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short [REVIEW] CM 7.1 RC1 vs Stock 2.3.4 regarding performance and battery life

So, I'm toying with the idea of flashing CM7.1 RC1 to my i9020t
currently it's on stock 2.3.4 + netarchy stable, it runs very smooth like silk after some manual optimization.
most games runs really nice, but there are still a few that are laggy, so i was planning to check out CM7.1 RC1 to see if it runs any better.
However, there were old reports of issues with the CM7 and missing features, etc, etc, or some other that reported CM7 being even slower than 2.3.4 stock, so i'm not so sure if i want to spend all that time flashing stuff around
I only flash stable version of ROMs as i have limited free time, and can't really afford to be jumping back and forth between versions, as the little mods and tweaks, and customization takes several hours most of the time, and it's very time consuming, yet not something i can afford in a busy day.
It just happens today is a nice day to flash a ROM
anyways... here goes nothing...
starting with a Nandroid Backup before I mess around with CM7.1

the stability is not at the same level. With CM7, my phone would reboot on it's own every other day. Car home would lock the screen rotation, requiring a reboot. some of the features are nice, like the per permission restricting of apps. The debug code being enabled will cause (for me anyways) a heavier battery drain. I prefer stock with root.
I'm retesting CM7 because of the failure of 2.3.6 to fix a major bug and in the process introduce more issues. I'll probably role back to 2.3.4.
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i finally got time to flash it today, so i'll keep an eye on it for the next few days, to see how stable or unstable it is
CM 7.1 RC1 + netarchy 1.3.7 cfs @ 1300
and also i'll have to keep an eye on the battery drain
the stock 2.3.4 + netarchy was very good

REVIEW conclussion
so far only 1 non-random reboot, it was actually caused by an app, that was force closed.
however performance wise, as i feared, CM7.1 RC1 is quite a bit slower than stock 2.3.4
Games laggs way more in CM7.1 RC1 than on stock, even with all the CM7.1 eye candies and customization disabled / enabled it was the same result.
Also battery life was extremely bad!, as in you can actually see the % numbers drop in front of your eyes, as you run Apps / Games on the phone even with the charger plugged in!
on stock the numbers will go up, not down, when the charger is plugged.
yes, this pretty much means, i'll be going back to stock sometimes later today when i get some time to re-flash the whole thing again.
I'll be looking forward to try CM7.1 final / stable when and if all the CM team have settle up with their daily life to go back to normal and make the project go forward again, until then, i'm not planning to waste more time with CM7.1

Don't give up until you've run it with the Trinity TUV10 kernel.

hmm... it's worth a shot
heck might as well, lets see how the CM7.1 RC1 + Trinity plays together.
according to what i read already on the topic, seems like it'll be a disaster for battery life
but if performance is good and fluid, i think i can over look that.

Trinity Kernel conclussion
well CM7.1 RC1 + Trinity TUV10 certainly makes a much better combo than Netarchy
using Trinity, even the heaviest of games runs smooth without jitters (very important for racing games, or shooting games)
the most impressive thing is that it's doing all that at stock clock speed of 1 Ghz while Netarchy at 1.3 Ghz was struggling.
Unfortunately on the Battery side of things, it's still just as power hungry as any other custom ROMs, although not as bad as Netarchy.
well... i guess i'll be hanging on to CM7 RC1 for a while longer, at least things are playable now

Poor battery life is a common complain after flashing a new ROM (and wiping 9 months of battery stats). Give it a few days to rebuild the battery history, and see if it's more to your liking.

I would try one of the newer nigthlies they are quite better than rc1
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium

the nightlies are better than RC1, that is for sure. a lot more work has been done since RC1. also, i recommend the latest Trinity TEUV kernel--> http://goo.gl/roLqV its at 880mhz, feels like 1.2ghz, its gpu is overclocked to 240mhz, and its undervolted. so its very fast and its great on your battery life. and it goes well with the latest cm

If you like the almost stock stable and fast try GPA 17 by peteralfonso.
Not much in the customization department but a great rom
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App

Kraenesk said:
If you like the almost stock stable and fast try GPA 17 by peteralfonso.
Not much in the customization department but a great rom
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App
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Yes sir! The best there is.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk

Kraenesk said:
If you like the almost stock stable and fast try GPA 17 by peteralfonso.
Not much in the customization department but a great rom
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App
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Link please?

