Arrived today from Amazon (penny phone!). Called my brother, he reported good volume and very clear quality. Seemed the same on my end, so my call volume and quality is not a problem.
Activation was easy, and set-up included a question about HTC-something or other that would check on my phone use. I was able to decline that, but I intend to get rid of all the CIQ stuff.
Right now it is upgrading to ICS, I am looking forward to it.
Wheee!
Welcome!
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Welcome to the world of Vivid, if you need any help just ask.
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Welcome to Club Vivid.
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Welcome to Club Vivid.
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Sounds like a gentlemen's club!
Welcome to the club, if your interested in new roms, this might not be the forum to be following but enjoy your stay none the less.
Just got mine today haven't flashed anything yet but I plan to later tonight as slide it is nowhere near swype
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It's a good phone. It's not a crack flashers phone but it's a good solid phone but I will warn you the ics rom brings some new bugs with it. I might reccomend the one x over it at this point because it's newer and has less risk of eol status but if you need a removable battery and expandable storage than this is the phone for you and if your coming from an old single core 512mb of ram setup android phone than this phone will feel like a rocket
Welcome aboard
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Welcome! I'm new to the dev scene here myself too but it's not hard to get started, especially with the Vivid. I did the S-off trick with a coated paper clip in one try, you just need to be careful and get the right contacts. Just be sure to read the SuperGuide, the Guide, and the Tutorials before actually downloading any zips and trying to flash them. It's very very important to thoroughly read all directions, as the people around here know exactly what works and what will brick your phone... I know from experience as I'm on my second Vivid.
Once you're Boot Unlocked, Rooted, and S-off, the Vivid is your oyster and you'll have a ton of fun flashing it with new ROMs, Kernals, and MODs.
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Sounds like a gentlemen's club!
Welcome to the club, if your interested in new roms, this might not be the forum to be following but enjoy your stay none the less.
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Haha! It does. But hey, When it comes to the HTC Vivid, I know I like what I see
Guess..
My Journy has come to VIVID
Currently am on Sensation XL.. Am getting my VIVID Coming Monday or Tuesday..
Am eagerly waiting to flash MIUI in it. Cos from Zte Blade> DHD> Cappy> Photon> SXL> VIVID i havent tried out MIUI
bondarun said:
Guess..
My Journy has come to VIVID
Currently am on Sensation XL.. Am getting my VIVID Coming Monday or Tuesday..
Am eagerly waiting to flash MIUI in it. Cos from Zte Blade> DHD> Cappy> Photon> SXL> VIVID i havent tried out MIUI
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I have yet to see miui for the vivid. Obviously I'm looking in the wrong place. I am used to all of the phones I have had with tons and tons of roms but I guess some phones get better marketing than others and are a lot more popular.
I think there is one, but it's basically sense stripped stock rom with the miui features added
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I just hate when there is no cm. Cm used to be the safe bet now it's becoming more rare across devices
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Cor-master said:
It's a good phone. It's not a crack flashers phone but it's a good solid phone but I will warn you the ics rom brings some new bugs with it. I might reccomend the one x over it at this point because it's newer and has less risk of eol status but if you need a removable battery and expandable storage than this is the phone for you and if your coming from an old single core 512mb of ram setup android phone than this phone will feel like a rocket
Welcome aboard
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Thanks to all, seems like a great group. My last phone was an LG Optimus V, and compared to that the Vivid is a rocket!. Very snappy. I rooted it, took the sd-card from the Optimus and put it in the Vivid. DL'd TiBu and restored all my apps and their data. All working the way I like it.
I have been lurking on these forums for a couple of weeks, got lots of good tips already. I'll post some screen shots one of these days. I am not much of a Sense fan, prefer my old favorite launcher. Slowly de-bloating the thing, ATT puts way too much junk on the phones, but they all do.
Thanks again.
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I think there is one, but it's basically sense stripped stock rom with the miui features added
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No... Its really miui... Its got a sense base to make the ril work...
Unfortunately the guy that is porting it might be switching devices soon...
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Screen Shots
As promised, a couple of screen shots. Notice the app drawer, I have 50% transparency on that. Also notice the icons at the bottom. The first is All apps, second is Apps I installed, third is called Tools and I can put anything I want in there, same for the fourth one called Fun.
