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Root [ROM][UPDATE: 04/05/2012][bROM v1.2]

Austrie said:
No it is not. Did you make sure to wipe data(or flashed prep ROM)? If not then do so, then reflash. Maybe your SD Card is corrupted...
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I solved the issue. The problem is not the SD card. The issue is that the rom does not support WMA formatted music.
 
great rom got 2 problems cant load my contacts only see them when they call and finally i lose my signal constantly and recommendations?
 
The signal issues more than likely have nothing to do with the ROM. I have never had the contact issue, do you have them synced to your gmail, or just stored on the phone?

Also font changer should work with this ROM.

As for bluetooth, I have found that bluetooth, gps and wifi can all drastically reduce signal quality on this phone. I believe it has to do with the design of the radios.

Finally, I have updated bKernel to v2.0. I highly recommend everyone give it a try. I pulled in most of mantera's changes for fOCk kernel, except for the kgsl updates because I felt it actually lowered 3d benchmark scores compared to the normal kgsl kernel code\(note I'm not talking about the updated egl drivers that you actaully flash to the phone, I'm talking about updates to the kgsl kernel driver code in the kernel source), and have added even more features in, and patched it up past 2.6.32.21 all the way up to 2.6.32.59. It is a very fast kernel and I tihnk everyone should at least give it a try.

Also I enabled zRam support in the kernel. What this does is creates a swap device on the actual RAM of the phone(not like making a swap partition on a slow sdcard, this is on the highspeed RAM of the phone) and zRam uses this device to cache compressed blocks of memory to the phone using the lzo compression algorithm, which is a very effective compression method. You would think it having to compress and decompress memory pages in and out of RAM would make RAM throughput slower, but you can't tell a difference, and you benefit by having more free RAM due to part of it being compressed. TO enable zRAM you have to make an init.d script with the following code:
Code: 
#!/system/bin/sh

DISK_SIZE=*size you want your zram device to be in mb*

echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset

echo $(($DISK_SIZE*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize

mknod /dev/zram0 b 253 0
mkswap /dev/zram0

swapon /dev/zram0

exit 0

Of course changing DISK_SIZE to the size you want your zram device to be. I use 100 mb.

Name this file something(I named mine 02zram and place it in the /system/etc/init.d directory and give it 0755 permission. Reboot the phone and you will have enabled zram (This script also should work on manteras fOCk kernel as his has zram as well). You can make sure it is swapping out to the zram device by opening a terminal and running free, the swap portion should not be zero if it is swapping to the device.
 
b_randon14 said:
The signal issues more than likely have nothing to do with the ROM. I have never had the contact issue, do you have them synced to your gmail, or just stored on the phone?

Also font changer should work with this ROM.

As for bluetooth, I have found that bluetooth, gps and wifi can all drastically reduce signal quality on this phone. I believe it has to do with the design of the radios.

Finally, I have updated bKernel to v2.0. I highly recommend everyone give it a try. I pulled in most of mantera's changes for fOCk kernel, except for the kgsl updates because I felt it actually lowered 3d benchmark scores compared to the normal kgsl kernel code\(note I'm not talking about the updated egl drivers that you actaully flash to the phone, I'm talking about updates to the kgsl kernel driver code in the kernel source), and have added even more features in, and patched it up past 2.6.32.21 all the way up to 2.6.32.59. It is a very fast kernel and I tihnk everyone should at least give it a try.

Also I enabled zRam support in the kernel. What this does is creates a swap device on the actual RAM of the phone(not like making a swap partition on a slow sdcard, this is on the highspeed RAM of the phone) and zRam uses this device to cache compressed blocks of memory to the phone using the lzo compression algorithm, which is a very effective compression method. You would think it having to compress and decompress memory pages in and out of RAM would make RAM throughput slower, but you can't tell a difference, and you benefit by having more free RAM due to part of it being compressed. TO enable zRAM you have to make an init.d script with the following code:
Code: 
#!/system/bin/sh

DISK_SIZE=*size you want your zram device to be in mb*

echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset

echo $(($DISK_SIZE*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize

mknod /dev/zram0 b 253 0
mkswap /dev/zram0

swapon /dev/zram0

exit 0
Of course changing DISK_SIZE to the size you want your zram device to be. I use 100 mb.

