bare minimal rom - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hey i'm looking for a rom without all the extra crap that comes on some of these crazy roms ... i'm using syndicate frozen rom and i like it but it seems like my battery is dying faster now ... i came from DK28 stock rom w/ root

What about cm7 then. Pure aosp.
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You can try BYOR Midnight rom.

burgerpimp07 said:
You can try BYOR Midnight rom.
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Yeah that's true.
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Other than Cyanogenmod, most of the Roms on here (other than ones specifically labeled "fully loaded") are as minimal as they can be, because they need certain elements of the twiz framework.

This.
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Other than Cyanogenmod, most of the Roms on here (other than ones specifically labeled "fully loaded") are as minimal as they can be, because they need certain elements of the twiz framework.
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Best rom that is almost stock

Is there Rom that is almost the same as stock sence. Or where can I find a copy of the stock Rom with root
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barnicles has a stock ROM streamlined and there is a sprint lover that was just posted in the development section, either one should be fine for stock sense with root benefits
promackid said:
Is there Rom that is almost the same as stock sence. Or where can I find a copy of the stock Rom with root
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Check out Fresh Evo if you want a slightly modified rom.
http://geekfor.me/
XDA Post(With screenshots): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743079
A search in the dev section found this one.
I've never tried it or saw it before today, lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830153
Just search for "3.30.651.2 Stock Rooted", you should find a few
Try Myn's warm TwoPointTwo and you won't want to go back to stock.
Thanks
Thank you so much for the rom suggestions.
myns gets incredible respect and is considered the highest quality sense rom. fresh is the best slightly modded rom (and i mean very slightly). cyanogenmod is anything but stock (non-sense), but is held at the top of the respect chain for building thier rom from the ground up. no 4g though. miui is also another great non-sense rom.
i personally like ava's roms. he will be releasing another one extremely soon. he makes minor changes to increase speed, make smoother, looks much much cooler. a bunch of minor changes (he is on his 10th version) makes for a good rom. ava froyo v10 should be here soon.
IM running SPRINT LOVERS ROM .... It seems not too many people talk about this rom and I wonder why...
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/cdma-htc-...s-2-2-3-30-651-2-radio-wimax-pri-all-one.html
promackid said:
Is there Rom that is almost the same as stock sence. Or where can I find a copy of the stock Rom with root
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if you want a stock rooted rom, see this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819838
the guide to install it is the same as any other rom, but if you need it, it can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8955433&postcount=225
i am using that, and its working great. seems to also contain improved battery life.
read the specs on the custom roms, some have features that may be missing (for example, 4G or full camera support)
and also remember to do the backups!!
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dkdude36 said:
myns gets incredible respect and is considered the highest quality sense rom. fresh is the best slightly modded rom (and i mean very slightly). cyanogenmod is anything but stock (non-sense), but is held at the top of the respect chain for building thier rom from the ground up. no 4g though. miui is also another great non-sense rom.
i personally like ava's roms. he will be releasing another one extremely soon. he makes minor changes to increase speed, make smoother, looks much much cooler. a bunch of minor changes (he is on his 10th version) makes for a good rom. ava froyo v10 should be here soon.
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Myns rom is far from stock. Great rom but its themed entirely.
Not to toot my own horn haha but my refined evo is a stock rom with goodies that make the phone much more functional. Check it out
haha! i already threw that out there
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Myns rom is far from stock. Great rom but its themed entirely.
Not to toot my own horn haha but my refined evo is a stock rom with goodies that make the phone much more functional. Check it out
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I used baked snack for a while, I liked it. It's pretty darned stable too.
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xlGmanlx said:
haha! i already threw that out there
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Haha thanks!
I am a huge snacks fan, but it's far from stock
link5186 said:
I used baked snack for a while, I liked it. It's pretty darned stable too.
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Cleanest stock based rom

Is there an Oxygen type rom for the epic touch?
You might get a better reply if you describe what you are looking for. Not sure what you mean by clean, and not familiar with the oxygen ROM.
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not aosp rather clean by removing as much bloat etc
donsh00tmesanta said:
not aosp rather clean by removing as much bloat etc
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Check out uNnamed Rom 2.0.1 it has a ton of crap removed.
Thx
Jointedman said:
Check out uNnamed Rom 2.0.1 it has a ton of crap removed.
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[Q] Clean, quick, and PURE ICS ROM?

