I've unlocked & rooted my LTE Gnex, what's next? which rom should try first?
remove bloatware.
IMO AOKP is the best ROM for the GN right now.
It's AOKP as the most popular rom for Galaxy Nexus and the second most popular would be Codename. There are other good roms, but nothing comes close to these two in popularity. I think codename post in xda. Their personal websites and rootzwiki gets their updates first. Those are also the websites were you will have more direct contact with those two developers.
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Another vote for aokp
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My vote would go towards using GummyNex. It suits my daily needs well, and provides me with superb battery life. Just run through all the ROM's using nandroid with Titanium Backup, which makes switching between each ROM extremely easy.
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My nexus is coming in today. Cant wait just wondering whats the best roms out and themes/ mods? Thanks
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Rooted stock for me, love the ICS look and how smooth it runs without needing much TLC.
Of course if you do ROM it up, go with AOKP, CM9, or Liquid. Those are the 3 best out there right now (At least on the CDMA side of things).
GummyNex & AOKP are the most customizable and therefore my favorites.
Franco Kernels get alot of love and are definately worth looking into.
I just came from a GS2 and am running AOKP. I flashed CM9 but quickly switched back because AOKP was more customizable.
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Stock.
Please refer to one of the threads already discussing this.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623372
I am not rooted and unlocked and on 4.0.4. Now I want more. Does anyone know of a feature rich fast and stable rom featuring the newest TouchWiz? If not what is your suggestion for a ROM? What's the best? I'm very new so all information is great!
No Nexus rom will have TouchWiz. As for the best so far? That answer will vary from person to person. I, personally, enjoy BAMF Paradigm.
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aokp + franco
If you're looking for TouchWiz, this is your best hope. However, nothing works right now. I personally doubt the ROM will ever be functional, as there are three of them and there's a lot of work involved to get it working at all, not to mention quirking out everything and updating the ROM. In addition, I guess very few are interested in TouchWiz ROMs for Galaxy Nexus. So don't get your hopes up.
if I were you, I'd go for a ROM which is working and has active developers. Check out the Galaxy Nexus Development forum, and you'll get a pretty good idea of what's out there.
Any custom roms you guys can reccomend. I am new to this galaxy nexus
You should browse through the development section and pick whichever one that seem to interest you the most.
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nosebleedXD said:
Any custom roms you guys can reccomend. I am new to this galaxy nexus
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1797990
The froyo rom is pretty stable but I find the cupcake rom has better battery life, ur pick
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Depends on what you are looking for in a ROM.
I am running AndroidME. Loving it thus far. Basically an improved version of stock JB with some tweaks and theming options: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774165
Also, be aware that there are two different development forums - one for the GSM version and another for the Verizon/Sprint version.
Liquid smooth looks reallly tempting but they took down the link
Ima try the androidme
Thanks alot
I've had my sprint gnex for about a week now. maybe two weeks, I forget. Anyway, 4.0.4 ICS is mind-blowing compared to 2.3.5 that I had on my rooted S-on Evo 4g (I did de-bloat the stock rom). The fact that it's not a Sense or TouchWiz rom is the best part of all, and really I find that I have no desired functionality that would require rooting or flashing of any kind. However... a lot of the additions in JB look really awesome and I'd like to check into those at some point in the near future. I'm comfortable with the idea of rooting and flashing. After I rooted my Evo I may have actually laughed out loud for being as paranoid and anxious as I was.
Here's my concern: after trudging through the sprint gnex dev forum, there's a lot of roms and kernels available. At this point I'm not so concerned with a kernel, but I'd like some help narrowing down the options to one or maybe two roms to get started with. Basically I'm looking for one that's as close to what Google would give me if they were releasing to sprint devices. I would also be cool with one that's as close to what sprint might release in an official OTA.
I was never crazy about trying CM roms (or other AOSP based ones for that matter) on the Evo just because I wasn't crazy about having to flash back and forth between stock roms for PRLs and profiles. I'm not sure how often that would really have to be done, but I won't consider that a deal breaker if it gets me into an ideal rom.
CM10 + faux kernel
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I've had my sprint gnex for about a week now. maybe two weeks, I forget. Anyway, 4.0.4 ICS is mind-blowing compared to 2.3.5 that I had on my rooted S-on Evo 4g (I did de-bloat the stock rom). The fact that it's not a Sense or TouchWiz rom is the best part of all, and really I find that I have no desired functionality that would require rooting or flashing of any kind. However... a lot of the additions in JB look really awesome and I'd like to check into those at some point in the near future. I'm comfortable with the idea of rooting and flashing. After I rooted my Evo I may have actually laughed out loud for being as paranoid and anxious as I was.
