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Root Which AOSP ROM?

dan55 said:
you coding one up as we speak ;)

there is rom toolbox that does all sorts of stuff - but i like to fix the colors of my notification icons - and the dev says it cant do this....yet
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Hah! I wish! I'm going down the UOT route tomorrow I think. I've got my phone how I like it. Just need to cook up a theme now!
 
I'm generating a theme right now. On about my 6th attempt. They really need more styles in the the custom uni-colour section.
 
Quick question for those who have tried dGB & Oxygen:

Would I notice the difference in battery life between the two? The reason I ask is that I'm often unable to recharge during the day & sometimes a little more battery life would be most helpful.

It's not that I thought that the dGB battery life was at all bad!
 
I have been playing around with 2 ROMs at the moment:
1. MIUI-XJ
2. Mildwild (Oxygen based v 2.9.5)

MIUI - Really pretty but fat. Also the XJ version does not update properly (MIUI gets update every week, so this is a pain) and there re too many things still in chinese. But this is def the most sleek ROM yet. Easy UI. But I m not planning on going back. If I do go back to MIUI I will go to the official US version. Why would I go back? A2SD+ works really well. I had bout 30 apps (no games) and never went below 130 mb.

Mildwild - Unfortunately I am not smart enough to do s-off and change h-boot yet so I have installed this on stock h-boot. Immediate problem is the space even with sd-ext enabled. Does not have A2SD+. UI is pretty basic with not much add-ons. However I m sticking with it at the moment because - It has great battery life. I charged it over night and it is at 59% late evening with normal use, calls, sms, theming and internet. Also I have noticed it is snappier than other ROMs I have seen. But that may just be because there is less on sd card and I have not themed it too much.
 
MildWild Oxygen comes with a2sd. You have to flash an extra patch if you want to move the dalvik cache though, which might be the cause of your space problem. It'll be linked from the rom thread, probably mentioned in the mildwild thread in this forum too.
 
+1 defo need more icon styles.

ahh SU.....so you are going for the non grey icons too ;-)
 
dan55 said:
+1 defo need more icon styles.

ahh SU.....so you are going for the non grey icons too ;-)
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heh. I just got fed up of green. Im annoyed that I cant get the right colour signal icons though, unless I want ugly circle ones.
 
oh :/ ive just gone for green :D sort of acid androidian im hoping

you mean the phone signal? what sort of icon are you after? i just use the standard vertical bars
 
dan55 said:
oh :/ ive just gone for green :D sort of acid androidian im hoping

you mean the phone signal? what sort of icon are you after? i just use the standard vertical bars
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There is only the choice of HD and Hooolm Circle. I want standard icons like androidian, but in colours I Choose.
 
Hadron said:
MildWild Oxygen comes with a2sd. You have to flash an extra patch if you want to move the dalvik cache though, which might be the cause of your space problem. It'll be linked from the rom thread, probably mentioned in the mildwild thread in this forum too.
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Can not seem to find the patch you are talking about. Could some one let me know where it is?
 
Sorry, it wasn't at the start (I was thinking of the old Oxygen thread - though I expect the Oxygen solution would also work here). Look at this post in the MildWild thread. It has 2 versions of the apps2sd script, one for dalvik on internal, one for dalvik to sd. Replace the one in your /system/etc/init.d with the dalvik to sd version and you should gain several 10s of MB.
 
dan55 said:
right. got ya :-)
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Well I made my own. Theyre pretty odd. I used the .png's from the digital battery I was using and made some wifi / data / GSM signal meters out of them..

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Sorry for the off topicness.
 
SUroot said:
Well I made my own. Theyre pretty odd. I used the .png's from the digital battery I was using and made some wifi / data / GSM signal meters out of them..

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Sorry for the off topicness.
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Nice Keyboard. Which is that?

Also - where's the directory for the custom boot animation?

Cheers :D
 
Yep its my old trusty themed HTC_IME mod, which I have always used as my main keyboard. It looks slightly different as I am using the font from the pull down (where it says dGB) as my main system font.

/data/local for bootanimation.zip
 
SUroot said:
Yep its my old trusty themed HTC_IME mod, which I have always used as my main keyboard. It looks slightly different as I am using the font from the pull down (where it says dGB) as my main system font.

/data/local for bootanimation.zip
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Cheers for both bits of info.

I picked up the directory in your Rom thread :-P
 
Hadron said:
Sorry, it wasn't at the start (I was thinking of the old Oxygen thread - though I expect the Oxygen solution would also work here). Look at this post in the MildWild thread. It has 2 versions of the apps2sd script, one for dalvik on internal, one for dalvik to sd. Replace the one in your /system/etc/init.d with the dalvik to sd version and you should gain several 10s of MB.
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Thanks

There is another post on the subject of scripts whch I was confused about - I think they are both the same scripts for apps2sd though- just from different people.

xda-developers - View Single Post - [ROM] [06.Feb]MildWild V-3.0Based on Oxygen 2.3.2


Now that MildWild3 is out there is a version with a2sd built it. Sadly it needs a clean install so I'll have to leave it until I have time to reinstall all my apps etc.
 
A little care - that looks like a data2sd script he's added, which is different from a2sd.

There is a version without this...

Edit: see post below. I think this one might be what you were wanting.
 
Thanks for all the previous advice above. I have been using Oxygen 2.3.2 for about 6 or 7 months now with very complaints. I do get the occasional bug though. Sometimes my screen will not come on, the buttons light up but the only way to get the screen on is to pull the battery & reboot. After that it's usually ok for a couple of weeks. I have heard this can be an issue with AOSP ROMS but dGB never did it. It may also be a hardware problem induced by the replacement of my mainboard.

The other issue is that I live in a poor signal area. When I have no signal my phone seems to give up looking for one. If I go into aeroplane mode & back again it often finds a reasonable signal.

The question is might these 2 issues be solved by another ROM? I'm considering Redux 1.2 or Redux 2. How does battery life compare to Oxygen?
 
Never met that problem. Using the Smartass governor can make it very slow to wake, but that's the closest I've come. Been using dGB for a year with no problems.

Redux and Redux 2 are both good. Battery life should be similar to what you have.
 
Probably associated with my warranty repair then (now out of warranty). I might give Redux2 a whirl for a change see if it makes a difference to the screen.

Thanks

Nick
 
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