Seems like any old honkee can make a ROM, nowadays.. I mean, they work their asses off, and that's great, but I'm looking for a daily driver.
I hate touchwiz, entirely. Does anyone know of and recommend an ALL ICS ROM that's worth flashing? I would try Alpha 4 CM9, but the sound of trying an alpha ROM doesn't appeal to me..
ijoshv2 said:
Seems like any old honkee can make a ROM, nowadays.. I mean, they work their asses off, and that's great, but I'm looking for a daily driver.
I hate touchwiz, entirely. Does anyone know of and recommend an ALL ICS ROM that's worth flashing? I would try Alpha 4 CM9, but the sound of trying an alpha ROM doesn't appeal to me..
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The dev's here have put a lot of hard work into the roms that we have. Cm9 and aokp are good enough to be daily drivers in my opinion. It doesn't even sound like you attempted to try them.
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Learn and make one for yourself, then called it a honkee's rom
ijoshv2 said:
Seems like any old honkee can make a ROM, nowadays.. I mean, they work their asses off, and that's great, but I'm looking for a daily driver.
I hate touchwiz, entirely. Does anyone know of and recommend an ALL ICS ROM that's worth flashing? I would try Alpha 4 CM9, but the sound of trying an alpha ROM doesn't appeal to me..
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You might try Blu Kuban by Rujelus. It comes with Apex Launcher baked in but offers other launcher options (including Touchwiz for those so inclined) in the ROM Updater.
I've been using it as a daily driver since he put it out at the end of April.
Before this I used Venum's Anakonda and had mad love for it as well.
Cm9 a4 works perfect for me
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ijoshv2 said:
Seems like any old honkee can make a ROM, nowadays.. I mean, they work their asses off, and that's great, but I'm looking for a daily driver.
I hate touchwiz, entirely. Does anyone know of and recommend an ALL ICS ROM that's worth flashing? I would try Alpha 4 CM9, but the sound of trying an alpha ROM doesn't appeal to me..
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lol cm9 is a aosp rom.. and its in alpha only because we dont have source yet so they cant implement all cm features but everything just about works.. currently im on calks ics rom.. you can disable twiz launcher and use stock. im using sgs3 launcher ux.. either way an aosp rom is as close as youll get to pure ics since it removes touchwiz components
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_dan said:
The dev's here have put a lot of hard work into the roms that we have. Cm9 and aokp are good enough to be daily drivers in my opinion. It doesn't even sound like you attempted to try them.
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I have tried a few, and they all seem to have one bug that throws me. Like, for instance, the no mount bug. Have to use root directory to set up your external sd, and most of the time, it didn't work.. :banghead:
slick4mitch said:
Learn and make one for yourself, then called it a honkee's rom
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I'll get right on that! Good idea.
Esoteric68 said:
You might try Blu Kuban by Rujelus. It comes with Apex Launcher baked in but offers other launcher options (including Touchwiz for those so inclined) in the ROM Updater.
I've been using it as a daily driver since he put it out at the end of April.
Before this I used Venum's Anakonda and had mad love for it as well.
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I will give those a shot, thanks for the recommendations!
sratwars said:
Cm9 a4 works perfect for me
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What kind of bugs do you get, though?
elliwigy said:
lol cm9 is a aosp rom.. and its in alpha only because we dont have source yet so they cant implement all cm features but everything just about works.. currently im on calks ics rom.. you can disable twiz launcher and use stock. im using sgs3 launcher ux.. either way an aosp rom is as close as youll get to pure ics since it removes touchwiz components
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Yeah, but I would like the pure ics experience. I hate touchwiz dialer and call screen, and I'm not fond of the launcher, so I use apex. I only like the clock app, really.. lol.
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The only thing bad about CM9 is that you can't update profile/prl. Other than that it is a very solid, bug-free ROM.
Well with any luck we might see one of these for our version.
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...sH+(xda-developers)&utm_content=Google+Reader
ijoshv2 said:
Seems like any old honkee can make a ROM, nowadays.. I mean, they work their asses off, and that's great, but I'm looking for a daily driver.
I hate touchwiz, entirely. Does anyone know of and recommend an ALL ICS ROM that's worth flashing? I would try Alpha 4 CM9, but the sound of trying an alpha ROM doesn't appeal to me..
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Do you mean pure ics or "all ics"? Because ics is what most of the roms are built from now for our phone. You do have the option to go with calkulin's fe22 rooted and tweaked version. From what I here, its very stable. And its practically stock. And ics! You also have some venum build choices among others. There is definitely something that suits your needs. You may need to do some legwork to find the right one for you.
