yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus S General] kaldean:
try not to flash another kernel. the dev put so much time into his own kernel and trust me after the experience its stellar bln is on the way.

this release aims to be as close to stock as possible.

battery life is amazing with this rom.

plz post your feedback, dont ask for features yet let the dev do what he does best.
[Nexus S General] BuglessPete:
BLN coming soon, probably over the weekend.
[Nexus S General] Enhanced:
Awesome! :)
[Nexus S General] nyijedi:
I just made the switch from CM7. This rom is noticeably faster. Great job as usual, Pete. I'll be sticking with this for a while. I was wondering if it's easy to add support for scrollable widgets to the stock launcher. That would be a sweet addition.

Also, can someone tell me the name of the app that lets you put the power control widget in the notification bar? I can't find it on the market and this is the thing I miss most from CM7.
[Nexus S General] eatTHESEbullets:
Can we please get a change log? And an updated op so we know when one is available?
[Nexus S General] info[]box1:
It's a thread in the apps and theme section with flashable zip for notification bar power control.

Edit: My only request is tmobile theme engine.
[Nexus S General] eatTHESEbullets:
If I am not mistaken the t mobile themes are for cm7 based roms only.
[Nexus S General] info[]box1:
im not 100% sure on that, but im running oxygen 2.2.1 right now which is bare bone stock asop w/ tweaks and mods(theme engine). pete said he will add the theme engine once this is Final.

pete thanks for the 081011 update
[Nexus S General] cabstrak:
Any changelog for 0810?
[Nexus S General] tonno16:
I think i/o twek there usa note because quarant stagione about 7 seconds in i/o.

Yes battery life is spectacular, but if i flash a different kernel the battery life change? ? What ISTAT native kenrel in this rom. How can i add the zoom in camera?
[Nexus S General] irishrally:
In a few weeks this ROM has the potential to sit up top with Oxygen as one of the best two NS ROMs. Pulling for a stable Carbon ROM with some creative UI tweaks to come through too.

Thanks.
[Nexus S General] saryu:
the best stock-ish ROM might be.. the best ROM, won't.. 1 ROM can't fit for all.. for me, the best ROM is a ROM with full of feature, performance, and stability. And thus, for me, superaosp (or superOSR) is the best.. SuperOSR offer CM7 features and more, nicely themed and the only ROM i know that able to use 2g/3g toggle without fc loops.. but for others (my friend for example), he likes simple, stable, fast, battery saver ROM, thus oxygen is the best for him and he hates superaosp..

currently, due to my own experience of testing ROMs

my best stock-ish ROM would be

- oxygen

- devnull

- this

- Carbon (although i think this ROM would head to feature-wise ROM)..

i wonder if we should post a poll in the general section =p..
[Nexus S General] irishrally:
ROM preference polls usually just end up with a bunch of bickering and pissing people off. As you said, people prefer different ROMs for different reasons.
[Nexus S General] mapin0518:
ummm what?
[Nexus S General] mapin0518:
So far this ROM has been fast and stable for me. I just got 32 hours of battery life running it at default CPU speed. Most the time was spent on wi-fi so phone wasn't working too hard, but still that's an amazing battery life for me.
[Nexus S General] blackerwater:
drugs are bad mmmkay
[Nexus S General] info[]box1:
Agreed the future of this OS is bright. I'm just waiting for the Final variant of this ROM w/theme engine mod.
[Nexus S General] :
My facebook and twitter widgets were acting strangely. They have little grey arrows to scroll through posts, and these arrows were in the right place after reboots, but soon moved to awkward locations, making them difficult to operate.
[Nexus S General] tonno16:
battery life is fantastic, but I/O test of quadrant score not much like others roms.

what kernel this rom use??

How can I add the zoom in camera app???

I read my last post only now and maybe the my phone's keyboard changed the word in automatic way
[Nexus S General] Enhanced:
The kernel is specific from the dev.

Zoom is camera will require another camera app from the market. You can't add it.
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
Wow, just flashed for first time, coming from strictly CM7 based roms and CM7 itself... this rom is really fast and smooth! Very nice, I am impressed. I also flashed the new kernel he just released and it's running great with no problems. I'm running the 8/10 release for gsm crespo.

