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Root Best ICS ROM for Rezound?

obscuro said:
ReZone - based on stock ICS but heavily customized. Also a desensed/debloated variant, and red and blue themes for sense 3.6.

I am still loving neomax, but this seemed like a pretty nice Rom so I'm posting the link.

Here are ReZone's features:
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I'm currently running the latest one and is working perfectly. It even comes with Google Now pre-installed. It's the latest version of the Zone's roms which covers the latest 4.0 release of the official OTA but you must first update to the LATEST release:

So, first go here, download and follow directions and then install Zone's rom from below. I have only found this ROM to be the most up to date with the Global/LTE option.

[ROM - 8/20] ReZone - 4.03.605.2 - Blue

Enjoy!
 
obscuro said:
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.
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New Ineffabilis Deus v1.2 version out today... Based on the Global RUU 4.03.605.2 for the Rezound!

[ROM] Ineffabilis Deus v1.2 [8/27/12] Sense 3.6 | Beats | Tweaks | 4.03.605.2 | Global
 
The next versions of adrenaline/neomax will also be based on the 'Global' kernel. I am already running neomax 2 with the global firmware, which benefits from having the new radios, however, technically I can't use my phone as a global phone.

Which doesn't bother me since I have been outside the U.S. only once in my entire life.

FWIW, Adrenaline/NeoMax's developer says that the new firmware provides the best battery life as yet. I don't have any hard numbers, but I am definitely getting a lot better battery life than when I was using a Sense 4 ROM.

I did shell out for a new 1900 mAH slim battery that's on its way from Hong Kong :)
 
The only tweaks I really use are the volume wake and font size. My old eyes need a bigger font. They are valuable to me.
 
The thread I tried to start up to determine what works with the various custom ROMs never got off the ground. I've been running Simplistic 2.0 (NOT using the global ROMs yet) which has been nice, but I've had the worst battery life of anything I've used previously despite common setup.

Can anyone tell me if NeoMax and/or Vigor 360 offer:
1) good battery life (withOUT using 3rd party software like Juice Defender)
2) offer a non-global ROM option
3) support wireless tether

If you know of other ROMs worth trying that offer the above pre-reqs, I'd appreciate the plug(s)!
 
esmith818 said:
The thread I tried to start up to determine what works with the various custom ROMs never got off the ground. I've been running Simplistic 2.0 (NOT using the global ROMs yet) which has been nice, but I've had the worst battery life of anything I've used previously despite common setup.

Can anyone tell me if NeoMax and/or Vigor 360 offer:
1) good battery life (withOUT using 3rd party software like Juice Defender)
2) offer a non-global ROM option
3) support wireless tether

If you know of other ROMs worth trying that offer the above pre-reqs, I'd appreciate the plug(s)!
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1) Good battery life w/o 3rd party apps, I average about 16 hrs, w/ moderate use.
2) I don't believe so anymore, but it wouldn't hurt to ask in the XDA thread.
3) Wifi tether works great with this ROM.
 
I assume u are talking about neomax? It does meet all 3 of those requirements. I am running neomax 2.0 with global firmware I added on myself (see scottys global thread for instructions on how to apply to any custom Rom).

From what I am reading, the global firmware improves battery life over the ICS ota, not bc of global but just general improvements to radios. I have seen better life, but I am using JD so I can't give specifics. I will say that I have been running neomax for a month or so as my daily driver and its the best battery life I have yet, probably bc its heavily stripped of sense.

Go on the neomax XDA thread and look at neos Sig, he has a new experimental Rom called x which is basically a preview version of adrenaline/neomax 3.0 without theming and extras. Neo said its even better battery life bc the global firmware is fully integrated with the ROM. (Not sure on technical details).

And I think Scotty is right, when the devs like neo and others get aosp/aokpstable for the rezound, its going to be the holy grail in several ways, partly bc there will be no bloat or crusty code in there whatsoever. As much as I like neomax, it still has some HTC sense in it due to lack of official ICS kernel source until recently.
 
Thanks for those responses. I would be willing to install the global RUU, but I thought flashing an RUU made it impossible to revert for receiving future OTAs? It's why I never flashed the RUU for ICS -- I wanted the opportunity to return to stock just in case.

I'm assuming the same is true if I manually upgrade to the global software?
 
No...will try to explain but maybe Scotty will jump in...I am S-on. I was running ICS Rom on GB firmware so I used GB ruu to get me straight to receive big ICS OTA from Verizon (tried to do manually via Scotty instructions but ultimately just did the long download by phone).

Ok, so then I was on stock ICS Rom and firmware. Flashed a custom Rom (in my case, neomax 2 which had the prerelease OTA firmware already included). After the global phone OTA came out, I wanted the new radios (Im just OCD like that) so I downloaded OTA_pkg.zip (linked on scottys global phone thread) and extracted boot.img from that and flashed it on top of neomax.

