I'm talking to everyone who's been reading the ICS threads and progress that's being made to our ICS roms, but has not made the leap for whatever reason.
I'm speaking to you because I was you, at least until Friday when I finally decided to make the move to Neobuddy's Euphoria RC1 rom.
I quietly followed and read every single thread in the development section relating to our ICS progress, but was constantly reading about the problems with battery life and GPS difficulties.
I decided that after weeks of watching and waiting, I would take the plunge and report about my first 24 hours. I did not want to leave out details, so I took screen shots to show everyone who was like me before, standing on the sidelines, waiting for some magical "Ah ha" moment. Hopefully this will give you confidence in your decision and I can help you out along the way.
To start with, I have one of the first generations of our Vibrant (purchased the month it came out). I also purchased a Epic 4G battery from here about 4 months ago and have been using Bionix 1.3.2 and Deranged9 for as long as I can remember. When I flashed Euphoria, I had an initial problem with the installation where it got hung up at the boot screen (normal for coming from 2.2 roms) and it should also be mentioned that I DID NOT flash a GB Bootloader and had no problems with my recovery or rainbows.
The flash was pretty quick, even with having to reflash the rom twice. Once flashed, everything was pretty smooth from that point forward. I charged my phone up to 100% and calibrated it using the V6 supercharger script . After doing that, I woke up in the morning (I sleep in late on the weekend) and preceded to not only test my phone (GPS, different apps, change settings) but to use it normally (make calls, connect to my car's stereo Bluetooth connection to play music, etc.). The phone was the fastest it had ever been and everything worked as if I was still on my clutch Bionix rom.
The best part about my entire experience was that not only was everything working, but my battery life was out of this world good. I am not exaggerating by any means, and I've included screen shots to quantify my experience. I could not believe that not only did my GPS work after deep sleep (I tested it on multiple of occasions) but my battery was averaging about 2% loss an hour. The other icing on the cake was the fact that I was able to get the highest internet speeds using the stock modem (KB5 I believe).
I'm sorry for the literary diarrhea but I know that there are others like myself who are sitting on the sidelines, waiting for something to push them over the edge, and move onto an ICS based rom. The below is more specific information should you decide to follow what I did to a "T".
Rom: Neobuddy's Euphoria RC1 Rom
Modem: KB5
Kernel: ICS_Kissed_20120226.1157
Tweaks: Captivate GPS Fix
Battery: 1800mAH Samsung Epic 4G Battery
Battery Cycles: 1
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your photos aren't working
im in a very similar boat w/ a vibrant from aug-2010 & the 1800mah battery so i'd be interested to see your photos... im practically hanging off the fence ready to jump on the ICS boat but we'll see soon enough
Welcome my friend. Glad to see you. Been awhile since the D9 days. ICS is pretty slick isn't it? Hope all is well and if you have any Q's just let us know. I've got official ICS on my tablet and wish I could put Roman's control on it like on my phone.
i was also on the fence for a good while. i was thinking, 'man, settling for ics just because it's ics isn't for me!' i assumed it was pretty much not usable. i flashed passion first, then euphoria, now i'm on zenwich. all three are about as good as they're gonna get without an official ics, and that's not a diss at all. all three roms i tried are very stable and fast. there's been a few hiccups (laggy app drawer, random force closes), but that's to be expected. and by no means do those things happen often. they've happened maybe three times. as far as battery, i have the 1800mah battery, and my battery life is average. i get about 12hr with moderate to heavy use, and any use less than that i can easily make it through the whole day without worrying about charging. i am outside most of my day though, so i do have brightness almost all the way up. i don't expect miracles with battery life and neither should anyone else. i say for those on the fence about ics, just try it. it's fun and new and mostly everything works without a hitch.
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im in a very similar boat w/ a vibrant from aug-2010 & the 1800mah battery so i'd be interested to see your photos... im practically hanging off the fence ready to jump on the ICS boat but we'll see soon enough
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Sorry about that, didn't have it on my public directory. All fixed. Enjoy the battery greatness!
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Welcome my friend. Glad to see you. Been awhile since the D9 days. ICS is pretty slick isn't it? Hope all is well and if you have any Q's just let us know. I've got official ICS on my tablet and wish I could put Roman's control on it like on my phone.
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Hey man!! Long time no talk. Glad to see we're both rocking the same rom again. Deranged was great, but with this rom, it's on a whole new level. I can seriously get the same battery life but the speed is just outrageous. My only wish is that I could lock my home launcher (Apex Launcher) into memory. I have a decent amount of redraws but other than that, it's ridiculously fast.
I also have ICS on my tablet too (I have an HP Touchpad). I can put AOKTP on it, but I have been super happy with the work that dalingrin and CM9 have put out. I eventually will have to try it out, I just have been super happy with the progress they've made on it.
Out of curiosity, have you found any build prop tweaks that you've added to Euphoria? I want to change some things up, but not too sure what others have done.
Mat
I was on dr9 and I decided to switch to ICS 2 weeks ago. I swear I never want to come back again! First time ever I feel my phone is way superior than a freaking iPhone. Thanks to all devs, my once crappy phone becomes iPhone slayer.
P.s My GPS never works even on froyo 2.2 Would flashing that GPS fix solve my problem? I heard about hardware fix, what is it and where can I get it? Thanks
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I just bought my first (used) android phone last week and after much deliberation decided to try the Vibrant because of the many custom ROMs available for it and it's widespread forum support from developers. I've flashed Passion, Euphoria, and Slim ICS over the last week (mainly just to try out a few ROMs and get the process of flashing down). They each have their own strengths and I recommend reading the threads in detail prior to flashing the ROM as some of them do have some common kinks that can be worked out with simple solutions. Either way thanks to all the developers for their hard work bringing ICS to this older (but not ancient yet) platform!
I did the same thing up until recently, just followed the ics threads but haven't used them.
I just took the jump Thursday, I'm actually pretty amazed at how well it all works too! I haven't even calibrated my battery yet and I'm still getting about the same battery life that I was on toxic 8 and fishman mod. I've been playing with passion and slim ics both are amazing roms. For those who havent at least tried ics this is the perfect time to do so,most have about equal battery life and great speed to go with it and are very stable.
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Sorry about that, didn't have it on my public directory. All fixed. Enjoy the battery greatness!
