Hello all,
just got m nook color and don't fully want to mod internal software quite yet and was looking for a bootable sd version of ginger bread like CM& and couldn't find one.
Found the one for honeycomb but not gingerbread.
Anyone know if there is even one for the sd bootable where don't touch internal software.
Thanks again.
Unfortunately at this time there is no SD bootable version of CM7. I am learning how all the stuff works and hope to make one soon but I have no time line for the project as I am not a developer and don't know if I will ultimately have time to make it. If I do get one do look for it in the dev board, but again, no promises and please do not bombard my PMs or the forums with 'when is it coming' messages.
Really, that would by nice. But the bootables have some speed issues.
I am constructing a dualboot rooted Eclair / CM7 gingerbread, based on multipliable thread posts and the work of the great devs here. Some seem to run this daily. I hope I can get it up and running too.
Speed issues aside alot of people, myself included, do not necessarily want to flash their MMC for a variety of reasons but still want to be able to run the neat stuff. I have my NC rooted and tons of stuff installed with no reboot issues and the like so that my main reason for trying to create a CM7 SD.
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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
Hi Guys, I'm italian...I'm sorry for my english
I have loaded on my galaxy S this ufficial firmware "I9000XXJVO (Gingerbread 2.3.3)" and now I want to load a ROM. I prefer a Rom which is fast and stable. Which ROM do you suggest to me? Which ROM leaves more available memory?
Thanks!!
Go for custom roms, far more available memory plus there are lot of tweaks enabled developers to make sure your phone is smooth.. trust me try simply honey 3.6.1, u'll love it.!
Please feel free to browse through the dev and q&a sections. You will find that there are plenty of different roms and kernels available, along with other spicy details/guides. Many of them will tremendously increase the battery span, but will present you with different options with regards to the user interface.
Depending on the android version you're running there are different paths to choose in terms of minimum difficulty.
But, for someone totally new to roms&kernels, who is running 2.3.x already, I'd just reccommend starting with Darky's rom, as it has a great userbase with amazingly detailed guides, you really can't go wrong with their tuts should you feel insecure about flashing etc.
And then when you discover that you're still not happy with the speed, feel free to dive into the dev forum as I said
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And another thing you'll find is that there is no such thing as a BEST rom.
After all, all of this is coming from people limited in their numbers, time and funding....
I have tried "Simple Honey 3.6" but the available memory was from 120 MB to 140 MB (I think it is bad because with the ufficial firmware I9000XXJVO the available memory was 160 MB!!) and the battery doesn't last long...
I'd post this in the devel section, but my post count isn't high enough, so it'll have to go here instead.
Finally I have a version of CWM that enables saving to the external SD (why didn't it have this feature from day one?). The only problem is it seems to be a bit confused about what's internal and what's external. The "save to / restore from internal SD" function actually points to the external SD, and the only other choice is simply labelled "SD", and that's the one that points to the internal SD. This is very confusing, but at least I can finally do a Nandroid backup (not enough space left on my pathetic 8GB internal SD).
This leads me to my other point: is there any way for me to switch from CWM to TWRP but keep this ROM, i.e. is there an X-Bean compatible Semaphore kernel with TWRP?
Apart from that, X-Bean is perfect.
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I'd post this in the devel section, but my post count isn't high enough, so it'll have to go here instead.
Finally I have a version of CWM that enables saving to the external SD (why didn't it have this feature from day one?). The only problem is it seems to be a bit confused about what's internal and what's external. The "save to / restore from internal SD" function actually points to the external SD, and the only other choice is simply labelled "SD", and that's the one that points to the internal SD. This is very confusing, but at least I can finally do a Nandroid backup (not enough space left on my pathetic 8GB internal SD).
This leads me to my other point: is there any way for me to switch from CWM to TWRP but keep this ROM, i.e. is there an X-Bean compatible Semaphore kernel with TWRP?
Apart from that, X-Bean is perfect.
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I am not sure whether the TWRP works with semaphore or not.
But yes you can use devil kernel to have the twrp in place and switching from cwm to twrp dont need any changes in the rom.
Only problem is Devil doesn't have cifs and tun modules AFAIK, which I need.
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Only problem is Devil doesn't have cifs and tun modules AFAIK, which I need.
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then i don't think both will be in one for now...
I'm thinking of having a go at building my own kernel based on Semaphore, but with support for TWRP.
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Also looking at modifying the charging anim, see if I can get NoMoarPowah working with X-Bean/Semaphore.
