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I know that there was at least one post other for this, but I was wondering if some of you guys could give me a couple more (newer) rom and kernel recommendations or combinations. I have been reading threads in this forum for about a week or so now and there are so many different things that its almost overwhelming. I am fairly new to rooting (I rooted one phone prior to this) and am somewhat familiar with what roms and kernels I can use together, but a little advice/confirmation/recommendation never hurt anyone.
Basically, what I am looking for is something that is super responsive with a lot of internal space free for apps that I use (I would prefer not to have to use apps2sd). I would like to try to safely overclock the cpu (this is the first phone I have had the opportunity to overclock ). I NEED BATTERY! No, really, I need the battery to last at least 12 hours with some use (I work 12 hour shifts). It also needs have working Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G, and GPS (as I use all of them).
I've been thinking of trying Deck's rom with Tiamat kernel (not the sbc build correct? That's for extended batteries I believe) and was wondering if anyone had any experience with this setup. Any other setups anyone could recommend would be great to hear about too.
Currently, I am running Synergy RC1 but wanted to see what else is out there.
I really appreciate people taking the time to read this and post their thoughts. I'll eagerly be awaiting your responses. Thanks!
I too would like some recommendations. My buddy just got an EVO and he wants me to root it for him and flash a custom ROM. I am a thunderbolt guy so I am not familiar with the current ROMS for the EVO. What are your recommendations for a sense ROM? Any sense 3.0 ROMS?
You can't go wrong with anything from Myn or Mik. I justed recently flashed EVOlvedAndroid's Director's Cut and it works pretty nicely. Fresh ROMs are okay too but I almost always find my back to a rom by Myn or Mik.
You might get a "you can search threads and see what sounds good to you" response.
or a "each ROM will work differently for different people on different phones. same with kernel combos."
you might even get a link to the Wiki.
If you want an AOSP Rom:
I can say that I am running Deck's latest with the kernel it comes with and it's doing just fine. I might use kernel manager to pick out a new kernel.
I like the latest Tiamat and Godmode kernel with cm7, but I for some reason was having problems with my GPS off and on with cm7. No problems with Deck yet.
If I decide to go with a Sense ROM, I'll try out MikG and use kernel manager if the one it comes with doesn't cut it.
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You might get a "you can search threads and see what sounds good to you" response.
or a "each ROM will work differently for different people on different phones. same with kernel combos."
you might even get a link to the Wiki.
If you want an AOSP Rom:
I can say that I am running Deck's latest with the kernel it comes with and it's doing just fine. I might use kernel manager to pick out a new kernel.
I like the latest Tiamat and Godmode kernel with cm7, but I for some reason was having problems with my GPS off and on with cm7. No problems with Deck yet.
If I decide to go with a Sense ROM, I'll try out MikG and use kernel manager if the one it comes with doesn't cut it.
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Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I did search out a lot of these roms and kernels. I also understand that a lot of this is trial and error as well. I was only inquiring as to what people liked/preferred and what has worked well for them. So far I have flashed a couple of different roms (Sense and AOSP) and a few tiamat kernels and have found each has its ups and downs (for me anyways). Right now I think I prefer AOSP to the sense roms out there. They seem much faster but I also haven't done any modding to the phone other then roms/kernels (still getting my feet under me). Any other recommendations anyone has would be much appreciated, along with any mods that may be useful. Thanks for taking the time to read this and posting responses.
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Basically any AOSP (only ones I've used are cm7 and decks) with the tiamat kernel will get you sick battery life. Once there are custom kernels for the new sense roms they will get great battery life too but if battery is most important to you you can't go wrong with decks or cm7 + tiamat kernel.
i been using steelH rom since the upgrade to gb. i haven't had many problems with any of them. the latest version 1.07, i really like it.. the last few days i been running it pretty hard. i'm seeing a good increase in battery life. on top of that i took a lot of bloat out and added a few apps. it hasn't complained and the fone seems to like it.. it also has a pretty small footprint\install..
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asop: cm7 or deck ( i dont think ther are much more choices i like decks cuz its a little cleaner and i can always find a way to customize it enough for my own taste.)
