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Is the EC05 really worth it?

I will really like to know the community's professional point of view on the EC05. Thank You!
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Me too. I've already seen a problem with the default launcher and being forced to use sprint id for something, might hold off ifthats the case
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zanderman112 said:
Me too. I've already seen a problem with the default launcher and being forced to use sprint id for something, might hold off ifthats the case
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Custom roms based on ec05 are well worth the wait
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??? So let me understand, EC05 is been out for what, all of a few hours? And you want an honest opinion of whether its worth it?
I'd say flip a coin, go with that...

socos25 said:
??? So let me understand, EC05 is been out for what, all of a few hours? And you want an honest opinion of whether its worth it?
I'd say flip a coin, go with that...
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Some people have been using it for days
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Just wanted to apologize if I sounded like a d!ck in my previous post. It makes me upset when I see others reply like that, so it is not good for me to do it.
What I should of said, is give it some time and people will be able to give you an honest answer, but my guess is that it is worth it. I don't see how it would be possible for Samsung and Sprint to take an additional four months and make it worse, but you never know.

I'm on stock ec05 right now and rooted and everything is fine so far. Sprint I'd isn't all that cool really. Its neat but not amazing.
When the custom roms come out we will be rocking
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Professional? Bah..
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MysteryEmotionz said:
Custom roms based on ec05 are well worth the wait
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Really looking foward to that man
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And the custom roms are what I am waiting for. I've been using Syndicate Frozen for awhile now. I am loving what it has done to my phone. Fast, responsive, getting nearly two days of use off a battery with over 3 hours of screen on time. That is impressive compared to what I used to get.
I've only been running the EC05 modem for a few days, so I cannot comment on whether that improves anything.
joshk89 said:
I'm on stock ec05 right now and rooted and everything is fine so far. Sprint I'd isn't all that cool really. Its neat but not amazing.
When the custom roms come out we will be rocking
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And the custom roms are what I am waiting for. I've been using Syndicate Frozen for awhile now. I am loving what it has done to my phone. Fast, responsive, getting nearly two days of use off a battery with over 3 hours of screen on time. That is impressive compared to what I used to get.
I've only been running the EC05 modem for a few days, so I cannot comment on whether that improves anything.
I've been runnning Syndicate Frozen EXT4 EC05, and am loving it. I've had my Epic for about 2 weeks now. Soon as I pulled it out the box i rooted it and went threw a few roms, till I came across Syndicate Frozen. The other ROM i tried were still cool but Syndicate Frozen is simple and fast.

Most vanilla AOSP rom?

I tried CM7. I disliked ADW and the rom felt overly bloated. It also had significant lag waking up to the lock screen.
I'm looking for the most basic barebones AOSP rom out there. What should I look for?

I always just ran CM7 with Launcherpro and it wsa the fastest I've seen. I think there are a few out there without the optimizations that the CM team adds but I don't know that they would be any faster.

most stock would be omfg or evervolv. recommend trying salvagemod 1.2.1 though

jonnythan said:
I tried CM7. I disliked ADW and the rom felt overly bloated. It also had significant lag waking up to the lock screen.
I'm looking for the most basic barebones AOSP rom out there. What should I look for?
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Take a look in the development section... AND I have lol at the adw comment.. Anyways check out. Decks rom
from my phone duh

Adwex rules. If you want to dump the lag from adw, just change the drawer background setting to black.
CheesyNutz said:
Take a look in the development section... AND I have lol at the adw comment.. Anyways check out. Decks rom
from my phone duh
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%100 Pure AOSP.....
Rom and Gapps w/ New Talk.apk:
http://www.mediafire.com/?p05q54839gjzt

Check out evodeck

I'd say omfg is about barebones as you can get, be decks is a great one to use too.

I'm curious, what is bloated about CM7? I keep hearing this bloated statement in all the alternative AOSP ROM threads but what is this bloat?

OMGB is great, I love it. That's the rom I use when I'm craving some vanilla
Decks is also just as good. Both are basically as pure as you can get!!
And my battery life on both of these roms... excellent.
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CheesyNutz said:
Take a look in the development section... AND I have lol at the adw comment.. Anyways check out. Decks rom
from my phone duh
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+1 on this. Decks rom is awesome. I still use version 1.0... It has been nothing but good for me. I went from flashing every other day or so, to at least 3 weeks now with this rom. I also use Tiamats 3.3.7 kernel. Awesome Battery life...(at least on my phone)

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

sph33r said:
I'm curious, what is bloated about CM7? I keep hearing this bloated statement in all the alternative AOSP ROM threads but what is this bloat?
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It just feels very heavy. It has settings and processes and customizations out the wazoo. Everywhere I looked in the rom it felt like there was special CM stuff. Which isn't that big of a deal, but the lockscreen lag made me want to throw my phone out the window sometimes.

jonnythan said:
It just feels very heavy. It has settings and processes and customizations out the wazoo. Everywhere I looked in the rom it felt like there was special CM stuff. Which isn't that big of a deal, but the lockscreen lag made me want to throw my phone out the window sometimes.
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Yeah, i know what you are saying about the bloated feeling of CM7. I also couldn't stand the lockscreen lag. That's the main reason I went back to Myn's Warm. I just started using Deck's rom a few days ago, and it is freaking awesome. Fast as hell, and feels so clean.

