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Moving from Moto Droid to HTC Incredible

Someone is giving me a HTC Incredible as a gift. Looks like I'll be dropping the Droid. I hope to have better memory performance and smoother scrolling (touch interaction). Any opinions on the matter?
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I had a Droid, now I have an INC. Your assumptions are correct sir.

Have you tried overclocking and 2.2 on the Droid? I suppose since it's already done.. but the general kind of lack of fluidity was starting to erk me on the stock 2.1.. went ahead and rooted, put 2.2 on, overclocked to 1ghz (which to my touch, it seems to actually be cooler and lasting longer) and my god what a difference, it's like getting a new phone to be honest.

Yea, I am rooted on 2.2. It is like a new phone. If you have seen the touch screen test between iphone and several other phones you'll see the droid has a rough touch screen. I am also still having memory issues. But it is a lot better and faster
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Hello,
because i am trying to find out, from where can i put the 2.2 interface on droid?

haris_el said:
Hello,
because i am trying to find out, from where can i put the 2.2 interface on droid?
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First off you have to be rooted just google it. theres a nice youtube video but i cant post links so then after you are rooted download an app called Rom Manger its free after that you can download different roms but right now Bugless beast has the most stable up to date froyo so download his rom and its will auto flash it for you then your done

ok thanks, i'll try that...
I'm already rooted.

D3 forgotten

I feel as if the phone is forgotten no one seems to want this phone rooted only the users. I understand its hard to root but I have not seen any one other then the people in the can this root it thread want to rom it. Like the incredible 2 not much of an upgrade I think from the incredible 1 and I see large dev support. Does any one think the D3 is worth support from the likes of cyanogen or miui or even new developers
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saintlikesniper said:
I feel as if the phone is forgotten no one seems to want this phone rooted only the users. I understand its hard to root but I have not seen any one other then the people in the can this root it thread want to rom it. Like the incredible 2 not much of an upgrade I think from the incredible 1 and I see large dev support. Does any one think the D3 is worth support from the likes of cyanogen or miui or even new developers
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Forgotten? You know, it's bigger than you think for people who want to modify the software of this phone. Just because there are only a few threads on deving it doesn't mean jack. This phone is tough to mod simply because of the flags in place that keeps any script from getting raised permissions to root. There are no ROMs as of yet because the bootloader is locked.
It will take awhile to find an exploit in the Droid 3 to get root or get it unlocked whether it be by mod, a leaked sbf, or Motorola releasing the sbf itself.

With the OG Droid nearing the 2 year mark I imagine many of these users will either get the Droid 3 or wait for the Bionic. The Bionic will also have Android 2.3.4 and some similar hardware so any knowledge gained trying to root the Bionic will help in trying to root the Droid 3. I imagine once the Bionic is released we will see a lot of activity and hopefully a root for both phones.

I hope so its just I hardly assisting in the process. If I had my linux laptop up and running then I would help sadly I do not
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spunker88 said:
With the OG Droid nearing the 2 year mark I imagine many of these users will either get the Droid 3 or wait for the Bionic. The Bionic will also have Android 2.3.4 and some similar hardware so any knowledge gained trying to root the Bionic will help in trying to root the Droid 3. I imagine once the Bionic is released we will see a lot of activity and hopefully a root for both phones.
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Bionic development for aosp will be tough due to the RIL, something every LTE phone has struggled with. Hopefully things will be sorted out by then. I know the TBolt community has come a long way but still no miui.
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I don't think it will be forgotten. It got like zero press prior to release, likely because its not LTE. But, it doesn't matter for me because I won't have LTE available where I live for quit a while.
Forums are pretty quiet, but once root is possible, I have a feeling there will be a lot more chatter.

It's only been out around here for a week ... (Ontario Canada)

Forgotten?? Lmao....its being worked on every day by many devs. It will come. E patient.

Please sweet baby jesus of android devs, please root, please make it easy for this dude, so I can rid it of the metric ton of bloatware
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Patience guys and gals, this is not like that other popular phone that usually get root (jailbreak as they call it ) no later than 24 hours of release.
Hopefully Motorola will give us some liberty and provide way to unlock the boot loader just like they did with the Atrix. Soon please !
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[Q] Out of the box...