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musicplayer
got a little problem with the musicplayer named apollo.
Couple days ago i root my phone and install x-bean 3.0 to it.
When i try to open "apollo" player it just says "apollo is stopped" and goes back to the menu and sometimes it says it when i just open my phone. How to fix this problem?
ty for u all. im noob i know.
sorry but some questions...
As a "novice" regusterted user, I have noted that there are some 'unanswered' questions related to flashing ROMs...
So, please excuse my portential silly quotes, but as an IT specialist, I have to ask them:
- Why is there so much difference to flash a ROM from a stock one to something *new* instead of flashing from another ROM which is already
a new and tweaked one?
- Does the formatting from CWM do what it is suppposed to do? (wiping all the old stuff forever)?
- It it is not so, and as far as I see there are a lot of problems, why is no-one mentioning that there are soem 'registers' in the ROM which
are beiing read by new ROM and/or kernels?
My personal experience is that most of the ROMs for GT.I9000 on Jelly Bean are working much more reliable than most installers have their
opinion in all the questions asked, just because they are not using the device for a prolonged time...
After using RC 12.1 from elitemovil with kerne 2.06 for three weeks now, a lot of problems just 'wanished'. I can now use the gallery without problems (and there were a lot of missing photos and clips), and the battery usage is now very good, a lot of thing are now much better than at the beginning...
All of this is telling me of a potential subject which is not spoken about, and this could be soem *register* data which does to be changed for the new ROM and perhaps the kernel to be filled out so that all the new things and features work as expected?
As this is my first post Comments from experienced users/developers are welcome!
T.
Hello! First timer here to flashing and custom ROMing and have read as much as I possibly can but need some clarification before I proceed.
Background:
Let my family borrow my iPhone 4S while they travel so I'm using this SGH-T679. I have to stay in touch with them via Viber, Skype, and Hangouts (using GVPhone for Google Voice calls). After installing those apps the phone slowed down to a crawl and became a very frustrating experience;
the specs at this time were Android 2.3.5 and Baseband T679UVKJ1, stock and unrooted.
After reading that T-mobile released 2.3.6, I followed the upgrade instructions here;
now the specs are Android 2.3.6 and Baseband T679UVLK2, stock and unrooted.
For awhile I thought it was going well, but now I'm back to having frustrating experiences. It seems like memory management is terrible.
Desire:
I wonder if one of the KitKat roms will help alleviate some of the memory issues and better support the communication apps I need. Any advice? Or should I go with a custom Gingerbread or ICS ROM?
I'm leaning towards CyanogenMod 11 20140714-UNOFFICIAL by jfbs (however I also see a thread for CM11 by cars1189 but I can't figure out the difference, maybe question for a different thread).
[Q]:
I understand the first step is to install a Recovery. In the ROM thread the options are listed as:
CWM 6.0.5.0 md5sum: 4bfb28bcf29dc04243df246860f24940
Recovery for flashing in Odin CWM 6.0.5.0 md5sum: b5856bd395248af1c74dac8b92cd258e
So can I just transfer "Odin CWM 6.0.5.0" to root of device and install via powering on the phone and entering stock recovery by pressing & holding Power + Volume-Down?
When the phone was on 2.3.5, Power + Volume-Down and Power + Volume-Up (ODIN Download Mode from what I understand) yielded different modes. But now on 2.3.6, only Power + Volume-Down yields any kind of recovery option. That's why I'm wondering if installing CWM via stock recovery still holds for Android 2.3.6.
Appreciate you reading and thanks for your help!
ZHXS said:
Hello! First timer here to flashing and custom ROMing and have read as much as I possibly can but need some clarification before I proceed.
Background:
Let my family borrow my iPhone 4S while they travel so I'm using this SGH-T679. I have to stay in touch with them via Viber, Skype, and Hangouts (using GVPhone for Google Voice calls). After installing those apps the phone slowed down to a crawl and became a very frustrating experience;
the specs at this time were Android 2.3.5 and Baseband T679UVKJ1, stock and unrooted.
After reading that T-mobile released 2.3.6, I followed the upgrade instructions here;
now the specs are Android 2.3.6 and Baseband T679UVLK2, stock and unrooted.
For awhile I thought it was going well, but now I'm back to having frustrating experiences. It seems like memory management is terrible.
Desire:
I wonder if one of the KitKat roms will help alleviate some of the memory issues and better support the communication apps I need. Any advice? Or should I go with a custom Gingerbread or ICS ROM?
