Custom ROMs - Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, i want to know, what is the difference between MIUI ICS and other custom ICS ROM ( like arconimum ) ? does it has better battery, smoother, or faster ?

MIUI is iPhone like and the others are Android like
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I'd say MIUI looks better than any custom rom available(you can make it look like iPhone, but I still wouldn't describe it like iPhone styled), but generally other roms have better performance(IMO MIUI has a good performance, just not as good as others)

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MIUI vs. cyanogenmod

hello
which ROM you prefer ?
Best in what?
vladnosferatu said:
hello
witch you think is the best ROM ?
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both are good. you need to try them for yourself and see which one you like more....
very different in the way they look, so it's really a personal decision.
which is more faster ?
vladnosferatu said:
witch is more faster ?
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both are fast.
which one do you like the look of more?
LOL,
like the people said, they are both really really fast, just witch you like better.
I personaly like Miui, cause it seem's more functional to me, and my demands on the phone.
you'r gonna have to try out several roms before you decide... that's the best way.
hope it helped
om2don said:
LOL,
like the people said, they are both really really fast, just witch you like better.
I personaly like Miui, cause it seem's more functional to me, and my demands on the phone.
you'r gonna have to try out several roms before you decide... that's the best way.
hope it helped
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Wrong which
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I personally don't see why people have made a ROM to look similar to an iPhone, so it's CM7 for me with it's gingerbreaddy goodness
CM series is more stable IMO
I would prefer MIUI. Looks simply, fast, good design, stable(but not more as CM), but in some cases it isnt translated to eng
..just my opinion
CM is better, for me, because of the battery and there are many bugs every week on Miui.
Miui is good (it's change of sense and aosp ROMs) but not stable enough yet. That's my opinion.
I moved from sense roms to CM7 and find it great. Haven't tried MIUI yet though do hear good things about it... may have to try it soon.
def cm7. miui looks too much like an iphone clone. i had a iphone 33g for 2 years and a iphone 4 for afew months. bored setup, apple def needs to stepup its game. cant believe they released ipad 2 with the same os as ipad1. boooo
Without CM there is no MIUI, If you like iPhone kind of UI and additional functionalities built-in then MIUI is best option. But as other's said, its not stable yet.
Personal opinion:
I hate MIUI. It is too iPhone-ish!
Flashed it once and reflashed it with something else after about 1 hr. I just hate it!
Go for CM!
Neutral opinion:
Just try them both and see which one you like man!
I like the miui look and feel BUT... I prefer the ability to use scrollable widgets e.g friend stream or friends in launcher pro. You dont tend to miss something till its gone so this was the deal breaker for me.
If the vertical scroll is ever available, i will use miui again
regards
more opinions please
Although I have flashed MIUI several times, I'll choose CM any other day due to its stability and good UI
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There is no massive difference in the stability of either ROM as both are CM7 (and a CM7 kernel) underneath. Also in the way you can change the launcher in any other ROM, you are not stuck with the 'IPhone-ish' look and feel either. I personally do not use the MIUI launcher on MIUI (I use SPD Shell 3D - mad lookin').
IMO, I feel that the look and feel of the menus in MIUI are nicer as I like the clean look. It also integrates well with the stock MIUI apps like the dialer, messaging app and camera etc (vs. the AOSP stock apps in CM7).
I love the unified feel of MIUI and find CM a little disjointed, but as others have already said, try both and see.
Cm7 is clean and fast. Miui is nicer looking but takes up doughty more battery.
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Viper or Jellybean?