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are you running stock speeds or have you overclocked to 1.2ghz??
and im a bit concerned about how your battery usage shows 19% screen...
any comments on using slim for a barebone ICS experience over euphoria/passion?
i wish there was some sort of description as to what exactly the slimming of ICS entailed
I miss ics so much. Im on a galaxy s ii right now yes it's super fast and everything but I love ics passion so much. The battery lasted forever on that Rom and this phone can barely do 8 hrs. Also it was just so nice to have ics. Call this an overstatement but im seriously considering about going back to the vibrant because the sgsii has no ics yet.
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I miss ics so much. Im on a galaxy s ii right now yes it's super fast and everything but I love ics passion so much. The battery lasted forever on that Rom and this phone can barely do 8 hrs. Also it was just so nice to have ics. Call this an overstatement but im seriously considering about going back to the vibrant because the sgsii has no ics yet.
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Errm
Yes it does mate...
Hav u looked in the dev section? :L
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Can someone tell me the Pros and Cons of switching from Eclair or Froyo to ICS? I am debating on doing it but don't know if its worth the hassle besides better battery life.
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are you running stock speeds or have you overclocked to 1.2ghz??
and im a bit concerned about how your battery usage shows 19% screen...
any comments on using slim for a barebone ICS experience over euphoria/passion?
i wish there was some sort of description as to what exactly the slimming of ICS entailed
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I would say half the day I had it was set to 1.2GHz and the rest of the day was at 1GHz. I can tell you that I used the heck out of the phone, and 19% of 25 + hours with screen on isn't too bad. Not to mention, I was talking on the phone for around 1.5-2 hours of that time as well.
If I really pushed it, I know I could easily get 12-14 hours with HEAVY usage. In all likelihood though, if you think about a normal work day or school day, you should have problem going an entire day with either of the ICS roms, especially with an 1800 mah battery.
I thought ICS was good untill I tried Kanged Kool Aid. This rom is just amazing. It works 110% and is really fast with no lag what so ever. Plus the battery life I'm gettin with the epic 4g 1800mAh battery is the best I ever had.
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I usually get about 10 hours on AOKP and did so on Euphoria too with moderate usage.
No calls, maybe 3 maximum a day that lasted no more than 2 minutes each.
Texting is heavy, about a 1000 texts a day.
Games that are NOT too graphic dependent, such as Edge EX, Speedx 3D and Lane Splitter
and on WIFI the entire day.
Any suggestions? I'm using 2G instead of 3G since i do not have a data plan.
Brightness is about 5-10%
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Yes it does mate...
Hav u looked in the dev section? :L
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I have and it's not really a stable ics.
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I DOOD IT!!
I am noob. I am ashamed. I am piggybacking:
I love my Vibrant. I got tired of feeling left behind on updates, so I became interested in rooting and flashing my phone. After scouring these forums for a week, I had a mental list of problems that might pop up during the process. Many other sites published pros and cons of rooting -- the former outweighing the latter. What really pushed my decision to do something, was the headline, "Galaxy S III with Ice Cream Sandwich due out around April." The warranty was up; I felt assured that I could always restore; why not try opening the phone's potential?! Using two computers and a printed list of instructions, I took the plunge. I followed the Noob Guide and a video from Eddie1west, I now have a fully-functioning, up-to-date Virbrant that I am in love with all over again.
The first issue was lack of drivers on the computer: fixed. My eyes rolled, but I pressed on. Second came the boot-loop issues when installing both CM7 and ICS Passion. I cringed, but kept at it -- removing the battery and reinstalling one time each did the trick. I can't report any major deficiencies, but I'm still playing with the phone. I anticipate problems to arise, but I can accept them knowing that I have a wealth of knowledge to rely on -- even from other noobs like me.
I sincerely appreciate the amazing amount of effort and passion these developers have. Now where's that elusive "thanks" button...
it's always nice to get some user-experience posts about going to a ROM like this... I haven't taken the ICS plunge, but it's on my list of things to do when time permits.
Maybe I'll get to it this week
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it's always nice to get some user-experience posts about going to a ROM like this... I haven't taken the ICS plunge, but it's on my list of things to do when time permits.
Maybe I'll get to it this week
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I'm telling you man, with all my sincerity, this rom's battery life, gps and everything is just as stable as any 2.2 rom. I am now on my 3rd full day and my battery is still averaging crazy idle power usage (I don't talk on my cell while at work) and my gps had the best locks I've ever gotten ( I just walked my dog while testing it) with this phone.
I feel like I held on for so long, being so scared of what would happen to my phone if I flashed it. I was so scared about the mute/unmute bug, but guess what....I've had countless calls and not one person has said anything about my voice quality.
My suggestion is to go for it, worst case scenario, you ODIN to 2.1 and then restore your original backup. No harm, no foul....and no GB bootloaders.
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This thread will focus on the current roms, and if theres a new version, it'll be back up on here in a week or less.
I encourage other people to make REVIEW's as well to keep the new users updated on the new roms.
Try to do these reviews on ROMS that haven't had reviews done on them yet.
Note: These are personal opinions.
NOTE: as another person mentioned below, most of these ROMS do support OVER CLOCK kernels, but make sure by asking the devs or other people using the same ROM.
Disclaimer: By voicing my opinions here, i am not saying 1 dev is greater or better than the other, i'm simply stating my personal opinions and personal experiences.
What does a BETA- (ROM NAME) mean? It means that its a quick review, and not a fully detailed, when the beta is removed, it means the rom has been used for atleast a week, which gives me time to examine its uses etc.
Nero v5 (KA5)
Developers: Team Whiskey (TW)
Nero, is said to be the "best rom for the vibrant" by many users, and this reason is because of the reputation Team Whiskey has, their roms are ALWAYS stable, have incredible speed. Nero comes with VOODOO, the latest one available, and currently has KA5, which i'm guessing is because KA5 is currently loved by many people and serves good reception and speeds, where on KA6 and KA7, people compain about speeds, or TW may be working on their official froyo rom right after the source is released by Samsung.
Nero has the beauty, speeds, and anything else you can say.
If you have problems with lag on Nero, trust me it is NOT the rom, it may be that you do not have VOODOO (lagfix) enabled, or that you flashed it in a incorrect way.
Nero is based on unofficial 2.2 till now.
Nero comes with a sleek ginger-bread looking notification bar.
A little problem very few people have is that Team Whiskey is very "un-user-feedback" meaning they don't usually respond to comments, or questions on their threads unless if its absolutely necessary. Maybe because their more busy? I do not know.
