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[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Wobzy:
Before we get started, im looking for opinions more than help here, feel free.

Everyone says the choice of ROM is about personal preference & not so much performance.

From what i read its 50/50.

I run a stock ROM 4.0.3 HTC One XL (Telstra) with Sense 4.0

- unlocked

- rooted

- TWRP (clockworkmod didnt work)

I've narrowed my choices for a custom ROM down to

- MIUI

- CleanROM

- ViperXL

Im not exactly sure how to go about the backup of the stock ROM.

Coming from iOS, backing up the stock version meant simply keeping a copy of the original firmware.

I have installed

- Titanium Backup

- ROM manager

- Root explorer

Im not sure what other details are relevant, im new to android.

I want the end result to be efficient, at the moment im chewing through battery., and experiencing lag.

I want to be able set individual app permissions as at present i have processes chewing data that shouldnt be.

I want the ability to customize my UI, i change my mind every day.

I dont want bugs and i dont like it when things dont work the way they should.

Im not fussed with keeping anything of sense other than

- camera

- beats

I have found one helpful tutorial on backing up stock, but it uses clockworkmod in the example, i dont.

The others are all fairly non descript; "first back up, then flash"

I loved my jailbroken iPhone 4S and spent quite a deal of time getting to know it and customize it.

I want to do the same here but i dont want to screw it up.

The difference between the two, is that after all of my messing about, things on my iPhone worked the way i wanted them to.

Everything i have done so far on the one XL seems to come at the cost of performance.

I've held off for weeks trying to educate myself, but am growing impatient with my phones performance.

Feel free to share your opinions, and any good tutorials i might have missed.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] bimmernut318:
Back up with TWRP (boot into recovery and choose backup). As for the ROM, look at the roms forums and choose the one you think fits your needs. I am running viper, very customizable and I personally have no issues. I am also running the 2.29 radio an battery has been great.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] kakeeman:
do you have issues with performance or stability? i usually worry about the latter.

try to find the bug reports for the ROMs you're looking at. the JB ROMs are a lot less stable at this point, but it's fun to participate with development!

Sent from my One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Wobzy:
Cheers. Pretty much what im doing.

I just dont know which one fits my needs.

Tbh alot of it is still babble at this point.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Wobzy:
Stability is obviously a real concern.

But performance is equally weighted.

I dont think we should have to trade on for the other.

I been reading the bug reports, its the reason i'm still on stock.

5 - 10 years ago i'd be all into development.

Adulthood sux. I get to play with my phone for like an hour a day.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] kakeeman:
i understand that! originally i rooted and unlocked the bootloader, then flashed the safe 2.20 build that's around here somewhere. pretty basic and bug-free!

now i'm running the CNA ROM and there are some issues, but i have a little time on my hands at the moment to work around them. jellybean is cool, though!

i like ROMs that are simpler- i don't care to delve into GUI tweaks or crazy hacks. just want to get rid of the bloat and set things up the way i like.

i'm curious, though... have you had performance issues?

Sent from my One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Wobzy:
- 2.20 was ICS i take it?

- CNA???

- same, i want rid of bloat, and i want the freedom to set it up the way i like it.

- yeah i think i have, whether theyre any different to what the majority experience im not sure.

I unlocked, rooted, and started researching custom ROMs, until then i began customizing as much as i can;

- launcher

- lock screen

- widgets

- dock

- music player

- browser

Installed & deleted more apps than i care to think about in a process of trial and error.

When i had a setup that was almost what i want, i kept it and got rid of the rest, but;

- screen transitions are now not as smooth as stock.

- exiting apps or waking from sleep sometimes causes the whole screen to get retarded for a bit before the launcher loads everything.

- battery life is a major issue.

- data usage from apps that should be using it is also a problem.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] kakeeman:
- yeah, 2.20 is ICS. from what i gather, most JB ROMs right now still haven't got the kinks worked out of them because devs don't have HTC source code to pull from. could be wrong on that one.

- CNA = codename android. i'm using it right now. i like it and there are no dealbreaker bugs for me.

