What is not so great about CM?

[k.electron]

I'm getting my incredible back from warranty repairs soon and it'll be on the last leg of its life since my upgrade is near and I have my heart set on the Galaxy Nexus. In the meantime, despite my love for sense I was planning on learning to live without sense by going to a more pure android rom. I've never tried CM7 so far. I would like to know if there are things that don't work well with CM that would otherwise be fine on an htc rom, like device drivers or such? or if there are some incompatibilities between how apps interact because the hardware is now not supported the same way as it was before?

also is CM7 significantly faster in its routine operation than the HTC based roms?

 

[RamAir02]

From my understanding, the only thing that does not work in CM7 is 720p video.

It should be as fast, if not faster, than Sense 1.0 ROMs.

Sent from my ADR6300

 

[SynisterWolf]

I'm getting my incredible back from warranty repairs soon and it'll be on the last leg of its life since my upgrade is near and I have my heart set on the Galaxy Nexus. In the meantime, despite my love for sense I was planning on learning to live without sense by going to a more pure android rom. I've never tried CM7 so far. I would like to know if there are things that don't work well with CM that would otherwise be fine on an htc rom, like device drivers or such? or if there are some incompatibilities between how apps interact because the hardware is now not supported the same way as it was before?

also is CM7 significantly faster in its routine operation than the HTC based roms?

CM7 is the most stripped down, fastest, rom on the market. better battery life without all the bloat. sense is all UI and easier user experience rom. i would give it a try. you will like it.

 

[k.electron]

From my understanding, the only thing that does not work in CM7 is 720p video.

It should be as fast, if not faster, than Sense 1.0 ROMs.

Sent from my ADR6300

i use the camera for talking pics of food, whiteboard from work and the bank app allows me to deposit checks. i dont really care about 720p. so if thats the only non-working thing, thats fine by me,

CM7 is the most stripped down, fastest, rom on the market. better battery life without all the bloat. sense is all UI and easier user experience rom. i would give it a try. you will like it.

sounds like sound advice. thank you.

also another couple of questions:
what kernel should i go for? i want extreme stability and compatibility.
what radio? 2.15.00.08.08?

 

[dyetheskin]

try miui. even better battery life

 

[Alton (Halo 2)]

^ um no
Get tiamats kernel with it he just made a governor called no lag !
Really good lockscreen from cm7 too

Sent from my ADR6300 using xda premium

 

[N-Forced]

=k.electron;20083718]also another couple of questions: what kernel should i go for? i want extreme stability and compatibility.

Try chads incredikernel, set it to smartass v2 and lower the min clock speed to 128 best battery life/lag free experience you can get on this phone.

 

[el6006]

Condemned CyanogenMod V8 Vanilla all the way. Along with incredikernel/smartass2 govnah'. Smooth as butter.

 

[k.electron]

First i installed stable cm 7.1 with tiamats kernel. (i had formatted everything and wiped dalvik). it was fast, but FC'ed all over the place. even the settings tab would fc. i thought maybe the adw launcher was bugged, but after going through a painful process just to get the market and titanium on there to uninstall adw, still no luck. not to mention the auto brightness service would fc so my screen would get stuck being too bright or too dim, and the phone would never shut down, just hang with the shutting down dialog till battery pull.

needless to say but i reflashed, this time with condemned v8 and chads incredikernel that comes along with it. performance is very smooth and no real FCs except for one thing but that was probably my fault. it also comes with the market so i dont have to jump through hoops to get the market. removed adw and put launcher pro on there (i understand if u hate me, i just think launcher is a bit more stable).

 

[SynisterWolf]

First i installed stable cm 7.1 with tiamats kernel. (i had formatted everything and wiped dalvik). it was fast, but FC'ed all over the place. even the settings tab would fc. i thought maybe the adw launcher was bugged, but after going through a painful process just to get the market and titanium on there to uninstall adw, still no luck. not to mention the auto brightness service would fc so my screen would get stuck being too bright or too dim, and the phone would never shut down, just hang with the shutting down dialog till battery pull.

needless to say but i reflashed, this time with condemned v8 and chads incredikernel that comes along with it. performance is very smooth and no real FCs except for one thing but that was probably my fault. it also comes with the market so i dont have to jump through hoops to get the market. removed adw and put launcher pro on there (i understand if u hate me, i just think launcher is a bit more stable).

Same problem I had with tiamats kernel. I did a full wipe and tried Chad's / tinys and haven't seen a problem on cm7.

Sent from my sexy assistant. (AMOLED HTC Incredible)

 

[jdd1777]

cm

no t.v. out

 

[k.electron]

hmm thats interesting. i have never actually connected my phone to a tv. i might start doing that with the nexus.

 

[badogg]

Same problem I had with tiamats kernel. I did a full wipe and tried Chad's / tinys and haven't seen a problem on cm7.

Sent from my sexy assistant. (AMOLED HTC Incredible)

Yeah, my phone absolutely hates Tiamat Kernels. It seems to have some kind of love affair with Chad and Tiny's Kernels though. lol

 

[HarrisonBP]

In my experience MIUI has been better than CM7. I have only been using MIUI about a week, but there are no force closes, it doesn't lose my numbers and texts like CM.

However, I can't get wired tethering too work in either. Can't install a driver for RNDIS.

Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

 

[kioshi]

no 720p video recording and tv-out.

Everything else works and outperforms HTC Sense.

Stupid MIUI broke my power button, had to replace Incredible.

 

[jojo54696]

CM7 is a great rom, the amount of support it has and the skill of the development team make it a top notch rom, you should atleast try it out.

 

[watt9493]

Cm7 (whatever flavor), incredikernel, ext 4 mod no limit- dalvik moved, and adrenaline shot.

-My life is a shooting range, people never change-

 

[k.electron]

cm7 (+ whatever condemned brings along) has been working great now.

i've looked into MIUI and frankly i don't think i am going to even trying it. imitating iOS is not what i want to do. i have an ipod and i don't particularly like the ui aspects of ios. i don't know why anyone would want to make their android ui like ios.