[Desire Android Development] nickabbott:
Nick's Phone V1.0 Based on Cyanogenmod 7.2 / Euroskank build cm7.2.0-20120609.1605-Desire

Some of you may remember I did an Oxygen based Nick's Phone which is what I used for a long time and posted it here for people to use. Oxygen is a brilliant base for a ROM and is very stable and has good performance.

UNFORTUNATELY, I also missed things like lock screen music controls, calendar appointments on the lock screen and most importantly I hated that everytime Google updated the market or an application updated, it would remove the modifications I had done.

In comes Cyanogenmod with all of the above and the brilliant (in my opinion) theme chooser!

I've been using this ROM based on Euroskank builds for quite some time now and I think they are very stable now and have good performance / features. I was going to wait until the final release of 7.2 before I released this ROM but as with my Oxygen ROM, I welcome feedback from others and would like to improve on my own ROM for myself and others and then the final release for this will be the finished 7.2 release (will be soon probably!)

My personal situation is I'm keeping my desire for at least another year as I'm on a pay monthly plan with Three so will be around on these forums for at least another 11 months (and possibly longer as the desire is a perfect phone for me!)

Anyway, on with the ROM features!

This ROM will fit into CM7R2 (150MB /System) Hboot or bigger.

I would recommend a FULL WIPE before installing this ROM and to make it even better I would also recommend re-partitioning your SDCard with GParted and setting up a FAT32 partition followed by a 1024MB EXT4 partition. That way everything is starting from fresh and you will experience the full benefits of this ROM. I use CWM 2.5.0.7 and it sometimes causes my market downloads to fail if I full wipe my phone and I don't repartition using GParted.

The additions I've put in are as follows:

ICS theme with my own tweaks

GoLauncher EX ICS Theme (Go Launcher isn't on by default - not enough room for it! So download from the market after installing the ROM)

GoLauncher Notifications, Calendar, Bookmarks, Contacts and Note with my own ICS Go Widgets theme!

Stop Watch & Timer modified by me

Adfree

Droidwall

Convertpad

Music2 V4.1.513

ES File Explorer

720p hardware playback mod

1024KB buffer SDCard speed fix

+ some build.prop tweaks

If you want to change the boot animation you can follow any of the steps here on XDA that change the default Oxygen animation (modified by me) to a moving animation like CyanogenMod.

Please see the screenshots below to see what your phone could look like! Everything apart from the clock widget (Which is beautiful widgets using the roboto clear font - which I would recommend you buy from the market!) is included in this ROM!

If you follow the steps listed below (which is what I do) then your phone should look exactly like the screenshots! Obviously if you don't want it to look exactly like the screenshots then just change or don't modify the bits I mention below!

1. Install Go Launcher EX from the market.

2. Menu (Press) --> Themes (Select) --> Nicks ICS Theme (Select) --> Apply

3. Menu (Press) --> Preferences (Select) --> Visual Settings (Select) --> Backgrounds (Select) --> App drawer background (Select then change to Transparent background)

4. Menu (Press) --> Preferences (Select) --> Visual Settings (Select) --> Icons

(Select) --> Highlights colour (Select then Enter ff39b6e7)

5. Menu (Press) --> Preferences (Select) --> Visual Settings (Select) --> Icons (Select) --> Icon size (select small)

6. Menu (Press) --> Preferences (Select) --> Screen Settings (Select) --> Screen orientation (Select and change to vertical mode (I prefer this!))

7. Menu (Press) --> Preferences (Select) --> App drawer settings (Select) --> App drawer scrolling orientation (select and change to horizontal page by page)

8. Menu (Press) --> Preferences (Select) --> App drawer settings (Select) --> Untick App update info (I prefer this)

9. Menu (Press) --> Preferences (Select) --> App drawer settings (Select) --> Tick Show Home Key Only

10. Menu (Press) --> Scroll Right To Plugins --> Notification (Press) --> Select Unread text message and Missed call

11. Menu (Press) --> Settings (Select) --> Cyanogenmod settings (Select) --> Interface (Select) --> Notification power widget (Select) --> Tick the Hide indicator box

12. Menu (Press) --> Settings (Select) --> Cyanogenmod settings (Select) --> Interface (Select) -->Status bar tweaks (select) --> Tick compact carrier label

13. Menu (Press) --> Settings (Select) --> Cyanogenmod settings (Select) --> Lockscreen (Select) --> Style Options (Select) --> Tick Custom app starter and then add Phone, Camera and Messaging as custom apps.

14. Menu (Press) --> Settings (Select) --> Cyanogenmod settings (Select) --> Lockscreen (Select) --> Widget Options (Select) --> Tick lockscreen flashlight and Tick Display next calendar event and make the Calendar event lookahead 1 week.

15. Add the Note, Calendar, Contacts and Bookmarks Go Widgets to your homescreens while making sure you select Nicks Go ICS as the theme and don't leave it on default!

16. Turn On AdFree (And update hosts file)

17. Turn on DroidWall (And configure settings)

18. Enjoy your phone!

You can download the ROM from the following location:

http://www.mediafire.com/?le26xf7od717361

MD5: D246E716A4913BBE045B80738A10A6C6