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[Q] Best Rom in your opinion for EXT4?

I just got an epic this week from sprint, loving it so far NOW that I flashed it myself to Cricket. can someone recommend a rom that can be used as a daily driver for me? I know alot of people post this kind of question but this is what I'm looking for:
Speed
A little awsomesauce
Nice layout
No sprint bloatware
Overclocked Kernel preferably EB13 (Don't know if this has been done yet)
Bluetooth for music functioning along with voice (using a motorola roadster for my car)
Few if no force closes
sorry for asking this as I know alot of devs see this on a normal basis but I'm VERY new to samsung android, Evo's and Mytouch 4g's were my last phones so I've always been an HTC kind of guy. any help would be appreciated.

The new syndicate just dropped. Its amazing.
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yeah, what he said ^

same here 100%

midNght v4.1 ... has all of what you're looking for.
It has all the standard apps as separate flashable zips. So you start off with a very bare ROM and build it up yourself.
It uses an overclocked kernel 1.2 when using setCPU
It is solid and speedy
its EB13 as well.
(no matter what rom you choose; you should start off by using odin and the eb13 tar that already has recovery and root in it; thread is in the dev area)
Good luck

Viper ROM
The Viper Trinity Rom is amazing

Viper rom frozen has been my favorite so far. Trinity is very hot, small glitch with corp email that keeps me from giving it a 10.
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Whichever one has the latest date in the title of the thread haha
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think I'm gonna give midnight a run first and then onto viper if it's not for me, thank you guys for your suggestions

Yeah, the new Syndicate Frozen ROM is great.
It installs overclocked to 1.2ghz, and even when I underclocked with SetCPU, I didn't notice any drop in snappiness at all.
MidnightROM is supposed to be pretty good as well, though I had some Force Close issues (that were probably my fault), so I switched to Syndicate for the time being.

Bonsai 3.0.1, you have to wait a little longer but i hear good things, in the mean time bonsai 3.0.0 is sweet. Fast,no bloat and backs up and restores your data for you. really good.

The new syndicate rom is just as amazing as their di18 release was. Plus! There is no carrier IQ running, which means speed improvements as well as the privacy issues are gone.

oh and one more feature I need now that my fiancee got his atrix last night, I need a working front facing camera, do all the roms mentioned have the FFC working?
And yes I'm very jealous of him having that damned new dual core phone lol.... that's why I text bombed him with a 1000 texts as soon as he got home with it where he lives MUAH HA HA HA HAAAAA!

Another one for Bonsai ROM. The easiest install I've ever done on any ROM and it's snappy and stable.

Just do what I do and try them all. then install the newest update for every one. Then just stick with your favorite. You also learn a lot in the process.
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TheNickromancer said:
Yeah, the new Syndicate Frozen ROM is great.
It installs overclocked to 1.2ghz, and even when I underclocked with SetCPU, I didn't notice any drop in snappiness at all.
MidnightROM is supposed to be pretty good as well, though I had some Force Close issues (that were probably my fault), so I switched to Syndicate for the time being.
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I give my vote for Midnight ROM v4.1
I had this problem as well until a friendly person here explained to me that you have to go back into Clockwork and flash everything extra you want. It comes with only the bare essentials.
Midnight ROM has more work involved but it is great.
it does have a working FFC as well. Someone actually just asked about it in the Midnight ROM thread and the developer was very helpful in answering the question.

DrKaotica said:
Whichever one has the latest date in the title of the thread haha
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Haha! I was thinking about how we are like pigeons- we go to whoever has the bread at the moment.

The best part about the community roms is if one rom finds a new fix it will trickle into the others. We are still in the early stages of eb13. I expect to see some amazing things from our devs in the next month.
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yogi2010 said:
Haha! I was thiking about how we are like pigeons- we go to whoever has the bread at the moment.
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This for epic win. thank you very much guys for your help in all this, and I was always a "man not another best rom thread" but now I asked it so have to be quiet. And I prefer to think of myself as a squirrel looking for his next nut when it comes to roms lol

I'm running Bonsai, and they just updated to eb13. I prefer it over viper and the others, it seems faster and has more battery. Also it backs up your data, and removes all bloatware.
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Epic stock style roms?