My Bionic will arrive on Monday. Of my 4 other Android phones, I have rooted/rommed the last 3 with great results. I am comfortable with the idea, and welcome anything that enhances the experience. However, I am used to running on bottom tier phones. Rooting/Romming is a nice option, but is it necessary on the Bionic like it was on my Eris? Does the Bionic handle well out of the box?

it does very well out the box but things are always better with root IMO
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Rezanow said:
My Bionic will arrive on Monday. Of my 4 other Android phones, I have rooted/rommed the last 3 with great results. I am comfortable with the idea, and welcome anything that enhances the experience. However, I am used to running on bottom tier phones. Rooting/Romming is a nice option, but is it necessary on the Bionic like it was on my Eris? Does the Bionic handle well out of the box?
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My Bionic is my 4th Android phone and the only one I haven't rooted and may never root. Its solid out of the box. Fast as heck. To be honest I did root it once for a few hours to play with the dpi but I decided to unroot and stop tinkering with it. Part of the reason I chose this phone was because I wasn't planning on rooting or roming and wanted a solid out of the box experience. I'm running LPP on top of blur and loving it.
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lrs421 said:
My Bionic is my 4th Android phone and the only one I haven't rooted and may never root. Its solid out of the box. Fast as heck. To be honest I did root it once for a few hours to play with the dpi but I decided to unroot and stop tinkering with it. Part of the reason I chose this phone was because I wasn't planning on rooting or roming and wanted a solid out of the box experience. I'm running LPP on top of blur and loving it.
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Agreed. Best out the box phone ever.
Gotta admit, the new blur launcher kinda grew on me
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bigsapz said:
Agreed. Best out the box phone ever.
Gotta admit, the new blur launcher kinda grew on me
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Yeah I wish ADW had this blur feature on it.

I had lots of hardware problems with my thunderbolt (the reason I have this phone) but it ran better stock than the bionic. I agree that the new blur isn't as bad as it use to be it still slows these phones down. I would root and debloat at least, however I prefer a ASOP style Rom as they are the fastest.

Rezanow said:
My Bionic will arrive on Monday. Of my 4 other Android phones, I have rooted/rommed the last 3 with great results. I am comfortable with the idea, and welcome anything that enhances the experience. However, I am used to running on bottom tier phones. Rooting/Romming is a nice option, but is it necessary on the Bionic like it was on my Eris? Does the Bionic handle well out of the box?
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After 22 months of the Eris -17 months rooted - I bought a Bionic last week and decided to run it stock for as long as possible (and definitely as long as the 14 day return period) - including the stock launcher, which isn't fantastic, but not awful. Anyway, the phone is fine out of the box, as it is. Besides the annoyance of seeing the pre-loaded apps that I do not want, including the occasional market update of those apps, the Bionic is fine.
So far no black screen of death (BSOD) for me; I'm on WiFi most of the time, but I've seen a few 3G data dropouts out and about (where I KNOW that 3G data is fine), but none since I followed this trick: http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid-bionic/421050-useful-how-tos-tips.html#post3271941
(Note that this "trick" makes no sense - it's changing the default speech codec. But, no 3G data dropouts that I have noticed since I did it, so....)
As far as I know, rooting fixes neither of those problems, though perhaps I missed something. I think that we're just waiting for a fix from Motorola/VZW.

doogald said:
After 22 months of the Eris -17 months rooted - I bought a Bionic last week and decided to run it stock for as long as possible (and definitely as long as the 14 day return period) - including the stock launcher, which isn't fantastic, but not awful. Anyway, the phone is fine out of the box, as it is. Besides the annoyance of seeing the pre-loaded apps that I do not want, including the occasional market update of those apps, the Bionic is fine.
So far no black screen of death (BSOD) for me; I'm on WiFi most of the time, but I've seen a few 3G data dropouts out and about (where I KNOW that 3G data is fine), but none since I followed this trick: http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid-bionic/421050-useful-how-tos-tips.html#post3271941
(Note that this "trick" makes no sense - it's changing the default speech codec. But, no 3G data dropouts that I have noticed since I did it, so....)
As far as I know, rooting fixes neither of those problems, though perhaps I missed something. I think that we're just waiting for a fix from Motorola/VZW.
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On my Eris, I found KaosFroyo (Punk.Kaos was a great dev!) and ran with that for a LONG time. Made using the Eris bearable.
Thank you all for your replies! I am looking forward to getting through this weekend! =)

