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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.

What is hands down the BEST sense ROM

So here's my question- I love Cyanogen but haven't really given sense a shot. I went from Eris to D1 to Fascinate to Droid X to Inc. I really like the Inc so much more than all the others but wanted to try and do it right the first time. What Sense ROM are you all using that yields the most stability/battery life/features? Kernel advice? Thanks in advance.

I like stock sense so I use virtuous but as far as kernels right now Chad has the best kernels and there easy to find in the development section.
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I use the stock 2.2 leaked ROM from August (rooted).
All it's missing is full bluetooth features for BT mouse and keyboards.

I have tried many.
Myn's Warm Two Point Two rls4 is currently on my phone.
This is the best ROM out now in my eyes. I like sense, but I am not to big a fan of plain vanilla android, so I don't really use anything like Cyanogen. Maybe if Koush makes a vanilla gingerbread ROM I would use that, but for now I like sense 2.2
Warm Two Point Two has been on my phone the longest compared to any other ROM.
*Have had barely any FC's at all. I can't even think of the last time it happened.
*Fast
*Looks sweet as default without theme.
Using Kernel included with ROM and 2.15.00.11.19 radio
1348 score in Quadrant
38MFLOPS in Linpack

Stability - Virtuous, Uncommon Sense and Redemption. They have all been around and are tried and true. If I am not mistaken, Myn's Warm 2.2 is an Evo based rom and oyu can customize it (I have not flashed it). I am running Redemptive, it is an Evo/Inc hybrid, there are a number of good themes out there and Lou has also released a "senseless" version. Lots of great options.
As far as kernals go, they interact differently with each Rom. Chad is doing some great work as well as Lou. On Battery life... it is so subjective, I don't know why anyone talks about it. I have a stock battery and get 6-8 hours out of it regardless of the Rom or Kernal. I am just glad that it charges fast again (about 1% every minute and a half).

Warm TwoPointTwo with the kernel included with it. Stable, fast, and passable battery life (still gonna buy a 1750mAh battery though)

I use Desire Z. Epic speed and epic benchmarks. Some bugs.

+1 for Myn's Warm Two Point Two rls4
Smooth, clean, and stable. Best Incredible ROM I've tried hands down.

If you're looking for more enhancements/features to a sense rom, I highly recommend Skyraider Sense. In addition to having the up-to-date sense framework, extra goodies are included such as the power control toggles in the drop-down notification bar. Other nice additions like the gingerbread keyboard baked into the rom is convienient as well. I've been running the latest Skyraider Sense for a while now and it has been rock steady achieving uptimes up to 166 hours before having to reboot to flash something.
Skyraider is basically Stock Sense +, with the + indicating some additional goodies without veering too far away from the stock experience.
As for a kernel, I have one that's been my tried-and-true for months now. That is adrynalyne's undervolted. Fantastic battery life when paired with setcpu (as it was designed to play nice with it) and great stability. The only problem with it is that it only uses the conservative governer well, so if you really like ondemand or interactive you may want to look elsewhere. Despite this, it runs perfectly fine for me. The only percieved difference is in the quadrant score, which ultimately means not so much.
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I absolutely Loved loved loved Lou's Redemptive Revolution with the stock .17 kernel. That ROM is lightning fast and I could easily score 30+ hours of battery life with a 1750 mAH battery from Seido and Juice Defender/Set CPU Profiles.
Right now I'm just screwing with CM6.1 because I basically have Android ADD. I flash a new ROM nearly every week it seems.
EDIT: making this post kind of gave me the urge to flash a new ROM. I'm thinking about using his Senseless Redemptive Revolution, because I really dig Launcher Pro, plus I paid for it so I might as well use it.

SkyRaider is almost 100% stock sense and I have 0 problems with it. Smooth, fast, and the Dev is very responsive to everyone's questions.

Myn's Warm 2.2 easily.

keith.mcintyre26 said:
So here's my question- I love Cyanogen but haven't really given sense a shot. I went from Eris to D1 to Fascinate to Droid X to Inc. I really like the Inc so much more than all the others but wanted to try and do it right the first time. What Sense ROM are you all using that yields the most stability/battery life/features? Kernel advice? Thanks in advance.
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I put my vote in for Virtuous. I am currently running v3.2 rom with the virtuous custom kernel v3. It runs smooth and I have never had a single problem or issue. As far as i've seen everything works and it is a huge improovement in battery life compared to stock when combined with setcpu and advanced task killer froyo.

