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Not sure what they did on this thing. I thought 2.1 was supposed to IMPROVE performance...and add some BT functionality.
I got no BT improvement. Instead, I got:
1. Random reboots
2. Slow/crashing Navigation
3. Useless voice recognition on Navigation
4. Random phone calls placed when fiddling with BT
5. Slow opening notifications
6. WIFI won't turn on
I could go on and on...
Sprint says I can't go back to 1.5, but I'm sure there's a way to do it.
HELP PLEASE! I'm rooted, if that helps.
Greg
theres noway. your H-Boot has been updated. thats the end of it. 1.5 just wont work anymore.
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troublestylist said:
HELP PLEASE! I'm rooted, if that helps.
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Yes it does. Just find a 1.5 ROM for CDMA hero. However, before most of our devs moved on to the EVO almost all of them stop developing 1.5 and moved to 2.1
I would suggest trying out some 2.1 ROMs and see what you like.
If you are rooted you should have put a recovery on your phone that you can get to by pressing home and turning on your phone. The first thing you will want to do is make a nandroid backup in case you don't like things. Then stick a ROM on your sdcard. Select all the wipe options except for battery and rotate and then flash a new ROM.
Id try wiping and reloading a 2.1 rom. I never had any of those problems when I went to 2.1.
I'm running the latest DamageControl and can honestly say I am not having any of those issues. I say you should try using a different ROM.
centran said:
Yes it does. Just find a 1.5 ROM for CDMA hero. However, before most of our devs moved on to the EVO almost all of them stop developing 1.5 and moved to 2.1
I would suggest trying out some 2.1 ROMs and see what you like.
If you are rooted you should have put a recovery on your phone that you can get to by pressing home and turning on your phone. The first thing you will want to do is make a nandroid backup in case you don't like things. Then stick a ROM on your sdcard. Select all the wipe options except for battery and rotate and then flash a new ROM.
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I didn't root until I got 2.1, so I surmise the 1.5 is gone, right?
derekwilkinson said:
I'm running the latest DamageControl and can honestly say I am not having any of those issues. I say you should try using a different ROM.
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RegawMOD was also recommended. Any reason why to pick one or the other?
Thanks for all the help. Sad that unpaid and unsupported independent developers can do this job better than HTC.
In a best case world, I'd be able to get ad hoc networking to work. I followed the directions but didn't have any success. My ultimate goal was to enable my Hero to display photos wirelessly from my computer. Many programs do it the other way around.
Originally I thought BT would be the easiest wireless protocol, but it seems pretty weak for that sort of data transfer. So 802.11 seemed a better solution...but for some reason Android folks decided to cripple the OS from recognizing ad hoc networks. Odd.
troublestylist said:
I didn't root until I got 2.1, so I surmise the 1.5 is gone, right?
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You can still flash 1.5 ROMs. You just can't flash the 1.5 RUU.
Great...
Tried Damagecontrol 2.09, did a clean wiped install, and everything seemed fine. Didn't seem much faster, but whatever.
Too bad I waited until I was at work to reboot. Now it's in a bootloop, and I'm stuck at work with no phone.
Sprint sent me a new phone. Once I confirm it's got 1.5, they can have this 2.1-infected POS back.
troublestylist said:
Tried Damagecontrol 2.09, did a clean wiped install, and everything seemed fine. Didn't seem much faster, but whatever.
Too bad I waited until I was at work to reboot. Now it's in a bootloop, and I'm stuck at work with no phone.
Sprint sent me a new phone. Once I confirm it's got 1.5, they can have this 2.1-infected POS back.
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Look... there's a good chance your new Hero WILL have 2.1 on it. If it does, just root it and install a custom 1.5 rom.
troublestylist said:
Tried Damagecontrol 2.09, did a clean wiped install, and everything seemed fine. Didn't seem much faster, but whatever.
Too bad I waited until I was at work to reboot. Now it's in a bootloop, and I'm stuck at work with no phone.
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This might mean you simply didn't wipe everything before you flashed the new ROM. Always perform a full wipe before flashing new ROMs.
