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[q] Pros and Cons of Sense and No-Sense on Desire?

Hi all!
As per topic, actually.
I hope this is the right section to ask for this, as I want to make it specific for the Desire ROMs and not all the ROMs with Sense or No Sense.
I plan on getting an HTC Desire and having a custom ROM right away (that is, after going through all the required process of rooting etc.).
My question is the following:
What should I ask myself when choosing between a Sense and No Sense ROM(other than the UI experience)?
While doing a research through the forum I found some answers, however nothing was too informative. E.g. I found out that if one wants to play games in a custom ROM he should go for a No Sense ROM.
Is it because Sense ROM affects the performance or is it because of the way its settings are that does not interact with games well.
Does this happen to other kinds of applications as well?
Is there anything else that one needs to keep in mind when chosing for a ROM when it comes to Sense or No Sense?
Why go for Sense and why for No Sense?
I realize this is too much to ask, but as I searched through the forum and did not find anything specific, I believe that this will be helpful information for Desire newbies like me.
Thank you!

This may not answer your question in the depth you asked but from my own experience after using roms with and without sense I prefer the ones with sense.
Did not find any appreciable difference in speed but prefered sense roms from a purely aesthtic point of view.
Best idea is to get the phone and try different roms to see what you like. There are so many roms and everybody has their favourite that you will not get a definative answer.

The fun part is, once you are rooted you can test all ROMs and see which work best for you.
You can either spend hours trying to find an answer to this particular question or you can just try a couple of them and see what works best for you.
Sense comes with a couple of wonderful apps, which you lose (like the FM-radio) when you use a non-Sense ROM.
I don't need them per se, so I am currently on WhiteXperience, which is non-sense.
This ROM is extremely fast with low battery usage, which makes it great for playing games.
New ROMs come out every day and they get better and better each day.

A Thread with a question I also want to know since several weeks
If I get a no Sense ROM do I lose all HTC specific programs.
Widgets, ok, no issue. I don't use them either. Use Launcher Pro.
But programs, especially the mail client, how's that? Do I have to search a new one from the Market? I don't think there is one available as powerful as the HTC one.

I prefer using the sense roms cause I get the sense dialer which I much prefer over the stock Android dialer, including the contacts manager. However in using adw launcher as it feels much faster than the sense interface
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Rymon said:
E.g. I found out that if one wants to play games in a custom ROM he should go for a No Sense ROM.
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I've not heard that one before! I've no problems playing games with a Sense ROM.
Regards,
Dave

I love sense and can't do without it now. Sense-less roms feel really empty and boring to me now.

Doesn't really answer your question, but there are a couple ROMs that have the UI portion of sense (i believe its called rosie) removed and then had the dialer/contacts/etc ported to work with stock or alternate launchers. Iirc Cyanogen is one like this... might help you out going that route too..
As to the actual question.. I have noticed that non-sense roms do seem to be a noticeably faster, but its usually cause most are highly tweaked for increased performance and usually include a2sd+. A lot of the sense roms are also tweaked as well, but usually include the froyo a2sd, which doesn't seem to be as much of a performance boost. Onto of which most of the tweaked to the sense based roms are for UI improvements, themes, etc. And not as hardcore performance based...
Just my 2 cents... IMHO... Take it as you will
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sbdags said:
I love sense and can't do without it now. Sense-less roms feel really empty and boring to me now.
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I had a Motorola Milestone previously so I'm used to the stock Android.. if you want something with a little more umph, I really recommend LauncherPro (and LP Plus). My fav launcher by far!
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mikeandjaimie said:
Doesn't really answer your question, but there are a couple ROMs that have the UI portion of sense (i believe its called rosie) removed and then had the dialer/contacts/etc ported to work with stock or alternate launchers. Iirc Cyanogen is one like this... might help you out going that route too..
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Just an fyi, but CyanogenMod is most assuredly *nothing* like this.
CyanogenMod is based on AOSP Android, but has been significantly customized from the original source. It owes nothing to the Sense frameworks that HTC have built into their own version of Android.
Regards,
Dave

