I have a Droid X that's rooted but It's on the stock Froyo. I want to flash it to a custom ROM but I don't know how I go about this.
Right Now I can't Decide if I want CM7, Justice, Liberty GB, or Liquid. What's the best one to go too? I care about speed, battery life & awesome features.
Should I upgrade to gingerbread?
KennyKusanagi said:
I have a Droid X that's rooted but It's on the stock Froyo. I want to flash it to a custom ROM but I don't know how I go about this.
Right Now I can't Decide if I want CM7, Justice, Liberty GB, or Liquid. What's the best one to go too? I care about speed, battery life & awesome features.
Should I upgrade to gingerbread?
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I would say go to gingerbread, just because it is the most update version and imo better than Froyo. Most all of the roms have great speed, as far a batery life and features tho ehhhh lol 1 of the 2 will have to be compensated by another basically meaning.
For instance, Liquid and CM7 has tons and tons of customization's about anything you would want to customize you can with those roms, yet due to so many customization features more data is on the rom which compensates the battery life.
Liberty doesn't have as many custom features yet the battery life is superior to Liquid and CM7.
So its all a matter of your personal preferences. I am currently on Liquid 3.0 I also have my phone underclocked and I have been on my phone uncharged for 17hrs with 50% battery still left. I love this rom, thinkin about checkin out the new Liberty or the Shuji rom by Mobile Sensei. After a few days and some more reviews by others.
Speaking of amazing battery life Mobile Sensei is the master of that had ICX by Sensei and could easily get 35 hours off the charger with no problem. Yet rom did not have really any custom options. As I said give and take.
As far as flashing a custom rom. You will definitely need Droid 2 Bootstrap by Koush from the market I think its 2.99, so you can go ahead and download that now. Also as far as flashing a rom I would suggest you visit droidmodderx.com or visit his youtube (just search droidmodderx). This guy Shane is amazing and can show you better than I can tell you how to load a rom. This guy does actual tutorials on how to load a custom rom. So definitely definitely visit one of his sites and you will be good to go (you can download roms from his website as well). You can actually go step by step on your phone loading the rom while you are watching the tutorial on your computer. Decreases the probability of errors.
Hope this helps guy.
Thanks Alot! I'll check out his site & comeback with an update. You helped alot.
FrostyIcy said:
As far as flashing a custom rom. You will definitely need Droid 2 Bootstrap by Koush from the market I think its 2.99, so you can go ahead and download that now. Also as far as flashing a rom I would suggest you visit droidmodderx.com or visit his youtube (just search droidmodderx). This guy Shane is amazing and can show you better than I can tell you how to load a rom. This guy does actual tutorials on how to load a custom rom. So definitely definitely visit one of his sites and you will be good to go (you can download roms from his website as well). You can actually go step by step on your phone loading the rom while you are watching the tutorial on your computer. Decreases the probability of errors.
Hope this helps guy.
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Good post with good info!
I just want to add that the d2 bootstrapper is available to download somewhere on the forums, so make sure you take a look around. I downloaded it from here when first flashing CM7.
Also, most if not all of your questions have already been answered somewhere, so check the stickies, and use the search. If you cant find anything close to an answer you need, feel free to ask!
KennyKusanagi said:
Thanks Alot! I'll check out his site & comeback with an update. You helped alot.
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No problem man. Definitely keep us posted on how it goes for you.
I flashed it to .602 GB to move up to the recent roms but I like it how it is right now. I was wondering can I put t-mobile theme engine without CM7?
I went from GB back down to Froyo and put Darkslide on my DX.
KennyKusanagi said:
I flashed it to .602 GB to move up to the recent roms but I like it how it is right now. I was wondering can I put t-mobile theme engine without CM7?
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Not sure if I'm understanding your question. But if a theme is built specifically for whatever type of rom you are on the yeah it shouldn't be a problem. If you are running a a Shuji rom i doubt that a theme for the CM7 rom would work on it.
Ok Cyanogenmod 7 has a T-mobile theme engine built in the rom. I was asking is there a way I can install that T-mobile theme engine onto the stock GB .602 rom?
KennyKusanagi said:
Ok Cyanogenmod 7 has a T-mobile theme engine built in the rom. I was asking is there a way I can install that T-mobile theme engine onto the stock GB .602 rom?
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Theme engine cannot be used/installed on any non 2ndInit rom.