My widget is BeWeather Pro. The only app I put on my home screen is ICE: Emergency. I recommend it.
Welcome! I have to say that you picked one of the harder devices to develop for, but there's a strong community here and elsewhere. There are many things in motion for this device, although you may have to look elsewhere for them.
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I have yet to see miui for the vivid. Obviously I'm looking in the wrong place. I am used to all of the phones I have had with tons and tons of roms but I guess some phones get better marketing than others and are a lot more popular.
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I think there is one, but it's basically sense stripped stock rom with the miui features added
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It's on rootzwiki...go to there HTC vivid section on rootzwiki and you'll find miui...I havnt tried it tho
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Welcome! And awesome deal on you phone
Everything is just so VIVID
Welcome aboard. Plenty of help here.
Related
Hey guys,
Thanks to Paul O'Brien over at MoDaCo we now have a full system+recovery dump of the Galaxy Nexus running Ice Cream Sandwich.
http://android.modaco.com/page/news/_/android/04-nov-icl23d-galaxy-nexus-boot-recovery-r51
This is really cool.
Wow, hopefully now developers can create ICS inspired custom roms. Cheers!
there's like 10 of these over at the dhd section lol
No ... This is a system dump from the phone ... Not an SDK dump ... This good ...
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Also heard that ics will be coming to incredible s, but after a few months.
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LOSTLOGIC89 said:
Also heard that ics will be coming to incredible s, but after a few months.
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Where did you hear this?
These are the files you need to port a device. They need to be altered severely to run on the incs. Extreme development knowledge is needed to make use of this. However a developer could grab bits and pieces from it if they have greater knowledge in one area than another.
The ics update will be coming to this and many other htc devices as stated yesterday to myself in a bell store by an htc rep.
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but it won't come anytime this year, probably end of Q1 or Q2 2012.
talira said:
The ics update will be coming to this and many other htc devices as stated yesterday to myself in a bell store by an htc rep.
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i've learned to never trust and believe what HTC says. ICS? they haven't even brought Sense 3.0 to INC S
baste07 said:
i've learned to never trust and believe what HTC says
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this apply to other manufacturer
and just saw this @ engadget
chriscsh said:
this apply to other manufacturer
and just saw this @ engadget
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As usual, doesn't have incredible s inside the namelist...
incredible s is abandoned already i think lol
if it comes to sensation xl, with has almost same specs, just better cpu, it will be for sure ported to incredible s (if htc doesn't release it officially)
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Where did you hear this?
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I don't recall it but there was a list on the net .
Just google it, from what I can recall there was HTC sensation,incredible s ,and others including sgs2 ect...
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http://m.intomobile.com/2011/11/07/htc-all-our-highend-phones-get-ice-cream-sandwich-updates/
Right now, it looks like HTC are dissing this phone after only 6 months since it was released...
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Anyway, is there anyone out there willing to give this a try? Would be really cool to try ICS out ^^
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Splux said:
http://m.intomobile.com/2011/11/07/htc-all-our-highend-phones-get-ice-cream-sandwich-updates/
Right now, it looks like HTC are dissing this phone after only 6 months since it was released...
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Anyway, is there anyone out there willing to give this a try? Would be really cool to try ICS out ^^
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You guys are reading into this way too much.
All they did was give a few obvious ones that would get the upgrade. They never said the rest of their products weren't.
What developers can do with this?
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You guys are reading into this way too much.
All they did was give a few obvious ones that would get the upgrade. They never said the rest of their products weren't.
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Let me quote myself:
"Right now[...]"
You see? I'm talking about what they've said so far, but what'll happen in the future; sorry, I can't tell and therefore I won't do anything else then hope that HTC will give us an official update to 4.0.
But from what Google said when they showed 4.0, I think that it'll come to the IncS. Sometime.
And to your last part; no, they didn't.
"We’re continuing to assess our product portfolio, so stay tuned for more updates on device upgrades, timing and other details about HTC and Ice Cream Sandwich."
From the same link that I linked in my previous post. So, I'm fully aware of the fact that this only seems to be a preliminary statement from HTC.
