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Which rom do you like best and why?
I'm currently running CM9, Coming from the stock GSM 4.0.1, I think the battery on CM9 is heaps better but what are the others like? Thanks.
I want battery percentage (required) and possibly OC.
Also, If i was to flash AOKP is there any way to backup my homescreen? I've spent a while setting it up and it takes a while to do so. Thanks
mattwilkinson11 said:
Which rom do you like best and why?
I'm currently running CM9, Coming from the stock GSM 4.0.1, I think the battery on CM9 is heaps better but what are the others like? Thanks.
I want battery percentage (required) and possibly OC.
Also, If i was to flash AOKP is there any way to backup my homescreen? I've spent a while setting it up and it takes a while to do so. Thanks
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Aokp got more features and less stability. I prefer cm coz I can't withstand frequent reboot. Can't stay on aokp more than one day.
I am using Nova launcher. It got backup function.
But I prefer to use ROM manager + cwm to backup the whole ROM before I try sth new and risky.
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How does the battery compare? I'm on AOKP now and I find it very unstable. Once I click unlock it takes like 2 seconds for screen to come on.
I use AOKP M5 on a daily basis and I have been since M4 and its stable as a rock for me. Plus all the features are a great plus
Cm9 is too incomplete.. aokp is too slow. Slim has all the aokp features and its fast
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I too was wondering the sake, I just got my GN yesterday rooted it and first thing I did was flash AOKP because I've heard so much about it coming from a GS2. And so far I found it stable but am curious about CM9 and slim as well. So I too would appreciate some feedback
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I've been using AOKP with the tuv A1 kernel. For the most part it has been pretty stable and faster than what I was used to. The only times I have had any issue is with a lockscreen. If I use one, sometimes the phone freezes when trying to unlock. This has been frustrating for me since I am using a Seidio case. I have to remove the phone case to get to the back to pull the battery. The battery cover is a big enough pain in the ass. The case makes it worse. I have since turned off the lockscreen completely and I haven't had a freeze in 2 days.
I was kinda leaning towards slim ICS as well to test the waters on that one.
unlvmike said:
I too was wondering the sake, I just got my GN yesterday rooted it and first thing I did was flash AOKP because I've heard so much about it coming from a GS2. And so far I found it stable but am curious about CM9 and slim as well. So I too would appreciate some feedback
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so make a nandroid backup and go and try the rom.
no one can tell you the ROM is good/bad or whatever, you have to make that conclusion yourself. its like saying, rock music is the best music. some people may agree and some will disagree. will you decide the answer to it without trying it? no... just go try it.
there are WAY too many threads on "whats the best rom?" "which rom to use?" ..... just read the thread and conclude yourself.
AOKP is not slow. CM9 is definitely incomplete hence "nightly"
I have never heard of a slim rom. Wish they would port it to the Sprint GN.
I'm on CM9 but Slim is a good, lightweight, quick ROM. It has some of the features of popular features of AOKP built in. I've run it in the past, and wouldn't hesitate to run it again.
Using slim now, never got a full day out of AOKP, to unstable for me. How does the battery compare? I remember having 50% after one day with data off and 2g on on CM9, and wondering how the battery compares.
you forgot liquidsmooth!
personally, i use aokp m5 and have had no problems...
I am running the latest CM9 Nightly on my Verizon Nexus, and my Wife's Nexus is on AOKP 5.
My personal opinion I prefer CM9, is more low key and not so flashy, but still super fast / smooth, and has a great color control to really make the AMOLED screen pop.
I do like the million options AOKP 5 offers in settings, but CM9 will be getting those eventually. But something about the stripped down clean feel of CM9 appeals to me more.
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CM9 for sure its rock solid and stable and the kernel is superfast and great on battery like you said. Just wait until they put theme manager in again ... it may be there as soon as the next nightly it looks like
AOKP is unstable, I always ditch it and its getting a bit bloated for my liking and i don't find I use much of the features anyway
Slim ICS is good if you dont want any features lol
AOKP not stable and slow? Mmmm disagree from here to heaven...
Been on aokp since m4 now on m5 + Franco, run buttery smooth and great battery /feature rich.. Had not a single problem with it and wouldn't change it for anything
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Never had a single problem with AOKP and I use my phone heavily on a variety of features plus benchmark tests as well.