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Which Custom Roms besides CM7 have t-mobile theme engine included?
KennyKusanagi said:
Which Custom Roms besides CM7 have t-mobile theme engine included?
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I'm not sure about the Tmobile theme engine, but, in my opinion, MIUI has a FAR superior themeing system.
MIUI's theme manager offers control of just about every themeing aspect of the device.
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I think I might have to flash over to that, I flash to the Liquid Smooth 3.0 rom & my dailer force close as soon as my phone boots up, whenever i receive a call or try to dail out.. It's the only problem I'm having with this ROM
hi all im looking for a full theme thats mainly black with hints of blue for icons and text ect, is their one that will mod everything from menus to contacts ect ?
What ROM are you running?
LordManhattan said:
What ROM are you running?
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rocketrom v7 ics mate, just installed today.
iver tryed the Theme Dark ICS Rocket for RR v7 by galaxy1210, in post three of the mod but it only changes some of the stuff it misses out contacts and a few other things, i would like a full skin theme if possible
thankyou
DAMIEN123_666 said:
rocketrom v7 ics mate, just installed today.
iver tryed the Theme Dark ICS Rocket for RR v7 by galaxy1210, in post three of the mod but it only changes some of the stuff it misses out contacts and a few other things, i would like a full skin theme if possible
thankyou
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Try the liquid smooth v2.3 rom
Paranoid android also.
Sent from my Paranoid Android GT-N7000. It doesn't get much better than this!
I am so eager to try a custom rom like RR-2.6 but I think jkay mods are must for better customization then I wonder why do people flash custom roms in which JKAY can not be flashed like RR-2.6
saurabh.2561 said:
I am so eager to try a custom rom like RR-2.6 but I think jkay mods are must for better customization then I wonder why do people flash custom roms in which JKAY can not be flashed like RR-2.6
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I am sorry but what does the Jkay mod exactly do ?
What is it exactly ?
Jkay...
Mysterious99 said:
I am sorry but what does the Jkay mod exactly do ?
What is it exactly ?
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The JKay framework along with the Deluxe Settings app allow you to customise and configure the UI of your phone in much more detail than the standard options.
I wouldn't be without it!
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saurabh.2561 said:
I am so eager to try a custom rom like RR-2.6 but I think jkay mods are must for better customization then I wonder why do people flash custom roms in which JKAY can not be flashed like RR-2.6
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Different people have different tastes, in this case i like cm9 and sometimes i like stock roms with jkay. It's a matter of preference buddy.
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Dude (sarubah.2561) the level of customization that is provided with AOKP roms is not worse than the one being guaranteed by JKAY mods. AOKP roms don't need JKAY-mods. They includes most of these options by default. You just must dig little deeper
A custom from can either be a Samsung rom or AOSP rom
jkay mod work only on Sammy roms.
AOSP roms like cyanogenmod 9 or aokp (rr remix 2.6 is based on aokp) have customisations build in like jkay stuff and even more......Jkay mod will not work on these....and their is no point really.
And if u want to take your device to another level flash paranoidandroid rom by D4rk and moles.Not only it has lots of options and stuff to play with since it is based on cm9 but you can switch everything you like between tablet mode and phone mode together with the dpi.Not only you can change the whole UI but also individual apps such as YouTube,Gmail,people etc.
Jkay is an awesome dev but try out other custom aosp sauce.
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m.kochan10 said:
Dude (sarubah.2561) the level of customization that is provided with AOKP roms is not worse than the one being guaranteed by JKAY mods. AOKP roms don't need JKAY-mods. They includes most of these options by default. You just must dig little deeper
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Thats what I want to know,,,when talking about customization ,,,do custom roms like RR-2.6 ( the one i want to try ) provide scrolling notification panel and quick launch panel in notification bar and other features of JKAY mods
saurabh.2561 said:
Thats what I want to know,,,when talking about customization ,,,do custom roms like RR-2.6 ( the one i want to try ) provide scrolling notification panel and quick launch panel in notification bar and other features of JKAY mods
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Scrolling notication yes.
Quick launch no
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Mysterious99 said:
I am sorry but what does the Jkay mod exactly do ?
What is it exactly ?
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see here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpWLhur1W4E
You don't need to flash themes like ICS Domination etc on CM9, they have inbuilt themes and you need to install it as an apk. Most of the settings which JKAY provides are
built into CM9/AOKP.