Take the battery out of your phone. Put it back in and reboot to Recovery (hold Home and press Power). Then select the Wipe option, and go down that list and wipe every single category (I do them each twice just to make sure).
Then go back to the main menu and flash the ROM again. That should probably solve any bootloop problems.
(I don't know if it works exactly this same way with the rooted 2.1 RUU [I'm still on rooted 1.5], so if any of the above is wrong, anybody please correct it...)
HeroMeng said:
Look... there's a good chance your new Hero WILL have 2.1 on it. If it does, just root it and install a custom 1.5 rom.
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Yeah, I was thinking about that. If so, I might as well keep MY phone and install a 1.5 ROM on it. Less work, and they can have their "new" phone back.
chromiumleaf said:
This might mean you simply didn't wipe everything before you flashed the new ROM. Always perform a full wipe before flashing new ROMs.
Take the battery out of your phone. Put it back in and reboot to Recovery (hold Home and press Power). Then select the Wipe option, and go down that list and wipe every single category (I do them each twice just to make sure).
Then go back to the main menu and flash the ROM again. That should probably solve any bootloop problems.
(I don't know if it works exactly this same way with the rooted 2.1 RUU [I'm still on rooted 1.5], so if any of the above is wrong, anybody please correct it...)
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Wow, so working with this ROM is like dealing with my kids. I have to tell it everything twice No thanks. Not worth the hassles.
2.1 doesn't do anything better that I can see. I'll deal with wired tethering considering how rarely I use it. The Navigation on 1.5 works better, or at least the voice recognition does.
Why exactly are you still using 1.5??? What custom 1.5 ROM would you guys recommend? Any that have ad hoc networking built in so I don't have to hack it myself?
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Pretty sure all of them do.
Sure wish we could get WPA working for us....stupid kernel.
troublestylist said:
Wow, so working with this ROM is like dealing with my kids. I have to tell it everything twice No thanks. Not worth the hassles.
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You don't have to do them all twice, I was just saying that I do to make sure -- personal preference. Considering how those wipe options only take like 1 second each, there is no "hassle" of which you speak. Adds maybe an extra 4 to 5 seconds to your day at most.
troublestylist said:
Why exactly are you still using 1.5??? What custom 1.5 ROM would you guys recommend? Any that have ad hoc networking built in so I don't have to hack it myself?
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I'm not still on a 1.5 ROM, I just haven't yet updated my phone to stock 2.1 using the can't-ever-go-back-again 2.1 RUU. What I meant is that I still have the 1.5 root, but I have been using 2.1 ROMs over top of that for at least a couple months now. I think all these 2.1 ROMs are much faster than 1.5 ever was. Slow speed and lag were my biggest annoyances in stock 1.5.
We probably won't be able to answer all your questions or remove all your doubts. You won't know completely until you try some of them yourself.
If you look in the Wiki there are several 1.5 Roms out there that you can use. However, there are some apps that will only work with 2.1. Once your rooted you can flash any ROM from 1.5 or 2.1. You might also consider an AOSP rom which doesn't have Sense UI. But as I stated in another thread yesterday, most people end up adding apps to try and emulate certain characteristics of Sense UI. I don't like vanilla android, but it is supposed to be faster.
Here are all of the ROMs available. If you want a 1.5 Rom I would suggest Gumbo 1.5c, Modaco 2.2, or Fresh 1.1.
Thanks all. I honestly can't imagine how anyone could find 2.1 faster than 1.5, but I guess maybe once I'll reload 1.5, it may remind me. The "other half" of the people are (like me) saying the CPU can't handle the extra 2.1 features.
I never found 1.5 slow for anything other than phone calls. Now, those are WORSE, and the lag time to do anything else now exists, where it didn't before.
I ran DC all day, and it was just as annoying as the stock ROM. Maybe a little better in places, worse in others.
I guess I'm running "basic" stuff compared to all you guys running heavy apps or something.
Pancake 1.5 running now...refreshingly smoothly Yea, a bit of the glitz is gone, but wow, no lag.
