yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 and Desire Z General] JPo_23:
When I try to flash the zip for RCTweaks linked to in the first post, I get 'installation aborted'. Anyone else having this problem?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Stunherald:
Yes, same issue for me. Even if i'm trying to unzip it on PC, i get error message

! RCTweaks_V2_For_RunnyDrOiD.zip: The archive is either in unknown format or damaged

Maybe corrupted attach?
[G2 and Desire Z General] tbridgewater:
Thanks great performance boost, I also added the GPS fix @ http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1472870 and that sped up GPS acquisition time.
[G2 and Desire Z General] agazza:
Have you tried ILWT cm7?

Is this faster?
[G2 and Desire Z General] BootloopedMillennials:
For me CM7 and ILWT CM7 are the fastest ROM's for the G2/Desire Z.

Heres my Antutu benchmark on CM7 with ILWT kernel (stock SD card, overclocked to 1017 MHz, 96 apps, and no other mods).

Total Score of 2662

RAM: 287

CPU Floating Point: 298

2D Graphics: 287

3D Graphics: 677

Database IO: 295

SD Card Write: 52

SD Card Read:92

CPU Frequency: 1017MHz

Will be adding V6 Supercharger mod later today, to kill any hint of lag.

Edit: Installed V6 Supercharger and Antutu total score is now 2724.
[G2 and Desire Z General] h.motawee:
Yea fastest by a really little amount .. but enjoying a sense 3.5 ROM with these stability and smoothness .. i think its way better than cm7 and ILWT CM7

Happy to hear that these settings make the Desire Z faster with any ROM ;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] mrvanx:
Im running V6 supercharger (update 9 RC7) and I dont see the MegaRAM option?? Is there a criteria for this I have to meet first?
[G2 and Desire Z General] h.motawee:
In the setting I stated that I am using V6 super charger update 8 .. I didn't try update 9 RC7 so I can't answer that .. check it on update 8 and get back to me :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] zofox:
Without switching to a previous version of V6 SuperCharger simply use supercharger with option 10 ( 8 14 90 100 120 150) and you have done! :)

inviato dal mio desire z. by zofox/zabak
[G2 and Desire Z General] zaccywaccy:
Total Score of 2687

RAM: 315

CPU Floating Point: 291

2D Graphics: 288

3D Graphics: 689

Database IO: 270

SD Card Write: 43

SD Card Read: 117

CPU Frequency: 998MHz

This is for RCMix Energized edition ROM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1401560 straight out of the box no tweeks or additions. Memory card is the 8GB that came with the phone. Had it on the phone for about 6 weeks and it is absolutely stable.
[G2 and Desire Z General] killerkom:
Is there no way to have a home screen in landscape? :confused:
[G2 and Desire Z General] zofox:
Desire z sense 2.1 is the only htc sense laucher that has the landscape mode, so in every 3.x sense you can't switch from portrait to landscape :/

inviato dal mio desire z. by zofox/zabak
[G2 and Desire Z General] killerkom:
Thx for the info!
[G2 and Desire Z General] vmartinez39:
Honestly have to say thanks for this info.

I found that ROM to be the most stable but your guide gave all the mods you need to make it right.

Kinda feel bad not using the G2 as I should. But mainly because the display might die on me.

I like the phone, stable, and reliable GPS.

Thanks dude
[G2 and Desire Z General] orestlenczyk:
this benchmark results are little strange to me

i can easly get quite more with just cm7

img441.imageshack.us/img441/6559/mailgooglecombd.jpg

i guess i missed something?

ps its not image, couse i am not permitted yet :(
[G2 and Desire Z General] Guru Zeb:
Oh yeah am sure you'd be this picky if your scores where the higher, IMHO 2662 or 2724 vs 2489 is not a minor amount it shows a clear speed superiority !!!!!!!!!

Especially when you don't have to d... around with additional kernels or mods :rolleyes:

Here we have below someone with a lower overclock spanking the OP's scores .......... :rolleyes:

.