Battery life is good, but i've had to recondition everytime. experiences will be differ.
Nero is recommended to everyone and anyone.
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AXURA Vibrant Edition 2.2.7.1 [KA5] Beauty
Developer: Master and his website is Devs4Android
Axura is EXTREMELY stable, and i admire this rom VERY much, knowing that Master, alone made this entire ROM. The developer Master is a common community member of XDA, and does answer questions, and replies to comments etc. Axura is also on KA5, and the latest VooDoo, and based off of a 2.2 unofficial ROM. Unlike most 2.2 based ROMS out right now, Axura has a sleek silver-grey theme, which makes it one of the most unique roms out. The best thing about Axura is not the beauty, or the speeds, and not even the stability. It is the Battery, even without a recondition, you will get around 20+ hours of battery life on this ROM, but it will all come into how much or how less you use your phone and how heavy you use it. If your need Battery, Stability, Speed, and Dev-to-User feedback then get this ROM NOW.
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Bionix-V (Official OTA 2.2)
Developer: Team Whiskey
Bionix is the latest, and greatest ROM out, as of 1/26/11.
This is the rom i've used for a few weeks and can i just say that this is magical. The battery life is EXCELLENT!(make sure to flash at when your at 100% battery for maximum effects, or recondition after flashing) I can easily last over 20 hours with moderate use and no recondition.
The Design of the theme is, as always, Gingerbread. It has a sleek black notification bar, and all the designs are black as well.
The speed of the rom is incredible, and i cannot tell if its voodoo doing this or the rom itself, because when i tested thsi without voodoo. i felt the same effects, it has absolutely no lag.
When you flash the rom, Voodoo is auto-enabled, so if your coming from a non-voodoo rom-enabled, it will take time to reboot.
It runs a KA7 Modem, which is good as any other modem for me.
IF you want the most out of your Vibrant, then THIS ROM IS A MUST TRY.
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Br1ck'd's **no bloat** Froyo
Developer: Einherjar
This is a rom that you'd like if you were more of a "STOCK" person.
This rom is TOTAL stock, but with all the crap (bloatware removed)
It has a KA7 modem, which is NOT the official that came with stock, but KA7 is better than KA6 according to many users.
If your a TouchWiz fan, this has most of that, gone, i'm guessing mostly because TouchWiz is un-used or it created more lag.
A thing with this rom is that the LIVE WALLPAPERS are removed my guess is to bog down the lag, but i'm not 100% sure.
The battery usage on this rom is about 15-20 hours on moderate, but it may vary.
This has a STOCK look, meaning the black notification you usually see, is not here.
It has a grey-ish-black-ish notification bar, like any stock.
The GPS on this thing is incredible, i have not messed with any of my hardware, and trust me on some of the best roms out there (no names) my gps wouldn't work... but this rom right after flashing gave me 7 sattelites in less than 5 seconds and got a lock.
This rom has VOODOO backing it up with its speed. This rom comes with an amazing music player "miui music player" which is NOT created by the devs of this rom but it is the stock music player and just looks BEAUTIFUL.
I love the music player so much, i've already stolen the .apk and put it on my other roms
A Problem i've faced during this ROM is that even though its extremely stable, and even runs voodoo, i did experience lag, not a whole lot like the official froyo, but a little bit, enough lag to make me go back to my old rom.
I'm not sure if its just me, or its for everyone.
besides the lag for me, this rom is wonderful, and perfect for anyone looking anywhere close to a STOCK rom.
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M - Flagship V4 BETA
Developers: Einherjar
Did you like Flagship V4? yes? well, you'll just think this beta is x5 better.
I don't know how Jellette makes these stable, while speedy roms, but whatever he does, it keeps improving every rom update!
The Battery Life WITHOUT recondition: 16 hours with light-moderate use.
The Battery Life WITH recondition: 20+ hours with light-moderate use.
The notification bar has been... redone.
As usual the notification bar is transparent and takes the place of any app your using, so it does change colors.
the pull-down is now, which i love, a sleek white-ish-grey-ish pulldown.
The icons, have also been re-done! They look beautiful, their kind of "oval" looking and fit with the whole rom.
It comes with an amazing music player, which includes...
Sound Hound music listener/finder, radio, your own playlists etc, and your videos, and youtube videos. It's a whole media package in 1 app.
The DOCK, i love it! The left side is a phone (we'll talk about this in the next sentence ) and the right is a messaging icon, in the middle is a ... hut? looking icon which you press for your app drawer.
The Dialer or phone call app on this Beta, is a transparent one. You can see all the numbers clearly, and you can see your background as well.
The icons on top are grey-white, and while your charging the battery goes green and starts going up.
The Beta comes with the newly found KB1, which has been giving me pretty good reception.
This rom is recommended to everyone, and anyone who has a vibrant.
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Thanks xriderx66 very nice and accurate writeup in total agreement with you.
The only thing I would add is the Team-Whiskey have some overclock roms you can play/flash over the stock nero should the user view their phone like a corvette in need of speed modification
Thank you for this write up,im sure everyone will love this.
It takes a very talented and patient person to write up such well done and accurate reviews.
Thanks again for your dedication and time
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App. Bionics V. by Team Whiskey
What are some of the other popular ROMs out there? I always here about Nero and Axura but seldom others. Is there a ROM that is basically stock Android for this phone?
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What are some of the other popular ROMs out there? I always here about Nero and Axura but seldom others. Is there a ROM that is basically stock Android for this phone?
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Team Whiskey makes a variety of other ROMs that may fit that bill more closely than their Nero or Bionix projects.
Why someone would want to flash a nearly stock Android ROM is beyond me.
Just look around in the Development section.
Here's an example of one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870480
Sorry guys. I was hoping to write a few more, and I will soon as I get back from my 7 mile cross country race so yeah ill add more, added axura and veto because their the best and most popular.
Bionix v commingle soon.
these roms are very stable ?? so does every official froyo and about battery life on TW for my phone was worst than stock ka7 just FYI .
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these roms are very stable ?? so does every official froyo and about battery life on TW for my phone was worst than stock ka7 just FYI .
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note i said that battery life varies with how much or how less use.
Bionix v is the best vibrant ROm till date IMHO. Great battery life,very accurate GPS, thats all we need for our vibrants rite..
i'd like to see a review of one of heathen's roms. i've been interested, but lazy... and not wanting to flash anything until ninjabread is available.
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i'd like to see a review of one of heathen's roms. i've been interested, but lazy... and not wanting to flash anything until ninjabread is available.
