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Root ICS4Bionic 2/14 + new google apps

Even with this latest build, I have trouble with the phone dialer becoming unresponsive and giving an option to wait or force close. After I force close and reopen the dialer it works fine for a while.

Anyone else have this issue?
 
Jeffery said:
Even with this latest build, I have trouble with the phone dialer becoming unresponsive and giving an option to wait or force close. After I force close and reopen the dialer it works fine for a while.

Anyone else have this issue?
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Not here. I've used the dialer a few times already, without issue.
 
Not sure if all is working or not - is the issue where call sound is gone if BT is enabled fixed? Aww, Hell. I'm gonna flash and find out myself. But I am not about to reflash all my apps - again. I ain't got that kind of time....
 
johnlgalt said:
Not sure if all is working or not - is the issue where call sound is gone if BT is enabled fixed? Aww, Hell. I'm gonna flash and find out myself. But I am not about to reflash all my apps - again. I ain't got that kind of time....
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The last time I tinkered with it my phone was softbricked. It was more a safestrap issue (tried to restore the ICS4BIONIC ROM, got the black screen of death). But for now I am going to hold off on it. I did see enough of ICS4BIONIC to really like it, so when the camera is fixed, I will flash it again.
 
Excepting the camera, data loss on reboot and ... No phone audio when BT is enabled, this is getting close to perfection.

A user posted about how 5.9.902 is much faster on their BIONIC - I argue that ICS on 902-related firmware on BIONIC is pure speed demon. It's my daily driver now - literally and figuratively.
 
@Post above me

How hard do you think it's going to be to take advantage of both cores? Will this be a programming nightmare setting him back another month or something pretty simple? The fact that I'm getting the speeds I am now though, on one core, is pretty amazing though.

@Everyone

Does anyone know the status of the camera situation, for now ICS is my main ROM, but the camera is a really big deal for me and I really want to know what that situation is looking like.
 
Interesting about the cores. I thought I had previously seen it debated that the other core only kicks in when needed though, so if you take a screenshot of a CPU monitor with your phone just idling, the second core is going to show zero. Never knew if this was confirmed truth or just speculation though. I find it hard to believe that our phones are working this well with the ICS ROM and getting good quadrant scores if we're really only using 1 core...
 
Alex Wekell said:
@Post above me

How hard do you think it's going to be to take advantage of both cores? Will this be a programming nightmare setting him back another month or something pretty simple? The fact that I'm getting the speeds I am now though, on one core, is pretty amazing though.

@Everyone

Does anyone know the status of the camera situation, for now ICS is my main ROM, but the camera is a really big deal for me and I really want to know what that situation is looking like.
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It should not be programmatically hard at all, since ICS is natively built to support multi-core processing, so now the kernel level infrastructure is there for programs to make calls specifying the idle core / a specific core at any given time. Or something like that....

PowerBomb said:
Interesting about the cores. I thought I had previously seen it debated that the other core only kicks in when needed though, so if you take a screenshot of a CPU monitor with your phone just idling, the second core is going to show zero. Never knew if this was confirmed truth or just speculation though. I find it hard to believe that our phones are working this well with the ICS ROM and getting good quadrant scores if we're really only using 1 core...
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Yeah, I was wondering the same thing too. I'm going to find out if there is a way to stress the phone with some bg activity and then take screen shots to see. However, since ICS4BIONIC is a generic (AOSP-derived) ICS build via CM 9, and we have no real Moto drivers to fall back upon right now, it's entirely possible that ICS4BIONIC is simply not properly optimized for our devices - yet.

Also, there is another factor to consider - although our phones are most definitely snappier with ICS than with Moto's GB, there are also about 117 apps that are installed with Moto's GB (both bloat and other system software) that are not installed with ICS4BIOIC - and that could easily account for the snappiness. Plus, Quadrant itself (the new 2.0 multi-core version) also reports only a single core.

Finally, I do real world benchmarks, so I have all my apps running as normal on my phone, and my Q scores are ~2020 - nothing really spectacular....

