Lets start by saying I've only rooted two phones before, ever... So I'm not a genius with this stuff. I am tech savy however, the one that everyone comes to with a computer problem or question so it shouldnt be that difficult.
This is anything and everything I need:
N64oid and FPSE to run at full speed without any stuttering in audio or video
Bluetooth to work fully (along with using a ps3 controller and using wii controllers)
GPS to work fully (I use my phone almost on a daily basis for deliveries)
Disable the track pad completely
Overclocking (pretty much a given with the emulator thing...)
I'm thinking that those are really the only couple main problems I've heard of with certain roms, somethings work some dont etc etc...
I've been looking at this thread quite a bit, downloading everything I need and organizing it in folders when the time comes. I've also heard dont root with visionary because there is a high brick rate, read also via sticky in forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1107911
My main question is this the guide I should be using? Or if you suggest CM7 or Glite or whatever else... I am a very light user when it comes to pickiness. I have about 20 apps i use on a daily basis and that it, I customize the desktop picture some ringtones and use android launcher pro. Thats honestly it.
not a single response?
Ive used g-lite from virtuousrom for a while. it does everything i want and has lots of ram free for that kind of use. expect nothing fancy since its more or less a vanilla rom
Id recommend Go launcher instead of the stock launcher btw =)
Ya I was thinking glite because of its minimilistic type. Ok well thank you and ill try the other launcher out
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G-Lite is a very fast ROM. The kernel supplied will only allow for overclocking to 1 GHz, but there is an option to install and use an alternative kernel with more overclocking possibilities. Haven't tried that yet. My experience with the standard kernel is a seriously FAST ROM that does everything smooth even when underclocked - it has by far the best battery time among all the ROMs I have used.
With regards to deactivating the trackpad completely, you will maybe have to find a third-party app or edit the keymapping files yourself.
I used unity kernel v9 with glite. It allows you to go up to 2 ghz.
As far as i know, the glite kernel allows you to do the same, but by default only goes up to 1 ghz when not using oc software. You could on the other hand edit config files for their oc daemon. Unityrom goes up to 1.2 ghz, something my phone was unable of so i had to edit those files in order to make it run without crashing.
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I used unity kernel v9 with glite. It allows you to go up to 2 ghz.
As far as i know, the glite kernel allows you to do the same, but by default only goes up to 1 ghz when not using oc software. You could on the other hand edit config files for their oc daemon. Unityrom goes up to 1.2 ghz, something my phone was unable of so i had to edit those files in order to make it run without crashing.
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Wait, you use Unity with the most recent release of G-Lite? 2.0.1? I thought that was for sense roms only?? Does everything work?
It worked fine for me. I dont mind messing arround with my phone. perhaps i was lucky.
I trided their ICS rom for a while and used ocuvbeat to overclock up to 1.5 ghz by some voltage tweaks. Not sure if it works with GB glite. If it does, USE IT!
Btw, gettin åäö (scandinavian letters) to work is a major pita. I did it the dirty way by "stealing" the keychar and keymap folders from their unity rom. Keep in mind that typing them on the hw keyboard will make em uppercase. Not sure how to fix that.
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You know, it's easier for me to write in Chinese characters than for you Scandinavians and your special characters. You poor fellows!
My personal choice is MIUI enhanced with bulletproof addon pack from tun4f1sh.
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Ok,I'm new to Android, fresh out of Windows Mobile and might not know what I'm talking about, so... here we go,
I'm looking for my dream ROM, and kernel combination
Is there a ROM out there that has:
Delicious Froyo
4G Enabled
Can use Bluetooth controllers - (Wiimote, MSI BGP 100) [I guess that means it'd have to be Senseless?]
Retains its HDMI out functionality
Uncapped FPS
Over 2 multi touch points
Stability - Doesn't crash often
Decent Battery Life - (More than 5 Hours)
Swype Keyboard
802.11N Wireless Support Enabled
Overclocking support would be nice, but probably not necessary
I'm currently running Fresh Rom, but its starting to seriously lag after a few weeks of use, I guess its because of all the apps and widget mods I installed. And stupid Sense keeps starting up when I start my phone, even though launcher pro is my default home.
So I'm ready to flash another rom to have a clean start, now that I kinda know what I want.
