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Galaxy s2

I just got mine and was wondering is it worth rooting becausr stock is already fast and stable
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It's always worth rooting.
Right now, the performance increase isn't the biggest reason, because this phone can handle anything we through at it with ease.
The root_only features, however, definitely are.
Backups, tethering, painless restores, themes, ad hoc wifi, and all the other goodies that custom Roms provide really make a big difference.
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You really should check out the juggernaut rom and also faux123 kernal. I can't express how much faster the sg2 runs and no stuttering or lag. The phone also has much better battery life it's really amazing. Also no spying carrier iq, no bloatware etc. you can free wifi tether. You can over clock or under clock. My phone has never worked so good.
Definitely recommend the following:
Load cwm recovery
Install latest juggernaut rom 4.1
Install latest faux123 kernal
Not required but also install latest modem kl1
If you do then install swype beta keyboard
I use go launcher highly recommended.
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DOOOOOOOOOO it!!!! You'll love your phone twice as much. There are some awesome themes and roms. You can make it even smoother than it is. Go to dev section after and try gingersnap with either kernel. Smooth as butter

Diekrupt said:
You really should check out the juggernaut rom and also faux123 kernal. I can't express how much faster the sg2 runs and no stuttering or lag. The phone also has much better battery life it's really amazing. Also no spying carrier iq, no bloatware etc. you can free wifi tether. You can over clock or under clock. My phone has never worked so good.
Definitely recommend the following:
Load cwm recovery
Install latest juggernaut rom 4.1
Install latest faux123 kernal
Not required but also install latest modem kl1
If you do then install swype beta keyboard
I use go launcher highly recommended.
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How do you install the modem?
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Why install the modem? Also, I think you should try Launcher 7, made myself use it for a few days, and I love it.
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I came from a NS4G rooted and i noticed the big difference, and i went on to root my t989 today and i have juggernaut with bullet might switch to the kernel yu recommended and so far i dont notice perfomance differece cuhz this phone is already fast as hell but like you said you can do so much more with root
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inpherknow said:
How do you install the modem?
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There's a thread by Whitehawks over on rootzwiki..
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Mrcojocaru said:
DOOOOOOOOOO it!!!! You'll love your phone twice as much. There are some awesome themes and roms. You can make it even smoother than it is. Go to dev section after and try gingersnap with either kernel. Smooth as butter
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Doooooo it !! +100

what's the best Rom
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bjgebg said:
what's the best Rom
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Im really liking juggernaut with faux(correct me if im wronh with the kernel name)
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bjgebg said:
what's the best Rom
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That's a tough question mate. There really is no best. Its a matter of figuring out what you want and what roms do that the best. I recommend trying them all. Personally I'm a cyanogenmod fanboi and I try to run it on pretty much everything I own.
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main reason u should root and install a custom rom is BATTERY LIFE! lol u more than double your battery life, get all the bloat out of your phone, CIQ etc, plus you do get a performance increase, and its more stable than stock.. hands down best thing you could ever do to your phone.

[Q] Best ROM for EPiC Touch?? Stable/battery life

Just got my wife an Epic Touch 4G, I wanted to install CM9 on it, but I don't see it anywhere? I want something stable, with good battery life. What ROMS do you recommend ? can be TW/AOSP, as long as its STABLE and everything works. Shes rocking stock ICS on it now.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815854
I use that rom as my dd. Its calk's worked baked in to ff18 with some other stuff. Its almost stock feel. Most bloat removed. Ton of mods.
There is another awesome rom called blu kuban. Not sure if it fits your needs. Its super themed with awesome blue and black colors. Has its own kernel with a ton of cpu tweaks. Blu kuban is like the ultimate rom.
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euklid said:
Just got my wife an Epic Touch 4G, I wanted to install CM9 on it, but I don't see it anywhere? I want something stable, with good battery life. What ROMS do you recommend ? can be TW/AOSP, as long as its STABLE and everything works. Shes rocking stock ICS on it now.
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Cm9 is in original development
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cm9 is not stable yet on epic touch right?
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euklid said:
cm9 is not stable yet on epic touch right?
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Xda only has upto alpha 6 posted. But there are nightlies out there which are almost ready to be stable. I believe chris41g is himself working on that.
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BluesRulez said:
Xda only has upto alpha 6 posted. But there are nightlies out there which are almost ready to be stable. I believe chris41g is himself working on that.
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do you know where to download, i can't find it on cyanogenmod.com
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You could also try the "black" ROM, it's very stable and has a great battery life. It is off of ff18 right now but is going to move to fh13 soon.