Now in the interests of both fairness and accuracy I'll point out that I do have a cheap class10 SDcard and my Overclock is also a few points higher than yours (my OC app sticks to clear multiples based on stock multiplier) But taking both into account am still beating your scores on a stock ROM with no custom kernel or additional mods.

Not just that i get considerably more free RAM too, according to Titanium backup with 140 apps installed think about 15-20 of those are on my Sdcard :rolleyes:

All this on completely stock Miui Gingerbread ROM :rolleyes:

.

To round off i'd just like to point out how synthetic benchmarks (Apps like Antutu) often do not translate into real world performance, as anyone with a few years experience doing anything useful with computers well knows. If your still convinced they do have a google search as the topic has been extensively researched since the 70's.

Its ironic to point out but all synth benchmarks do in most cases is give the terminally competitive a somewhat limp stick to beat others with. they are nothing to get smug about.

laters gators :D

MOD EDIT: Edited for attitude!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] itszrj:
RAM:340

CPU integer: 739

CPU float-point: 324

2D: 288

3D: 667

Database IO: 275

SD Card write/read: 57/184

CPU freq: 1152

Total: 2874

220+ MB Free
[G2 and Desire Z General] h.motawee:
Simply i will tell u as u said benchmarks arent that accurate and i am a user experience man i just added benchmarks coz some users asked for it plus i used MIUI for over 3 months .. its fast and stable but its ugly just like cm7 .. so to get a sense 3.5 rom with this speed and stability thats something u will never experience on any other threads .. specially when u compare the graphic difference and looks between sense 3.5 and MIUI and cm7 which makes a rom with sense on top running that smooth faster than both .. and about having lots of mods etc.. its a simple setting that will take 15 mins to do .. so before talking a lot really a lot and call me a kid .. go try the settings and the rom and get a user experience .. if u didnt like it stop visiting the thread then but have some manners when u talk.

Thanks for the time u took to write all what u wrote.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mrvanx:
Ladies and gents how about back on topic??? Benchmarks and "which ROM is better" discussions always end in disaster......the bottom line is that the tips from the OP do indeed help in getting the Z running nice. :-)
[G2 and Desire Z General] h.motawee:
Simply i am not comparing ROMs or will get in a fight which is the best ROM out other thats childish (for me at least) .. and i am convinced its a user review at last whats best for me could be bad for u not only good but bad so i am sharing my experience after trying lots of ROMs thats all :)

If someone well mannered told me all i am saying is crap in a good way its his opinion at last and i must respect it .. but being just a jerk isnt doing anyone any good :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] oVeRdOsE.:
Here's my benchmark

same setting as the original post

Uploaded with ImageShack.us
[G2 and Desire Z General] h.motawee:
Thanks for ur share oVeRdOsE :)

hope the settings r doing u any good ;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] oVeRdOsE.:
I tried 1.8 ghz and hit 3800 points.

Guess we're good for android 6.0 :p
[G2 and Desire Z General] h.motawee:
Yea Android 6 and a fried smartphone :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] AGENT209T:
I did this setup and everything seems great but however I don't seem to be getting any sound notifications when I get a new text message.

Any Ideas?
[G2 and Desire Z General] astriaos:
The major problem with this advice is even with all tweaks and kernel improvements, Revolution likes to slow down and become really stuttery after a couple weeks. True benchmarks on Antutu are useless when measuring usability. Not to mention 2900 isn't really anything that staggering when you can get barely 100 points below that on say, Virtuous Rom 2 with their Kernel10 clocked to 1.2ghz. Vellamo benchmark is the utility you want, as that's the official Quaalcom in house benchmark application designed to specifically to measure what the end user would find impacts "usability".

Some of this is good advice, but all in all largely elementary. The bottom line is Sense 3.5 roms simply will not run well in the long term due to hardware limitations. Hell, I'd even go so far to say that lightweight AOSP roms will eventually slow down after several months. I know Cyanogen started to after 3 months use.

