I've seen a lot of this in the 3.0 Sense ROM threads and experienced it as well. This is a solution that worked for me on my Incredible and when I tried it on my Eris it worked on that as well. If you want to try it out please do and report your results here whether it worked for you or not so others can decide for themselves whether or not to try it as well.
It seems like there is something strange that goes on when using *228 with the Sense Roms ported from another carrier. Though it hasn't been determined yet where the problem finally lies there has been a work around that has worked for others, myself included. It just requires a little bit of your time to complete it. The process requires unrooting your Eris, activating and updating your PRL, then rooting and flashing your preferred rom. I know this sounds like a lot of work however, thanks to great people such as bftb0, amon-ra, j-case, and scary alien, it's not as much work nor as complicated as it sounds
This also works for fixing issues with sending and receiving sms/mms. I do recall that with the texting issue that can be fixed by flashing xtrSense. It has not yet been confirmed if using xtrSense works with the 3g data drops or not but I have had PM's from users that don't have enough posts do post in the dev section confirming that this procedure worked for others having the data issues.
1. Download the FlashBack21 v2 made by bftb0 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=792026
2. Flash the flashback ROM as you would any other ROM. (Yes this will remove amon recovery and your phone will be completely stock)
3. When your phone boots go through and setup everything as normal. Once that's done dial *228 and select option 1 to activate your phone.
4. After your phone reboots dial *228 again and choose option 2 to update roaming capabilities. Your phone will again reboot after it's completed.
5. Download j-case's recently modded 1-click root app modded by scary alien. You can get this from the following link and scroll to Scenario 5. This will also install amon-ra recovery that Scary alien modified for track-ball optional.... yes.. it's goofy trackball friendly
http://androidforums.com/eris-all-t...2-custom-recovery-trackball-not-required.html
6. Be sure you have the setting checked to allow 3rd party apps to be installed in Settings>applications, copy the 1-click to your sd card and using astro or another file manager install the app and run it.
7. Reboot into your freshly installed recovery and flash your favorite ROM and enjoy having no more 3g data drops.
**Just remember... until the root of the conflict is resolved. Do not use *228 on the 3.0 Sense ROMs.
Please be sure to hit the thanks button on the linked threads to show your appreciation for the work these guys have done on the flashback to stock and everything else. This isn't something they put together in a few minutes and they don't have to do any of it for us. If you don't have an AF account to thank Scary Alien hopefully he will post in this thread soon as well and you can thank him here
As always.. what you do with your phone is your ultimate responsibility and not that of anyone else. No one in any of these threads is responsible for anything that may happen while using any of their work.
CondemnedSoul,
Excellent work, as always, and thank you for your thanks. You are one of many great folks both here and at AF that continue to help out the Eris community, long after the phone was first released (I got mine in middle of Nov. '09).
Please let me know if you need help testing anything on my Eris--its not activated, however, so I don't think I'd be able to help debug any 3G-related bugs for you guys .
Cheers and good luck tracking this issue down.
I don't use Sense 3.0 based roms. I tried Gin-sen-taz but it was too buggy on my phone i might try the latest soon but I'm happy with AOSP right now
Still, thanks for the work-around/fix
I'll try this out once the next version of GST hits the streets. thanks for your efforts!
Sweet deal!
I will try asap and let you know.
haganme said:
I'll try this out once the next version of GST hits the streets. thanks for your efforts!
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Sweet deal!
I will try asap and let you know.
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Looking forward to hearing your results
Any thoughts to doing a*228 while on a stock-based ROM, like XTRSense, or does it seem to be a "start over from the beginning" deal?
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Any thoughts to doing a*228 while on a stock-based ROM, like XTRSense, or does it seem to be a "start over from the beginning" deal?
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I would think it could be worth a try. It seems like on the Inc it has to do with *228 on the sense ROM's ported from another carrier, which there are a lot of especially for GB Sense. There was 1 ROM that a few people had luck on the Inc without having to go through the unroot/reroot process. That was a Stock based ROM as well. Only reason I posted this way so far is this was the way I did it and I know worked for me. If anyone tries it using xtrSense or another stock based ROM without the lengthy process outlined and has positive results I will gladly edit the OP to add that process as well ... It's definately worth a try though
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I would think it could be worth a try. It seems like on the Inc it has to do with *228 on the sense ROM's ported from another carrier, which there are a lot of especially for GB Sense. There was 1 ROM that a few people had luck on the Inc without having to go through the unroot/reroot process. That was a Stock based ROM as well. Only reason I posted this way so far is this was the way I did it and I know worked for me. If anyone tries it using xtrSense or another stock based ROM without the lengthy process outlined and has positive results I will gladly edit the OP to add that process as well ... It's definately worth a try though
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Yeah, I was hoping someone would give thus a shot since, as I stated in the Gin-Sen thread, I'm on a fresh root on a replacement and I haven't had this issue yet.
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demmo86rt said:
Yeah, I was hoping someone would give thus a shot since, as I stated in the Gin-Sen thread, I'm on a fresh root on a replacement and I haven't had this issue yet.