That was all with a dirty flash from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 builds so I don't understand where the slow or unstable is coming from.
if you stick to the milestone releases with AOKP you are *pretty much* good to go but the in between builds are always buggy ... like the build where AOKP set your bluetooth address to a generic one for and not your actual phones address, for example. I've also had random reboots with AOKP. AOKP uses it's users as the beta testers and gets bug reports from them.
the OP asked for advice and i told him my experience with AOKP, other users mileage may vary but, there is no denying AOKP non milestone releases have new bugs per release. Having said that AOKP is a beast of a rom and Team Kang are pushing the forefront for ICS features.
IMO if the OP wants a smooth rom with stability and more features properly tested and added daily you can not beat the CM9 experience on the Gnex. that is all
peace
blowtorch said:
IMO if the OP wants a smooth rom with stability and more features properly tested and added daily you can not beat the CM9 experience on the Gnex. that is all
peace
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Yep, CM9 is moving a long very nicely lately, and the pace has really picked up in the last week or so, some big development updates every other release now. Next update tomorrow or Tuesday will have some really cool features implemented.
Zorachus said:
Yep, CM9 is moving a long very nicely lately, and the pace has really picked up in the last week or so, some big development updates every other release now. Next update tomorrow or Tuesday will have some really cool features implemented.
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Agreed, CM9 has really been picking up speed now that the new build servers are online. Can't wait for the theme chooser implementation in the new builds ...
You can see that Cyanogen are really trying to set themselves apart as true professionals ... and they are
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I use AOKP M5 on a daily basis and I have been since M4 and its stable as a rock for me. Plus all the features are a great plus
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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.
h1a8 said:
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.
Optimizer said:
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.
So now that we have 3 different roms, which one is the more stable and more complete?
-tbalden
-Tripnraver
-Paranoid
What about GPS,wifi,camera,BT... and random reboots?
vegetaleb said:
So now that we have 3 different roms, which one is the more stable and more complete?
-tbalden
-Tripnraver
-Paranoid
What about GPS,wifi,camera,BT... and random reboots?
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Here is a comparison by timlambo. Also by theDroidfanatic here. If you ask my personal opinion, none is ready yet for everyday use by the masses.....
So it's not a good time to have a walk in the CM10 area yet?
I have tried tgascoignes build 25 and tbaldens preview 4 and must say that tbaldens is in my opinion better. Nothing big differences but tbaldens is more smooth for me. specially with apex launcer that rom is like butter. Dont know about tripandravers rom, but what I have read it seems little more buggy.
What about the AOSP then?
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What about the AOSP then?
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The aosp is doing good at the moment, but please remember, that it still has some work to do. It aslo has the game fix in pathed, but not on the kernel side(In short, you can flash any kernel with this and still play nice games like dead trigger). The latest build of the aosp is being uploaded, so you might want to try it out.
In truth, the best build now, might be pure aosp, or the cm10 from tbalden(Going towards the first choice here).
vegetaleb said:
So it's not a good time to have a walk in the CM10 area yet?
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There are still some issues left before devs address the battery issues. I will wait until then since I need my phone daily
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Trip's rom also got updated, so now all jb roms are on the same page(Favour tipped again towards Trip(maybe)) Will test tomorrow and report. At the end, it is more personal prefrence and I have no say, only my own opinion.
PeK_m said:
I have tried tgascoignes build 25 and tbaldens preview 4 and must say that tbaldens is in my opinion better. Nothing big differences but tbaldens is more smooth for me. specially with apex launcer that rom is like butter. Dont know about tripandravers rom, but what I have read it seems little more buggy.
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Agree with this. That and there's been four preview updates in three days shows the commitment that tbalden and the team have to getting this running smoothly.
There are a few little jitters here and there (some echoing on calls) but generally the positives of Jelly Bean are well worth a look if you've rooted and are happy alpha testing new software.
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Agree with this. That and there's been four preview updates in three days shows the commitment that tbalden and the team have to getting this running smoothly.
There are a few little jitters here and there (some echoing on calls) but generally the positives of Jelly Bean are well worth a look if you've rooted and are happy alpha testing new software.