Sense w/ froyo 2.2 ( love myn's and fresh for more customized looking roms have great battery and everything works. if you like stock go to sprint lovers 2.2 and you wont be let down it was my fall back rom that ALWAYS worked)
sense w/ gingerbread 2.3 ( havent used it sorry to many blah issues here and there especially since we got an os upgrade i think htc shorted us and should have given us some sense love too.)
Sense 2.1+ w/ gingerbread ( I am running virus's nightly of the kingdom revolution rom which gives you sense 3.0 (woot!!) and gingerbread together which runns pretty damn good i tryed the synergy/kingdom hybrid and it seemed to work pretty well but seeing this rom is pretty bulky compared to the roms made for evo apps2sd needs to work and i was having issues with that. so anything strictly kingdom or strictly 2.1 would be your best bet.)
hope this helps if you want me to elaborate i'll try to check back and see what i can say
Based on the majority of posts I've read, people seem to choose Synergy or Alliance.
My current ROM of choice is EVOlvedROM Directors Cut RC1.
It's very fast and good on battery life too.
The AOSP ROM of choice is Deck's 1.2.1
Enjoy
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Based on the majority of posts I've read, people seem to choose Synergy or Alliance.
My current ROM of choice is EVOlvedROM Directors Cut RC1.
It's very fast and good on battery life too.
The AOSP ROM of choice is Deck's 1.2.1
Enjoy
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I'd have too agree that Deck's rom with the Tiamat kernel has been pretty epic for me so far. Its too bad that there aren't more AOSP roms to try. Deck's its great so far! The battery isn't as bad as I thought it would be overclocked either. Is anyone doing any tweaking of their clockspeed? Do you even need to adjust the clockspeed with the screen off with the smartass governor? From what I've read it shouldn't be necessary. Sorry to slip in the questions, was just doing done reading today and was wondering if anyone had experience with this. Thx.
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Vaelpak is another aosp rom
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staveflyer said:
You might get a "you can search threads and see what sounds good to you" response.
or a "each ROM will work differently for different people on different phones. same with kernel combos."
you might even get a link to the Wiki.
If you want an AOSP Rom:
I can say that I am running Deck's latest with the kernel it comes with and it's doing just fine. I might use kernel manager to pick out a new kernel.
I like the latest Tiamat and Godmode kernel with cm7, but I for some reason was having problems with my GPS off and on with cm7. No problems with Deck yet.
If I decide to go with a Sense ROM, I'll try out MikG and use kernel manager if the one it comes with doesn't cut it.
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You cant change kernels on any sense based gingerbread rom. There are no custom gb kernels yet. Thats been the problem with sense gb roms lately...battery life kinda sucks
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I use my phone day to day for school and work and want to know if any of the ICS roms are capable of being a daily driver. Enough that the bugs dont hault usage dramatically. If so suggestions on which ?
Thanks.
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icepally said:
I use my phone day to day for school and work and want to know if any of the ICS roms are capable of being a daily driver. Enough that the bugs dont hault usage dramatically. If so suggestions on which ?
Thanks.
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The reason I had to go back to gingerbread is because I rely on my phone all day long, and my battery died in 8 hours with ICS.
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Towle said:
The reason I had to go back to gingerbread is because I rely on my phone all day long, and my battery died in 8 hours with ICS.
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I do too but I can keep the batt up any other downfall?
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I am using it as my daily driver, no issues other than the ones everyone has, rotation.
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easydoesit v2.2 was excellent for me...but i reverted back to gb...dont mind waiting for a fully working ICS
if you dont have the call echo issue then the roms should be fine..seems to be hit or miss with some people...i didnt experience it with easydoesit2.2
I've been using ravers latest black version the last couple days and it easily lasts me through the day with very minor issues, rotation and power off/reset.
