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ROM rubiX Focused 0.3

This is brought to you by Drod2169: here is some info, please follow the link to download and for support. http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-roms/8428-rom-rubix-focused-0-3-a.html Post #68 at Droid X forums has the brightness and calender fixes.
"You may know me from my Rubik releases for the droid 1.. Well recently I purchased a Droid X. I couldn't stand the phone stock, so of course I got busy. I've been working on this for quite a while, gone through quite a bit of bricks, sbf flashes, and passing it to my testers cause I couldn't afford to brick at the time.
I bring you the first release of the rubiX series for the Droid X. rubiX Focused, It is a blurless rom
Tranquility 2.3.5 base (2.2.3.15 base) thanks to p3droid, motorola (hah) and google
Build.Prop tweaks (thanks to Beesley)
Market fix
All apps optimized/zipaligned (Credit to me)
ADW Launcher as stock launcher (No more laggy blur home!)
Bloatware removed (Credit to me)
135.42 MB free in System! Speedy (Credit to me)
Google market apps removed (download from market)
Auto Brightness Hack (credit to Pete)
Speed and battery tweaks (Credit to me. Thanks Nenolod and Pete for inspiration on sysctl tweaks)
Few more things that I'd like to keep secret for the time being "

Are all of the Motorola account management crap gone?

Gimpeh said:
Are all of the Motorola account management crap gone?
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Yes. Accounts managed through settings. The brightness patch for stock brightness and the calendar fix are also in the 1st post now so you don't have to search through the thread
Thanks for posting this, FSR. Can't post links yet

Installed for 12 hours and still running great.
I appreciate your work.
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App

Hmmm, well if I am gonna have to wipe for this I may as well SBF back and get the official OTA.

Seems pretty decent so far. My linpak and quadrant scores are even with what I was getting with the OTA after getting rid of some bloat. Calendar fix hasn't fixed my sync issue yet. Any idea why when I post my scores to linpak my notes show build 2.2.20? I'm not familiar with that particular version. Phone info shows 2.3.15 as it should but this is obviously not built off the official 2.2 as I've notice certain things change back to leak versions.
I'll give this rom a few days but I'm probably heading back to the OTA.
Can someone share the stock backup assistant apk with me? I'm lazy enough that I was just using that instead of a3rd party app so now I'm missing a HUGE chunk of my contacts. If it can't be used on this rom I'm doingan sbf right away when I get home.

Gimpeh said:
Hmmm, well if I am gonna have to wipe for this I may as well SBF back and get the official OTA.
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I was thinking the same thing.
Let me know how it goes for you
Although, I'm a little concerned about losing the ability to SBF back to 2.1 ... really on the fence about this.

Gimpeh said:
Hmmm, well if I am gonna have to wipe for this I may as well SBF back and get the official OTA.
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Why would you want the OTA? There is nothing magical about it, except Moto decided to lock the system down some more with new Bootloader keys.
Check out the threads around the forums, everyone is enjoying RubiX.

FSRBIKER said:
Why would you want the OTA? There is nothing magical about it, except Moto decided to lock the system down some more with new Bootloader keys.
Check out the threads around the forums, everyone is enjoying RubiX.
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There is in fact a difference. Newer Baseband and New Kernel which results in better performance. These two objects were left out of the leak for fear of it leading back to the leaker.

drod2169 said:
Yes. Accounts managed through settings. The brightness patch for stock brightness and the calendar fix are also in the 1st post now so you don't have to search through the thread
Thanks for posting this, FSR. Can't post links yet
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Im curious ....aren't you Jake Day? The downloads are from his site.....

acidbath5546 said:
Im curious ....aren't you Jake Day? The downloads are from his site.....
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Ouch, if true I may be rethinking installation of this.

Gimpeh said:
Ouch, if true I may be rethinking installation of this.
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Lol...not trying to be rude or start drama...im just curious before download something ...I always wanna know.the source.
and when I click on the download link, I noticed the download is coming from ninebysix.com, which is jake days website.

Flashed it. It's pretty damn fast. Perhaps this is Jake's reconciliation.

