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What rom and why?

I am currently on CM7 and i am just wondering what rom everyone is running. And why they are running it like whats the pro's and con's to the other roms i am very happy with cm7 just wanting to know about everything else.

Very broad question. No real clear answer. If yer looking to stay with non-gingerbread based, I would suggest Neutrino, as its new, maintained, and is built on cm7 weekly 4. Highly themed,/ customized, and very fast. If yer looking for a stock experience, the new 2.3.6 version of gingerbread is available to flash in the fruitcake section and there is a rom called Gingermod built from it.
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Cm9 kang. Honestly not that unstable, using it for 2 days now and its fine. Great breath of fresh air for my atrix
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What is this whole fruitcake I keep hearing about?
I thought after gingerbread was ice cream sandwich.
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Neutrino 1.4-S EE because it's slim, sexy, fast and compact. It's also based on CM7 and Faux's Kernel(s), which pretty much covers all the bases for me.

MIUI once it is more stable. i use it because i love themes and it is super smooth. good luck. try everything for yourself and see what fits you best.

LiGux fore sure
Thanks AtriXDA Developers!!!

Galnet MIUI ICS , it's speed is unmatchable.
Pros: ICS Framework, speed, and great battery life. Oh and because its MIUI
Cons: Poor game support for some reason :/ I'm assuming its because of the ICS Framework but not sure.
Overall my favorite rom so far

Definitely go with Neutrino 1.4 EE-S, great battery life, smooth ROM, and extremely fast!

Aura here! I think CM7 will be the best rom, but still unstable until final version.

I use CM7 weekly #4 at the moment, mostly because of (a) power control in notifications, (b) lockscreen gestures, and (c) skip tracks using volume long-press. If any Blur-based ROM had those features I'd switch back to Blur, for WebTop (and conversely would not consider switching if CM had WebTop or HDMI mirroring).
Neutrino looks like it could be good, but to be honest I'm always wary of ROMs that promise to be "faster", "more stable" or "better battery life" than CM or Stock. 9 times out of 10 I don't notice a difference

bmwbryan said:
Definitely go with Neutrino 1.4 EE-S, great battery life, smooth ROM, and extremely fast!
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Yup. I have noticed slightly better battery life than CM7 Weekly 4. It just seems to work fine and fast with no hiccups.
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I highly agree. Its impossible to be faster that stock cm7.I hate how a Dev uses I'm faster than your rom techniques. Miui for me. Nuetrino and others promise so much but its so plain and buggy. Might as well have bling with my bugs
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Darkside. It is incredibly smooth and trouble-free, supports as much or as little of Blur that I want, supports all features of the Atrix 4G, and has absolutely incredible battery life. Additionally, the developer is very responsive to requests and is diligent with upgrades.

For the Atrix I recommend the Neutrino rom:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1398819
He took cm7 and ripped out all the bloat for the Atrix

I also think that the Neutrino Rom is the best. I am excitedly awaiting ICS, but for now, Neutrino EE is what I am using.

Neutrino. Everything works unlike other roms right now
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Had to move back to cm7 since every other ROM gives me screen bugs. Gonna try out the ics kang soon
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Darkside for me. I loved cm7 but lapdock requires a Motorola Rom. Darkside is the most up-to-date with a superb developer.
For those who need lapdock functionalities, it's wonderful. I also feel the battery life is better than cm7.
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i kindof feel a special connection to neutrino rom spent afew days being a flash aholic wile test builds were uploaded and downloaded by me
overall its real fast,smooth its been the best experience on a cm7 based rom to date

Getting an atrix to play with

Getting an atrix to play with and have a couple questions.
is there an Miui?
How many custom roms are there?
What are people looking for in custom roms?
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1) MIUI in progress, look in the dev forum, should be a thread there
2) there are a lot of custom roms based on the stock GB firmware and the CM7 firmware(all with various tweaks). I really don't know how much though.. 10? refer to #1.
3) personally I need something lean and fast... I could care less about fingerprint and webtop.