There isn't a ROM with all of that
Looks to me like most (if not all) of the things you want to do can be done on Fresh. If it's lagging, wipe the caches using Amon and see if that speeds things up. I ran Fresh for a long while with no issues. For the past 3 days, I've been trying out the latest Baked Snack rom, and it's very good, too. The only thing I'm not sure about is the multi-touch feature because I haven't come across the need for it yet. I recommend you do the same thing I'm doing and everyone else does: Download them, flash them, keep them for a few days, and then try another rom. You'll be able to eliminate the ones you don't care for and then narrow down your choices. Do a search for multi-touch and see which roms have fixes for it, and try those out first.
or at least ava froyo v7, thats got everything working for me and use a kingsxkernel
I believe most of those are functional on most of the ROMs now. As far as swype keyboard, I think calkulins ROM (evio2) has that natively, or there's a new ROM someone else was working on that I think had swype listed, it was called echo5 ROM, I think. It's not on the first page, it was on the 2nd page last time I saw it.
The fps, overclocking, and >2pt multitouch are all functions of the kernel, I believe. And the 2 main kernel devs (kingx, and netarchy) support those functions in their kernels, which will flash on most any custom ROM
(I'm fairly new, from winmo, too. I was reluctant and apprehensive for awhile, but really starting to like Android, not to mention most the great devs from winmo are drifting to Android, or already have. Xda has made the transition that much easier)
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Like stated, any Rom can be anything. You can flash almost any kernel with any ROM..You can start with the stock ROM and flash what you want to get what you want...very customizable compared to WinMo.
That being said, I'm running Calkulin's EViO and love it. I can get almost 10th hours with heavy, heavy usage. With multitouch visualizer from the market, I can see 4 touch points. The phone is overlooked and fast as veal...never laggy. 4G works just fine. Lastly, the latest version has sense as an add-on, so no worries about it starting.
And, I have swype as an .apk if u want it.
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Thanks for the quick replies peoples, I went and wiped both cache, and the dalvik cache... even though I have no idea what the dalvik is, I'm using Anon Ra btw.
Calkulens Rom and a kings kernel sound like what I'm looking for, but what about the Bluetooth I know that sense based roms have corrupted Bluetooth settings, so no gamepad, are calkulins roms senseless? And work with wiimotes?
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VaelPak is the greatest. Just doesn't support bluetooth controllers but may be in an update soon
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Um no you can't flash kernels on most roms. They are either for sense roms or asop (senseless roms..cm6) you have to read the kernel thread... and swype you can install on any rom just search and you will find out the apk. For it. 4g doesn't work on cm6 so that's out the question then...
Most kernels are set to 1.19 to 1.22 top overclock.. setcpu is a paid app to over/underclock.. battery life there are a lot of things that causes bad battery. Bad reception, screen brightness, a app that keeps your phone awake, the settings of your CPU...etc...
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Like stated, any Rom can be anything. You can flash almost any kernel with any ROM..You can start with the stock ROM and flash what you want to get what you want...very customizable compared to WinMo.
That being said, I'm running Calkulin's EViO and love it. I can get almost 10th hours with heavy, heavy usage. With multitouch visualizer from the market, I can see 4 touch points. The phone is overlooked and fast as veal...never laggy. 4G works just fine. Lastly, the latest version has sense as an add-on, so no worries about it starting.
And, I have swype as an .apk if u want it.
10hrs of heavy use? Please explain heavy heavy use because I get 4 tops even with the battery trick.. btw I use a wall charger not the phone. I have tried about every rom including yours and what I call heavy heavy usage is non-stop on phone. I can be on here on full battery, txt and do research on phone and get only 4 tops. Even with underclock.. you use wifi during heavy usage? Stock battery?
Just don't believe 10 hours heavy usage...
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So that combination of Calkulin's Rom and King's kernel will not work?
And does Overclocking seriously affect battery life?
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So that combination of Calkulin's Rom and King's kernel will not work?
And does Overclocking seriously affect battery life?
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When you overclock your CPU is running faster than normal which in turn needs more juice... kind of goes hand in hand...
Yeah that should be fine. If I'm correct its a sense rom. When you look at a kernel you usually read what it has implemented and what your looking for in a kernel. They tell you which one its made for. Just was letting you know..
Also always do a nand backup in case of loops or anything goes wrong..
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Hi all, am trying out loads of different builds but I'm finding a common theme..... Lockups
Have tried both the latest 2.6.25 and 2.6.32 with both panel 2 and 3 and since my battery won't last a day using .32 (have an extended battery on order) I'm trying to use .25
The lockups are completely random not just when waking but the LEDs stop flashing and the phone won't react, the buttons do still light up though....
Erm, what else? Oh am running both sys and data from NAND.