I tried all of the ICS builds and some are better than others. The last one I used was Easydoesit. I could live with the rotation issue and the power off/reboot issue, but I could not live with the call echo issue. The echo happens to the person you are talking to. They can hear themselves talking. Almost everyone I talked with on the phone would complain about the echoing. I have customers that call me on a daily basis so the echo issue is a deal breaker. Im sticking with gingerbread until ICS ROMs are more stable.
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I tried all of the ICS builds and some are better than others. The last one I used was Easydoesit. I could live with the rotation issue and the power off/reboot issue, but I could not live with the call echo issue. The echo happens to the person you are talking to. They can hear themselves talking. Almost everyone I talked with on the phone would complain about the echoing. I have customers that call me on a daily basis so the echo issue is a deal breaker. Im sticking with gingerbread until ICS ROMs are more stable.
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do you have a case on your phone?
EasyDoesIt v2.2 fo' sho. I'm having absolutely no problems except the rotation which is easily fixable
dave2metz said:
I tried all of the ICS builds and some are better than others. The last one I used was Easydoesit. I could live with the rotation issue and the power off/reboot issue, but I could not live with the call echo issue. The echo happens to the person you are talking to. They can hear themselves talking. Almost everyone I talked with on the phone would complain about the echoing. I have customers that call me on a daily basis so the echo issue is a deal breaker. Im sticking with gingerbread until ICS ROMs are more stable.
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I'm right there with you man, I need my phone to work properly.
chasport said:
do you have a case on your phone?
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The case has nothing to do with the echo issue
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I've been flashing around the last few days. The ics I liked the most is ravers. I'm running it now. Ofcourse no wifi no rotation. But reboot works. Audio on the other end sucks. That didn't bother me. I had issues with video playback. Great battery Gallery worked. If you read though the threads you'll see some of the devs helping others. They well have a stable build soon. I would make a nand of your current rom and give ravers rc3 a go if you don't dig, flash your nand backup.
Wipe really good to prevent stupid ass issues! !
I too went back to gb. Yeah the roms were pretty stable but at the moment gb roms are best in my opinion
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I'm right there with you man, I need my phone to work properly.
The case has nothing to do with the echo issue
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The case is the reason you have a bad echo. The case puts a "tunnel" around the mic, and because of a nasty bug, the mic doesn't know how to handle it. I was talking to my wife and she complained about the echo, I took my case off and the call went smooth from there. Its a bug that will get fixed, but for now it sucks.
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The case is the reason you have a bad echo. The case puts a "tunnel" around the mic, and because of a nasty bug, the mic doesn't know how to handle it. I was talking to my wife and she complained about the echo, I took my case off and the call went smooth from there. Its a bug that will get fixed, but for now it sucks.
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Just tested this theory And it does'nt work for me. I use the d30 case and took it off during the call and no help also checked off noise reduction in the soft menu key while in call nothing!
:-(
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I'm running black edition and it works great. Enough battery life for a day worth of tech support calls and faster than Buck Rodgers!
The only issues I had were the echoing (ditched the D3O case and it went away) and the auto rotate and I fixed that with a quick little Tasker profile. Now my auto rotate works perfect.
Having a case on the phone does not cause the echo problem on these ics roms. That is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard. I personally don't use a case and my callers complain about it on every call. I don't mean to sound like a ****, but I'm sick of people thinking that all you need to do is take your case off and the echo magically disappears. It is 100% the rom/kernel that we are using. Peace!
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I'm on foxstar and have no echo problems. Mobile hotspot wasn't working but someonw posted a fix.
I've been playin' around w/ a few of 'em also, so far the best I've found = (Rom) IML74K_Ics_Perfection (Fully ICS Themed) 04.03.12 (Fixed Tweaks). Been using it as my DD and not had any issues. I hardly use auto-rotate, and theres an app for that, same goes for the power/restart function, and I haven't had any call quality / echo issues reported w/ this rom at all. Battery life isn't the greatest, about 8-10hrs of frequent use, but I use Juice Defender or whatever it's called to get the most out of it. I happen to have a charger damn near wherever I go, so I don't notice it much
All the other roms I've tried haven't allowed me to change LCD density (dumb, but important to me) and have had freezing / lag issues for me. Best of luck on whichever you choose!
