Alright so im starting this because...well i have had my fair share of android devices. And man do i have to say Im loving this phone. Credit goes out to bananacakes for making a great rom! (love the new aroma installer) Credit to kozmikkick for making a great kernel for benchmarking and allowing me to show off to all my friends. And thanks to slapshot30 for making a GREAT superguide which helped me a good amount in the begining. Yes i am new to XDA or at least in a im not going to just read and leave kind of way. I cant wait for these 10 posts to be done with so i can get into the development side and start giving people props and helping noobs or even just people who are having difficulties. (I have been there)
Alright people iv said my share now i want to hear what you all have to say about the vivid???
Nottach's Dark Raider is simply amazing!
KozmicKKick's kernal is mad fast and stable w/ aroma & great features like zram oc uv and fast charge capable
Pretty chill besides the thread wars
Overall I wish things went smoother dev/user & dev/dev wise
This phone has so much potential and can only go as far as it's development community!
I love my phone and I haven't personally seen one iPhone better or an android that comes close to mine besides my old G2 haha
Sent from my HTC Vivid ICS 4.0.3 Sense 3.6
on Dark Raider Rom using Kozmickkick's OC kernal using XDA
Are you having a problem working your wifi on dark raider ROM? i am? and my battery drains fast..
I'm pretty much one of the few still rocking the stock ICS Rom (no time for playing roms now), but I wouldn't trade it for any other device out there right now
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Hey lol my original plan was to stay stock but when I went through root process I just decided to grad a quick Rom that seemed good enough for then and have been on it sense lol
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zRadiz said:
Are you having a problem working your wifi on dark raider ROM? i am? and my battery drains fast..
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Are you s off? Did you fastboot boot.img of which kernal you used? What kernal did you pick?
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on Dark Raider Rom using Kozmickkick's OC kernal using XDA
I love my Vivid. It's not rooted, but customized just the way that i want it to be. Not like the iPhone4 that i got rid of.
shamrock
remove s-voice
clear davilk cache
install
I can't remember if I wipe dalvik does it mess with any of my apps or anything in the phone that I would use? Or does it just like get rid of temp files?
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I always was told that HTC was the worst at updating. But I'm pretty sure that the Vivid was the first phone that didn't ship with ICS to get it. Love this phone!
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HTC has actually gotten a lot better with updating. And I think you are right about ics
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Vivid is my first HTC phone, I have used SE (back in the days), Moto and Samsung. What impressed me was, the size the the way it felt when held in your hand. I have a company work phone (Moto Atrix 2), and just when I think that is big enough, Vivid just comes along nicely and makes a good impression right out of the box!
The only little downside that I might have with this baby is the battery life. Generally I would plug in to charge overnight. By the time I get up for work, I unplug (around 7am), and by the time I get home (around 6 pm), it would be in the red zone, showing either 14% or less battery left. I am actually less than two miles from the nearest LTE signal tower, so I don't have a problem with the signal. But with regular use (come on, at work, I got the computer with the company work phone and this personal phone), it would be around 50% around lunch time or so.
But I am still loving this baby! Will be still on the look for a better battery performance ROM and/or a larger battery.....
I love mine. Battery life is really my only issue. Ics is a little buggy at times but overall I love the phone! It's lighting quick and smooth and the screen is gorgeous. And Sense took a bit to grow on me but I'm loving it too.
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There are a few tips to battery saving throughout the forums, also here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646631
I understand that Sense 4.0 is not so much of a battery hog, let's hope that someone can get it going for the Vivid/Velocity/Raider as they really are very good phones apart from the battery life.
I don't want sense 4,multitasking is broken on it
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Yeah this phone is great, everything I wanted my captivate to be but never was. I wasted no time rooting and putting a custom rom on my cappy but I've had this phone since March and I have left it stock and I might just keep it that way, works fine for everything I need and all bloatware can be either disabled or loosely uninstalled. it doesn't look like the firmware you see on the galaxy nexus but sense is beautiful in its own way and the 3.6 launcher has all the features I need
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When I got this phone I told myself I wasn't going to be a flashaholic. I'm no newcomer to root or custom rims but the vivid isn't that bad. Almost doesn't need to be cleaned up and OC'd. But the little things are getting to me.
