Just wanted to post a huge thanks on the jelly thunder port. I flashed this morning and have not had any issues that I can recall, or any FC's. Im on Telus, and LTE is working perfect. GPS is also working excellent, it took a little while longer to fix its position initially but it has been great since. I hate cluttering up the dev section. So for anyone wondering about the Jelly Thunder. So far its perfect. Excellent Port.
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Just wanted to post a huge thanks on the jelly thunder port. I flashed this morning and have not had any issues that I can recall, or any FC's. Im on Telus, and LTE is working perfect. GPS is also working excellent, it took a little while longer to fix its position initially but it has been great since. I hate cluttering up the dev section. So for anyone wondering about the Jelly Thunder. So far its perfect. Excellent Port.
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+1 on this..... This is the smoothest rom I have used to date, the eye candy makes it all the more better. :good: :good:
I agree with you all. The eye candy does make it even nicer that's for sure. The only thing else I would like to see is the stock samsung keyboard or at least get the symbols back.
Wait till this theme im making for this rom is finished..muhahaha
+1...I've been flashing a bunch...and this one works perfect.
Follow the directions...and Let the Thunder roll
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Wish it had the stock icons
Love the rom. Great work. Im having issues with 4glte. At work I always have 4g lte speeds but with this rom it swiches from 3g to HSPA+ and 4G (When I have 4G it does to to lte speeds).
Is there a setting i can change?
As far as I remember reading it does the switch to conserve battery power. I live in a city and I get lte at work, but not at home. I don't think all towers support lte
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Im also running this...flashed last night,looks and runs great!
Im also not getting the lte speeds when I have lte.
See here..http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028661 page 11 if its not on it already.
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Wait till this theme im making for this rom is finished..muhahaha
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Ohhhh weeee! I have only seen awsomeness and giggles when you tinker Wish777. Well except that time the phone became self aware and stalked you for a month. Still awsome! lol
Personally I think Jelly Thunder is the most stable - smoothest - Most complete and themed - simply the best ROM that Note 2 has had to date. In my opinion anyway - I have not seen or used a better rom since I got this phone - and I purchased it on Day 1 of the official release at ATT.
I personally like the ICONS - and as for SPEED - my LTE speeds are just as good with this ROM as they been with any other I have used. I flashed the Note2Core EX kernel - and it seems totally complete. Fast and smooth - Antutu benchmark scores consisttently around 195000. simply awesome.
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Ohhhh weeee! I have only seen awsomeness and giggles when you tinker Wish777. Well except that time the phone became self aware and stalked you for a month. Still awsome! lol
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That wasn't my fault...That was SkyNet..And john Connor solved that issue...lmao
H+ showing instead of LTE
I just flashed the JellyThunder Blackout rom to my Galaxy Note 2(i317 AT&T). Now it appears that I am getting H+ speeds instead of the LTE speeds I was getting 10 minutes ago before I flashed this rom. Does anyone have a solution to this? It will be much appreciated.
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She primarily would want good battery lfe and speed. theme doesnt matter cause shes used to my vibrant running axura froyo. i just cant decide which one to put on it because i don't know w much about this is
phone really.
thanks
removes
Edit: i forgot she absolutely needs good gps as well. sorry i ask for so much.
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She primarily would want good battery lfe and speed. theme doesnt matter cause shes used to my vibrant running axura froyo. i just cant decide which one to put on it because i don't know w much about this is
phone really.
thanks
removes
Edit: i forgot she absolutely needs good gps as well. sorry i ask for so much.
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CyanogenMod 6.1.1 is probably your best bet. Everything works on it, including wifi/gps/bluetooth, all that jazz. It's just the stock theme, as you probably know, but there's a nice thing also in the development section called Cyanoginger 1.1 final, should be near the top, it's a gingerbread theme for cm6.1.1. That should do it for her
CyanogenMod 6.1.1 or if she likes sense GratiousSlide 1.0
Or CM7 aka Gingerbread ....Rom is beyond amazing
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Or CM7 aka Gingerbread ....Rom is beyond amazing
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Since he edited, I'm not sure what the status is on the GPS of the current CM7, but it's not too good for me.
CM6.1.1 is probably where it's at. It served me well
EDIT: Upon closer inspection, I see the GPS stuff should be fixed. I'd still go with the CM6.1.1/Cyanoginger1.1 combo.
GPS works fine with me using CM7 nightly
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GPS working fine on CM7 Nightly here as well. Also the BEST battery life I have gotten from any rom in the time I have had this phone.