Decks rom is cm7 with a different launcher.
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Deck's rom is the best vanilla pure gingerbread i've used so far.
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I usually use CM7 with ADW removed using Frank707's the flashable zips.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-933517.html
Salvage is pretty good too I'm actually running 1.2.1 right now. I think I'm going to flash Deck's for a few days to see how it goes.

alaman68 said:
Decks rom is cm7 with a different launcher.
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Not quite.

Cares said:
Not quite.
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Yes
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I have been using savaged Zen for about a week and it is perfect. GPS locks instantly. 4g works. No adw.... stock gb launcher. No problems.
I wonder why this rom doesn't get more attention.
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Current "best" rom suggestions?

So I owned the epic, played with Midnight, played with ACS and finally said **** it and went with a NS4g... I haven't touch an epic in a few months now and was wondering if you guys have CM7 yet, or any other good AOSP-like alternatives.
My mom and sister are still using epics and are sick of the sprint UI and bloat and I was looking to help them out by loading something different no their phone.
Any suggestions?

Well no aosp yet.... but syndicate rom frozen is veryy battery efficient and fast... and I would use genocide with it, atleast untill vision kernel comes out
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IMO... as mentioned above,
rom: srf 1.2
kernal: genocide 1.1 or twilight 1.1.1

snowmanwithahat said:
So I owned the epic, played with Midnight, played with ACS and finally said **** it and went with a NS4g... I haven't touch an epic in a few months now and was wondering if you guys have CM7 yet, or any other good AOSP-like alternatives.
My mom and sister are still using epics and are sick of the sprint UI and bloat and I was looking to help them out by loading something different no their phone.
Any suggestions?
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Also, ACS just stated a new AOSP project. It looks promising, though not at a usable stage, yet.
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Everything is pretty much the same since you left. Development on every rom has progressed but the selection and pros/cons of each one are about the same.

Baked snack is a monster! (Public) CM7 alpha is a beast.
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Custodian said:
Baked snack is a monster! (Public) CM7 alpha is a beast.
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+1 on baked! SFR/Genocide also good

I'm using Bonsai and I love it so far. Had some fcs with ACS.
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Tandrew86 said:
I'm using Bonsai and I love it so far. Had some fcs with ACS.
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Report what happened to ACS. It's more likely a flashing issue.
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Are they still working on cm7 I haven't seen anything about it but I've also been out of the loop for 3 weeks but doesn't seem like anything new or updated.
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dexterboy1106 said:
Are they still working on cm7 I haven't seen anything about it but I've also been out of the loop for 3 weeks but doesn't seem like anything new or updated.
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Waiting for gb source
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The Root said:
Report what happened to ACS. It's more likely a flashing issue.
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I've been using Genocide/SRF with almost no problems. The only FCs I had were from flashing an Email patch from Midnight on top of Syndicate. As long as I didn't try to mix ROMs, I was fine.

EVO 4G--JTG-ICS 4.0.3 or DECK-ICS 4.0.3

Been using ics-deck-evo-alpha5 for a little more then a week now and loving it. Also watching jaredthegreats thread (JTG-ICS-4.0.3-B2.0.zip) and curious if anyone knows what may be different? From what I found deck's is still alpha but JTG's is beta 2?

I prefer Decks. Trebuchet is the biggest handcuff as it throws errors constantly. Your options are Nova Launcher or Go Launcher. Both support ICS. I LOVE LOVE LOVE GoLauncher EX.

Agreed I also LOVE LOVE LOVE GoLauncher EX

anyway to just use the stock launcher with Deck? I remember it was included with one of the pre alphas and it worked great. (I don't mind not having the customizations so stock is fine with me)

Mattie Num Nums said:
I prefer Decks. Trebuchet is the biggest handcuff as it throws errors constantly. Your options are Nova Launcher or Go Launcher. Both support ICS. I LOVE LOVE LOVE GoLauncher EX.
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My build has nova.
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cesjr02 said:
anyway to just use the stock launcher with Deck? I remember it was included with one of the pre alphas and it worked great. (I don't mind not having the customizations so stock is fine with me)
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Not as easy on further developed roms, the stock launcher crashes a lot. So stock launcher will prob be available once the roms are more complete
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I'm using JTG beta 2, and I would say go with that. It is being actively worked on to get rid of kinks, and I find it runs really smooth after using the COD tweaks
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Sorry to be uninformed but what is "COD" tweaks?

evoer said:
Sorry to be uninformed but what is "COD" tweaks?
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http://vaelek.com/index.php/topic/1916-guide-car-o-dopes-supersonic-tweaking-guide-v102-120411/
It is a RAM manager that makes you phone much faster. It works with any ROM, try it out!

