I will let the Hydro guys speak for themselves on this but from my own standpoint changing all the colors in ICS or any version of OS is a pain in the butt... For a complete change over to remove say ICS blue your talking hundreds and hundreds of images that have to be recolored and then go in and make a few dozen XML edits to the code in the ROM and in the apps themselves. It can be done but its quite an undertaking. This is something that normally falls under the "theme" category and not a normal part of a ROM release.I am so glad I discovered your thread. I am using v7 with no glitches and it's awesome. I had a small question though, is there anyway to change the overall color? i.e.Gingerbread being Green and ICS being Blue. Could you change theses colors to say Pink or maybe Grey? I know I could get ADW or some other home screen editor to help with that but, had a bad expierence with one trying to change my internet homepage and it would send me to a diffrent market to download apps. Just wondering, I know you guys do some great stuff and I appreciate it.
I've been using the ROM for almost 2 months so I figured I'd drop my opinions. Take them for what they're worth. Thanks for this wonderful ROM! It's been great for daily use!
Things I like:
- I started with version 5 and found it to be very stable but it seemed slow compared to GB, so I didn't use it daily. Version 6 is considerably faster and completely stable for me (whenever I try to overclock it becomes unstable so I don't OC.)
- ICS Launcher, calendar layout, settings menu... and all ICS goodness
- Notification bar widget with power options, etc.
- Mods for battery info in the status bar. I love seeing the % up there.
- Everything seems to work and nothing is broken!
Things I don't like:
- Version 7 added rotation and I don't really like that, an option or mod to turn it off would be great. I also happened to like the unplug wake, but I can live with that turned off.
- Version 7 seems generally slower than version 6 to me. I'm sticking with version 6 for now.
- I can't see the message portion of most of my Exchange meeting invites and I don't know why. This may just be an ICS thing. In GB I could see the message. This has been a problem for me because my meetings often include conference call number details and I can't see those on my phone any more.
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Things I would like to see, and I wish I knew how to help with:
- Ability to sync with Facebook account using the Facebook app. I know this was disabled by Google so not specific to this ROM, but it's enabled in CM and I miss it.
- 4G toggle notification widget (the home screen widget works great).
Would also love it if we could turn off the auto rotation for the lock screen.
Let me try to post a mod for that tonight.
Hit up post #3 for a "no lockscreen rotate" mod.
Here it is too:
dbutt-aosp-v7-no-lock-rotate.zip -- no onscreen controls and no lockscreen rotate.
dbutt-aosp-v7-no-lock-rotate-yes-screen-controls.zip -- same but with onscreen controls on.
just noticed this myself. I havent been able to use GW for a while since they had removed the prepaid google card option utill the release a fix for the incredible insecure 4 digit pin issue.
I still had 1$ on that card....drat.