First CM7 RC has Landed for the Droid!!!

[boyer61]

Geolocation is not working for CM7. Thats the only thing i can find wrong with it. I always wanted just the clock on the homescreen, and not the clock and the weather. lol

 

[gilligan156]

Mine is pretty stable, BUT -

My home screen lags horribly. Almost every time I hit the home button to get out of any app, my phone has to reload the launcher. The whole screen turns black except the notification shade for about 2-3 seconds, then my background loads, then my shortcuts, and then finally my clock widget at the top. Then it runs slow for 5-10 seconds, and if I open the app tray it has to repopulate the icons in the app tray.

I'm using LauncherPro, but it does the same thing with ADWLauncher. My CM6.2 or whatever it was didn't do this. We installed CM7 on my girl's, and hers is doing the same thing.

It's really, really frustrating and while I love EVERYTHING about gingerbread - especially the locking animation - if I can't fix this I'm flashing back. I can't handle how slow it is trying to reload the home screen.

Any ideas?

 

[.46caliber]

From time to time I've had that same problem with LP. Give it time, we're still not to a final release, this is just an RC. I expect things like this to be pretty well ironed out for the final.

 

[boyer61]

This release is working perfectly for me. Besides the geolocation deal but I can live with that

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[gilligan156]

From time to time I've had that same problem with LP. Give it time, we're still not to a final release, this is just an RC. I expect things like this to be pretty well ironed out for the final.

Yeah, I've had it before but its been a long time. And if it were just launcherpro I'd use ADW, buuut it's both :/

I even turned on the "lock in memory" option and it still doesn't work right. Meh, any ideas? Any tweaks I can do?

Is noone else's doing this?

 

[.46caliber]

Yeah, I've had it before but its been a long time. And if it were just launcherpro I'd use ADW, buuut it's both :/

I even turned on the "lock in memory" option and it still doesn't work right. Meh, any ideas? Any tweaks I can do?

Is noone else's doing this?

Loading a custom kernel has made it work great for me. It was the Cyanogen kernel clocked to 800MHz that I experienced that problem with.

I am currently running Chevy No. 1 ultra low voltage, 1.2GHz kernel. I run it at 1GHz typically and haven't had the laggy/force close launcher issue.

 

[gilligan156]

Loading a custom kernel has made it work great for me. It was the Cyanogen kernel clocked to 800MHz that I experienced that problem with.

I am currently running Chevy No. 1 ultra low voltage, 1.2GHz kernel. I run it at 1GHz typically and haven't had the laggy/force close launcher issue.

Should I download the ultra low voltage 1.0 ghz, or the ultra low voltage 1.2 ghz and adjust it with setcpu? I've never changed my kernel.

 

[.46caliber]

Should I download the ultra low voltage 1.0 ghz, or the ultra low voltage 1.2 ghz and adjust it with setcpu? I've never changed my kernel.

The numbers indicate the cap. You can use either, just adjust it with setcpu. If it's unstable, load the low voltage version.

Flashing a kernel is just as easy as a ROM.

Put it on the root of the SD card, reboot into recovery, and install zip!

 

[gilligan156]

The numbers indicate the cap. You can use either, just adjust it with setcpu. If it's unstable, load the low voltage version.

Flashing a kernel is just as easy as a ROM.

Put it on the root of the SD card, reboot into recovery, and install zip!

Awesome, i'm gonna try it right now!

 

[gilligan156]

Ok, loaded up chevyno1 1.0ghz ultra low and things seem to be running really smoothly. woo!

Thanks a lot caliber!

 

[scarryman04]

Yeah, I've had it before but its been a long time. And if it were just launcherpro I'd use ADW, buuut it's both :/

I even turned on the "lock in memory" option and it still doesn't work right. Meh, any ideas? Any tweaks I can do?

Is noone else's doing this?

In your AWD Settings go to system preferences/ homescreen orientation/ and choose portrait, this has helped me tremendously because it is always in portrait so you never have that lag time if your phone is a little bit sideways and your phone tries to load in landscape mode.

 

[scarryman04]

One problem im having, Beautiful widgets can't geolocate me for my weather. although maps and latitude is showing my exact spot?

My BW geolocation is working fine, GMaps too.

 

[.46caliber]

Ok, loaded up chevyno1 1.0ghz ultra low and things seem to be running really smoothly. woo!

Thanks a lot caliber!

You're welcome. I used his kernels with CM 6.1.2 and now with CM 7. I really like them. Great power, great battery life and they're stable.

 

[boyer61]

My BW geolocation is working fine, GMaps too.

Really? I just tried it again, using google weather, it shows my town now, but no temperature. accuweather shows everything, but the temp is about 10 degrees off.

 

[boyer61]

I just reinstalled the rom, and it's still not working for me.

 

[racermech]

Trying to do my first root and I am having an issue. Following this link

Motorola Droid: Full Update Guide - CyanogenMod Wiki

I get to these instructions
# Open the RSD Lite program by right clicking it and selecting Run As Administrator.
# Click on the "..." button next to the filename box and select the .sbf file.
# Once it is selected, hit Start and wait for it to finish flashing the device.

When I click... I find the sbf (named MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b but I can not click start.

What am I missing??

 

[scarryman04]

Trying to do my first root and I am having an issue. Following this link

Motorola Droid: Full Update Guide - CyanogenMod Wiki

I get to these instructions
# Open the RSD Lite program by right clicking it and selecting Run As Administrator.
# Click on the "..." button next to the filename box and select the .sbf file.
# Once it is selected, hit Start and wait for it to finish flashing the device.

When I click... I find the sbf (named MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b but I can not click start.

What am I missing??

You didn't extract the SBF...it should be named MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b.SBF

 

[.46caliber]

Trying to do my first root and I am having an issue. Following this link

Motorola Droid: Full Update Guide - CyanogenMod Wiki

I get to these instructions
# Open the RSD Lite program by right clicking it and selecting Run As Administrator.
# Click on the "..." button next to the filename box and select the .sbf file.
# Once it is selected, hit Start and wait for it to finish flashing the device.

When I click... I find the sbf (named MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b but I can not click start.

What am I missing??

Are you trying to root or return the phone to its original state?

 

[scarryman04]

Are you trying to root or return the phone to its original state?

He's trying to root using the MotoCache1 method, its the way I rooted my phone.

 

[racermech]

You didn't extract the SBF...it should be named MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b.SBF

Extract?? The file is sitting in a folder on my desktop, same name. Type is listed as SBF File (not zip or rar) with a size of 3751KB.

I have since done super 1 click and got everything running, but this was still bugging me as to why I could not get the root to work this way.