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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] medicjunKie:
Do you have the HTC myTouch or the LG myTouch?
[Motorola Photon 4G] rsjc741:
Hey guys,

I'm looking for a new ROM to use and I'd like to get some reccomendations before sticking to anything.

I'm looking for something with a long battery life.

undervolted/underclocked ROM would be awesome, but I could do that manually.

Not BFS

deodexed, or what ever's standard.

I'd love to try ICS on my phone (it's wonderful on my Xoom), so if its 4.0.x, that'd be a plus.

Or Gingerbread

Thanks~
[Motorola Photon 4G] CCallahan:
My opinion but great battery life on CM9 is going to be an issue unless you spend a lot of time testing and tweaking. Still may not get to where you need it. Battery seemed to drain fairly quickly for me but I didn't spend any time messing with the CPU settings.

Might try one of Jokersax11's Skinny roms and go from there (have heard great things about them). If you want ICS you will have to go CM9 or the MIUI port. Both have excellent interfaces and a ton of support.

There are a lot of roms I haven't tried and best way to find out is to just start flashing. ;) Sorry I can't be of more help.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jbb2388:
MIUI is my recommendation
[Motorola Photon 4G] RockoDev:
Rocko's my recommendation :);)
[Motorola Photon 4G] FC809:
Lol. I'm on rocko, and I recommend it to but I'm still on 1.1. I really like MIUI, but it was causing a bad battery drain and battery to get heated. You might not get the same results as me though, so maybe try it.

Edit: just read you want long battery life. Rocko for sure then.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jbb2388:
I get great battery life with MIUI
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
LOL go stock locked no root...lol

MIUI/ICS for the Photon

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1536161
[Motorola Photon 4G] FC809:
I had bad battery life like that lol. Maybe it was the Blur Social Networking thing? I never figured it out, but stock I always had nonstop data.
[Nexus S General] hextss:
I've read through so many threads on so many forums trying to fix this, and I'm about to throw this thing through the wall.

I'm running CyanogenMod 7 nightly on 2.3.7

When I connect the phone to any PC (I've tried Win7 64/32 bit, XP SP3, XP SP2) I get a charging icon in my notification bar, but the USB Storage mode never opens to enable/disable. After about 10 seconds I see "USB Device Not Recognized." Happens the same on every PC. I can still access my internal storage via FTP, just not via USB. The device shows in my device manager as "Unknown USB Device."

Not sure if it's related, but when I boot into FastBoot it runs USB Control/USB Control init and then just freezes. Even after downloading a ROM update with ROM Manager it says "NO ROM FOUND"

This is what I've tried:

USBDeview to uninstall all Android-related drivers, reinstalled Samsung and Google SDK rev 4 drivers.

USB data wipe (for the hell of it, really.)

Multiple PC's with different OS and 3 different USB data cables, including the original.

At this point I'd like to try a factory reset. When I try to unroot with SuperOneClick the program just crashes. When I try a reset from the phone it fails to boot into recovery, and using the Factory data reset produces a "null" error.

I know just enough to be dangerous. If I'm missing something please let me know, and I appreciate any help.

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Tried loading a CM9 rom from the SD card that I FTP'd over via ClockworkMod Recovery. It asks for data+cache wipe, then just boots into recovery. I get "NO IMG FOUND" and USB CONTROL INIT and USB CONTROL INIT END.
[Nexus S General] donnieace:
Try installing pdanet on your computer. Its what I did in order for my computer to recognize my phone. Hope it helps.
[Nexus S General] hextss:
Should have mentioned earlier that I also installed PDANet after I wiped my drivers. It couldn't detect the phone being connected and did not completely install.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] akalias1981:
Hope someone can help. I'm using the TouchPal keyboard and really like it but it doesn't fill the screen horizontally leaving a gap down the right hand side. I know that this is because I am using a tablet dpi on a custom ROM. Other third party keyboards display fine. What do I need to change in the apk to make this display correctly? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] akalias1981:
No one?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ezcats:
try reinstlaling the app
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gprash:
That was the first thing I did, did not help.