1. Choppy scrolling
2. Choppy Rosie
3. Small lag with daily use
I don't want to sacrafice the good battery life i have been having.
What are your opinions and what Rom should I flash for stability and smooth scrolling.
If the majority doesn't seem to think it's worth it I'll stay stock. Thanks for all of your opinions
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I'd say it's worth it. My battery still has a good 20-30% battery by the end of the day.
I can't say much about which ROM to get, considering I've only been able to get the VjRaider to work, which I love by the way.
Those choppy things were bugging me as well, VjRaider fixed 'em up. Along with some pretty cool features.
I have rooted but kept the original rom still... I wont become a flashaholic until I can get something like cyanogenmod or miui... not enough benefit for me to be bothered flashing and resetting up all my config
In a word, Yes
My biggest beef with stock was CIQ. It was not acceptable to leave it on my phone, regardless of the good intentions.
What I'm seeing with the better custom roms are tremendous increases in speed and fluidity, and excellent battery life. It would be painful to put the stock rom back on.
If battery life is a cocern for you, rooting lets you get rid of the juice hogging bloatware. Wild Childs Illuminati series are great roms. He has Sense 3.0 and 3.5 versions, stock kernels, oc kernels and voltage controllers. I you like the stock look, thats the way to go. Better than stock battery life and moar speedz.
oooh, I forgot also, this was WELL worth it for me, because I can't stand the stupid battery meter that sense has, I like having the percentage there, and after I rooted I could edit that then
davidcampbell said:
I have rooted but kept the original rom still... I wont become a flashaholic until I can get something like cyanogenmod or miui... not enough benefit for me to be bothered flashing and resetting up all my config
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Check out the app MyBackup by Rerware. I would post a link for you, but I don't have enough posts yet.
You can backup your system configurations, all the apps you have, what all your pages look like on your home screen, pictures, almost everything. And the best part about it is that you can do it online, or onto your SD card. Makes everything so much easier .
Yeah I already use titanium backup for apps, smsbackup+ for sms and call recordd and clockwork mod for full zip backups... I dont feel the need for more heh. Plus the main deal for me is I dont care enough, Im cool to hang with stock a while... My hd2 i flashed weekly... It got out of hand
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davidcampbell said:
Yeah I already use titanium backup for apps, smsbackup+ for sms and call recordd and clockwork mod for full zip backups... I dont feel the need for more heh. Plus the main deal for me is I dont care enough, Im cool to hang with stock a while... My hd2 i flashed weekly... It got out of hand
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That's what I am afraid of.
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That's what I am afraid of.
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Don't be afraid to get your hand dirty. Most of the custom ROMs available now are already in its 4th or 5th edition, at this point they are all pretty much very very stable. Think of it this way, whatever it is you like about your phone's current form, custom ROM does EVERYTHING better. It is smoother, faster, more stable (I used to get random reboots 3 times a week on stock ROM, not to mention the stupid carrier bloatwares and CIQ) and the ability to control the power usage through cpu control.
Trust me. It's not even close....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1431053
im very happy with that one very fluid after draining the battery than fully charging im getting 20 hours of real used (over 300 texts an hour of calling, internet browsing reading Engadget app, about 30 emails, and 10 pictures)
i do get random reboots about once every two days or so tho
so if you want something more stock tho
i hear this one is good
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1454521
here is what I did to satisfy my lust for now, keeping in mind that I get no random reboots and I don't seem to have any issues with my phone at all.
I figured there would be some level of erasing my data so I wanted to get rooting out of the way when I first got the phone, within about 20 minutes of ownership I had unlocked the bootloader (which cleared personal data), installed CWM and taken a backup of my stock rom, I then applied the root update through cwm to get root, I am still running the stock rom and I can squeeze 24 hours out of my phone which is pretty impressive vs my htc hd2, I'm in a 3G area so I havent really used my 4G radio yet.