Android has certain perks, but being a well optimized OS is not one of them.

Edit: Did the calc and apparently these tweaks give you a 100 point difference at .2ghz lower than Vrom2. That's neat and all, but really inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Battery life calculations are very eye of the beholder and it's not like you really need (or can) do a ton of super heavy lifting on this device.
[G2 and Desire Z General] h.motawee:
Try using an app for msgs .. its a reported problem in the ROM's thread.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bradley_e_smith:
I thought my CM7 got slower the longer the uptime. For me ROMS seem to start downhill after about a week of uptime.
[G2 and Desire Z General] skewty:
Has anyone installed one of the ICS roms on their Desire Z / G2?

Does this slowdown still occur with uptime?

My personal experience is yes, very much so.

Scott
[G2 and Desire Z General] desmi:
I was running ics (andromedus test build). Ater reading this post I did all the steps from the first post. I must say I am really dissapointed with the speed and batterylife. The only real improvement is when running games. I have been sense free for 2+ years, getting back to sense feels like a step back...
[G2 and Desire Z General] oVeRdOsE.:
Like its been said above, one of the ''limitation'' on android VS ios, is more you use your device, slower it will be.

On the G2 isnt that bad, but on my milestone its very annoying. After 2 months of use, the phone lag as hell.

But why, it remembers me windows, more you use it sloweris your pc...
[G2 and Desire Z General] blk_jack:
I've been running Andromadus test builds over the past week (6 days uptime as of yesterday) and experienced no slowdown or lag at all.

Maybe try clearing your cached apps (Settings-> Apps) if you're noticing lag? Seems to help on my tablet.
[G2 and Desire Z General] desmi:
Hey blackjack

I think you misunderstood me. I mean i was running the ics builds and loved them :).

But then I started reading this thread and wanted to try the rom and settings from this post. And my phone just seemed slower and not very responsive. Also I have a lot of reboots.

So while writing this im downloading the new testbuild (flinny64) cant wait to go back to ics.

Thanks for all the work btw and also for the mod thread. Made my ics lots faster!

Derek
[G2 and Desire Z General] phobilicious:
So i also installed this rom. I did all tweaks but not Supercharger and SWAP.

My phone is really slow :(

When i want to swipe down the menu from the top it takes up to 10 seconds to show me the drop down menu? :(

I did not have time to do the rest yet but without supercharger and swap the performance sucks unfortunately.

Just wanted evereybody to know that if you wanna try it complete everything mentioned here.

I will do the same and hope to have a better performance afterwards.

My Antutu Score atm is 2601 but to start Antutu it took me about 1 minute?!?!

Edit:

Weeeee! Supercharger did the trick!

Amazing!

Now i'll go for swap and check that out...

Edit2:

no need for swap as i have enough free space atm.

Will go for that later...

But one thing: from 2601 to 2937 in AnTuTu :D

Seems pretty awesome! Lets give it a try in daily work...

Edit3:

Tested some other settings.

Best Score in AnTuTu: 2967... i'll get it to 3000...
[G2 and Desire Z General] phobilicious:
Damn! Now i did some tweaks with RCTweaks and i am stuck at boot loop.

I just wanted to change the bootscreen logo and now th htc and beats logo keep repeating until forever :(

Does anyone have an idea what to do there?
[G2 and Desire Z General] desmi:
I never got a higher score then 24xx

Just did it on a ics rom got 3140 :) (not even using supercharger)

Edit: phone is overclocked and running @ 1209 MHz
[G2 and Desire Z General] phobilicious:
AAAAAAAAAW f*** me!

had to erase userdata and cache now everything is back to rom default :mad:

ok once more, i really liked this rom for ONE DAY :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] phobilicious:
i have one question. when i'm installing apps my phone gets stuck for minutes, it is working very slow then. what i have not done is applying swap what the OP is recommending. does the swap solve this problem? has anybody come accross that too?
[G2 and Desire Z General] astriaos:
No it won't. As I said already, this is a hardware limitation. Sense 3.x+ is not designed for a device with one core and "512"mb ram. Don't use it. Don't bother trying to tweak your device to run it well. It's not going to happen in the long run.