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cmlusco said:
I put my vote in for Virtuous. I am currently running v3.2 rom with the virtuous custom kernel v3. It runs smooth and I have never had a single problem or issue. As far as i've seen everything works and it is a huge improovement in battery life compared to stock when combined with setcpu and advanced task killer froyo.
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I agree that Virtuous 3.2 (and 3.1 before it) are closest to the pure Sense experience, at least on the Incredible. It's also easy to install (no wipe required) and easy to mod. I've switched a few notification bar icons and the lock screen without a problem. The custom kernel #3 that comes with 3.2 handles battery life nicely, too.

A few comments:
1. There is a reason there are 5 desire Z based inc roms out there - 4 in the last 2 weeks or so. New sense beats the pants out of old sense roms both in terms of speed and functionality. There might be some bugs but the overall experience is radically superior. Try one out for a few days. You will like them.
2. MIUI is probably the most beautiful of the AOSP Roms - you must have that in your roms to try list. Its AOSP but really pretty
I have tried all the regular older sense roms too but these are what I have gravitated to.

I appreciate everyones feedback. I've just decided to keep it aosp. I like the lightness and quickness of it all. As far as miui goes- seems kinda like running an iPhone theme. I don't want an iPhone. Also- app management seems retarded. No drawer?
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Its personal preferences I guess. Coming from am iphone, I found the concept of just one app drawer wherein all apps are arranged only alphabetically very odd and confusing. Miui attracted me because I finally saw some easy way to organize them by type. Plus I always hated having only 7 home screens to work with. I ended up with 9 in miui because I love widgets for news, email, messages, facebook, twitter etc. and with the folders and so many widgets, I needed more screens... For me, widgets is one of android's big advantages over the iphone. and I need more screens for more widgets!
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khanam said:
Its personal preferences I guess. Coming from am iphone, I found the concept of just one app drawer wherein all apps are arranged only alphabetically very odd and confusing. Miui attracted me because I finally saw some easy way to organize them by type. Plus I always hated having only 7 home screens to work with. I ended up with 9 in miui because I love widgets for news, email, messages, facebook, twitter etc. and with the folders and so many widgets, I needed more screens... For me, widgets is one of android's big advantages over the iphone. and I need more screens for more widgets!
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I am currently using Miui as my daily driver too, love it's default launcher.

Running Laucher Pro, should I ditch HTC Sense?

Ever since I found Launcher Pro I've never used anything else.
I'm running SkyRaider 3.5 (which is HTC Sense) and I'm wondering if I should go to an AOSP ROM like CM7.
I'm wondering:
> Will it be faster than current setup?
> Will it be better on battery than current setup?
Let me know, thanks.

Battery and speed will improve depending on which kernal you use. The main advantage to using a AOSP ROM for me was better bluetooth support. I can't use wii controlers with my emulators using Sense but I can if I use a non-Sense ROM like CM6 or CM7. Shows you what I look for in a ROM doesn't it.

Doesn't Skyraider offer a senseless version of the Skyraider ROM?

POQbum said:
Ever since I found Launcher Pro I've never used anything else.
I'm running SkyRaider 3.5 (which is HTC Sense) and I'm wondering if I should go to an AOSP ROM like CM7.
I'm wondering:
> Will it be faster than current setup?
> Will it be better on battery than current setup?
Let me know, thanks.
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Speed will depend, more likely than not it will be a bit speedier and better on battery IMO. I have been running CM7 with the Savaged-Zen kernel and i got over a day and a half out of it, that with setcpu at 128/1113 with smartass governor.

I used to stick with Sense based ROMS because they where just so smooth and stable, but now im with AOSP ROMS like CM7 and a few others. I use launcher pro and its awesome. The customization of AOSP ROMS are pretty much endless, and they give you a cleaned up Android. Id give it a try, just make a back up of SkyRaider then download the latest CM7 RC.