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I'll call it more closer to beta. It has little to no issues, and all major issues, except echo, are fixed. Definitely a daily driver. Also one of the biggest hox people, hamdir, said it is also stable enough for a daily driver. I recommend to go and read some in the general thread, the massive hox info.
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I'll call it more closer to beta. It has little to no issues, and all major issues, except echo, are fixed. Definitely a daily driver. Also one of the biggest hox people, hamdir, said it is also stable enough for a daily driver. I recommend to go and read some in the general thread, the massive hox info.
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yeah he also recommended that one as a daily driver.. but for me i like to wait a few more days and maybe a couple of weeks before i commit.. but from all the reading here i say tbaldens one is the one to go for
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yeah he also recommended that one as a daily driver.. but for me i like to wait a few more days and maybe a couple of weeks before i commit.. but from all the reading here i say tbaldens one is the one to go for
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Yes, he is indeed making very very quick progress. Probably the fastest of them all.
I just saw the post about Trip. Guess we still have to wait. In a few weeks time, mist developers will probably be working on a new kernel, because this development is flying.
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Trip has released a new version, 004. In the changelog it seems that he has fixed all prior problems!
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I am testing now Trip 004 new build of CM10, and I can say, up till now, all previous issues are fixed, and it`s very smooth and fast. Some guys report camera FC, but didn`t occur with my HOX, I will report after more testing for a day or so.
Trip will be releasing 005 with his 3.1.10 kernel. Probably today. I am getting tempted TBH.....:laugh:
Been using tbaldens preview 4 since yesterday and only issue I got with rom is quite poor battery life. Device sleeps nicely, but when you actually use it for something like twitter or facebook it drains battery very fast. Also slight call echo is still to be fixed. but besides these I can recommend this rom as daily driver also.
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Been using tbaldens preview 4 since yesterday and only issue I got with rom is quite poor battery life. Device sleeps nicely, but when you actually use it for something like twitter or facebook it drains battery very fast. Also slight call echo is still to be fixed. but besides these I can recommend this rom as daily driver also.
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I am also using tbaldens preview 4 and calls are clear for me and for daily use all the critical functions are working quite well including "Google Now". Just for the buttery smooth experience, I am happy that I am using this ROM. With regards the battery drain, I have removed the notification check intervals for facebook and mail and to check manually. Now my battery life is good enough to survive a day
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I am also using tbaldens preview 4 and calls are clear for me and for daily use all the critical functions are working quite well including "Google Now". Just for the buttery smooth experience, I am happy that I am using this ROM. With regards the battery drain, I have removed the notification check intervals for facebook and mail and to check manually. Now my battery life is good enough to survive a day
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Does the one that is speaking with you experiencing echo? I have also have none echo to me but the caller can hear him/herself. Gotta try those thing you mentioned for better battery life. btw preview 5 just landed! devs are on fire
How's camera?
With viperx I have very nice results and 0 compression, meaning each photo is about 5mb!
Too bad sense 4 dev is ''freezed'', they are pushing us into CM10
Did you find some 720p themes? Specially with transparent statusbar...
Installed trips CMX yesterday evening. Have four reboots and couple of fc`s so far, performance is quite good thou. On toms or tbaldens rom got no reboots or fc`s at all. For me trips rom is most unstable.
After testing all of the three JB`s I still say that tbaldens one is for me. Best performance and stability. Tom`s is good too in terms of stability, but performance is worse than others. If you search JB rom to start with I would recommend tbaldens one hands down.
So I'm new to the android community coming from an iphone 4S, and so far it's pretty awesome. lol. I've tried two ROM's, AOKP and TuchMi. So far i'm enjoying TuchMi since it brings the stock with all of Samsung's features, plus overclocking, V6 and all that. performance has been nice. As i'm trying to get more into android, I wanted to know you guy's thoughts on the two ROM's or maybe any other ones that might be better?? thanks in advance!
Stock, the best!
lazarat said:
Stock, the best!
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Just plain stock?? really think so??? Thing about AOKP, is the customizations.
Wanams Rom
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I was hoping this thread to run good since I am trying to get an idea on roms since I just got my S III today.
