[Huawei Ideos X6] mmaacc:
Hi Gang,

Some of you may remember me from something I had done to the HTC Desire http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=755339 :)

May it rest in peace...

I got this Foxconn device, called Wellcom A99, nowadays and thought I give it a ramp up :). As previously, I'm pretty much a minimalist guy to squeeze the max out of my toys when and wherever I can. Here you go :)

This is a scaled down stock ROM, in terms of apps and memory hogging services. It took quite a while to go through testing and I assume I could get rid of all the bloat, still not compromising functionality. A number of apps are updated to the latest current versions as well.

The ROM does not touch anything kernel, governors etc.. I've been playing a bit with MIUI and CM7 and was somewhat disappointed particularly about battery lifetime. This MacLite should run lite, and smooth, with best in class performance. I will still look further into improvements, but I'm not jumping onto the overclock bandwagon. It's based on the latest (I think) Gingerbread 2.3.4 available from Wellcom for the FIH phone which you can grab in it's full beauty from here: http://www.wellcommobile.com/android1/.

This thing is FAST and without compromise. Everything works! It went through numerous versions and rounds of feedback, thanks for that. The latest and final version MacLite-FB0 v1.3, based on the last Wellcom firmware, adds, updates and fixes a number of things that should make it even more useful.

Thank you all for your input and feedback!

Changelog (v1.3)

- Last version based on Wellcom ROM

- Application Updates:

File Browser 2.0100.01

Note Pad 2.0040.02

Google Search 1.3.3.247963

Zeam Launcher 3.1.10

- 200MB+ free memory (thought I mention that finally hehe)

- This is the final release of MacLite-FB0 v1.x

Changelog (v1.3s)

- Further reduced Smaller v1.3 without Gmail and Email (useful if you use 3rd party Email applications and don't want to have those running useless in the background)

Changelog (v1.2)

- Removed Google Maps and Streetview, the latest update v6 appears to be somewhat of a memory and battery hog/zombie that comes to life all the time again, unkillable ;). You now have the option to flash a separate Maps/Street package v5 or v6

- Fixed a number of app signatures that prevented automatic updates

- As requested, added more languages (new locales for DE, ES, FR, NL, IT, PT, RU)

- If you use TouchPal Keyboard you can download the additional language libraries for free from the Market, I did not include these as not everybody needs all of them

Changelog (v1.2s)

- Further reduced Smaller v1.2 without Gmail and Email (useful if you use 3rd party Email applications and don't want to have those running useless in the background)

Changelog (v1.1)

- Added Email application back

- Update of Google Maps, Zeam, Youtube, Google Mail

- Ringtones and notification sounds are stored after reboot

- Additional languages are added (now English, Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese)

- CDA partition access now possible during update

- Modification of a number of apps and settings stored in CDA

- New boot animation

- A number of changes under the hood

To get MacLite-FB0 installed, I would recommend to get CWM Recovery installed first and flash the zip through it. You guys know how this works. Please do a factory reset. There are also a number of modifications possible to the boot screen and animation. Please check out the hidden partition (press volume up and power button to get into these, works best with Linux that automounts)

The ROM is odexed for performance reasons. I don't buy the argument of having deodexed ROMs for modifications, it's detrimental for speed and memory usage in my opinion.

It features Zeam launcher for being the fastest and smallest around, please feel free to install any other of your choice :). Wallpapers are not included, they are part of the official Launcher2 package which I killed, but any pics will work.

Please feed back on any old or new bugs found :).

Enough said, check out for yourself :)

Download (links fixed, 03/09):

MacLite-FB0 v1.3

MacLite-FB0 v1.3s

I consider version 1.3 based on the Wellcom firmware final. We saw already a new Android 2.3.5 from Sharp popping up, mixed with Motorola code as it seems. Eventually this will be the foundation for a version 2 of MacLite.

Cheers!

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