Question, if I install a CM7 nightlies ROM or a different ROM and wanna install a kernel like Trinity and then do a nandroid backup after that I'd be able to do it even if I installed a ROM besides CM7 like NSCollab or SuperCM7 right? And how would the order go, wipe > flash rom > flash kernel > do nandroid backup before restarting the phone? Thanks.

In my experience the RC version of. M7 is much less buggier than nightlies. I'd get random reboots, apps freaking out and BA battery life. Been on cm7 RC for 3 days now with not a single reboot. I'm also using the stock kernel that comes with it.
sent from my Touchwiz'd Nexus S 4g

And I do feel like CM7 RC1 on my Nexus S is slower than CM7 on my MT4G for whatever reason...I honestly just don't get that and friggin why...it's the friggin S and a Hummingbird in there, it can't be that much worse if it is then the 2nd gen 1ghz Snapdragon in the MT4G. My MT4G was blazing fast and had nice battery life in regards to an Android phone...but ugh CM7 on my S is kinda laggy sometimes and battery life is a disaster. I need a reccomendation for a really fast vanilla ROM to flash. Always loved CM and it's never disappointed me until now. I just don't get it, I mean I thought the battery life on my Nexus One was terrible but it's draining even faster on my S.

marik1234 said:
And I do feel like CM7 RC1 on my Nexus S is slower than CM7 on my MT4G for whatever reason...I honestly just don't get that and friggin why...it's the friggin S and a Hummingbird in there, it can't be that much worse if it is then the 2nd gen 1ghz Snapdragon in the MT4G. My MT4G was blazing fast and had nice battery life in regards to an Android phone...but ugh CM7 on my S is kinda laggy sometimes and battery life is a disaster. I need a reccomendation for a really fast vanilla ROM to flash. Always loved CM and it's never disappointed me until now. I just don't get it, I mean I thought the battery life on my Nexus One was terrible but it's draining even faster on my S.
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RC1 is super outdated..... try the latest nightly.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium

Kraenesk said:
If you like the almost stock stable and fast try GPA 17 by peteralfonso.
Not much in the customization department but a great rom
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App
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+1
The most stable out there .. not on the performance side or customization but smooth and stable as hell

MeDroid ICS Official discussion thread!

As said in my other thread, we shall do the discussion of this ROM here so we don't bother the devs anymore!

What do you think of this ROM? I think it's really awesome.

It runs well for my purposes, though it's guaranteed to reboot on my phone when using Navigation which is unfortunate.

Great rom, good for daily usage. Even the Illico mobile app is working flawless for Canadian Videotron carrier.

Nicjfry said:
Great rom, good for daily usage. Even the Illico mobile app is working flawless for Canadian Videotron carrier.
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Samauz states this ROM as alpha, but it feels more than that because of its incredible stability and of course usability

I moved to this one after trying out the Evervolv one since that one kept SoD'ing.
So far it's running really great.

I have used Samuaz's CM9 build for a long time now and I haven't ever experienced the screen of death bug. Not once.

mad props
Been using this Rom for a while now and I really have to admit that it does not feel like an alpha at all. But it's far away from being a final or RC.
But nonetheless it's good enough to work as a daily driver. Almost everything is working fine and it's quite smooth. Especially the new ia2sd is awesome.
But it has its downsides. I have a lot of random fc's and apps behaving strange. It may not be a Samuaz specific problem but an ICS problem. But it starts bugging me as hell.
And some features I really like at CM7 are not implemented or fully working yet. Most of them are really small things like no battery percentage in the notification bar (Battery Widget works as a workaround). But they add up.
Once I overcame the "wow-ics-on-n1-smooth-and-awesome"-feeling I started thinking about switching back to CM7. I just miss the stability of CM7 and the incredible smoothness. Don't get me wrong. This Rom is neither unstable nor stuttering (I actually get my highest quadrant scores so far with Medroid CM9) it just didn't reach the level of CM7 yet.
But I'm sure it will. A new kernel which makes full HWA possible seems to be on its way and with every version the rom is getting better.

