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Root ROM suggestions

sense is great except for that stupid launcher at the bottom...the + is useless as u can just long press the screen...the phone button is way too big...i wish there was a rom that was customizable like launcher pro, but still w/ a few of the good apps that sense has to offer

This is why i am running YetiROM. I perfer CM, but i dont think CM will be good for me until all bugs are worked out. Still they are both vanilla android, so they are both great ROMS
 
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Jager 1.7 with hydra .7 kernel. Amazing battery life! Yesterday I unplugged my phone at 6am, and by 9:00 pm (15 hours later), it was at 50%. Granted...I am using the 2150mah battery, but still I'm pretty happy!

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i'd suggest a sense rom with expresso theme (no curvy lockscreen bar and no curvy phone bar) it's totally horizontal and i like that.

so far no one has made an expresso them for the incredible. here are a couple of pics of the phone bar and lockscreen bar that i found on google images.

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My friend has the mytouch slide so, I may be able to rip expresso off there and work on it from there. I think expresso is kinda cool, and i will definately try to do something with expresso launcher. I think the overall ui is cheap, but that launcher/lockscreen is cool.

As for droid x blur port: I am still hard at work on it. I am trying to see what apks need to be deodexed, what needs to be hacked around, and what has to be themed or skinned. As of now, i have a general list of what system apk's work, and am compiling a WIP alpha ROm----hint hint- no droid x launcher for now, but i do have homescreen tips with the awesome android guy there, cool down mode so the phone doesnt overheat, car dock, and some others. if not droid x launcher, i will find another launcher. As for the other apks in motoblur, they will get ported eventually.
 
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yea, the default sense bar and lockscreen is outdated, imo... and looks like was created to match the shape of the sprint htc hero (all roundy-like). i think that expresso phone bar matches the shape of our phones really well. and the straight lockscreen bar, to me, just looks cleaner and more pro. i was actually hoping that htc would make these changes for their froyo version of sense.
 
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Im running cm6 and my linpack is 35 or better. Yeah, cm6 has its bugs, but its froyo. If anyone is still interested in my motoblur project, i have not abandoned it yet, but imo i think it would b better with froyo than with eclair.

Ps. I heard official froyo is coming out mid-july. I have heard a couple of different dates being thrown out there.
 
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