And I have a Navigation program back that has a functional voice recognition. I hesitate to update because I'm not sure how far the revs go under 1.5. I don't want the new version back and I don't know if it's 2.1-only.
Hello,
I recently had my HD2 setup with MAGLDR 1.11 and a stock DHD ROM, however this froze constantly and seemed to get worse over time, as well as all together failing to boot sometimes.
So I updated MAGLDR to 1.13 found a nice rom "Typhoon CM7" I believe, downloaded the radio it sugested and flashed it, downloaded CWM and flashed it, and then flashed the ROM from SD using CWM.
Sadly however this has not fixed my freezes/failures to boot, im starting to think it might be hardware related.
So what I am asking is does somebody have a ROM that is working really well for them that they could sugest to me?
Thanks,
Alex.
everyone has different opinions, do you want a version with or without sense?
personally i like sense so am using imilkas ram hd version ,its fast and very stable
Well i usually tend to go for ROMs without sense, but i am pretty impartial to it.
alexhope21 said:
Well i usually tend to go for ROMs without sense, but i am pretty impartial to it.
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Which ROMs have you tried already, and what was wrong with them?
I have tried one of the many DHD stock ROMs and Typhoon CM7, as well as Raphroid and Ultradroid.
I frequently get a freeze at "GO GO GO" in MAGLDR 1.13, and then once the ROM does eventually succeed to boot, it often locks up.
Some ROMs seemed to do better then others overall however, Typhoon CM7, successfully booted most frequently.
In all cases I have used recommended radio's.
However the greatest hassle has been flashing them as I can only get CWM to boot 1 out of 20 times after multiple reflashings, it often gives me an error stating "FATALHIT 1".
Does everyone get behaviour like this?
Hmm.
That's Weird I Have Tried Lots of these roms and they all seem stable and fast on my hd2
crabtreebrandon29 said:
That's Weird I Have Tried Lots of these roms and they all seem stable and fast on my hd2
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Could you please give me some specific information of what version of MAGLDR, CWM you were using, as well as a link to the Radio and ROM?
Im starting to think my hardware might be bunged.
Thanks,
Alex.
i am too having a lot of problems when booting up from maglrd. It freezes or gets hit fatal error. Do anyone know a good stable rom that doesn't freeze when booting up,and has great battery life?
thi713 said:
i am too having a lot of problems when booting up from maglrd. It freezes or gets hit fatal error. Do anyone know a good stable rom that doesn't freeze when booting up,and has great battery life?
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All of them. End of story. This is due to user error. Not build related
alexhope21 said:
I have tried one of the many DHD stock ROMs and Typhoon CM7, as well as Raphroid and Ultradroid.
I frequently get a freeze at "GO GO GO" in MAGLDR 1.13, and then once the ROM does eventually succeed to boot, it often locks up.
Some ROMs seemed to do better then others overall however, Typhoon CM7, successfully booted most frequently.
In all cases I have used recommended radio's.
However the greatest hassle has been flashing them as I can only get CWM to boot 1 out of 20 times after multiple reflashings, it often gives me an error stating "FATALHIT 1".
Does everyone get behaviour like this?
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i assume you are changing the CWR partition each time you change from a dhd rom to a non sense/GB rom ?
Richy99 said:
i assume you are changing the CWR partition each time you change from a dhd rom to a non sense/GB rom ?
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Yeah, Im starting to think my hardware is damaged, I used to use the SD RAM rom that Dark Forces released, and I guess it did not benifit my device, as it would frequently get quite hot after 20min of straight use.
How does this ROM run with the 2.15.50.14 radio?
If it is also laggy and has bugs, then I think your phone might be broken.
For me all roms using SD-EXT are laggy as hell and i personally stopped testing those roms as I'm already used to the smoothness of Gingerbread... I'm searching almost everyday though these topics to find somebody who says "This is a really smooth Sense rom!". But never seen a comment like that.
Hello dear forum users.
I need your thoughts and advices on my problem.
I'm closely following the Android development on HD2 and learned nearly all methods accept "CLK".
