Cyanogen Mod, now for the Moto Droid

[Bateluer]

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?/topic/526-cyanogenmod-for-droid-v5042-03122010/

Most of the feedback seems positive, few kinks to be worked out. I'm going to root my Droid again when I get home and test this out.

 

[Phobic9]

I've been using this for a couple of weeks and it's one of the better ROMs out there I'd say. It even has working LED notifications with the screen on (unlike the other ROMs based on 2.1) which is pretty important to me.

 

[Bateluer]

I've been using this for a couple of weeks and it's one of the better ROMs out there I'd say. It even has working LED notifications with the screen on (unlike the other ROMs based on 2.1) which is pretty important to me.

A few people were reporting issues with MMS messages coming from other carriers. Any comments there?

 

[destrekor]

I've been using this for a couple of weeks and it's one of the better ROMs out there I'd say. It even has working LED notifications with the screen on (unlike the other ROMs based on 2.1) which is pretty important to me.

That's a complaint I just don't get.

If the screen is on, and thus you can see the notification bar, what would be the point of the LED?
I look to the LED as a way of my phone notifying me when the screen cannot do so, because it is off. If the screen is on, the phone can notify me without the LED.

 

[Phobic9]

That's a complaint I just don't get.

If the screen is on, and thus you can see the notification bar, what would be the point of the LED?
I look to the LED as a way of my phone notifying me when the screen cannot do so, because it is off. If the screen is on, the phone can notify me without the LED.

Because I run my phone in a dock on silent at work and at night when I'm in bed. The phone in both instances is used as my clock (the screen is always on) so I can tell what type of notifications I get just by the color of the LED. It's a lot easier for me to see the blinking LED than the notification bar, especially at night when the notification bar is hidden.

Just personal preference really and besides, the Droid ships with this feature out of the box anyway so I grew accustomed to it and missed it when it was gone.

As far as MMS goes, I haven't been able to get anyone to send me any pics yet.

 

[destrekor]

Because I run my phone in a dock on silent at work and at night when I'm in bed. The phone in both instances is used as my clock (the screen is always on) so I can tell what type of notifications I get just by the color of the LED. It's a lot easier for me to see the blinking LED than the notification bar, especially at night when the notification bar is hidden.

Just personal preference really and besides, the Droid ships with this feature out of the box anyway so I grew accustomed to it and missed it when it was gone.

As far as MMS goes, I haven't been able to get anyone to send me any pics yet.

Ah. Yeah I too use the phone as a clock at night, but at that point I am going to bed and really it's more or less out of sight anyhow (it's my second alarm clock, the "your ass is crawling out of bed now whether you like it or not" clock). Notifications at that point I'm ignoring. lol

 

[Spoooon]

Has anyone gone to this from Simply Stunning?

Was curious about it, but don't feel like switching if there aren't noticeable benefits.

 

[lokiju]

How's it compare to Bugless Beast 2.1?

 

[Phobic9]

I was using Pete's ROMs (Bugless Beast series) almost exclusively with a few flashes to others out of curiosity and I actually prefer this Cyanogen mod over those. Performance seemed to be much snappier and the multi-directional auto rotation is nice (can be disabled of course). I don't think I'm changing back to any other ROM for the time being.

Oh and MMS seems to work fine for me. I successfully sent and received pics from T-Mobile and Sprint users.

Also of note, Verizon will start pushing the official Droid 2.1 update starting tomorrow (18 March) so I'd assume some people would rather go back to stock. Most of the non-official ROMs though have more features than the official one obviously.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/verizon-posts-android-2-1-upgrade-details-for-droid/

 

[Spoooon]

Also of note, Verizon will start pushing the official Droid 2.1 update starting tomorrow (18 March) so I'd assume some people would rather go back to stock. Most of the non-official ROMs though have more features than the official one obviously.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/verizon-posts-android-2-1-upgrade-details-for-droid/

Yeah, I don't think I'll be going back to stock any time soon. Good news for the people that don't want to bother with root and all that though.

 

[Bateluer]

I installed Cyanogen Droid last night, liking it so far. Kinda bummed that I went through the effort only to learn this morning that the 2.1 Update is being pushed tomorrow. I already have all those features with Cyan, but I don't get any time to gloat.

 

[Spoooon]

I installed Cyanogen Droid last night, liking it so far. Kinda bummed that I went through the effort only to learn this morning that the 2.1 Update is being pushed tomorrow. I already have all those features with Cyan, but I don't get any time to gloat.

You might still get to gloat. I'm curious to see if they eliminate the discernible lag in the app drawer with live wallpapers. It's very slight, but it's noticeable when compared to without (using the next to latest Simply Stunning ROM). Smooth as silk when using a regular wallpaper.

Now that you've taken the big step of rooting your Droid and all that, when the ROMs come out based on 2.3 or whatever, you'll be good to go.

 

[dguy6789]

That live wallpaper lag exists on the Nexus One with a stock Android 2.1 install.

 

[Spoooon]

That live wallpaper lag exists on the Nexus One with a stock Android 2.1 install.

That's a bummer. The smoothest one that I've used so far seems to be the starfield one. Which is pretty cool, but even that causes lag over not using live wallpaper. I wonder if it's just not possible or if there are any optimizations that can be made that would improve this?

 

[dguy6789]

I am not very hopeful for a fix but it could happen. I remember live wallpaper programs for Windows would constantly eat up around 30% of the CPU of a desktop machine back when I was playing with them.

Battery life + that lag is the reason I'm not using a live wallpaper on my Nexus.

 

[Spoooon]

I am not very hopeful for a fix but it could happen. I remember live wallpaper programs for Windows would constantly eat up around 30% of the CPU of a desktop machine back when I was playing with them.