Id go with cm7. Everything works, its blazing fast, and i think the battery life is slightly better.
Cyanogenmod 7 nightly oc @ 825
removesstains said:
She primarily would want good battery lfe and speed. theme doesnt matter cause shes used to my vibrant running axura froyo. i just cant decide which one to put on it because i don't know w much about this is
phone really.
thanks
removes
Edit: i forgot she absolutely needs good gps as well. sorry i ask for so much.
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I know this thread is a few days old but, here is my take.
I have the Slide and love it. I decided to root so I could have Froyo. Here is what I"ve learned.
If you go with Cyanogen you lose everything that makes the slide sense ui so great. You don't have peep, the weather widget, the awesome htc music app, friend stream, and all the other things that make the slide so awesome. However, you do get much better reception and call quality and much faster download speeds over wifi, edge, and 3g.
If you go with GratiousSlide then you get to keep all the cool htc sense apps with all the sleek looks and functionality but, you end up with the same half baked call quality and reception. Doesn't matter what radio you have your still stuck with the same cell tower reception you had with the stock slide rom. Download speeds are much better than the stock slide rom and, do seem comparable to CM6/7 but, I still think CM is just a bit faster.
Pick your poison.
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I know this thread is a few days old but, here is my take.
I have the Slide and love it. I decided to root so I could have Froyo. Here is what I"ve learned.
If you go with Cyanogen you lose everything that makes the slide sense ui so great. You don't have peep, the weather widget, the awesome htc music app, friend stream, and all the other things that make the slide so awesome. However, you do get much better reception and call quality and much faster download speeds over wifi, edge, and 3g.
If you go with GratiousSlide then you get to keep all the cool htc sense apps with all the sleek looks and functionality but, you end up with the same half baked call quality and reception. Doesn't matter what radio you have your still stuck with the same cell tower reception you had with the stock slide rom. Download speeds are much better than the stock slide rom and, do seem comparable to CM6/7 but, I still think CM is just a bit faster.
Pick your poison.
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Cyanogenmod is faster yes, but it has nothing to do with call quality? I had no difference in call quality/reception. There is a difference in download speeds, yes, but that is most likely due to the overall speed of the rom, not reception/radio-related.
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Cyanogenmod is faster yes, but it has nothing to do with call quality? I had no difference in call quality/reception. There is a difference in download speeds, yes, but that is most likely due to the overall speed of the rom, not reception/radio-related.
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Ah you are correct, sorry about that, I should have done more research. I now get the same reception I had with CM6.
On my Slide I had to downgrade the radio to 7.09.35.10
If I use the newest one, 7.15.35.16, I get terrible reception like I did with my stock slide.
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Ah you are correct, sorry about that, I should have done more research. I now get the same reception I had with CM6.
On my Slide I had to downgrade the radio to 7.09.35.10
If I use the newest one, 7.15.35.16, I get terrible reception like I did with my stock slide.
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Huh, that's odd. That's the second time I've heard that today. It didn't affect mine at all, not only that, but it doubled speeds. But it seems some people are having reception issues.
Cm7 is running great, haven't had any issues at all so far.
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sorry everyone I should have posted this sooner. but the past week has been insane. I finally got around to rooting my wife's slide last Thursday I think. I went with cm6 because I didn't want to deal with nightly builds. that would drive my wife crazy if I was upgrading it everyday. told her I would probably upgrade it once a month.
she's been using it since then and is loving the hell out of it. the battery life is insane now. I didn't upgrade the radio, atleast not to my knowledge. anyway the reception seems fine, in fact her phone sports a fat H instead of 3g practically everywhere in dfw. lucky
I so glad she's happy about it and now I don't have to hear about how her phone sucks every day.
thanks for all your input.
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sorry everyone I should have posted this sooner. but the past week has been insane. I finally got around to rooting my wife's slide last Thursday I think. I went with cm6 because I didn't want to deal with nightly builds. that would drive my wife crazy if I was upgrading it everyday. told her I would probably upgrade it once a month.
she's been using it since then and is loving the hell out of it. the battery life is insane now. I didn't upgrade the radio, atleast not to my knowledge. anyway the reception seems fine, in fact her phone sports a fat H instead of 3g practically everywhere in dfw. lucky
I so glad she's happy about it and now I don't have to hear about how her phone sucks every day.
thanks for all your input.
