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Guys I have nero v5 installed and I want to install the stock samsung vibrant froyo. Is it stable and how do I install the update. I backed up my stock 2.1 rom and am ready to restore to 2.1. Do I idyll 2.2 through kies or what
download kies mini and update through there
You install it through Odin. Personally I don't think its worth the upgrade from Nero unless you like the stock look. I came from Nero v5 to try out this rom and notice that my wifi is much slower, when wifi is off my bars say 3g but internet browsing feels like its on edge, and I can barely get a gps lock. On Nero I always get a lock no matter where I am. Of course apps load slightly slower, but that's not my biggest issue with the rom.
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You install it through Odin. Personally I don't think its worth the upgrade from Nero unless you like the stock look. I came from Nero v5 to try out this rom and notice that my wifi is much slower, when wifi is off my bars say 3g but internet browsing feels like its on edge, and I can barely get a gps lock. On Nero I always get a lock no matter where I am. Of course apps load slightly slower, but that's not my biggest issue with the rom.
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Any other ideas?
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You install it through Odin. Personally I don't think its worth the upgrade from Nero unless you like the stock look. I came from Nero v5 to try out this rom and notice that my wifi is much slower, when wifi is off my bars say 3g but internet browsing feels like its on edge, and I can barely get a gps lock. On Nero I always get a lock no matter where I am. Of course apps load slightly slower, but that's not my biggest issue with the rom.
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I get consistently over 3.8mbps dow now. Thats almost 1 mbps morw than my average before the update. I wrote in another thread wifi reception was better as well.
I think youre just expweienving some placebo effect. Happens a lot to people who use lag fixes and stuff.
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I was wondering the exact same thing. Im running Nero v5 and was debating weather to revert back to stock and do the 2.2 update
It is very stable for me, upgraded from stock 2.1 am pleased my gps never worked anyways so meh.
I upgraded from stock ji6 so that's the only rom I have to compare with. It was a nail-biting experience since kies wouldn't pick up my phone thanks to Tmobile leaving out the minor detail that USB debugging had to be enabled. Midway during the upgrade process kies crapped out with an error saying upgrade failed. Phone would only boot into emergency recovery and was luckily able to use the kies recovery option to finish. Phew! I've flashed phones before but they were always spares so I didn't care if they bricked or not - this is my first time flashing my main phone.
Ka6 is a definite improvement over ji6. The one thing I noticed immediately is lag is gone!! ji6 used to go from 3g to edge for no apparent reason, now it stays on 3g. Haven't noticed any difference in the transfer speeds in 3g or wifi, seems about the same. Built-in wifi and usb tethering is nice, and much improved copy paste. Different colors, GPS still is meh. I was using my Garmin for 2 years before I got this phone so I never really cared about the GPS. Aside from built-in flash all the other changes appear to be cosmetic. Media scanner seems quicker.
If you're still on stock ji6 the upgrade to froyo is definitely worth. If you're running a custom rom like Nero, Axura etc. I guess you should stay with it. You upgraded to a custom rom because you obviously put a custom rom on your phone because you didn't like stock!
I updated my Epic on the day EB13 was released. I used the update.zip using the stock recovery on my stock/rooted DI18 (no data/cache wipes before updating) which kept all my data and apps intact. After the update, the only problems I had were the one related to the camera (video lag in low light and still camera FC in sport mode), but after the kernel fix was introduced (thanks to mkasick) I have had absolutely ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, NO problems. Granted I am still using basically the stock EB13 rooted only with Launcher Pro, but everything has worked as it should (GPS, SMS, MMS, video recording, camera, music player, SD card, etc.). The only issue for me is probably the checkerboarding on the stock browser which is not a big deal for me anyways.
How many of you have been happy with your EB13 upgrade experience?
I am waiting for a custom ROM.
Mine worked good on stock and even better using the genocide kernel.
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I'm running a beta build of a custom rom and I couldn't be happier. I'm not having any of the issues reported
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I've been very happy with the upgrade, I haven't ran into any problems with this build. Now I'm just waiting for the developers to really start pushing out their releases! Dying to get my hands on a official CM6.2 and MiUi!
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Already running Midnight rom with the Genocide kernel. Getting great battery life and my GPS definitely feels improved. Haven't dropped signal during nav yet (knock on wood)
Can't wait for more Roms and especially updated Cyanogen and Miui like above.
Running EB13 with midNIGHT ROM 4.1....my phone runs great, better than when it was on a DK28 mod
Mine runs great all stock EB13
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Mine worked good on stock and even better using the genocide kernel.
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Whats the genocide kernel? what advantages does it have over the stock eb13 kernel?
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Whats the genocide kernel? what advantages does it have over the stock eb13 kernel?