While you're at it, learn how to use the edit button.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mazdarati2:
Andomadus beta 2(or 3 or 4)is faster than any other rom. and i got android revolution only for 4 days, then it crashed because i wanted to take a photo and share it to my twitter and then it was rebooting and it kept showing the boot animation. yes it is the faster Sense 3.5 ROM, but not good enough

FU Android Revolution, bye
[G2 and Desire Z General] Stunherald:
I did all of the tweaks (setcpu, supercharger, swap, ...etc) and after coupple of months using this ROM, i must say this:

- cannot record video, when i start recording, whole camera app crash

- the camera app crashing at almost every fifth taken photo, the photo is taken like a "black screen" (corrupted file?), then, when browsing photos via QuickPic, it will crash when it tries to load that corrupted file, so i need to delete the bad file first via filemanager.

- Autofocus is piece of sh!t, sorry to say, but it takes friking long to focus, then taking the photo requires stone arms to keep the phone at same position for coupple of seconds. If not, photo is blurred like hell. Original ROM was milliontimes better than this.

- Because of the supercool memory tuning, i'm unable to use streamed radion over WiFi, it keeps laggin every 5sec (buffeering problems maybe?) Connection speed is fine btw.

- In opera, when more tabs are open, phone will freeeeze and it will take like 10min to start responding again ... or 5min to remove battery/start phone again. Same version of opera worked flawlessly with 10tabs or more on original rom or CyanogenMod

- No auto screen rotation on homepage when HW keyboard is active.

- GoSMS crashing on coversations with lot multimedia attachs (again, did not had any problems before)

- sometimes response time is so sloooow

I tried several profiles in V6 and SetCPU, but i'm tired to testing more, this ROM is simpe not good for my phone, whatever...

Now i'm waiting for CM7 last stable release, last stable is pretty cool, but buggy, so ihope it will be fixed in next rls :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] oVeRdOsE.:
I'm using this rom since its out.

I had no ploblem that you mentionned above.

Maybe for opera : on "desktop" mode, and starting a flash video, opera hanging for 5 minutes.

I had a bootloop after a random crash on 7.0.2, gone on .4.

they only problem left, is the flash camera delay.
[G2 and Desire Z General] 9m2bal:
Have you tried Andromadus b4 rom? I think it more faster than Revolution HD and give more multitasking.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Steven How:
Of course it is,coz it was an aosp rom,not sense based rom :p
[G2 and Desire Z General] Stunherald:
CM7.2 without any additional apps/modifications :]

So BB Legendary, welcome CM ;]
[G2 and Desire Z General] Killer1desireZ:
I find cm9 unofficial to be blazing fast on my desire z!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] phobilicious:
Where did you get CM9 for Vision/Desire Z?
[G2 and Desire Z General] biohazrd51:
My guess would be from here.

(Note: The builds for CM9 are unofficial)
[G2 and Desire Z General] kbeezie:
My Benchmark using the latest EliteMod ICS rom and Kernel and 96MB Dataswap, no SD-Swap.

(Details in signature)

And a second bench after a reboot
[G2 and Desire Z General] kbeezie:
With the latest EliteKernel 7/5/2012 (none of the changes etc mentioned by the OP applied)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Receiver996:
Hey guys ;)

Just tried this, cause I really want to have Sense 3.5... But I've noticed that the RCTweaks zip file has a problem?! Winrar tells me, that something in this zip is missing.

Can I still flash it or not?

Receiver996
[G2 and Desire Z General] phobilicious:
i had no problem with flashing and still running with supercharger 9... running ok... have to restart once a week aprox.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dcpathak:
Android Revolution HD links not working

Hi,

This is my first post to this great learning and knowledge sharing place called XDA. I recently, after much dithering, successfully rooted my Desire Z (thanks to XDA devs for putting wonderful guides on web). Now I'm fiddling with various ROMs.