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I'm hoping for some feedback on this soon as well. Given that its not an issue for you now on a freshly rooted phone and it wasn't happening to me after doing this gives a good indication that this should work for most if not all the other users experiencing this.
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I have gotten a few PM's from users confirming this procedure fixed their data drop issues. They don't have enough posts to post in the dev section so they PM'd me and I thought I'd share that this is working for others as well
Worked perfectly on my Eris.
This resolved two issues:
3G data drops
Text messaging issues
Now I can send and receive texts using GB and keep the data connection alive.
Thank you!
stevesk said:
Worked perfectly on my Eris.
This resolved two issues:
3G data drops
Text messaging issues
Now I can send and receive texts using GB and keep the data connection alive.
Thank you!
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Glad to hear it helped you out.
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I have also now seen 1 person saying that using the xtrsense route worked for them on the 3g problem as well
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I'll try this out once the next version of GST hits the streets. thanks for your efforts!
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tried just flashing xtrSense and going through the *228 steps. It didn't work. it seemed to skip through the programming pretty quick, even though it said it was successful. then after i rebooted, i would loose the network. Tried *228 several more times, unsuccessful.
ran the flashbacktostock ROM, and followed your steps from the OP and had network back again.
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I have also now seen 1 person saying that using the xtrsense route worked for them on the 3g problem as well
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By my thinking, it should work using xtrSense as it is basically a rooted version of Sense 2.1, is it not ? Sorta like jcase's "plain jane" ROM(s)... If so, it would eliminate what, a couple of the steps ?
I may give it a try again. I really liked the Sense ROMs I tried but the issues were deal-breakers for me.
haganme said:
tried just flashing xtrSense and going through the *228 steps. It didn't work. it seemed to skip through the programming pretty quick, even though it said it was successful. then after i rebooted, i would loose the network. Tried *228 several more times, unsuccessful.
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Did you hit options '1' and '2' when prompted ?
CondemnedSoul:
By the way, doesn't dialing "*22899" do both the activation step AND the PRL-update step ? Eliminate a reboot and one step
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Did you hit options '1' and '2' when prompted ?
CondemnedSoul:
By the way, doesn't dialing "*22899" do both the activation step AND the PRL-update step ? Eliminate a reboot and one step
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My daughters phone did the same thing - After you do the "dial 1" step, Go to setting/Accounts & Network and change your network from home only to automatic A or B (either one will pick up a signal).
hallstevenson said:
Did you hit options '1' and '2' when prompted ?
CondemnedSoul:
By the way, doesn't dialing "*22899" do both the activation step AND the PRL-update step ? Eliminate a reboot and one step
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I think *22899 just does prl update. *22891 or 7 is it? Does the activation. That's what I thought anyway. I could be and have been wrong before though... Lol
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Finally got the time/nerve to do this, will let you know know in a day or two if it works
thanks!
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So I just wanted to say that I flashed my vzw cdma tab with the rooted virgin stock gingerbread provided by Oldmacnut.
It works perfectly!! I had been running stock froyo with voodoo kernel...but what I have now works great.
Skype with video!
3g, gtalk with video installed using another thread here.
Adw launcher works fine...i just restored my apps with titanium.
I would have posted this on the development thread Oldmacnut started for this release but this is my very first post after following a few threads for the last couple of months.
Anyway this is what I was waiting for!
So thanks to Oldmacnut and the guys he got it from.
I'm keeping my eye on your gb rom Oldmacnut and spacemoose's honeycomb.
Thanks for all the silent help Ive gotten from XDA haha...
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Good to know. I'm thinking of trying Oldmacnut's version of GB for VZW but the stock stuff always seems to be reliable. Did you use Heimdall 1.1.1 or 1.1.0 to upload the software?
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Good to know. I'm thinking of trying Oldmacnut's version of GB for VZW but the stock stuff always seems to be reliable. Did you use Heimdall 1.1.1 or 1.1.0 to upload the software?
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I used 1.1.1
I agree...plus I can remove any bloatware myself...now I am on the hunt for a kernel I can oc
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Does this have the screen density set tiny at 182 or standard (240)? I flashed the other de-bloated version but went back to Froyo because I got tired of squinting at everything.
If it looks the same as the de-bloated version, I'll just stick with Froyo.
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LordLugard said:
Does this have the screen density set tiny at 182 or standard (240)? I flashed the other de-bloated version but went back to Froyo because I got tired of squinting at everything.
If it looks the same as the de-bloated version, I'll just stick with Froyo.
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Not at all...I read that about that version but like Oldmacnut said this official release looks almost exactly like froyo...except for the numbers (version, kernel, etc...)
Everything is the same size.
It's worth it.
On another note: I did try getting cwm recovery using the bootstrapper but it after wipe it stalled at the samsung logo so I put it back into download mode and reflashed the ginger stock...i don't really need cwm right but it would be nice (and a kernel i can oc)
Updated my Tab to Sprint 2.3.4, now some questions
I took my US Cellular/VZW tab and flashed using Heimdall using this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161033&highlight=sprint
It worked perfectly! I have full root (At least I think I do), all my apps were there and working, and I still had my Bluetooth devices there and working. My only issue is that in 2.2 on VZW, I could put the Tab into airplane mode and the wifi and BT would still work. I did that so I could save battery life as I only use the Tab wifi only. Now in 2.3.4, when I select airplane mode, I can get wifi but not BT. I have to disable airplane mode to get the BT to work. Does anyone know if this is a Sprint-ism or Gingerbread-ism? How about this, is it possible to turn off the radio altogether and not worry about airplane mode?