Then I went about installing an update to get my percentage on the battery instead of the stupid battery icon with no percentage, and replaced the home screen with ADW.Launcher and the lockscreen with WidgetLocker, and I'm pretty happy with the speed and capabilities of the phone now, I'm content to wait until ICS I think as I have not really had any stability issues with this setup, everything just works, one annoyance is there is a little lag on scrolling things, something I see is mentioned as fixed in the ROMS... so far its not a big deal for me, I think maybe if ICS cm9 isn't out by march then I will look at flashing a custom rom at that point "
I do really miss the polish of the MIUI rom I had on my HD2, MIUI did some amazing ui stuff and everything was where it needed to be... even simple things like a TOGGLE FOR WIFI in the notification bar... it seems extremely weird for that to not be there lol.
You watch, someone will reply now and say that a particular rom has that feature and I'll be like Fuuuuuuu and flashing a new ROM before tomorow... I can feel the urge to flash rising hahaha
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My biggest beef with stock was CIQ. It was not acceptable to leave it on my phone, regardless of the good intentions.
What I'm seeing with the better custom roms are tremendous increases in speed and fluidity, and excellent battery life. It would be painful to put the stock rom back on.
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Completely agree, I couldn't go back to stock, the speed is far superior, I've tried a couple of Roms, I've just flashed vjraider, great Rom! And I foresee an even better future! Thanks devs,
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Personally, I find rooting to be worth it. First and foremost, it is the most in depth procedure of customization you can do to your phone to make it "yours". The speed and battery increases are pretty well worth it as well. I am currently running HoliRaider 1.5a with no problems whatsoever. Speed is amazing and I haven't had any stability issues. Considering HTC has allowed for the bootloader to be unlocked, most of the difficulty that comes with rooting has been taken out. Take a chance! Just follow instructions and read them twice before doing anything major, you'll be alright.
Root is a must for me... All the bloatware they put on my phone i had to get off xD my OCD kicks in and i need a way to delete EVERYTHING i can and still make the phone functional haha
I use WCX http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1454521 3.5 and with his newest build I have been getting no reboots at 1.5ghz and its running like a charm
Battery life is a lot better now thank goodness! and I forgot to quote whoever said this but I too cant wait for something like CM7 or CM9 (not miui I hate it) Sense itself is too much for me though its beautiful its not needed I'd rather have INCREDIBLE speed than looks So im sticking with WCX untill CM9 becomes doable or they quickly get CM7 ready to go
Hi,
I am tired of trying new ROMs daily and want to settle down with one ROM. Currently i am on Ice cold sandwich and always come back to this ROM after trying any other ROM. My dream ROM would be with HTC sense (3.6 or 4 any would do) with fast ice cream sandwich. Speed and stability is important for me. Please suggest some good ROMs.
Thanks
Everyone's experience is dofferent with each rom..
Have u tried miui? Thats the one to go for me
Smooth, light and sense camera with miui sleekness
Waiting for the stable jb now
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I'm on Nik's Project X. If you like Sense 4, it's the perfect ROM for you
lagu805 said:
Everyone's experience is dofferent with each rom..
Have u tried miui? Thats the one to go for me
Smooth, light and sense camera with miui sleekness
Waiting for the stable jb now
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Is it stable?? i have tried almost all ROMs except miui.
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I'm on Nik's Project X. If you like Sense 4, it's the perfect ROM for you
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i found the haptic feedback intermittent and very low. is it changed in 4.1
Hmmm up until now i havent experienced any drawbacks... Its good for me
You might need to flash the boot img though
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i found the haptic feedback intermittent and very low. is it changed in 4.1
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I think, yes. But we don't have Sense 4.1 right now. But we will get it surely when we get a port from the new Desire X. But with the kernel from lost.prophet and the governor lionheart the ROM seems very smooth to me. It feels great, but try it yourself - it's all about taste
you should try the official pre-root rom, if the stability is your main key. I use the rooted official rom, sense 3.6 on ics. The speed is not bad but not so fast.
