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[Q] Couple of newbie questions :)

Phk said:
Greetings fellow Friends from Galaxy
I just moved myself from the HTC Magic section to this one.. It was quite a jump, the Galaxy S Camera and 4inch screen are AWESOME =)
I have a few noob questions that I don't want to spread through many posts, so i've chosen to get them all here, without polution this forum section. Also they might come in handy for future Galaxy S buyers!
My phone is: 2.1-update1 @ I9000XXJF5
Question #1
Well at first glance everyone's trying to fix the "LAG PROBLEM"... I haven't noticed any lag!! What are we talking about? If its a fix.. i want it too
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the lag problem does not accure instantly after startup, it takes a while to do so.
Question #2
The phone came with Android 2.1, but at samsung-firmwares.com and at this dev section of the forum, i saw the JP3 Froyo release. How stable is this? Is it already a daily driver or a total beta? As an Android lover, i'd love to have the latest
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this release is, lets say, alpha quality, however some do use it daily and seems to be stable so far, but the jit is broken, so dont expect it to be faster than eclair
Question #3
I've used the One Click rooting solution and then the ROM Manager Clockwork to boot into clockwork rom and make a full-system backup. In my HTC Magic i had the recovery ROM (Amon_RA) flashed into the internal phone memory, so even if i didn't have a ROM installed, i was ALWAYS able to boot into recovery. That was a safety plus. How can i flash the Clockwork Recovery directly to my phone, without the ROM Manager? I'd feel more secure if i could count on recovery even if, for example, i flashed a non-working system ROM.
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you can run the clockwork recovery from original recovery by simply running it´s update.zip, this does in fact load the clockwork recovery into memory
Question #4
So what is YOUR favourite ROM? My stock has some unwanted apps, and even worse, it's Eclair. I'd like to switch soon, but i don't know these Galaxy S ROMs Tell me what's the best ROM for you!
Thanks guys, XDA is indeed the #1 place for mobile stuff
Cheers
Phk
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i dont have one yet, since my galaxy s is at the moment somewhere near me in the hands of my postman, and i have to pick it up in a few minutes... (the longest 20min i had this year so far...

FadeFx said:
the lag problem does not accure instantly after startup, it takes a while to do so.
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I have my phone on for 24h... No lag at all until now! ... weird?
FadeFx said:
this release is, lets say, alpha quality, however some do use it daily and seems to be stable so far, but the jit is broken, so dont expect it to be faster than eclair
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If JIT is broken, the rest of new 2.2 features can be achieved through Market tools... I'll stick to 2.1 then. By the way, where's a CLEAN 2.1 Rom? this one has lots of service-provider tools... They suck.
FadeFx said:
you can run the clockwork recovery from original recovery by simply running it´s update.zip, this does in fact load the clockwork recovery into memory
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Now That's a fix! So i just have to keep my update.zip of Clockwork Rom in INTERNAL SD CARD so that anytime, anywhere, i just have to perform update.zip and the Clockwork will boot ONCE from RAM and them be cleared at next boot, right?
FadeFx said:
i dont have one yet, since my galaxy s is at the moment somewhere near me in the hands of my postman, and i have to pick it up in a few minutes... (the longest 20min i had this year so far...
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So how where the first 2h with it? Rooted already?
Cheers

Phk said:
FadeFx said:
the lag problem does not accure instantly after startup, it takes a while to do so.
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I have my phone on for 24h... No lag at all until now! ... weird?
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Install more apps and re-test.
Cheers

poolcin said:
Install more apps and re-test.
Cheers
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Can you point me to a location explaining the issue?
I've seen the fix but i'd like to understand if the bug exists in every kernel, since is a file-system related bug.
Thanks

Phk said:
Question #4
So what is YOUR favourite ROM? My stock has some unwanted apps, and even worse, it's Eclair. I'd like to switch soon, but i don't know these Galaxy S ROMs Tell me what's the best ROM for you!
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I dunno about you but HACKECLAIR surfaced the day I got my phone so I thought it might be destiny, or you know just a co-incidence.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749582
Give it a try, it clears out the stock rubbish and leaves it in a folder on ur sd card to install later if you need it.