If I got the the right rdannar, he is a talented dev from the x10 forum a while back. I hope you consider producing a Rom or two. What we need is if possible a very light blur Rom built for speed and fully functional. Or you can team up with the miui or cm team for webtop ideas. Glad your considering helping us with the ATRIX. Welcome.
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Voelker45 said:
If I got the the right rdannar, he is a talented dev from the x10 forum a while back. I hope you consider producing a Rom or two. What we need is if possible a very light blur Rom built for speed and fully functional. Or you can team up with the miui or cm team for webtop ideas. Glad your considering helping us with the ATRIX. Welcome.
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Ninja, Darkside, Aura, CM7 (All the roms based on CM7 as well) are either de-blurred or have 2 different versions, one with blur or very minimal blur. What exactly are you looking for?
1. MIUI is currently in Alpha 2, no details on the Beta release yet, but here's the thread.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383721
2. Quite a few ROM's for the Atrix.
-Darkside ROM (Nottach)
-Alien ROM (Kenneth from Briefmobile, not being updated)
-Aura (Diviance, not being updated anymore I believe)
-CM7 (Atrix Dev Team, working on CM9 now)
-Ninja (Sam Cripp)
-GingerMod (Evogp)
-RedPill and RedPill CM7 Hybrid (Dorian from Atrix Forums Website)
There's more but that's some of them, most of them rather that I know are still on the 1-2 page.
3. Mainly, when I look to flash a ROM, I would like it to be stable, smooth, fast, minimal blur or none at all.

Voelker45 said:
If I got the the right rdannar, he is a talented dev from the x10 forum a while back. I hope you consider producing a Rom or two. What we need is if possible a very light blur Rom built for speed and fully functional. Or you can team up with the miui or cm team for webtop ideas. Glad your considering helping us with the ATRIX. Welcome.
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I was okay on x10. I am more of a cook or porter with some Dev skills. I puta lot of roms out for x10. the good old days. then did some ROM for the Motorola bravo, lg thrill, galaxy s2, and soon this I hope.
I know people ask this all time, but was asking for other reasons then noobs do. Thanks for the info everyone. I could search but liked the feedback of users.
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lean and fast i mean real lean and fast is
neutreno rom by notorious544
fastest benchmarks of any rom; cm7 based or blur for atrix yet i was 14 pionts shy of 7000 on antutu
bench with fauxs old 1.4.5 kernal
with no undervolt and.maxed.min and max

I use neutrino (hopefully I spelled that correctly). Also welcome to the Atrix side glad to have you. There is a KANG CM9 in progress but the OP on that thread doesn't seem to have much more to say.
The Atrix Dev Team are great guys I think they would be happy if you could help them.
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rdannar said:
I was okay on x10. I am more of a cook or porter with some Dev skills. I puta lot of roms out for x10. the good old days. then did some ROM for the Motorola bravo, lg thrill, galaxy s2, and soon this I hope.
I know people ask this all time, but was asking for other reasons then noobs do. Thanks for the info everyone. I could search but liked the feedback of users.
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Hope you like the atrix! Coming from the x10 I sure do!
I can tell you what i'm looking for in custom roms though. ICS! We have a port but it's really an alpha, much like the x10 one.

See? ... Another proof that the Atrix 4G is still very alive and kicking!!!
(in reference to another post where pessimistic AT&T employees are saying that the Atrix 4G has reached it's end of life.)
Welcome to the Atrix rdannar

Thanks for all feedback.. I should have it today. The first thing I usually do is deblur and slim down a rom to get used to its files... Then theme and framework.. Then who knows? I have a Gs2 that I do roms (waiting for ics and new computer to do more) for so this will be a toy...
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Jellybean source being release today.

http://rootzwiki.com/news/_/article...-jelly-bean-source-is-now-being-released-r955

