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Post your ideas on the best ROMS for the HTC Desire Z and why. I am open to suggestions so leave lots of details. I want to use a new ROM but I don't want to waste my time changing them over and over til i find one.
I'll say CM7. I've tried one other - can't remember the name - and CM7 just works well. I was doing nightlies but am now with RC4.
I like the responsiveness to problems, the size of the community, the organization of the community (through the CM website) and the confidence I have that no one has a better Android ROM than I do.
gv 1.5 if u want stable no issues
not sure I can recommend cm7 even with rc4 or "final" its not stable. I tried everything, wiped cache and dalvik and still had random reboots and no bluetooth pairing no matter what I did. I gave up and went back to stable old faithful GV 1.5, which is 90% based on cm7 but stable. No reboots, just works and works great.
It depends. Do you like Sense or vanilla Android?
There is a new thread created like this every few days, so you can get some more opinions if you just browse through this subforum, and the Q&A one.
you should try miui
If you want to use HTC sense:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837042
> stable ROM based on the original HTC stock ROM with additional features and modifications from the Virtuous team. For me definitely the best ROM with Sense included.
or a ROM without Sense:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991254
> slim and stable Stock ROM v2.3.3 with some parts implemented from CM. It runs very smooth and without any noticeable errors. Great ROM without the Sense "rubbish".
I'm using CM7 Stable, it works well. MIUI's UI looks like IOS and I don't like it.
Lots of threads like this already but...
I've had no issues with CM7, its quite legit.
What is difference between the Cm7 nightly and weekly rom and which one is better?
Do i need to take care switching from Nightly to weekly or just flash and do the 2 wipes?
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What is difference between the Cm7 nightly and weekly rom and which one is better?
Do i need to take care switching from Nightly to weekly or just flash and do the 2 wipes?
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You're better off just staying on the latest build, and not using the nightly or weekly builds. These are not considered 'stable, daily driver' builds, and are aimed at the more experienced user who doesn't shudder at the thought of soft-bricking, or losing data.
jgc121 said:
You're better off just staying on the latest build, and not using the nightly or weekly builds. These are not considered 'stable, daily driver' builds, and are aimed at the more experienced user who doesn't shudder at the thought of soft-bricking, or losing data.
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Agreed. Although I have to add that I've been on Weekly 2 w FP for almost a week with no issues, and the best battery life is the best I have ever had!
WiredPirate said:
Agreed. Although I have to add that I've been on Weekly 2 w FP for almost a week with no issues, and the best battery life is the best I have ever had!
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How does the FP work in your build? I've heard mixed reviews about it.
I got the nightly build and my browser is crashing sometimes.
Is the stable one (no nightly ) the weekly build?
If yes why does it say that the fingerprintscanner is not working or is it not updatet yet?
I've had no problem with any of the nightlies I've run. Also no need to wipe when switching between cm7 builds. I haven't wiped since the first pre-beta.
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I got the nightly build and my browser is crashing sometimes.
Is the stable one (no nightly ) the weekly build?
If yes why does it say that the fingerprintscanner is not working or is it not updatet yet?
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The thread "No Nightly Ba2tf" is the current stable and there is a thread for weekly builds courtesy of the atrix-dev-team in the development section. Nightlys are on the get.cm download site.
I normally run nightlys with limited problems and haven't tried a weekly yet but was thinking about it. Most people just stick with the stable builds from the first thread I mentioned
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How does the FP work in your build? I've heard mixed reviews about it.
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Works great for me, better than blur!! Its more responsive, you can swipe upside down (imagine holing the phone sideways and just swiping your left index finger the "wrong" way and being able to unlock), And it works as a trackball. Very cool.
I flashed today the weekly build and wanted to try the FP somehow the phone turned off and the motorola logo was showing after turning on.
It was really weird, so i flashed the stable one and i still get browser forcecloses sometimes and that really annoys me.
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I flashed today the weekly build and wanted to try the FP somehow the phone turned off and the motorola logo was showing after turning on.
It was really weird, so i flashed the stable one and i still get browser forcecloses sometimes and that really annoys me.
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No force closes here. Maybe you need a fresh flash with wipes.
I saw this thread over at the Galaxy Nexus forums, and since I figured more people than just me might want to know more about the different ROMs, I thought it was worrth a thread here as well.
What I'm interested is a quick reference thread for the various Jellybean ROMs. Run by who, what's the aim, etc. Basically a quick reference guide to assist people (like me) decide which ROM fits my needs.
So far, these are the Jellybean builds that I know about for the TF101:
Team EOS 3 Jellybean nightlies
RaymanFX's 4.1.1 AOSP builds
CM10 preview edition
JellyBro (CM10 kang)
AOKP KANG
Let me know if you see anyone missing.
It would be nice for each ROM to have a a post which lists its key features:
Aim of the ROM. Tweaks, Stability, Speed, AOSP-like cleanness, etc
State. In active development, experimental, mature, stable, abondoned, etc.
ROM base, if any. Based on AOSP, AOKP, CM, etc.