Are there any slightly adjusted deodexed eb13 roms? I have an evo thats works amazing. Perfect mods for me, tasteful, excellent battery and 0 issues. My wife has an epic that I have had well modded to keep up w the changing times and currently its running an rfs system. My main gripes are small but soooooo irritating. Always uploading pics or mms them sideways. Its scrern is amazingly crisp. Its graphics are better than my evo I believe but its a few lil annoyances. I want a rock solid, smooth phone and its came to either selling it or puttinh Another clean install and "try" another one. Any suggestions b4 I throw the phone off a bridge?
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I know dameon put out a deodexed eb13 rom. Don't know if it's different than stock. Why not just put a custom rom on it. Bonsai 3.0.1 is awesome and very stable. Also no carrier iq anymore from sprint
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Tried bonsai a few weeks ago...tan great for 2 weeks then ranfom reboots anf freezing. I even odin'd beforr I installed.
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For the ones who from the epic 4g to the touch

I'm thinking about getting this phone today. What are your thoughts. Please be completly honest. I watch a youtube review and I'm very impressed by it.
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Best phone out, hardware wise. The only one that beats it is the Nexus. At least until CM9 comes out that is. Seems like you're on Sprint anyway, so you get the Nexus. There isnt a better Sprint phone out right now, by a mile.

Came from the original epic and love this phone. Never really used the physical keyboard on the OG Epic though, for some that's a deal breaker. Otherwise this phone is awesome.
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dw3bb10 said:
Best phone out, hardware wise. The only one that comes close to it is the Nexus. At least until CM9 comes out that is. Seems like you're on Sprint anyway, so you get the Nexus. There isnt a better Sprint phone out right now, by a mile.
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You will love the et4g, bit miss the kb if you use it on the og epic.
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I have both and only when I started using my Epic did I realize how freakin fast the Epic Touch is. Scrolling through very long list shows a clear difference between the two. Epic is great IMO, one of my favorite devices from the last couple of years, but the Epic Touch is just plain sick. The lack of a keyboard is a frightening thought that is diminishing slowly on a daily basis. Battery life is better, screen size is very get used to... I say go for it UNLESS you're saving your upgrade for LTE goodness, which is way into the future.
I picked up an Evo 3D today too, and man is this thing laggy in comparison the the Galaxy S2 phones. Hopefully I can find someone to trade for a Nexus 4G so I can do the ICS thing for a bit.
Also, once you go AMOLED, you never go to fake black. Or something to that effect.

Bought the OG Epic at Launch and the Touch at Launch. I never used the physical keyboard on the OG Epic. I absolutely love the Touch and don't regret my decision at all. It is by far the best phone I have ever owned. I would never go back to the OG Epic.

I concur OG Epic to the Touch. Great upgrade and we have a few ppl from that dev community too so it was a pretty smooth transition root/custom rom-wise for me.

You'll get used to not having a keyboard, after that your never go back to one.

Get this phone, its fantastic.
I had the original Epic, and I was one of those people who seldom used the keyboard, so the move wasn't that difficult for me. Plus I had the Nexus for about a month since Sprint replaced my Epic with one because I kept having problems, and this phone is leagues ahead of both phones!

Its a great phone. I rooted my Epic 4G with ACS Frozen Rom and that made the phone work great.
With the Epic Touch out of the box its even better. I have not rooted because i am so happy with at Stock.

