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[Nexus S General] robrob777:
I have some Pros of GingerB

*GB battery life is much better than JB. Specially in standby.

*Animations are faster (feels much faster)

*Scrolling is faster

*More available memory at boot.

However JellyB Software is awesome, I love it on my GN and N7. However for the Nexus S I use GB, it isn't fancy but gets all the job done and excellent battery life.
[Nexus S General] Sputnikk23:
unused memory is wasted memory. that is all.
[Nexus S General] fieldside99:
Spare memory will make your multi-tasking jobs faster, as you know, many apps are running on the background even when you close them. You think you have closed them but in fact they are active behind. So more unused, reserved memory is preferable.

Unless your phone has 1G or more RAM, like N7 or SGII or III, or else you will feel some lags quite soon (due to swapping as a result of insufficient memory), and changing between apps is quite sluggish. Force close is more often too!

I have redone the benchmark test using Antutu, and the results are not that significantly different (when compared with quadrant I wrote above):

(average over several times)

GB - full test - 3410

JB - full test - 3120

Just about 10% faster!
[Nexus S General] styckx:
Best thing to do really if speed is an issue is to drop the bulky feature filled ROMS, launchers and demanding widgets and stick with stock, AOSP, or RasBeanJelly and marmite for your kernel. The phones two years old.. Anyone who expects it to run like a Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7 is delusional. It's a great phone, runs great all things considering but it's no spring chicken anymore. :)

I myself after a few weeks of going back and forth finally just wiped the entire SD Card clean and settled on using a basic AOSP ROM I've compiled myself. The phone has been regulated to primarily being just used as a phone, GPS, and mp3 player. My Nexus 7 is for everything else as my daily driver Android device full of unicorns and the tears of newborn puppys. My Galaxy Tab has been regulated to a paper weight to keep my bills from blowing away.
[Nexus S General] styckx:
Someone requested this in a PM and after sending it to them via a mediafire upload I re-uploaded it to dev host.

Similar ROMs are in the dev section but I know not everyone traverses in there.. This is pure 4.1.2_r1 AOSP with the exception of it being pre-rooted for you and the MMS/Tether fix applied. Also deodexed but that's how it compiles so I'm not going to lie and act like I did you a favor by letting source code build itself how it was designed to. ;)

Wipe, Flash ROM, Flash Gapps, Change Voicemail number in dialer settings. If you use the phone as Google intended this phone is shockingly fast. All the extra bubblegum with custom ROMs will bog it down.. Stay away from bulky launchers, HD Widgets etc. Less is more sometimes. It's just how it is with old technology. :)

full_crespo4g-ota-eng.styckx.zip - 108.63 MB
[Nexus S General] raskbite:
recommended

I recommend to nexus s users to please get a nexus 4

Or a galaxy nexus it will you alls life better and easy
[Nexus S General] revamper:
I came from the epic 4g touch and I still think official CM10 is extremely smooth. The development on this phone is fantastic.
[Nexus S General] michalurban:
I would like to return back to 2.3.6 - in fact I did, but the inability of widgets to scroll, even on non-stock launcher, make the use of Gingerbread a pain (I need the scrolling for agenda widget plus and tasks). Sad, 2.3.6 with Holo launcher is smoother and still fully usable for me. Dang! :)
[Nexus S General] snandlal:
Only thing I liked about ICS and GB was that the Directv app would steam. Not on JellyBean tho
[Nexus S General] dwielunski:
The browser improved enormously with ICS. I sometimes forget how laggy just scrolling around used to be. How could anyone go back to that?

I admit stock 4.1 was feeling pretty sluggish, but now I'm on the 4.2 build from the general thread with Marmite kernel, and this is much better. Don't know if there were improvements with 4.2 or if it's just the kernel, but loving this phone again.
[Nexus S General] michalurban:
Well, I use Opera Mobile - so I dont really care about the stock browser. And myself, I find 4.1.2 noticeable faster than 4.2 (greenblue 4.2 aosp) even with 7.x marmite kernel.