Would like to try also
I tried their download link and am unable to download the stock rom. Currently running the modified release and everything seems to work ok except a couple of items. Want to test the stock version to see if it fixes those issues, but can't seem to download the rom. The file doesn't show up when I click on the download link. Maybe just me???
I flashed this as well and it's awesome. Much prefer it to the molested version.
Bloated stuff I don't like I removed with SDX app remover.
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wwz7777 said:
I took my US Cellular/VZW tab and flashed using Heimdall using this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161033&highlight=sprint
It worked perfectly! I have full root (At least I think I do), all my apps were there and working, and I still had my Bluetooth devices there and working. My only issue is that in 2.2 on VZW, I could put the Tab into airplane mode and the wifi and BT would still work. I did that so I could save battery life as I only use the Tab wifi only. Now in 2.3.4, when I select airplane mode, I can get wifi but not BT. I have to disable airplane mode to get the BT to work. Does anyone know if this is a Sprint-ism or Gingerbread-ism? How about this, is it possible to turn off the radio altogether and not worry about airplane mode?
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I use airplane mode wifi tool from the market works great exactly what you want.
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TabFreak said:
I tried their download link and am unable to download the stock rom. Currently running the modified release and everything seems to work ok except a couple of items. Want to test the stock version to see if it fixes those issues, but can't seem to download the rom. The file doesn't show up when I click on the download link. Maybe just me???
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If I remember correctly the link takes you to the Android Door website where you can download it there from Oldmacnut's blog. If there are issues with the rom I think its from how its being improved upon which I want to check out once its bug free or close enough. So the stock isn't going to have the same issues. But I can say that I haven't had any problems with it other than VZW Bootstrapper not working and not being able to find a modded kernel.
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TabFreak said:
I tried their download link and am unable to download the stock rom. Currently running the modified release and everything seems to work ok except a couple of items. Want to test the stock version to see if it fixes those issues, but can't seem to download the rom. The file doesn't show up when I click on the download link. Maybe just me???
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You need to sign up at the website then you will be able to download it. However, I am having 3G problems with both roms on my VZW 3G Tab
teezle said:
You need to sign up at the website then you will be able to download it. However, I am having 3G problems with both roms on my VZW 3G Tab
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Did you go to the activation under settings?
I'm sure you probably did but I wonder what could be causing that...
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LordLugard said:
Does this have the screen density set tiny at 182 or standard (240)? I flashed the other de-bloated version but went back to Froyo because I got tired of squinting at everything.
If it looks the same as the de-bloated version, I'll just stick with Froyo.
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His rom is 182 but you can change it to 240 easily. I did not like the small icons I changed the setting in build.prop back to 240 and it is great.
I too have downloaded this and found it to be exceptional. Would love to post my comments on the dev site but I am too new. It is nice to have someone working on the future updates being that Verizon is focused on 10.1
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His rom is 182 but you can change it to 240 easily. I did not like the small icons I changed the setting in build.prop back to 240 and it is great.
I too have downloaded this and found it to be exceptional. Would love to post my comments on the dev site but I am too new. It is nice to have someone working on the future updates being that Verizon is focused on 10.1
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I'm waiting for a kernel. But in the meanwhile I've decided to learn how to make one myself. I've been inspired by XDA and I've got a Linux machine ready. I'm in the middle of getting the neccesary packages. Never used Linux so I'll probably be done by the time they come out with Android version Jalepeno Cookies or whatever haha.
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wwz7777 said:
Now in 2.3.4, when I select airplane mode, I can get wifi but not BT. I have to disable airplane mode to get the BT to work. Does anyone know if this is a Sprint-ism or Gingerbread-ism? How about this, is it possible to turn off the radio altogether and not worry about airplane mode?
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I think you can go into "Settings - Verizon Data Service" and uncheck the "Use mobile data service" and that turns off the 3G. At least least I don't have connection when I do that and have wifi off. You can also still enable bluetooth with the "mobile data service " unchecked.
Just an update...
I am still running this on my Tab with no problems.
Still keeping an eye for any custom GB kernels to pop up so I can oc and maybe use voodoo sound again or something similar. And a custom recovery.
Btw I'm putting my comments here so as not muck up the development threads.
Thanks xda!
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No problems here, also, and I have to agree that this is far from "worthless". I'm a developer and closer to stock I can get, the less I have to care about whether or not some given app works on some given hacked system. Plus there's always something screwy with hacked systems. The camera doesn't work, the screen dpi is set to where I can't read it, "bloatware" is randomly removed without considering what it will alter or break by removing it, the unit simply refuses to boot after a point...it's always something. Always. I'm not slamming the hackers, lots of people use their systems and appreciate them, I'm simply citing years and years of personal experience. So yeah, the closer I am to stock, the happier I am which makes this very useful.
