ROM 2.08/2.87 for Cingular 8125....How Well Does It Work?

[Centurion]

I have a Cingular 8125 currently flashed to the 2.17 ROM. I am mainly wondering if anyone has installed the 2.08/2.87 (whichever you prefer) ROM. I just wanted to see how the well the ROM performance is compared to 2.17...are there any problems in it that aren't problems in 2.17? Is it worth upgrading to?(when I have a stereo headset obviously)....thanks

[summiter]

I have a Cingular 8125 currently flashed to the 2.17 ROM. I am mainly wondering if anyone has installed the 2.08/2.87 (whichever you prefer) ROM. I just wanted to see how the well the ROM performance is compared to 2.17...are there any problems in it that aren't problems in 2.17? Is it worth upgrading to?(when I have a stereo headset obviously)....thanks

Stick with 2.17 unless you need A2DP. 2.08 (honestly I don't know why folks report 2.87 since on mine it reports properly as 2.08) is based on a pre-release AKU2 update (which is essentially a beta service pack) but people who want A2DP are ok with that and I haven't heard any complaints about the core OS.

[apaje]

I was definitely a fan of 2.17. Very fast, all the great AKU2 goodies (except a2dp). But once I got my Moto HT820 bluetooth headphones, I had to go with 2.08. 2.08 I not as fast as 2.17, but it has A2DP and it works GREAT! It's really amazing how good the audio sounds. One thing I noticed is when using my HT820 headphones and watching a windows media VIDEO, audio and video sync was messed up, due to performance hits from A2DP. But with good old overclocking through OmapClock, no more out of sync audio and video. MP3 playback with Windows Media and using A2DP was smooth and great sounding. I don't notice any faster battery draining, as long as the screen is off.

BTW, thanks SUMMITER! Your work on bringing us those Cingular Roms is much appreciated.

[summiter]

I was definitely a fan of 2.17. Very fast, all the great AKU2 goodies (except a2dp). But once I got my Moto HT820 bluetooth headphones, I had to go with 2.08. 2.08 I not as fast as 2.17, but it has A2DP and it works GREAT! It's really amazing how good the audio sounds. One thing I noticed is when using my HT820 headphones and watching a windows media VIDEO, audio and video sync was messed up, due to performance hits from A2DP. But with good old overclocking through OmapClock, no more out of sync audio and video. MP3 playback with Windows Media and using A2DP was smooth and great sounding. I don't notice any faster battery draining, as long as the screen is off.

BTW, thanks SUMMITER! Your work on bringing us those Cingular Roms is much appreciated.

Just curious, which clock speed gave you good results w/ A2DP? Was 240 sufficient?

[Centurion]

Does the 2.08 ROM include AVRCP? I really appreciate the comments, I wanted to make sure I wasn't going to jump into buying the Moto's for no reason...but thanks for the overclocking tip, I probably wouldn't have thought of that.

Summiter, I'm sure you've hear it 1000+ times, but thanks for releasing these ROM's...There are only so many people here who know how to make them, so thanks for being an active contributor.

[apaje]

I just tried several clock speeds and it seems like 228 is the minimum speed for me. The videos I am testing are WMA9 videos. I think 240 is probably a better speed as I saw a few occasional hiccups at 228. Also, I tried Real media player and had a similar issue with out of sync audio and video at the default clock speed using A2DP. When I was using the 2.17 ROM, I used BlueCast to send normal headset audio through when watching WMA9 videos and didn't notice any hiccups at the default clock speed, so A2DP definitely is resource intensive. Anyone out there know how to really benchmark how much CPU process or memory A2DP uses?

[darkjedi]

i keep having to correct people on this.

the ROM is actually the 2.8.7 rom, where as the IPL/SPL IS 2.08. apparently in software they like to add 10 or higher in build numbers. so 2.16/2.17 is higher than 2.8.7. if you actually look at the rom version, it reports:

2.8.7.1

Where the 2.16/2.17 rom will show 2.17.

i don't know why people call it the 2.08 rom when that's the IPL/SPL version. sigh.

[middler]

I have a Cingular 8125 currently flashed to the 2.17 ROM. I am mainly wondering if anyone has installed the 2.08/2.87 (whichever you prefer) ROM. I just wanted to see how the well the ROM performance is compared to 2.17...are there any problems in it that aren't problems in 2.17? Is it worth upgrading to?(when I have a stereo headset obviously)....thanks

Just loaded 2.08 because i needed a2dp for my bsh-100 anycom stereo headset. Headset works beatifully. No problems to report.

[darkjedi]

apparently you don't know how to read....

[duri]

middler
I have the same Headset , but sound drops out permanently.
have you really no problem with the Anycom Headset?

[Centurion]

darkjedi...I think by this point people have been calling it the 2.08 ROM for so long that it just makes it easier to refer to it as that....Is it wrong? Yes. But who cares?........2.08, 2.87, it's all the same...its got an 8 and it has A2DP...what else matters?

Oh, one more question...So I have the 2.17 ROM...and if I were to downgrade/upgrade(?) to the 2.08 ROM, how would I go about doing that? Unlock my phone both ways using lockiwiz and then run the 2.08 rom on the FTP? If I'm wrong, please tell me before I create a cool looking brick. 8)

[darkjedi]

sigh, people's ignorance and lack of intellegence really astounds me. why don't we just shorten EVERYTHING because we're too damn lazy to do anything about it?? start everything with u and r and 2 and 4. it really shames me at how many people have murdered the english language because they are too damn lazy to say the real word. i'll excuse foreigners as they don't know the language too well; but seriously, people born in this country have gotten ridiculously more retarded as the years have passed. and really, saying 2.08 and 2.87 is the exact same thing, have the exact same number of digits, so why is it so damned hard to say 2.87 when that's what it actually is? maybe everyone should start saying 1+1 = 6 just because they want to.

[middler]

duri

Been using for two days, and has worked flawlessly.

[middler]

duri

Been using for two days, and has worked flawlessly.