We got enough good roms going.
I mean we have a subsidized carrier phone, so it's pretty natural for the international counterpart would get more attention.
With that said, I love AOKP.
AOKP is beast. Just trying to test out different ROM's, but seriously, if you like touchwiz, check it out. Only thing is, my apps say they are invalid when I download. Any help??
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Diet ICS
Also tried TuchMi, it was pretty good.
Currently using the diet ICS build from 08/04 with the latest BLUE theme installed (found in the diet ICS thread from peterguru) and it looks and works great. Running ktoonz latest kernel (which allows underclocking to 192MHz and has more steps than faux123's v009) and smokin's CPU Editor with Battery Saver. Great battery life, great performance, awesome blue "diet" theme. Probably my favorite so far.
To be honest though the thing that made me switch and flash diet ICS over TuchMi 5.0 was the inclusion of Google Wallet (although now my phone thinks its a Galaxy Nexus ) -- still haven't been able to test it out in the wild though...
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Also tried TuchMi, it was pretty good.
Currently using the diet ICS build from 08/04 with the latest BLUE theme installed (found in the diet ICS thread from peterguru) and it looks and works great. Running ktoonz latest kernel (which allows underclocking to 192MHz and has more steps than faux123's v009) and smokin's CPU Editor with Battery Saver. Great battery life, great performance, awesome blue "diet" theme. Probably my favorite so far.
To be honest though the thing that made me switch and flash diet ICS over TuchMi 5.0 was the inclusion of Google Wallet (although now my phone thinks its a Galaxy Nexus ) -- still haven't been able to test it out in the wild though...
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I've been seeing alot about diet. So you say its a good one? Think i might flash it tonight.
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AOKP has been wonderful so far, flashed it from CM9 and not really seeing any reason to go back although both are great in their own ways.
Wanam has a really nice ROM. Well that's if you're one of us that actually likes Touchwiz. I for one love it. Smooth and excellent battery life.
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Just plain stock?? really think so??? Thing about AOKP, is the customizations.
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I've been on TuchMi-S3"X" 5.0 since i got my phone 2 weeks ago. So far the best. I tried Diet rom too, but it was a little skinny for me (lol?).
I tried AOKP today and I had used AOKP on my Atrix before, but I went back to TuchMis3x right away because its so far the best. Stable, Battery is insane too!
I'm just waiting for CM10 to fully come out for our phones and i'll make the switch!
Sooo, I switched from TuchMi to AOKP, and right after, my battery starts to drain. Drained about 5% within 2min. Running TuchMi, my battery barely moves. Now I'd have to say that it is successfully the best ROM imo. only problems are: my Google account syncs on and off with contacts, and sometimes i get a blue screen fracture. idk.
pguillory said:
Sooo, I switched from TuchMi to AOKP, and right after, my battery starts to drain. Drained about 5% within 2min. Running TuchMi, my battery barely moves. Now I'd have to say that it is successfully the best ROM imo. only problems are: my Google account syncs on and off with contacts, and sometimes i get a blue screen fracture. idk.
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If your battery drained that fast then something is wrong. Almost 11 hours on battery with 2 hours of screen time, lte on all day and wifi on past 3 hours and I am sitting at 62% right now. I am on aokp ics right now. Only thing keeping me from newer updates is that HBO go doesn't work in any of the cm10 based in roms yet that I know of
I would also like to point out that it takes several battery cycles before a rom fully settles in and you find out how it truly performs with battery.
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If your battery drained that fast then something is wrong. Almost 11 hours on battery with 2 hours of screen time, lte on all day and wifi on past 3 hours and I am sitting at 62% right now. I am on aokp ics right now. Only thing keeping me from newer updates is that HBO go doesn't work in any of the cm10 based in roms yet that I know of
I would also like to point out that it takes several battery cycles before a rom fully settles in and you find out how it truly performs with battery.
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Thanks for that. Like I said, I'm new to this so I didn't know what was going on, so the first thing that came to my mind was to go back. Now I just flashed the AOKP jb ROM. The AOKP that i had before was the CM9 based one i believe? lol. Either way, thanks man. added a little more confidence for me lol.
