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Root Rom Suggestion

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jamoosh

Android Enthusiast
Hi everybody,
I just activated Optimus V VM670 on my Virgin Mobile account. I see that there are numerous roms available for the device. I am wondering which would offer best balance of stability, battery life and performance.

I've been a fan of CyanogenMod for ages.

Any input is greatly appreciated.

Also, the phone has firmware build ZV5.

Kind regards.
 
Check out Mirage by mrg666. It's cm7 and just about the most maintained ROM for the ov and is everything you'd want in a rom..... That said..... There's lots of good ROMS for the ov and os you can try out. Just make a backup and have fun. I run OM-Mandylion on mine but jump to jb and ics builds frequently thekraven's work is amazing.
 
Thanks for your input, guys. I installed the ZenGarden recovery, as that was the only one that would install through Flash Image GUI, then I installed thekraven's CM10.1, as that was the only one that would install through ZenGarden. It seems a little unstable. I think this phone just might be a little finicky.
Thanks again!
 
By the way, I can't flash Mirage in ZenGarden recovery--does it require a different recovery?
Thanks again!

Thewraith420 said:
Check out Mirage by mrg666. It's cm7 and just about the most maintained ROM for the ov and is everything you'd want in a rom..... That said..... There's lots of good ROMS for the ov and os you can try out. Just make a backup and have fun. I run OM-Mandylion on mine but jump to jb and ics builds frequently thekraven's work is amazing.
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It could have been a bad download. I did download it twice and try it twice.
Hard saying. Maybe just one of those things.

I ended up doing another clean installation of the 10.1 JB Rom by thekraven.

Man, storage space is really an issue with this phone.

Thewraith420 said:
It should flash just fine with zengarden... Bad download maybe?
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badblue1 said:
I flashed MiRaGe using zengarden, Andy did say he was having problems flashing with zengarden. Follow Andy's guide when flashing :
http://androidforums.com/optimus-v-all-things-root/697813-how-install-flash_image-flash-recovery-rom-theme.html
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Most of us use an ext partition on our sd-cards to make up for the lack of internal storage. Look up int2ext and link2sd. They're 2 different ways to do almost the same thing.
 
jamoosh said:
It could have been a bad download. I did download it twice and try it twice.
Hard saying. Maybe just one of those things.
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It can very easily be a bad download twice. Slow internet speed and server errors are the main culprits. That is why you always need to check the md5 sum of the download against the provided md5 sum. If they don't match, the download is corrupt.

With ICS and Jellybean ROMs Ram is usually low to begin with. To combat this use Fast Reboot. It safely closes all apps, then opens only those that need to be running by design.
Clean all caches every day.

Most ICS and Jellybean ROMs require that you have a 1.0GB-1.5GB partition on the SD card. Usually in the ext.4 format.
Rule of thumb: You cannot use more than 20% of the actual space available on the SD card or 2GB (Which ever comes first), for the partition.
Easiest way to partition sd card is with recovery (Formats to ext.3), then reformat that partition to ext.4 with Mini Tool Partition Wizard- Home edition.

Link2SD gives you more app movement and deletion control than any other, as well as converting system app to user app + user app to system app. Thats total control of all downloaded and pre-installed system apps.

The best Jellybean ROM is the SlimRom by thekraven. I have a slight mod/theme of this ROM (Bean_Whiz-CM10).

ICS has some security problems.

The best Gingerbread ROM is the MiRaGe. I have flashed it numerous times on both V's with the ZenGarden recovery.

The best Recovery for the V is the BobZohme modified ClockworkMod (VM670NH) recovery. It can flash absolutely anything. It doesn't have the "fix recovery loop" option so you need to keep the zipped version of the Xionia recovery (ZV4 V) or the zipped version of the COT (ZV5 V) on the root of the sd card just in case.

If a ROM doesn't boot it is caused by one of the following:

Corrupt download

Recovery inadequate

SD partition is the wrong format for the ROM.

Full wipe and format not done properly

Flashing kernel or patch in the wrong order (always Flash: ROM, kernel or fix/patch, Gapps.

All CM7-CM10 ROMs developed for our V will boot up on every V. If not then one of the above problems is at fault, not the actual ROM.
 
Thanks for your response. I've been using Link2SD and have removed some internal things such as the Live Wallpapers, but it's still basically too full to operate properly. I guess I have to look into this partitioning dealy.

Thewraith420 said:
Most of us use an ext partition on our sd-cards to make up for the lack of internal storage. Look up int2ext and link2sd. They're 2 different ways to do almost the same thing.
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Thanks so much for your thorough response.
I'll try to re-download it again and run the checksum, also.

I will allocate an Ext4 partition on the SD card and see if this helps. Is there an app or or a recovery that can partition to Ext4 natively? Also, does the size matter, or is any size between 1024MB and 1536MB appropriate?

Thanks again for all of your help.

AndyOpie150 said:
It can very easily be a bad download twice. Slow internet speed and server errors are the main culprits. That is why you always need to check the md5 sum of the download against the provided md5 sum. If they don't match, the download is corrupt.

With ICS and Jellybean ROMs Ram is usually low to begin with. To combat this use Fast Reboot. It safely closes all apps, then opens only those that need to be running by design.
Clean all caches every day.

Most ICS and Jellybean ROMs require that you have a 1.0GB-1.5GB partition on the SD card. Usually in the ext.4 format.
Rule of thumb: You cannot use more than 20% of the actual space available on the SD card or 2GB (Which ever comes first), for the partition.
Easiest way to partition sd card is with recovery (Formats to ext.3), then reformat that partition to ext.4 with Mini Tool Partition Wizard- Home edition.

Link2SD gives you more app movement and deletion control than any other, as well as converting system app to user app + user app to system app. Thats total control of all downloaded and pre-installed system apps.

The best Jellybean ROM is the SlimRom by thekraven. I have a slight mod/theme of this ROM (Bean_Whiz-CM10).

ICS has some security problems.

The best Gingerbread ROM is the MiRaGe. I have flashed it numerous times on both V's with the ZenGarden recovery.

The best Recovery for the V is the BobZohme modified ClockworkMod (VM670NH) recovery. It can flash absolutely anything. It doesn't have the "fix recovery loop" option so you need to keep the zipped version of the Xionia recovery (ZV4 V) or the zipped version of the COT (ZV5 V) on the root of the sd card just in case.

If a ROM doesn't boot it is caused by one of the following:

Corrupt download

Recovery inadequate

SD partition is the wrong format for the ROM.

Full wipe and format not done properly

Flashing kernel or patch in the wrong order (always Flash: ROM, kernel or fix/patch, Gapps.

All CM7-CM10 ROMs developed for our V will boot up on every V. If not then one of the above problems is at fault, not the actual ROM.
Click to expand...
 
The ZenGarden recovery has an option to reformat the partition that is made to ext.4 and even back to ext.3
Please read my last post more throughly. The answer to your other questions are there.
 
Thanks so much for all of the detailed information.
It is a lot to digest.

AndyOpie150 said:
The ZenGarden recovery has an option to reformat the partition that is made to ext.4 and even back to ext.3
Please read my last post more throughly. The answer to your other questions are there.
Click to expand...
 
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