yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Wildfire General] gerope:
Hello,

I'm pretty new to custom ROMs, searched for a while the forum and other source and came to the conclusion that CM7/9, Splashmod and rempuzzle are by far the most popular ROMs for the HTC Wildfire. However, very rarely I found information about the advantages or reasons to choose one over the others.

Hence, could you guys using the ROMs above briefly explain what has driven your decision for that particular ROM?

Thanks!
[Wildfire General] Lesicnik1:
CyanogenMod7:

Gingerbread 2.3.7

Highly customizable

Lots of themes to choose from

Pretty stable

CyanogenMod9

ICS 4.0.4

A bit less customizable

Lots of themes to choose from

Sorta stable

Rempuzzle

Froyo 2.2.1

Rock solid stability

In my tests, faster than CM7/9

HTC Sense (If you want it)

Can't really vouch for Splashmod, as I've never used it.
[Wildfire General] eventcom:
I've started with CM7 when I rooted my Willy, used the stable first and also nightlies, RC's etc. later. I didn't try out many ROM's as I didn't have much time to make a lot of experiments and I've been pretty much satisfied with CM7.

At the moment I'm on the LeWa port which I like much as it feels snappier and faster than CM7. Going to try the Mokee OS port when I find the time as it looks good, too.

In general I'd like to mention a few things (to give you an idea which direction to look first):

CM7 is the most stable ROM. Reasons: it's not only a port but a true ROM developed (also) for the Buzz, huge professional developer community, huge user community, short update frequency, clean structure etc.

Most ROM ports for the Buzz are based on CM7.

CM7 and ports are faster (because lighter) than sense based ROMs (although I've read reports that Rempuzzle was pretty fast, too - but I don't have any personal experience with sense based ROMs)

CM9, although already working and stable, could still be considered as experimental. ICS has been developed for devices with a GPU which our Willy doesn't have - that can't be just discussed away or worked around without any shortcomes.

Sense based ROMs (if I'm not mistaken) are all on Froyo until this point.

There's a lot more to know for sure - but perhaps it's already some basic knowledge to work with.

I'd like to mention that there are some even more basic things, like custom mtd partitions. If you want to tweak performance from the ground up (and don't plan to use a sense based ROM) you seriously should think about it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1233340

I'm sure that a few others will give their impressions and suggestions, too. If you have any questions you can't find answers in the forum: this is a small but still very active community ;)
[Wildfire General] gerope:
Thanks for your replies.

As for ICS roms, am I right that the most popular ones are the unofficial CM9, AOKP Milstone 6 Port and [v4] KoolMIUI 2.6.8 Beta 1?
[Wildfire General] Lesicnik1:
Pretty much, yes.
[Wildfire General] gerope:
Which one would you consider best in terms of updates and improvements which are included in future releases?
[Wildfire General] Wasimk32:
unofficial cm9 for sure.
[Wildfire General] gerope:
But what about [ROM][Port][ICS][4.0.4] AOKP milestone 6?

As far as I understand it's based on CM9, so it should receive the updates alike, yes?
[Wildfire General] Wasimk32:
It depends lot upon the developer,aokp has been well maintained by tathanhlam66(forgive me if mis spelled) but its not necessary to rebase it on every cm9 release.I guess he will rebase it once a major cm9 update is out.
[Wildfire General] Gerolamo_sk:
SplashMod is very good rom but my rom, BetterSplash, is Better with big B :D. Today or tomorrow i will post BetterSplash here so wait guys ;).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] androib:
Any body else having force close issue with their galaxy nexus. Force close message says, "Unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped." Looks like has to do with contacts, my sync indicator was red, even after un sync all contacts it still force closes. Any ideas??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] infazzdar:
What ROM and kernel are you using?

Have you changed anything with the system?

