Hello, I'm in on this - 200 dollars should be do-able with contributions.
If you start a fund let me know I'll send money via paypal.
Thanks for your time and effort.
MIUI CM9 Would be good
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Root Get Koush A Spectrum
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Hello, I'm in on this - 200 dollars should be do-able with contributions.
If you start a fund let me know I'll send money via paypal.
Thanks for your time and effort.
MIUI CM9 Would be good
Guys, I went ahead and set up a donation page through chipin.com. This will allow us to track how much has been donated. Here's the link: ChipIn: LG Spectrum Fund. ChipIn uses PayPal to process the donations.
Hello, Kindly also put this link in the Donations for weblexa under "all things root" section. I'd gladly do it - just looks more authentic coming from you.
Thanks.
atomilluminati
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What I am asking weblexa to do is add the donate link to "donation for weblexa" thread - which was done. The purpose of this is to get a spectrum going for MIUI.
The current thread (this one that you started) focuses on a Spectrum for Koush, which is not what the donations are getting done for.
atomilluminati
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I was directly referring to the "it sends more authentic coming from you...."
Edit: again my bad
I would definitely be willing to bring MIUI to the Spectrum if someone would be kind enough to donate the device. MIUI should be fairly easy to get ported since it sounds like a CM9 ROM is in the works. I've done some research, and I'm surprised in the lack of ROMs that are available for the Spectrum, so I'd also do what I can to port other ROMs to the Spectrum in my spare time as well.
Let me know if you guys are interested in donating a device, I'll get to work as soon as I have one in my hands.
Just to save the lazy (or the foolish who wouldn't even look) some time...
xda-developers - Search Results
xda-developers - View Profile: weblexa
I miss MIUI... loved it on my DroidX.
EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm saying that weblexa appears legit, even though there's only 6-7 posts here...
he was referring to the fact that it would sound more credible if weblexa posted it himself I think
Dear fellow board users - I felt the link should be made by weblexa - not me.
That's all there was to it - I do not see what is wrong with that. Or am I missing a point here that you can see?
thanks.
I agree with entirely and if you look that's how I went about when I recruited d2a to join us in spectrum land.
MrDangerous
Android Enthusiast
Not a troll... But I never quite understood what was so special about MIUI. When it first came out it seemed all the people who were on Verizon who couldn't get an iPhone freaked out over it. It just seemed too iPhoneish for my taste.
A tweaked CM9 variant is what I'd really like to see, or maybe even a Sense 4 port.
A tweaked CM9 variant is what I'd really like to see, or maybe even a Sense 4 port.
bones420la
Android Enthusiast
I've used his roms on my fascinate for over a year. And he's always had the best miui rom possible .. he does new updates just about every week keeping it up to date with the latest miui build.... he's good at what he does
bones420la
Android Enthusiast
There is much more to miui than just the launcher... the music player is one of the best. The messaging app, status bar, dialer and lockscreen can all be themed all within. One place... I've always used miui... cm9 just ain't quite customizable enough for my taste... plus I like to be able to change the look of my phone once or twice a week
While I don't change my theme on a regular basis, the fact that everything can be fairly unified theme-wise is nice, in addition to the customized lock screen (which prior to ICS/CM9, wasn't common). And one of my favorite features are all the system toggles available from the notifications pull-down.
I miss the app drawer, but once you get it set up right, with a few folders for non-critical apps, and critical apps on 1-2 screens for quick access, and it's a nice setup. It's also pretty smooth which is nice...
finndo77
Android Expert
Never even looked at MIUI or any CM roms. Do not know a thing about them, but would be will to look into it now, with the number of choices we have at this point. I came from an HTC Evo 4G and had so many roms to choose from I could run a different one every month for two years and still not try them all. Not to mention most were updated (major updates more often than not) every 2-3 months. I ended using theMikMik.com Mik G and loved it so much I stopped looking, except for updated versions. I even put the Mik shifted G on my wife's HTC Evo 4G shift without even looking to see what other options there were. (when she finally agreed to let me root it) if mik made the G for spectrum, I'd buy him a phone. But he is almost exclusively HTC, do I don't know of he would or could do an LG spectrum ROM.
