Why so few roms? - Motorola Photon 4G

I recently got the photon 4g coming from the evo and sadly I only see like 3 roms. I thought this phone would be more popular and get more attention. Hope I didnt make the wrong phone choice.
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i'm guessing because the unlocked bootloader is killing 4g - and people are waiting until there's a fix for that to start pumping out the roms...

Would you rather have fifteen mediocre ROM choices or a couple good ones? I guess what I'm getting at is what do you want in your ROM? We've got some very talented developers here and have a couple solid, daily ROM's plus kernals. I'm just waiting fora good ICS build to come out.
BTW I don't think you'll regret your decision.
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js11222 said:
I recently got the photon 4g coming from the evo and sadly I only see like 3 roms. I thought this phone would be more popular and get more attention. Hope I didnt make the wrong phone choice.
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First I think that we need to start with the fact that this is a drawn out question that has been brought up a dozen times (try looking). This is a question that will easily piss off several people in the XDA world, especially the seasoned posters. How many ROM's do you need? I also had a EVO and yes there were SEVERAL ROM's however most of the them were slight variations of the same ROM, just with a personal developers twist on it. (by the way - all hail the Developers). In regards to the MoPho, the unlocked bootloader is a issue, however, the MoPho ran better than the EVO fresh out the box. I personally am running CM7 and I can not believe a phone can be this damn responsive, this fast, and this damn awesome. So when you ask the question, Why so few ROMS - try clicking on one of the several links that the website refers you to that shows other people asking the same question. Remeber the golden rule to XDA - search for the answer first!

js11222 said:
I recently got the photon 4g coming from the evo and sadly I only see like 3 roms. I thought this phone would be more popular and get more attention. Hope I didnt make the wrong phone choice.
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Really? Wait, let me get this straight...really?

Its hard to improve a great phone, the evo sucked and needed roms.
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jokersax11 said:
Its hard to improve a great phone, the evo sucked and needed roms.
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Amen to that!!!!
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Because motorola sucks. This phone would have been my last choice but my work gave this to me for free so i can't complain
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No they just dont like modders.
frigid said:
Because motorola sucks. This phone would have been my last choice but my work gave this to me for free so i can't complain
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frigid said:
Because motorola sucks. This phone would have been my last choice but my work gave this to me for free so i can't complain
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Nice.
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first of all, welcome to the photon community. hope you stay a while.
second, you will find that development has only just picked up heavy in the last month. the same went for the EVO, it takes time to develop.
third, please check out the roms we do have, they are wonderful and if you like CM7, we have that!
Id rather have a great build like CM7 then a million roms that are just a snowflake from being the same thing. few is better to me when it comes to rom builds.

frigid said:
Because motorola sucks. This phone would have been my last choice but my work gave this to me for free so i can't complain
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Cheap sucker, lol
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Thanx for all the responses. Im looking for a daily,stable,customizable rom with everything working. With the exception of 4g which i dont get where i live anyways. I dont care for blur nor did i for sense. Im good with a solid aosp rom.
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js11222 said:
Thanx for all the responses. Im looking for a daily,stable,customizable rom with everything working. With the exception of 4g which i dont get where i live anyways. I dont care for blur nor did i for sense. Im good with a solid aosp rom.
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CM7 all the way
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Just go with Cybik's CM7 port. It is being submitted to Cyanogen for approval, so will be hopefully soon, a fully supported and "blessed" ROM. The lack of 4G is a non-issue for me, no 4G in my area, but would be nice to eventually get it for when I travel.

