Which jelly bean rom has the least bugs? - Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Which one would you suggest?
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good jelly bean rom
I got one from the goo. im app jellybean v1.3 otter oxd34d and everything works besides Google now and bluetooth

Just got jelly bean every thing works except Bluetooth of course. I flashed gapps and not Google works
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I've also been using the "goo" one (a.k.a. "Jandycane") as well with very few problems.
Get from goo.im or here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766829
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I would recommend CM10 using SGT7 enhancements by twa_priv

And I have been very pleased with EyeCandy. The ROM's title speaks for itself, it is simply the sexiest ROM out there.

I have been using eyecandy and its great.
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I've found that although jandycane has lots of features, hashcode's ROM is more stable.

I have been using Hashcode's release. From what I heard it is the most stable.
When life gives you tech....Make use of it.

I flashed JellyCane last night and its a really nice ROM. Ive found zero issues in my 6+ hours of testing after flashing it last night.

I'm using twa_priv's and it's working very well. I still get some crashing errors whenever I mute the volume and cannot install the Kindle android app (error -24). I've had Chrome crash once or twice and had the device spontaneously reboot a couple times but otherwise it's working way better than how Amazon shipped it to me.
I'm following all of the JB ROM threads and it sounds like they are roughly equivalent in terms of stability.
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shuddles said:
I'm using twa_priv's and it's working very well. I still get some crashing errors whenever I mute the volume and cannot install the Kindle android app (error -24). I've had Chrome crash once or twice and had the device spontaneously reboot a couple times but otherwise it's working way better than how Amazon shipped it to me.
I'm following all of the JB ROM threads and it sounds like they are roughly equivalent in terms of stability.
-S
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What build are you on that crashes when you mute?

Both the 7-23 and 7-28. I just reflashed 7-28 and wiped cache / dalvik to be sure.
I had the problem with the stock volume widget and now also with the Volume Control app when I slide the volume down to zero percent.
Anything I can do to gather more info? Am I the only having these muting crashes?
I just tried it again with the stock widget in the status bar (tablet mode) and hitting mute does not produce the com.android.phone errors; only when you slide the volume down to zero.
-S
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shuddles said:
Both the 7-23 and 7-28. I just reflashed 7-28 and wiped cache / dalvik to be sure.
I had the problem with the stock volume widget and now also with the Volume Control app when I slide the volume down to zero percent.
Anything I can do to gather more info? Am I the only having these muting crashes?
I just tried it again with the stock widget in the status bar (tablet mode) and hitting mute does not produce the com.android.phone errors; only when you slide the volume down to zero.
-S
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confirm this crash

Hashcode's was a great jumping off point, but I think Jandycane is the way to go now. Very stable, almost all the features you could want in a ROM. Google Now is fc'ing for me, but I just use the browser for search anyway.

shuddles said:
Both the 7-23 and 7-28. I just reflashed 7-28 and wiped cache / dalvik to be sure.
I had the problem with the stock volume widget and now also with the Volume Control app when I slide the volume down to zero percent.
Anything I can do to gather more info? Am I the only having these muting crashes?
I just tried it again with the stock widget in the status bar (tablet mode) and hitting mute does not produce the com.android.phone errors; only when you slide the volume down to zero.
-S
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Can't reproduce. Both muting and sliding to 0 works fine for me.

chemo1191 said:
Hashcode's was a great jumping off point, but I think Jandycane is the way to go now. Very stable, almost all the features you could want in a ROM. Google Now is fc'ing for me, but I just use the browser for search anyway.
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How stable is it would you say? Enough to use as a daily driver? I still have Gede 1.7 for my girlfriend's KF, but thinking about upgrading to a jelly bean rom. Just wondering if they're stable enough yet..

exoteric said:
How stable is it would you say? Enough to use as a daily driver? I still have Gede 1.7 for my girlfriend's KF, but thinking about upgrading to a jelly bean rom. Just wondering if they're stable enough yet..
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Hard to answer since it depends what you need to work, but I'm extremely happy with the stability. I use the ROM primarily for chrome, gmail, google reader, tapatalk, boid (twitter), youtube, google+, goodreads. All that stuff is working great for me for at least a week of heavy use. I get some occasional crashes/reboots but not more than once per day.
I haven't tried any games or the Facebook app. My primary disappointment right now is that I can't get the Kindle android app to install. It's ironic that I can't use my Kindle as a Kindle.
If you want to test the waters I recommend going the FFF dualboot route. Put one of the JB ROMs on the main partition and Gede on the alternate. Minor hassle to reboot to the other ROM but also amazing that all of these great devs have made Amazon's limited device into something ridiculously versatile. My formerly dusty KF has become my primary device!
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exoteric said:
How stable is it would you say? Enough to use as a daily driver? I still have Gede 1.7 for my girlfriend's KF, but thinking about upgrading to a jelly bean rom. Just wondering if they're stable enough yet..
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I am using it as a daily driver and it seems to be working well.