I can't help but to laugh at this. I thought ICS wasn't going to be tampered with as much by all the phone makers. This is a video uploaded by SamsungFirmwares (unofficial leak) so I assume it is pretty much what they are getting on the GSII or Skyrocket. What a fail. Glad I didn't switch to the Skyrocket or GSII, I feel bad for all you that did. I'll take a locked (soon to be unlocked by Evil) Vivid rather than the crap Samsung is making with ICS. Can't wait to see what HTC does with ICS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAI6qbQm6U&feature=g-logo&context=G155b9FOAAAAAAAEAA
to be fair, that was NOT posted by official Samsung. SamFirmwares is NOT official Samsung. that is a leaked beta, not even the final product.
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to be fair, that was NOT posted by official Samsung. SamFirmwares is NOT official Samsung. that is a leaked beta, not even the final product.
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To be equally fair, no Samsung beta ROM has looked very (if at all) different from the final product.
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to be fair, that was NOT posted by official Samsung. SamFirmwares is NOT official Samsung. that is a leaked beta, not even the final product.
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True... But I've had an Infuse, and we got loads and loads of leaks from Samsung and they were all very similar to the final product. That reminds me... I wonder if the Infuse even has GB yet, it was promised back in August if I remember correctly lol.
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To be equally fair, no Samsung beta ROM has looked very (if at all) different from the final product.
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that may be, but for the OP to claim that it was official Samsung that uploaded the video is inaccurate. that leak is very beta with many unworking features. i'm not sure why anyone would think that manufacturers werent going to rape ICS anyway. HTC will do the same thing with Sense....Moto will do the same thing with their 'Not-Blur'....they will all get raped. laughing and pointing doesnt do any good for the android community at all. SMH
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that may be, but for the OP to claim that it was official Samsung that uploaded the video is inaccurate. that leak is very beta with many unworking features. i'm not sure why anyone would think that manufacturers werent going to rape ICS anyway. HTC will do the same thing with Sense....Moto will do the same thing with their 'Not-Blur'....they will all get raped. laughing and pointing doesnt do any good for the android community at all. SMH
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Didn't know it wasn't official, so I will edit the OP. I do remember hearing from many sources that manufacturers weren't going to go as heavy on ICS... I'll try to find links of that.
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that may be, but for the OP to claim that it was official Samsung that uploaded the video is inaccurate. that leak is very beta with many unworking features. i'm not sure why anyone would think that manufacturers werent going to rape ICS anyway. HTC will do the same thing with Sense....Moto will do the same thing with their 'Not-Blur'....they will all get raped. laughing and pointing doesnt do any good for the android community at all. SMH
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Agreed. The only aftermarket UI that I can tolerate is Sense, so I can perfectly understand why people want the full AOSP experience so badly.
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Didn't know it wasn't official, so I will edit the OP. I do remember hearing from many sources that manufacturers weren't going to go as heavy on ICS... I'll try to find links of that.
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I recall hearing the same. Doesn't mean it will happen, though.
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I can't help but to laugh at this. I thought ICS wasn't going to be tampered with as much by all the phone makers. This is a video uploaded by SamsungFirmwares (unofficial leak) so I assume it is pretty much what they are getting on the GSII or Skyrocket. What a fail. Glad I didn't switch to the Skyrocket or GSII, I feel bad for all you that did. I'll take a locked (soon to be unlocked by Evil) Vivid rather than the crap Samsung is making with ICS. Can't wait to see what HTC does with ICS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAI6qbQm6U&feature=g-logo&context=G155b9FOAAAAAAAEAA
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You feel bad that your vivids hardware is inferior to the exynos?
That leaked rom has gingerbread tw, its an early beta as well. Touchwiz 4± isn't ad at all. Its lightweight and fast unlike sense.
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akira02rex said:
You feel bad that your vivids hardware is inferior to the exynos?
That leaked rom has gingerbread tw, its an early beta as well. Touchwiz 4± isn't ad at all. Its lightweight and fast unlike sense.
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Sense has some serious polish to it though. Look at the intuitive lockscreen HTC made with the rings, now compare it to the Touchwiz lockscreen. Touchwiz widgets have nothing on Sense too. The way Sense links everything is very unique too. I don't find Touchwiz that different from AOSP at all... That's why I got so bored with development on the Infuse.