lroy said:
million roms that are just a snowflake from being the same thing. few is better to me when it comes to rom builds.
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Agree, except for snowflake part. Each is unique with no two being the same
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Jokers skinny 4g has been good to me, but hope we get a unlocked 4g soon.
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the12nv said:
First I think that we need to start with the fact that .... This is a question that will easily piss off several people in the XDA world, especially the seasoned posters.
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I resemble the above remark
Here goes the soapbox (yet again):
js11222, your seemingly harmless question (the title of the thread) wasn't horrible.. however the first post you made in this thread is absurd.....
js11222 said:
I recently got the photon 4g coming from the evo and sadly I only see like 3 roms.
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Sadly ??
js11222 said:
I thought this phone would be more popular and get more attention.
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What was this 'thought' based on ??
js11222 said:
Hope I didnt make the wrong phone choice.
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if your phone choice was based on the 'thought' or 'hope' of a certain number of ROM's or a certain quantity of development then you might want to re-consider the basis by which you make electronics purchases.
And for the love of all that is holy, please research/search before posting and stop insulting the development that we DO have. Obviously you haven't spent any time reading in the fora to make a fair assessment of the status of development for this device yet you are very quick to hop in the general forum and make (what seems to be) a complaint thread.
just sayin'
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ALL ROMs on ALL phones are based on rooted deodex stock, AOSP or porting. 99% of those ROMs are nothing more than minor changes to either stock or AOSP. Almost everything can be done with flashable theme packs.
The remaining 1% are serious rewrites, optimizations or ports. For example, ROMs like CM7, Vaelpak and Synergy are serious coding. Changing the font or color scheme is theming and not a ROM.

Dear daddymikey1975
First off its not my fault your RETARTED second i wasnt putting anyone down and last but not least i was just asking a simple question and not complaining so thats my thought process
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What Happened to Tho3ry's AOSP Roms?

Am I missing something? Where did Tho3ry's ROMS go? Does it bother anyone else that the thread is just renamed "CLOSE PLEASE".
What happened to SHIFTAO5P?
Go to themikmik.com
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angasreid said:
Am I missing something? Where did Tho3ry's ROMS go? Does it bother anyone else that the thread is just renamed "CLOSE PLEASE".
What happened to SHIFTAO5P?
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No, GO HERE.
Www.th3oryrom.com. All of the ROMs and mods can be found there.
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Or you could go to the Bionic forum in general.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258467
Thanks for the replies.
So that's what happened... he got a Bionic... Dual core is pretty tempting.
angasreid said:
Thanks for the replies.
So that's what happened... he got a Bionic... Dual core is pretty tempting.
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He did get a Bionic but from what I gather, he just went the way of BAMF and decided to host on his own site and not use XDA.
It seems DroidTh3ory got his new supercharged Bonic and Look like he is giving up his TBolt.
chrootz said:
It seems DroidTh3ory got his new supercharged Bonic and Look like he is giving up his TBolt.
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False. The Th3ory team is working on the Tbolt still.
He's not going to stop dev for tbolt, hes just playing with a bionic now also.
Both sense and AOSP roms will be updated.
as to quote an old Beastie Boys track.....
"sh**!... if this gonna be that kinda party i'ma stick my di** in the mashed potatoes!"
th3ory did get the bionic and is developing for it as well as the thunderbolt but there are also more developers in his team, dhacker, xpack, and myself th3ory had been posting allot of roms and was getting crap for some mods as well as some very ungratfull members as fell as the fact we can post anything we want on th3oryrom.com with no limits
That's good, I tried play with Bonic yesterday and it really nice device. I probably wait for Nexus Prime or Vigor. I am sure th3ory will provide excellent benefit for the Bonic. Keep it up!
I'm pretty sure he's in themikmik.com. I swear I just saw him with a couple threads there a couple days ago.
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Yep still at themikmik.com.
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?8354-ROM-TH3ORYROM-SHIFTAO5P-V1.2X-AOSP-CM7-Eclipse-B5-Kernel-(8-26-2011)
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I'm pretty sure he's in themikmik.com. I swear I just saw him with a couple threads there a couple days ago.
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Yep still at themikmik.com.
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...P-V1.2X-AOSP-CM7-Eclipse-B5-Kernel-(8-26-2011)
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His ROMS may be posted on The Mikmik as well, but the other site people linked is HIS site. I'm guessing his is the best place to go to get the most up to date versions of all his stuff.
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th3oryrom.com and themikmik.... We can post all ROMs and various devices as they become available.
All ROMs including UNL3ASH3D Blurry and Clarity for the Bionic will be done by the end of the weekend.
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DroidTh3ory said:
th3oryrom.com and themikmik.... We can post all ROMs and various devices as they become available.
All ROMs including UNL3ASH3D Blurry and Clarity for the Bionic will be done by the end of the weekend.
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Dude where do you come up with these names
trikotret said:
Dude where do you come up with these names
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From my complete lack of respect for the letter "E". Lol
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ICS 4 Tmobile

