is smooth, and great battery life over stock for sure. Squidlymandigo has a nice one too and has a way to disable haptic feeback for real.
I'd go with Fission.
Honestly the stock ROM is perfectly good to me. I've rooted (z4) for wifi tethering, but beyond that have really found no reason to change. I don't use any blur widgets (not many widgets at all, actually) and LauncherPro is plenty UI customization for me. Since the recent update (2.3.20) battery life is fine - I can go two days on light use - again, my widget and background task list is very light.
I'll ROM when I feel the need to, but I haven't found a real need yet.
Yea I agree that the stock 2.3.2 blur is really good. I am not knocking the fission dev's because some people need plain android but I think moto did a good job with this version. Rooted you can really make the blur run great.
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Rooted blur with titanium backup makes a great phone. it tuns smooth when all the bloatware is removed. if you like a aosp like experiance then i recomend going with fission. though modding the phone yourself is more fun when you learn more.
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i used to think you needed a rom to make a phone good but that was me coming from wack android phones......im digging the rooted stock pretty well
just overclock......you wont complain about blur being slow anymore
Hi, i did not want to make a new thread so I'll post in this one. I'm from UK and I'm new user of MM2. My phone is sim free but I'm on contract with o2 with SE x10 ( don't buy this phone!) and here I come to my question, I cannot update to 2.3 or 2.23 or what ever the newest software is. Is the new software available in certain countries or networks ? I'm on 2.2. BTW Blur looks quite good better than sense ui in htc's but its a bit slow sometimes but new update can solve this issue. Regards
Squidly with or without blur and he's started porting some themes with permission from a few devs. Started using before fission became what it is now, but i'm not having problems.
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Squidley's worked well for me also. The only issue I had was after time, memory seemed to shrink, until reboot. No apps appeared to be running, or in the services. But other then that, squidley's was probably the rom that seemed to have the least issues. For me anyways. But fission 2.2.2 is working great for me!
Noob here
Sorry if this is a stupid question!
first of all here is the info on my droid2 under about phone:
system version= verizon.2.3.20.a955.verizon.en.us
android version= 2.2
baseband= bp_c_01.09.07p
kernal= 2.6.32.9-g462500f
my phone is rooted and deodexed and i am looking for themes i can flash but i get confused when reading post and they refer to the ver 2.2 or 2.3.1.5 do i need to be concerned with the theme matching the android version or the system version or both.
Any help would be great!
thx in advance.
I was looking through the lists of roms for the droid 2 and I saw that all the roms are either stock or blur or half blur.... I was wondering if it would even be possible to port the MIUI rom over to the droid 2. It is made for the incredible, nexus 1, original droid, evo, and a few other big name phones and I was thinking we should port it over to the droid 2.
I know there are going to be a bunch of complications but I still don't really understand why a bunch of these roms don't work yet for the droid 2 and what is involved in porting them over...
thanks a lot,
ljbaumer
EDIT: forgot to add the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=823494
i fully agree, i was excited about coming from the eris to the d2 in hopes that this rom existed for it. i've been pretty bummed out since vzw swapped me out because the eris dev community was so strong... i would love to see a miui rom though...
I am in the process of doing this. Last two attempts have been unsuccesful. I am trying to get help from the devs that have been succesful.
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I am in the process of doing this. Last two attempts have been unsuccesful. I am trying to get help from the devs that have been succesful.
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that is awesome. if i knew ANYTHING about development i would be the first person to help you. thanks for doing this, anything that provides more options gets us in the right direction.
It would be hard, but I am gonna work on it after my AOSP build. I would be buggy though, because it is an aosp rom.
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It would be hard, but I am gonna work on it after my AOSP build. I would be buggy though, because it is an aosp rom.
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right on man, sounds great. how is unleashed 3 coming along?
If we were able to get MIUI on to the droid 2 would we be able to use a similar strategy for porting sense over?