Pommes_Schranke said:
Been using this Rom for a while now and I really have to admit that it does not feel like an alpha at all. But it's far away from being a final or RC.
But nonetheless it's good enough to work as a daily driver. Almost everything is working fine and it's quite smooth. Especially the new ia2sd is awesome.
But it has its downsides. I have a lot of random fc's and apps behaving strange. It may not be a Samuaz specific problem but an ICS problem. But it starts bugging me as hell.
And some features I really like at CM7 are not implemented or fully working yet. Most of them are really small things like no battery percentage in the notification bar (Battery Widget works as a workaround). But they add up.
Once I overcame the "wow-ics-on-n1-smooth-and-awesome"-feeling I started thinking about switching back to CM7. I just miss the stability of CM7 and the incredible smoothness. Don't get me wrong. This Rom is neither unstable nor stuttering (I actually get my highest quadrant scores so far with Medroid CM9) it just didn't reach the level of CM7 yet.
But I'm sure it will. A new kernel which makes full HWA possible seems to be on its way and with every version the rom is getting better.
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Let's say we get full hwa tomorrow or sometime near tomorrow, I still feel it will take a long time to really optimize it for every aspect of our N1's. I mean, in ICS now, we need to prioritize making things works before optimizing them. Know what I'm saying?
I switched back to CM7 today for a brief moment but I quickly got bored of it. Will try later today though. It feels great not having to switch hboot as CM7 (at least Samuaz's build) plays nicely with it
I'm not concerned about the extra system space or so because with the 1gb ext4 partition, there's nothing to complain about ^^

Awesome rom... fast and stable... trebuchet launcher bis easy but apex launcher is better band faster... try TO install on System/appari tor better experience
Inviato dal mio Nexus One usando Tapatalk

SIP and T-Mobile Web2Go issues
I have had just a couple of issues.
One is that when I upgraded from CM7, I guess something flagged in my T-Mobile account. I have the $10/month data plan ("Phone First Web" aka Web2Go). While everything was peachy before I upgraded, now I can not get the data connection to work. Set up the same settings APN-wise as in CM7 and it just tells me the plan doesn't work with my phone
I tried flashing back to CM7 to no avail. So it must be a flag in my account or something.
The other problem that I had is that my SIP setup doesn't work anymore. I don't know if this is a problem with ICS, the ROM, or something in my SIP setup (pbxes.org/IPKALL/GVoice). I do know, that before upgrading to this ROM, it all worked fine. Again, I tried flashing back to CM7 and it didn't fix it. So I don't know if it is something about upgrading to ICS or what...
Update:
My SIP stuff started working again. So, I guess it was an issue with my setup.
I was also doing some reading and saw that apparently a lot of people are having the Web2Go thing crap out with their Nexus One. It seems that T-Mo finally caught on and is actively preventing N1s from using the Web2Go plan. Good news is that there is another $10/month plan available. Bad news is that it is only 200MB/month. For me, that's fine, since I use WiFi most of the time anyway. The unlimited option is $25/month (still cheaper than the Android plan, I believe).
As far as the ROM goes in general, I love the look and feel. The new recent applications is great as is the new browser interface.

eLar19 said:
Awesome rom... fast and stable... trebuchet launcher bis easy but apex launcher is better band faster... try TO install on System/appari tor better experience
Inviato dal mio Nexus One usando Tapatalk
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I don't see apex launcher in the market. where do you get it?

SiNJiN76 said:
I don't see apex launcher in the market. where do you get it?
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here on XDA... link
try it, is very fast... a little bit heavy then trebuchet, but i like this... put the apk in system/app on the internal memory using a root explorer

I think Nova Launcher is the best ICS launcher

i will try nova launcher

eLar19 said:
i will try nova launcher
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389071

Been trying this room since a long time ago. Awesome, except some random reboots and fcs. Switched to MeDroid cm7 when I wanted to stabil and smooth rom, and got my best quadrant there: above 2400. Switched back to this room when I wanted to feel new features of ICS. Overall, quite happy with this rom.
Sent from my Nexus One

Awesome rom, I use it since at least a month and it's great.
I just have an issue in these days about the new Cyanogen Music app, it drains my battery a lot.
Anyone know a tip to replace it with the original one? I tried to remove it with Titanium backup and install an apk of the original Music that I found on web but it FC.
I can't report the drain/ask in the developer too cause of my low post-counter.

