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[Q][i9000] Custom Firmware?

I have the 16GB Vodafone UK Galaxy S. Today I was in a city trying to use satnav and it was rank rotten. So I thought I'd see if an upgrade would do it. I was using the very first Froyo that Vodafone came out with - I upgraded to that and hadn't upgraded since. I did have it rooted and 1 click lag fix was on it.
I upgraded to Gingerbread just there, sadly I had to do a factory reset, however it's all working.
I have realised that if I am going to put a custom firmware on it then now is just the right time to do it.
Is there one out there that's stable, and an improvement over the Gingerbread I'm using? Particularly I'd like it to fix the lag (if that still needs fixed) and even better would be fixing GPS/Satnav.

Pinpong blockbuster rom - ticks all your boxes. Get faster fix from market.
Your gps will never be 100% satisfactory in the city, in fact it will probably always be poor - no matter what custom rom you use.

Halkus said:
I have the 16GB Vodafone UK Galaxy S. Today I was in a city trying to use satnav and it was rank rotten. So I thought I'd see if an upgrade would do it. I was using the very first Froyo that Vodafone came out with - I upgraded to that and hadn't upgraded since. I did have it rooted and 1 click lag fix was on it.
I upgraded to Gingerbread just there, sadly I had to do a factory reset, however it's all working.
I have realised that if I am going to put a custom firmware on it then now is just the right time to do it.
Is there one out there that's stable, and an improvement over the Gingerbread I'm using? Particularly I'd like it to fix the lag (if that still needs fixed) and even better would be fixing GPS/Satnav.
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Have you think about CM7? Great Rom, works well on my phone, and add many new things.

Hi Mate, I tried many custom roms and finally settled for
(ROM)GingerCriskeloV77-9LS-CamHack- SIP + NoIncRing I9000/T/M JVP 2.3.4
Cheers

Well, I managed to get it on. Booting up is weird though, it looks for a long time as if the screen is broken, but eventually ti comes on to the Blockbuster lock screen and then everything is fine. It does seem faster - but I'll only really know when I get to one of those situations where I feel the phone is frustratingly slow.
Thanks very much Woolf!
Time allowing I'll give the other roms a shot, although this Blockbuster one does seem to be good enough for me.

Sadly my phone now reboots constantly. it seems to do it when the screen locks

Halkus said:
Sadly my phone now reboots constantly. it seems to do it when the screen locks
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Check you got the installation right for that rom, maybe you had to flash a jvp stock first or some similar omission?
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Sorry to hear you're having issues. Try flashing to a totally stock JVQ first (with repartition) once you've backed up, then if you don't like that, try a custom ROM. I don't think many JVQ custom ROMs are worth trying if you want a taste of custom ROMs. Better to try CM7 or MIUI for something fast and different.
As a side note, the best tip I've seen for fixing the dreadful GPS we have with the i9000 is to buy a Nexus S or just ANY other phone! Yes, some radios appear better than others, but nobody can prove anything and it's almost all subjective feedback. A drop in the ocean of improvement needed for satisfactory function. If you must use it, a bluetooth GPS receiver and 3rd party navigation app seem the best way to deal with it.

I've now stepped away from Blockbuster. Even doing the a perfect install it crashed often and repeatedly. I did try upgrading to the very latest and that crashed several times in the past hour. Part of the problem was the rom starts with a lockscreen that has a messaging unlock on it, but it isn't set to an app that comes with the rom, so it reboots every time. Sadly that wasn't the only problem, as I was still getting loads of reboots.
So that's out of the way.
I'm now a lot more comfortable using Odin so I'll be able to try other options. I'll try the other two suggested in this thread first of all.
Next to test is CM7.
Thanks for the help folks!
CM7 aborted. Instructions are incorrect, the file they say to download doesn't actually match the instructions so that's out. Plus it clearly states it's not suitable for day to day use... so I don't thnk the time in working out how to fix it is justified since it looks like it wouldn't be useful.
I'm going back to the original question in the thread, to say that I'm looking for something stable. I now think that a custom rom is not the way to go. However some modifications may well be.
Can anyone suggest some kind of lagfix/speedup that isn't a complete overhaul like CM7, Blockbuster etc, that is very stable and that'll make my phone faster?
Edit : Part of what I was doing to install Blockbuster was install Speedmod kernel. So I've gone and put that on, and used the clockwork mod to root it, and also convert to ext4. I think things are looking pretty fast so far. I'm not sure if there's a lagfix for this, but I'm quite comfortable just now footering around - unlike the complete rom I don't feel out of my depth. So I think I'll be ok for now.