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Sense has some serious polish to it though. Look at the intuitive lockscreen HTC made with the rings, now compare it to the Touchwiz lockscreen. Touchwiz widgets have nothing on Sense too. The way Sense links everything is very unique too. I don't find Touchwiz that different from AOSP at all... That's why I got so bored with development on the Infuse.
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well at least Samsung got something. HTC guys have to still wait for permanent root. To bad. Lmao
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ceo.mtcl said:
well at least Samsung got something. HTC guys have to still wait for permanent root. To bad. Lmao
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Low blow lol, we'll see who gets the last laugh.
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Low blow lol, we'll see who gets the last laugh.
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i will.
i have all 3
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i will.
i have all 3
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Haha damn, I suppose you do get the last laugh then. I wish I had had the money for more phones, I'm jealous lol.
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Same here , though i love my gsii and vivid the skyrocket is going bye bye
But.... No matter what they do we can always put cm9 and have true ics yayyyy
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jpitch2415 said:
Same here , though i love my gsii and vivid the skyrocket is going bye bye
But.... No matter what they do we can always put cm9 and have true ics yayyyy
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Lol my thoughts exactly. Cm9 being officially supported by cm team for gs2, it'll be fun to have running, so I win again. Lol
I still miss my vivid tho.
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akira02rex said:
You feel bad that your vivids hardware is inferior to the exynos?
That leaked rom has gingerbread tw, its an early beta as well. Touchwiz 4± isn't ad at all. Its lightweight and fast unlike sense.
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You lost me at Over-Saturated, Painful-to-look-at, screen.
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You lost me at Over-Saturated, Painful-to-look-at, screen.
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That's called color! It's visible in direct sunlight and helps to save batteries. There are screen tuning apps available as well. I have people tell me all the time my screen is beautiful.
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That's called color! It's visible in direct sunlight and helps to save batteries. There are screen tuning apps available as well. I have people tell me all the time my screen is beautiful.
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I'm a graphic designer and thus am probably more picky than most... but... that's called Bad Color Representation.
When white is displayed as light blue and green looks neon green, your display is either broken or, just simply junk...
If your TV looked like that, you'd return it.
I have no idea why people seem to think it is not only acceptable, but preferable in their phone.
and yes, I have owned one... for 1 week... I actually cringed when my phone would ring, because it meant I had to look at that screen.... I returned it for my sanity, stating "it must be defective, Samsung could not have done that on purpose".
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Lol my thoughts exactly. Cm9 being officially supported by cm team for gs2, it'll be fun to have running, so I win again. Lol
I still miss my vivid tho.
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Yet, you are still checking up on the Vivid forum even though you don't have it... Interesting, I wonder what that means.
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Sense has some serious polish to it though. Look at the intuitive lockscreen HTC made with the rings, now compare it to the Touchwiz lockscreen. Touchwiz widgets have nothing on Sense too. The way Sense links everything is very unique too. I don't find Touchwiz that different from AOSP at all... That's why I got so bored with development on the Infuse.
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I think most GS2 users just buy widgetlocker as the TW lock screen is admittedly dog****. LOL. I like the sense rings, have it on my WL now.
Is there any custom ICS roms? sorry for sounding stupid but I cant find any.
Seems like there are 2 available and the developers have moved away from xda. One is made by Pirateghost and called Rum Float: http://blog.androidninjas.com/rom-dev/htc-vivid/rum-float/
The other is made by WildChild and you have to register to see the vivid section here: http://www.wcxxperia-nce.com/
Anyone tried these custome ROMS?
Hey, has anyone tried these custome ROMS, I would like to get something without AT&T apps included......
wildchild has a generic one that has all the att stuff removed
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Hey, has anyone tried these custome ROMS, I would like to get something without AT&T apps included......
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both of them roms will get you no att bloatware...
i personally use wildchilds generic build as it has working wifi teathering
I have PG's Rum Float Beta4, updated from Beta2. No bloat and ofcourse rooted, really like it.
He has his own web site, if you search for Rum Float, it should pop up.
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both of them roms will get you no att bloatware...
i personally use wildchilds generic build as it has working wifi teathering
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I'm on the ATT build with working tethering.
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I'm on the ATT build with working tethering.
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sweet i guess you used the work around posted in his fourm and it worked
i just use his generic cuz it works right off the bat
Hi xda,
It would seem that I've jumped into this a little late, but what happened to make all the cooks leave xda and ignore the Vivid, Velocity etc.
