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ROOTSide ROM
Base Flipside ROM with root/busybox/unknown sources enabled. Only thing different in this rom than rooting it yourself is you get to check/uncheck unknown sources. Yes, that means you can turn unknown sources ON and OFF! I have a clockworkmod recovery folder zipped up for distribution, but I want to post a full-fledged ROM zip file for the masses. PM me, and I will send you the ZIP file that I have right now.
What you get:
base install for the flipside (AT&T) with motoblur ready to set up. It is the exact same thing as doing a factory reset, but you get all the benefits of superuser with busybox and the addead feature of having unknown sources checkbox in the settings.
I will work towards a deoxed version this weekend as well.
No custom bootscreen (yet). No custom anything, really.
Almost There
I am currently in the middle of Deodexing the image. I have added in wifi tethering, and ensured it will have superuser and busybox pre-packaged. Next step is pushing this to my wife's phone and not having her get a pretty brick in return. If all goes well, I will be posting the image by morning light (CST).
Fingers Crossed!
Well
Things didn't go too well with my first build attempt. Appears to be a permission issue with the /system folder. I will sleep on it, and give it a second go in the morning. Sorry for the apparent "tease". If you want a faster build, I could use some other devs working with me.
Hey man, sounds like you're doing great! Keep it up...I already found a way to get the root with unknown sources checked, so i'm just gonna wait for the deoxed version! Hope it goes well as you try again.
Current Issues
unable to deodex the following:
/system/app/AABSync.odex
/system/app/blur-services.odex
Will try to load to phone without dodexing those two files. Hopefully all will go well.
Me too...good luck!!
jonsjava said:
unable to deodex the following:
/system/app/AABSync.odex
/system/app/blur-services.odex
Will try to load to phone without dodexing those two files. Hopefully all will go well.
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Both of those files are att/moto bloat... just be rid of them
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Glad to see some work on this device, I love the form factor but it's obviously not very popular with devs...
Very interested to see this come around. I would like to streamline the wife's phone. Her battery life is a 1/3 of my rooted and flashed X10. Sadly though I am NOT a Dev nor even a cook.
I would have had something sooner, but I ran into issues not related to the ROM. Still working on it. Anybody have an idea for upgrading the CWM from the one we can currently use?
so I was curious, I was able to get to unlock mode with an sqlite thing and it worked just fine for me, but have you been able to knock out the bloat and stuff? cause it sounds like the makings of a custom rom lol
you know what the turtle said.. slowly but surely I will win this race
jonsjava said:
I would have had something sooner, but I ran into issues not related to the ROM. Still working on it. Anybody have an idea for upgrading the CWM from the one we can currently use?
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Several ppl have said they have run into this problem...don't know what the deal is...
Is it possible to get CM7, or it's a problem with a locked kernel?
Ok, I just got a new phone for the Mrs., so I can break the flipside and unbreak it as much as I like.
Time for some real fearless development lol.
jonsjava said:
Ok, I just got a new phone for the Mrs., so I can break the flipside and unbreak it as much as I like.
Time for some real fearless development lol.
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sounds good man, keep us posted on progress!!
So check this out...I messaged the guy at modmymobile and asked how things were going becuase I heard people were having problems getting an updated CMW and this is his response:
"been sittin on the updated cwm recovery binaries and been draggin my feet/takin a break the past week or 2. i'll throw something out soon, but cant commit to a timeframe, sorry."
Looks like things are on the up and up...stay patient everyone
GOOD JOB!!!,
We are waiting for the rom
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Is it possible to get CM7, or it's a problem with a locked kernel?
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I can't install CM7, it reboots and locks up, then I have to reinstall froyo. It never worked when I had eclair either.
Better Than LIfe
Future Echoes
7-15-11
Update #2 fr the day
Ok, stumbled across something today while trying to work some bugs.....
I managed to "inject" a recovery into the rom, and while it actually booted into recovery, and did recovery things, it even went so far as to boot the tab.
But that was it, didnt get a full boot.
So, I stumbled upon a Clockwork Recovery buy doing the right tricks i suppose, however alot needs to be ironed out. and this gets top priority this weekend, why? well ****, think about it, CWM for the CDMA Tabs for Gingerbread, and before Verizon releases GB, so this.......is great news.
