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[Q] Is it worth ROM changing to Epic 2.5?

Hey guys,
Just curious what your thoughts were on changing the ROM from the original one on the phone to Epic, (whatever the newest one is I think it's 2.5 somebody correct me if it isn't). So I guess if you've done this what are the most noticable changes and is it worth the time it takes to do this.
-Jim

I'm really enjoying the epic 2.5 rom. I liked the phone stock but I found it to hang up quite a bit, blur seemed a little power hungry, and there were some apps installed that I did NOT want that constantly bugged me (city ID!). I switched to epic and my phone seems much much more responsive and my batter life seems mildly improved, by about roughly 10%. I'll more than likely continue to use epic until the bootloader gets cracked and we get something like cyanogen on the D2

I also use epic 2.5 and it sometimes randomly reboots, but otherwise its amazing. Battery life is great!
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what's your battery life like? because that's my main problem with my d2 since i text quite frequently and that seems to drain the battery like no other.
so you guys say go for it? also how do you back your contacts up when you change the roms?

hockeyhead019 said:
Hey guys,
Just curious what your thoughts were on changing the ROM from the original one on the phone to Epic, (whatever the newest one is I think it's 2.5 somebody correct me if it isn't). So I guess if you've done this what are the most noticable changes and is it worth the time it takes to do this.
-Jim
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If you are looking for a rom with little to no Blur left, try installing Motoboy's R2D2 SuperClean. It doesn't have all the Star Wars stuff and you are left with a solid system. I experienced a few bugs that were show stoppers on Epic 2.5. Those being the slide to unlock reboots, and the calendar not allowing me to add events. Matt has posted a fix for the calendar, but as of yet nothing stops the unlock reboots. Personally I find both of the roms to be better than what was shipped with the device. Ultimately which rom to flash should be your decision not someone else's.

Link?
zibrah3ed said:
If you are looking for a rom with little to no Blur left, try installing Motoboy's R2D2 SuperClean. It doesn't have all the Star Wars stuff and you are left with a solid system.
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Can you post a link for Motoboy's R2D2 SuperClean?

wecramer said:
Can you post a link for Motoboy's R2D2 SuperClean?
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Read the instructions carefully, then read them again. This is a slightly tougher install than Epic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=796908

Well I'm a new Droid 2 user. I had the original D1 and just got the D2 about a week ago. Epic was the first rom I downloaded and I like it a lot it reminds me of my D1 roms I had installed. It's pretty fast and hardly lags. I had a few problems at first. My phone rebooted randomly about twice and I'm not sure if this was a problem for everyone or if I just had a corrupt file installed, but whenever I would use titanium backup my messaging app stopped working. It really pissed me off because my messages still worked, but I couldn't see them. It kept force closing, but eventually it started to work. I'm enjoying this rom so far.
EDIT: I'm having the lock reboot problem now, it has happened maybe four or 5 times and it has been getting annoying lol. I haven't really looked for a fix, but I will be soon.

The lock screen reboots are a known bug in Epic 2.5 but I'm back with epic after tweaking R2D2 too much and I haven't had a problem after installing lock screen on/off widget and setting it off.
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What do u mean by the lock screen reboots? Just out of curiousity? I haven't had any reboots but I don't use a lock when my screen shuts off... is that what ur refering to or just the regular slide lock?
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Slide to unlock from screen off. If lockscreen is disabled it doesn't do the reboots.
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hockeyhead019 said:
What do u mean by the lock screen reboots? Just out of curiousity? I haven't had any reboots but I don't use a lock when my screen shuts off... is that what ur refering to or just the regular slide lock?
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Yeah I've heard that people without a slide-to-unlock feature are fine, but people like me that HAVE to have a lockscreen, are expeirencing problems. It has happened to me a couple times already

@Herromoto
Maybe you could disable the slide lock screen and put a pattern lock on. I don't know if the widget will disable the pattern or the pattern will make a reboot but it's worth a shot.
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newk8600 said:
@Herromoto
Maybe you could disable the slide lock screen and put a pattern lock on. I don't know if the widget will disable the pattern or the pattern will make a reboot but it's worth a shot.
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Yeah I heard that's a solution people use, but I am too hard headed to do that lol, I like the old school lock screen too much

Stupid lock screen

Is there any way for me to disabled the lock screen? Its such a pain. Every time I hang up, lock screen. Turn on the screen, it times out, lock screen. 1.6 sucks....
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No lock, on the market dude
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Battery indicator pro also gives you that chance. It works most of the times.
PS. @spacegravity4me: You should have made a search before posting, dude, there´s a lot of threads about this.