Sorry but I've been away from xda for about 12 months while living in Blackberry-land.
I'd really like an ICS ROM for my Velocity without HTC's bastard 'Sense' bloatness.
Also - is getting root access to the Velocity as easy as it was for the HD2?
Cheers;
shayla28 said:
Hi xda,
It would seem that I've jumped into this a little late, but what happened to make all the cooks leave xda and ignore the Vivid, Velocity etc.
Sorry but I've been away from xda for about 12 months while living in Blackberry-land.
I'd really like an ICS ROM for my Velocity without HTC's bastard 'Sense' bloatness.
Also - is getting root access to the Velocity as easy as it was for the HD2?
Cheers;
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CM9 port is being worked on. Check the dev thread. Other than that, there are Sense ICS ROM's available, just not many here.. at this point.
As far as what happened, no need to stir up bad memories Look through some of the threads from last month and you'll figure it out. In the mean time, follow the golden rule, and the rules of the forum, and maybe they'll start trickling back in
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CM9 port is being worked on. Check the dev thread. Other than that, there are Sense ICS ROM's available, just not many here.. at this point...
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I will be stuck to the Dev thread like glue today; sorry Council, there will be no IT movement today! The systems engineer just got a new toy
Everyone contribute and help test and get logcats in!
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resin99 said:
... One is made by Pirateghost and called Rum Float: http://blog.androidninjas.com/rom-dev/htc-vivid/rum-float/...
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Is anyone able to upload a screenshot of this? I'd be really interested to know if there is a sense 3.5 or 3.6 running on top. If not - hells yeah PirateGhost! I hate Sense!!!
Cheers;
Sense 3.6
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I am using Wild Childs at&t build of ics. It is awesome! He did an outstanding job with the rom. Silky smooth, looks like stock without the bloat! Plus with the mods here in the forums like extended menu, signal icon changer, and some other mods you can't beat it. This phone rocks hard!
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Is anyone able to upload a screenshot of this? I'd be really interested to know if there is a sense 3.5 or 3.6 running on top. If not - hells yeah PirateGhost! I hate Sense!!!
Cheers;
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Then why an HTC? Just curious..
Because the majority of samsungs and other brands embarrass android and apple still feels outdated and something for social status?
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homeslice976 said:
Then why an HTC? Just curious..
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IMO its the lesser of all evils. Every brand has their own "skin". So even if you prefer AOSP, you might as well get the brand with the best looking and best functioning skin. Of course there is the nexus phones, but those aren't for everyone.
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come at me bro said:
Because the majority of samsungs and other brands embarrass android and apple still feels outdated and something for social status?
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Agreed. I just don't know that I could talk myself into the investment of a device that runs software that I hated, with the possibility of not be able to change it. Granted there are things being worked on now (CM9), but let's be real, this phone was released in November and to this point we haven't seen anything Sense-less (for reasons beyond the dev's control - just got kernel source 10 days ago fcs), it would be very tough for me to buy the device at this point if I hated Sense . I don't know how long shayla's had theirs though...
I am thinking of selling my Velocity, not that I really want to love the thing, however the security restraints and general hard to develop nature of this device is turning me off HTC.
So get to the point you ask
Just putting it out there its not a request, demand by any means I just wanna know if there is anything CM10 in the pipe line due for release soon or is it to hard because of the bad HTC code and security.
I would like to keep the Velocity but there are easier devices out there.
Anything cm10 wise will be at tootz, which you know is on hold...don't think anyone here is really building from source...maybe in the future I may give it a try...but idk
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Sweet as bro.
Looks like I have some thinking to do. Or learn really quick how to dev
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78cortina said:
Sweet as bro.