BTW is it just me or did the development for our NS slowed down a lot since no-official-4.2-upgrade was announced?
[Nexus S General] dwielunski:
Did they ever fix rendering of google.com on Opera? That drove me crazy. More frustrations I don't have to deal with on JB. Though now Starbucks app is broken. Sigh.
[Nexus S General] slab62:
I'm on android 4.2 and i can't to return in 4.1.2... so in 2.3 ....
[Nexus S General] migueldbr:
So you guys are saying that 4.2 has better performance than 4.1.2? Cuz i have been hearing all kinds of bugs and **** about 4.2
[Nexus S General] slab62:
I have 4.2 since one week (this version)

i have very good performance

1,4GHz stable

onedemand

vr
[Nexus S General] michalurban:
Im not sure what do you mean. :)

Could you please post the thread link to your 4.2 version?
[Nexus S General] dwielunski:
I am on Sprint, we never got 4.1.2 officially. So I went straight from official 4.1.1 to 4.2, and 4.2 is feeling much better. But you never know how much is just due to a clean install.
[Nexus S General] dwielunski:
Here is a picture of the Google homepage in stock browser vs. Opera. This is why I gave up on Opera & Firefox. Fortunately the stock browser is pretty good now since ICS. (But maybe Opera has improved since last time I tried.)

from this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1187913
[Nexus S General] dpeeps74:
Mine doesn't render that way. Here is the mobile and desktop version.

~Nexus S 4G~AOKP JB~Matrix 24.0~
[Nexus S General] dwielunski:
Still garbage compared to the WebKit version, though. Right?
[Nexus S General] dpeeps74:
I guess that's a matter of opinion. There's no real android ua in opera mobile. It's either mobile or desktop. I honestly don't browse much on my phone outside of specific apps and like having an exit button when I do because I rarely use the home button and don't like enabling hold back to kill.

~Nexus S 4G~AOKP JB~Matrix 24.0~
[Nexus S General] slab62:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1992411
[Nexus S General] ekerazha:
You can change UA from opera:config (if the option is still there)
[Nexus S General] snowmanwithahat:
Same, I went back to it as well. I couldn't stand the high memory utilization of JB and ICS. Mostly though I've come to notice on GB that with my homescreen populated and all my widgets installed that this phone is just getting slow and old... GB seems slow now too.

I'm going to tough it out for 2 more weeks on GB. I ordered a Nexus 4 and don't plan on going back to the Nexus S ever (T-mobile vs Sprint). It was great while it lasted but this 2 year old hardware isn't up to snuff when it comes to the newest version of android
[Nexus S General] thunder2132:
Not to state the obvious, but it really is just device by device. Mine is awful on GB but runs flawlessly on JB. *shrug* whatever works best.
[Nexus S General] gioyocho1:
i think gingerbread design are great and better than ics or jelly bean but when i set 2.3.7 rom sometimes it has problems.
[Nexus S General] jayjay3333:
JB is better because:

Efficiency, measured by the number of steps to achieve a given task

notification bar, take action on notifications directly from the redesigned notifications shade

context memory, click email link when you want to go back to the same email, you simply click the back button

and so on
[Nexus S General] 903tex:
well I went back to cm7 with netarchy kernel to test this bad battery I'm using til my new one comes in. And Im getting 12-15 hours while I couldn't go past 3 hours on JB! But as soon as I get new battery I'm gonna use cm7 then go back to jb rom and compare.

---------- Post added at 10:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:52 AM ----------

BUT for two year old hardware this phone still hangs in their with the rest. I mean if the nexus one would have gotten lil more ram people still be using it!(and people still use the one) For what its worth as long as you stay in a nexus family for your rooting and flashing needs you'll be happy either way! I used my upgrade and got the photon q for a great price! But after a month I went back to my s! After all the devices I toyed with the s has been the best one for me. Now it may be outdated in today's smartphone world but would still put a smile on any average Joe!
[Nexus S General] robrob777:
For battery..

There is no contest, GB beats JB easily.

I had 30% drops over night with JB, and only 5-7% with GB
[Nexus S General] polobunny:
I know you're a big GB advocate and that's fine, I was too, but I have a 1% per hour drop with JB too now. It's definitely not 5 times worse than GB, not even 2 times worse. :)
[Nexus S General] danismo:
With JellyB-TSM 6th release, with TSM Kernel i have 3-5% drop over night.

WLAN on, WLAN idle off, sync on, Flightmodus off, CPU 200/1200, Governor smartassV2, Scheduler deadline, BLN on, BLD 500ms.
[Nexus S General] otohadesu:
I remember when I first bought my nexus S and was shocked by how laggy it was on gingerbread, my friends with iphones or Galaxy SII's would tell me how dumb I was to pick a phone with such poor hardware and I agreed. The system would constantly run out of RAM resulting in my screen redrawing almost every time I exited an app, the homescreen was always laggy and the system would randomly reboot, the browser was absolutely useless and would often freeze for a brief period before it scrolled, the entire thing felt bad and DAMN was it ugly.

