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[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gjm777:
Really the first step is rooting then backing up your stock rom and finally flashing different roms to see what you like. Id start with a sense rom so you can see the differences in layout and features.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfysrfr:
Its all a matter of peronal preferance. I personally like the sense roms but I also like cyanogen's ROMs. Sense is a memory hog but its got cool features while stock and cyanogen roms are fast and stable. So there really isn't any "best" rom per say...but go root ur phone and try em all till you find one u like.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mejorguille:
Next let's start a thread that says [Q][Help] What should my favorite food be?

Really, it's all a matter of preference. Is there any specific feature about having root that you want over stock? Perhaps you want to avoid the tethering charge or to theme it up some. If that's all you really want to do, stick with a stock,rooted, deodexed rom. If you love having lots of options and new settings and to have better performance, try cyanogenmod. Does stock android not satisfy you? Maybe you want a sense rom. Or maybe you want a sense-based expresso rom. The only person that can decide what is best is you, the user. What you need your phone to do is different than anyone else. Oh, and welcome to XDA, the place where dreams are possible, boundaries are broken, and questions end up in the development forum.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] altomes:
Yeah personally I'm a fan of Cyanogen but you can try any of them out. But just so you're aware, there will be many many more ROMs soon enough, we haven't even had perm root for a month yet
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tankmorph:
If you are new to the whole scene, you should just sit back and wait right now, and be paitient. Every non-stock ROM out there right now has lots of issues.

We will have more stable versions of the Desire Sense ROMs and of course the CM stable ROM soon.

It's fun to experiment, though. Just perm-root, do a NANDroid backup, and flash away. You can always revert back to stock.

The most functional and stable setup I've tried so far is Stock with OTA, perm-root, and bacon bits. I'm also overclocked at 1.497GHz with no issues. Everything just works, and is lightning fast.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AreOh:
I'm also new to the android world and am curious as well. I get lost when reading and trying to understand exactly what's being talked about. Me, I'm looking for having great battery life and remove some of these stock apps that I'll never use and I dont like looking at. Is a ROM basically a copy of another phones UI?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] convolution:
That's what i'm wondering about too.

I believe they should make a thread with all the roms.

I want a rom with HTC sense that is based on Android 2.2 (froyo?)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shady503403:
If you want a fast rom that's stock but doesn't have all the bs bloatware.. then root your g2, over clock to ~1ghz and get root explorer and you can go into system/apps (I think) and delete the apks you don't use.. which is what I do. Therefore your on stock froyo, quicker and less bloatware.. if you want a stock froyo sense rom then try our modacos rom.. it has a kitchen (basically you can use this to pick what apps you want installed in the rom and which you dont) I haven't tried the virtous rom yet.. but I don't doubt its great.. like someone already said.. if your new you should wait till more roms come out. Focus on learning about perm root(theres a video out there) and how to do the basics like overclocking(there's a video somewhere too)... then move from there when we have more developed roms. Even thou cyanogen is very stable and runs well.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theglock:
Cyanogenmod-6.1.0-RC1 is the best
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevencpoynter:
Here's some advice dog, hopefully from reading my story you will have a better grasp of what's the best way to tackle your new android phone.

I started with the g1 sometime back in 08 which stayed stock until I decided to dunk it in the local river on a date (bad one at that), didn't even know you could modify those phones at that time. Picked up a cliq xt and discovered about what root meant (even thought I didn't REALLY understand). After rooting the phone via adb (very scary as I had no experience) and flashing a rom (lucky I didn't brick the ****) I decided I needed to read more..not just about the xt but about other phones and android period. At that point in time all I had was Modmymobile.com which was scarce as far as knowledge goes due to small developer base (can't blame them). After sucking up all I could I started cruising forums dealing with other phones and decided to get a captivate. The captivate was cool, but was still very new. After bricking two captivates (due to ****ty hardware lock) and tired of dealing with bad att coverage I came back to tmobile and picked up the vibrant. I'll tell you this I had FUN with the vibrant in spite of not having froyo, the vibrant guys have a strong deveolper base and Eugene is a very bright developer along with the guys at Team Whiskey. Sadly, TouchWhiz and no hardware keyboard pushed me to talk to tmobile about the g2 in which they offered me one via straight exchange. The root hassle ensued and I read more and more. Here I am today!