Ikos said:
Awesome rom, I use it since at least a month and it's great.
I just have an issue in these days about the new Cyanogen Music app, it drains my battery a lot.
Anyone know a tip to replace it with the original one? I tried to remove it with Titanium backup and install an apk of the original Music that I found on web but it FC.
I can't report the drain/ask in the developer too cause of my low post-counter.
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PowerAMP maybe?

Ikos said:
Awesome rom, I use it since at least a month and it's great.
I just have an issue in these days about the new Cyanogen Music app, it drains my battery a lot.
Anyone know a tip to replace it with the original one? I tried to remove it with Titanium backup and install an apk of the original Music that I found on web but it FC.
I can't report the drain/ask in the developer too cause of my low post-counter.
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The original music app in 4.0 is available in the market as "Google Music."

Looking for stable ICS ROM as daily driver

Hi guys,
I've been a longtime lurker here, and avid Android fan for sometime now every since I purchased my Nexus One. I've used CM and MiUI and all, but now am looking for a stable ICS ROM which can be used as a daily use ROM with ICS.
I'm currently on MiUI 2.3.2 (tried 2.3.9 but it seems to really be very unstable for me) which seems to work fine if not for the random reboots and errors from time to time, not to mention I can't seem to get the SD to mount when the cable's connected to my PC.
Long story short, which ROM would you guys recommend? I'd love to have CM, but since they're not supporting ICS versions for the N1, I'd have to live with others.
(if I'm just repeating earlier threads, please feel free to point me there and perhaps we can close this thread)
Thanks!

TexasIce or MeDroid
Both roms are in an alpha stage but quite stable and good enough as a daily driver for weeks now.
Medroid:
- More "Cyanogen"
- A bit faster and a bit more stable (imho)
TexasIce:
- "vanilla experience"
- Awesome kernel work

Thanks Pommes.
I was leaning towards Medroid myself, but seems like there's some controversy/drama going on there with the dev, and was wondering about the continuity of it.
As I've not blackrose-d my Nexus One, I'd assume that's something I'd have to do first, yeah? I've no need to be bleeding edge in terms of updates, but just would like to have my phone being able to update and not random reboot from performing any number of things.

Samuaz's laptop is dead and zyrex tried to sell the ROM, but Samuaz later posted the link to download it. Mods have locked all of his ICS threads, even the medroid discussion thread I created. The future of that ROm is very dim, but Timbit (and possibly Zyrex) try their best to continue its development here: http://code.google.com/p/nexusone-medroid-ics/downloads/list
dk_zero-cool is a notable developer for the HTC Bravo (Desire) and has made a very good ICS ROM for it. It seems to be based on CM9. He doesn't have a Nexus One to develop on, but since the Desire and Nexus One are practically twins, it shouldn't differ that much.
Texasice is another development god when it comes to bringing ICS for us in his/evervolv team's version. It's not stock ICS or CM9, it's their "remix" of it which looks really nice.
As far as I'm concerned, these are all daily drivers, depending on what you need for a days use of your Nexus One. If you absolutely must have a fully working camera, then none of these ROMs are daily drivers for you. If you accept that there are bugs and that the camera isn't working 100%, then all of these are daily drivers. I personally recommend either texasice's version or dk_zero-cool's version.

I saw dk zero's so smooth and working camera preview now
Sent from my ICS Nexus One

There's also MIUI ICS that's stable enough. Haven't yet flashed camera fix patch recently released upon that rom, but I heard it can fix camera preview too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1479348
Sent from my Nexus One

d3adbroke said:
I saw dk zero's so smooth and working camera preview now
Sent from my ICS Nexus One
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Thanks for this feedback, trying to flash dk zero's version now, having to Blackrose my device first which mean I have to flash a non ICS version as I can't USB mount my phone.
Quite an adventure just to have to work around as I had did a full phone wipe and lost my recovery in the process, in addition to MiUI reset wipe which seemed to have hung and I had to remove the batt to get it restarted.
Just set the custom blackrose partitions and hopefully can start flashing dkZero's version with hopefully a working camera preview as you've mentioned!

