Sick of MotoBlur.. what's most stable stock-like rom?

sinistersai4d4d · Mar 7, 2011

My girl has a D2G and hates its sluggishness.

I have a G2 running Cyanogen 6.

I'm going to attempt to root her phone (with z4Root 1.3 I guess?) this week and then I want to flash a stable fast rom.

Any suggestions.

I hate motorola for insisting on crippling Android. I also hate Samsung for their slow updates. From here on out it's HTC or nothing.

-Gilgamesh- · Mar 7, 2011

The general consensus is that Liberty is the closest to stock Android. However I tend to lean towards Fission. It's not as close to stock as Liberty, however in my personal tests/usage it seems to preform better.

buryboi · Mar 7, 2011

Currently the only custom Rom for the D2G is Fission from Team Defuse. You can get some D2 Roms (like liberty) to work if you use Team Get~R~Done's D2G_Romer.zip.

sinistersai4d4d · Mar 7, 2011

Is Fission faster than the d2g stock 2/Motoblur? My girls phone freezes and crashes too frequently.

I want something very stable.

Sent from my HTC Vision using telepathy and unicorn dust.

botnryan · Mar 7, 2011

yes its MUCH faster, its "de-blurred" and blur slows the phone down a ****-ton so yes.

sinistersai4d4d · Mar 7, 2011

botnryan said:
yes its MUCH faster, its "de-blurred" and blur slows the phone down a ****-ton so yes.

Thanks!

Ok I'm gonna do it tomorrow. Once I'm rooted (using z4) is it just a matter of putting flashing with clockwork like I do on my G2?

-Gilgamesh- · Mar 7, 2011

You can download it and flash through clockwork, or you can download the Fission Rom manager which will download the rom, and flash it for you.

skaskater1 · Mar 8, 2011

With D2 and D2G best option in getting bootstrapper and bootstrapping recovery then flashing your goodies, seems to be the easiest for me, and once you have boot strapper the fission rom manager is pretty nifty as well

sinistersai4d4d · Mar 8, 2011

skaskater1 said:
With D2 and D2G best option in getting bootstrapper and bootstrapping recovery then flashing your goodies, seems to be the easiest for me, and once you have boot strapper the fission rom manager is pretty nifty as well

\I don't know what any of this means, so I'm just gonna flash fission.

-Gilgamesh- · Mar 8, 2011

You're going to have to do the above to be able to flash Fission though. You need to download an app called Droid 2 Recovery Bootstraper. When you run the app, you'll have two options. "Bootstrap Recovery" and "Reboot Recovery". Option one has to be done to be able to book into the non-stock recovery, option two will then allow you to boot reboot directly into recovery. Unlike your G2, to be able to even be able to boot into clockwork, you have to first have to use option one as listed above.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.droid2.bootstrap

Asphyx · Mar 9, 2011

YES LISTEN TO GILGAMESH!

otherwise your heading down the Moto Brick road!

sinistersai4d4d · Mar 10, 2011

Ok, flashed it and got Fission on there...

But here's a problem.. I flashed a theme on top of it and now the "Accounts and Sync" doesn't work and I can't sync my contacts from gmail.

Any ideas?

I made a backup with clockwork before I did anything... will that restore my contacts to gmail? (i stupidly didn't think to export my gmail contacts first to .xl)

Then I guess I could just start over... without the dumb theme (which was actually pretty awesome - Red for Fission)

sinistersai4d4d · Mar 11, 2011

Ok started over from scratch with nandroid backup. Got her contacts back. Flashed fresh Fission (DON'T USE THEMES THEY ARE ALL FLAWED! I TRIED 3 popular ones)

Anyway her phone runs Sooooo much smoother. MOtoBlur is a huge failure and resource hog. Google shouldn't let them all ruin their OS like that...

Anyway, Fission works great so far. Very stable and mostly painless install if you backup apps with Titanium and contacts too.

Thanks for the help!

Sent from my HTC Vision using telepathy and unicorn dust.

sinistersai4d4d · Mar 11, 2011

-Gilgamesh- said:
You're going to have to do the above to be able to flash Fission though. You need to download an app called Droid 2 Recovery Bootstraper. When you run the app, you'll have two options. "Bootstrap Recovery" and "Reboot Recovery". Option one has to be done to be able to book into the non-stock recovery, option two will then allow you to boot reboot directly into recovery. Unlike your G2, to be able to even be able to boot into clockwork, you have to first have to use option one as listed above.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.droid2.bootstrap

This post was a huge help too btw... thanks a ton.

Sent from my HTC Vision using telepathy and unicorn dust.

-Gilgamesh- · Mar 11, 2011

Very glad to hear I was able to be of some help, also glad to hear that the above contact issue was resolved.

sinistersai4d4d · Mar 13, 2011

Any suggestions on how to overclock it? I'm guessing setCPU is out of the question. I notice that even on Fission her D2G is slower than my G2 doing basic stuff like unlocking the phone and typing on the physical keyboard (words have to "catch up"). Just overall dissappointed with Motorola on this one. Def gonna stick to HTC solely from now on.

Sent from my HTC Vision using telepathy and unicorn dust.

Asphyx · Mar 13, 2011

sinistersai4d4d said:
Ok started over from scratch with nandroid backup. Got her contacts back. Flashed fresh Fission (DON'T USE THEMES THEY ARE ALL FLAWED! I TRIED 3 popular ones)

Anyway her phone runs Sooooo much smoother. MOtoBlur is a huge failure and resource hog. Google shouldn't let them all ruin their OS like that...

Anyway, Fission works great so far. Very stable and mostly painless install if you backup apps with Titanium and contacts too.

Thanks for the help!

Sent from my HTC Vision using telepathy and unicorn dust.

You can only flash Themes that are for Fission. They are available in the FRM including many other add ons you probably want to have as well.

sinistersai4d4d · Mar 15, 2011

Asphyx said:
You can only flash Themes that are for Fission. They are available in the FRM including many other add ons you probably want to have as well.

Yeah I know. And the three Fission themes I tried all broke at least one thing. Random stuff in settings and odd features that wouldn't work. Maybe it's just my phone... works much better sans themes.

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