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Paranoid Android: Rebirth.v1.0.RC1

Flash-aholic Samsung EPIC 4G owners, ready for the best piece of news since the releas of the Epic? Last week evil supra-genius Developer/Founder/CEO of Independent Android Project, Justin D. Maggiolo, released his latest update to the Paranoid Android ROM.

Justin's Paranoid Android v15, and the Honeycomb Dreams update were already the apex of Epic development, and this newest effort "Rebirth.v1.0.RC1" has taken cake with icing and added ice cream with sprinkles to the mix.

Here at .:android monsters:. we have been testing Rebirth.v1.0.RC1 on 6 different Epics for over a week. The results have been identical on all of these devices: AMAZING. We cannot figure out how 1 guy can pull off what an entire community of so-called developers has not been able to, but we must admit he has, and IAP makes rooting and ROM installation easy and safe enough that an 8 year old can do it. Just head over to IAP's download page [http://indandroidprj.zxq.net/downloads.php] and grab the IAP OneClickCWM 3.1.01 app, a copy of Rebirth, and the JournalingOn.zip. [Yes, enabling journaling is wiser/safer, be smart!] The OneClick is the most stable and easiest to operate that we have seen to date. It will root your Epic, install the Genocide kernel, and an awesome purple "Genocide Inside" custom version of the Clockwork Mod recovery tool that you can use to update to your Epic to Rebirth.v1.0.RC1.DO IT NOW OR DIE

ROM: Rebirth.v1.0.RC1Under the Microscope

On first boot we are immediately struck with the sounds of a bio-mechenical metamorphosis as we stare bug-eyed at a terminal green throbbing atom-heart. As the home-screen loads we are presented with the image of an embryo in an atom enswirled coccoon. Let me say right now that it is easy to tell from looking at the UI and every other piece of imagery in the system that there is a true artist living in the heart of developer Justin D. Maggioilo. The ammount of time involved, and the amount of surreal creativity involved with producing a true custom ROM like Rebirth.v1.0.RC1 is Extremely rare.

Rebirth.v1.0.RC1 comes with the heavily customized Genocide kernel including 4 I/O Scheduler and 6 CPU Governor settings. overclockable to 1.4GHz. And we can personally vouch for the insane battery life.

In Settings you will find "Lockscreen parts," at the bottom, where you may adjust the speed of Window/Transition animations; enable fancy input animations/haptic feedback/compatibillity mode. Also in "Lockscreen parts" you can choose from 6 different lockscreens, and even enable always-on music controls.

Although the system launcher is based on TW it is extrordinarily not touch-wiz like at all. Super-stable, heavily customizable [app drawer has inverse cubed horizontal rotation by default] which also supports the use of 3rd-party launchers, and scrollable widgets without flaw.

Also written into the system is the extra cool application called Viper Pad.

Viper Pad is a 4x3 invisible grid which is accessible via touch from the bottom corners of the screen. You can assign apps, shortcuts memos, etc..., to any of the twelve slots in VP which are accesssible from anywhere! Insanity for sure. It does not matter if you are in an app, on the net, in the dialer, or viewing the contents of your sd card, you can easily access the VP grid via a simple swipe.

We have had wide reports of signal reception/transmission from a large number of people, with most saying their reception jumped 2 bars. Crazy.

The one thing/first thing we heard most from ALL testors was about how incredible the battery life was.

We had talked with Justin 2 weeks ago and were told that he would be making some changes to the kernel, indeed. All Testors reported over 24 hours between charging with moderate use, and some were getting as high as 36-38 hrs. between charges. All of these phones were operating with the Scheduler set at Noop, and the Data Governor set to Conservative. These phones have been daily-driving the ROM with CPU set at either 1120 or 1200. Overclocking/Undervolting has been made simple with the system Voltage Control App. Quadrant results can be impressive, though not a true qualifier of stabillity or actual capacity. That being said, I scored an psychotik

2,276 on Quadrant Standard, twenty minutes after install, clocked @ 1.3GHz running Anticipatory/Interactive.

Justin tells us that this EC05 based ROM is a release candidate [although we have been hard pressed to find bugs], and that the final realease will be impervious even to kryptonite. He also let on that he has something special cooking that smells like ginger and honey that will be based on EH17. If it is anything like his EC05 build, be prepared to be blown away.

Well that's a wrap. And please do the right thing. Be a constructive part of your dev community. The manufacturers and the carriers screw us all, but developers like you find at Independent Android Project not only fight against that kind of tyrrany, they freely give us ways to take back control of and much more greatly enjoy our phones/lives via long hard hours of work without pay. If you download the ROM, please head over to indandroidprj.zxq.net and make a donation. Anything is better than nothing. The devs that do the kind of job that Justin has deserve more than bug-reports. Yes, D-O-N-A-T-E.

-heXkil

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