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just currious what folks who have run both think? which one performs better?
At this moment Cm7 off course. If we get an official fully working Honeycomb then off course Honeycomb.
CM7, easily.
The HC ROM is cool, but isn't from source. CM7 is your best bet for everyday use.
CM7 is working great as long as you don't use the built in video/music player(codec problems, rock player is a fix).
Full market access isn't working either and some apps too(pandora).
Flash websites work great and the rom itself is very smooth.
HCv4
For everything other than video (which doesn't work stock in CM7 either) I use the Honeycomb emmc install.
HC is fast and stable for general web browsing.
This is just my .02
Dan
Like everyone says CM7 is much more stable, and because of the nightlies we are likely to see most of the major issues resolved within a week, however once HC goes AOSP its a totally different ball game, for now CM7 is your best bet.
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Like everyone says CM7 is much more stable, and because of the nightlies we are likely to see most of the major issues resolved within a week, however once HC goes AOSP its a totally different ball game, for now CM7 is your best bet.
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CM have had Gingerbread for long enough to know how to tweak it, I'd expect it to take a while for Honeycomb to get up to the same level.
Any word on if there will be a version of CM7 that we can boot off the SDCard? Would be great for those who just want to check it out before flashing.
Another vote for CM7 or some type of froyo. HC ran waaaaaay to slow for me. Even non-technically savvy people were like "man, isn't that really slow..?"
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Any word on if there will be a version of CM7 that we can boot off the SDCard? Would be great for those who just want to check it out before flashing.
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I seriously doubt it. CM, as far as I know, is strictly off the emmc.
There probably won't ever be a CM7 from the nightly builds that you could write to a bootable uSD but it certainly should be possible to create one. It is even mentioned in the FAQ from the [USER] CM7 General Discussion thread.
Q: IS THERE AN SD-ONLY "BOOTABLE" VERSION?
Not from the nighty builds. However-- should someone want to create such a bootable SD-- (warning: Slightly technical answer all it would take to create one is a new uRamdisk file with the partitions in init.encore.rc pointing to the correct partitions on the SD card.
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I'd try creating one myself but I have too many projects going on and trying CM7 isn't really high on my list.
For right now, CM7 is fine. Once someone from this great community ports over the "real" HC, then I will be 3.0!!! Everything else will be obsolete!!!
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just currious what folks who have run both think? which one performs better?
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well my HC setup is about 95% complete(i have just a few market apps not showing up but its no bother) and a side from no HQ youtube and flash(which i can wait the xoom wont have flash support on release as well) it runs smooth off the emmc and its really stable so i recommend honeycomb
I have been running HC4 since it came out and love it. Quad scores of 1700. Same probs as other ROMs with no Flash and no HQ YouTube, but very stable. I haven't tried CM7 and prob wont just because I am at a good place witty my NC on HC. Can't wait for AOSP version! I don't think u can go wrong with either one, tho.
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I have spent the past couple days trying out all the available rom's that are in the dev section. I have tried HCv4, Froyo, CM7 and Stock.
I really liked honeycomb the best but for some reason a few apps I need were force closing on me, namely IMDB and Aldiko(yes I still use my nook primarily as a reading device.) I didn't spend too much time trying to figure out why they were closing, if anyone has an answer to that it would be appreciated as I will reinstall honeycomb in a heartbeat. At this point hopefully it won't be long until we see a new version based on the SDK so might be prudent to wait for that. I didn't run v4 long enough to judge battery usage so can't comment.
Next up CM7, I liked this rom as well but found it had high battery drain which kind of irked me a little, I guess not a huge deal but was annoying. I believe it is something to do with not going fully asleep from what I learned but reading through the threads, I am sure this will be worked out soon and this will be a viable option.