Until the two come together, which one would you pick for now and why?
I would say viper because it's highly customizable. I have used cm10. It's preety damn fast but you can always install a custom kernel ( faux or nix) to make it buttery smooth.
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I used cm10 for a few weeks to test it out, but then realised how much I missed sense's superior camera and sound (with mods of course). Also, sense is what makes the phone unique. Hard choice.
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Have to agree with above posts, the Jellybean roms run super smooth and quick, and look nice etc, but the camera is basic.
So if you don't use your camera i would say go with a JB rom, but if you like the features of the Sense camera then stick with Viper for now.
Any sense based rom I quite rely on sense for its camera, better email client, Facebook integration, widgets, and such.
I've tried the jelly bean roms and miui but always come break to sense.
It depends on your usage and such try them both out and find which you prefer to use.
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Tried 4.1 for few days, but had to come back to sense. This makes HTC phones unique and there are so many features that lack in CM roms. Also, Viper is so highly custoimzable and smooth you will not regret not having 4.1 at all.
I was in rd miui jelly bean for two days and was great, using stock kernel but I think it needs a custom kernel for better battery.
Viperx is amazing. But Now I m on ordroidx, I dont know tomorrow. Love flashing and modding.
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I used Ice Cold Jelly and stick to it since then ^^
I love the stock android feeling since ICS and Jellybean just makes it even better.
I asked myself the same question many times, the pro's for viper being the fact it could be modded to have the least possible sense (which I just find annoying, there is too much of everything...) the battery life and te camera.
But I stay on ICJ, it has great support from both the kernel dev (ncx) and LordClockan which is allways helping. You can't theme Sense suc perfectly back to stock as stock allready is, the AOKP toggles are just awesome for me and having a Nexus 7 I am not having two different panoramas.
Thanks to the ncx kernel it's fast and stable but also with minimal battery drain.
I would tell you to try both, and stick with the one you prefer.
Another point I keep in mind is that I will never again buy from HTC (the S-ON fact and sense of course) So stock is the best way to have the most chances to keep your references... (that's why I searched stock, coming from a Galaxy Nexus).
Good luck !
Said it before, Footballs maximus rom owns. It just works. I used to jump around Ice Cold and allsorts on DHD, always trying to find the perfect rom... i really have nothing to fix on this. Stock kernel too. it just works. Admittedly, some games are VERY slightly juddery, but I have a Nexus 7 too, so I game much less on the One X now. I tried Viper..... Really wasnt for me. Its like the non-bloat version of bloat.....
yes,the same by me,i like to test rom but mydaily rom is the great viper;its fast shure,Viper is so highly custoimzable and smooth you will not regret not having 4.1 at all.maby one day it comes the version from htc with sense4.? and JellyBean,i love sense sinse i have had this touch diamond2,over the touch hd and the wonderful desire.
Its like religion or ähh politic ore somethink i dont know
Jellybean or Renovate or ARHD....simple as that mate...and if you like to customize then go with MIUI
@ edge3uk
Its like the non-bloat version of bloat.....
thats silly,blödsinn,quatsch,man you boring or what?
For me ..Domination ROM is the best..but battery not good as Sense ROMs and other ROMs
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I used CM10 for few weeks but like few before me have mentioned, battery life is not that great and camera is really awful, so now I'm back on Viper X. JB is nice, smoother and quicker, but for me personally that marginal performance difference is not worth sacrificing battery, camera or stability (and then there are few other nifty little features of sense that I like , such as beats audio profiles, FM radio, weather and clock animations etc).

Perofrmance difference between AOSP roms vs Touchwiz roms ?