Today, I came across this discussing for a rom named Android Revolution HD with Sense 3.5. Seeing excellent reviews by other users I'm also tempted to give it a try. The problem is that the download link for this ROM given in the post is not working (link for the post itself is: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1493404). I request if any of you who have already downloaded this ROM, could please upload it again and post a link here. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Durgesh

Phone: Desire Z; Vision Pvt Eng S-Off; HBOOT: 0.84.2000 (PC1011000); Radio: 26.03.02.26_M

ROM: EliteMod-120316-CM7-vision
[G2 and Desire Z General] dcpathak:
Further updates: I read some people suggesting trying any other browser than Firefox to download the ROM. One fellow who was having similar difficulty, said he succeeded in downloading using Opera. I just tried with Chrome, Opera, and Internet Explorer. Nothing seems to work. Please help with the links.

Thanks in anticipation...

Durgesh

Phone: Desire Z; Vision Pvt Eng S-Off; HBOOT: 0.84.2000 (PC1011000); Radio: 26.03.02.26_M

ROM: EliteMod-120316-CM7-vision
[G2 and Desire Z General] DarkerPhoenix:
Hi dcpathak, you should try navigating to the directory manually via www[dot]elektro-instal[dot]com/napior/and then going to the Android Revolution HD 7.x.x directory where you can find the zip file. Does this work for you?

(sorry, don't have enough posts to post the full outside adress ;))
[G2 and Desire Z General] dcpathak:
Thanks a lot!!!

Hi DarkerPhoenix,

Greetings!

Yes, this worked. Thanks for the great and timely help :)

Regards,

dcpathak

Phone: Desire Z; Vision Pvt Eng S-Off; HBOOT: 0.84.2000 (PC1011000);

Radio: 26.03.02.26_M; ROM: EliteMod-120316-CM7-vision
[G2 and Desire Z General] Steven How:
I did set my phone to run on savaged Zen governor..and it just clock at max all the time..is it normal?? Using virtuous oc and clock at 245-1075 screen on,scary122-468 screen off..

I'm running Arhd 6.3.3 (sense 3)
[G2 and Desire Z General] ahmedrzvi:
Thanks for this i cant wait to try this:p

Ahmedrzvi
[G2 and Desire Z General] amedian:
thanks good job :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] staezione:
HTC desire Z

Hello,

First, i'm a complete nOOb at all this.

Yesterday i've succesfully downgraded and rooted my wife s phone, the HTC Desire Z.

I've installed Android Rev HD 7.0.4 on it and worked.

When i flashed another kernel to it (the ones in the post) the phone became very very laggy. So i've again put on the custom rom with the kernel that was include with it...

Now the phone runs pretty well but is still laggy, also not all of the functions work well.

I've seen this is a old thread so does anyone have news on this all?

I would just want to have the phone run smooth and very fast. I've read the topic on the V6 supercharger but it's too confusing for me, way to much information and not sorted well..

Well if somebody can help me

Thank you!
[G2 and Desire Z General] agazza:
Go with the ILWT cm7 rom and nothing else, ask in that thread for best performance settings. Use launcherPro with it and sett al transitions to around the highest, between 7-10 if i remember right.

The cm10 rom flinny has is also really fast but freezes up bad sometimes and this drives me crazy, but its even faster.

Skickat från min HTC Vision via Tapatalk 2
[G2 and Desire Z General] shak3800:
Flinnys is really fast at first but after installing some appps is becomes a little bit slow . The fastst rom i have tried is probably virtuous glite rom but the interface is ancient. If you don' t care about looks and only for speed and stability i recommend it
[G2 and Desire Z General] HuKuToC34:
had anyone compared this ROM with andromadus 4.2.2 builds?
[G2 and Desire Z General] shak3800:
Most probably this one is faster. The latest android builds are a bit slow for our old hardware
[G2 and Desire Z General] shak3800:
Can someone tell me which performs better in benchmarks between cm7 anx ilwt ?