foxmeister said:
Just an fyi, but CyanogenMod is most assuredly *nothing* like this.
CyanogenMod is based on AOSP Android, but has been significantly customized from the original source. It owes nothing to the Sense frameworks that HTC have built into their own version of Android.
Regards,
Dave
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Sorry yeah I worded it wrong.. I should have said sense-less ROMs that have some of the sense components ported. My bad, but thanks for pointing it out.
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Thank you everyone!
I will follow your advice and try out different ROMS of both UIs (Sense and non-Sense) and see which of the two I prefer.
I will most probably start with a Sense ROM and if I stumble upon any issues I will try the other one as well.
Can you please point me towards two or three ROMs of each UI that I should definitely try out?
As for the battery efficiency of the ROM I do not worry. I have stumbled upon a couple of threads that IMHO give the best advice I could get when it comes to managing several phone settings in order to reduce power drainage.

Try this one, you can remove Sense very quickly if you want, but Sense Dialer will stay, which is better anyway.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741661

You wouldn't go wrong trying the Cyanogenmod ROM, its a non-sense one, but as stated before, very tweaked.
As regards one of the other posters, an excellent replacement for the mail app is K-9, you'll find it in the market, and its been my mail app of choice since I owned my G1, it handles IMAP very well, though I've not tried it with an exchange server, so can't comment there
Hope that helps

Tried many sense and non-sense roms. This is what I found:
HTC Sense roms have:
- Better Gallery, faster and with better zoom
- Better Dialer, faster, sleek and functional
- Better and nicer graphics for contacts
- Better camera application. Touch focus (coming to non-sense), better autofocus
- Better integrated Clipboard and selection mode
- Some other HTC applications for News, Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Weather, etc. But these can be replaced more easily
- Some nice widgets for the above applications. They have a very nice graphic appearance
- (subjective) better memory management, I find AOSP builds too aggressive in some regards
- Nice touches like usb-plugging choice, Bluetooth FTP, etc
- Medium-high auto brightness levels
For Non-Sense roms you get:
- many kernels to choose, OC, UV, etc. At least until htc froyo source is released
- crazy high benchmarks if you OC
- much more configurability, mainly for the interface
- configurable Auto-brightness
- system wide equalizer
- some stuff I don't use (so I don't know well) like OpenVPN
- WiFi N ?
- Cyanogen Renders (in some)
- many new tweaks and releases every week
personally I really don't mind the bugs and quirks you sometimes get in AOSP roms, but I can't really live with the available alternatives to the HTC Gallery, Dialer and Camera.
Anyway these are some of the possible replacements for HTC stuff:
- Email client -> Maildroid
- Dialer -> Dialer One
- Gallery -> .... uuuuhmmmm .... errrr..... either Stock 3D Gallery or Just Pictures. They are both crap in my opinion
- Camera -> Vignette or just use stock Nexus One
- Home Launcher -> Many to choose
- News -> Feedr
- Twitter -> official client

HTC Desire owners to wait long for Gingerbread 2.3

Hi Folks,
May be you know already but here you go:
"HTC Desire owners face long wait for Android 2.3 Gingerbread update"
Read more:
crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/htc-desire-owners-face-long-wait-for-android-23-gingerbread-update-50002752
Edit: I did search forum before post but couldn't find it hence posted. No offence, ignore it if you find it not interesting.

Old news. Do a forum search before posting. Thanks.

Indeed old news. Get a 2.3 custom rom then you don't have to wait

I'm using gingervillian and its fast and stable. Not bad on battery with the right kernel

Imagine 2.3 with SENSE. Wow.
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mayad79 said:
Imagine 2.3 with SENSE. Wow.
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Yes, Wow
I've had my share of Sense and I'm seriously considering another brand just to avoid Sense (although Moto Blur and Samsung's skin isn't really better)

Please define how sense tired you? I hope that aren't just widgets?
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- ROM takes up valuable internal space
- more RAM usage
- launcher is a joke (3 shortcuts, one of them is to put on shortcuts and widgets? yeah like i do that every 5 minutes)
When you see that the most presented features about newly announced HTC phones are "notification bar power control shortcuts" and "drawer that scrolls per sections", then you know they're just fiddling about. So Sense, please **** off.