Its funny how much this question gets asked. I would read up thoroughly on how to flash Roms and root or whatever it is you you want to do and go to the development section read about what is going on and how to install whatever ROM you want to try and try it, see how it works for you and if you don't like take it off. Trial and error is your best bet just make sure you aren't blindly flashing and installing stuff if you don't know what you are doing. Qbking77 has a lot of helpful videos on YouTube also.
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Also the most stable ROM is going to be the stock ota updates of course all of these Roms are in development obviously so as each one says on their page there is some issues with every single one.
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GiantJay said:
Also the most stable ROM is going to be the stock ota updates of course all of these Roms are in development obviously so as each one says on their page there is some issues with every single one.
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That's not true by a long shot...
The reason we started making our own ROMs was the instabilities, short-comings, and plain mistakes made by SamSprint in the stock ROMs.. you know, like the eMMC brick bug? That's a far cry from stable imo..

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That's not true by a long shot...
The reason we started making our own ROMs was the instabilities, short-comings, and plain mistakes made by SamSprint in the stock ROMs.. you know, like the eMMC brick bug? That's a far cry from stable imo..
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^^^this guy knows what he speaks of :thumbup:
We are legion, for we are many.
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Gargox said:
You could also try the "black" ROM, it's very stable and has a great battery life. It is off of ff18 right now but is going to move to fh13 soon.
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Agreed, I am very satisfied with the rom in terms of battery life. I wanted to try the fh13, but turned it keeps rebooting back to recovery.

S5 rom by venum check.out his thread just uploaded some pics on batery life 18+ hours and 3:30 on screen time every day best ics rom i have tried

chris41g said:
That's not true by a long shot...
The reason we started making our own ROMs was the instabilities, short-comings, and plain mistakes made by SamSprint in the stock ROMs.. you know, like the eMMC brick bug? That's a far cry from stable imo..
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STABLE! I DOWNGRADED from JB to get back to something this stable
Thx Chris.
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SHADOW GOD'S UNIVERSE ROM FH13
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I am using Phantom Blazer, great performance and battery seems to be pretty good too.
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roms
even though a "newbie", team nocturnal & team rejects Black rom is great for battery life, it is a darkly themed rom with available tweaks, pretty smooth & is my current daily driver

Stable Jellybean ROM for Epic 4G??

Just wondering if there is a stable Jellybean ROM for Epic 4G? I would like to use one as a daily driver.

also I'm looking for a good kernel for CM9.1 Stable ROM. Forgot to post that too...
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Look in development. Paranoid android has lots of good reviews, and there is a cm10 build out but not sure how stable. As for kernels look for nyan colonel or shadow kernel. Have used both, but prefer nyan.
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Fdarkness said:
Look in development. Paranoid android has lots of good reviews, and there is a cm10 build out but not sure how stable. As for kernels look for nyan colonel or shadow kernel. Have used both, but prefer nyan.
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As of when I used it, it wasn't 100% stable. I think for now, you need to stick with CM9/7 or whatever you like. CM10 still has a bit to go to be a daily driver for everybody (some people are happy with it now, but many are waiting).

