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Firebird2 vs Speedmod?

Can someone enumerate the differences between these two kernels? As far as I can understand, they're essentially the same other than calling the lagfix by a different name.
Also, please put forth which one you would recommend that I use. Thanks!
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Nobody can tell you which will provide the best result on your phone. Most make the determination based on the effect they have on battery which can be very different, even with all else seemingly being equal. Flashing kernels is really a painless process only requiring a few minutes of your time so I suggest that you experiment and find what works best for you.
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IMO firebird 2 is a tad faster and uses more battery. So depending on what you want I guess.
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You have to try them yourself to see what works best for your phone. They are both great kernels but I prefer Firebird 2 personally.

Aus_Azn said:
Can someone enumerate the differences between these two kernels? As far as I can understand, they're essentially the same other than calling the lagfix by a different name.
Also, please put forth which one you would recommend that I use. Thanks!
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I tried both and prefer speedmod. Firebird was a bit faster for me but also drained my battery faster. I currently use speedmod with Cezar's rom and its a match made in heaven. Fast and awesome battery.
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Speedmod also tends to stay a little more updated than firebird.
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sixstringsg said:
Speedmod also tends to stay a little more updated than firebird.
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"little more" does not convey full justice. its more like "timely updates whenever an issue and/or improvements are found".

Ok, I'll give SpeedMod a shot. I should be able to switch back and forth easily if I have both CWM zips on my phone, I take it?
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i really prefer glitterball reoriented even with overclocking disabled to both of those roms.

k2snowboards88 said:
i really prefer glitterball reoriented even with overclocking disabled to both of those roms.
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I concur. Battery life is outstanding with overclocking disabled and undervolting enabled.

[Q] which is more reccomended?

galnet miui or cm7 and why?

me also wishing to have answer for that

If you like stock Android, choose CM7 and if you like iOS, you should choose MIUI. I prefer CM7.
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Which is faster and better not about the looks

Both are pretty fast.

but which is faster?

You can't compare it like this. MIUI is based on CM7. Just try both and them you can decide which ROM to take. I had MIUI for one day but then I switched back to CM7 cause I don't like iOS-looking. And CM7 is very close to stock Android and I just love it.
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igor2200 said:
but which is faster?
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Why don't you try both and report back here? Give some good feed back
I've only tried miui myself, but I'm pretty happy with it so far.

I tried but i cant find any differences

Try both of them few days and pick the one you like. I prefer cm7.

igor2200 said:
I tried but i cant find any differences
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If you can't find any differences on speed then it's up to you whether you want the stock android or iOS style.

its a matter of choice.. i would recomend trying both n deciding for yourself..
i personally recomend galnet miui.. using it over a few months...

i tried them both and i definitely goes with galenet miui
it's easy... miui is an improvement of cm7. and when you have a great support
by the dvelopment himself, and this is a man that can release a new verision
every 5h because little something was wrong, there is no doubt.

But I have to say that the support with CM7 isn't bad, it's quite good. atinm helps you in the CM7 Q&A-thread to solve your problems.
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[Q] Hit the 5 month mark, should I finally root and lagfix?

I have noticed that when I click a button, I usually have to wait from 1-2 seconds before I get a response. Would lagfix take care of this? I'm running stock Froyo.

As many have stated all the lagfix does is help fix the very slow rts file system, it most likely would not help in your case.
Best thing to do is delete unused apps, and reboot the phone every day or to(seems to help mine out, cant guarantee results)
Also if you havent needed root in 5 months you probably don't need it

Unless you want to use opitimised roms, I dont see why you would need to root. Check your memory usage delete unused apps and reboot the phone ever once in a while.

My honest opinion, no reason to have an android phone if you are not using roms
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mcord11758 said:
My honest opinion, no reason to have an android phone if you are not using roms
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Gonna have to agree with mcord here. had to go back to stock froyo for about 5 hours (didnt have all my tool to get back my 2.3.4 ROM) and it was horrible.
you might not be up for it but i really recommend flashing a Froyo Custom ROM from one of the xda DEVs. you'll love your phone and be amazed that it can be so much smoother and responsive.

