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Best sense rom?

I've been running cyanogen and then MIUI ever since I got my EVO (on my second, first was stolen. ) but I only had my first EVO on sense roms for as long as it took for cyanogen's to first came out. I used to run damage control on my old one, but it seems like there's WAAAAAY more options now. What do you guys think is the best sense rom and why?

I'm been running Myn's WarmTwoPointTwo. I like it because it's well supported, broad user base, it's beautiful (I didn't like all the "shiny" Sense graphics, W2.2 cleaned it up--just looks sharp and sophisticated), it's fast and everything seems to work. I was using the nightlies when they came out and found that I really missed the features of the Evo's camera--I take a lot of pictures and video. Until the camera features improve, I'm sticking with 2.2

Yeah, as bloated as sense was, the things they added were never detrimental to android, I wish we could just pick and choose sometimes. :<

I have been running sac's roms for the past month and they are definitely sweet. He gives you like 5 different launchers that you can use so if you get bored. The battery life on my Evo has been the best it has ever been on any Rom.
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Myn RLS4 is my favorite.

Myn's warm RL4 is amazing..
smooth transition, preety look, good battery live, nice speed too..
what more could I ask? I loooooove it..

best is a matter of opinion

CheesyNutz said:
best is a matter of opinion
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This is very true...and that being said I've always been a big fan of Fresh Rom's and at the moment was talked in to trying out Myn's warm rom...
Ultimately pick one and flash it, give it a little time and then try another. Give them a chance and then pick the one you like the best and go from there.

blkout01 said:
Ultimately pick one and flash it, give it a little time and then try another.
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This is a vicious cycle. Beware of the flashaholics anonymous club.

I love Ava Froyo V10. I've been following Ava since the beginning, and it has only gotten better by leaps and bounds.
I've tried Stock, Cyanogen, Fresh, and Warm, but never really took a good liking to any of them. Ava Froyo has been my go-to-ROM. On previous versions of Ava Froyo, I've coupled it with the Netarchy Toastmod Kernel, however V10 doesn't need it (you won't have an unlocked CPU Voltage, just fyi). I've found it has way better battery life than Myn's.

I prefer Myn's at the moment due to the fact there is such a large modding community, it makes making your perfect rom alot easier. Calkulin also has a script out there to remove Sense, it is probably only supported on his roms though.

ImmortalLuD said:
This is a vicious cycle. Beware of the flashaholics anonymous club.
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I toasted my recovery with my flashaholism (EVO-nonsense). I'm using the stock recovery now until I learn a little more about how recoveries work.

Myn's Warm and Calkulin's EViO.

ImmortalLuD said:
This is a vicious cycle. Beware of the flashaholics anonymous club.
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I've been there before. When I had my Hero I couldn't stick with a rom for longer than 2 days lol.

Top ROMS!

I recently ROOT my EVO, so I want to know for those who has gone to varios ROMS what are the top 5 ROMS.
Me personally has ben looking for some Desire Z or Desire HD port, only for the Themes but don't know the names of the ROMS here, or or some Gingerbread ROMS but they are a lot of ROMS here, I;m comming from the HeroC...

Calkulin EVi0 2 best room (I just hate that animation color screen at boot) give me up to 12 hours of battery time.

im new too i just rooted my phone sunday i heard from some people that some roms and kernals are made for certain hardware. mines hardware 0004 is it true
thanks.

If you want to fall in love with your EVO all over again, I HIGHLY recommend MIUI. It is hands down the best looking and best performing ROM out there.

4g doesnt work on miui right

edward.hidalgo said:
4g doesnt work on miui right
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Nope, it's AOSP so no 4G or HDMI.