Tmo is going to be testing ICS for the amaze, sensation in the next couple weeks.
Friend is part of the pilot program for them and got a test amaze but hasn't recieved the update yet.
Just figured people would like to know
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How long do you think it will be between testing and release? Weeks or months or no idea?
Screen shots!
Lololol good to hear!!!
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Screen shots!
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If u look at op it says hasn't got update yet they just gave him phone today. It is legit I will report back when I get further info
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Jay21fire said:
Tmo is going to be testing ICS for the amaze, sensation in the next couple weeks.
Friend is part of the pilot program for them and got a test amaze but hasn't recieved the update yet.
Just figured people would like to know
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Hooray! Finally a supported phone for T-mobile!! I had to root my Cliq to get Gingerbread lol
Awesomeness... Saw the word sensation and got excited hehehe.... Thanks for the heads up
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Hooray! Finally a supported phone for T-mobile!! I had to root my Cliq to get Gingerbread lol
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Yeah the good old days when Motorola would delay the eclair for months. Luckily we're getting ICS here
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Jay21fire said:
Tmo is going to be testing ICS for the amaze, sensation in the next couple weeks.
Friend is part of the pilot program for them and got a test amaze but hasn't recieved the update yet.
Just figured people would like to know
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I have no idea if it could help xboarder somehow but can you talk to him maybe giving him the stock rom of ics installed on your friend's amaze could help...
ya if he could pull it for me that would be great
xboarder56 said:
ya if he could pull it for me that would be great
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X I know we shouldn't ask, but since you closed the ics thread, how is it going?
Used cm9 and also ics the other day, and I gotta say, they are awesome, especially cm9 really impressive. It's not like cm7 which was just ugly IMO
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eggydrums said:
X I know we shouldn't ask, but since you closed the ics thread, how is it going?
Used cm9 and also ics the other day, and I gotta say, they are awesome, especially cm9 really impressive. It's not like cm7 which was just ugly IMO
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no etas i dont want to here about this anymore and im not working on cm9 sorry cm team hates me
shocker lol.
AJ26T any update?
brokenwatch said:
shocker lol.
AJ26T any update?
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Not yet will report back when I do
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If one rolls through ill try to pull for you guys just one question i was able to pull everything back on the vibrant using terminal commands will this work on the amaze? S-on gonna cause any issues with retrieving anything? On the vibrant i was able to get kernel and everything so a dev could easily make a flashable odin file and rom after that.
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xboarder56 said:
no etas i dont want to here about this anymore and im not working on cm9 sorry cm team hates me
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Why even bother responding to a seemingly innocent question if you're just going to be rude?
The way you're starting to act towards forum members is disgusting. I can only imagine why the CM team hates you
Also if you used proper punctuation and sentence structure people across the forums will take you more seriously.
rbaruch said:
Why even bother responding to a seemingly innocent question if you're just going to be rude?
The way you're starting to act towards forum members is disgusting. I can only imagine why the CM team hates you
Also if you used proper punctuation and sentence structure people across the forums will take you more seriously.
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Dude, if it wasnt for him we would still have had the crapware + no root on our phones, so I believe people here take him seriously enough. Just chill!
lgtsanev said:
Dude, if it wasnt for him we would still have had the crapware + no root on our phones. So just chill!
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Woot this is so good to hear! Just to be clear is this like Sense themed ICS like i seen on HTCHUB youtube for the Sensation or Galexy Nexus ISC?
TramainM said:
Woot this is so good to hear! Just to be clear is this like Sense themed ICS like i seen on HTCHUB youtube for the Sensation or Galexy Nexus ISC?
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im working on the galaxy nexus ics
rbaruch said:
Why even bother responding to a seemingly innocent question if you're just going to be rude?
The way you're starting to act towards forum members is disgusting. I can only imagine why the CM team hates you
Also if you used proper punctuation and sentence structure people across the forums will take you more seriously.
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shut the f up man this is why im starting to reconsider even working for the amaze
they got pissed at me becuase i proved them wrong in there theroy about the amaze cm7 not being possible
Binary can you take care of this thread