Because I use this phone for getting my job done and little chat with my friends. Next year I will flash the custom rom, when htc is no longer issue any updates for this phone.
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The best ROM is the one that works best for your requirements on your phone.
Each ROM has certain features, some USPs and some shortcomings, but ALL ARE GOOD! Or else they wouldn't be showcased by the respective ROM developers (thank god htcphones has been banned).
So check each one out, try them in your daily usage pattern and then select one. Asking others what's good for me is like choosing a girlfriend/ partner and asking others to test and tell if she's OK!
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Cookie Ninja said:
The best ROM is the one that works best for your requirements on your phone.
Each ROM has certain features, some USPs and some shortcomings, but ALL ARE GOOD! Or else they wouldn't be showcased by the respective ROM developers (thank god htcphones has been banned).
So check each one out, try them in your daily usage pattern and then select one. Asking others what's good for me is like choosing a girlfriend/ partner and asking others to test and tell if she's OK!
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I volunteer for that job.
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I volunteer for that job.
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You dawg, you!
P.S. don't mind volunteering, myself, but the wife would be mighty miffed.
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WILLI120 said:
I'm on Nik's Project X. If you like Sense 4, it's the perfect ROM for you
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Been running it for 2 days now. A poster in the thread mentioned phenomenal battery life. Unfortunately I don't see it. I am at 50% right now since the morning and I am a light user. I am coming from 2.3.5 which had a 3 day average use for me. Not happy with performance buy happy that I have ICS. If my provider didn't stop development I'd be still on 2.3.5 until stable release. Oh well.
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Been running it for 2 days now. A poster in the thread mentioned phenomenal battery life. Unfortunately I don't see it. I am at 50% right now since the morning and I am a light user. I am coming from 2.3.5 which had a 3 day average use for me. Not happy with performance buy happy that I have ICS. If my provider didn't stop development I'd be still on 2.3.5 until stable release. Oh well.
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Than you're doing sth wrong. My battery life is great. I'm on 60% now with a rough usage the whole day... Disable auto-brightness, that should do it
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Than you're doing sth wrong. My battery life is great. I'm on 60% now with a rough usage the whole day... Disable auto-brightness, that should do it
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Not sure what could be wrong. Didn't touch any settings. Everything default, except turned off the animations that I hate so much.
I'll turn it off and see what that does.
moskva said:
Not sure what could be wrong. Didn't touch any settings. Everything default, except turned off the animations that I hate so much.
I'll turn it off and see what that does.
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I'm also using Nik Project X. Even though the ICS experience is so much better than GB, the battery life is not comparable. I could get at least 4 days with Nik Trinity XL. With Project X, I get 3 days roughly. I'm using the same settings I used to have with Trinity XL but battery performance could not match Project X. I'm still happy about the ICS's smoothness.
moskva said:
Not sure what could be wrong. Didn't touch any settings. Everything default, except turned off the animations that I hate so much.
I'll turn it off and see what that does.
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In the beginning I also didn't touch anything and battery life was terrible... Don't really know what changed it. I hope auto-brightness does it...
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In the beginning I also didn't touch anything and battery life was terrible... Don't really know what changed it. I hope auto-brightness does it...
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Auto-brightness, how often things sync with the internet, how good of an area are you in for signal reception. Even having your phone on silent will give you better battery life: if your constantly getting messages from whatsapp etc instead of playing a sound for message notification.
My phone will get to about 8pm with 70% battery, but then i talk to people on whatsapp and my battery goes down to about 10%.
akshaywani said:
Hi,
I am tired of trying new ROMs daily and want to settle down with one ROM. Currently i am on Ice cold sandwich and always come back to this ROM after trying any other ROM. My dream ROM would be with HTC sense (3.6 or 4 any would do) with fast ice cream sandwich. Speed and stability is important for me. Please suggest some good ROMs.
Thanks
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Hi. I'm interested to try IceColdSandwich someday, but it seems that there were several bugs which makes me thinking whether should or not to flash this ROM. Have you tried Nik Project X V4.1? If so, can you help me compare pros and cons between these two ROMs? Because I'm Nik Project X V4.1's user. Never had a chance to try IceColdSandwich yet.
