-
After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.
Root Best ICS ROM for Rezound?
- Thread starter obscuro
- Start date
-
- Tags
- htc rezound
scotty85
Extreme Android User
lol if you run control bear the beer part will make sense. appaerntly "juopunut bear" loosely translates to "drunken bear" and youll find alot of such references in the cmd window while its running.
as long as you fastboot boot recovery,you have all the same advantages for flashing roms. no harm in staying s-on if youre not comfortable with the procedure or the ability to flash any partition with any file you want. s-off is defiantely a bigger responsability.
FWIW,ive done it to my phone a couple times(had to turn s-on to make the guide) and ive done 2 friends rezounds. i do think there was more to that guys post than wht we saw. i think its a pretty safe procedure if youre cautious and closely follow the directions
What are y'all finding to be the best stable rom for battery life?
I'm getting frustrated watching my battery percent move faster than the minute hand.
Turned 4g off, screen brightness down, no live Wallpapers, wifi on when available.
If the screen is on for any significant amount of time, I can seriously watch the battery drain before my eyes running Viper. Otherwise I am loving this ROM. ver pretty and polished.
I'm getting frustrated watching my battery percent move faster than the minute hand.
Turned 4g off, screen brightness down, no live Wallpapers, wifi on when available.
If the screen is on for any significant amount of time, I can seriously watch the battery drain before my eyes running Viper. Otherwise I am loving this ROM. ver pretty and polished.
Have you tried freezing unwanted apps / system components? I am also running Juice Defender to control screen brightness and data syncing. But I know what you mean about battery life. I did noticed today that Chrome was eating up to 10 percent of my battery life so I uninstalled it, it wasn't working well with GPU rendering anyway and you can't "exit" it. I use Boat Browser instead, which is a lot like mobile Safari.
I have not tried ConRom, but it's basically just a de-bloated version of the official OTA, so it may be better. The developer, con247, is also one of ViperRez's devs.
Scotty is a fan of Nils' Business Sense 4.0, I haven't tried that one either.
If you don't care about having Sense, NeoMax looks pretty polished and fast and has a very low memory footprint due to being desensed and heavily tweaked. I may try that one this weekend. There are some things you can flash if you don't like the ROM's "inverted" app appearance.
I think I'm having problems underneath all this, but I appreciate the input. Juice defender works very well, but I don't like how it delays my connection when I pull up the internet or anything that uses it right when it opens.
I'm going back to the stock ruu all over again (still having hotboot issues) and I'll try one of the ones listed there. Newts is the only one I think I haven't tried yet, so mayber I'll try that one. I wanted to try Nils and have flashed it multiple times, but it has been one of the worst offenders for the hotboots and battery life for me.
I'm going back to the stock ruu all over again (still having hotboot issues) and I'll try one of the ones listed there. Newts is the only one I think I haven't tried yet, so mayber I'll try that one. I wanted to try Nils and have flashed it multiple times, but it has been one of the worst offenders for the hotboots and battery life for me.
Newts is not a bad ROM, I used it for three weeks or so before and after OTA. Honestly it is pretty similar featurewise to viperrez, with one key difference underneath:
Newts is based on droid incredible 4g and evo 4g lte, while viperrez comes from HTC one x. Whether that makes any difference in battery life, I dunno.
Did a battery cycle tonight and going to run down battery using diff ROMs this weekend and take screens of battery usage. I read something today that said expected screen time for stock galaxy nexus is 4 hours. That's about what u get with the rezound, I think? Or about 13 hours standby. *Its the HD screen that's draining juice... *
Newts is based on droid incredible 4g and evo 4g lte, while viperrez comes from HTC one x. Whether that makes any difference in battery life, I dunno.
Did a battery cycle tonight and going to run down battery using diff ROMs this weekend and take screens of battery usage. I read something today that said expected screen time for stock galaxy nexus is 4 hours. That's about what u get with the rezound, I think? Or about 13 hours standby. *Its the HD screen that's draining juice... *
TheAtheistReverend, I am not sure if it was you who was trying out slimrom, but de-sensing definitely seems to help with battery life.
I flashed neomax 2.0 this afternoon (see link in earlier post) and am already seeing noticeable improvement. It is desensed and debloated comes with some power saving tweaks pre-installed. If u decide to try it out, there are some mods u might want to flash with it. By default, it has inverted (light text on black background) apps, so I flashed a zip to go back to normal. It has a sweet cyan theme throughout the Rom and has been stable for me so far.
ViperRez is still my fave, but until I get a bigger battery, I may stick with a lighter ROM.
