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This rom is great! I'm really enjoying it so far, but I have one tiny stupid little issue with it. I really miss the unlock animation from skyraider 3.5 where the lockscreen just faded into the homescreen. I don't really like how 4.0 just has the screen kinda fade and zoom out. Is there any way I could get back the old animation?
 
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This rom is great! I'm really enjoying it so far, but I have one tiny stupid little issue with it. I really miss the unlock animation from skyraider 3.5 where the lockscreen just faded into the homescreen. I don't really like how 4.0 just has the screen kinda fade and zoom out. Is there any way I could get back the old animation?

sorry about the double post
 
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Just installed last night and like it so far. Noticed a couple issues with my setup, which is using LauncherPro+ on top of SR4:

1. The included WiFi tethering app doesn't seem to work. The app itself works, but I cannot see the Wifi signal when it's "on" from any of my devices.

2. Using SwitchPro widgets, activating the WiFi tethering widget cause the phone to reboot. :(

Anyone else notice these issues?
 
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This ROM is nice. I only recently rooted, tried Cyanogen 7, then switched to this because its like Sense.

I don't really get how this is any better than not being rooted though? I maybe have a little better battery life, and the bloatware is gone. But can you under/over clock using SkyRaider? Sorry I'm a newb to Skyraider, and rooting.
 
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This ROM is nice. I only recently rooted, tried Cyanogen 7, then switched to this because its like Sense.

I don't really get how this is any better than not being rooted though? I maybe have a little better battery life, and the bloatware is gone. But can you under/over clock using SkyRaider? Sorry I'm a newb to Skyraider, and rooting.

2 good reasons to root: Adfree and Tether apps

You also get access to other apps that need superuser permission lilke Titanium Backup (a must have).

Throw in the fact that you can update your roms as much as you like and completely customize them and you have a ton of good reasons to root.

Oh yeah one more reason to go rooted. Power taskbars! Such a handy feature.
 
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The ability to Under and overclocking really depends on the kernel more than the rom. I'm not sure if the skyraider kernel can or not, but for example, I'm using incredibly re-engineered which comes with lou's #8 kernel. Lou's #8 under clocks itself when the screen is off to save battery. You can use programs like SetCPU to over and under clock depending on the kernel. Lou doesn't suggest using any program for his kernel's as it would defeat what hs kernel is already optimized to do. But there are plenty of kernels out there, just gotta find the right match. just remember to do a nandroid backup of you're current working set up before you switch kernels! different kernels work better or worse with different roms!
 
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I have been rooted a long time now and have basically used Skyraider Roms since day one. Yeah, I have tried others but within days I always flash back to Skyraider. I flashed this one a couple days ago and had my first occurrence of sub par performance from Skyraider. It was very laggy for my phone and was constantly trying to sync. Wasn't for me so back to Skyraider 3.5 which for me which has been a flawless ROM. I can see why many are excited about this ROM though. I personally feel that 3.5 looks more polished though and runs smoother.
 
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Bizarre lock screen issues when call received. Some apps didn't perform reliably. Didn't like some of the enhancements, thought they were silly. Overlapping configuration options. Green flashing notification bar when call active (as if I didn't know?).

3.5 is a proven stable platform. Biggest difference to me are power widget toggles. In 3.5 you have to edit a text file, in 4.0 it's a nice app. Big deal, you set it up once.

Of course once 4.0 has been widely tested and tuned it will probably be great. I'm more interested in a reliably working phone.

Great respect and appreciation for people who spend time creating these ROMs for free distribution. Great work all around. The real problem was I broke my own rule and tried out the latest version without waiting for it to be proven.
 
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Bizarre lock screen issues when call received. Some apps didn't perform reliably. Didn't like some of the enhancements, thought they were silly. Overlapping configuration options. Green flashing notification bar when call active (as if I didn't know?).
I had a thunderbolt for a little while. It does that green flashing thing when you're in a call too. I don't know if that is a Sense 2.0 thing or what.

3.5 is a proven stable platform. Biggest difference to me are power widget toggles. In 3.5 you have to edit a text file, in 4.0 it's a nice app. Big deal, you set it up once.
How do you get at the extra toggles. I read that SkyRaider has them, but I haven't seen any, other than the normal android power toggles.

Of course once 4.0 has been widely tested and tuned it will probably be great. I'm more interested in a reliably working phone.
Fair enough.