First thing I did after i rooted was flashed a new kernel to overclock. Performance increased but battery life was poor. Then my first rom was cm7..been hooked since..tried miui once then went back to cm7.
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This is what lagfix can do for your phone.
Im using stock mosaic V 2.3.4 rom with no overclock.
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Providing arbitrary benchmarks does not seem like an actual reason to employ a lag fix.
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z28james said:
Providing arbitrary benchmarks does not seem like an actual reason to employ a lag fix.
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No a Benchmark score is not the best example to lag fix your phone ,but the more power you get, plus better battery life and, better perrformance are great reasons to lag fix your phone. I just posted the quadrant score so kb0npw can see the increase performance from normal rfs file system to ext4(lag fix).
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godpancho said:
This is what lagfix can do for your phone.
Im using stock mosaic V 2.3.4 rom with no overclock.
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Lol people always thinking benchmarks scores mean everything

diminished5th said:
Lol people always thinking benchmarks scores mean everything
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I dont think he thought it meant everything, he was giving a simple before and after which showed some improvement. Quadrant can actually be pretty useful when trying to gauge what effects certain changes have on your phone, say you score a 1900 before you change 'x' and then 2200 after that change, then you know its increased performance somewhat and youre moving in the right direction. How much it has increased your performance is debatable, however. My point is quadrant can be a useful tool when making changes on your phone if you take it with a grain of salt.
EDIT: To answer op's question, Read up on some custom roms and flash one, the difference is phenomenal and you'll wonder how you went 5 months without them. If you have any other questions feel free to pm me and I'll see what help I can be

How to get amazing cm7 battery life?

I'm rooted running cm7 with the tiamat 1.1.4 kernel and get quite good battery however nothing like I have seen some people talking about. I know my phone is going in to deep sleep
However is there any settings in cm7 I should be using to make the battery life longer?
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incrediblealex said:
I'm rooted running cm7 with the tiamat 1.1.4 kernel and get quite good battery however nothing like I have seen some people talking about. I know my phone is going in to deep sleep
However is there any settings in cm7 I should be using to make the battery life longer?
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Well I'm on cm7 and 1.1.5 (I've not noticed any difference between 1.1.4 and 1.1.5), and I get two days on a charge. I don't have facebook/e-mail or many other app syncing and I don't turn it off at night or anything like that.
I've seen people saying they get longer on a single charge but then you usually find out they're switching it off or putting it on airplane mode over night or something.

Raithmir said:
Well I'm on cm7 and 1.1.5 (I've not noticed any difference between 1.1.4 and 1.1.5), and I get two days on a charge. I don't have facebook/e-mail or many other app syncing and I don't turn it off at night or anything like that.
I've seen people saying they get longer on a single charge but then you usually find out they're switching it off or putting it on airplane mode over night or something.
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Yeah I might reinstall cm7 to get a clean install. Do you know how I would go about cleaning everyhting off the SD card and flashing a clean cm7.
It backs up your apps ongoogle doesn't it
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incrediblealex said:
Yeah I might reinstall cm7 to get a clean install. Do you know how I would go about cleaning everyhting off the SD card and flashing a clean cm7.
It backs up your apps ongoogle doesn't it
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Just wipe everything in recovery. When I installed CM7 after a few minutes it automatically started downloading my apps I'd had previously installed. There were a large chunk it didn't work on but they showed up in My apps in the market so I could just click on to download again.

The key here is under-volting

itsbeertimenow said:
The key here is under-volting
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Doesn't it make your phone laggy at all?

incrediblealex said:
Doesn't it make your phone laggy at all?
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no. the key here will be the right amount of under volting. dont go berserk. just reduce it to a small amount and check. minus 25-50 seems fine.

Use incredicontrol to undervolt to -75 and change wifi sleep policy in advanced setting to never. Did this with cm7 and got great battery life. Now using miuiandroid im at 70% after 19 hours of medium usage. It's amazing. No lag what so ever. Don't use tiamat 1.1.5 though, use 1.1.4, way more optimized.
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yes tiamat 1.1.4 performs better than 1.1.5.
however you can try lord clockan's cm7 kernel. some users have found it even better than tiamat.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334307

lagging even though over clocked

I'm using rocket rom v23 with Abyssnote kernel version 4.2. And overclocked to 1.4ghz with ondemand using SETCPU. I don't have any background running application other than background data and gps enabled all the time.
For past week my phone is very slow and i need to wait for couple of seconds to let the app open. Why is this happening and what is the resolution?? I don't have any issue in battery. And also I don't want to loose any app's data.
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Overclocked? But it's already 1.4 ghz.

Which launcher do you use? How many apps installed? How many widgets placed on your screens? And beside that just a simple hint: look forward for ICS...the lag will be gone immediately

filthykid said:
Overclocked? But it's already 1.4 ghz.
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Mate if this is not a typo I think he needs to check his box when he first brought it...
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brooon said:
look forward for ICS...the lag will be gone immediately
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You mean the official update? How can you be sure it will vanish the lag?