Any ideas, anyone?
[Verizon Droid Charge] 20phileagles:
I want a phone for my son, 13 yrs, I have an Incredible, I dont have a data plan with his old phone, its just unlimited text. If I get him the Droid Charge, will I be able to install a rom which will allow wifi, or is wifi already free. Sorry, I know thats a rookie question but my phone has been rooted for so long that I forget what an unrooted phone does. And I don't exactly wanna aask a verizon rep.
[Verizon Droid Charge] buhohitr:
I think a few main reasons for the Charge over the Incredible is you can get the charge for free now and it's a 4G phone. With 4G you can install wifi tethering to use with laptop for free. Wifi is a feature already build in with the charge, you don't have to do anything special to get it. The charge also has a best, beautiful screen. If you install custom rom like Tweakstock, you will never have problem with the phone and it's very stable. If you decided to pick another phone beside these two, then I would recommend the Motorolla Maxx.
[Verizon Droid Charge] 20phileagles:
Thanks man, so I will be able to use wifi without a data plan?
[Verizon Droid Charge] buhohitr:
If you registered the Samsung Charge, you

do required to sign up for a data plan from Verizon

. And yes you can use your phone wifi to connect to your home wifi, free public hot spot wifi (like airport,coffee shop etc..).
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Maybe you should just get yourself a new phone and activate your incredible on your son's line. You might not have to add data if you do that. Not sure though. And these phones are like computers they use wifi the same way.
[General Questions and Answers] Solidsnake726:
I'm looking to sell my playbook, and am interested in getting a 10.1" tab of some kind. I normally could carry my playbook in a sweatshirt pocket, but I imagine that might be different with a 10.1... Not too interested in carrying a purse, since man purses aren't my thing. How do these tablets get around without being actually being held in my hand?
[Thunderbolt General] takylo:
All,

I decided to put my Droid Charge in my desk draw. Just got a used Thunderbolt I know that there a battery issues with the device. once I would if I will be looking for a new ROM. can someone tell me which rom will make the phone snappy great battery and pretty cool. Xda ROCKS!
[Thunderbolt General] pennie57:
Soab1.4 my favorite tryed alot of always come back
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
Eternity rocks, right out of the box
[Thunderbolt General] aldeghij:
Hands down Thundershed 1.4.
[Thunderbolt General] emptyshell:
Liquidsmooth 3.2
[Thunderbolt General] bigdog1171:
I personally keep coming back to killasense...I get great battery life and it is very stable. I have tried several others but always end up flashing back.
[Thunderbolt General] zmeflyby:
i totally agree
[Thunderbolt General] nowetdio:
Obviously, none of you have tried Skyraider.....:)
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
Any stock based 2.1 rom will be the most stable and easiest to install. Gingerbread rock or killasense are extremly stable and great battery life with imo 5.2 gb sense kernel. Everything works perfectly on both roms. For me, aosp roms take too much effort to just get gps working. If i would have wanted stock android, i would have bought a different phone. I spend too much time with aosp making it look like sense.
[Thunderbolt General] TUDrewser:
I really like Sense but fell in love with LiquidSmooth. It's made me a fan of AOSP.

However, I also find it funny that out of like 7 responses there were 6 different ROMs mentioned. Kind of how it goes and just goes to show you that you'll have to try a few before you find one you like. If sense is what you want, try SOAB. AOSP, try Liquid Smooth. Then go from there...chances are you'll go back to one of those two I would think.
[Thunderbolt General] Ryanmo5:
Thats what I'm running, love this Rom!
[Thunderbolt General] aldeghij:
I have tried it but just not a sense fan.
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
I tried it, didnt care for it, and i love sense.
[Thunderbolt General] aldeghij:
Just an fyi. My GPS has always worked perfectly on aosp roms. I'd at least give one a try. They have speed and fluidity that I've never quite gotten on sense roms, although some have come close.
[Thunderbolt General] emptyshell:
If you like Sense it's a great ROM. If you are impartial to Sense or don't like Sense then there is no reason to not run an AOSP ROM that I can think of. The performance and battery life on Sense ROMs don't even compare to that of AOSP ROMs on the TBolt.
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
I dont like the hassle of nandroid to get gps working.
[Thunderbolt General] rajuabju:
ThunderStick, FULLY LOADED baby
[Thunderbolt General] twizzler703:
i always switch off between sense and aosp every couple of weeks

for sense: Skyraider

AOSP: thundershed 1.4
[Thunderbolt General] Tbolt_dunham:
Thunderstick here too. Great Rom extremely stable for me!
[Thunderbolt General] athensjohn:
Thundershed 1.4

