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[ROM] Velocity V0.4 | LG Ally | Super Fast | VZC | Android 2.1 | Stable

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I'm just wondering if anyone else is having a problem with the two finger 3-D drag down for google maps app? I think it worked for me once but with everything I've done to this thing lately I can't remember what it was when I did get it to work. I really don't care so much cause I thought it wasa really useless feature but it still looked cool.
 
runs great... cept i have no home or camera buttons. got one kernel panic at 748mhz

gonna use it all day tomorrow and see how it goes. love the stock hokusai wallpaper btw. love all the extra space too, even without moving stuff over with apps2sd i went from 15mb free to almost 100mb free.

now this thing isnt such a POS
 
Ok here it is, my 1st full review so bear with me as I tend to be long winded(I mean through!):rolleyes: Ok, here it is from the top.

To start with I was running Velocity 0.2 (best running on my phone til now) I flashed Amon_Ra 1.2.5 the rebooted using the Send,Menu,End/Power buttons. Previously I've been using CWM/Rom Manager with hit & miss results. I did this install clean & fresh, wiping everything including the SD card & ext's, reformating & partitioning to include ext. I did the Ext2 to 3 thing, then the 3 to 4 thing. Then installed zip from SD Card. All with the new recovery & zero hiccups(angels even sang!). Not one single problem. :D

When it booted up it took the usual extended time to do its 1st boot. The first thing I raced to check out was the A2SD using the scripts. It worked!! So then I uninstalled the following included apps(again using scripts),.. car dock, protips, email, genie, & lastly corp. apps. I don't use any of these so it's more free space on the device! Then it's on to my first test drive of V4. I noticed that right out of the gate the response seemed a bit sluggish, more so than I was used to on V2. After a little more playing I took the plunge & OC'd for the first time in my young Droid life! It was like you gave it a shot of NOS! No more sluggishness at all! Every tap & swipe was crisp & instant. Now understand that I'm not done tweaking the cpu & turbo settings yet, however this is what I've experienced so far. Turbo on, turbo off, I can't say that I have notice much difference. The cpu runs great up to 768( one KP in 3 days). But on 787 it ran about 10 min's & then KP'd. I didn't even know what had happened! LOL! Had to do it a couple of times before the KP screen stayed on long enough for me to read it. Not that I understood what it said, but I did see KP!;)

I thought the WiFi tether app was busted til I figured out that I kept typo'g my password for WEP.:o This app seems to be more reliable then Barnicle, less down time. One thing I do encounter is while using WiFi tether(foreground), if I hit the home button it prompts me to select a Home app (I use LauncherPro & have it set as default). Not sure why this happens, however it doesn't have any detrimental effect at all.

Now as far as battery life goes, I may not be the best example for this as I am a truck driver so I'm all over the place constantly switching towers, using bluetooth & gps. In fact the only things that I do to conserve battery is to turn off wifi & dim the screen at night. That said, during an average day, 3-4 hrs phone time, some facebook during lunch/dinner, apx 1 hrs worth of maps/latitude, & maybe even a full tv episode while loading/unloading. The battery last about 12 hrs before it gets plugged in(avg 20% remaining). If I turn into power user, tethered using Pandora on my laptop while surfing & downloading howto vids, I can kill it in 4 hrs. Battery temps haven't gone over 115F.

I don't exactly know what these figures mean, but I did Quadrant tests w/V2 & again w/V4 & if I figure out how to upload them I will. But my genius has limits so here's the figures just in case. V2 - 397, V4 (plain stock) - 468, V4 (cpu 729) - 478, V4 (cpu 768turbo) - 512, V4 (cpu 787) - 526

Pros:
- wicked fast
- stable
- easy install (do it right. use Amon/Drell's 1.2.5 recovery & then just follow Tridents install instructions.)
- luv the new Icons, music player
- Scripts are outstanding!! Can't brag enough about them! (a nifty app that includes a brief description of each script would be awesome)
- After install I can still Send,Menu,End/Pwr into Amon Ra 1.2.5. No CMW/ROM Manager......YES!!!

Cons:

Ok, so to be objective/constructive you have to have con's, right?
- I'd like to customize the notification bar. I don't hate it or anything, would just like to make it me!
Ok, so that's it.

MASSIVE PROPS TO TRIDENT!! (and to those who helped him on this project) This is an outstanding ROM!!
 
Matt's 175 said:
Huh? What exactly do you mean by this?
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That refers to turbo feature that was incorporated in to this build. You can toggle it on or off using Scripts.