sturmeh said:
I dunno about you but HACKECLAIR surfaced the day I got my phone so I thought it might be destiny, or you know just a co-incidence.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749582
Give it a try, it clears out the stock rubbish and leaves it in a folder on ur sd card to install later if you need it.
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I have a problem with that... I've posted it like this in that thread:
i want to install this rom but i have I9000XXJF5.... Where can i get the "XWJM5" needed for this ROM? Isn't there a problem of switching from XX to XW ?
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Any1 knows?
Thanks for all the help by the way
Cheers
Phk

[ROM]HTC Hero stock ROM 3.36.405.1 (Repacked by Elelinux) (12/03/2011)

In this thread, I found something great:
elelinux said:
I got tired for a while on the GB and got a bit nostalgic, put together a repack on this.
* Rooted
* Apps2sd
* HeroKernel-12a-Generic
* Added compache
* Tun.ko for vpn
* Superuser
* aNetshare
Completely original have only removed the updater for HTC
ROM >>> http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/89846967/file.html
Edit: Oops forget this to all the apk's is deodexed
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And:
elelinux said:
No, can not cope with more threads now, was just a little flashback
Edit: If someone else wants to do it, it's OK
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So, here it is!
[Edit:]
OverclockWidget is recommend.

well done gzfan, I was going to start the thread myself, when I saw you had.
great rom, going to keep this as the daily runner until something else happens..like honeycomb, lol..
you forget how much you miss sense when you have been on GB for so long.

Some benchmarks @19200/652800:
Linpack for Android:
MFLOPS: 2.78
Time: 30.16 Seconds
Norm Res: 5.68
Precision: 2.2200446049250313E-16
Neocore:
With sound: 26.7 FPS
Without sound: 31.2 FPS
Quadrant Standard Edition:
226

Also using this one now, it's very nice!

going to try this 2nite. on villain 13 at the mo, but always like elelinux roms. anyone tried both?

is it possible to downgrade form this one? I get 140 ERROR BL fail. (no - its not golden card)

sy1wester said:
is it possible to downgrade form this one? I get 140 ERROR BL fail. (no - its not golden card)
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Just do a full wipe in recovery and flash an other ROM.
You can also try to do a full wipe and flash this ROM again. Must simply work...

Sorry - wasnt too precise. I'm running RUU version of this one. My phone just came back from repair and they've (T-mobile UK) of course upgraded it to the latest available version which happens to be this one.

sy1wester said:
Sorry - wasnt too precise. I'm running RUU version of this one. My phone just came back from repair and they've (T-mobile UK) of course upgraded it to the latest available version which happens to be this one.
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When I tried the Stock-upgraded-version I could root it with Universal Androot, then copy a custom recovery.img to my sdcard and go into terminal or ADB and type:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
The recovery.img-part can be replaced with wherever you placed the image file, and whatever you named the file..
Then boot into recovery: Turn off -> Press&Hold Home and turn on -> Flash whatever ROM and get on with my phone
In Denmark however, the carriers don't lock the phones, so I don't need a goldcard..

GZFan said:
In this thread, I found something great:
This is a very meaningful thread as it's a 2.1 Sense ROM repacked by Elelinux.
You may want to change the thread title to something...Elelinux?
Otherwise, this thread could be easily overlook.
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puppyko said:
GZFan said:
In this thread, I found something great:
This is a very meaningful thread as it's a 2.1 Sense ROM repacked by Elelinux.
You may want to change the thread title to something...Elelinux?
Otherwise, this thread could be easily overlook.
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Done
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can anybody comment on how this compares to vr13?

f_padia said:
can anybody comment on how this compares to vr13?
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VR13 is optimized, so VR13 is much faster IMHO

GZFan said:
VR13 is optimized, so VR13 is much faster IMHO
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but missing a few sense widgets

is it deodexed?

Im having trouble going into recovery mode. i hold power and home but my phone stays on the t mobile start up screen.
Any solution????

villain vs. Ele
veef13 said:
going to try this 2nite. on villain 13 at the mo, but always like elelinux roms. anyone tried both?
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I have tried both. At Villan rom I had problems with app2sd (when I installed over 50 apps it took all the phones memory and almost nothing at ext. sd partition) so I've switched back to Ele..
edit: + battery life seems to be better on ele rom..
Conclusion: On villain rom dalvik cache is on the phone and it's faster if you have slow sd card.
On other hand, if you have a fast sd card and a lot of applications, use Ele's rom.

hmmm no friendstream here either?
is there a similar app on the market?

arty said:
hmmm no friendstream here either?
is there a similar app on the market?
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Friendstream was never as original for hero,only for Legend etc....

liorweitz said:
is it deodexed?
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If you had read the first post, then had you seen,yes it is.

