Root GingerShedBread/GSB

[notaguru]

3.0 went on with no problems. I have finally sorted out the process - thanks to help here. Gapps + patience + Titanium + LauncherPro Restore, and then cach2cach and I'm good to go.

I was getting astonishing speed via SetCPU - but pulled it back to 748/528 to see how it runs on 3.0.

So far, it's fine.

 

[xx_bishop_xx]

Who was it that said this phone would be dead in four months?

I think his name was "BlazeD OnE" or "Artificial Sweetener" or something...

 

[doogald]

Flashed 2.9 right before this was posted GRRRRRRR LOL
Any major differences?

I haven't tried it myself yet, but based on the changelog for 7.0.2, I think that the biggest is that (I think) the power control notification icons can be long-pressed to change settings? (i.e., long-press the WiFi icon to change WiFi settings.)

Unless I read the changelog wrong...

Otherwise, there seem to be some improvements to ADW - which doesn't affect GSB - the inclusion of the latest version of ROM Manager, etc. But, you can read it here (look at both 7.0.1 and 7.0.2): Changelog - CyanogenMod Wiki

 

[mhseris]

Settings > Cyanogenmod settings > Display settings > Screen-off animation

When the screen turns off, it looks like an old-fashioned TV screen turning off. It's kinda cool.

Wow, that is indeed kinda cool. (Just flashed 3.0 - nand, Dalvik wipe, ROM, gapps, cache2cache, reboot...) everything still there, looked in settings to see if the screen-off was checked, it was, hit the red button, got the TV-off. Neato.

 

[mhseris]

Sure:

[Theme Chooser] Updated 3/12/11 Speedometer battery gauge with 1% increments - xda-developers

Tazz's instructions say:

1. Download apk.
2. Navigate to the file on your SD Card through Astro or your file manager of choice.
3. Select apk and choose Open App Manager.
4. Install
5. Open Theme Chooser.
6 Select the theme which will show as a black screen for now and say @string/theme_name.
7. You will see a screen pop up that says Theme Error... Hit apply anyway.
8. Reboot.

Interestingly, steps 1-5 work as advertised; when opening Theme Chooser, I see the speedometer picture (it's very narrow, so easy to miss, but it's not just a black screen). Hit apply, the battery icon changed. No error, no reboot required. And it's very cool.

 

[CondemnedSoul]

Tazz's instructions say:



Interestingly, steps 1-5 work as advertised; when opening Theme Chooser, I see the speedometer picture (it's very narrow, so easy to miss, but it's not just a black screen). Hit apply, the battery icon changed. No error, no reboot required. And it's very cool.

Tazz's instructions? I guess I forgot to change the last part of the instructions when I rebuilt it in Linux to work with the newer versions of Theme Chooser... You shouldn't get any of the errors applying it now and sometimes it looks like it's fully applied but you may notice when you plug it in that the charge animation is still stock... If so you'll want to reboot to be sure it's fully applied

 

[Bob Cat]

Tazz's instructions?

 

[xx_bishop_xx]

Has anyone experienced the incoming call screen being a bit off with the rotary lock?

 

[jae_63]

I'm surprised at some of the variation that people experience running the same ROM.

Here are some of my variations: with GSB 2.8 my phone didn't ring audibly when the ringer was on, but buzzed OK in vibrate mode. I didn't experience the problem that some others reported where their Bluetooth speakerphone wouldn't ring. It automatically picked up my wallpaper from (I guess) an earlier installation of LauncherPro which I recovered from backup using MyBackupPro.

But ... now using GSB 2.9 I no longer have the ringer problem, but find that it is showing a CyanogenMod wallpaper, and I am unable to change it to anything else. It lets me select another wallpaper (I just use non-animated ones) but the change doesn't get successfully applied.

 

[doogald]

I'm surprised at some of the variation that people experience running the same ROM.