Newbie OTA Question

Hey, read some stuff on another forum post about leaked ota's that may help battery life. How do I know if I have the latest OTA...I bought my phone in July and it came stock with 2.3.4. Thanks

You do not have this OTA, you have the same stock rom as I do. This leaked OTA is from the soak test currently bieng run by users registered for the beta through Motorola Mobility.

No OTA's have been pushed so you have the stock 5.5.959 build.
An update was found on Motorola's update servers for the Droid 3 and leaked out.
Motorola has recently started sending notifications to users for a SOAK test OTA, once this is pushed to those users.....it's usually a week or two before everyone gets the update (if it was deemed a success).
You can apply the leaked update which does help the battery tremendously but rumors are that you will not be able to accept the official update later.
You may want to just wait for a bit......unless you don't mind the possibility of being at the leak update level permanently.

Thanks guys, I think I'll take that advice and just wait for an official OTA. Battery life does indeed suck for my droid 3. A bit unimpressed with homescreen lag, app drawer lag, camera lag, audio lag when listening to music, etc. Got Launcher Pro which helps alot but still laggy at times...hoping this ota will help with that?

With the increasing number of system and market apps that start themselves up for no apparent reason, whether it be just a footprint for faster launching, or update/admo services that never turn off, and blur bieng a resource hog in general, the lag isnt something that will be fixable until we can get more support for the devices massive specs, or a stripped down rom with a viable recovery option. Every stock app on the phone goes through MotoBlur, and with root, its extremely easy to break one of these apps if you install the wrong apk. Please be careful out there, and have fun with your phone!

Well...guess I'm waiting for OTA and...cyanogen, or roms in general to fix all these issues then...
*tryin to be patient*

I've found some extra battery life after rooting and freezing all the blur I didn't want.
Also I just wanted to say I'm in the soak group and we have not yet had any OTA's to try. They just sent out emails the other day making the soak group official. We should see something soon. It's looking like the 890 OTA will be official, which is great because it certainly has some battery life improvement...from what I've read.

The 5.6.890 OTA is great, but it breaks sleep mode.

go to setting-about phone-system updates
click system updates and wait
if there is an update for your phone
there will be a pop-up and will ask if you want to
download and install
if there is no update then will say your phone is up to date

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Just upgraded to Note 4, should I upgrade to Lollipop?

Hey guys. Just got my Note 4 (in white, I love it). Just finished setting everything up. Now I'm wondering whether I should upgrade to Lollipop. Basically I don't want to upgrade if there are any major bugs or other issues that sometimes pop up with firmware updates.
Or if someone can point me to the Lollipop upgrade thread because I couldn't find one.

In the poprocks thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...procks-rom-v1-tw-rom-bases-tmo-stock-t3096286
I found the stock COD6 download https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23991606952595535
I (not actually me, she) just got the note4 and I'm wondering the same thing. It came with NK4, I rooted and TWRPed and it's running stock 4.4.4. I have a Sprint S5 that's been running 4.4.2 since February and it's stable as hell.

I can talk about stock,since I have to stay that way for work purposes. 5.0.1 is ever so slightly faster. For me battery is about the same. I had to full wipe 3 times to get it to minimise bugs. Keyboard hangs about 2-3 times a day. About twice a month the phone will all of a sudden really lag or reboot when waking while it's reconnecting to data. About once a month I find I have to wipe cache partition because it'll start getting "buggy." That seems to keep it at least functioning normal for a few weeks.

Lag difference between custom roms and stock.

