[Q] Noob need to identify phone state - Atrix 4G General

Hello, i just bought a atrix on ebay that is running alien4 and i was wondering how i check things like if it is unlocked bootloader before i start messing around with it. I'm curious about getting rid of motoblur and getting better battery life too. It seems like the battery is going down too fast when im not even using it. Maybe old battery tho? Where do i get started? Thanks!!

If you are running alien4, more than likely it's already unlocked.
You really can't get rid of Motoblur, but you could install LauncherPro from the Market to hide it so well that will probably forget that it is even there.
For better battery, you may want to check out CM7 which also gives you the most vanilla Android experience as well...
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ccrows said:
If you are running alien4, more than likely it's already unlocked.
You really can't get rid of Motoblur, but you could install LauncherPro from the Market to hide it so well that will probably forget that it is even there.
For better battery, you may want to check out CM7 which also gives you the most vanilla Android experience as well...
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CM7 does away with blur completely since it is a 100% custom ROM.
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Blandroid on N1

I just noticed, blandroid rom on the rom manager menu, has anyone tried it on N1? I'm using cm7 Rc4 and I know you'll all say stick with it, but I'm still curious.
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I noticed it a couple of weeks ago. It says it's a stable 2.3.3 with no bloatware. Sounds very intriguing...in fact so much so that I downloaded it, but have yet to flash it...lol.
Certainly tempting isn't it, is this a case of who goes first lmao, out of interest how big is it? I notice the cm7s are just over 80 mb.
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Some info here:
http://blandroid.org/
Features
SuperUser and busybox pre-loaded ("Rooted") 2.3.1p0
ClockworkMod recovery and nandroid backup/restore image 2.3.1p0
Global setting to always silence camera 2.3.1p0
Ability to reboot, reboot to bootloader, and reboot to recovery from global power-off menu 2.3.1p0
"Copy all" shortcut from long-press menu on any text field 2.3.1p2
MMS/SMS App: Settings for dark background and font sizes 2.3.1p0
Web Browser: Ability to change user agent and an increased number of maximum windows
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Seems like a plain stock ROM, nice to see to be honest.
Noticed the same thing, but was wondering what all it supports, site doesn't say much. I.E. what kernel it has/supports, TB alert stuff like that.
Hopefully the dev comes and explains what all he's done.
Well, I flashed it, for like an hour then when back to cm7 using the recovery I made.
First thing, market didn't work.
Secondly it didn't have the extra apps cm7 has, which I expected, but I instantly missed theme chooser.
Thirdly it wiped my contacts list.
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sparkyryan said:
Well, I flashed it, for like an hour then when back to cm7 using the recovery I made.
First thing, market didn't work.
Secondly it didn't have the extra apps cm7 has, which I expected, but I instantly missed theme chooser.
Thirdly it wiped my contacts list.
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First. The market issue is probably a wipe issue as I had the same problem with two different MIUI GB ROMs.
Secondly. That would be the lack of bloatware mentioned above. It's like stock android, so not sure why you even flashed it if you wanted bloatware.
Thirdly. It didn't wipe your contact list you didn't sync with google, becaue all of your contacts are backed up there.
You know what, I knew that'd be the replies I got, to be honest I'm curious of any rom that 1might increase battery life, currently using 85% over 10hours!! And of course the dreaded wonk which is seemingly inherent with cm7.
I couldn't force Google to sync with my phone, all my contacts are stored with Google you're right there.
Btw how would I get the market back?
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Blandroid 2.3.4p0 works pretty good. Just curious about this app hidden in the list written in Chinese ...
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Solacetech said:
Blandroid 2.3.4p0 works pretty good. Just curious about this app hidden in the list written in Chinese ...
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I think it is another keyboard app. When you go to change the keyboard, it lists something in all Asian symbols.
I just deleted it and I have not noticed any difference with how blandroid runs.
The wonk was almost fixed on latest release of cm7. If you don't have the latest version, try it.
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Nearly fixed isn't fixed. The problem is really dragging out and these stock ROMs are showing that its fixed with them. Wonking isn't the only issue at the moment either. There is still problems with the sound levels after docking the phone sometimes where its maximum level is halved etc.
CM is an ace project and I truly respect the guys and their efforts behind it, but CM7 is very buggy, and when it starts to affect the ability to take calls its hard to use it.
Oh! Thx for the reply. I got scared and ran back to cm7
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Give E-xtrememod 2.0 a try, been on it since yesterday and no probs so far, looks nice too!
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I dropped cm7 for this rom. Great battery life no wonking - no more cm7 for me
christiankk said:
I dropped cm7 for this rom. Great battery life no wonking - no more cm7 for me
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What sort of battery life do you get and is there good support from the Dev?
I could go for no wonk
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I like!
Went for this until the CM stable kills the wonk; now I may not go back. I haven't used it for long enough to know about stability. I think of it as pure AOSP, but already rooted (and a just a few essential CM goodies).
http://blandroid.org/about
So far, I haven't found anything missing I need.
And if you want a bit more eye candy and customization, just install launcher pro or adw.launcher from the market.
I give it thumbs-up!

