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Montala · 27 Aug 2011 at 17:41

Another popular custom ROM you might like to look at is Lite'ning, which a lot of folk like.

More details at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1095274 if anyone is interested!

AndyCr15 · 27 Aug 2011 at 18:14

I came from Lite'ning (poor battery), through Cognition to VillianRom. Seems pretty good, very stable and gives me good battery life. Anyone else tried it?

SiHH · 27 Aug 2011 at 18:32

SiHH said:
Cool thanks.

Downloaded CWM but it says i need to root it?

Not having much luck with it so far.

Rooted phone, installed CWM but it doesnt seem to like the Batista rom ?

_Jimlad_ · 27 Aug 2011 at 18:42

photoshop said:
When is the successor to this getting released?

not this year thats for sure... i would say a good 9 or 10 months maybe longer

rapid64k · 27 Aug 2011 at 18:59

DefiantAsh said:
Anyone had issues with the perfurated samsung case?

My dad and i both have the same case, and we both have the same problem, that when talking to people on the phone, the receiver will always hear an echo of themselves, and once the case is removed, the issue is no longer there?

Anyone else experienced this? Apologies if its already been posted

I have the same case but have not experienced the phenomenon.

khulershaker · 27 Aug 2011 at 19:14

+1 for batista70 came from lightning 6.1. Tried a few others but this one is ace. Definitley snappiest I've used. I was having trouble with accessing phone via USB previous, stock and lightning but with Batista when you connect you can drop the notification window and click the USB attachment and it forces your phone to show as a drive rather than a camera. For the record it only became stable after factory wipe partition wipe and dalvarik wipe then flashing .

DefiantAsh · 27 Aug 2011 at 19:32

rapid64k said:
I have the same case but have not experienced the phenomenon.

Ah. Must just be because he is on Three.

I have asked again and mine seems do be all but gone, lol

Kipper67 · 27 Aug 2011 at 20:07

DefiantAsh said:
Anyone had issues with the perfurated samsung case?

My dad and i both have the same case, and we both have the same problem, that when talking to people on the phone, the receiver will always hear an echo of themselves, and once the case is removed, the issue is no longer there?

Anyone else experienced this? Apologies if its already been posted

Have you seen this thread over on XDA ?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119667&page=1

SiHH · 27 Aug 2011 at 20:08

wheelscene said:
+1 for batista70 came from lightning 6.1. Tried a few others but this one is ace. Definitley snappiest I've used. I was having trouble with accessing phone via USB previous, stock and lightning but with Batista when you connect you can drop the notification window and click the USB attachment and it forces your phone to show as a drive rather than a camera. For the record it only became stable after factory wipe partition wipe and dalvarik wipe then flashing .

I cant get CWM to see my zip file of my sd card ??

Tried using SDformatter to format then format on phone but still no joy... doing my head in!

Kipper67 · 27 Aug 2011 at 20:15

SiHH said:
I cant get CWM to see my zip file of my sd card ??

Tried using SDformatter to format then format on phone but still no joy... doing my head in!

You need to put it on the internal "sd card" I think . At least I couldn't find any way to navigate in recovery mode to the external sd card but i've only used it a couple of times.

I had problems trying to flash Batista70 earlier from CWM and ended up just booting into download mode and using odin to put litening rom on instead

so i'll just try that for a while and see what it's like.

mrk · 27 Aug 2011 at 20:16

Why are you putting it on the sd card? Put it on the internal memory. There's no need to even touch the SD card in any instance!

Kreeeee · 27 Aug 2011 at 20:36

AndyCr15 said:
I came from Lite'ning (poor battery), through Cognition to VillianRom. Seems pretty good, very stable and gives me good battery life. Anyone else tried it?

Wasn't a fan of Villain, GingerVillain on the desire is far superior to VillainRom on the GS2

CM7/Modaco for me, after trying your 3 and the two I prefer. Loving the ability to edit the pull down shortcut icons on CM7 and the battery life on Modaco with nin 2.1.2.

Kipper67 · 27 Aug 2011 at 20:37

Lol , I realised that after about 30 secs when the zip wasn't showing up in recovery mode, but when the instructions over at XDA Say "download the rom to the sd card" and it's only the 2nd time flashing your week old phone you do what they say and err on the side of caution to avoid a £400 ornamental paperweight

Either way I still had problems with batista once it was on the internal rom storage - to do with unsigned package I think it was and the update just seemed to stop after about 10-20% and just sit there so took the battery out and flashed litening in odin .

Might have another go in a week or so after i've seen how litening is.

tomos · 27 Aug 2011 at 20:56

i'm using crisleko (something like that) and find it better than lightning (was using it till v5 or so).

like the menu bar improvements too - like the old oxygen on the desire. adamGs new oxygen is what i'm waiting for - once it has a2dp issues fixed

joelk2 · 27 Aug 2011 at 20:59

wheelscene said:
+1 for batista70 came from lightning 6.1. Tried a few others but this one is ace. Definitley snappiest I've used. I was having trouble with accessing phone via USB previous, stock and lightning but with Batista when you connect you can drop the notification window and click the USB attachment and it forces your phone to show as a drive rather than a camera. For the record it only became stable after factory wipe partition wipe and dalvarik wipe then flashing .

how do you get it to do this?

i have batista and i only have

wifi, data, bluetooth, gps, sound, rotation

can you change them?

mrk · 27 Aug 2011 at 21:02

Enable USB debugging, it's enabled by default though....

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You guys are aware of the shortcuts in Samsung based ROMs yep? like dragging the motification bar left/right to adjust screen brightness, couble tapping home to launch voice command and the ability to fully control an active call from the notification bar so you can use another app during a call?

Oh and Samsung Dive, it has the accuracy to be able to pin the Maps marker over the room the phone is in AND has the ability to turn GPS on if you left it off or a thief turns it off. The latter part is something no other phone has IIRC.

Stuff like that is why I won't be moving to any other non Samsung based ROM. If those can be ported over then I will though, but never a moment before.

SiHH · 27 Aug 2011 at 21:03

Kipper67 said:
You need to put it on the internal "sd card" I think . At least I couldn't find any way to navigate in recovery mode to the external sd card but i've only used it a couple of times.

I had problems trying to flash Batista70 earlier from CWM and ended up just booting into download mode and using odin to put litening rom on instead so i'll just try that for a while and see what it's like.

Bingo - stuck on internal and it worked fine.

Am on talkmobile and cant seem to get the Internet settings through though grrr.

Any mods necessary on this rom or config changes?

SiHH · 27 Aug 2011 at 21:08

Also what kernel should i be using?

Smokes · 27 Aug 2011 at 21:23

Quick n00b Q, do I need to root the phone before flashing? Tia

Mekrel · 27 Aug 2011 at 21:37

Smokes said:
Quick n00b Q, do I need to root the phone before flashing? Tia

You do yes, unless you're flashing official firmware via Odin.

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