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Default [ROM]VillainROMZ & SuperVillainZ for the G2/DZ - Sense UI & Vanilla Style!

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Default [ROM]VillainROMZ & SuperVillainZ for the G2/DZ - Sense UI & Vanilla Style!

WELCOME TO VILLAINROM

This bit’s the introduction. If you’re not interested in who we are, or how we got here, or are of the TL;DR mentality, then skip this entire section.

I HAVE INTERNET AT LAST! 5 weeks without it, and I'm officially back online, today! woop! Thank you for your patience. We wanted to make sure this ROM was right for you all prior to release! As many of you have noticed, I’m well and truly back in to the world of custom roms, after a few months break over the summer. Believe me, it was well and truly needed. It’s great to be back though.
If you’ve come from a HTC Hero/Desire or Magic, the chances are, you’ve heard of VillainROM. For that reason, I won’t go into who we are in too much detail. Sufficed to say, we’re a hardworking team of collaborative developers, working towards a common goal; to improve on manufacturer’s versions of the Android OS’ and to provide alternative, AOSP versions. We will no longer be providing 'experimental beta' releases, but instead, only releasing ROMs we deem to be 'final'.

So... to the ROM!

Before I do, though, I’d just like to take this opportunity to offer a huge message of gratitude to the team at #g2root. Scotty2 and the team worked their arses off for weeks on this, and together they achieved what HTC attempted to make impossible. We all owe them a huge debt of thanks.

This thread will house two ROMs; each of which will have its own thread on VillainROM.co.uk, but it's more manageable in the one here. Because of this, I'd appreciate it if you could post the name of the ROM you're using prior to reporting a problem/giving praise. These ROMs follow the successful release of Villision last week, which was a combined effort between HomerSP and myself. Homer is a legend, and he's worked with me again on this one. Once labelled 'The Hotfix King', he has been known to de-odex sleeping frogs and some pretty large haddock. I thank him, once again for his help and support.

VillainROMZ for the G2/Z is a stock Sense UI build, with a few VillainROM tweaks. The more obvious tweak is that the reboot and reboot to recovery options have been added, but I assure you, more changes have been made to the 'back end', so you should see an improvement on performance.

SuperVillainZ on the other hand, is one of VillainROM's specialities. It was, some time ago, one of the most popular ROMs on the Hero, and offers a combination of SenseUI and vanilla. It's entirely based on VillainROMZ, with HomerSP's power menu tweak and the tweaks of VillainROM, however, Rosie, and Sense UI widgets have been removed from the build. In addition, the age old problem of the ALARM CLOCK + LOCKSCREEN has been FIXED, by the very same, fish de-odexing legend, HomerSP. That means, you can use your HTC alarm, with your vanilla lockscreen... at last.

SuperVillainZ offers users what are, in our opinion the best bits of Sense UI (apps), with a Vanilla-like feel. The huge reduction in /system size and applications obviously makes it run that little bit better, too. This is the perfect ROM for those that can't decide... to sense, or not to sense.


The ever growing list of credits - Thanks to: HomerSP, Pulser, Cyanogen, Scotty, #g2root, Ninpo, Kendon, Mike Coffee, Lenny, Shen, Jeremy, Paul (Modaco), Richard Trip, MikeBeecham, RaiderX, lox, benhaam, strange Chinese guy whose name I don’t know but regularly places leaks in my dropbox, ALL VILLAINROM users, and in advance to anyone who downloads any of these ROMs, supports us, or leaves feedback.


/End introduction.




SCREENSHOT IS OF SUPERVILLAINZ!

For anyone interested, that's the new Fancy Widget, and the icons used are taken from Manup456's DigitalStyleWars website. All can simply be downloaded and placed on SD card, then selected via Shortcuts in LP or ADW.



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SUPERVILLAINZ - NO ROSIE

- Based on official HTC Desire Z 1.34.405.5 RUU.
- De-odexed
- Multilingual
- Huge VillainROM APN list
- PNG Optimized throughout
- Zip Aligned
- Coolbho's 1497Mhz OC Kernel (setcpu > detect to OC)
- Enabled full adb root/remount etc (ro.secure=0)
- Latest Google Apps
- Added HTC’s screen calibration app
- Custom VillainROM Wallpaper
- Wifi Calling App
- Dalvik heap & misc performance tweaks
- Launcher Pro replaces Rosie - Thanks Frederico!
- All Clock widgets, widgets and associated images removed.
- Vanilla Lockscreen + Working HTC Alarm
- Advanced Power Menu

Download Link:

http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/sh...la-Sense-blend!)

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VILLAINROMZ - SENSE UI - ROSIE

- Based on official HTC Desire Z 1.34.405.5 RUU.
- De-odexed
- Multilingual
- Huge VillainROM APN list
- PNG Optimized throughout
- Zip Aligned
- Coolbho's 1497Mhz OC Kernel (setcpu > detect to OC)
- Enabled full adb root/remount etc (ro.secure=0)
- Latest Google Apps
- Added HTC’s screen calibration app
- Custom VillainROM Wallpaper
- Wifi Calling App
- Dalvik heap & misc performance tweaks
- Advanced Power Menu

Downlod Link:

http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/sh...with-VR-Tweaks)
INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Boot into clockworkmod
2. Nandroid backup if required
3. FULL DATA WIPE - MUST!
4. Flash the ROM
5. Reboot!

Thank you, and enjoy!

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Very nice. Waiting for mirroring to finish.

I haven't really given Sense UI much of a chance... let's see how this goes
 
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Very nice. Waiting for mirroring to finish.

I haven't really given Sense UI much of a chance... let's see how this goes
Mirroring completed


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For anyone who downloaded the ROM more than 2 minutes ago, please download it again, as I have corrected an error that gave you an older version of the ROM, without so much added awesomesauce.

Congrats to ddotpatel who spotted my *AHEM* deliberate little test (I wish... )


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Hey, I downloaded the SuperVillain rom but the homescreen does not look anything like the picture posted? I'm looking for the Sense-style Clock/Weather but cannot seem to find it.
 
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Very nice ROM.....
I have already downloaded and installed it successfully. So far I have not found any serious bugs yet.
One question : Is there such function that I can enlarge the system font size by this ROM? If yes, how to do it?
Thanks again for your good work!
 
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Hey, I downloaded the SuperVillain rom but the homescreen does not look anything like the picture posted? I'm looking for the Sense-style Clock/Weather but cannot seem to find it.
Says in the OP - that's the new Fancy Widget.

I've been looking forward to this. Villivision ran beautifully but I just can't deal with the inferior dialler, clock and camera apps. Or the general ugliness of the statusbar and its icons. I hope those bits have been carried over.

Question - is there a CIFS module included in this?
 
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Default Nice ROM

Nice ROM

I have two question

1. after flash this rom and first booted(no install any APK)
in setting/SD & Phone Storage
Available space only 0.88G that's normal right?

2. i want to restore my setting and apk using Titanium Backup
it told me not "rooted"
this ROM not included rooted?

Thank you for your response
 
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Props for a solid stock ROM i.e VillainROMZ

So far it seems to be running smooth as


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