I'm leaning towards CyanogenMod 11 20140714-UNOFFICIAL by jfbs (however I also see a thread for CM11 by cars1189 but I can't figure out the difference, maybe question for a different thread).
[Q]:
I understand the first step is to install a Recovery. In the ROM thread the options are listed as:
CWM 6.0.5.0 md5sum: 4bfb28bcf29dc04243df246860f24940
Recovery for flashing in Odin CWM 6.0.5.0 md5sum: b5856bd395248af1c74dac8b92cd258e
So can I just transfer "Odin CWM 6.0.5.0" to root of device and install via powering on the phone and entering stock recovery by pressing & holding Power + Volume-Down?
When the phone was on 2.3.5, Power + Volume-Down and Power + Volume-Up (ODIN Download Mode from what I understand) yielded different modes. But now on 2.3.6, only Power + Volume-Down yields any kind of recovery option. That's why I'm wondering if installing CWM via stock recovery still holds for Android 2.3.6.
Appreciate you reading and thanks for your help!
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install cwm via odin, Jfbs posted link for odin pc app that is needed to do it in one of his rom ops i believe in the same op as the rom your are pondering on upgrading to. either way you need the odin files and usb drivers. as far as a rom with better memory and faster performance well any kk rom will do that or for older roms cars1189 CM Mass OP as cm10 and 10.1. reason being the new hybrid ion/pmem. compared to the old stock pmem based. now if you want battery battery life and even faster performance use a oc kernel and use an app like performance control to change the voltage and cpu frequency settings to your liking you can check my op in gen section for our phones for more details and guide for it.
EDIT yes the files are in the that rom op you mentioned 3 post down xD
I'm not a dev but from my experience with Viber, I have learned that this app uses a lot of memory. I have stopped using it for awhile cuz it was using over 30mb of my ram. So the best advice I have for you is not to install apps that you won't use often. Just use the strict minimum. For the memory management I also use Greenify to put asleep any app I'm not using often. This app in my case doesn't use over 5mb of ram but saves me over 50mb of memory when needed. But just be wise when selecting which apps to put asleep. I also use NovaLauncher as it is faster then any other I've tried and it's not hard on memory cache. Also other adive like @TripFX said, any KitKat rom can help you with memory management and performance. Me i use the lastest build of CM11 by @cars1189 with the Christopher oc kernel.
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I'm not a dev but from my experience with Viber, I have learned that this app uses a lot of memory. I have stopped using it for awhile cuz it was using over 30mb of my ram. So the best advice I have for you is not to install apps that you won't use often. Just use the strict minimum. For the memory management I also use Greenify to put asleep any app I'm not using often. This app in my case doesn't use over 5mb of ram but saves me over 50mb of memory when needed. But just be wise when selecting which apps to put asleep. I also use NovaLauncher as it is faster then any other I've tried and it's not hard on memory cache. Also other adive like @TripFX said, any KitKat rom can help you with memory management and performance. Me i use the lastest build of CM11 by @cars1189 with the Christopher oc kernel.
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Another advice also is to avoid modding too much your user interface cause for a phone like this it will make it slower, from my experience. Hope I could help! . (All these suggestions are from experiences i had and that helped me better manage my phone performances.) ?
TripFX said:
install cwm via odin, Jfbs posted link for odin pc app that is needed to do it in one of his rom ops i believe in the same op as the rom your are pondering on upgrading to. either way you need the odin files and usb drivers. as far as a rom with better memory and faster performance well any kk rom will do that or for older roms cars1189 CM Mass OP as cm10 and 10.1. reason being the new hybrid ion/pmem. compared to the old stock pmem based. now if you want battery battery life and even faster performance use a oc kernel and use an app like performance control to change the voltage and cpu frequency settings to your liking you can check my op in gen section for our phones for more details and guide for it.
EDIT yes the files are in the that rom op you mentioned 3 post down xD
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Hey! So I wanted to post an update about my experience...
After realizing the reference to Odin is actually a PC application, I decided to just install via Samsung Recovery.
Unfortunately from Power Off, pressing the Power + Volume Up buttons did not start recovery.
I had to use the method from the XDA Exhibit Wiki:
Pull the battery from your phone.
Connect phone to your pc via usb.
Press & hold Volume-up
Insert battery
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It's weird because on stock 2.3.5 I was able to start recovery from Power Off, but after OTA 2.3.6 baseband T679UVLK2 it no longer works. I wonder if flashing baseband T679UVLG3 or flash2stock will get back that ability. Anyway, I might try that later, right now it's setup with what I need.
