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Root ThunderShed CM7.2.0 RC1.3

Well lbrick, I flashed the new version of Thundershed. It still doesn't impress me as much as Shift ic3. I see absolutely no difference in performance as far as speed and smoothness, but overall it just doesn't seem as polished. For instance, I like to turn off the lockscreen and use widgetlocker exclusively. Well, when I do that everytime I reboot the status bar foreclosed. No big deal, just hit forceclose and it reloads(EDIT: Except for the time that it didn't reload after I wrote this and I had to reboot). Then I pulled down the notification bar once and there was a notification there. Except there was no notification in the status bar nor had anything happened to generate a notification. It promptly disappeared without me touching it. I ran quadrant just for comparison purposes. Same scores, but sometimes the test wouldn't run right on Thundershed. The graphics would clip sometimes, and parts of the test were shortened or lengthened sometimes. It skipped one of the test screens one time. It's little things like this that make me lose confidence in Shed. Just doesn't seem finished like the older Shift.

I'd love to hear your take on Shift sometime, though.
 
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I was on shift ics 3.2 and it completely blacked out screen. I liked that rom too. Quick and snappy (though now that I don't have them, the soft keys at the bottom were annoying)
Oh, those sofbuttons were just part of the ics launcher that came with the rom. That launcher had all kinds of bugs. It also came with ADW which has no soft buttons. I use ADW EX, fastest launcher around.
 
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Well lbrick, I flashed the new version of Thundershed. It still doesn't impress me as much as Shift ic3. I see absolutely no difference in performance as far as speed and smoothness, but overall it just doesn't seem as polished. For instance, I like to turn off the lockscreen and use widgetlocker exclusively. Well, when I do that everytime I reboot the status bar foreclosed. No big deal, just hit forceclose and it reloads(EDIT: Except for the time that it didn't reload after I wrote this and I had to reboot). Then I pulled down the notification bar once and there was a notification there. Except there was no notification in the status bar nor had anything happened to generate a notification. It promptly disappeared without me touching it. I ran quadrant just for comparison purposes. Same scores, but sometimes the test wouldn't run right on Thundershed. The graphics would clip sometimes, and parts of the test were shortened or lengthened sometimes. It skipped one of the test screens one time. It's little things like this that make me lose confidence in Shed. Just doesn't seem finished like the older Shift.

I'd love to hear your take on Shift sometime, though.

Yeah I have it saved, just haven't taken to time to flash it and set it up yet.

The lockscreen thing is something every AOSP ROM I've ever ran has had an issue with. So I just leave the stock one enabled, and let Widgetlocker override it. Although since CM7 has a decent lockscreen I've started using that in place of Widgetlocker.

The status bar seems a little strange. I have the center clock mod running and the Team miui style battery bar all running and haven't had any issues with it, and there's plenty goin on up there.. lol..
 
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How long should it take to boot. I know it's longer the first time. I've rooted dozens of droids and some nexuses but this is my first thunderbolt for my g/f. I waited about 20 minutes. That long enough to consider it a boot loop? I'd think so. I pulled the battery and then just reverted back to a backup. How does wireless tether work? That's the only thing she cares about
 
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Im a little bit confused with CM7 for Thunderbolt. Is this only for the radio version .5? or will my rooted TBolt with .9 radio also be able to run the CM7 rom? From what I am understanding I can not use CM7 with the .9 radio(MR4). Can anybody confirm this? Also if this is true, what ROMs are out currently that support the .9 radio(MR4) ?
 
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How long should it take to boot. I know it's longer the first time. I've rooted dozens of droids and some nexuses but this is my first thunderbolt for my g/f. I waited about 20 minutes. That long enough to consider it a boot loop? I'd think so. I pulled the battery and then just reverted back to a backup. How does wireless tether work? That's the only thing she cares about

Wipe data, Cache, Dalvik, Format system, Before flashing?


If so, make sure you're clockwork recovery is up to date, 5+ or will not load. Seems the case with most of the new ROMs.

If you did all that, I'd re-download and try again. Maybe a bad download?




Im a little bit confused with CM7 for Thunderbolt. Is this only for the radio version .5? or will my rooted TBolt with .9 radio also be able to run the CM7 rom? From what I am understanding I can not use CM7 with the .9 radio(MR4). Can anybody confirm this? Also if this is true, what ROMs are out currently that support the .9 radio(MR4) ?

The MR4 radios work fine, as well as the Open Mobile leaked radios.
 
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Wipe data, Cache, Dalvik, Format system, Before flashing?


If so, make sure you're clockwork recovery is up to date, 5+ or will not load. Seems the case with most of the new ROMs.

If you did all that, I'd re-download and try again. Maybe a bad download?






The MR4 radios work fine, as well as the Open Mobile leaked radios.

How do I update this? I am using CWM v4.0.1.4 that I got from Revolutionary. This ROM loaded fine w/ this CWM release fyi.
 
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If I'm not mistaken, I don't think the touch version has been officially released for the Thunderbolt yet. I haven't checked so I can't say for sure, but there was a beta version floating around a while back.

Works just fine btw. I don't have ROM manager installed so I don't know if its been officially updated, but if you can find the touch version I'd go for it, its pretty sweet.

Someone on Rootz put it into a PG05 file for easier installation. Ill see if I can find the thread..

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15861297

It was on XDA, here you go though. Flash just like a radio. Rename to PG05IMG.zip, put on root of SD and reboot to hboot.

http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager

The thunderbolt is now officially supported, but it would need to be flashed via ADB.
 
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