Basically, I read. Like..alot. And when I didn't feel like reading anymore, I would find a new android topic to read on. This didn't come without consequence though, as stated I bricked two captivates ( actually my fist vibrant along with a second g2). Don't be afraid to jump into adb, just be smart about it.

You'll also be surprised at what you learn from cruising the other phone forums too.

On that thought, a Bible thread like the SGS guys have would be sweet!

-Cody
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] convolution:
I just installed the Virtuous ROM and it works great. As for Oc'ing, I don't think I'll need all the processing power. Not like I'm encoding videos or anything. I don't wanna waste the batteries. I COULD underclock it...

EDIT:

What are the criteria for judging ROM? What make's one better than the other? If I have like 10 roms all featuring the HTC Sense... What makes 1 more superior than the other, other than subjective feel, ie: "It runs smoother", or, "It runs faster and is more stable."

Are there any definitive proof with numbers? Anything we can use to test ROM performance, akin to Quadrant testing phone performance?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g_grey:
you will get different quadrant scores on different ROMs, the only best ROM is the one you made, or whatever ROM you decide to use
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tankmorph:
I actually get BETTER battery life since overclocking...go figure.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] convolution:
Awww. I want a definitive concrete, scientific method of measuring the performance of the ROMs. I'm pretty happy with the Virtuous FastBoot... From off to up and running was like 3 seconds...

@ post above

you be trolling.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fastludeh22:
HAHAHAHA...dude, you just made my new sig...and I'm sorry I know my post has no meaning...

Ok here's some info: OP you need to read this. Even if some of it is "technical mumbo jumbo" I'm sure you'll get the point: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=838484

Also do your flashing from recovery. Always backup before trying new things. And for best performance, wipe between roms...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] convolution:
all i could get form that is don't mess with hboot and install rom via recovery...

so does that mean as long as I use ROM manager I'm safe?

and I apologize

Fixed:

mumbo jumbo-> Jargon
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikey:
Thread locked :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kidtk:
how do i get rid of them i am running mdj's froyo sense revolution with the latest kernel.. and im having these black s.o.d like almost eeryday and it makes me miss out on alot of texts and alot of calls... why do they happen... and how is this happening.. how do i get rid of them i dont think its the build because it happend with my last build froyostone darkstone im really frustrated...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Datfoooo:
Make sure you dont have auto brightness enabled...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cubecs:
Hmm, i applied this fix and it seems to be working for me. It has been 1 hour since i tried it but no SOD so far. Usually i'd get SOD 10 minutes after booting.

Thanks for the solution man, i tried changing the radio but i got stock in the whole process and i thought that was it for me, regarding hd2 with android. But this seems to have fixed the issue.

Best,

Alex.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snlu178:
hello all,

Has anyone experienced this? Is the USB port failing or bad?

I plug my phone into AC charger. Most often the light goes on and it begins charging. Sometimes it stops charging immediately. Sometimes it will charge for a little while then stop charging. Mostly it will charge until I unlock it again then it will stop charging. I find that once it stops charging there is no one way to get it back. Sometimes its unplugging and replugging, sometimes its just waiting until it kicks back in.

I have replaced the AC charger, changed the plug im using and changed the power strip.

Weird thing is I have not noticed this with USB charging through the PC (however that charging is slower than my rate of use, so I just get less decrease).

Has anyone seen this? Is my USB port shot? Time to get a new phone?

thanks

P.S. - Used to be Rooted MIUI, now I am back to stock FRG83 w/ stock Recovery, Kernel & Radio....this has happened since I was Rooted for the past two weeks.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Any unusual heat, when you're charging?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snlu178:
No. And this is a new thing that started when I started using MIUI. But has not left even after a full wipe and PASSIMG install.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nguyenmd:
When I reboot my vibrant, this message came up for couple seconds. Does anyone know what it means? Thanks
[Legend Android Development] snuffler:
Well so I flashed the Sense 2.2 rom based on the vodafone release yesterday and everything seems to work just fine.. However I can't seem to find a compatible version of DSP-settings :( This is really irritating since spotify sounds quite lame without it..