I think you will fall in love with the Azreal rom. I have been running it for over a month now with no issues at all. Good luck finding a rom that you will like.
Sent from my Fast as F*ck Az'ed out Evo using the XDA app.

rockypr said:
I recently ROOT my EVO, so I want to know for those who has gone to varios ROMS what are the top 5 ROMS.
Me personally has ben looking for some Desire Z or Desire HD port, only for the Themes but don't know the names of the ROMS here, or or some Gingerbread ROMS but they are a lot of ROMS here, I;m comming from the HeroC...
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The best rom for the evo right now is the mikfroyo 4.4 hands down. In terms of speed and customized features it is my favorite of all and mik is already working on
V 4.5 so for u its time to start flashing and enjoying your powerhouse that is the evo the way u suppose to. Happy flashing and have fun!

+1 in the mikfroyi 4.4. Makes me appreciate sense widgets.
Sent from my evocalypse x

Calkulin's EViO 2 ROM is by far my favorite ROM out there!
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Everything works with mikfroyo, so u don't have to worry about anything.
Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883026
I'm also using evoelite theme, here is the link for joni themes:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=746689

Sorry, I meant Konikub's themes.

NEED TO TRY ROMS: DONT GO WITHOUT AT LEAST 3 HOURS ON THESE.
myn's warm twopointtwo: insane themeing. blows your mind and other parts (hehe). fast, stable, just very themed and very feature inclusive.
caulkin's evio 2: incredibly fast. this dude is amazing. you will find his 'usb/wifi tether hack, reboot mod, mms limit/compression mod's in almost every rom out there. slightly themed to not look as fugly as the htc version, very good battery, extreme speed, etc etc etc.
ava-froyo z3: this man is quite a coder. he goes deep inside the rom to alter things never touched by other devs, including radio, 4g, memory management, etc. its a hit and miss for some phones, but gets amazing results on others.
cyanogenmod: vanilla aosp, the biggest project on the xda. built on many different phones, huge team, incredible changes, its like a whole new phone. you wont get the same results or features from any other phone on the market. no hdmi (claims its almost done) and FINALLY 4G (in alpha 2 testing, the code for 4g had to be totally rewritten by two guys. thats probably the biggest feat in this phone's history)
miui: a crossover aosp rom that looks almost like the iphone but with the functionality and customizability of android +100. infinite amount of features. this isnt really built on anything... everything is different. a brand new operating system pretty much. worth a flash. some love it, some (like me) dont.

I am currently using this ROM [ROM(S)]CM7-EX.v9, its pretty neat, still has a few minor issues but it's usable and yeah its Gingerbread. No 4G or HDMI.

dkdude36 said:
NEED TO TRY ROMS: DONT GO WITHOUT AT LEAST 3 HOURS ON THESE.
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Well put. I will +1 you on the CyanogenMod. Great stable ROM with tons of customizability and features out of wazoo.
I would also put in a recomendation foe Fresh Evo ROM by Flipz. Maintains a familiar Sense UI but has some nice performance tweaks and removes all of the bloatware. Also has full HDMI and 4G support. Just another simple and user friendly option for custom ROM that does not get too radical.
sent from my HTC Evo 4G rooted with unrEvoked, running the latest CM7 nightly build.

rockypr said:
I recently ROOT my EVO, so I want to know for those who has gone to varios ROMS what are the top 5 ROMS.
Me personally has ben looking for some Desire Z or Desire HD port, only for the Themes but don't know the names of the ROMS here, or or some Gingerbread ROMS but they are a lot of ROMS here, I;m comming from the HeroC...
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I like all the responses here and how members try to help, especially the 8th grade kid, lol.
I for one won't flash a rom where any of the features of the phone won't work, despite the fact of the great work all of those guys are doing to bring gingerbread to us, I applaud all their hard work. Whatever rom u flash, make sure u do a full wipe so u can get a clean install, do a back up or nandroid before u start flashing and read, read, read and keep on reading, that's the most important thing, get acquainted with any issues or problems that may arise with the roms u gonna flash so u don't panick and go all monkey if the phone freezes or whatever the situation may be. Finally be ready for the storm, flashing is an addiction hard to control.