Here are some of my variations: with GSB 2.8 my phone didn't ring audibly when the ringer was on, but buzzed OK in vibrate mode. I didn't experience the problem that some others reported where their Bluetooth speakerphone wouldn't ring. It automatically picked up my wallpaper from (I guess) an earlier installation of LauncherPro which I recovered from backup using MyBackupPro.

But ... now using GSB 2.9 I no longer have the ringer problem, but find that it is showing a CyanogenMod wallpaper, and I am unable to change it to anything else. It lets me select another wallpaper (I just use non-animated ones) but the change doesn't get successfully applied.

You may want to think about *not* restoring with MyBackup Pro and see if things work better.

 

[jae_63]

I've been using GSB 2.9 for about a week now, and am curious as to whether other people are experiencing the same issues, and/or whether any of this has improved with GSB 3.0 (or perhaps a later edition by the time you read this).

Most things work pretty well. The Market is one of the most troublesome areas. E.g., some downloads and upgrades hang in the middle. I've resorted to upgrading apps individually rather than using the "Update All" option since the latter seems to queue up too many requests and is likely to bog down my Eris. Keeping the phone awake by jiggling the trackball seems to improve the success of downloading individual apps and/or updates.

Installing large apps from the Market (e.g., HandCent SMS and Flixter's Movies) can result in "installation error: insufficient storage available" messages. This is despite my having installed Cache2Cache and my heavy use of Apps2SD. I have nearly 1GB free on my SD card and Settings->Manage Applications reports that I have 99MB free out of 160MB. I was able to get both of these apps to install immediately after a fresh reboot (one reboot for each app).

Moving apps to the SD card fails intermittently (~20% of the time), but sometimes this can be overcome with a combination of persistence and reboots. E.g., I had a lot of trouble getting "KJV Bible" to move to the SD card, but after ~5 attempts was successful.

The battery life and responsiveness seems a bit better than under KaosFroyo 37, and I'm able to install more apps than before.

Again, thanks in advance for your feedback regarding your own experiences.

 

[paleodust]

I've been using GSB 2.9 for about a week now, and am curious as to whether other people are experiencing the same issues, and/or whether any of this has improved with GSB 3.0 (or perhaps a later edition by the time you read this).

Most things work pretty well. The Market is one of the most troublesome areas. E.g., some downloads and upgrades hang in the middle. I've resorted to upgrading apps individually rather than using the "Update All" option since the latter seems to queue up too many requests and is likely to bog down my Eris. Keeping the phone awake by jiggling the trackball seems to improve the success of downloading individual apps and/or updates.

Installing large apps from the Market (e.g., HandCent SMS and Flixter's Movies) can result in "installation error: insufficient storage available" messages. This is despite my having installed Cache2Cache and my heavy use of Apps2SD. I have nearly 1GB free on my SD card and Settings->Manage Applications reports that I have 99MB free out of 160MB. I was able to get both of these apps to install immediately after a fresh reboot (one reboot for each app).

Moving apps to the SD card fails intermittently (~20% of the time), but sometimes this can be overcome with a combination of persistence and reboots. E.g., I had a lot of trouble getting "KJV Bible" to move to the SD card, but after ~5 attempts was successful.

The battery life and responsiveness seems a bit better than under KaosFroyo 37, and I'm able to install more apps than before.

Again, thanks in advance for your feedback regarding your own experiences.

That seems to be par for the course. I hope someone finds a solution. I think we're all in the same boat.

 

[doogald]

I've been using GSB 2.9 for about a week now, and am curious as to whether other people are experiencing the same issues, and/or whether any of this has improved with GSB 3.0 (or perhaps a later edition by the time you read this).

Most things work pretty well. The Market is one of the most troublesome areas. E.g., some downloads and upgrades hang in the middle. I've resorted to upgrading apps individually rather than using the "Update All" option since the latter seems to queue up too many requests and is likely to bog down my Eris. Keeping the phone awake by jiggling the trackball seems to improve the success of downloading individual apps and/or updates.