Where can I find the leaked stock ROM? I'm not sure I follow the suggestion to look in "dev"... link?
I've had no problems at all with 2.3.4 on the Tab, but after flashing I have had problems with the keyboard dock. It no longer automatically recognized it when docked and when I finally persuaded it to work some of the keys were remapped the pound symbol (#) became the pound sterling symbol and the " and @ exchanged places.
I use the dock quit a lot and so reverted to stock, but I do miss Skype with video!
So I've searched and everyone seems to say that the OTA updates are stored in the cache folder. I've looked there and don't see it (there's nothing at all in the cache folder).
I've been on Froyo with Syndicate Frozen ROM and am quite happy with things as they are. But my phone decided to automatically download the new update and it's been bugging me about installing it.
I've since blocked the SystemUpdate.apk and it doesn't bother me every 15 minutes like it used to, but when I reboot the phone it still tells me that it's been downloaded and is ready to install.
I don't suppose it's that big of a deal to just disregard the message on the rare occasion of a reboot, but still.. I'd like to delete the file from wherever it's been stored so it never bothers me about it again.
I'm using Adao File Manager if it matters. I'll try root explorer if I have to, but just don't like needlessly installing apps.
Thanks =)
Sooo, you don't like gingerbread?
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Some of us are waiting for gingerbread roms to work the kinks out. I haven't seen one that makes me feel like I need to flash it yet.
sephiroth009 said:
Some of us are waiting for gingerbread roms to work the kinks out. I haven't seen one that makes me feel like I need to flash it yet.
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I thought I was the only one that felt this way! Lol
Yeah I have the same problem - how did you block systemupdate.apk ?
xopher.hunter said:
Sooo, you don't like gingerbread?
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I like my custom ROM and the way things are set up now. Until I can, with little effort, upgrade to gingerbread while also keeping everything the same-- no, I don't like gingerbread. =)
sephiroth009 said:
Some of us are waiting for gingerbread roms to work the kinks out. I haven't seen one that makes me feel like I need to flash it yet.
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altimuh said:
I thought I was the only one that felt this way! Lol
Yeah I have the same problem - how did you block systemupdate.apk ?
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I used Gemini App Manager (it's free in the market). You have to enable USB debugging for a while while you do this. Download it, open it, menu>Expert Mode, scroll down to system update, long press, block app.
You can do something similar with Titanium if you have it, but Gemini is free in the market.
Like I said, it hasn't been bugging me every 15 minutes like it used to, so this is decent solution for the time being, but every time I restart it bugs me about it again. I'd prefer to delete it so I don't have to worry about accidentally pressing okay.
I haven't actually blocked/frozen it yet, it takes me half a second to hit install later but I'm thinking about freezing it. And I get the feeling there may be a gb rom worth flashing in a few days (keeping an eye on you starsky for that theme =P).
EDIT: oh I heard the ota may also be in data/cache
EDIT 2.0: my update is sitting right in /cache
Apparently Adeo doesn't see the update. I installed Root Explorer, found and removed the update. Still pops up on every reboot. Very annoying. =\
I'm tempted to make a nandroid backup and press install just to see what happens.
I am closing the beta for the time being, have a handful of testers atm. It may open up again, stay tuned.
You know the name of the game. Experienced ICS users only please.
I have been putting together a frankenstein type ICS build, blending some tweaks with:
-Beta 2.5.1 i9000
-Beta2 by goodoane
-ICS_4.0.1_r1-Beta2-i9000.zip by onecosmic
-Recommended using the FuguMod_Vibrant_Kernel_BETA2.zip from here: http://code.google.com/p/ice-cream-...mmary+Uploaded+ReleaseDate+Size+DownloadCount (the kernel is included in the zip)
-Also recommend the KB5 modem, from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19795419&postcount=130 (this is also included in the zip, but its not flashing with the rom as of right now)
This has some framework, build.pop, and ui tweaks applied, but I've pulled back on the theming to direct my attentions to functionality.
-Keymapping is corrected
-Can mount via MTP mode
-Moutning works in recovery
-ADB and Shell both work
-SU out of the box
-Lockscreen rotates and screen rotates 360 degrees
Not working:
Must toggle mute (on then off) in order to be heard by incoming callers
GPS
Video Recording
Video Playback (buggy)
You tell me what else to add here.
Installation: (coming from another ICS build, or CM7 only!!)
-Reboot to recovery, perform a factory reset
-Go to mounts and storage and format system
-Flash the Beta2 Kernel (FuguMod_Vibrant_Kernel_BETA2.zip)
-Flash the rom
-Flash your modem (no longer need to reflash the kernel)
-Fix permissions
-Reboot the phone
New Info
As you guys have read, I have been running the data data tweak from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20017090&postcount=1756 and it seems to have made things a lot more stable. No odd application issues going on anymore, although there is a bit more lag, but I think I have found a temp fix for that.
Since Friday night I have been running AutoKill Memory Optimizer, free version from the market. Its not a task killer really, but it maintains the amount of free system memory on your device, from what I understand. I am using Aggressive settings, with the Advanced settings for Memory and Battery enabled, and my phone is flying!