Also when is someone gonna work on a kitchen for the D2? I feel like once we get a kitchen set up for this baby we're gonna get a bunch of cool new roms
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i fully agree, i was excited about coming from the eris to the d2 in hopes that this rom existed for it. i've been pretty bummed out since vzw swapped me out because the eris dev community was so strong... i would love to see a miui rom though...
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I came from the Original Droid and the Dev community was HUGE! I would practially have a new ROM every week and I could switch so easily with Rom Manager. I loved it, the D2 just seems too hard to root, I've had to do so many sbf restores, I miss my old OG Droid.
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I came from the Original Droid and the Dev community was HUGE! I would practially have a new ROM every week and I could switch so easily with Rom Manager. I loved it, the D2 just seems too hard to root, I've had to do so many sbf restores, I miss my old OG Droid.
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The droid 2 isn't hard to root at all. Why don't you use the one click root methods?
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Thornfulless Rose said:
The droid 2 isn't hard to root at all. Why don't you use the one click root methods?
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Sorry I should have rephrased myself. Rooting is terribly easy compared to the old way on the OG droid. But I meant installing roms is such a pain on the D2
I am another former Eris user. There were a TON of really great ROMs on that phone. I said it before, I'll say it again: I knew eFuse would mean a diminished number of ROMs and a smaller dev community but I was honestly astonished at how small it is. I'm hoping the Matt churns out his Unleashed 3 here real soon as that would be the perfect basis for a kitchen. Having a good, solid kitchen would be all that we'd need to see some more good, non-Blur ROMs pop up.
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I am another former Eris user. There were a TON of really great ROMs on that phone. I said it before, I'll say it again: I knew eFuse would mean a diminished number of ROMs and a smaller dev community but I was honestly astonished at how small it is. I'm hoping the Matt churns out his Unleashed 3 here real soon as that would be the perfect basis for a kitchen. Having a good, solid kitchen would be all that we'd need to see some more good, non-Blur ROMs pop up.
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I am from eris also and I made roms for myself (not for the public). It was a great community and I did a lot of beta testing for the developer of white widow rom series ( which was a big hit).
I wish some devs would move over or we atleast get a kitchen...
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well how were the first few miui roms ported to previous devices, and how can we do that for our D2s? im interesting in helping in any way i can. it sickens me, this is the first device ive ever had to have less than a few roms to play with.
Edit: foot in mouth.
I guess I could PM the evo developer who ported it over... ill try and to that later tonight
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well how were the first few miui roms ported to previous devices, and how can we do that for our D2s? im interesting in helping in any way i can. it sickens me, this is the first device ive ever had to have less than a few roms to play with.
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You can thank Moto for locking the bootlader and making us jump through hoops and using work arounds to get what we want out of our devices. If we had an unlocked bootloader then we could just install a new kernel but I assume new devices will have similar securities on them so at least from moto get used to working around until someone on the inside slips the keys.
Which one do you think is better? I like them both, but am running Liberty. IMO they are probably the forerunners of the Droid X. No offense to any other dev out there. What's your opinion?
+1 Liberty 1.0
And I just came over from Fission 2.5.7 about 5 hours ago. Living it. The toolbox is epic. Diff. fonts? Custimizable pulldown banner? Which shows on the lock screen too btw oh and customizable boot image. w00t!
I'm here to stay. No offence to the fission team though. Fission was running flawlessly. It's just that its so awesome. I can't seem to start on homework..
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who ever can get the power management widget on the notification bar. Team defuse is working on it, not sure if jrummy is.
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who ever can get the power management widget on the notification bar. Team defuse is working on it, not sure if jrummy is.
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You can do it yourself with Power Control Plus. It's totally customizable too.
Oh and +1 to Liberty. I love Fission too, but GJAR/Liberty are just wicked fast.
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+1 Liberty 1.0
And I just came over from Fission 2.5.7 about 5 hours ago. Living it. The toolbox is epic. Diff. fonts? Custimizable pulldown banner? Which shows on the lock screen too btw oh and customizable boot image. w00t!