MoeNeXus said:
There's also MIUI ICS that's stable enough. Haven't yet flashed camera fix patch recently released upon that rom, but I heard it can fix camera preview too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1479348
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Thanks for the update, however after all the issues I've had with MiUI the last week or so and then switching from 2.3.2 to 2.3.9 and having to restore back to 2.3.2 as the latter was too messed up on my device, I think I'd rather wait till there's a more advanced RC or stable version before attempting to flash it again.
Not to mention, I'd forgotten why I'd shy-ed away from MiUI in the past, too iPhone-ish of a UI (yeah a change of launcher might help, but I'll give this other ROM a try)

I've been using medroidmod daily - however the microphone isn't working anymore (for the past two days) - so I'm struggling to rebuild it.
I have so far been unable to get Bravo ICS to install. I have blackrose with 16mb cache partition, and m2sd packaged with Bravo is not redirecting it to SD no matter what i do, and 16 is not enough for ICS.
At this point i am tempted to go to CyanogenMod 7.2 - daily struggle with ICS is wearing me out.

DK's is AWESOME....best ICS for N1 and its not close.....super smooth and great battery

secondclaw said:
I've been using medroidmod daily - however the microphone isn't working anymore (for the past two days) - so I'm struggling to rebuild it.
I have so far been unable to get Bravo ICS to install. I have blackrose with 16mb cache partition, and m2sd packaged with Bravo is not redirecting it to SD no matter what i do, and 16 is not enough for ICS.
At this point i am tempted to go to CyanogenMod 7.2 - daily struggle with ICS is wearing me out.
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Of all the ICS I think texasice rom is good one as its stable but as theshawty mentioned it gives vanilla experience. DK's rom is more inclined to CM9 and its just cool. Got into bootloop initially but after tweaking settings in memory management, I dont get any reboots. Battery is good and rom is smooth. You can try dk IMHO.

If you want something stable, do NOT use ICS. Simple.

Ive used both medroid and bravo, I think medroid 1.4.2 was very stable with alot of customization, I didn't personally have problems with the mic but I know others did, and Ive also used Bravo so far it has been fantastic for me so far, the dev behind it aswell is very responsive and gets things fixed quickly, the only draw back is the lack of customization between bravo and medroid, I just feel like i'm missing 80% of the options and tweeks i'm able to do with bravo.

Androidity3000 said:
If you want something stable, do NOT use ICS. Simple.
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Well, texasice's ICS and dk's are surprisingly stable.

Medroid 1.44 is smoth and stable. It already includes the last camera fix and a few other updates.

Non-HWA ICS Roms where always stable for me.
On HWA Roms I always had sleep of dead issues(phone freezing a few times a day), but I'm running Medroid 1.4.3(with camera preview fix flashed) now for a few days without problems.
HWA uses a lot of memory, so that could be a problem in the long run.

Androidity3000 said:
If you want something stable, do NOT use ICS. Simple.
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Well, I was on CM7.1 for what seems like an eternity (used to switch ROMs quite frequently at one point) but figured its time to test drive some ICS stuff and as long as it isn't constantly random rebooting, and crashing. Its stable enough for me!
altruistic666 said:
DK's rom is more inclined to CM9 and its just cool. Got into bootloop initially but after tweaking settings in memory management, I dont get any reboots. Battery is good and rom is smooth. You can try dk IMHO.
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yeah, trying to get dk's ROM installed on my N1, just having to work through some issues I'm facing which is messing up with the install.

You should use 4ext, then you don't have any install problems.
Bud I had problem s after recover all my apps. Only dalvik and cache wipe has cleard this problems (endless boot without cache wipe?!)
BCM is very smoth but without the stock email app (i need exchange for my job) it is not realy usable. After install it (stok email app, not gmail), i had a huge battery drain. Charge via USB was not possible (whats wrong!!!), battery is discharging...
Then I went back to medroid 1.44. Medroid is not so smoth like BCM (why not???) but with Nova Louncher (not with stock) it runs very well. The best ist ScreenState works realy but you have for both cases set the CPU governor to SMARTASSV2 (or onother stats but whitout ondemand, that is very bad)
BCm is very very smoth, like CM7, but batterie drain on my phone was frightening!
An other problem is wlan, higher than channel 11 seems not to work (i had test channel 12 to 13, channel 9 does not work also, all othed channels are busy)
PS. I have unfortunately not possible to post in the corresponding post.

