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Root [ROM][ALPHA] Triumph CM9 v0.6.17.0 [FINAL]

Finally had a chance to load up CM9 alpha 0.6.2+FB+HDPI and here are my observations...

Things I like:

  • New unlock is better and quicker. From middle of screen slide to right unlocks the phone. This is even better than the iphone. Slide to left opens camera. I believe you can change this in settings too. Nice.

Things I don't like:

  • Phone dialer in CM7 reloaded looks nicer than CM9
  • Drawer of all your apps is page by page and you need to flick left or right page at a time. In CM7, I see all my apps and you scroll up or down really quick.
  • Long pressing home button brings up the new recent apps. It's much bigger and nicer looking but you need to scroll up and down too much to find something. In CM7, it was quicker where you see all 8 most recent apps.
  • Smoothness. If this version has hw acceleration enabled this is pitiful. I was really hoping the whole experience be really snappy. At least better than CM7.
  • New UI is sharper looking but a little confusing at times. e.g., in DSP Manager, a thin gray horizontal line separates different sections like bass boost, equalizer, etc. is not obvious enough.

List of things not working:

  • Touch has problems: You can't tap something and make a selection sometimes. Seems like you need to be still and press on it for a full second to select something.
  • Bluetooth "media audio": connects to my car stereo and the play and pause functions work. But status info like album, artist, song title, track no., total tracks, length and current time position not appearing. Everything worked in CM7 except album art. Devs, please oh please fix this :).
  • Bluetooth name: is set to "BlueZ" and can't be changed
  • DSP Manager: settings in "bluetooth" profile do not work for bt audio. Instead, making adjustments in "speaker" profile affects both built-in speaker and bt audio. "Headset" profile works accordingly.
  • Battery percentage don't show only default icon work in system status bar.

Devs, hope you guys don't take any of these criticism negatively in any way. You guys are awesome. I thought it all ended when tickerguy and isaac left but you guys continued and gave us cm9. Really appreciate all the hard work you guys put in. No rush and I can't wait until we get a stable rom. Cheers all!
 
todd612 said:
Finally had a chance to load up CM9 alpha 0.6.2+FB+HDPI and here are my observations...

Things I like:

  • New unlock is better and quicker. From middle of screen slide to right unlocks the phone. This is even better than the iphone. Slide to left opens camera. I believe you can change this in settings too. Nice.

Things I don't like:

  • Phone dialer in CM7 reloaded looks nicer than CM9
  • Drawer of all your apps is page by page and you need to flick left or right page at a time. In CM7, I see all my apps and you scroll up or down really quick.
  • Long pressing home button brings up the new recent apps. It's much bigger and nicer looking but you need to scroll up and down too much to find something. In CM7, it was quicker where you see all 8 most recent apps.
  • Smoothness. If this version has hw acceleration enabled this is pitiful. I was really hoping the whole experience be really snappy. At least better than CM7.
  • New UI is sharper looking but a little confusing at times. e.g., in DSP Manager, a thin gray horizontal line separates different sections like bass boost, equalizer, etc. is not obvious enough.

List of things not working:

  • Touch has problems: You can't tap something and make a selection sometimes. Seems like you need to be still and press on it for a full second to select something.
  • Bluetooth "media audio": connects to my car stereo and the play and pause functions work. But status info like album, artist, song title, track no., total tracks, length and current time position not appearing. Everything worked in CM7 except album art. Devs, please oh please fix this :).
  • Bluetooth name: is set to "BlueZ" and can't be changed
  • DSP Manager: settings in "bluetooth" profile do not work for bt audio. Instead, making adjustments in "speaker" profile affects both built-in speaker and bt audio. "Headset" profile works accordingly.
  • Battery percentage don't show only default icon work in system status bar.

Devs, hope you guys don't take any of these criticism negatively in any way. You guys are awesome. I thought it all ended when tickerguy and isaac left but you guys continued and gave us cm9. Really appreciate all the hard work you guys put in. No rush and I can't wait until we get a stable rom. Cheers all!
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Really?! There's only one thing you like about Ics? Wow quite the optimist. And I think the app drawer is perfect
 
todd612 said:
New unlock is better and quicker. From middle of screen slide to right unlocks the phone. This is even better than the iphone. Slide to left opens camera. I believe you can change this in settings too.
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How do you replace the Camera app on the Lock Screen to, let's say, Volume Mute/UnMute? I couldn't find it in the Settings - Under the Lock Screen Settings, it currently only has "Preference Stub", which is a placeholder for future updates.
 