I thought they said that they'll have gingerbread out for the desire around Q2 of this year?

vjmcdonnell said:
I'm using gingervillian and its fast and stable. Not bad on battery with the right kernel
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do inform me how to do this. would like to have a change.

erklat said:
Please define how sense tired you? I hope that aren't just widgets?
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Sense (in my opinion) is just bloatware. The widgets are a nice extra but the overall graphic make-over is unneeded in the Android revisions currently rolling out.
It may have been needed in 2.1 and 2.2 but 2.3 really doesn't need a new graphic layer.
The social network integration into the contact system is nice but nobody uses it the way HTC intended it to be used (I.e. someone calls you, you check the social network status and have a topic to talk about).
Facebook as a standalone app can also add pictures to your contacts.
I'm terrified about what HTC is going to do to Honeycomb! Imagine them throwing a Sense layer on top and adding that ridiculous pen input.

You don't have to use the pen with the tablet if you don't want (that's how I understand it anyway)
In some instances it would probably be good - i.e. drawing pics in paint or whatever - or for handwriting notes - I find it frustrating on notes on my desire at the moment, where on my Touch HD it was easy with the stylus!
It's nice to have the option anyway...

Would be nice to get the official update asap. I tried the gingervillian rom but it got stuck on the villianrom boot screen

Quit *****ing about Sense and buy an Nexus S! HTC has Sense and I love it! I'm really looking forward to get Gingerbread with Sense, but I really hope they skip the 2.3 and go straight to 2.4 Gingerbread

Agreed! , I have only had the desire for a week now and i love the sense ui. Just wanted to have a look at gingerbread

"Great news for HTC Desire family owners – it has been reported HTC will be releasing the Gingerbread (Android 2.3/2.4) update for the HTC Desire family after the new Desire S goes on sale.
Wow it hasn’t been officially announced by HTC, the information was apparently coerced out of an HTC rep at the Mobile World Congress this week. While it’s no confirmation, HTC has been proven to be pretty reliable with their Android updates and there should be no reason to why it won’t stay that way. The HTC Desire family includes the HTC Desire, HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z (hopefully this means the G2 as well).
With no other phones announced to have official Gingerbread updates and the Nexus S remains the only phone to have Gingerbread, it’s about time some phones started getting Android 2.3/2.4. At least Desire users aren’t still stuck on 2.1."
Not what Ubergizmo is saying. Keep the faith, people - HTC have been good to us.

eddiemerckx said:
Sense (in my opinion) is just bloatware.
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I use Sense roms only. No one forces you to use sense launcher if you don't like it, every sense rom has default Android launcher too. I tried a few aosp roms until I found out that sense doesn't have to be used, but you still get the rest of the great stuff like name prediction when making a call, or a slight vibrate when call connected for example. Only thing that sucks is that we are stuck with 2.6.32 kernels at this moment.
About memory consumption they are equal or sense even more efficient, and the same goes for speed. You don't get aosp related bugs either.
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Basically not 1 plus over AOSP (T9 dialing apps on market, vibrate when connected is in CM), EXCEPT you get more internal space with using a AOSP ROM. Now extra 200MB+ over a crappy interface ? Anytime.

Is there an ASOP rom that has face detection or touch to focus though? I am a heavy user of the camera and video and so far have been pretty disappointed at the lack of those in the 2.3 roms.
I would say that the email and text widgets are better thought out than the standard 2.3, or market ones.

thed0g said:
Now extra 200MB+ over a crappy interface ? Anytime.
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Heard about a2sd+ scripts? Data2sd?
Internal memory size is more than irrelevant with either of those. And the epickest are those who resort to changing partition tables to get moar internal space. Kudos.
Hope you didn't do that
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Will HTC Sense 4.0 be available for Desire from xda when released?