Release-type/frequency: Nightly, interval, fixed releases, etc.
Non-stock/AOSP features. Swag, Toggles, Theming, OCing, etc.
Basically enough info to assist making a decision, without aiming for pages and pages of stuff which noone will ever bother to write (or read). See this post for an example of what I'm thinking about.
Feel free to recommend a non-default kernel for the ROM, but the focus should be on what the ROM itself offers out of the box.
Sounds good? Anyone wants to give it a go?
User summaries of the various ROMs.
I'm not guaranteeing that I will be able/willing to include all reviews here. If things get out of hand, I will edit this post to indicate so.
Team EOS 3 Jellybean nightlies:
2012.08.02: josteink
2012.08.02: fone_fanatic
RaymanFX's 4.1.1 AOSP builds:
None
CM10 preview edition:
None
JellyBro (CM10 kang):
None
AOKP KANG:
2012.08.02: K900
I've been meaning to make a thread like this, but I still have yet to find the time.
I read through all the JB threads about a week ago and Team Eos seemed to have the least amount of bugs so I chose it over the other options.
I'll start off by saying I've been using it daily since build #53 [2012-07-24] and I'm currently on build #54.
That said, here's what I've noticed so far:
Speaker volume is a bit low.
When using the HDMI out cable, sound plays via TF101 speakers, not TV speakers.
Video effects (Silly Faces) in Camera cause camera to crash.
GPS doesn't work.
Other than that, it's a very stable rom and working great. Dock functions 100%. Very responsive, stable and fast.
Also I'm using Guevor's JB Kernel 693. I just noticed 696 was released yesterday, so flashing that now .
Feel free to ask any questions about the rom. Maybe some time next week I can flash all the JB kernels out there and put them through their paces .
Note this rom is a GREAT daily driver, unless you really need GPS or use HDMI out very often, I highly recommend it.
I'm also running Team EOS nightlies and I'm very happy with it.
Here's my quick summary:
ROM: Team EOS nightlies
Non-stock/AOSP features.. Notification toggles. Overclocking. (Themes added in build #55?)
Aim...................... Stability
ROM base................. Team EOS
State.................... In active development
Release-type............. Nightly
Build(s) tested.......... 2012.07.23 to current (2012.08.01). With and without dock.
Not working / problems:
Audio generally low. (Seems to be a general JB problem across devices?)
HDMI audio out
Have encountered 2 sleeps of death while using it for around 2 weeks.
Everything else seems to be working.
My only complaint so far is lack of a status-bar battery-widget for the dock, like you have in Megatron (ICS). But I don't think any other of the JB ROMs available has that one either.
Great idea!
Will keep this thread under close observation :good:
CalvinH said:
Great idea!
Will keep this thread under close observation :good:
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If you try any of these ROMs out, feel free to contribute
josteink said:
I'm also running Team EOS nightlies and I'm very happy with it.
Here's my quick summary:
ROM: Team EOS nightlies
Non-stock/AOSP features.. Notification toggles. Overclocking. (Themes added in build #55?)
Aim...................... Stability
ROM base................. Team EOS
State.................... In active development
Release-type............. Nightly
Build(s) tested.......... 2012.07.23 to current (2012.08.01). With and without dock.
Not working / problems:
Audio generally low. (Seems to be a general JB problem across devices?)
HDMI audio out
Have encountered 2 sleeps of death while using it for around 2 weeks.
Everything else seems to be working.
My only complaint so far is lack of a status-bar battery-widget for the dock, like you have in Megatron (ICS). But I don't think any other of the JB ROMs available has that one either.
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Check out Dual Battery Widget from the play store. It has an option for having the dock battery level show in the status bar.
Also I'd like to add I haven't had a single SOD on Team Eos nightlies (been on since #53). But I have had a few reboots, all but 1 have occurred while not using the tablet.
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Officialzies for AOKP
Aim of the ROM. Tweaks, Stability, Speed, AOSP-like cleanness, etc
AOKP.
State. In active development, experimental, mature, stable, abondoned, etc.
In development.
ROM base, if any. Based on AOSP, AOKP, CM, etc.
AOKP.
Release-type/frequency: Nightly, interval, fixed releases, etc.
Frequent releases but no fixed timing.
Non-stock/AOSP features. Swag, Toggles, Theming, OCing, etc.
AOKP.
I've tried both AOSP build 3, and CM10 Kang.
I am eagerly awaiting a stable jellybean rom I can daily.
Using RaymanFX's 4.1.1 JB
Hi guys, thought I'd share this info. I'm using RaymanFX's ROM and overall it's running well. My only issue so far is that Google Now crashes right after launching. It was working before I started adding new apps, so I'm guessing there is a conflict with another app. Unfortunately I don't know which one it is. I'm guessing maybe gmail, Google maps, or Google +. I haven't tested the HDMI or used in the dock yet but WiFi and graphics seem good. The ROM itself is extremely lean, no bloat to speak of.
I had to flash the ROM a second time to get it working but it's possible that I goofed it up the first time because it does take a bit to do the initial boot and I was getting impatient and thought it locked up and rebooted.
