Root Sense UI ROM

[ska.t73]

thats what she said



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[Picaso86]

do you guys know if the Desire ROM is ready...?

 

[radikal]

i know its not ready, I bet they shoot for a weekend release

 

[dmodert66]

i know its not ready, I bet they shoot for a weekend release

That is correct. Boots mentioned in the "Public Chat" thread at AD they are shooting for a weekend release so that the RIL will be done and they can squash a few more bugs along the way.

 

[radikal]

nice, i didn't even read that thread, I am GOOD

 

[Timaphillips]

Engadget did a good review of the Incredible and said Flash Lite was a bust. But they LOVE Sense UI, especially since there is finally a phone with the specs. to pull it off. I don't see why our OC'd Droid's couldn't play nice with it as well.

Review Link

 

[radikal]

its been having problems cause we don't have the internal memory. Thats all.

 

[ejl2010]

its been having problems cause we don't have the internal memory. Thats all.

So I'm guessing that means that OCing our Droids won't really help too much with running Sense then? I'm hoping it won't lag the phone down too much. That would be a shame.

 

[radikal]

It will help a bit. They have some good kernels

 

[CRPercodani]

Using SWAP for extra VRAM will help the most I think, that's what helped us run Sense on the G1 and we didn't overclock.

 

[dmodert66]

Using SWAP for extra VRAM will help the most I think, that's what helped us run Sense on the G1 and we didn't overclock.

Supposedly, swap will not be needed in X3 due to some heavy kernel cooking...

Also, they have said possible release TONIGHT!

 

[Eristotle]

Actually the DroidSwap app (used in an earlier release) will no longer be needed, but you will in fact need to partition your SD card with a swap file to run this rom. The Sense UI needs the swap.

This rom release is big imo. The Sense UI that HTC created is the one and only thing I miss from owning an Eris. It is the Android OS.... refined.



Update: Now it looks like a mid day release tomorrow. Not tonight :-(

 

[SSinisterSS]

so we cant just use the sbf recovery for 2.1 and install this rom?

 

[Eristotle]

This is the home of the devs working on it and where the rom will be posted when available. Read the top sticky regarding the X3 and the 150+ pages in the Public Chat thread. If you want to get more familar with the road it took getting to X3, read the x2 and x1/x1b threads.

http://alldroid.org/forums/914-ZeusDroid
http://alldroid.org/forums/914-ZeusDroid

 

[CRPercodani]

It's OUT.

EDIT: Damn, still no RIL so you can't make calls with 3G on....

 

[Fadelight]

It's OUT.

EDIT: Damn, still no RIL so you can't make calls with 3G on....

I'm flashing it now. Going to check it out and see what all of the hype is about.

 

[CRPercodani]

Gotta partition your sd card to, and give it time on the first boot cuz it takes a good while to set up.

 

[Trident]

Flashed it yesterday and man was it SLOOWWW! Tested it out and restored my backup of BB soon after. It has great potential and I think the devs are putting a lot of work into it. I can't wait to try a more improved version.

 

[dmodert66]

It's OUT.

EDIT: Damn, still no RIL so you can't make calls with 3G on....

True, but they said they will release the RIL this weekend as an "update.zip". I'm going to flash to this tonight...I'll keep it on until Sunday, then flash back if no RIL comes out.

Flashed it yesterday and man was it SLOOWWW!

That's odd...People where saying it was really fast...Hmmm...Guess I'll find out tonight..

 

[Fadelight]

I didn't have to partition my SD card. I've been using apps2sd for a long time.


Here is what I found in about 3 hours of playing with it.

1) It is painfully slow.

2) Every app that relies on an internet connection takes not seconds but minutes to load. Want an app? Open market and put the phone down. Go get some food or something. It might be loaded by the time you come back.

3) The weather widget is overrated. I did see a couple of other widgets I liked, though.

4) The one great thing about it that I haven't seen any other widget capable of doing yet was vertical scrolling. News widgets are in lists, and you can swipe to scroll up and down.

5) I tried making a phone call just to see what was what. It was on speakerphone and I saw no way of shutting it off. I could hear the person on the other end, but they could not hear me.

6) The "phone" button is the biggest button on the bottom, and the button to the right is a widget button. I already knew that, so it didn't really make a difference in trying it... but it is still an annoyingly large waste of resources. I can think of a million things that would be better suited for those spots.

7) Unsure if flash works or not... I could never get the browser to connect to anything before losing interest in waiting.



I loaded it, then flashed back to clockworkmod and did a backup, so I can switch back to it with relative ease, but for now I am back on Cyanogen.

 

[gonzoguy24]

I didn't have to partition my SD card. I've been using apps2sd for a long time.


Here is what I found in about 3 hours of playing with it.

1) It is painfully slow.

2) Every app that relies on an internet connection takes not seconds but minutes to load. Want an app? Open market and put the phone down. Go get some food or something. It might be loaded by the time you come back.

3) The weather widget is overrated. I did see a couple of other widgets I liked, though.

4) The one great thing about it that I haven't seen any other widget capable of doing yet was vertical scrolling. News widgets are in lists, and you can swipe to scroll up and down.

5) I tried making a phone call just to see what was what. It was on speakerphone and I saw no way of shutting it off. I could hear the person on the other end, but they could not hear me.

6) The "phone" button is the biggest button on the bottom, and the button to the right is a widget button. I already knew that, so it didn't really make a difference in trying it... but it is still an annoyingly large waste of resources. I can think of a million things that would be better suited for those spots.

7) Unsure if flash works or not... I could never get the browser to connect to anything before losing interest in waiting.



I loaded it, then flashed back to clockworkmod and did a backup, so I can switch back to it with relative ease, but for now I am back on Cyanogen.

Well in that case I am pretty happy I did not try it out...hahaha

 

[CRPercodani]

you need more then just a apps2sd partition fade, gotta have a 3rd one for swap. thats why its so slow for you. swap spacer helps makes up for the missing ram.



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[Fadelight]

you need more then just a apps2sd partition fade, gotta have a 3rd one for swap. thats why its so slow for you. swap spacer helps makes up for the missing ram.



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Time to do some reading, I guess.

Off the top of your head, do you know if A) Helix2 will still work, and B) If any of the OC kernels are compatible?




EDIT:

I knew I was jumping the gun. lmao.

Re: X3 is here!!! (Almost)

Install if you are using clockwork recovery.

Coming soon.​

Last edited by thegeektern; 8 Hours Ago at 14:13.​

That definitely would've saved me a huge amount of work.

 

[CRPercodani]

There should be a overclocked kernel in the ROM already, but I know none of the ones we use for other ROM's will work. Helix2 probably won't work because of the huge differences in the framework-res in Sense compared to stock. As far as swap goes it is something that will most likely always be needed to run Sense as it was designed for a phone with 256MB more RAM then our Droid's have. Swap allows you to make a small partition of about that size (256) on your SD card and uses it like extra RAM. This has always been the case when running a Sense based ROM on a older device.

 

[shadowdude777]

6) The "phone" button is the biggest button on the bottom, and the button to the right is a widget button. I already knew that, so it didn't really make a difference in trying it... but it is still an annoyingly large waste of resources. I can think of a million things that would be better suited for those spots.

Exactly. If I had an Android-powered HTC device I'd be looking into ways to get RID of Sense UI. I guess the grass is always greener.