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The Genocide Kernel, is a kernel made my one of the Devs here. You can find it's thread in the Development section for more details.
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I was using stock EB13 with no problems..today I flashed the genocide kernel since I figure it can't hurt to have more battery life...
As for checker-boarding on the browser..coming from a TP2..I hardly call that checkerboarding lol
as for the checkerboarding browser, does anyone know if that is only on the stock browser, or others such as Dolphin as well?
Running EB13 stock w/genocide, no complaints. I use the miren browser as my default.
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I flashed eb13 with the samsung exe and immediately got root access and changed over to deodexed/ext4 and with the lastest genocide kernel .... close to perfect ... with the overclock and pretty heavy use battery life is darn good, amazingly. My battery app estimates 11.5 hrs @ 58%. I'm constantly picking the thing up and using it today. All apps run fine and now the browser is substantially faster than the wifes laptop! Was just on the gamestop site with a flash game review playing along side a bunch of animated adds and it still played great. 1375/3020 smartbench. This is all the "phone" I'll need for some time to come! Since the camera fix in genocide kernel, all regrets are gone. Plus, if you love video media like I do, you MUST have 2.2 as the video decoding and audio decoding are sgnificantly improved. 2.1 would stutter a bit with very high bit rate stuff. 2.2 makes the best quality video play FLAWLESSLY. Never a dropped frame. Even @2mbit/sec. Watching a movie on my phone is nearly as pleasing as my well calibrated big screen.
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EB13 is pretty good. Except for the bt voice dialing not working. If you don't have this issue what update method and what rom are you running???
Epic 4g
I'm happy. the battery is lasting for up to 24 hours now. I even slept through the night without charging it and woke up to a not dead phone. oh the possibilities
stock eb13 w root and cam patch, couldnt b more pleased w my phone
Not me. Its seems much better at first. But when you start getting random fc's here and there it tells you somethings wrong. In all honestly I think 2.1 eclair ran this phone with ease like a current machine would run winxp. No problems and everythings snappy. Works the way its suppose to. Throw win7 in and now youve complicated things by adding in bore instruction sets that might conflict. Not to say that it isn't gonna work well but we can clearly see sprint was full of **** when they said they were thoroughly testing for bugs. Build the is from the ground up with gingerbread. Until that happens were gonna keep getting updates that fix **** instead of updates that turn our epics for the better. Its what this hardware deserves. Next year when tegra 2's are mainstream phonemena hummingbird will be the mid level tier. Even with 2.2 I still think this hardware has more to give.
My 2 cents.
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Not me. Its seems much better at first. But when you start getting random fc's here and there it tells you somethings wrong. In all honestly I think 2.1 eclair ran this phone with ease like a current machine would run winxp. No problems and everythings snappy. Works the way its suppose to. Throw win7 in and now youve complicated things by adding in bore instruction sets that might conflict. Not to say that it isn't gonna work well but we can clearly see sprint was full of **** when they said they were thoroughly testing for bugs. Build the is from the ground up with gingerbread. Until that happens were gonna keep getting updates that fix **** instead of updates that turn our epics for the better. Its what this hardware deserves. Next year when tegra 2's are mainstream phonemena hummingbird will be the mid level tier. Even with 2.2 I still think this hardware has more to give.
My 2 cents.
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That's impossible in all honesty. With the way people were crying about the 2.2 update to build something from kernel up and redo it people would be crying "gingerbread is taking too long" screw Samsung, and Sprint...
i odin'd back to DI18 a day before EB13 and only restored contacts.
once EB13 dropped, i wiped everything 3 times w/ clockwork, upgraded via the update.zip method. Then did the 1 click root, and manually re-installed all my apps etc.
The one thing that really kills the 'new' froyo for me is the bluetooth problems still being present like on DK28. I got so damn irritated w/ DK28's bluetooth problems that i actually went back to 2.1
Now that i'm using EN13, I'm still pretty honked off but it hasn't irritated me enough yet to go back to eclair.. depends on how flaky the bluetooth becomes.
So far, I'm running stock EB13, 1 click root, genocide kernel installed yesterday) and gonna gauge battery life.
I'm really wanting to try out the MIUI and/or cyanogenmod once they're a little less buggy.. the devs are making great progress, but i need a fairly non-buggy phone for work so that's why i'm waiting (not complaining.. i experiment on the weekends w/ ROMs and such)
my .02
Well, I plan on ODINing to the new EE03 modem tomorrow, but I want to know if it is truly worth it. (This may help others who haven't updated as well)
Right now, I am using the EB13 modem, and my battery life is amazing. Sometimes I lose signal, and on I can't receive texts on EE03 unless I use Google Voice.
So how is the EE03 modem working for you guys?