Xperia play roms?

Hello can any one please explane why there still arent any modified rooms? is it realy hard to create it for xperia play?
Sent from my R800i using XDA App

There are no custom ROMs because:
1) there is still no universal way to back up restore the relevant phone data (Trim Area, or TA)
2) there is still no custom recovery
3) there is no way to unlock the bootloaders for people with SIM-locked phones
4) there is only a certain number of people with interest and means to work on the three prior points.
You should be patient and support the people who are working on it. They'll do great things if we let them work

Yea I am eagerly waiting for some tweeked custom "ROOMS" lol
Dude edit ur title
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Logseman said:
There are no custom ROMs because:
1) there is still no universal way to back up restore the relevant phone data (Trim Area, or TA)
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105425

WelshPaul said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105425
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You have to pay to restore backups with that yano lol
Sent from my R800i using Tapatalk

Yes but the ability to backup is there and available sadly at a cost though, for now at least!

I like the stock rom
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Logseman said:
There are no custom ROMs because:
1) there is still no universal way to back up restore the relevant phone data (Trim Area, or TA)
2) there is still no custom recovery
3) there is no way to unlock the bootloaders for people with SIM-locked phones
4) there is only a certain number of people with interest and means to work on the three prior points.
You should be patient and support the people who are working on it. They'll do great things if we let them work
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1) It's possible for now with Omnius - it officially supports TA backup/restore for MSM7x30 platform.
2) It's almost there. Check out Arc section - it works but with graphical glitches, but no files to flash yet...
3) I'm working with Androxyde on TA backup/restore tool in hex format. It'll make my progress on this much easier.

or better yet we should be trying to get xrecovery to work on our phones, doomlord and Z are trying to get it to work on the arc(they might have it working by now) once that can be implemented then we'll be able to do custom roms no problem

1) I cant wait
2) I cant wait
3) I cant wait
4) I guess i will wait, good things come to those that wait
I'm 90% happy with the stock play rom, but we all know the xda developers unlock more than 110% of a mobile devices potential

hi, i'd like to free some space of my internal storage so i can install more apps, is this could be done by just rooting my device? i've seen some Apk' rooting program, but still can handle mine, some article say GingerBread v2.3.4 can not be rooted :-S , is that right?

gtfo

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idiotzach15 said:
this thread should not be in development. there are plenty of custom roms, but i guess you have to have an IQ of at least 10 to realize that.
to name a few:
Darkforest
GintoJellyBean
CyanogenMod7.2, 9, and 10
IT rom
GlazedICS
xDarkICS
MIUI
TrueAncestor
etc.....
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And if you had a higher IQ you would realise that this thread is over a year old. There's no need for you to be sarcastic like that. It's just plain rude.

ixyak said:
hi, i'd like to free some space of my internal storage so i can install more apps, is this could be done by just rooting my device? i've seen some Apk' rooting program, but still can handle mine, some article say GingerBread v2.3.4 can not be rooted :-S , is that right?
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Some roms are prerooted, but you may need an unlocked bootloader for some(Just read rom thread), and another way to root is "fastbooting a kernel" like Doomkernel. Just search around. You will find it in Play "Android Development"
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And if you had a higher IQ you would realise that this thread is over a year old. There's no need for you to be sarcastic like that. It's just plain rude.
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lol. This is the oldest thread ive seen in Xperia play forums. Let the "higher IQ" guy argue with himself. please Close this thread

Oh shoot. Guys I'm really sorry. I thought this was a new thread since I'm on here all the time and have never seen it before. all apologies
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[GUIDE] R800x owners - You got Custom ROM questions? I've got Answers!