My top five (which may not be your top five)
MIUI
Evoneo
vaelpak
burnt droid
Evio2
If I'm on a Sense rom, I use go launcher
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I know this has already been said but I just have to agree with Cyanogen. The stable build (6.1.2?) is incredibly nice with plenty to do. On the other hand, Cyanogen7 (i.e. nightlies) are a bit more finnicky (still a superb work in progress). I used the stable build until I had enough courage (newbie myself to android) to start trying the night builds. I really dont want to go back to anything else now, not even the stable. Getting excellent battery life (intermittent tho), great look, very customizable. Def worth a try, if anything

Depends on what you want our of your rom. I tried many, but heres my personal experience.
I went with miui for awhile. Loved the speed and uniqueness. In the end missed everything working perfect.
Went to azrael for awhile. Fastest sense rom in my opinion. Highly recommend if you like sense.
Since I don't like sense, but want stuff to be fully functional, I'm currently on vaelpak. Very fast, great on battery, and the vaelpak settings app makes it very easy to tune to your liking.
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Myns RLS5 Rom with Aloysius theme..... Sweet or CM7 nightly 13 with Mixer theme.... Awesome

How to choose Evo rom?

I was looking at the Evo rom subforum and there are so many options. I have no idea what to choose. When I had the Hero, I used cyanogenmod. I liked it, but I'm definitely open to any suggestions
The most important features to me are long battery life and speed.

I like MIUI so far. But really depends if you like sense or not.
Sent from my Evo powered by MIUI

I have no problem with sense. I'll definitely consider MIUI when choosing a rom.
Based on the number of replies and page views, it looks like Warm TwoPointTwo is the most popular rom. I read the first page and the screenshots look nice, but there's not much information about its features. Does anyone know why it's so popular?

fightr said:
I have no problem with sense. I'll definitely consider MIUI when choosing a rom.
Based on the number of replies and page views, it looks like Warm TwoPointTwo is the most popular rom. I read the first page and the screenshots look nice, but there's not much information about its features. Does anyone know why it's so popular?
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pick them all, you can do that with nandroid why be stuck to 1 and hey no need to ask when you can make your own decision.
MIUI
CM7
CM6
MYN
Caulkin
I got them all nandroid on my 16gb card... enjoy my friend you got the hottest phone on the planet for a minute or two longer....lol

I'm all about MIUI. Been running it since the beginning of november. There really is no comparison. All the sense ROMs are pretty much identical to me, except for the different themes, and CM is nice but it's pretty plain appearance wise. MIUI has the performance of CM but is gorgeous to look at, plus it has a TON of features that aren't available in any other ROM, and more features get added with every release.

fightr said:
I was looking at the Evo rom subforum and there are so many options. I have no idea what to choose. When I had the Hero, I used cyanogenmod. I liked it, but I'm definitely open to any suggestions
The most important features to me are long battery life and speed.
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Like the above user said, depends if you like sense or not. I personally loved sense before flashing to an aosp rom [such as cyanogen].
For sense, the talk of the town is mikfroyo and Evio by calkulin
AOSP...CM7 nightlies, evervolv are nice..
As for battery life, you'll have to experiment with some kernels.

Fast, bloat free gingerbread? Salvage. =P

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plus it has a TON of features that aren't available in any other ROM
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No 4g is the dealbreaker for me on that ROM. Anxiously waiting though.
I'm currently running the Cyanogen 7 Gingerbread Rom. It's decent, but a little buggy.

I am currently running Myns Warm 2.2 and love it due to the battery life, i've gotten 23 hrs out of it so far without a charge with moderate use, texts, facebook and a few calls.
been using it for about a week.

MikFroyo is the fastest sense based rom that I have found. Plus the people in the thread are very helpfull, and slow to flame.
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ok, here is a better question, good rom with 4G/WiMAX, working GPS, and 3g/4g hotspot. I have Cyanogen 7 RC1, but it is buggy. Don't like it too much.