Thundershed 1.4 for me. I used to change Roms at least every week. I just run Thundershed now - great work and the developer (Workshed) has been steadily updating the Rom.
[Thunderbolt General] cdf3:
Glad I stumbled upon this thread. I've been searching for a good ROM to install. I saw that quite a few users like Thundershed 1.4

When I searched online for the installation files, I came across Thundershed 1.5

Ended up downloading v1.5

Took me a minute to go through the steps of getting a GPS lock, but after following the steps I now have GPS.

Ready to give this ROM a try.

Edit: The ROM is fast but I think I'm ready to ditch it. Phone has frozen twice on me and I haven't had it I installed a full day yet. 2 battery pulls so far. MMS was acting funny for a while as well.
[Thunderbolt General] mi7chy:
I tend to avoid highly customized ROMs because they tend to lack proper and thorough QA, introduce issues with the many changes and also affect stability. I stick to mostly stock ROMs and have seen uptime >800 hours. The two I would recommend are:

Ginger BreadRock (Android 2.3.4, Sense 2.1)

http://www.htcthunderbolt4g.com/htc...breadrockv1-0-v1-1-(newest-gingerbread-leak)/

OpenMobile (Android 2.3.6, Sense 3.0)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1457659

I'm currently running this for its newer Android and Sense builds plus it has native working HotSpot and it doesn't have the carrier garbage apps. The new radios transition properly to EVDO when LTE is down. There are a few minor quirks but the pros far outweigh them.
[Thunderbolt General] PieceKeepr:
ThunderShed is the way to go. When I rooted I turned the GPS on and left it on throughout the process. I got a lock during each step using GPS Status and Toolbox and went from stock to rooted to ThunderShed without the Sense ROM / nandroid hassle.
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
+1
[Thunderbolt General] LightDark:
Personally I am a fan of the Eternity series because of the capabilities of sense 3.5. And it also has very little to no lag.
[Thunderbolt General] takylo:
Great Feedback

All, thank you for the great feedback. I decided to try Eternity. I must say I love the stability and the battery life. Way superior to my Droid Charge. On my Charge if I didn't charge it over night I would wakeup to a dead battery. :mad: With this rom and phone I can get a good day and a half. :D

I will experiment with some of the others that you folks mention. Also I have the CPU set "ondemand" @ 1.5g I'm totally sold on HTC. I hope that the HTC One will come to Verizon.

Again, thanks for the all the info and feedback. XDA Rocks!
[Thunderbolt General] ponyboy82:
I finally just rooted and rom'd and tried Bamf SoaB first. It was nice but I guess I wasn't blown away. Based on suggestions here I then tried Liquid with the Imo kernel and fell in love. This is how the phone SHOULD feel! No lag and great battery life to boot. I just ran it down and got a little over 36 hours of "normal" usage (for me) with 30% charge left.
[Thunderbolt General] evgeny71:
Skyraider 1.3 is awesome rom !!

:thumbup:
[Thunderbolt General] mi7chy:
Don't know what was modified in OpenMobile and Thunderstick but they both random reboot over a course of a day or two. Unacceptable to have phone reboot while depending on it for GPS navigation while on the road. Back to Ginger Breadrock 3.1a which has been stable with 124 hour uptime.
[Thunderbolt General] jelleephish:
Not sure about the Non-Sense roms, I've heard good things about them....as far as others go, if you like or use wifi fairly frequently I would not use a 3.5 sense based rom until they figure the issue with that out.