Also, try fixing permissions, it's been known to fix force close issues on some occasions.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] androib:
Stock ROM, kernel 3.0.8

Nothing changed with the system just happened out of no where
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gagb1967:
Have you added / updated any app? Haxsync or anything like that?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simms22:
if its contacts.. main phone settings, manage apps, all, contacts.. the clear its data. same with contacts storage. turn your sync back on, reboot, then open your contacts. see if that solves the issue. sounds like you might have gotten some data corruption. ive seen that before but the person restored his contacts backup with titanium from one rom to another. restoring system settings with titanium backup will do that sometimes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lutyz:
have you tried to clear the cache?
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Budge_uK:
Nothing fancy just basic Android built from AOSP. Unsecured boot.img, You will need to flash Superuser and Gapps after flashing ROM if you need them.

OTA weekly updates will be available via ROM Manager or download.

http://www.tameside.biz/
[Nexus 7 Android Development] giveen:
Wow.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] norman1080:
Keep it up.

More developers the better!
[Nexus 7 Android Development] :
What's the advantage to an insecure boot.img?
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Budge_uK:
adb remount
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Harry GT-S5830:
Remount as root
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whiplashh:
Hello, quick question, has anyone found a work around, or a rom with working camera and front facing camera on ICS and or jellybean?

Regards,

Whiplashh

Devices:

Evo 4g: Cm7

Evo Shift: cm7 or jellybean

Optimus S: AOSP (ICS)

Questions? I'd love to help!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bennyboy78:
Nvm
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6ANONAMUS9:
I've noticed real quick mate that this kind of question gets people into trouble quick,the best thing to do is delete what you asked and find another question to ask thats a little more important and just try each rom until you find the one you like best.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whiplashh:
Better?

Devices:

Evo 4g: Cm7 or Jellybean

Evo Shift: cm7 or jellybean

Optimus S: AOSP (ICS)

Questions? I'd love to help!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bennyboy78:
No ics/jellybean rom has front facing camera working. No work around either.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Papa Smurf151:
My only response is do u see any ics or jb roms with ffc working

Obviously using common sense you could easily put two and two together

Smh...

XDA Moderator
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bennyboy78:
Lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6ANONAMUS9:
Not really mate,you see what you did?you woke papa from his nap,haha.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iWoundPwn:
Alright got the Samsung galaxy tab 2 7.0 student edition only had it for a couple of days never dropped once or by anything harmful and when I was putting in the SD card I noticed a chip on the white plastic? Will they take this back? if not any excuses that I can use like battery life isn't good etc to get another one? thanks!
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bark777:
Now that we know who you are BEWARE...

:silly:
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iWoundPwn:
What?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bark777:
Just kidding.

Of course you should take it back if it was messed up when you got it. If you did it then it's on your conscience if you take it back or not.

Check your credit card for buyers insurance, AE is pretty good.

:D
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] jvdv360:
Hi all,

I just had a s6500d (brand new) as a gift. All is working well except for the Wifi.

My router is set up with WPA/WPA2 security, DHCP and a fixed lease time of 60 minutes.

When connecting the mini 2 to my network, it immediately receives an IP. Signal is strong (as I'm right next to my router/wifi station).

However, the first try (f.e. opening a website in the browser) works, then it just stops. However, wifi is still connected!

If I set a static ip in the advanced wifi settings of the phone, it is resolved. But this hardly is a solution, only a workaround.

I've just read that multiple samsungs have this issue, but I can't find any solution.

So do you know the solution for the wifi - no connection - DHCP issue I'm having ?

Thanks for your reply!
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] jvdv360:
Bump
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] HTC_Smart:
Same issue and same phone

I have the same problem on my GT-S6500D :(

Try this if u want

Install a terminal

Open a shell

Enable/Disable Wifi

Type

ping xdaforums.com

then press enter (search)

....

until the ping is fine u can use internet connection !!

It's not the solution but maybe a solution
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Uizz.UW:
Try looking up on Google the ROM you have and re-flash it .
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerope:
Howdy,

So I'm another user having problems with GPS on my HTC Wildfire. I tried pretty much everyhing. Flashed all different radio versions via Recovery, fastboot and Android Flasher. Also I installed the agps patch. None of these solved my problem.

Before doing all this I had no GPS status bar icon at all. Now at least I have an icon showing me that he is constantly searching for GPS.

I also used GPS Test to clear and update AGPS but no luck.

Finally I tried several custom ROMS, from CM, to Splashmod and rempuzzle and all of them have this problem. So it's ROM independent.