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Just an FYI, H isn't true HSPA+, more like 3.25G
yeah, cm 6.1.1 and the new radio is going to be the stable - its going to keep her off your back as to why her phone isnt doing this or that
removesstains said:
sorry everyone I should have posted this sooner. but the past week has been insane. I finally got around to rooting my wife's slide last Thursday I think. I went with cm6 because I didn't want to deal with nightly builds. that would drive my wife crazy if I was upgrading it everyday. told her I would probably upgrade it once a month.
she's been using it since then and is loving the hell out of it. the battery life is insane now. I didn't upgrade the radio, atleast not to my knowledge. anyway the reception seems fine, in fact her phone sports a fat H instead of 3g practically everywhere in dfw. lucky
I so glad she's happy about it and now I don't have to hear about how her phone sucks every day.
thanks for all your input.
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Hey hey, that's awesome to hear, man. Maybe when there's an RC or Stable version of CM7 you can upgrade her to that.
Hey guys, a while back i had the epic 4g, and it was the best phone in the world to me. The motorola photon came out and all i saw was dual core! so i jumped off the samsung epic ship and boarded the motorola photon ship......BIG MISTAKE....there wasnt anything i couldnt do with the epic 4g. Between the devs, and learning how to really have some modding fun with the epic, there wasnt really much of a limit on it. Ive been arguing with sprint for 6 months to allow me to upgrade both my lines, and they finally agreed! Ive had so many problems with the motorola photon, and the dev. department can only do so much without an unlocked bootloader...anyway, Im phone shopping now, and i wanna come back to the samsung epic family. I really like the epic touch 4g. Can you please comment on your experience with the phone? Is 4g and GPS working stable on all the roms? Im so eager and excited...I want to wait for the galaxy nexus, but ive got to take advantage of this opportunity while i have the chance, and the galaxy nexus is slightly outa hands reach...I will await your thoughts.....
This phone is awesome I just came from a nexus s and I don't miss it at all! Especially with CM9 the GPS and 4G is awesome where I live!
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everything is working great for me and i also asked about the nexus and generally everyone agreed that it wont really offer much more then the e4gt. i think just a little bigger screen and more internal memory
It's ultimately that YMMV. I heard that the photons have better modems so they can get better signals compared to the epic 4g touch.
However, ROM development has really been kicking off. We have three main AOSP ROMS, CM 9, AOKP, and Codename Android, which are all about to be updated to Android 4.0.4 and able to record video again. All silky smooth. Make sure to not flash or wipe anything if you flash to ICS or you risk bricking.
As far as hardware, you should check if you have LTE where you live if you want to take advantage of it on the Galaxy Nexus.
Here's a thread asking a similar question
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568211
In all honesty, this is the longest I've ever kept a phone and I've had it since it released in September. I love this phone and the devs (and contributors) here at XDA just give me new ways to enjoy my phone and make it work for me.
I'll be eyeing the new HTC and SGS3 (if it ever comes out) but it would take a lot to make me jump ship, and truly, that is saying a lot for me.
@darkfire2024, i must admit, some of my co-workers have the epic touch 4g and when they dont have any bars of service, i usually have full bars. Not that it helps to have full bars, i might beable to make a call, but i definitely dont have any 3g coverage...I live in chicago, im sure it will be months before they release lte over here. I checked that thread. Very useful, thanks for your advice.
I'd like to say this is by the best phone I've ever used. The great thing, as you pointed out, is the active devs here, they are incredible. I recently helped a co-worker with his newest Droid4; get it at least rooted anyways, and I felt even better about my phone. Great thing is you have SO many options to choose from - especially for connectivity! Maybe the EL29 modem works best on your phone and in your neighborhood. Maybe it's the FC07 or FC24 or even one of the EK versions. The point being you can find out! I've been lucky and had progressively better speeds for both 4G and 3G with each version (except one early FC; caused batter drain and got no 4G) Good luck.
Edit: forgot to add that if you do go flashing different modems, make sure to update the PRL and Profile after/between the updates! I keep coming back to the Blazer GB ROM - literally everything works and works great. I've got a couple FC24 builds I'll probably try this weekend. But we'll see. I'm sure the final offical ICS code will drop very soon; then we'll see some great crazy development.
Excellent phone. GB ROMs are perfect. ICS are good, but they do still have some issues.
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Awesome phone
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hands down best phone ive ever owned. by a football field
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Excellent phone. GB ROMs are perfect. ICS are good, but they do still have some issues.
