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[EVO 4G General] AbsolutZeroGI:
You really should try out roms for yourself instead of listening to others. Some people like some things and others like others. I've run CM on 2 phones now (MyTouch Slide and G2) and it's been extremely stable, fast and just fantastic. If it had wimax and hdmi working i'd have it right now (I like watching hulu on my big screen while I eat :D).

If you want something that has everything working, myn's warm twopointtwo rom works if you have the older Evo hardware (pre-0004). It's very nice and still runs sense or mikfroyo, which also has sense, but it supports the new evos.

If you want vanilla android and can wait for the wimax and hdmi, get CM, there's just no alternatives. If you can't wait, go to the dev section and look for the threads that start with [rom] and see if any of them suit you better.
[EVO 4G General] Greubin:
Fwiw...I'm a total noob to the android scene. I'm fairly tech savvy, good in general with pc's, hacking tivo's, etc..nonetheless I was very hesitant to root and flash my evo. But, I took three plunge last night, first rooting, then performing a nand backup. I then uninstalled all the sprint apps successfully. I was fairly happy at this point.but I have been experiencing random reboots and sense crashes prior to rooting. So I took the plunge and flashed cm6.1 and gapps last night.

I have to say I wish I had to done this months ago, I love the look, feel,and performance of cm / stock android. I struggled with battery life before flashing, but there is a significant improvement in batt life since ive flashed. I also installed swype beta,as I had received an invite just prior to sprint including swype. Im bummed about the lack of 4g, but 4g is hit and miss in the south bay so I cant complain too much. Oh ya, wifi tether is an added bonus.

I say go for it. ;-)
[EVO 4G General] alex2792:
Well the biggest con is that you can't use 4g or hdmi, which defeats the purpose of buying the evo and paying $10 fee for 4g. Not to mention the fact that stock android looks like a 3rd rate Linux distro from early 2000s.
[EVO 4G General] BrianDigital:
so me running cm6 defeats the purpose of me owning my phone????

I dont live in a 4g area......4g is only really advantage when tethering to a laptop
[EVO 4G General] jc8081:
Ok guys thanks for everything but i really need a link so i can figure out how to backup and flash and rom...
[EVO 4G General] ViViDboarder:
Sure. First sticky at the top of the forum: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=881747

The stickies are pretty comprehensive for the EVO. Pretty much anything you'll want to know will be there.

As for CM6. It's super fast. I love it. I don't mind being without 4G (at least when I'm not testing ;) ) and HDMI (I use Twonky Media Server to stream pics and vids to my Xbox over wifi).

Both of these features are coming soon so if you decide to go with another ROM, just keep following CM for updates on these features. When they are done I don't see why you wouldn't use CM.

As for alternative roms... I know Myns is very popular.

Also, I'll note, you can always flash CM6 and play with it for a bit and then wipe and flash any other rom.

tl;dr - Read the sticky, try myns and follow CM progress.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
You might want to take a look at MIUI. It's well designed (unlike Sense), is pretty fast (faster than Sense), and has a ton of extra features (like Sense). While it doesn't have WiMax right now the CM guys are close to getting it working; and since both are based on AOSP, it will be relatively easy to port to MIUI. I prefer CM but if I didn't have a iPhone (since MIUI tends to feel like a copy of it) I'd probably use MIUI.
[EVO 4G General] BrentnNC:
If you can live without 4g then go for it. The battery life is great. I flashed a sense rom today and with in an hour I was flashing back to cm6.

Sent from CM6 using XDA App
[EVO 4G General] jc8081:
Ok thanks now one last question I think... when I do nandroid backup does it save my apps? Bc i was watching a video it said u have to nandroid backup and apps with titanium I think...
[EVO 4G General] tatnai:
bottom line: try a few ROMs, each for a day, and stick with what you like. no substitute for trying it out yourself.

fine print: i'm a vintage user. I was running android on my Vogue before there was an android phone, when GPS would always place you in san fransisco (someone will know what that's all about - thanks dzo). anyways, having a rooted phone is about many things, but one of them is the ability to flash and try what you want.

if you've got a deal breaker, like 4g or HDMI out, sure that limits you now, but as posted before keep reading and trying new things as they come out. if you're lucky, you may yet become a flash-aholic.