Jellybro from Euroskank the best one for my needs. not the last one though. 2 days battery, butter smooth, love the Jelly aesthetics and simplicity.
When the bugs are worked out of paranoid android I would say give that a run. The ability to run phone and tablet on one device together flawlessly is great. Plus you ave full control over the size of all apps and the such.
JellyBro is my top pick, then would be a stock ROM ([ROM]{??/??/????}TEAM_INSOMNIA PrEsEnTs ARISTODEMOS) and after that I'd say AOKP CM9 based for EXTREMELY long battery life.
been using cm9 for a few days, perfectly stable so far and great battery life. Can't beat stock ics
Blazer
I have been on Blazer O/C with the Kalagas mixed ICS Theme and love it. Seems all the stock based ROMS are fine with some nice tweaks
Which do you prefer and why. I Basically want the pro's and con's. I know CM10 is not meant for our phones, heck even CM9 for that matter. So im curious... whats your flavor.
How long have you been using JB (either one) and what's your battery like. Or how did you make it better.
What modem works for you and why.
Let's see some screenshots of your battery.
Its not that its not meant for our phones but not officially supported
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Correct. But it does work better on other phones. But you are correct thanks for correcting me.
I am a big CM fan and after using the alphas I strayed and lived on the Unofficial CM9 nightlies for a while. I found those very smooth, but had sub-par battery.
After jumping back to GB for a month or so, I have played with both CM10 and JB AOSP. As expected, CM10 has more customization options while AOSP is very lean. Performance is very similar between the two as there has been a lot of collaboration between the devs and functionality is continually improving VERY fast with each update.
That being said, the only thing I miss on either ROM is bluetooth for media. Everything else that I use is working without issue. Some have reported LOS, but I have not experienced it with a clean data wipe and fresh install. I am still holding on to the EL29 modem, but considering trying a couple of the newer releases.
As for my preference, I am using JB AOSP as my DD at this point because I have experienced VERY good battery life with practical use CM10 seemed to drain a little faster, but it is coming along quite nicely IMO. Moving from Calks GB 3.0 to the JB ROMS lately has not been a dramatic transition in terms of battery and that is saying something.
I hope that is what you were looking for. Either way, IMO you can't go wrong test driving both and seeing which one does it for you.
Edit 1 (AOSP Alpha 5): Bluetooth media has been working since Alpha 4 and it is very stable. With Alpha 5, the screen transition from portrait to landscape (and back) is more responsive as it has been a little slow in the previous builds. This is a very nice build. The battery issue seems to be that the phone does not charge completely but shows 99-100% when disconnecting from the charger. Sbrissen has noted a potential battery fix on Alpha 5. I have not had it long enough to report anything at this point.
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I am a big CM fan and after using the alphas I strayed and lived on the Unofficial CM9 nightlies for a while. I found those very smooth, but had sub-par battery.
After jumping back to GB for a month or so, I have played with both CM10 and JB AOSP. As expected, CM10 has more customization options while AOSP is very lean. Performance is very similar between the two as there has been a lot of collaboration between the devs and functionality is continually improving VERY fast with each update.
That being said, the only thing I miss on either ROM is bluetooth for media. Everything else that I use is working without issue. Some have reported LOS, but I have not experienced it with a clean data wipe and fresh install. I am still holding on to the EL29 modem, but considering trying a couple of the newer releases.
As for my preference, I am using JB AOSP as my DD at this point because I have experience VERY good battery life with practical use CM10 seemed to drain a little faster, but it is coming along quite nicely IMO. Moving from Calks GB 3.0 to the JB ROMS lately has not been a dramatic transition in terms of battery and that is saying something.
I hope that is what you were looking for. Either way, IMO you can't go wrong test driving both and seeing which one does it for you.
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That's exactly what I was looking for thank you sir.
Jelly bean running smoothly
I'm running Sbrissens aosp alpha 3 and its smooth sailing with no known issues so far! Also think its a DD for me,battery is not melting my phone like previous builds.
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I am a big CM fan and after using the alphas I strayed and lived on the Unofficial CM9 nightlies for a while. I found those very smooth, but had sub-par battery.