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Esoteric68 said:
You might try Blu Kuban by Rujelus. It comes with Apex Launcher baked in but offers other launcher options (including Touchwiz for those so inclined) in the ROM Updater.
I've been using it as a daily driver since he put it out at the end of April.
Before this I used Venum's Anakonda and had mad love for it as well.
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Seriously? That rom is WAY too cluttered with crap for what this guy is looking for.
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Seriously? That rom is WAY too cluttered with crap for what this guy is looking for.
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Which ROM? If you mean Blu Kuban then you obviously haven't tried it. You can have as stock an experience as you want or as detailed as you prefer.
Anakonda was also a very clean ROM, as is Venum Ice.
Calkulin's ROMs are always dependable and Agat has some very nice stuff as well.
Fact of the matter is, you have a smorgasbord of ROMs to choose from and there is something out there for every taste.
ijoshv2 said:
Seems like any old honkee can make a ROM, nowadays.. I mean, they work their asses off, and that's great, but I'm looking for a daily driver.
I hate touchwiz, entirely. Does anyone know of and recommend an ALL ICS ROM that's worth flashing? I would try Alpha 4 CM9, but the sound of trying an alpha ROM doesn't appeal to me..
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I run Alpha 4 as a daily driver. I am actually on the 5/28 build which has a couple new additions over the release of A4 but no real complaints for me at the moment. A ton has happened since Alpha 4. For nearly anyone it should be as good as the ics leaks. I think the main complaint with a few people at this point is connectivity loss and most of those are fixed apparently using the EL29 modem to fix it. Ive had it happen maybe once just toggled in and out of airplane mode to fix it.
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I run Alpha 4 as a daily driver. I am actually on the 5/28 build which has a couple new additions over the release of A4 but no real complaints for me at the moment. A ton has happened since Alpha 4.
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Where can I find that?
If you're looking for something clean, MIUI is clearly the best option. It's my daily driver.
CM9 A4 is perfectly ready for daily-driver status as long as you disable LED notifications (huge battery hog with alpha 3, i've kept the same behavior w/ alpha 4 so no idea if it's fixed).
I've consistently gotten 4+ hours of screen on time. Easily goes all day, never had GPS issues, force closes or restarts. Pretty perfect.
Wipe everything.
[and MIUI, but it's about as un-stock ICS as a rom can get looks wise. It's my preferred rom fwiw.]
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The only thing bad about CM9 is that you can't update profile/prl. Other than that it is a very solid, bug-free ROM.
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In sure there's ways around that, right?
reddragon72 said:
Well with any luck we might see one of these for our version.
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...sH+(xda-developers)&utm_content=Google+Reader
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I had JUST saw that in my news feed on Facebook! That would be lovely.
Give it a few hours, someone will port it. Hahahaha!
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Do you mean pure ics or "all ics"? Because ics is what most of the roms are built from now for our phone. You do have the option to go with calkulin's fe22 rooted and tweaked version. From what I here, its very stable. And its practically stock. And ics! You also have some venum build choices among others. There is definitely something that suits your needs. You may need to do some legwork to find the right one for you.
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Legwork is right, my friend! when I say pure ics, I mean stock ics everything. No Sammy dialer, ics stock lockscreen (I kinda like the one that came with calkulins..), pretty much just as close to stock ics as you can get. Wouldn't mind some CPU hacks to help balance the battery and whatnot.
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I run Alpha 4 as a daily driver. I am actually on the 5/28 build which has a couple new additions over the release of A4 but no real complaints for me at the moment. A ton has happened since Alpha 4. For nearly anyone it should be as good as the ics leaks. I think the main complaint with a few people at this point is connectivity loss and most of those are fixed apparently using the EL29 modem to fix it. Ive had it happen maybe once just toggled in and out of airplane mode to fix it.
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Hey rain, did they ever port the T-Mobile theme engine into cm9?
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Salty! said:
If you're looking for something clean, MIUI is clearly the best option. It's my daily driver.
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I might go check out a MIUI rom. Any recommends?
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[Q] TW ICS ROM Comparison. Which do you prefer and why?