Fdarkness said:
Look in development. Paranoid android has lots of good reviews, and there is a cm10 build out but not sure how stable. As for kernels look for nyan colonel or shadow kernel. Have used both, but prefer nyan.
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i have tried PA and I liked it but I couldn't get it to stock. I didn't need all the fancy UIs.
xboxfanj said:
As of when I used it, it wasn't 100% stable. I think for now, you need to stick with CM9/7 or whatever you like. CM10 still has a bit to go to be a daily driver for everybody (some people are happy with it now, but many are waiting).
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Aww OK. I'll stick with my CM9.1 Stable. I just really want the JB Notification drawer.
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TaviRawr said:
i have tried PA and I liked it but I couldn't get it to stock. I didn't need all the fancy UIs.
Aww OK. I'll stick with my CM9.1 Stable. I just really want the JB Notification drawer.
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I've been using pa 1.99 for about a well and it's been a stable as anything since I came off of stock EC05...you can set the ui to "phone mode(hybrid mode off)" and not have to deal with alternate views.
PA+nyan+Nexus modem = best battery life I've had since stock
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Pre-release build of CM10 is released for the Epic and looks to be fairly stable already.
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Zeinzu said:
Pre-release build of CM10 is released for the Epic and looks to be fairly stable already.
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Are you talking about the newly released Cm10 preview build?
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TaviRawr said:
Are you talking about the newly released Cm10 preview build?
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Probably so, I'm running the Cm10 preview build now and it's pretty stable I'm running it with the nexus modem. The only thing I am having a problem with is being unable to get voodoo sound to work.
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masaidjet said:
Probably so, I'm running the Cm10 preview build now and it's pretty stable I'm running it with the nexus modem. The only thing I am having a problem with is being unable to get voodoo sound to work.
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What I did to get rid of the voodoo color is flash a stock ICS kernel. And right now I installed the ParanoidAndroid ROM. And do you just flash the nexus modem?
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I tried one of the nightlies in the ERA thread and it was lock-up and battery-pull city.
Just my own experience though.
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TaviRawr said:
What I did to get rid of the voodoo color is flash a stock ICS kernel. And right now I installed the ParanoidAndroid ROM. And do you just flash the nexus modem?
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I wasn't referring to voodoo color I meant voodoo sound, I paid for the voodoo sound plus app and it's suppose to inject the code which make voodoo sound work for whatever Rom without the need of a required kernel.
And to answer your question about flashing the nexus modem, you don't just flash it it require a patch for the modem to be flashed.
There are two threads in the Development section that will guide to flashing not only the nexus modem, but any modem you want.
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CyanogenMod 10. Its officially butter smooth.
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masaidjet said:
I wasn't referring to voodoo color I meant voodoo sound, I paid for the voodoo sound plus app and it's suppose to inject the code which make voodoo sound work for whatever Rom without the need of a required kernel.
And to answer your question about flashing the nexus modem, you don't just flash it it require a patch for the modem to be flashed.
There are two threads in the Development section that will guide to flashing not only the nexus modem, but any modem you want.
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I know you were just talking about the sound but I thought voodoo color and sound was like, a package with a kernel. I don't know that much about modems and such so excuse my ignorance.
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Shinydude100 said:
CyanogenMod 10. Its officially butter smooth.
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Thanks for the tip . Might use CM10 Official.
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TaviRawr said:
I know you were just talking about the sound but I thought voodoo color and sound was like, a package with a kernel. I don't know that much about modems and such so excuse my ignorance.
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it's okay
as long as you're willing to learn about modems and such you're good I'm pretty cautious about flashing anything on my phone, so trust me flashing modems is a piece of cake. You should really try CM10 the only problem I see with CM10 is not being able to switch roms until odining back stock.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to switch Roms after running CM10 with that extra artery clogging butter. Lol
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masaidjet said:
it's okay
as long as you're willing to learn about modems and such you're good I'm pretty cautious about flashing anything on my phone, so trust me flashing modems is a piece of cake. You should really try CM10 the only problem I see with CM10 is not being able to switch roms until odining back stock.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to switch Roms after running CM10 with that extra artery clogging butter. Lol
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Thanks for the advice! And a question, can I dirty flash over ParanoidAndroid or do I have to factory reset? And can I just flash CM10 or do I have to flash modems and everything else?
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TaviRawr said:
Thanks for the advice! And a question, can I dirty flash over ParanoidAndroid or do I have to factory reset? And can I just flash CM10 or do I have to flash modems and everything else?
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I advise you to make a backup, wipe the usual data and such. CM10 does something with MTD I can't recall, so wiping data would be in your best interest. And don't be alarmed while flashing CM10 your phone reboots and you get stuck on the Cyanogen screen. Wait a minute or so, remove battery put it back in and go back to recovery wipe data again and reflash CM10. Make sure you have JB GAPPS too flash right after you flash CM10.
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masaidjet said:
I advise you to make a backup, wipe the usual data and such. CM10 does MTD I can't recall, so wiping data would be in your best interest. And don't be alarmed while flashing CM10 your phone reboots and you get stuck on the Cyanogen screen. Wait a minute or so, remove battery put it back in and go back to recovery wipe data again and reflash CM10. Make sure you have JB GAPPS too flash right after you flash CM10.
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When I flashed other ROM it got stuck on the screen so that isn't new to me. Also have jb gapps. And thanks!
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CM10 official preview is excellent thus far. They are still finding out what doesnt work, but it runs solid and fast!

Good Kernels For Stock Rooted

I just bought the SIII on Thursday and have been in the EVO line for awhile now and don't really know what devs to keep an eye on... I am looking for a good Kernel that will allow me to clock, volt and if possible w/ sbc! Any and all suggestions are welcome as I will probably try them all... Also are there any stable ROMS that I should take a look at as well?
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Freegs3 that's honestly all you need no need for underclocking or anything with the cpu the rom is fast stable I haven't been found a bug yet it has a ton of support ton of people willing to answer your questions and you will get 13+hours of battery with a few minor adjustments
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Freegs3 is that a Dev or the name of the Kernel?
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Dgsaxhitman84 said:
Freegs3 is that a Dev or the name of the Kernel?
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Its the name of the ROM. Its by freeza. I consider freeza a dev to keep ur eye on.
As far as the kernel goes, if your on stock(or any touchwiz rom) your choices are limited but the best kernel for battery life is the stock kernel anyway.