i'm a sense guy; not for the launcher (off and on i'm running adw, lp, and sense home, depends on the month), but for the sense apps. I love the sense messaging app, that's the program I use most on my phone. I ran vanilla for a long time on my vogue, and I tried out CM6 for a day. it's just not me. and I never use 4G or HDMI. you won't know what fits you until you try, though.

to each their own. use what you like.
[EVO 4G General] mbh87:
I use to be a die hard CM fan but now Im using MIUI. Both have a lot of nice features.
[EVO 4G General] nick7948:
Titanium Backup will allow you to backup apps selectively and then reinstall them later. (you can do many other things as well) This is very useful, especially for apps that you can not easily obtain. (ie. not available in the app store) An example is any game from GameLoft or a beta that you may have. (like Swype before it was deployed) So after you switch to CM6 or whichever ROM you can then load these apps on to the new ROM.
[EVO 4G General] conflikt:
I'd beg to differ. ADWLAUNCHER EX is very nice so is launcher pro.. and launcherpro is being upgraded. These launchers are much faster then HTC sense. And can be made to look just as good. You can actually install a sense theme over cm6. Your comment about 2000s Linux distribution is stupid. CM7 will be the first fully functional gingerbread build out including 4G which is already working in CyanogenMod but not released. Cyanogen also coded HDMI so they will be both included in cm7.

Here's some ss's of my adw ex setup not finished yet.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] themacman1000:
I really like not having the at&t boot animation on my aria but at the same time I don't like how long the HTC boot animation is on the screen. I'd like to supplement the HTC screen with the nexus one boot screen too. How do (or can) I do that? Where do I get the files and where do I put them?

Thanks-Cairan
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] cjtulowiecki:
Google : uot kitchen. My boot animation is nexus one
[Android Apps and Games] r3v3rb:
Available now for free ( or you can buy adfree ) in the Android Market...

My new upcoming game for Android 2.2+ Devices running on ARM7 chipsets.

[YOUTUBE]5RbRZjw02No[/YOUTUBE]

Let me know what you guys think, I'd appreciate the feedback.

Contains ten levels, bonus rounds, global high scores etc etc

atb,

m
[Android Apps and Games] wilbur-force:
Has a nice look to it .... very impressive :cool:

Id give it a download .... and I know my kids would :D

Does it speed up as levels progress ? or more things to avoid ?
[Android Apps and Games] r3v3rb:
Well, the levels get larger and harder with less time for a start. You get penalties for various things you may or may not do ;) There are switch's to find to open extra areas and lots of other little bits in there!!

I basically trawled my history of playing games and tried to integrate the bits I liked best from the commodore64 through to mario64 !

And funnily enough I developed it as a challenged set by my four and seven year old children who said I couldn't do it !

lmao...

Thanks for the kind words,

regards.
[Android Apps and Games] iynfynity:
Very nice graphics.
[Android Apps and Games] r3v3rb:
Thanks iynfynity. I hope to have it in the market in two or three weeks. I hope I can rely on xda members support :)
[Android Apps and Games] xdunlapx:
Looks like a cute game. How much will the price be, if any?

Edit: Hmm it's only for those devices running ARM7 chipsets. This may be a dumb questiong but how do we know which chipset we have? I have a Motorola Backflip and have no idea what it's chipset is.
[Android Apps and Games] r3v3rb:
xdunlapx,

Thanks for kind words :) pricing isn't set yet (my wife and I are in disagreement, she wants me to charge more than I would). Just out of interest what would you be willing to pay.

I may still put a free version out instead if I can get the ad code working...