How hard is it to port a Rom from the Sensation

You probably already know this but.....The Sensation has like 1000 roms its ridiculous, but we have the same screen with the same size and resolution, only thing that would be diffrent is BT radio right? Because I just peaked at the Sensation development and I died a little
Veras1996 said:
You probably already know this but.....The Sensation has like 1000 roms its ridiculous, but we have the same screen with the same size and resolution, only thing that would be diffrent is BT radio right? Because I just peaked at the Sensation development and I died a little
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I have been dying for a while. It must be very hard a lot of the roms want the phone to be S-offed but even then...IDK Its ridiculous the amount of roms i mean i kinda just want a sensation to play with you know?
The only similar parts in both devices are the screens (which are made my different manufactures) but that doesn't matter. its not hard to port a rom just because of screen differences, that's never been a problem. its the internals, the only part that is similar is the cpu/gpu which doesn't really matter either. there is a lot of differences. much different wifi as well
I think there is a thread covering this?
i dont have either of the phones... but i want the amaze because it is better than the sensation 4g, but i want the sensation 4g because of its wide variety or roms.
tough decisions!!!
but yeah roms arent hard to port... theres really only a couple things that you need to make a rom from another device boot on a different device. (i will let the more knowledgeable users take it from here)
ziggy46 said:
i dont have either of the phones... but i want the amaze because it is better than the sensation 4g, but i want the sensation 4g because of its wide variety or roms.
tough decisions!!!
but yeah roms arent hard to port... theres really only a couple things that you need to make a rom from another device boot on a different device. (i will let the more knowledgeable users take it from here)
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you answered your question yourself "the amaze is a better device". doesn't matter how much better the development is. that's like saying I should get the g1 rather than the amaze because the development is amazing there lol
roms can be really hard to port if you don't have the right information (drivers, radio, etc). yeah, im sure it can be easy to port and boot up but no luck getting it stable so its pointless
Mabey if someone made a tool that was specific for porting sensation roms to the amaze, that would be sexy
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But yea getting it stable is hard, and is the most challenging thing, we have ICS booted and we almost got Sense 4 booted, but they can't be daily drivers so no point in that right now
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Veras1996 said:
But yea getting it stable is hard, and is the most challenging thing, we have ICS booted and we almost got Sense 4 booted, but they can't be daily drivers so no point in that right now
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That depends how desperate you are lol, i just might sacrifice wifi and data gps and everything else that doesn't work for Sense 4 look. Going back to the original days
TramainM said:
That depends how desperate you are lol, i just might sacrifice wifi and data gps and everything else that doesn't work for Sense 4 look. Going back to the original days
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I would sacrifice everything BUT wifi pretty much. that's all I run on
stratax said:
I would sacrifice everything BUT wifi pretty much. that's all I run on
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True, but I need the camera also if I need to capture something, but BT, and data I could live without
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this has been discussed previously, the sensation is a completely different phone on the inside...EVERYTHING ABOUT THE PHONE is different...porting from sensation to amaze is not even a good ide, they don't use the same hardware at all, ergo they don't use the same drivers, kernel, modules etc....HTC Vivid is the closest phone you will find to the amaze.
It's really not that hard guys, I'm working on one now actually, here's some information on how to do it, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224311, and theres also dsixda kitchen which make it even easier
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DEFINITIONOFREAL said:
It's really not that hard guys, I'm working on one now actually, here's some information on how to do it, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224311, and theres also dsixda kitchen which make it even easier
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I knew you could do something like this but doing that is never going to result in a stable Rom
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Actually, mines running really smooth so far, and I am no dev, and don't know a thing about code or programming. I have learned everything from google and xda
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DEFINITIONOFREAL said:
Actually, mines running really smooth so far, and I am no dev, and don't know a thing about code or programming. I have learned everything from google and xda
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What Rom Did you port that's running "Really Smooth"?
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Veras1996 said:
What Rom Did you port that's running "Really Smooth"?
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Wow really, you ask a question, then try someone when they give you an answer, I can see why devs are leaving this place. And what makes you an expert, have you tried, I have everything but WiFi working, if I get that working and get rights to post a port of it, I will
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DEFINITIONOFREAL said:
Wow really, you ask a question, then try someone when they give you an answer, I can see why devs are leaving this place
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Wow really? Thin skin? The guy just asked what ROM you have running smooth... A question you couldn't answer apparently.
If no devs were here to begin with, what do you mean devs are leaving? Are you talking about the ONE dev that was BANNED? Lol. Good luck running your ported ROM on the Amaze... Hope u have a good Kernel guy
In the mean time, man up and thicken that skin. It's not that serious
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I long for the MIUI that I had when I had the Sensation
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Wow really? Thin skin? The guy just asked what ROM you have running smooth... A question you couldn't answer apparently.
If no devs were here to begin with, what do you mean devs are leaving? Are you talking about the ONE dev that was BANNED? Lol. Good luck running your ported ROM on the Amaze... Hope u have a good Kernel guy
In the mean time, man up and thicken that skin. It's not that serious
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Thin skin, at least I have the balls to try, which is more than I see from most people here that just want to complain or ask question without doing there home work first. As for our one dev, that's false, we had others, but stupidity ran them off
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DEFINITIONOFREAL said:
Wow really, you ask a question, then try someone when they give you an answer, I can see why devs are leaving this place. And what makes you an expert, have you tried, I have everything but WiFi working, if I get that working and get rights to post a port of it, I will
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dude calm down, i was just asking what rom you ported that's running smooth, no one has really successively ported a rom to the amaze without it missing something
Im Not an expert thats why i asked