- sounds like me. i had a really old galaxy S1 that got realllllyyy slow in its old age. it's a balancing thing, i guess; some apps just have sloppy coding. i think launchers and their settings do make quite the difference in some cases, though.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Wobzy:
Sweet, taking a look now. Tidy download, about the smallest ive seen.

Yeah i can understand an old phone getting slow and laggy in its old age.

I've had the HOXL for about a month.

Hoping a clean custom and minimal messing about with additional apps will fix it now that i have an idea where im headed.

Cheers for the input.
[General Questions and Answers] Locky123:
Hey my htc desire hd is on cm 7 lastest version and everything is force closing the process android.process.acore has stoped unexpectedly. please try again i have try wiping cache including davalik and it is still doing the same thing please help
[General Questions and Answers] fleurdelisxliv:
reflash the rom its prob a bad flash
[General Questions and Answers] Locky123:
yea i have tried that
[General Questions and Answers] fleurdelisxliv:
did you flash back to stock? not many details in your op. what recovery are you using and did you wipe everything when you flashed?

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did you try the desire hd section im sure someone with that phone would be able to help much more! prob alrdy answered in that section also here is the link http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=754
[General Questions and Answers] Locky123:
no i didnt

i am using clockwork recovery

and i did not wipe everything
[General Questions and Answers] fleurdelisxliv:
try to reflash back to stock and when you flash wipe everything to get a clean flash. then try cm7 again and be sure to follow all directions to the t

did you make a backup you cld just flash your backup
[General Questions and Answers] Locky123:
ok can you please tell me how i wipe everything that would be great :laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] fleurdelisxliv:
the last phones i flashed cm7 on was the og atrix and samsung infuse! from cwm recovery i installed cm7 and then did a data wipe/factory reset then i wiped the cache partition and then rebooted. but it may be diff on other phones but it worked on every rom i flashed on the atrix and i did it the same way on my friends infuse.

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let me know if that works for ya :)
[General Questions and Answers] Locky123:
Ok i didnt go back to stock firmware i just wiped everything like you said and works perfectly thanks so much saved me alot of stress :)
[General Questions and Answers] fleurdelisxliv:
glad i cld help and glad it worked for ya :highfive: i know how it feels to be stuck freaking out :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Mr.Krypton:
Today my friend came with his Xperia P and told me to update it. GingerBread -> ICS.... I updated it !!! wow It's smoother than my XPS (****), and 490MB of free Ram WTF ? and Battery Percentage is visible as XPT :(

does anyone having these features in XPP ??? :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] noim:
Yes I do.. The ics of Xperia P is much more smoother and faster than Xperia S and I have more free RAM than Xperia S...i can say this bcuz my brother has a Xperia S..the nova thor is a powerful chip like the exynos chips that samsung used in SGS2.. It is a new chip so developers r having trouble figuring it out... That's why development for nova thor is proceeding very slowly..

Have a look over here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1450861
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] amitb96:
So that's why there is almost no development?

I have XPERIA P and my brother has XPERIA S and my device feels much smoother than his after the ICS update.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Mr.Krypton:
dnt say about exynos :@ !!! I hate those SoCs because lag as hell !!! Snapdragon SoC is more cooler than Exynos !! but I think novathor is awesome too :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] clijiac:
i think the vision rom is very awesome
[HTC One X] skhan33:
I was looking to purchase the HTC One X, I love HTC Sense and I want to know which specific feature takes One X ahead of Samsung Galaxy S3. I am really concerned about it's battery life since it is non removable and only 1800 Mah. I also want to know can we change the notification led light color using a software. Please let me decide which way to go you can list the features below and those using it can give me results.
[HTC One X] treebill:
Led only supports red or green. Battery most people get about 2 to 3 hours screen on time with about 18 hours on battery.
[HTC One X] will444:
1. HoX is a beautiful phone, S3 just.. isn't.

2. HoX has the better camera app, in my opinion better camera too.

3. Better devs!

4. Tegra 3, mindblowing games

5. Amazing screen, looks just amazing
[HTC One X] *elmo*:
Fully agree with You :victory:
[HTC One X] Baldilocks:
I have and use them both. Here are my views.