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/07/09/android-4-1-jelly-bean-released-to-aosp-right-now/
Damn it you beat me to the punch lol
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CM10 soon!!!!!!
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hopefully we get CM9 support first

lets see how fast we see something for s3

MMontanez347 said:
hopefully we get CM9 support first
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Why would they make CM9 for this phone when JB source is released? Lol that makes absolutely no sense.
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Serious_Beans said:
Why would they make CM9 for this phone when JB source is released? Lol that makes absolutely no sense.
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I believe it was said that jb code is very similar to ics. Cm9 is very close for us. A stable cm9 to cm10 would probably be faster than cm10 built from scratch. Just a guess though, I'm not a dev.
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Restola said:
I believe it was said that jb code is very similar to ics. Cm9 is very close for us. A stable cm9 to cm10 would probably be faster than cm10 built from scratch. Just a guess though, I'm not a dev.
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Nah I mean working off of CM9 would make sense if they could just merge the changes but I doubt it would officially be released just for them to release CM10 after that.
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MMontanez347 said:
hopefully we get CM9 support first
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I really hope we get CM7 before that
/sarcasm
really? why would you want the outdated one?

The CM team is merging the update as we speak. I think we will probably just get CM10 and not CM9 first (could be wrong though)
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We will get CM10 before CM9. All development on CM9 is being ceased after version 1.0.0. Just be patient, the source was uploaded something like 2 or 3 hours ago.

I think we will have something by next week

razorseal said:
I think we will have something by next week
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I think we'll have something by tomorrow morning.. ;-)
Joking aside, this is cool to see.
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jsmcmahon89 said:
I think we'll have something by tomorrow morning.. ;-)
Joking aside, this is cool to see.
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Joke? don't underestimate the developers on THIS phone, of all phones ) I'm gonna definatelly keep an eye on these forums. if nothing else i expect someone starting a WIP thread, an AOSP built rom, most likely not fully functional ofcourse, but compiled enough to boot up, just to give us a taste while development begins in earnest
This is just what was needed to jump-start development for the SIII

I'm curious, with Verizon's S3 flashing abilities currently being limited to roms stripped of kernels, how will this affect a jellybean rom? Is the ics kernel the same as the jb kernel?

Just rambling here, no disrespect intended and none meant at all just want to learn as much as possible....ICS source has been available the whole time, why wouldn't we have seen a CM9 build if it were that simple (as to have source)? Just cause source for 4.1 is out, it is going to make it that much easier to build an AOSP rom now? Again just trying to learn I know people are pretty snappy at questions like these, lol.
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mt3g said:
Just rambling here, no disrespect intended and none meant at all just want to learn as much as possible....ICS source has been available the whole time, why wouldn't we have seen a CM9 build if it were that simple (as to have source)? Just cause source for 4.1 is out, it is going to make it that much easier to build an AOSP rom now? Again just trying to learn I know people are pretty snappy at questions like these, lol.
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Reason people are saying that we could see CM10 soon is because the CM team think the code should be able to merge right into what they have with CM9, and not break that many things. With CM7 to CM9, they had to basically do everything from the ground up again because ICS was such a huge update over GB. Now JB isn't that big of an upgrade over ICS, in a way it is, but in a way it isn't. Sorry if that sounds confusing.