@OP
I was in your shoes about a week after using the phone after I bought it.
Went AOSP and haven't gone back except for the occasional, lets see if somehow the grass somehow decided to paint itself greener and became super plants.
I recommend AOSP completely. It's alot more of a streamlined android experience, and IMO lets you really customize the OS to work for you, rather than having to work with sense.
Not saying sense is bad or anything, it's my favorite non stock rom, but AOSP is just above and beyond for me.
Although incredibly re-engineered had me off AOSP for about 3 days before switching back

smtom said:
Doesn't Skyraider offer a senseless version of the Skyraider ROM?
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Senseless is still Sense framework, which lacks the advantages of a true AOSP ROM. The advantage to Senseless is a vanilla interface, but the stability of the Sense framework.

Thanks for the input!
Will be switching to an ASOP ROM sometime tonight.

For me unfortunately, the lack of decent widgets keeps forcing me back to the new desire z based sense roms. Too many additional features in sense. Wish there were good equivalent aosp widgets for what you can get from htc in the hd/z/mt4g/inc s roms...
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POQbum said:
Thanks for the input!
Will be switching to an ASOP ROM sometime tonight.
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I don't know if you wanna jump in head first or not but, I'm really enjoying the new Cyanogenmod 7 RC1 right now. Another great is MIUI. They're both great on battery life and they're both highly customizable. But they are a big change from sense- especially MIUI. And, obviously, CM7 is a release candidate so it isn't perfect (although damn close.) Whether you jump on them now or later, once you've gotten your feet wet, you should check em both out some time.
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Battery and speed will improve depending on which kernal you use.
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That's false. I have never gotten the battery life from an AOSP rom that I have from an optimized Sense rom. I've used almost every kernel for both types of roms. There are quite a few people that actually complain about CM battery life. As far as speed its like the butt dyno, just saying your phone feels faster is all perception. There are people that say the optimized Sense roms are the fastest and some say the AOSP are the fastest. Try what you like and use it. The real differences is in the interface. Bluetooth is definitely better supported on CM.

I found my best battery life AND speed were with Ruby ROM 2.0.2 with Launcherpro. Cyanogenmod 6 is good too but had tons of features I didn't use. Invisiblek kernels are a great addition to AOSP ROMs.
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I've been running MIUI 1.1.26 with invisablek #28 for a while now, w/o setcpu and while I wouldn't say it's the fastest combo (not that it's slow) its is the most stable my phone has been since I switched from Virtuos using stock kernel.
After setting up invisablek #28 and wiping battery stats it did take a few days of crappy battery life until it started to kick butt. I can get thru a 10 hour work day of moderate web surfing and constant music playing and still have at least 20% battery left. And if I run with the 2150mah extended battery forget about it.
I would definately recommend giving MIUI and invisablek #28 kernel a try. It has the faster charging the stock kernel has and runs smooth and stable. The launched takes a bit to get used to but you can always run launcher pro over it. Tried that but I love the MIUI launched too much.

Thats my issue with the CM line, it has tons of features I dont use (which could be flashable) and includes way too many localizations. I must admit I forgot about Ruby, it was the best in terms of speed. No lag, no hesitation, smooth as butter.

Launcher Pro doesn't extend any battery life on any ROM I have used it just a different launcher but one of the best ones I have used so far.

If you aren't attached to the Sense experience, the don't even hesitate to try out different ROMs. I gave up on Sense after a month of purchasing the Dinc, tried out CM6, tried out MIUI, and now I've been "crackflashing" CM7 since January. A lot of people are experiencing really good battery life. Can't say so for myself since the Dinc is my main computer, but I would certainly say that it is the fastest ROM I've tried.
Do a nandroid backup. Try out a bunch of new setups. Restore the nandroid if you aren't happy. Simple as that--when you're rooted you can do a lot with these devices.

nfiniti9 said:
There are people that say the optimized Sense roms are the fastest and some say the AOSP are the fastest.
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I will say that CM's GPU performance is better than that of the Incredible's on 2.2. My guess is that this is due to CM's release using more recent drivers for the Adreno 200. I've tested this with both benchmarks and games.
On Sims 3, owning the largest house makes panning/zooming is a virtual crawl on stock Sense, even with a good custom kernel. On CM7, it's playable, a huge difference. Quadrant advances/profession GPU score (not the worthless combined score) is nearly 150 points different. To give a perspective, it's 280 to 410 on average, which is a huge jump.