And that's one benefit of CM9 and MIUI... they're somewhat of a standard. You can get CM7/9 or MIUI on a large variety of phones, but your favorite ROM may only be available on a handful.
MrB206
Android Expert
That's debatable. I ported Galnet Miui for the D2G and it's a piece of shit, other than being a version of 2.3.7 with 4.0.3 elements and a pretty veneer. OK, that's not fair to say... it's a decent ROM, but it's still GB with ICS elements, being touted as pure ICS and has too many restrictions. It runs good and looks pretty, because they cherry-picked the ICS elements like battery use/standby and theme, but left the core GB OS so it would work on older devices.
The problem is they rely too much on proprietary apps like their messaging app. While I liked the Miui Messaging app, you can't remove or freeze it, because ANY sms/mms app uses it to send/receive messages. Same with the browser, as I recall. From a dev standpoint, proprietary apps are no better than bloatware, so I've never been fully onboard with Miui.
The Galnet release looked pretty and *seemed* to perform like ICS, but it had limitations and still looked like a damn iPhone that required an alt home app like ADW to hide un-used apps... you know, like messaging and browser, since you have to keep them, even if you don't use them?
That said, I'd gladly try Miui (preferably Galnet) on the Spectrum. They'd have to port it from the Optimus 2X, which might be an issue with the different radio, but it's a start: Old Gingerbread Roms | MIUI Scotland
That's debatable. I ported Galnet Miui for the D2G and it's a piece of shit, other than being a version of 2.3.7 with 4.0.3 elements and a pretty veneer. OK, that's not fair to say... it's a decent ROM, but it's still GB with ICS elements, being touted as pure ICS and has too many restrictions. It runs good and looks pretty, because they cherry-picked the ICS elements like battery use/standby and theme, but left the core GB OS so it would work on older devices.
The problem is they rely too much on proprietary apps like their messaging app. While I liked the Miui Messaging app, you can't remove or freeze it, because ANY sms/mms app uses it to send/receive messages. Same with the browser, as I recall. From a dev standpoint, proprietary apps are no better than bloatware, so I've never been fully onboard with Miui.
The Galnet release looked pretty and *seemed* to perform like ICS, but it had limitations and still looked like a damn iPhone that required an alt home app like ADW to hide un-used apps... you know, like messaging and browser, since you have to keep them, even if you don't use them?
That said, I'd gladly try Miui (preferably Galnet) on the Spectrum. They'd have to port it from the Optimus 2X, which might be an issue with the different radio, but it's a start: Old Gingerbread Roms | MIUI Scotland
Nah, I'm going to port it from the Nexus S (I find it better to port from a device that has official MIUI support, rather than a ported device, that way there's no chance of bugs caused by another port.)... And, it won't be that 2.3.7 with 4.0.3 cherry-picks. It will be full-blown 4.0.4 ICS.
A true MIUI ICS ROM, to me, doesn't look a thing like the iPhone. MIUI's Gingerbread ROM looked a lot like the iPhone, but they made a quite a bit of changes to ICS. I think it has a way better UI than the iPhone.
MrB206
Android Expert
Don't get me wrong... I LOOOOVVVEEEDDDD the battery life on the Galnet release. It was amazing to see how I could get 24hrs on my D2G, where I got maybe 12 before. The issue I took was the touting of it as ICS, when it was a GB base with the ICS elements. Granted, they were the best elements, but call a duck a duck, ya know?
Good call on coming from the Nexus S.. provided it has the ability to jive with LTE, we'll be good. The other supported devices are all GSM.
Good call on coming from the Nexus S.. provided it has the ability to jive with LTE, we'll be good. The other supported devices are all GSM.