Understand that this is kind of Frankenstein, my Rom benefits from the new cell radios and other kernel improvements, but atm ny phone cannot be used as a true global phone because the ROM is not setup to take advantage of the new feature. (Think of it as having the latest windows system libraries, but without an app that takes advantage of it on your PC.)

Since I'm S-on, there's no going back to gingerbread *firmware* for me, or even the first ICS OTA for me. But I still have the official HTC firmware (global phone update), so I can run any Rom compatible with it, including any of the official ICS stock roms.

As Scotty has said, to be eligible for a true OTA (auto downloaded to your phone), you need a couple of things in place: stock Rom (rooted or unrooted, frozen system apps ok but not if they are moved/deleted), the stock HTC recovery (but not one obtained from a pre-release leak).

So let's say HTC decide to release Jellybean for Rezound as the next update (not likely, just pretend). I am already on the stock *firmware*, I would just need to flash a stock ROM from a backup or zip download and I'd be ready to go without running a RUU. Now if I didn't have a nandroid backup of the stock setup, and couldn't find the official ROM in zip format, I could download and run the latest official RUU to get me a clean setup, the same way I did when I was ready to move from Gingerbread to ICS.

Flashing a leak RUU is a bad idea and I avoided that also for ICS. Read post 2 of scottys root guide, about usage of RUU/mini RUUs to return to stock setups. Running a RUU is not the same thing as flashing a ROM that is based on the software the RUU packages together. Two different ways of reaching the same goal.

Sorry for long post, hope it makes sense.
 
By the way, neomax 3 is in the works and will allow proper use of global phone functionality. Also instead of having latest firmware bolted on by me the user, the ROM will have it integrated from the ground up (think of it as the latest stock Rom, heavily stripped.)

Other ROMs are also updating to global (ineffablis deus recently updated). Global firmware seems to have better battery life, mainly bc of better 4G signal lock-on, so you'll start to see Roms either update with it or get left behind (in contrast to the Roms released in the months before ICS update, which wer based on similar but slightly different kernel versions.)

Vigor360 seems like a solid Rom (basically a tweaked, prettier version of stock), zhppilot is an established modder/themer and zhp worked closely with the dev of neomax to create zhps first Rom, so it should be technically sound as well.
 
I recently installed the OTA ICS package and have been playing with the Cubed kernels. Battery life is not that great compared to how it was with CleanROM + SebastianFM kernel. I'm looking forward to trying out a global ROM to see if the better battery life and better 4G reception (I am JUST on the outer fringe of a 4G area) claims hold up. Think I know what I'll be doing this weekend. =:-)
 
Here are scotty's instructions for flashing global firmware over a custom ROM, for both S-OFF and S-ON users, with some revisions from me. Don't forget to relock before going into RUU mode (you are not actually running the RUU, just putting your phone in the mode to accept firmware updates.)

this isnt a leak,so i think yall are ok to go ahead and update it.

s-on
-extract firmware from otapkg.zip. put it in mini-adb_vigor folder
-fastboot boot amon. make a backup
-adb reboot bootloader
-fastboot erase cache
-fastboot oem lock
-fastboot oem rebootRUU
-fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
(it will fail for with pre-update flush again immediately error). So do it again -->
-fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
(it will finish)
when its done:
-fastboot reboot-bootloader
-fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
-pull the battery and replace. Hold down volume down button plus power button to boot into hboot, then fastboot mode.
-fastboot boot amon ra
-restore full backup
-reboot
-Thank Scotty85

doing it that way will put your kernel back,so the phone will boot(the prollem i had was the incompatible kernel it installed)

alternately,could fastboot flash the boot image from the rom youre running after the firmware flash. . that would work too or even just use amon to restore the 'boot' partition may work also

the jist of this transfer of information is that youll need to replace the boot image after the firmware flash.
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And here is the link to scotty's explanation of firmware vs. software and what is needed to use your phone as a global phone.
 
viper is pretty awesome i love the sense 4.0!!! i feel like im missing out on some of the customization options, but havent figured it out yet



obscuro said:
Currently running ViperRez Sense 4 ROM. It offers the installation option of de-sensing if you want, or running all kinds of themes on it (even one to make Sense look like stock ICS).

NeoMax (senseless, themed light blue like stock ICS) looks pretty beastly, too. I like the Sense unlock ring/dialer, so for now I am sticking with ViperRez.

Initial impressions on ViperRez are that it is more polished than Newts one xxx. It has an aroma-based installer (basically, nice GUI installer). Tweaks app doesn't have any crashes, there are lot more "wizards" to get you up and running the way you want. It is basically the HTC One X software for Rezound, done right. Beats, custom EQ profiles, sony bravia and xloud mods work out of the box (well, you have to check two checkmarks for the last two.)

Will try out the camera app and see how it compares to the nice one that newts has. :)
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