Edit: nevermind apparently is ilwt
[LG Optimus 2x] spica1234:
Reserved me up too
[LG Optimus 2x] owain94:
can't wait for the upload to finish super nice work spica!
[LG Optimus 2x] HerrKuk:
Come on slow internet! Go, Go, Go

Thanks Spica
[LG Optimus 2x] Supupa:
Let's give his upload speeds a little encouragement guys! (':
[LG Optimus 2x] Diskb0x:
Super work Spica! Can't wait to see your work here :)
[LG Optimus 2x] zerocoolriddler:
CM Source, so it will be based on Kernel 2.6.xx.

Did you already take a Look at newly available Kernel 3.0.xx from wkpark?

I would prefer a Kernel based on that, cause its already letting my Phone fly...

With Regards,

Zerocoolriddler
[LG Optimus 2x] AlanLi:
Hello,thank your kernel.I have use　your hp before
[LG Optimus 2x] Ximo F. Verde:
Welcome to the CM world Spica!!
[LG Optimus 2x] owain94:
so good to have you in here now :D
[LG Optimus 2x] Pascalone19:
Which is based on this kernel version?
[LG Optimus 2x] vadonka:
great work Spica, i guess you save me some time with this :)

since im still at cm7 i dont have much time to test the cm9 kernel...

thanks :)
[LG Optimus 2x] spica1234:
Sorry for the delay it was showing error in upload now done

Download:

http://db.tt/Ll6Smcez

This is based on 2.6.32.59 kernel tree. Don't get much time to look into 3.0. But I will soon. Its a great thing to have on 2x 3.0 kernel:)

As I said this is a test build. Somethings might not work. But feed backs are most welcome for me to create my to-do list:)
[LG Optimus 2x] spica1234:
Bro you have been really helpful to me a lot. A big salute to you:)
[LG Optimus 2x] Thief777:
Why does no one looks at the work IronKernel, my opinion - this is the best kernel for CM7/CM9 ?!
[LG Optimus 2x] vadonka:
the ironkernel author leave this community, he is even leave his followers in g+.

need any more comment? :)
[LG Optimus 2x] CryptKilla:
Welcome spica:)

Glad to see you in cm world

Why dont you jump to 3.0 kernel?

Sent from my Tapatalk
[LG Optimus 2x] spica1234:
I have tried to contact Author of HP 2x Kernel Tweaker application to provide sources as he seems busy these days,so that vadonka could add new OTF functions in application

Btw i will send him msv again:)
[LG Optimus 2x] spica1234:
I have not tried it activating. Isnt it working?
[LG Optimus 2x] hei1125:
Guys if you experienced BSOD/SOD problem in this kernel in my ROM/ Owain's KANG,

you don't need to switch to test. The result will be the same.

I am not saying spica cause the problem, it may vary with every devices.

I have not done anything that will cause BSOD/SOD, owain also.

Just a reminder :)
[LG Optimus 2x] Ph4nt0m_:
Thank you very much :)
[LG Optimus 2x] spica1234:
Alright is bsod/sod for users those facing were not faced in test build?
[LG Optimus 2x] hei1125:
In my memory, I haven't face BSOD/SOD in test build.

I hope it may help you.
[LG Optimus 2x] spica1234:
Ok thanks a lot, yes indded it helped me:)
[LG Optimus 2x] 75markus:
never had bsod with any of your builds ... :D
[LG Optimus 2x] CryptKilla:
How did you setup this?

On which number is powersafe?

Sent from my Tapatalk
[LG Optimus 2x] ehmjay:
no bsod 3days usage on owain kang 29 fresh install..
[LG Optimus 2x] Ximo F. Verde:
Ive only tested the kernel for less than a day, but no bsod/sod here. Then again, i rarely get bsod's in general, maybe 3-4 since June when i bought the phone