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Reason people are saying that we could see CM10 soon is because the CM team think the code should be able to merge right into what they have with CM9, and not break that many things. With CM7 to CM9, they had to basically do everything from the ground up again because ICS was such a huge update over GB. Now JB isn't that big of an upgrade over ICS, in a way it is, but in a way it isn't. Sorry if that sounds confusing.
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That's easy to understand, and not what I'm asking... what you are saying is its easy to incorporate 4.1 to 4.0, just like it was easy to go to 2.2 to 2.3... I'm asking why is everyone so excited to get 4.1 AOSP, when we don't even have 4.0 AOSP?
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mt3g said:
Just rambling here, no disrespect intended and none meant at all just want to learn as much as possible....ICS source has been available the whole time, why wouldn't we have seen a CM9 build if it were that simple (as to have source)? Just cause source for 4.1 is out, it is going to make it that much easier to build an AOSP rom now? Again just trying to learn I know people are pretty snappy at questions like these, lol.
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I am no dev, but heres how i understand it works;
we start with an announcement of an OS, this is done generally at Google I/O or a Nexus Event, in this case was Google I/O.
On the announcement day, devs receive the SDK; Software Development Kit.
This is released to allow the devs to begin making apps that match and run on the new OS. However, aspiring rom devs then begin to build a rom off the released SDK, generally called an sdk port.
These tend to be made simply to give us an idea of how the system would work and function, and generally might boot up and have a couple working things, but major things tend not to function because the SDK is not made for that.
Then comes the Source code, this is the real deal, it is full code of the system, code that can then be compiled to produce a fully working system, or nearly fully working. Only thing that remains missing is proprietary drivers and such, these tend to be the things specific to each phone, files that would make particular chips work, particular functions, the specific phone kernel, etc. but once you have the source code, you're over 80% done as far as having the resources needed to develop a full rom. at this stage, some devs can produce a fully working, stellar rom, but it will take quite a bit more work than devs who choose to wait for the final stage
Then comes the OTA. this is where all the device-specific stuff comes to the devices, and devs have the absolute and complete freedom to produce a fully working, better than stock, experience. This is where roms flood the dev forums.
So as far as not having AOSP yet, and now this is our chance at AOSP? No, thats not why we dont have AOSP. we dont have it cause no one built it yet; the Touchwiz UX is sooo integrated in the system that untangling and taking it all out is a long and drawn out process, and theyd need to deconstruct what we currently have, take out elements of touchwiz until its all clean, all the while making sure it doesnt break anything else.
but getting the jellybean source code propels devs because now this is a new OS, a new AOSP with its own new interesting properties. and because Jelly bean is a small update compared to ICS, now that we have source code, many of the device specific stuff wont be broken by implementing jellybean code into it, therefore building a Jellybean rom is a faster path to AOSP than untangling the current ICS for Galaxy S III
Does that make sense?
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That's easy to understand, and not what I'm asking... what you are saying is its easy to incorporate 4.1 to 4.0, just like it was easy to go to 2.2 to 2.3... I'm asking why is everyone so excited to get 4.1 AOSP, when we don't even have 4.0 AOSP?
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AOSP in this case is talking about the actual Android Open Source Project. so it is a bunch of code. so why are we excited? we've had ICS AOSP code for nearly a year now, what we dont have is AOSP roms. building an ICS AOSP rom is much harder than building a JB Rom, and we currently have icecream sandwich on the SIII even if its touchwized, and undoing touchwiz is quite a bit of work. but Jellybean...Oh Jellybean, now we got the source, we will start getting that baby soon and it'll boost dev on these devices. make sense?

mt3g said:
That's easy to understand, and not what I'm asking... what you are saying is its easy to incorporate 4.1 to 4.0, just like it was easy to go to 2.2 to 2.3... I'm asking why is everyone so excited to get 4.1 AOSP, when we don't even have 4.0 AOSP?
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Not sure if you were trying to come off rude or not, but people are excited because its the newest update, duh. Reason being we don't have 4.0 AOSP is because the phone hasn't been out that long for the US carriers.

4.2 AOSP out!

Woohoo! Can't wait for cm10 team to start merging in the new 4.2 goodness!
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/11/13/android-4-2-headed-to-aosp-right-now/

Woohoo....see what the devs come up with on this
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thats just great! cant wait to get the n10 and flash it with a good & nice aosp rom

Yep looking forward to this to. I have been running Siyah Kernel for a couple of weeks and it's great to be able to switch between the stable stock based rom and CM10

Yep same as on the Nexus 7 forums too, looking forward to having 4.2 AOSP on both my Galaxy S3 and Nexus 7:laugh:

Want omega's team to get cracking
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Won't take long to CM10-4.2 get released. I guess 4.2 uses the same base and stuff, so won't be a problem. Still, I may stick with Samsung. I love CM10 but not CM10 for i9300. Colors doesn't look good, laggy and a lot of random bugs.

Looking forward to it. Unfortunately cm10 on i9300 is beyond the team's control . If Samsung took their thumbs outta their asses and start releasing the RIGHT source and docs for Xynos, we might actually get somewhere. Its a miracle we've come this far without it.
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I see a lot of people comment that Touchwiz ROMs run more smoothly than CM based builds. This is exactly the opposite of my experience. I find the Cyanogen team's work to be second to none, which is remarkable considering they're volunteering their time.