Jellybean 4 the Amaze

We have a system dump for Jellybean so how long until devs port it to our phone and if its even possible. I have seen AWESOME work from the devs on this forum, and all I can say "BRAVO" you guys are brilliant.
Nat
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We have a system dump for Jellybean so how long until devs port it to our phone and if its even possible. I have seen AWESOME work from the devs on this forum, and all I can say "BRAVO" you guys are brilliant.
Nat
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Where is there a system dump?
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Wrong section dude...why is this so hard for people to understand?
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sportsstar89 said:
Where is there a system dump?
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Learn how to use Google. God.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1738246
hasoon2000 said:
Learn how to use Google. God.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1738246
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Ha i found it working on it now
It would be awesome to be one of the first to get jellybean. I already love my amaze wonder what kind of difference jellybean will make
sent from one badass htc amaze
tgamble160 said:
It would be awesome to be one of the first to get jellybean. I already love my amaze wonder what kind of difference jellybean will make
sent from one badass htc amaze
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One X got JB. Theres a video. It's less laggy from what I saw
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Wont be much unless it comes with a radio fix, the one for ICS is awful. I liked the project butter features but I wonder how much it would affect battery life?
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Wrong section dude...why is this so hard for people to understand?
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Blind leading the blind.
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Lol...can't even get ICS aosp on Amaze and its been 7 months.
Some very wishful thinking.
xManMythLegend said:
Lol...can't even get ICS aosp on Amaze and its been 7 months.
Some very wishful thinking.
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Sigh agreed
I'm really starting to loathe this phone now.
pappasmurfsharem said:
Sigh agreed
I'm really starting to loathe this phone now.
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Same here, might sell mine and pick up a gnex. Just done with the lack of support from htc. Hell, I just got a new DROID 4 for work and have a close to vanilla ics stock rom on it, rooted and loving it.
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pappasmurfsharem said:
Sigh agreed
I'm really starting to loathe this phone now.
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Hehe a phone is a phone it's used for making calls and to contact other people, can't just hate it because of no custom roms, remember older phones like the Motorola V3? No custom roms back then but was a bomb
It's like saying I hate my BMW 760li because there aren't many custom headlights available, Hehehe, to each its own though.
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Patience....
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I love this phone but honestly im not getting another htc phone. No support. Wen i had the samsung epic 4g there was no support from sammy on that... I wanna sell my amaze or at least trade for a gnex... Shouldve went to sammy but got this.. a beast phone but htc wont support it... Ics is garbage on here without the devs. But i guess once we get a good aosp rom ill have to stick with speed rom... Htc no more after this. I understand not updateding officially but at least release the drivers and make it easy for us to update our phones ourselves. -__-
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Gnex hardware is so outdated though! Only thing keeping me from switching is the camera (I'm spoiled by the amazes) old processor and 21mbps network
I hate decisions like this!
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Im just jealous i guess cuz we dont get updates like the gnex.. htc sense is garbage i thought i would like it.. but my next phone will be a nexus...
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Im just jealous i guess cuz we dont get updates like the gnex.. htc sense is garbage i thought i would like it.. but my next phone will be a nexus...
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Yeah mine too :/ I love my amaze, but I'm holding on to it until the next nexus, you can't put a price on timely updates straight from Google. And the Dev support? Oh lawd!!
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Nothing wrong with HTC Amaze. It's a classy phone.
Don't let the new quad-core phones impress you. The most cores you'll use is two.
Krazex2005 said:
Hehe a phone is a phone it's used for making calls and to contact other people, can't just hate it because of no custom roms, remember older phones like the Motorola V3? No custom roms back then but was a bomb
It's like saying I hate my BMW 760li because there aren't many custom headlights available, Hehehe, to each its own though.
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I don't consider it a phone. I use way less than 100 minutes a month. This is my computer that I can alo use as a phone. Your analogy doesn't make sense for me. I give a crap about call quality or anything phone call related really.

