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[Nexus S General] robrob777:
Usage so far

Hey guys this graph is missing 3 days (I did my battery test) but here is an idea of the usage of the phone so far:

I have been charging the phone from 25+% to not more than 85% so the graph doesn't reset.

Display: 1D 17H 5m

Voice calls: 5h 51m

Wifi: 6D 7H

Up time is now: 550:20:12
[Nexus S General] mixtapes08:
Holy**** very nice.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
Switched my skanky CM7 Nexus S to MV rom with replaced libs. I'll miss the nice cherries but hopefully it won't be unstable.

This morning my backup alarm clock woke me up. My phone was stuck on 4:44am on the dock, as soon as I touched it, it flew into bootloop.

So, tired with that, I went ahead and rolled back to your setup. Still customizing it to make it like I had it. I wish we could fix CM7 for crespo but I understand everyone and their dog wants to run CM9. :(
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
Tip

Just to confirm

Radio KB3 is much stronger than my previous KD1, or B1.

Phone signal:

I have -little- reception in places where I absolutely didn't have reception.

WIFI:

I use the apts gym in the morning and now my home's wifi connects also there.

I call from time to time with skype, before the signal was getting interrupted easily if I was like 30 ft away from the router, now it seems OK.

Probably there is some side effects: battery life, but I'm not sure, the 3days test in the 1st post was done with the radio, so it is still OK.

Now 602:18:22
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
Nice rob. I am back after spending a few weeks on the "fastest" ICS ROM out right now.
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
I flashed KB3 to my phone before I installed this ROM. I have periodically had some signal issues with this ROM on KB3. But, I don't seem to have the same issues on other ROM's with KB3. this feels kinda strange. Anyhow, i am wondering if I should switch back to KB1 or try something different.

The radio issue is the ONLY issue I have had with this ROM at all. It has proven to be the most STABLE, lag free rom I have ever used.
[Nexus S General] DtownJeff:
I am using your setup as I am writing this. I forgot how fast GB is. ICS has some very cool features, but I prefer speed and preformance. I look at it this way, running ICS on our Nexus is like putting Windows 7 on an older XP machine. Yeah it works, but there just isn't enough under the hood to enjoy the whole experience. All that being said.....there are not many phones on the market I would take over my Nexus.

Going back to GB........may never come back.
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
My feelings exactly, I wish my NS would have better hardware to run ICS as it runs GB.

I like the look of ICS, so this is What I found to solve my issue:

Wallpapers:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21727212&postcount=14

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22137241&postcount=22

icons

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1309913

Now 663:51:42
[Nexus S General] wmdunn:
All Oxygen roms are aosp ...
[Nexus S General] rocket999:
I have been using ICS ROMs since I got my nexus s (the 4g one on sprint).

Why not use the latest lucid kernel? I see the 1.4B for the 4g, but why that one?
[Nexus S General] wmdunn:
It is a very stable kernel build for GB roms. Sometimes newer is not necessarily better ...
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
As Wmdunn said newer is not always better, in this case I read the changelog and 1.4B+ were new light libs mods and fixes to them. in my case I just need BLN, so I took the less heavy kernel, I'm sure version 3.0 is stable as well, I just haven't tried. The included kernel with oxygen rom 2.3.2 has a bug that will let the buttons on even if there is no new event (when the phone is sleeping) so it needs to be changed.

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lol, somebody cloned the thread (name at least).

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Now 687:40:12, I will provide screen shot when it crosses the 700.
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
I disliked that bug with a passion. You could touch the buttons and they would come on, drain your battery while your phone was in your pocket...

I'm now running an almost identical setup to your previous (Nexus MV + dalvik libs swapped), minus two very important things. I switched from franco's 08/12 kernel to Lucid yellow 3.0 last night and I have JIT enabled (having it disabled definitely shows in CPU speed calculations, games and benchmarks).

I was getting weird sleep of death with franco's kernel where the screen would light on just a split second and then freeze.

Sometimes I'd wake up in the morning to find my phone with a white dot right in the middle where the screen animation starts. Might be JIT, which is what I am testing right now since I switched to Lucid but kept JIT enabled. If it still craps out on me, I'm gonna test Lucid 3.0 without JIT and see how this goes. I imagine it would be very solid.

Any comment on this rob?
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
I know that problem, the black freeze of CM7, it is not a kernel problem, I used Lucid 3.0 and Lucid 1.4B, Matrix, stock cm7 in CM7, they all froze. I switched the libraries but the phone never made it to at least 170 hours, never, it was rebooting by it self(and recovering by itself), I didn't had any freeze when I changed the libraries (tested 1 month +), probably i should have done more test but the caller issue was killing me.