Need help choosing between CM7 or MIUI? Look Here!!!

Okay so I have been seeing many threads and questions about MIUI or CM7 and which one is better?!
Or go to:
https://www.youtube.com/macaronyalan
Here I have two videos to CM7 or MIUI and maybe this will enlighten you to choose wisely.
another CM7 tease. I've been holding off on flashing this.
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iynfynity said:
another CM7 tease. I've been holding off on flashing this.
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try them both, their both wonderful. i stuck with MIUI for over a month.
I tried both of them and I think they both have their advantages and disadvantages. Right now I went back to 2.2 because NOVA dont work on 2.3. If any of you can play NOVA on cm7 or miui please let me know. MIUI has the lockscreen and pop up messages. As Cm7 has optimization tweaks and Stock aosp feel. I really want to go back but still trying to decide if I should wait.
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krazie1 said:
I tried both of them and I think they both have their advantages and disadvantages. Right now I went back to 2.2 because NOVA dont work on 2.3. If any of you can play NOVA on cm7 or miui please let me know. MIUI has the lockscreen and pop up messages. As Cm7 has optimization tweaks and Stock aosp feel. I really want to go back but still trying to decide if I should wait.
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Im contemplating on whether to go back also but the only thing that I hate is the battery life
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duboi97 said:
Im contemplating on whether to go back also but the only thing that I hate is the battery life
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The battery life is really horrible on standby. I just wonder if theres a way to make it like stock vibrant roms.
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hitman818 said:
The battery life is really horrible on standby. I just wonder if theres a way to make it like stock vibrant roms.
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Yeah that's what keeping me away. Its fast and all but I need battery life for texting people and chatting. Until battery gets better ill stick with simply honey 1.0 xe speed boost
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went ahead and flashed this, i hope i can still go back to stock. lol
Hey Alan, I noticed on your CM7 review the voodoo control app has Voodoo Color options. Do you know if this only appears in gingerbread builds maybe?
I have tried to find color options in the Voodoo Control app in 2.2 roms, but all there is, is Voodoo Sound options.
Thanks!
i got bricked, hay what a sad day.
i like MIUI.. i've never tried CM7 and dont know if i will.
i had miui for almost a week until earlier this morning when was playing music using the music widget, it would skip songs or not even finish a whole song then on to the next song.. weird, i didnt like that, it's probably because i was browsing through pictures at the same time on miui gallery ( buggy,makes my phone FC, sluggish) that made the songs skip?. so i went back to 2.2
i like the rom. it's very nice! very customizable and easy on the eyes.. ill get back to it when it becomes stable even if gps is still broken...
Damn! How many apps do you have on your phone Alanrocks? That's nuts! I just counted mine, I have 16 downloaded. But I dont play games on my phone and Im OCD about having too much stuff and any bloat so I keep my apps to a minimum.
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Hey Alan, I noticed on your CM7 review the voodoo control app has Voodoo Color options. Do you know if this only appears in gingerbread builds maybe?
I have tried to find color options in the Voodoo Control app in 2.2 roms, but all there is, is Voodoo Sound options.
Thanks!
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Yes sir only in 2.3.3 since the stock temperatures were changes
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seanp666 said:
Damn! How many apps do you have on your phone Alanrocks? That's nuts! I just counted mine, I have 16 downloaded. But I dont play games on my phone and Im OCD about having too much stuff and any bloat so I keep my apps to a minimum.
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I have 98 lol
16? u crazy brah
seanp666 said:
Damn! How many apps do you have on your phone Alanrocks? That's nuts! I just counted mine, I have 16 downloaded. But I dont play games on my phone and Im OCD about having too much stuff and any bloat so I keep my apps to a minimum.
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246 don't worry I deleted them a long time ago
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do you really guys have a bad battery life? So when you sleep, do you charge the phone? about how many hours does your phone survive?
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iynfynity said:
do you really guys have a bad battery life? So when you sleep, do you charge the phone? about how many hours does your phone survive?
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Some people dont like charging their phone at night or are too lazy to do so.
To avoid further complications charge it!
and by the way.
I HAVE WIFI TURNED ON ALL THE TIME SINCE I DONT HAVE MOBILE INTERNET AND IM OCD TO 1.3GHZ AND IT LASTS ME ALL DAY SO DONT COMPLAIN.
wow. that's impressive. I might go back to CM7 later, there's a new kernel btw.
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Both of these roms is amazing, if only they were less buggy I'd flash them but until then Im sticking with the 2.2.1.
Good job on the reviews btw Alen.
Thanks!
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Upgrades/Bugs between EC03 and EC07 :)

