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Root Flashed CyanogenMod, now I'm curious

ardchoille

ardchoille

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Yesterday I flashed CyanogenMod 7.0.2.1 on my Evo 4G and have been playing with it. This is an AOSP ROM, which means it's very close to what you'd get if you bought a Nexus 1/S phone.

After browsing though the settings I'm seeing lots of options that I never saw on my stock Samsung Vibrant, stock Motorola Cliq/Cliq XT or stock htc Evo 4G. This leaves me with a question; Why do manufacturers cripple Android when they make a phone? By "cripple" I mean there are lots of things in CyanogenMod that are nowhere in the other phones I listed.

In the past I based my phone purchase decision on available phones at a specific carrier. From now on I will base my phone purchase decision on whether or not root/CyanogenMod is available for the phone.

I love this ROM and no other ROM will feel the same. One of the first things I do after flashing a ROM is theme it, but I'm not going to bother theming CM7.. it's fine just the way it is.

Mad props to the CyanogenMod development team! Seriously, the manufacturers could learn quite a bit from the CM team :)
 
yeah i have been running the first blood cm7 theme and i'm digging it so far. plan on trying out dark horse tomorrow. i think it is funny how i was such a sense guy for so long. it wasn't until i flashed kings gb cm7 rom that i started to really like aosp and in particular cm7. i don't know if i will ever go back to sense, but who knows i am a flashaholic after all.
 
ocnbrze said:
yeah i have been running the first blood cm7 theme and i'm digging it so far. plan on trying out dark horse tomorrow. i think it is funny how i was such a sense guy for so long. it wasn't until i flashed kings gb cm7 rom that i started to really like aosp and in particular cm7. i don't know if i will ever go back to sense, but who knows i am a flashaholic after all.
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That was me up until a couple of days ago, I loved Sense. Now I don't think I'll go back anytime soon.
 
ardchoille said:
That was me up until a couple of days ago, I loved Sense. Now I don't think I'll go back anytime soon.
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I never really did like Sense. I love these vanilla ROMS (don't know if they're really called vanilla, but that's what this noob call's 'em). Way better, IMO. Whenever I see a new ROM that I'd like to try, that's my first question: Does it use Sense? If so, I'm out! :)
 
I'm forced to go back to rooted stock, it's the only place where everything on my phone works correctly.

GPS doesn't work at all in CM (yes, I tried the fix). The phone reverts to 1x and 4G needs to be turned back on after every reboot. The Calendar app fc's every time.

CM7 looks awesome and I'd like to use it, but it just doesn't work as it should on my phone. I guess htc knew what they were doing after all.. at least everything works as it should.
 
I'm a big fan of the colormod for CM7 ...darkhorse and firstblood are good but the blues and reds are a bit overwhelming for me.
 
ardchoille said:
I'm forced to go back to rooted stock, it's the only place where everything on my phone works correctly.

GPS doesn't work at all in CM (yes, I tried the fix). The phone reverts to 1x and 4G needs to be turned back on after every reboot. The Calendar app fc's every time.

CM7 looks awesome and I'd like to use it, but it just doesn't work as it should on my phone. I guess htc knew what they were doing after all.. at least everything works as it should.
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GPS works fine with the newest nightly, 57 I believe. Have not had any fc issues with the calender
 
ardchoille said:
I'm forced to go back to rooted stock, it's the only place where everything on my phone works correctly.

GPS doesn't work at all in CM (yes, I tried the fix). The phone reverts to 1x and 4G needs to be turned back on after every reboot. The Calendar app fc's every time.

CM7 looks awesome and I'd like to use it, but it just doesn't work as it should on my phone. I guess htc knew what they were doing after all.. at least everything works as it should.
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For GPS, download GPS Status from the market, its free. Open it up and let it do its thing, should fix that for you.
 
i know im late to the party here on this thread, but..... ardchoille, you now know why my sig is the way it is :) CM7 has been a godsend to many of us myself included. With the right theme, LP(or the launcher of your choice), and your choice of other goodies CM7 will straight rock your effen socks off!! LoL
 
ardchoille said:
Hmm.. I've never tried the nightlies, I should try that.
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the nightlies usually work better for me for some stupid reason... youd think that the "stable" would be more stable, but meh LoL!!! oh, and try tiamat for your kernel, itll also rock your effen socks off just like Tenacious D baby!! im on 3.3.7 but ive heard many success stories with 3.3.8 i think my evo is just bein picky and preferring the older one
 
i like sense cuz i have a facebook and like seein ppls profile face and not an android pic lol, also u can type a number and their name comes out which u cant do in cyanogen mod, and im also running sense 2.1 which offers different themes =p

correct me if im wrong, but when i had cyanogenmod i couldnt do the whole fb and call thing which i didnt like much lol
 
tooill said:
i like sense cuz i have a facebook and like seein ppls profile face and not an android pic lol, also u can type a number and their name comes out which u cant do in cyanogen mod, and im also running sense 2.1 which offers different themes =p

correct me if im wrong, but when i had cyanogenmod i couldnt do the whole fb and call thing which i didnt like much lol
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scrolling widgets young skywalker, you must seek the correct widgets!! and i never type in peoples numbers that i have in my contact directory, so i dunno on the other one lol
 
tooill said:
i like sense cuz i have a facebook and like seein ppls profile face and not an android pic lol, also u can type a number and their name comes out which u cant do in cyanogen mod, and im also running sense 2.1 which offers different themes =p

correct me if im wrong, but when i had cyanogenmod i couldnt do the whole fb and call thing which i didnt like much lol
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I am running Kings GB R2 which is CM7 based. All of my FB friends are linked and to use a name to get the number just tap the hourglass on the bottom right and type in the name. AOSP is a little more work than Sense but the pros far out weigh the cons IMO. :D
 
