Accelerometer still sucks... - Epic 4G General

I tried calibrating screen up, down, sideways, while balanced on the tip of my **** etc and the damn accelerometer will not function right! Any other tips? Wiping does nothing...
If you think yours works, you may be wrong. Fast screen rotation does not equal functioning accelerometer. Just download something like sensor debug or hell... see how (****tingly) google sky maps works...
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You did the system/bin/sensorcalibutil_yamaha?

Of course.
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maybe your **** is crooked
i dont' think anyone has gotten google sky maps to work without changing the values. there's a thread on it somewhere

murso74 said:
maybe your **** is crooked
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ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had this problem. I brought mine to a sprint store and they replaced it. The new one works flawlessly, dont even have the auto rotation lag after flashing and google sky works perfect.

herzzreh said:
I tried calibrating screen up, down, sideways, while balanced on the tip of my **** etc and the damn accelerometer will not function right! Any other tips? Wiping does nothing...
If you think yours works, you may be wrong. Fast screen rotation does not equal functioning accelerometer. Just download something like sensor debug or hell... see how (****tingly) google sky maps works...
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Do a search and maybe pull up my posts to find some discussions. What ROM are u on? There was a bug in the EC05 leak that would invert the z axis if u ran calibration from the settings menu. Not sure if it was fixed in the final rel.
The fix is something like put the phone upside down and do the settings menu calibration. Then you can finetune the calibration through connectbot command prompts... something like yamah_sensorcalibutl. It's in the forum.....
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My google sky map was funky, then I calibrated the phone upside down and now it is perfect.

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Phone rotates slow on DK28

does anyone else have slow rotation rates on DK28? My wifes phone that is completely stock on DI18 rotates almost instantly. mine was slow on the froyo beta which was to be expected, but DK28 I thought was supposed to be the released version or very close. if it rotates this slow, either mine is broken or this isn't ready for primetime.
My phone doesn't rotate at all on my stock di18
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diego1985 said:
My phone doesn't rotate at all on my stock di18
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You probably have it disabled.
robl45 said:
does anyone else have slow rotation rates on DK28? My wifes phone that is completely stock on DI18 rotates almost instantly. mine was slow on the froyo beta which was to be expected, but DK28 I thought was supposed to be the released version or very close. if it rotates this slow, either mine is broken or this isn't ready for primetime.
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Yes, this is actually the reason I am going to go back to stock because I can't stand it. Its not just slow it rotates whenever I don't want it to and then for the life of me I can't get it to go back.
viper786 said:
You probably have it disabled.
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No, when you go to Froyo (DK28) and then decide to either flash back or Odin back down to Eclair (DI18), somehow, the accelerometer never works again. Froyo had a settings option to calibrate the screen, and as most of us do, we see a new setting, we gotta tweak it, right!?? Apparently, that did something to make the accelerometer inoperable when we went back to DI18.
Still waiting for any advice that does NOT involve rooting the phone...to get the accelerometer back on DI18...
Marsh511 said:
No, when you go to Froyo (DK28) and then decide to either flash back or Odin back down to Eclair (DI18), somehow, the accelerometer never works again. Froyo had a settings option to calibrate the screen, and as most of us do, we see a new setting, we gotta tweak it, right!?? Apparently, that did something to make the accelerometer inoperable when we went back to DI18.
Still waiting for any advice that does NOT involve rooting the phone...to get the accelerometer back on DI18...
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I flashed back from DK28 to DI18 to get my gps working and then flashed back to DK28; accelerometer is working. Its not instant rotation like before but, it does work.
ort84 said:
I flashed back from DK28 to DI18 to get my gps working and then flashed back to DK28; accelerometer is working. Its not instant rotation like before but, it does work.
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...and your GPS is still working??
Everythings pretty much working for me, nothing too bad.
The acceleramotor has about a two second delay on the home screen for me. Everyone else its fine.
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There are plenty of posts on how to fix your rotation when you go back to d18
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crcsboy said:
There are plenty of posts on how to fix your rotation when you go back to d18
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The fix does require you to root the phone.
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You probably have it disabled.
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Nope its enable on my display&settings option. Its just not working anymore. I have to flip my keyboard out for it to rotate now. I could have sworn i could rotate the first two days i had it.
same thing with my phone but i'll take the gps finally working and slow rotation any day
*edit* gps working most of the time outdoors anyhow
diego1985 said:
Nope its enable on my display&settings option. Its just not working anymore. I have to flip my keyboard out for it to rotate now. I could have sworn i could rotate the first two days i had it.
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everyone has to do that, it only rotated the homescreen before the very first update.
but if you go into say text messaging and flip the phone, it should flip instantly, not 5 seconds later. well at least it does on the di18. I hope the real froyo over the air isn't like this or samsung needs to stop working on the nexus s and fix this crap.
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No, when you go to Froyo (DK28) and then decide to either flash back or Odin back down to Eclair (DI18), somehow, the accelerometer never works again. Froyo had a settings option to calibrate the screen, and as most of us do, we see a new setting, we gotta tweak it, right!?? Apparently, that did something to make the accelerometer inoperable when we went back to DI18.
Still waiting for any advice that does NOT involve rooting the phone...to get the accelerometer back on DI18...
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I had DK28 since the day it was released on XDA and i used ODIN to go back to 2.1 because I had to take my phone in for service and my accelerometer works perfectly fine.
It's been posted several times already. I suggest saving it:
Open up a terminal:
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/system/bin/sensorcalibutil_yamaha
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Maps 5.2 kind of does two finger rotate.