I moved to Oxygen since then and it is awesome not to be struggling with the phone, I know Oxygen does everything I want, wakes me every morning, calls work and don't crash also it saved me tons of time that I was spending flashing, backing up, restoring, etc etc.

I might not flash anything again :eek:
[Nexus S General] thegtfusion:
I loved oxygen yes when I was still on GB. Its very very good. Maybe you'll flash oxygen ICS when it arrives? :D
[Nexus S General] TheArtist8:
Do you know where I can find the ICS version of this ROM?

Sick stats btw, lol.
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
So even using MV CM7 N259 based rom with swapped libraries from Oxygen you weren't able to get it stable? I was in the assumption that you were able from your previous posts. :S

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding you. Because I've had freezes and SODs since the beginning with CM7 based roms every once in a while but always put the fault on me for too much undervolting or too much overclocking.

I don't have any caller issues so far (yay?) except when I call my voicemail on speakerphone, I have to put it on hold and back for me to hear it.
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
Even using the dalvik libraries from Oxygen, Nexus MV was still rebooting for me(not freezing, it was usable after 15 seconds, no bootloops), I did my test for around 40 days with no freeze, but many reboots. I think I need to go and edit those posts.

It is not a kernel fault, it is something in CM7.

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About the question of Oxygen ICS, I don't think there is one yet ?.

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Now 720 Hours= 30 Days= 1month.

Screenshot provided.
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
Ah crap. It might be a good idea to edit those posts indeed, I was really thinking doing all this would fix my freeze and reboots. :(

Oxygen just misses a lot of the customization I've grown fond off and accustomed to.
[Nexus S General] migz012788:
Im on stock rooted ics and this rom is really good. I also use my phone on HD gaming. I really plan to switch back again from ICS to GB. So what will i do? My last GB version of my phone before i switch to ICS is 2.3.6 GRK39F.

So will i flash that GRK39F? And flash a KB3 radio? And root it and flash the oxygen rom + lucid kernel? Am i right?

How was the HD gaming experience here on oxygen rom? Is it smooth? My HD games i like to play is 9mm, backstab, gangstar, asphalt6 etc. Are they running smooth? I also like to play gameloft games but it seems some of it bugs on ICS. They FC. Another reason i want to switch to GB again.
[Nexus S General] migz012788:
Sir, can you give me the specific download link of the kernel you are using? I cant find the 1.4b on the link that you give. I only see lucid yellow 3.0 and 4.0. I can see the 1.4b
[Nexus S General] wmdunn:
It is down the page at the link posted ...

https://docs.google.com/#folders/0B9QXMU6NWg4mMTMyMjBjODgtNWZhOC00MTZmLTg3ZmUtZmM1Mjg1NjIxZmQy

The above is the list of previous releases. This is the link to that specific kernel. Once there you will need to press the file menu ...

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9QXMU6NWg4mMmNmNzRiMmItYjUwNy00MjdmLWFmZWEtMmExMjFkMDU1YjRl/edit
[Nexus S General] DiRT_360:
Awesome rom, i will try it now !
[Nexus S General] migz012788:
Ill try this one. How was the gaming experience on this rom? I usually use my phone on gaming
[Nexus S General] rasengan82:
I made it to 1000 hours on Stock unrooted GB a few months ago.
[Nexus S General] DtownJeff:
Just installed cm7 (that's right 7) nightly from Monday the 12th. I like this a lot. Oxygen is great and I am a bugless guy for sure, but do a full wipe and try the 3/12 nightly. I was pleasantly surprised.
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
Nice suggestion, but believe me it won't be stable unless they changed a lot. Many users reported it, but any CM7 based ROM was never ever completely stable. No matter what kernel you're using, or what version.

I was using Euroskank CM7 kangs until the start of March and even with those brand spanking new CM 7.2 RC1 kangs it wasn't completely stable.

I've tried MarkVis Nexus MV CM7 ROM with switched library like robrob777 explained but even that wasn't stable. Just a misunderstanding.

Now yesterday I just switched to Oxygen 2.3.2 with Lucid 3.0y kernel and so far so good. Rock stable and very smooth. You lose a lot of the customization from CM7, but until someone can get that **** straight (likely won't happen since everyone and their dog is on ICS) that's the only third party ROM for Nexus S that won't crash on you... :/
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
I keep coming back to this ROM. I back up my text messages and test other roms....then I come back to Oxygen. We will see.
[Nexus S General] DtownJeff:
I agree. I have never been a cm7 fan. I just like the fact that they are still developing GB.
[Nexus S General] skizzled:
Yeah, I've never had good luck with CM7 at all on my Nexus S 4G. Constantly having stability issues. Glad to see I wasn't the only one who avoided ROMs based on it due to constant issues.