Next was latest version of the customized Froyo. This is another nice rom which I am currently testing out on my NC. All apps I have tried seem to work fine so far. It was a little tricky getting market working on the newest version. I think the problem is the newest version uses EXT4 for system/data but still wants to use EXT3 for cache and this seems to cause some initial issues. I think it could be resolved just by changing the cache mount command at startup to mount as EXT4, maybe this will be sorted in the next release. Other than that so far so good. Also I haven't been running it long enough to gauge battery usage yet. Also does anyone know if you can remove the softkeys app? Uninstall is greyed out for that app for some reason. I remapped my hardware volume keys to menu/back so I don't really need softkeys any more.
Lastly the stock rooted 1.1. I ran this for about a week(I have only had my NC for a little over a week). I liked the stock but found I didn't use the B&N factory apps much if at all so figured I may as well try some of the other versions out and this is what lead me on the adventure above. Battery usage seemed great on the stock 1.1 root. It would easily last me a 2-3 days with normal usage for me which includes a couple hours of reading during my commute to work and a little web surfing and such in the evening and possibly throughout the day at work.
For now I am going to run Froyo for a few days to see how I like it. If an SDK based Honeycomb comes out I will definitely try that and once the bugs are worked out in CM7 I may try it again as well.
Kevin
I'm running CM7, I'd love it if I could get Youtube to work period. It would be nice if I could get apps to stop force closing on me all the time too. Once these issues can be fixed I'll love me some CM7.
Another vote here for CM7 on the SD card. I'm not yet completely comfortable with flashing my ROM on the Nook just yet and I like trying out different builds till I find the one I really want to stick with.
CM7 sounds pretty impressive though, I'll admit.
I can see that CM7 has a clear majority of votes...but HCv4 has work flawlessly for me. I run the 1.1 OC'd kernel, and it is very fast and very stable.
I suspect it depends on what apps you like to run, and while I have installed quite a few from the market, I spend most of my "nook time" using it as a reader. I use the B&N reader. Kindel and Aldiko, and all three work perfectly for me.
Having said that, I also understand that not everyone has had as satisfactory an experience as I have. While it was not all that hard to get up and running, it was also not a simple "press the button" install. I used the first version of the flashable eMMC package that samuelhalff put together a couple of weeks back, and "way back then" there were a number of small tweaks needed to get things like ADHOC wireless & Market running.
DeadlyDa said:
I can see that CM7 has a clear majority of votes...but HCv4 has work flawlessly for me. I run the 1.1 OC'd kernel, and it is very fast and very stable.
I suspect it depends on what apps you like to run, and while I have installed quite a few from the market, I spend most of my "nook time" using it as a reader. I use the B&N reader. Kindel and Aldiko, and all three work perfectly for me.
Having said that, I also understand that not everyone has had as satisfactory an experience as I have. While it was not all that hard to get up and running, it was also not a simple "press the button" install. I used the first version of the flashable eMMC package that samuelhalff put together a couple of weeks back, and "way back then" there were a number of small tweaks needed to get things like ADHOC wireless & Market running.
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Hmmm I tried out HCv4 last evening and had trouble with Aldiko force closing on me pretty much as soon as it started up. I got the Aldiko 2.0 logo and then it would FC. I tried both the Free and Paid versions. Did you have to do anything special to get it to work?? I also had the same trouble with the IMDB app. I would go back to HC in a heartbeat if I could get Aldiko working properly. I also use my NC primarily as a reader so Aldiko is very important.
Thanks.
Kevin
Hi there, my nc is running customized nookie froyo.68, with an old but wifi friendly oc kernel, I can run angry birds pretty well. But today I tried paly X Construction on it. it ran veeeery slow. I' not sure if it's only me or everyone gets the same. I was so surprised as it doesn't have too much animation in the game.
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Did you end up getting it to run fast again?
I found X Construction lite worked fine on my Samsung Galaxy S (Froyo), so purchased the full game. But the full game runs extremely slow. Have un-installed and re-installed, no joy.
Anyone got any suggestions, besides sending an email to the dev (which I've done with no reply).