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I'm on Nik's Project X. If you like Sense 4, it's the perfect ROM for you
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I tried flashing that, got stuck at White screen with htc logo, stayed like that for few hours, went back to my CM7.2 ROM
phoenix633 said:
I tried flashing that, got stuck at White screen with htc logo, stayed like that for few hours, went back to my CM7.2 ROM
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am using the rom since few days i dont find any bugs..its the best sense 4.0 rom i ever used..
HTC Vivid, S-on, Unlocked boot loaded and rooted. Looking for a new ROM, Preferably ICS and De-sensed. Something light-weight, Easy on battery and RAM usage. Here is a small list of what I do with my phone:
- Music
- Facebook / Web browsing
- Texting. Alot of texting
- Camera / Video
- Calls
- Weather monitoring.
Other than that, Nothing. I don't use GPS, Or bar code scanning apps. I want a light-weight fast, stable ROM. Something that'll work with S-on preferably. It can be ICS or even JellyBean, Gingerbread depending.. but it must be De-sensed.
My advice is use the De-Sensed ROM found in the development thread. It's super small, completely de-sensed, has the CRT-OFF effect, and is pretty reliable.
As with any S-ON phone, you need to flash the kernel via fastboot, then install the ROM, then for good measure flash the kernel again. You'll also need either ClockWorkMod or TWRP recovery to flash custom ROMs.
There are dozens of threads on here which will help you install a ROM with S-ON, and help you through any issues you might have.
With that said, I'd be remiss if I didn't at least TRY to sway you into S-OFFing your phone. It makes life much easier. ROMs install in a single action with no fastboot needed. You can toss a ROM (or several) on your SD card, and go sit in the park with a bottle of wine and try new ROMS all day long.
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HTC Vivid, S-on, Unlocked boot loaded and rooted. Looking for a new ROM, Preferably ICS and De-sensed. Something light-weight, Easy on battery and RAM usage. Here is a small list of what I do with my phone:
- Music
- Facebook / Web browsing
- Texting. Alot of texting
- Camera / Video
- Calls
- Weather monitoring.
Other than that, Nothing. I don't use GPS, Or bar code scanning apps. I want a light-weight fast, stable ROM. Something that'll work with S-on preferably. It can be ICS or even JellyBean, Gingerbread depending.. but it must be De-sensed.
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Desensed Rom is cool. Bit if you want like a kind of more reliable Rom try HoliCS 1.3 and also the theme that is on to OP of that thread. Itl make itl ook like an soap/ aokp Rom.
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Marshmellow92 said:
Desensed Rom is cool. Bit if you want like a kind of more reliable Rom try HoliCS 1.3 and also the theme that is on to OP of that thread. Itl make itl ook like an soap/ aokp Rom.
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The Marine Theme certainly doesn't make the phone look/act like it's been de-sensed... I love it myself, don't get me wrong. Holics 1.2 with Marine's theme has been my daily driver since it was released. Holics certainly isn't light weight either at 600MB, versus the 140ish MB of the De-Sensed ROM.
I personally found De-Sensed to be quite stable. I tried Virtrious too, and found that to be full of bugs, though maybe that was a few releases ago by now.
Desensed and virtuous were in fact pretty buggy. Holics made me want to bash my head into a wall. DarkRaider 1.5 is pretty spectacular though. It isn't desensed, but it's very stable and battery life is pretty good.
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The Marine Theme certainly doesn't make the phone look/act like it's been de-sensed... I love it myself, don't get me wrong. Holics 1.2 with Marine's theme has been my daily driver since it was released. Holics certainly isn't light weight either at 600MB, versus the 140ish MB of the De-Sensed ROM.
I personally found De-Sensed to be quite stable. I tried Virtrious too, and found that to be full of bugs, though maybe that was a few releases ago by now.