If you guys want, give that a shot, and let me know your results.
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So, who wants to test?
First, you promise not to release this or share it with anyone, by signing up you agree to this one term.
You should have experience with ICS, and know how to flash it and recover from a bad flash.
If you've never flashed ICS before, you definitely want to start there.
I am looking to possibly release this to the wild by the end of the week, so active testers are a big plus!
When I feel like I have enough testerss I will post that on the top of this post, just ask in here, and I will pm you a link.
I'll test, running ICS now.. I know how to do a little above basic stuff.
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can you fix the problem with (i guess all ICS) people not hearing me right?
sometimes they hear me ok, sometimes too loud, or not at all.
i''ve tried to hold and resume but it doesn't fix the issue every time.
this should be a top priority for any rom.
i returned to your zen froyo. it is nice and battery holds 4-5 days for me.
thank you.
user900 said:
can you fix the problem with (i guess all ICS) people not hearing me right?
sometimes they hear me ok, sometimes too loud, or not at all.
i''ve tried to hold and resume but it doesn't fix the issue every time.
this should be a top priority for any rom.
i returned to your zen froyo. it is nice and battery holds 4-5 days for me.
thank you.
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Toggling mute fixes it for me every time. I do plan on looking into that, but I'm not there quite yet.
So, no new takers?
I'll test it out... I've been on the i9000 ICS ROM for about 2 weeks now.
Link sent, thx
Ok, I'll Bite. Have experience with everything you stated above. Am currently using the Passion V5 Beta and a lot to like but still a work in progress. Let me know if I can help.
Been running it for about 30 mins, nothing to report so far. Not a big fan of the green theme though, but I will still continue to test.
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Ok, I'll Bite. Have experience with everything you stated above. Am currently using the Passion V5 Beta and a lot to like but still a work in progress. Let me know if I can help.
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gunks said:
Been running it for about 30 mins, nothing to report so far. Not a big fan of the green theme though, but I will still continue to test.
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Lol, green is my color. I personally don't like the blue. Hopefully very soon all the blue will be eradicated.
MUAHAHAHAHAHA
Over here mate!
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Followed instructions to the T. After flashing rom, then reflashing kernel, and fixing permissions I go to reboot system now, and it keeps me in Recovery. Will keep trying and let you know. Any thing you want me to try? Could it be because I have Gingerbread bootloader?
@Alan - Link Sent
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Followed instructions to the T. After flashing rom, then reflashing kernel, and fixing permissions I go to reboot system now, and it keeps me in Recovery. Will keep trying and let you know. Any thing you want me to try? Could it be because I have Gingerbread bootloader?
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What rom were you coming from? This should run with both bootloaders, but I'm on the stock bootloaders, so that might be it. Also, you should be coming from either CM7 or another ICS rom.
Maybe try redownloading the file and reflashing.
I can test for you
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I can test for you
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Link Sent, Ty
I'm currently in no position to be testing roms right now but I want you to know that I'm super excited knowing that you're working on ics. ****ing loved Zendroid, used it for a long time and its still my go to rom when I crave something that just works.
Ah... yes please...
I'd like to test it also. Will report issues.
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Ah... yes please...
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I'd like to test it also. Will report issues.
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I would be happy to test it out of u are still looking. I have been on ics since the alpha builds and all of the passion series by Neo.
Thanks
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I would be glad to help with testing with one caveat. I need either USB tethering or wifi hotspot to be working. I use that quite frequently and would not be able to keep the ROM installed without it.
I'm well aware I'm posting in the Droid X forum, but only because it's far more active than any Milestone X forum I've found and I feel that this should be seen, especially by anyone who wants ICS as badly as I did.
After weeks of searching, I was fed up with the lack of documentation on flashing ROMs to the Milestone X, I decided to take the dive. I figured... I have an upgrade coming, so if I totally brick it and they won't fix it, I'll just upgrade to the X2. Don't get me wrong, I know people have flashed it, but the documentation as to what works at what doesn't, the step-by-steps that exist for major carrier phones... just isn't there. And oh by the way, if it is there somewhere. Please direct me to it.
So one problem that I have is that I must have the latest and greatest. If I'm going to upgrade my phone software, I don't want to miss out on any of the fun (mainly ICS). Okay, let's make that two problems, because I can't, for the life of me, find an SBF for my phone with my carrier (Cellcom US)... and here we go.
I discovered this over at RootzWiki which I figured would be a good place to start as far as choosing my ICS ROM:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/18589-cyanogenmod-9-unofficial-beta-622/ (All credit for anything related to this ROM goes to x13thangelx)
I downloaded the ROM and Gapps from his links, transferred them to the root of my SD and continued on with the typical Droid X flash method that I've read all over.
First, I loaded up D2 Bootstrapper.
Tapped the first option, waited for "Success!".
Tapped the second option and waited for it to boot into recovery.
Once in recovery, I performed a nandroid backup and then a factory reset... easy enough.