New Incredible Owner :) - Have some Questions

Hi,
I'm coming from owning a Droid Eris. I had it rooted and know a decent deal about ROMs, etc.
First, what is the best way to root the Dinc? I used the one-click app on the Eris.
And what ROM would you recommend? I'm looking for a stable and fast ROM that has Sense.
Thank You

One of the quickest, most stable and clean sense ROM's would be
- Sky Raider's 3.5:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=764787
An excellent Kernel that majorly helped improve my battery life
- Chad's Incredikernel :
http://chad0989.dyndns.org/2.6.32.27-incredikernel-12232010-plus25v.zip
You will need clockwork installed to create nandroid backups and also to flash new ROM's and Kernels, and additionally rooting your phone can be found below:
http://unrevoked.com/#inc
>> Everyone has their preference and I highly respect every developer on here, but there was just a few things in Lou's Kernel that bugged me.
I'm sure you will try a few ROM's before sticking with one, the above are just my suggestions. When running Chad's kernel, do not use setCPU or anything like it because it already has (a better) one built in that helps extend battery life with screen off, and performance/battery with screen on

Unrevoked.com to root.
IncRom for mostly stock sense ROM w/ some aesthetic touches - it's fast, stable, insane battery life.
IncrediblyReEngineered for a 'tricked out' very fast sense rom - stable and good battery life.

Thanks for the advice! That definitely helps.
I'm really liking the Incredibly Re-Engineered ROM because it seems fast, has Sense plus some tweaks and themes, and the dev does a good job updating it.
Just 2 questions:
1. It is based on the Evo framework. Is this okay? Is it still stable? I'm still kinda confused as to why I'd want to run a ROM built on the framework of another phone.
2. Is this ROM stable and pretty much bug free?
Thanks!!

Yup its perfectly fine. I also would recommend checking out the Redemptionrom and redemptive revolution rom. Both are very nice. There's so many good choices for the dinc.
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Thanks for the advice! That definitely helps.
I'm really liking the Incredibly Re-Engineered ROM because it seems fast, has Sense plus some tweaks and themes, and the dev does a good job updating it.
Just 2 questions:
1. It is based on the Evo framework. Is this okay? Is it still stable? I'm still kinda confused as to why I'd want to run a ROM built on the framework of another phone.
2. Is this ROM stable and pretty much bug free?
Thanks!!
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Yes the EVO is very similar (in some cases identical) to the incredible.
Some say the EVO framework works better than stock, so that's why you see a couple of ROM's using it.

Go with Incubus's WarmZ......"F"ing AWESOME!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901822

Dinc Roms vs EVO/Z Roms
The differences are minimal, and in most cases never noticed. One thing that always bugged me about Incredible Re-Engineered along with other roms with the same framework (can't remember which it is) is that MMS/SMS doesn't work with wifi enabled. Which personally is a problem as my house has poor 3g connections. If your looking for a stable Rom with active community Virtuous, Sky Raider and Magnolia are all amazing Roms and communities with very responsive devs.

Incredibly Re-engineered is purely EVO framework. I'm a huge fan of Incredibly Re-engineered, specifically 2.3.1. Not so hot about 2.3.2. I had quirky problems with it. It comes with Lou's #8 which works flawlessly, but I've been most happy with the Hydra kernel that comes overclocked to 1.153GHz, and undervolted on lower voltages using an on-demand gov. I tried a number of ziggy's but the last stable release had dreadful wake-up speeds. I had stability issues with the Incredikernel.
I tried out Incredibly Re-engineered Z 1.01 and felt luke-warm about it. It's loaded with apps I had no want of and came with Chad's 12/23 which works well, can be overclocked easily, but isn't. When I applied any of the rock-solid Hydra Kernels to it, I.R Z took a dump in several ways in a huge hurry.
A big plus to me with straight Incredibly Re-engineered is the massive number of mods Chingy has for it. If your big on widgets, the 4x5 themes gives you 20% more desktop that you won't want to give up once you get used to it.