Xtremedays said:
I am running Kings GB R2 which is CM7 based. All of my FB friends are linked and to use a name to get the number just tap the hourglass on the bottom right and type in the name. AOSP is a little more work than Sense but the pros far out weigh the cons IMO. :D
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rofl wow didnt kno, the thing is that when i had cyanogen mod it didnt have facebook as one of the accounts to sync and i was disappointed lol, and the hourglass thing wow im dumb haha never really noticed that, but well see what i do, im too into my sense 2.1 right now =p
 
tooill said:
rofl wow didnt kno, the thing is that when i had cyanogen mod it didnt have facebook as one of the accounts to sync and i was disappointed lol, and the hourglass thing wow im dumb haha never really noticed that, but well see what i do, im too into my sense 2.1 right now =p
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I was a sense guy til I flashed Evervolv GB a while back.....been AOSP since. Tried a couple sense roms since then but always restored back to Kings GB
 
tooill said:
rofl wow didnt kno, the thing is that when i had cyanogen mod it didnt have facebook as one of the accounts to sync and i was disappointed lol, and the hourglass thing wow im dumb haha never really noticed that, but well see what i do, im too into my sense 2.1 right now =p
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aosp baby!!! aosp!!! lol i think the synch thing doesnt come up till you flash gapps, and even then i cant recall what accts are listed in there, but if fb isnt in there, do you see an add acct when youre attempting to synch accts? or shall i say, do you recall seeing that option? anyways i think youll find that most folks whove been around the android block usually prefer an aosp to sense 90% of the time (if not 90%, then id say 9 times outta ten LoL) but i digress... sense is merely an overlay to the android operating system that can be replaced with more efficient widgets and apps n so forth... nothing against sense, but it seems as tho its just an unnecessary parasitic thing that makes the AOS kinda nice n shiny
 
youdoofus said:
aosp baby!!! aosp!!! lol i think the synch thing doesnt come up till you flash gapps, and even then i cant recall what accts are listed in there, but if fb isnt in there, do you see an add acct when youre attempting to synch accts? or shall i say, do you recall seeing that option? anyways i think youll find that most folks whove been around the android block usually prefer an aosp to sense 90% of the time (if not 90%, then id say 9 times outta ten LoL) but i digress... sense is merely an overlay to the android operating system that can be replaced with more efficient widgets and apps n so forth... nothing against sense, but it seems as tho its just an unnecessary parasitic thing that makes the AOS kinda nice n shiny
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just added the fb acc now, and yeah it was gapps, i never did that before cuz i was more of a noob with flashing and stuff lol, well i just wanna kno is there an email widget or facebook widget like there is on sense? would appareciate, and anything else thats cool for cyanogenmod.

oh another thing i was kinda ehhh about is that i was running linpack and i was gettin 25mflops but i used to get 37 on my otther rom which was sense 2.1 it would run smoother than cyanogenmod, u think i should do anything to make it smoother without loosing battery =p
 
tooill said:
just added the fb acc now, and yeah it was gapps, i never did that before cuz i was more of a noob with flashing and stuff lol, well i just wanna kno is there an email widget or facebook widget like there is on sense? would appareciate, and anything else thats cool for cyanogenmod.

oh another thing i was kinda ehhh about is that i was running linpack and i was gettin 25mflops but i used to get 37 on my otther rom which was sense 2.1 it would run smoother than cyanogenmod, u think i should do anything to make it smoother without loosing battery =p
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yeah the gapps thing is an odd one indeed lol anywho, what in the ever livin hell is linpack? LoL nevermind i just looked, it appears as tho its one of those benchmark thingies.... from what ive read, those may not be entirely accurate nor necessary. I also am a person who likes to have a measurable metric on things, but what are you trying to guage? cpu speed? if youre having smooth-ness issues, id try another kernel. Ive also read where rom/kernel combos can have proclivities towards giving system issues depending on the physical build of your device. If its a new one, you might wanna try tiamat 3.3.8 (see my sig for the link) i use 3.3.7 cuz my phone just likes it better, however im on a new version of cm7 and am considering trying 3.3.8 again because of some animations looking a tad funny going from screen to screen, but i digress LoL
 
there are some email widgets that look like the sense one, but cant recall them right offhand (check the market) and launcher pro is not essential, but its essential LoL it totally changes the experience and has its own set of widgets as well. im kindof a minimalist with regards to whats on my phones home screens to conserve battery as much as possible and i guess accessing email is a touch away, so i dont bother with a widget
 
Update: On the advice of a friend I re-flashed CM7 and am no longer experiencing the issues I had before with this ROM. I must have had a bad flash the first time. I'm also running the tiamat 3.3.8 kernel and battery life is much better.

For anyone out there who was experiencing issues on CM7, try a re-flash.. it helped me quite a bit.
 
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