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phatboyslim12

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im new to the op v, and i came from the triumph. got tired of the issues with it and it was what i could afford lol.

im looking to upgrade to gingerbread 2.3 and looking for the most stable version, with the most hardware etc. working...

can i get ssome help with that...

also i have seen some posts mention there are 2 versions of the op v. can i have clarification???

from what i understand i have the hitatchi screen, ver. 2.2.2, build # zv5

i was looking at harmonia 2 would that work with the 2.2.2 model? or will it brick?
 
In the All Things Root Guide sticky ^ everything is spelled out pretty good.
What may seem to be the best from one member, may not be your best. The neat thing about flashing a ROM is if you don't like it, just flash another. As long as you have a good nandroid backup I say: flash em all, then you will know what is the best ROM for you.
 
hey andyopie, yea im not new to custom roms and such, just to the ov. im just looking for a good running rom where mostly everything works on gb.

on the triumph most of the roms out are only partially working, etc. im just wondering if this is the case with the ov as well.

but as far as custom roms go im prolly gonna go with iho harmonia 2 latest update. as that seems the most stock like...
 
A good choice.
The almost-purity
The MiRaGe
The BACKside-The current one has a little bug but the one before it is pretty cool. I suggest just looking at the build number which is the date it was first released. Then go to the BACKside thread and start with that date and work your way back. You will find where JerryScript released the one previous to that, again the date corresponds to the Build number. Or you can just flash the latest and go into the BACKside updater and go to the menu and pick the previous ROM. This will require the Green Recovery be installed.

The Green Recovery
The Blue Recovery
The Cannibal Recovery
All of these recovery will not allow you to restore a backup made from another recovery. You can not restore a recovery made from them from any other recovery.

For this reason I still have the Xionia recovery in it's zipped form on the root of my SD card (it has an option in the advanced section the will allow you to get out of a recovery loop) and have installed the Touch Screen Recovery (can use either the touchscreen or the hard keys).
The Xionia Recovery
The BobZohme Recovery
The Touchscreen Recovery
All of these will allow you to restore a backup made from another recovery, except any made from the three previously mentioned.

The BobZohme Recovery
The Touchscreen Recovery
Are best to use with the IHO CM7 Gingerbread ROM's
Are ClockworkMod recovery variants and will work with ROM Manager (refer to the sticky "The Truth About Rom Manager" for more important info.)
 
My opinion is biased even more. I don't recommend my almost-purity rom. I don't update it much. I recommend my magpie rom. It has many patches from mrg666 to fix the major bugs on the ov, and it runs his kernel (ran mine until his surpassed it). It also has a cool feature that no other optimus v roms have. It's called magpie. It allows you to move apps to sd-ext from the settings menu. Pretty cool
 
I was trying to start them on something clean and fast. Then let them decide where to go from there. The magpie is a little more upscale if you know what I mean.
 
I believe the original poster's primary goal is to find out which one ROM has fewest bugs, is most stable, has no missing features (compared to stock) and is the most reliable one (without having to go and test several different ROMs himself).

I myself am interested in the same thing. My Optimus V has been on stock for about 15 months, and ever since I bought it, I wanted to move it to GB (expecting better features), but never had enough time and patience to go through the process (not having done custom ROMs before).

The primary reason for my own desire to move is the lack of storage space for apps (the Gapps being in the protected partition, needing a full duplicate installation in order to update). I would love to lose the VM crapware that came with the phone, and gain the ability to update all Gapps, without having to delete practically every app that won't allow installation onto the SD card. At this point, I can't even upgrade 'Marketplace' to 'Google Play' (no more internal storage available), and I only have two additional apps, plus a third-party international keyboard, on the internal storage.

So, for someone like myself (and, to some extent, original poster, although he clearly has experience with custom ROMs), which ROM should I upgrade to?
 
That was concise, short and to the point.

One more question (rather than opening a new thread), coming from someone with only stock ROM experience:

Will Harmonia (or almost-purity) solve my primary problem? At this point, I can't really update ANY of Gapps; in other words, Gmail, Youtube, Maps, Google Play are all on their stock versions because there is no storage space to install their duplicates. Is it possible to re-size these partitions, so that the one that contains the system and core apps takes up a bit less, leaving a bit more space to the one for other apps? How exactly does this work?

(I wouldn't ask these questions if I had been able to find answers elsewhere on the forum)
 
With Harmonia you don't really need to install the Google apps. Leslie Ann pre-installed the bare minimum.
The almost-purity needs the Gapps (Google apps).
Aside from the Harmonia ROM, all other Gingerbread ROM's need the Gapps to be flashed right after the ROM.
Look in the All Things Root Guide sticky for the Gapps version for the ROM you choose.

To answer your Question. When a /system/app updates it does not go to /system/app, it goes to the system storage. So you wind up with one on the /system/app, and one in the system storage
If your uSD card is at least 8GB then you can use Link2SD. After you have made a 1GB-2GB partition on your uSD card it will allow you to put a lot of apps onto the uSD card that you couldn't before and still have them function properly.
I have over 120 downloaded and installed apps and widgets and still have 100MB of space left out of 178MB. When I get an update to a system app Link2SD allows me to delete some system apps and replace them with the update that was installed to the system storage. It can move some /system/apps to the system storage, and move some apps that are on the system storage to /system/app.

