[Vibrant General] bossman137:
I have been cowering in the dark like a scared little girl for almost 3 months now with my vibrant. All i had the guts to go and try amidst all this developement was the OCLF lagfix by Ryan. OH BOY OH BOY i had a 2500 quadrant score that i could proudly show anyone... ya that and a 9 hour battery life and checking the net always hoping for the... ahem... froyo update.

That is until i got fed up and brooke loose.... Team Whiskey presented the Vibrant world with their custom ROM Nero 3, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=883379

I mean The boys do a good job explaining the specs so i won't go into that, i simply wanted this thread to put ANYONES mind at ease who is sitting the fence on this one, take the plunge bretheren.

I've had it for 3 days and here are my beautiful experineces..

-My brother Had the same setup i did, stock 2.1 with OCLF. And today we sat down and did a comparrison. After 11 hours of light use ( I was working, but handful of texts and a few calls) but same for scenerio for him, I was sitting at 75, and he had 43 on his battery, and that is a exponential decay, i Made it from waking up at six to bedtime with more than half left, and i'm a night owl.

I am a testimant to the fact that OCLF (lagfix not root) is a energy hog.

-Everything you have heard TW work so hard to provide us in thier time, they have included this in the ROM, so in my personal opinion its the snappiest and smoothest ROM available. my quadrant score is around 1800 with voodoo lagfix. So i am also a testimant to the myth that quadrant scores can be very dishonest.

I'm no dev, but i am a heavy USER, and i am well read about the vibrant. So post all your holdups here and we'll try and get them taken care of :).

Preflash checklist:

1. Do all your backups, nandroid, titanium backup, etc..

2. Disable any and all Lagfixes

3. Hold onto your butts, this is gonna be fun :)

Some recent mods that i've tried and liked, all flashable:

1. http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=732: Blue notificaion icons (vs. Green) by jocelyn

2. http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=681: Accurate Battery icon by jocelyn

3. http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=533: 5 bar signal by Viralblack

4. http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=632: Nexus boot animation posted by jocelyn

Behold its awesome glory, thats not launcher pro. that ap dwawer is the real deal.

Metamorph (can't flash these but super easy to apply) mods:

1. nero-blue-oasp: (jocelyn did a great job of making everyting blue except some of the green system icons and dock icons, this will finish the job as seen in my 3rd pic)

2. Gmail: on of my beefs with the nero was that when you get and email or sms message, the two notification icons look almost the same, well the gmail mod changes the gmail notification to the white and red gmail icon, no more confusion :)

01/5/10

New found mods

1. libflashplayer.so.fix.10.1.105.6 (1).zip (3.55 MB): HEY A HULU HACK!!! So this allows you to watch hulu from your phone, but as of now its pretty slow, but give her a go, at least its SOMETHING. so here are the steps to install

a. Download zip to pc, unzip, and put the actual file unzipped onto sd card

b. Use root explorer, go to /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib, and replace file with one you just downloaded, be sure to change permissions for user to write.

c. open broswer now, and in settings (i use dolfin HD) change "user agent" to desktop.

2. nero_nexus_boot_and_shutdown.zip (3.77 MB): Made by jocelyn so its safe. Its that fancy 4 flying color bootup and shutdown, very nice. clockworkrecovery flash, and as with all her stuff, it takes several minutes to bootup the first time, just be patient, after that its back to normal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAFSEsEZnnE

Proven Boot and shutdown animation/sound modification methods for NERO 3:

1. Gravis 86 Provided a great website to some software to make MORE of linda talking if you like http://cepstral.com/demos/

-I threw is "Bossman, you have a text", and "email awaiting". If thats your fancy, then download the cepstral software, with it create a few notifications, and the default save as a .wav file. You need to convert them to .ogg (lots of free converstion software out there). Then with ROOT explorer just slap them in /system/media/audio/notifications. this way when you go into sms message settings and click "choose ringtone" it will show up on the list.

-For bootup and shutdown mods follow this great thread http://androidforums.com/fascinate-...change-bootup-shutdown-animations-sounds.html. I can confirm his methods for bootup animation, shutdown animation, and shutdown sound all work great, as do all his animations posted. Only thing i can't get to work is bootup sound. May i suggest droid soiling the mac apple with his urine :)

Tips:

-When replacing bootanimation and sounds files. Caps matter, must be spelled EXACTLY as the origional file, and you can just change the old ones name if you want to keep it handy.

-Must reboot for it to take effect

-set permissions by long click, as user: rw and the other two as r and r. so it should be rw-r--r--