[Q] New DS7 in the mail

[Jaxidian]

Hey all, I'm a new DS7 owner (well, UPS is right now but I will be). My interest was grabbed when I heard the news about the official Honeycomb being released for the DS7. After some add'l reading around about it (including discovering Honeystreak), I decided to trade my Nook Color in for a DS7.

I'm by no means new to Android hacking but I am totally new to the DS7. So I was wondering if a couple peeps would mind helping me play catch-up so I know what all is going on with it. For example:

1. What's the recovery situation? I see a stickied CWM thread but I also see comments such as "I doubt we'll be seeing cmw any time soon since partitions keep changing and we all know how badly cmw has screwed.us in the past...". If not CWM, then whatcha got?
2. Are there generally-accepted bugs with the device that I should be aware of before I waste time banging my head against the wall? For example, all AOSP ROMs for the Thunderbolt have a GPS and Network Location bug, and MMS only works if Wifi is disconnected.
3. What firmware-flashing tool is used? (equivalent to Odin, HBoot, RSDLite, etc.)
4. What other things are there that I should know about that are specific to the DS7?
5. If not here on XDA, where is DJ Steve posting new HoneyStreak updates?

I appreciate your help and a bit of patience while I ask the dumb questions.

 

[lrs421]

Hey Jax, good to see a fellow Thunderbolt owner over here, well....the rom game is slow around these parts. Most owners including myself are waiting for the official 3.2 ota which may be days or weeks away for the wifi model. DJsteve is the streak dev but has CHOSEN to take his work elsewhere due to GPL issues.

The known bugs or issues for the most part have been well documented, battery life and screen, although I wouldn't call the later a "bug". Battery life is supposed to be addressed in the ota as well. In my opinion this is going to be a sweet little tab once 3.2 arrives and will hopefully attract some devs.

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[Xpun3414]

Hi Jax,

Welcome to the Streak7 world. I too am a new DS7 user (wifi only). Only just getting mine back on the 2nd of Sept. I used the stock rom and thought it was a decent running system. In fact, I kinda disagreed with most who said it was a bit sluggish, as mine seemed to run quite well. Got my DS7 on Friday afternoon,by late Saturday night I had it rooted to Honeycomb.Why live with last years model when you can have this years model. I worked under that for a few days to see how it ran. Then I went back to the stock Dell rom for comparison. Well... after going back to the stock rom I saw just what everyone was saying about it being sluggish. Now granted the stock rom ran fine & I was fine with it untill I rooted. Then I got spoiled. SO not only does the stock rom run a bit slower, it has a lot of bloat. (as one would expect). Going over to the root rom fixes these issues. Its a clean fast running system now. I have not found any troubles with the rom Im using or the stock rom. I think you'll be happy with the DS7 & even more so after rooting it.
I use DJ_Steve's HoneyStreak HD7 2.0 (3.2)R4 (Going to R5 today as he just posted the R5 yesterday) & I love it. You'l need to install R2 first,then update to R4 or R5.
DJ_Steve has moved over to another site & his work can be found here :

R2 : http://tabletroms.com/forums/honeyc...[r2]-honeystreak-hd7-2-0-release-2-3-2-a.html

R5 : http://tabletroms.com/forums/honeyc...m][r5]-honeystreak-hd7-2-0-release-3-2-a.html

Good luck with your new DS7. If I can help any more please feel free to drop me a line. And keep us posted on your goings on with it.

 

[lrs421]

^^^I also think the stock rom isn't so bad, I do have adwex on top of it though. I'm yet to root mines. I'm shocked how much I'm liking my DS7.

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[TheManii]

Before you go installing HC, can you check what stock rom you have installed first?

The version is in system -> about phone

You might have a newer version rom then what's available. Dell has been releasing most of their updates as preinstalled only recently.

 

[Jaxidian]

Before you go installing HC, can you check what stock rom you have installed first?

The version is in system -> about phone

You might have a newer version rom then what's available. Dell has been releasing most of their updates as preinstalled only recently.

I bought mine used on Ebay. I had honeycomb on it within 3 hours of playing with my Streak.