What else can I try?
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .xxx.:
Fasterfix and gps essentials are the 2 apps that helped me fix my gps once.. and i had even used the agps patch by crypted for more accuracy :)
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eventcom:
If you did all the above really clean - I mean with formatting/wiping/factory resets etc. it could also be a hardware problem in the end. But from my experience there are just a lot of pitfalls why solutions won't work.

The fact that you didn't get the icon show up before but now it does looks to me that it's not a hardware problem. My suggestion would be to reflash either the radio and the ROM again - but as clean as possible.

- look into "The Complete Wildfire Index" thread (in "General") pick the radio in the middle and flash that first

- do a clean wipe of at least the system partition, cache and dalvik-cache (I also do "format system" and sometimes a "wipe all/factory reset" to be sure and it couldn't hurt to wipe data also - your decision)

- flash the ROM you want to use

- flash gapps

- reboot and look what it does (this most likely won't do at that point)

- flash the newest of the 3 radios afterwards and see if this helps

--- Edit --- to flash two different radios is a dirty trick to remove leftovers or problems because wiping or formatting doesn't touch the radio --- EDIT ---

For testing GPS I suggest GPS Status from the market (best tool in my opinion). You could delete ags data as well with it.

The agps patch (I'm using it too) is just for optimization (to get faster responses) - it won't help if your GPS doesn't work at all.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerope:
Hello guys,

I finally resolved the issue and realised that GPS was working all the time well. However, I always tried to search for a signal inside a building in front of my computer and was not aware of the fact that the signal might be too weak to be received from within inside...:silly:

Anyway, the flashing method apparently did the trick!

Cheers
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c1823a:
Ok folks, it seems there are several members having problems with their DZ's lately and I am one of them. I've looked all over this website and tried many of the suggested solutions but still no go.

So, I can get into CWM but when I try to flash a ROM it says it is installing and then "installation aborted". There are no other error messages. I've flashed several ROMs in the past with no problems but this time it didn't work and the only thing I can boot into is CWM - no further than that.

If I do attempt a normal boot it shows the HTC screen for a couple of minutes then goes blank and thats it.

I read one thread about "semi bricked" but some of the statements I don't really understand and I don't know where to get a file that was referenced - wpthis.ko - and after all the things I have tried I can't be sure which kernel I even have.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

c
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbeezie:
Click on the emmc link in my signature to test if you chip is fried.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohnish.killer:
Restoring to prev. installation !

Try the restore option in CWM to restore to the previously installed state of the successful ROM install !
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c1823a:
Ok, I've tried numerous times to hopefully catch it at the right time but all I get is;

'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

When exactly is the "right" time to run this command? When I see the HTC right before CWM starts or before that?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c1823a:
Restore function says;

No files found.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbeezie:
Are you making sure to type via Adb shell, and what recovery are you using?

You should be able to boot into Recovery, plug the phone into the computer, then type out:

adb shell

press enter on that to enter into the phone and then type:

dmesg | grep mmc0

and if you see something like :

then your internal storage is fried, and would explain why you can't install anything or make changes to anything.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c1823a:
Ok, this is what I get after that command;

~ # dmesg | grep mmc0

dmesg | grep mmc0

<3>[ 5.211883] mmc0: No card detect facilities available

<6>[ 5.212432] mmc0: Qualcomm MSM SDCC at 0x00000000a0500000 irq 98,0 dma 7

<6>[ 5.212677] mmc0: Platform slot type: MMC

<6>[ 5.212829] mmc0: 4 bit data mode disabled

<6>[ 5.213073] mmc0: 8 bit data mode enabled

<6>[ 5.213195] mmc0: MMC clock 144000 -> 50000000 Hz, PCLK 96000000 Hz

<6>[ 5.213470] mmc0: Slot eject status = 0

<6>[ 5.213592] mmc0: Power save feature enable = 1

<6>[ 5.213714] mmc0: DM non-cached buffer at ffa0c000, dma_addr 0x2aea5000

<6>[ 5.213989] mmc0: DM cmd busaddr 0x2aea5000, cmdptr busaddr 0x2aea5300

<6>[ 5.369506] mmc0: new high speed MMC card at address 0001

<6>[ 5.370849] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 SEM04G 2.16 GiB

~ #
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Well you have the "good" chip so that's a good think

Can you give habit more info, are you able to get into your bootloader just fine? If so write down everything on that screen, mostly want to see your method of root, if you have an eng hboot with true s-off

From here if you do then you may want to get into fastboot and reflash your recovery, preferably 4ext as it is superior to clockwork.