Then came ICS, everything felt smoother and faster, but it still wasn't at the level of the SII or iphone, also multitasking would take around 5-10 seconds to display and the battery drained a bit faster but the new features and looks were well worth it.

4.1 came out multitasking was fixed, no more screen redraws ever again, battery life drains even faster but this is probably also due to having a 1.5 year old battery and I can still survive a whole day. The UI was more snappy than ever and I was for the first time proud of my phone, scrolling in browser was fast but not smooth but I didn't care.

4.2 Perhaps it's just my current rom but 4.2 flies for me, literally go asked by my SII friends (who now have SIII) "wow is that the Nexus 4? It's so fast", browsing is impossibly smooth, no lag on homescreen, battery is terrible but i'll give it some time, it's actually smooth enough that I don't feel like I need the Nexus 4 anymore unless I want a longer battery.

Overall I would never ever suggest someone use GB unless they absolutely need a longer battery life
[General Questions and Answers] runingwild:
Hi all, my phone is stuck in a boot loop. Im not rooted. im trying to find ways to save data from my the phone before i do a factory reset.

I read a useful thread here, where someone posted that if the bootloader is unlocked, the data could be saved. If it was locked then it cant.

I think in the Boot menu it should say something about locked or unlocked. but in mine it doesnt. I enter the Boot menu and it just says:

HBOOT 0.98.000

then i have these options:

fastboot

recovery

factory reset

simlock

image crc

btw, its a HTC desire (bravo)

how can i know if my bootloader is locked or unlocked?

help plz, thanks
[Transformer TF300T General] carlosraf20:
I see that the TF700 is now able to install this recovery using goo manager, is there any way possible to this for the TF300T?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1797692
[Transformer TF300T General] Sib64:
The answer is simple:

it's from the TeamWin Projects website => Here TWRP 2.2 - Asus Transformer TF300T(G) page

and for TF700, you can: TWRP 2.2 - Asus Transformer Infinity TF700T page

The issues are different in TF700 and with TF300. So we must waiting one solution from TeamWin for our TF300 :(
[General Questions and Answers] BTiwari:
I was comparing Motorola Fire XT with Samsung Galaxy Ace both phone having same hardware can I instal ace custome rom on fire xt plzzz tell me I am not happy with stock rom

:confused::confused::confused:
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
10 Nandroid backup

20 Flash experimental ROM

30 IF works=1 THEN GOTO 50

40 Nandroid restore

50 Eat cake

-- Sent from my TouchPad using Communities
[General Questions and Answers] hemansan:
Doesn't look an issue

However instead of going for ACE rom, you could pick and choose from custom ROM built for your phone.
[General Questions and Answers] aweosomeabhijeet:
Porting a ROM is not a issue its simple.

The main issue is installing it.

Our phone(Fire XT) has a locked bootloader which doesn't allow us to have custom recovery or ROM.

We are working on bypassing bootloader and installing custom ROM. But still there is no success.

If I helped you,Click Thanks
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] Soul reaper:
Hey guyz!!!I have themed the stock music player of repencis 3.5 to make it look red!!!!

Here are the ss : https://www.box.net/shared/5e91gbpah12gii5vot8g

Head over the above link plzz

What's new-

Themed to red

Cool red back ground

Changed the icon and stat bar icon

Widget is made transparent

(There is a small shadow like thing in the widget)

If u experience any problems then plzz let me know

The file may even work wid higher resolution

Plzz commnr how is it

This is my 1st work in themeing

I hope u like it :D

How to use?

Just push it using root xplorer in system>app

Or use system replacer :)

I am hereby to share it with you guyz I hope u like it!!!

I may theme some more apps and put it here later

Jus have to wrk lttle faster :D

Download : https://www.box.net/shared/rwk9h9by98grakvqmc62
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] noobieAndro:
First blood. reserved. Screenshots will be more appreciated
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] Soul reaper:
I uploaded it on my box accnt since I am using my mobile

and uploaded the link above
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] kimerika:
theme for music.apk only,, btw thanks
[Desire HD Accessories] bosas200:
Whats better? I cant decide which to buy. I am thinking about koss the plug, sennheiser cx200 ir sennheiser hd201
[Desire HD Accessories] kingofnice:
In the ear headphones will sound better. Completely better. Better sound will come out of the in the ear and if I'm not mistaken they are cheaper then headphones.