The only thing I saw in that video thats not in CM9/AOKP roms is the quick launch panel which I think looks kinda ugly. I'll stick to using my swipable dock bar in Nova Launcher. Apart from quick panel toggles, what else can you do with Jkay mods. Haven't used a rom that had Jkay built in since the hyperdroid devs stopped adding it to their roms
atulalvenkar said:
You don't need to flash themes like ICS Domination etc on CM9, they have inbuilt themes and you need to install it as an apk. Most of the settings which JKAY provides are
built into CM9/AOKP.
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yeah,,,i got it that most of the mods are built in AOKP but my main concern was notification bar modification specially that quick launch panel which i think is very convenient...
DramatikBeats said:
The only thing I saw in that video thats not in CM9/AOKP roms is the quick launch panel which I think looks kinda ugly. I'll stick to using my swipable dock bar in Nova Launcher. Apart from quick panel toggles, what else can you do with Jkay mods. Haven't used a rom that had Jkay built in since the hyperdroid devs stopped adding it to their roms
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+1 the quick launch panel looks very ugly
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saurabh.2561 said:
yeah,,,i got it that most of the mods are built in AOKP but my main concern was notification bar modification specially that quick launch panel which i think is very convenient...
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it use to look good in the GB days ma8, and now people r looking for more than that hence AOKP and AOSP has gone way ahead in terms of customization compared to Jkay
Aokp and aosp don't need jkay but if ur using Sammy ROM then jkay is absolutely necessary otherwise the ROM is useless
I like to stick to Sammy ROM coz I feel it has better battery life than any aokp or aosp ROM out there and plus I miss WiFi direct and FM in these ROMs
And if I feel like getting a near aosp experience I simply flash ICS domination with some soul bound goodies
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fatjivi said:
Aokp and aosp don't need jkay but if ur using Sammy ROM then jkay is absolutely necessary otherwise the ROM is useless
I like to stick to Sammy ROM coz I feel it has better battery life than any aokp or aosp ROM out there and plus I miss WiFi direct and FM in these ROMs
And if I feel like getting a near aosp experience I simply flash ICS domination with some soul bound goodies
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+1
I also intend to do the same,,,i mean sticking to stock (rooted) with--
--bloat remover
--jkay mods
--ics domination or something like that
Except UC/OC and other cpu/gpu related features we can do everything in a rooted stock rom,,,am i right ?
You can OC/UC, change GPU clock settings and all, in a stock ROM, if you're rooted with Siyah. Maybe other kernels are there, no idea.
And staying on Stock ROM will save you the hassle of flashing this and that patch frequently to use some basic features. But some people like the hassle, some flash junkies. Pick your choice.
ithehappy said:
You can OC/UC, change GPU clock settings and all, in a stock ROM, if you're rooted with Siyah. Maybe other kernels are there, no idea.
And staying on Stock ROM will save you the hassle of flashing this and that patch frequently to use some basic features. But some people like the hassle, some flash junkies. Pick your choice.
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This and that patch to use basic features? I flash my AOKP rom. It installs......done. No other patch needed unless I'm adding zip file themes
JKay is the best thing to happen to mobile phones since touch screens! I wouldn't even consider switching to a new ROM if the JKay mod wasn't available.
DanDroidian said:
JKay is the best thing to happen to mobile phones since touch screens! I wouldn't even consider switching to a new ROM if the JKay mod wasn't available.
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Agreed I was on cm9 till jkay released his mod for LPG ROM
Now always Sammy with jkay and ICS domination
Might try cm9 when final build comes..with rc2 out I read final build is not far away
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Hello, I recently made the switch from an iPhone 4 to a Nexus 4 and all this is very unfamiliar to me...just wanted some clarification about themes/ROMs.
Themes...are these essentially from custom ROMs? Like if you wanted a certain theme, you would install that specific custom ROM?
Thank you!
First off, I just have to say well done for making the right choice! .
Anyway, you can use any theme with any custom ROM.
If you use a Cm 10.1 (android 4.2) theme on a android 4.3 ROM it may have a few slight issues.
But overall, any theme will work with any ROM .
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Most themes use the t-mobile theme engine (found in ROMs like CyanogenMod), these themes can be found on the play store (type cm10 theme). But custom launchers like Nova can have themes and icon packs and you're free mix match around
Look at the post your home screen thread over on themes and apps for inspiration
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