billard412 said:
Its the name of the ROM. Its by freeza. I consider freeza a dev to keep ur eye on.
As far as the kernel goes, if your on stock(or any touchwiz rom) your choices are limited but the best kernel for battery life is the stock kernel anyway.
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Stock gives amazing results as far as battery I don't see the need to over clocking my phone I did when I had my g1 hero my touch etc but why for the gs3
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jamal717 said:
Freegs3 that's honestly all you need no need for underclocking or anything with the cpu the rom is fast stable I haven't been found a bug yet it has a ton of support ton of people willing to answer your questions and you will get 13+hours of battery with a few minor adjustments
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Jamal717 - So, you like the Freegs3 ROM? I haven't tried it yet...I'm not a Sonic fan...I'm concerned Sonic pics would be themed within the ROM. (Are they?) Maybe I should give it a try, though. So far, I have flashed:
1. JellyBomb Domination, v7.0 (Decent)
2. JB Goodness, v4.0 (Fav so far)
3. Frankenstein KilLJoy, v1.0 (Current ROM...enjoying it)
I'm still new to rooting, so I am not even attempting the under/overclocking kernel piece yet.
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So I get that Freegs3 is a good rom but what about for stock users?
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JCJ77 said:
Jamal717 - So, you like the Freegs3 ROM? I haven't tried it yet...I'm not a Sonic fan...I'm concerned Sonic pics would be themed within the ROM. (Are they?) Maybe I should give it a try, though. So far, I have flashed:
1. JellyBomb Domination, v7.0 (Decent)
2. JB Goodness, v4.0 (Fav so far)
3. Frankenstein KilLJoy, v1.0 (Current ROM...enjoying it)
I'm still new to rooting, so I am not even attempting the under/overclocking kernel piece yet.
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I tried Freegs3 not bad although there still wasn't much on yhe the under/over clocking and voltage I really hope someone is working on a solid S3 Kernel besides me
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i'm on freegs3. i didn't want a themed rom full of tweaks and stuff that don't benefit me, that's why i went with his. it has auto update capability, and the few tweaks that are included you can choose to install or not during the install process. the only sega themed item is the boot animation, which you can change if you want very easily, he gives a list in the thread. check it out, it's definitely more stable than my stock rom was, it was crashing every 5 minutes. this is great.

Best kernel?

I am running CM9 but want an underclocked kernel for better battery life. What is the best kernel for our device running CM9 that promotes best battery life and where could I get it?
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codecaine21 said:
I am running CM9 but want an underclocked kernel for better battery life. What is the best kernel for our device running CM9 that promotes best battery life and where could I get it?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sgh+t989+ics+kernel

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sgh+t989+ics+kernel
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Theres always that one asshole lol I do know what Google is and how to use it. What I'm asking is for peoples experience on what is the best kernel to use in conjunction with CM9 is. What are these forums for if I can't ask these sort of questions? Someone here could save me a lot of heartache/trouble.
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Contrary to being an asshole, here is an actual link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1372690

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Contrary to being an asshole, here is an actual link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1372690
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Thank you. Have you tried this kernel yet? In your opinion is this the best kernel for CM9 and our device or are you using JB like most of everyone else?
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no offense, but it takes about 30 seconds to flash a kernel. Why don't you try a few and see which one works the best for you? Everyone's experience is going to be slightly different.
I flashed two different kernels before picking one, and after that I added some init.d scripts afterward that improved battery life over the stock kernel settings.

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Thank you. Have you tried this kernel yet? In your opinion is this the best kernel for CM9 and our device or are you using JB like most of everyone else?
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Unfortunately for your situation I am using JB like the rest because I find it more up-to-date, but I have heard really good things about the kernel I posted. Plus, with a title like that, who wouldn't flash it?

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Unfortunately for your situation I am using JB like the rest because I find it more up-to-date, but I have heard really good things about the kernel I posted. Plus, with a title like that, who wouldn't flash it?
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I would rather have stability than bleeding-edge any day! Contrary to my claim for the need of stability, I am going to give MIUI a shot. I tried it out when I had my G2x but there were some bugs that made that rom unusable as a dd for me. Hopefully my experience with MIUI will be much more pleasant with the S2!!
I'll flash the kernel later and see what happens. Even though I'll be giving MIUI a test run.... I always end up going back to Cyanogenmod. Always!
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MIUI is really buggy on the s2, bootloop bonanza

acidxxfire said:
MIUI is really buggy on the s2, bootloop bonanza
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I'm very disappointed to hear that! MIUI is so sleek and sexy! Why is it so damn hard to get working? ... or is there just a lack devs for that ROM?
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When I was running MIUI my only problem was not being able to shut off the capacitive lights. I had no problems with bootloops or anything of that sort.

I get bootloops and/or camera crashes with the latest JB MIUI and horrible call quality on my end with the last ICS based MIUI. It's odd that the call quality is fixed with the JB MIUI and busted in ICS, should be the other way around lol.