[Q] Install Gingerbread over froyo - Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Dear Members,
I have seen lot of posts saying Gingerbread is more battery efficient than froyo.
Is this true & worth switching from froyo to gingerbread?
If it is good, I will flash gingerbread but want to install CM7/ CM9 finally. Presently I am on CM7.2 RC1 & love it over RC2 for its battery performance.
Will the results even be better once I change to GB & then install CM7.2 RC1 on my defy red lens?
Please guide.
I would rather like to have downgradability intact to froyo for warranty purposes. In that case, I will have to flash fixed GB with nandroid backup.
I tried searching on XDA but links seem to be broken being old.
CAn a learned member clarify all my doubts & provide me a detailed step by step guide for update. The guides available / I have seen are incomplete & seem to be leaving the user in between.
Hope I am not asking much.

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Which rom is now best?

HI ALL.
I bought my sgs 1 week ago and i need to improve him.
I care about good life battery (1 day with full usage- 2 day do not use much), Fast and very stable (i dont need FC etc.).
Now i have 2.2 Froyo.XWJPA and i have installed 21 apps (I installed this) and my foon slowed.
What can u offer me?
I offer you the Search function....
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i search but i dont find nothing ;/
use 2.2.1 jpy its fine and one of best in my opinion
OK. i update my android
I need to add any lagfix or other?
i would recommend this rom v7 JPY best so far easy to flash lagfix integret it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814091
17mayis said:
i would recommend this rom v7 JPY best so far easy to flash lagfix integret it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814091
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so.....is there any way a guy from canada on bell to use darkies v7 ?
Skoczek135 said:
HI ALL.
I bought my sgs 1 week ago and i need to improve him.
I care about good life battery (1 day with full usage- 2 day do not use much), Fast and very stable (i dont need FC etc.).
Now i have 2.2 Froyo.XWJPA and i have installed 21 apps (I installed this) and my foon slowed.
What can u offer me?
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Hello Mate,
For improved battery life, fast and stable ROM, I recommend you use Doc's Rom, you will get all of this, and no messing with your phone.
You can get Doc's ROM here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817703
Note that you will find a Slim version and "normal" version, slim has been trimmed every app that is not absolutely indispensable, since you are new to custom ROMs, it is best to get the normal version.
And here you can find a nice tutorial on how to make a clean installation, I suggest you follow this guide when flashing any custom ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9728021&postcount=14527
This guide shows you how to instal Doc's Rom v4 based on JPU, the most recent version so far is v6.2 based on JPY, the installation process for both is the same anyways, you only need to follow the complete guide the first time you get a custom ROM, after this it is much easier to change ROMS
Good Luck!
Please ask any questions if you have doubts, we all here will be pleased to help you out.
There is no best ROM, it is up to you to find the ROM that you want.
You can use the latest stock ROMs or Custom Roms which are really just repackaged/optimized/improved/faster stock ROMs (Doc is most popular for these reasons).
These discussions are not beneficial to anyone at XDA. If you are too lazy to flash and find what you like, then you don't belong at XDA.
I'm afraid that "which ROM is best?" threads always end in disaster here at XDA, and there's no answers to be found here that can't be had by taking some time and doing some personal research on all the options that exist...the benefits and faults of each are already well-documented.
Thread closed.

[Q] [INSERT ROM NAME] would be best

hi, tryin to decide which GB ROM to run on m2
who has tested em all so far? and would you mind
helpin on which ROM has the less bugs and with
the most functionality available on it... cheers.
i think the better are ms2ginger and the ginger blurless
im' using the ms2ginger and i'm very happy
If no bugs is your criterion, then I think deblurred GB by w0ndersp00n is the best option.
I'm using ms2ginger. It's very usable, but I am having a problem where the phone does not recognise numbers as being in my contacts depending on the format they are stored in.
I also had a weird issue very briefly where the screen would turn off when I touched it. So still a little buggy.
thanks peeps will try one soon
It's my first post on this forum, so I'd like to say HI to everyone!
I'm lurking this forum for some time ago and I know, that there's quite intensive paralell development of few mods. I want to completly reinstall my MM2 and - by the way - I want to try to check new custom mods, hoping that there's a chance to improve performance of my Milestone2 .
So I'd like to repeat initial question by xOnerOs - almost a week have been passed, maybye situation have changed - do You still have no objections to sahilarora911's opinion, that [ROM] Mostly Blurless Gingerbread is for now most bugless and most stable among the other mods?
My goal after MM2's reinstall is to have a stable platform with no need to reinstall everything after 2 days due to some critical mega bug .
Sobi-Wan said:
It's my first post on this forum, so I'd like to say HI to everyone!
I'm lurking this forum for some time ago and I know, that there's quite intensive paralell development of few mods. I want to completly reinstall my MM2 and - by the way - I want to try to check new custom mods, hoping that there's a chance to improve performance of my Milestone2 .
So I'd like to repeat initial question by xOnerOs - almost a week have been passed, maybye situation have changed - do You still have no objections to sahilarora911's opinion, that [ROM] Mostly Blurless Gingerbread is for now most bugless and most stable among the other mods?
My goal after MM2's reinstall is to have a stable platform with no need to reinstall everything after 2 days due to some critical mega bug .
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Try the MIUI port, it is quite stable.
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I just bought a new one!!!!!!