I think I'm ready to jump back into the ICS pool now that things are a lot more stable from the earlier leaks.
We have such a great development community for this phone that there are just too many flavors out there to try them all. I know I want to stick with TW based ROMs simply because I like the little things TouchWiz adds to the stock Android base.
I'm leaning towards Frankenstein's Ego or Calkulin's 2 because I've had a great experience with both Calk and Team ERA in the past, but I don't want alienate other good ROMs.
So I want to hear from you guys. Out of all of the ICS TW ROMs, which do you prefer as a daily driver? What do you/don't you like about it? Have you personally run into any problems with freezing, rebooting, lagging, etc?
Thanks!
Wicked Senzations Rom, or Calkulin......
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jm5503 said:
Wicked Senzations Rom, or Calkulin......
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Does Calkulin's newest ROM have TW? I have it, but am not sure how to use it.
jamiebburg said:
Does Calkulin's newest ROM have TW? I have it, but am not sure how to use it.
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It does. I'm not sure if I had a bad install or what but Calkulin's ROM had some issues. The two main ones were, spazzy scrolling and many force closing of apps. When it was working it was crazy smooth though so I'm going to either try again or wait til it's more stable.
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jamiebburg said:
Does Calkulin's newest ROM have TW? I have it, but am not sure how to use it.
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TouchWiz is more than just the launcher. It's the framework, too. Anything that isn't AOSP-based is running on the TouchWiz frame, for lack of a better word.
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TouchWiz is more than just the launcher. It's the framework, too. Anything that isn't AOSP-based is running on the TouchWiz frame, for lack of a better word.
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Thank you! I actually just found it as a launcher. Big duh here...;-)
Question, how is it better than GO Launcher? What does it do that is better?
I wouldn't say it is better as it is all based on preference. For me TW is too basic and didn't let me customize my phone the way I wanted to. I loved calks gb based from. But haven't tried his ics. I have been enjoying the blue kuban ics rom. His customer service is elite.
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Agat's newest tFE22v0.1.1 would be a great place to start. It is minimally themed and rock solid. What it lacks in bells and whistles it far makes up for in speed and trouble free functionality. I use a modified version of Calc's bare ROM script that cleans out a ton of stuff then I add a few inverted apps. Perfect for me!
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Stock slightly modified by me. Once source is out those other roms mentioned in the op will be solid.