I like SkyRaider for sense based, runs the smoothest in my opinion.:)
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
There has been no issue with wifi for me on any sense 3.5 rom.
[Thunderbolt General] quickdraw86:
If you're thinking about trying a non-sense, or desensed rom, try airborne or happy trails. both of those roms are awesome, smooth, and as far as my use goes, i have yet to experience issues with either of them, everything works.
[Thunderbolt General] osuron07:
+1 I love sky raider and the battery life has been awesome once you tweak the auto brightness levels
[Thunderbolt General] takylo:
Okay folks I decided to leave Eternity and try Liquid Smooth. This AOSP was great in the beginning but then I notice my battery wasn't as good. I decided to go bank to Sense ROM. So far Gingeritis 3S v1.2 with Sense 3.0 is working great! I'll hang with this one for a bit.
[Thunderbolt General] calaeb08:
have you tried airbourne? great rom super fast and stable, i can go all day on stock battery with normal use.
[Thunderbolt General] jelleephish:
Any 3.5 sense rom I am on always causes me to intermittently drop wifi. It just drops the connection, refreshes and is back in a few seconds. I have seen posts about it on the different posts for the roms so I know its not just me. I have tried wi-fi lock, advanced wi-fi lock and others with no luck. I just accepted it as part of the rom and moved on with it. I loved the sense 3.5 rom, look and all but eventually got annoyed at the drops.

Gingeritis is a great rom, I've used it before. The only reason I left it was because of the VVM I needed to have. I flashed the zip that was posted as a fix but every time it would cause me to somehow break my access to the Mik settings lol. If its not one thing its another!!

Enjoy it, great rom!!:)
[Thunderbolt General] turbosrrgood:
This doesn't directly answer your question, but if you are looking to extend battery life you could try an app like "Battery Defender". It is very simple, reliable, and easy to use. It works by turning off your data connection when the screen is off (Data is the single biggest drain on a phone after the screen). Turning off data does NOT prevent you from getting txt's or phone calls, they would come through as always. Using this more than doubles my battery life, and is almost unnoticeable otherwise.

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Excellent choice IMO, that's what I use.
[Thunderbolt General] Br00klynBallin:
You can't go wrong with sense 3.5, but right now I'm trying out ODJDub HD. It's a great rom besides the charging problem
[Thunderbolt General] keai4le:
I love ....ohhh,I forgot it.
[Thunderbolt General] djnikko:
I run bamf forever 1.10 imoskernal 5.2

My phone beat you're phone up in high school.
[Thunderbolt General] dreitzell78:
Wifi drops

I have read that some of the wifi drop issues are actually due to some peoples routers not playing nice with sense 3.5. There are some routers that just don't work well with it for some reason no matter what kind of app you use to try and fix it. What brand router do you use?
[Thunderbolt General] topdogle1:
soab would not work for me

I could not get bamf soab to work on my thunderbolt it just loops on the start up screen help!!
[Thunderbolt General] nrfitchett4:
dude, thanks for posting this. Wife has been running Gingerbread rock 3.1 since last year sometime. She just wants a stock optimized rom. Then the damnnn OTA kept trying to install and jacking everything up. Guess its time for an update.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mklocoupe:
By the way 2.3.4 is Gingerbread, I have a MyTouch 4G, and I have the stock ROM from T-Mobile update on it. My question is, is there anyway to root 2.3.4?

[Not Edited, but thought I should add] If there is no way to root 2.3.4, I will downgrade to 2.3.3. (If someone wants to help me with that, please, I will be glad)

Giving everyone a thanks just for commenting. Thanks in advance.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coupetastic-droid:
Aarrrgh![pulling hair]

I refuse to believe people will never learn. Its impossible that people just do not care to search and read.

I don't get it.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mklocoupe:
Fine,guy. I did research, just wanted to see if there is any current ways, because everything I read is from 2011 about Gingerbread not having any roots for 2.3.4. Guest ill just downgrade, thank you anyways.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] invasion2:
And you downgrade to 2.2.1....we didn't receive a 2.3.3 update.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MamaGlue:
you must downgrade to 2.2.1 froyo

there are "methods" to root from 2.3.4 but all don't work or will brick your phone.

most of them are the one click methods which you should avoid anyway.

downgrading only takes a sec just follow this thread to downgrade

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1178912

then this one to root

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=858996
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3mandapanda:
After doing that, how do you get back to 2.3.4 without losing root privileges?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
You install custom recovery and flash a pre-rooted 2.3.4 ROM.

