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Re: [ROM][official] HTC OneX CyanogenMod 10.1(4.2.2) Nightlies | STAGING build 5 [Mar

I have now been using tbalden's staging-5 release extensively for the past 24 hours and I can honestly say, in contradiction to what some others are reporting, that I have the best radios I have ever experienced with any ROM, including stock. Even in weak areas, where I consistently only previously got around -95-90dBm, I am now getting a solid, constant -75dBm, and by constant, I mean continually for the past 24 hours. This was unheard of before and I often got the drops, non-recovery and airplane mode issues that others are mentioning.

Battey life is great -- I'm getting around 4.5 hours screen on time with heavy use (not gaming). My radios are the best they have ever been, including WiFi -- for WiFi, check the actual link/transfer speeds, as the status bar icon doesn't just max up at 50Mbps as the stock ROM did. I get a constant 80Mbps from my desk with only three bars on the icon.

Unless my provider has just boosted signal strength at the exact same time I flashed this ROM, which I seriously doubt as I'm in Cyprus and the whole country is in the process of a financial meltdown, then I can only assume we are all doing things differently. We are all using the same ROM, yet reporting completely different results. Perhaps it's the way we flash, or that some have apps that mess with the radios?

As I'm really happy with Staging-5, I thought to go step-by-step through my flash, settings and app install. If you're having radio or battery issues, maybe you could try following this to the letter to see if your issues go away:

tbalden's 20130316 STAGING-5 ROM and Gaps-jb-20130301-signed

I extracted the boot image from the ROM, through fastboot erased the cache, flashed the boot image and erased the cache again, then disconnected and booted the phone into bootloader.

Then into Recovery (I'm using TWRP 2.4.2.0), I wiped Cache, Dalvik, Factory Reset, System, External Storage and Android Secure. I then went into Advanced >> File Manager >> sdcard and erased the .android_secure directory, just to be sure that absolutely everything was gone.

I then selected Mount and connected via USB to copy the zips (staging-5 ROM and Gapps) to the root of the sdcard. Dismounted, disconnected and went to Install in Recovery. I selected the zips (ROM first, then Gapps) and flashed, then selected 'Reboot, ignoring the option to install SU.

Booted up into CM10.1 I configured WiFi access, DID NOT allow Google to restore settings, allowed Location access, removed all the homescreen widgets and headed into settings. All settings are at their tbalden-defaults, unless I specifically mention the change below.

In Launcher >> Homescreens I set a 6x5 grid, dropped to 3 homescreens with 2 as the default, checked Stretch screens, unchecked Search bar and checked Hide icon labels.

In Launcher >> Hidden apps I checked News & Weather and Play Store (it's on the top of the drawer anyway).

In Launcher >> Dock I dropped the icon scale to 90%.

In Lock screen I checked Maximize widgets.

In System >> Status bar I unchecked Show clock.

In Quick Settings panel I enabled Quick pulldown on the left. Tiles and layoud I removed my Pic icon and reordered to Battery, Brightness, Settings, WiFi, Mobile Data, BT, GPS and Airplane Mode.

In Display I changed Sleep to 1 minute and turned off Daydream.

In Storage >> Menu >> USB computer connection I checked MTP (as it seems to be over 3x faster than Mass storage).

In Apps >> All I disabled Apollo, Browser, Calendar, CM Wallpapers, Email and Talk -- for each one I cleared cache, cleared data and then disabled.

In Advanced I changed Sweep2wake minimum length to 2 buttons, enabled Fast charge and Disabled Button Backlight.

I turned off Profiles.

In Location access I unchecked GPS satellites (everything else is on).

In Security I checked Unknown sources.

In Language & input >> Addroid keyboard >> Settings I unchecked Gesture typing, Under Custom input styles I removed the additional languages. Under Google voice typing >> settings >> Download offline speech... I downloaded English UK.

In Accounts >> Google >> Search I disabled Web history.

In Performance >> Processor I set the CPU governor to SMARTMAX and capped the Max CPU frequency to 1200MHz. REMEMBER to check Set on boot, or it will revert on next boot.

I then installed the following apps to replace those I disabled:

Google Calendar (really just because I don't like the icon in the pali calendar), Chrome, Kaiten Mail, Google Play Music, ES File Explorer, AVG Free and DashClock. Google Play Store had a Search update, then I rebooted the phone to make sure all the changes applied properly.

The nice thing is by disabling email, talk, etc, I have Kaiten Mail appearing in my People listings and no icons for apps that I don't use. I also don't get all the app choice popups appearing (always or just once choices). I obviously have other apps installed, but this is how I ran my phone for the past 24 hours. I saw great battery life without having to disable location services as others have done, so I still get apps that use locations working as they should.

Obviously others will have different preferences to mine, but I thought to share my flash and config process in the hope that others can resolve their issues, as I have none whatsoever -- and no radio issues for the first time ever since I bought the phone.

Well, that's another super-long waffle from me -- it really wasn't supposed to be this long! I just hope it helps some of those with battery or radio issues.