Hope to have this done by end of weekend, and in doing so it might iron out the zip flash issue which means I can pump out those 2 roms.
Just wanted to share.
First, I'm removing the download link.
Second, yes I do get your PM's, and yes I do read them, and Yes, I agree....I am bad at getting back to people sometimes. Very busy trying to get GB out for the CDMA Tabs in a working fashion. I am sorry. Those of you who know me, just call, it does hurt my hands to type.
The Update.
I am yanking the download link as it is apparent that the release was/is a failure, how I managed to get it on my tab, no clue, however I cant duplicate it again.
I am working on the build, 1 for Sprint, 1 for VZW. I am trying to get it deodexed 100%, and at the same time get a VZW 3G build working.
However what is very important, that will take less time for me to flash a build to test.....is a recovery. We need a Gingerbread recovery. We do.
So I am doing a few things.....
1. doing my research on compiling a new kernal, and CWM for our tabs
2. asked for an recieved help in a new kernal and recovery
3. changing how i build these roms, no more "kitchens" or stupid "gui" based apps on Linux or Windslows that foul up the permissions, I am going 100% command line for a more effective result, and less need for revisions.
4. Working non stop through the weekend once my wife comes home from work today, so from noon today, to 3am sunday/monday I will be hard at work on all Better Than Life Releases.
I appreciate your patience in this botched release, next time, ill release a test build to a few people for a backup verification it will go without problem.
Until then, i gotta get to work.
Jim
Update..........7-12 6am
I just spent 5 hours trying every trick in the book... from extracting factory.rfs and trying to rebuild it to forcing a fake recovery... I got nothing. The problem is that ALL of the kernels that exist with CWM are ext4 froyo kernels, but the new kernel source for GB doesn't contain ext4 code... therefore, no flashy (unless by a fluke) because on reboot it tries to mount everything as rfs but it's in ext4 after you flash in an ext4 conversion kernel. I would have to design a new GB kernel with CWM and EXT4 modules in the source or revert a froyo kernel to pre-ext4 and put in a new cwm... either would take a couple of days... but I'm swamped right now. The only choice is for you to set it back up on your device like you had it and then pull a roto. Did what I could, sorry.
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So, we tried (spacemoose and I) to get the extracted rom from my device to install on several others and ran across the same problems everyone else was having. however, the extracted rom being deodexed and zipalilgned, my device not.
So today I am going to try to get the 3G working, make the mods to the rom, and extract it, then try to inject the deodexed system and framework back in (which is always a ***** on a live device) and ill have no choice for now but to release a Heimdall flashable version of the rom.
I am waiting for that VZW release because with the sprint in my hands, and with a VZW version, all thats lacking is a Sprint tab to start making GB roms for both devices, however today will be a different story.
Oh, I did get TW4.0 to slightly work on the tab, itll either be released later, or maybe in an alpha build. I found it....well interesting. I tried it on the Psirens Rom (I have a TouchWiz4 version of Psirens) but it was way to damn buggy to release.
Ill keep yall posted today. Painpill time
Verizon wants to take their time, fine, screw them.
Gingerbread 2.3.4
Based on the Sprint update
Deodexed
Zipaligned
a little de-bloating
added CDMA/3G Verizon (3G with Verizon right now is a 50/50 shot
Kernal included in flashable zip
Just drop on SD Card, wipe everything
flash
enjoy
I am running this on my daily driver Verizon, to test and work bugs out and get 3G fully working, so expect alot...ALOT of updates and new versions of Gingerbread for Verizon.
This will be a constant updating project. So please expect bugs, and this is a last minute slap together thing tonight.
Enjoy.
More to come
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PULLED LINK FOR NOW 7-15-11
Omg thanks
Is this any faster/snappier than the stock SprintGB? I just finished getting it working on my vzw tab and it took me a while to get set up. Is it worth switching?
And btw thank you for all the work you do for the CDMA community, we greatly appreciate it!!
juanv145 said:
Is this any faster/snappier than the stock SprintGB? I just finished getting it working on my vzw tab and it took me a while to get set up. Is it worth switching?