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I meant like phone app and message.. stiff like that I like the green happy face lol
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Is it bad to delete stock / pre-installed apps? Would that affect battery life? I'm currently using a Pure ICS ROM and I deleted some of the stock apps (Calendar, Calculator, etc) and I was wondering if that would have an affect on performance and battery life?
I really wish there was a port of CyanongenMod 9 or 10 for the vivid that would work on an s-on device.
Only reason I haven't s-off'd is because I am lost, confused and not sure what to do.
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Is it bad to delete stock / pre-installed apps? Would that affect battery life? I'm currently using a Pure ICS ROM and I deleted some of the stock apps (Calendar, Calculator, etc) and I was wondering if that would have an affect on performance and battery life?
I really wish there was a port of CyanongenMod 9 or 10 for the vivid that would work on an s-on device.
Only reason I haven't s-off'd is because I am lost, confused and not sure what to do.
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It depends. System apps can cause problems if you remove them. Miscellaneous stuff shouldn't matter, but only stuff that constantly runs would have any effect. The long and short of it is there's no real reason to delete them.
Just read the superguide, watch the videos and you'll be fine. Hundreds of us have done it without any problems. Just make sure you understand what you're doing. Also keep in mind that the s-off process voids your warranty if that's going to be an issue.
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Monkeymannnn said:
It depends. System apps can cause problems if you remove them. Miscellaneous stuff shouldn't matter, but only stuff that constantly runs would have any effect. The long and short of it is there's no real reason to delete them.
Just read the superguide, watch the videos and you'll be fine. Hundreds of us have done it without any problems. Just make sure you understand what you're doing. Also keep in mind that the s-off process voids your warranty if that's going to be an issue.
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I've deleted stuff like the stock Browser, Stock download manager, Car home thing, The clock widget, Calendar, VPN Services, Stock gallery thing, Stuff like that. Space isn't an issue.. It's more of stuff running I don't want to run, or don't need wasting battery and RAM.
And the phone was bought second hand, So there isn't a warranty.
Monkeymannnn said:
Desensed and virtuous were in fact pretty buggy. Holics made me want to bash my head into a wall. DarkRaider 1.5 is pretty spectacular though. It isn't desensed, but it's very stable and battery life is pretty good.
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You can select no sense in the install setup and I am running it this and its real clean and smooth .
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You can select no sense in the install setup and I am running it this and its real clean and smooth .
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I think at one point I selected a "No sense" install on a ROM and it still had bits and pieces of the sense parts in it. Forget what ROM it was.
What's you guys and gals opinions on a de-sensed GB ROM? How would that be in terms of performance and battery life on my Vivid? I only like ICS for it's colour theme and that's it... And I highly doubt there are any JellyBean ports for it yet.
I'm looking for a phone to upgrade from my current HTC Desire HD. I started a couple of years ago with Sense, then reluctantly went to stock Android. Now I can't go back to Sense and a big reason is battery life. These smart phones after a year, it's all about reducing lag and increasing battery time.
So now I'm on an unofficial CM10.
Well if I get an HTC One, will I just install CM again? Is that what people do, or do you make use of HTC's software? I know how it's a personal preference, but I'm wondering if the latest Sense is so good people are sticking with it. Reviews say it's less bloat.
And if people are just going to a stock Android Rom, is it better to get this phone or the GS4 to load a stock Rom?
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I rather like Sense 5. I came from CM10 on Sensation too and I'm happily living with Sense 5. It's simple and fast - virtually lag free. I've had crappy experiences like many of you with Sense 3.5 to 4.5, so this is a pleasant surprise. I even use blinkfeed rather often now. I plan to stay with Sense 5 custom roms for my One. Just try it, I don't think you'll miss AOSP/CM10 unless you're one of those religious types.
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I rather like Sense 5. I came from CM10 on Sensation too and I'm happily living with Sense 5. It's simple and fast - virtually lag free. I've had crappy experiences like many of you with Sense 3.5 to 4.5, so this is a pleasant surprise. I even use blinkfeed rather often now. I plan to stay with Sense 5 custom roms for my One. Just try it, I don't think you'll miss AOSP/CM10 unless you're one of those religious types.