Things i have noticed....
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Updates:
- Updated to 2.2.2
- The timing for the full functionality of the ticker seems better xD
- New Dialog when turning off Mobile Network and when turning on GPS from the Pulldown Options..
- Browser actually works for me now lol
Bugs:
Ticker Twitter SNS Service still errors out for me when i try to log on.....
ive got backlite issues sometimes when i turn on the phones backlight will flicker rapidly until i press the menu button.
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Things i have noticed....
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Updates:
- Updated to 2.2.2
- The timing for the full functionality of the ticker seems better xD
- New Dialog when turning off Mobile Network and when turning on GPS from the Pulldown Options..
- Browser actually works for me now lol
Bugs:
Ticker Twitter SNS Service still errors out for me when i try to log on.....
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Updated to 2.2.2?!?!?! Where? How? joshkoss made mention of this. Something about thanking imnuts for the update...
Okay, I'll calm down... Thanks, in advance...
(Someone have any chocolate for me? That will calm me down... Yeah right!)
EC07:
Browser based apps acutally are working now, not crashing. IE. TDbank and words with friends.
Way better memory managment. Apps not closing as much!
Better battery life by far!!!
Also EC07 can be rooted via superoneclick
So where it at? I been looking but no new posts or threads in xdaprem apo....
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Coming Soon
p3droid made it available in the Team BlackHat app over at mydroidworld.
For those who want to know.
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EC07 is from TeamBlackHat, if you feel like getting it immediately and having a stock phone, then go for it and spend the $2 for the app to download it. Otherwise, wait another day or two and we'll have deodexed, pre-rooted, and debloated versions for you to flash.
Based on the upgrade to 2.2.2, I'm thinking that this is roughly equivalent to ED05 for the Fascinate.
imnuts said:
EC07 is from TeamBlackHat, if you feel like getting it immediately and having a stock phone, then go for it and spend the $2 for the app to download it. Otherwise, wait another day or two and we'll have deodexed, pre-rooted, and debloated versions for you to flash.
Based on the upgrade to 2.2.2, I'm thinking that this is roughly equivalent to ED05 for the Fascinate.
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Okay, okay, okay... Sorry I became a little over excited.
In all reality, I really appreciate all that you, trailblazer, pastorbennett, and joshkoss have done for the Continuum. I will contribute where I can, however, it is you guys that have really done a bunch of work on it. Yes, I can be patient. Thank you again.
May not be tube right place for this question, but is there anyway that we get some cool roms like cm7? Or is that Technically unreasonable?
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When can we get EC07?
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AUATL said:
May not be tube right place for this question, but is there anyway that we get some cool roms like cm7? Or is that Technically unreasonable?
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whether or not the continuum ever gets aosp is one thing...but froyo leaks probably wont help much...froyo and ideally (although unlikely) gb source would
although who knows...i know imnuts took a crack at continuum mtd awhile ago
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When can we get EC07?
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When we know it works correctly. =)
Awesome. Can't wait.
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I've been runnin ec07 for about 2 days without incident, and even though its not a huge upgrade it does feel less buggy and battery seems to have improved dramatically imo....I rooted using soc and so far awsomeness.....one dumb question: what does deodexed mean?
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Deodexed is a non optimized rom meaning it can be themed and modded. Odexed is the exact opposite.
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I am not quite sure what you mean is "not optimized" There is no optimization differences, other than the fact the first boot is faster on odexed roms than deodexed roms xP
But you are right with the theming
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problems with orientation
Has anyone been able to make their home screen rotate with the froyo roms? I saw some others mentioning being able to make their's rotate when tilting the phone sideways but mine will not, any suggestions?
gingerbread theme
I also lost the gingerbread theme when i swapped roms to EC07 (joshkoss beta1) will the gingerbread theme for the ec03 beta3 release work on the ec07?
Absolutely not xP
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Oxygen 2.2.2