It definitely is nice to see and I give them props for it.

Oxygen was always the most stable for me when I was in search for a GB ROM. I could see myself getting similar up-times if I wasn't so reboot/flash happy. Can't wait to try out the ICS Oxygen when it finally comes out.
[Nexus S General] migz012788:
This rom is really stable and so fast. I am using stock kernel of oxygen rom. And when i play gameloft HD games like 9mm and backstab, there is no lags. Im much happier on GB than ICS.
[Nexus S General] allenxx:
hey rob, just curious on how you hand your quadrant scores really high as i have 2564 score. I have installed the same thing just like you have, I have my Oxygen rom, and the same lucid 1.4b..Can i even upgrade the kernel to the latest say, Lucid Blue 3.0...btw why does the colour even matter such as Lucid Yellow or Blue??? Just curious. Also what governor did you have it set on?
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
Hey Allen,

The score in the 1st post was done with Quadrant V1, I just did a test with V2 and it scored 2715(after almost 800hours uptime), It beat Galaxy nexus in both I/O and 2D score.

About blue and Yellow kernel, The yellow kernel will allow u to adjust the Red Green and Blue value in Vodoo. I used this for a while but never got something I liked, Using the blue, just go to Vodoo>Color profiles> select Voodoo V1<2.3.3. It looks really nice IMO.

My CPU is 100/1000 on demand.

Now:795:16:54, give me 10 mins and I will post the Quadrant V2 and uptimes.
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
Pics updated

Pics updated + Bonus pic to meet the device in first post.
[Nexus S General] migz012788:
My quadrant. Oxygen rom and stock kernel of oxygen rom(havent flashed any kernel). Not overclocked(max 1ghz - min 200mhz) noop.
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
I got 2812 using Quadrant V2 on Oxygen 2.3.2 and Lucid 3.0y. Good stuff. Haven't rebooted since 62 hours too. No need to! :)
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
Can we say STUDICIOULOUS!!!! Stability.
[Nexus S General] Andrew1998:
Wow it really that is the better rom for this mobile phone ? Which is the better kernel for this?
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
If you are looking for stability, speed, and battery life then yes, this is the best ROM for this phone. This is the ROM I keep coming back to. Right now I am testing Pixel 1.6 slight touch and I have to say, this might be the first ICS ROM to hold my attention and meet my needs for more than 2 weeks. The OP mentions Air Kernel I believe but I could be wrong. Check the first post on this thread.
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
Best ROM? Maybe, maybe not.

But that's the only Gingerbread ROM that is 100% stable for the Nexus S, other than the stock.

ANY CyanogenMod 7 based ROM is technically unstable. Sucks because I love what it brings, but at the price of maybe not waking up in the morning if you use your phone as an alarm... ;)

Now ICS is a different beast.
[Nexus S General] Andrew1998:
Ok i have on my nexus s GummyNex 0.8.2 it's amazing but i would try this because it attracts me . One answer : when google release ice cream sandwich official , with this rom i receive the OTA ? It better gummynex or pixelrom or codename or this rom ? I would have a rom that is Speed,Stable,Beatiful and without reboots or slowdowns ... can you advise me Air kernel ,Matrix Kernel or lucid kernel?
[Nexus S General] stremax:
i'll never be able

lol best uptime with my phone is something like 48hrs... I can't live without flashing something and rebooting and on and on!!!:D
[Nexus S General] Evo_Shift:
I'd love to know the best uptime any ICS rom has managed. This is pretty awesome.
[Nexus S General] Andrew1998:
what is uptime ? and the rom's download is : UPDATE-OXYGEN-2.3.2 for new people who would try this
[Nexus S General] marcelnn:
Here you go. This is on "stock" 4.0.4, GSM NS. And I didn't even try to get this up time. It just didn't reboot. Usually plug it in when it's 15% or so.

That's why I don't think this GB rom isn't all that impressive.
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
No you won't receive the OTA. OTA is blocked on most if not all custom roms for a good reason. Upgrading straight to the OTA you will lose all additional functions and it might even throw your phone into a boot loop. You need to wipe data between flashing roms.

As for kernels, it's mostly a thing of preference.