Chipset wise it needs a galaxy s, desire, desire HD for example :)

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] iynfynity:
it's better if you can make the bee fly faster as the stage gets harder.
[Android Apps and Games] r3v3rb:
:) he already does. I didn't show that in the video because I want you guys to find out when you get to play it ;)
[Android Apps and Games] xdunlapx:
Hmm. I think I'd pay up to $2, preferably $1. Aww too bad it won't run on my phone. I would have liked to try it. :) Is it possible for you to expand the coding to run on other chipsets?
[Android Apps and Games] r3v3rb:
I can get it to run on ARM6 chipsets but as they are lacking a GPU the performance would be horrendous - I'll more than happily make a test build for you once the full game is live on the market - but I seriously doubt you would want to play it on the older chipsets. My wife has a HTC Magic which runs the same chipset and it was... interesting to say the least. Thats why I reverted and stuck with ARM7 builds.
[Android Apps and Games] xdunlapx:
Ah. That sucks. Yeah I've ran a few free games from the market that were just too advanced for my phone to handle. Darn phone. :)
[Android Apps and Games] sassibob:
:)

I'm going to review this on Azrienoch's weekly recap on XDAtv...look for the link in the portal!

<3
[Android Apps and Games] bar52:
looks like a very nice game and i will definitely download it
[Android Apps and Games] r3v3rb:
Just a quick post to say I have uploaded the full version as Ad supported to the market.

Please leave feedback on the market for all to see if you do download and try the game :)

Thanks

m
[Android Apps and Games] pdppdp:
Looks a bit like "buck bumble" for n64.

And I liked the game.

I'll give it a try.
[Android Apps and Games] r3v3rb:
Never heard of that game FraDit, I'll have to grab my n64 emu and check it out... I might get some inspiration for more levels :D

Should I release them one at a time or do them in say packs of five???
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Hi everyone,

This is Edward, developer of Car Locator. I just soft-launched my latest app and I wanted to tap this wonderful community to help me test it out and gather feedback before I start promoting it.

The app is called "Smarter Alarm". Basically, instead of waking up to a blaring sound in the morning, Smarter Alarm will read customizable information to you, like the morning's weather, stock prices, headline news, sports scores, your friends' birthdays and more. It's similar to Iron Man's "Jarvis" alarm clock.

I'll be adding more feeds in future updates, but I wanted to gauge interest before putting in the time =)

I'd really appreciate any bug reports, feature requests, and improvements you might have! If you can find any verifiable bugs, I'll happily reward you with a free copy of the full version of any of my other apps: "Car Locator", "Copy Paste It" and "Screenshot It".

Heres the market link: market://details?id=com.edwardkim.android.smarteralarm

Thanks!

p.s. The app is also entered in Verizon's VDC Power your app contest under the "information" category. Please vote for me! (poweryourappcontest.com/Protected/ApplicationListVote.aspx)
[Android Apps and Games] jdbeitz:
Sounds like a great idea! Ill keep an eye out :)

Sent from outerspace
[Android Apps and Games] Togsy:
I think its a great idea, but instead of voice, maybe an option to have music (or anything else playing) and instead have the text on your screen. Because currently the voice is a bit unpleasant to listen to
[Android Apps and Games] _Pink:
Hmm, interesting. I'll give it a try.
[Android Apps and Games] }{Alienz}{:
Pretty good once you install a decent voice. However, there is a big omission in features. It only supports one alarm time for every day.

Add the ability to configure a different alarm based on the day of the week. For example: Monday-5am alarm, Tuesday-6:30am alarm, Wednesday-7am alarm, etc.

Also, add the option to play user configurable music in the background while the voice is reading. Then it will be amazing. If the music volume is configurable independently of the voice, then it will be SUPERB. You only need to support a basic format like mp3 or something, no need for every format support....

A dream feature is to have the voice read like it is now BUT the app would also pick a RANDOM song from your music library and play it in the background. It will be different each time. But that's stretching it too far. Add music and different alarms for different days of the week and this thing will be irresistable.

EDIT: Also, add in the description 1 or 2 suggestions as to what voices it sounds best with. I had to do trial and error with quite a few to get it to be decent and they were all paid apps that I had to then refund till I find one I like lol. Adding a suggested voice can help users a lot.
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Thanks for your suggestions! Multiple alarms is definitely a feature that I'll be adding soon. I'm just getting started =).

Can you recommend to me some voices that you think are good?
[Android Apps and Games] RMonst3r:
Thanks for this fantastic app!

So far i've found that it works great with SVOX Classic British English Voice.

A few suggestions that were not mentioned:

Statusbar icon when alarm is enabled.

Alarm track/tune play for a configurable time before reading starts.

User configurable RSS feeds.

Enable Wifi/Data before alarm start and disable after completion (may be reaching but would be cool still).