Zenghelis said:
Battery indicator pro also gives you that chance. It works most of the times.
PS. @spacegravity4me: You should have made a search before posting, dude, there´s a lot of threads about this.
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lol okay, thanks for the help though guys.

spacegravity4me said:
1.6 sucks....
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Are you insinuating that a lock screen is a 1.6 problem...?

spacegravity4me said:
Is there any way for me to disabled the lock screen? Its such a pain. Every time I hang up, lock screen. Turn on the screen, it times out, lock screen. 1.6 sucks....
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Don't know what you're complaining about, for the past 2 days my lock screen has mysteriously vanished. Which means I can't put the phone in my pocket. Annoying, really.
I would do a factory reset but then I've got to do one for the 2.1 update anyway so I'm just going to wait it out

Lol..my lock screen turn out the reverse way,to the left now??

iead1 said:
Are you insinuating that a lock screen is a 1.6 problem...?
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I'll say that the lock screen on the Xperia X10 is pretty terrible. It has caused me to miss calls because I couldn't manage to move the slider all the way. I'm not sure why it couldn't handle that, but it's quite annoying.

rynoon said:
I'll say that the lock screen on the Xperia X10 is pretty terrible. It has caused me to miss calls because I couldn't manage to move the slider all the way. I'm not sure why it couldn't handle that, but it's quite annoying.
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I get that too, but yeah, it's definitely an X10 problem, and not a 1.6 thing. Thankfully, SE is taking the update opportunity to change it, so hopefully it will be more responsive.

try swipe it backward

aminmizar said:
Lol..my lock screen turn out the reverse way,to the left now??
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Hold it at the top(of the swipe pattern) and turn it to the other side...

pngface said:
Hold it at the top(of the swipe pattern) and turn it to the other side...
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Lo..tried that aint doing what it suppose to Im a lefty and im liking it this way. Thanks for the info though.

So far, I have one missed call out of 10 calls so I was quite lucky.
They have change it to the one similar to iphone which is no longer unique anymore.
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chongbh said:
They have change it to the one similar to iphone which is no longer unique anymore.
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I'd rather have common and working than unique and broken.

<SOLVED>[Help] Lost CRT screen-off Animation & Proximity Auto-Off

Well I just recently made the jump to Gingerbread and was really enjoying the little perk of the CRT screen animation.
Just lately though, I noticed that it had disappeared.
As well, I've been noticing that my phone does not automatically turn off when I put it up to my ear.
My first 4.5.91 flash I feel that I botched:
I had flashed Nottach's Darkside ROM (v1.3) and his Evoluer theme (v1.0) and I was trying to set up some of Droid Shogun's SwitchPro widgets and messed with a screen auto-off widget. I thought this was what caused the problem in the first flash and I eventually ended up wiping my phone (much deeper than I kinda planned, too).
I reflashed Darkside and Evoluer again and the problem reappeared. Though I remember testing the CRT & auto-off before I flashed the theme.
I just now flashed Nottach's uninstaller (found in the Evoluer thread) and it brought me back to the stock AT&T theme (no Darkside theming), but that did not solve the problem either (bring back CRT & auto off).
I'm asking a couple of questions here:
1) Is this a known problem? The animation and or Auto-off disappearing for some reason, whether it's theme flashing, flashing that particular theme (Evoluer), or something else (kernel problem, etc...)?
2) Is there something I could have done that is easily reversible (something I ticked/unticked in settings?). I will also add that I always do a little Spare Parts tinkering when first setting up my phone. Could that have altered anything?
3) What are my solutions? I could always reflash, but that is a true PITA. Help, please?
Thanks for any advice or input you guys have to offer. Also, please let me know if there's anything more I can divulge that would help in your diagnosis.
At this point,