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I'm sorry, i review ROMS that i've personally used and had experience with it for atleast a week, reviewing a rom right after flashing will give it a very in-accurate review and i don't want that.
but as i said, if you use a rom, and would like to review a ROM, just PM me your Review and i'll put yours in the first post along with Credits.
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bionixv review has been added.
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This is the answer i was looking for. Glad I found this post. It's been a while since i flashed my phone with a new rom (Nero v3) and with the official stuff out from tmobile/samsung I wanted to know what was out there now. This post should be stickied. Thanks a bunch!
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you talk about reconditioning the battery. can you post a link to whatever post you use on how to do that exactly? Thanks!
Op, I just tried flagship v3. Trust me, you need to also. Great theme and very fast (1550+). I do wish voodoo was enabled by default.
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This is the answer i was looking for. Glad I found this post. It's been a while since i flashed my phone with a new rom (Nero v3) and with the official stuff out from tmobile/samsung I wanted to know what was out there now. This post should be stickied. Thanks a bunch!
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Charge phone till 100%
Use all phones battery 1 or less %
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Select advanced
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@S1 ill try it later tomorrow
screenshot or video??
How about a screenshot for each ROM or a video link so we get the feel for it before committing to it? That would be nice.
U make me really want to try the bionix
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How about a screenshot for each ROM or a video link so we get the feel for it before committing to it? That would be nice.
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Ill see into that
I can't seem to find nero v5 anymore. whenever i click the links on the nerov5 thread only bionix v shows up. did they change the name? Did they just scrap nero 5?
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Op, I just tried flagship v3. Trust me, you need to also. Great theme and very fast (1550+). I do wish voodoo was enabled by default.
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I've been curious about jelette's toms myself. I guess im lazy to. I've got my phone the way I want it and everything is running good.
Powered by Axura with a dash of Voodoo
I was wondering if someone could lay out a few of the benefits of flashing to Cyanogen versus stock (rooted). I have a lot on my phone and just wanted to see if it would be worth the time to switch and get everything setup again.
I looked around and didn't see any nice list of features/benefits that would be gained with Cyanogen.
I do love the fact that it is open source and community supported. That's fantastic.
Hope this isn't flamebait...
Stable (unless you're on a nightly)
Great codec support
Bluetooth profiles (HID being a top add)
It's the latest Android version in all its un-bloated glory
Update frequency is high
I'm sure I'm forgetting other things but its not limited to that.
I'm a Sense fan myself but CyanogenMod is worth the install. You owe it to yourself to check it out.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/19985-cm7-v-sense-what-you-lose-vs-what-you-gain/
I ran CM7 for about a month and now am running the stock rooted OTA Gingerbread. It may just be ADW launcher but CM 7 is slow and laggy compared to stock gingersense. I like others had major issues with getting GPS stable and working. I do miss some of the mods but over all i'm happier on a sense based rom.
For me battery life. Ive tried every sense rom there is and im yet to find one with better battery life. And for me its not anywhere near slow or laggy. I dont really see myself ever going back to a sense rom, definitely not the one Sprint just pushed out.
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I was wondering if someone could lay out a few of the benefits of flashing to Cyanogen versus stock (rooted). I have a lot on my phone and just wanted to see if it would be worth the time to switch and get everything setup again.
I looked around and didn't see any nice list of features/benefits that would be gained with Cyanogen.
I do love the fact that it is open source and community supported. That's fantastic.
Hope this isn't flamebait...
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Honestly, check it out for yourself. You don't need to lose anything, nandroid backup your current setup and install CM7. You can play around with it for a while and see if it's for you and if not you can just restore your backup. Many people on here have 2 or 3 roms backed up and switch between them. My suggestion would be to read all the links in my sig, they should answer any questions you might have.
i ran it so i could connect my wii remote and play snes9x...there is something sense cant do!!!
netflix, googletalk video chat. way better keyboard. i miss a couple things about sense so i just bought launcher pro and use that for my facebook and agenda widgets. other than that sense roms are garbage to me. CM7 is great and once all the stupid little bugs get worked out it's going to be awesome.
i'd suggest flashing the roms with armon 2.3 recovery and sticking to the stable versions of cm7. i just had to start from scratch cause a nightly a while back through my phone for a loop.
give the latest stable a shot for a week and i bet you really like it.
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netflix, googletalk video chat. way better keyboard. i miss a couple things about sense so i just bought launcher pro and use that for my facebook and agenda widgets. other than that sense roms are garbage to me. CM7 is great and once all the stupid little bugs get worked out it's going to be awesome.
i'd suggest flashing the roms with armon 2.3 recovery and sticking to the stable versions of cm7. i just had to start from scratch cause a nightly a while back through my phone for a loop.
give the latest stable a shot for a week and i bet you really like it.
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How do you fully enable gtalk video? I can see people but people can't see me.
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Aosp. That's why I like it.
* CyanogenMod (advanced) settings. You can tweak it to perform just how you like it.
* Screen on/off animations
* Color rendering (to reduce screen power use)
* Regular updates
* Gingerbread well before sense roms. Even running 2.3.4 like me
* Developments are quickly included (ex: sd card read ahead value to increase read speed)
Just do a backup of your current system, flash cyanogen, play around and if you don't like it, just restore back to your original.
I was on CM7 for the past month and @ first I was in love.
Benefits:
Advanced bluetooth support (Wimote for my emulators)
Full Screen mirroring HDMI (Once again for emulators)
Speed increase (This didn't last long)
On/Off screen animations (Impressed the friends and relatives)
Cool Wallpapers
But, after awhile the bugs really started to get annoying
Negatives (YMMV)
Bugs (From random FC's, gmail stop syncing for no reason, wimax not wanting to stop without a restart plus other annoying stuff.
Speed (Eventually CM7 started to move slowly to a point where it felt like a chore to deal with my phone)
Well, Friday was the last draw when my sister's texts were not showing up on my phone. So, I flashed the new Sprint GB update and I am in love with my phone all over again. Even with the bloatware my phone is running silky smooth and I am experiencing no bugs. Plus for some reason my battery life has improved too. I was using Tiamat with SBC on CM7. Battery life become horrendous on CM7 and yes I did calibrate my battery.
When it's all said and done YMMV. The best way to find out is to NANDROID Backup and flash the rom yourself. You might be greeted to a whole new world of flashing greatness.