I was messing around with maps tonight and was kind of shocked that it happens. I could not get it to work at all in 3d building mode. Or when zoomed in.
At about a city level zoom I can get it to spin. I do not have the hack that enables it either.
Very strange behavior/bug.
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True, albeit very poorly.
Indeed. I was shocked that it did it at all.
Its the screen bug of N1 not a bug in Gmaps. when you fingers are close it snaps in one line thats why rotate doesn't work well
they could have done it better. The optimus one can only detect 2 fingers as well and have the axis switching problem but you can rotate like 40 degrees.
The tweak that was around earlier did a far better job...
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It's not the screen bug. When this feature came out it was disabled on n1 due to the screen.
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danger-rat said:
The tweak that was around earlier did a far better job...
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Not really, they're both pretty awful
I think they forgot to disable it in this update.
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Not really, they're both pretty awful
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OK, they are both pretty bad, but I still preferred the tweaked method. At least I had some control over when I rotated, rather than it just happening when I'm trying to zoom or tilt...
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Would be nice if they would give us some other control over the rotation, what about trackball rotation or dedicated rotate buttons? Nobody uses the trackball in maps anyway.
I'm confused, because rotate works almost perfectly on my N1 since 5.2.
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I'm confused, because rotate works almost perfectly on my N1 since 5.2.
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Same here. Sure you don't actually rotate your fingers (you drag them) but it now works flawlessly and with better control.
Google enabled an alternative to rotate the map. Swiping two fingers horizontally will do the trick.
My phone language is Japanese. Apart from changes on check-ins, there was a note mentioning this feature when I first launched the Maps after updating to 5.2.
But on my friend's N1 (display language is English), it showed update notes on check-ins only. Didn't mention about rotating maps.
Yes that seems to be the case. I did not see that in the new in maps notes either on my English nexus one.
The two finger swipe actually does work really well. I did not even notice that until now. Just noticed the very weird two finger rotate by accident.
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I just check the two fingers swipe. And it works. Not bad at all.
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donovanchan said:
Google enabled an alternative to rotate the map. Swiping two fingers horizontally will do the trick.
My phone language is Japanese. Apart from changes on check-ins, there was a note mentioning this feature when I first launched the Maps after updating to 5.2.
But on my friend's N1 (display language is English), it showed update notes on check-ins only. Didn't mention about rotating maps.
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ahhh, that makes much more sense.
Hah, good spot, now rotate is not at all awful!
Works pretty good actually, when you know how!! Thanks!! xD
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awesome discovery!! I can't believe many of us missed that.