1. S3 has the better camera. Just takes much better pics, less noise. A lot better low light pictures too.

2. With a good ROM, the One X battery life can approach 5 hours of on screen time. That's about the same, but not quite as good as the GS3.

3. The One X screen definitely has a better screen.

4. As far as developers go? The same for both really. Rooting is much easier with the GS3 because of the unlocked bootloaders.

5. The build quality of the One X is much better than the GS3.

I use my One X 75% of the time. :)
[HTC One X] treebill:
http://m.engadget.com/2012/09/26/lumia-920-low-light-shootout/

S3 is worse in low light from these tests.

@vorticalbox tweet me :P
[HTC One X] Baldilocks:
Not in my real life tests. The flash on the GS3 is about 3 times brighter.

In daylight, it's a close match. Still the One X pictures are noisier.
[HTC One X] chrisjcks:
I'll take a f2.0 aperture with a wide angle lens - 99 burst mode, proximity multi stage flash and its faster image processing chip over the S3 any day!
[HTC One X] Gammarax:
1. HTC One X has the best screen of any mobile phone as of yet, hands down. This is what made me buy the HOX over the S3.

2. The home button of the HOX is non-physical (this is a pro for me, since I broke my home button on my iPhone 4 and it was so annoying)

If battery life is a super high concern for you, then I suggest you take the S3. The One X's battery if using the correct rom/kernel combination can reach 5 hours SCREEN ON time, and with normal use that can last you about 2 days without charging.

Basically, you should have no problems with the HOX if you plan to charge it every day anyway just like any smartphone :p If you travel a lot and don't frequently have access to a charger however, then just go with the S3.
[HTC One X] chrisjcks:
Battery, really?

Also, these tests were performed on a much older OS running 4.0.3 on the HTC ONE X whilst 4.0.4 was tested on the S3.

We all know 4.0.4 with sense 4.1 improved the battery even further.....
[HTC One X] Baldilocks:
And you will still get worse pictures with the One X. That's just the way it is.

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You like to quote 'studies'. Real life is where it's at. I get nearly 7 hours of on screen time with my GS3, compared to almost 5 hours with my One X.

Real world is where it's at. Not tech sites and magazines.
[HTC One X] chrisjcks:
Well, in the real world I can get over 13hrs screen on time if I'm only reading - S3 wouldn't get close to this.

In the real world, the brightness on the s3 is 60+% less compared to the HOX - not better battery, just crap brightness to increase battery results.

In the real world, you can't see your s3 screen outside.

In the real world, the HOX will be 'significantly' higher battery when being used purely as a phone as the battery idle core gets used.

And about the pictures - your implying that HOX users must be professional photographers, as the HOX picture thread shows much better photos than over in the s3 forum.

Even with the s3 trying to copy HOX camera features with the photo/video - can the s3 even take pictures from already recorded videos? - its burst mode is slower & limited to 20, it doesn't have a wide angle lens, it doesn't have the multi stage automatic flash, & the s3 is only a f2.6 I think.
[HTC One X] Baldilocks:
^ Yeah, my B.S. meter went off with your 13 hours of screen time while reading.... that just makes the rest of your post B.S. too.

I have both phones. I have used them for a long while together now. Each have their pluses. I prefer the One X. But, there are a few facts that you just can't get around.

1. Battery life goes to the GS3.

2. Camera goes to the GS3.

3. Build quality goes to the One X.

4. Screen goes to the One X. (And this has nothing to do with sunlight legibility, because honestly they both suck at this.)
[HTC One X] nikzDHD:
1) Subjective, but I prefer Sense. Better contact management and social network integration. However Touchwiz has better video code support and better optimised.

2) Subjective, better screen, I prefer the SLCD2 compared to AMOLED. Whiter whites, more closer to natural colours, full RGB, nice and bright. However AMOLED has better blacks.

3) Camera, takes some good shots when set up manually forget auto choose your own settings. Camera app is also better however SGS3 takes better video.

4) Subjective, design and looks. Love the build of the HOX and the matte finish. Looks lively that's not to say the SGS3 looks or feels bad.

5) Tegra, nor as powerful as Exynos but better suited for gaming. Tegra games play and look better.