It's impressive for a GB rom. ;)

Edit: Post 666. I'm not posting ever again.
[Nexus S General] Andrew1998:
Ok i would install this rom , wipe all ( data chache battery and dalvin ) then i install update oxtgen 2.3.2 and air kernel , it's true or i can take gapps?What is uptime?
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
I'm not sure I understand what you want to do.

If you want to install ANY custom rom it's recommended that:

1) You make a nandroid backup (in case you want to go back or something breaks)

2) Reboot to recovery and wipe data, cache and dalvik cache

3) Install ROM

4) Install kernel (if you don't want the kernel included with the ROM)

5) Reboot and wait a bit while the system boots (first boot is always slow)

Additionally you might want to backup your apps and data with Titanium Backup (pro version recommended so you can batch backup them)
[Nexus S General] Andrew1998:
Ok i know this, it's better than air the stock kernel?

If i would like to return GB stock i install stock rom and i "fastboot oem lock" for receive ota ?
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
Like I said, kernels are preferences. They're all very similar but they have their own ups and downs.

You don't need to fastboot oem lock. Only install stock rom.
[Nexus S General] wmdunn:
Andrew ... Air kernel is for ICS. It is not for Gingerbread roms.
[Nexus S General] allenxx:
umm

hey guys which one do i choose for the i9020t Lucid Blue 3.0???? Its a gsm btw

Lucid Blue 3.0: (pre-2.3.3 voodoo color drivers)

Stock 2.3.4-2.3.7 NS GSM

or

CM7.1+/Any Rom 2.3.4-2.3.7 NS+NS4G
[Nexus S General] wmdunn:
Depends on which rom you're running. Anything other than stock would be ...

CM7.1+/Any Rom 2.3.4-2.3.7 NS+NS4G
[Nexus S General] allenxx:
im running oxygen 2.3.2 would you say thats stock?

CM7.1+/Any Rom 2.3.4-2.3.7 NS+NS4G Can i install this kernel on my Nexus S gsm phone right? i mean if oxygen isnt stock
[Nexus S General] ljordan2:
Oxegen isn't a stock rom. It's a custom rom.
[Nexus S General] wmdunn:
Yes ... that is the correct kernel for your phone.
[Nexus S General] jh1997sa:
Oxygen is the most stable ROM I've ever used too, it's amazing and fast
[Nexus S General] SurgeonKyle:
This just makes me more excited for the ICS builds of Oxygen coming, used the GB version when I first got my NS4G a few months back, and it was always solid as a rock.

Absolutely love the Oxygen team.
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
Ok, so it has been ten days aka 240 hours since we have seen a new screenshot. Update?
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
2.30 more

Almost, need 2 1/2 hours more.

It is now 997:42:xx
[Nexus S General] thegtfusion:
what would you do?? it rebooted :o :p
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
After I pass the 1000 hours? I probably reboot this monday bc I need to test drive a G.Nexus and need to pull my SIM out of my phone.

Also I need to apply the fix for the caller issue, I had it 3 times during this 1000 hours..
[Nexus S General] thegtfusion:
no before 1000hrs :p like when its on 999.30 hours and then the device freezes! :D
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
lol, I'll take screenshots at 999 just in case ;-) .
[Nexus S General] thegtfusion:
Hahaha just trolling :D :D
[Nexus S General] xjerlzx:
AMazing. i have gone from...

stock 2.3.4(where i bought my phone) > stock ics > stockics + eugene kernel > cm9 (worse batt life ever > Bugless beast (matrixkernel) > Pixel rom lite (matrix kernel) (bb wasnt fast for me enough)

Now.... after reading this thread i have decided to GB(oxygen 2.3.2)

I must say its the BEST rom out there.

ics with all the features... just dint work out. the Oxygen rom is so much more responsive and fast.

btw i dont OC but i UV. thanks robrob =D
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
Done

Hey Guys, so the test was successful, passed the 1000 hours, 1st post updated.

Result: Yes Oxygen GB, is the most stable ROM I've ever tested.

381 Calls (20+ hours voice calls), 0 crashes.

I haven't notice any slowdown, still feels fresh and responsive.

I did suffer 3 caller issues(less than 1% of the calls) (on incoming calls cannot hear the caller until hold-unhold the call)

Tomorrow I'm going to apply the caller issue fix found here (Reboot needed):

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=4681 post 47
[Nexus S General] ljordan2:
Cool:) I really hope oxygen ics gets released soon.
[Nexus S General] wmdunn:
Congrats ... interested in your opinion of the GNexus, especially how it compares with the S. Thanks for staying with this thread.
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
Congrats. I am enjoying Pixel ROM right now but if I ever miss GB I will definitely switch back to Oxygen. One random observation. On Oxygen ROM, dome of my games would not be playable in airplane mode. I use airplane mode every day because I commute to work by subway underground in NYC. With Pixel ROM the games will start and play in airplane mode. I wonder what is making the difference.
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
Turned off now.