Device: Samsung Galaxy S
[Android Apps and Games] magickiller9:
tried it on my htc desire. Although the app is quite nice, however the lock screen went missing once this application is install, and lock screen is restored once the app was uninstall.
[Android Apps and Games] legz:
Hey guys, have you ever heard something about WakeVoice ?

It's exactly the same things but with vocal recognition to ! (Jarvis....)

Here is the XDA thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=743915
[Android Apps and Games] }{Alienz}{:
User configurable RSS feeds is a DREAM feature for me as well. And the enable Wi-Fi Data would be important as I have things such as JuiceDefender which switch them off when not in use. Specifically...turning Wi-FI ON would be the most important one since where you need an alarm, you will likely be at your house and you will likely have wi-fi there that you use everyday.

So I suppose if I had to rate features it in order of important it would go like:

1. Configurable alarm time for different days of the week.

2. Turn Wi-Fi (or data) one minute prior to alarm going off. Make a trigger that checks if there is connectivity 1 min in advance and only enable the wifi if the trigger says there is no internet

3. Music in the background. Configurable in volume and content, meaning you can select what tune to play while the voice is reading stuff.

4. RSS feeds. YOU choose the feeds and news sites the alarm will read.

5. Randomize the background music so that it's different on different days or it randomly picks a song to play in the background-that way it will sound like you're listening to the radio only it's playing YOUR favorite music and telling you only stuff YOU care about.

Voices:

SVOX Classic British

SVOX Classic US Grace

Loquendo Susan

All 3 choices work pretty nice with the program. They are not like human voices but they are at least 5-10 times better than the default Android voice and WELL worth it. Hint: You can use them for navigation and reading your texts while you are driving as well.

To OP: If you manage to implement most of those features, I think you can easily set a $5-7 price tag and this thing will STILL sell like hot bread on the market lol. . .
[Android Apps and Games] Adidas108:
nice.lets try :)
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Thanks for your feedback again, as well as the suggested voices

I really like your ideas and I'll definitely be adding configurable multiple alarm times, music in the background, and rss feeds (1, 3, and 4). As for turning on wifi (2), I'll have to look into whether or not 3rd party apps are even allowed to turn on/off wifi without user input. I'm sure its possible, and if so, I'll add feature 2 as well.

Look out for updates in the next week or 2!
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Almost forgot, my email address (for you to send the log file) is eddie dot kim at [google's mail system] dot com
[Android Apps and Games] RMonst3r:
Hey Edward,

Wifi control should be possible because Juice Defender does it, it may require root though (not sure).

Can't wait for the changes. :)
[Android Apps and Games] }{Alienz}{:
Bug report!

This is the second day it failed to "alarm" lol. Good thing I set another alarm 5 min after otherwise I woulda slept in late for work.

Ok bugs. Yesterday it gave me a Text to speech can't be initialized or similar (I was playing with voices night before so maybe thats why).

This morning it gave me some error as well. I was in a rush and sleepy so didn't remember it but from now on I'll write them down or do log cats. Point is though both times it failed to ring. Today's error was not connected with voices at all as far as I remember.

Also a different bug is: When you launch the app, it AUTOMATICALLY turns on screen rotation and then bugs itself out when it can't decide on a horizontal vs vertical layout. Interestingly enough, the rotation option remains DISABLED on my phone...the app goes crazy switching modes though and then errored out with something. It does this on being launched or running, regardless. Just flip the phone a bit and you'll see.

It's a bug report because if an alarm goes while it's doing this, the alarm errors out and does NOT ring.
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Thanks for your bug report. Not alarming is obviously a huge bug, so I'll try to duplicate this and put out a fix asap. While the alarm is going off, screen orientation changes SHOULD be disabled so the alarm is not interrupted.
[Android Apps and Games] britoso:
Sweet app. which voice engine is better? It gives me a choice of Pico and eSpeak

One suggestion: Add the current time. Ex: "Good <morning|afternoon|evening> name. It is <time>am|pm.
[Android Apps and Games] oldmanofskye:
Not sure if this is a bug, or just something not fully implement yet, but when I'm setting the alarm time, the time is in am/pm format - even though my phone is set to 24h format. Other than that it looks promising and good luck with your project.