TL/DR So far I haven't noticed anything that would steer the average user away from using it!
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I'm running black edition and it works great. Enough battery life for a day worth of tech support calls and faster than Buck Rodgers!
The only issues I had were the echoing (ditched the D3O case and it went away) and the auto rotate and I fixed that with a quick little Tasker profile. Now my auto rotate works perfect.
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what tasker profile did you use for auto-rotate? and how does it work conceptually?
mind explaining please...does it work on the camera orientation too? got really tired to flipping pics after taking them...its mainly the only reason i reverted back to GB.
I installed and was using IML74K_Ics_Perfection RC2 for a day, but had to revert back to rooted stock. This particular rom was great, overal very smooth and snappy, but some little things here and there were bugging me. As far as i understand it will be the same no matter what you install untill we get a proler kernel. Things like shutdown/reboot, skype not working, rotation, wifi calling etc.
But if things above are not a big deal for you, I can honestly recommend this rom. Probably will not find better
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I'm going to be flashing an SGS2 for someone I know and I was wondering what a good setup as far as ROM, kernel, recovery, radio is for stability and features.
They upgraded from a LG G2x running CM7.2 Nightlies so they have basic experience with custom ROMs, but they don't know all that extreme technical crap.
I'm thinking about Juggernaut because it has a lot of good tweaks and features or maybe CM7 since they aren't many thing on the non-working list.
Please reply with any helpful suggestions, I'm considering flashing an ICS ROM but I'm not sure if it would be stable enough for daily use.
Thanks
The ICS ROMs are suitable as DDs, so take your pick! Choose any of the T-Mo Leaks!
As of now, the kernels that come with the ICS ROMs are as is, so no worries there.
For Gingerbread, if you choose the Darkside ROM, it has a special kernel, made directly for the ROM, but you can still swap out for a different kernel.
With CM7, you can only use the kernel that's meant for it.
All other Gingerbread ROMs are customizable as you see fit.
I hope that helps!
Whatever ROM you choose, you can always ask more questions in its Thread!
I'd say
Dark side
Beast mod
Juggernaut
Not in any specific order
I'd lay off the ics unless your buddy is gonna update it often
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I think I'll go with one of those modified ICS leaks and stay away from the AOSP until it goes into RC quality.
Mostly from CM7 he liked the custom gestures, audio tweaks and such. He really just wants good battery to last a while and has zero tolerance for lag so V6 will come in good use. I'm a port dev so I'll be able to throw in the beats libs and dsp manager.
How is the battery stats on the ICS leak?
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For ICS use [ROM][ICS] :ARKSIDE.EVOLUTION.2:: [BETA2 [UVLC8][WiFi CALLING][5.06.2012]. I run it as my every day ROM and its nothing short of amazing. If you don't want ICS use [ROM] Telus SGH-T989D Stock, Rooted, Lightly Tweaked, 100% [CIQ Free] with [KERNEL] Synergy v0.10 [CK3+, Autogrouping, OC, UV, BFQ, BLN, OTG] it gets crazy battery life but is getting old.
Also be sure to wipe your phone via [TOOL]:ARKSIDE::SUPER::WIPE[ext4][2.8.2012]
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I think I'll go with one of those modified ICS leaks and stay away from the AOSP until it goes into RC quality.
Mostly from CM7 he liked the custom gestures, audio tweaks and such. He really just wants good battery to last a while and has zero tolerance for lag so V6 will come in good use. I'm a port dev so I'll be able to throw in the beats libs and dsp manager.
How is the battery stats on the ICS leak?
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Personally, I'd take an AOSP GB build over leaked TW ICS builds. RC6 CM7 is rock solid stable with no real bugs and tons of customization. Every bit as smooth as TW ICS imo.
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Personally, I'd take an AOSP GB build over leaked TW ICS builds. RC6 CM7 is rock solid stable with no real bugs and tons of customization. Every bit as smooth as TW ICS imo.