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100% agreed. I came from AOKP on my S3 (I can't stand touchwiz). I purchased the One and absolutely love sense 5. I don't believe I'll switch back. Especially since some features won't work like the beats driver and I've also heard some flaws with the camera on AOSP ROMs.
If you are worried about battery, quite frankly you shouldn't be purchasing a mini computer. Battery life is great on this phone for how powerful it is. While at work I turn on Power Saver mode and have my data connections turned off on sleep mode. When I'm off 9 hours later I'm still at 70%. If I keep everything running I'm at about 20% by the end of the night when I plug it in.
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Thanks for the advice guys. I wonder if the HTC power saver is like Greenify, which I use now.
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avplaya said:
I rather like Sense 5. I came from CM10 on Sensation too and I'm happily living with Sense 5. It's simple and fast - virtually lag free. I've had crappy experiences like many of you with Sense 3.5 to 4.5, so this is a pleasant surprise. I even use blinkfeed rather often now. I plan to stay with Sense 5 custom roms for my One. Just try it, I don't think you'll miss AOSP/CM10 unless you're one of those religious types.
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+1 sense5 is smooth as butter it doesnt lag on my phone at all
asif9t9 said:
Thanks for the advice guys. I wonder if the HTC power saver is like Greenify, which I use now.
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Hmm.. not sure what greenify is, but I can tell you what Power Saver is. When turned on it conserves power by limiting the speed of the cpu, turns down screen brightness, disables haptic feedback, and disables data while on sleep mode. Pretty handy in my opinion. =)
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I came from the N4 running CM 10.1 and I find too sense 5 a big surprise. It's running very smooth and battery life is quite the same with my N4. I plan on staying on stock and unrooted for a while.
Power saver is not like greenify, it reduces CPU speed and even brightness if the battery level is low.
asif9t9 said:
Thanks for the advice guys. I wonder if the HTC power saver is like Greenify, which I use now.
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from what i can tell,
greenify basically ensures that apps are fully unloaded when you lock your phone... keeps the naughty apps in line.
the htc power save option basically does the usual limit screen brightness as well as cpu, turn off haptic feedback and disables data during sleep mode.
the disabling of data is a little bit of an issue for me, since i use cerberusapp and it won't let me connect (obviously)
things still sync however no longer in real time (i think it enables data on a pre-defined interval to update sync).
the good news is that you can disable these options individually so yeah i have all the power save options enabled apart from data.
i too went from a cm10 device to sense 5. i'm loving the new fresh feel, however I'm missing the notification toggles badly.
Before the HTC One, I've never owned a HTC device before and therefore never used Sense before.
Before I got this phone, I checked out some of the reviews and even done research on previous HTC models just to learn a little bit more about HTC in general.
I'd honestly read a lot of bad reviews regarding previous iterations of Sense, with the main complaints being against Sense 4.
As I'm not the kind of guy who bases my decisions on reviews they didn't stop me wanting to get the One. Afterall, even if I didn't like Sense 5 I could always flash an AOSP ROM or use a custom launcher anyway. I will admit, however, that I've got no complaints whatsoever regarding Sense 5 as it is great.
Having said that, I am currently using Apex launcher but that's just so that I can customize my homescreen more so than I can with the stock UI.
Some great replies guys, thanks. With my Desire HD, I used the ARHD rom for a while, so I stuck with the stock Sense experience, but I was rooted. I tried many times to go to CM, etc, but I always came back to Sense. I loved the Sense apps, email, etc. But eventually I had to switch because of lag. And then months later when I tried to go back to Sense, I couldn't..too slow.
So it sounds promising to me that I can basically get the HTC One, and go with the stock (but rooted of course) experience for a while. And with the specs of this phone, I'll be able to move on to the latest and great (Key Lime Pie) when it comes out.
I just got my HTC one three days ago. Came from sensation which was good for me thanks to all the devs, roms and kernels available.
Now, this phone is a monster as it is. Is it really worth rooting and flashing roms? Stock seems to be pretty stable, and again this beast flies nonetheless.