I just picked up my brand new Note 2 in white from ATT this week, running on Straight Talk. Rooted it before I took the plastic stickers off it, easiest and fastest root ever for me, and I am not a smart techie guy.
Anyways, I wanted to first try out a stock Touchwiz ROM, and found a very popular ROM here, installed it, and then installed Nova launcher with Jellybean theme, and I also installed a few ismc mods to give the phoen a pretty close to stock AOSP Nexus look, while still keeping the good Touchwiz S-Pen apps and widgets.
My last few phones have been One X running CM10, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus-S, Nexus-One. As you see, I am a fan of the pure vanilla look and feel. But it seems to me, that Jellybean has really made non Nexus phones really good, and with a launcher like Nova, and themed like Jellybean, it is darn close to the real nexus deal to me.
My question.
What are the performance numbers or at least your personal feel and opinion if you have used both on the Note 2 ? How does a good AOSP ROM, like CM10.1 run on the Note 2, compared to a stock Touchwiz ROM like cleanROM or JediX. Does the feel feel faster & smoother on AOSP over Touchwiz ? Battery life I am sure better on Tocuhwiz ?
Thanks
Running on JellyBeer, which uses CM10.1 as the base, it feels so much faster than stock. In fact, the battery life is also much much better.
I have to say I am pretty happy with cleanROM and my themes + Nova. Looks just like a Nexus now.
I do love AOSP, and sure it would be faster than Touchwiz ROM's, but I think I will hold off on those till next month, just reading there are few little bugs or minor issues still in these AOSP ROM's. I think another few weeks or month they be ironed out, and good to go.
I would switch to AOSP if its like crazy faster performance over Touchwiz ? If benchmark shows like night and day faster. Is it ?
Zorachus said:
I have to say I am pretty happy with cleanROM and my themes + Nova. Looks just like a Nexus now.
I do love AOSP, and sure it would be faster than Touchwiz ROM's, but I think I will hold off on those till next month, just reading there are few little bugs or minor issues still in these AOSP ROM's. I think another few weeks or month they be ironed out, and good to go.
I would switch to AOSP if its like crazy faster performance over Touchwiz ? If benchmark shows like night and day faster. Is it ?
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I wouldn't call out timelines, but I guarantee you that in a matter of a little over a week, the developers made giant strides to how it is now, which is near perfect. Sure, there's minor bugs, but nothing people can't live with. They're very minor, and most people who complain about certain supposed quirks either complain just to complain (I see them as people who can never be pleased), or haven't explored their settings long enough to realize what they're complaining about, whether something seems missing to them or isn't adjusted to the way they want, is right in front of them.
You are tempting me to try out AOSP Sorry I didn't mean to put a timeline out there, I am sure the good ones are stable and good enough as daily's.
I really am tempted by all these AOSP ROM's. But then with AOSP I lose the S-Pen features. Are the AOSP that much faster and smoother than Touchwiz ROM's, or not really ? Right now with Nova launcher mods + themes my phone looks almost like a Nexus already, is it worth it going to full AOSP ?
Zorachus said:
You are tempting me to try out AOSP Sorry I didn't mean to put a timeline out there, I am sure the good ones are stable and good enough as daily's.
I really am tempted by all these AOSP ROM's. But then with AOSP I lose the S-Pen features. Are the AOSP that much faster and smoother than Touchwiz ROM's, or not really ? Right now with Nova launcher mods + themes my phone looks almost like a Nexus already, is it worth it going to full AOSP ?
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As I recall, some of the ROMs have Nova Launcher included. I'm not sure how a Nexus looks, but I would say it's not too different.
And yes, as I said before, AOSP (and even AOKP) is faster than stock. It's because it gets rid of the bloatware. As for S-Pen features, it depends on you and what you like. Apparently airview and the like won't be available unless someone ports it over, but S Notes can be replicated with another app.
Why not do a nandroid backup and flash a CM10.1 ROM and take it for a spin. You can always go back to your backup. I prefer running CM10.1. simple powerful interface and great performance. Touchwiz is to bulky and if you want spen apps pypirus is a great option
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I get better battery life and performance out of TW ROMs. I'm running JediX9 with the provided kernel with amazing results. Plus it has the spen features.
I try CM10.1 once in a while and always go back to Jedi.
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My biggest gripe on CM right now is audio. Incall audio and speaker volume are poor opposed to TW. I talk on the phone quite a bit and I can tell the difference noticeably. It will get ironed out, and I will be on CM for good.
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I'm running the asylum aosp ROM and I'm having the best performance of any ROM I've tried to date, but on both in benchmark and subjective feel. I do find myself missing touch work tremendously though with some of its features. But I so love that my group messages workwwithout having to install a crappy third party messaging app.
As far as battery life, for me, the difference is negligible.

New dinc for me ROMs?