Main features from Sense 4.0 as follows:
Based on Ice-cream sandwich (long waited android OS)
Better DropBox integration with 50GB online storage (can auto mount as network drive.)
Notifications on lock screen (like iOS 5)
Enhanced email with new Sense
Guest Mode
Beats audio is now standard from HTC now on ...
Video:
Reference:
http://pocketnow.com/android/htc-sense-40-first-impressions

Depends...
The memory footprint for sense keeps on growing and becoming larger with each new version
I suspect ICS + Sense 4.0 will take up a huge amount of memory.
I'm quite sure there will be a way to get it, but your internal memory will be less.
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I thought they (htc) were suppose to have optimized 3.5 a lot for low-spec phones (i.e. bliss).
I'd guess that unless it comes to the Desire HD / Sensation then it might be a bit unlikely. ICS with sense 3.5 from the sensation doesn't seem to have had a successful port yet.

Lothaen said:
I thought they (htc) were suppose to have optimized 3.5 a lot for low-spec phones (i.e. bliss).
I'd guess that unless it comes to the Desire HD / Sensation then it might be a bit unlikely. ICS with sense 3.5 from the sensation doesn't seem to have had a successful port yet.
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True. That have optimized the newer versions for performance and speed.
However, along the way, they have been adding new apps and widgets which take up space. (fb chat, reader, watch, notes, tasks etc) this means the footprint gets larger.
However, I have read that HTC are aware that their Sense UI has started to become bloated, and they say Sense 4.0 will be a lot different.
Hopefully that's the case.
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i think that no... and if we run one, will be asop...

Of course it's possible, just a matter of time

it'd be easy to reduce the load on sense though by removing some of the bloatware
laputa, stocks for example I always rip out - fb chat, reader, watch can probably easily go too
i still think the BEST way for HTC to go with the likes of bloatware would be to just simply move it to HTC hub as optional downloads/installs rather than forcing crap on users

Lothaen said:
it'd be easy to reduce the load on sense though by removing some of the bloatware
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I agree on this, most of the HTC apps should be optional which could speed up the system. One of the main problem is get the hardware CPU/GPU support from Qualcomm optimize for ICS.

Am I the only one thinking that Sense 4 so far seems to be to cosmetic? Just like 3 was, i think they stepped it up only with 3.5

guesXy said:
Am I the only one thinking that Sense 4 so far seems to be to cosmetic? Just like 3 was, i think they stepped it up only with 3.5
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Well, we haven't really had a in depth look so we can't reall say.
Apparently they have really stepped up their game, and this is the biggest overhaul of the UI to date!
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Even 3.5 Sense is incredibly slow on Desire. Why should anyone use such slow GUI?
ICS 4.0 AOSP will be better and faster solution.
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olyloh6696 said:
Well, we haven't really had a in depth look so we can't reall say.
Apparently they have really stepped up their game, and this is the biggest overhaul of the UI to date!
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Not seeing it yet
I thought Sense 2.1 -> Sense 3.0 was one of the bigger overhauls - but even then most of it was minor (i.e. new lockscreen was fairly major, but 3D widgets and carousel was fairly minor)
I guess Sense 1.x -> 2.0/2.1 was fairly major too as they added HTC Sense and HTC Hub - but again one major feature to a lot of minor tweaks..
3.x to 4.x seems to be about the same, with the major update being.... ? the menu animations?

DilbertZG said:
Even 3.5 Sense is incredibly slow on Desire. Why should anyone use such slow GUI?
ICS 4.0 AOSP will be better and faster solution.
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Well that tells me you not tried all sense 3.5 roms out.
Sab... 15 Runnymede rom is super fast as long you have the sd card for it class 4 and above.
I would even say this rom is faster than miui and that's saying something.
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shankly1985 said:
Well that tells me you not tried all sense 3.5 roms out.
Sab... 15 Runnymede rom is super fast as long you have the sd card for it class 4 and above.
I would even say this rom is faster than miui and that's saying something.
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Runnymede sense 3.5 rom is fast for me too.
Just add a video link (1st post) showing the new sense look.