I've had both phones. Battery life is easily better on the SGS3 for screen on time but the HOX idles well and can last a while. But this is dependent on signal, what's syncing and such.

Other little things I prefer on the HOX the mail app is better, Sense widgets are good, devs are good.

Both are good phones choose whichever you'll be happy with either.
[HTC One X] chrisjcks:
Set brightness to lowest..... give it a go, use the kindle app.

I've done it myself, over 13hrs.

I know someone else has done it similar with PDF's & got 12

SGS3 couldn't get even close to this.

So, whilst your sooo quick to scream BS - give it a go, or STFU. ;)
[HTC One X] treebill:
You can also force the phone to use only the power save core, me and meltus did testing and got stupid battery life, if your only using it to text and talk that's the way to go.

Either way, even if the phone were the same in every detail but shell and GUI I'd bit one x and sense any day.

@vorticalbox tweet me :P
[HTC One X] Baldilocks:
And why would I want to do something stupid like that? Just saying. I like to actually keep my screens at least 50% brightness.

Maybe you should have just bought a Kindle....
[HTC One X] chrisjcks:
I have a few kindles, but I always have my phone with me & this isn't always possible with my kindles.

As for keeping the brightness at 50% - you do realise that the HOX is 60+% brighter than the S3?

HTC could easily send out the next update setting the brightness at the lowest to boost battery comparisons.

Maybe put your S3 on max brightness whilst having your HOX on 50% then you will see which has the better battery. (also not cheating by making everything on your S3 black)

Anandtech tests show just how badly the s3 can perform, it was even beaten on just talk time.

Having a dull screen to boost battery is a complete cover-up from Samsung.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beards:
Guys,

For the past four days I have had a total failure of the standard Email app in that it now will not connect to my Yahoo email account, simply saying "wrong username or password, please edit settings".

I know it's a server issue as not only is this happening on my S3 but also on all my other Android devices (Galaxy Note, ASUS Transformer Prime & Nexus 7).

I have contacted yahoo TWICE and each time they tell me to alter the password which I repeatedly tell them that does not work and it is a server issue. Annoyingly they do not follow up the replies they receive and you have to generate a new query each time.

As such I am trying to build up a bigger pattern to hit them with and would welcome if anyone else has experienced this issue.

Thanks

Beards
[Desire Themes and Apps] zeebo:
Hi. I notice jellybean ROMs all have camera problems to some degree. I use camera ICS from market and it works fine for me on every jb ROM I have tried. Perhaps someone with knowledge can find out why this app connects and uses the camera OK while the jb camera app does not. Its a little bit laggy I guess but very usable. Camera jb from market does not however work.

Regards
[Desire Themes and Apps] goodrichxda:
I tried your suggestions. However the video camera still doesn't work for me. Still camera works normally.

I am using [ROM][4.1.1] Jelly Bean | CyanogenMod10 [BETA 0.36][26.09.12].

Are you saying, that you have video working?
[Desire Themes and Apps] DickTaidor:
Illusion Video Camera is working for me on Nikez Lente pre-alpha10
[Desire Themes and Apps] techwiz98:
The video camera is working with some glitches on p11.
[Desire Themes and Apps] paddyankee:
I use FxCamera for camere alternate, Video Cam Illusion for video.

Hope Nikez / elk759 fix the Camera issues in future JB ROMs.. :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] viniu:
I hope so too, i don't want to change my desire...
[Desire Themes and Apps] Kolyanchic:
Miui camera works fine
[Desire Themes and Apps] Jan Roman:
I am looking for an alternative too. Let's just hope these camera issues will be resolved soon. I am using CameraFX for taking photos, even though the stock camera works with minor glitches. Video recording doesn't work at all :(
[Desire Themes and Apps] vmpsr:
Most of the market cameras is that they are either 4:3 or take lower resolution pictures. Still looking.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lampz:
How to fix the sms to send large sms? I kept on have this annoying notification while sending large sms.. anyone can help me?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
the SMS fix mod on XDA .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
You can't.. SMS are restricted to 160 characters, because that's the most you can send, in that form of data...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Wrong.

Again you talk about something you don't understand.

