Hi All...I'm relatively new to android rooting and would like to know what custom ROM's are available for the Droid Bionic??
Some members were very helpful with my questions recently when I rooted my HTC Thunderbolt.
It seems that the Bionic is a little more difficult to work with and I hope there are some options.
My preference would be a fully functional ICS rom, however, if the best I will do is GB then it has to be. I have to have all of the phone working and without hic-cups (phone, data, wifi, camera, etc.)...I am a heavy daily user and cannot afford to loose any functionality.
Please let me know what options are possible and add the links I will need to both root and install the files. I know there are past threads with this question, but I find it easier to follow new answers.
Thank you all for your help,
ghdroiduser
We are on the verge of ICS right now. There are tons of leaks, but anything newer than 232 will be unable to receive the official OTA.
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Since everything I need to know is scattered across various threads and there is no specific information regarding my question AFAIK so I decided to post a new thread. Forgive a newb for being worried.
I've decided to root my N1 and am running the EPF24B European build. I just had some questions and concerns:
1. What ROM do you think is best? I think the majority of people like Cyanogen.
2. If I root my phone now and flash on Cyanogen, when Cyanogen releases a Froyo ROM how will I update? Does that happen through a dedicated app? OTA?
3. How do I keep all my current programs and settings? I've heard of Nandroid but have no idea what it does. I presume it has something to do with the NAND memory?
4. btw how stable is a rooted phone?
5. I've seen a number of guides here, but don't know whether or not they are the latest versions. Can anyone point me to a proper guide? Or are they all the same?
Thanks if anyone can answer this.
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hackm0d said:
Since everything I need to know is scattered across various threads and there is no specific information regarding my question AFAIK so I decided to post a new thread. Forgive a newb for being worried.
I've decided to root my N1 and am running the EPF24B European build. I just had some questions and concerns:
1. What ROM do you think is best? I think the majority of people like Cyanogen.
2. If I root my phone now and flash on Cyanogen, when Cyanogen releases a Froyo ROM how will I update? Does that happen through a dedicated app? OTA?
3. How do I keep all my current programs and settings? I've heard of Nandroid but have no idea what it does. I presume it has something to do with the NAND memory?
4. btw how stable is a rooted phone?
5. I've seen a number of guides here, but don't know whether or not they are the latest versions. Can anyone point me to a proper guide? Or are they all the same?
Thanks if anyone can answer this.
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you might get flamed for this or get this thread closed but i will try to help u.
1)while cyanogen is the best rom in my opinion, froyo is the ****. no matter what. and when cyanogen finally puts his touches on it, it will be even better.
3)no you cant keep them. u would have to be ROOTED first and then you can use titanium backup to make a backup or all your settings and freeze apps. til then, nope u have to completely wipe and start over again. i know when i switch from rom to rom, google automatically downloads the apps that i have had installed before i switch roms if that helps you any.
4)rooted phones are VERY stable and even faster than stock. more memory, runs smoother. the only one that might not run as smooth is the Desire Rom because of sense ui but i love sense ui and have it on my G1 but yes rooted phones are stable.
5)i have followed the instructions of this guide that was for macs tho. u have to be a bit specific if your on mac or pc
I'm using a PC.
And thanks for your input.
btw you didn't answer question 2. If I update to CM now, will I be able to update OTA when a Froyo version comes out?
Folks: I have HERO and downloaded official 2.1 update earlier this summer. I was really hoping that issues like dialer lag and general "under-performance" feel on HERO would improve but I am still disappointed. I have still lot of time before I get eligible for a phone upgrade. I have no experience with rooting or custom ROMs. Would a HTC sense-less ROM help my case? I love the form-factor of this phone but lag just kills the experience.