I assume you you know how to use fastboot, if not let me know and I'll run you through it

Get a recovery image, and a known stable ROM, maybe cm7 and have them ready

fastboot -w

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot reboot bootloader

Now reboot into recovery, do another full wipe (the fastboot wipe is more than good enough I just have ocd and wipe a lot) try flashing the ROM and see what happens. If this won't work then a little more work will be involved
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c1823a:
OK, here's what I see;

VISION PVT ENG S-OFF

HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PC1012000)

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.03.02.26_M

eMMC-boot

Aug 20 2010, 16:51:01

And below all that I see the selection menu. Just to be sure I don't screw it up more than it already is, I would ask to explain FASTBOOT but this is what I see so far;

erasing 'userdata'...

OKAY [ 0.766s]

formatting 'userdata' partition...

Erase successful, but not automatically formatting.

Can't determine partition type.

OKAY [ 0.000s]

erasing 'cache'...

OKAY [ 0.219s]

formatting 'cache' partition...

Erase successful, but not automatically formatting.

Can't determine partition type.

OKAY [ 0.000s]

finished. total time: 0.984s

Off to work this morning so, will be much later before I can check back.

THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING THE TIME TO HELP WITH THIS!!!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c1823a:
UPDATE:

I was able to install 4ext and then copy CM7.2 to SDcard. Loaded CM7.2 ROM and all is good now!!!

Thank you very much for jogging my memory on how to perform some of these functions. Its been a while.....

New Questions;

Now that I have a working phone, how would you suggest I create/make a restore or backup of what I have now? Or is there any need to? What would you do?

I see I have ROM Manager installed in this 7.2 build and some of its options says it needs to install "CWM Recovery" in order to use some of the features. What do you suggest I do?

Thank you, again!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
stay away from rom manager and clockwork now that you have 4ext recovery, its far better. just boot into recovery and make a back up there, make one now that all is working and again before changing to a new rom.

if you like how rom manager works 4ext has a similar app on the market that can do all those functions
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c1823a:
Ok, so, should I and/or can I remove ROM Manager?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
ido! but if it came with the rom it would be a system app, a little harder to get rid off but easiest ways would be with apps like titanium back up or a file explorer with root access like root explorer
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c1823a:
I think I will leave it alone for now........

Thanks again for everyone's help.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbeezie:
If you don't feel like paying 2 to 3$,you can always grab the free updater from 4ext.net, but course all it does is notify you of new version and install the latest 4ext touch recovery. Though if you can spare a couple bucks, the paid apps can be useful in configuration of the recovery and can reboot, perform tasks then boot back into the ROM (such as backup tasks).

If you want to try ICS (android 4.0.4) take a look at mimicry in my signature. You can use 4ext to back up your current rom, format the internal partition to ext4 format then flash mimicry + gapps for ice cream sandwich, which I found to be faster than cm7.2

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c1823a:
Thanks, I may give both of them a try.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c1823a:
With the help of folks here on XDA I was able to get my Desire Z working again and I am now running CM7. CM7 was chosen because it was recommended during the process of repairing my phone. I had never tried CM7 before but I am glad I did! I really like the simplicity of it much better than other ROM's I've used in the past. So far, CM7 has been very stable and completely functional. Hats off to the folks behind CM7!
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] megaghostgamer:
This is a ICS Rom that is super close to being stable. It's only missing the Bluetooth and Camera Recorder. I might be able to fix both of these with some simple fixes. It's my best ICS Rom cause I've worked on it. Creds to Kushdeck for his ICS base.

View attachment 1278712 View attachment 1278713 View attachment 1278714

Features:

Custom Launchers Right At Hand No Downloading Needed

LG ICS Launcher

Very Fast And Smooth For ICS

LG Themes ( Might Not Work - Working On It ASAP )

Android 4.0.4

Almost No Bugs

Known Bugs ( ALMOST NONE! ):

Video Recording

4G

Download Links:

Please Check On OTA Updater App For Now! I Will Post On Here But You'll Get The Update Faster Through There!