Any input is appreciated.
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Stock is really good now, unless you want to play really demanding games like NFSMW or Modern Combat 4 etc etc. HTC has set the CPU AND GPU to throttle at 40c which is ridiculously low. So if you hit these temps regularly, games would suddenly start stuttering and lagging till it goes below 40c. With a custom kernel you can tweak this, so personally that's the biggest advantage I have of going that route
Haha this is XDA man... Of course everyone is gonna say its worth it.
Personally I thought the same, stock sense is stable, smooth, and fast.
However I'm a bit of a flashaholic so I got bored within a couple weeks. And development is starting to get very very interesting. There's a ton of fantastic devs and nearly every major aosp ROM has popped up. Most of them are very stable and are getting better and better.
Its really up to you but my vote is to hold out a while, maybe until official 4.2.2 and if you get bored like I did, flash away!
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Stock is very fast. I like being rooted however so I just flash ARHD when I want to have the stock look n feel
AOSP development is great, not quite DD for me yet but it's really close
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I'd stay stock. I have to admit I rooted mine and have regretted it ever since. Just doesn't feel the same even when I return to stock. The only thing good on custom roms is the settings toggles at the top of the notification bar, and it doesn't look like 4.2.2 Roms are going to have it anymore barring trickdroid.
Custom kernels introduce new issues like touch buttons not working properly and bugs and instability.
My phone was the most stable, fast and bug free when it was stock and I enjoyed it more when it was stock too. Can't go more than a day now without flashing something else to try and iron out each bug that comes up.
My vote is stay stock and enjoy your phone before it's too late.
As for cm and aosp, I can't see how they will survive much longer as stock Google loses a LOT of functionality and has awful stock apps including an awful camera app. Phones have moved past them now in my opinion and I can't see how they'll survive much longer unless they start getting access to the proper camera apps that come built into the phones.
not worth
In my opinion its not worth to root this phone. This is actually my first Android phone without root.
The stock ROM is smooth and great except enoying gallery app with Facebook photos but I can easly switch to another app without rooting.
I managed to run unrooted for three days, then I unlocked the bootloader, flashed a few roms (currently on InsertCoin and loving it) and just yesterday I S-OFF'd. Worth it.
If you don't use apps which need SU (AdFree, TitaniumBackup, RootExplorer,...) and you are happy with the stock ROM, it wouldn't be worth it.
PS: Still waiting for my black HTC One and I'm quite sure that rooting it is the first thing I do. (after charging and shortly exploring the phone)
I wasn't happy with stock at all, too stuttery and even basic games were very lagy (came from i9300 sgs3), rooted/flashed cm10.1 within a day of owning my one and haven't had ANY issues at all s-off'd using root explorer and terminal emulator just then in under a minute. Love being free and smooth lol
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Dont root it
wildcontigo said:
I just got my HTC one three days ago. Came from sensation which was good for me thanks to all the devs, roms and kernels available.
Now, this phone is a monster as it is. Is it really worth rooting and flashing roms? Stock seems to be pretty stable, and again this beast flies nonetheless.
Any input is appreciated.
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I think right now it's not worth it the phone is very fast and you will not need root especially if you have another rooted device.
I had the same question before.
DEVICES THAT I OWN : NEXUS 7 [ROOTED][STOCK ROM 4.2.2][MOTLEY KERNELC TO 1.6 GHZ]
XPERIA Z C6602 [NOT ROOTED]
fish droid said:
I think right now it's not worth it the phone is very fast and you will not need root especially if you have another rooted device.
I had the same question before.
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You can never have too many rooted devices, period.
Thanks for all the opinions. For the first time with android phones (and it's been few) I think I'm going to refrain from rooting for a while at least
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wildcontigo said:
Thanks for all the opinions. For the first time with android phones (and it's been few) I think I'm going to refrain from rooting for a while at least
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I would recommend getting s-off, unlocked and then flash Mikes stock odexed rooted ROM. You will have all the abilities of root (like backups and ad blockers) and then the speed and stability of stock
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