I would really appreciate if someone can point me to step-by-step procedure on how to get a ROM on HERO that works lag-free.
thanks
keep it stock if you like. thats how i did it at first. i rooted the stock stuff and deleted tons of sprint bloatware and the other useless apps; peep, teeter, gmail, socialnetworkprovider.apk...tons of stuff. after doing ONLY that, my device was faster and more responsive. ive never used a 'killer' of any sorts. linux is smart and you dont need 'killers'. of course, others may argue differently.
so head over to the dev forum and learn how to root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=674833
edit: read, read, read. thats what i was told to do and i did. a lot of prep was required before rooting but if you follow the directions, it will go very smoothly
In my opinion, the two fastest ROMs here are
Darchdroid 2.8 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=703133
and Cyanogenmod 6.0.0 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=722122
But know that these two ROMs are based off Android only, and don't have the HTC Sense user-interface (in other words, they will look different than stock and have some different apps and features).
But first you will need to root your phone following these steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694572
After you root your phone, NANDROID BACKUP! Then you can try deleting apps like the post above mentions. See this post here about deleting apps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581976
If just doing that isn't good enough for you, try one of the two ROMs I posted above. I think you'll find that rooting your phone is a very wise and eye-opening decision
Lol chromiumleaf you didn't recommend the ROM in your sig
OP if you are willing to root and still want Sense UI, nfinitefx45's stock ROM is for you. If you follow the instructions you will basically run an over clocked (if you choose, but recommended), streamlined version of stock ROM + apps2sd (your choice, but recommended)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=703267
thank you all for quick replies and helpful pointers to the resources. Looks like rooting + deleting apps is the first step. I will try that. Btw hadnt relaized that custom ROMs is a world on its own
It sure it as I have also been reading, and one more thing incase you did not know and I don't believe it was mentioned in this thread you need to not be on the 2.1 .6 firmware, you need to downgrade to the .5 firmware to be able to root, I know it is in the instructions pasted by other but was just giving you a reminder incase you still have not done anything. Now if you did finally Root I would like to know how it went, as I am also almost ready to Root, tired of mine going into sleep mode and not responding, anyways it has been a while since you were suppose to have rooted, just curious how it went and how was your experience, and if you did finally go to a custom Rom which one did you go with??
don_walio said:
thank you all for quick replies and helpful pointers to the resources. Looks like rooting + deleting apps is the first step. I will try that. Btw hadnt relaized that custom ROMs is a world on its own
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Folks: I have HERO and downloaded official 2.1 update earlier this summer. I was really hoping that issues like dialer lag and general "under-performance" feel on HERO would improve but I am still disappointed. I have still lot of time before I get eligible for a phone upgrade. I have no experience with rooting or custom ROMs. Would a HTC sense-less ROM help my case? I love the form-factor of this phone but lag just kills the experience.
I would really appreciate if someone can point me to step-by-step procedure on how to get a ROM on HERO that works lag-free.
thanks
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if you want to stay close to stock but be rooted id say use the stock rooted .6 rom with apps2sd. you could also use an oc kernel but i never found it did much for my phone. always use advance task killer and use a memory manager like autokiller and set it to aggressive or ultimate. my hero runs pretty good now. if your daring you could try the new froyo rom too.
Hi everyone!
I hope I came to the right forum with this...
I (once upon a time) was a proud owner of a Milestone (A853). Then I was the content owner of a Milestone running Android 2.1. This turned into a disillusioned and never-to-buy-Motorola-again-ever Milestone owner when it took them ages to release an update to 2.2. Now that they did, I'm just plain angry. Their release is so ridiculously bad, it's a beta version at best. Therefore I have finally decided to finally get a custom ROM.
Now I did a bit of googling and found this forum and another site hosting ROMs (theunlockr.com/category/roms-2/android-roms-2/motorola-milestone-roms/ - can't post real links yet, sorry)
Seems like there are quite a few ROMs to choose from. Unfortunately I have no idea which one would be the best for my needs, nor do I know how I'd get them onto my stone...
Things that are important for my are (in that order):
- long battery life
- stable operation
- email via IMAP and Exchange
- camera, gps for My Tracks & Navigation
- sync with google calendar & contacts
- pdf & doc-viewer
- bluetooth and wifi-tethering (the later with WPA2)
- good performance
So I need help with two things: choosing the ROM best meeting these demands, and getting said ROM onto my phone. The tutorials I found so far were not very helpfull to me unfortunately, since they seemed to asume I already knew quite a few things and had a bunch of tools already installed. Is there something like a "dummies guide to flash your Milestone"?