Same here.

Installing large apps from the Market (e.g., HandCent SMS and Flixter's Movies) can result in "installation error: insufficient storage available" messages.

I get this with almost every install or update install. The second try almost always works.

This is despite my having installed Cache2Cache and my heavy use of Apps2SD.

I think that things are better actually without cache2cache

Moving apps to the SD card fails intermittently (~20% of the time), but sometimes this can be overcome with a combination of persistence and reboots. E.g., I had a lot of trouble getting "KJV Bible" to move to the SD card, but after ~5 attempts was successful.

I don't use apps2sd myself.

Again, thanks in advance for your feedback regarding your own experiences.

The only thing that I can tell you is that I do not have these issues with Condemned CM7. The market works perfectly, with cache2cache as well (though I always flash cache2cache after I go through the initial setup.)

 

[notaguru]

3.1 ???

Last night a friend asked when I expect 3.1 to be released. Her Eris is set up precisely as mine is, though it runs a bit slower than 787/528. It also has extraordinary battery life, is fully functional with no problems, etc. etc.

I thought about it, and responded honestly that there doesn't seem to be a need for further development. Unless there's a 3.0 issue that doesn't work properly but I don't need or use, GSB seems to have peaked out.

My Eris is now... perfect.

 

[Bob Cat]

3.1 ???

Last night a friend asked when I expect 3.1 to be released. Her Eris is set up precisely as mine is, though it runs a bit slower than 787/528. It also has extraordinary battery life, is fully functional with no problems, etc. etc.

I thought about it, and responded honestly that there doesn't seem to be a need for further development. Unless there's a 3.0 issue that doesn't work properly but I don't need or use, GSB seems to have peaked out.

My Eris is now... perfect.

I had problems with gsb. I'm on Con demned CM 7 and it's smokin.

 

[erisuser1]

My Eris is now... perfect.

I did a clean install of 3.0 yesterday. I stuck with GSB 1.6 for a long time, (and most recently used xtrSense5.01 as a daily driver or several weeks), so I was a bit disappointed with the continuing troubles with the market/downloader: I only got 14 out of 47 apps.

Even worse, I made the mistake of clicking on the notification that said (something like) "Market apps partially restored" - this had the effect of making the market immediately forget about all "My apps" that failed to restore.

Fortunately, I was prepared for that, but it is still a bit of drudgery to restore nearly 30 apps one by one (not one of them failed doing that btw).

In 1.6, the problem seems to involve the downloader, not just the market, as I would occasionally experience the identical behavior with browser downloads as well (the downloads would go to 100% - and then claim that they had failed)

Sure would be nice to get this resolved.

In the meantime, I'll probably use GSB 3.0 as a daily for a while.

eu1

 

[doogald]

3.1 ???

Last night a friend asked when I expect 3.1 to be released. Her Eris is set up precisely as mine is, though it runs a bit slower than 787/528. It also has extraordinary battery life, is fully functional with no problems, etc. etc.

I thought about it, and responded honestly that there doesn't seem to be a need for further development. Unless there's a 3.0 issue that doesn't work properly but I don't need or use, GSB seems to have peaked out.

My Eris is now... perfect.

Google just released Gingerbread 2.3.4, so I am sure that the CM team will continue pushing. Expect plenty of releases going forward.

I did a clean install of 3.0 yesterday. I stuck with GSB 1.6 for a long time, (and most recently used xtrSense5.01 as a daily driver or several weeks), so I was a bit disappointed with the continuing troubles with the market/downloader: I only got 14 out of 47 apps.

I had problems with gsb. I'm on Con demned CM 7 and it's smokin.

I had the same market issues with GSB - every version. I have had only one "insufficient space" error on Condemned CM7, and that was on initial install, when there were a bunch of apps trying to install. The second try worked fine, and every install since has worked fine. I respect Workshed, but, at this point, Condemned CM7 is working better for me.