I'm here to stay. No offence to the fission team though. Fission was running flawlessly. It's just that its so awesome. I can't seem to start on homework..
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I agree with presusstang, love the toolbox.
Liberty 1.0 for the win.
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I agree with presusstang, love the toolbox.
Liberty 1.0 for the win.
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I enjoy fission. FRM is very useful and angdroid pushes out updates and listens to his community on a daily basis. He is a main reason i even considered fission. Its nice to know the developer listens, updates, and supports his followers very often.
liberty for me.
also a cheaper power control widget is: http://www.appbrain.com/app/extended-controls/com.extendedcontrols
I had been on Fission for a while before Liberty. Liberty is probably my favorite (for now) for the same reasons preusstang mentioned. These two have been the only two ROMs that I have ever kept for several days at a time. This may be the dominant ROM until we see a Gingerbread update. Unless Obsidian gets ironed out. *fingers crossed*
im on rubiX focused but i plan on flashing over to liberty tomorrow
I was a fission user, gave this a try minutes after it came out, im hooked! this is the best one yet! the toolbox is killer and the rom is just plain fast... I hav FM radio back too
Also a Fission user for awhile and now on Liberty, and only going to get better. It's on version 1.0, you know Team Liberty is only get better.
The toolbox is awesome and only going to get better with more apps to install. TONS of options. Liberty for me.
+1 Liberty
Both are good, but I agree...Liberty is faster and on;y going to get better!
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Both are good, but I agree...Liberty is faster and on;y going to get better!
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liberty is awesome and it is only at v1.0!
one more for LIBERTY
I'm also on the LIBERTY wagon. Like most of the people here, I've tried nearly every ROM option for the X and GJAR/LIBERTY are the first that I loved from boot. Fast, Stable and easily customizable with the built-in toolbox are what I feel make LIBERTY the best ROM available now for the X. While the benchmarking apps should really be discounted because they aren't true indicators of performance, I have noticed a bump in scores since coming from other ROM releases to GJAR and even yesterday when I loaded LIBERTY for the first time, the scores went even higher. That's not my reason for liking it more but just something I've looked into and found interesting.
I applaud the work that ALL of the developers/development teams do as it isn't exactly easy peasy to cook up a ROM and make it work flawlessly so they all deserve our respect and thanks. In the same respect, the other ROM releases for the X are great when compared to stock and people like what they like but I feel that LIBERTY is probably going to be the one for me until we get some spicy, sweet GB goodness.
just finished installing liberty and i came from the rubiX rom like i stated before, and im also now HOOKED
this is the best 1st version release ive ever seen, like everyone has said, the toolbox alone makes this rom the best out atm,
this is the beginning of something amazing
I was on Fission for a couple of weeks, thinking of switching back to GummyJar and then Liberty was released. My favorite so far! But I'll always love Fission too.
toss up for me....
though i tend to lean a little more toward things that have been around longer, shown they will continue to do work, and not failed me over time.
Running Liberty right now, the differnce from the stock X is mindblowing.
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I've been running the latest RubiX for a while now and recently switched over to Liberty.
Unfortunately, I've had significant issues resulting in the following problems: phone not having any access to the VZW network/not recognizing its own number, unable to get back into CWMod needing to SBF, re-flashing Liberty only to have the phone reboot randomly and then simply turn itself off over and over. And yes, I wiped repeatedly.
All of these issues happened within the first 2 days (obviously). Meanwhile, having switched back to RubiX, it's been running quite smoothly with no issues, whatsoever. Is it as fast? Nope. Is there as much control over the phone? Nope. Does it work without costing me time, effort and missed calls/texts/emails? Yep.
EDIT: Literally no more than 3 minutes after I wrote this I stumbled upon a thread concerning the kernel issue afflicting those that SBF'd the 320 full and then the 340 system files (as I had to do): I was running on the 320 kernel. So, using the TBH files, I updated to the correct kernel and have since re-flashed Liberty. I'm willing to give it another try now that everything's as it should be. It also makes sense that it's running even faster than before.