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I have spent the past week trying out several gingerbread ROMs trying to find one that I'd stable enough for daily use. The most impressive one I used was ASC Bamboozled v1.1. It was super quick and had some cool animations like the TV animation when you turned it off. I would like something kinda of like that. I know that the gingerbread ROMs have a reboot issue and that doesn't bother me too much. It is a slight annoyance but not a deal breaker. With the source of gingerbread from Samsung floating around I was wondering if there were any stable ROMs yet.
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The animation is called CRT on and off I believe.
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cm7 is the best. no reboots but it hasn't no 4g, which suxs.
I thought about cm7 but I heard there is a issue with voice calls and some of the standard things didn't work. Has that changed with the source? Nit worried about 4g seeing I don't live in a spot that has it. Yep throwing away $10 a month. I hate it.
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I thought about cm7 but I heard there is a issue with voice calls and some of the standard things didn't work. Has that changed with the source? Nit worried about 4g seeing I don't live in a spot that has it. Yep throwing away $10 a month. I hate it.
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Until the EXT4 kernel is released from source, find yourself a good stock RFS prerooted EH17 ROM to Odin and then Odin in mkasick's kernel from the new source. I don't think anyone put together a new ROM with the new kernel yet besides CM7. Or wait a few more days and I am sure there will be some.
Hmm.. maybe cyan till then. Thoughts?
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CM7 is rock solid!
OK. Does anyone know where their most recent ROM is for download?
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OK. Does anyone know where their most recent ROM is for download?
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OK. Does anyone know where their most recent ROM is for download?
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You will find all recent ROMs in Development.
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Thanks. Its the update-cm-7.1.0-Epic-KANG-1022-signed.zip link correct?
I gotta say ACS ICS is coming along quite nicely...but I'm not playing favorites here....many of the roms are incredible and more than i could ever accomplish.
A serious thankyou for loving your old equipment devs! Love you for it...and hate samsung for cornering us...not to mention sprint.
P.s. hate may be to strong a word
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Of all the GB roms, Thunderhawk has been the most stable for me.
Hands down acs ics. Its super stable and fast and its ics themed. cyanogen is also great if you don't mind losing 4g and video. Although battery on both roms are fantastic. I get about 18 hours average on acs and about 23 on cyanogen. And thats with a stock battery with moderate use. Ive been switching back and forth for a while now. But been running acs as my default rom. I havent had one problem with it at all. No reboots, lags, gps lock issues, or things of that sort.
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I thought about cm7 but I heard there is a issue with voice calls and some of the standard things didn't work. Has that changed with the source? Nit worried about 4g seeing I don't live in a spot that has it. Yep throwing away $10 a month. I hate it.
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Here's the thing about 'stability'. All the GB roms look wonderful out of the gate and perform flawlessly for 3-4 days and then start to disintegrate, act out, cause FCs and freezes. If you want serious stability, you need to use a Froyo rom. If you don't mind a few inconveniences, CM7 is the way to go. It is the most stable of the GB roms and many phone owners are very excited about its possiblities down the road. Honestly, I work in a hi-rise in San Francisco and I don't even miss the 4G, the phone is that fast. The battery life alone is worth the call sound and video issues which are minor at best. IMHO.
everyones phone is different
some people have issues with cm7 and acs ics, and some people dont. so best idea is test drive both roms, to see have your phone acts it them. and with the video issue there are other players in the both markets that can help with that. and with cm7 its just plug and play no extra steps to get it to work and with acs ics there other things you have to do to get it to rite.
ACS ICS seems to be pretty good so far. No major concerns to this point, albeit early stages of testing.
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Don't you know not to invest in something for features it may have one day... that's what got us into trouble with the Epic 4G in the first place (6 month late Froyo, endlessly delayed Gingerbread, TV Out, FM radio...)!
Anyways, whenever someone asks "what's the best rom?", you'll always get very biased responses. You'll generally hear cries of "ACS!" and "Cyanogen!". While the acclaim is generally deserved, my own testing hasn't yet shown anything too fantastic in their current GB versions. ACS ICS has a somewhat glitchy launcher, but if you like it have at it. CM7 did not have anything special I could find, nor did it perform to my typical battery standards.
Try them all out, each has their own merits and each phone performs differently with different roms. Don't forget the others like Hurricane or Urban.
Or you can just follow the crowd .
