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Is the EC05 really worth it?

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

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

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

Is GB just around the corner?

We've been getting so many GB roms this month! It's amazing, don't you think we're close to a fully functional ROM thats GB with good battery life, GPS (im kind of thinking i shouldn't have put GPS)
but i think its right around the corner! what about you guys?
I mean if you look at our Dev section on Page 1, there probably about 5+ GB roms...
We'll have it soon!

Won't try any of those without GPS

xriderx66 said:
We've been getting so many GB roms this month! It's amazing, don't you think we're close to a fully functional ROM thats GB with good battery life, GPS (im kind of thinking i shouldn't have put GPS)
but i think its right around the corner! what about you guys?
I mean if you look at our Dev section on Page 1, there probably about 5+ GB roms...
We'll have it soon!
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It's in the works. Cmenard has fixed rainbows (proof). (He's a frackin' beast). White has all his magic done on it. I'm the only failure! I can't get the damn GPS to work.
So yeah, that's all we're missing. Vibrant uses a different GPS binary to communicate with the hardware versus other phones like I9K and Cappy (we're the ONLY phone that does this, BS right?). I've been working with cmenard to even build a custom kernel to call that binary just like the 2.2 ROMs and still nothing. I think I'm either missing something extremely simple, or it's not possible. Eugene is smarter than me so hopefully he figured something out.
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birgertime said:
It's in the works. Cmenard has fixed rainbows (proof). (He's a frackin' beast). White has all his magic done on it. I'm the only failure! I can't get the damn GPS to work.
So yeah, that's all we're missing. Vibrant uses a different GPS binary to communicate with the hardware versus other phones like I9K and Cappy (we're the ONLY phone that does this, BS right?). I've been working with cmenard to even build a custom kernel to call that binary just like the 2.2 ROMs and still nothing. I think I'm either missing something extremely simple, or it's not possible. Eugene is smarter than me so hopefully he figured something out.
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THATS GREAT NEWS!!!!!
By any chance, would you guys release the ROM, with all the magic done to it, even if GPS wasn't fixed? For people like me, i'm a teenager, why the hell would i need GPS? lol.

xriderx66 said:
THATS GREAT NEWS!!!!!
By any chance, would you guys release the ROM, with all the magic done to it, even if GPS wasn't fixed? For people like me, i'm a teenager, why the hell would i need GPS? lol.
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Yes.
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xriderx66 said:
THATS GREAT NEWS!!!!!
By any chance, would you guys release the ROM, with all the magic done to it, even if GPS wasn't fixed? For people like me, i'm a teenager, why the hell would i need GPS? lol.
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I second this, I don't give a flying **** about the GPS as long as Arabic is supported

Whitehawkx said:
Yes.
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is that a hint, that it'll be released this week? ?
If you need a BETA tester, even if its NOT in Beta, just shoot me a PM i just wanna get on a good ROM, haven't gone on a good one in a while.

xriderx66 said:
is that a hint, that it'll be released this week? ?
If you need a BETA tester, even if its NOT in Beta, just shoot me a PM i just wanna get on a good ROM, haven't gone on a good one in a while.
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Since I know you're running Trigger, and you just said you haven't run a good one in a while, I'll make sure it's not ever ever ever released

birgertime said:
Since I know you're running Trigger, and you just said you haven't run a good one in a while, I'll make sure it's not ever ever ever released
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HEY! Trigger is my Fav. rom not even kidding.
I was just on the RC1 thing for GB yesterday for a day, missed the trigger notif. bar and the other speed and stability bcz i always got FC's and Freezes.
I tried Jellette's PRivate stock, but still missed Trigger.
I came back to Trigger.
Trigger's the only rom on my External SD, incase anything happens to my phone, i still have TRIGGER!
release it now lol.
P.S. everytime i read your posts, then look at your Avatar, it always makes me think ur pissed off lol

Good save.

WOOHOO! A GB ROM IS ON THE WAY!
Now all we need is for you to release it.... *sits down patiently and stares at you*

Has anyone tried building a 2.6.32 based GB kernel? Just a thought =P
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Eugene said he got gps working what a beast
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bbm21 said:
Eugene said he got gps working what a beast
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isn't that all we needed???
We have a full GB rom!!! WOOOO!
release it!

wow, he bought another vibrant, just for gb?
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Eugene said he got gps working what a beast
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How is the battery life on the GB roms? Is it pretty crappy since we don't have a source for our phone?

bbm21 said:
Eugene said he got gps working what a beast
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Where did you here that?