How do I install DSP-settings (or a similar app) on this rom? I just can't get it working, my legend freezer if I flash the dsp.zip that I used on the Azure rom.

Thanx in advance!
[Legend Android Development] BlaY0:
Where can I find this dsp.zip so I can take a closer look?

Sent from my HTC Legend
[Legend Android Development] snuffler:
I believe it's this one;

xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=395754&d=1283730988
[Legend Android Development] ladidaaa:
I also tried to install the Equalizer from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=795233

I tried it with Rom Manager and i tried to copy the files manually, but when i replace the original libaudioflinger.so with the one from the DSPManager the phone freezes at the white HTC screen. :-(

The App itselfs starts with the originial libaudioflinger.so - but Settings of course don't have any effect because the libaudioflinger.so is not the modified one.

I hope someone can manage to make a working libaudioflinger.so - this would be awesome!

Update: I also tried to use the libaudioflinger.so from the newest stable cyanogenmod for Legend - but also no success....
[Legend Android Development] snuffler:
Man this really sucks :( there has to be some version that works for sense 2.2. I mean seriously; dsp manager was freakin' sweet!! I can't understand why nobody seem to miss it...

Is there really nobody who knows how to get a working equalizer to sense 2.2 for the legend??
[Legend Android Development] ANtiHazarD:
you tried install it with adb ?
[Legend Android Development] snuffler:
sorry I'm really a noob... how exactly do I do that? :)
[Legend Android Development] ladidaaa:
I tried to install the libaudoflinger.so with adb - no success!

When I put the libaudiofllinger.so on the phone via adb the phone doesn't boot up anymore!
[Legend Android Development] snuffler:
Yeah I've got the same problem.. seems the file isn't compatible with the legend... I just can't believe the libaudoflinger.so that works on the Desire is that different from the one we have on our phones :( I mean both devices are running Sense 2.2...

Perhaps some awesome dev could save the day and take a look a the file?? *wink *wink* ;-) I mean it can't be that hard to port it to the legend and it would certainly make A LOT of people very, very happy :)
[Legend Android Development] nemphis:
should be able to get it working, cm roms for legend seem to have dsp not?
[Legend Android Development] snuffler:
cm roms should have it included! if you can get it working.... I will be forever grateful :DD seriously dude, that would be amazing!
[Legend Android Development] nemphis:
o.k. attached is a file with dspmanager and libaudioflinger.so from cm 6.1 on Legend (current rom):D

Maybe Blayo can look at it to get it working on other roms??

DO NOT FLASH!! it will break your legend
[Legend Android Development] snuffler:
Let us pray... :)
[Touch HD General] BlueShadowX9:
I am new here and i was wondering, Is there a kernel or ROM for HTC Blackstone that has working camera and no battery drain????
[Touch HD General] farukb:
no battery drain means perpetuum mobile and that is surely not possible with hd...no matter what
[Touch HD General] ghe_rares:
Let me refrase it for him .. he meant :

"What's the best WinMo ROM for HTC HD considering that I want to use XAndroid ? I'm looking for a good battery management , minimum resource usage and a working camera"

I have the same questions, except I know camera will not work.

Plus, is there a difference between Winmo 6.1 and 6.5 , Android port related?
[Epic 4G General] mousiluck:
Just thought i'd try and find out what everyone's benchmarks are. And how your daily use is.

Daily usage for me is great there is a little bit of lag on auto rotate, I'm guessing that is why they did not use touchwiz 3.0 in the first place wen the epic came out. And bout the gps issue, I don't really use gps much at all so it is not a concern for me right now. My neocore is around 55fps, linpack is around 20 mflops, benchmarkpi is around 1200 and the unreliable quadrant is around 1024. I say unreliable because I have setcpu at 100-1ghz conservative, and my quadrant is reading my cpu at around 1300. Samsung epic. 2.2 froyo. benchmark tests.
[Epic 4G General] A_Flying_Fox:
Neocore was 55.7

Linpack was 13.something MFlops in 6 seconds

I feel like those should be higher :(
[Epic 4G General] dito33:
I have a filling that setcpu is only a gimmick doing nothing.

dito33
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
Well if the kernel supports 1300 maybe thats why quadrant sees it that way...As for setcpu you need an overclocked kernel that supports higher clocks,but this is also used to aquire better battery life...And it does work,period.
[Blade General] That-Guy:
Hey People,

I purchased a Orange San Francisco (ZTE Blade) last weekend, I have so far done the following:

- Unlocked it.