xda-developers is a great site for learning all sorts of tricks and tips. However, sometimes it's been excruciating trying to get straight answers to what should be simple questions. You can get lost for hours or days in some of these threads, and still not be certain of the answer. And some people just can't seem to resist giving a n00b a hard time instead of a helpful hand.
Hopefully, this short guide will lessen someone's pain a bit. This guide is intended for use primarily by those of us who own a Verizon Xperia Play, model R800x.
Basic terminology you should know before using this guide:
1. What is Root, and why should/shouldn't I do it?
2. What is a locked Bootloader?
3. Can I unlock my bootloader, and do I have to in order to customize my R800x?
4. What is a kernel?
5. What is a Custom Recovery?
6. What is a Nandroid?
7. What is a ROM?
Use Wikipedia or Google to get the answer to those basics before moving on. You need to understand the whys and wherefores before going further.
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OK - You're back, so hopefully you have a better understanding of what we'll be doing from here on out. This guide is intended for those of us who for one reason (money) or another (caution, anxiety or fear) choose not to unlock the bootloader but still want to do some customization. I'm going to gather together the threads you need to perform the following tasks:
1. Root the R800x - [HOW-TO] Root Phones w/ Android v2.2.x-2.3.x (zergRush Method)
2. Install a Custom Recovery - The easiest method is found here: [APP]/[RECOVERY] Auto-Installer 5.0.2.7-nAa-r2 (Locked/Unlocked Bootloader) 10/1/12 That's an apk you install on your phone and run to install CWM to the \system folder. No cable or PC needed!
3. Make a Nandroid backup - Turn off your phone. When you see the words Sony Ericsson, repeatedly push the volume down button to enter Clockworks Custom Recovery. Using the volume down button, highlight Backup and Restore. Use the Home key to select it. Use Home again to select Backup. When it finishes, congratulate yourself on making your first Nandroid Backup! Reboot your phone to get out of CWM.
4. Choose and install an alternate ROM The following ROMs have been tested by me and have been shown to work. Each of them is available as a Nandroid, so you will copy them to your SD Card in \clockwork\backup and then use CWM's Backup and Restore menu to restore them to your phone.Follow the directions as provided by each thread. NOTE: In most cases, these ROMs may be used on either locked or unlocked bootloaders.
- GBTweaked0 - the Basic Gingerbread stock ROM, debloaded and tweaked out with the Icecream Sandwich look.
-R800x with UK Firmware - 2 links here and both work. Verizon 2.3.3 Timescape works as is. UK firmware needs a little extra effort to enable the hardware keys Tutorial Fix R800X UK nandroid Back,Home,Menu, and Search buttons and the wifi which can be downloaded from here: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rps86s1qxbbe6vo
-UPDATE For the button fix above, I found that if you follow those instructions, your buttons for the gamepad stop working. Follow the tutorial but insert the lines above the line that says "# KEY_UP, KEY_LEFT, KEY_RIGHT, KEY_DOWN" instead. This lets both the front buttons and all the gamepad buttons work properly. (See my post in the tutorial for the total script.)
-UPDATE: Hogwarts has added another customized ROM called COLA just for our R800x with the locked bootloader. When Hogwarts says it's the smallest and fastest ROM currently available, he's not kidding! This is about as bare minimum as you can get, lean and mean. Interested? Check out his post for COLA.
-UPDATE XperianceIT has posted up another customized ROM, a variation based on Hogwarts COLA. He calls it IT-ROM
-UPDATE From KeiranFTW comes Darkforest CDMA Rom (3.0.5) - [ROM] Darkforest ROM 3.0.5 UPDATE | GSM 2.3.4/.62 | CDMA 2.3.3/.145 [WIP]
5. Return to Stock - Download Flashtool from here: Flashtool-0.6.8.0-windows.exe and the stock ROM ftf from here: R800x 2.3.3 Full 3.0.1.E.0.88 FTF
Please be sure to READ AND FOLLOW the instructions provided on each of those threads. I bear absolutely NO RESPONSIBILITY if you do something to damage your phone.
NONE of these programs or solutions are my own work. All I have done is hunted down and tested these different links. All credit goes to each thread reference's OP and their respective affiliates. SOME of the people to be thanked are: DooMLorD, PaxChristos, KeiranFTW, Chevyowner, 216Monster, 007shark, odst0016, Leraeniesh, Androxyde, CrimsonSentinel13, Hogwarts, pvyParts the ICX Developers, and the Dark Forest Developers. Oh yeah, Sony (Ericsson) for making the phone, and Verizon for challenging all the devs creativity! If I've missed anyone, it's because I have a lousy memory and not because I wanted to shaft them from the glory they so richly deserve.
I hope this helps someone out. I sure could have used this post myself!
02/16/2012 - Updated some of the links that had been pointing at MultiUpload to new links on MediaFire
03/38/2012 - Removed ROM info for Unlocked Bootloaders as this thread is for LOCKED R800x Phones Only