I have both. I bought the E4gt 2 months ago and the hardware is amazing. BUT I still carry my OG epic as my daily phone. I really do miss the physical keyboard and I have yet to get my battery to out last my og epic equally app configured. The OG epic has been tweaked to the point that I'm getting good life. That being said, I have been tweaking the E4GT with some of the latest Roms/kernels so that I have gotten REALLY good standbytime and am slowly adding in my apps and seeing what has caused the powere issue. Originally my E4gt was setup the same as my OG epic so I know that some apps dont play the same on the E4gt. I get wake locks on a couple apps as well that I do not see on the OG epic. Now that being said, I will at some point switch to the E4gt as my daily driver and I hope to soon. The hardware is great and the experience is great.. but I have had a hard time turining off the OG epic as it just works!
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I came from the OG Epic, its an amazing phone. I recently dropped it and cracked my screen bad and had a loaner phone for like 4 days... was going from withdrawls cuz I missed my Epic touch so much lol. Its a worthwhile buy.

I had the og epic... I would say get this phone as long as you don't use the keyboard much... it really is an amazing phone, even on a stock rom
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Thank you so much everyone for the response I just got this phone today. So far I like have to get use to not having a physical keyboard though. The only I've noticed was that the on screen keyboard is a little laggy I guess there is a fix to that.
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crawrj said:
Bought the OG Epic at Launch and the Touch at Launch. I never used the physical keyboard on the OG Epic. I absolutely love the Touch and don't regret my decision at all. It is by far the best phone I have ever owned. I would never go back to the OG Epic.
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Same exact scenario. I got both on launch day. I said I would never get a phone without a keyboard. It took me maybe 2 days to get used to it. Its the best phone I have ever owned and its not close
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Had the og epic close to launch,miss the keyboard but this thing is blazing fast even underclocked the first phone were even under very heavy use on the stock battery I plain can't kill it in one day, gaming aside and the camera is first class. And our community is actually awesome, they have really worked all the bugs out of this phone. It has renewed my loyalty to Samsung. I know how frustrating the lack of support was on the of epic
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had the og epic (great phone)...upgraded to e4gt, and its the best phone ever had...i bought the og epic before mainly for the display (4 in was perfect) and kb, but i ended up using the kb only for odin..lol...this phone is great...battery life is great!
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This phone is fantastic. I'm a gamer, music lover, texter, (pretty much everything that this phone does). And it hasn't failed on me once. Some people say GPS has issues, but I've never experienced them, on any ROM. I think it's location dependent. Anyways...I'd hands down recommend this phone and Sammobile (aka Samfirmware) is leaking builds about twice a month, so an ICS leak will probably arrive maybe early Q1 to mid Q2. The hardware is definitely the best in the US right now (I'm talking about camera, CPU, GPU). Something I thought I wouldn't like prior to my purchase was the size of the screen being a bit large, but I bought it regardless and now it's my favorite feature.

Just purchased E4GT

Like the title said, I finally jumped on board. I got the Evo at launch, and used it until October. I saw the Epic when it came out, but I thought it was too big, so I decided to wait for the iPhone. Well, long story short, it was a mistake lol. Small screen, locked-down software, etc etc. Well now that bad boy's gonna be up on craigslist and I'm back in the world of Android.
So far, I'm very pleased.
Any rom recommendations? I use to run Calkulin's Evo rom for a while, and I see that he has an Epic rom, so I guess I'll give that a spin first

Just try out his rooted fb17 build with the fb15 modem I've been using it as my daily since it was dropped.
Ics is super awesome on this phone just for the love of god DO NOT USE CWM TOUCH RECOVERY. i don't wanna see another i bricked my phone thread lol.
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I would advise against using any of the ICS roms as they are not daily driver status yet (I'm running an fb21 setup so I know).
Go with Blazer 4.0, until more work is done on the ICS ones, this will be your best bet for battery life, stability, and smoothness. I ran Calkulin's for a long time and his rom is good but Blazer definitely gets better battery life.
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Try them all but some good advice is until you get comfy with flashing and the little changes from the OG Evo to the Epic, I would just flash stock custom roms and leave those ICS roms alone like the poster above me just said. No need to bork your new phone so fast incase you do something wrong. Also stay away from the Touch recovery until they do some more testing on it... Just my opinion