There are a couple of ROM's that have the Link2SD capability built in, but you still need to partition and format your uSD card.
 
Thanks!

So, what I'm getting from your answer is, unlike an ordinary app that is bought/downloaded from Google Play, and updated directly (by replacing the previous version in place), system apps and Gapps (gmail, maps, Youtube, etc) cannot be updated in place and when newer versions appear in Google Play, they are installed as additional, new apps, and the prior versions remain orphaned and are just ignored by the OS, and this behaviour is consistent not only in the stock ROM, but also in all custom ROMs.

One thing that I'm not quite clear about is what the difference between 'system/app' and 'system storage'. You refer to them as two distinct places on the phone's storage, but it isn't clear to me where exactly these are.

Also, can I assume that whe you say uSD, you are actually talking about μSD cards (micro-SD), or is uSD folder name on the main storage of the phone?

As you may notice, I don't have experience with rooting / poking around Android...
 
Predrag said:
The primary reason for my own desire to move is the lack of storage space for apps (the Gapps being in the protected partition, needing a full duplicate installation in order to update). I would love to lose the VM crapware that came with the phone, and gain the ability to update all Gapps, without having to delete practically every app that won't allow installation onto the SD card. At this point, I can't even upgrade 'Marketplace' to 'Google Play' (no more internal storage available), and I only have two additional apps, plus a third-party international keyboard, on the internal storage.

So, for someone like myself (and, to some extent, original poster, although he clearly has experience with custom ROMs), which ROM should I upgrade to?
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You can get around the memory issue without going to a new ROM; just root the phone and use Link2SD. Use MacFett's "Link2SD and you" tutorial. Get yourself a decent-sized SD card to replace the little stock one, too. I did this, and was happy with it; it makes the phone work like it should work, and lets you add apps more or less to your heart's content. It doesn't get rid of the crapware, but it doesn't matter.

If you want to get around the memory issue AND upgrade the ROM, I think I would skip over Gingerbread and go straight to tdm's Quattrimus Ice Cream Sandwich ROM -- [ROM][BETA] Quattrimus ICS - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com . I've been running the CM9 version of it for a few weeks (after upgrading from jerryscript's Backside CM7 Gingerbread ROM), and have been very happy with it. It's described as a Beta 2, but it works so well that you could really just put it on the phone and leave it indefinitely, if you wanted to. It has Link2SD-type functionality built into it, so you don't have to get involved with that at all. There are a very few known issues with the build which you can read about on tdm's page, but if none of them are dealbreakers for you, I would just go for it.

If you've never done any tinkering with this kind of stuff before, just make sure to read, re-read, and follow the various guides that are available here, and the specific instructions for whatever you end up deciding to do. Don't do anything until you're sure that you understand the whole process.
 
I've been considering going to a decent custom ROM ever since I got the phone (15 months ago!), but never got the time to research the task.

I was thinking of putting Harmonia 2, based on advice of others (AndieOpie and a few others), but I'd be also open to the ICS. What are ICS's main advantages compared go Gingerbread? What do I gain from going ICS instead of GB? Also, I know you said to check tdm's page for known issues, but if you don't mind, could you mention what kind of issues are we talking about? Are they things like missing functionality (non-working video recording, buttons not responding properly, inability to send/receive certain types of communication/messaging), or some intermittent bugs?

Guys, I appreciate everyone's effort to provide answers to guys like me with little experience in modding the phone.
 
^ Either one of them are a nice upgrade over the Froyo ROM, but with ICS, you're getting the full benefit of all the development and refinement the Google elves have put into Android (well, OK, not quite all of it, since Jelly Bean is out now). To me, subjectively, ICS has a more contemporary look and feel, seems slicker in use, and has more "new car smell," for lack of a better term.

You can read about the known issues at getquattrimus.com . Almost everything just works; you have to use third party apps for a couple of things; the only real sticking point is HQ video -- apparently a video codec would have to be written by a manufacturer for this to work. (I don't get the point of playing Netflix or youtube vids on a phone with a tiny little screen, other than to do it once and say "look! my phone plays videos!" but apparently it's important to some users.)

Whatever you decide to do, you'll see that once you make some changes to the phone, the process isn't really all that complicated, so if you don't like what you end up with, it's pretty easy to just try something else. Anything will be an improvement over the situation you're in now; there's no reason to put up with having to be deleting apps all the time.
 
Predrag said:
One thing that I'm not quite clear about is what the difference between 'system/app' and 'system storage'. You refer to them as two distinct places on the phone's storage, but it isn't clear to me where exactly these are.

Also, can I assume that when you say uSD, you are actually talking about μSD cards (micro-SD), or is uSD folder name on the main storage of the phone?
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The Optimus V has 170(+-)MB of internal storage for user data (downloaded apps, their saved data, etc. ) which is in the /data folder
The pre-installed apps and the Gapps or stored in the /system/app folder.

Don't have the correct symbol on a PC's regular keyboard so we just use u instead (I do have the proper symbol on the keyboard for my phone though). uSD means micro SD because of this.
 
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