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**Android_Lee** · 05-04-2011, 10:14 AM

Hey, let me ask you SkyRaider folks a question. Do any of you stream music during the day, and if so, do you notice a severe lag when using Gmail (or any email) while music is playing?

**Wanda** · 05-04-2011, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by ucluglee

Hey, let me ask you SkyRaider folks a question. Do any of you stream music during the day, and if so, do you notice a severe lag when using Gmail (or any email) while music is playing?

I do stream music but haven't noticed a lag. What are you streaming it from...typically I use Slacker.

**Android_Lee** · 05-04-2011, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by Wanda

I do stream music but haven't noticed a lag. What are you streaming it from...typically I use Slacker.

I have the Tune In Radio and Jazz Radio apps.

**ssethv** · 05-04-2011, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by ucluglee

Hey, let me ask you SkyRaider folks a question. Do any of you stream music during the day, and if so, do you notice a severe lag when using Gmail (or any email) while music is playing?

I stream music all the time. I haven't noticed any lag at all...

**Android_Lee** · 05-04-2011, 03:09 PM

Ok, looks like I'm going to have to try this rom then. I really love CF.5, but I gotta be able to listen to music and use email at the same time without bogging down the phone or interrupting my music. CF.5 is killing me on that.

**kaefbaml** · 05-04-2011, 04:21 PM

I don't know if its this Rom but I get a crap connection to my 3g now. Looks like everyone is going back to c7?

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**josh74** · 05-04-2011, 05:29 PM

I just cant get any battery life out of this Rom, no matter what kernel i use or radio I use. I guess it just doesnt like my hardware, too bad cause I really love what he has done with this. Going back to Nothing Special (Peanut) I guess.

**ssethv** · 05-04-2011, 05:36 PM

I am going to flash the newest nightly this weekend and give the new kernel a try too, but if the battery isn't as good as this rom im sure I'll be back...

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**davidnc** · 05-04-2011, 06:28 PM

I get similar battery life, between skyraider an CM7 nightlies guess it depends if Im in the sense mood (skyraider)or unsense mood(CM7)

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**ricbon** · 05-04-2011, 06:33 PM

loved this rom was switching from this to cm7 to ruby i stuck with ruby because i love the stock feel BUT i do love sense phone and camera but i was having problem with my 720p recording, it was choppy like hell anybody else had this problem.....that was another major reason im holding off on cm7 till they get 720p.

**lefty_dinc** · 05-04-2011, 08:16 PM

Hey guys this is slightly off topic, but I couldn't find an answer elsewhere and I figured this would be a great place to ask as I want this to be my first ROM that I flash. Now here's the question, When you flash a ROM are you required to reactivate your phone with your Verizon account? Like do you have to dial *228 and all that? Or is it just flash and run? Sorry for the long post I just want to know what I'm getting myself into here.

Thanks!

**zrxoa1** · 05-04-2011, 08:21 PM

No, no need to reactivate. Might need to go thru set up again.

**lefty_dinc** · 05-04-2011, 09:08 PM

Thank you for the quick response. It's why I love this place.

**lefty_dinc** · 05-05-2011, 10:23 PM

Just an update, got this up and running and it took a total of 15 minutes to load the rom, sync gmail, and restore sms... me so happy

**kaefbaml** · 05-05-2011, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by lefty_dinc

Just an update, got this up and running and it took a total of 15 minutes to load the rom, sync gmail, and restore sms... me so happy

I enjoy this Rom. Been running it maybe a week or so. Came from cm7 which is still an excellent Rom but this ones camera still has 720p and cm7 doesn't. So I'm sticking with this one

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**fadepoint89** · 05-05-2011, 11:39 PM

Been running it for over a week. Very smooth. Battery life is pretty good to.

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**lefty_dinc** · 05-06-2011, 07:36 AM

yea it does seem smooth. vast improvement over stock.

i hear mention of the great battery life- what battery are you guys running and what's your up time and awake time? Just for comparison?