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Issues u say, any bugs that are known or are they just random and intermittent?
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Issues u say, any bugs that are known or are they just random and intermittent?
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The ICS issues are known and most have work arounds, but some of us are lucky and don't experience them. I think ICS is great, but I don't have any of the issues. Look at first few posts for known issues: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1512419
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Success100 said:
hands down best phone ive ever owned. by a football field
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My thoughts exactly. I have used the nexus in the verizon store and I must say the e4gt runs smoother. Samsung really hit the nail on the head with this phone it is perfect! No lag at all. Watch the video comparing the two by FlossyCarter on youtube you will see what I mean when I say the epic runs better. Like others have said this is the phone that I have owned the longest because with cell phones I am always getting sick of them after a couple weeks (Iphone) this phone has so much dev support and is just so awesome I can see myself holding on to it for another year easily!
This phone is the best I've ever had the pleasure to own and I've owned a lot (see my signature)
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My thoughts exactly. I have used the nexus in the verizon store and I must say the e4gt runs smoother. Samsung really hit the nail on the head with this phone it is perfect! No lag at all. Watch the video comparing the two by FlossyCarter on youtube you will see what I mean when I say the epic runs better. Like others have said this is the phone that I have owned the longest because with cell phones I am always getting sick of them after a couple weeks (Iphone) this phone has so much dev support and is just so awesome I can see myself holding on to it for another year easily!
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right! plus ICS is making it super raw lol. everytime i pick this joint up to use it im still in awe like the first day I got it. Im amazed by how powerful and advanced this thing is. Im totally satisfied with it. Never had a phone this long either, and unless the note comes to sprint, I wont be ditching it anytime soon. Not even for the GNEX which IMO is a downgrade.
the best I always fight w m friend on whos better is iPhone or my epic 4g touch
Et4g + AOSP ICS > gNex ;-)
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If I were you I would wait about 2 weeks man! Rumor has it the Galaxy Nexus might be released on sprint April 15. Besides that phone I would just wait for the Galaxy S3 which should be out in the next 6-8 months!
I switch phones quite a bit as well but to be honest with you this phone is the best I've ever owned, and with so much dev support you never get tired of it.
Coming from the HTC Evo 3D I can say this phone blows it out the water. Love my Epic Touch
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I'm currently looking for a ROM base to modify to my needs. I really like the features available in cm but I'm not sure if cm10 (stock) is stable enough for production use yet. Does anyone have experience with this?
Been using it for about a month now and have no issues what so ever, I recommend the builds by Euroskank as he adds some really useful features.
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Been using it for about a month now and have no issues what so ever, I recommend the builds by Euroskank as he adds some really useful features.
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Thanks! I'm looking at adding my own features that I need so I'll be compiling from src
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Thanks! I'm looking at adding my own features that I need so I'll be compiling from src
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Even though they are not any RC's yet its pretty stable I have been running a nightly for two weeks
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I threw CM10 on mine and I had some radio issues. I don't know the technical details but the signal wouldn't lock in completely. The signal notification on the top bar would never turn blue no matter how perfect signal was, the wifi wouldn't lock in blue either. Reverted to stock for now.
Other than that it was awesome!
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I threw CM10 on mine and I had some radio issues. I don't know the technical details but the signal wouldn't lock in completely. The signal notification on the top bar would never turn blue no matter how perfect signal was, the wifi wouldn't lock in blue either. Reverted to stock for now.
Other than that it was awesome!
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FYI - even though your bars are gray, you still have an active data connection. When they turn blue it means they are connected to googles servers
Sorry for OT - but try JBSourcery instead. :good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1824624&highlight=jbsourcery&page=3
I just got my Verizon GNex about 3 days ago and right when I got it I rooted and put the CM10 preview ROM on it. I haven't found one thing wrong with it yet. Works great for me
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You can also try Paranoid Android which has CM10 as its base and this ROM has been very stable for me. This ROM can be used in stock phone layout, phablet, or tablet modes.
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I just got my Verizon GNex about 3 days ago and right when I got it I rooted and put the CM10 preview ROM on it. I haven't found one thing wrong with it yet. Works great for me
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How is your battery life? GPS? Still no bugs?
I'm still running Pete's Bugless Beast and its so perfect but just no mods or customization. I want to be able to customize but I don't know that I want to risk losing my bugless JB...
Has anyone compiled cm10 from source with no customizations other than the camera, NFC, and GPS files? How is that build? I'm going to be modifying it for personal and perhaps submit back.