Great thread whenever I post something new ill send you the details in a pm if I remember
Sent from my R800x using XDA App

Very good thread! I wish this was here when i started out looking for answers. Hey if you want you can add a link to my thread on how to change the carrier name for the r800x. That way even after flashing to a custom ROM, your not stuck with "Verizon Wireless" in your notification pulldown. The link is in my signature.

Thanks for the info.
Specifically the hardware key fix on the UK ROM
If you dont mind please add my Cola rom to this list of R800X roms
thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442557

Any news on overclocking?

Cl8rs said:
Any news on overclocking?
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For locked bootloaders requires a module ive been learning about how to make them. So maybe in the future.
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Bumping so it doesnt get lost
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It should be stickied/pinned.

Hogwarts said:
Thanks for the info.
Specifically the hardware key fix on the UK ROM
If you dont mind please add my Cola rom to this list of R800X roms
thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442557
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Thank you, Hogwarts! I know we ALL appreciate another ROM to work with. I hope to test yours this weekend. I'll try to comment on your thread when I do.

netizenmt said:
Thank you, Hogwarts! I know we ALL appreciate another ROM to work with. I hope to test yours this weekend. I'll try to comment on your thread when I do.
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You're welcome
I've made alot of improvements to it.
You can read changelog to see everything
I think it's the fastest setup possible for R800X locked bootlader

kernel
So do these roms come with a custom kernel (e.g. doomlord) to allow for overclocking?

Apersonx said:
So do these roms come with a custom kernel (e.g. doomlord) to allow for overclocking?
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doom lord is working on one hopefully since i requested it.
i'll be adding it to my rom and others can to

This is fantastic! Thanks for the guide. This is my first time trying out a custom rom and it was super easy thanks to your instructions.
Currently testing out COLA and holy **** it's fast. Loving it so far.

gchaggy said:
This is fantastic! Thanks for the guide. This is my first time trying out a custom rom and it was super easy thanks to your instructions.
Currently testing out COLA and holy **** it's fast. Loving it so far.
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Glad I could spare you some pain! And, yeah, COLA is friggin' fast. Too lean for my particular tastes, as I like to load up on games and what not, but Hogwarts has done an amazing job with trimming the fat, for sure!

dos any one no if there will be a android 2.3.4 or android 4.0 for the R800x?

Thank you for this post i was having a problem trying to comprehend all the stuff needed to install a ROM on the CDMA locked bootloader R800x but this cleared it all up.
Now im running the IT-ROM. Works great

Hello, is posibel install a stock Android 2.3.4 (Ginger) in the xperia play? ... and then edit some files allow the functionally of the hard keys as does this tutorial?

Hey guys im having issues, i tried using about every rom that was posted in this thread, the only one to install without error was cola6, anyway all the others give me a md5 sum mismatch. can anyone clerrify how to resolve this issue

Agito504 said:
Hey guys im having issues, i tried using about every rom that was posted in this thread, the only one to install without error was cola6, anyway all the others give me a md5 sum mismatch. can anyone clerrify how to resolve this issue
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Redownload it and try copy pasting again. I've had an issue with arch Linux where I'd get continual MD5 errors, but no md5 errors on xp.
Sent from my R800x using Tapatalk

thanx for your quick feedback @paxChristos

Custom ROM recommendation needed

Hi guys!
My daughter and I are utter newbies at the rooting game - but we did succeed in getting her HTC Desire (European, GSM version) Sed-OFF and rooted. After the blood sweat and tears involved in getting the thing rooted, I didn't think finding a suitable ROM was going to be very challenging. How wrong I was!
We've tried 3-4 different custom ROMs so far, but we're not really finding what she needs.
Goals:
1) Less bloatware.
2) Applications go to the SD-card, so she doesn't run out of space so incredibly quickly. (I know there a lot of ways to skin that cat. Any one is fine!)
3) Tight integration with daughter's Google account. (Like vanilla. For example, we've discovered that CyanogenMod is setup to integrate with exchange accounts. I'm sure that's great for someone, but not for her ... )
4) Google Play already installed and easy to get working.
5) If possible, HTC Sense.
Doesn't seem all THAT difficult ...

