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Casao posted:Go there and click the giant Roms button up top. Yeah I ended up doing that after I posted, and I'm currently making a nandroid in anticipation. MIUI includes the google apps right?
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big mean giraffe posted:Yeah I ended up doing that after I posted, and I'm currently making a nandroid in anticipation. MIUI includes the google apps right? It does.
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Mar 25, 2011 14:26
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MindlessHavok posted:Speaking of, I've been playing with the GB version of MIUI and while I like it a lot it's still really buggy. Yesterday, I installed the latest nightly of CM7. It looked cool, but file transfers to the SD card over USB were horribly slow. I didn't bother looking to see if there was a fix for it, and some fixes seem like command line stuff which I don't want to deal with. I put whatever the latest Fresh is on, just because I want stability and to not have to deal with anything. Related question: Will restoring a Titanium backup from a 2.2 rom destroy everything on a 2.3 rom?
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Mar 25, 2011 14:35
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For some reason it wouldn't let me start downloading apps from the market until I connected to wifi. I'm really hoping that doesn't continue past an initial hiccup. I am really liking the UI overall though.
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Mar 25, 2011 14:53
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I've never owned an Android device before, so I'm not familiar with the concept of bootloaders and rooting as it applies to Android (I've been an iOS user for a long time). Seeing reports of the Motorola Targa has piqued my interest, since I'll most likely be living in an area with a good LTE network, and the specs of the phone seem to be something I'd want. However, I'm not much of a fan of manufacturer's custom UIs, so I'd want to install stock Android on the device (especially if that means I can get updated versions faster than Verizon can send them out). Is Motorola's history of using locked bootloaders going to make that impossible? I know that the HTC Thunderbolt has a locked bootlader, but recent news indicates that some people are currently looking into ways around it.
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Mar 25, 2011 14:57
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Motorola's custom UI really doesn't make it that much different from stock. It adds some Facebook integration, widgets and changes a couple of the standard applications like messaging. That being said, there are still "ROMs" for the devices (once they've been rooted) that will bring your device to stock Android without needing to get into the bootloader.
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Mar 25, 2011 15:04
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big mean giraffe posted:For some reason it wouldn't let me start downloading apps from the market until I connected to wifi. I'm really hoping that doesn't continue past an initial hiccup. I am really liking the UI overall though. I think that's a bug with the current MIUI builds.
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Mar 25, 2011 15:09
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Casao posted:Incredibly slick. New lock screen looks good, new notification tray owns, the way pop ups work owns. New settings is nice, though trackball wake doesn't appear to be working on my N1 at the moment. I agree with all of this. Really loving this build. The notification tray is awesome. Aside from the trackball wake not working and things not downloading from the market I also have the issue of Hsdpa not working. Oh well, I'm sure these bugs will get worked out. Casao, do you know if the miui backups from 2.2 will work? I forgot to put it back on my phone, but don't want to bother with it if it doesn't even work.
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Mar 25, 2011 15:29
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Jewce posted:I agree with all of this. Really loving this build. The notification tray is awesome. Not sure, I actually forgot about miui backups until earlier today.
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Mar 25, 2011 15:44
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Casao posted:Not sure, I actually forgot about miui backups until earlier today. Cool, I'll check it out after work. I don't really want to spend the time setting up my folders all over again.
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Mar 25, 2011 15:57
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Jewce posted:Aside from the trackball wake not working and things not downloading from the market I also have the issue of Hsdpa not working. Oh well, I'm sure these bugs will get worked out. Yeah these are pretty annoying though, I can't seem to download anything other than via wifi. Anyone have icon theme suggestions?
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Mar 25, 2011 16:01
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:Motorola's custom UI really doesn't make it that much different from stock. It adds some Facebook integration, widgets and changes a couple of the standard applications like messaging. That being said, there are still "ROMs" for the devices (once they've been rooted) that will bring your device to stock Android without needing to get into the bootloader. What is the major difference of having an unlocked bootloader? I've been running custom roms on my droid x for months now, which have unlocked features like overclocking and wireless tethering etc, yet I remember reading just a few days ago that the droid x bootloader was finally unlocked. What exactly does this open up that wasn't already available?
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Mar 25, 2011 16:07
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Casao posted:Not sure, I actually forgot about miui backups until earlier today. I remember reading somewhere that they will work but it's not recommended to restore system settings because it's likely to gently caress up things. Although I'm assuming restoring apps would be fine.