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But the issue is he wants better than stock battery life and AOSP delivers the exact opposite of that. But I'll see what he wants between all this tomorrow. For most novice users that I flash roms for its about finding a perfect balance between performance, stability, and features. So in simple terms: Noobs always want everything to be perfect and don't understand the concept of how difficult debugging roms is.
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Personally. I wouldn't flash any ICS ROM's just yet. There are a few apps that I use daily that doesn't work with any of the leaked bases.
The GB ROM's that I liked were Darkside, Revenge of Macnut, Juggernaut, and Tuesday.
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been using juggernaut5 for over a month now.....had the phone for about 4 hours before i had it rooted and rom'd. juggernaut has been very stable for me and i'm on the verge of trying out one of the ics roms built with the t989 kernel from tmobile-either romchicago or darkside.evolution
OK,
They want stability, performance, and battery life and I've heard about some recent superbricks in ICS for the SGS2 and Galaxy Note. So I think the best option for now is to stay on GB and go with Juggernaut 5 + Beats, DSP, V6 + whatever custom kernel. Final Decision. Or maybe ROMChicago if they feel lucky.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/tibt5/heads_up_superbrick_bug_present_in_ics_leaks_for/
Now since this should be flashed as fast as possible I've been thinking about how Samsung has ODIN and you can make custom images for it, so if I could just package the CWM, System ROM, kernel, and Blaze 4G radio into an ODIN package. Flash it in like 2 minutes, setup V6 and be done with it.
I've been searching for some guides to create packages but most of them only show how to create it as a backup from the current ROM.
personally, i love M&S's roms, especially Bombardier. It goes super will with Synergy kernel v.10, the battery life and performance is amazing!
OK, Let me just say that I'm sorry for this thread but it turns out the actual phone is a stock SGS 4G running Froyo.
I thank you all for your input anyway.
KemikalElite said:
OK, Let me just say that I'm sorry for this thread but it turns out the actual phone is a stock SGS 4G running Froyo.
I thank you all for your input anyway.
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Haha, nice!
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Haha, nice!
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On a closing note, Again I wanna thank everyone for their responses and I review and write guides for ROMs so what I learned here won't go unused. Plus I'm sure someone else I know will want a SGS2 flashed.
This is the ROM I flashed for the SGS 4G in case anyone was wondering.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402966
The phone got stuck in ODIN twice (guide didn't mention to uncheck repartition) and I had to use the one click unbrick to get into download mode again. At first I almost had a heart attack because I thought it need JTAG to fix. So thanks to the devs responsible for that tool.
Development for that phone is almost dead but if there's one thing I liked about the SGS1 series they had some awesome stock ROMs.
The most important lesson I learned is that using ODIN is like playing with fire: It does cool s*** but it can ruin everything.
KemikalElite said:
On a closing note, Again I wanna thank everyone for their responses and I review and write guides for ROMs so what I learned here won't go unused. Plus I'm sure someone else I know will want a SGS2 flashed.
This is the ROM I flashed for the SGS 4G in case anyone was wondering.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402966
The phone got stuck in ODIN twice (guide didn't mention to uncheck repartition) and I had to use the one click unbrick to get into download mode again. At first I almost had a heart attack because I thought it need JTAG to fix. So thanks to the devs responsible for that tool.
Development for that phone is almost dead but if there's one thing I liked about the SGS1 series they had some awesome stock ROMs.
The most important lesson I learned is that using ODIN is like playing with fire: It does cool s*** but it can ruin everything.
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Yeah, if you have repartition checked for our phone its toast, with no fix. Except jtag or send in for warranty
Darkside evolution
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My signature.....I always end up going back
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Whats best ROM out there? I know the ICS roms are buggy so lets try to exclude those unless you really do recommend it as a daily driver....lets here ur guys opinion? I havent installed a custom ROM on my phone yet so i'm trying to see what should be my 1st one. Thanks
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I take some offense that you call the ics roms buggy. They are excellent daily driver candidates. If you need wifi calling the. Dark side evolution 2 beta 3 is excellent as it is a tmo base. The only known big bug is that there is a voice delay on wifi calling if you are far from your router. The att based ics roms are a bit less "buggy" from what I hear but won't cut it if you absolutely need wifi calling. I recommend trying them all and seeing what you like. Its a matter of preference, not stability.