Sent from my Desire HD
[Android Apps and Games] k1018277:
This sounds really good. It reminds me of those futuristic moives where the computer tells the person everything about the day and stuff.
[Android Apps and Games] hotweiss:
Awesome app! Here are some suggestions:

1) Please include an alarm clock icon in the status bar, so I know whether it's on or off.

2) Please add an option to configure what days you want the alarm to go off.

3) Bug report: current weather is given in Celsius, but the forecast is give in Fahrenheit.
[Android Apps and Games] Robrecht:
Cool. Those changes weren't that important -- I only remember one little error I removed from the spoken text that was barely audible anyway. I should have notified you but I assumed you could only update the entire languages file at once, so that all changes would automatically be included in the next version.

Looking forward to what you have in store for us! :-)
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
I just started using my google calender for appointments, but noticed that an appointment for 1800-1900 is read like:

appoint at 18 to 19.

has anyone else had this?
[Android Apps and Games] Robrecht:
Oh, I just remembered something else. Single-day, untimed appointments are read as "starts on [the day] and ends on [the next day]".

Something like "all day" would be better, or simply nothing at all, when no time is specified and the appointment is for one day only.

Lothaen: what's the problem exactly? How should it be read? Are you using the English language or a translation? I think some reading decisions, especially concerning things like how to read the time, are made by the text-to-speech software.
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
english

should read as either 1800 (eighteen hundred) or 18 hours or 6pm would be better.

just a random number 18 to 19 sounded strange
[Android Apps and Games] Caelte:
Is there a reason why the weather conditions aren't translated?
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
The weather conditions come from google's API, which as far as I can tell, are only in english. I'm looking for a way to access this api in other languages.
[Android Apps and Games] Robrecht:
Hey, sounds like you found a way in the new update! Great.

There's a new problem now, though (sorry): temperatures in degrees Celcius are way too low, like -19 to -14, when it's actually somewhere between 1 and 7 here at the moment.

I'm guessing the api returns them in Celcius now, as a part of the language localization, and you're converting them to Celcius again?
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Thanks for pointing this out. I'll look into this.
[Android Apps and Games] Caelte:
Just a bit more information to this issue:

For me the current temperature is ok. Than todays min and max temperature is wrong. The current weather condition also goes well, but for forecasted weather condition (both today and tomorrow) it just says '0'. The following min and max temperature is again wrong.
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Hi,

I just released an update that should fix the weather problem. sorry about that!
[Android Apps and Games] Robrecht:
That was quick! Everything seems to work well now.
[Android Apps and Games] Caelte:
Thanks for the fix.

Will Smarter Alarm some day support to read out all Google Calendars and not just the main one?
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Yes, I have this on my feature list :). Thanks for your patience!
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Hey guys,

Shameless plug for my latest app. It's called "scare and share". Use it to scare your friends! :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=985485
[Android Apps and Games] Robrecht:
Hey, weird thing I just noticed: the "The alarm is set for <...> from now" notification has gone back to English instead of using the (Dutch) translation.

Not a big deal, it can wait until the next planned update! :-)
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Hello everyone!

I just released an update to Smarter Alarm. It contains 1 major bug fix and 2 new features:

- There was a hard-to-find, but major bug that was fixed. If your phone changed orientation sometime in the middle of the night, the alarm may not sound in the morning. If you are experiencing missed alarms, PLEASE UPDATE YOUR SMARTER ALARM. The latest release should fix htis

- I added a "what happened on this day in history" feed (full version only)

- I added quotes of the day feeds (full version only)

Thanks again!

Edward
[Android Apps and Games] Caelte:
Hi edward,

I got a suggestion for a new feature. I would like Smarter Alarm to ask me if I want to the disable the alarm for only one day, when I disable it. I got one alarm for the whole week and if surprisingly I don't have to get up that early I have to disable it and set another. This made me oversleep one or two times, because I forgot to turn it on again the next day. With this feature it wouldn't happen, because the alarm would reactivate itself.

Hope you will consider to implement my suggestion.

By the way, nice update.
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
preferences for quotes could be how many are announced...

at the moment I seem to get 4? which might be the number for news articles... :)

great update