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Gotcha, thanks, I still was having issues, but I think it was hardware of 515.10 dropping connection
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How is your battery life? GPS? Still no bugs?
I'm still running Pete's Bugless Beast and its so perfect but just no mods or customization. I want to be able to customize but I don't know that I want to risk losing my bugless JB...
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GPS is perfect. Locks immediately. Battery life is nothing to write home about. I have the official extended battery and with decent use I might get 8hrs if I'm lucky. I'm up for ideas on other JB ROMs for Verizon that have better battery life.
Everything is perfect except for the battery. Almost afraid to flash another ROM because everything on the CM10 preview works for me.
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I've been using XenonHD ROM for about a month now and find there are many features that were present in CM9! Runs fast and smooth!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667418
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I might get 8hrs if I'm lucky. I'm up for ideas on other JB ROMs for Verizon that have better battery life.
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JTFC, that's awful. How does it compare with what you had on ICS? I get decent battery life on JB (CM10), but still slightly lower (10-15%) than on CM9, but 1.5 to 2 days is still possible with my use + 3 hours screen on or so over that time. This holds true for all the JB ROMs I've run. 4-5 hours of screen on time over a workday of hard use is still possible for me, but idle drain seems to be hit/miss, some nights 0.25%/hour, other's 1%. Sync seems to be a more of a battery eater on JB, and I haven't bothered running Google Now since the first day or two I ran JB.
Shall see how today's JRO03L build performs.
Running vicious rom, the cm10, great with Franco kernel and his app. No complaints. Only thing is i can't get play music to download to my phone from the cloud
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JTFC, that's awful. How does it compare with what you had on ICS? I get decent battery life on JB (CM10), but still slightly lower (10-15%) than on CM9, but 1.5 to 2 days is still possible with my use + 3 hours screen on or so over that time. This holds true for all the JB ROMs I've run. 4-5 hours of screen on time over a workday of hard use is still possible for me, but idle drain seems to be hit/miss, some nights 0.25%/hour, other's 1%. Sync seems to be a more of a battery eater on JB, and I haven't bothered running Google Now since the first day or two I ran JB.
Shall see how today's JRO03L build performs.
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Unfortunately I don't have anything to compare it to. The GNex was a warranty replacement for my old Thunderbolt. After I got the GNex I immediately rooted and threw the first JB ROM on it I could find. I will keep searching through various threads in the development forum and see what I can come up with.
Oh and thanks for confirming my suspicion that my battery life is below average. The weekend is here. Plenty of time for experimenting
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Unfortunately I don't have anything to compare it to. The GNex was a warranty replacement for my old Thunderbolt. After I got the GNex I immediately rooted and threw the first JB ROM on it I could find. I will keep searching through various threads in the development forum and see what I can come up with.
Oh and thanks for confirming my suspicion that my battery life is below average. The weekend is here. Plenty of time for experimenting
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I highly recommend Better Battery Stats if you don't have it already. There's a free XDA version posted on the site, but the Market version is well worth the ~3$ also. Sync and location services (GPS or Google) and Google Now seem to be the biggest offenders on JB. I run sync and location sparingly.
That said, the GN is definitely no battery queen unfortunately :crying:
I have the ATT Galaxy S3 and am looking to swap from stock rom.
Reqs are:
4g LTE support
Multi Window
I tried MIUI and it doesnt support LTE..
Hyperdrive keep crashing...
I just cant find any other I like. Any suggestions?
Synergy might be another option: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2113436
Not sure about the 4G LTE support though.
I tried a few and finally settle down with Blandroid
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2121506
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Synergy might be another option: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2113436
Not sure about the 4G LTE support though.
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I dont know why I didnt see this earlier...lemme flash and see if I it works.
CSROM is my favorite. It has LTE and amazing battery life. I just plugged in with 35% battery after 4 hours and 16 minutes of screen on time with about an hour to an hour and a half of that spent on YouTube. It also has multi Window, which can be useful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2198537
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Hi Mike Unfortunately I will have to close this as it will turn out to be Rom vs. Rom and/or Dev vs. Dev thread.
All the info you are looking for will should be available in the OP of said development thread. Thank you for understanding. :highfive:
I have my Galaxy S3 and my coworker has an HTC Evo. Both of us have Sprint and yet his phone gets 3 bars of reception whereas mine only gets 1, 2 if I'm very, very lucky.