- Installed Clockwork Recovery Mod

- Installed de-branded rom (2.1 still)

- Rooted the device.

I followed a guide on the GiffGaff Forums.

The problem is that guide uses a rom which does not have Hardware Acceleration enabled by default. Is there a way of enabling hardware acceleration without re-flashing the phone?

Don't really want to re-flash as I have spent almost a week setting the phone up how I want it and installing apps.

Any info and instructions would be great :)
[Blade General] KiDimon:
ITs very easy, just go to clockwork mode, choose backup , it will make backup in your sd card, and then u can instal whatever you want and when u wanna go back to your current rom just go to clockwork and select restore. Thats it :)
[Blade General] fryguyse:
Yes you can do it with Rootexplorer (not free though). Start Rootexplorer enter the System directory. And longpress on build.prop and then "Open in Text Editor" and change debug.sf.hw=1

(You could probably do it without Root explorer if you mount the file system as writeable and use any text editor.)
[Blade General] El_Nino9:
WRONG- user only wants hardware acceleration.

that's one way to do it.

other way is to use adb shell and type

SU

*accept the prompt on the phone*

hwaccel on

or download terminal emulator from the market for free and type in su and accept it and then type

hwaccel on

*ALSO WRONG THREAD, please obey rules here. there are sub forums here unlike modaco whom i respect a lot.*
[Blade General] Mikey:
This isn't the Q&A section or general section.

Apply your question(s) in the proper sub-forum, cause you picked the wrong one.

Posting in the wrong forum might result in a temporary vacation

;)
[Epic 4G General] A_Flying_Fox:
Let's see some things you like and dislike about the froyo beta.

Off the top of my head...

I like how when you make a phone call and pres home, if you drag down the noti-bar, there's buttons for flash, speaker, mute and end call. I found that as a nice little extra.

I like the new 3g icon

I like the look of the UI better overall

Better App icons

The settings menu is full of a LOT more eye candy

The added lockscreen security options

The newbuilt in task manager

The fact you can finally put vibrate on through the noti-bar

The better "hold power for a couple seconds" menu

And last, but not least, Flash 10.1

I don't like how you can't auto organize apps

The phone is notably sluggier, BUT Its still friggin fast. I blame this mostly on the fact I don't have setcpu to OC to 1.2ghz again :( and I don't think the kernal can anyways

Websites still take me to mobile! Its annoying! My hero had an option for "allow mobile view" which I always had off and it always sent me to the desktop page. I was hoping for this option in FroYo, but its not in the beta. Hopefully its included in DK05 or whatever, but I doubt it.

Also, the browser "checkers" but its not a big deal. It still renders **** wayyyy faster than my hero

Let's hear some of your pros and cons about the froyo beta. :)

Keep in mind that I understand its a beta and don't take my negatives to heart and get all defensive.
[Epic 4G General] A_Flying_Fox:
Just saw alittle bug in setcpu and linpack. When you rotate the phone, it cancels out anything you did in the last orientation. This is annoying because the 270 degree rotation is on by default and idk how to take it off. I was laying down and the way I hold the phone to read it makes it autorotate
[Epic 4G General] s9ortner:
+1 on all your pros.