Looks like I have some thinking to do. Or learn really quick how to dev
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yeah, personally...ill never get an htc again-this phone is great...as long as its kept stock...ive got me a Samsung infuse (my previous device i sold for this vivid) coming my way on Monday...i have an upgrade in January and will definitely be getting a Samsung device...they seem to be the best development wise
i have a very small knowledge of development...and am gonna learn to build from source with my infuse, once i get that down ill see if i can apply that knowledge here...if im successful, ill be glad to help you get started with development if you like-and anyone else for that matter
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yeah, personally...ill never get an htc again-this phone is great...as long as its kept stock...ive got me a Samsung infuse (my previous device i sold for this vivid) coming my way on Monday...i have an upgrade in January and will definitely be getting a Samsung device...they seem to be the best development wise
i have a very small knowledge of development...and am gonna learn to build from source with my infuse, once i get that down ill see if i can apply that knowledge here...if im successful, ill be glad to help you get started with development if you like-and anyone else for that matter
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I have only had HTC since I got android, I did some low end stuff with the DHD I had. Upgraded to the Velocity and have not been happy since gonna see if I can somehow get my hands on a GS3 from what I have read it is pretty easy to dev and plenty has been done with it already.
I would like the help bud as I need to learn how to do this for myself I am already setting up a dedicated Ubuntu PC and get things happening
Start doing something constructive unlike the other night :silly:
78cortina said:
I have only had HTC since I got android, I did some low end stuff with the DHD I had. Upgraded to the Velocity and have not been happy since gonna see if I can somehow get my hands on a GS3 from what I have read it is pretty easy to dev and plenty has been done with it already.
I would like the help bud as I need to learn how to do this for myself I am already setting up a dedicated Ubuntu PC and get things happening
Start doing something constructive unlike the other night :silly:
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Sounds like a good idea...I've never attempted to build from source, but I have a guy in the infuse section that's gonna walk me through it, gonna get a new 1tb hard drive on Sunday...500gb for windows and 500gb for ubuntu-that should give me plenty of room for building from source as I hear it takes like 20gb just for one build...once I get started ill be happy to help you
What little knowledge I have is decompiling apks and doing minor edits to xml and smali files (for tweaks) unfortunately none of that knowledge does me any good here on the vivid as I can't seem to get apktool to work with the vivid :/
So hopefully sometime between mid week to the end of the week ill be ready to start helping...hopefully
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There is a aosp jelly bean Rom for the vivid on another dev forum
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There is a aosp jelly bean Rom for the vivid on another dev forum
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Its on hold bro.
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mg2195 said:
Sounds like a good idea...I've never attempted to build from source, but I have a guy in the infuse section that's gonna walk me through it, gonna get a new 1tb hard drive on Sunday...500gb for windows and 500gb for ubuntu-that should give me plenty of room for building from source as I hear it takes like 20gb just for one build...once I get started ill be happy to help you
What little knowledge I have is decompiling apks and doing minor edits to xml and smali files (for tweaks) unfortunately none of that knowledge does me any good here on the vivid as I can't seem to get apktool to work with the vivid :/
So hopefully sometime between mid week to the end of the week ill be ready to start helping...hopefully
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Cool bro. Sounds like you have the tools you need to do some great work.
Me thinks I am gonna get on the SGS2 wagon see where that goes.
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mg2195 said:
yeah, personally...ill never get an htc again-this phone is great...as long as its kept stock...ive got me a Samsung infuse (my previous device i sold for this vivid) coming my way on Monday...i have an upgrade in January and will definitely be getting a Samsung device...they seem to be the best development wise
i have a very small knowledge of development...and am gonna learn to build from source with my infuse, once i get that down ill see if i can apply that knowledge here...if im successful, ill be glad to help you get started with development if you like-and anyone else for that matter
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Not a good idea man. HTC has gone too far with locking things down, but Samsung has started on that path. They locked down the Verizon GS3 (it's been cracked, but still) and people are having huge issues with flashing. Many of the dual core GS3's are losing their IMEI after flashing. The grass doesn't look much greener on the other side anymore.
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Not a good idea man. HTC has gone too far with locking things down, but Samsung has started on that path. They locked down the Verizon GS3 (it's been cracked, but still) and people are having huge issues with flashing. Many of the dual core GS3's are losing their IMEI after flashing. The grass doesn't look much greener on the other side anymore.
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I'll get a nexus then...can't go wrong with a nexus...
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mg2195 said:
I'll get a nexus then...can't go wrong with a nexus...
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True that. That's what I just got. Jelly Bean + project butter lives up to the hype for sure. I'm hoping you Vivid guys get to experience it. Fingers crossed for the codefire team.
