BoostHD is an android 4.0.4(ICS) ROM based on CM9 (CyanogenMod 9) by FXP Team for the Arc/Arc S.
The ROM is highly customizable and aims to give your Arc a longer battery life and smoother UI.
Changelog + Hotfixes will be present on post #2
ROM Features:
-Heavily Tweaked; very fast and fluid UI
-Highly customizable
-Longer battery life ( test and see )
-ICS Holo-Dark themed native apps e.g Messaging, calender, contacts, Email etc + Apex launcher added
-V6 Supercharged
-Lots and lots of other optimizations, such as minfree adjustment, I/O tweaks, VM tweaks, SD Card Read Speed tweaks, JIT tweaks etc..
-Zip aligned etc
-Theme Manager + All other CM goodies e.g Lockscreen customizability
Known Issues:
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How to Install:
Before you start, recommended Baseband is 64 but others may work so keep that in mind before posting about signal issues
1. Make a CWM Backup incase anything goes wrong (Optional)
2. Copy BoostHD RC1.zip to SD card of your phone
3. Copy Gapps to SD card ( optional )
3. Flash kernel via fastboot by typing: fastboot flash boot boot.img
4. Boot into CWM recovery by pressing the volume down button during boot up when the LED flashes purple
5.Wipe everything ( data, cache + dalvik cache)
6. Go into install zip from SD card and find BoostHD RC1.zip + Gapps if required
7. Then flash it, Reboot and Enjoy
17/04/2012- RC1.5:
- Based on FXP 116
- Bunch of new tweaks making it even smoother
- All Hotfixes included
- Updated few apps
20/04/2012- RC2
- Highly customizable due to reloaded settings. More details on post#206 Allows you to customize:
Transparency
Status Bar Layout
Date Format
Brightness Control
Horizontal Recent Panel
Clock Location
Power Widget Enhancements
Tabbed Layout
Bottom Statusbar
Volume control
Statusbar Theming
- Beats by Dre audio includes (DSP Manager + Beats + Good Pair of headphones = Wow)
- Apps updated to latest
- HDMI working but only sound, no video. Video is causing glitches for me
- More tweaks, can't get much faster than this
- Few other minor fixes
13/05/2012 RC3:
-Rebase to latest CM9 Release
-Updated majority of apps
-Smoother graphics, non existent lag
-100% Supercharged
-Few extra tweaks, wifi should be more reliable + increased 3G speeds
-Hotfixes included + few new fixes
-New options in Statusbar:
-Audio widget - volume slider in statusbar
-Widget ordering, select how you want audio/backlight/power widget displayed
-Hide auto-brightness button option
-Date positioning options as requested
-Large battery text style
15/05/2012- RC3.5
-Updated to FXP120
-Features Theme manager
-Features Lockscreen customizability
-Adjusted a few tweaks, some caused issues
21/05/2012- RC4
-Fixed issue with theme manager options not showing
-Updated all apps
-Updated to FXP121
-Reloaded Settings v19b4
28/06/2012- RC5
-Updated apps and added apex
-Based on CM9 RC1 which includes latest fixes e.g video camera
-Increased 3G speeds and added a few battery tweaks (experimental)
-Removed FC causing Reloaded settings
-Supercharged
Hotfixes:
Addons:
Onscreen buttons addon
1.Onscreen buttons remover incase you don't like it
1 of the best looking rom out there for Arc S...Very impressive...Very smooth since first start...wil continue to testing....
Thank you bro dinesh690!!!
Bug:
-Video recorder ain't work.
-Status bar is blue colour and status icon is white, can't see how many battery left.
-Battery usage not available
-No Backup & Reset under Setting
Device: LG OPTIMUS G E973
Storage: 32GB INTERNAL STORAGE
Rom version: JB 4.2.1 by Houstonn.-
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