After jumping back to GB for a month or so, I have played with both CM10 and JB AOSP. As expected, CM10 has more customization options while AOSP is very lean. Performance is very similar between the two as there has been a lot of collaboration between the devs and functionality is continually improving VERY fast with each update.
That being said, the only thing I miss on either ROM is bluetooth for media. Everything else that I use is working without issue. Some have reported LOS, but I have not experienced it with a clean data wipe and fresh install. I am still holding on to the EL29 modem, but considering trying a couple of the newer releases.
As for my preference, I am using JB AOSP as my DD at this point because I have experience VERY good battery life with practical use CM10 seemed to drain a little faster, but it is coming along quite nicely IMO. Moving from Calks GB 3.0 to the JB ROMS lately has not been a dramatic transition in terms of battery and that is saying something.
I hope that is what you were looking for. Either way, IMO you can't go wrong test driving both and seeing which one does it for you.
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I've been waiting for a post like this since Sbrissen released the ROM. Think I shall finally give it a go and see how it runs.
cm10 ftw.
after using cm you'll find it hard to go back to anything else! (unless its aokp)
there is just endless customization options..
cm10 may have more features for me aosp is a lil better far as battery and smoothness i ran both for a lil over a day aosp is the winner
Check out SB's AOSP Alpha 3. All the reviews say it is coming along nicely (almost Beta)
I tried it back when it was private, and it was amazing (other than LOS, which he seemed to have fixed)
So I'm installing it again now.
CM10 vs. AOSP
Well, for me CM does the trick. And when I got the EpTouch and found out it was not supported by CM, I was heartbroken. The Epic Touch is such a wonderful device with its screen, and CPU power; granted there are a number of devices currently better than this phone.
I think CM is a better choice just for how well they support development. I have never had an AOSP ROM before, but I enjoyed being able to boot into recovery from hitting the power button. I even enjoyed playing with a few of the CM settings in the phone.
AOSP is just pure, 100% Android, and is great if that is what you want. But, I still want a little suprises here and there.
Cm is very stable for the epic. They are quite close to official I would say.
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Nice post, guys. I'm gonna flash cm10 now. Haha.:victory:
What is the best way to go to AOSP from EL29 GB? And of get back to GB if needed?
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What is the best way to go to AOSP from EL29 GB? And of get back to GB if needed?
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Use el26 cwm and wipe everything. To go back just use one click.
Well I was running the AOSP build and loved it with the exception that WiFi tether won't work. Can anyone confirm it works on cm10 before I go through the trouble of flashing?
From what I read, Wifi tether is not working on Jellybean right now and have been running CM10 Alpha 4 for over 12 hours now. Let your Rom settle. It takes time to set your accounts back up with syncing and will drain your battery the first cycle. The first battery cycle had 3 hours. I left it off and let it charge over night. I have now had it off the charger for an hour and half and am still at 87%. A huge increase since first cycle. In that same time I have a 1% Time without Cell signal (LOS).... I had this on GB, just b/c I have one tower about 3 miles away that I'm anchored to. If you haven't already I would recommend flashing the new FH13 modem as well.
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From what I read, Wifi tether is not working on Jellybean right now and have been running CM10 Alpha 4 for over 12 hours now. Let your Rom settle. It takes time to set your accounts back up with syncing and will drain your battery the first cycle. The first battery cycle had 3 hours. I left it off and let it charge over night. I have now had it off the charger for an hour and half and am still at 87%. A huge increase since first cycle. In that same time I have a 1% Time without Cell signal (LOS).... I had this on GB, just b/c I have one tower about 3 miles away that I'm anchored to. If you haven't already I would recommend flashing the new FH13 modem as well.
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Well, from what i read from your reply is, I dont know what im talking about , yada yada yada.... If you read a little closer it says wifi tether is not working on the AOSP build. I clearly asked above if someone could verify that it is indeed working on the CM10 build. Is that what you are trying to say? Cause no one here said they are having problems with syncing or other accounts.
Cm10 alpha 4 is running great, I was running el29 modem but I had some issues with Los, after I upgraded to fh13 I have not experienced any more Los. also turning off location services gets better battery in deep sleep.
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CM10 alpha 4 is not working well for me with LOS issues. I keep getting LOS atleast 4-5 times a day needing a reboot... going to try ASOP.