AFAIK, he's running stock, unrooted and I'm running rooted with latest LiquidSmooth 2.9 with the MD4 modem. No idea what modem he has.
What could be the reason why he's getting better reception? Better antenna build in the Evo?
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I have my Galaxy S3 and my coworker has an HTC Evo. Both of us have Sprint and yet his phone gets 3 bars of reception whereas mine only gets 1, 2 if I'm very, very lucky.
AFAIK, he's running stock, unrooted and I'm running rooted with latest LiquidSmooth 2.9 with the MD4 modem. No idea what modem he has.
What could be the reason why he's getting better reception? Better antenna build in the Evo?
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Some of it has to do with the rom. Some aosp roms show a more accurate bar reading...which is why your's is fewer. I wouldn't really get to worked up over it. They both probably get similar reception and data speeds on 3g
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Some of it has to do with the rom. Some aosp roms show a more accurate bar reading...which is why your's is fewer. I wouldn't really get to worked up over it. They both probably get similar reception and data speeds on 3g
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Actually, my data is absolute sh!te and it's a pain to load nearly anything. I get data transfer speeds in the very low kbps.
lvpre said:
Some of it has to do with the rom. Some aosp roms show a more accurate bar reading...which is why your's is fewer. I wouldn't really get to worked up over it. They both probably get similar reception and data speeds on 3g
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I'm going to agree Ivpre. I would not get worked up over it. Unless of course it is necessary for you to have more Bars showing then him :silly: . You do most likely get the same Data Speeds.
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Actually, my data is absolute sh!te and it's a pain to load nearly anything. I get data transfer speeds in the very low kbps.
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I would suggest Updating PRL / Profile. Maybe even trying a different Modem. Not everyone gets great reception on MD4. You may have to experiment to see which works better for you.
If you want to properly know if your device is getting less of a signal you need to flash a TW rom, preferably one which is close to stock update prl and profile. Then check your signal and data speeds compared to your friends. AOSP roms remember are built from leaks, and ported from other devices. There is no true aosp source for the Sprint S3. So there's lots of patches and coding which goes into getting the cdma radios working.
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prboy1969 said:
I'm going to agree Ivpre. I would not get worked up over it. Unless of course it is necessary for you to have more Bars showing then him :silly: . You do most likely get the same Data Speeds.
I would suggest Updating PRL / Profile. Maybe even trying a different Modem. Not everyone gets great reception on MD4. You may have to experiment to see which works better for you.
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We've actually done a Speedtest together and his had a higher data rate than mine. I've had different modem with the earlier builds of Liquid Smooth as well, but still low reception. I've also updated my PRL/Profile in the past in hopes that it'll help but sadly no.
I'll look into having a TouchWiz ROM versus this one. I just love how LiquidSmooth is, so hoping I can find a TW ROM that's just as fun.
EDIT: I don't even know how to find a TouchWiz ROM. I figured it would say "TW" along the subject line, the same way AOSP does, but alas I cannot find that. I have heard of Goodness, is that a TW ROM?
Volknochi said:
I have my Galaxy S3 and my coworker has an HTC Evo. Both of us have Sprint and yet his phone gets 3 bars of reception whereas mine only gets 1, 2 if I'm very, very lucky.
AFAIK, he's running stock, unrooted and I'm running rooted with latest LiquidSmooth 2.9 with the MD4 modem. No idea what modem he has.
What could be the reason why he's getting better reception? Better antenna build in the Evo?
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Some devices just get better reception than others. Better internal antennae.
My mom's old photon always got better reception than my 3d & s3
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Volknochi said:
I'll look into having a TouchWiz ROM versus this one. I just love how LiquidSmooth is, so hoping I can find a TW ROM that's just as fun.
EDIT: I don't even know how to find a TouchWiz ROM. I figured it would say "TW" along the subject line, the same way AOSP does, but alas I cannot find that. I have heard of Goodness, is that a TW ROM?
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Most likely cause all the roms which do not say AOSP or CM or AOKP or something like that are TW roms. I would recommend MOAR or TPR The People's Rom.
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OP,
Unless you're being very careful with your comparisons and using quantitative, and not qualitative, data like db, seeing more "signal bars" means nothing.
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You must also keep in mind, that even after you switch to a TW Rom. There is no guarantee that you will see better reception. IE more bars. There are quite a few variables involved. What you should concentrate on is making your device the best it can be for you. As CNexus stated. When comparing you have to compare Apples to Apples, and Oranges to Oranges.
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