Great respect and appreciation for people who spend time creating these ROMs for free distribution. Great work all around. The real problem was I broke my own rule and tried out the latest version without waiting for it to be proven.
After I installed the Incredikernal, I was looking at phone info, and I saw Skyraider there, and it said "BETA" I was a little worried. I didn't realize I had downloaded the beta version. I thought 4.0 had been out for a while. I mean, so far it's been fine, but I normally don't do beta's either. I wait till a rom is tried and true.
 
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After I installed the Incredikernal, I was looking at phone info, and I saw Skyraider there, and it said "BETA" I was a little worried. I didn't realize I had downloaded the beta version. I thought 4.0 had been out for a while. I mean, so far it's been fine, but I normally don't do beta's either. I wait till a rom is tried and true.

There's a patch to download and flash that removes the "beta" from the name.
 
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But it will still be a beta ROM. That is my concern, that it will be buggy since it's a beta. I'm not worried about the name.

It's not a beta ROM. As I said above, the dev just forgot to change it. The dev is awesome. He has a group of testers that he works with for beta testing. I've had exactly zero problems with this ROM. It's really good and totally stable for me. I think most of the problems people are having are due to mods that aren't compatible or restoring system data from titanium.
 
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It's not a beta ROM. As I said above, the dev just forgot to change it. The dev is awesome. He has a group of testers that he works with for beta testing. I've had exactly zero problems with this ROM. It's really good and totally stable for me. I think most of the problems people are having are due to mods that aren't compatible or restoring system data from titanium.

So that is all that patch does? Just changes the system info label for the ROM?

I just installed the patch after I read your post. And it seemed to work.
I was just curious if that is all it does.

I agree that this ROM works flawlessly. I don't know about Titanium, because I've never used it. I always do a factory and cache wipe, before installing any new ROMs, and I just manually restore everything. It's a pain, but it seems to work better that way. Plus I don't really care if I lose my SMS messages or whatnot or call history. And I don't change ROMs very often anyway.

But this ROM is very stable, I've seen only one possible glitch, and maybe it really wasn't.

I took a few pictures with the camera, which was set to store pics on the phone's internal memory (which I didn't know at the time). And when I connected the Inc to my computer, I couldn't find the pics. They weren't in the DCIM folder, which I understand now, it's because they weren't on the microSD at all, but on the phone's storage. But even after I unplugged the usb, I couldn't find those pics anywhere on the phone. And when I looked at the gallery, the "Camera Shots" folder wasn't even there. Then about 30 minutes later, it just showed up again. And I could look at those pictures I took.

Since then I changed the camera to store pics to the SD card. I haven't used the camera since then, but I'm assuming that fixed the issue.
 
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So that is all that patch does? Just changes the system info label for the ROM?

As far as I could tell from the thread on the xda forums, yes.

I just installed the patch after I read your post. And it seemed to work.
I was just curious if that is all it does.

I agree that this ROM works flawlessly. I don't know about Titanium, because I've never used it. I always do a factory and cache wipe, before installing any new ROMs, and I just manually restore everything. It's a pain, but it seems to work better that way. Plus I don't really care if I lose my SMS messages or whatnot or call history. And I don't change ROMs very often anyway.

But this ROM is very stable, I've seen only one possible glitch, and maybe it really wasn't.

I took a few pictures with the camera, which was set to store pics on the phone's internal memory (which I didn't know at the time). And when I connected the Inc to my computer, I couldn't find the pics. They weren't in the DCIM folder, which I understand now, it's because they weren't on the microSD at all, but on the phone's storage. But even after I unplugged the usb, I couldn't find those pics anywhere on the phone. And when I looked at the gallery, the "Camera Shots" folder wasn't even there. Then about 30 minutes later, it just showed up again. And I could look at those pictures I took.

Since then I changed the camera to store pics to the SD card. I haven't used the camera since then, but I'm assuming that fixed the issue.

Camera pictures is about all I use the internal storage for. I did a test shot to be sure and it worked fine. I wonder if the internal memory took a while to re-mount for some reason after disconnecting from the PC.
 
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As far as I could tell from the thread on the xda forums, yes.



Camera pictures is about all I use the internal storage for. I did a test shot to be sure and it worked fine. I wonder if the internal memory took a while to re-mount for some reason after disconnecting from the PC.

But I couldn't find them on my computer when connected either. Is that possible to view the phones internal memory via USB on my computer?
 
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