Then I went on to select my CM9 zip file, install it (only took about 60sec, this scared me at first. Literally my first time flashing Android and that just seemed way too fast)
WOW! It succeeded... no errors, nothing. A slight sigh of relief was definitely in order.
I wasn't too concerned that Gapps wouldn't install at this point, and I was right not to be too worried because that went fine too.
Reboot.
Red Motorola M
and voila!
CM9 Loading animation!
I'm playing around with all my new features and things and seeing what does and does not work.
So far, the following is WORKING *out of the box* with no effort on my part:
Data
Voice calls
Camera
Wifi
USB Charge and SD access
Bluetooth (Audio streaming to my aftermarket head unit in my car and Calls are clear... at least I've had no complaints)
What's NOT working:
MMS (probably my fault, APN settings probably wrong)
Chrome - FCs after a few seconds. May already be fixed in a later build
I figured any Droid/Milestone X users could post questions here about my experience and I can be the test dummy to see what works and what doesn't. I literally took about 10min to post this because I'm just so damn pumped to play with my phone. I'll keep an eye on this post and respond to any questions etc that people might have.
p.s. I'm sorry for the formatting of this, it's terrible and probably hard to read. But I was in a rush!
It's very good that you documented this! Milestone X users come through here all the time asking questions and I can never give answers.
One small thing though. You skipped the most important step in your outline, creating a nandroid backup.
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Oh yes! I did do that. I'll add that in. Notice how the xda app now recognizes my phone as a DX ;-)
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Just out of curiosity, what version were you running on your Milestone X prior to flashing CM9 to it?
What features don't work? What are other known issues, and is it stable?
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I was running 2.3.5 Stock Rooted prior to flashing.
Overall stability - No real app crashes to speak of. The Dev Tools app does crash when I select "Google Login Service". I have no idea what this is used for, but I think this is so beyond minor compared to the overall stability. Chrome FCs shortly after opening, but it's definitely trying to work. I suspect the Dev will have that working soon enough.
Battery life seems normal... slightly less than I'm used to because I'm playing with it so much more, but that will level out and I'm sure it should end up the same or better overall.
I should also mention, it is blazing fast. I'm not sure if I'm the only one with this issue on this phone, but Live Wallpapers have always been way too big of a performance hit for what they're worth. They're great to show off, but it's pretty disappointing not to have a smooth scroll from screen to screen with LWP on, so I never used it. I tested the LWPs on this ROM and they're all *butter* smooth! I was amazed! I'm very sensitive to dips in frame rate and there is hardly a hiccup between a normal wallpaper and LWP on this ROM!
Chrome is currently not working (FC shortly after opening, as stated above) - this is stated by the Dev, but it looks like some of the newer versions of it are working (with some other features being temporarily broken in exchange)
MMS is not working, but that is (I think) user error. I have my APNs backed up and a personal friend who works for my carrier is going to be verifying that I have correct settings just in case. When I attempt to add those APNs in, everything is fine until I add in the "APN Type" which according to my backed up settings, the value should be "mms". As soon as I save that value, the entire APN setting itself disappears from the list or no longer has a radio button to select it. I did make some changes to build.prop to match my carrier, but those didn't seem to help any.
If anyone here has any idea where to go with the MMS, I'd appreciate it. It seems like it's just a simple setting thing and once I figure that out, I'll be golden.
Cellcom APN info that I have so far (for anyone who wishes to help me tackle this):
apn name="Cellcom"
numeric="31060"
mcc="310"
mnc="60"
apn="internet"
user="null"
server="*"
password="null"
proxy="66.255.055.023"
port="9201"
mmsproxy="null"
mmsport="null"
mmsprotocol="null"
mmsc="http://mms.cellcom.com/cellcom/mms.php"
type="mms"
Have you been able to get the MMS working.?
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So far, still no MMS. I am successfully now on the latest build from 7/15.
Chrome is now working, awesome! However the tradeoff (I'm told) is that video playback and Netflix are temporarily not working in this build. I haven't tried either, but it's pretty widely confirmed to not be working over on the Rootzwiki thread.
I'm working a bit with different forums trying to get this MMS pinned. The biggest issue I'm having is figuring out what MMS relies on. Everyone has their "this will fix it" claims. But it's usually a one or two step process like an MMS.apk or changing an apn setting, etc. I'm sure all these things have something to do with it, but what really needs to happen is someone to say:
"Alright, MMS is comprised of these 5 files and these 8 settings. Modify these to match your network, and it should work."
*shrug* still waiting on that magical rockstar dev to come along lol
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I'm well aware I'm posting in the Droid X forum, but only because it's far more active than any Milestone X forum I've found
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Wow...it MUST be a completely deserted island because the dx forums are just a bunch of us ghosts hanging around....lol
Don't bother with getting the dx2 you will be severly disapointed .
I am hoping to swap mine for something else soon.
Nice job on the research though!
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doberman16 said:
So far, still no MMS. I am successfully now on the latest build from 7/15.
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Sadly, most developers just recommend using GoSMS as a workaround to MMS issues.
I'm sure in due time something will come out of the water work, though.