OP: do what JJ said, ignore the guy above.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lampz:
Sms fix mod on xda? Is it on gs3 thread? I cant find it..:(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Ya its around somewhere.

I know that most custom ROMs already have that mod baked in.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1717867&highlight=sms+mod

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1772124&highlight=sms+mod

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1773937&highlight=sms+mod

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lampz:
Thats great! Thanks!

But will this work on go sms?? Or just need to use the stock sms app?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saywhatt:
Stock secmms.apk only :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stovepipe:
OK.. I'm at my wit's end.

I'm used to programming CDMA phones (Android) to other carriers. One such carrier (Verizon) requires a file to be written in the /DMU/ folder of the EFS filesystem. Trouble is, WP7 doesn't have an EFS filesystem that I can find.

Where on WP7 or WP7.5 is this?? Qpst says that the phone doesn't support EFS, as well as QMAT, and DFS. In android, this is normally part of the radio, but doesn't seem to be the case in WP7. I've got the latest QPST, QXDM, etc. But I think the file resides somewhere on the phone OS filesystem, and not in the radio.

Without this file, the phone never authenticates for 3G... it drops back to 1X.

Anyone, please help! I'd like to get one of these on Pageplus (the Arrive), which IMHO is better than VZ's model. (I like the slider).

Thanks in advance for any insight.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazza9075:
its not specific to WP, it must be do to with your phone its self

I have the Focus S and have access to much of the EFS, but not all, I used EFS explorer in QPST, I can read and write but as yet ive not been able to get access to /sfs /nvm or /efs_private

Can you connect to your device at all with QPST?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stovepipe:
Hmm.. that's interesting. I'd assumed it was a WP7 thing, but if you've got a WP7 device and can use QPST EFS explorer, then it may actually be an HTC Arrive or 7 Pro thing.

I use EFS explorer on other devices, and was able to use QPST and DFS and CDMA Workshop on the arrive. EFS Explorer said that the phone doesn't support an embedded file system.

Any thoughts?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazza9075:
do you have your SPC code?

I used RevSkills tool to change mine to all zeros, I did that first before even attempting to use EFS so I cant be sure if that is why it wouldn't work but its an idea

the other thing is the diagnostic mode, how are you doing this? do you put it in to download mode? or do you use some kind of tool to change the USB mode to USB diagnostic mode WITHIN windows phone? I can only get the latter to work, but that doesn't give me full access to the file system, I cant get download mode to work at all which is a real pain in the arse!
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] dubist:
Many Phones have this Thread so why not for our Xperia T ?

Let us show Pictures taken by your Sony Xperia T / TX

Im First with some Makro shots .
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] MrMarques01:
Could you please make some outdoor and indoor/lowlight pictures (with and without flashlight)? Thanks in advance
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] miki_69:
Excellent idea dubist

Can you post images in native resolution?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Ryknex:
What Ware The Settings Of The Camera When You Took Th 2nd Images! Can You Please Remember?:D
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] dubist:
i will shoot something today ;D

download the pictures and open with windows picture viewer than you have native resolution!

all on automatic and flashlight on automatic too
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Ryknex:
:good::good::good::good::laugh::laugh::laugh::good::good::good::good: U Have A Nice Camera (Unlike Noisy Xperia S)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] dubist:
here are some new photos in a RAR File

http://www.file-upload.net/download.php?valid=835.11776226574&id=6644891&name=Pictures-LT30.rar

click on the little download label with the arrow at middle-right :)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] miki_69:
What I meant was, images were not taken in full res 13MP (4:3 format) or 10MP (16:9). Image size attached is 2,242px × 1,261px

"Download-Ticket abgelaufen" - Expired??

Can you tell us about camera button, how does it feel? Is it easy to focus/depress? Is it comfortable to use?

Cheers,

Miki
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gizzmoffm:
He posted the wrong URL (with a token in it).

Here's the correct one: http://www.file-upload.net/download.php?id=6644891&name=Pictures-LT30.rar
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] dubist:
thank you.

sorry for the wrong URL
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] miki_69:
Nice images, can you post some more?

EDIT

Some images I found

EDIT2

Two more