What I recently realize is when I try to install a custom Anroid ROM I'm watching logcat and I mostly see that its giving some errors not always the same error but sometimes it stops after Iampc's(correct me if I'm wrong) sound script and starts bootloop and some times it installs without giving any errors but when it boots is giving lots of FC's after I entered the PIN or sometimes before entering the PIN. Some times it seems to load everything OK but when I turn my phone off and on again it is giving me the sound script bootloop, or not booting at all or sometimes it starts checking or reinstalling the .apks.
I've tried tytungs NexusHD, Tyween's CM mod, ponster's Hyperdroid, crawlingcity's UD etc... I tried lots off android roms and errors are the same.
I'm doing task 29, magldr 1.13, CWRmod, althoug I've fromatted the sd and partitioned it wih CWR I also did wipes of factory reset, cache and dalvik, than rom installation but results are the same.
I tried with different micro sd's and partitioning with cwm and under linux etc. etc..
I tried installing without the sd-ext partitioning and its still the same.
I've tried installing the winmo rom Energy and it setups and loads ok.
I really don't understand what is causing this and it is really making me angry.
I don't think it is related to the hardware because than winmo should give me the same kind of errors but it is not.
Does anyone faced this kind of behaviours? Please share your ideas and thoughts. Thank you.
webmanya said:
Hello dear forum users.
I need your thoughts and advices on my problem.
I'm closely following the Android development on HD2 and learned nearly all methods accept "CLK".
What I recently realize is when I try to install a custom Anroid ROM I'm watching logcat and I mostly see that its giving some errors not always the same error but sometimes it stops after Iampc's(correct me if I'm wrong) sound script and starts bootloop and some times it installs without giving any errors but when it boots is giving lots of FC's after I entered the PIN or sometimes before entering the PIN. Some times it seems to load everything OK but when I turn my phone off and on again it is giving me the sound script bootloop, or not booting at all or sometimes it starts checking or reinstalling the .apks.
I've tried tytungs NexusHD, Tyween's CM mod, ponster's Hyperdroid, crawlingcity's UD etc... I tried lots off android roms and errors are the same.
I'm doing task 29, magldr 1.13, CWRmod, althoug I've fromatted the sd and partitioned it wih CWR I also did wipes of factory reset, cache and dalvik, than rom installation but results are the same.
I tried with different micro sd's and partitioning with cwm and under linux etc. etc..
I tried installing without the sd-ext partitioning and its still the same.
I've tried installing the winmo rom Energy and it setups and loads ok.
I really don't understand what is causing this and it is really making me angry.
I don't think it is related to the hardware because than winmo should give me the same kind of errors but it is not.
Does anyone faced this kind of behaviours? Please share your ideas and thoughts. Thank you.
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Maybe your problem is like mine
I had posted similar problem, you can check my threads here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000190
Pay special attention to post #42
Cheers
silverwind said:
Maybe your problem is like mine
I had posted similar problem, you can check my threads here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000190
Pay special attention to post #42
Cheers
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Thank you for your advice. I don't know but I'll try to see if its really about the bad blocks. Thank you again.
I don't think my problem is about the bad blocks in the nand. Because what is funny is that I can flash the imilka's ROM's without any problems.
And one more think I realized is that I'm facing this problem with the gingerbread ROMs. I guess they are sharing something and I can not delete them so I'm facing these problems. I think it is really about that you can not delete the nand fully or format it with task 29.
Becuase I realized that when I change ROMs although I've wiped several times I'm getting errors but If I flash the ROM after flashing the original HTC ROM I don't get the same errors. So I guess what we really need is a better tool to wipe and format the NAND for us.
I don't know if this is possible.
webmanya said:
Thank you for your advice. I don't know but I'll try to see if its really about the bad blocks. Thank you again.
I don't think my problem is about the bad blocks in the nand. Because what is funny is that I can flash the imilka's ROM's without any problems.
And one more think I realized is that I'm facing this problem with the gingerbread ROMs. I guess they are sharing something and I can not delete them so I'm facing these problems. I think it is really about that you can not delete the nand fully or format it with task 29.