bin12345 said:
You should use 4ext, then you don't have any install problems.
Bud I had problem s after recover all my apps. Only dalvik and cache wipe has cleard this problems (endless boot without cache wipe?!)
BCM is very smoth but without the stock email app (i need exchange for my job) it is not realy usable. After install it (stok email app, not gmail), i had a huge battery drain. Charge via USB was not possible (whats wrong!!!), battery is discharging...
Then I went back to medroid 1.44. Medroid is not so smoth like BCM (why not???) but with Nova Louncher (not with stock) it runs very well. The best ist ScreenState works realy but you have for both cases set the CPU governor to SMARTASSV2 (or onother stats but whitout ondemand, that is very bad)
BCm is very very smoth, like CM7, but batterie drain on my phone was frightening!
An other problem is wlan, higher than channel 11 seems not to work (i had test channel 12 to 13, channel 9 does not work also, all othed channels are busy)
PS. I have unfortunately not possible to post in the corresponding post.
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There is a fix for battery drain in BCM ROM. Review this post for a file FOTA kill http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23951371&postcount=202

TexasICE's ICS ROM is the most stable, there is a camera patch floating around. You may flash both of them and enjoy ICS without missing any feature.

Cyanogenmod 9 v6.0 vs stock ICS 4.0.4 (basic differences?)

Hi everybody! I have some "newbie" questions about CyanogenMod 9...
1. Is it really faster compared to stock ICS? I haven't overclocked the processor and my main problem with ICS, is that the default launcher has a little stuttering some times and it's not absolutely smooth. In CyanogenMod9, the "Trebuchet" launcher is almost at the same level in terms of "movement flow".
I had Nova launcher previously and I'm thinking of installing it again on CyanogenMod 9...will this be a right move?
2. What else is better than the stock ICS there? Ι already use that marvelous power widget inside the notification bar, but, except some similar workflow tweaks, I can't see anything else...any feature list compared to the stock ICS 4.0.4?
3. Why the torch toggle-in-notification is disabled in settings? (the pre-installed torch seem to work perfectly)
4. Screen brightness gets increased when there is a lot of light around, but It doesn't decrease its brightness when I go in a dark room again...Am I doing something wrong? (I haven't touched those sensor filters etc...)
Can you please help me? I'm not a developer and I'm mostly concerned about a smooth and fast experience.

1. Make a nandroid and try it out yourself.
There is no right move. Do whatever it is you want. Your phone won't explode if you install the "wrong" launcher.
2. Take a look at the popular roms in the dev section and repeat #1. Or look at bedalus's benchmarks if you're really that apprehensive.
3. probably hasn't had the bugs worked out.
4. again, maybe a bug. After you flash a couple of roms I'm sure you'll see that you can get #3 and #4 working.
More doing and less thinking. As I said, you have a nandroid to fall back on.

erikikaz said:
1. Make a nandroid and try it out yourself.
There is no right move. Do whatever it is you want. Your phone won't explode if you install the "wrong" launcher.
2. Take a look at the popular roms in the dev section and repeat #1. Or look at bedalus's benchmarks if you're really that apprehensive.
3. probably hasn't had the bugs worked out.
4. again, maybe a bug. After you flash a couple of roms I'm sure you'll see that you can get #3 and #4 working.
More doing and less thinking. As I said, you have a nandroid to fall back on.
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Thanks for the response!
1. If you read carefully my post (sorry for my bad English), you will understand that I already have tried CM9 v6.0 and that was the reason I wanted to know more, because I don't see any performance improvement over stock ICS 4.0.4 on my Nexus S. Am I wrong? There must be some objective reasons except my judgement.
2. I was talking specifically about CM9 features.
3. I figured that with the torch...it's probably not ready yet. I can't find any post about the brightness though (there are so many options there which I don't fully understand and brightness never works as it should).
4. I don't want to flash other roms...I have already flashed Wildestpixel's roms and I didn't see an obvious performance difference too...