I'll probably try the EOS ROM next.
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Team EOS nigthly.. Rayman has not updated this one in awhile and has been working on other projects. I'm not sure actually how good CM10 is, but I've run both this and TeamEOS and I changed to a TeamEOS / KAT 1.14 (now) combo and I have never looked back.. TeamEOS has the most fleshed out version of JB in my humble opinion.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
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If just install the rom 0.7 from raymanfx. The first time from me i root my tf101 !
It work great, some small functionnality are missing on the keyboard but it gives a second life to our baby.
Sent from my Transformer(4.2.1 rom 0.7) using xda app-developers app
Yep, I' using 0.7 from Raymanfx also. Its great to have the mutli-user support, but I think it comes with significant overhead and I'm not sure the TF101 can handle this.... still testing and will keep everyone informed.
EDIT: Solved - check CM11 discussion thread in the General section for @kabaldan 's fix. Fixed nightlies shoild start soon.
Hi all, I just received my RAZR M today and as usual, I flashed the latest CM nightly (20140301, unified) on it. To my surprise, there was heavy lag and stutter all over the system, even though I swear I did a clean install and didn't install anything afterwards (not even GAPPS). I posted this in the CM11 discussion thread:
AndyYan said:
...outfitted it with dhacker's TWRP 2.6.3.2, plus the latest unified nightly and @arrrghhh 's kernel, but to my surprise, animations stutter everywhere and items take a while to open. Reflashed without the kernel and the lag persists.
For reference, I flashed the same unified nightly on my Photon Q and things are still as smooth as ever. The RAZR M and Photon Q shares near identical internals, screen, etc. - they even share the same unified nightly.
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I decided to try older nightlies to trace back the latest usable one, but again to my disappointment, out of the ones available on get.cm, only CM10.1 operates as smooth as it should, all builds from CM10.2 onwards lag heavily.
Then I came across this:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/79209-major-lag-on-nightlies/
... which precisely described the issue I'm having, but without a solution.
Can anyone, especially those who claim to be using CM with "no problems", shed some light on this? Please don't advise me away from CM, I'm used to its feature set and don't want to get used to another unless necessary... Thank you in advance.
EDIT: Tried even more ways to ease the lag, only "disable HW overlays" seemed to help for a tiny bit. Also, testing with multiple benchmark softwares show that the device's performance is unaffected, so maybe the problem is on the graphics side...
Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM11
I can confirm the same behavior. CM 10.1 is soo smooth. I've been living with the CM11 problems for the additional features though. I just reloaded a CM10.1 backup to make sure I wasn't imagining things... It's definitely much smoother. I hour this gets fixed.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
BrandonL01 said:
I can confirm the same behavior. CM 10.1 is soo smooth. I've been living with the CM11 problems for the additional features though. I just reloaded a CM10.1 backup to make sure I wasn't imagining things... It's definitely much smoother. I hour this gets fixed.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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Already fixed - see the CM11 discussion thread in the General section for details. A kernel is uploaded for flashing; also, the necessary patch is already pushed, so next nightly will hopefully include the fix.
Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM11
Perfect! It's working much better.
Sent from my DROID RAZR M
Currently on cm7,2 Manica Build
wish to Try JB stable versions
Shortlisted Cm10, SlimBean and Mokee ... Are they stable for daily use
I Dnt like to flash and try roms. So asking suggestions ..
Thanks in Advance ...
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Currently on cm7,2 Manica Build
wish to Try JB stable versions
Shortlisted Cm10, SlimBean and Mokee ... Are they stable for daily use
I Dnt like to flash and try roms. So asking suggestions ..
Thanks in Advance ...
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Why do you want JB rather than KitKat? Both CM11 and SlimKat are already significantly faster and more stable than CM10 or SlimBean, in my opinion. I've been using SlimKat 4.0 for a couple of months with no major issues. It's not quite as fast as CM7 (due to the increased RAM requirements of KitKat compared to Gingerbread), but it's much faster than any of the Jellybean roms. See my guide here for tips on installing, customizing, and improving the performance of SlimKat and CM11.
try slimkat as mentioned above. That's what i use daily and its stable enough.
OT: But cm 7.2 is still (significantly) faster and More stable than eg slimkat for the daily usage? Is that right? From your experiences...
selectah said:
OT: But cm 7.2 is still (significantly) faster and More stable than eg slimkat for the daily usage? Is that right? From your experiences...
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CM7 is still slightly faster than SlimKat, in some respects. For example, when pressing the power button to wake the screen, on CM7 the screen comes on almost instantly, while on SlimKat there is a 1 second delay. Some apps also start and run slightly faster on CM7, probably because of more available RAM.
On the other hand, SlimKat is slightly faster in other respects. In particular, the wifi speed is significantly faster on SlimKat, at least in my experience.
In terms of stability, it's difficult to say. Both CM7 and SlimKat seem perfectly stable for me; no significant problems whatsoever. However, some users still report having issues with bluetooth, wifi authentication, and telephony layer problems.