It is clear you have done something to the system.. even a stock note performs better than this.
priyanv said:
I'm using rocket rom v23 with Abyssnote kernel version 4.2. And overclocked to 1.4ghz with ondemand using SETCPU. I don't have any background running application other than background data and gps enabled all the time.
For past week my phone is very slow and i need to wait for couple of seconds to let the app open. Why is this happening and what is the resolution?? I don't have any issue in battery. And also I don't want to loose any app's data.
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REMOVE all the profile in setCPU if you had one.

priyanv said:
And overclocked to 1.4ghz
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I like this.

Lag is in most if not in all Notes !
My Galaxy Note also have lag problem
I have GS2 and Note and GS2 is like bullet on Stock gingerbread ! Just open app booom opened ! I think it's because GS2 already had a bunch of patches and updates to the OS comparing to the Note !
So I think the only way to fix this in Note is to wait for ICS !

filthykid said:
Overclocked? But it's already 1.4 ghz.
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Sorry guys that was typo..Its 1.6ghz.. Actually I was about to type 1.4ghz-1. 6ghz but I missed the (-1. 6ghz) part..
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thehackersz said:
REMOVE all the profile in setCPU if you had one.
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I don't have any profiles created..
I'm in RR V23 for almost a month.. Its was really fast than the stock rom but it became slow now.
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priyanv said:
I don't have any profiles created..
I'm in RR V23 for almost a month.. Its was really fast than the stock rom but it became slow now.
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Try rebooting into CWM then clearing cache and davlik cache. I had similar problem with another ROM gradually slowing down and wasn't sure what was causing it. Clearing the caches sorted the problem.

priyanv said:
Sorry guys that was typo..Its 1.6ghz.. Actually I was about to type 1.4ghz-1. 6ghz but I missed the (-1. 6ghz) part..
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Holy ****. It's overclocked and still lagging? My goodness

TempusFudgeIt said:
Try rebooting into CWM then clearing cache and davlik cache. I had similar problem with another ROM gradually slowing down and wasn't sure what was causing it. Clearing the caches sorted the problem.
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So will it clear all the app's data?
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I have overclocked a few phones in my past, but the Note? Really its so fast and all works super smooth. Maybe with the right ROM where the dev already pre-overclocked it... But setCPU was never working great for me. Maybe just my opinion, but wipe, and get yourself a good ROM. No need to overclock this beast.

There is no lag "problem" per se. period. Stating there is a "problem" makes the assumption that there can be a fix.
You cannot fix the inequality in display processing between the S2 and the Note, given that the Note must process 2.6 times as much information for the display as the S2, so it will ALWAYS appear to be not quite as fast as the S2, given it has similar hardware.
So given you cannot get a gallon of beer in a pint glass, making it a different pint glass (ICS) wont help.
Now, sure the appearance of "lag" on the Note can be minimised thru tweaking optimisations, but note (small n) that the same can be also applied to the S2! Essentially, never in a month of Sundays will two devices with similar hardware, one of which is doing 2.6 times the work, ever appear to operate with the same UI zip.
The_wolf88 said:
Lag is in most if not in all Notes !
My Galaxy Note also have lag problem
I have GS2 and Note and GS2 is like bullet on Stock gingerbread ! Just open app booom opened ! I think it's because GS2 already had a bunch of patches and updates to the OS comparing to the Note !
So I think the only way to fix this in Note is to wait for ICS !
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The thing is...I don´t have any lag at all. Even with stock. BUT I can see a huge difference (on Stock rom) between TouchWiz and alternative launchers. Touchwiz is smooth as butter, whereas Go Launcher Ex shows a small lag (and it´s the fastest GB launcher alternative afaik.
And beside that: Currently I´m on Stunner (ICS) and here it is even a better experience. Absolutely no lag or waiting time, never, period.
I can´t sign the statement anymore, that the note is slower than a SGSII...I have both of them, and on Stunner it´s quite the same experience

brooon said:
The thing is...I don´t have any lag at all. Even with stock. BUT I can see a huge difference (on Stock rom) between TouchWiz and alternative launchers. Touchwiz is smooth as butter, whereas Go Launcher Ex shows a small lag (and it´s the fastest GB launcher alternative afaik.
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Yea may be this is because of the launcher am using (ADWlauncher). I think I should try some other launcher.
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Problem solved... After switching to different launcher now it's fast and smooth..
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Great, congrats!