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Nandroid and try it out. That's what I'll be doing in a few minutes. Thanks Oldmacnut!
dammit. i just got Psirens 2.5 the way i like it. and now i wanna try this. i'm torn with overwhelmingly indecisive ennui now.
when u say 50/50 chance do u mean it may/may not work or itll only work sometimes?
damn seriously lol im trying to check the latest siren and i see this y bother with sirens lol
Macnut, this isent working at all for me. im flashing from your original psyrens mod and it wont flash at all. it said opening package....... cannot open sip,(bad) installation aborted.
wolfie083188 said:
Macnut, this isent working at all for me. im flashing from your original psyrens mod and it wont flash at all. it said opening package....... cannot open sip,(bad) installation aborted.
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the link just updated. try re-download
indeed I'm lookin for the phone*.apk of VZW GB. is there an update of VZW?
Awesome, am giving this a try now.
Couple of questions:
1. Is this ext4?
2. Can we overclock with this kernel?
Thanks, this is huge for us suffering VZW tab owners!
When trying to install I got an error...something along the lines of, "error at line 11, can't symlink"
djf8 said:
When trying to install I got an error...something along the lines of, "error at line 11, can't symlink"
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got the same error, it wont install for me
any solution to this? im tired of trying to get it to work. im now back to psyrens rc1 untill any update on this.
wolfie083188 said:
any solution to this? im tired of trying to get it to work. im now back to psyrens rc1 untill any update on this.
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My "solution" was to just flash the Sprint rooted rom, which works with the VZW tab (not sure about 3g, though, I just use wifi anyway).
Would love it if we could get an ext4 and overclockable kernel working w/ GB for the VZW folks.
Going to download this today. This is almost more exciting than hcomb . I am glad someone is working on a vzm gbread rom.
Thanks Oldmacnut
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Same here...
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got the same error, it wont install for me
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Same here...
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Yeah, I'm sure something was just missed when oldmacnut compiled the zip for us. He'll get it worked out soon enough just hold off for now until there is word from him.
Getting the error as well. I am using the Sprint GB ROM in the meantime...
Oldmacnut can you give us more info on your custom ROM? I am assuming you have it rooted but the Sprint ROM is 190M while yours is 360M. Just wondering what kind of bloatware you removed and what if anything has been added to account for almost 2x the file size. Thanks
CM7 for BRAVO (No modifications)!!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HKY4OVEI
Try it and post any issues or problem!!
Well all this is thanks to rdannar, I just take his lastest CM7 rom (CM7 V5) and changed everything back to stock, accelerometer and backlight buttons are working also.
No action snap is installed, to install Fast burst Camera (zoom and autofocus) go to this thread to download it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272161
I used 2nd init defy and remember to follow the next (always used) steps:
1) copy the rom to your sdcard
2) boot into 2nd init defy -> recovery -> stable recovery
3) wipe data/factory reset
4) wipe cache partition
5) advance -> wipe dalvik cache
6) install zip from sdcard -> choose zip from sdcard
7) reboot
To take photos use Fast Burst Camera.
Do not use Defy Baseband Switcher if your 3G is working!!
I'm liking it so far!
Is there any way future ones (at least once you get to "production" runs) could NOT include the old swype? Sort of a pain to remove it to install Swype beta...
great rom! at the moment after two days of use I have not found still no defect. (before I used the rom v2 of rdannar). thanks
This is sweet. Camera works fine, camera advanced lite also works like a charm.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mnapps.cameraadvancelite
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mikiemc73 said:
This is sweet. Camera works fine, camera advanced lite also works like a charm.
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With auto-focus? What resolution?
mikiemc73 said:
This is sweet. Camera works fine, camera advanced lite also works like a charm.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mnapps.cameraadvancelite
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Im using it now in gingerblur and no success, can you tell us if we have to change something?
is there any way i can have live wallpapers back
edit: i cant get cam corder to work and advance camera lite jsut takes the picture but doesnt save it correctly it just makes it corrupt besides that the rom is awesome
mikiemc73 said:
This is sweet. Camera works fine, camera advanced lite also works like a charm.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mnapps.cameraadvancelite
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Camera adv lite did not save pictures when i tried it with this CM7. can anyone confirm?
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Camera adv lite did not save pictures when i tried it with this CM7. can anyone confirm?
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I confirm its not working
I'm working on getting camera and camcorder working with the stock camera app. I'm using the CM7 v2 rom from rdannar but adjusting some of the files in the system/framework folder. Anyone else tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1326718 Link to thread I was using.