Virus kingdom :)

Virus is the best bad ass dev on the Kingdom port .What you folks think about kingdom? the man is the best damn dev for kingdom got my ass hooked on kingdom which lead me over to the EVO 3D best rom ever was kingdom .
What you folks think ?

It was a fun rom to use. But too much battery loss and lag and I just hate sense. Back to decks which is, in my opinion, da best.
-dun dun dun!-

Crossrocker said:
It was a fun rom to use. But too much battery loss and lag and I just hate sense. Back to decks which is, in my opinion, da best.
-dun dun dun!-
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Lmao each to his own tho all decks is cm 7 nothin really new with it . Cyanogen never seemed to be the best good battery life but thats only good thing about it.
Virus work is nice when it comes to ports battery was great for me and many users no lag.

I get what you mean. But nothing can beat the battery of decks with sz and vipermod under volting. Sense is a battery hog. And decks isn't just cm7. Its based off it. Just like most sense roms are based off of htc's base
-dun dun dun!-

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I get what you mean. But nothing can beat the battery of decks with sz and vipermod under volting. Sense is a battery hog. And decks isn't just cm7. Its based off it. Just like most sense roms are based off of htc's base
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Sense isn't bad if you calibrated ur battery right lol I love the features compared to non sense . Eye candy is good.
Cm7 is alright missing good features built from scratch which is a plus great battery life by its self. I don't **** with over clocking or under volting don't wanna spank my phone other then that cm7 is alright but nothin compared to sense kingdom 3.0 .
This is all about the kingdom ROM and the eye candy. Decks was nothin new for cm7 to me dicked with it nothin new to a stock cm7 stock kernel .
Kingdom is a bad ass port that virus set up pretty sweet fast smooth sexy lol. Loved the camera and the new sense looks grand.
His work is always bad ass.
Not doggin cm7 its a non sense rom totally different from kingdom since its a whole new sense. Kingdom was just so damn good lookin with loads of potential.
Cm7 is built from ground up good just the way it is. I just prefer sense sometimes a non sense rom is pretty sweet if well done and smooth with no issues.

I'm the complete opposite :O haha but I do agree, sense is beautiful
Deck's + SZ + SuperCharger script + ViperMod script.

I'm liked 6/23 the best
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This should really be in the general discussion since it's a discussion and not a real question.
But in the spirit of fun:
Synergy and Mikg are the best 2.1/3.0 roms out there. Made by aamikam and (partially) by Myn and Virus respectively.
MikFroyo and Warm TwoPointTwo were the best Froyo roms out there. Most of us were, at one point, Mikheads or Mynions (or Mynjas, if you prefer).
CM7 is the most popular gingerbread rom period. I read somewhere that his roms have over 2 million downloads every time a stable is released.
Virus is a badass dev, a top 5 for sure, but in a game where sheer download numbers and thread views rule the forums: aamikam, Myn and Cyanogen are the best devs.
Sorry dude, opinions can be wrong, but math is never wrong (if you do it right).

I ran virus' kingdom port up to version 1.2.2 I think and I liked it alot. Then I tried sacs kingdom rom and have stuck with that ever since. It was based off of one of virus' early alpha versions and it runs really smooth. This may not be the best reason to change roms but the thread for virus' kingdom just got completely ridiculous and reading it became almost a complete waste of time (which was not virus' fault at all).

I would totally love this Rom and any other sense 3.0 roms but I can't seem to get the SD partitioning bit right so that I actually have room for apps and such. But what I have used of the virus kingdom, I loved lol
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Virus is no doubt a complete badass developer, but his style of open nightlies and hard-to-find guaranteed stable ROMs makes life difficult. I love flashing ROMs as much as the next guy, but I have to have a stable daily driver. That's why I use Myn's RCs (up to RC2 now) because I know that everything will always work.
So, Virus = way fun, mind blowing stuff, sometimes a hassle to get working.
Myn = rock solid, not as many bells and whistles (though, since it's Synergy, there clearly are a few of 'em!).
If there's a new stable release of Kingdom, let me know - I'll definitely give it a try.

Virus Rom are really good, but I thing he gets crazy developing full of ideas, I'm on 6/23 it works very good and stable, also I'm running it on the latest PRI and RADIOS, HE SHOULD finish he's projects, my battery life is fenomenal.
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