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Hey all, I'm a new DS7 owner (well, UPS is right now but I will be). My interest was grabbed when I heard the news about the official Honeycomb being released for the DS7. After some add'l reading around about it (including discovering Honeystreak), I decided to trade my Nook Color in for a DS7.
I'm by no means new to Android hacking but I am totally new to the DS7. So I was wondering if a couple peeps would mind helping me play catch-up so I know what all is going on with it. For example:
What's the recovery situation? I see a stickied CWM thread but I also see comments such as "I doubt we'll be seeing cmw any time soon since partitions keep changing and we all know how badly cmw has screwed.us in the past...". If not CWM, then whatcha got?
Are there generally-accepted bugs with the device that I should be aware of before I waste time banging my head against the wall? For example, all AOSP ROMs for the Thunderbolt have a GPS and Network Location bug, and MMS only works if Wifi is disconnected.
What firmware-flashing tool is used? (equivalent to Odin, HBoot, RSDLite, etc.)
What other things are there that I should know about that are specific to the DS7?
If not here on XDA, where is DJ Steve posting new HoneyStreak updates?
I appreciate your help and a bit of patience while I ask the dumb questions.
Hey Jax, good to see a fellow Thunderbolt owner over here, well....the rom game is slow around these parts. Most owners including myself are waiting for the official 3.2 ota which may be days or weeks away for the wifi model. DJsteve is the streak dev but has CHOSEN to take his work elsewhere due to GPL issues.
The known bugs or issues for the most part have been well documented, battery life and screen, although I wouldn't call the later a "bug". Battery life is supposed to be addressed in the ota as well. In my opinion this is going to be a sweet little tab once 3.2 arrives and will hopefully attract some devs.
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Hi Jax,
Welcome to the Streak7 world. I too am a new DS7 user (wifi only). Only just getting mine back on the 2nd of Sept. I used the stock rom and thought it was a decent running system. In fact, I kinda disagreed with most who said it was a bit sluggish, as mine seemed to run quite well. Got my DS7 on Friday afternoon,by late Saturday night I had it rooted to Honeycomb.Why live with last years model when you can have this years model. I worked under that for a few days to see how it ran. Then I went back to the stock Dell rom for comparison. Well... after going back to the stock rom I saw just what everyone was saying about it being sluggish. Now granted the stock rom ran fine & I was fine with it untill I rooted. Then I got spoiled. SO not only does the stock rom run a bit slower, it has a lot of bloat. (as one would expect). Going over to the root rom fixes these issues. Its a clean fast running system now. I have not found any troubles with the rom Im using or the stock rom. I think you'll be happy with the DS7 & even more so after rooting it.
I use DJ_Steve's HoneyStreak HD7 2.0 (3.2)R4 (Going to R5 today as he just posted the R5 yesterday) & I love it. You'l need to install R2 first,then update to R4 or R5.
DJ_Steve has moved over to another site & his work can be found here :
R2 : http://tabletroms.com/forums/honeyc...[r2]-honeystreak-hd7-2-0-release-2-3-2-a.html
R5 : http://tabletroms.com/forums/honeyc...m][r5]-honeystreak-hd7-2-0-release-3-2-a.html
Good luck with your new DS7. If I can help any more please feel free to drop me a line. And keep us posted on your goings on with it.
^^^I also think the stock rom isn't so bad, I do have adwex on top of it though. I'm yet to root mines. I'm shocked how much I'm liking my DS7.
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Before you go installing HC, can you check what stock rom you have installed first?
The version is in system -> about phone
You might have a newer version rom then what's available. Dell has been releasing most of their updates as preinstalled only recently.
TheManii said:
Before you go installing HC, can you check what stock rom you have installed first?
The version is in system -> about phone
You might have a newer version rom then what's available. Dell has been releasing most of their updates as preinstalled only recently.