Battery life + that lag is the reason I'm not using a live wallpaper on my Nexus.

I had not noticed much by way of a difference in battery life, but I didn't live with it for very long. It seemed to lag the same at 800MHz as it did at 1.2GHz.

Maybe 2.1.1 will do the trick. Or a 2GHz processor.

 

[destrekor]

Anyone use Titanium Backup, or something else to back up all the apps and data associated with them (and market links) ?

I tried moving from Bugless Beast (android 2.0.1 version) to one of the recent Simply Stunning ESE53 2.1 builds (rom version 2.0.1, android 2.1), and nothing could be restored from the backups from Titanium Backup. Some "package parse" error.
So I reverted back to my nandroid backup for my BB install, and hell... couldn't even restore a backup I made there! Heard there are issues with the one compression format, and I saw my copy of Titanium Backup defaulted to gzip (not the one in question, supposed to be the most compatible actually). I switched to no compression and still couldn't restore even in the same ROM.

Is it a kernel issue? Should I just install a different kernel? Tried "fixing" with TB, which supposedly installs a known-good version of BusyBox, and still no-go for restores.

Been really, really looking at making the switch the Koush's recovery and flashing the Droid Cyanogen, but really, really do not want to go through basically starting over completely.

I did that enough with every ROM flash for my Omnia. Just a pain in the ass when you have a lot of apps with custom settings or data attached to them.

Also, for those on the Cyanogen Mod, what is it like applying themes? From what I reckon, you lose the MetaMorph capability (unless a theme builder specifically makes it compatible with what, Cyanogen Mod itself, or just the 2.1 framework?).

There are quite a few themes I really like overall at alldroid, specifically some really sexy ones in the process of being made (one of them is specifically targeting android 2.1 first, so would that be more likely to work with Cyanogen?)

 

[Spoooon]

Have you tried wiping and reinstalling?

 

[destrekor]

Have you tried wiping and reinstalling?

Wait... how would that accomplish what I'm trying to do?

I am curious what exactly you mean though.
Wiping and reinstalling, I'd lose everything I currently have, yes?
I made a nandroid backup of what I currently have, then wiped and installed a 2.1 rom (Simply Stunning), and Titanium Backup failed to restore any of my app and date backups.
I cleared all of that by restoring the nandroid backup of what my phone currently has on it, Bugless Beast (which I have one of the v2.0.1 ROMs). Everything exactly the way it was.
Still unable to use Titanium Backup to restore anything I backed up, of which to TB nothing changed, same ROM same everything. I even made new backups without any compression, and still unable to restore those new backups moments after making them without otherwise changing anything. Same error.

Wiping and flashing the same ROM, or a different ROM, with nothing I have currently on the phone... is what I am trying to avoid. It is also what I already tried, but I ditched that effort when Titanium Backup failed to give me anything I already had.
I'd like to avoid starting completely fresh and having to reconfigure dozens of apps and lose data attached to those apps.

Also sucked when Android is supposed to restore all of the basic system settings and yet it didn't exactly restore all that much. I didn't check too deep but it seemed hit or mess whether the settings were the same as prior to the new ROM flash. But I may have overestimated exactly how many settings would make the cross. A full system settings + apps + data backup is what TB is supposed to achieve, and I can't get it to work, at least with app packages. Settings it might work, haven't tried those. But I keep getting package parse errors with apps. I can live with just system settings having to be redone, there aren't that many. Well ultimately I can live with redoing everything, but I'd prefer otherwise.

 

[Spoooon]

Reading comprehension error on my part.

The last backup I made, I saved everything. When I restored that, I didn't have to do anything to my settings (that I recall, was a few days ago). All my account info and prefs seemed to be as they were.

And apps. Really though, it was a few days ago but I don't remember going through the process of downloading and reinstalling all my crap.

@bateleur: looks like you have time to gloat.

 

[chooven]

I cant get the LED on my Droid at all where the screen is on or off. This is a big problem for me since I have my Phone on Silent at work so if the screen goes blank I have to continually grab my phone and turn it on to check the notice bar.

have done a data/cache wipe twice and reinstall and still have the problem. Any help or suggestions would be great.

Thanks

That's a complaint I just don't get.

If the screen is on, and thus you can see the notification bar, what would be the point of the LED?
I look to the LED as a way of my phone notifying me when the screen cannot do so, because it is off. If the screen is on, the phone can notify me without the LED.

 

[Spoooon]

I cant get the LED on my Droid at all where the screen is on or off. This is a big problem for me since I have my Phone on Silent at work so if the screen goes blank I have to continually grab my phone and turn it on to check the notice bar.

have done a data/cache wipe twice and reinstall and still have the problem. Any help or suggestions would be great.

Thanks

Did it ever work?

What rom are you using?

Have you tried Handcent?

 

[chooven]

Yes, I used to run Bugless 2.0.1 and it worked great. I updated to bugless 2.1 v.5 and it stopped working so I switched to this one (I used to run Cyanogen on my G1) and it still is not coming on for emails or SMS

Did it ever work?

What rom are you using?

Have you tried Handcent?

 

[Spoooon]

Yes, I used to run Bugless 2.0.1 and it worked great. I updated to bugless 2.1 v.5 and it stopped working so I switched to this one (I used to run Cyanogen on my G1) and it still is not coming on for emails or SMS

Do you have a restore from when it worked?

Did you wipe everything when you moved to 2.1?

 

[chooven]

I did a restore back to Bugless 1.2 and the LED started working again then I went back to Cyanogen and the LED is still working.

Thank for the help