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novak921

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Hey Guys, Not sure if I'm a late bloomer with TG's CM7 but I swapped over to CM7 last night and wanted to post some information. First, thank you very much TG, it's awesome so far.

1. Battery: Battery life is amazing on CM7 compared to stock. I unplug my phone at 9am and usually by now 5pm central I will have less than 50% and I am not a heavy user. It is 5:03pm and I am still at 70% and I have been fooling around with the GPS today. I use Batterytime from the market to monitor battery life.

2. GPS: I will update if it turns out different but for now, the GPS issue looks to be fixed or at least vastly improved. It only took 30 seconds to get a lock. I used GPS Test to check how long it took to get sats.

-EDIT- Still having issues with my GPS so I'm going to write it off as my phone failing since I haven't heard any new updates from anyone about the GPS not working. I need to get my phone exchanged.

3. Ease: It couldn't have been easier to swap over to CM7 if you follow all the steps. I used Titanium backup so everything from data to apps got saved and I have restored some of them. Also make a Nandroid backup before you do it as it says. There are also Youtube videos on CM7 and Nandroid if you don't feel comfortable.

It took probably no more than 15 minutes from installing CM7 in clockwork, installing gapps, loading CM7 and getting my contacts, apps, Google account restored.

Speed: Holy cow the MT is faster with CM7 or at least it seems. Apps install so fast and open quicker. The phone also seems to run smoother and the screen also seems to be more colorful but that could just be me.

4. Overall: I have only been using CM7 since last night but so far it has been amazing and a significant improvement over the stock Rom. The main reason I switched was to fix the GPS issue and so far it is fixed if not greatly improved.

Apologies if I'm the last person to swap over to CM7 and these benefits are old news but figured I would share just in case :)

Cheers,

~Novak
 
I haven't swapped to CM7 yet. Still trying to get enough nerve. I did root my phone last week and was tickled pink I did that. Everything on my phone works so good I hate messing with it in case I screw something up but I do want CM7.

I'm still reading and rereading over everything to make sure I know how to do it. The videos do help.
 
mlsa said:
I haven't swapped to CM7 yet. Still trying to get enough nerve. I did root my phone last week and was tickled pink I did that. Everything on my phone works so good I hate messing with it in case I screw something up but I do want CM7.

I'm still reading and rereading over everything to make sure I know how to do it. The videos do help.
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It is EXCEPTIONALLY hard to mess this phone up beyond something that is fixable.

Let me give you a little tip, You can make what is called a nandroid backup using ClockworkMod Recovery (a.k.a. CWM). It will copy everything from your phone and make a backup which you can then restore (again using CWM) if you ever mess up anything. You need to get the version from here in the forums, do not use ROMmanager! There is a thread in the All Things Root section, that gives step by step instructions. You can also find videos if you feel more comfortable watching those first.

After doing that you can install a different ROM (which are linked in the All Things Root section!) using CWM. This does not take very long once you get to know what you are doing.

Here are links to some videos:
Installing ClockworkMod Recovery
Making a Nandroid Backup
Restoring a Nandroid Backup
Installing CM7 The video is of Beta 0.6, but it is the same process for any version (you just download and install a different file). You use the same process to install any of the ROMs (just use the appropriate files).






p.s. thanks minus5252 for the videos!
 
Thank you for posting up all the videos! Trust me, it took me a lot of nerve too before I decided to fool around with my MT but it is definitely worth it and as long as you make a Nandroid backup, you are pretty much safe from any issues.

Give it a try, there's a wealth of knowledge out there and friendly people on the forum here to help you along.

~Novak
 
mlsa said:
I haven't swapped to CM7 yet. Still trying to get enough nerve. I did root my phone last week and was tickled pink I did that. Everything on my phone works so good I hate messing with it in case I screw something up but I do want CM7.

I'm still reading and rereading over everything to make sure I know how to do it. The videos do help.
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Just follow along with the videos, it helps so much and you don't have to worry about forgetting a step or doing something wrong. Just do the steps the same time as the video does them.

~Novak
 
Im currently running a stock MT (unrooted) but would love to try one of the roms. My biggest fear is that the MT will have ot be re-registered with VM as I have read about in a couple of threads.
Anybody else heard of this?
Thanks!
 
magohn said:
Im currently running a stock MT (unrooted) but would love to try one of the roms. My biggest fear is that the MT will have ot be re-registered with VM as I have read about in a couple of threads.
Anybody else heard of this?
Thanks!
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You do not have to reactivate it with VM. In fact CM7 and MIUI cannot activate your phone. You do it on stock and then flash the new ROM.
 
My triumph is currently stock, is there a certain order things must be done in to add cm7
such as do I need to do a factory reset first, then root, and so on. If someone could please provide me with a list of things to do it would be very much appreciated. Like so many others I love my phone, but want to take it to the next level.
 