I can assure you pretty much all roms will have close integration wiwh your google account.
The index sticky on the development forum provides a list of all existing roms for desire.
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mikesusangray said:
Hi guys!
My daughter and I are utter newbies at the rooting game - but we did succeed in getting her HTC Desire (European, GSM version) Sed-OFF and rooted. After the blood sweat and tears involved in getting the thing rooted, I didn't think finding a suitable ROM was going to be very challenging. How wrong I was!
We've tried 3-4 different custom ROMs so far, but we're not really finding what she needs.
Goals:
1) Less bloatware.
2) Applications go to the SD-card, so she doesn't run out of space so incredibly quickly. (I know there a lot of ways to skin that cat. Any one is fine!)
3) Tight integration with daughter's Google account. (Like vanilla. For example, we've discovered that CyanogenMod is setup to integrate with exchange accounts. I'm sure that's great for someone, but not for her ... )
4) Google Play already installed and easy to get working.
5) If possible, HTC Sense.
Doesn't seem all THAT difficult ...
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These 3 are quite recommended for your goals (in no specific order):
Supernova
AN-Droid
Cool Droid
Or, if you can live without sense, try the ROM in my sig.
All of them are ROMs you can install and don't look back anymore after a bit of personal tweaking. It might require installing other hboots and setting up sd-ext partitions, though.

Ronok said:
These 3 are quite recommended for your goals (in no specific order):
Supernova
AN-Droid
Cool Droid
Or, if you can live without sense, try the ROM in my sig.
All of them are ROMs you can install and don't look back anymore after a bit of personal tweaking. It might require installing other hboots and setting up sd-ext partitions, though.
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Thanks - that was a big help!
Actually, my daughter is trying out the MIUI version at the moment, and likes it pretty well. It's not actually the Sense UI, but it's very nice looking.
Unfortunately, we seem to be having a problem getting a2sd working. We installed the S-OFF and recovery tool from http://revolutionary.io/ - it seemed to be the latest thing going. It loads this: ra-desire-v2.0.1. We have used it successfully to flash the various custom mods, and we carefully followed instructions in setting up an EXT3 partition (size 1gb). However, the partition isn't mounting and can't be used by a2sd. I even get an error message when I try to mount it in recovery mode.
Bother.

mite i suggest this recovery, it is the best in everyway and partitions ur sdcard perfect.(dont forget to backup first). just download and install the updater app then open it and flash recovery. simples
http://4ext.net/
Sent from my HTC Desire

jmcclue said:
mite i suggest this recovery, it is the best in everyway and partitions ur sdcard perfect.(dont forget to backup first). just download and install the updater app then open it and flash recovery. simples
http://4ext.net/
Sent from my HTC Desire
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Hi, this is the daughter!
Thanks, this recovery really works better and is a lot easier to handle!
We successfully partitioned the SD card again and now have about 1GB on it. However, we're confused about a couple of things, can you help us with them?
When we reinstalled MIUI (miui-ger_DESIRE_2.4.6_FULL_EN_DE.zip) all of the apps that were built into the custom ROM went directly to the internal storage and can't be moved.
Some of the new apps I installed (AirDroid, BubbleUPnP, Alchemy Classic) went either directly to the SD card or I could at least move them there, the others (YouTube, SwiftKey 3) did not and I can't move them either.

OP, I suggest reading the rules on future before posting around this site.

mikesusangray said:
Hi, this is the daughter!
Thanks, this recovery really works better and is a lot easier to handle!
We successfully partitioned the SD card again and now have about 1GB on it. However, we're confused about a couple of things, can you help us with them?
When we reinstalled MIUI (miui-ger_DESIRE_2.4.6_FULL_EN_DE.zip) all of the apps that were built into the custom ROM went directly to the internal storage and can't be moved.
Some of the new apps I installed (AirDroid, BubbleUPnP, Alchemy Classic) went either directly to the SD card or I could at least move them there, the others (YouTube, SwiftKey 3) did not and I can't move them either.
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Since you liked MIUI I might recommend you a customized edition
Look here.
Tip: The "X-PART" version is the one you're looking for. It maps the internal storage to /ext partition on your card, so you'll see your 1g there under Settings - Apps.
Hope it helps.