I just bought a new i9000 and I want to upgrade it to the latest OS possible (hope ICS 4.0 is available)..
I am REALLY a beginner in this..so please I need a tutorial from the scratch..
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Why is so hard to read even the title of the very first thread in the General section? There you will find your answers...
ghenn4 said:
Why is so hard to read even the title of the very first thread in the General section? There you will find your answers...
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Because you don't get banned for at least 1 week starting thread #143 like this.
Tapatalked - There's a Thanks button somewhere
Lesson n. 1
How not to begin a topic.
welcome to the NIGHTMARE
you should look at S. U. R. F. A. C. E Rom thread. the Rom is very nice and he has very good tutorials for beginners!
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Well, first of all, the latest roms are not always the best ones. Since gingerbread 2.3.4, we've had in sequence: JVQ, JVR, JVS, JVT and now JVX, JVW and JVZ.
However, many still consider JVR to be smoother and more stable than the newer ones. Then, there is also the wifi problem on JVS and above.
Similarly, there is the infamous phone.apk force close problem on all these roms, which was not present on gingerbread 2.3.3.
But gingerbread 2.3.3 had serious battery drain issues, which weren't present on Froyo roms.
So, here's what you need to know as a beginner:
-The latest roms and custom roms give you the advantage of theming, modding and tweaking, all of which are very fun and exciting. Seriously. I used to flash my galaxy s multiple times a day.
-But the smoothest, lag free roms are the Froyo 2.2.1 roms. Stick with those if you want stability and speed. After all, gingerbread doesn't have any important extra functionalities. But, froyo roms lack support for latest tweaks and themes.
So, if you're happy with your current rom, there is no actual need to change it.
But, if you are really keen on trying other roms before settling down, you need to be able to flash roms. To do that, you'll need to:
1) Install Samsung Kies to get the samsung usb drivers
2) Download odin 1.3 or above
3) Download the rom of your choice and follow their flashing instructions
4) To be safe, download a froyo stock rom and a gingerbread stock rom with bootloaders just in case you need to revert to stock
5) To be even safer, perform the unbrickable mod on your phone first, though the SGS is pretty hard to hard brick anyway.
thanxxxxxx
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Custom ROMs on official gingerbread

