Developer Kushdeck's Ice Cream Sandwich port brings speeds like I've never seen to my HTC EVO 4G. As with Evervolv ICS, Deck's ICS pre-alpha 3 is a work in progress with the same limitations (no camera, no WiMax), but man, is it fast!
Transitions between pages of apps flow fast, menus pop up when you touch the button (as opposed to right after), programs appear as if thrown to the screen, and my EVO 4G running 998 MHZ is seriously a contender to the dual-core EVO 3D running 1.5ghz in terms of how it feels. I installed SetCPU on the phone just to check if it was overclocked, and it was not.
Looking under the hood, you'll find that it runs on Tiamat's 4.1.0+ kernel, the same as Evervolv does, so evidently in a few days of ICS porting development, Deck managed to stomp out that whole slow-motion ICS thing.
There are very few visual differences that I can tell between Deck's ICS and Evervolv, which is understandable as the main work right now is in getting things to work. Deck's doesn't feel quite stable to me, though. It runs like a bat out of hell, so perhaps it's just quicker to run into problems than Evervolv was. But for browsing, dialing, web surfing, this ROM's a charm.
Before checking out this ROM for myself, I was a little worried that the EVO 4G would be a little too slow to run Ice Cream Sandwich. Needless to say, I'm not misguided by that notion anymore.
I can’t wait for a complete ICS rom. I went from a Sense ROM back to AOSP and boy is it superior imo.
I’ve loved Deck’s ROM’s for a while, and was giddy when he came over to the Evo 3D.
Let’s just say I’m a little more than Sad he left the 3D
Geez.. No comments all day.. Well I have a? Having a og evo4g (launch date) and finally after I’ve been reading this site just as long.. I decided to root this past Aug and have been enjoying that. I’m currently running cm7.1 official or whatever, not the nightlys. I do like the asop I believe is the correct term. Is clean and small so frees up lots of mem and such. I seemed to have trouble w the sense based rims. Just in the way would act and always still really big. Sorry.. Anyhow. What’s the best way tofind oh if my settings and all the tweaks and correct radios best kernels.. And all that jazz. Is there a way for. Me to submit my phones “info” and someone or something could tell me what needs to be fixed. Simple issues w radios (in my opinion) not quite rt. But more important I. Would like to know best set upfor performance, battery improvement and overall Kickass-Ness!! Will ics be a viable option for my device and I assume non-Sense roms first. I guess obviously?? Thanks for all the good work on this site. Been reading every day for some time now.
ICS will be viable with the EVO 4G unless something majorly weird comes up. This little ROM rocked.
As for the radios, I generally just flash the newest – for a while last year this was not advisable, but they seem to be battery conservative now.
As for the “best” tweaks – unfortunately that mostly depends on how you use your phone. No one setting is right for everyone.
CM9, as a note, will probably be out for the EVO in a month or two so you can stick with it if you love AOSP.
Thanks for the reply. I understand tweaks are a bit of a personal thing.. I guess I was just interested in maybe a way to make sure I’m running the correct stuff (altogether). Maybe you and your team could do a Xmas end of the year-heck end of a (evo era) review. I can see people sticking w the original model until true new evo2 comes out. I did wanted 3d but I just haven’t had the same craze I felt first time around. (no kickstand my favorite part). Especially with the whole rooting.. Is like a new phone and I seem to have no problem running circles around friends with new hardware or iPhone.. I guess I’m just asking if there would be a chance your team could make like a master review but with simple table of what works together nicely, which updates should by this time be on everyone’s phone by now and the best complete roms to clearly try and why their different.. Thinking w a good year and a half behind us looking back and putting together a fairly “safe ” master list of the top proven setups for our beloved evo.. Again thanks for all the info over the time.. Has taught me so much
Sorry for all the errors. Using new $. 10 SwiftKey. Ever since rooted to stock android key pad is one thing I miss from original set up. Also while I’m taking time to finally write you guys.. Wtf.. Normal sense evo setup.. Can just dial nber and it brings up contact based on the name etc… Now woh this cm7.1 dialer I have (guessing it’s just stock) asop. But now I can’t do that. Have to hit contacts and scroll.?.? Is weird and sucks. Even my old Bberry would do that simple option… I am I missing something?? Thanks for any info and your patience
Should try touch pal dialer, it’s free and gives you the contact look up that you’re missing coming over from sense
Thanks man
Oh yeah, Sense sucks my left nut.
Hold menu button when in your contact list. Should bring up a keyboard and then type the name and it should come up as you type. Took me a minute to figure that out too
Hey I tried that method but it didn’t work. I know what you mean by holding menu button down.. it does in fact bring up keyboard (any other time) but only actual number pad (keyboard). We could be talking about two different things.. Idk.. I am using cm7.1, go launcher. Which doesn’t effect the stock dialer. The stock sense dialer had that option just built in. This android stock apparently doesn’t?? Unless there is a way to sink w your contacts?? Idk but I did download the ‘go dial pad ext. Seems to work however I would like to not use another
I ran this over the weekend. It was fairly stable except for anything GPS related was crashing, and anything that had access to “Galleries” was crashing. Unfortunately I really needed my GPS so I switched back to the ROM I had been running.
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odd, GPS was working fine for me = were you on 3 or 4 pre-alpha?
The quicker this comes to HTC Evo 4G, the better.
stop making bullshit roms that doesn’t even support 4g… People are just going to switch to CM9 when it comes out
*Nothing* running either Sense 3.5 or ICS supports 4g on the evo line, and may not until HTC releases a 4G framework.
You can expect CM9 to maybe support it when it comes out, but keep in mind it took them quite a while to figure out how to make 4G work on AOSP the last time around.
Also, considering the results of the last poll, 4g is not a major factor in most EVO users lives because it’s just not out there.
The things that are missing right now that I use frequently are the camera, gps and 4G. Love decks ICS would use it for daily but for them things
GPS was working fine for me on decks pre 6
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dude CM9 is ICS you dumbass…