Fast is true and easy to install when following directions. The one thing that is strange and wondering if anyone else is experiencing.
I keep getting FC when trying to access my calendar. Yes I am trying to access my google calendars with default calendar program and even Jorte.
Anyone else?
Perhaps ideas for me?

admiral70 said:
Fast is true and easy to install when following directions. The one thing that is strange and wondering if anyone else is experiencing.
I keep getting FC when trying to access my calendar. Yes I am trying to access my google calendars with default calendar program and even Jorte.
Anyone else?
Perhaps ideas for me?
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Happened to me...flash the rom zip following the instructions. Reboot the phone. Then bootstrap and reboot back into recovery and flash the calendarfix zip from page 7 of this thread: http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-roms/8428-rom-rubix-focused-0-3-a-7.html

I had this instaled but could'nt get google maps to work so I went back to flyx rom. The market is stuck downloading google maps I hit cancel and it has force closed
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I also had some FC problems. It FC's everytime you try to stop a download in the market. It FC's every time you click on the battery manager to see what's sucking juice and it FC'd when messing around with the Calendar.
Because of those reasons, plus not being any faster than I had gotten my OTA after bloatware removal and some build.prop tweaks, not being able to use Backup Assistant (losing 80% of my contacts) and the fact that I actually like the native 2.2 txt app led me back to my OTA 2.2 through the nandroid backup I made before installing rubiX.
This is one I will definitely keep an eye on and will be testing in further revisions, but it's not where I want a rom to be right now.
I appreciate all the hard work that went into it but it's just not for me right now.

shaninNH said:
Happened to me...flash the rom zip following the instructions. Reboot the phone. Then bootstrap and reboot back into recovery and flash the calendarfix zip from page 7 of this thread:
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Winner, winner chicken dinner. That is exactly what I needed. Thank you very much.
Other than that one thing I am pleased so far with the build.

Sorry guys, I've been at work and haven't had much time to check threads except for the ones that push to my email, and for some reason xda didn't..
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Im curious ....aren't you Jake Day? The downloads are from his site.....
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no
I'm Derek Rodriguez (thats my full name), and have honestly barely conversed with jake. He was nice enough to let me host my files through his ftp alongside with Boostdscoob (dominator/eliminator roms for d1) when we were collaborating for roms, and still lets me. Jake is a great guy from what I know of him, and makes pretty bad ass kernels.
It's hosted there, as well as alldroid, and androiddoes.net.
arlan_jacob, a reboot might of fixed it. I chose not to include market apps with how fast updates have been coming out lately, didn't wanna leave any behind and people not able to update correctly. Sorry about the issue, I'll make an update.zip with the market apps included if it'd help out.

drod2169 said:
Sorry guys, I've been at work and haven't had much time to check threads except for the ones that push to my email, and for some reason xda didn't..
no
I'm Derek Rodriguez (thats my full name), and have honestly barely conversed with jake. He was nice enough to let me host my files through his ftp alongside with Boostdscoob (udominator/eliminator roms for d1) when we were collaborating for roms, and still lets me. Jake is a great guy from what I know of him, and makes pretty bad ass kernels.
It's hosted there, as well as alldroid, and androiddoes.net.
arlan_jacob, a reboot might of fixed it. I chose not to include market apps with how fast updates have been coming out lately, didn't wanna leave any behind and people not able to update correctly. Sorry about the issue, I'll make an update.zip with the market apps included if it'd help out.
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Kk...thanks for clearing that up.
Lol...and my name is Blair, nice to meet ya and kudos for the ROM ...any future plans?
Cheers!

[Q] Problems when using custom ROM's

So I got my LG O2X yesterday, and decided to try some custom ROM's on it, I've tried 2, TK's v0.3.1 and FR10 Fear Edition 3.4.1 and on both the Market place doesn't work and email client doesn't (tried both stock and K9)
I would put up pictures but XDA won't let me
But the problems are, the email client just keeps saying "checking incoming server settings", K9 will fail at that point (and every time after that if I press ignore), and Market place just keeps saying "starting download" but never does
The wierd thing is though, is Gmail app works fine in both ROM's
Everything works fine on the stock LG ROM
Thanks

Zillawill said:
and Market place just keeps saying "starting download" but never does
Thanks
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Check your time and date settings.

