I haven't seen any new Sense ROMs in awhile. Is everyone moving on to the One? Im using Viper right now and dont like it. Ive used MeanBean in the past but support stopped on that baxk in March. I dont like AOSP due to the crappy data service in my area and gps issues. Is there anything out there that I've overlooked?
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Root Development Stalling?
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CapThrowback
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I guess you definitely missed this: http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-lte...roid-4-1-2-working-bluetooth-face-unlock.html
Ill check it out. Thanks! I did see that but I was always unsure of 'ported' roms. I tried one on my note2 and it sucked, terribly. Ill dl this tonight and give it a run.
Barleysoda
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We lost a lot of developers to newer phones but honestly the phone has been already taken to its limits especially in AOSP. You can pretty much get any ROM you want in AOSP that exits. At the moment there really isn't anything for a dev to do to this phone that hasn't already been done regarding AOSP and I even had kitkat running on mine.
As far as sense based roms go then yes its slow but again what can be added to MeanBean. It was about as good as it can get with android 4.1
Soon we will be getting sense 5 on top of 4.3 and this will blow the doors wide open again for sense development. I believe once we get this new base that many dev's will start to create ROMS and mods that the "ONE" has for our EVO LTE. It will also make our phones seem darn near as good as a "One" and I for one will be very glad I didn't waste a phone upgrade on the "One".
I have been seriously looking at that LG G2 but part of me thinks that the 4.3 upgrade will buy me another 6 months and wait for what comes out next June. In years past November phones have never been as ground breaking as June phones IMO.
As far as sense based roms go then yes its slow but again what can be added to MeanBean. It was about as good as it can get with android 4.1
Soon we will be getting sense 5 on top of 4.3 and this will blow the doors wide open again for sense development. I believe once we get this new base that many dev's will start to create ROMS and mods that the "ONE" has for our EVO LTE. It will also make our phones seem darn near as good as a "One" and I for one will be very glad I didn't waste a phone upgrade on the "One".
I have been seriously looking at that LG G2 but part of me thinks that the 4.3 upgrade will buy me another 6 months and wait for what comes out next June. In years past November phones have never been as ground breaking as June phones IMO.
i think that some of u has been spoiled during the og evo days. it was(and still is) one of the best development community. i never have seen anything like it since. it was cool to see so many developers working on the phone and spitting out great roms for us to share. i doubt we will see anything like it again.
this reminds me of the lull we had with froyo.....right before gingerbread came out......so with sense 5 now being ported i expect more roms to come out.
this reminds me of the lull we had with froyo.....right before gingerbread came out......so with sense 5 now being ported i expect more roms to come out.
CapThrowback
Android Expert
By the way, KitKat is now available for our device (CM11)! 
So development is ongoing
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So development is ongoing
.They were the good ole days, huh? I was really let down with the Evo LTE. No matter how you slice, the OG Evo was probably the coolest phone I have ever had. If it was for the promise of working 4G
, I wouldn't have upgraded my phone to the LTE. Maybe I'll check out the new CM after trying out Cap's Rom.Can anyone clue me in on what exactly a 'Port' is in reference to roms and our phones?
They were the good ole days, huh? I was really let down with the Evo LTE. No matter how you slice, the OG Evo was probably the coolest phone I have ever had. If it was for the promise of working 4G
Can anyone clue me in on what exactly a 'Port' is in reference to roms and our phones?
Port means that the rom came from another phone....so it was ported over so that we can use the rom on our phones.......it is amazing what devs can do........there was a rom that had a Sony Xperia rom ported over to the og evo called 4 kornerz that I loved........ah the good ole days!!!!
I was with the Evo, 3vo and LTEvo at launch, engineering s-off with the first, and first day s-off with the other two.
The 3vo blew the doors off the Evo and I've spent the night using it.
I'm not disappointed with this phone.
I'm disappointed with the HTC Jellybean offering.
Features removed and serious defects in the first round.
Besides the roms mentioned earlier we also have Beanstalk, CodefireXperiment (first rom built with the LLVM/Clang toolkit, and actually based on AOSP, not a CM or AOKP derivative), and now Omni is coming.
We had a rapid release with each version of CM with more working and less not working out of the gate with the Evo and 3vo - and less time waiting for updates.
I agree that the Evo was insanely cool.
But I think that a lot of fun flashing included hopping roms to get things that worked - not to mention dealing with CWM not saving 4G keys and the transition to Amon Ra.
And flashing a new kernel wasn't just a cool idea, it was required. Remember when netarchy saved us?
Little of which we suffered here.
Yeah, a lot of devs bailed to the Samsungs and the One.
But looking at the quality of what we do have along with the bases covered, it's not like we're chopped liver up in here.
We had some Sony love early on - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732323
And we did not have a months long dry era where you couldn't get s-off and we didn't have a host of users find out the hard way that they didn't have permanent s-off, and both happened with the Evo.
Maybe you had more rooting fun than I did but my mileage varies a lot with this phone. 
The 3vo blew the doors off the Evo and I've spent the night using it.
I'm not disappointed with this phone.
I'm disappointed with the HTC Jellybean offering.
Features removed and serious defects in the first round.
Besides the roms mentioned earlier we also have Beanstalk, CodefireXperiment (first rom built with the LLVM/Clang toolkit, and actually based on AOSP, not a CM or AOKP derivative), and now Omni is coming.
We had a rapid release with each version of CM with more working and less not working out of the gate with the Evo and 3vo - and less time waiting for updates.
I agree that the Evo was insanely cool.
But I think that a lot of fun flashing included hopping roms to get things that worked - not to mention dealing with CWM not saving 4G keys and the transition to Amon Ra.
And flashing a new kernel wasn't just a cool idea, it was required. Remember when netarchy saved us?
Little of which we suffered here.
Yeah, a lot of devs bailed to the Samsungs and the One.
But looking at the quality of what we do have along with the bases covered, it's not like we're chopped liver up in here.
We had some Sony love early on - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732323
And we did not have a months long dry era where you couldn't get s-off and we didn't have a host of users find out the hard way that they didn't have permanent s-off, and both happened with the Evo.
Maybe you had more rooting fun than I did but my mileage varies a lot with this phone.