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How do you fully enable gtalk video? I can see people but people can't see me.
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Lots of threads out there. I just followed the directions. I think now if you just flash the newest version of gapps and choose Google talk to install it'll install a properly working version. I'd read up on it tho.
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* CyanogenMod (advanced) settings. You can tweak it to perform just how you like it.
* Screen on/off animations
* Color rendering (to reduce screen power use)
* Regular updates
* Gingerbread well before sense roms. Even running 2.3.4 like me
* Developments are quickly included (ex: sd card read ahead value to increase read speed)
Just do a backup of your current system, flash cyanogen, play around and if you don't like it, just restore back to your original.
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I had cm7 and it got worse as time went on so I switched to decks 1.2v(based off cm7) much better and using latest tiamat sbc kernel...battery life is outstanding! And that's w out viperbiy scripts!
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gmail stop syncing for no reason
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cdszoke said:
I was on CM7 for the past month and @ first I was in love.
Benefits:
Advanced bluetooth support (Wimote for my emulators)
Full Screen mirroring HDMI (Once again for emulators)
Speed increase (This didn't last long)
On/Off screen animations (Impressed the friends and relatives)
Cool Wallpapers
But, after awhile the bugs really started to get annoying
Negatives (YMMV)
Bugs (From random FC's, gmail stop syncing for no reason, wimax not wanting to stop without a restart plus other annoying stuff.
Speed (Eventually CM7 started to move slowly to a point where it felt like a chore to deal with my phone)
Well, Friday was the last draw when my sister's texts were not showing up on my phone. So, I flashed the new Sprint GB update and I am in love with my phone all over again. Even with the bloatware my phone is running silky smooth and I am experiencing no bugs. Plus for some reason my battery life has improved too. I was using Tiamat with SBC on CM7. Battery life become horrendous on CM7 and yes I did calibrate my battery.
When it's all said and done YMMV. The best way to find out is to NANDROID Backup and flash the rom yourself. You might be greeted to a whole new world of flashing greatness.
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Rom manager fix permissions every once in awhile fixes things
Battery Life Is AWESOME and stable
Try decks its a fast and smooth version of cm7 w tiamat 4.0.5. & viperboy scripts great battery life and apply darkhorse theme aka" tha jump off!"
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Nice that someone actually weighs the pro's and cons as op obviously needed. There is a lot of hating going on here at XDA, All devs should support each other, not bash each other. I know I Haven't been a member on here long, but flashing roms has been a hobby for a while, I just wasn't a full blown flashaholic. Anyway, there are a lot of roms to choose from and though I develop my own, I still flash everyone elses to enjoy the experience, and learn. Everyone has the right to believe what they will, but there is a line between a thought, and posting. If some of these people where two feet away from each other, there wouldn't be all of this garbage talk. I thought XDA was all about exactly that, giving the people a choice as to what software to run, helpful guides and tips, a community, or actually a culture, if you will. Anyway, sorry.....Flash Away....
I just want to share my opinion based on some reading.
Till now Samsung was not able to release bug free ICS ROM, despite the 6 months of working.
Also, I am noticing several complaints in both forums the nexus s and galaxy nexus.
ICS has proved to be slow compared to gingerbread, also it seems to be more battery consuming.
For now I am sticking to GB, maybe we should wait till Google releases the 4.0.4 update, even though I am not so positive.
Google its your job now.
So what do you think??
Dude!! HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING UNDER ROCKS?
4.0.4 has already been released and ics Is contrary to all the points you brought out
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Samsung's ICS is bug free, but it is slower than GB and consumes more battery (as you said)... That is why I am using GB...
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Dude under which rocks have you been living?
4.0.4 has already been released and ics Is contrary to all the points you brought out
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4.0.4 was released only for nexus s and galaxy nexus, still there are plenty of bugs to be cured. BTW, have you read about connection problems in galaxy nexus due to the 4.0.4 update.
no, ICS is not a failure.
try it yourself and you'll get what i mean.
You are judging and making conclusions based on the complaints by the minorities, and that just doesn't make sense to me...
Look at the majority who are willing to try out the awesomeness of ICS custom roms, look at the number of views of ICS rom threads in this forum, look at the positive, encouraging comments people write to the devs. All these combined should carry some gravitas, right?
Oh yeah, btw, 4.0.4 is already out, take a look at cyanogen 9. It's just that Samsung is not currently implementing this update into the stock roms.
Unfortunately Samsung implementation of ics is an epic failure. Slow and horrible. But that's Samsung and its pretty early days (3months!?)
Plenty of custom ics roms (cm9 specifically) that prove what ics can do when freed from touchwiz Samsung tweaked rubbish.
4.04 been out a while. Try a custom rom you won't go back
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no, ICS is not a failure.
try it yourself and you'll get what i mean.
You are judging and making conclusions based on the complaints by the minorities, and that just doesn't make sense to me...
Look at the majority who are willing to try out the awesomeness of ICS custom roms, look at the number of views of ICS rom threads in this forum, look at the positive, encouraging comments people write to the devs. All these combined should carry some gravitas, right?
Oh yeah, btw, 4.0.4 is already out, take a look at cyanogen 9. It's just that Samsung is not currently implementing this update into the stock roms.
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Don't forget that we payed $700 for Samsung, Samsung is the one responsible for giving us updates. Also, xda devs are only willing to improve and make our experience richer.
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Unfortunately Samsung implementation of ics is an epic failure. Slow and horrible. But that's Samsung and its pretty early days (3months!?)
Plenty of custom ics roms (cm9 specifically) that prove what ics can do when freed from touchwiz Samsung tweaked rubbish.
4.04 been out a while. Try a custom rom you won't go back
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CM9 is awesome, for me it is 100% stable and for daily use, BUT the battery life is killing me...
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CM9 is awesome, for me it is 100% stable and for daily use, BUT the battery life is killing me...
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Samsung's ICS is bug free, but it is slower than GB and consumes more battery (as you said)... That is why I am using GB...
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Hm! Don't know what is going on with your device but here it's nowhere near slow, and battery? Well it consumes same amount as in GB, no way more.
This ICS and impleneted HW acceleration and other stuffs kept me to stick with Android for little while longer actually, just when i was thinking about switching back to iOS it came and successfully purchased me, for some time the least.
And Samsung had put/implemented ICS exactly the way they wanted to be. Some few peoples opinion and nagging won't care them the bit, nor they should be bothered about it.