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freakboy13 said:
Wow...it MUST be a completely deserted island because the dx forums are just a bunch of us ghosts hanging around....lol
Don't bother with getting the dx2 you will be severly disapointed .
I am hoping to swap mine for something else soon.
Nice job on the research though!
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I was told the same by my carrier that the X2 is nothing but problems. Plus it's just not worth $100 to gain essentially just dual core.
Progress with mms has been basically nothing. I was told to try a slightly different address for mms to at least gain receive capability. That have me a different error, but still no pics coming through. I feel as though I've tried everything I can find with no progress.
In the other hand, the Rom itself has been fairly solid. Very few fcs and even fewer reboots. The dev doesn't claim any of the releases to be perfectly stable so issues are expected, but minor.
Chrome is blazing fast and so nice to use. It literally feels like 4g speeds compared to any browser I've used.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm mostly happy with it and definitely had happier than stock. Hopefully other Milestone X users will give it a try. I know there are others that have tried and have working mms on their carrier, so my experience is basically worst case scenario.
***Edit***
Funny how it shows that I posted from a Droid X. Psych! Lol
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I'm itching to give it a try, but the lack of an .sbf gives me pause.
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I have to say ive had pretty good success on the milestone x flashing. Im on ntelos small wv carrier. I currently am running the latest cm7 build 2.3.7. I did the following steps to get mine working, I dont know if you have to do all this but I did it from before because I wasnt sure.
Installing a Custom Rom on your nTelos Milestone (Droid) X
As always, I am not responsible if your device breaks.
Requirements: Make sure you are on the latest 2.3.5 Gingerbread build.
Also you can get the nTelos 2.3.5 sbf file from here: http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/milestone-x-support/40938-dire-need-sbf-2-3-5-ntelos-5.html.
Installing the Rom
A. Download the rom
a. For miui download the zip from this link: http://roms.miui.us/shadow/MIUI.us_Shadow_2012-01-08-Wizard0f0s.zip
(The main forum is http://forums.miui.us/showthread.php?12643-ROM-MIUI-us-DefX-2012-1-8)
b. For liquid Gingerbread download this zip: http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...DOWNLOAD NOW&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13275238425901
(the main webpage is http://liquidsmoothroms.com/node/73
c. Don’t unzip it. Put the entire zip in a folder on your SD card. (So for the miui rom I have it under /miui/filename.zip on my sd card. It doesn’t matter what you name the folder. Just put it in a place where you can find it.)
B. Boot into recovery
a. Make sure you are rooted. (If you need help with this just let me know. I used superoneclick)
b. From your phone download “Droid 2 Recovery Bootstrap” from the android market. (https://market.android.com/details?...vbS5rb3VzaGlrZHV0dGEuZHJvaWQyLmJvb3RzdHJhcCJd)
c. Launch the app and click the top button “bootstrap recovery”. If prompted allow it to have superuser privileges.
d. Click on “Reboot Recovery.” Your phone will now reboot into android recovery.
C. Flash the Rom from zip
a. From here most would recommend doing a nandroid backup which is basically a backup of your entire system.
i. Using the volume keys scroll down to “backup and restore.” Select it with the camera button.
ii. Select “backup.” This will take a few minutes but it will backup your entire system. Theoretically if you get messed up doing this process you can go to “restore” and get your old system back.
b. Using the volume keys to move up and down and the camera key to select, scroll down to “wipe data/factory reset” and select it. It will want you to confirm it so scroll down and hit “yes”.
c. Next scroll down to “wipe cache partition” and select it. Hit “yes” to confirm.
d. Now you are going to scroll down to “advanced” and select it.
e. Another menu will pop up. Scroll down to “Wipe Dalvik Cache” and select it. Hit “yes” to confirm.
f. Go back to the main menu (do this using the back button on your device).
g. Scroll down to “install zip from sdcard” and select it.
h. Select “choose zip from sdcard”
i. It will pull up a list of folders on your sd card. Scroll down to the folder with the .zip file we downloaded earlier and select it.
j. Select the zip file you downloaded earlier for your rom (either miui or liquid). Select “yes” when prompted.
k. It will now install the rom. It may take a few minutes. When it is done hit your back button until you get to the main recovery screen.
l. Select “reboot system now”.
m. Your phone will now reboot onto the new rom. It may take a few minutes the first time but it should work fine.
n. If it doesn’t get past the red ‘m’ after about 5 minutes then take out the battery and try again. If you still don’t have any luck you’ll have to sbf and try again.
just as an FYI these are not my instructions i did follow them to the T. I got this from another person who had the same issues with the milestone x flashing. Hopefully we will get a definite guide going so that others can use it as well.
Yeah my issue is that there hasn't been an .SBF released/found for my carrier. If I were to break something I would pretty much be stuck.
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Understandable. What carrier again? Sometimes the brand on the sbf isn't important. Ntelos worked fully for me even though I'm on Cellcom. I was shocked. Even my carrier had no idea I was on another carrier's Rom when they saw my phone in person.
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I'm on Appalachian Wireless. It's a small CDMA carrier in KY.