Warm twopointtwo by myn all the way. very fast, looks great, and battery life like you wouldnt believe
everything works, download the wireless hotspot for root on market. some say the browser is slow, but myn uploaded a fix for that in his thread

Best way to choose is to try them all out. I would at least try mikfroyo, myn, miui, and evio. Before yo do though, might want to just try flashing one of the most recent cm7 nightlies over rc1. I think there are some changes that might make it a bit more stable.
I'm running the latest cm7 with wimax and have very few issues.
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trying out MiK right now. i think miui didn't have 4g, one of those u listed didn't

Yeah, Miui doesn't have 4g (yet). Still worth a try though. I think you'll like Mik. That and EViO are my fav sense ROMs. Kings is also really nice. Mik base and tons of themes.

fightr said:
I was looking at the Evo rom subforum and there are so many options. I have no idea what to choose. When I had the Hero, I used cyanogenmod. I liked it, but I'm definitely open to any suggestions
The most important features to me are long battery life and speed.
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I've used Warm 2.2 and currently on Ava Froyo. It's also a good, stable ROM will everything working.
Using Netacrvy-Toastmod 4.3.1 cfs-havs-nosbc, I'm getting decent battery life with moderate usage. Now the trick is to define what's acceptable life for your usage. I have 3 constant sync emails with FB, 4Square, and a couple of calls and youtubes a day, and don't have to worry about a charge.
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[Q] What is the best rom to use?

What is a great rom to use that not gonna cook your phone cause of a messed up or overclocked kernel? I was using the CM 7 rom for awhile I loved it tho I didn't like the camera app on there would like to find a rom that hdmi is working and stock camera app is working with themes. Right now im using the Sprints Lovers rom. Any ideas thank....

Well you're gona get a ton of answers. I here Myn's warm two point two is good. And if you want hdmi, you have to stick to sense-for the times being.

Myn's would be my first suggestion. As far as I know, it has all the things you wanted.
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agreeler said:
Myn's would be my first suggestion. As far as I know, it has all the things you wanted.
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Thanks i been looking over the rom list wiki. Ive seen his rom wondering how stable it is.

reaper24 said:
Thanks i been looking over the rom list wiki. Ive seen his rom wondering how stable it is.
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Check out the poll. Try them out and see what you like. Everyone has their own preferences. Link in my sig

I like to use MikFroyo the most. Very responsive and everything works.

MIUI. HDMI doesn't work but it doesn't matter, MIUI is worth the trade off.

If you want one that everything works definatly myns warmtwopointtwo
I like Fresh too, but Myn's looks so much better and I think it runs better.

I have seen this question so many times now, mostly in the Dev section. Thanks for posting where it belongs lol.
I have tried almost every rom out there. Some package specific (non-stock) kernels, which may not be the best out-of-the-box experience, depending on your hardware.
I too +1 for Myn's RLS5. It's stock-esque, but better, if that's what you're looking for.
If you want to be adventurous, try MIUI. It's fricken' awesome, but doesn't have 4G yet or HDMI. I've found the HDMI personally to be worthless anyway after buying an adapter on eBay.

mikfroyo 4.5 has taken over sense based ROMS.

reaper24 said:
Thanks i been looking over the rom list wiki. Ive seen his rom wondering how stable it is.
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Myns is very stable. I've been using it since I've rooted my phone, and no matter how many different ROMS I try, I always come back to Myns because it just plain works. Also, Myns ROM thread is incredibly active, and if you ask a question there, more than likely you'll have a solution/answer by the next hour. Ontop of that, myn reads most, if not every post in the thread and listens to what the community likes and doesn't like about his work, and keeps them updated on what he plans to work on etc.
I'm sure other people can make similar arguments for other ROMS, but I just thought I would share my thoughts.
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nosympathy said:
If you want one that everything works definatly myns warmtwopointtwo
I like Fresh too, but Myn's looks so much better and I think it runs better.
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I read up on that one they have the throttle thing turned off so you have fast net speed but do to the mod it shuts off your wireless and networks option. I would still like to control that option so i can shut off roaming so i dont get stuck with a fat ass bill lol. Thanks.