Besides, what's the point of this thread
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CM9 is awesome, for me it is 100% stable and for daily use, BUT the battery life is killing me...
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Not getting terrible battery life here. Its same as stock really. Try siyah see if that helps you out or do a full wipe etc etc
To the op
Samsungs ics roms are late and hide most benefits of ics which is why I dislike them
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And screen-on time is...?
P.S. I didn't say that CM9 (or any other ICS) has terrible battery life, I just said that it is not as good as GB... And I always do a full wipe when flashing ROMs
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And screen-on time is...?
P.S. I didn't say that CM9 (or any other ICS) has terrible battery life, I just said that it is not as good as GB... And I always do a full wipe when flashing ROMs
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I love ICS, run now on LUX LP4 and loving it.
Always do a full wipe and you have no problems
ICS is absolutely no failure in my opinion
I have installed CM9 + siyah 3.0
I have very good battery life (yeah sligtly less then gb, but i think the cause is that everithing is beta) but i have increased 10 times the responsiveness of my phone.. Everithing is better with ics..
ICS definitely no failure
I don't share the views on speed or battery life - in my view there is little tangible difference on my SGS2 - if anything I would say speed is a little better. Battery life depends on so many variables that it's almost impossible to be objective.
In terms of the update itself, it is definitely an improvement but still also a slight disappointment. In evolutionary terms we have crawled out of the primordial soup and lost the fins but we are still grooming each other looking for scurf and wondering where the smell comes from when we poke our fingers up our bottoms. The quest for fire remains a distant dream...
I can't vote in the poll therefore because there needs to be a middle option.
ICS is not a failure, actually it is a good path for android to travel. What let us down is the distribution method chosen by the oem and even by google itself. The purpose of bringing ics is not even satisfied by all the smartphones which got ics updates.
ICS is good.
Implementation of samsung/sony/htc is not good.
My $0.02, based on testing, and total indifference to "oo-Samsung-sux-lolz-I-demand-newest-FW-yesterday-Samsung-owes-me-I-paid-so-much-CM9-rox".
Failure? No. But not cool, awesome, rocking nor deserving of some of the fanboy praise posted here, in my opinion.
I've tried many, many stock and custom ICS, AOKP and CM9, every kernel and every combination (36 flashes since 30th March, to be precise). Not a single combination has been smoother or qucker than my daily driver or my next two preferences - krinyo's SlimROM, rohit's GB MIUI and Insanity build 57.
Battery life isn't a dealbreaker for me, lag is. I don't have bloatware, don't use mail, am not on Twitter or Facebook, haven't had TW launcher on my phone for 9 months. Even stripped down like this, my GB-based ROMs outperform everything else. And they're a hell of a lot more stable too.
As always, each to their own. But I haven't found any reason to leave GB after all this testing. Certainly no problem in refuting the "once you've tried 4.0.4 you'll never go back" spiel, which is lazy generalization based on nothing.
Unlike many, I wasn't wetting myself in anticipation of ICS, hence haven't needed to change my pants.
And the "poll" is ridiculous, pointless and useless, and not even a poll - there is middle ground.
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WooW, that is not bad at all mate, for me i've never get over 3 hours screen on time before
i might test cm9 out
can i also ask what kernel are u using?
Wondering if anybody feels that this flashing roms thing got annoying and at some point you realize al you do is flash romsinstead of using your phone for serious matters? Do not flame, I like flashing roms too, I was just feeling may be at some point it is no fun anymore? i'd like to see what you guys think. Share your thoughts
Really phone after phone I only do is flash Rom restore data, settings etc.mostly the phone remains unexplored.I think my phones run a Rom maximum for 3 days and minimum for few hours.it's really useless once you get a good get a good Rom,but one keeps on flashing I don't know what we achieve.but may be we do to kill time.
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I, for a period of time, was flashing approx 1-2 roms per day on my HTC Sensation. Before I went to work I would have a look what for something new and if it wasn't doing it for me, (or if I was bored) would flash another when I got home. Since getting the S3 though have only flashed 4 different roms, mainly due to the fact that I am happy with Omega. Damn you Omega Team for stopping my flashing addiction!
On the bus, on the sofa, on the toilet... Its always fun if you're doing it for the right reasons.
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On the bus, on the sofa, on the toilet... Its always fun if you're doing it for the right reasons.
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Lol
What I mean is if you're frantically flashing roms trying to find one that fixes xxx issue, then its annoying. If you are being adventurous for more functionality or for a just for a change, its always fun.
As long as you freeze/uninstall the useless crap, stock ROMs run great since the SGS2. So, I haven't bothered with custom ROMs since SGS1. Most of the flashing nowadays is trying out the various kernels and messing with my init.d file.
You're right though, I've actually spent more time using the phone than constantly messing with the settings... not necessarily a bad thing.
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What I mean is if you're frantically flashing roms trying to find one that fixes xxx issue, then its annoying. If you are being adventurous for more functionality or for a just for a change, its always fun.
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With the gs3, I think the stock rom is just perfect. Devs are good but there always is some issue which makes them post an update every week. I am new though, maybe I am not the right person to talk about this
This is exactly why a little over a year ago I went from the original Galaxy S to iPhone 4. I was trying everything out, it became almost like an addiction. Yeah, that sounds a bit stupid, but I really felt it was like addiction.
I spent hours every night flashing, restoring, flashing and again restoring. I hardly got the phone set up the way I liked it before I flashed again. It started to feel like I was just flashing ROMs all the time and not really using my phone for anything else. So I got really exhausted in the end and thought I'd try iOS - a platform notorious for its limitations when it comes to customizations.
I think the year I spent with my iPhone did me good. I realized that it's more valuable (for me) to set up the phone, tweak the things that need tweaking and then just USE it, with akin to a "If it ain't broken, don't fix it" attitude.
I often told friends and relatives when they asked for my opinion about the iPhone that it was the most reliable phone I have ever used. I could always rely on it to do the stuff I needed it to do when I needed it. Later on I started to reflect over this and came to the conclusion that the phone or the OS really isn't more reliable than Android at all. Android was unreliable for me because I was always messing with it. It was me, not the phone or the OS.
So now I have given my iPhone to the wifey and have my SGS III, and sure I have tried ROMs, I have tried 5 or 6 of them I think. Now I have found one that I really like, it looks nice, it does what I want it to do, battery seems fine, I really have no complaints. Now I just have to steer clear of the "grass is greener on the other side" mentality.