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I see a lot of people comment that Touchwiz ROMs run more smoothly than CM based builds. This is exactly the opposite of my experience. I find the Cyanogen team's work to be second to none, which is remarkable considering they're volunteering their time.
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Definitely agree with you!
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More power to the CM Team! I loved the ROM ever since.
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It's freaking me out a bit that my Verizon Galaxy Nexus will get a 4.2 custom ROM before my Nexus 4. WTF?

With the CM vs TW ROM debate, is there one Vanilla ROM that you think proves that theory that they run smoother and faster because I'd love to test it if there is one. I've always also felt that TW runs smoother? Maybe I'm wrong. Is LiquidSmooth a good example?

foxhound tw Rom is ridiculously smooth
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Let's not change this thread to a TW vs CM, shall we?

Wohoooo! cant wait to get this one on my phone!

RoadXY said:
Let's not change this thread to a TW vs CM, shall we?
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why fight when siyah gives the best of both worlds
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RoadXY said:
Let's not change this thread to a TW vs CM, shall we?
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I think that comment probably did that more than anyone else's. I think it's a perfectly valid part of the discussion. I'm not suggesting we sit here and go back and forth on ROM names. But I'll ask my question in a different way. What is it about the AOSP release that's out there now that isn't working well that will be improved by this 4.2 release? Ultimately, this isn't about one ROM base vs another it's about whether AOSP can be made to work bug-free with the I9300 hardware, isn't it?

tinpanalley said:
I think that comment probably did that more than anyone else's. I think it's a perfectly valid part of the discussion. I'm not suggesting we sit here and go back and forth on ROM names. But I'll ask my question in a different way. What is it about the AOSP release that's out there now that isn't working well that will be improved by this 4.2 release? Ultimately, this isn't about one ROM base vs another it's about whether AOSP can be made to work bug-free with the I9300 hardware, isn't it?
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I believe it's also to do with what new FEATURES have been added to the new AOSP release and less to do with how much stability it will add (since that is dependent more on Samsung releasing the source than what AOSP has to offer in terms of stability).
Some of us would like to make use of the new features of 4.2 and not have to wait for an official Samsung update.
Having said all this, at the end of the day, that's my point of view and I don't expect everyone to agree.

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Woohoo! Can't wait for cm10 team to start merging in the new 4.2 goodness!
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/11/13/android-4-2-headed-to-aosp-right-now/
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Woot, the race is on!

[Q] Is There A...

List somewhere on xda of the Boost Motorola XPRT Rom's?
I know the xprt and dp's forums are merged together... But I just was hoping for a more defined selection of roms for that phone specifically.

n1nj4Lo said:
List somewhere on xda of the Boost Motorola XPRT Rom's?
I know the xprt and dp's forums are merged together... But I just was hoping for a more defined selection of roms for that phone specifically.
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Hate to burst your bubble but no. We do however have cyanogenmod 7 and 9 being worked on in this forum.
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So theres no roms yet, or is there.... Like maybe a small handful?
Just wanna flash a better more stable rom to my gf's phone for her.

Only roms so far are cm7 and cm9. Yeah it sucks this phone doesn't really have any dev support. CM10 is also being worked on by a user here. Right now CM7 is the most stable rom and there aren't really any problems with it. CM9 CAN be used as a daily driver, but video recording doesnt work, and it often freezes and reboots.

tzuba12 said:
Only roms so far are cm7 and cm9. Yeah it sucks this phone doesn't really have any dev support. CM10 is also being worked on by a user here. Right now CM7 is the most stable rom and there aren't really any problems with it. CM9 CAN be used as a daily driver, but video recording doesnt work, and it often freezes and reboots.
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Okay which rom is the Cm7 you're talking about? http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=136722677 Is it the "CM7 2.3.7 |V7| by vanillaLVL"
or another one? I just don't wanna download the wrong one and then eff things up cause of it. LoL

No, that's for the Droid Pro. Anything to do with the XPRT, you'll find here in the general section.
Here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2076637
[ROM][PORT] Cyanogenmod 7 (Unofficial) for the Motorola XPRT
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