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Hi
been there... Im kinda newbie bout this but something that really helped me was to use l1qu1d's latest .25 nbh with warbyte's donut, try using atools to modify l1qu1ds nbh to ur needs (use the search tool in the forum to seek it, includes a tutorial!), use sys on nand and data on ext2 (or ext3), and THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF ALL!! always keep a fresh /data backup. I do it before and after any mayor mod to my sys, cause i can assure you sooner or later u WILL have data corruption! but dont worry normally the solution is as simple as: reboot/d-pad/restore....
If you dont like donut (In my case i ADORE donut ) maybe you can give it a shot to this brand new scoot's release: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=813382
PD try not to oc your cpu too much! drains the batt quicker and turns sys unstable! try asking n2rjt's bout batt problems in his thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782269
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been there... Im kinda newbie bout this but something that really helped me was to use l1qu1d's latest .25 nbh with warbyte's donut, try using atools to modify l1qu1ds nbh to ur needs (use the search tool in the forum to seek it, includes a tutorial!), use sys on nand and data on ext2 (or ext3), and THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF ALL!! always keep a fresh /data backup. I do it before and after any mayor mod to my sys, cause i can assure you sooner or later u WILL have data corruption! but dont worry normally the solution is as simple as: reboot/d-pad/restore....
If you dont like donut (In my case i ADORE donut ) maybe you can give it a shot to this brand new scoot's release: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=813382
PD try not to oc your cpu too much! drains the batt quicker and turns sys unstable! try asking n2rjt's bout batt problems in his thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782269
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I used to overclock to 520, but now 450 seems as fast and is more stable.
And, uses much less battery. Android keeps data connected at all times. Our radio firmware was designed for WinMo, where the data is disconnected when idle. In a real Android phone, the radio firmware stays connected but still can go idle and use less battery. The best we can do is go to 2G when idle. I use the "Toggle 2G" app for that, and my battery lasts a long time.
Well, tried Fat Free Froyo again and it locked up on charge over night takng Data with it again.
Have installed Warbyte Donut onto ext so here goes.
I haven't overclocked my last few installs incase it was that and it made no difference.... Was only overclocking to 450 anyway....
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Using Warbyte at the mo, seems nice and to be honest not that much different to Froyo so could get used to it
Do you use Adobe PDF viewer, I used to install it from the market place but using this rom I can't see it anywhere :/
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Just answered my own question, needs 2.1 or above
thebaldconvict said:
Using Warbyte at the mo, seems nice and to be honest not that much different to Froyo so could get used to it
Do you use Adobe PDF viewer, I used to install it from the market place but using this rom I can't see it anywhere :/
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Just answered my own question, needs 2.1 or above
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What I use for PDF's (actually works great with ms office docs too!) is OfficeSuite Pro 3.0 works great on donut and opens even docs with hyperlinks and e-sheets with formulas and graphs
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Hey I wanted to ask the regular flashoholics that which sense hd Rom is the moat stable for daily use ....
The emphasis is on stability . That is running day to day smoothly without glitches and without requiring resets and the basics of phone being rock solid . That is phone call , sms and alarms....I can live with issues like no 720p recording .....
Thank you in advance
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RCmixHD V0.14of is absolutely superb. Its fast, stable, silky smooth, good battery. However, I did change the kernel from the one that comes with the ROM. The ROM comes with ziggies kernel, but I flashed Richard Trips very excellent V5e_1113mhz no audiomod svs kernel. It is a great kernel and integrates well with this HD ROM. I use setCPU also but without profiles. I just set it to minimum 245mhz and 1113mhz max using the smartass governor. All this fits together very well and my phone has no problems at all. Current widget shows between 2 and 6 milliamps when on standby.
I also have an app that alows to turn the screen off immediately with the touch of an icon. This saves a lot of battery time waiting for the screen to timeout.
Sorry, I have rambled on a bit!
btw. there are 2 versions of this ROM. The apps to SD version (my version) and the data to SD version which is version 0.14b (mine is v0.14of). Make sure you use the of version as even the developer Robocik says this is the most stable and fast version. Read throught the ROM's thread on XDA before taking the plunge. Good luck.
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RCmixHD V0.14of is absolutely superb. Its fast, stable, silky smooth, good battery. However, I did change the kernel from the one that comes with the ROM. The ROM comes with ziggies kernel, but I flashed Richard Trips very excellent V5e_1113mhz no audiomod svs kernel. It is a great kernel and integrates well with this HD ROM. I use setCPU also but without profiles. I just set it to minimum 245mhz and 1113mhz max using the smartass governor. All this fits together very well and my phone has no problems at all. Current widget shows between 2 and 6 milliamps when on standby.
I also have an app that alows to turn the screen off immediately with the touch of an icon. This saves a lot of battery time waiting for the screen to timeout.