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Not a good idea man. HTC has gone too far with locking things down, but Samsung has started on that path. They locked down the Verizon GS3 (it's been cracked, but still) and people are having huge issues with flashing. Many of the dual core GS3's are losing their IMEI after flashing. The grass doesn't look much greener on the other side anymore.
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Well seems like its going from worse to worse on the modern android devices. I hope that the aussie SGS3 is not to borked then.
78cortina said:
Well seems like its going from worse to worse on the modern android devices. I hope that the aussie SGS3 is not to borked then.
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Probably not too bad. The carriers here in the US are most the problem.
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Probably not too bad. The carriers here in the US are most the problem.
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I am gonna give it the weekend to think about it then see what happens.
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78cortina said:
Its on hold bro.
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Ya. Noticed after I posted that
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I'm going to see how I like mine by Christmas time, in which I'm buying a Nexus if I don't like it by then. It's not just htc for me it's nexus or nothing from now on. We have a pretty common chipset, we should have a development forum filled with aosp and aokp roms but we don't? Why? Because security is off the chain. It's a taste of things to come honestly. By next year look for android phones to be completely locked down with almost no updates anymore. They are becoming the new feature phones.
But HTCs s thing is ridiculous. It's another hurdle that doesn't exist on every other manufacturer. My captivate was completely unlocked from the factory, rooting took 5 minutes and you kept your data.
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Cor-master said:
I'm going to see how I like mine by Christmas time, in which I'm buying a Nexus if I don't like it by then. It's not just htc for me it's nexus or nothing from now on. We have a pretty common chipset, we should have a development forum filled with aosp and aokp roms but we don't? Why? Because security is off the chain. It's a taste of things to come honestly. By next year look for android phones to be completely locked down with almost no updates anymore. They are becoming the new feature phones.
But HTCs s thing is ridiculous. It's another hurdle that doesn't exist on every other manufacturer. My captivate was completely unlocked from the factory, rooting took 5 minutes and you kept your data.
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I agree bro its fing ridiculous.
That's why I am gonna hang for a couple o months with the velocity see what happens. If nothing can come of HTC stupid security then I am off to Samsung land and the sgs3.
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78cortina said:
I agree bro its fing ridiculous.
That's why I am gonna hang for a couple o months with the velocity see what happens. If nothing can come of HTC stupid security then I am off to Samsung land and the sgs3.
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Yeah cm was always a safe bet till I got my flyer and vivid. Definitely not buying an htc again, but yeah the grass isn't exactly greener these days. The nexus devices aren't perfect but the price is right and support rivals apple
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Yeah cm was always a safe bet till I got my flyer and vivid. Definitely not buying an htc again, but yeah the grass isn't exactly greener these days. The nexus devices aren't perfect but the price is right and support rivals apple
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Well excited about this phone again cm10 is going again, things are looking very very promising indeed.
I am still gonna wait and see. From what I have used of cm10 so far this phone will be awesome. I might just get a sgs3 for the fun of it. Dev looks pretty good already, early days yet for international version though.
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Why is it that when I just upgrade to the HTC vivid all the devs quit working on it now I'm stuck with the phone...
Does anyone think there will be any new development for this phone or did I just waste my money? Thanks in advance also does anyone have any idea how much American Currency my White 10/10 condition S-OFFed Unlocked with Holics Rom would be worth I'm probably gonna sell it and buy a new phone like a SII or SII
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Some have moved on yes and its quite from time to time but there are still some great roms , kernels , and programmes out there for the device as there is still a few good devs working on stuff , I'd give it a chance and try some out here and other forums and find one ya like , but if your a flash catholic then maybe its not the device of choice .
Good luck and enjoy .
There's a Sony xperia port in the works over at rootzwiki....
And you wouldn't get more than $300 for a perfect condition...I got mine for $225 8/10 like 4 months ago...that was the typical price...since the phone has aged...prices/demand has also dropped...
Next time before upgrading do research on more then just the hardware of the phone...
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mg2195 said:
There's a Sony xperia port in the works over at rootzwiki....
And you wouldn't get more than $300 for a perfect condition...I got mine for $225 8/10 like 4 months ago...that was the typical price...since the phone has aged...prices/demand has also dropped...
Next time before upgrading do research on more then just the hardware of the phone...