With that said, I today saw that nitr8 is bringing his Insanity ROM to the SGS III, and Insanity was one of my favorite ROMs on my SGS1, so yeah I'm tempted to try it, and I probably will do that at some point. But I don't feel like I have to, because the ROM I have now and the way I have set it up really works for me.
I'm just hoping the feeling will last this time... :silly:
Its just all about the little tweaks.
I did that with the OG touch diamond and the holy grail of Rom flashing, the HD2. Now that I'm alittle older and wiser since then, I scaled back a lot with the S3 and would only go as far as rooting the stock Rom, flash a kernel or radio, and editing build.prop.....for now, at least
I was a junkie with my HTC hero and hd2, I got only s2 because of how great many roms in would flash.. With s3 i have only flashed it once... And I'm happy.. All though I'm addicted to always check xda for updates everytime I get a chance..
The one rom i flashed was cm9 0701 experimental and it's been treating me great. Don't use all features of touchwiz and to be honest it feels more stable and smooth with a experimental build of cm9 then it ever did with touchwiz lol.
My addiction is over finally
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I was a rom junky at one point;guess I was a phone junky too from the g1 to mytouch slide to hd2 to g2 to g2x to sgs2...flashing and restoring constantly it seemed. Just trying to find that perfect rom/phone combination to make all my wildest dreams come true lol now I'm on a Hercules aosop rom wondering if the sgs3 is worth getting
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I do flash lots of ROMs, but I am quite glad with Samsung's stock ROMs (works for me, as long as I can keep root between flashes).
I flash a new ROM everytime a ROM with a higher CL # is released.
Addicted to flashing !!
from my htc incredible s, htc one x , acer a500 iconia tab and now my samsung galaxy s 3 i have always flashed my phones from first day of purchase.
the browsing through xda became a regular thing for me, looking for that rom that catches my attention, i always look for stable, fast and nice themed roms with tweaks, at some point i was flashing my phones 2 to 4 times a day lol
i dont know why but it was a sense of exploring, being able to rip a stock out and making it into something that is more for you.
my wife obviously dont understand so she gets the ****s when i purchase a brand new phone and straight away mod the **** out of it lol
the way i see it, purchasing a smartphone comes stock which is restricting and customizing it is limited !!
so flashing a custom rom is opening it up to change things to your preference.
i absolutely hate iphones, they are dull and so restricted and basically all the same, you know one iphone u know em all.
Android rocks and iphones can burn like they do !!!
adamhill212 said:
I, for a period of time, was flashing approx 1-2 roms per day on my HTC Sensation. Before I went to work I would have a look what for something new and if it wasn't doing it for me, (or if I was bored) would flash another when I got home. Since getting the S3 though have only flashed 4 different roms, mainly due to the fact that I am happy with Omega. Damn you Omega Team for stopping my flashing addiction!
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Yeah I'm the same, I flashed Omega when i 1st got my phone because it was the only custom rom and loved it. I have flashed a few roms but always went back to Omega.
The only thing I flash religiously is siyah kernel updates.
Kingybear said:
Yeah I'm the same, I flashed Omega when i 1st got my phone because it was the only custom rom and loved it. I have flashed a few roms but always went back to Omega.
The only thing I flash religiously is siyah kernel updates.
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Btw what is so special about omega? It seems to me all stock...
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I think it's addictive and becomes a main use should be used as a smart phone
Go into the US galaxy s III forums and tell them you're tired of flashing roms..see the reaction you get. LMAO I'm sure any one of them would kill to have as many choices as we have
Thats why my SIII and most of Android is more like a toy rather than a tool for me... i always tinker my phone when i have nothing to do and always have iPhone as backup when im not doing it right.
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Hi fellow gurus, I've had my Galaxy Tab for a few days, only just bought it!
As you all know it comes preinstalled with Honey Comb 3.2.
There is however the Ice Cream Sandwich update available for the device.
I am unsure whether to update or not for several reasons:
1 - I'm happy with the 3.2 Honey Comb. It's fast, smooth and battery life is excellent
2 - No bugs or problems faced with the OS.
3 - Honey Comb runs everything I want without any problems.
4- When using my preferred launcher, Go Launcher EX it makes the use of the Tab even better, faster and more customizable.
This is where the problem lies. Should I upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich, will it improve battery or worsen it?
Should ICS take more juice & drains battery faster than Honey Comb then I'm not at all interested to update.
Even though the current battery life is great I would rather it improve in the update.
So to those who have upgraded to & are using ISC, is the battery BETTER or WORSE than Honey Comb?
Reason I'm asking is because recently I upgraded my other Samsung Galaxy Note to ICS & the battery life is crap and far worse than it was on 2.3.4...
One last question. Apart from battery life, is it worth upgrading to ICS? What are the benefits or what makes it better? Any new features?
Looking forward to hearing your replies, thanks in advance.
If u know how to backup etc , take a dip =D could always go back to stock
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If u know how to backup etc , take a dip =D could always go back to stock
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It's that good? WISH I could say the same about ICS on my Galaxy Note...
The only reason I'd upgrade to ICS would be even better battery life.
Otherwise I'm perfectly happy with 3.2 Honey Comb.
I bricked my tab trying to reinstall cm9
but for the 2mins i had ICS it was amazing
MUCH better than HC.
JB would be nice, but ICS definitely makes this worth keeping over buying a nexus
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It's that good? WISH I could say the same about ICS on my Galaxy Note...
The only reason I'd upgrade to ICS would be even better battery life.
Otherwise I'm perfectly happy with 3.2 Honey Comb.
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Off course battery life with ICS is far better than HC, after installing stock ICS you should try SK006 rom , battery consumption is even better than stock.
I found the battery life with cm9 is very bad. So you should use one of the optimized stock rooms, I would suggest Quicksilver 0.9 - that's what I'm running right now. I got 13h with wifi off and airplane mode on.
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Short answer: NO.
Long answer: If you know what you're doing, yes. The tab becomes way more responsive, you get some nice touches and compatibility with ICS software. Of course there is a risk involved; but if you can handle it, by all means, do it. You won't regret.
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Short answer: NO.
Long answer: If you know what you're doing, yes. The tab becomes way more responsive, you get some nice touches and compatibility with ICS software. Of course there is a risk involved; but if you can handle it, by all means, do it. You won't regret.
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Not sure where that short answer comes from?
IMHO Short answer - yes
Long answer - read the multitude of posts here relating to ICS on the 7.7.