I bought the dinc after my commando was smashed by a semi last week. I have a little experience with custom roms and this is my third android based phone. I received the phone yesterday and it will be rooted by me tomorrow. But I wanted to know what roms you guys find to be best also any tweaks that are useful. This phone a three years old and I know you guys have come up with some dos and don't so rather than reinventing the wheel I figured IDE use my first post to list what I'm looking for and see what you recommend.
Stability stability stability! I won't be changing every week once I find one I like that will be it. I can't devote the time to constantly update and tweak it plus this is my daily driver so I need it to work above all else.
Speed I know these guys don't have the fastest processors so if i have to choose between load speed and looking cool or cute animations I choose speed.
Battery life I'm running a 2800 mah slim battery but I spent that money because I don't want to charge it not to waste battery life.
Media I do use my phone extensively to play music, watch, movies, photos,photos,photos, anything that optimizes these features I'm all about trying out.
Also anything I should stay away from do to extensive bugs ect please let me know. I will read all I can about these roms as you suggest them and of course report how they do for me here as well as the phandriod.com site. Thanks in advance for all the knowledge I'm about to get hit with ill try not to ask too many stupid questions
Sense roms or aosp gingerbread like cm 7.2 are the most stable.
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Sense roms or aosp gingerbread like cm 7.2 are the most stable.
Thanks tiny! There are soooo many of them which is good but are there any standouts? What are the major differences between the GB and the aosp? i know on my og evo the aosp roms seemed to save batt but that all i know and i don't really know that. I do like the miui icons tbh but I think I can use those with whatever rom but I like the minimalist if nature of the miui setup.
I have rooted three phones and installed custom roms on them but am really brand new to the android or smart phone game only been messing with droids for 3 months now. Idk just looking for info are there any seance or Gb roms you think I should stay away from.?
GeNYC07 said:
Sense roms or aosp gingerbread like cm 7.2 are the most stable.
Thanks tiny! There are soooo many of them which is good but are there any standouts? What are the major differences between the GB and the aosp? i know on my og evo the aosp roms seemed to save batt but that all i know and i don't really know that. I do like the miui icons tbh but I think I can use those with whatever rom but I like the minimalist if nature of the miui setup.
I have rooted three phones and installed custom roms on them but am really brand new to the android or smart phone game only been messing with droids for 3 months now. Idk just looking for info are there any seance or Gb roms you think I should stay away from.?
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This is pretty much the only evo. What was good on that device is good here. Rom names are different. If you want a pure stock sense rom then I recommend cmlusco's rom. CM 7.2 is the best aosp gingerbread rom IMO.
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tiny4579 said:
This is pretty much the only evo. What was good on that device is good here. Rom names are different. If you want a pure stock sense rom then I recommend cmlusco's rom. CM 7.2 is the best aosp gingerbread rom IMO.
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great do you have a link to both????

Stock or other custom rom

Hi, i just wanted to ask if you guys think if stock or custom roms are better because i dont want to take an hour to format my n7 to answer a simple question So what do you think is the fastest for games (heavy 3d ones) and performance wise? stock or other custom roms. I dont really care for other features, i care for mostly the performance. Thanks and happy easter!
Shillopellos9 said:
Hi, i just wanted to ask if you guys think if stock or custom roms are better because i dont want to take an hour to format my n7 to answer a simple question So what do you think is the fastest for games (heavy 3d ones) and performance wise? stock or other custom roms. I dont really care for other features, i care for mostly the performance. Thanks and happy easter!
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Hi and happy easter too !
Generally customs are not faster than the Google stock. But with customs kernels/ROMs, OverClocking and OverVolting is possible, so you can have better performance.
I'm actually using CM11 Nightlies with the latest ElementalX Kernel. I love CM and other innovative and fiddled customs, because they open a lot of possibilities, like theme or other exclusive features. Personally, i'm not a fan of OC and OV, it reduce battery life, and hardware life because of overheating.
Maybe my choices are not the better one, but it's my choices.
For my part, CM ROMs have in general i've seen a better battery performance than stocks, because they're decrapified.
that's all ;p
If you're looking for the best performance I would suggest Clean ROM latest version with either Elemental X kernel or Glitch kernel. Your N7 will be smoking fast!
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Thanks for your answers :victory: I think im going to stick with CleanRom+elementalx :good:
Great choice!
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