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[Q] Why is Stock rooted so much smoother than CM7?

I've found that stock 1.3 rooted is a lot smoother in scrolling animations and such... Will CM7 ever attain this smoothness? Yes, i have tried both overclocked at 1.2-1.3 ghz

What version of CM7? Was it an SD card install?
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I've noticed the opposite, as long as cm7 doesn't have too many apps installed.
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What sd card where you using? Not all are made the same.

I've used 7.0.3, 7.1RC1, and nightlies between around 140-165. All emmc

I don't deal with stock so can't tell how smoothness it is but it's a good sign.
If you like rooted stock ROM then go ahead and use it.

I like CM7, but I like the smoothness of stock. The bad thing is the missing features
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I have the same problem. My theory is that CM7 is just missing hardware acceleration on the nook at this time (I think I remember reading this somewhere). Maybe a driver issue?

I thought they had that worked out in the first stable release? Maybe that was just video acceleration
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Video is fixed, but that my be a different part of the driver.
(This is entirely speculation on my part, based on my somewhat sporadic - and decidedly incomplete - knowlage.) My guess: there are 3 parts to the video "card" driver. 2D hardware, 3D hardware, and coprocessor functions. When they fixed video, they probably got the coprocessor functions working, but not the 2D or 3D hardware.
There is a good chance I am wrong, so correct me if you know.
On a side note, why cant CM7 use the video driver from the stock FW? It's still a Linux kernel underneath so shouldn't the drivers work, or am I missing something completely?

That makes some sense, but games(at least angry birds haha) work okay... So I dont know.
On using the kernel from stock: they probably can't use the stock kernel, because stock is based on Froyo, and CM7 is Gingerbread

AceBlade258 said:
On a side note, why cant CM7 use the video driver from the stock FW? It's still a Linux kernel underneath so shouldn't the drivers work, or am I missing something completely?
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Almost none of the stock rom is open source. I'm pretty sure the stock video driver was never released.
On the topic of smoothness:
I have found CM7 to be much smoother than stock. It probably just depends on your set up.
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koopakid08 said:
Almost none of the stock rom is open source. I'm pretty sure the stock video driver was never released.
On the topic of smoothness:
I have found CM7 to be much smoother than stock. It probably just depends on your set up.
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What's your set-up?

monkey1883 said:
What's your set-up?
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Latest Nightly
OC'd to 1.2 on demand gov.
V6 super charger script (helps a ton)
About 70 apps
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koopakid08 said:
Latest Nightly
OC'd to 1.2 on demand gov.
V6 super charger script (helps a ton)
About 70 apps
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I just installed 203, and its definitely faster. its nice to be using cm7 again. I missed the status bar. Its quite a bit smoother than the last time I used it. I can also see all apps in the market now, which is sooo nice

Everything is running great, except for the YouTube app. It isn't working for me on nightly 202 or 203

Can you post a link to this V6 super charger script?
Thanks!

fuul4nook said:
Can you post a link to this V6 super charger script?
Thanks!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
It's pretty advanced, just so you know.

Thor's ROM's

Is anyone using Thor ROM v12? I know many folks use his kernel. Wondering how his ROMs rate before I flash and reinstall everything
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I have been using them for a while now and they are very fast and stable.
A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.

i use them also and no complaints here.

Do you know if they are hulu enabled? Not a big deal but that's a real plus for Civato's excellent mix ROM
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Yes they come with no flash reinstalled so you can install a hulufied flash....some games don't work because the build.prop sets the tablet as the eee pad
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His roms (including v12) are faster than any of the others I've tried. I really have no idea why that is, but I've definitely got no complaints. Plus v12 is themed to look similar to ICS for Tablets.

Best by far. OCd to 1400 with no reboots, no crashes.
Wonder how long before the lock comes...

I guess I'm the lone dissenting voice here. I tried V11 and I found it to be much laggier than Light speed.

Which overclock governor do you use? Also is 1400 significantly decreasing your battery life? stock is pretty fast.
I installed hulu enabled flash from titanium works great.
So far so good
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Yeah, I really like the ICS look he put on v12
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I'm using the v12, and it works really well! I didn't know honeycomb could be this good. lol One thing I'm having problem with is that I only have 155~250 mb of free ram. On other roms, with about the same amount of apps installed, and not much open, I have about 350~400 mb free, but this rom is weird.. Any advice please?

hrmmm man i need to stop reading these forums ... got me downloading v12 now to try out!
In the past week i've gone: Stock 3.0.1 -> Lightspeed -> Near Stock 3.2 -> Taboonay -> Lightspeed and now looks like i'll be adding thor to that list too haha.. Getting sick of re-installing apps

Wow! Just installed thor rom v12 and gotta say .. none of the other roms have been this quick & smooth straight off the bat.. haven't installed or changed anything yet, but first impression is good ... app drawer, stock apps, switching home screens, etc seems very fast & smooth..

Thor 12
Wonderful. It is heavier in size to download as compared to light speed but after installing and putting same amount of apks its almost the same size on storage search. Wish they could just put a different skin on the browser.