eraursls1984 said:
I had lots of hardware problems with my thunderbolt (the reason I have this phone) but it ran better stock than the bionic. I agree that the new blur isn't as bad as it use to be it still slows these phones down. I would root and debloat at least, however I prefer a ASOP style Rom as they are the fastest.
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Wow, I came from the same phone and my experience is completely opposite. In fact my stock Bionic runs better than my thunderbolt overclocked. Applications like LPP and car home run noticeably faster. Also Blur has a closer to aosp feel than htc sense does. I too like an aospish experience.
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The best out of the box phone I ever had was the Galaxy S 2 for AT&T. This phone is pretty good stock.
what I did though immediately is root the phone (which is the easiest i have done since the captivate) and used an app from the market to remove the bloat apps.
other than that i replaced the launcher after a week and replaced the sms (both with "Go" products) and it runs great.
It's not the processor, the screen, or the battery that makes this phone. It is the LTE and i wouldnt trade that for an LTE-less galaxy s 2 ever.

lrs421 said:
Wow, I came from the same phone and my experience is completely opposite. In fact my stock Bionic runs better than my thunderbolt overclocked. Applications like LPP and car home run noticeably faster. Also Blur has a closer to aosp feel than htc sense does. I too like an aospish experience.
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LPP is inconsistent, on both my Droid X and T bolt it would work on some roms but it was really sluggish on others, even on updates of the same roms. I switched to go launcher because it has what I like from LPP and haven't had a problem since. With the right roms the Tbolt didn't need overclocking, with BAMF stripped and Forever 1 ghz was just as smooth as the same rom overclocked to 1.4 ghz, most other roms needed to be clocked at 1.2 or 1.4 ghz to be as smooth as those roms at 1 ghz.
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MarcMaiden said:
The best out of the box phone I ever had was the Galaxy S 2 for AT&T.
It's not the processor, the screen, or the battery that makes this phone. It is the LTE and i wouldnt trade that for an LTE-less galaxy s 2 ever.
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But it's AT&T and their LTE network is a joke.

eraursls1984 said:
LPP is inconsistent, on both my Droid X and T bolt it would work on some roms but it was really sluggish on others, even on updates of the same roms. I switched to go launcher because it has what I like from LPP and haven't had a problem since. With the right roms the Tbolt didn't need overclocking, with BAMF stripped and Forever 1 ghz was just as smooth as the same rom overclocked to 1.4 ghz, most other roms needed to be clocked at 1.2 or 1.4 ghz to be as smooth as those roms at 1 ghz.
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But it's AT&T and their LTE network is a joke.
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LPP isn't inconsistent on the Bionic. I ran every tbolt rom imaginable. OMFGB and CM7 were the only ones that compared speed wise. As talented as the BAMF devs are, sense is still sense, heavy and sluggish. By the way, bamf stripped 1.7 was my all time fav tbolt rom and the BAMF devs are my favorite devs.
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Newb question (and one I am likely going to groan that I should have known the answer to): What is "LPP"?

Rezanow said:
Newb question (and one I am likely going to groan that I should have known the answer to): What is "LPP"?
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Launcher pro plus

filthy1 said:
Launcher pro plus
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/facepalm
I've been using that for a LONG time now. I should have known...
Speaking of... How do you all feel about the competing home screen replacements?

I have owned almost every Droid to come out and I used to use lpp or,adw but for some reason I have left everything pretty much stock on my bionic save for one percent battery

filthy1 said:
I have owned almost every Droid to come out and I used to use lpp or,adw but for some reason I have left everything pretty much stock on my bionic save for one percent battery
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Ok, another newb question... "One percent battery"?

Moto defaults to 10% increments on the phone. So if your at 36% it shows you at 30%. 1% means it will show your ar 36% not 30%
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nosympathy said:
Moto defaults to 10% increments on the phone. So if your at 36% it shows you at 30%. 1% means it will show your ar 36% not 30%
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Is that something changed in the settings, or an app?

Rezanow said:
Is that something changed in the settings, or an app?
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Zip file in development.
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lack of developers?

Coming from the Charge I am a bit surprised art the lack of roMs and themes fir the bionic considering popularity of the phone. anybody else??

It takes time to make ruins especially since they had to crack the bootloader first but there will be more as time goes on. For the time being though [R3] BLURR3D is great and [D3] BLURR3D is currently in beta phase
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i'm switching from a Thunderbolt to a Bionic later in the week. i am a bit spoiled with all the roms/radios available for the Thunderbolt, but i did have an Incredible 2 since launch and remember the long wait before anything was available for that. so i have no problem waiting a while for things to get going with the Bionic.