Abu-7abash said:
Where did you here that?
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Read through that one thread about the alleged working GPS Eugene said he had it working
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bbm21 said:
Eugene said he got gps working what a beast
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Quote? cuz I didn't hear that from him
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duboi97 said:
Read through that one thread about the alleged working GPS Eugene said he had it working
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Thought so, well, I read that thread before and in there Eugene didn't EVER say that he had a working GPS. What he said was that fixing it wasn't that hard and mentioned the files.
But I guess people love to stare on a bright side that doesn't even exist.

[Survey] Why aren't you on EE03?

Please list your reasons. I will try to fix why you aren't on it.

Still laggy.
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no kernel.

qbking77 said:
Still laggy.
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I guess a little... I have found a new RAM tweak that increases the speed for v7 of my rom.
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The Root said:
no kernel.
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Phft. It HAS a kernal. Just no overclock. I didn't use that on ec05, and wont use it on ee03. My phone is blazing fast without a custom kernel. Please just try my v7 rom when it is put and see if you like the speed. If you don't. Ec05 is only a flash away...
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Because official release is close...
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Yeah. But im running it until then.
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I don't use EE03 because of instability. It reconnects to USB while it's plugged in and continues to do so, without unplugging it.
And GPS doesn't work. If those worked, I'd use gingerbread like no tomorrow.

Im ready to try V7....... Ive had a good experience with all of marusants ee03 roms and been using as a daily from the beginning

I did the whole DK28 thing. Eventually all the little things added up to being able to wait. From what I read, my low patience level would/could be tested instantly. It'll wait and get a custom rom off the actual drop. It's only 2-3 weeks out, from what it sounds like. At 32 years old, that's 2 ****s away. I loooove stability, blazing speed and stability. In that order. Leaked versions don't float my boat.

ecooce said:
Because official release is close...
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This and lack of ext4. I will definitely give v7 a try though, pretty much every rom is worth a try.

djbacon06 said:
This and lack of ext4. I will definitely give v7 a try though, pretty much every rom is worth a try.
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Yeah. It hardly feels like RFS.
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its slow for me compared to SRF 1.1.1

marcusant said:
I guess a little... I have found a new RAM tweak that increases the speed for v7 of my rom.
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A little? No... insanely laggy
EE03 is nowhere near ready or up to standards for a daily driver
I'd much rather have a finished and polished official release
None of the roms based off it are any different
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The Root said:
It's only 2-3 weeks out, from what it sounds like. At 32 years old, that's 2 ****s away..
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i bout **** myself when i read that. ROFL! and im on EE03 runnin midnight 6.0. not much lag IMO, and i cant give up netflix now =D i gave v6 a go but kept rebooting on me. id give v7 a go once its ready

No overclockable colonel or any kernels.... to laggy.... I got a need for speed
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Because v7 isnt out yet. And since u added voodoo, you won my vote.
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I am not using it because audio out no longer works with the car dock in EE03. Actually, it never really worked on any galaxy s but someone here on xda made an app to get it to work on froyo it is just broke again with gingerbread.
This was the app used to make audio work with all docks: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.muteheadlight.dockredir
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insanely hot running, battery life is horrible, (on all three roms... not sure, maybe its just 'my phone'), settings not sticking, (settings service constantly running)... thought the USB connection was just my stock cable becoming TOTALLY useless... but yeah, works fine...
Dont get me wrong... I LOVE your ROM, all the GB ones... maybe its just that im right on a sprint/roam border, so unless I roam control I constantly switch back and forth...

From my experience with marcusants EE03 roms they're neither slow nor laggy if installed properly. It just works (Steve Jobs ref) Ive had incredible battery life,quick locking GPS and no lag. I think the install sequence is the key when coming from EC05

RandomRom Egret is Rocking My Socks!