I will work on a step by step guide for getting a custom ROM on your phone. It might take me a little while, but I will post the link here. I know there is a post about CWM already, but I will probably include that process so the info is all in one spot.
 
agentc13 said:
I will work on a step by step guide for getting a custom ROM on your phone. It might take me a little while, but I will post the link here. I know there is a post about CWM already, but I will probably include that process so the info is all in one spot.
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THANK YOU!

I have WinMo experience with swapping ROMs but Im fairly new to Android. A step-by-step would be awesome as information for this process is all over the place. My hope is to try out MIUI ;)
 
magohn said:
Im currently running a stock MT (unrooted) but would love to try one of the roms. My biggest fear is that the MT will have ot be re-registered with VM as I have read about in a couple of threads.
Anybody else heard of this?
Thanks!
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Only thing is you can't re program your phone with a new number. Mt number got changed and with the cm7 yoy can't get into the SPC menu
 
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

Ok...I got up enough nerve and changed over to CM7 and everything went smooth cept for one thing. I did the wipe like they said you should do the first time you try it and rebooted and CM7 came up like it was suppose to. But I had nothing on the screens...no apps...no GPS...no camera...nada.

I went back to clockworkmod Recovery and did a restore hoping that would restore everything which it did but it also changed me back to original operating system.

Where did I go wrong. Now I gotta have CM7.
 
mlsa said:
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

Ok...I got up enough nerve and changed over to CM7 and everything went smooth cept for one thing. I did the wipe like they said you should do the first time you try it and rebooted and CM7 came up like it was suppose to. But I had nothing on the screens...no apps...no GPS...no camera...nada.

I went back to clockworkmod Recovery and did a restore hoping that would restore everything which it did but it also changed me back to original operating system.

Where did I go wrong. Now I gotta have CM7.
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First thing is, you need to flash the GAPPS which are the Google Apps. The link is in Tickerguy's first post.

The second thing is all of the other non-google apps are in the app drawer. Did you look in there?
 
As everyone has said, you do not need to activate. Your phone will still be activated with CM7. I don't believe you have to have your phone rooted to install CM7. I rooted mine because I wanted to use titanium backup. You just need to have Clockwork Recovery installed and make sure that you read the full thread from TG's thread. You Should get GAPPS or you wont have anything. the Gapps download link is on the CM7 page.

I'm glad this thread has been beneficial to people,

~Novak
 
novak921 said:
As everyone has said, you do not need to activate. Your phone will still be activated with CM7. I don't believe you have to have your phone rooted to install CM7. I rooted mine because I wanted to use titanium backup. You just need to have Clockwork Recovery installed and make sure that you read the full thread from TG's thread. You Should get GAPPS or you wont have anything. the Gapps download link is on the CM7 page.

I'm glad this thread has been beneficial to people,

~Novak
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Exactly. You do not need to root to install the ROM, but you need it to use Titanium Backup. For CM7 YOU NEED TO INSTALL GAPPS, or you won't even be able to access the android market or other vital Google apps. You should always read the complete instructions that the dev posted for their ROM. Each one is different. Also, I think all of these ROMs come rooted, so you do not need to do that after installing them.
 
Ok...went back and downloaded the Gapps zip file and redid everything and now everything is working great.

Haven't had it long enough to see if anything is working better or faster but that's what tomorrow is for.

Thank all of you for your help and thank Tickerguy for all his hard work.

I'm a happy camper.

David
 
Glad you got it going. It is always good to read the complete thread for a given ROM. There are a lot of valuable posts in those threads. If that is too long (some are very big) read at least the first few posts by the dev, to make sure you are doing what they recommend so you don't have issues.

I would recommend trying out MIUI as well. Both are 2.3.7 based ROMs. Give them each a week (or a few days) and see which you like more. I stuck with CM7, but many others like MIUI more.
 
I've been playing with my new CM7 install this morning. So far so good. I think I'm going to like it but I do have two questions.

On the status bar on top it keeps giving me a message saying I need to update my binary CU or something like that....what does this mean and if I need to then how do I do it?

2nd question...Since I changed over to CM7 I don't have a voice mail button on my phone. Before I did....how do I check my voice mail..not that I ever get any calls but curious?

Thanks a bunch.

David
 
Not sure about the fist part with the binary but as far as the voice mail goes. See if you can make a shortcut to it or you can always long press number 1 on the phone dialer. Not sure specifically what voice mail button you're talking about.

~Novak
 
nate115 said:
Should I do a factory reset before I install CWM ?
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CM7 or CWM? I didn't factory reset to install CWM on my phone. Before you install CM7 though, you should wipe the user data under CWM as shown in the videos.

Let us know if you have any questions,

~Novak
 
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