Name this file something(I named mine 02zram and place it in the /system/etc/init.d directory and give it 0755 permission. Reboot the phone and you will have enabled zram (This script also should work on manteras fOCk kernel as his has zram as well). You can make sure it is swapping out to the zram device by opening a terminal and running free, the swap portion should not be zero if it is swapping to the device.
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went back to stock for about two hours still lost signal the contacts were exported to sd card from cm7 and one from miui both dont show up but when i'm called they are listed
 
Is there a way to change what is in the notification power widget?

EDIT: NVM, I have found that what is there are the things that I use most.
 
I have noticed using CPU Spy, that the phone takes a while to go into deep sleep, and seems to wake out of it alot. I have auto sync turned off, but I do have an Exchange corporate mail account set up to push. I do not have many network apps and only shoot the apple and angry birds space installed as games. I did notice this with WiFi on last night and data off. Any thoughts?

BTW: this rom is faster than cm7 by a long shot. I am using b_randon's new kernel as well. Even though I love the thought of running GB based CM7, I think I am sticking with this as my daily ROM. AWESOME!!!!
 
Has anyone got the Thunderprop build.prop working with this ROM and the new kernel? Everytime I flash the thunderprop, the phone hangs on the splash screen.
 
Okay so I first installed the prep b_rom and boot into it. Then i installed the latest b_rom and then my phone got stuck on the boot logo. I still want this rom and am willing to try to install it again but what did I do wrong?
 
Light1027 said:
Okay so I first installed the prep b_rom and boot into it. Then i installed the latest b_rom and then my phone got stuck on the boot logo. I still want this rom and am willing to try to install it again but what did I do wrong?
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Same thing happened here, but after updating the kernel to v2. I was up and running for about a day with the b_ROM and kernel v1.x. It only hung at the boot when I restarted the first time after flashing the updated kernel. Made me think that there was something wrong with apps, but "downgrading" to the previous kernel fixed it for me.

There seems to be something up with the v2 kernel, at least for me.
 
Light1027 said:
Okay so I first installed the prep b_rom and boot into it. Then i installed the latest b_rom and then my phone got stuck on the boot logo. I still want this rom and am willing to try to install it again but what did I do wrong?
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Are you wiping data at any point in the install? If so that's the issue.

I haven't tried the thunder build prop. It should work but ill have to look into it.
About deep sleep, I noticed on my phone the network location service was keeping wakelocks on keeling the phone from sleeping. I periododically toggle GPS and network location off and on and it seems to allow it to sleep more often.
 
dashard said:
Same thing happened here, but after updating the kernel to v2. I was up and running for about a day with the b_ROM and kernel v1.x. It only hung at the boot when I restarted the first time after flashing the updated kernel. Made me think that there was something wrong with apps, but "downgrading" to the previous kernel fixed it for me.

There seems to be something up with the v2 kernel, at least for me.
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I flashed the updated kernel yesterday and everything was running perfectly like usual but I went to reboot my phone like an hour ago and bootloop city, first time for me on this phone, luckily I make a backup before I flash anything cuz I restored and I'm up and running again. Oh and I never messed with the zram stuff (I do want to but it seems a bit confusing for me)
 
No i did not wipe data. But anywho. I installed the deodoxed stock rom instead and then installed the b_rom. It worked!! Great ROM!!! Congratulations!!! So far so good
 
Man do i just love how i can play Temple and Listen to music on here. On Gingerbread it makes my phone reboots after dying without playing music with it. Also how on ICS it wont even recognize my touches. Man i am so starting to hate the Motorola Triumph now and dont even have to cash to get the HTC EVO V 4g.
 
I have run this ROM for the past few days and have to say I love it. I got sick of the weird stuff I had going on with CM7 and decided to try something else. Any suggestions on where the volt settings should be, or if I should mess with them at all.
 
gueydejalisco said:
is it just me or am i the only one who gets horrible battery life on this rom?
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This is the only Rom I had on my triumph and battery life was awesome compared to stock and my phone was jam packed with apps and stuff lol. Make sure to turn of bt and WiFi when not being used and lower brightness, turn of background data and all that other battery killin stuff, I used to turn airplane mode on at work cuz reception was horrible. Now I have the evo and even with all that stuff on my battery lasts all day but I do bring a charger everywhere I go just incase lol
 
I want to start off by saying that after flashing every rom imaginable brom is by far my favorite. Very smooth and amazing color scheme. But for the past few days constantly loose service. I either have to reboot my phone or restore another rom to regain service. I've tried a fresh install but nothing helps. Any ideas on what I can do to fix this. I don't want to stop using this rom.
 