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[Desire HD Accessories] bosas200:
What can you say about Koss The Plug?
[Desire HD Accessories] kingofnice:
I'm sure you will like them. Reports are that they sound good and won't fall out easy. Good sound. There is not a carrying case included. Also they are said to be uncomfortable sometimes...my guess is after wearing them for a long while.

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[Desire HD Accessories] TheMisterD:
Between those two the in ears are probably going to give you better sound than that particular pair or over ears. Keeping them in for extended periods will be kinda annoying though. If you want really good sound in over ears you will have to spend a little more. Probably closer to 50-60. The Samson SR850 are a great pair of lower end phones if you have a slightly higher budget.
[Desire HD Accessories] bosas200:
Anyone tried beats by dr dre tour with control talk? Is it working?
[Desire HD Accessories] hassanhassan:
Beats are overpriced for the sound quality it puts out
[Desire HD Accessories] kingofnice:
Beats Audio is the only important part. Beats headphones aren't worth it. And thier in-the-ear earphones are over priced.

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[Desire HD Accessories] bosas200:
I know that thing but i need to know that someone ever made control talk fully work with DHD.
[Desire HD Accessories] kingofnice:
If I had beats I would help you.

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[Desire HD Accessories] AndreiMel:
i have beats..they rocks! but they are tooo expensive....:cyclops:
[Desire HD Accessories] bosas200:
Does control talk works with desire hd?
[Desire HD Accessories] kingofnice:
It doesn't work on sense 4 or 3.6. Kernel issue.

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[Desire HD Accessories] fedgeist:
I use AKG in ear. Super bass!! Try it ;)

I bought it in Italy for 30€.
[Desire HD Accessories] bosas200:
Can you say model?
[Desire HD Accessories] xxkid123:
I think you guys might be interested in this.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/478568/multi-iem-review-263-iems-compared-1964ears-1964-v3-added-11-04-12

I have a pair of monoprices, and I can attest to their quality. They easily kick the bajeebus out of any of your normal crap, including skullcandies, and factoring in price, easily beats (if I worked at a percentage, for 5% of the price I get 70-90% the quality), and anything within 2-40 dollars of that.

I can also attest to J3's, which have great bass and extremely clear mid and high ranges (you might need an equalizer to bring out the mid and high ranges though, the lower ranges tend to get amplified).

Also try burning in your buds. At worse nothing happens, at best you get way better sound.
[Desire HD Accessories] amplifier86:
It also depends how much volume level you like when listening music,and what kind of music you like.Inear have lower impedance thus they sound louder,and you have almost complete isolation from enverionment.But I think headphones sounds more natural,but not as loud as inear.I use inear when traveling,running,etc,and headphones at home.
[Desire HD Accessories] mstickland:
I have beats tour (in ear) and solo hds (over ear) and I must say I prefer the compact in ear with noise cancellation. The sound quality seems better to me, but that's just me.
[Desire HD Accessories] Jon Olita:
In ear headphones are less healthy for your ears and you will notice it when you stop hearing properly. Yes they are cheaper, but I recommend you buying some over head phones. And about the plugs, I always end breaking the overhead cable that goes to the speaker, so I ended up buying the ones that has minijack plug in the speaker as well as in the cable.
[Desire HD Accessories] SlimAndwios:
I think the sound of headphone(fullsize type) is better than ear phone. Because sound space is larger(eardrum area+the outside). But It's not portable or bulky. If you often play sport or move, earphone is better. So, It depend on you.

I think Koss Porta Pro, senheiser hd201,hd202, soundmagic pl11 are good choices.

I'm using soundmagic pl11:good:
[Desire HD Accessories] blackbuffalo:
Vote for in ear phone
[Desire HD Accessories] korkfabrik:
definitely in-ear!

I love my a-JAYS One+
[Desire HD Accessories] malakagr:
I like earphones more than headphones. I prefeer the beats :)
[Desire HD Accessories] Rawrden:
I used to hate in-ears because they just didn't felt comfy. But after using them for a while i just don't want to switch back to headphones anymore. They sound so much better.
[Desire HD Accessories] Moscow_97:
Akg of course
[Desire HD Accessories] CodeJACK:
Another vote for AKG.

I had the 480NC on ear for a few years till I left them on a plane this year. They were amazing.

I might try their new in-ear this time round. Its not released yet but the 391NC is what its called.