For trebuchet if you check (or unchecked I forget) the join with apps setting it makes the launcher just as smooth as gingerbread

Well, I switched from Bugless Beast today to latest CM9 nightly (15.4, not the KalimochoAz version posted on here).
Haven't tried CM9 for a while and it surprised me, speed wise and stuff integrated in it. I'm a fan of stockish ROM's, that's why I used BB since ICS came out. What made me stay is:
- integration of BLN & Voodoo sound, meaning I don't need to run those 2 apps in BG (saves memory ofcourse, I'm a sucker for optimization)
- BigMem is quite noticeable, also RAM free right after clean flash is about 200MB (vs 140MB on AOKP, which is the ****tiest, meaning when I use the apps I have in BG, there was constant launcher restart - low on RAM)
- seems like internal storage speed is faster, I noticed level loading on Where's my water game is perhaps the same as on GB (was waay slower when ICS came out)
- nice UI optional goodies in the ROM but still without AOKP "lets **** everything in" bloat (battery %, power key camera shutter, custom autobrightness levels, T9 dialer). Wanted those on BB, where they were out of question, since BB is more stockish.
- no weird governors, OC or voltages, just ondemand/cfq as on stock, don't use deep idle
So for me, it's a good sweet spot between stock and custom ROM.*
*Disclaimer:
I've used BB for months & AOKP for 2 weeks, both on SimpleKernel, which is basically stock with added BLN&Voodoo. I don't fiddle around with OC/Governors. Those are my observations and I don't intend to debate "why you didn't use "xxkernal v.9302".

stellar said:
For trebuchet if you check (or unchecked I forget) the join with apps setting it makes the launcher just as smooth as gingerbread
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Thanks!!! That seems to work most of the times!

madd0g said:
Well, I switched from Bugless Beast today to latest CM9 nightly (15.4, not the KalimochoAz version posted on here).
Haven't tried CM9 for a while and it surprised me, speed wise and stuff integrated in it. I'm a fan of stockish ROM's, that's why I used BB since ICS came out. What made me stay is:
- integration of BLN & Voodoo sound, meaning I don't need to run those 2 apps in BG (saves memory ofcourse, I'm a sucker for optimization)
- BigMem is quite noticeable, also RAM free right after clean flash is about 200MB (vs 140MB on AOKP, which is the ****tiest, meaning when I use the apps I have in BG, there was constant launcher restart - low on RAM)
- seems like internal storage speed is faster, I noticed level loading on Where's my water game is perhaps the same as on GB (was waay slower when ICS came out)
- nice UI optional goodies in the ROM but still without AOKP "lets **** everything in" bloat (battery %, power key camera shutter, custom autobrightness levels, T9 dialer). Wanted those on BB, where they were out of question, since BB is more stockish.
- no weird governors, OC or voltages, just ondemand/cfq as on stock, don't use deep idle
So for me, it's a good sweet spot between stock and custom ROM.*
*Disclaimer:
I've used BB for months & AOKP for 2 weeks, both on SimpleKernel, which is basically stock with added BLN&Voodoo. I don't fiddle around with OC/Governors. Those are my observations and I don't intend to debate "why you didn't use "xxkernal v.9302".
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Thanks you very much for your observations! I want superfast stockish roms too, so I guess I will stick to the latest nightly for the moment.

Muvolt said:
Thanks you very much for your observations! I want superfast stockish roms too, so I guess I will stick to the latest nightly for the moment.
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Today, I'm trying out the 1200 OC, works completely stable so far, playing with the phone over half an hour now. 1400 rebooted after couple minutes. Try it out !
About brightness decrease, you need to enable it in extra auto-brightness settings at the bottom.
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madd0g said:
Today, I'm trying out the 1200 OC, works completely stable so far, playing with the phone over half an hour now. 1400 rebooted after couple minutes. Try it out !
About brightness decrease, you need to enable it in extra auto-brightness settings at the bottom.
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Thanks for the tip! Do you know what actually happens when "system update" detects an update? What is it actually after? An official post 4.0.4 update or a CyanogenMod update? Also, what happens in each situation? Can it be updated OTA?