rocket999 said:
http://vaelek.com/index.php/topic/1916-guide-car-o-dopes-supersonic-tweaking-guide-v102-120411/
It is a RAM manager that makes you phone much faster. It works with any ROM, try it out!
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that worked great on icsmod, but i dont see a lick of difference on JTG 4.03 Beta 2.0

I'm using JTG beta 2, But I feel there's a lot of FC's on that. So I wish it more stable soon.

serqut said:
I'm using JTG beta 2, But I feel there's a lot of FC's on that. So I wish it more stable soon.
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Try the car-o-dope tweaks and report back if it stops some of the FC's. I know it's helped me out in the past with beta roms.
http://vaelek.com/index.php/topic/1916-guide-car-o-dopes-supersonic-tweaking-guide-v102-120411/

94tbird said:
that worked great on icsmod, but i dont see a lick of difference on JTG 4.03 Beta 2.0
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gonna quote myself here and admit the launcher was the problem on JTG. too damn slow. Once i switched to Go Ex, the rom became super snappy!

How does PreludeDrews compare to these?

I'm on Drew's and it works great for me. I've tried all three and for some reason Drew's has the fewest problems on my phone. I think you need to flash all three and see which one works best on your phone.

jaredstein21 said:
I'm on Drew's and it works great for me. I've tried all three and for some reason Drew's has the fewest problems on my phone. I think you need to flash all three and see which one works best on your phone.
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been running jared's b2 and now b2.5, and its really smooth and fast. only fc on b2 was m fault, i wasnt paying attention and selected a preset in dsp manager and i still have yet to see a fc on b2.5. absolutely loving it!

Try drews . Its the common base
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scottspa74 said:
Try drews . Its the common base
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Yeah...what is even the difference between them? Who are the real devs? I've flashed all three and they seem identical.

curious... where does one find drews rom? i remember it was on here for a while but then he got all mad and left to another site and i never quite found out which one...

I'm going to throw this out there.

I've been running EL30 all day and just realized how smooth the scroll is and of amazing the multitasking is. Went is it that stock roms do multitasking so much better than custom roms? Everyone should go stock for at least one day to see what I mean. Again.. Just throwing it out there.

I've been running stock EL30 since we got the google link. I'm liking it so far. Just need the keyboard lag fix. I think they did fix the GPS though, it goes fast in google maps and its accurate. And I like the none iOS touchwiz.
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Did they make big changes to touchwiz in el30? I had not read about that yet.
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Does the keyboard still skip keys?

Beezer80 said:
Does the keyboard still skip keys?
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Steveo said it needed the lag fix and I can confirm from typing this reply.
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They changed a couple of the icons and removed the colored squares from the icons when you are in the app drawer.
The keyboard skips 70% less than EI22 but it is still there.
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steveo314 said:
They changed a couple of the icons and removed the colored squares from the icons when you are in the app drawer.
The keyboard skips 70% less than EI22 but it is still there.
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It really is much better, but it dropped one of the e's in "needed". I hadn't noticed the background thing because I use ADW EX with a theme. It seems fine stock, but I'd love to underclock again so I might just root for that.
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Im just rooted with sumarai kernel. Now I care less for costume since ciq is gone. Im very impressed with its mulritasking. Never had gb multitasj this good.

drunkskunk said:
Im just rooted with sumarai kernel. Now I care less for costume since ciq is gone. Im very impressed with its mulritasking. Never had gb multitasj this good.
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Is that you in your pic?
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Yea that's all I want on EL30 is undervolt... and maybe some "weight loss"....
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awesome battery life, no ciq, new live wallpapers... So far it's being good.

How awesome? I may jump ship I'm still running srf 1.2. Its just so stable and fast

stud_muffler said:
awesome battery life, no ciq, new live wallpapers... So far it's being good.
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The bubble wallpaper is from the captivate. I had the captivate the first part of 2011 and really liked that 'paper.
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drunkskunk said:
yup... Me on a good day. U should see me on bad days.
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We gotta have a staring contest my friend
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stud_muffler said:
awesome battery life, no ciq, new live wallpapers... So far it's being good.
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Yes, I noticed battery life is great! Also, I think the smoothness is coming from the rom being odexed originally from sprint. We must all remember that the odex codes are optimized for our devices. That's why deodexed roms are never as smooth. Might be slight quicker but awful multitasking. But personaly, ive never seen a performance boost from going deodex.
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Can I still run a EI22 rom if I flash to this modem??

Drunkskunk, you funny mang. Women be shoppin, brothas be flashin.
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drunkskunk said:
...personaly, ive never seen a performance boost from going deodex...
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De-odexing isn't supposed to give ya performance boost, it allows you to theme your phone.
BEER!

Yup, but alot of members here state that the roms under deodex run snappier. In which I disagree.
Just buggin out, me an my eye balls.

Check out the thread in the development section entitled "[tweak][CM7] odex cyanogenmod 7.2 flashable zip" by zman for more info on the subject
edit: also, listening to certain people on this forum can provide bad advice, on occasion always research, for your own (phone) safety
BEER!