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I'm working on getting camera and camcorder working with the stock camera app. I'm using the CM7 v2 rom from rdannar but adjusting some of the files in the system/framework folder. Anyone else tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1326718 Link to thread I was using.
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Nice, I think everybody should help so we get camera working.
Thats the only issue we have to work with.
Defy developers do the rest!!
STUCK!
Ok I got the camera to preview and it clicks if i use the settings that match the stock Bravo but all it saves as a file is a black screen. Can somebody please give me the stock 2.2.1 sbf file decompiled and changed to a .zip or something.
For something at least I have fast burst camera up and working. Now that I think, I need to get source codes. All of the codes for 2.2.1 camera for bravo, and the codes that are in the gingerbread CM7 rom.
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Ok I got the camera to preview and it clicks if i use the settings that match the stock Bravo but all it saves as a file is a black screen. Can somebody please give me the stock 2.2.1 sbf file decompiled and changed to a .zip or something.
For something at least I have fast burst camera up and working. Now that I think, I need to get source codes. All of the codes for 2.2.1 camera for bravo, and the codes that are in the gingerbread CM7 rom.
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Let me tell you about the source code first:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bravo.motorola/files/BRAVO ATT/
Get it there.
Once I deodexed a rom but I lost some of the apps to do it, I'll try to do it.
but BravoX RC2 rom's is deodexed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1065767
I think that could help you, thanks for being working on it.
Im always here
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Let me tell you about the source code first:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bravo.motorola/files/BRAVO ATT/
Get it there.
Once I deodexed a rom but I lost some of the apps to do it, I'll try to do it.
but BravoX RC2 rom's is deodexed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1065767
I think that could help you, thanks for being working on it.
Im always here
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Thanks! But I'll have to unzip it and see what it all is. I'm not caring about deodexed files I just want something that I can look at on my computer just like the CM7 mods that are zipped and archived. Easier to look at for hours.
Umm, all it gave me was a file called external.tar. What do I do with it? took me two hours to download.
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Ok this is what i'm looking for. Froyo 2.2.1 for the bravo, not in .sbf but in the way it would be if we were using it like the CM7 rom. Opened and in the order just like I can see it on my phone with Super Manager in File Explorer rooted mode. And need to know if some of us want CM7 WITH or WITHOUT BLUR.
I'll just see if I can make two versions. One with and one without so no fighting. But i will need testers.
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Thanks! But I'll have to unzip it and see what it all is. I'm not caring about deodexed files I just want something that I can look at on my computer just like the CM7 mods that are zipped and archived. Easier to look at for hours.
Umm, all it gave me was a file called external.tar. What do I do with it? took me two hours to download.
*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*
Ok this is what i'm looking for. Froyo 2.2.1 for the bravo, not in .sbf but in the way it would be if we were using it like the CM7 rom. Opened and in the order just like I can see it on my phone with Super Manager in File Explorer rooted mode. And need to know if some of us want CM7 WITH or WITHOUT BLUR.
I'll just see if I can make two versions. One with and one without so no fighting. But i will need testers.
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But I think bravox rom is like that. What do you exactly mean?
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About external.tar, I havent worked with that before, no codes for me by now, I have just changed files and zipped roms.
Im here to try, my two bravos are fine to test everything.
For me it doesnt matter about having blur or not, but I prefer GINGERBLUR , anyway we need a fully working gingerbread rom. (everthing will come after it)
What I need.
Ok. I need to have the regular 2.2.1 for the bravo in the exact same way as if we downloaded the CM7 rom that is 2.3.4. The regular 2.2.1 that I have now is just the .sbf file for use with RSD Light just in case I really screw up my phone. Just like windows restore............ Anywho i'm working on right now building the stock 2.2.1 bravo file system by using a stock factory bravo and copying all of the root files onto the SD card to put them on my computer. I'll be going through all of the crap and looking at the CM7 roms to find out what is diffrent. I need somebody who can zip the stuff so it can be loaded with 2ndint. This will then allow me to put this newish rom into beta. Or if someone can find or give me the program that zips everything for 2ndint to use. I will attach sometime what I pulled off of my Bravo for a better understanding of what I want.