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I've used both ics darkside and gb I went back to gb for better battery and stability. There are still bugs that need to be fixed in ics. If you need more customization and faster speeds you can go with the ever so popular juggernaut. Or you can mix juggernauts rom and save battery with the darkside kernal witch people seem to be doing the most.
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Haha sorry dont mean to offend. I appreciate all the work the devs put in to these roms and I guess I have no room to call them buggy. They do the best the can with the resources they have.....but I guess until the official ics ROM comes out I can't expect perfection nor do i ever. But just wondering what roms people are running on their GS2
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Darkside Digital Warfare 2.7 is my daily driver, stable, smooth, fast, I can recommend this ROM!!
Enjoy
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Before you ask whats the ROM you should see if everyone could actually agree on the ranking of importance of features on ROMS.
I personally enjoyed Juggs 5 with either the hercules kernel or synergy. Great stability, customization and battery life.
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I meant streamline kernel
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Darkside 2.7 is best rom for our phone on GB.
I have tried darkside ICS too but lots of bugs there so went back to GB.
Tried AOKP too but not good as daily driver.
Jag 5.0 is good too but i choose Darkside for best battery life.
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I have flashed pretty much EVERY rom that has been put out by our great developers. I will say that the ICS roms seem to be less stable, and more problem prone because they are usually ports or have issues with hardware... As far as recommending a rom, I would recommend Juggernaut 5.0 (2.3.6) gingerbread. It is extremely fast, I get great battery life, and I do not have any problems. Along with Juggernaut, I flashed the Blaze radio, and crypted's GPS fix script, therefore I have 5 second or so GPS lock and my 4G is getting DL speeds of 15mb/s or so with uploads of 2mb/s.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1322642 - Juggernaut
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1476962 - Crypteds AGPS lock ADB script.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572198 - Blaze Modem
BUT; in reality, its user preference.
Happy Flashing!
I roll with the dark side ics 4.0.4 beta 6 on my t989. Works lovely for myself
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I flashed tons of roms and ended up going back to rooted GB stock. Its 100% bug free and i used TB to freeze the bloatware which greatly improved battery life.
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I flashed my share of roms. I flashed several slickmod roms, darkside digital roms, beastmod roms, malice, foxstar, stock, juggernaut, tuesday blu-ray, etc.
I would like darkside digital if it wasn't for the horrible echo when calling other S2 phones. I tried this rom several times over and the echo is still there. Juggs and foxstar give me echo problems too. But not every rom I tried gives echos. I flashed every rom I tried at least a good 4 times each. So I know.
I would like slickmod if the battery life was better (for the older ones) and if the theme was better (for the newer ones). I really don't like the new theme.
I would like tuesday if it had a more preferable theme to me (I don't like the dull gray theme but it's not too bad though). I would like more than 3 icons at the base also. But it's a very good rom.
I keep coming back to beastmod 5.0 though. It gave me the least problems (besides tuesday) and the best battery life (besides Darkside), while being fully featured (lots of features), and while the theme is livable (not the best but not bad either).
My vote is either beastmod 5.0 or tuesday rom (if you can dig the theme and the 3 icon base).
If I can create a hybrid. I would start with beastmod exteme 5.0 as a base, with stock theme (I like stock theme the best), the speed and smoothness of slickmod (it uses darkside kernel very well), the battery life of beastmod or darkside digital 2.5.1, and the stability of tuesday.
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quest4fire said:
I flashed tons of roms and ended up going back to rooted GB stock. Its 100% bug free and i used TB to freeze the bloatware which greatly improved battery life.
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Did you try flashing the stock GB rom with the synergy kernel or streamline kernel?
If so then did you still get 100% bug free? What about any improvements?
Anyone can answer this question though.
rfail1988 said:
Its a matter of preference, not stability.