Big Ups to RandomKing for this one. I can't post in the development section just yet, but this is by far the best battery life ROM(if not ROM period) for my specific Epic. I've not had ANY of the issues others have reported with either version. (I think my Eagle worked fine because I already had Chris' EG22Plus Kernel Loaded). Right now I'm draining 1% or less an hour when idle, and barely 3% with keeping my background data and auto sync on for work purposes. I think it would be even better if I wasn't using the gmail app.
Everyone else who may have tested this on both the kernel Egret comes with, and EG22Plus Kernel. Which one's working out best for you so far? I've had such luck on EG22Plus I don't even want to try running without it.

Y would you post in developmenT
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jsmcmahon89 said:
Big Ups to RandomKing for this one. I can't post in the development section just yet, but this is by far the best battery life ROM(if not ROM period) for my specific Epic. I've not had ANY of the issues others have reported with either version. (I think my Eagle worked fine because I already had Chris' EG22Plus Kernel Loaded). Right now I'm draining 1% or less an hour when idle, and barely 3% with keeping my background data and auto sync on for work purposes. I think it would be even better if I wasn't using the gmail app.
Everyone else who may have tested this on both the kernel Egret comes with, and EG22Plus Kernel. Which one's working out best for you so far? I've had such luck on EG22Plus I don't even want to try running without it.
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Similar pleasant, stable, battery-efficient experience here too in using RandomROM 2.2 Plus from the ACS Updater. I've stayed with the stock Vision kernel as I'm happy with that for now.
Thumbs up to RandomKing from me as well for all his contributions to the Epic 4G community.
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Its great except for the navigation force close issue
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I've been running this ROM and it is snappy. And I would almost think it is near SRF1.2 snappy.
I am very pleased, and now with the overscroll and CRT animation it is pretty sweet.

gtuansdiamm said:
Y would you post in developmenT
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I thought I was posting in the General section for anything Epic? (general chat, tips & tricks, etc)

jsmcmahon89 said:
I thought I was posting in the General section for anything Epic? (general chat, tips & tricks, etc)
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And discussion threads (this would be a discussion thread).
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jsmcmahon89 said:
I thought I was posting in the General section for anything Epic? (general chat, tips & tricks, etc)
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I thought you wanted to cause of the second sentence of the op
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I think the OP meant they could not post a comment in the RandomRom thread, not starting a new thread in Dev... pretty sure you cant even post a reply in Dev with low post count... not sure, its been a while.

Well, I'm glad you were so excited that you felt the urge to post, but just do idle comments, posting IN threads, not making them. Sooner or later, you'll get used to posting things, or sharing your opinion, and the post counter will start to fly. Congrats, and welcome to xda

Thanks for the support. The EG22 AIO patch does completely work now, and crawjr has incorporated it into his theme.
It will be built into the next RandomROM alpha revision hopefully later this week. Still waiting on a replacement phone...

RandomKing said:
Thanks for the support. The EG22 AIO patch does completely work now, and crawjr has incorporated it into his theme.
It will be built into the next RandomROM alpha revision hopefully later this week. Still waiting on a replacement phone...
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If u could implement Zeppelinrox's v6 super charger in with it? Ill be glad to help if I am of use. Love the rom also, my favorite right now.
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thatdudepoops said:
If u could implement Zeppelinrox's v6 super charger in with it? Ill be glad to help if I am of use. Love the rom also, my favorite right now.
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Have you tried it with Egret? Does it do anything noticeable at all?

Hell yeah Random Rom is king of the hill currently! Thanks for your work man. We really needed something interesting to pop.
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Funny thing is, xda, at first, didn't let his rom to be released here
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It seemed to me I noticed a slight improvement when I installed the V6 supercharger. REally hard to say because it was snappy before.
I will say the apps seem to scroll more smoothly.

Yeah props man! This rom is snappy. I am enjoying the "stock" kernel rather than the cleanEG22 kernel from performance but I have noticed the clean kernel left more available memory after a task killer or memory clear. The more I kill hrough the day, the less and less availble memory every time even though the services and programs do not show as running anymore...

Alkah0liK said:
Yeah props man! This rom is snappy. I am enjoying the "stock" kernel rather than the cleanEG22 kernel from performance but I have noticed the clean kernel left more available memory after a task killer or memory clear. The more I kill hrough the day, the less and less availble memory every time even though the services and programs do not show as running anymore...
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Believe me, that irks me too. But it has yet to negatively impact anything... odd as it is.