So, what is the difference between custom roms and stock roms that causes the lag? I've noticed two things with my 6. I've tried Bliss, PureNexus, crDroid, and purely rooted stock. On the stock rom, after a short while, my 6 lags more and more to where the phone is unusable. It's very frustrating. But, when I'm on a custom rom, it's generally smooth and very fast with no lag at all, BUT, I do get random reboots and shutdowns and fc's. I don't get reboots, fc's or shutdowns on the stock rom. But I get horrible lag. Is it possible to get no lag with no reboots? Has anyone been able to make a stock rom with no lag? That would be ideal for me. I do use root for a few things, call recorder, and backup mostly. Though I don't even need the backup much anymore with google saving everything online now. I've never tried to build a rom of my own, so I don't know what the difference would be to make one like that.

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So, what is the difference between custom roms and stock roms that causes the lag? I've noticed two things with my 6. I've tried Bliss, PureNexus, crDroid, and purely rooted stock. On the stock rom, after a short while, my 6 lags more and more to where the phone is unusable. It's very frustrating. But, when I'm on a custom rom, it's generally smooth and very fast with no lag at all, BUT, I do get random reboots and shutdowns and fc's. I don't get reboots, fc's or shutdowns on the stock rom. But I get horrible lag. Is it possible to get no lag with no reboots? Has anyone been able to make a stock rom with no lag? That would be ideal for me. I do use root for a few things, call recorder, and backup mostly. Though I don't even need the backup much anymore with google saving everything online now. I've never tried to build a rom of my own, so I don't know what the difference would be to make one like that.
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My fiance is a writer and she records all of her interviews. She has an LG G4 (totally stock) She uses an app called Bold Beast for recording her calls. No root required. (we did need to fiddle with the multitude of settings to get good recording quality...)
As for the lag, I've had my device since 9/16 (bought used on Swappa). It came with the Beta for N installed. I've been using official N since it was released as an OTA. I only experience any noticeable lag in one situation: When my phone is very low on battery (<30) and I use HDR+, usability and reaction times takes a serious hit. I'm a moderate power user, otherwise, and I haven't experienced anything else that I would classify as lag.
That said, I wonder if there was some serious batch quality differences when this phone was being manufactured as I've seen other complaints of lagging.
Good luck, and sorry that I could only provide a contrary anecdotal response.

What causes the Moto G series to freeze/bootloop? XT1925-6

Hello i have a Moto G6 that i brought from ebay for $30 originally $50 because i wasn't told it was google locked so i bypass it and made him give me a discount. It's in flawless condition but it freezes which is why i brought it thinking of just flashing back a rom for a easy fix but the phone never stop freezing. I flashed pie which most people complain was causing the freezing but it actually froze less than when it was on oreo which is weird. I than unlock the bootloader flash back pie after flashing multiple oreo/pie revisions without any luck. Also i install the nova launcher which help just like lineage but eventually it will freeze/bootloop. When i flashed pie i flashed lineage os 16 which did help but the phone still freezes. Since i really need a reliable phone coming from a Z2 play with proximity sensor issues but i can't say it wasn't reliable or not very strong. I got a broken Moto G6 with a crack screen but the device still works and doesn't freeze or bootloop yet so i am going to take the board and put it on my like new Moto G6. I just want a tip that will prevent the device to start freezing or bootlooping in the future. I am thinking flashing pie than flashing lineage os 16 for the long run just like i did with the old board because from my understanding leaving the phone stock on oreo or pie eventually it will cause it to freeze/bootloop and even though you do a factory reset or flash a stock rom it seems like stock firmware over time does permanent damage to the board in some way. That is just my theory, a crazy one but after reading all of this i might be on to something

I have a G6 (XT1925-6) on the latest stock rom (pie). It never freezes or bootloops on me. It runs for weeks at a time without issue.
I suspect you do have a bad board, but I suppose you could maybe try flashing the latest stock rom and see if anything changes.

I can confirm that there are no issues.

Guys,
try to install Chrome Beta and use it as default WebView provider (settings in Developer Options).
For me was a silver bullet: stopped a lot of force closing and random boots.
Good luck!