hybrid of cm10 and touchwiz? Wouldn't that be neat?

Put ur thoughts here.
If its even possible?
Is it worth it?
Be kool or lame?
Be to difficult?
Just put ur thoughts here and hopefully a dev hears our thoughts on this.
Just putting ideas out there see where it gets us.
If I was a dev this would be my interest.
I'm not trying to bash devs or anything. I love devs and respect them. I'm just seeing what u guys think bout this idea.!
Noobs and pros invited insert thoughts below!!!!!
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You mean a Touchwiz themed like aosp?
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You mean a Touchwiz themed like aosp?
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No like a hybrid rom with tw features with cm10 features or theme or watevr kinda of a best of both worlds rom. U know wat I mean?
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joshtycobb said:
No like a hybrid rom with tw features with cm10 features or theme or watevr kinda of a best of both worlds rom. U know wat I mean?
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It kinda is like that. Touchwiz has many aosp functions, but I agree. A touchwiz like aokp would rock!
Ascertion said:
It kinda is like that. Touchwiz has many aosp functions, but I agree. A touchwiz like aokp would rock!
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Just best of both features and settings and everything in between!!
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Anybody else's thoughts on this?
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There is a rom available that is AOSP like , but based on TW. Check dev thread, I think its by TJohnson.
it will never happen on CM 10 as they are open source. Most the TW gimmicks are closed source. Doubt they are gonna waste time to reverse engineer something that really adds very little to the experience
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it will never happen on CM 10 as they are open source. Most the TW gimmicks are closed source. Doubt they are gonna waste time to reverse engineer something that really adds very little to the experience
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I disagree. There was a cm8 sense hybrid ROM developed awhile back for the EVO I believe. It was essentially a sense rom with cm settings. It was quite nice.
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mlin said:
I disagree. There was a cm8 sense hybrid ROM developed awhile back for the EVO I believe. It was essentially a sense rom with cm settings. It was quite nice.
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CM8 never happened
Only my 2nd day on this phone, but the new TW did learn a few lessons from CM. If you can get your hands on a deodex stock, its just a matter of flashing a theme and using a few apps instead of having the built in customization options. Not the same as CM, but better than than the gs2.
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jamcar said:
CM8 never happened
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This made me lol
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This made me lol
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how come, hes right you know they never released 8 because source wasnt released until the same time it was for ics so they just skipped it and went straight to 9
Well they make MIUI based on TW for the international GS3... Kinda the same idea. Mainly im sure most ppl like the Samsung camera and other stock goodies...
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Well they make MIUI based on TW for the international GS3... Kinda the same idea. Mainly im sure most ppl like the Samsung camera and other stock goodies...
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MIUI is based on AOSP as well, I believe. It is not based on TW. The original Evo had a custom rom called Valpak that was a "Senseless" rom. The dev (I think his name was Vaelek) took the Sense based rom from HTC and stripped out all the extra fluff, replaced most of the design elements with with the AOSP "look", and tweaked the performance. Dude wasn't just theming, he really made an awesome rom that ran beautifully. And because he started with a Sense base, there was no loss of hardware performance or bugs (that you usually might have with AOSP, especially if "source" hasn't been released by the OEM).
Anyhow, there was something like that for this phone as well, but I never tried it. If people want a TW+AOSP combination, I would recommend running the leaked JB rom (thanks Freeza and leaker) with Nova Launcher, select the JB theme.
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CM8 never happened
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Oh right, it must've been CM7. I totally forgot about the HC business. Anyhow, the ROM existed on the EVO though I believe it was ported from the incredible.
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Dr. Fed said:
MIUI is based on AOSP as well, I believe. It is not based on TW.
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There is a version based on TW and a version based on CM10
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There is a version based on TW and a version based on CM10
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Thanks I did not know that. I'll have to give that a try if it ever comes to this phone.
Skyraider is the name of the ROM I was thinking of. It is a Sense CM7 hybrid- based on Sense but with CM7 settings incorporated. The link is here: http://www.teambamf.net/topic/5-rom-skyraider-sense-43-updated-71811/ If this can be done I don't see why a TW/CM10 hybrid wouldn't be possible.
I remember a while back that this one guy from the at&t, I think, forumswas asking some of us to test a touchwiz aokp hybrid. It was a while ago though, not sure what became of it.
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