Tried Runnymede and lots of ROM from XDA. It looks great,but I always felt lag in it.
Then I go back to Sense 2.1+3.0 ROM. A lot faster than Runnymede. And I do no want to use Runnymede again. Class 4 SD used.
Just put 2 Desires on table, one with Runnymede and other with, let's say, Revolution ROM. And then tell me which one works fast and smooth? Also, on which ROM battery will last longer, under same conditions?
Please, be real and objective.
3.5 ROMs are slow on Desire compared to 2.1+3.0. Period.
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DilbertZG said:
Tried Runnymede and lots of ROM from XDA. It looks great,but I always felt lag in it.
Then I go back to Sense 2.1+3.0 ROM. A lot faster than Runnymede. And I do no want to use Runnymede again. Class 4 SD used.
Just put 2 Desires on table, one with Runnymede and other with, let's say, Revolution ROM. And then tell me which one works fast and smooth? Also, on which ROM battery will last longer, under same conditions?
Please, be real and objective.
3.5 ROMs are slow on Desire compared to 2.1+3.0. Period.
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Not for me and I used I would say a lot of roms, this is the best of them all. For me
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I'm not going to hold my breathe on this one but we have hope

Lothaen said:
Not seeing it yet
I thought Sense 2.1 -> Sense 3.0 was one of the bigger overhauls - but even then most of it was minor (i.e. new lockscreen was fairly major, but 3D widgets and carousel was fairly minor)
I guess Sense 1.x -> 2.0/2.1 was fairly major too as they added HTC Sense and HTC Hub - but again one major feature to a lot of minor tweaks..
3.x to 4.x seems to be about the same, with the major update being.... ? the menu animations?
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Seen videos of the new Sense on the One X (if anyone is interested click here)
Seems theres a new Typeface, lockscreen seems the same as before with slightly tweaked functionality, the launcher at the bottom of the screen is changed to look a bit more like things like GoLauncher, LauncherPro etc.
Side swipe through menu with altered modes (like your favourites, recent etc) something I couldn't make out near the top as well, looks like market loader, a delete function (?)
They seem to have also altered the ICS recent apps thing, if I'm honest it looks a bit like Windows Vista/7 window view.
It seems a lot smoother and neater actually, but on the Desire? 3.5 is still clunky compared to Earlier Pure Sense (2.x etc)and Hybrids, so I'm guessing it'll be a long time till its useable, but I would love to see it implemented!
Before someone says anything like 'Yu havenet used 3.5 its awesomez and supa dupa fast' I have used it with a class 6 card, CoolBliss, did not like it, slow and juttery, went back to the Hybrids. My opinion, don't flame.

Vote for your favorite ROM, my opinion

Due to massive upload of sense 3.5 ROMS, this thread can be deleted.
Too much of the same, I find personally
The WFSDEV team should work together to make one or two good sense 3.5 ROMS.
But no, what do we see, 5 or more ROMS which are almost the same.
And then they're all claiming its their own work, and asking for thanks / donations.
Users get confused, don't know what to try, ...
I claim that HenseMod is fully themed by me only, I've chosen the icons, wallpapers, fonts, ..., and I'm proud of it
The WFSDEV team isn't a team either, I asked to other team members to help me with a cwm zip and no news of it. Hate that.
So I think I will leave the WFSDEV team, nah

Cm7 & hensemod.
Cm7 as my main then hensemod maybe a couple of days a month when I'm bored lol

Stock 2.3.5

m1ndh4x8r's GB2.3.5 mod
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CM 7
Powered by CM 7.2

.sense is the favorite rom, i don't use it now, but when benjamin added the sense 3.0 stuff, i will use this Rom!