Please vote and comment! It'll help me (and probably others) decide if it's worth it! Thanks!
Edit: I am referring to the EE03 ROM. Not any FroYo ROM!
You need to specify on which rom they are running the modem. EE03 modem on Gingerbread is garbage (not really but it seems that way). EE03 modem on Froyo is getting good reviews.
muyoso said:
You need to specify on which rom they are running the modem. EE03 modem on Gingerbread is garbage. EE03 modem on Froyo is getting good reviews.
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Fixed in OP.
I am only specifying toward the EE03 Swiss Cheese ROM.
Ee03 is working great on urban fury rom.
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Second choice. Running ACE 2.0 with EE03 modem.
How is it with the EE03 Swiss Cheese ROM? That's what I really what to know =P
I ran EE03 for a bit but it was really laggy as opposed to SRF. I am now running SRF with EE03 modem and have never looked back. The 4g speeds are increased by a decent increment.
Sounds like the modem is good enough to try with the EE03 ROM. Always can switch back if it doesn't work out for me anyway.
Been running EE03 modem on stock plus rom, and it's been fine. Haven't really noticed much difference but it definitely isn't worse. Use skydroid yesterday on the course and my GPS was rock solid all day.
Yeah you can always try. I'm not sure how it would work - not too familiar with switching between ext 4 and RFS though.
I find this pretty funny how I haven't seen one person saying they're running EE03 on the Swiss Cheese EE03 ROM xD.
Cause Swiss Cheese is horrid.
Ee03 is running great for me I've got about sixteen hrs off the charger and im at fifty one percent. I haven't really done much but text and surf xda for a few
Running viperrom synergy ......
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acer1096xxx said:
How is it with the EE03 Swiss Cheese ROM? That's what I really what to know =P
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I saw no notable improvements...
though i did notice with the ee03 ROM:
Not getting voicemails, signal bars were being weird, annndddddd it was overall choppy rom for me
i roam more than usual since i went to ee03 modem and swiss cheese. and its hardly ever data roaming.
You need one more poll option:
"It's great; but bugs have made me revert".
I ran Bonsai EC05 + EE03 modem. It fixed some data and signal issues, but I ran into some random reboot issues and some extra battery drain.
The other day EE03 brought Bonsai down to 25 percent at the end of the day (same thing had been running EE03 since it released), at which I flashed back to EC05.
EC05 Bonsai beta has the best battery life possible. Under the same usage I'm hard pressed to hit 60 percent.
I tried EE03, it worked great for signal...until it'd drop every so often. Maybe I'm picky but EC05 never dropped 3G/4G signal on me.
ee03 has some bugs but it seems better than the old ones
I don't think it's the modem that is dropping the signal because I am running the EB13 modem with EE03, and I lose signal a lot.
I Just wish the market would download and install a app when i press it once .... doubt it has to do with modem just saying the apk sucks 8(
What does everyone think of EF02?
I have EC05 rooted and have had occasional issues with visual voicemail (says cant play until I restart the device), texts not coming through properly, and misc other issues. I was considering going to a ROM such as bonsai, but thought maybe EF02 would be better since it's close to a stock release.
I use my phone for business and look for stability and battery life primarily with performance and eye candy ranked third or fourth. Thanks ahead of time for the help.
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What does everyone think of EF02?
I have EC05 rooted and have had occasional issues with visual voicemail (says cant play until I restart the device), texts not coming through properly, and misc other issues. I was considering going to a ROM such as bonsai, but thought maybe EF02 would be better since it's close to a stock release.
I use my phone for business and look for stability and battery life primarily with performance and eye candy ranked third or fourth. Thanks ahead of time for the help.
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There are some kinks to work out. GPS is pretty iffy, and some apps don't work, for some reason. Still, it's clear the future is bright, cause I can't wait for something already this snappy to get rfs replaced, overclocked, and tweaked to hell like the froyo roms.
As for your other issues, I ported my number to google voice, so they handle all my texting/voicemail. No regrets so far, other than maybe that I can't use handcent anymore. People get my texts instantly too. My brother was at a ball game I was watching on tv once and was getting my texts along the lines of "He was safe!" so quickly after the plays he jokingly asked me if the TV was somehow ahead of live action.
One issue I'm having with EF02 is that I've lost the default shortcuts on the toolbar. All I have is Applications...
Anybody know how to get them back?
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I'm taking aa i3 for a run. But for a worry free xperience do the following..
Odin eb13.
Get gps lock.
Root.
Flash ef02. Set it up to ur liking.
Odin ec05 modem.
If you use titanium backup then restore only app not data!