I flashed CM11 by jfbs and it's working quite smoothly. Even when free memory drops below 100MB it works well. Amazing what a ROM change can do
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I read your OC and UV to perfection safely and easy guide !!! and I'm definitely bookmarking it for future exploration. Sometimes the battery gets so warm that I'm more comfortable leaving it in stock settings for now.
theking1st said:
I'm not a dev but from my experience with Viber, I have learned that this app uses a lot of memory. I have stopped using it for awhile cuz it was using over 30mb of my ram. So the best advice I have for you is not to install apps that you won't use often. Just use the strict minimum. For the memory management I also use Greenify to put asleep any app I'm not using often. This app in my case doesn't use over 5mb of ram but saves me over 50mb of memory when needed. But just be wise when selecting which apps to put asleep. I also use NovaLauncher as it is faster then any other I've tried and it's not hard on memory cache. Also other adive like @TripFX said, any KitKat rom can help you with memory management and performance. Me i use the lastest build of CM11 by @cars1189 with the Christopher oc kernel.
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Another advice also is to avoid modding too much your user interface cause for a phone like this it will make it slower, from my experience. Hope I could help! . (All these suggestions are from experiences i had and that helped me better manage my phone performances.) ?
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Appreciate your tips. You're right about Viber and communication apps, they're all using between 20-30MB each, but I need them so I'm leaving them on for now.
I'll definitely have to check out Greenify.
Also appreciate your tip about NovaLauncher, as I witnessed a few niggling issues with Trebuchet Launcher upon initial boot up after flashing the ROM.
I've limited my UI customization based upon your advice, I just have one page for apps and Google Now page to the left (I initially installed BaNkS GApps Minimal 4.4.4 but then flashed on top GApps Minimal GoogleSearch and AOSP Calendar Sync Addonas I was missing typing by voice and calendar events).
Do you know if there is a post/thread where I can find out the difference between kernels available for this phone?
I see for CM11 by cars1189 that there is ADC/Linaro Kernel and Christopher K^Kernel, but I can't find a comparison between the two.
Thinking of Future: Is it ok to dirty flash CM11 by cars1189 over CM11 by jfbs, or is formatting everything recommended?
Thanks for the replies fellas!
as far as basebands go that jfbs posted. either will work and there really isn't i a difference between the 2 and flashing either one should cause any harm to you phone that i'm aware of as i have personally tried both on same phone.
personally i never dirty flash but thats just my preference. however dirty flashing cross rom authors i would definitely do a clean install even devs would agree with that.
as far as warm battery you could undervolt it without overclocking to reduce the temp more so then how much temp increase you get from upping the frequency. So no matter what i would find my cpu's lowest stable voltage as it will give you longer battery life and lower temps. as long as your stable voltage is under 1.200mhv however i haven't heard anyone not be able to use 1.100mhv at stock frequency. how ever i would still start from stock voltage 1.2mhv and lower by 0.025mhv (1.175) test it out for a bit open and close and so forth. then lower it again by same about. and do so for each frequency below what set max frequency for.
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as far as basebands go that jfbs posted. either will work and there really isn't i a difference between the 2 and flashing either one should cause any harm to you phone that i'm aware of as i have personally tried both on same phone.
personally i never dirty flash but thats just my preference. however dirty flashing cross rom authors i would definitely do a clean install even devs would agree with that.
as far as warm battery you could undervolt it without overclocking to reduce the temp more so then how much temp increase you get from upping the frequency. So no matter what i would find my cpu's lowest stable voltage as it will give you longer battery life and lower temps. as long as your stable voltage is under 1.200mhv however i haven't heard anyone not be able to use 1.100mhv at stock frequency. how ever i would still start from stock voltage 1.2mhv and lower by 0.025mhv (1.175) test it out for a bit open and close and so forth. then lower it again by same about. and do so for each frequency below what set max frequency for.
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Ok, Clean Install it is.
As far as App + App Data Backup & Restore is concerned when flashing a new ROM, I have read about a variety of methods.
Method 1:
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Meaning, no need to Wipe Data. So all of your Downloaded Apps + Data will still be on the phone after flashing new ROM.
Method 2:
Wipe Everything.
Flash New ROM and Gapps.
Advanced Restore of Data and Cache Partitions via Recovery.
Method 3:
Wipe Everything.
Flash New ROM and Gapps.