There's always an option to remove HBOOT from the 2.3.4 PD15IMG.ZIP and flash it through HBOOT, and then install a custom recovery and flash su.zip in it. But it's a bit more complicated.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MamaGlue:
download a custom gingerbread rom

here is one that's pretty popular;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1504718
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willshep:
If you are S-Off

Grab Froyo 2.2.1 zip from this forum. Make sure it is called PD15IMG.zip and place it on the root of your sdcard

Shut phone off & boot into HBoot (vol down + pwr button)

Have it load the PD15IMG.zip file and once its done your phone will be back to running Froyo.

Now grab Visionary+ & root.rar (from this forum) & a terminal emulator & a file explorer.

Put visonary+.apk on your sdcard and run it via file explorer for temp root

Extract root.sh to /sdcard/root

now load up terminal emulator and type:

su

cd /sdcard/root

sh root.sh

Let it run (takes a minute sometimes)

Once that is done go back to Visionary+ and "Perm root" reboot and you should have perm root.

Now just Clockword Rom manager and you can flash whatever ICS rom you want. (running CM9-unofficial personally)
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neidlinger:
I wish i could remove a thanks.

This will only work if the phone has a good eMMC chipset. If they have a bad one. it will not work.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coupetastic-droid:
Not completely true. I've already rooted a few mt4g with bad chips. 2 being my girls and my brothers mt4g.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Using root.sh? Or perhaps using gfree?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
The "bad" chip only roots with gfree. I tried root.sh. It just looked at me ans scoffed.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coupetastic-droid:
Never used gfree since I don't own a PC. All bad chip mt4g I've rooted have been rooted within the device with visionary and root.sh method from the unlockr.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neonshadow:
I have only ever followed the guide on XDA for ultimate S=OFF rooting guide using visionary, seems to work the best.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
I used gfree without a PC. Terminal emulator ftw.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
trying to root via gfee and can't get visionary to work, it just says "rooting" forever. I'm on stock Froyo... any idea?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
Gave up on root.sh? Lol. Make sure usb debugging is enabled and reboot between attempts.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
Ya figured gfree was better plus Sim unlock. I did both of those. Still same thing
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
Are you trying to perm or temp root?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
Temp in order to perm
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
So you're on froyo with froyo bootloader, S-ON, and froyo radio?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
Correct
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
Factory reset, enable third party apps, usb debugging and install visionary again.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
lemme try right now.

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same ****, just tries to temp root forever.

did factory reset, allow third party, debug mode, install visionary, run...

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I'm reflashing the froyo PD15IMG.zip from bootloader and try again...

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Still not working, just temp roots forever.

I'm totally lost now...
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaiserxol:
Hi everyone,

today I've solved my problem (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1567301), but my recovery...is brake! When I boot into recovery, there is an exclamation point...I can wipe data/cache and use zip file from sd. Stop...nothing else!

Like this....I can flash with another rom? Or maybe my recovery is "damaged"?

Sorry for my poor english...
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farsight73:
I think you're in stock recovery. What you need is install 2nd-init for the custom recovery and all it's features onboard...
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaiserxol:
Thanks for your reply!

I've tried to install 2nd-init (the stable, not the latest) and all it's ok...if I restarted my phone e try to enter to recovery mod, I see an Android BootMenu ( :confused: ) and I can choose stock recovery and custom recovery. If i start the custom it retunr this message:

Start Custom Recovery...
E:Can't run /system/bootmenu/script/recovery.sh (No such file or directory)

So confused....:confused:

Something braked with che CM9 kernel? If I start the stock recovery...I see the imaged attached in this post.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Auris 1.6 vvt-i:
Boot normally into CM9. Open 2nd init and uninstall Bootmenu, then re-install bootmenu but chose "Latest - 1.0.7", not "Stable - 0.6.7"
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] premaca:
Boot menu 1.0.7 is available with latest Sndinit2.0 version, get that sol from dev section and then install boot menu.