-TURBO4 enabled by default for a faster and more optimized experience (credit to Getitnowmarketing)
-turbo enable or disable GNM's Turbo performance pack
 
Here's an interesting issue...I was running vel .4, decided to try drell's froyo build....then decided to go back to velocity...it no longer installs astro, maps/navigation, or titanium backup when i reflash velocity! Flashed several times, even flashed back to stock, redownloaded velocity, reinstalled, same results...odd?
 
hokay so after the whole day.

battery life rocks, almost doubled i'd say. i'm stable at 724mhz, this things flies. still no lock screen, camera button or home button or vibrate from a text message (yes, its enabled in settings). weather apps also dont work, they cant receive a location. i flashed from a stock rooted system.

any ideas?
 
XJLI said:
weather apps also dont work, they cant receive a location. i flashed from a stock rooted system.

any ideas?
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I just use "Weatherbug" from the market. Works perfectly.

Also, did you try maybe going outside with the phone? I think GPS needs at least 3 good satellite signals to get an initial fix on your location.
 
Matt's 175 said:
I just use "Weatherbug" from the market. Works perfectly.

Also, did you try maybe going outside with the phone? I think GPS needs at least 3 good satellite signals to get an initial fix on your location.
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thanks- the phone has been on all day and i've been to work and back. i'll give weatherbug a shot, any ideas on the other stuff?
 
XJLI said:
any ideas on the other stuff?
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OK. Just re-read your post. That is definitely not the norm. If it were me I would reflash it again, making sure your clear all the data and caches etc. Something probably glitched during your first flash and that's why this is happening. What method are you using to flash? I prefer the Amon-Ra recovery. It seems to have more features than clockworkmod and it's easier to use. Maybe that's just me though.
 
i used clockwork.. for some reason amon-ra wouldnt work for me. i did clear everything but i'll give it another shot.
 
XJLI said:
i used clockwork.. for some reason amon-ra wouldnt work for me. i did clear everything but i'll give it another shot.
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Go into your clockworkmod app and choose "Flash alternate recovery". That should get amon-ra recovery working. What I like about amon-ra is that there is a 'wipe everything' (or something along those words) option. That way you are absolutely sure you are starting out fresh. Most of people's problems happen when tiny little bits and pieces of info from the old ROM are left behind. That's what causes conflicts and malfunctions. I couldn't get V 0.4 working correctly when I was flashing it with clockworkmod either. Now, it's 100% flawless.
 
i gave it a shot... but i give up... restoring my stock rom. it took a minute to get it functioning correctly then after that i noticed a bad memory issue, this phone shouldnt be at idle with 50mb available ram. .2 was my favorite version out of all these.. maybe the next rom you make will satisfy me
 
Trident I have been following you since v.02 / thank you for your excellent contribution as I could never go back to stock. I have used every other ally rom and .04 is by far the best I have used.
Using your rom and with a little oc you got my Ally ranked 3rd according to the linpack website. (Struletz. A. Roswell)

I have flashed v.04 with app2sd. I'm100% sure I installed correctly, formatted correctly, wiped dilvik cache and partion correctly.

I have 2 apps backed up with titanium backup with a lot of input data that I don't want to have to retype.

Because I'm using app2sd and using titanium restore to restore apps and data along with system data; will this cause any problems with the velocity .04 rom?

Thanks
 
Just wanted to thank everyone for the hard work, time, and efforts put into these new ROMs. I flashed my first (Velocity v.03), I tried Punisher .01, and now Velocity V0.4. I love this new ROM .. Everything is working great and fast. OC'd to 728mhz and Turbo enabled. Phone was very impressive running 806mhz but started to get a little warm lol. I'd max it out if I could mount my spare Zalman CPU cooler on it LOL ... Seriously, I love it, Thank you all very much!!
Cal
 
Great Rom!

One question though, my MFLOPS in linpack went from around 6.2 to 4.66 AFTER enabling the turbo performance pack... did I do something wrong?
 
Thank you Trident. I was able to load without issue via Rom manager then use titanium backup to restore my angry birds save, witch saved my ass dozens of hours of replaying. Battery life must have doubled over the stock rom, even with it overclocked to 748mhz. Maybe not doubled but now I can at least go a full day of work and play without charging. It took me a week to realize apps2sd wasn't running since I didn't partition the SD card. After doing this and rebooting it freed up space dramatically. I still can't believe how improved this is over the stock rom. I can't wait for Velocity 5 with Froyo. I ran a hacked together froyo that was buggy that a friend threw together and it looks promising, too bad he doesn't have the time to iron out the details.
 
been having a lot of kernel panics since i installed 0.4. I previously had 0.3 with no issues. It seems to happen when i slide the keyboard back in. Been using it since it was released and its happened about a dozen times.
 
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