Kernel Source Useless?

I'm genuinely curious if this big kernel source drop is going to be beneficial to us or not. I've heard two sides to the story:
1. "HTC b trollin' man, they drop source and release a new kernel..."
2. Devs can use the old kernel and fix the issues that HTC fixed, along with the other issues AOSP ROMs were having like sound and MMS.
I have no idea what's going on, and I'm curious whether I should expect things to blow up here soon, or if this kernel source has been essentially useless. I'm generally unaware of how long it takes devs to pick apart the kernel code and utilize it. Any input from those with knowledge on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
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PsiPhiDan said:
I'm genuinely curious if this big kernel source drop is going to be beneficial to us or not. I've heard two sides to the story:
1. "HTC b trollin' man, they drop source and release a new kernel..."
2. Devs can use the old kernel and fix the issues that HTC fixed, along with the other issues AOSP ROMs were having like sound and MMS.
I have no idea what's going on, and I'm curious whether I should expect things to blow up here soon, or if this kernel source has been essentially useless. I'm generally unaware of how long it takes devs to pick apart the kernel code and utilize it. Any input from those with knowledge on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
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Both are correct. It doesn't really help sense based Roms because sense kernels are going to be newer than source.
However, aosp roms can now be fully functional. Aosp is what many people on here care about and are waiting for.
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It's not useless for aosp, the problem is nobody is really working too much on aosp roms. There is a cm and MIUI port but they are a ways off and only so much one person can do..
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Rippley05 said:
It's not useless for aosp, the problem is nobody is really working too much on aosp roms. There is a cm and MIUI port but they are a ways off and only so much one person can do..
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This makes me sad. Maybe the EVO won't have the development I pictured it having after all. I'm not giving up hope for the future, but if you're correct in your assertion, that is saddening.
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PsiPhiDan said:
This makes me sad. Maybe the EVO won't have the development I pictured it having after all. I'm not giving up hope for the future, but if you're correct in your assertion, that is saddening.
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It still might, but I think I'm still somewhat jaded by the og evo and the support it had. The 3D never really had much, and it's looking like the lte is gonna be around the same.
I do think we'll eventually get some aosp goodness, just isn't hopping like I hoped it would be. I don't mean this as a slight to the devs we do have because they are great, all of them.
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PsiPhiDan said:
This makes me sad. Maybe the EVO won't have the development I pictured it having after all. I'm not giving up hope for the future, but if you're correct in your assertion, that is saddening.
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It's only been a little over a month since the phone first came out. Give more people time to transition and we should start to see more activity. It isn't that bad so far, but most development is based around Sense because no one wants to wrestle with AOSP. Once they get AOSP stuff finished though, we'll be golden.
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It's only been a little over a month since the phone first came out. Give more people time to transition and we should start to see more activity. It isn't that bad so far, but most development is based around Sense because no one wants to wrestle with AOSP. Once they get AOSP stuff finished though, we'll be golden.
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Yeah, I'm sure that's true. In my head, I figured everyone would be working to get to that point as quick as possible once kernel source was released. Like a giant team project, haha. Instead, it appears that only a select few are tackling it. Even custom kernels seem to be a rare mention. Oh well, I'll continue to enjoy the Sense ROMs as much as I can until someone cracks the AOSP code.
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Yeah, I'm sure that's true. In my head, I figured everyone would be working to get to that point as quick as possible once kernel source was released. Like a giant team project, haha. Instead, it appears that only a select few are tackling it. Even custom kernels seem to be a rare mention. Oh well, I'll continue to enjoy the Sense ROMs as much as I can until someone cracks the AOSP code.
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We just need the support of the big guys. For some reason it feels like most of the big time devs haven't moved on to this phone yet, or went with Samsung instead. I know that Preludedrew is working on JB for our phone, I talked to him about it yesterday on Gtalk. Deck mentioned in IRC that he was working on it as well, I believe.
The kernel developers are hiding so far, probably because we don't have the big guys working for us yet. I'd love to see a Tiamat kernel, even if I'm personally not a fan of custom kernels.