Hi all,
For everyone asking about custom roms ont 2.3.4 here is the situation :
For everyone who have upgraded the MS2 to the Official 2.3.4, no step back is possible to Froyo 2.2 or 2.2.2.
custom ROMs based on Froyo will not work (like CM7/9 from Tezet.)
=> Someone will have to build on based on the 2.3.4 kernel.
custom ROMs based on Chinese GB seems to work...
=> MS2Ginger for exemple.
custom ROMS based on Defy+ ROMs ?
So, who want that the CM or MIUI ROMs are ported to the newer Motorola kernel ? (So everyone could choose between BLUR, CM and others ?)
I say it on an other thread that the ms2ginger and the argen2stone roms are running on an ms2 with stock gb rom. Somebody must make an cm7 with the 2.3 kernel than wie can use customroms.
thanks for your thread.
But my question is, this official rom 2.3.4 does work better than froyo? or the custom rom 2.3.7 de CM7? It might be a dumb question or it's answered in another thread, if that case sorry.
Thanks
Yes i want Miui with the new kernel ! For a better touchsreen sensitivity for eg.
I try Argen2Stone 2.7 RE but i dont see adjust scrips and keep the old dialer from stock rom.
The 2.3.4 brings some bug fixes, and some upgrades.
From the kernel point of view, the same release is used (Linux Kernel 2.6.32.9). So no major bug fixes at kernel level for my point of view. Maybe some parameters changed.
The main point is for the "upgraders" to Gingerbread that can't go back to Froyo.
boorce.com said:
Hi all,
For everyone asking about custom roms ont 2.3.4 here is the situation :
For everyone who have upgraded the MS2 to the Official 2.3.4, no step back is possible to Froyo 2.2 or 2.2.2.
custom ROMs based on Froyo will not work (like CM7/9 from Tezet.)
=> Someone will have to build on based on the 2.3.4 kernel.
custom ROMs based on Chinese GB seems to work...
=> MS2Ginger for exemple.
custom ROMS based on Defy+ ROMs ?
So, who want that the CM or MIUI ROMs are ported to the newer Motorola kernel ? (So everyone could choose between BLUR, CM and others ?)
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I tryed to flash MS2Ginger but the MS2 doesn't turn on.
I don't know.
could Anyone post how to flash step by step ?
tks
I think that the new kernel can improve MS2 performace so a rom based on the new kernel it's much better than the old modded rom.
Simokill said:
I think that the new kernel can improve MS2 performace so a rom based on the new kernel it's much better than the old modded rom.
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I have the same idea...waiting for some MIUI or CM7 based on this new kernel.
I'd like someone who knows what they are doing to de-blur it. I have removed as much as I dare but still have too much moto... rubbish on the phone.
yeah agreed with u guys i wish a custom rom based on new gb 2.3.4
diavolobianco said:
yeah agreed with u guys i wish a custom rom based on new gb 2.3.4
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+1
or new FR
is true. I think it's time to leave the kernel of froyo that is old and start to compile with the new kernel brings improvements and is of GB!
GB kernel is in fact the same linux kernel version as froyo kernel, so there are not any improvements except for some minor patches.... So no reason to leave froyo.
I just don't get why you all guys updated to GB and then you all crying, you can't use custom roms and that froyo kernel is old and why gingerbread isn't used... GB kernel in custom roms isn't high priority in dev right now. Deal with it. GB kernel don't bring any valuable improvements, so only reason to leave froyo and get in GB are you all, who did that mistake and upgraded to official GB without even reading the forum here (because it was already written so many times there...).
No offense please, I'm just sayin' that GB kernel in custom roms don't have high priority, because of missing downgrade capability and because they don't bring nothing so exciting and big or valuable, nothing worth. So when dev update to GB, he can't go back to froyo - and this is quite big limitation...
Actually CM9 does work over Euro GB kernel. It is based on Chinese GB kernel. And I must say Tezet has made some really good progress with CM9.
And Defy ROMs based on Defy+ kernel have also been proved to work on Euro GB kernel.
These ROMs work if we remove devtree.img and boot.img from the update.zip and thus only flash system.
So I guess it is only a matter of time.
Anonymous_ said:
I just don't get why you all guys updated to GB and then you all crying, you can't use custom roms and that froyo kernel is old and why gingerbread isn't used... GB kernel in custom roms isn't high priority in dev right now. Deal with it. GB kernel don't bring any valuable improvements, so only reason to leave froyo and get in GB are you all, who did that mistake and upgraded to official GB without even reading the forum here (because it was already written so many times there...).
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Good sir, your silver tongue rivals that of our finest bards! Please, travel amongst the populace, spreading joy and soothing woes.
Anonymous_ said:
I just don't get why you all guys updated to GB and then you all crying
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No crying here, just discussion, which is what the forum is for. What was your point?
may be it's better to find a way to downgrade.
Kangburra said:
No crying here, just discussion, which is what the forum is for. What was your point?
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I think I said my point clearly... But once again then:
I'm just sayin' that GB kernel in custom roms don't have high priority, because of missing downgrade capability and because they don't bring nothing so exciting and big or valuable, nothing worth. So when dev update to GB, he can't go back to froyo - and this is quite big limitation...
And don't take my words too personal. Easy man, easy...
Sometimes it's cool to have stock ROM. But,it will be much cooler if we can switch to custom ROM's. Stock ROMs are slower and less free RAM than CM7 or MIUI. Now,I'm getting bored with MS2Ginger2.1.
All we have to do is just wait..
hi, did anyone manage to overclock after updated to stock 2.3?
android overclock doesn't work anymore after i updated

[Q] SBF/ROM req for green Defy

Hello,
I'm looking to finally take the plunge and flash a custom ROM, but I'm a bit lost in all the possibilities. I have a green Defy flashed with stock 2.2—what would be the best upgrade, bearing in mind the following criteria (ordered by priority):
1. Stability
2. Battery life
3. Speed/performance
4. Appearance
Also, I'd prefer it to have the least possible applications/services/clutter installed while still running stable, so I can work my way up from there with the apps I need.
Any input would be appreciated.
Try cm7 for a while start with the stable and then try a few nightlys, it will get you used to flashing, then try cm9 and you will see how good it can be,
Green lense defys don't get flashed with sbfs after froyo, you will just have issues, if you break something then just reflash your sbf of froyo and you'll be fine
teamwork makes the dream work
Thanks for your reply. Forgive my skepticism, but I was under the impression CM7 was all about adding functionality and features—how is it going to make my phone lighter or increase battery life?
more free ram more multitasking..android 2.3 gb ..you can yourself give it a try and have a look at your battery stats..+ you get firmware update! and its ultra smooth then defy froyo 2.2.1 ..much much better .. you can play 720p hd videos too ,,flash is much better in GB..then on froyo..try it out and feel the difference..good luck!

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