And can someone recommend a certain ROM to me? Preferably one that isn't to hard to find and is easy to flash?
Also, do I loose the stuff stored on my SD-Card when I flash the phone? There are quite a lot of pictures and My Tracks, well, tracks, that I'd hate to loose.
tl,dr: Motorola sucks, I need help in choosing a ROM and getting it on my Milestone.
Thx,
Alex
You should try APAC.. long battery time
mikicishte said:
You should try APAC.. long battery time
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I think you need to use TheFroYoMod, it's a very stable and battery friendly ROM. I don't want to brag, but I think my guide is very n00b friendly: CLICK
There is also a list of all ROM's available for the Milestone.
I'm using CM7 at the moment and i really love it, you also need to try this one out.
Installing a ROM doesn't touch your SD card outside of reading the install package.
Your choice of ROM is really a personal thing but a pretty safe bet to start with CyanogenMOD 6; it's one of the most common ROM's and it's very stable. While the Milestone is not "Officially" supported by CM, there are a ton of folks around here that have run it, and are quite familiar with it. Check out the link in the Milestone Dev section of this forum. As a first time flasher I'd stay away from CM7 at this time, it's still in development.
A couple of reminders:
-Your Milestone is not a DROID and is not compatible with DROID ROMS or guides.
-Always insure your battery is fully charged before flashing anything. Having a dead battery with a FUBAR ROM is bad.
-Back-up your stuff! Once you have the custom recovery loaded you can create a "Nandroid" back-up of your stock ROM (basically a disk image) through the custom recovery. This will give you something to fall back on if the ROM softbricks your device.
The guide posted above is a great guide. Way clearer then the one I followed originally. I highly recommend it.
thx 4 all your posts!
Actually I already flashed cm7rc3 at about 1:30am on sunday, after I worked my way through a lot of tutorials.
It works quite fine, only the galery-app is giving me trouble, but I guess that could be connected to me havin 1.4k photos on my sd-card. Guess it's time for some cleanup!
Thank you drae52 for pointing out the link (and thank you eXtink for putting it in your sig)! Especially the OR part is really helpfull, as I didn't know until now what all the options do and was afraid to touch any. Now I'm definitly looking forward to installing that adblocker!
Now that OR is set up good and propper and I figured out the procedure I think I'll try some other ROMs too in time. Thank you again for your help!
Alex
I'm a complete noob, so sorry if this is a dumb question. I have spent countless hours reading up on how to do all this stuff the last week but I haven't seen this addressed. I searched before posting, but couldn't find the answer. Will I lose root if flashing to ICS, and if so is there a method to get root again?
I've read that you are able to get root using CWM with 2.3.5. Will that be an option in ICS? Again sorry for the noob question, thanks.
As far as I know, almost all of the ICS Roms out there for Captivate are already rooted so you don't need to do it. Like the one from the CyanogenMod Team, which I'm using right now, is rooted. I'm guessing all the other ICS Roms too.
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That's good to hear! My head is swimming in it right now, so that is one less thing. Thanks a ton for the reply!
All custom roms are rooted. Why would a dev go through the trouble of building a Rom and not have it rooted?
I didn't realize that but it makes sense. Like I said I am completely new to this. I knew that root was lost going from froyo to even the unofficial gingerbread, so is the difference there that the 2.3 was a leak and exactly the same as the official?
yes... leaks are stock firmwares untouched by devs. we take that firmware, add several tweaks (root, zipalign, deodex, extended power menu, locks..ect) and theme it up and that is a rom.
I am enjoying learning all this so thanks for the response, it helps me put it all together in my head.
This, for me, is one of the main reason of using custom roms... pre-rooted and customized with all the bloat removed...
Devs on these boards have spent a good deal of their time making the process painless so people like you and I can enjoy these Android Devices like they truly were meant to be. Free of restrictions from telcos and OEMs...
Don't forget to thank the devs if you decide to use their roms... ^_^
Good luck.