mgalyan said:
I have seen this question so many times now, mostly in the Dev section. Thanks for posting where it belongs lol.
I have tried almost every rom out there. Some package specific (non-stock) kernels, which may not be the best out-of-the-box experience, depending on your hardware.
I too +1 for Myn's RLS5. It's stock-esque, but better, if that's what you're looking for.
If you want to be adventurous, try MIUI. It's fricken' awesome, but doesn't have 4G yet or HDMI. I've found the HDMI personally to be worthless anyway after buying an adapter on eBay.
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I just tried the virus rom his latest one it says sensless but you have a option to turn sense on and the stock camera and hd works also pretty nice rom worth checking out.

I've tried Myns, Ava, Kings, Elite, Fresh, Azrael, and MikFroyo. Most of them have been pretty stable, but IMO MikFroyo is where it's at. If you need a bit more eye candy, Kings is based of MikFroyo and has a ton of themes.
Although my biased opinion says try CM7 again

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I've tried Myns, Ava, Kings, Elite, Fresh, Azrael, and MikFroyo. Most of them have been pretty stable, but IMO MikFroyo is where it's at. If you need a bit more eye candy, Kings is based of MikFroyo and has a ton of themes.
Although my biased opinion says try CM7 again
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Ya i love the cm 7 just wanting on the stable update the voice mail thing got annoying the text thing that came through with every voice mail you got and no HDMI yet.

Personally I have tried a ton. Sense based: MikFroyo and Myn's. But I would also have to say MikFroyo. After a few weeks of using both Mik is less laggy. Plus he has an optimized LauncherPro which did it for me since I use the car dock a lot and need a landscape launcher.
Currently testing gginggerbread-6 (CM7 RC1+4G). Its not bad. A few FC but overall stable enough to run daily.

Didn't want to start a new thread but wanted some opinions on which ROM to put on my wife's new EVO. She's not very tech savy so I don't want to keep changing things on her phone by flashing different things all the time. I just wanted to pick one great looking, speedy ROM that seems to have virtually no issues.
I'm not the type to flash every single ROM so my experience is limited to Baked Snack, Fresh, and CM7 RC1/nightlies. I'm figuring a nice Sense ROM will be best for her.
What you say?

m4rk0358 said:
Didn't want to start a new thread but wanted some opinions on which ROM to put on my wife's new EVO. She's not very tech savy so I don't want to keep changing things on her phone by flashing different things all the time. I just wanted to pick one great looking, speedy ROM that seems to have virtually no issues.
I'm not the type to flash every single ROM so my experience is limited to Baked Snack, Fresh, and CM7 RC1/nightlies. I'm figuring a nice Sense ROM will be best for her.
What you say?
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I ran Fresh before I made the jump to MIUI, it's a great ROM, very stable and bug free. That would be my recommendation. He doesn't update it as much as some of the other devs do theirs, but that will prevent you from having to update often.

m4rk0358 said:
Didn't want to start a new thread but wanted some opinions on which ROM to put on my wife's new EVO. She's not very tech savy so I don't want to keep changing things on her phone by flashing different things all the time. I just wanted to pick one great looking, speedy ROM that seems to have virtually no issues.
I'm not the type to flash every single ROM so my experience is limited to Baked Snack, Fresh, and CM7 RC1/nightlies. I'm figuring a nice Sense ROM will be best for her.
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I would show her screen shots of Myn, MikFroyo, Kings and EViO. Those are my fav sense ROMs. All should be stable and fast.

jstalford said:
I would show her screen shots of Myn, MikFroyo, Kings and EViO. Those are my fav sense ROMs. All should be stable and fast.
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You should check out the virus rom 1.1 infection still has some bit of sense in it.