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Mar 25, 2011 16:14
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BagelMaster posted:Is Motorola's history of using locked bootloaders going to make that impossible? To date, Motorola's phones have not been cracked. There was some recent hubbub about them having been cracked, but that's all a hoax. It's true that HTC has been stepping up their game with regard to their phone locks, but the ThunderBolt is currently cracked. It's unclear if it will remain so on later hardware builds. One caveat here: I believe LTE support in Android is currently a bolt-on, and not part of the core telephony layer. So, it might be a while before community-developed distributions have solid LTE support, as was the case with WiMAX. If vanilla Android & community development is your primary concern, the LG Revolution might be the answer. They're a bit of an unknown quantity as LG hasn't released high-end Android devices yet, but the very-well-designed and community friendly mid-range Optimus series has been well received. When it's finally released (Q2 or Q3 unfortunately), it'll probably be the LTE device with a closest-to-stock Android experience, and hopefully won't have any lock-down shenanigans so the community can go wild with it.
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Mar 25, 2011 16:14
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SmartCunt posted:What is the major difference of having an unlocked bootloader? I've been running custom roms on my droid x for months now, which have unlocked features like overclocking and wireless tethering etc, yet I remember reading just a few days ago that the droid x bootloader was finally unlocked. What exactly does this open up that wasn't already available? Custom kernels are the big thing, I think. Even this isn't a complete lockout, because the kernel can be modified during runtime, which I believe is how the overclock works on the X.
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Mar 25, 2011 16:37
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Godzilla07 posted:I think that's a bug with the current MIUI builds. It's not a bug. It's a new feature. Kinda stupid that it defaults to "off" though. From the G2 MIUI changelog: quote:2.3-1.3.18-V1.1:
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Mar 25, 2011 17:11
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FogHelmut posted:Yesterday, I installed the latest nightly of CM7. It looked cool, but file transfers to the SD card over USB were horribly slow. I didn't bother looking to see if there was a fix for it, and some fixes seem like command line stuff which I don't want to deal with. I put whatever the latest Fresh is on, just because I want stability and to not have to deal with anything. Yeah I went ahead and swapped from EMMMIIUUUUIII to CM7 and I absolutely love it. So far it's everything I've wanted in a Rom. Gonna keep playing with it but from what I've experienced so far it's going to be my daily driver.
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Mar 25, 2011 17:19
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travisray2004 posted:I remember reading somewhere that they will work but it's not recommended to restore system settings because it's likely to gently caress up things. Although I'm assuming restoring apps would be fine. Cool, I restored my apps with titanium backup, I just need miui to restore my launcher.
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Mar 25, 2011 17:19
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I'm interested in trying out MIUI for the N1. After doing a full wipe, I'm boot looping. Any ideas on what to do? I'm using the newest CM recovery and I think I have HBOOT 0.35 (how do I check this?). e: and I have attempted wiping data, cache, and dalvik, all prior to installing the zip. No dice. air- fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Mar 25, 2011 |
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Mar 25, 2011 18:18
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Check your HBOOT version by booting into the boot loader (volume up or down on boot up, can't remember). Get a fresh copy of the ROM and English zip. One might be corrupted.
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Mar 25, 2011 18:22
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I downloaded MIUI for the Incredible, and I like it a lot. However, I've run into a pretty annoying bug and wanted to know if it's common. My TB restored Launcher Pro, so I went into it. I wanted to become more acquainted with the stock MIUI launcher, so I tried to go back to it. But Launcher Pro wouldn't stop being the default. So I uninstalled it. I played with the MIUI launcher, and decided I'd rather have Launcher Pro. I reinstalled it, and...nothing changes. Set LP to default. Nothing changes. Reboot. Nothing changes. 
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Mar 25, 2011 18:25
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Check your HBOOT version by booting into the boot loader (volume up or down on boot up, can't remember). Oh I get it, the English zip gets installed after the Chinese one? I never grabbed the Chinese one so will go ahead and do that, thanks.
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Mar 25, 2011 18:25
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Is the paid version of Rom Manager worth it anymore? was considering grabbing it but a lot of people bitching in the reviews about it not working on newer phones. I'm running CM7 on my G2.