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I've had no issues at all with EF02 w/EF10 modem. The only GPS issue I ever have is using check in on Facebook but the GPS locks fast so I think it's the Facebook app which in my opinion is pure garbage. It sucks on my girlfriends phone too and some of my coworkers have problems with the app as well.
I'm getting excellent performance. With 105+ apps installed, I'm getting 2500 on quadrant. I'm going to test gps in a few. All apps seem to be working.. i had some that didn't but i just uninstalled then reinstalled from market and it worked. Running i3 with GPS fix and chris41g rotation lag fix.
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I ended up going back to EC05 for SRF 1.2, but thats out of personal preference for the SRF rom. In my experience with EF02, it was very good. Fast for RFS, pretty good battery life, and all around mostly pretty stable... seems Samsung/Sprint are pretty close to a final/official build to me.
I am using EF02 with EF10 modem and it has worked perfectly so far. GPS works better than ever. All of my apps work. And I have had none of the wierd EC05 force closing with the 3 vibrates. It works great for me and can't wait for the official to drop.
I have been using EF02 for a while (AR i2) and everything has been very good, I had some strange issues with the GPS at first but now everything is working fine.
I get 12-15 hours with moderate use, not nearly as good as some of the Froyo roms but worth it because of Skype/Netflix... With the EF10 modem I got about half that, so I went back to the EF02 modem and everything is great.
I thought ef02 aa i3 was pretty good. Memory issues pushed me back to froyo. The leak didn't seem to clear memory correctly and used too much. other than that and gps issues at first I was actually happy with it. All in all not to bad. These froyo roms seem to be to polished to continue on a leak rom though.
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I'm considering going back to froyo from EH17, and I was wondering what would be the best setup for battery life?
One I have in mind is SRF 1.2 w/ Genocide Kernel and EE03 modem?
It varies from phone to phone. I'm on SFR 1.2 with Genocide 1.0, EC05.
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It varies from phone to phone. I'm on SFR 1.2 with Genocide 1.0, EC05.
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Yeah I know. But if enough people tell me one thing, then I can assume that it would work on mine as well.
Just curious, why haven't you flashed Genocide 2.0?
Well I'm on latest genocide with cm7 clone running eco5 modem hd to many issues with gingerbreads modems, and I get threw the whole day 7 through 12 with a lot of use and if I rarely use I can get two days
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Well I'm on latest genocide with cm7 clone running eco5 modem hd to many issues with gingerbreads modems, and I get threw the whole day 7 through 12 with a lot of use and if I rarely use I can get two days
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Damnn! I think I might stick w/ SRF though only because I like the theme more and I've used it before. (not 1.2, but an older version)
My phone just likes 1.0 more than anything else with the exception of the Vision kernel that borked everyone's phones. Mine included.
I switched back the other day. I like sfr, but figured I would try something new, and went with random rom 2.2 phoenix with genocide 1.0, but kept the eh17 modem. So far so good. Random seems to be set up very good for max battery life. Staying on genocide 1.0 for now, cause after reading through the thread a bit, someone had posted that the rom is pretty much optimized for that kernel. I am, however, looking forward to some sfr 1.3 if it ever drops.
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My phone just likes 1.0 more than anything else with the exception of the Vision kernel that borked everyone's phones. Mine included.
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Haha borked. Excellent.
Adam, David should be releasing a ROM soon that I think your phone will like. If he changes to many things, Ill just release EC05OCEv4.
malcolmXman said:
Adam, David should be releasing a ROM soon that I think your phone will like. If he changes to many things, Ill just release EC05OCEv4.
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Can't wait for that one! Either one, or both!
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Its fantabulous, or tightitious... Both those words are spoken on a regular by a friend of mine Its probably what SFR 1.3 will be, unless they made an app to go with it.
I am looking forward too all of the work...yours, David's, and 1.3.
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For me the best battery life I have seen is on SRF 1.2 with the twilight kernel. I had nearly four hours of screen on time in like 28 hours.
Best I've ever seen length wise was like 38 hours but screen on time was less than two hours total.
SRF 1.2 is so buttery smooth it seemed like a new phone. Now if I could just get skypes front facing camera to work on Froyo.
Edit: Probably should add I am running JUWE's ram script. I find it easier to deal with and get similar results to V6. Running it at stock speeds so it is undervolted. I have also frozen DRM, SNS, and com.samsung.
I have had no issues now that I cleared all backups reflashed eh17 and eh17 modem and cleared everything before flashing
yes getting to battery, each one is a little different some last a little longer hard core use. to me depends on how many apps you have, where you start actually using phone the most and when not in use, i have settings app and shut down 3g till I need it.
And Everyones Phone is different.
Takes a Little Trying and Finding what Fits You!!!
Thanks everyone. I'm on Urban Regeneration right now and after giving it a daily spin, it seems to be pretty solid.