I compared to BOSE at the time of the first AKG purchase and it was a lot cheaper for what I thought was comparable audio quality. The noise cancellation thing worked really well too.
[Desire HD Accessories] NiCk.JaY:
I love Sony MDR-XB700 headphones. They sound great, not to forget the extra bass
[Desire HD Accessories] BerlinBlackout:
Philips SHE9005
[Desire HD Accessories] edhunter000:
I like "in ear" phones as they have more of a noise cancelling effect.
[Desire HD Accessories] GuyInTheCorner:
Have a pair of Sennheiser HD 201's, great headphones but very quiet

Avoid Beats like the plague, they're complete overpriced crap

Personally I'd reccomend JVC HAFX1X if you're on a budget for in-ear headphones

If you have a bit more cash, I'd say go with the magnificent Sennheiser CX300 II (I've had these beauties for 2 months, can't live without them, TOP BUY)

Over ear I say Sennheiser HD 203, decent cans for the price
[Desire HD Accessories] alb0603:
stock are good i reckon
[Desire HD Accessories] GuyInTheCorner:
Also to get the best sound quality I'd consider investing in PowerAmp, best music player available for Android, well worth the buy

TheCorner approves..

That Thanks button ain't gonna push itself!

HTC Desire HD (Team Viper Like A Boss) ¦ Samsung GNote 10.1 (Stock Goodness)
[Desire HD Accessories] -SmOgER:
yea, that's exactly what I wanted to say. DHD with poweramp and good headphones makes a quite good match. Make sure to get the latest version tho, the one with stereox and SRS/beats. I was struggeling to get what I want until I realized there was new version of PA out there, lol. Personally, I have a stereox slightly more than a half, beats on (not by dre from Sense, but in PA.. ), SRS off, + tones and opt EQ adjustments (it depends on HP's sound signature and personal preference) and I'am more than satisfied. Also, I believe, most Sense ROMS have better sound quality than AOKP/AOSP.
[Desire HD Accessories] ankitrb:
Beats are damn overpriced. Go for skullcandy
[Desire HD Accessories] kingofnice:
I use simple $15 JVC in-the-ear-earphones from Walmart. I've tested them as compared to urBeats and they sound just as good, maybe better.

Sent from my HTC One X+
[Desire HD Accessories] FerreiraM.:
I use Sony MDR-EX50LP in-ear phones, they are really good, good bass and 3 sizes of earbuds. They cost 20 €.
[Desire HD Accessories] guojeff1:
Beats head phones cost to much. Beats audio is more important.
[Desire HD Accessories] kingofnice:
You are very correct.
[Desire HD Accessories] GLADS:
The sound between headphones and in-ear earphones are simply DIFFERENT. One can't say better or worse except for their personal preference. It all depends on you.

The headphones will have much more air flow and good bass but they are bulky, heavy in short its not portable.

The in-ear earphones are portable and much better for sound isolation, precision (because you can listen at a much lower volume), efficiency (no amps are required), and the music plays "inside" your head.

My preference. I Love headphones when I am at home full experience and crispy sound

And yes sennheiser are best, good quality and much cheaper, I have owned many of them.

Dont go for 201

Just go for HD202 ll (Has good Bass.) you gonna love it.
[Desire HD Accessories] hamzaq:
JVC

i use the JVC HA-FX1X Xtreme Xplosives Earphones
[Desire HD Accessories] vahiu:
earphones are better in quality but headphones are more hygienic
[Desire HD Accessories] xda-dhd:
Beats HD

Beats HD very nice!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wman2:
I used CFRoot and Odin to root my Galaxy S3 i9300. It seemed to go OK but when I open SuperSU it says "There is no SU binary installed and SuperSU cannot install it. This is a problem!" I have tried to install SuperUser but that also says the SU binary isn't installed.

What has gone wrong? Do I need to run the Odin process again?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Try reinstall try updating Super Su in the market try uninstall and update .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wman2:
I've tried that, same error occurs. I've also rebooted to no avail.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwerty12:
Just curious: did you install SuperSU from the Play Store prior to flashing CF-Root?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wman2:
No, I didn't.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwerty12:
Ah, right. Odd, 'cause if the SuperSU application was installed from the SuperSU ZIP then it means it should've installed the su binary too. (Sometimes flashing CF-Root doesn't trigger SuperSU install and you have to manually reboot into recovery mode.)

You could try reflashing CF-Root or just use CWM recovery (which should be there since you used CF-Root) to reinstall the SuperSU ZIP (CWM-SuperSU-v0.96.zip).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wman2:
I just retried the root with Odin, same result. I do have ClockworkMod Recovery so I will try to flash it with that.