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No offense but, I disagree. Stability is part of what makes a ROM a good candidate for use. What if a ROM with super excellent themes and mods running at the best speed possible and providing all features possible under the sun (well, as much as the device could possibly offer) and freezes or locks up randomly or every 2 mins?
Case in point, I was using a Blackberry previously -before ditching that thing completely- which had full data enabled, maps etc. (if you ever used BB, you'd know each of these services had to be provisioned) so, someone offered to sell me a hacked BB which had all these enabled. It worked great! I was ecstatic but the damn thing would freeze randomly all the time and at the worst time possible. I was driving with helps of google maps and had no clue about this place. Sure enough, for the past 9 hours it was fine but, that's when it decides to crap out. I pull over wait for 5 mins reboot (which is forever when you are really pissed) and restart maps again, search for address etc. only to crap out 5 mins later. See, there is no rhyme or reason for this to die but it does.
So, what did we learn? Stability IS a very important thing.
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I flashed my share of roms. I flashed several slickmod roms, darkside digital roms, beastmod roms, malice, foxstar, stock, juggernaut, tuesday blu-ray, etc.
I would like darkside digital if it wasn't for the horrible echo when calling other S2 phones. I tried this rom several times over and the echo is still there. Juggs and foxstar give me echo problems too. But not every rom I tried gives echos. I flashed every rom I tried at least a good 4 times each. So I know.
I would like slickmod if the battery life was better (for the older ones) and if the theme was better (for the newer ones). I really don't like the new theme.
I would like tuesday if it had a more preferable theme to me (I don't like the dull gray theme but it's not too bad though). I would like more than 3 icons at the base also. But it's a very good rom.
I keep coming back to beastmod 5.0 though. It gave me the least problems (besides tuesday) and the best battery life (besides Darkside), while being fully featured (lots of features), and while the theme is livable (not the best but not bad either).
My vote is either beastmod 5.0 or tuesday rom (if you can dig the theme and the 3 icon base).
If I can create a hybrid. I would start with beastmod exteme 5.0 as a base, with stock theme (I like stock theme the best), the speed and smoothness of slickmod (it uses darkside kernel very well), the battery life of beastmod or darkside digital 2.5.1, and the stability of tuesday.
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Did you try flashing the stock GB rom with the synergy kernel or streamline kernel?
If so then did you still get 100% bug free? What about any improvements?
Anyone can answer this question though.
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No i have stock kernel. I miss having BLN with custom kernels. Sometimes when a ROM was buggy it was hard to tell if it was the Rom or kernel. Stability was worth trade off of not having BLN.
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I was using Beastmod 4.2 for ages and just switched to Darkside UCLE2 ICS ROM along with the AOSP theme on top of it. So far, I am really liking it. The camera seems to have a few bugs, but it still takes pictures fine. Also, the Wifi calling has some issues, but I don't use that either. All that said, I haven't encountered a force close yet, which was a pretty frequent occurance when I was using Beastmod.
I'm not sure why this thread exists though. Everyone has different expectations and needs of what a good ROM should be, so it all comes down to opinion and preference based on what you need.
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No i have stock kernel. I miss having BLN with custom kernels. Sometimes when a ROM was buggy it was hard to tell if it was the Rom or kernel. Stability was worth trade off of not having BLN.
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May you try with synergy v10 or streamline kernels and report back. I have a feeling that those kernels are bug free, but I could be wrong. If I'm right then you would still have your bug free stock rom, with BLN ability, and a vast improvement of battery life. You would be a very happy camper indeed. It's definitely worth a try.
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Troyis said:
I was using Beastmod 4.2 for ages and just switched to Darkside UCLE2 ICS ROM along with the AOSP theme on top of it. So far, I am really liking it. The camera seems to have a few bugs, but it still takes pictures fine. Also, the Wifi calling has some issues, but I don't use that either. All that said, I haven't encountered a force close yet, which was a pretty frequent occurance when I was using Beastmod.
I'm not sure why this thread exists though. Everyone has different expectations and needs of what a good ROM should be, so it all comes down to opinion and preference based on what you need.