CM7 GPS

I can't get it to work, no matter what. I've tried the MSL fix, etc etc. The closes fix I get is about 7~10 blocks away.
Why is it that it won't work in CM7, but works PERFECTLY out of the box in Salvage-Mod?
Try the app "GPS Status and Toolbox" from the market. That got GPS working for me.
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Have you tried the nightly that came out after cm7 final? Downloading gps status and clearing gps data might help.
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Nightly tonight should have it fixed, I think. I think they're implementing the gps drivers from the dump yesterday.
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Nightly tonight should have it fixed, I think. I think they're implementing the gps drivers from the dump yesterday.
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That's not open source. So no they better not be!
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novanosis85 said:
That's not open source. So no they better not be!
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The open source drivers provided by Qualcomm don't work.
The proprietary drivers were used in CM6, too.
I did the MSL fix to get my GPS working, but ever since then the "active" icon shows in the status bar even when I stop using navigation or maps. I actually think the gps stays active because I experience severe battery drain. Even when I disable the gps the icon stays active. I have to manually reboot for it to finally go away. Grr.
enter the ##gpsclrx# your phone reboots, while still in sense lock your GPS using navigation once it locks on reboot recovery and flash cm7. That's what I was told and it works 100% of the time for me.
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The MSL/Sense ROM trick worked for me. I got my instructions from the Android section of Reddit.
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Add me onto the msl trick too, gps works fine for me on cm7, I also flashed the latest nightly.
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I did the MSL fix to get my GPS working, but ever since then the "active" icon shows in the status bar even when I stop using navigation or maps. I actually think the gps stays active because I experience severe battery drain. Even when I disable the gps the icon stays active. I have to manually reboot for it to finally go away. Grr.
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Get "GPS Status & toolbolx" from market and either way go to tools, manage a-gps, hit reset, this will make the icon disappear and it will clear the gps data and get a better lock.
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That's not open source. So no they better not be!
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Who cares? If it works better, they should use it.
bkrodgers said:
Who cares? If it works better, they should use it.
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Amen brother.
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what's the msl trick?
plmiller0905 said:
what's the msl trick?
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Make a Nandroid of your current CM7 setup.
Boot into recovery and perform a full wipe (or use Calkulin Format ALL zip)
Flash any Sense ROM
Open the Market and download MSL Reader, write down MSL.
Open Dialer/Phone and type ##4118513# (##GPSCLRX#)
When it asks you for a password type in your MSL
Reboot phone
BE OUTSIDE
Turn on GPS and open Maps, allow it to fully lock your location (may take a few minutes, do not just wait for initial lock).
Leave GPS on
Turn off phone, reboot into recovery.
Nandroid restore your CM7 backup
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just curious, what do you mean by a complete lock (more notably it taking a few minutes)? i've never had a gps lock take longer than a few seconds while i'm outside. it might be off by a few blocks, but it always locks really quickly (it was really bad while i was in LA last week).
it should also be noted that i have an incredible, not an evo...but after my gps issues last week while on vacation in california (and using my phone a lot for navigation) i've begun the search for a solution, because i really love CM7 otherwise. while in downtown LA i was consistently getting a "lock" that was a few blocks away from where i was, making navigation useless. it also happened a few times on the 60 freeway on the way into the city, where the phone thought i had gotten off the freeway and would start telling me to turn all over the place even though i was still driving along at 70mph on the freeway...
I saw a few people posting this in the cm7 thread. Looks like it's working great for them on the EVO too.
[APR.25.2011] Instantaneous GPS Fixation CWR v1.2 US & INTERNATIONAL FINAL! NEW LINKS
It's from the HD2 thread. Maybe this can help you.
lolwut? said:
Get "GPS Status & toolbolx" from market and either way go to tools, manage a-gps, hit reset, this will make the icon disappear and it will clear the gps data and get a better lock.
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This works
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jstalford said:
Nightly tonight should have it fixed, I think. I think they're implementing the gps drivers from the dump yesterday.
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LMAO tonight should fix.. been hearing that since the RC1... NO FIX! Only toasts new kernel will fix... ive done all the GPS Status, and Faster Fix, AND sense... nothing.. save yourself the trouble and flash to DECK's rom... youll love yourself and kush for it...
As of anything over CM6 final... I hate CM roms... and cm6 far too old to use
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LMAO tonight should fix.. been hearing that since the RC1... NO FIX! Only toasts new kernel will fix... ive done all the GPS Status, and Faster Fix, AND sense... nothing.. save yourself the trouble and flash to DECK's rom... youll love yourself and kush for it...
As of anything over CM6 final... I hate CM roms... and cm6 far too old to use
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You do realize that decks rom is just a kang of CM7?
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EG22 bug thread