I flashed neomax 2.0 this afternoon (see link in earlier post) and am already seeing noticeable improvement. It is desensed and debloated comes with some power saving tweaks pre-installed. If u decide to try it out, there are some mods u might want to flash with it. By default, it has inverted (light text on black background) apps, so I flashed a zip to go back to normal. It has a sweet cyan theme throughout the Rom and has been stable for me so far.
ViperRez is still my fave, but until I get a bigger battery, I may stick with a lighter ROM.
ViperRez - XDA-developers
Link is to the rezound, but Team Venom makes versions of the same Rom for HTC one x and other recent HTC phones.
scotty85
Extreme Android User
i have,of course
too much stuff not working to use for more than a couple hours. i have been following this thread to watch progress: [DEV ONLY] AOSP Development - xda-developersi figure theres not much point in flashing cm9 or milestone until they update the OP and buglists.
i personally cant wait for AOSP :smokingsomb:
Unfortunately I can't even get it to boot with either kernel. Just get the white screen with HTC.
i have,of course
i figure theres not much point in flashing cm9 or milestone until they update the OP and buglists.
i personally cant wait for AOSP :smokingsomb:
Good point and neither can I!
Sorry you are having issues because I think you will really like this ROM.
This process worked for me:
-- Full wipe in amon ra
-- Clear Storage from stock recovery
-- Flash neomax 2.0 zip from fastboot boot [amon ra recovery]?
-- reboot
I am S-On, so I realize it may be different, but supposedly neomax was originally developed for s-off devices. So maybe you need to flash the boot.img from inside the neomax zip.
I would also try running it with the default .12 kernel first to make sure it boots to that before trying an alternate kernel. Scotty claims .7 was just for gingerbread, so I'm not sure why neomax is offering it as an alternative kernel to run off of.
scotty85
Extreme Android User
actually i think wat i said was the .7 kernel(along with the .10 and .12) are for sense 3.6. i dont recall saying it was for GB
the 4.0 roms will not work wit the 3.6 kernels
athiestrev,how are you flashing the kernels? and what rom were you using?
actually i think wat i said was the .7 kernel(along with the .10 and .12) are for sense 3.6. i dont recall saying it was for GB
the 4.0 roms will not work wit the 3.6 kernels
athiestrev,how are you flashing the kernels? and what rom were you using?
Recovery flash for most of'm if I remember right. I have been flashing like mad, so I can't say all. If flashing that way failed I would have tried PH89IMG.ZIP ing it through hboot.
I haven't flashed a hell of a lot of kernels separate from the roms, but I have tried a radio or two.
I almost always return to the .10 stock ruu and start from scratch for each flashing combo, and I typically use the all in one tool to do it (at least the recovery flashing part.)
actually i think wat i said was the .7 kernel(along with the .10 and .12) are for sense 3.6. i dont recall saying it was for GB
the 4.0 roms will not work wit the 3.6 kernels
athiestrev,how are you flashing the kernels? and what rom were you using?
So how does viperrez work with the .12 kernel? Is it because it also takes code from other devices? And senseless roms can use any of the kernels?
Btw u are right, u never said GB. I just got my sense versions mixed up. Sense 3.5 is GB, Sense 3.6 is ICS for non-flagship devices.
Not to make things more confusing, but I read where the htc one x is getting an ota that will take it to sense 4.1. One of the main diffs in 4.1 is it removes all 3D elements from htc widgets. Which if I understand is basically what the smooth rosie tweaks on many sense roms do, partly flatten or completely flatten 3D elements in sense. Would this be a case of OTAs imitating custom roms?? Lol
scotty85
Extreme Android User
thats a good question. if viper is using the same kernel as the 3.6 roms,imnot sure how theyre doing it.
maybe they have tweeked the kernel,and/or the rom to make it work?
viper is an evita(att one xl) port,so ive no idea how much of the code is evita,and how much is vigor!
and yes,the senseless roms are using the stock framework,so any of the stock kernels should work with them.
lol mebbe so! i peronally think htc leaks stuff when they need help from the root community.
htc guy#1: "dammit bob i cant get feature x to work right for this update!"
htc guy#2: "go ahead and leak what you got. see what the root guys can do with it"
sense 4.0 was supposed to be "dumbing down" sense a little bit,as htc realized they were taking their precious UI to an extreme with stock roms topping out over 600MB. maybe its a continuation of that intention? the 3d crap is prolly alot of code to make it look right and be smooth and fast on top of it.
AFAIK, the link to ineffablus deus 1.1 that I posted on the first page of this thread is most recent. It is still based on the .10 kernel. It's confusing because the same dev has a Rom named ineffablis (no deus) that has a version of 1.4-its based on gingerbread tho. In any event, themikmik.com is the home forum for both ineffablis deus and newts one xxx so u might try searching there.