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Beastmod 4.2? Why not Beastmod 5.0?
But I agree. For the rom best for an individual theymust look at:
Theme
Stability
Performance
Features
Battery Life
To me it's beastmod 5 then maybe Tuesday next. But Darkside's digital Warfare would be the ABSOLUTE BEST to me if it wasn't for the echo when calling other s2 phones.
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I have flashed pretty much EVERY rom that has been put out by our great developers. I will say that the ICS roms seem to be less stable, and more problem prone because they are usually ports or have issues with hardware... As far as recommending a rom, I would recommend Juggernaut 5.0 (2.3.6) gingerbread. It is extremely fast, I get great battery life, and I do not have any problems. Along with Juggernaut, I flashed the Blaze radio, and crypted's GPS fix script, therefore I have 5 second or so GPS lock and my 4G is getting DL speeds of 15mb/s or so with uploads of 2mb/s.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1322642 - Juggernaut
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1476962 - Crypteds AGPS lock ADB script.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572198 - Blaze Modem
BUT; in reality, its user preference.
Happy Flashing!
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Is there any specific order you install these in or just as how you posted it? Just wanted to make sure one doesn't affect the other if no order is required.
Thanks
You should try Seanster_GBaxe EX rom
You should try Seanster_GBaxe EX rom
It is GB but it has an ICS theme to it. You should try it. Its fast and I get good battery life as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445039&highlight=sean
Im on Juggernaut now. Loving it. But i must say i was a huge fan of the ICS Skyrocket port from att. It was very clean and didn't notice many bugs if any. I struggled to get my stuff restored on it. So i went back to juggs. Used TB to restore on juggs and everything was back to normal.
First of all, I'm sorry if this has been asked before or not but I I wasn't able to find any proper solutions for the issue yet. I just wanted to ask that is there a solution to the call echo? I'm currently on tweakwiz v2 and I love the ROM but it still it has the call echo issue.
Also are there any jb ROMs that don't have this issue?
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have you tried noise suppression setting under the phone app
Actually in the tweakwiz or any other skyrocket jb leak roms try unchecking noise suppression... worked for me. It is actually checked by default
Sent from my Galaxy S2 eating toast with Jedi Jelly 3.1
From what I've read there is something about there audio try lowering the volume might help also. I've been running aosp so idk about skyrocket ROMs. Lowering call volume might help
I recently switched over to Jedi Jelly 3.1 from the awesome Tweakwiz v2 and have tested it out with no echo during my calls. The people I have called or been called by said they hear me loud and clear. Noise suppression is enabled for me.
Official SlimBean 3.1.0 works flawlessly with no echo. I mean some say its case by case but maybe it will work on yours. I've been running it all day, made a few calls, flashed JediMindTrix and reflashed CM10, and then back to slim bean and still no issues, including no echo
Recently got my phone replaced because the original one fell in liquids.
I remember the original phone an echo. I enabled Noise Suppression on the device. Didn't make much difference, the echo was still there.
The new GS2 that arrived was already ICS ROM. I just flashed my JB CM10.1 to the new phone. Tested speaker, and there is no echo. The one who hears the echo is the person on speaker. I've started using speaker more and more. Who knows.
Maybe it the hardware. Maybe its the noise suppression. Maybe its the new phone. The original GS2 (Water damaged) had Gingerbread. I flashed ICS ROM using ODIN. Plus it was made in Taiwan. The replacement device, made in China.
Just my experience. Finally have a new GS2, but had to pay the insurance deductable.
Can't really say what happened and why it works now. But hey, can't complain.
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Official SlimBean 3.1.0 works flawlessly with no echo. I mean some say its case by case but maybe it will work on yours. I've been running it all day, made a few calls, flashed JediMindTrix and reflashed CM10, and then back to slim bean and still no issues, including no echo
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I agree. I decided to switch back to 3.1.0 due to the great battery life and lack of echo. The Touchwiz 4.1.2 ROMs are fun and have great potential. I will be waiting until Tweakwiz v3 comes out before I flash back to Touchwiz.
Thrown at your face by my T989