I've seen as high as 2600 w/o OCing, but it ain't happening on my phone....
 
johnlgalt said:
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing too. I'm going to find out if there is a way to stress the phone with some bg activity and then take screen shots to see.
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bhp117 over at the Rootzwiki thread had this to say about it:

our dual core works just like a quad core tegra 3

it'll always be running on 1 core unless you are mutitasking or the process need heavy loading before running the 2nd core

just like the quad core tegra 3, it actually have 5 core " 4 high clock cores 1.0 mhz - 2.5 mhz + 1 low clock companion core 800 mhz - 1.2 mhz " it'll normally run the companion core for simply task to conserve battery then when you multitask or load an app it'll decide how many core would be needed from 1-4 main cores.

the picture seen on previous post i'm sure you don't have much running in the back ground and the phone is pretty much idle so you'll see 1 core is running
if you would start a download an app or a pretty big file with a browser then go back to that app you use to check which core is running you'll see both core at full speed if not you can try loading a song at the same time then you'll see what i mean

i've tried it myself but i don't use the app you use. i use a different app called " system tuner " and you'll see it display cpu0 and cpu1 runnning

also if our phone is a single core, it have to be the best 1.0 mhz single core proccessor
my other phone is a lg revolution, i overclocked it to 1.9 mhz and it's way behind the bionic in every benchmark

so yeah that's my take on this bionic is or possibly a single core misleading info
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YouTube isn't working for me, it seems the audio plays but the video keeps freezing and jumping. Something I did wrong?


OK it works on wifi but not LTE
 
New Rising said:
YouTube isn't working for me, it seems the audio plays but the video keeps freezing and jumping. Something I did wrong?


OK it works on wifi but not LTE
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There are some issues with video playback right now, but to get the YouTube videos to smooth out, go into the YouTube settings menu and make sure "high quality for mobile" is checked on. The videos should play without being choppy after that.
 
I'd hate to be a bugger but I noticed my bottom 4 lights aren't turning off when I shut the screen off. or sometimes they stay on but real dim. is this common?
 
New Rising said:
I'd hate to be a bugger but I noticed my bottom 4 lights aren't turning off when I shut the screen off. or sometimes they stay on but real dim. is this common?
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Yeah that's another known issue with the ICS ROM for the time being. Just try adjusting your screen brightness or turning off the auto-brightness, then see if the soft keys will stop staying lit up next time you turn the screen off. I always have the Power Control widget on one of my homescreens, and when I notice the buttons are staying on, I cycle through the brightness settings, set it back where I want it, and then it stops. You'll usually have to repeat this any time the phone reboots just like the radio trick. Once you do it they should turn on/off normally.
 
PowerBomb said:
Yeah that's another known issue with the ICS ROM for the time being. Just try adjusting your screen brightness or turning off the auto-brightness, then see if the soft keys will stop staying lit up next time you turn the screen off. I always have the Power Control widget on one of my homescreens, and when I notice the buttons are staying on, I cycle through the brightness settings, set it back where I want it, and then it stops. You'll usually have to repeat this any time the phone reboots just like the radio trick. Once you do it they should turn on/off normally.
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thanks powerbomb, you keep saving me from thinking I did something wrong.
 
You're welcome. I think you've figured out all the main limitations of the ICS ROM for now. The data radio trick, fixing the lights that stay on, camera hasn't been made to work yet, and certain types of video content still won't play properly. Other than that, everything seems to be working well, and I'm sure the developer will continue releasing updates to address these issues.

How are you enjoying it otherwise?

And don't forget, if you used the SafeStrap method, you still have a "safe" ROM waiting for you any time you need to use the camera or something like that. Just go into recovery and choose to switch modes back to your other ROM.
 
I'm liking it a lot right now, better than eclipse. and safestrap is amazing as well. the lights weren't turning off so I downloaded adjbrightness which let's me shut the bottom lights off entirely. thanks for the help again.
 
I just enabled the core using those cl entries and now Quadrant shows 2 cores instead of 1. Running the test now to see how it fares.
 
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