CM6 Rom (Detailed) Edit: shortened

[twilk]

Originally Posted by CarlaDarla

I have to agree completely with you. I love AOSP ROMs and to me it is the farthest thing from a downgrade.

2nd. Its not a downgrade. If you love HTC sense this roms not for you. If you dont like or can deal with out HTC sense this roms great and deffinantly not a down grade. For me it was an upgrade. I was already using ADW before CM6 so it was heaven when I found out his rom was using it. You dont like ADW then use launcher pro. Either way you can use any launcher other then sense. Sense isnt customizable at all. I only use 2 pages what am I going to do with the other 5 pages just let them be open space. I cant swipe the doc bar down to reveal a few apps with sense. I cant swype up or down to oppen or cause a comand with sense. I cant have an app drawer that swypes to the side like the Galaxy S with sense. Thats a big plus tha app drawer its so much smoother.

You should try some of the other launchers on the market they are huge upgrades over sense. The only thing nice about sense for most people is the widgets and thats pretty much enogh to keep people from converting. Sense has some nice widgets and although there are replacements on the market for each of those widgets there not exactly as nice looking. The only widget I use though is a PSN widget so I am not suffering at all.

Its a matter of prefrence in the end. Its nice that we have so many options. We can choose between roms and launchers we get to choose.

[Carla]

If that is directed at me I don't really understand why.

[JeffKay]

Originally Posted by cmdauria

Anyone know where to find Up time and Awake time on this Rom? I can only find Up time.

Open Spare Part, go to Battery Usage , select "Other Usage" and "Total Since Boot"

Look at the first bar "Running" - click it. it will say "Time spent without sleeping x hours xx minutes." Just subtract from total time since boot.

[twilk]

Originally Posted by CarlaDarla

If that is directed at me I don't really understand why.

I ment to agree with you lol. But as usuall I started rambling on and turning the post into something it didnt need to be. No disrespect to you, honest lol.

[cmdauria]

Originally Posted by JeffKay

Open Spare Part, go to Battery Usage , select "Other Usage" and "Total Since Boot"

Look at the first bar "Running" - click it. it will say "Time spent without sleeping x hours xx minutes." Just subtract from total time since boot.

Thank You...I appreciate you clearing that up for me!

[JeffKay]

Originally Posted by cmdauria

Thank You...I appreciate you clearing that up for me!

Glad to help! I got that answer from cyanogen's forums.

I am so friggen happy with this ROM .. It's like getting a new phone altogether!

[malibu_23]

ok, forget sense, how can a evo 4g without 4G be anything other than a downgrade?
yea its got super cool vanilla froyo/adw and mods to the OS , but it strips it of its core features that set it above other phones. Im not here to sway people away from it, im sure its great, but a evo with no sense, 4G, FM radio, or even the HDMI out, isnt even a evo anymore. lol. its some nexus-evo bastard child.

[JeffKay]

Originally Posted by malibu_23

ok, forget sense, how can a evo 4g without 4G be anything other than a downgrade?
yea its got super cool vanilla froyo/adw and mods to the OS , but it strips it of its core features that set it above other phones. Im not here to sway people away from it, im sure its great, but a evo with no sense, 4G, FM radio, or even the HDMI out, isnt even a evo anymore. lol. its some nexus-evo bastard child.

Ok.. for me, the experience of an amazing responsive interface , very fast access and MUCH improved reliability is better then the features you mention. I live in a 4G area, I could care less. 3G gives me 1.5 down and 800K up, and I use WiFi in my pad. HDMI out.. why? I have two HD Win7 Media Machines hooked up to a 8 GIG media NAS server. FM.. I could care less.

Anytime an interface is layered on top of another (IE sense) it complicates things and put an additional strain on resources. For NO good reason, other then to make an HTC device "look" different. HTC did this with WinMo too, if you ever had one.

Actually, the mail app in my CM6 rom has a great feature that sense does not. Multi Select! I can check a bunch of junk mail and delete in one shot. That single feature is more important to me then any of the ones you mention.

But in the end.. to each tis own.. and best of luck to ya.

[malibu_23]

ok jeff u hate sense, i get it. but i bet u donated to the xda bounty to bring at least 4g to 6.1. hell u payin 10 extra bux a month just like the rest of us, might as well get ya money worth. right?


and without 4g what good is wifi tether? ima share my 3g? lol. im pullin 5+ mbps down.

and u got streaming win7 PCs, ok, do u carry they around with u? isnt the hdmi out feature a "convience feature" that makes the phone more of a powerhouse? d/l a movie and run it right to a flatcreen, wherever i am. same goes for the fm radio, uses less power than internet based streaming apps.

i could on and on.

but sho cares, its android, u can do what u want, thats the point.

i just choose to use my evo to its full potential, aint worth the trade offs IMO.

[twilk]

Originally Posted by malibu_23

ok jeff u hate sense, i get it. but i bet u donated to the xda bounty to bring at least 4g to 6.1. hell u payin 10 extra bux a month just like the rest of us, might as well get ya money worth. right?


and without 4g what good is wifi tether? ima share my 3g? lol. im pullin 5+ mbps down.

and u got streaming win7 PCs, ok, do u carry they around with u? isnt the hdmi out feature a "convience feature" that makes the phone more of a powerhouse? d/l a movie and run it right to a flatcreen, wherever i am. same goes for the fm radio, uses less power than internet based streaming apps.

i could on and on.

but sho cares, its android, u can do what u want, thats the point.

i just choose to use my evo to its full potential, aint worth the trade offs IMO.

For me one of the main things is the Wii remote ability and the 60FPS unlock. All that works great with.. games. I was just playing starfox at work earlier today . I get 4G but I still run CM6. At home I use wifi if needed. I wifi teather all the time with 3G, if you are just viewing websites its no big deal. Try to view video's thats a diff story lol. Also I dont use HDMI out and Ill stream pandora all day because my radio broke in my work car lol. I have no battery issues. I like the nexus-evo chiled coment that was funny lol. The only time

Oh and for that post about the 4G bounty for 6.1 I plan to donate as soon as they get that up and running.