In spare parts you most likely ticked faster window animations....put that to normal and crt anim should be back....uh not sure bout your proximity problem.
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jzaslice said:
In spare parts you most likely ticked faster window animations....put that to normal and crt anim should be back....uh not sure bout your proximity problem.
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Well,
I.
Will.
Be.
That fixed it.
Thanks a bazillion (and now I feel a pill).
Any thoughts on the auto-off vanshing?
EDIT:
HOLEE SH!T.
That fixed the auto off thing too!!
You are a frickin' prophet man.
Hey please say one last thing here so I can give you the very least 2 thanks you deserve.

xyrovice said:
Well,
I.
Will.
Be.
That fixed it.
Thanks a bazillion (and now I feel a pill).
Any thoughts on the auto-off vanshing?
EDIT:
HOLEE SH!T.
That fixed the auto off thing too!!
You are a frickin' prophet man.
Hey please say one last thing here so I can give you the very least 2 thanks you deserve.
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I think I'm the true prophet here.

xyrovice said:
Well,
I.
Will.
Be.
That fixed it.
Thanks a bazillion (and now I feel a pill).
Any thoughts on the auto-off vanshing?
EDIT:
HOLEE SH!T.
That fixed the auto off thing too!!
You are a frickin' prophet man.
Hey please say one last thing here so I can give you the very least 2 thanks you deserve.
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Haha no problem man I had the same issue when I first used spare parts I noticed the crt went away but glad it fixed all your issues posted.
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jzaslice said:
Haha no problem man I had the same issue when I first used spare parts I noticed the crt went away but glad it fixed all your issues posted.
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Me too bro.
Just out of curiosity, you didn't run into any other problem with spare parts, did you? I'm just kind of at a loss as to how it messed with the screen proximity off and want to make sure there aren't any other seemingly unrelated things it could break.
Also, where did you get yours? Is the Market version still being updated? I just want to make sure mine is up to date.
CancerJesus said:
I think I'm the true prophet here.
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Yoo gouf. proov it

xyrovice said:
Me too bro.
Just out of curiosity, you didn't run into any other problem with spare parts, did you? I'm just kind of at a loss as to how it messed with the screen proximity off and want to make sure there aren't any other seemingly unrelated things it could break.
Also, where did you get yours? Is the Market version still being updated? I just want to make sure mine is up to date.
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I'm using kens Alien ROM, its pre loaded. And no not really any problems. I Use it for compatibility mode and faster transitions, other than that I don't open it at all. I don't remember it messing with the sensor like that, I might have not noticed tho I didn't leave the fast window animations on for very long, but not so sure why it would bug out like that. Spare Parts shouldn't cause any other problems tho.
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jzaslice said:
I'm using kens Alien ROM, its pre loaded. And no not really any problems. I Use it for compatibility mode and faster transitions, other than that I don't open it at all. I don't remember it messing with the sensor like that, I might have not noticed tho I didn't leave the fast window animations on for very long, but not so sure why it would bug out like that. Spare Parts shouldn't cause any other problems tho.
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Awesome. Thanks for clearing that up.

I GOT ICS!!!!!!!!!!!!

JUST PUSHED
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and did you do this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22871384

baseballfanz said:
and did you do this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22871384
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No sir! I woke up, and looked at my pad (for clock) and it said firmware update

baseballfanz said:
and did you do this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22871384
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I did Here it is

Yep, I was watching video when it asked me to update. Took around 10 minutes and kept all the data so everything functioned just like before. Except it looked better and the speed is amazing. Only down side that there is no face lock which I m hoping they will come up with an update!
Very satisfied customer here! Unlike my LG Optimus 2X phone which i m not expecting to get an update EVER.

