It’s been 51 days since MeanBean v0.4 was our ROM Pick for the HTC EVO 4G LTE, and in that time there have been 26 new main releases and at least five minor. Or for those keeping score at home, if you downloaded every single update for the past two months, you would have received 18.6GB of MeanBean.
Since the last time we checked in, developer MikeyXDA has implemented a new “sticky settings” Aroma installer where you can configure certain settings to survive from update to update, an overclocking kernel with an Intellidemand governor has been swapped out with the stock, the Zeppelinrox mod has been implemented to allow for working multitasking, a whitelist for applications was implemented which allows for protecting an application from the task killer, and about a hundred other tweaks, fixes, and additions have been added to the ROM.
If you’re coming from a previous version of this ROM and experiencing issues with the overclocking, make sure to flash the sticky Aroma installer and select your overclocking/voltage options. For me, my phone refuses to mount the SD card when it’s overclocked, so I’m stuck at booting at 1.5Ghz and then overclocking post-boot using System Tuner, but your EVO will probably have its own reaction to overclocking.
I’ll also be checking out the other custom ROMs as they hit the 3.16.651.3 base this week. But if you’re S-OFF and you’ve been hesitant to flash an update to the base radios, now may be the time. If you haven’t taken the S-OFF dive yet, wait a bit as there’s no S-OFF on the 3.16.651.3 base yet, although that appears to be a version checking issue rather than a new HBOOT change.
For those coming from MeanBean 2.9, the only thing you’re really going to notice is that Angry Birds Star Wars works again and that the Fapple mod and musicbox isn’t there any more for compatibility.
Was the HTC EVO 3G LTE in the first sentence a jab at Sprint for it’s delay with it’s LTE towers or just a typo? If it is the former, that is pretty funny!
Typo, however I am at a doctors appointment now, one bar strength, barely was able to load the web page, let alone hit the editor.
Fix in about an hour
Thanks for catching that. It’s been updated.
Wrote this pre-coffee, then was in an area where technically there was a Sprint signal, but only technically.
I feel for you Paul. All Sprint will guarantee is that you get a voice signal. The data doesn’t have to work at all since in your contract it says, “Estimating data speeds is not an exact science….” They completely get off on that technicality.
Just made the plunge to S-OFF on my EVO 4G LTE. Been using it the whole time with rooted stock rom with S-ON. I was on HBOOT 2.09 and the 1.12.11.1119 radios. After the S-OFF upgrade flashing MeanBean was painless. I am very impressed so far.
Love Meanbean. A truly solid Sense ROM that I’ve updated 26 times since its initial release.
:’( I had to unroot and s-on because my damn bluetooth doesn’t work no more. I took it to one sprint place and they don’t want to work on it without it being on a completely stock unrooted rom.
And since I didn’t want to make another wasted trip I s-oned.
They were amazed that it was rooted and couldn’t even tell. I tried to tell them that this is because it’s the stock rom, only rooted.
It also happened to be the day after they pushed out the latest update as well.
But once I get a replacement phone I’ll be back on s-off asap
Mean ROM sounds nice but i would like to have more of a Stock ROM.
This is MeanBean – and I don’t know how you could get too much more stock other than removing the fixes to what’s broken in stock
I loved MeanRom for a while but I tried the new Viper Rom that has JB now and I must say it is awesome. Surpirsed there hasn’t been a good and evo article on it yet. Still love MeanBean though, just rolling with Viper now.
We’ve done viper in the past, and if it’s re-based to the 3.16 base it’ll be the next one I do – know they released a new version immediately before the 3.16 ota. Was planning on sitting down with a new ROM tonight or tomorrow and getting on it.
Very cool. Sounds good man. thanks,
It is Now possible to obtain Full S-OFF with the EVO 4G LTE with any Android version including 3.16 through Team Unlimited using DirtyRacun. With 3.16 you just have a few additional steps using BabyRacun.