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Ok. I need to have the regular 2.2.1 for the bravo in the exact same way as if we downloaded the CM7 rom that is 2.3.4. The regular 2.2.1 that I have now is just the .sbf file for use with RSD Light just in case I really screw up my phone. Just like windows restore............ Anywho i'm working on right now building the stock 2.2.1 bravo file system by using a stock factory bravo and copying all of the root files onto the SD card to put them on my computer. I'll be going through all of the crap and looking at the CM7 roms to find out what is diffrent. I need somebody who can zip the stuff so it can be loaded with 2ndint. This will then allow me to put this newish rom into beta. Or if someone can find or give me the program that zips everything for 2ndint to use. I will attach sometime what I pulled off of my Bravo for a better understanding of what I want.
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Ok, I understand now what you mean.
You want to zip the rom and sign it. It is not that?
If you want you can download Cygwin the kitchen its very easy to work with it, but if you want upload some files and let me know where to copy them.
I'll post in some hours where did I get the THE KITCHEN Cygwin, Im going out now!
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Ok, I understand now what you mean.
You want to zip the rom and sign it. It is not that?
If you want you can download Cygwin the kitchen its very easy to work with it, but if you want upload some files and let me know where to copy them.
I'll post in some hours where did I get the THE KITCHEN Cygwin, Im going out now!
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Ok i'll do a google search and see what I can do.
CRAP!
Well we'll all have to wait for a while until I get another Bravo. Something, well, someone, who will remain nameless (really not me) decided to wake up in the middle of the night and play with daddys phones on HIS table and CONNECTED to HIS computer. Well it got unplugged and found it's way to another play spot in the bathroom. Can anybody tell me the rest of the story??
Junkyardjames87 said:
Well we'll all have to wait for a while until I get another Bravo. Something, well, someone, who will remain nameless (really not me) decided to wake up in the middle of the night and play with daddys phones on HIS table and CONNECTED to HIS computer. Well it got unplugged and found it's way to another play spot in the bathroom. Can anybody tell me the rest of the story??
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Oh man, I dont believe it
Now what will we do? Will you buy another one?
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I dont wanna laught, but was that your wife? did she find something about another woman in your phone?
Women are like that, once something like that happen to me!!
Hello,
I am considering updating my gingerbread based ROM on my old EVO 4g (I am currently running Cyanogen mod 7.1)...
Its been a very long time since I've flashed a ROM to my phone, but I have been wanting to upgrade to an ICS/JB ROM for a while because (amongst other things) I hear that these android 4.0 ROMs are better when it comes to battery life.. As you can probably tell, I am not one of these folks that re-flashes their rom every week so I may be a bit rusty with this and I am a little bit intimidated. While I would like to try something new I also am a bit worried that my lack of experience may cause me to make a mis-step and mess up my phone..
The ROM I am looking at right now is the new release of MotoBlur'd, found here: .. I understand that this ROM is based on CyanogenMod 10, and since it seems I cannot get a version of the raw CM10 directly to install on my phone, perhaps MotoBlur'd is the next best thing...
But before I open up this can of worms and go off and wipe my phone and flash this new rom, I had 3 questions which I hope someone with experience can answer
1) All other things being equal, would this actually help with the battery life, over the Gingerbread based CM 7.1?
2) Is it still the case that Netflix and other video viewing apps do not work with this (or any other ICS/JB) ROM?? They mention it in the android dev thread, but no one has confirmed that these things work or not work.
3) Do I have to peroform any extra steps or install anything else (other than what is shown in the instructions) to move the phone from CM 7.1 to the latest Motoblur'd ?? For example do I need to install an ICS based ROM first before JB? Or can I just flash directly to this ROM??
Hopefully I can do this without causing too much damage or requiring too much help from the users in this forum... Of course any advice or suggestions anyone can give me would help...
Thanks
TPK2013
For number 3 just make sure your using the smelkus 4.3 recovery and for sure wipe the sd-ext to make sure you get a clean flash..
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For number 3 just make sure your using the smelkus 4.3 recovery and for sure wipe the sd-ext to make sure you get a clean flash..