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Mar 25, 2011 18:26
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air- posted:Oh I get it, the English zip gets installed after the Chinese one? I never grabbed the Chinese one so will go ahead and do that, thanks. Yeah. MIUI is a Chinese built ROM. Need to flash the English fixer on top of it.
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Mar 25, 2011 18:29
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Captain Charisma posted:I downloaded MIUI for the Incredible, and I like it a lot. However, I've run into a pretty annoying bug and wanted to know if it's common. Under settings click the Programs tab, and then Default Program Settings. Check the Default Launcher setting.
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Mar 25, 2011 18:30
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big mean giraffe posted:Under settings click the Programs tab, and then Default Program Settings. Check the Default Launcher setting. Yeah, that's what I've been doing, it just ignores it
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We had my wife's cousin over for dinner, and priding myself on being a good host, I rooted her Aria and put a recent CM7 nightly on it. For lower-end hardware, it runs fantastically well, better than the 2.1/sense build it had on it before. It also makes my G2 feel utterly massive by comparison. Speaking of my G2, I think I'm on CM7#29, and my battery life has never been better. I'd bee hopping around several other roms in between, and getting okay to lovely life, but this is utterly fantastic. Even loving with the phone throughout the day, I still have half my life left when I plug it in at night. I'm still not the point of getting full 2 days on one charge, but I gave those dreams up when I went to android.
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Mar 25, 2011 19:17
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On CM7 RC2, my G2 gets 2 days to the charge with an 1800mAh Mugen battery. Glad to hear the nightlies have improved, though, I tried an earlier nightly quickly after the RC versions and my battery life absolutely stunk.
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Mar 25, 2011 19:23
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Mar 25, 2011 19:31
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There haven't been any nightlys the last couple of days for CM7. Makes me think that maybe they are getting close to an RC3 or a final release. Anyways, I did see on the nightly change log thingy that they committed some code for HDMI out on the EVO. I am not sure if its functional or a precursor to it being functional.
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Mar 25, 2011 19:41
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Lowen SoDium posted:There haven't been any nightlys the last couple of days for CM7. Makes me think that maybe they are getting close to an RC3 or a final release. HDMI on the EVO is fully functional with audio as far as I know.
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Mar 25, 2011 19:47
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Tigren posted:HDMI on the EVO is fully functional with audio as far as I know. One of these days I need to get that cable...
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Mar 25, 2011 19:52
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Tigren posted:HDMI on the EVO is fully functional with audio as far as I know. Oh... I thought that they had it working but hadn't committed the code yet.
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Mar 25, 2011 19:55
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brc64 posted:
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Mar 25, 2011 20:02
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Screen on time?
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Mar 25, 2011 20:12
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..btt posted:It's not a bug. It's a new feature. Kinda stupid that it defaults to "off" though. From the G2 MIUI changelog: It's also defaulted to 'on' as of a minor update to the English language pack from MIUI-Dev, this afternoon.
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Mar 25, 2011 21:41
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Lowen SoDium posted:Oh... I thought that they had it working but hadn't committed the code yet. Turns out they didn't need to make any kernel changes to enable audio, though they will be committing some to fix HTC's broken EDID logic.
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Mar 25, 2011 23:47
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brc64 posted:Fairly minimal... and my biggest drop definitely corresponds with a lengthy screen on time (waiting for class to begin yesterday). But that's normal usage for me, and 2 days easy with normal usage is definitely something I can live with! Do you ever actually use your phone? Seems like it spends most of it's time sitting there doing absolutely nothing.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:All Motorola Android phones (except the OG Droid, which wasn't locked) have signed bootloaders & kernels, which means they will not run community-developed Android distributions (e.g, CyanogenMod). Their phones can be rooted and customized to some extent, but you're still reliant on Motorola to release upgraded kernels, if nothing more. I loaded Cyanogen to enable 2.2 on my Moto Backflip. 2.1 was slow but that might have been because of Blur.
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big mean giraffe posted:Do you ever actually use your phone? Seems like it spends most of it's time sitting there doing absolutely nothing. I probably average a dozen text messages a day and rarely make phone calls, but my phone does a lot in the background. For example, my LauncherPro Plus Friends widget updates every 5 minutes and I have RSS feeds downloading every 3 hours, so I can pretty much tell at a glance when I turn on my phone if there's any interesting new content for me. If there's not (or even if there is), it doesn't take me very long to read it and turn the phone back off. I'm not generally all that interested in playing games on my phone.
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