CM 7.2 latest nightly

CM7 even if I don't have it yet on my cdma phone (I had it before so I'm guessing its the same)
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Marvelous ROM vers.2 is my favorite. I think is very smooth and with a few mods is great.
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Here's my 2 cents:
(First of all, I have flashed and re-flashed EVERY custom ROM that I could get my hands on - from this site or otherwise - onto my WFS... here's my quick overview.)
- I currently run m1ndh4x8r's Cracker. It's smooth (like Hense), stable, and as close to stock as you can get (without actually running the rooted stock.)
- The rooted stocks are, by far, the most stable (but everyone wants an overclocked kernel, so stocks are out).
- The NonSense ROM was quite nice, but only at GB 2.3.3.
- Matteo ROM is fast, but not much else. Not a lot of internal space left, the gallery function is broken (when accessing thru the camera app) and the default font is absolutely useless - be prepared to change it) There is no built-in advanced power button menu. Bootup animation is annoying. Also, Matteo breaks the proximity sensor on your phone.
- Marvelous ROM: Fantastic (but not overclock'ed)
- CM7 is, I find, very unstable. Not to mention the ugliest ROM I've ever seen. Sure, you can theme it... but the system stuff still looks pretty gross. CM7 is notorious for it's POOR handling of graphics (but it makes up for it in speed and TONS of free internal space leftover). That being said, I could never get a decent Antutu score running CM7. Overclocked at 806 + "Performance" gov., I still can't break 1690 (about 1750 if I use "Smartass + bfq").
CM7 has a crappy camera, crappy dialer, and crappy contacts feature.
Not a fan of the launcher, either.
Also, CM7 breaks the SMS notification feature (over the SMS icon).
Did I mention it looks horrible? I'd rather sacrifice a couple meg's of RAM+space in order to get a phone that looks/feels decent and is a pleasure to use. But that's just me, what do I know.
- Hense was my favourite, until I discovered the Setting widgets is broken... and other odd quirks like the HTC Skin feature is not linked (Link2SD) properly... leading me to believe it's not quite as true to stock as can be (like the m1ndhax0r roms, for example). Hense was quite smooth and peppy. The only changes I made to that was ripping out the new SMS and putting in the old one (no one likes those god damn bubbles) and I think replacing the Market back to old version too). Nice bootup/shutdown animations.
- I even played with the MIUI "port" (well.. not really a port, but...)
This ROM has potential in that it's fast and has even MORE internal space and RAM leftover than CM7... but it's still based on CM7.
Once you taste the Sense UI, it's hard to stay away from it (for very long). But, your mileage may vary.
To summarize, I find the m1ndh4x8r ROMs the best overall (but they are not perfect... their small internal space is problematic, but can be resolved with the usual tweaks n' tricks). Like I say, I'm currently on Cracker (but always on the lookout for newer/better ROMs) and I haven't had any problems with it so far:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1479002
Hey, if anyone got ANYTHING useful at all out of my post, please click THANKS, below!
Cheers,
- Anthony

Voted Others
Using 2.13 jikantaruROM
Older ROM but it's the only one which runs stable, all OC roms freeze
Still waiting for the JxMatteoROM v1.2

Cm 7.2
You either live it or you don't. I do.
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my
1. latest stock ROM (rooted)
2. .sense

Favorite ROM
Currently using Hensemod because it's fast and i can play RR2 smoothly . The only problem I encountered was with link2sd. After installing 130 apps, system keeps telling me memory is low after reboot. So I switched to data2sd and everything seems flawless except for a slight decrease in antutu score, which is just fine for me as long as i can still play RR2 smoothly
I also saved a nandroid backup of m1ndh4x8r rom. It was my personal favorite before I installed Hensemod. It's really fast, i even got a higher 3D antutu score with it compared to Hensemod.
Totally agree with Tigger. CM7 is nice in terms of memory. However when it comes to graphics specially 3D, it's very poor. Sluggish when playing HD games such as RR2. Pictures taken with it's camera are so ugly i can't live with it. Installing third party camera apps did not solve the problem either. I guess it's CM7 itself.
I also tried every single rom posted here, benchmarked, installed 3d games and experimented with the mods available to enhance it. But i believe Hensemod and
m1ndh4x8r are the best.

Best JxMatteo ROM for me I use Link2SD this best choose for me. I try data2sd supported roms but my micro sdcard too slow so phone performance very bad.