Here's my concern: after trudging through the sprint gnex dev forum, there's a lot of roms and kernels available. At this point I'm not so concerned with a kernel, but I'd like some help narrowing down the options to one or maybe two roms to get started with. Basically I'm looking for one that's as close to what Google would give me if they were releasing to sprint devices. I would also be cool with one that's as close to what sprint might release in an official OTA.
I was never crazy about trying CM roms (or other AOSP based ones for that matter) on the Evo just because I wasn't crazy about having to flash back and forth between stock roms for PRLs and profiles. I'm not sure how often that would really have to be done, but I won't consider that a deal breaker if it gets me into an ideal rom.
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MMuzzy's AOSP is as close to OTA stock as you'll find. In both form and build quality.
Like the above, CM10 is as stock as you'll find. There are other very close to stock with internal performance tuning.
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For a standard custom experience. Go CM.
I suggest Eclipse or Paradigm for beyond.
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I don't know about other jb ROMs, but unlike cm7 on the evo (which i used to have as well) cm10 allows you to do prl and profile updates in the about phone menu.
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paranoidandroid with trinity kernel...
If you want stock the best one is RUJellin by shabbypenguin and dreamsforgott3n. They had it ported and running without problems less than24 hours after source. Plus they're super cool and the thread is pretty chill.
CM10 for sure. Stock cm kernel. Its the most polished looking room for xure
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Ok, definitely seeing a lot of love for CM so I'll be researching that one for sure. If that doesn't pique my interest I'll start checking out some of the other ones mentioned as well. You can probably expect a few more questions in this thread before I actually dive into anything, though
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Ok, definitely seeing a lot of love for CM so I'll be researching that one for sure. If that doesn't pique my interest I'll start checking out some of the other ones mentioned as well. You can probably expect a few more questions in this thread before I actually dive into anything, though
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I prefer AOKP to CM, but the last few AOKP builds have been horrible on battery and in terms of someone wanting a custom experience and not really knowing what they want, I point them to CM.
paranoidandroid is just cm10 with more options lol
I'm trying to be a good forum member and search out my own answers before posting them, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding much info about CM10 from their own website. First of all, they don't have a subforum for the samsung gnex at all (just the google variant), and most of what I have skimmed across on the forums seems to be related to either CM 7 or 9. Should I be looking in the Google Galaxy Nexus CDMA forum over there? Do we have much here on xda for CM10 aside from a dev thread?
Still need to look at paranoidandroid, I'm not opposed to a few extra options on top of what CM10 has already
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Paranoid looks like awesome, like the ability to use the tablet UI, but I think I'll wait for that one to mature a little more since I'm just getting started with roms!
I'm also gonna have to say mmuzzy's stock AOSP ROM. It's what we would have had from Google if we had AOSP support, IMO.
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I'm running vanilla rootbox 2.2 which is also pure android with AOKP bits. To be honest it hasn't even been 24 hours since I flashed that ROM but it's been running very stable. I just can't say anything about battery life yet.
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Launcher 7
I love the win7 experience with the Android customization in the background
No need to swap out different roms.
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Cyanogemod, Stock, AOSP, Pitchblack, Blackice, paranoid Android, or any other?
Long time reader, just got into flashing custom on my Galaxy Nexus, having fun so far. Though only tried bixie custom stock and cyanogemod 10.1 so far. Thanks to all the devs who create the roms and their work and added features.
aokp 4.1.2 milestone 1
no matter what rom/kernel mix i use, this one is always the best
AOSPA hands down. Nothing has managed to take me away from it for months, and before that I was a crackflasher
Been using Atom for a while and been very happy with it
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Team EOS
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stock with root and cwm only
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Sprint jbsourcery. With either stock or ak kernel.
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I love AOKP for the sheer amount of things you can customize in that rom. I used it solely because of the ability to make the nav bar smaller.
I have been a fan of CM since 2009, and have always appreciated their abilities. A lot of roms use them as a base, so they must be doing something right.
I used ParanoidAndroid recently, and while I liked it, and it shows promise, it ran like crap on my phone.
I just use a stock rooted rom (verizon 4.2.2), as it runs the best on my phone. CM, AOKP, and PA were all laggy compared to stock for me.
Stock, because everything else starts acting up sooner or later and I hate restoring my data over and over again.
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Discussions of this type are generally not allowed on the forum as there's never a perfect answer and they tend to generate unnecessary bickering. Try out a few and see what works best for your situation.
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