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1. battery life will be worse. most likely
2. That is stil lthe case
3. Read the Guide in my signature (Evo Superguide). It'll help you a lot
HipKat said:
1. battery life will be worse. most likely
2. That is stil lthe case
3. Read the Guide in my signature (Evo Superguide). It'll help you a lot
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Excellent guide, Hipcat... I think this will really be helpful to me... As someone who doesn't do this all the time, it can really help to have a guide like that to cover all the bases.. I know we are supposed to try to search for the stuff that we need to know, but sometimes its hard to know even what we need to know, and sometimes the multitudes of information we find is contradictory or out of date, so this really helps..
I found a broken link on it, so I posted that as a reply in your thread (I hope thats okay)...
I think I may just stick with my GB based rom, as much as I would like to monkey around with ICS or JB.. I guess I don't see the sense of switching if it won't help my battery life and if it will prohibit the use of video playing apps (which, I know, suck a lot of battery)..
The biggest problem for me is the battery life (I found several contradictory explainations on how to calibrate the battery, I will try the one found in your guide next), but mainly I believe my problem is that I have too much garbage loaded on the phone (not reloading after a year and a half can do that), and a lot of stuff loads in the background so that is probably affecting my battery life.. Also I don't think I am using the most up-to-date radio, which is probably causing the most battery drain of all... So I am going to try the following...
1) I am going to (actually I already have) upgrade my radio to 2.15.00.01.15
2) As per your, and honda's suggestion I will try to update my recovery to smelkus 4.3 (I think I am using clockwork recovery right now, although I am not sure if that is the same thing or not)..
3) I will try to re-format and re-partition my SD card and attempt to install A2SD so I can have more room for apps (can I use A2SD with CM 7?)
4) I will wipe everything, and reload to CyanogenMod 7.2 (perhaps this will work better than 7.1) and reload about half the apps I have on there now (only the stuff I am using now)..
If battery life is my main concern, is there a better ROM I should be using??? I picked CM in the first place because it was an AOSP (no frills, no extra garbage) ROM, however I haven't been able to update my PRL (havent ever updated it, probably)...
Thanks again for your response... You and your guide have been quite helpful...
TPK2013
TPK2013 said:
Excellent guide, Hipcat... I think this will really be helpful to me... As someone who doesn't do this all the time, it can really help to have a guide like that to cover all the bases.. I know we are supposed to try to search for the stuff that we need to know, but sometimes its hard to know even what we need to know, and sometimes the multitudes of information we find is contradictory or out of date, so this really helps..
I found a broken link on it, so I posted that as a reply in your thread (I hope thats okay)...
I think I may just stick with my GB based rom, as much as I would like to monkey around with ICS or JB.. I guess I don't see the sense of switching if it won't help my battery life and if it will prohibit the use of video playing apps (which, I know, suck a lot of battery)..
The biggest problem for me is the battery life (I found several contradictory explainations on how to calibrate the battery, I will try the one found in your guide next), but mainly I believe my problem is that I have too much garbage loaded on the phone (not reloading after a year and a half can do that), and a lot of stuff loads in the background so that is probably affecting my battery life.. Also I don't think I am using the most up-to-date radio, which is probably causing the most battery drain of all... So I am going to try the following...
1) I am going to (actually I already have) upgrade my radio to 2.15.00.01.15
2) As per your, and honda's suggestion I will try to update my recovery to smelkus 4.3 (I think I am using clockwork recovery right now, although I am not sure if that is the same thing or not)..
3) I will try to re-format and re-partition my SD card and attempt to install A2SD so I can have more room for apps (can I use A2SD with CM 7?)
4) I will wipe everything, and reload to CyanogenMod 7.2 (perhaps this will work better than 7.1) and reload about half the apps I have on there now (only the stuff I am using now)..
If battery life is my main concern, is there a better ROM I should be using??? I picked CM in the first place because it was an AOSP (no frills, no extra garbage) ROM, however I haven't been able to update my PRL (havent ever updated it, probably)...
Thanks again for your response... You and your guide have been quite helpful...
TPK2013
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Yep, I fixed that link and what you said is why I wrote that guide; because searching can be a real pain in the @ss sometimes. It's like a teacher telling you to look up a word you can't spell. Well how do you search for an answer if you're not really sure of the question?? lol
You cant update your PRL on any non-stock rom. It has to be stock for you to be able to do that
Well if battery life is your main concern I always suggest a good sense 3.0 ROM. If you are worried about bloat that can be removed. If you want I can hook you up with a rom/kernel combo with everything you want.