I'd recommend both Calkulin's ROM, and Blazer ROM at the current time (And they're both excellent developers, so i'd think their future releases will be good also)... not to say the other ROM's available aren't good, I just personally haven't used them so I can not speak on something I haven't experienced. I expect a lot of ROM's to be released soon based on ICS, so the ROM recommendation might change soon.
Welcome, enjoy your new phone

Thanks for all the recommendations. Honestly, I haven't had much of a reason to root the device. The main reason I rooted the Evo was to get rid of Sense, and increase battery life.... needless to say I have neither of those problems on the E4GT.
I'll probably just root but stick with the current ROM I'm running so that I don't have to start from scratch. Once the ICS roms become more stable, I'll look into those.

bjb_nyj101 said:
I'll probably just root but stick with the current ROM I'm running so that I don't have to start from scratch. Once the ICS roms become more stable, I'll look into those.
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Honestly, that's what I am doing. I have a stock ROM with root and CWM... and I'm observing the ICS progress and waiting for a decent, stable ROM/Kernel/Recovery then I'll make a change. My phone is important to me, so I observe to watch the testing and such before diving in.

I kept it stock myself and its been very well.... Bought my et4g about a week ago also for 200 bones... Frekaing steal basically
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There are several Alpha/Beta ICS roms out right now but I would strongly suggest using the older ones for now. Too many people are bricking their phones trying to run ICS. If you must do ICS I would suggest completely restoring your phone back to 100% stock and then installing ICS to a stock/unrooted rom.
I personally am using Calkulin's EL29 (v.2.8.1) rom with the EL29 Kernel and EL29 baseband. It is Gingerbread 2.3.6 but it is insanely stable, extremely responsive; especially if you don't use the TouchWiz but instead use GoLauncher.

I rooted mine so i could delete twiz and all the bloat, then i found team nocturnals dark ics blend rom and flashed it and the fb21 modem and life is good, got rid of all the ugly colors and twiz and fb21 modem increased my 3g data from 100kbps to 1mbps now when i use my og evo it looks dirty from the lower screen quality and its sooooo laggy compared to thia beast
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Cm9 ftw! It's a few more steps at the moment to flash and get some fixes for gps and ext sd to work, but it's so beautiful on this phone. I can't stand tw and all the bloat.
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[q] if you love your samsung epic 4g touch......

Hey guys, a while back i had the epic 4g, and it was the best phone in the world to me. The motorola photon came out and all i saw was dual core! so i jumped off the samsung epic ship and boarded the motorola photon ship......BIG MISTAKE....there wasnt anything i couldnt do with the epic 4g. Between the devs, and learning how to really have some modding fun with the epic, there wasnt really much of a limit on it. Ive been arguing with sprint for 6 months to allow me to upgrade both my lines, and they finally agreed! Ive had so many problems with the motorola photon, and the dev. department can only do so much without an unlocked bootloader...anyway, Im phone shopping now, and i wanna come back to the samsung epic family. I really like the epic touch 4g. Can you please comment on your experience with the phone? Is 4g and GPS working stable on all the roms? Im so eager and excited...I want to wait for the galaxy nexus, but ive got to take advantage of this opportunity while i have the chance, and the galaxy nexus is slightly outa hands reach...I will await your thoughts.....

This phone is awesome I just came from a nexus s and I don't miss it at all! Especially with CM9 the GPS and 4G is awesome where I live!
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everything is working great for me and i also asked about the nexus and generally everyone agreed that it wont really offer much more then the e4gt. i think just a little bigger screen and more internal memory

It's ultimately that YMMV. I heard that the photons have better modems so they can get better signals compared to the epic 4g touch.
However, ROM development has really been kicking off. We have three main AOSP ROMS, CM 9, AOKP, and Codename Android, which are all about to be updated to Android 4.0.4 and able to record video again. All silky smooth. Make sure to not flash or wipe anything if you flash to ICS or you risk bricking.
As far as hardware, you should check if you have LTE where you live if you want to take advantage of it on the Galaxy Nexus.
Here's a thread asking a similar question
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568211

In all honesty, this is the longest I've ever kept a phone and I've had it since it released in September. I love this phone and the devs (and contributors) here at XDA just give me new ways to enjoy my phone and make it work for me.
I'll be eyeing the new HTC and SGS3 (if it ever comes out) but it would take a lot to make me jump ship, and truly, that is saying a lot for me.