I like thor rom,i go to testing V12

I also do my ikonia use of either the v12 does not work well but the browser crashes FC. but everything else was perfect thank thor now I'm back on v11

Fastest ROM on the A500. Would be even better if build.prop was for iconia and mot the epad IMO.
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ive been running V12 for the past few days running a 1.6GHZ overclock stable as can be. It runs smooth a butter, I've found my everyday driver.
I have noticed that it eats up battery a bit faster than other Roms but I use setcpu to manage clock speeds and all is well.
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hav0c said:
Fastest ROM on the A500. Would be even better if build.prop was for iconia and mot the epad IMO.
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In the dev section there is a thread with a custom build prop for V12 that makes the tab an Acer instead of an eeepad at the cost of one or two Asus apps not working.

Want to share your setcpu settings?
Do you have a link to that build.prop? I could not find anything. What's the harm in using the Asus one?

using Thor's last kernel and rom, OV at 1336: stable and snappy

MIUI

This is how I used to roll with MIUI.
http://youtu.be/RzgtxqmDwgQ

U went to liquidsmooth from miui ? Ive been thinking about doing the same thing if thats the case what do you like about it or why did you switch?
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chaas5010 said:
U went to liquidsmooth from miui ? Ive been thinking about doing the same thing if thats the case what do you like about it or why did you switch?
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I had both. Liquid smooth 3.1 was ok and I used it for a while, but my battery life was horrible and the 3G kept dropping. 3.2 wouldn't load data or wifi at all. miui was great until I tried to use the data to actually work with Pandora or my amazon cloud account, just couldn;t keep connected. Now I's using stock GB, rooted, with GO Launcher ex. Works great.

Wow! That's awesome! But I saw that ad notification once you booted, it was the star with the orange center. What do those come from? If its an app I need to uninstall them.
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Lag after updating to cm 9 stable release

Hey guys,
I have installed cm9 rc2 on my transformer and it was working great. However when I installed a stable release of cm 9 the other day i have noticed quiet a bit of lagging and general 'non-smoothness'. Any ideas?
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I had the same issue running Megatron which is CM9 based. I didn't know any better until I loaded revolver in a last ditch effort to solve my constant browser hang. It performs so much better I cant even explain it. I used to be jealous of my brothers smooth and quick ipad 2...which always confused me because the tf101 is faster. Stick with asus based roms. they just work better.

Nice one..... so what version of revolver are you using? What version of android is it based on? And have you had any problems at all? Thanks in advance
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Revolver 4.1.1. It's ICS based...jellybean roms are a while away from being reliable. Only "issue" I have is that there's no dual battery meter for the dock ...if that even qualifies asan issue. The amount of problems it's solved for me is greater. I'm also using guevor's kernel. All the info you need is in the revolver thread in the development forum.

Battery Life/Temp When Running ICS

Recently rooted my phone and have used a number of different ROMs. The ICS ROMs for this phone seem to heat up my battery and drain it quite quickly. GB ROMs don't seem to do that. Is that the nature of ICS for the Glacier?
I'm just wondering what other users' experiences with ICS are.
Thanks.

Its a known issue with ROMs that have the 3.0 kernel. I know that the devs are looking into a solution AFAIK no eta yet.

wonderbread24 said:
Its a known issue with ROMs that have the 3.0 kernel. I know that the devs are looking into a solution AFAIK no eta yet.
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He said ICS, we don't have any ICS roms with 3.0 kernel (because we would have to re engineer the rom.)
To answer the OP's question, i haven't been on gingerbread for a long time, i don't have a problem with ICS, check your clock speed, your governor and your battery. What rom are you on? And are you sure its not JB?

I was using Glacier_One_V_1.3. Sorry, I'm a noob at the whole kernel/governor thing so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
For now, I ended up switching to Skytouch (the i06 port to myTouch) as my ROM.
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THEindian said:
He said ICS, we don't have any ICS roms with 3.0 kernel (because we would have to re engineer the rom.)
To answer the OP's question, i haven't been on gingerbread for a long time, i don't have a problem with ICS, check your clock speed, your governor and your battery. What rom are you on? And are you sure its not JB?
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So, after doing some research, I downloaded System Tuner and changed the Governor to Smartass V2 with a High Threshold of 1.02Ghz and a low of 245Ghz. I'm going to see if that improves my battery life.

Bass_Man25 said:
So, after doing some research, I downloaded System Tuner and changed the Governor to Smartass V2 with a High Threshold of 1.02Ghz and a low of 245Ghz. I'm going to see if that improves my battery life.
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Make a screen off profile, i don't know if the app you got can do that. I have SETcpu...

Smart ass doesn't need screen off profiles right
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rockstarar said:
Smart ass doesn't need screen off profiles right
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That's my understanding and experience, yes
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Bass_Man25 said:
Recently rooted my phone and have used a number of different ROMs. The ICS ROMs for this phone seem to heat up my battery and drain it quite quickly. GB ROMs don't seem to do that. Is that the nature of ICS for the Glacier?
I'm just wondering what other users' experiences with ICS are.
Thanks.
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I'm very happy with battery life when I use Synthetic.Nightmare's SyNthetic_aospX 1.0.0-MR1SG. Is it as good as CyanogenMod 7.1? Hard to say, but possibly not. Haven't noticed anything in terms of heating, though. Newb, so not sure about kernels (except as they relate to linear transformations) but I think I have to be using aosp(x) kernel with that ROM...

My two cents
I am using Glacier_One_V_1.3, very happy with it. waiting for a new kernel about to be released.. and I am sure it'll solve a few issues maybe flickering screen/flipping lock screen and maybe the heating problems. Who knows
Battery life is good for me. yet thinking of getting an alternative battery. Maybe it'll get less hotter.