figured i'd start this up for people on the fence. i'm odinging now
2 threads, same purpose, SAME TIME!!! Awesome.
great minds and all that. delete this one please! his name is better
Pros -
Modem seems stable, Wifi tether v3 pre-11 working, got a 1mb download on speed test 1-2 bars.
Cons -
Scrolling seems a bit more laggy than ef leaks.
F/C on certain apps & native file manager when browsing through large folders
Will update on battery life after I charge and calibrate.
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great minds and all that. delete this one please! his name is better
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or merge them. PM'd decad3nce about this.
But you got seniority! Lol, mods will decide.
still some rotation lag but not as bad
Gps still wonky for me. It locks pretty quickly, but only 2 satellites and eventually loses them tried resetting gps thru GPS aids and Gps status, no joy.
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Gps still wonky for me. It locks pretty quickly, but only 2 satellites and eventually loses them tried resetting gps thru GPS aids and Gps status, no joy.
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crap. GPS is a biggie for me
Wifi signal is low, noooooooo
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I'm going to run this ROM all day today and will report back tonight.
keyboard skipping seems to be fixed ... from what im testing as we speak ... and i type fast ... checkerboarding is present but i use dolphin anyway gps is the same 2 out of 8 .. rotation lag is somewhat improved but could be better
EDIT: calibrated and my lag is fixed .. half second rotation ... ....................................... when calibrating it took a minute to calibrate so don't think it froze up or anything .. enjoy
Does the overall ROM feel faster? Does video streaming (like HBO and Netflix) perform better? How about games?
dcowboys2184 said:
keyboard skipping seems to be fixed ... from what im testing as we speak ... and i type fast ... checkerboarding is present but i use dolphin anyway gps is the same 2 out of 8 .. rotation lag is somewhat improved but could be better
EDIT: calibrated and my lag is fixed .. half second rotation ... ....................................... when calibrating it took a minute to calibrate so don't think it froze up or anything .. enjoy
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what did you calibrate with.. stock util?
this is pretty fast for a stock rom.
google sky maps goes below the horizon!
compass seems spot on
I'm not experiencing any lag running this at all.
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murso74 said:
what did you calibrate with.. stock util?
this is pretty fast for a stock rom.
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yes .. im about to test hbo and netflix now .....
my o skips when typing but i think it's my phone cause a the others aren't
What about the browser
Whosdaman said:
I'm not experiencing any lag running this at all.
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Whosdaman said:
I'm not experiencing any lag running this at all.
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Same here. Eg22 = win
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Just used gps for about 15 minutes, it locks on instantly but every five minutes it goes behind then catches up. But I did go under a couple overpasses. Overall usable ymmv
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Same here. Eg22 = win
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I am extremely satisfied with EG22, I couldn't stand EF02 at all.
As well, I am still disappointed. No Screen off animation, no fast boot, and no gingerbread keyboard.

CM9 Stable (updated 8.19.12)