Check if you have face lock
Its the us version right?

phillybizzle said:
No sir! I woke up, and looked at my pad (for clock) and it said firmware update
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Well i guess you're not going back to sleep anytime soon.

coolface said:
Yep, I was watching video when it asked me to update. Took around 10 minutes and kept all the data so everything functioned just like before. Except it looked better and the speed is amazing. Only down side that there is no face lock which I m hoping they will come up with an update!
Very satisfied customer here! Unlike my LG Optimus 2X phone which i m not expecting to get an update EVER.
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Face unlock is a gimmick anyways..I have it on my phone, you usually end up having to type in your pin or pattern anyways, it is a negligible feature.

I should have factory reset before updating, that first reboot regenerating everything loaded (I guess) is taking a LONG time.

Shadow_Android said:
Check if you have face lock
Its the us version right?
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yah i have it under security

WHOA! Look at that notification bar!!
IT'S BEAUTIFUL

Jyveafk said:
WHOA! Look at that notification bar!!
IT'S BEAUTIFUL
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LMAO that's the first thing I noticed too..I was like OMG SHINY!!! (moth to a flame)

luna_c666 said:
Face unlock is a gimmick anyways..I have it on my phone, you usually end up having to type in your pin or pattern anyways, it is a negligible feature.
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Wrong. I have it on my Galaxy Nexus and in 4.0.3 there's an option to improve face unlock. Just scan your face in different light, with/without glasses (if you have to wear) and in different angles (holding the phone in eye height, looking down on phone and so on) and face unlock works nearly everywhere except in total darkness. I took the time once and scanned about 30-40 situations, now face unlock works flawless.

I got it too, east coast DC area

How big?
Hi,
Can someone tell me what size it is? Want to see whether it is worth downloading or waiting till tonight?

qwer23 said:
Wrong. I have it on my Galaxy Nexus and in 4.0.3 there's an option to improve face unlock. Just scan your face in different light, with/without glasses (if you have to wear) and in different angles (holding the phone in eye height, looking down on phone and so on) and face unlock works nearly everywhere except in total darkness. I took the time once and scanned about 30-40 situations, now face unlock works flawless.
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I know this, but I have tried this, it still gives me 'no face found' or 'unable to recognize' failures often. Not to mention that it's just a major PITA to hold any device in a single position for it to recognize you (very unsafe while driving), and it takes a full 2-3 seconds longer to unlock than simply swiping in your pattern, which is the fallback if it doesn't recognize you anyway. I have not found a good use for it yet (presumably, wouldn't a photo of you work anyway? And isn't it easier for a criminal to get a picture of your face than to guess your pattern?)
Just saying, impractical gimmick. Fun to play with, but for anyone who uses their device often, they will get tired of looking at themselves while the device tries to recognize them..IMHO, FWIW

Is this true
Am I understood right that you have got factory update for stock ROM?
If so that is pity - I am on custom ROM

Or we all just wait until some able Dev creates a CWM recovery-flashable version :beer:
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Barcors said:
Am I understood right that you have got factory update for stock ROM?
If so that is pity - I am on custom ROM
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You can go back to stock You aren't stuck there lol just see the link in my sig (from the sounds of it though, you are still pretty green, and need to do A LOT of reading IMO before trying to do too much at once, you also need to determine if you are SBK1 or SBK2, my guide will help you determine this.)

Not a huge difference visually but huge performance boost!
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[Tip] Alarm when power off

Hello,
I just want to remind you, that the alarm-function will work while the phone is turned off! It seems that many people didn't know this. :good:
Source: http://oneplus.net/one#features (at the end of the page)

Oh, really? With third party apps too? I didn't know that for sure! Thanks.

Googhga said:
Oh, really? With third party apps too? I didn't know that for sure! Thanks.
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I use the the stock Clock app. But I didn't try any other apps so far.

Edit: See Martin-Doc's post below, solved my issue. It works!
I've only found it to work when the phone is 'turned off' with QuickBoot enabled in the developer options menu. With my device fully powered off it didn't come on when it was supposed to. Just sharing my experience so hopefully no one misses an important alarm!