Mikasaurus said:
Check your time and date settings.
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Have done, but it still doesn't work
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App

Try going into Setting/ Manage applications/email and clear cache and data

tenbeau said:
Try going into Setting/ Manage applications/email and clear cache and data
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I'll give that a try, 1 thing tho i just tried K9 on stock ROM and it doesn't work....
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App

From a personal point of view those are the reasons why I wait until we start seeing roms from CM and AOSP. All these one man projects we see now feel more like enthusiasts choice with numerous updates and fixes. Developing good roms takes time regardless of organisation. I am not saying there is anything wrong with these projects but it is perhaps a good idea to figure out as an end user if you are looking for stability or tweaks.
There is absolutely a place for both worlds, just know what you are looking for in your phone.

HotlipsH said:
From a personal point of view those are the reasons why I wait until we start seeing roms from CM and AOSP. All these one man projects we see now feel more like enthusiasts choice with numerous updates and fixes. Developing good roms takes time regardless of organisation. I am not saying there is anything wrong with these projects but it is perhaps a good idea to figure out as an end user if you are looking for stability or tweaks.
There is absolutely a place for both worlds, just know what you are looking for in your phone.
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At the moment stabilty since the phone isn't really missing anything (apart from proper word correction)
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App

[Q] Play Store downloading only 1 application at a time

hi,
i have this weird problem with play store.. it only downloads single app at a time..
i mean if i am initiate 3 downloads from store.. it downloads them in a queue.. i:e it downloads first.. then 2nd and then 3rd..
is everyone facing this?? is it a feature of play store?? ho to overcome this..

nangia879 said:
hi,
i have this weird problem with play store.. it only downloads single app at a time..
i mean if i am initiate 3 downloads from store.. it downloads them in a queue.. i:e it downloads first.. then 2nd and then 3rd..
is everyone facing this?? is it a feature of play store?? ho to overcome this..
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i'm not sure but i think it's ok ) the same thing was with Android Market
i dont think google will change algorithm of downloading bcoz of changing the name

This is not problem....this method was implemented by google in android market v3.x

SandySemenov said:
i'm not sure but i think it's ok ) the same thing was with Android Market
i dont think google will change algorithm of downloading bcoz of changing the name
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deathgame said:
This is not problem....this method was implemented by google in android market v3.x
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yes, i get that .. but i don't like this.. is there something that i can do to do simultaneously download apps..

i dont think so...still search the forum and post back if u get sumthin

deathgame said:
i dont think so...still search the forum and post back if u get sumthin
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havent got any info.. but i dont like that

Its a default feature of play store
Kinda sucks dat it doesn't support parallel downloads
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA

Uhm, what difference does it make? If you max out your bandwidth then the total time will still be the same, the only difference will be that the first apps to get downloaded will be available earlier than if all DLed simultaneously.

I do not think that's a problem.
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA

thedecliningsun said:
I do not think that's a problem.
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I agree,
But i am curious as to what you believe would be the benefit from parallel downloading?
if you are downloading in parallel it would just slow down the all of your downloads, this way all of your speed is given to one at a time. I am not sure how it would affect Google's servers, but i would assume if everyone was downloading multiple apps at the same time it might lag up there infrastructure.

chrisdeger said:
I agree,
But i am curious as to what you believe would be the benefit from parallel downloading?
if you are downloading in parallel it would just slow down the all of your downloads, this way all of your speed is given to one at a time. I am not sure how it would affect Google's servers, but i would assume if everyone was downloading multiple apps at the same time it might lag up there infrastructure.
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I'm unearthing an old thread and beating a dead horse, but as I just uninstalled play updates from and old galaxy tab and was greeted with the old market that just installed two dozen apps faster than my 3 years younger fancy double core supposed-to-be-fast-yet-sluggish-gunk, I'm compelled to give this issue a little nudge again.
Old Markets in did download in parallel. What's the benefit you ask, well, it was able download others while it was installing those that were completed. The current version doesn't donwload squat while it's installing and I find that pathetic given today's hardware.
It's generally not that beneficial to download several simultaneously, but the current implementation is even worse. Two in parallel or start the next when the current finishes, that'd be something.