Restore Apps + Data via program like Titanium Backup, ES File Explorer, etc.
I like the idea of Method 1, but I think you recommend Method 3?
What is your current ROM + Kernel setup if you don't mind me asking?
I think I may undervolt using the same settings from your OC and UV Guide. I figure it's the same phone, processor, etc.
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Ok, Clean Install it is.
As far as App + App Data Backup & Restore is concerned when flashing a new ROM, I have read about a variety of methods.
Method 1:
Meaning, no need to Wipe Data. So all of your Downloaded Apps + Data will still be on the phone after flashing new ROM.
Method 2:
Wipe Everything.
Flash New ROM and Gapps.
Advanced Restore of Data and Cache Partitions via Recovery.
Method 3:
Wipe Everything.
Flash New ROM and Gapps.
Restore Apps + Data via program like Titanium Backup, ES File Explorer, etc.
I like the idea of Method 1, but I think you recommend Method 3?
What is your current ROM + Kernel setup if you don't mind me asking?
I think I may undervolt using the same settings from your OC and UV Guide. I figure it's the same phone, processor, etc.
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I've had an issue in the past (Being builds of cm11) doing that but not during aoip days and had gapp issues. regardless of the 3 methods. as far as backing and restoring user apps+data. use es file explorer to copy apks to either sdcard. then connect phone to pc and make a new folder on desktop then copy all the apks and data to that folder. then after doing complete clean install and setting up the phone the way like it ( mods, advance settings, oc, uv, etc. then copy back over to sdcard then move the apks back to the original directory you pulled it from. However im just super cautious as it could have just be a fluke bug in cm11 that may have already been fixed. but as far as back up it which ever works best for you.
private testing mahdi build with rom. still using the settings that are in oc/uc guide. as far as kernels my phone does much better with jfbs stock rom kernels as they already have oc/uc support by default and has a much high user ram space that is stable. jfbs roms i think are for the more advance users that like to tweak everything where cars1198 is better for the everyday user. Hence why i use jfbs roms and wife uses cars1198 roms.
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private testing mahdi build with rom. still using the settings that are in oc/uc guide. as far as kernels my phone does much better with jfbs stock rom kernels as they already have oc/uc support by default and has a much high user ram space that is stable. jfbs roms i think are for the more advance users that like to tweak everything where cars1198 is better for the everyday user. Hence why i use jfbs roms and wife uses cars1198 roms.
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Thanks for all the great info you've been providing!
Which Kernel is she using with cars1198's CM11? ADC/Linaro Kernel, Christopher K^Kernel, jfbs?
Judging from the last few pages of jfbs' CM11 OP, it doesn't appear he will update any longer
ZHXS said:
Thanks for all the great info you've been providing!
Which Kernel is she using with cars1198's CM11? ADC/Linaro Kernel, Christopher K^Kernel, jfbs?
Judging from the last few pages of jfbs' CM11 OP, it doesn't appear he will update any longer
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K^Kernel hm and as far as jfbs it's hit and miss as far as newer roms and so forth go. Im not in a rush as he has done more than enough for our device and for free along with helping lots of users including but not limited to rude users. So expect him to do what he think is best and if someone doesn't like it they can just deal with it. I'm happy with the phone even as is. I mean this phone is uberly outdated hardware wise and has been really stressed to it limits even beyond anything rom before kitkat roms came out. However that's not to mention it prolly wouldn't have been possible without arco86, adc team, and others. So when/if he does i'm grateful for what he gives us. same for cars1198 and other devs on this site. Not saying anything bad about you but just giving a short version of where things are at.
FYI most people here on xda just prefer you either clicking the thanks button if you the post was useful or if it a bug related then logcats and brief description of the problem and wait patiently for someone who knows to either A) if dev - fixes it or asks for more info. B) if other user- tries to help you out if possible. Also as always even it something isn't to your liking the it would be wiser and nicer to post something like "Hey I really don't like X if you don't mind can you do X. If you are to busy or like X the way it is, that is fine and thank you for helping the community and good luck on you project."
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K^Kernel hm and as far as jfbs it's hit and miss as far as newer roms and so forth go. Im not in a rush as he has done more than enough for our device and for free along with helping lots of users including but not limited to rude users. So expect him to do what he think is best and if someone doesn't like it they can just deal with it. I'm happy with the phone even as is. I mean this phone is uberly outdated hardware wise and has been really stressed to it limits even beyond anything rom before kitkat roms came out. However that's not to mention it prolly wouldn't have been possible without arco86, adc team, and others. So when/if he does i'm grateful for what he gives us. same for cars1198 and other devs on this site. Not saying anything bad about you but just giving a short version of where things are at.