To Peter, the test kernel seems to be running well; haven't encountered any issues. Thanks for your rom/kernel.
[Nexus S General] brainmaster:
@ BuglessPete is there a possibility to contact you per PM or Email? I have a question for you.
[Nexus S General] BuglessPete:
I turned PM off on forums, get too many lol

pete@android.net for email
[Nexus S General] Abdsyafii:
Tested new kernel for daily used. Good, doesnt have bug yet. Thank you...
[Nexus S General] Ezekeel:
While you are at it, any chance you could also implement this small extension to BLN (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1141233) in your kernel? I heard your ROMs tend to be quite popular and if you do not include it, I bet people will start asking me about it (like it happend for any other popular kernel so far).
[Nexus S General] tehgeekguy:
thanks for the heads up. I gotta say the rom is pretty solid... Looking forward to the future of this one.
[Nexus S General] irishrally:
bln and voodoo in latest build and now .14 kernel. good stuff, thanks.
[Nexus S General] saryu:
is there any changelog over the previous build? do you have any particular forum where you post the complete info so i can go over there and check regularly?

btw i'm yosua, i add you to circle on google+, so you don't hv to wonder "who is this?" or "should i add you in the circle". you don't, because for u i am nobody. but for me you are somebody =).
[Nexus S General] nyijedi:
Agreed. A change log would be nice, even if some of the releases are just bug fixes.
[Nexus S General] saryu:
nvm.. i just found out from his (pete) g+

this is what he said

"I don't do changelogs for nightlies because so much changes but you can browse around my github to see what changed each day. When I release the final build I will try to make time to update the changelog, its just sooo boring lol." so i guess i have to check from his github =)..
[Nexus S General] BuglessPete:
Here is where you can see change by change until a changelog is made for final release: https://github.com/peteralfonso
[Nexus S General] nixguy:
Does this rom support RTL Language? ??
[Nexus S General] magicriggs:
Volume wake request please?
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
8/13 crespo version running great here, fast with good battery life!
[Nexus S General] nyijedi:
This rom is faster and more stable than CM7 RC1 and the nightlies. However, like the stock rom, I still have moments where the GPS refuses to get a lock in a timely manner. CM somehow fixed this problem. I wish I knew what they changed to get a working GPS so that other devs could implement it.
[Nexus S General] mapin0518:
Interesting. My GPS usually locks right away or within 30 sec (even indoors), but it is so weak once I start moving in my car! It loses signal (GPS icon starts flashing) constantly on the road. On a perfectly clear stretch of road with no tall buildings, going under an overpass for a split second, having a bird fly above my car, you name it. So freakin' annoying. I've tried every ROM out there too, makes no difference. My Nexus One never had any such GPS issues.

I just read elsewhere that someone would launch the GPS Test app (by Chartcross Limited) and Navigation so both are running, and that would help keep the signal locked. I'll try that this week...

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[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
Mine holds a pretty steady lock (never really lose it while driving once locked) and usually locks within 10 seconds... I live in the Chicago area, and this is with pretty much every rom I've tried, stays very similar. Working fine for me on this rom as well. I9020T model.
[Nexus S General] nyijedi:
The GPS radio on the Nexus S definitely stinks. I've read about so many people having problems with it. At first I figured it was the radio itself, but I was on CM7 for over 5 months and whatever they did with CM7, the GPS worked perfectly. And I use my GPS a lot, so it wasn't like I was just getting lucky the few times I tried it. However, CM7 otherwise wasn't the most stable of roms - at least in my experience.
[Nexus S General] Naa Laa:
Looks promising for people who need simple, clean, stock, and good battery life. But I will wait till the final release as in my one day of use my phone got stuck 4 times and rebooted 3 times. Till then I will stick with OpenSoju which is similar to this ROM and to my taste plus its stable.

Thanks developer for this ROM and I will really look forward to the final release as the developer to my current ROM (OpenSoju) has discontinued updating.
[Nexus S General] BuglessPete:
Did you fully wipe everything before installing? Are you clocked to stock 1GHz? My friend Kyle has been running this ROM for about 4 months and never once had an issue.
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
Running from full wipe here (well updated from 8/10 to 8/13 with just dalvik wipe), running today at 1.3 ghz, super fast with no issues. Battery holding up pretty well also.
[Nexus S General] Naa Laa:
Yes, I did a full wipe before installing. I used "ondemand" with over-clocked to 1.3GHz - it worked good for 6 hours. Then I thought of trying "interactive" (this is not available in my current ROM and it was set as default in your ROM) with 1.3GHz and the phone got stuck in 5 mins so I rebooted and changed it to 800MHz as in your post it said it would help in saving battery, that didn't work either (stuck in 2 mins with a reboot). So finally I decided to change it back to "ondemand" and then I kept getting frequent reboots. So I finally decided to restore back to my current ROM.