Becuase I realized that when I change ROMs although I've wiped several times I'm getting errors but If I flash the ROM after flashing the original HTC ROM I don't get the same errors. So I guess what we really need is a better tool to wipe and format the NAND for us.
I don't know if this is possible.
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In fact, I still can use Imilka's, Rafdroid and few other Nandroid ROM
But, I dont want to make it worse knowing that there is some badblock(because I want to sell it)
So, I am back with Winmo and SD Android. It is much safer for me
Cheers
No matter what rom I use my phone will randomly reboot. When I set the mobile network to 2G only it stops is their anything I can do to fix this please help.
Thanks in Advance.
tdizzle404 said:
No matter what rom I use my phone will randomly reboot. When I set the mobile network to 2G only it stops is their anything I can do to fix this please help.
Thanks in Advance.
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I have been having this problem more often using sense 3.0 Roms. I would like to know what the issue is as well!?
yea I notice it more in sense 3 roms also. Ive ran rom cleaner v6 super charger script ,different ram optimizer apps ,task 29 ,re flash radio,choose network provider manually.
I dont know what else to try lol."besides flashing back to win 6.5"
My wife has a hd2 we bought ours together and she does not have this issue. But Ive only flashed very few roms on it and she likes cm7 roms so I dont know.
I just know when I switch the phone to 2G only they stop. Period . Doesnt re boot unless i reboot it. Its really pi$$ing me off though.
Sometimes it will re boot like 3 times in a row and then it wont for hours "Really Random" lol
tdizzle404 said:
yea I notice it more in sense 3 roms also. Ive ran rom cleaner v6 super charger script ,different ram optimizer apps ,task 29 ,re flash radio,choose network provider manually.
I dont know what else to try lol."besides flashing back to win 6.5"
My wife has a hd2 we bought ours together and she does not have this issue. But Ive only flashed very few roms on it and she likes cm7 roms so I dont know.
I just know when I switch the phone to 2G only they stop. Period . Doesnt re boot unless i reboot it. Its really pi$$ing me off though.
Sometimes it will re boot like 3 times in a row and then it wont for hours "Really Random" lol
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try rom cleaner 2.0 but its vicious and wile wipe ur sd card also,but for the best solution try..............USING ROOT EXPLORER,GO TO.............
SYS/MODULE/lowmemorykiller/parameters,then long press minfree ,open in text editor and edit the numbers to whats best for ur phone.......
Thanks for the info Ive tried rom cleaner and v6 supercharger script. the only thing that works is switching the phone to 2g mode.
Ive not tried rom cleaner 2.0 though is there something special about that version?
It also does it on eu roms and I have a tmous phone so I dont think that limited space is my issue. On sense 3 roms after supercharger script I have 150mb"at least" of Ram so I don't think that lack of ram is the issue either.
Does anyone think flashing back to win 6.5 will help? I mean Ive done a task 29 and ran Carls wipe it zip, I think everything would be erased after that.
tdizzle404 said:
Thanks for the info Ive tried rom cleaner and v6 supercharger script. the only thing that works is switching the phone to 2g mode.
Ive not tried rom cleaner 2.0 though is there something special about that version?
It also does it on eu roms and I have a tmous phone so I dont think that limited space is my issue. On sense 3 roms after supercharger script I have 150mb"at least" of Ram so I don't think that lack of ram is the issue either.
Does anyone think flashing back to win 6.5 will help? I mean Ive done a task 29 and ran Carls wipe it zip, I think everything would be erased after that.
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cnt offer much more USEFUL info lol,how useless am i lol,but as for windows mobile,that is ur safest best,but dnt forget the downgrading basics lol,and i must say im jealous of ur free ram lol,im in uk so i have an eu hd2.................but 1 thing that F##KS me off is why couldn't htc make the eu hd2 the same as t-mo america etc,tempted to get a flight to america to buy 1 lol
Is there anyway to log/debug the phone to see what is causing this annoying problem? I've the EXACT problem as you...2G ok but 3G random reboots...
Some people said it could be bad NAND blocks, but yesterday I've moved to NativeSD ROM (no NAND blocks anymore) and the issue still persists...HELP!!!!!!!!!!