Muvolt said:
Thanks for the tip! Do you know what actually happens when "system update" detects an update? What is it actually after? An official post 4.0.4 update or a CyanogenMod update? Also, what happens in each situation? Can it be updated OTA?
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K, back to stock values, because after some time on 1200 sensors stopped working.
Nope, OTA won't work, the update is for CM I think.
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Well I've tried most of the best out there and I think cm9 is far the smoothest rom out there. So stick with it. If you want to enhance ur experience with it then try pics reloaded I just love it.
Now the only thing left is search key mod foe recent apps to be modded with cm9 v6 cuz I tried the latest and it wipes out a lot of my options.
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Have you checked out the ICS ROM Benchmark Chart? Surprisingly, CM9 is ranked way at the bottom.

turmoil4eva said:
Well I've tried most of the best out there and I think cm9 is far the smoothest rom out there. So stick with it. If you want to enhance ur experience with it then try pics reloaded I just love it.
Now the only thing left is search key mod foe recent apps to be modded with cm9 v6 cuz I tried the latest and it wipes out a lot of my options.
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Just made it for recent 15.4 build, should work on v6 I think : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25022665&postcount=216
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Poriotis said:
Have you checked out the ICS ROM Benchmark Chart? Surprisingly, CM9 is ranked way at the bottom.
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Screw benchmarks, usage experience counts and it's not measurable.

Agreed those who actually perform better in bench mark end up being a nuisances. If u want a daily driver stick with cm9 its glitch free.
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I'm using CM9. Last rom I tried was AOKP build 32, but I went back to CM9.

experiences with CM9.0.0

I know it is not differnet than the fxp builds but it is the official final version so it should be good. I am flashing it right know, when its finished i will share my experiene. Has anyone tried it yet?
Okay what i can say for know is that its awesome. Everything (not xperia play related) is working fine and even the performence seems to be a little better. Not as good as CM10 but better.

Just flashed it a while ago, and currently those games like Bruce Lee and Crash Bandicoot doesn't work. I think the kernel is the problem (maybe?). Currently, the kernel flashed here is the freexperia one.

tajhai said:
Just flashed it a while ago, and currently those games like Bruce Lee and Crash Bandicoot doesn't work. I think the kernel is the problem (maybe?). Currently, the kernel flashed here is the freexperia one.
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No, it's the game not the kernel. There is a gamepad fix (that fxp nor cm ever put it) that fixes some games, but there will always be some games that will never work past stock (aosp based roms) and since devs have no access to that source they won't be fixed

Has CM9 reached the speed of CM7 yet? The last time I tried it was FXP128 and it's just SO SLOW in comparison to CM7. Opening apps happens lightning fast on cm7 and takes a fair while on CM9. Even thing like opening the recent apps popup takes far too long on CM9. Is any of this improved?

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Has CM9 reached the speed of CM7 yet? The last time I tried it was FXP128 and it's just SO SLOW in comparison to CM7. Opening apps happens lightning fast on cm7 and takes a fair while on CM9. Even thing like opening the recent apps popup takes far too long on CM9. Is any of this improved?
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Well, it will never be as fast as gb because it's a huge ram hog, but it is in no way slow at all. cm10 is coming along nicely, so you could wait for that if you like

agraceful said:
Well, it will never be as fast as gb because it's a huge ram hog, but it is in no way slow at all. cm10 is coming along nicely, so you could wait for that if you like
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I too thought it was something to do with RAM but the avail. RAM reported in CM7 is around the same as CM9. CM9 said 353 and CM7 says 357.
I took this from "about phone" in the settings, I'm assuming that's available RAM AFTER system use so I don't think RAM is causing the speed issue.

I don't know, but I don't like the CM9. CM10 is much faster and has higher/smoother FPS.
For me:
CM7 vs CM9: CM7 win.
CM9 vs CM10: CM10 win.
CM7 vs CM10: CM7 win for Gaming, CM10 win for Appearance + Features.
Just sharing my thoughts

Data not working for me. Tried both stable as well as the latest nightly. Anyone else facing this problem?

Jazz Like That said:
Data not working for me. Tried both stable as well as the latest nightly. Anyone else facing this problem?
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Nope. Work for me. I used stable and RC.

Bad, the WiFi issue pisses me off (few days of usage) then I get the WiFi loop, I avoid CM9 based roms now, I'm using CM10.