The biggest con for me is no widget for the music player. I use it all of the time.
[Epic 4G General] sultan.of.swing:
Enjoying it myself. After getting gps working its actually a great rom. I get the occasional fc but its no biggie. I use poweramp and it has its own homescreen widget. All in all for a beta build its actually pretty good.
[Epic 4G General] jarnail24:
I don't think the battery life is as good but that should be fixed once we have the kernel code for froyo. I was so used to the overclock/undervolt kernels and the battery was amazing.
[Epic 4G General] sultan.of.swing:
I am getting 12 hrs out of my battery on froyo. Decent enough to get through the day.
[Epic 4G General] durhamite:
All of the froyo roms seem sluggish to me. I see it mostly on the lock screen. It takes the phone a few seconds to wake up before I can unlock the screen. But I agree on all the OP's pros. I just can't deal with the sluggishness so back to Syndicate ROM until we get a overclocked kernel
[Epic 4G General] sultan.of.swing:
I have never had an issue with lockscreen lag that everyone talks about
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewingr:
I have a situation occasionally where right at the time I have a call coming in, circumstances of using the phone put me at the home screen while the phone is ringing.

When that happens I cannot answer the phone. If I press and hold the home, it does not have anything on the taskmanager to go to to answer. If I press the green phone icon, it takes me to the dialer, which is presented ready for me to dial and a green call button. Still ringing...

Any ideas on how to answer the phone in a situation like this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtrsttr:
I believe you can drag the top bar down and answer it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chasesavestheday:
had this happen one time. weird. at the exact moment i sent a text to the same person that was calling me. it was ringing in my hand but no where to answer. hit the phone icon and it was just the dialer.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
Yes I think so too. I had this happened once and at the top bar is a green phone icon. Drag the bar down click on phone and it take you to the phone screen to answer.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewingr:
Wow. Thanks. It is weird.

I'll try pulling down the notification bar next time it happens.
[Epic 4G Themes] stayfitted:
First off let me point out this in no way is my theme. I did not develop this and will not support any issues or customize anything for you. I just happened to see this on the SDX developers site and thought I would post. All credit goes to: pjree on the SDX Developers site.

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Original Post from SDX:

White Mochi v0.003. Now in two flavors.

This is my first attempt to make a theme. I wanted a theme with a white notification bar for my Epic and there was none to be found. Thanks for Chibucks pointing me in the right direction. The icons I got from various icon packs with exception to the battery icon. Credit for that goes to Crake001 and his s0niqu3 Epic theme. This is still a work in progress.

Disclaimer: Use at your own risk. Remember to back up your phone prior for flashing and have Odin ready just in case. While this theme is working on my phone, your mileage may vary. I am not responsible for what happens to your phone.

What you'll need to install. Roms with 2.1

1. Have you phone updated to DI18. It may work with DI07 and DG27 but I haven't tested it.

2. ClockworkMod Recovery installed: Download here

3. Noobnl's Andromeda Galaxy or any other Deodex rom or them template

Install instructions

1. Download one of the versions of White Mochi v0.003

White Mochi V0.03 with solid notification background.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/7cf7zsvuzqghc88/White.Mochi.v0.003.zip

White Mochi V0.03 - Clear Notification Background

http://www.mediafire.com/file/cflnjovnbhf5h8w/White.Mochi.v0.003-clear.zip

2. Boot you phone into Clockwork recovery.

3. Back up your phone's system and data.

4. Select "Install Zip file from SDCard." then "Choose Zip file from SDCard"

5. Apply Mochi.v0.001.zip and reboot.

BTW I am using this with the Syndicate Rom
[Epic 4G Themes] twoeleven99:
Nice theme wish it was for froyo
[Epic 4G Themes] shawnp582:
Very Nice Theme...GOOD JOB!
[Epic 4G Themes] ragnarokx:
I used this theme for a while with Baked Snack. Good stuff :D
[Epic 4G Themes] Bobbywatts:
Can you change the... Ahhhhh just kidding, just make it for 2.2 hehe
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madtomatoes:
I just received a new incredible from verizon after rma'ing my first one and it is now constantly freezing while doing anything from browsing the web to texting. I rooted it with unrevoked 3 and then with forever. So I have s-off. I am running Skyraider 3.3.2. I thought that it might be a kernal problem so I have tried the stock htc kernal, kings, and ziggy's but none of them have fixed the problem and i have frozen up on all of them. I have not had it overclocked. Could it be a radio problem? I have my radio updated to 2.15.00.09.01.

Any further information needed?