Mega ICS Update 5.1 Rom - Here

LG Themes - Here

Google Apps Tweaked - Here

Galaxy Nexus Preview Rom - Here

INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE MEGA ICS WORK!:

Factory Reset

Flash Rom

Flash Gapps ( If Wanted )

Flash Themes ( I Don't Believe They Work )

Fix Permissions Through Clockworkmod Options ( Should Be In Advanced :) )

Credits:

Kushdeck - His ICS Which I Used And I Used One Of My AOSP To Make This Rom

Change Log:

[9/5/12]

* Added LG ICS Calculator

* Added LG Calendar

* Updated Updater Script

* Updated Build Prop

[9/24/12] - Thank Strapped365 For This Update!

* Many New Widgets From The Leak

* The Gallery May FC Just Use A Temporary From The Play Store For Now

* Moto Launcher Has Been Removed

I WILL NOT BE HELP RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR PHONE BREAKS FROM FLASHING THIS! FLASH ON YOUR OWN RISK PLEASE! :)​
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] Chad The Pathfinder:
Woohoo! I can't wait to get home and try this out! :D
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] megaghostgamer:
Lol thanks! :) Rom uploaded enjoy!!

Also I'll be trying my best to push ALL bugs out and get a stable ICS.
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] gmoe65:
Thanx Mega, ur the Man!
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] megaghostgamer:
Lol one second was helping someone with their nook tablet gotta find download link lol
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] megaghostgamer:
Link Fixed :D
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] bilgerryan:
I tried to thank you but I think I'm out for the day, "thanks action denied" that's what it said lol
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] megaghostgamer:
Thanks for trying to thanks me so thank you. Lol :)
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] bilgerryan:
I'll make sure i get you one tomorrow
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] j00manji:
Nice work man, I wana throw this on my friends phone. He just got a replacement from the sprint store >:D
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] blakeatl:
So 4g works on this as well?
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] megaghostgamer:
Man.. I forgot all about 4G Thanks for reminding me . I was so used to not having 4G on my phone I just gave up the title Evo Shift 4G to Evo Shift lol but yeah that broken Ill look into it with bigsplit and shelnutt2
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] blakeatl:
Even though I have it, it's only available in maybe 3% of the area. Fortunately there's a tower very close to where I live.
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] megaghostgamer:
I'm so sorry :\ I'll look into it. I swapped to verizon cause there were 2 sprint towers near me and one minute it would be max bars the next it would be none. It kept bouncing. So I got spectrum with verizon and 4G LTE all day. Nice for a change. Its almost fast as my comcast. Either way I'll talk to friends about the 4G. I'll try my best to get this stable cause I have a lot of hopes. I love what my LG Spectrum is getting and thought hey why don't I try the launcher on my evo shift before I get it. I should be getting ICS for it this week. Hopefully. Thanks for telling me! :)
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] tello2323:
Weird

So i wiped data, cache and everything that is supposed to be wiped then i installed the rom.... but nothing changed i have everything from the previous rom........ so did i do something wrong??.....
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] kiewee3:
Yay!

I just checked yesterday for a stable ICS rom and didn't find any. Then today I checked for S's and G's and would you look at that! There's a stable ICS Rom!

I wanted to show my Mother the Power of ICS... :P
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] megaghostgamer:
If you flashed the one from my other site then its the same one as this one. I just released it here later.

Lol Its very close to stable :) Not yet though. I leave it in beta till I get camera recorder and bluetooth working. Then 4G is another thing
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] tello2323:
Oh no i do not know about the other site, and i have heard it but do not have it.... i had the CM9 AOSP then installed this... but still has everything from the CM9 even i wiped
[EVO Shift 4G Android Development] kiewee3:
What is this 4g you speak of? I don't think Sprint even has this so called '4g' Hahaha. but seriously There's no 4g where i live :/

I'm running Stock ICS on my 3d and I love it, so this ROM is gonna be just as good!