Just wanted to let you all know that Oxygen 2.2.2 is out, to whoever cares and uses 2.2.1.
I been using it for a bout an hour and have had no issues
unomedmen1 said:
Just wanted to let you all know that Oxygen 2.2.2 is out, to whoever cares and uses 2.2.1.
I been using it for a bout an hour and have had no issues
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its good
Used it for 2 days. The only bug I get is randomly I can't access text messages. It requires a reboot.
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Yea I love this ROM but I guess its not compatible with Ripple Lock Screen yet or something.When I use it my screen takes like 6 seconds to unlock, really strange as this was not happening with 2.2.1.
Other than that, PERFECT
unomedmen1 said:
Yea I love this ROM but I guess its not compatible with Ripple Lock Screen yet or something.When I use it my screen takes like 6 seconds to unlock, really strange as this was not happening with 2.2.1.
Other than that, PERFECT
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Weird...Ripple Lock works fine for me on 2.2.2. Did you do a fresh install of the app or did you restore a backup?
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Weird...Ripple Lock works fine for me on 2.2.2. Did you do a fresh install of the app or did you restore a backup?
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Yup I did a fresh install. I have both the ripple lock and the agile lock (sense 3.0) and they both do the same. I found out that they ado work but to I have to use the volume to show unlock (weird) If I hit the power button nothing happens at all.
Been using it for about an hour now...so far so good. No problems and as fast and lite as I remember.
Gonna stick with it as my normal runner if no issues creep up.
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What do you guys like about this ROM over CM7?
CM7 froze in the middle of the night, then I missed my alarm, so I need to try something else.
SComp23 said:
What do you guys like about this ROM over CM7?
CM7 froze in the middle of the night, then I missed my alarm, so I need to try something else.
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To be honest with you I only tried CM7 for about an hour. I just didnt like the look and layout, plus it seems like it comes with so much more things installed (bloat to me). During that hour it did not feel any faster nor smoother than Oxygen. Been using Oxygen since 2.2.1 till now and I have NEVER got a reboot or freeze. Check it out man, you wont be dissapointed.
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To be honest with you I only tried CM7 for about an hour. I just didnt like the look and layout, plus it seems like it comes with so much more things installed (bloat to me). During that hour it did not feel any faster nor smoother than Oxygen. Been using Oxygen since 2.2.1 till now and I have NEVER got a reboot or freeze. Check it out man, you wont be dissapointed.
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I've been using it for about 10 minutes now and I love it.
Agree 100% with what you said about the "bloat".
Good to know. .... I use oxy and one other rom , but lately oxy has been my daily driver due to the sheer speed. Battery life isn't as good but I have my phone oc'd to 1.3.
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Good to know. .... I use oxy and one other rom , but lately oxy has been my daily driver due to the sheer speed. Battery life isn't as good but I have my phone oc'd to 1.3.
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Have you tried running it at 800Mhz? This is my setting while i'm at work, then back to 1Ghz at home. I see no difference in speed IMO
The only things oxygen is missing that I really like is the 4g notification toggle, and incognito mode on the browser.
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The only things oxygen is missing that I really like is the 4g notification toggle, and incognito mode on the browser.
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Are you scared that your mum will go through your phone's browser history and frown at your interest in knitting?
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unomedmen1 said:
Have you tried running it at 800Mhz? This is my setting while i'm at work, then back to 1Ghz at home. I see no difference in speed IMO
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How is the battery life different between the 2 settings?
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any one experience "system not responding" seems like my phone locking up more and more lately using the kernel that the rom comes with using stock launcher other than that everything is good
Anyone have an issue with BLN not working?
It worked once, and that was that.
Thanks
My speaker automatically turns on when i pick up a call or when i call someone. Anyone else having this issue?
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Are you scared that your mum will go through your phone's browser history and frown at your interest in knitting?
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Really? Wow is XDA going downhill fast.
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Anyone have an issue with BLN not working?
It worked once, and that was that.
Thanks
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BLN working for me.