Kynde said:
I'm unearthing an old thread and beating a dead horse, but as I just uninstalled play updates from and old galaxy tab and was greeted with the old market that just installed two dozen apps faster than my 3 years younger fancy double core supposed-to-be-fast-yet-sluggish-gunk, I'm compelled to give this issue a little nudge again.
Old Markets in did download in parallel. What's the benefit you ask, well, it was able download others while it was installing those that were completed. The current version doesn't donwload squat while it's installing and I find that pathetic given today's hardware.
It's generally not that beneficial to download several simultaneously, but the current implementation is even worse. Two in parallel or start the next when the current finishes, that'd be something.
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I don't see the issue. It's always been like that since Google launched v4 for play store.

In my opinion it would be better if it install the first app and download the second one at the same time
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Improved performance with "Performance Booster"

I have LG Optimus 4X HD since 2012. It was good until I upgraded to JB 4.1.2 (official). Severe battery drain, game lags, heating etc forced me to install custom ROMs. First tried CM, better than stock but not as good as I wanted; then tried MIUI V5, much better than both stock & CM. Never tried custom kernels though. I even tried other Chinese ROMs (based on stock) to see if better. Battery, UI etc were more than satisfactory with MIUI but lags in games and sometimes hanging while opening apps were still frustrating. Then one day I saw "Performance Booster" somewhere & gave a try with free version first. It drastically changed the performance then I installed donate version which improved overall experience. As mentioned in the app it didn't improve benchmarks but improved phones performance for sure. In other words, it saved my money from buying a new phone. Now I don't need new one as I have 'Huawei Mediapad X1' for reading, games & watching videos, which I bought here in China for less than 300$ (it's 400 Euros outside China).

So what is it? I don't try to be rude, but at least you can share where we can find it or something. I know Google it's a good friend but I don't know what exactly. BTW thanks for share your experience
Sent from my LG-P880 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

josue270193 said:
So what is it? I don't try to be rude, but at least you can share where we can find it or something. I know Google it's a good friend but I don't know what exactly. BTW thanks for share your experience
Sent from my LG-P880 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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I think it's not allowed to post links to apps here in this forum so didn't post. You can search in play store, it's there, give a try & see yourself.

{fd}ware said:
I don't think that it's forbidden to post links, as long as you don't earn money by doing so (for example adfly links). But I'm not absolutely sure.
I've also searched the app on the Play Store, couldn't find any app called "Performance Booster" though.
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Im guessing hes talking about this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gejos.android.performancebooster Which i would highly recommend not using.
This is from the description:
Performance Booster will change the kernel process for managing all layers such Android Runtime in Core Libraries and Dalvik VM layers, User Libraries layer, Application Framework layer, and Applications layer.
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This is gibberish, makes no sense. And thats the best description they give of what it does. All of this *developers* apps look fake and possibly/ quite likely are malicious in nature. All their apps are 86K in size

I have tested by curiosity, and my conclusion is "I haven't seen any clear effect"
So... immediately uninstalled
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JoinTheRealms said:
This is gibberish, makes no sense. And thats the best description they give of what it does. All of this *developers* apps look fake and possibly/ quite likely are malicious in nature. All their apps are 86K in size
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Got curious and decompiled the apk. Most of the stuff is license checking. Otherwise it sets a few process management properties and that's all.

Adam77Root said:
Got curious and decompiled the apk. Most of the stuff is license checking. Otherwise it sets a few process management properties and that's all.
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So generally speaking, pretty useless eh?

MidnightDevil said:
So generally speaking, pretty useless eh?
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Mostly yeah, which is why this thread is finally being moved into general section (where all shares are supposed to go into) as well as closed.

General Large collection of ROM files for our SPES(N) device

Hi All,
You may or may not all ready know about this.... Spotted it via another via another thread for something completely different.
Further expanding to the link, exposed there was a heck of a lot of other roms that we apparently not aware of....
Feel free to visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/spes-roms/files/
To see all the great work of: imtiaz-modder (imtiaz-modder, if you view these boards.... we thank you for your work !!!)
Thanks, Lister

Immmmmmmm totally amazeeeeeddd fr.
I mean how? How's that even possible?
Indeed there are too many of em and now I'mma try them one by ine

Unfortunately the list isn't actively updated, but it's a nice work regardless. I recommend searching for the specific ROM before you install because you might miss out on some updates

Thank you for sharing! Never know what to choose actually. But we have choice!
Lister Of Smeg said:
Hi All,
You may or may not all ready know about this.... Spotted it via another via another thread for something completely different.
Further expanding to the link, exposed there was a heck of a lot of other roms that we apparently not aware of....
Feel free to visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/spes-roms/files/
To see all the great work of: imtiaz-modder (imtiaz-modder, if you view these boards.... we thank you for your work !!!)
Thanks, Lister
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are these all safe to download and test out?