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What's is the difference between a Xperia port and any other Rom and yeah I know I didn't really think of it when I bought the phone
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Its because the device is a nightmare to develop for. Most developers have moved on to more developer friendly hardware, you can't blame them really. Aside from battery life, this is a great phone for a non techie, or an iphone user who wants to try "something else". But its not for the hardcore android fan, and its not a geeks phone at all.
My mistake buying this phone was (a) thinking sense was better than at actually was and (b) thinking I was done with custom roms and just wanted a good stable phone. The biggest mistake was extending my contract another 2 years to get it, I can correct the phone easily, Galaxy nexuses are only $350 off google play, you sell this phone on ebay, you'll get over half of it there. But being stuck with overpriced AT&T for 2 years, thats the real regret!
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What's is the difference between a Xperia port and any other Rom and yeah I know I didn't really think of it when I bought the phone
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An xperia port is basically a Sony phone...so its whole New UI, its not sense and its not aosp...its Sony UI...whatever that is lol
But like Motorola has motoblur, Samsung has touchwiz, HTC has sense...Sony has...idk, but its getting ported
Oh yeah, its gonna be ics 4.0.4, not 4.0.3 like the rest of our rims...
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How come no one has mentioned WCX? He's about the best dev for our phone and his Roms are completely stable with 0 bugs and awesome battery life and plenty of updates. Rafy is going strong with his ports too and they are good but battery life isn't as good for me so I tend to stick with WCX.
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bswann said:
How come no one has mentioned WCX? He's about the best dev for our phone and his Roms are completely stable with 0 bugs and awesome battery life and plenty of updates. Rafy is going strong with his ports too and they are good but battery life isn't as good for me so I tend to stick with WCX.
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I was using wcx illuminati mod version for a while...but switche to blitz a while back now I'm on stock rooted...might check out wcx again...see what he's done lately
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bswann said:
How come no one has mentioned WCX? He's about the best dev for our phone and his Roms are completely stable with 0 bugs and awesome battery life and plenty of updates. Rafy is going strong with his ports too and they are good but battery life isn't as good for me so I tend to stick with WCX.
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I use holics Rom and its by far the best Rom I've used on my vivid yet I love the look and the jellybean theme I don't think I've tried the wcx Rom I use his recovery and I love it a lot more than cwm
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Yeah I hear WCX's, rom is awesome I plan to try it out soon.
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mg2195 said:
I was using wcx illuminati mod version for a while...but switche to blitz a while back now I'm on stock rooted...might check out wcx again...see what he's done lately
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I would wait, he has an update out for testers and it is looking real good and is faster than before. It shouldn't be too long before its released for download.
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xPyromaniac said:
I use holics Rom and its by far the best Rom I've used on my vivid yet I love the look and the jellybean theme I don't think I've tried the wcx Rom I use his recovery and I love it a lot more than cwm
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You won't find it on here or rootzwiki, its on his own website/forum
Google "wcx illuminati", should be the first link. Create an account, get 10 posts then you can download his rom
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Aww, I was gonna mention WCX's ROMs and now I can't :crying:
HeeHee, j/k... Anyway, WC does have great ROMs. I've been running his ROMs and have never had any problems.
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Aww, I was gonna mention WCX's ROMs and now I can't :crying:
HeeHee, j/k... Anyway, WC does have great ROMs. I've been running his ROMs and have never had any problems.
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I would use WCXs rom but its too stock i want a jellybean look with the bllue
I'd like to try WCX's rom too, but his site doesn't allow Canadians to connect.
LaZiODROID said:
I'd like to try WCX's rom too, but his site doesn't allow Canadians to connect.
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I know someone from Canada that is using a proxy to view the site.
I really recommend Holics 1.3 as I found it the best and smoothest but would like to try Illuminati after reading the previous comments
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I really recommend Holics 1.3 as I found it the best and smoothest but would like to try Illuminati after reading the previous comments
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I'm using the Holics Rom atm and like it but my battery life is utter crap I need a new one but with the jelly bean theme or a all green theme preferably
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I'm using the Holics Rom atm and like it but my battery life is utter crap I need a new one but with the jelly bean theme or a all green theme preferably...
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Like this?
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Like this?
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Yeah that ones nice which Rom is that? And if you can find a theme just like jelly bean but green instead blue
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