I have look deeply in the forums and I still cant find the answer for this question, or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. I have this MT4G already root, and I was planning on flashing it for better performance and battery life. I have seen Roms, Kernels and Radio flashing, but I haven't see a post where I can get like the right combination of those 3 and which one you have to flash first in order to have the 3 of those. If anyone know, please let me know with links, or with own experience.
And yes my friends, I'm new in this thing and I'm trying to learn everything thats has to do with androids.
I'm sorry if this thread has been post and any mod are free to delete it, I'm just looking forward to know every detail if possible.
Don't touch the baseband (radio) until you read enough to understand what it is and what it does.
Flashing ROM includes a kernel.
Switching kernels on the same ROM is a matter of preference.
Switching ROMs is a matter of preference.
There is no "best". There are different things to suit different people.
Read more, until you understand, what a ROM is and what a kernel is. There is LOTS of info on the internet, and if you're new and trying to learn, you should know that your path doesn't lay through asking questions on the forum, but through reading what's been asked ages before you, because as a newcomer, you have no new questions to present and can safely assume that all you have to ask, has been answered 10000 times.
Jack_R1 said:
Don't touch the baseband (radio) until you read enough to understand what it is and what it does.
Flashing ROM includes a kernel.
Switching kernels on the same ROM is a matter of preference.
Switching ROMs is a matter of preference.
There is no "best". There are different things to suit different people.
Read more, until you understand, what a ROM is and what a kernel is. There is LOTS of info on the internet, and if you're new and trying to learn, you should know that your path doesn't lay through asking questions on the forum, but through reading what's been asked ages before you, because as a newcomer, you have no new questions to present and can safely assume that all you have to ask, has been answered 10000 times.
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this rom so far has the best combination, battery is awesome it is stable and fast, and there is weaks for you to chose from.Here's a link to the ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401556
ThaPirato said:
this rom so far has the best combination, battery is awesome it is stable and fast, and there is weaks for you to chose from.Here's a link to the ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401556
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Thanks! I will try it right now.
Crazy, as a smart phone newbie on my MT3G I read for days before flashing radio and I am a tech, can be confusing... but
1. Radio. I have stock Gingerbread radio. This will be good enough to flash a variety or ROMS, although there are newer versions. The 1st answer is correct to read about the radio - that is where you could brick you phone if you mess up. Read about good and bad EMMC
2. You need a Recovery. Clockworkmod is usually a starter and then 4EXT IMHO, both of which you can get from the market ... Once you have recovery, you can wipe cache data etc... flash and backup ROMS. A decent sized SD card is necessary for backups. My Sense backups are ~1 GB. Between backups and music etc... you will need a decent card.
3. You can flash a different kernel but mostly they are included in the ROMs, as stated. I find there are, in a way, 3 flavors of ROMs: Sense, MIUI, and CM. My favourites are all by the same developer - CM7.2 (current ROM), Darkside Sense 4.0, and MIUI but there are a lot of good ones out there and ICS is on the way.
Look at the Resource Bible for radio how tos, and that and the development section for a good idea of some of the best ROMs and experiment. I suggest backing your ROMs as you may want to go back to them later because you might find you did not get all you could out of the ROM just cuz you didn't know enough yet.
Summarizing: Once the radio is good, all the 'combination' stuff you asked about will fall in place. Just remember to read about radio and emmc first. If you get stuck hit me up and I will help you out. Don't flash radio until you know what you are doing.
Jack_R1 said:
Don't touch the baseband (radio) until you read enough to understand what it is and what it does.
Flashing ROM includes a kernel.
Switching kernels on the same ROM is a matter of preference.
Switching ROMs is a matter of preference.
There is no "best". There are different things to suit different people.
Read more, until you understand, what a ROM is and what a kernel is. There is LOTS of info on the internet, and if you're new and trying to learn, you should know that your path doesn't lay through asking questions on the forum, but through reading what's been asked ages before you, because as a newcomer, you have no new questions to present and can safely assume that all you have to ask, has been answered 10000 times.