Thanks once again and hoping to see a stable (final) version soon.
[Nexus S General] BuglessPete:
Overclocking can cause a whole mess of problems. If you have time and do happen to reinstall the ROM and you do choose to overclock, once the phone locks up and reboots wipe dalvik cache and all should be well. Some phones (all though they are the same model) can handle overclocking and some simply can't. I do not use the Nexus S on a daily basis so I am not sure if mine can or can't handle overclocking and maintain stability. If I do notice it being unstable for a majority of people I can increase the voltage a bit.
[Nexus S General] magicriggs:
Love this rom!
[Nexus S General] tonyleeloveyou:
here is the score of my own rom with the latest kernel,running at 1.4

View attachment 689861

but it stuck and reboot when i want to play some games, works very well all the other times.

now,i'm going to try this rom and see how it works.hope it's multi-lang...lol
[Nexus S General] kostin_d:
Yellowish line from top to bottom...

Did anyone noticed a yellowish colored lined from top to bottom across the screen with the latest kernel? I have it in this rom and also in brainmaster miui rom which uses Pete's latest kernel...
[Nexus S General] rougegoat:
I can't use MMS. Didn't see it mentioned anywhere, so....yeah.

Just the newest version. Nothing else flashed on it. Full wipe initially, dalvik and cache wiped every update.
[Nexus S General] tonyleeloveyou:
no,i have this kernel in two of my roms, no such problem
[Nexus S General] eatTHESEbullets:
I'm not sure if this is rom related but I have had very poor radio signal. Phone spends lots if time in SOS mode
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
Try checking your apn.
[Nexus S General] nyijedi:
From what I understand, the ROM shouldn't affect your signal at all - only flashing a different radio should do that. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
[Nexus S General] magicriggs:
As far as I know you are correct. Radio stays the same unless flashed by a new one.
[Nexus S General] 25thframe:
@BuglessPete - which radio you are using with GPA17? ( you personally) and which radio do you think is good for optimal performance. ( for Nexus S )

Sent via my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] nyijedi:
I know you specifically asked Pete, but I think the radio functions completely separately from the ROM, and thus, there's no best "combination" of ROM and radio. I suggest looking through the Radio thread in this forum. I've been in there recently, and in short, it seems like you want to use either KB3 or KD1 - performance of each of the radios seems to somewhat depend on your specific location.
[Nexus S General] BuglessPete:
I only have the Nexus S 4G which is completely different but I would recommend running the latest radio available.
[Nexus S General] rougegoat:
Not quite sure where to check that. Googling provides at least ten different(wrong) ways to check it. I did update PRL and Profile, and have had no issues with 3G or 4G whatsoever. Just no MMS.
[Nexus S General] matt2053:
CDMA phones don't have APN options, you won't find it because you're on Sprint :)
[Nexus S General] donkon:
I'm intrigued to get this, but is the rom significantly better than stock miui regards to battery life?. Currently I'm lasting about 11 hours with mediocre to heavy usage.
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
Battery life is too difficult to estimate from user to user; you have to just test it out with your own usage on your phone. It's a great, fast, stable rom and I'm enjoying it after being on CM7 roms for some time.
[Nexus S General] tonno16:
I tried this rom for 1 day. is really fast but not more than ns collab 1.0.39.

in this rom were is is possible to set up the volume key to swich song???

I don't like a things of android. in music player if I chose random songs, yes android play me random song but every time in the same order, why??
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
Cool, will flash now. Thanks.
[Nexus S General] doombox414:
I am trying out your kernel on Miui rom and the colors are amazing. The best colors that I have ever seen. But can't say the same for the battery life. Miui rom gives me 7 hrs with normal use.
[Nexus S General] tanclo:
modified build.prop 3G speed

7 hours is not good in my humble opinion. I usually rate a rom as average if i get 13 hours with heavy use with 3G. NS Collab gives me on average, 14 hours.

About this rom, i must say it is very impressive. Thanks to the developer. I want to keep it even though there isn't the power widget I have become used to having with CM based builds. Very fast, great battery performance and stable. I am constantly on the lookout for Blandroid 2.3.5 but to no avail so this ROM is a great solution for me.

