Well.. not many people are familiar with kernels and even the term flashing. Plus.. when people invest 2k on such an expensive phone, tjey would generally like some assurance before doing anything to it.

of course the guides in the first page are excellent. but to be honest(knowing this very well being a teacher) we cannot blame others for trying to get some form of confirmation or reaassurance before proceeding.

Thanks to benny888 and others for keeping this fast paced forum in check

cheers

on Lite'Ning Rom 6.1. NO reboots so far. 1 week already

I see that many things in batista are already in Lite'Ning Rom... which is more stable. The most common issue is the bluetooth issue i think.

Probably the only thing good about the batista rom compared to the Lite'Ning Rom is the undervolting which might benefit SOME devices which have no issue whatsoever with undervolting but based on the responses of the forumers in xda, it looks like to be quite a dominant issue.

Which feature would be the MOST sure-get for the batista compared to Lite'Ning?

Ic... i agree that both of the rom features look rather similar. You're using batista3.6? How's the stock browser on it? Probably one reason why i have not tried villainrom2.4 is it mentions that the stock browser lags...

i'm not so much of a care-about-themes fella... so as long as it gives more functions to the phone, makes it snappier (better battery life... but I know even if it does, not by a huge mile). I'm more into does the rom give better responsivness... so far, lite'ning does it for me.. will try batista3.6 soon... just to see how it is

but it looks like villainrom is a realllllly popular rom out there...

hahahaha... you fellas sure mod it kau kau until it doesn't even look like lite'ning rom... hehehe

Me, i'm doing too much heavy lifting on the n900 already... not going to mess with this phone too much la... (or rooting and flashing is already messing with it? )

cause I just need one functioning phone at all times....

Do share however if there are some cool features that you added in batista or whatever rom you're using that's interesting!

no problems with bluetooth?

just flashed batista3.7.1

transferred bluetooth to my PC... a-ok!

nothing else... gonna see how it runs for the next week.. so far, very very speedy as well.

using batista rom for awhile... noticed..

1. not really fancying the 'alternate' version of TWiz. it doesn't even support panning in the home screen and app screen.

2. Buggy. Some of the apps force close quite regularly. On top of that, things like the stock calender widgets are not add-able...

3. Besides that, the overall ux and ui, not impressive. Reverting back to lite'ning soon....



The animations and transitions are cool though... and being able to modify the power-button menu is awesome... the animations and everything feels fairly quick...

I wonder would going for batista3.6 would be better?

This post has been edited by Dark_Angel85: Aug 22 2011, 07:09 PM

erm... apps that FCed

calender
gallery

these were the ones that were problematic. the rest were erratic. not consistent.

Anyway... flashing back lite'ning... seemed more stable.

hmmm... tried to do CF-Root

but somehow CWM manager not appearing in the application drawer

but i can reboot into CWM

Yes I did... well... maybe I'll give it another try... see how it goes... had doing everything from scratch...

1. used odin to root via CFroot
2. rebooted to recovery mode, cleared cache and dalvik
3. installed lite'ning6.1
4. no CWM in application drawer

eh?

Well.. it's going to be difficult eh?
Cause I thought that one of the steps to root using cf root was to flash the zimage file using cwm after flashing the stock kernel? But I can't because thee isn't the cwm to select. Here are my steps:

1. Flash cfroot. Via odin
2. Go to recovery mode and wipe partition. And dalvik.
3. Flash lite ning rom. See the application drawer. And see nothing. How to flash the zimage? I just flashed a stock kernel. To get rid of the yellow triangle. Now can't flash the zimage file. Anyway to flash that zimage file besides using cwm?

Thanks for clearing it up. So now I have cf root installed, so to get rid of the yellow triangle, I flash the zimage of the stock kernel via cwm? Using which function? Install from zip?

Ermm... I can't go to cwm in the application drawer. There is no flash kernel in the recovery mode when I reboot into cwm

go to the default messaging app,

click on the menu softkey>settings

scroll to the bottom most and uncheck the notifications

I also have that same issue where I have to toggle the Wi-Fi and 3g sometimes. I don't like it as well but Widgets and shortcuts make it better

Selamat hari raya to all ya folks out there burning lemang and making world class beef and chicken rendang!

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