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I know there is no best combination, but what i know is other users with good experience that maybe will suit me, thats why I want recommendations from others experienced users
Homerbsharp said:
Crazy, as a smart phone newbie on my MT3G I read for days before flashing radio and I am a tech, can be confusing... but
1. Radio. I have stock Gingerbread radio. This will be good enough to flash a variety or ROMS, although there are newer versions. The 1st answer is correct to read about the radio - that is where you could brick you phone if you mess up. Read about good and bad EMMC
2. You need a Recovery. Clockworkmod is usually a starter and then 4EXT IMHO, both of which you can get from the market ... Once you have recovery, you can wipe cache data etc... flash and backup ROMS. A decent sized SD card is necessary for backups. My Sense backups are ~1 GB. Between backups and music etc... you will need a decent card.
3. You can flash a different kernel but mostly they are included in the ROMs, as stated. I find there are, in a way, 3 flavors of ROMs: Sense, MIUI, and CM. My favourites are all by the same developer - CM7.2 (current ROM), Darkside Sense 4.0, and MIUI but there are a lot of good ones out there and ICS is on the way.
Look at the Resource Bible for radio how tos, and that and the development section for a good idea of some of the best ROMs and experiment. I suggest backing your ROMs as you may want to go back to them later because you might find you did not get all you could out of the ROM just cuz you didn't know enough yet.
Summarizing: Once the radio is good, all the 'combination' stuff you asked about will fall in place. Just remember to read about radio and emmc first. If you get stuck hit me up and I will help you out. Don't flash radio until you know what you are doing.
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This is what i was looking for.
I was reading the MT4G post for new ppl and already check my EMMc and its the good one. Already root my phone with the visionary app using a guide from here to do the PermaRoot. I already read already a little about MIUI and Radio ( of course i need to read more ) I know there is an app called Titanium that is good for backup, read about Rom manager and what it does. But believe me, I will keep reading like a maniac lol
Btw, this is what my phone have right now:
Ver. 2.2.1
Baseband ver. ( Radio if Im not mistaken )
12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26M
Kernel
2.6.32.21
Songo07 said:
This is what i was looking for.
I was reading the MT4G post for new ppl and already check my EMMc and its the good one. Already root my phone with the visionary app using a guide from here to do the PermaRoot. I already read already a little about MIUI and Radio ( of course i need to read more ) I know there is an app called Titanium that is good for backup, read about Rom manager and what it does. But believe me, I will keep reading like a maniac lol
Btw, this is what my phone have right now:
Ver. 2.2.1
Baseband ver. ( Radio if Im not mistaken )
12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26M
Kernel
2.6.32.21
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Excellent, finding you have the good EMMc is nice thing.
You have froyo radio, allowed you to root, so you just have to flash more recent radio and you are good to go.
Couple of other things:
1. Especially for radio but for all downloads use an md5 checker; I am using SnapMD5 on xp - free, seems to work well. There are also other programs and you can also do it in terminal mode or adb.
2. After radio, get clockworkmod and install recovery.
3. Download your ROM, put on SD card, then boot into recovery.
4. Backup ROM. Wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik when flashing ROMS, cache and dalvik for updates only.
5. Install from SD card - choose your ROM zip file ...
FYI, if you are not using pro version I find mybackup root to be better for mass restoring apps ... but I use Titanium as well.
One last thing that is your original request for what you want is battery life and performance IMHO = CM, my favorite being TDJs 7.2 however trust me and the others, you won't know what you want just yet ...
Homerbsharp said:
Excellent, finding you have the good EMMc is nice thing.
You have froyo radio, allowed you to root, so you just have to flash more recent radio and you are good to go.
Couple of other things:
1. Especially for radio but for all downloads use an md5 checker; I am using SnapMD5 on xp - free, seems to work well. There are also other programs and you can also do it in terminal mode or adb.
2. After radio, get clockworkmod and install recovery.
3. Download your ROM, put on SD card, then boot into recovery.
4. Backup ROM. Wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik when flashing ROMS, cache and dalvik for updates only.