Right now I am trying to decide myself between CM7 and xtrSENSE 5.0.1 - was on xtrS that all week, and, honestly, with the exception of some minor calendaring issues with xtrSense, it's been running perfectly well - great speed, the same battery life as I get from CM7 ROMs (that surprised me - it was not as I remembered.) I'm going to give Condemned a ride for the next week or so and then see which I stick with until I decide to upgrade the phone.

 

[bnmorgan]

Running GSB3.0, and my cursor will sometimes just randomly start moving around or scrolling, usually in the "down" direction. makes it a PITA to pick on apps, read, type, etc etc. not all the time, and usually rolling the ball around a little helps, but it's still annoying as hell.

Suggestions?

 

[SirEagle]

you guys see that workshed says he's had enough and is done updated GSB

 

[notaguru]

you guys see that workshed says he's had enough and is done updated GSB

It's flawless, fast, stable for me. Zero defects.

 

[notaguru]

Wow! I was just congratulating myself on having the perfect Eris, when this began occurring.

When I end a phone call, some random audio track will begin playing. To end it I must navigate to the MUSIC app, and then to the actual track.

It's a new problem that just emerged - happens half the time.

Is this a GSB 3.0 thing?

???

 

[erisuser1]

Wow! I was just congratulating myself on having the perfect Eris, when this began occurring.

When I end a phone call, some random audio track will begin playing. To end it I must navigate to the MUSIC app, and then to the actual track.

It's a new problem that just emerged - happens half the time.

Is this a GSB 3.0 thing?

???

Haven't had that problem, but I am having others which are equally strange. (I did a fresh install of 3.0, BTW).

The odd behavior that I am having is that occasionally there will be "stuff" on the screen - but that stuff is not visible. Important things like the keyboard (htc_ime_mod_experimental_22) or the lockscreen.

I just rebooted my phone (via adb) because I was locked out - no lock screen display would come up. Even more strange was that if I long-pressed the power button, sometimes the reboot/airplane/silent_mode popup would appear, and at other times, a "fuzzed out" image that I had previously been looking at in my Gmail app would appear.

A bug in surface_flinger maybe?

I also had a very long call (on speakerphone) mysteriously drop & return kind of like the "undead" call thing.

I also experience strangeness in Launcher Pro where it paints my (static) wallpaper, a fraction of the homescreen (the dock icons), and then becomes unresponsive (no response to menu, home, or back softkeys).

Maybe I'll just go back to GSB 1.6. Too bad about workshed's decision; I'm bummed.

eu1

 

[Bob Cat]

Haven't had that problem, but I am having others which are equally strange. (I did a fresh install of 3.0, BTW).

The odd behavior that I am having is that occasionally there will be "stuff" on the screen - but that stuff is not visible. Important things like the keyboard (htc_ime_mod_experimental_22) or the lockscreen.

I just rebooted my phone (via adb) because I was locked out - no lock screen display would come up. Even more strange was that if I long-pressed the power button, sometimes the reboot/airplane/silent_mode popup would appear, and at other times, a "fuzzed out" image that I had previously been looking at in my Gmail app would appear.

A bug in surface_flinger maybe?

I also had a very long call (on speakerphone) mysteriously drop & return kind of like the "undead" call thing.

I also experience strangeness in Launcher Pro where it paints my (static) wallpaper, a fraction of the homescreen (the dock icons), and then becomes unresponsive (no response to menu, home, or back softkeys).

Maybe I'll just go back to GSB 1.6. Too bad about workshed's decision; I'm bummed.

eu1

Give condemned cm7 a try.

 

[xx_bishop_xx]

Maybe I'll just go back to GSB 1.6. Too bad about workshed's decision; I'm bummed.

eu1

Looks like workshed decided to stick it out a little longer afterall.

 

[SirEagle]

Looks like workshed decided to stick it out a little longer afterall.

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