When I am not testing or making a new rom I use sense 3.0 and can get 8 hrs of heavy use on stock battery. Thats netflix with 3-4 hrs use plus web surfing and calls during the rest. On my extended battery with light use I can get 4+ days.
If you would like to try my rom pm me before you partion your sdcard. There are certain things you need to do for it to work right.
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You cant update your PRL on any non-stock rom. It has to be stock for you to be able to do that
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Perhaps I will go to stock and try to update the PRL before I go ahead and update the ROM to custom... However, this Evo is on Boost Mobile (not Sprint) network, so I am not sure how to appropriately update the PRL... Should I just update it as if it were a regular Sprint Evo 4g or does it matter?
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You cant update your PRL on any non-stock rom. It has to be stock for you to be able to do that
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Umm updating prl only requires the *228 call from the phone and it works on any rom. Now to put a custom or older prl it takes a bit more. Updating your profile now that I do believe you have to be on a Sprint rom but I don't have Sprint so I can't say for sure.
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Umm updating prl only requires the *228 call from the phone and it works on any rom. Now to put a custom or older prl it takes a bit more. Updating your profile now that I do believe you have to be on a Sprint rom but I don't have Sprint so I can't say for sure.
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Never heard of that *228, so cant say anything about that
Updating profile and prl I've always seen and heard can only be done on stock, unless you use this ##codes apps I saw somewhere....
The ## codes only work on the sprint roms. To change prls on AOSP roms you need a windows pc with qpst setup and prl files on the pc. Then you have to enable diagnostic mode through adb or a terminal emulator. There is a thread here on our EVO forum to do it. I will bump it so you can check it out. It sure beats all the backing up and restoring to do it.
Edit: I bumped it. It is in the dev section.
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The ## codes only work on the sprint roms. To change prls on AOSP roms you need a windows pc with qpst setup and prl files on the pc. Then you have to enable diagnostic mode through adb or a terminal emulator. There is a thread here on our EVO forum to do it. I will bump it so you can check it out. It sure beats all the backing up and restoring to do it.
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Yeah. Theres an app that uses scripts to emulate the ##code functions.
Really? I can't believe I have not heard of that till now. Do you know what it is called? I would love to check it out.
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The ## codes only work on the sprint roms. To change prls on AOSP roms you need a windows pc with qpst setup and prl files on the pc. Then you have to enable diagnostic mode through adb or a terminal emulator. There is a thread here on our EVO forum to do it. I will bump it so you can check it out. It sure beats all the backing up and restoring to do it.
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Found the thread, thanks!!
Now I just have to figure out which PRL file to use for my Evo on Boost, and where to find it (I think this is what stopped me from updating the PRL before, not knowing if I should use a sprint PRL or something else)...
Edit: I did find this thread regarding boost PRLs on EVO
And if there is indeed an app that emulates the ## commands, I would like to know what that is...
... TPK2013
Heck if your on boost you need a boost prl. You can Google boost prls and find dozens of them. I would suggest using the latest one. Just dial *228 and it will update your prl. After it finishes reboot your phone. It is really that simple. I do it on my cricket flashed EVO but it works for every service provider.
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i just found my phone while moving.. charged it and forgot how cool all the mods were.. was gonna give it to my daughter with the pink theme. but then i started to check on everything and noticed a bunch of apps dont workl. tried updating some of the ones i could. but phone really started running slow. i know it was the last version of jellybean. so i want to update phone and get her a different rom.. but it has been awhile and i cant find original tar file. ive been looking through posts in development and found a kitkat one,but it says to update bootloader first. so im guessing that it is just the firmware. i need the whole stock file.. it should include the bootloader in there right? also i tried to update through flashfire but says my supersu isnt new enough.. cmon 7 years old isnt that old.. sorry.. but i really havent done this in awhile. if i uninstall supersu. then redownload it from playstore will it be updated? i think its built into the rom though. does that mean i gotta extract from system apk? ugh... this is kinda fun messing with this thing all over again. she might not get it.. jk. just want her to be able to use without any issues. would be nice if it stayed roooted. then i could change themes and stuff for her.. but if not stock it is.. she just turned 10.. so this will be her first phone...help would be greatly appreciated. thank you for your time in reading this long post.. sorry. Could def use some help trying to get this running right.