When I came to XDA, I read the threads under each ROM to see what the features were and what problems people were having. People coming here now are too damn lazy to do this and want us to tell them exactly what to put on their phone. I would lke nobody to answer threads on "what's the best ROM" and maybe people will stop being lazy and read.
If everyone liked the same thing there would be only 1 rom. Read like kenny and random suggested. Find the one with the most features that you personally need or want. I try just about every rom on here and always find my way back to thunderhawk. It just has the best mix of all the features I need working.
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Im getting my epic tomorrow and i need help, which roms do you guys think are the best for the epic 4g touch? or kernels or any other mods please leave your suggestions and opinions.
While there has been progress in the new ek02 rom's, including the android 2.3.6 update, I would suggest phantomhackers blazer rom, its fast and stable and very good on battery. Good start while the new 2.3.6 rom's get updated
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While there has been progress in the new ek02 rom's, including the android 2.3.6 update, I would suggest phantomhackers blazer rom, its fast and stable and very good on battery. Good start while the new 2.3.6 rom's get updated
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lol i already have that rom downloaded ill try it as soon as i can root and install clockwork mod
I agree. Ive been on blaze since it came out and have had zero problems. Definitely start there
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I am getting mine Tuesday and I really have to do some reading on this device coming from the EVO I was a flash demon but I have no idea what the hell is ek, modems and all that is I have been on HTC devices for like ever so time to go do some reading
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second that
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I am getting mine Tuesday and I really have to do some reading on this device coming from the EVO I was a flash demon but I have no idea what the hell is ek, modems and all that is I have been on HTC devices for like ever so time to go do some reading
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Just got mine on tuesday, and have lots to read up on. I am also coming from an Evo. This new stuff is way different from htc, any help or links would be greatly appericated. Thank in advance
I just got my e4gt last week and am running caulkins rom and its been really great. Everything working. Excellent battery life. Ics themes developed for it. I love it. Just my two cents though.
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I really like Calkulin's ROM. It's close to stock, which to me is an advantage, but includes some sensible additions. The latest version is based on the most recent leaked update and includes a modified kernal with a ClockWorkMod-based recovery.
I'd recommend new users check out qbking77's videos in this thread. They were a great help to me when getting started.
Enjoy your new phones!
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I really like Calkulin's ROM. It's close to stock, which to me is an advantage, but includes some sensible additions. The latest version is based on the most recent leaked update and includes a modified kernal with a ClockWorkMod-based recovery.
I'd recommend new users check out qbking77's videos in this thread. They were a great help to me when getting started.
Enjoy your new phones!
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Qbking has a video for everything you want or need to learn
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Just out of curiosity have any custom roms been able to fix the android os bug that drains battery?
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Just out of curiosity have any custom roms been able to fix the android os bug that drains battery?
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The "AOS bug" is not ROM related. Read the forums here for an answer to what it is and how to "fix" it.
As far as the "best" ROM it's all subjective but I would go for Calk's 2.0. The man knows what he is doing.
I have always used stock kernel and stock rooted ROM for this phone. This had been the best user experience I have had in an Android. I am so happy with battery life I don't want to change.
Are there any stable e4gt roms that are better than stock ek02 with everything working cuz battery life is a poor trade off for working features in my opinion. Example if wimax is not working or tether to get more battery life whats the point
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..is this a serious question?
If so.. Just check out the devolpment section. Try out using calkulins ROM, his battery script works well.
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Seriously sorry i flashed half of em no disrespect to the dv hard work but im disappointed cuz the roms seem lacking
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Like they say if you cant take the heat get out da kitchen
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..is this a serious question?
If so.. Just check out the devolpment section. Try out using calkulins ROM, his battery script works well.
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I am also not sure how to approach this. There are only a few roms that don't support wimax.. I suggest calkulins. It's my go to rom. I've heard starburst is pretty good too.. But in the future, please try to read a bit. maybe look at the roms that have a lot of view and/or comments. The OP of each thread will tell you just about everything you need to know.
IMO, there is no more stable custom ROM right now then UnNamed. If I wasn't so flash happy, I would stay with that but I'm changing ROMs every 2-3 days now...
But anyway, yeah UnNamed is the best ROM as far as stability is concerned.
Oh and I got over a day of moderate use from it. Don't believe me though, try it out!
Have not tried unamed yet
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+1 for Calkulin's roms. Good battery life, stable, so far I have not encountered any issues.