One thing I noticed though is the 3g 'turbo' tweak isn't in the build.prop. i'm sure this is to ensure stability, though the sacrifice to 3G speed is very great in this respect. I tested the download and upload speeds of 3G in this ROM - and found those were slower than I am used to (Before the modifications I got 0,8 Mbps download and 0,6 Mbps upload), and so I have done some modifications that have worked for me after following various guidelines described by various others (cyanogen forums and elsewhere)

ro.ril.enable.korea.stk
ro.ril.enable.kt.feature
ro.ril.enable.hsupaind
ro.ril.hsxpa=2
#ro.ril.gprsclass=12
ro.ril.hep=1
ro.ril.enable.dtm=1
ro.ril.hsdpa.category=7
ro.ril.hsupa.category=2
ro.ril.htcmaskw1.bitmask=4294967295
ro.ril.htcmaskw1=14449
#ro.ril.enable.a53=1
#ro.ril.enable.a52=1
#ro.ril.enable.3g.prefix=1
ro.telephony.default_network=0

I commented out certain lines but those may work for others.

My download speed is now average 2,3 Mbps download and 1,03 upload over UMTS (3G) (bench bee app tested). Perhaps others can test theirs and feedback. It might very well be an issue with location/region (I'm in Korea).
[Nexus S General] doombox414:
@tanclo

I agree 7 hrs is nothing, I am currently running Petes kernel on a Miui rom, maybe that's why battery isn't running as good? But the glowing display he has setup on here is amazing. I am gonna stick with this kernel for now.
[Nexus S General] tanclo:
I noticed the brightness is set to maximum by default - even with automatic brightness checked. i immediately set it lower before doing anything else. I haven't noticed a major difference in colors tbh.

BTW, i successfully applied david1171's lockscreen and layout morphs to this rom for some extra flavor. apply it after reading that thread thoroughly though :-) as always
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
8/17 regular crespo version running great; no bugs to report! Running nice and fast at 1000/100 interactive (preset values).
[Nexus S General] lnjryan:
BuglessPete could you please add the option to reboot into recovery when long pressing the power button in future releases? Love the ROM but miss that functionality.
[Nexus S General] bluecluenj:
Just flashed the latest version (817). Really fast and smooth, clean ROM. I'd love to see the notification power widget to make this perfect. Great work!
[Nexus S General] bluecluenj:
That option is in the latest build.
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
I'm on the 8/17 version and there is no reboot into recovery option...
[Nexus S General] lnjryan:
That's the build I'm using and I dont see it either. Phew! Thanks for the confirmation, thought I missed something
[Nexus S General] bluecluenj:
That's completely bizarre! I'm on that build and my long power button press gives me silent, airplane, reboot and power off....

Duh, sorry didn't sleep last night lol....thought you were talking reboot, not reboot recovery
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
Mystery solved, lol
[Nexus S General] kecinzer:
Can I ask, what is pros of this ROM?

I looking for clean fast ROM with great battery life, but I like some stuff like notification power widget.

Is there any screenshots?
[Nexus S General] tanclo:
+1 on power widget. would it be hard to also include theme engine functionality?

Sent from Android 2.3.5-powered Nexus S
[Nexus S General] mapin0518:
I think the idea of having a "clean, fast, stable ROM" is a bit counter to all these growing requests for this and that (power notification, theme engine, reboot into recovery, etc etc). Once a developer starts adding requests, then you get complaints of "bloat" and people wishing for a "clean, fast, stable ROM". You can never win this game.
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
Agreed. The rom is great how it is. Just use the power control widget and throw it on a home screen.
[Nexus S General] q711179:
I am gonna agree with this too. A power control widget takes up little room on my second screen and the idea of keeping this ROM clean and bloat free is it's beauty. I have used CM in the past on my EVO and if bells and whistles is what you want they have a good ROM with lots of features.

I am looking for worry free battery life and above all, system stability. Great work Pete.
[Nexus S General] belair56:
Very nice

I have been running this ROM for a week now, very clean and fast. Not a single boot loop. I do miss some bells & whistles, but I vote for not bloating it.