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are these all safe to download and test out?
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Hi Ictsz.roy,
I can't imagine these are any less safe, or more safe than other custom roms. I imagine they are just compiled by a hobbiest who is building roms for themselves, with no ill intentions and just sharing them.
I personally haven't tested any myself yet, as I am still fully stock for the time being. But at a later date, when I decided to rom and they are still available I have no issues trying/testing them then....
Cheers, Lister

Lister Of Smeg said:
Hi Ictsz.roy,
I can't imagine these are any less safe, or more safe than other custom roms. I imagine they are just compiled by a hobbiest who is building roms for themselves, with no ill intentions and just sharing them.
I personally haven't tested any myself yet, as I am still fully stock for the time being. But at a later date, when I decided to rom and they are still available I have no issues trying/testing them then....
Cheers, Lister
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Hey Lister,
Thanks for the response. I get what you're saying. However, and this is just out of curiosity, (hypothetically speaking), if a rom zip file does contain some sort of malware, will your average antivirus software pick it up? Any thoughts?
Cheers.

ictsz.roy said:
Hey Lister,
Thanks for the response. I get what you're saying. However, and this is just out of curiosity, (hypothetically speaking), if a rom zip file does contain some sort of malware, will your average antivirus software pick it up? Any thoughts?
Cheers.
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Hi Ictsz.roy,
No worries, you're welcome....
Here's how I see it, so depends what you mean by AV detecthing any malware within the rom....?
If you mean, will it be picked up by your computers AV... Depends if it's setup to scan within inside files, such as Zip files. And depends if the code within the zip file is known/triggered by desktop OS AV. It could be written so only readable/executable within Android OS. Most good AVs can detect this kinda of behavour. As I've seen APK files sitting on my drive being detected as risky.
However if you mean, what would happen if I flashed the rom, and it was packed with iffy code/apps/apks. I'd like to think that Googles own built in scanners would pick these up. I must admit I am very impressed with it up until now, even under older version of Android and without any official AV installed within Android OS, Google PlayServices have detected rogue apps. I've seen Android (Gingerbread) v2.3.6 detect iffy apps without any updates from the phones OEM itself. Google PlayServices gets updated regulary. Not to mention the Google PlayStore also has its own scan protection, and has flagged up many a apps in the past. And then if you go with your own trusted Android AV, such as Comodo, Avast and so on, they also have high detection rates.
So the likely hood of any iffy code/apps getting past Google's ecosystem will be remote these days I believe, just speaking of own personally experiences. Think the detection rate is very high now...
Cheers, Lister

Lister Of Smeg said:
Hi Ictsz.roy,
No worries, you're welcome....
Here's how I see it, so depends what you mean by AV detecthing any malware within the rom....?
If you mean, will it be picked up by your computers AV... Depends if it's setup to scan within inside files, such as Zip files. And depends if the code within the zip file is known/triggered by desktop OS AV. It could be written so only readable/executable within Android OS. Most good AVs can detect this kinda of behavour. As I've seen APK files sitting on my drive being detected as risky.
However if you mean, what would happen if I flashed the rom, and it was packed with iffy code/apps/apks. I'd like to think that Googles own built in scanners would pick these up. I must admit I am very impressed with it up until now, even under older version of Android and without any official AV installed within Android OS, Google PlayServices have detected rogue apps. I've seen Android (Gingerbread) v2.3.6 detect iffy apps without any updates from the phones OEM itself. Google PlayServices gets updated regulary. Not to mention the Google PlayStore also has its own scan protection, and has flagged up many a apps in the past. And then if you go with your own trusted Android AV, such as Comodo, Avast and so on, they also have high detection rates.
So the likely hood of any iffy code/apps getting past Google's ecosystem will be remote these days I believe, just speaking of own personally experiences. Think the detection rate is very high now...
Cheers, Lister
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Thanks again Lister. You're a trooper. Cheers.