I've been extremely pleased with Calkulin's ROM. I have tried unnamed (which I also like) but I prefer the 5 icon dock and 5x5 app drawer and undervolt/underclock scripts in Calkulin's.
No, none of them actually work...stay on stock...
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Have not tried unamed yet
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MJHawaii is right.. UnNamed is a hell of a rom especially with a few tweaks added in. I am quite sure you will not find anyone unhappy with it. Also like mentioned before there is a whole development section of great roms. Just make sure when you try them all you do not restore data and flash all of them cleanly and not on top of each other.
For battery life on this phone may I recommend 200-800 since your phone can clearly handle it...
no offence, but either dont flash and stay on stock or there is always the good ol flip phones!
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All the ROMS that are built on TW source are complete - this excludes CM7 and MIUI which are AOSP. REALLY.
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Got to agree with the previous poster that suggested you just stay on stock. I'd prefer not having to see posts/threads like this in the future....
For the record however, I've been happy with Calk's, Unnamed AND for quite a bit of time now (a whole month or so!) Blend is my current Daily and it is brilliant.
But you.... you stay on stock....
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No, none of them actually work...stay on stock...
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I've Tried Blazer and Calk's 2.8.1 IMO there are both amazing ROMS, and i would suggest giving them a try. I'm currently running calk's and i have not seen any issues after a couple days of heavy testing and use
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I've Tried Blazer and Calk's 2.8.1 IMO there are both amazing ROMS, and i would suggest giving them a try. I'm currently running calk's and i have not seen any issues after a couple days of heavy testing and use
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blazer is my daily driver.
i have not tried a single rom that has just flat out been unstable or unusable though; i steer clear of early/experimental builds, bust most of the roms in the dev section for this phone are pretty complete and comprehensive.
this is my first android device and initially i had trouble just rooting the thing, but thanks to xda's dev section my first flash was a piece of cake and i've had no issues or major complaints in 3 months of jumping rom to rom.
Just an observation. But your avatar shows you have at&t, shouldn't you be in a different section? This forum is for the Samsung epic 4g touch. Maybe thats why the roms aren't working. Unless you just havent updated your profile. (Im guilty of that as well)
I'm looking for the best rom to use that has the hotspot hack also if 4g works with it too that will be great guys that's
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I've used the hacked hotspot on Evo Classic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312414 and on Smooth 'N Sexy http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131217 and they both work fine, although I still prefer wifi-tether. Both these roms are minimalistic and fast with excellent battery life, especially if you flash a Freedom kernel.
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I've used the hacked hotspot on Evo Classic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312414 and on Smooth 'N Sexy http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131217 and they both work fine, although I still prefer wifi-tether. Both these roms are minimalistic and fast with excellent battery life, especially if you flash a Freedom kernel.
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Ok thank you and I use the sprint hotspot for ps3 and do you know if the roms come with it or do I have to program the framework plus does 4g work for it also and again thank you for repling
Update do you the link to the freedom kernel?
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I'm sorry I should of read the change log but here comes a noob question do you have any links on rooting and putting recovery on the evo I'm use to my epic and got the evo for my girl
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I'm sorry I should of read the change log but here comes a noob question do you have any links on rooting and putting recovery on the evo I'm use to my epic and got the evo for my girl
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245649
use this to root for gingerbread
I have the exact same problem just the opposite. I have an EVO and my wife is on Epic kinda funny how the world goes round...
Decks 1.3d with tiatmat 3.3.7 (LEE Kernal) everything works right out of the box! hotspot built into rom. best battery life of every ROM I flashed. links are in my signature in case you want to try it. The great thing about the EVO is you will probably trade your wife phones flashing and tweaking is so much better I found the epic to be kinda painful in comparison
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245649
use this to root for gingerbread
I have the exact same problem just the opposite. I have an EVO and my wife is on Epic kinda funny how the world goes round...
Decks 1.3d with tiatmat 3.3.7 (LEE Kernal) everything works right out of the box! hotspot built into rom. best battery life of every ROM I flashed. links are in my signature in case you want to try it. The great thing about the EVO is you will probably trade your wife phones flashing and tweaking is so much better I found the epic to be kinda painful in comparison
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Could I get the link to the rom and kernel please thanks and that is funny thanks again
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Could I get the link to the rom and kernel please thanks and that is funny thanks again
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Links are in my signature
For the wife load up go launcher... Lotta themes to make it pretty
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I want to know what your favorite rom is for the Epic 4g Touch and why?