[Q] Tweaked Stock.

I know alot of you are probably waiting on cm10 to flash, but i wanted to see if anyone was interested in a tweaked stock rom, with some extra features to flash while we wait, if so ill get working on a rom for us all to play with while we wait for cm10 just dont want to invest the time if no one wants it! so what do you guys think?
bradxnght said:
I know alot of you are probably waiting on cm10 to flash, but i wanted to see if anyone was interested in a tweaked stock rom, with some extra features to flash while we wait, if so ill get working on a rom for us all to play with while we wait for cm10 just dont want to invest the time if no one wants it! so what do you guys think?
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Hell yeah I'm interested!
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I miss flashing so I'm definitely interested!
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Can u make a deBloated version ?
Remove all and every junk Verizon thing ?
Also need the GSM part to work so having the ability to flash the Aussie Radio on it is a must.
I am interested =)
Interested, would like some debloatation of the stock rom maybe kill the google search bar at the top to regain some screen real estate.
Also have the setting turn on for hot spot so those of us with unlimited data can easily go in and mod it. I cant seem to get the setting turned on keeps telling me i need to call Verizon.
And and and lol
reboot & sleep mode back for JB (ie when the power button is pushed) not sure if its easy or not just a wish list.
If nothing else would be happy with just the stuff in the first line. But a fella can dream right.
Good stuff guys I have a bad case of the flu ATM as soon as I'm able to leave this god forsaken bed I'll get started see what I can do
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Just throwing this out there... deodexed and zipaligned.
I'm sure anyone who publishes a tweaked rom that is STABLE enough to be a daily driver is good for anyone.
shucks. build it man. ill throw it on my phone for a try.
unlock?
how do u flash it without doing safestrap because i am much more comfortable flashing then safestrapping
If you're on a retail M you don't flash w/o safestrap... Ever. Unless somebody finds an unlock bootloader leak like on the S3 (not gonna happen)
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Oh thanks because safeatrap seems really complicated
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How do I flash DSPManager on the stock ROM? I can't stand not having it and I don't really like any of the custom ROMs.. and I am working with very limited space, so a custom ROM really is t an option for that reason alone. I recall a way to flash things without using recovery, but forgot what program did it..

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