SteveG12543 said:
I've only found it to work when the phone is 'turned off' with QuickBoot enabled in the developer options menu. With my device fully powered off it didn't come on when it was supposed to. Just sharing my experience so hopefully no one misses an important alarm!
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Really? I use it every day and I never used QuickBoot.
But better save than sorry, so everyone should test it out bevor using it for important things

xxLeoxx93 said:
Really? I use it every day and I never used QuickBoot.
But better save than sorry, so everyone should test it out bevor using it for important things
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Yep! Just did another test just to make sure lol. Set an alarm for 9:17, turned my phone off at 9:15 and nothing happened. Turned it on at 9:20 and had a notification of a missed alarm.
That's pretty weird though, I wonder why it works for yours and not mine. As you said, always test it before you rely on it!

SteveG12543 said:
Yep! Just did another test just to make sure lol. Set an alarm for 9:17, turned my phone off at 9:15 and nothing happened. Turned it on at 9:20 and had a notification of a missed alarm.
That's pretty weird though, I wonder why it works for yours and not mine. As you said, always test it before you rely on it!
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I'd just make a test and the result it's the same.

The phone boots up 2 minutes before the scheduled alarm. You left it less than 2 minutes when you turned it off, that may be the reason why the phone didn't boot and sound the alarm.

just tested with third party app, doesnt work even if I wait about 10 minutes. Testing now with the stock app.

xxLeoxx93 said:
Hello,
I just want to remind you, that the alarm-function will work while the phone is turned off! It seems that many people didn't know this. :good:
Source: http://oneplus.net/one#features (at the end of the page)
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Holy crap...I just tried with the 9/17 Nightly and it worked!!!!

Yes, the stock app worked for me too. It's a shame though, that the app is crap.

Martin-Doc said:
The phone boots up 2 minutes before the scheduled alarm. You left it less than 2 minutes when you turned it off, that may be the reason why the phone didn't boot and sound the alarm.
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There we go! Worked just fine when I gave it enough time. Thanks for the tip!

Googhga said:
Yes, the stock app worked for me too. It's a shame though, that the app is crap.
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How is it crap?

Mr Woolf said:
How is it crap?
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Agreed, I like the stock app, it's perfectly functional for me. Plus I hate have redundant apps installed :/
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Mr Woolf said:
How is it crap?
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One thing I miss about my nexus 4 alarm is...I always get a popup when alarm goes off on that. On opo it just rings but shows nothing. I have to pull down notifications and press snooze/turn off. Is it the same for you guys?

Don't know what's so special about this feature. It's supposed to do that.
Heck, even my Nokia 3210 did that back in the days.

Bomans83 said:
Don't know what's so special about this feature. It's supposed to do that.
Heck, even my Nokia 3210 did that back in the days.
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My old Nokia did this too.
But my Sony X10 and Galaxy Note 1 did not do it, so I've never had a smartphone with this feature, I am happy that this was brought to my attention
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norpan111 said:
One thing I miss about my nexus 4 alarm is...I always get a popup when alarm goes off on that. On opo it just rings but shows nothing. I have to pull down notifications and press snooze/turn off. Is it the same for you guys?
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I definitely get a pop up, or rather the clock app opens automatically and is showing on the screen while alarming, so I do not have the problem you describe.
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Woah awesome. :good:
Forgot this was a function after numerous phones I've had couldn't do it. Thanks, mine works while turned off (No Quickboot)

Mr Woolf said:
How is it crap?
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It's crap because it's missing a lot of functions. you can't select playlists for example, and that's essential for me, because I like to wake up to a random song, and not to the same one every morning.

Googhga said:
It's crap because it's missing a lot of functions. you can't select playlists for example, and that's essential for me, because I like to wake up to a random song, and not to the same one every morning.
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It's all a matter if opinion, but I wouldn't call it crap, based on that reasoning. I have no desire to wake up to music, or random songs, a standard buzzer is fine for me. And as such, I feel it is perfectly adequate
You're entitled to your opinion, as well, of course
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