Sorry, I have rambled on a bit!
btw. there are 2 versions of this ROM. The apps to SD version (my version) and the data to SD version which is version 0.14b (mine is v0.14of). Make sure you use the of version as even the developer Robocik says this is the most stable and fast version. Read throught the ROM's thread on XDA before taking the plunge. Good luck.
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Thanks a lot for the generous lengthy reply I was actually looking for a complete breakdown of the Rom with analysis rather than just a short answer .... so thank you very much . I'm on leeDroid 2.3b a2sd version and I am gonna nandroid backup it now and try the Rom which you mentioned
Cheers mate ....
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Make sure you wipe everything first including the dalvik cache. To install this ROM you first need to create an ext partition on your SD card. I used a 1GB Ext2 partition created with partition wizard home (free) edition. After you have done this make sure you set both (fat32 and ext2) to primary partition types, not logical. Otherwise you will get an error when trying to flash the ROM. To do this simply right click on the partition in P/magic and select "make primary"
Also, make sure you have debugging enabled on the phone and connect it to the PC with usb lead in charge only mode. This way there's no risk of power failure whilst flashing.
After flashing, it will take a while to boot-up. Just be patient and let it do its thing. Like I said read through Robociks thread first. I did and had no probs.
One other thing, Robocik is about to release an updated version v0.15 in next day or 2 so you may want to wait for this. However v0.14OF is awesome.
ive been kinda out of the rom flashing game for a bit.
but i just flashed prime 3d about a month ago and i've been finding my phone is rather slow, and the battery life is horrible.
so today i read about the ext4 mod, and tried that. my phone seems slightly faster than before as far as opening app drawer and getting into settings and little stuff, but.... my quadrant scores tanked my best is 1046.
with my previous rom i got up to 1700's. am i missing something? was i supposed to make a partition first before the ext4 mod thing?
should i not use setcpu or auto memory manager?
also, what is a good stable ROM that has full camera/camcorder(720p) and can be fast, or long battery life while tethering to my Transformer?
thanks for any info
I would try flashing the ext4 on a fresh rom install with a supported kernal. The 3.x roms are just battery hogs. I run Bugless Beast(aosp) Incredikernal with the ext4. My top quadrant was 2200-2300. I'm pretty sure 720p works but don't quote me on that. Wifi tether works fine.
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i was also wondering about something else. a while back i flashed a kernel with some kind of opengl (or whatever the GPU software was) update, and since when the quadrant graphics 3d tests happen my screen is blank except for the DNA strand one? \
any clue on how to fix this?? i thought it was an incredikernal, but not sure
i switched to bugless and it feels faster after i did the supercharge v6 thing, but my quadrants are at 1100.
i remembered that when the screen was blank on quadrant i had flashed an incredikernal with gpu+, it was from 2010 and i think thats what my problem is
Here's the link for the website just download the latest gbread AOSP build
http://www.incredikernel.com/?page_id=10
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Try this
So this ROM has some purple in it, but you can use the UOT Kitchen to change what you don't like. I was in the habit of trying all the new ROMs that came out and was flashing all the time until I ran across this ROM. It is pretty much stock, but the battery life is incredible. From what I can tell Facebook for HTC Sense is not present, but with this ROM I have no reason to try the new ones that bog down the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1372142
I am trying to flash my Inc with a new ROM for the first time, but it seems like more than half the ROMs on this page are either removed by the developer or cant be downloaded because the download links are dead.
Any tips on what to try first, based on what available still? The only thing I am concerned with is that the ROM is stable and compatible with as many of the stock functions as possible, stuff like broken radios is not what I am looking for right now. Would be kinda cool to try one as different from stock as possible. Does CM7 work well on the Inc? I keep seeing people talking about stuff that is broken with it.
Miui 2.3.2
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Ice Cream Sandwich. Abduction by Hanger84 is smoother than the Sense ROMs.
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Abduction is good to try if you want to experice ice cream.... but prepare for some bugs and missing features ( ie Camcorder, camera, & flash on websites and netflix) I suggest one of the gingerbread Roms or Froyo Roms. CM 7 or 8 should be fine, but you loose some of the things you may be accustomed to in Sense (Widgets). But there are pretty good apps that can do what sense does, you just have to look for them.
I'm using CM 7.2 RC1 (RC2 crashes right away for me) with latest ICS Incredikernal and SmartassV2 governor, fully over-clocked. Never crashes, everything works but, of course, 720p recording. I even found decent settings for auto-brightness (Make about 16 levels, start out at ~70, go up in ~5 point increments, then increase. Set Window Length to 5 secs). I have tried three ICS roms but always went back.