KidCarter93 said:
OP, I suggest reading the rules on future before posting around this site.
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Hello KidCarter93,
This is the Dad again - and please accept my sincerest apologies. I tried hard to do this right, but I seem to have messed up. I 've been using internet forums/email lists for 20 years now, I appreciate them deeply, and I don't want to behave abusively.
In my defense, my daughter and I spent DAYS searching the forums, reading and trying to figure stuff out before bothering you guys. But we're new to Droid modding, and it all got a little overwhelming ...

@mike never mind this post
KidCarter93 said:
OP, I suggest reading the rules on future before posting around this site.
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he only asked a question in "Q&A" and got an answer. sooo problem solved.
Sent from my HTC Desire

MidnightDevil said:
Since you liked MIUI I might recommend you a customized edition
Look here.
Tip: The "X-PART" version is the one you're looking for. It maps the internal storage to /ext partition on your card, so you'll see your 1g there under Settings - Apps.
Hope it helps.
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Thanks!
Um ... yet another question: We just downloaded this:
MIUI_XJ_D2EXT_X-PART_2.3.30_2.3.7_GS_3P_Final_Not_Signed_cdvfg15236.zip
I think I've got the right one - but there is a mind boggling number of versions and variants in there!
P.S. I honestly thought getting S-OFF and root was going to be the big challenge - a perfect of father-daughter vacation project on my old cell phone. It never crossed my mind that simply choosing a new firmware was going to be so brutally confusing!)
P.S. That X-PART recovery was like night and day. Wish I'd found that a long time ago!

jmcclue said:
@mike never mind this post
he only asked a question in "Q&A" and got an answer. sooo problem solved.
Sent from my HTC Desire
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So all he done was post in the wrong place? Wrong!
Pretty sure if you'd read the OP you see he was after recommendations for custom ROMS. Hence against the forum rules.

KidCarter93 said:
So all he done was post in the wrong place? Wrong!
Pretty sure if you'd read the OP you see he was after recommendations for custom ROMS. Hence against the forum rules.
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so what about all the other threads there are where people are asking for "best rom" etc? did ya post there too?... didnt think so.
Sent from my HTC Desire

jmcclue said:
so what about all the other threads there are where people are asking for "best rom" etc? did ya post there too?... didnt think so.
Sent from my HTC Desire
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You think it's possible for one to post in every single one?
If so, you really must be deluded.

mikesusangray said:
Thanks!
Um ... yet another question: We just downloaded this:
MIUI_XJ_D2EXT_X-PART_2.3.30_2.3.7_GS_3P_Final_Not_Signed_cdvfg15236.zip
I think I've got the right one - but there is a mind boggling number of versions and variants in there!
P.S. I honestly thought getting S-OFF and root was going to be the big challenge - a perfect of father-daughter vacation project on my old cell phone. It never crossed my mind that simply choosing a new firmware was going to be so brutally confusing!)
P.S. That X-PART recovery was like night and day. Wish I'd found that a long time ago!
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It's this one.
Download, move to sdcard and flash it
After installing it check under Settings - Applications how much space you have. It should be equal or around your ext partition you created.

MidnightDevil said:
It's this one.
Download, move to sdcard and flash it
After installing it check under Settings - Applications how much space you have. It should be equal or around your ext partition you created.
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YES!! It worked!!!
My daughter (15) goes back to school tomorrow with a successful project behind her. She'll have a free phone with space for as many apps as she can find - and a new feel for the the gizmo she uses. I did most of the forum writing (English is not her mother tongue), but she did most of the reading, downloading and general work.
Thanks for your help and patience.
Mike (& Natascha)

mikesusangray said:
YES!! It worked!!!
My daughter (15) goes back to school tomorrow with a successful project behind her. She'll have a free phone with space for as many apps as she can find - and a new feel for the the gizmo she uses. I did most of the forum writing (English is not her mother tongue), but she did most of the reading, downloading and general work.
Thanks for your help and patience.
Mike (& Natascha)
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Good luck and let us know if you need anything