Currently my top favorites are
CyanogenMod 9
Android Open Kang Project
Miui v4
These aren't in order
Thanks to
Some great devs such as
T.C.P
darchstar
jafterdark
mijjah77
VeNuM
kbizzle
ReActiveDisorder
rujelus22
sfhub
And
qbking77
He has great youtube videos.
jayharper08 is a awesome moderator.
Blazer. Because it is the most stable with no bugs at all and best battery life . Don't believe me? Try it yourself.
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Blazer. Because it is the most stable with no bugs at all and best battery life . Don't believe me? Try it yourself.
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I loooooooved that ROM but my phone kept having wakelocks from google maps :/
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Blazer. Because it is the most stable with no bugs at all and best battery life . Don't believe me? Try it yourself.
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Thanks Blazer is very good
The Blu Kuban; super smooth, sexy, reliable, solid dev support, rom updater, constant updates!!
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Im going to say blazer rom. It is stable, battery is great,ics themed. I flashed ics roms and mijjz goodness and venum ics ROM were good. But I always return to blazer
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AOKP. It's pretty stable, lots of customization, and gives me insanely good battery life.
This is for everyone I wanted to know what your favorite rom is and this for people t
This is for everyone I wanted to know what your favorite rom is and this for people that are new to rooting and roms.
This thread is NOT a good idea. Soon it will be an all out flame war. These threads never last.
Lets say this much....Everyone has a favorite rom....Just because one person likes it doesnt mean another will. I recommend flashing ALL the roms to get a feel for what you like. Each rom has something unique to it. All of our developers are great. Give each rom a flash
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All roms have their ups and downs. I like cm9 the most.
blazer seems to be the most popular so far. Im kind of in between roms. been flashing a lot lately, but nothing has fit just right like blazer did a few months back.
i got a taste of the ics and i cant go back tho currently on calk 1.6 with kobridge 3.3 tweaks
Agree with ReActiveDisorder, each ROM is different and each user likes different things. Just try some and find what you will like.:thumbup:
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This thread is NOT a good idea. Soon it will be an all out flame war. These threads never last.
Lets say this much....Everyone has a favorite rom....Just because one person likes it doesnt mean another will. I recommend flashing ALL the roms to get a feel for what you like. Each rom has something unique to it. All of our developers are great. Give each rom a flash
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And its negative people like you who starts it, this could be a positive thread if someone wants to try another ROM they see someone else write that is good
which could benefit them, so relax there are some non flammers in this community
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Favorite Gingerbread ROM is Blazer (several versions tried) ICS favorite agat's tFE series. (Again several versions tried)
Currently rockin odexed version of tFE16...
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And its negative people like you who starts it, this could be a positive thread if someone wants to try another ROM they see someone else write that is good
which could benefit them, so relax there are some non flammers in this community
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Negative??? Ive seen at least 50+ of these type of threads and it ALWAYS ends in a lock down.
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Have to agree with Reactive here.
OP...... just flash away man. Thats half the the fun of all this. Try out all the ROMS you want. Find out which one u like the best and stick with it.
Read up on some threads and OP's. Find out what features each ROM offers and go from there.
Its really that simple. Everyone will have there OWN opinion on whats the best..... and thats just what it is. THERE opinion, not yours.
Flash away man and just find out what YOU like.
Good luck bro.
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Have to agree with Reactive here.
OP...... just flash away man. Thats half the the fun of all this. Try out all the ROMS you want. Find out which one u like the best and stick with it.
Read up on some threads and OP's. Find out what features each ROM offers and go from there.
Its really that simple. Everyone will have there OWN opinion on whats the best..... and thats just what it is. THERE opinion, not yours.
Flash away man and just find out what YOU like.
Good luck bro.
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Personally I look for stability and battery life.
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Blazer. NO MATTER WHAT, I ALWAYS go back to it! ALWAYS!
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Personally I look for stability and battery life.
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Yep...... and how you say you ''personally'' look for stability and battery just backs up what I'm getting at.
Everyone has there own likes and dislikes about what ROM they prefer. Thats one reason why these ''what's your favorite ROM and why'' threads never seem to work out.
No offense to the OP...... its just the way it is.
Truuu they do ...but it seems to going good so far ... I know a couple of my post got lock down lol
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