Yea tbolt spoiled me. The x was also a long wait but well worthed.
Just hoping the project cheesecake or 2nd Init gets ported. Would love to see this cute puppy turn mean.
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I'm actually impressed by the speed in which the bionic has received support from very good devs, especially since we have a locked bl.

Prob cuz it's a sick phone out the box. Root it,Blackout the status bar and your straight.
the Charge, uh, not so much..
My .02
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Devs have moto. But even with lock bl u can theme rom oc swap radios. Just can't touch kernal. Its not really that bad
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dadsterflip said:
Yea tbolt spoiled me. The x was also a long wait but well worthed.
Just hoping the project cheesecake or 2nd Init gets ported. Would love to see this cute puppy turn mean.
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Coming from the X I was disappointed in the lack of development (not that it was that bad but I expected a phone with an unlocked bootloader to have more support than the X) I remeber more roms on the X than there was on the bolt. I was also surprised by the limited development for the Bionic, but it is early and maybe we haven't heard from everyone working on it yet, but Liberty is on the Bionic so I don't really care if we don't get many more roms.

This may sound dumb to you guys.

Thinking about buying a new og droid from amazon. Im downgrading from my Bionic as its bootloader locked and can't stand not having soap. I've had the DROID incredible and battery was horrible no matter what I did, had the fascinate, charge, and now am looking to stick to my android roots until my upgrade in november. So should I do it?

Honestly, I was thinking about doing it myself a while back. Don't know about the new ones but the OG Droid as I remember was very responsive to overclocking and ran great. I loved mine. Thing felt like a tank. Only thing to consider is CM will be dropping support for the OG Droid with CM9. Droids are dirt cheap and if you're good with fixing gadgets, you can get one with a broken digitizer for next to nothing.

I just recently fullfilled my 2 yr contract and was looking at new phones, but decided to try rooting and using a custom ROM on my OG Droid to get back some speed and functionality. I am no longer planning to fork over $ for a new phone

They're cheap, so the risk is minimal, but imho it is a painful experience running anything higher than Froyo/CM6 on the OG Droid. I know people swear by CM7 (and various scripts like V6, etc), but I have never gotten CM7 or any other GB ROM running smoothly for me.
The problem isn't the speed (I have mine OCed to 1.2ghz), its the memory. 256mb just isn't enough anymore.

so cm6 is the way to go? I have no problem with that. Whats the better setup with cm6 as far as kernel matching with cm6? Would like to hear some setups from anyone using the old school og droid.

Currntly running PE6. 5 on my og droid with the stock kernel which is 1.05Ghz lv. Have used the V6 scripts in past with so so results, am currently using Juwe's Ram Manager with pretty successful results.
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Try going even farther back. Android 2.1 XD. I still have the old files sitting on my hard drive.

thanks! keep them coming

Looks like project elite 6.5 for me, unless they have something newer out. Anything else I need to know about project elite? Whats the verdict on it? Its hard to find info on the og droid roms, so much just scattered around.

It's an asop rom built by actngrezy, he has stated is working on a version 7 but nothing on it recently or date. Alot of info on PE roms at Droid Forums.
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Here is a link to my dropbox if you want to try this rom.
http://db.tt/FqDCbRqp
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are you guys kidding me? this device is SO SLOW it's completely unusable. No matter how you tweak it, 256MB is just not enough. The day you go to a 512mb device, you will NEVER be able to return.... seriously

wow and who are and how have you helped the xda community. Try using a device with more than 512mb. I have. If I wanted your dumbass opinion on the d1 specs I would have asked for them. Clearly you have zero reading skills. Go troll somewhere else.

I found a brand new d1 for 100. Should be here today, looking forward to stepping back in time!

Ever think not everyone can afford a 299.00 phone. I love my d1, 256 and all.
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well that's exactly it. I have come to the conclussion that I don't need an expensive phone anymore and actually my favorite phone was the htc magic running amon ra rom Three years ago. I have five main uses for android in my little world. phone, facebook, xda, pandora and email. Anything past that and the novelty dies off after a couple of days

Anyone have a working link for p.e. 4.2?
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Gingerbread roms I'd recommend is Simply Stunning, Liquid, Project Elite, CushZero (as I'm using right now) im getting really good memory. I have been along time Droid user and tried just about every single rom that has been developed for it and finally found one that I can stick too.
If you're going to use Gingerbread, I'd recommend to use v6 supercharger (option 3 or superminfree calculator settings)
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