**mjonesdoster** · 05-06-2011, 08:28 AM

I just flashed Skyraider 4.0 yesterday & everything is really smooth. I have a question - does anybody know if they have A2SD automatically set up? I went into Clockwork Mod Recovery & added an Ext3 partition, however it is still downloading apps to my phone. I don't want to use the generic Android Apps2SD App - I would like the one that automatically works & you can use those apps even when you are plugged into the computer. Any ideas?

**ssethv** · 05-06-2011, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by mjonesdoster

I just flashed Skyraider 4.0 yesterday & everything is really smooth. I have a question - does anybody know if they have A2SD automatically set up? I went into Clockwork Mod Recovery & added an Ext3 partition, however it is still downloading apps to my phone. I don't want to use the generic Android Apps2SD App - I would like the one that automatically works & you can use those apps even when you are plugged into the computer. Any ideas?

I could be wrong but I don't think it is automatic... I have been using this ROM for a while now and Haven't been able to automatically set apps2SD... everytime I get a new APP, it gives me the option to move it but it doesn't do it automatically... I think i prefer it like that, there are some beta apps that I don't want on my SD.. i like the choice

glad you like the ROM... I have tried pretty much all of them, and this one has held my attention longer than any of them... best battery life and the camera is fully functional

**lefty_dinc** · 05-06-2011, 09:38 AM

If I remember correctly automatic App2SD is a feautre of AOSP 2.3, SR 4.0 is based off 2.2 and just has some really nice tweaks of CM 7.0 and Sense 2.0. At least that's the way I read it. Others might know more and could elaborate better.

**lefty_dinc** · 05-06-2011, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by ssethv

I could be wrong but I don't think it is automatic... I have been using this ROM for a while now and Haven't been able to automatically set apps2SD... everytime I get a new APP, it gives me the option to move it but it doesn't do it automatically... I think i prefer it like that, there are some beta apps that I don't want on my SD.. i like the choice

glad you like the ROM... I have tried pretty much all of them, and this one has held my attention longer than any of them... best battery life and the camera is fully functional

What kind of battery life are you getting and with what battery?

**ssethv** · 05-06-2011, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by lefty_dinc

What kind of battery life are you getting and with what battery?

I use a siedo 1750... I easily go through a whole day with moderate to heavy use and almost always have about 25-35 percent left at the end of the day... I send about 200 texts a day, I use twitter, facebook, and Gmail, as well as Tapatalk (I keep them synced so I have to check them or they update as far apart as possible, this is so they don't sync all the time and I save battery) I also prolly talk on the phone about 2 hrs a day total... the only things that will Kill my battery are using Flash or listening to alot of podcasts

I am a creature of habit, so everytime I get into my car I plug my phone in too

**lefty_dinc** · 05-06-2011, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by ssethv

I use a siedo 1750... I easily go through a whole day with moderate to heavy use and almost always have about 25-35 percent left at the end of the day... I send about 200 texts a day, I use twitter, facebook, and Gmail, as well as Tapatalk (I keep them synced so I have to check them or they update as far apart as possible, this is so they don't sync all the time and I save battery) I also prolly talk on the phone about 2 hrs a day total... the only things that will Kill my battery are using Flash or listening to alot of podcasts

I am a creature of habit, so everytime I get into my car I plug my phone in too

Do you spend anytime with a weak signal? Or is singal solid pretty much all day?

**ssethv** · 05-06-2011, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by lefty_dinc

Do you spend anytime with a weak signal? Or is singal solid pretty much all day?

It depends where I am at but I would say for the most part it varies between a good signal or a bad signal... I also have my wifi settings to never sleep and when I go to work or I am at home my phone runs on wifi

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**mjonesdoster** · 05-06-2011, 03:40 PM

So, I went into Titanium backup & moved most of my apps to SD from there, instead of using the "App 2 SD" app from the market (which I had done before). I will preface this by saying I moved at least 100 mb of apps over to the SD card from Titanium. I really have no idea how this works, I was just trying different things. So, now I went into my "Quick System Info Pro" app & it still shows me under the "A2SD" storage: Total: 194 mb, Free: 170 mb; so, it only seems to have dropped by a little (I had already moved some apps, so it really only dropped by about 15 mb).

Anybody have any idea of what is going on & how much actual app space I have on my SD card? I checked my phone storage & it went down by the full 100 mb, so I know this stuff got moved.