So I rebooted to apply the caller issue fix (see my last post) and to test for a few days Lucid 3.0, the fix looks compatible with Oxygen (it boots at least).

During this 1000 hours I didn't experienced any slow down at all, I even removed the task killer I was using in the last 600 hours, the phone managed the RAM pretty good, one thing that might help is that I removed a buch of system apps before starting the test. Here is a list if you want to try:

Removed (renamed the .apk extention, to reinstall, add the .apk again and reboot):

System/app/

*GenieWidget (Android Weather and News)

*Googlefeedback

*Googlepartnersetup (??)

*Googlequicksearchbox (Google search app, search button still keeps its functionality)

*Launcher2(You Must have another launcher installed before renaming this, in my case I use Launcherpro, it has low RAM usage)

*Marketupdater (so my market doesn't update, I have the old old one)

*NFC (You may need this if you use google wallet or similars, need battery pull after, but it removes around 5mb of RAM usage)

*Picotts (Keep it if you use voice commands, or dictation)

*Tag (Tag app)

*Talk2( Google talk)

*VPNservices (Keep it if you use VPN)

You can rename system apps with Root explorer or root browser.

The Goal of doing this is to increase Free RAM and lower background CPU usage.
[Nexus S General] xjerlzx:
whats ur ram on avg
[Nexus S General] thegtfusion:
On gb oxygen i had around the 200mb free. (Whatsapp, sync, fb, music running )
[Nexus S General] xjerlzx:
will using titanium backup to freeze apps work as well?
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
I notice that Lucid kernel boots with 180mb free, somehow Franco's GB kernel boots with 205 free in my phone, same apps. I'm trying Franco's instead of Lucid 3.0 this time.

I use Whatsapp, widget locker, password delay, custom keyboard, Fb.

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For the question about Freezing apps with titanium, I think it will work, not sure how the phone will behave after freezing NFC. When I renamed it was FC every second, had to pull the battery
[Nexus S General] tmuka:
Is it just me or all the lucid nexus 2.3b and 3.0 download links on minus broken? I'm looking for a ns4g gb version...

Thanks!

Btw, thanks for the awesome up time reports!
[Nexus S General] doc_v15:
Dude!!!!! Thank you!!!

Thank you for this amazing revelations!!!

By the way, you did mention using franco kernel, which version?
[Nexus S General] wafflepancake:
considering to flash this rom on my NS

now im using pixel rom, fast but more battery drain :p

i hope oxygen cant make the ICS version

btw this is my 1st post

:D
[Nexus S General] wmdunn:
I have always preferred the 11/25 version over the 12/08 ...
[Nexus S General] xjerlzx:
u should flash to oxygen
[Nexus S General] xjerlzx:
which version of maps and fb are u using? i face that issue of it keep running too.
[Nexus S General] xjerlzx:
btw ....

thats what i managed to get =]

btw what i/o schedule and governor is recomended for batt life in luccid?
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
Hey, I did this with ICS, Pixel ROM to be specific. I wonder if there are any ICS specific files to do this to. When I did this I noticed certain ones were missing. Hmmm..I never did a battery pull though.
[Nexus S General] doc_v15:
Thanks, by the way, is this one is CFS or BFS?

Also, with maps, which version did you use?

Thanks
[Nexus S General] doc_v15:
Whats your I/O Scheduler??
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
Some Answers.

About the Maps and FB versions I use.

FB 1.5.4, got it online.This version doesn't have the black panel on the left, it has the oold style, it is fast though, light, doesn't use when u open it and everything works.

Maps (This is my best app probably) I use Brut maps 4.6.0.4686. brut renamed apk. It is awesome, you can setup offline cache, so everything you see, gets saved in the phone, Very useful when traveling to other countries, I took my phone, set airplane mode and was able to at least locate my self and see all the streets, you can get directions via wifi and they'll stay there when there is no connection. And best of all, it doesn't run in the background.

Even if you have data, you don't need to wait for the map to load in many occasions. Got it here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=630887

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About francos kernel version, I took the latest but I have never tried, there are some suggestions already, thanks!!.

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About I/O scheduler, don't know, default? I just set 100/1000 ODemand in CPU settings nothing else.

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I received the G nexus (not mine) but I set it up. I'll post some pics.

Edit Old FB attached, Disclamer: I took this from the Web, I have use it at least 4 months no problems