You know, I always really stayed away from froyo roms, just cause they are so outdated...but I actually like this one. Use it as my daily. Cheers :D
 
Tjohnson042110 said:
I want to start off by saying that after flashing every rom imaginable brom is by far my favorite. Very smooth and amazing color scheme.
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TheDarkside13 said:
You know, I always really stayed away from froyo roms, just cause they are so outdated...but I actually like this one. Use it as my daily. Cheers :D
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I too have been constantly flashing ROMs onto my phone, checking them all out, re-flashing every time a ROM is updated. I just got a replacement phone from VM and I want to finally settle on a ROM, and I thought it was MIUI by Isaac because i liked the customization of MIUI and the fact that you could toggle 3G/2G. A few themes started acting screwey in MIUI and battery life wasn't great now that I had a working 3G connection and was actually leaving 3G on. The deep sleep bug in the CM7 based ROMs was also an annoyance and a contributor to a dead battery in several cases.

I wanted to go back to a froyo ROM since they are virtually bug-less. I was jumping around between bROM and Froyocream Sandwich for a while because AFAIK they are the only 2 with the toggle bar in the notification drawer.

I just flashed bROM and it is incredibly snappy and quick to do everything! Photos load quickly, Wifi connected quickly, the launcher is snappy from the second the screen is unlocked, everything just works well, and I like the font ;).

I wanna give a big thanks to b_ranon for designing a great kernel, and a great rom around it! And all the other devs too! You've made the Triumph worthy of its name! With bROM I'd say my Triumph rivals an iPhone 4S!

PS, is there anyway to avoid my icons becoming mismatched as I install apps that dont have themed icons?

[Sorry for the rambling and random noob question, my first post here and I just wanted to say thanks to this community!:smokingsomb:]
 
So, I've been running bROM for about 2 weeks now, but I've noticed that when my phone is in deep sleep, I don't get text messages or phone calls at all (not just a lack of notification).. With texts, it's only mildly annoying because I get them all once I wake the phone manually, but with calls I never even know unless someone tells me in person that they tried to call. I checked the battery use info in settings and it says 0 time without signal, so I don't think loss of service is the problem...

Any ideas? New kernel? (I never did get around to installing bKernel 2.0) Fresh install? Obscure tweak?
 
I just flashed my Triumph with bROM 1.2, and I gotta say, it's pretty fantastic. I love the customization possibilities. Quick question - I have hidden most of the apps from the app launcher in favor of having them populated on one of the three home screens (organized by category - like main apps on screen 2, Web apps on screen 1, location-based apps & media apps on screen 3). Which is better for performance/battery: having the apps in the app drawer or on the desktops, or does it matter?

After playing with it for a bit, I added my gmail account, which synced my calendar, contacts, and of course mail. When I went to Google Play on my computer, for about 20 minutes, it still said that I have all the apps installed from prior to the flash, like Bible, Avast!, and my banking app. Finally, when I started writing this, it recognized I no longer have them installed (listed as the "other apps in my library"), but when I click to install them, I don't see any notification on the phone that it's been downloaded & installed.

Keep in mind that this is all via wifi, I have discontinued the cellular service, as Sprint is terrible in my region (contrary to the coverage map).

Thoughts on getting these apps re-installed relatively easily/automated? I have many apps, and it'd be fantastic if I could reinstall them in one shot or at least using the computer to avoid the slow method of using the phone to search & install.

Thanks in advance for any help, and Thanks b_randon for this great ROM!
 
Really as far as that goes, I'm not sure of there is a performance difference between having them on screen or in the drawer. miui has them on the screen and it performs damn well, in my opinion. I think it boils down to preference. I'm more of a minimalist look. So my desktop is always empty both on my pc and my phone.


Also as far as restoring apps I recommend titanium backup, as it will save your apps and data and reinstall them
 
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