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I have a Motorola Milestone X running Gingerbread 2.3.5, CDMA, and my carrier is Alltel.. I have never rooted before.. I'm a Newbie... I was wondering if you or anyone else can give me instructions or something, on how to root my phone.. Also how to unroot, get roms, ect.. I want to change my boot screen too.. Please Respond.. Thanks
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Well I never did figure out the MMS. I kind of got sick of forcing an old phone to do things that the newer phones are doing. I cancelled my small carrier and switched to Sprint and got the SGS3 for a steal ($100). Couldn't say no to that... Now I have a new toy to root and flash > And I will gladly leave behind the days of hunting for hours for solutions to issues relating to my small carrier.
I suppose this thread could be closed, unless someone else wants to continue on with it. I was glad to have gotten ICS on the phone, but I've now flashed it back to stock and given it to mom (aw, how sweet).
Now... back to my toy....
doberman16 said:
Well I never did figure out the MMS. I kind of got sick of forcing an old phone to do things that the newer phones are doing. I cancelled my small carrier and switched to Sprint and got the SGS3 for a steal ($100). Couldn't say no to that... Now I have a new toy to root and flash > And I will gladly leave behind the days of hunting for hours for solutions to issues relating to my small carrier.
I suppose this thread could be closed, unless someone else wants to continue on with it. I was glad to have gotten ICS on the phone, but I've now flashed it back to stock and given it to mom (aw, how sweet).
Now... back to my toy....
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Good luck with that. Honestly Sprint would be my last choice in carriers probably. Their pricing is ok, but where I am they have exactly 1 tower (and that is only because there is currently a Sprint support call center here). Everything else roams off the carrier I currently have. I had a friend who tried to use Sprint but got into trouble over his data usage since he was using too much roaming data (again, because they only have 1 native tower).
I've considered either going back to ATT or going with Verizon when my contract expires next Spring. We'll see. App Wireless is supposed to start lighting up some 4G LTE panels next month and are one of the Verizon rural partners. It's rumored that the Razr Maxx will be their first 4G phone though they should also be getting the next iPhone as well which should also be 4G.
I've also considered switching to an iPhone if I stay with them just so that I can at least easily stay on the current firmware release, but I don't know if I can do it. I really like my Androids and really don't agree with Apple's business practices.
Dude.. Can someone help me.. I am trying to root my Milestone X running Gingerbread 2.3.5.. I'm using Super One Click version 2.3.3 0... When I click root, I get a message.. Unknown Device
HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&VEN_11C1&DEV_1040&SUBSYS_107B0690&REV_1002
Would you like me to forcefully install an Android ADB Interface Driver for this device?
Okay so I don't know if I should click "yes" or "no".. Please help.. Someone
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Hey all,
As Title says, basically I was messing with ROM's, and I know within minutes whether I like it, if not I will re-flash something else.
So I was doing this, and couldnt find one I liked, so I returned to flash Paranoid.
What suprised me, was once I'd booted up, I proceeded to the Play Store, only to realise all my favourite apps were already downloading?
How did my nexus download my apps for me?
The market remembers what apps you use and if you setup your google account in the initial setup phase it downloads them for you.
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It come from google's backup service, see "settings--backup and reset---backup my data"
I may as well jump in and ask a question -
Sometimes it restores it, at other times it doesn't. Is that dependent on the custom rom? I always have the back up ticked.
tremblingwater said:
I may as well jump in and ask a question -
Sometimes it restores it, at other times it does? Is that dependent on the custom rom? I always have the back up ticked.
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I'm sure it matters. Also, it only works on initial setup, not if you add an account after that.
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i loved this feature but its so hit and miss.
i flash a lot of roms on my SKyrocket and if i flash stock roms it odes NOT do this but if i flash CM roms it always does this. if i flash other 3rd party roms SOME of them do this.
its obviously something that the devs are either coding selectively into their roms OR some devs have no idea about it and they kang someone else s roms that had it enabled and they get it too or they don't know about it and thus some roms don't have it enabled.
tremblingwater said:
I may as well jump in and ask a question -
Sometimes it restores it, at other times it does? Is that dependent on the custom rom? I always have the back up ticked.
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There's a box during account setup that says something like: "restore my apps on this device." It only shows up during initial setup. I've noticed not all roms have the option available though.
tremblingwater said:
I may as well jump in and ask a question -
Sometimes it restores it, at other times it doesn't. Is that dependent on the custom rom? I always have the back up ticked.
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I know that, but its only ever worked once for me !!
korockinout13 said:
I'm sure it matters. Also, it only works on initial setup, not if you add an account after that.
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Same here, its only EVER worked ONCE for me.
How can it work once and never again?
+ I always set my Google account on initial boot/setup.
Wilks3y said:
I know that, but its only ever worked once for me !!
Same here, its only EVER worked ONCE for me.
How can it work once and never again?
+ I always set my Google account on initial boot/setup.
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I recognized that it worked for me when I flashed the Google stock images. On real custom Roms it works not always..
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It has nothing to do with the rom. It is dependent upon which gapps package is used. Most include market restore whereas some do not.
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Well I don't completely agree.
I pretty much flash the Same GAPPs everytime.
But yet it has only ever restored once !