I use the stock power widget, Quick boot app and MenuUnlock app to replace the parts usually baked in ROMs that I do miss.
[Nexus S General] jpalo:
Installed this on top of 161 CM and have got 2 reboots within 6 hours. :(

But also other kernels make thing less stable for some reason, I wonder what can be different in my setup...
[Nexus S General] JmPTaz09:
Hopefully you did a full wipe before flashing... this is not a CM based rom...
[Nexus S General] nyijedi:
You need to do a full wipe if you're coming from CM.
[Nexus S General] tanclo:
I expect there will be those who feel that way, but with respect i don't think the notification bar is bloatware and after 3 days usage, the battery life is a mere 7 hours which isn't remarkable. Neither does the kernel allow for undervolting.

Matr1x kernel v6.6 allows undervolting and includes ezekeel's touchkey dimming so I'm giving that a try on top of this rom.

One question i didn't find information on the site, does this rom support init.d?
[Nexus S General] fineazbro:
link is update 8/19/ is up.. i figure i let u guy know ;)
[Nexus S General] SA-07:
That was a typo on my part, its v6.0 lol
[Nexus S General] tanclo:
Is there a changelog?

lol.. You're the mathkid so i assumed it was a math formula from v5.5 v1.1 = v6.6
[Nexus S General] q711179:
I have played with the matr1x kernel on top of this ROM as well and have had amazing success. At one point I went too far with the UV and had crash on Skype call, had to raise it some at 800. Pete does not recommend using different kernel BTW. But some times a just gotta play ;)
[Nexus S General] tanclo:
OK.. I must reiterate i like this blandroid type experience a lot. Perhaps Pete has some undervolting in his new rom/kernel hence i'm wondering about a changelog to the updates.
[Nexus S General] q711179:
Change log provided on final release, until them you can view github link on ops first page.
[Nexus S General] jpalo:
Apologies, I was actually commenting on his kernel that can be found from his website. This thread seemed to only be about ROM.
[Nexus S General] eatTHESEbullets:
7 hours? I'm getting 28 with heavy use.
[Nexus S General] tanclo:
Well.. I'm going 8 hours since installing the 8/19th release.. heavy use, 3G UMTS all the time and 53% remains.. Only difference is im using stock android instead of LauncherPro.??
[Nexus S General] mapin0518:
You don't think that's bloat, and the next person to suggest another feature won't think their request is bloat either. That's the point. Slippery slope.

Also, 7 hours? You're doing it wrong.
[Nexus S General] KaLiBLeeK:
I'm getting over 6 hours of battery life while using Wireless Tethering for over 5 hours. Without that, I'm hitting a full day of battery life with average usage + I use LauncherPro plus. My battery life now > battery life with CM7 plus a UV kernel. I'm assuming, like all things, mileage varies per phone.

I am curious about one thing; for those that want features that are currently in CM7...why not just use CM7? That's not a dig, it's a legit question.
[Nexus S General] Maximilian Mary:
There's a fine balance between bloat and functionality. Bloat = any additional features or apps that I do not personally use. Some people probably consider google maps to be bloatware. Ideally, a custom rom would be clean and bare bones, with users being able to individually select each additional feature they liked. Personally, I like the notification power widget because it's quick, functional, and unobtrusive, just like the reboot menu. The notification power widget may clutter up my system partition, but the standard power widget clutters up my UI. I'll take the former.

- Sent from my ns4g running cyanogenmod with a custom bloat removal script, the stock launcher, and several tweaks and bug fixes.

.

Because ADW blows, and people don't how to remove it?
[Nexus S General] irishrally:
... because CM7 is not stable on the NS.
[Nexus S General] nyijedi:
CM7 is just not stable enough for me, and that's including RC1 and the nightlies. I loved CM back in the G1 days, but since it's expanded, I've found it to be pretty bad as far as stability goes - at least for the Nexus S. I'm very happy to have Pete on board for the Nexus S, as his roms were always my favorites on the OG Droid.
[Nexus S General] mapin0518:
I just flashed Carbon ROM to compare to this one, and they seem identical so far. Anyone know how they're different? Both are using Pete's kernel I see.
[Nexus S General] bluecluenj:
I guess I would answer that question with a question...why don't the people who are looking for a barebones "clean" ROM just use Blandroid or Devnull? For me like many others, CM7 is just too unstable. It's a constant search for the perfect ROM. NS Collab is pretty close to that perfection in a CM experience. I'm personally looking for something in between,Sort of like Infin1ty was while it was current and active. a fast, stable sort-of-AOSP experience with a few of the big tweaks like the notification power bar thing and bln.
[Nexus S General] djorijun:
I'm curious what this does for me? If I change this will I get better reception? If so, what should I change it to?