@darkfire2024, i must admit, some of my co-workers have the epic touch 4g and when they dont have any bars of service, i usually have full bars. Not that it helps to have full bars, i might beable to make a call, but i definitely dont have any 3g coverage...I live in chicago, im sure it will be months before they release lte over here. I checked that thread. Very useful, thanks for your advice.

I'd like to say this is by the best phone I've ever used. The great thing, as you pointed out, is the active devs here, they are incredible. I recently helped a co-worker with his newest Droid4; get it at least rooted anyways, and I felt even better about my phone. Great thing is you have SO many options to choose from - especially for connectivity! Maybe the EL29 modem works best on your phone and in your neighborhood. Maybe it's the FC07 or FC24 or even one of the EK versions. The point being you can find out! I've been lucky and had progressively better speeds for both 4G and 3G with each version (except one early FC; caused batter drain and got no 4G) Good luck.
Edit: forgot to add that if you do go flashing different modems, make sure to update the PRL and Profile after/between the updates! I keep coming back to the Blazer GB ROM - literally everything works and works great. I've got a couple FC24 builds I'll probably try this weekend. But we'll see. I'm sure the final offical ICS code will drop very soon; then we'll see some great crazy development.

Excellent phone. GB ROMs are perfect. ICS are good, but they do still have some issues.
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Awesome phone
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hands down best phone ive ever owned. by a football field

killaphatboy said:
Excellent phone. GB ROMs are perfect. ICS are good, but they do still have some issues.
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Issues u say, any bugs that are known or are they just random and intermittent?
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Issues u say, any bugs that are known or are they just random and intermittent?
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The ICS issues are known and most have work arounds, but some of us are lucky and don't experience them. I think ICS is great, but I don't have any of the issues. Look at first few posts for known issues: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1512419
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Success100 said:
hands down best phone ive ever owned. by a football field
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My thoughts exactly. I have used the nexus in the verizon store and I must say the e4gt runs smoother. Samsung really hit the nail on the head with this phone it is perfect! No lag at all. Watch the video comparing the two by FlossyCarter on youtube you will see what I mean when I say the epic runs better. Like others have said this is the phone that I have owned the longest because with cell phones I am always getting sick of them after a couple weeks (Iphone) this phone has so much dev support and is just so awesome I can see myself holding on to it for another year easily!

This phone is the best I've ever had the pleasure to own and I've owned a lot (see my signature)
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rbtrucking said:
My thoughts exactly. I have used the nexus in the verizon store and I must say the e4gt runs smoother. Samsung really hit the nail on the head with this phone it is perfect! No lag at all. Watch the video comparing the two by FlossyCarter on youtube you will see what I mean when I say the epic runs better. Like others have said this is the phone that I have owned the longest because with cell phones I am always getting sick of them after a couple weeks (Iphone) this phone has so much dev support and is just so awesome I can see myself holding on to it for another year easily!
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right! plus ICS is making it super raw lol. everytime i pick this joint up to use it im still in awe like the first day I got it. Im amazed by how powerful and advanced this thing is. Im totally satisfied with it. Never had a phone this long either, and unless the note comes to sprint, I wont be ditching it anytime soon. Not even for the GNEX which IMO is a downgrade.

the best I always fight w m friend on whos better is iPhone or my epic 4g touch

Et4g + AOSP ICS > gNex ;-)
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If I were you I would wait about 2 weeks man! Rumor has it the Galaxy Nexus might be released on sprint April 15. Besides that phone I would just wait for the Galaxy S3 which should be out in the next 6-8 months!

I switch phones quite a bit as well but to be honest with you this phone is the best I've ever owned, and with so much dev support you never get tired of it.

Coming from the HTC Evo 3D I can say this phone blows it out the water. Love my Epic Touch
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