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Totally agree with you on all points. I'm very happy with the current state - I'm not planning to move to another ROM anytime soon. The way I see it, most of the monthly updates appear to be incremental changes, and not something that will radically alter the core functionality of the phone.
It's amazing development still happening for this 3 year old device.
Alright! Looks like @ZHXS you've found all the answers you needed.
I'm using the latest CM11 build by @cars1189. I don't remember what the difference between both kernels in cars' thread is, but I definitely know that the Christopher kernel is for OC and UV because it is the kernel i'm using right now. I will check it out again and come back at you when I find out.
For flashing one ROM over the other one I have done it many times (I don't know if it is fine or not but from the replies I think that it's not recommended) but i didn't encounter any trouble. Just but sure to nandroid before you flash on top. Also if it is an update of the same ROM you are running, it shouldn't cause any trouble in the future. The only thing is that if you had Xposed framework activated before the update, after the update you will have to reactivate it again because with an update of the ROM, Xposed framework gets deactivated. Also I would recommend a nandroid before the update just in case. :good:
Also for the launcher, I have just found out that the home launcher of the Z3 has been ported and I tried it out. And I got to say, it is definitely faster than NovaLauncher in my phone. It takes less more time to go back when I press the home button from anywhere I'm in the phone. It doesn't have too much tweaks and personalisation like NovaLauncher, but hey with this phone the simpler the faster. The only down side with this launcher is that there is an empty spot under the dock that creates a waste of screen space. Here is one of my screenshot:
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The thread author said that he(she, I don't know) is working on it so we might see a fix for it. But if you want to check it out, here it is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/port-xperia-z3-home-7-0-0-14-t2868655
That's all I had to say, happy to help you if you have any other question that I can answer.
I tested both kernels and it turns out that the ADC kernel looks like just a regular kernel. I had to do the flashing of the kernels on the 7-7-14 build because the ADC kernel was not available for the 8-28-14 build, and for the replies in the thread, the kernels for the 7-7-14 build and previous builds are not compatible with the 8-28-14 build. But I flashed it on the 7-7-14 build it did not show me any OC or UV settings and options. But I think that there is something else about this kernel that I don't know the presence of. But the Christopher kernel showed me OC and UV options so this kernel is definitely for OC and UV. There are also different versions of the Christopher kernel so you can check them out if you want.
And also the Xperia Z3 launcher port has been updated! The empty space under the dock has been removed. Looks like this now.
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If you want to check it out make sure to download the Home-superuser-nonav.apk . It's done by @Sahaab (just wanted to s/o him)
theking1st said:
I tested both kernels and it turns out that the ADC kernel looks like just a regular kernel. I had to do the flashing of the kernels on the 7-7-14 build because the ADC kernel was not available for the 8-28-14 build, and for the replies in the thread, the kernels for the 7-7-14 build and previous builds are not compatible with the 8-28-14 build. But I flashed it on the 7-7-14 build it did not show me any OC or UV settings and options. But I think that there is something else about this kernel that I don't know the presence of. But the Christopher kernel showed me OC and UV options so this kernel is definitely for OC and UV. There are also different versions of the Christopher kernel so you can check them out if you want.
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Wow @theking1st, going above & beyond testing the kernels! Thanks for the info man.
I'm kind of eager to OC now since after adding Google Search it's a bit slower again. I think I'll do that tonight, start fresh.:good:
ZHXS said:
Wow @theking1st, going above & beyond testing the kernels! Thanks for the info man.
I'm kind of eager to OC now since after adding Google Search it's a bit slower again. I think I'll do that tonight, start fresh.:good:
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besides the oc and uc there they both use different optimizations and default kernel tweaks. Personally i like having the oc and uv option. you can make it run faster then stock while having lower temps and longer battery life as well as faster charging wile the phone is actually on. Powered off its the same no matter what ya do as far as how fast it charges. also if your fine with the speed i;d still recommend undervolting as you can run at stable at lower mv then stock. How low you can goes varies from person to person but in general im sure you can run 1.2GHZ @ 1.150mv compared to stock 1ghz @ 1.200mv. if ya can go lower stable then kudos for getting a lucky kudos for getting a decent made chip. follow my oc/uv guide in the gen section if your new to it and you will be just fine and safely.