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I bought mine used on Ebay. I had honeycomb on it within 3 hours of playing with my Streak.
for those who are putting their time on 4.1&4.2, I offer nothing but my appreciation.
However, it's hard to find which version is "really usable ". Is there easy ways to find it out?
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I'm in the same dilemma! I'm currently running CM 7.2 and would love to move to JB.
I'll jot down all my observations here:
There is a 4.1.2 release by vijendrahs which is currently doing the rounds and the Evervolv 4.2 nightly's.
I've been following these threads in the Dev section and on both sides, I see users reporting good and bad issues. I guess the only way to find out if it works in your case is to try and see.
The camera is working in 4.1.2 (vijendrahs) version (with no flickering) but I am not sure if its fixed in 4.2
Video recording doesn't work in both versions
GPS, 3G, WiFi do work though in both versions. Regarding tethering, I don't think USB tethering works, but hey, not everyone uses it right?
One of my friends who flashed 4.1.2 last week reported that he was getting random reboots almost a dozen times everyday. But the response was good, and apps were loaded slowly (he was using m2sd) .
I'm on Evervolv's final 4.1.2 version and it's pretty well completely reliable now. The camcorder works and hasn't failed me once yet, (video playback is choppy - but it's fine once I transfer the file to my computer). Everything else is fast and stable, no random reboots.
I tried the CM10 from vijendrahs but several things were broken that I found within the first 5 minutes of use. Lockscreen didn't work, usb mass storage didn't work, among others so I gave up and restored my backup really fast.
I've downloaded Evervolv's 4.2 but haven't brought myself to try it yet cause everything is so perfect now on 4.1.2. I just wish I could have a good working CM10 cause I like the extra features especially the notification pulldown toggles.
I finally flashed vijendrah's 4.1.2 last night and it's been a very smooth experience so far. Except for video recording, almost everything's been working fine. I too downloaded Evervolv's 4.2 but I'll probably try it next week after using 4.1.2 for awhile.
The only grouch I have is with m2sd, but I have flashed the correct APK and things are OK now.
ykom said:
for those who are putting their time on 4.1&4.2, I offer nothing but my appreciation.
However, it's hard to find which version is "really usable ". Is there easy ways to find it out?
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I would like to push for cooldroid Sense, quite nice, stable, considering it's an alpha. I was running spazedog but nothing happened to fix some small bugs, so i went to hypersense and almost fell in love...it was perfect, fast, stable and everything worked 'out of the box'...only thing on the down side...i couldn't run chrome...
then came cooldroid, i know it's not JB, but ICS is good enough for me.
(m2sd is a bugger...but now it works for me at least...)
Hi all, which of the latest and greatest ROMs would you recommend for playing MIDI files with this app (best performance, least lockups, etc)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rardhian.livemidi&hl=en
for the Samsung Galaxy Exhibit?
Thanks!
dax702 said:
Hi all, which of the latest and greatest ROMs would you recommend for playing MIDI files with this app (best performance, least lockups, etc)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rardhian.livemidi&hl=en
for the Samsung Galaxy Exhibit?
Thanks!
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I posted this a couple of days ago, is this the wrong forum for it?
I tried the demo version and it played a basic MIDI file ok when using the recommended settings from the developer's website, but who knows how well it would work with a more complex file plus soundfonts. The Galaxy Exhibit does not meet the recommended specs. (not a dual core CPU, and only 512MiB of RAM) so I wouldn't expect it to perform well. For a stable ROM, give AOIP a try. I've been running v.1.0 since it came out and have had very few issues.
After all my research, I decided on RebelROM 3.1 and it works flawlessly. I installed the live midi app and it seems to run fine too on there. Couldn't be happier with this ROM.
You should try aoip
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dax702 said:
After all my research, I decided on RebelROM 3.1 and it works flawlessly. I installed the live midi app and it seems to run fine too on there. Couldn't be happier with this ROM.
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.whitt is right try aoip all the other ROMs are old and outdated and theres no support for them anymore.