Kernel.org is also down, so that's slowing things up for everyone.
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Kernel.org is also down, so that's slowing things up for everyone.
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I've been seeing this all over, but I can access the site and perform downloads just fine.
There's is (are) custom kernels out
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I'm actually happy with the stock kernel. It has a great balance of performance and battery life.Then again I prefer my kernels to be rock solid, as opposed to cutting edge with random reboots.
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I'm actually happy with the stock kernel. It has a great balance of performance and battery life.Then again I prefer my kernels to be rock solid, as opposed to cutting edge with random reboots.
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I always used custom kernels with EVO 4G and remember zero reboots due to kernel issues . Easy overclocking and underclocking, volume mods, performance increases while still improving battery life... Yes please!
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PsiPhiDan said:
This makes me sad. Maybe the EVO won't have the development I pictured it having after all. I'm not giving up hope for the future, but if you're correct in your assertion, that is saddening.
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So far my experience with HTC phones have been a very disappointing one. Coming from the OG Epic, all I've kept hearing was how awesome the development for the OG EVO was. So of course when the EVO 3d came out it was my phone of choice over the Epic Touch. That was disappointment number one. Then when the LTE came out, I've noticed all the OG EVO developers and owners was all excited about this phone, so i decided to give HTC another chance. So for I've been more disappointed then at any point. The lack of ROMS, the pitifully performance of sense 4 and HTC's new stance on locking bootloader and sneaky updates with new Hboots was the last straw. What phone will I get next? Im not sure, but it won't be a HTC.
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shook187 said:
So far my experience with HTC phones have been a very disappointing one. Coming from the OG Epic, all I've kept hearing was how awesome the development for the OG EVO was. So of course when the EVO 3d came out it was my phone of choice over the Epic Touch. That was disappointment number one. Then when the LTE came out, I've noticed all the OG EVO developers and owners was all excited about this phone, so i decided to give HTC another chance. So for I've been more disappointed then at any point. The lack of ROMS, the pitifully performance of sense 4 and HTC's new stance on locking bootloader and sneaky updates with new Hboots was the last straw. What phone will I get next? Im not sure, but it won't be a HTC.
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We've had plenty of roms for this phone. Development has flown. Idk what your complaining about.
HTC has always locked the bootloader and always updated hboot to close root loopholes. This is nothing new.
This is all par for the course. You should know this having owned the 3d. Settle down my man
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Rxpert said:
We've had plenty of roms for this phone. Development has flown. Idk what your complaining about.
HTC has always locked the bootloader and always updated hboot to close root loopholes. This is nothing new.
This is all par for the course. You should know this having owned the 3d. Settle down my man
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I know what he means about ROMs... They're all more or less the same so far. Modified stock is great, but not what many are after when they think of development being great.
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Rxpert said:
We've had plenty of roms for this phone. Development has flown. Idk what your complaining about.
HTC has always locked the bootloader and always updated hboot to close root loopholes. This is nothing new.
This is all par for the course. You should know this having owned the 3d. Settle down my man
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+1 on that. Seems like the other guy isn't to bright seeing as this phone is only a little over a month old
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I know what he means about ROMs... They're all more or less the same so far. Modified stock is great, but not what many are after when they think of development being great.
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And aosp is in the works and has been since shortly after launch. These things take time.
If you check out the aosp threads, they all mention ongoing development.
We JUST got kernel source. Devs have day jobs, they do this in their free time
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Rxpert said:
And aosp is in the works and has been since shortly after launch. These things take time.
If you check out the aosp threads, they all mention ongoing development.
We JUST got kernel source. Devs have day jobs, they do this in their free time
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Oh I know that, and I no way meant to say the devs aren't doing great work. I just wanted to explain why he said there were not a lot of ROMs right now. I understand that statement, although there is plenty of reason for why that is.
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