Best rom

Just wondering which rom is a fast smooth reliable rom for the evo
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I assume your rooted?? do you want sense? no sense?
CM7 is very popular non sense gingerbread rom.
there are many sense based roms. do some research, try some out.

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Just wondering which rom is a fast smooth reliable rom for the evo
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MISfit211 gingerbread rom just released. I personaly think its one of the best.

another vote for cm7. really makes your phone feel like new.

Many of the sense ROMs use aamikam's base, so any one of those, or his MikFroyo ROM if you want sense. Myn's Warm and Calk's EViO are good too for sense. If you want to try Sense 2.0, I recommend Warm Z, it's my favorite of those. For something different, between Sense and AOSP, try VaelPak.
For AOSP ROMs, I'd try CM7 first, if you like that, maybe branch off and start using some of the CM7 variants or the other GB ROMs like Savaged-Zen and Salvage-Mod.
Up to you as far as what you like, most of the ROMs on here will work.
I'm not a big fan of Miui, but some people swear by it. Worth a shot.

These Are My Favorite Roms. The Ones with the Asterisk Are my Favorites
Best Sense 1.0 Froyo Roms:
Koni's Elite*
Myns Warm TwoPointTwo
Calkulins Evio
Mikfroyo
VirusRom Airbourne/Infection/ (Sensless)
Best Sense 2.0 and above Roms:
Myns Warm Z
Mikfroyo Z
Revolution Z
VirusRom Inspire 4g
VirusRom VRtouch 4g*
Best AOSP:
CM7
Miui*

Yea I got it rooted just looking to Max out my phones capability
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Going to try cm7-ex v10
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Thanx for the info guys
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i wouldn't if i were you. i'm pretty sure it's out of date. cm has plenty of theme options anyways, both flashable and theme manager. just flash cm7 stable.
do you mind linking me to the rom you wanted to try? cm7-ex???

I vote CM7! Period.

yea just looked up cm7 ex v10 waaaayy out of date. do not use that.

here is the link to the rom
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/install-custom-cm7-ex-gingerbread-rom-on-htc-evo-4g/
i typed cm7 rom on evo 4g and it poped up first

do you have a link to the rom download your talking about

If you want to flash EX, it's def not up to date. A similar ROM is Destroyer (now on v2). Destroyer was Magnus' next version after EX. I would def go with that, although even v2 is out of date, but much newer than EX.

i def want the newest i'd prefer the one with everything working also

just doing it from rom manager

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just doing it from rom manager
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http://mirror.teamdouche.net/?device=supersonic
For future reference.

I'm personally a fan of Sense, so I went with Fresh by Flipz. 3.5.0.1 is the last fully functional release, but 4.0 beta just came out the other day (for donors only), so full 4.0 can't be far behind. The exciting thing about 4.0: Gingerbread!
I've noticed Fresh improves battery life (not by a whole hell of a lot, but as Evo owners, we take what we can get). It also comes with Darktremor apps2sd, which is nice. Flipz included the Sprint "bloatware" in a folder on the sdcard to install as you wish. I use SprintTV and I like Teeter, but don't have any use for Stocks or the NASCAR app, so it's nice to pick & choose.
Anyhow, in my opinion, the first thing you need to decide is, Do you like Sense or not? If so, my suggestion is obvious. If you don't care for Sense, or just plain don't care, CM is a good way to go. I had an old version of CM flashed a while back, but it just wasn't for me. That's the beauty of custom ROMs, though. Don't like it? You're free to try something else. :+)
(and, for God's sake, do a full backup before you go switching ROMs! Don't want to lose any of your stuffs!)
Hope this helps. Enjoy!

I prefer Decks Gingerbread RC10. Fantastic battery life and super quick.
Posted from my HTC Evo