Hi,
I just got a Razr I 2nd hand. I live in Ireland and believe I'm on the EU/GB version. I'm looking for the most stable ROM as I use my phone for business and need it to be 100% reliable (no bugs if possible!) and have great battery and everything else working. I'm not a techie or dev so have no interest in installing a ROM just to test it out, I need to just be sure the ROM I choose will be reliable and wouldn't plan on ever changing it again unless there's some VAST improvements in future Android versions.
So what I'm looking for is:
Most stable ROM with no bugs and 100% reliable
Latest Android (JB?)
Phone needs to be ROOTED
I would also like to be able to remove bloat ware before installing the ROM so if there was any way I could go into the system app folder of the SD card before flashing the ROM to remove any bloatware it would be great, otherwise, I'd just use ROOT EXPLORER so not vitally important for the pre-flash removal.
Ideally I'd like to stay with stock ROM as I'd just feel more at ease using stock, so if I could somehow get exact files of 4.12 stock, clear a bit of bloatware, flash it and have a stable, rooted phone that would be perfect. I don't see any untouched stock roms of 4.12 available however, there is one "optimised" one but it seems to have a few bugs so I wouldn't be comfortable with this. Also, although I've used some technical terms above, I've absolutely no idea even how to root a phone, I use a guy from The Android Clinic to do all the difficult stuff for me like rooting
Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated
cormie said:
Hi,
I just got a Razr I 2nd hand. I live in Ireland and believe I'm on the EU/GB version. I'm looking for the most stable ROM as I use my phone for business and need it to be 100% reliable (no bugs if possible!) and have great battery and everything else working. I'm not a techie or dev so have no interest in installing a ROM just to test it out, I need to just be sure the ROM I choose will be reliable and wouldn't plan on ever changing it again unless there's some VAST improvements in future Android versions.
So what I'm looking for is:
Most stable ROM with no bugs and 100% reliable
Latest Android (JB?)
Phone needs to be ROOTED
I would also like to be able to remove bloat ware before installing the ROM so if there was any way I could go into the system app folder of the SD card before flashing the ROM to remove any bloatware it would be great, otherwise, I'd just use ROOT EXPLORER so not vitally important for the pre-flash removal.
Ideally I'd like to stay with stock ROM as I'd just feel more at ease using stock, so if I could somehow get exact files of 4.12 stock, clear a bit of bloatware, flash it and have a stable, rooted phone that would be perfect. I don't see any untouched stock roms of 4.12 available however, there is one "optimised" one but it seems to have a few bugs so I wouldn't be comfortable with this. Also, although I've used some technical terms above, I've absolutely no idea even how to root a phone, I use a guy from The Android Clinic to do all the difficult stuff for me like rooting
Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated
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First, this is the wrong section to ask for it, this section its only for development, there is a section called "Questions and answers" for that.
If you want a 100% without bug rom, just use a homemade fastboot of Jb, the come pre-rooted and debloated yourself, its stock so no bugs
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Marco Lomas said:
First, this is the wrong section to ask for it, this section its only for development, there is a section called "Questions and answers" for that.
If you want a 100% without bug rom, just use a homemade fastboot of Jb, the come pre-rooted and debloated yourself, its stock so no bugs
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Thanks for the reply. Ooops, didn't know it was in the wrong section, hopefully it won't be an issue.
Thanks for the suggestions, have you any idea where I could find a homemade fastboot of JB? Is that a ROM you're referring to or something else? Is it completely compatible with Razr I do you think?
Until now... as you know (i hope) humans have not yet created a rom 100% bug free, because they are HUMANS, and fail.
Every rom has bugs... including the stock ones..
raz0r1991 said:
Until now... as you know (i hope) humans have not yet created a rom 100% bug free, because they are HUMANS, and fail.
Every rom has bugs... including the stock ones..
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Haha, yes of course I can live with a few minor bugs, I guess I'd just feel safer using stock as I'm a novice with these things
Do you know is there a rooted JB ROM for Razr I that I can just download and flash through recovery? That's about all I know how to do tech wise, for rooting and all that, I need to employ the services of an expert
So I PM'd Marco who pointed me to here for what I'm after: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1936512
Thanks!
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