Just downgraded to 2.3.3 (1.66.401.1), its the best and most stable I've seen so far.

JxMatteo ROM is the.best
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## Custom ROMs: A side-by-side comparison ##
Relevant to this thread, I just posted an XLS chart that compares (what I think are) some general/important features of all the custom Wildfire S ROMs that I could find.
It's my own personal work... so, it's sloppy, but probably still useful for anyone trying to figure out what ROM to run but doesn't wanna dive into the flash just yet. Or perhaps folks just wanna see how one ROM compares to another?
Check it out! It'll leave you with whiter teeth and mintier breath!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1491304
- Anthony

my vote to m1ndh4x8r GB2.3.5
I like m1ndh4x8r GB2.3.5 ROM fast, stable using Data2SD awesome and more with this UOT support, now i am daily changing UI using UOT Kitchen

Using JxMatteoROM v1.1 and it's THE best by far for me.
Removed all Twitter, facebook, friends stream and bloatware. Installed fontchanger and running Android font, oc'ed at 806mhz and no trouble!
Waiting for JxMatteoROM v1.2.

Your favorite ROM!!

Cant edit the poll choose stock if you like CM9.

Cm7 nightly
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cyanogen nightly so far because of interface and ram i like ram reminds me of my other mobiles.

Your favorite ROM!
helou... i think that smart, stable and GUI .sense ) from CM i waited more... maybe....http://media.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

sense 3.5 roms are mostly buggy for me. i like sense so ill go with sense 2.1 roms

CM7 has always been my favorite but for the past week I've been using SENSELESS by Jermzii its fast and has lots of free space on system partition.
HENSEMOD is nice too.
Not really a fan of the SENSE 3.5.

Henry_01 said:
I had already a thread for this, but it was outdated and not so good made.
Second attempt now, lets start
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My favorite ROm it's that now I was developiong, TrianaDroid, really near It was goind to be ready for download, when the threshold of the 10 posts permission me
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miui style roms all the way!
love the one made by Henry.
Good job!

Why stock rom and cm7 together? Stock rom is one of sense 2.1 roms.
MIUI is nice for me, but waiting for ICS.

cm7 nightly....
I love the cm7 nightly for following solid reasons......
1. It gives super performance on my phone.....
2. Battery is lasting long.....
3. CM Setting interface is superb.....
4. More flexibility.....
5. Nightly updated with new features.......
6. Theme Support...... (Theme Chooser)......
7. Tomorrow and day after tomorrows........
Enjoying CM......

Henry, can u add the .sense Rom in the list?
THANKS!

No, this is for general, If I add .sense, I must add other ROMS as well, now you can see what people like the most, basic android, sense, other stuff, ...

CM 7.2 of course

Ok henry, was a suggestion only

CM7 for it's brilliant feature set and more importantly, blazing speed!
Also (though it doesn't influence my choice), I like seeing 250MB free RAM on CM7 as opposed to 150 on Sense (In fact, right now, it says 297 free!)

would have to be stock at the moment

Bad-Wolf Enhanced. Not released yet though. If I do release it, I'll change the name, and add some stuff.

I second this
gauravjuneja01 said:
I love the cm7 nightly for following solid reasons......
1. It gives super performance on my phone.....
2. Battery is lasting long.....
3. CM Setting interface is superb.....
4. More flexibility.....
5. Nightly updated with new features.......
6. Theme Support...... (Theme Chooser)......
7. Tomorrow and day after tomorrows........
Enjoying CM......
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Sense 2.1 ROMs are my favourite.
Sense 3.5 ROMs are not ready for day to day usage.
I don't want to start a "war" but why buy a HTC Sense phone and not use Sense?
There are cheaper phones around with lots of custom ROMs available.
Thanks to all WFS devs! :beer:
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As good as sense is it sucks the life from the phone and it is capable of so much more and I'd you want a factory standard mobile go get a iPhone sorry to swear but android is all about what u can do that's why the source code is open
PS no war just a good exchange of points of view. Lol
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