The tab always did exactly what i wanted it to do on HC and I never really got too het up under the collar about the ICS hype. There was what amounts to a degree of hysteria about ICS around here a while ago.... Anyway i upgraded first to CM9 and then to the official release. Whilst ICS has not transformed the tab into the gadget to end all gadgets, world peace didn't break out and the deity of your choice (or not) didn't make an appearance (all of which some of the posts on this forum seemed to promise) both versions of ICS are noticeably faster than HC. I stuck with the official version with Apex launcher (imo better than Go) as it is a bit more configurable. Though TW ICS actually doesn't seem that much (any?) slower than CM9 - perception probably.
So, yes upgrade. As someone said make a back up and try it you can always restore.
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Short answer: NO.
Long answer: If you know what you're doing, yes. The tab becomes way more responsive, you get some nice touches and compatibility with ICS software. Of course there is a risk involved; but if you can handle it, by all means, do it. You won't regret.
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Hmm, as I thought I'm getting different opinions on whether or not to upgrade. That said, I'm happy with the way Honey Comb looks & runs...
With regards to responsiveness I think it's fantastic & more responsive than my Galaxy Note.
Another user or two also complained about poor battery life when upgrading to ICS and upgraded to Honey Comb again!
When running a custom rom & tweaking the software you'll surely get better performance & battery life.
As it is I'm getting excellent battery life from HC, performance & looks are also great:
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I stand by Short answer == no. The short answer for "should I flash XXXXXXX" should ALWAYS be "no".
If you don't know what you're doing and don't want to learn, you don't read the long answer. In this case, you shouldn't be messing with your tablet, and wait for the official Kies upgrade. Specially knowing that our tab has the infamous brickbug emmc... Despite the fact that the risk is small, I surely don't want anyone upgrading based on my advice, bricking, and screaming that it's my fault!
Let the people who go by short answers keep their tablets safe, and the people who actually care enough to read about it take the (small) risk and get a better tablet. I did it as soon as I could, but I wouldn't recommend it to absolutely everybody.
Steve_max said:
I stand by Short answer == no. The short answer for "should I flash XXXXXXX" should ALWAYS be "no".
If you don't know what you're doing and don't want to learn, you don't read the long answer. In this case, you shouldn't be messing with your tablet, and wait for the official Kies upgrade. Specially knowing that our tab has the infamous brickbug emmc... Despite the fact that the risk is small, I surely don't want anyone upgrading based on my advice, bricking, and screaming that it's my fault!
Let the people who go by short answers keep their tablets safe, and the people who actually care enough to read about it take the (small) risk and get a better tablet. I did it as soon as I could, but I wouldn't recommend it to absolutely everybody.
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Hmmm, ok. I'll wait for the Kies upgrade...
I will rephrasse my answer as per above.
If your OP question was in the context of your particular comfort with flashing FW then that is a question only you can answer.
If the question was about whther or not ICS was "better" than and HC and as such should you upgrade (taking itno account the above) then my answer is yes. The general responsiveness and feel of the tab is very definitely improved over HC. Nor have I noticed any issues with it in use, battery or otherwise. I am talking about both forms of ICS available to me as a P6810 user.
I took your question to be about the second case and made the assumption you were asking from the point of view of someone who feels comfortable flashing - so to speak.
For me HC also ran well with some tweaks and a replacement launcher (Launcher Pro). I upgraded to the stock ICS (on my p6810), and it is a very nice upgrade, IMO.
Battery life is the same or better, compared to HC.
Overall smoothness and speed, is improved in ICS on event the stock launcher and my current (Nova).
Compatibility - eventually, newer apps will not work on HC, so upgrading helps future proof. For example, I use Chrome and it won't even load on HC due to incompatibility. It now works on my GTab 7.7 with ICS, so I can use Chrome on my GTab, GS2, and my Computers and bookmarks now sync across all devices.
Lastly, when I upgraded to ICS, I did not even lose any apps or data, so there was really no reason not to. Anyways, I'd recommend it as there was no downside for me.
I upgraded my 7.7 to ICS about a week or so ago - got tired of waiting for the official ICS release for my country. It was my first time flashing any rom outside of the manufacturer-approved way, but after a lot of reading to make sure I had the procedure down pat, I went through with it, and I'm glad I did. General system responsive is better than with HC, battery is no worse, if not slightly better, and I didn't even need to reinstall any apps or re-configure any settings.
Ok, sounds like upgrading to ICS is an improvement & will benefit me.
However, after doing a search to see if there were any updates there were none found. This was done over the phone via wi-fi.
As others have said I could easily flash my phone, download and install a custom rom myself but that means either backing up data or losing data.
I will patiently wait for the official update via wi-fi for the ICS update.
Thanks guys.
kanej2006 said:
Ok, sounds like upgrading to ICS is an improvement & will benefit me.
However, after doing a search to see if there were any updates there were none found. This was done over the phone via wi-fi.
As others have said I could easily flash my phone, download and install a custom rom myself but that means either backing up data or losing data.
I will patiently wait for the official update via wi-fi for the ICS update.
Thanks guys.
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ever since my first time flashing via Odin up to this point, i don't think your data would be affected. but i'm with you on this one, i'll wait for my country's ICS update. don't want to change my build number (i'm just OC like that) hehe. but everyday i am tempted to flash the Austrian ICS firmware, i'm managing to hold on hahaha
Tab 7.7 6810 ICS Update
I checked for an udated under the Auto update feature in Settings, nothing was there so I checked manually for the ICS update this morning. It said there was a Frimware update to ICS for my device. I completed the download to the tablet and when I initiated the install if failed. There was a message advising me to use Kies. SO I went to Kies on my laptop and downloaded ICS to my 6810 (WiFi Only). The download was successfuland the installation was too. i now have 4.0.4 ICS on my tablet.
So far the only thing that changed was a couple of widget on my home screen and some app icons.
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I checked for an udated under the Auto update feature in Settings, nothing was there so I checked manually for the ICS update this morning. It said there was a Frimware update to ICS for my device. I completed the download to the tablet and when I initiated the install if failed. There was a message advising me to use Kies. SO I went to Kies on my laptop and downloaded ICS to my 6810 (WiFi Only). The download was successfuland the installation was too. i now have 4.0.4 ICS on my tablet.
So far the only thing that changed was a couple of widget on my home screen and some app icons.
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Cool, will check for the ICS update later on this evening via Kies...