RandomKing said:
Believe me, that irks me too. But it has yet to negatively impact anything... odd as it is.
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That's what the v6 Supercharger is for, give it a try
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ac16313 said:
That's what the v6 Supercharger is for, give it a try
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Hey man i've tried to get that supercharger workin for days but every different way i try use it my phone vibrates when it reboots and won't turn on. any advice at all? i need help! LOL

CM9 get stable release

WOW wtg devs CM9 for the Epic 4g gets stable build status
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...-stable-released-for-21-devices-and-counting/
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http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=epicmtd&type=stable

have you tested it out yet any differences? smoother?

XxLostSoulxX said:
have you tested it out yet any differences? smoother?
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I have not I will test this weekend.

tazfanatic said:
I have not I will test this weekend.
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I'm curious how the battery life has evolved.
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Since it's marked stable I wonder if any of the bugs I had mentioned on RC2 were fixed. No longer have my Epic, but still curious to see where development ended up with this.
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I don't have my epic anymore either but curious if they ever got the flashlight widget working.

Zeinzu said:
Since it's marked stable I wonder if any of the bugs I had mentioned on RC2 were fixed. No longer have my Epic, but still curious to see where development ended up with this.
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I'm gonna flash later to see if the bugs are still present... what was left???

Flash for video recording, auto flash, focus, slideshows, video MMS, WiFi sleep policy, Bluetooth bugs. (I think)
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Zeinzu said:
Flash for video recording, auto flash, focus, slideshows, video MMS, WiFi sleep policy, Bluetooth bugs. (I think)
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Cool, thanks.... I will test all of those extensively later on tonight and report here... all except bluetooth, don't use it...
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood....

I'm lovin' a stable CM9 Rom!!
Yess! Thank you verry much Cyanogenmod Team!

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I'm curious how the battery life has evolved.
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Battery life is no better for me even with the build prop tweaks ideal was fine when streaming pandora going home lost 25% in 1 hour.
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it was just as smooth as always didn't test much because of battery life so i am back to 7

I had problems with receiving calls, on any ics rom. Hopefully its fixed now. About to flash in a few minutes.
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Been running for me since 6am this morning. All smooth. I ran every single nightly, and never run into a lot of the issues others did though
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just did an upgrade from beta4 -- which was relatively stable minus a couple sms bugs and response here and there.
only wiped cache+dalvik .. worked well so far! i love this phone and it's devs. i wish this wasn't my wife's phone. i'm stuck with a thunderbolt

Running great for me, too soon on battery. Just for the record, streaming via 3g/4g in a moving car is not the best way to test battery life, so many variables. Battery life on the nightlies has been great for me. 20+ hours regularly, with 2h+ on screen time is great in my opinion.
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socos25 said:
Running great for me, too soon on battery. Just for the record, streaming via 3g/4g in a moving car is not the best way to test battery life, so many variables. Battery life on the nightlies has been great for me. 20+ hours regularly, with 2h+ on screen time is great in my opinion.
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Wow! 20+ really? The first time I tried CM9 I was lucky if I got 4 or 5. What setup are you running?
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socos25 said:
Running great for me, too soon on battery. Just for the record, streaming via 3g/4g in a moving car is not the best way to test battery life, so many variables. Battery life on the nightlies has been great for me. 20+ hours regularly, with 2h+ on screen time is great in my opinion.
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I know but that is my normal use if it doesn't hold up during normal use then it doesn't work for me. On CM7 I lose about 10-12% during the same commute.

I'm running stock everything, no fancy kernels. I do have the tweaks listed in a post somewhere here in the general section, and I run Juicedefender because I have it setup to turn off data and then check every 30 minutes for email updates etc.. other then that nothing else.
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Wow! 20+ really? The first time I tried CM9 I was lucky if I got 4 or 5. What setup are you running?
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I'm really interested to hear how stable this is. I just flashed the CM9 stable release for the Nexus S 4G and it's been great for a day. If all goes well I'm going to be flashing this on my mother's phone so she can finally get off the outdated stock touchwiz ROM.

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I'm really interested to hear how stable this is. I just flashed the CM9 stable release for the Nexus S 4G and it's been great for a day. If all goes well I'm going to be flashing this on my mother's phone so she can finally get off the outdated stock touchwiz ROM.
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A few reports are already in, just a few posts above yours...
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