Intercepter said:
I love the new call screen but wish I could get higher res contact pictures. Is there a way?
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If you're talking about in the People app, what I did is edit the contact, go to pick a new picture but just pick the same one, and it fixed it. If your pictures are being pulled from Google+ or Facebook, though, then I don't know what to do about that.

Besides the obvious bugs resulting from it being a double-alpha (CM9 and the ROM itself), this ROM is just about perfect. The only thing I don't like, and this is Google's fault, is that the People and Messaging are themed white. The entire rest of the OS is dark gray/light blue, AND its flagship device is one with an OLED screen (sucks battery with white) and they themed it white.

There was an option in CM7 to theme the messenger black, I think the CM team put that in, hopefully they'll do the same on CM9. I am the king of nitpicking, obviously :P
 
death2twitter said:
If you're talking about in the People app, what I did is edit the contact, go to pick a new picture but just pick the same one, and it fixed it. If your pictures are being pulled from Google+ or Facebook, though, then I don't know what to do about that.

Besides the obvious bugs resulting from it being a double-alpha (CM9 and the ROM itself), this ROM is just about perfect. The only thing I don't like, and this is Google's fault, is that the People and Messaging are themed white. The entire rest of the OS is dark gray/light blue, AND its flagship device is one with an OLED screen (sucks battery with white) and they themed it white.

There was an option in CM7 to theme the messenger black, I think the CM team put that in, hopefully they'll do the same on CM9. I am the king of nitpicking, obviously :P
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If you want things like mesaging etc. in black, you can just flash this http://rootzwiki.com/topic/15092-in...-now-working-on-reader-and-possible-currents/ it looks great
 
RainGater said:
How do you replace the Camera app on the Lock Screen to, let's say, Volume Mute/UnMute? I couldn't find it in the Settings - Under the Lock Screen Settings, it currently only has "Preference Stub", which is a placeholder for future updates.
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You answered your own question. You didn't find lockscreen settings because they haven't been implemented.

Let's all remember that we are being *allowed* to try an alpha release. We could be without anything until a beta is released.
 
thangfish said:
You answered your own question. You didn't find lockscreen settings because they haven't been implemented.

Let's all remember that we are being *allowed* to try an alpha release. We could be without anything until a beta is released.
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I second this notion. I'm just happy to have ics. I feel like I'm a member of an exclusive club and no one else can get in. Unless they got some big ol boobies! That say ics on em!
 
gamemasterAS said:
Does anyone else now have two gallery apps after installing 0.6.2? I went from 0.6.0 to 0.6.2 and now I have two.
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Yeah, I re-enabled the gallery1 while trying to see if that was the cause of the gallery2 not responding. It wasn't, so it'll get removed from the builds in the builds after 0.6.3.
 
This is probably more ICS related than a Alpha problem

Is there anyway to show only contacts that have a phone# like i could with CM7
 
jose313 said:
This is probably more ICS related than a Alpha problem

Is there anyway to show only contacts that have a phone# like i could with CM7
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You could put them in a group and make so it only shows that group, but I think that's about all you could do, at least for now.
 
i am running nates newest build and I have been experiencing occasional freezing up of my phone and the only way to fix it is do a battery pull it actually has been happening a lot I was wondering if anyone else is having the same problem or what I could do to fix it
 
Twizted6789 said:
i am running nates newest build and I have been experiencing occasional freezing up of my phone and the only way to fix it is do a battery pull it actually has been happening a lot I was wondering if anyone else is having the same problem or what I could do to fix it
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ive noticed too
 
Twizted6789 said:
i am running nates newest build and I have been experiencing occasional freezing up of my phone and the only way to fix it is do a battery pull it actually has been happening a lot I was wondering if anyone else is having the same problem or what I could do to fix it
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I've had this happen a few times on me too.
 
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