I'm using the new Go Launcher but it has a couple of bugs. Clear its data to get the large icons if you are stuck on small. To change settings on the large weather clock you have to do it via the small weather clock.
I use CyanogenMod 7.2. Along with Chad/Tiny's Incredikernel, Jermaine/Tiny's EXT4All mod, and Launcher Pro. Speedy and battery efficient. The latest RC should be fine, I'm on one of the nightlies and have been using Pons' KANGs when his computer was still working.
In addition to Sonny Sekhon's Ice Cream Sandwich CM7 Theme.
If you like the stock ROM, and want something stable and based off of it, Liberation 3.0 is a good choice. It is basically a rooted, debloated, stock ROM. I keep a copy on my SD card incase I need access to EPST or just feel like using Sense.
ICS is getting there, but the laggy animations and general speed have kept me away. It seems to me that the current hardware acceleration isn't 100% implemented. But I have never used ICS outside of the Incredible. So I don't have room to compare.
I'm with the majority here. CM 7.2 RC2 is great. I actually have stock kernel though, I am not sure if performance is better with incredikernel but I can tell you that CM7 is TONS better than stock in terms of battery life, customization, and overall android experience. I like sense but on the Inc, it's like they stopped trying...
P.S. - I also use GO Launcher EX with kovdev's ICS theme.
Well I just switched from Abduction to CM9 and so far CM9 is much better!!
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Well I just switched from Abduction to CM9 and so far CM9 is much better!!
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See if Youtube works. Didn't for me. I ended up using the Go Launcher anyway so the experience was the same for me. There weren't as many stock apps like Car Home and the music widget is not the big one. Things like Phone and Calculator open slowly. Never did crash tho or even lag.
Hi, I am new to XDA and was looking for some links to the cm9 rom for DINC. I am currently running aokp_inc_build-25 and its nice but I have had some issues with it specifically with the camera not working properly.
Thank you in advance for the assistance.
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See if Youtube works. Didn't for me. I ended up using the Go Launcher anyway so the experience was the same for me. There weren't as many stock apps like Car Home and the music widget is not the big one. Things like Phone and Calculator open slowly. Never did crash tho or even lag.
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I use a app called play on for YouTube Netflix and a lot of other video sites.. yea the camera fix seems to break playback on YouTube.. but I'm optimistic that those issues will be worked out since cm9 is still in development. What I love is that every feature u find in other Asop roms u can get apps that do that... so u can customize it better for your own personal taste and still have better stability!!!!!
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Ok before I started getting replies here I dl'd Touch of Blue and Stock+, tried ToB for the week and it was ok but started to crash and lag a lot. The latter may have been due to my SetCPU settings, I dunno, but it was getting hung up on simple apps, and I did not like a couple things about it, like getting calls when the screen is off required you to unlock it, then unlock it again at the receiving call screen. Also didnt like the battery meter.
Just installed Stock+ and immediately realized it wouldn't work at all when I saw that the App Data partition was still at 150MB. Thats the whole reason I rooted, so there is no way I am using a ROM that is eventually gonna give me the Low space messages again.
GOnna try the ones you guys suggested now
I like Wildstangs stock ROM, and gtiny's kernel. I used root app delete to debloat it. And run the on demand deadline settings and can go 11 hours on a full charge with heavy use.
I also like the last stable release of CM7.1.0 it is smoking fast and way less issues then the nightlies or kangs to me.
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CM7.2 couldn't figure out how to add my Google account. Also couldnt disable the camera shutter sound.
Tried Liberation but the App Data partition is still only 150MB; as soon as I restore my apps its gonna be out of space again.
ALL ROMs for the Incredible are going to have a 150 MB data/data partition. It's the way HTC made it. The only way around it is with the EXT4All mod. More information here. The file you're looking for to remove the limit is "Convert2Ext4_no_data_limit_normal_dalvik.zip".
And there is an options in the CM7 sound settings to disable the shutter sound. Called "Mute camera shutter".
Ok I found the camera sound setting, thanks. Any advice on getting the Google account to work? The Account settings were trying to setup an email thing, not my Google account
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Figured out that I need to flash the Google apps pack on CM7 to get that all to work, but ClockworkMod kept failing to mount the pack when I tried to install it. Now I am back on Liberation, because at least here I have my Google account with contacts, but I cannot get the EXT4 fix to work. I download it, open it with Clockwork, tell it to reboot and apply, but it fails to mount it, just like the Google apps pack problem. Using Clockwork 5.0.2.0