Everything Install Guide[\url].
《Enjoy》
=-O:-$:-[:angel::-\:'-X:-/x--I
On cwm you can go all the way down just keep on clicking down with the volume and than once at the bottom of the screen it will start moving
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Couple of tips.
- Don't like the Market spewing new apps on your home screen? Just disable it in the settings.
- The persistant search bar can be disabled in Trebuchet's settings.
- Nova Launcher is an alternate to Trebuchet. I'm using it. It has a couple of useful features, like grid size. You can also disable widgets in the drawer, and get your standard long-press menu back. I highly recommend doing this if you use Beautiful Widgets, as that will spam up your widget drawer. Use AppWidgetPicker 2.0 pushed to /system/app to take care of this.
- Want your 4G toggle? There's a widget for it. It'll show up in the quick panel later.
Unfortunately, the voice actions are not available as of yet. Voice Search can be downloaded from the Market, but the speech-to-text as demonstrated on the GNexus is nowhere to be seen. It's an upstream issue.
sooper seekret CM dev IRC channel said:
<@wispoffates> I think CM9 needs to fix it internally
<@wispoffates> the option in kb config is there someone must have removed the button on purpose
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I haven't explored VVM yet, but will post when I've got something. EDIT: As of right now, VVM is just plain not happening. I switched to Google Voice, which works well at the moment.
I love it. It doesn't feel like an alpha. The only feature I hate is that the cancel and ok buttons have switched so the cancel button is now on the left side and ok is on the right side. I keep cancelling when I think I'm pressing ok because I'm used to the other way.
Not that I won't get used to it.
I think the whole launch was beautifully executed, the only thing keeping me from staying on CM9 at the moment is that I cant restore the data from my apps.
The soft keyboard is a pain and I can't figure out how to set a static IP for wifi. Battery percentage doesn't work. I like how the LED notifications are fixed and how haptic feedback is back and working way better. The ROM overall is very fast. I backed up all my apps and contacts/SMS with mybackup pro and everything works perfect! Has anybody figured out how to get visual voicemail working?
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Only thing I'm not digging is no face recognition unlock... hope they incorporate soon... or maybe I'm missing something
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Its on there. Change your settings under the security settings.
I like it so far. Just hope they keep fixing bugs and adding features as they get introduced to cm9.
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This really doesn't feel like an alpha. Its not perfect but man I can't believe we were spoiled with this. Thank you to everyone who gave this to us. The og epic feels new.
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Can we get swype to work (does it work now? Why haven't I tried before asking this question smh) ?
i have been running it for an hour and I like it so far but It can't be daily driver at the moment..
Most of my favorite games don't work or freeze (my biggest complaint)
asphalt 6 crashes
blood and glory doesnt work
deadspace doesnt work well due to the multi touch issue
street fighter IV crashes
few lags, but the rom is really smooth
camera recording issue (already noted by cm) and few minor bugs (like showing battery percentage in status bar doesn't show) and a few fc's here and there..
I haven't used the GPS for a while but it fine so far.
The CM team is amazing for the awesome rom (cm7 as well) and I am loving it so far...i am definitely donating
I think this rom is more a beta because it only has a few quirks to work out imo
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Its on there. Change your settings under the security settings.
I like it so far. Just hope they keep fixing bugs and adding features as they get introduced to cm9.
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Yep I found it now... but can't get it to work for the life of me... played with it for an hour but nothing...
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luna_c666 said:
Can we get swype to work (does it work now? Why haven't I tried before asking this question smh) ?
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Get the Swype beta.
luna_c666 said:
Can we get swype to work (does it work now? Why haven't I tried before asking this question smh) ?
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You don't need swype beta. Just download one of the themed swypes in the apps section and flash it. Just make sure you mount system in CWM and unmount when you're done.
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The blue theme looks great with ICS!
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SpicyBurrito said:
I love it. It doesn't feel like an alpha. The only feature I hate is that the cancel and ok buttons have switched so the cancel button is now on the left side and ok is on the right side. I keep cancelling when I think I'm pressing ok because I'm used to the other way.
Not that I won't get used to it.
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Its killing me too.
j00manji said:
I think the whole launch was beautifully executed, the only thing keeping me from staying on CM9 at the moment is that I cant restore the data from my apps.
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Why not? Titanium backup is working fine...
flastnoles11 said:
Only thing I'm not digging is no face recognition unlock... hope they incorporate soon... or maybe I'm missing something
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Its part of the gapps. did you install them?
WOW! If this is an alpha release, what is the final release gonna be like? Will it give happy ending massages too? Great Work! Love it!
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Would someone who has it installed report about what happens when you put it in a dock?
ie. does it redirect sound, is the sound good? (for example it has full audio range and bass)
............
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J3ff said:
Would someone who has it installed report about what happens when you put it in a dock?
ie. does it redirect sound, is the sound good? (for example it has full audio range and bass)
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Well cm7 doesn't even do that so I wouldn't hold my breath... Also there's no Google car home app for ics right now. Won't let you DL from the market
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