5. Install from SD card - choose your ROM zip file ...
FYI, if you are not using pro version I find mybackup root to be better for mass restoring apps ... but I use Titanium as well.
One last thing that is your original request for what you want is battery life and performance IMHO = CM, my favorite being TDJs 7.2 however trust me and the others, you won't know what you want just yet ...
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Got it.
I already update my Radio to 26.08.04.30 gingerbread, haven't seen a big change ( maybe because im from PR ) lol and i have the stock one in case I start having problems with that one.
On my way now to do the clockworkmode to get the recovery so i can move one to the ROMS.
Songo07 said:
Got it.
I already update my Radio to 26.08.04.30 gingerbread, haven't seen a big change ( maybe because im from PR ) lol and i have the stock one in case I start having problems with that one.
On my way now to do the clockworkmode to get the recovery so i can move one to the ROMS.
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After you use clockwork download 4EXT, it is awesome and now has 'touchcovery' which is so, so slick - it has a 'wipe all except for sd card' which is really good for changing ROMs.
Not sure if you have your card partitioned with 4EXT but you might want to go that way at some point. You can do it from within recovery but note when partitioning and formatting cards you can wipe your data so best to just pull everything to your PC first - e.g. if you have some pics and music on your card.
You are about to have a lot of fun!
Homerbsharp said:
After you use clockwork download 4EXT, it is awesome and now has 'touchcovery' which is so, so slick - it has a 'wipe all except for sd card' which is really good for changing ROMs.
Not sure if you have your card partitioned with 4EXT but you might want to go that way at some point. You can do it from within recovery but note when partitioning and formatting cards you can wipe your data so best to just pull everything to your PC first - e.g. if you have some pics and music on your card.
You are about to have a lot of fun!
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Already bought Rom Manager Pro ( yes...i know lol there are maybe other free apps ), since I had problems doing the CWM with terminal and ADB. I did the backup of my rom and system files. The only thing that is left is to download the ROM and wipe everything and im done. I was reading about 4EXT and was about to download it to install it and give it a try. So far, everything good with the radio. Btw, can you wipe other things from 4EXT apart from the sd?
For wiping:
Wipe data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache when doing a new rom. If you are at 100% batter you may want to wipe battery stats - optional.
A lot of people have strange issues because they don't do a good wipe and just do cache and dalvik. I have found that only appropriate if going between minor version differences.
You don't wipe the SD card FAT partition. This is also why I like the 4EXT option to wipe everything except for SD.
Homerbsharp said:
For wiping:
Wipe data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache when doing a new rom. If you are at 100% batter you may want to wipe battery stats - optional.
A lot of people have strange issues because they don't do a good wipe and just do cache and dalvik. I have found that only appropriate if going between minor version differences.
You don't wipe the SD card FAT partition. This is also why I like the 4EXT option to wipe everything except for SD.
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I havent try it yet but I already download it and installed. I was planning on do a complete whipe to the phone anyways lol. Whats the point on erasing battery stats? Oh and im downloading 3 different roms. I will.get back.with the names.later but.one of them is CM7
Btw, I wanted.to.know if im doing something wrong using terminal.or ADB since on ADB I was trying to push some files to the sdcard but said something about permision denied.
If you still out there, i finally finish everything. I'm running Virtuous Affinity 1.48 at 1.3ghz ( will test later at 1.5 ) with the gingerbread radio and so far is running smooth and awesome. Already install Rom manager pro, 4EXT and some other cool apps that the Rom already had. And i can say it was thanks to you and the bible lol
Oh and btw, now I'm gonna read about the galaxy S since my wife have one, Im gonna try with that one too hahaha
depends on preference
if you prefer sense over stock vanialla android, i would suggest one of the many sense 3.5 roms on the forum. They have been optimized amazingly to work wihtout lag on the mt4g. I'm running Darkside 4 and have been satisfied with the indcluded kernel. As for radio, don't touch it unless you see that someone else has had success.
battery life
I kno I'm a nood but for me I've keep my WiFi and data shut off . I was on unity but went to coredroid what a sick Rom .