I have tried a few of them now, but love eye candy the best, however all the devs have done an outstanding job so far.
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Should I flash a Jelly Bean ROM or just stick with ICS

So I was wondering what are the reasons to switch over to jelly Bean, can anybody help me or should I just stick with ics?
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Depends on ICS version and your comfort level
notdeadyet01 said:
So I was wondering what are the reasons to switch over to jelly Bean, can anybody help me or should I just stick with ics?
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What version of ICS are you running and what problems if any are you having with it? Before moving to Jelly Bean I was running ROM][26-6-2012] gedeROM v1.7 {Linaro - Swipe Controls}, for the most part I was happy with it. Ran just about everything I threw at it. Only problem was the power LED which Hashcode is still working on. I monitored the development board and saw that twa_priv was getting a good following on his ROM. I deded to try it a month ago. I liked the speed as well as some of the enhancements. I did discover however that Next Edition and AP news stopped running. I keep hoping this will change but nothing so far. Most recent flash was twa_priv latest (expeimental) ROM using Hashcodes latest Kernel: 20120821-0215-Linaro (New Kernel) / Experimental). This puppy absolutely screams, Hashcode states that there is still a problem with the charging indicator, ( it does charge however), BUT, I find with twa_priv's compilation not only does my charge icon work properly, my led works properly for the first time since I modded back in March of this year. The power led turns green once it is fully charged but stays green until I unplug. During the runup to full charge it turns orange and then flips to green at around 90%.
With that said, there is a bootloop issue which I have run into once. I had to shut down and reboot without success. Booted into
TWRP 2.2.1 and cleared cache. Everything seems stable at the moment. In fareness to twa_priv he does have a new version just posted which continues to follow his builds and not Hashcodes....
Now that I have thoroughly confused you. I will leave you to your thoughts and decisions
Good Luck
UPDATE! Went back and deliberately shut down three times to see if the expiremental ROM would boot clean or go back into a loop. It looped, booting clean only after I once again cleaned cache. I am going back to twa_priv's ROM and follow his development for now.
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notdeadyet01 said:
So I was wondering what are the reasons to switch over to jelly Bean, can anybody help me or should I just stick with ics?
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What version of ICS are you running and what problems if any are you having with it? Before moving to Jelly Bean I was running ROM][26-6-2012] gedeROM v1.7 {Linaro - Swipe Controls}, for the most part I was happy with it. Ran just about everything I threw at it. Only problem was the power LED which Hashcode is still working on. I monitored the development board and saw that twa_priv was getting a good following on his ROM. I deded to try it a month ago. I liked the speed as well as some of the enhancements. I did discover however that Next Edition and AP news stopped running. I keep hoping this will change but nothing so far. Most recent flash was twa_priv latest (expeimental) ROM using Hashcodes latest Kernel: 20120821-0215-Linaro (New Kernel) / Experimental). This puppy absolutely screams, Hashcode states that there is still a problem with the charging indicator, ( it does charge however), BUT, I find with twa_priv's compilation not only does my charge icon work properly, my led works properly for the first time since I modded back in March of this year. The power led turns green once it is fully charged but stays green until I unplug. During the runup to full charge it turns orange and then flips to green at around 90%.
With that said, there is a bootloop issue which I have run into once. I had to shut down and reboot without success. Booted into
TWRP 2.2.1 and cleared cache. Everything seems stable at the moment. In fareness to twa_priv he does have a new version just posted which continues to follow his builds and not Hashcodes....
Now that I have thoroughly confused you. I will leave you to your thoughts and decisions
Good Luck
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i switched over to twa_priv's cm10 and couldnt be happier. ICS worked well for me, but JB is super smooth.
I am using Hyperrunner's Glazed ics rom. It runs pretty smooth for me. I was just wondering what improvements JB has on ICS
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junkinmytrunk426 said:
i switched over to twa_priv's cm10 and couldnt be happier. ICS worked well for me, but JB is super smooth.
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Agreed. It is fantastic.
notdeadyet01 said:
I am using Hyperrunner's Glazed ics rom. It runs pretty smooth for me. I was just wondering what improvements JB has on ICS
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Project butter baby! Very very smooth.
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I used to use Energyrom CM9 before I ran into twa_priv's cm10. I haven't looked back since. Battery life seems like a better improvement from ICS to JB on my kindle. About an extra hour or two.
Another satisfied twa_priv CM10 (SGT7) user here...
Why not go with twa_priv's cm10?
After having worked with the excellent MoDaCo Custom ROM by paulobrien for some time, giving you the option to use Amazon Prime, I tried a couple of ROMS and switched to twa_priv's cm10. The last version with the old kernel (20120823-0057-Linaro) runs very smoothly and offers mass storage, e.g. you can use an external hard disk (usb2) to view films on the kindle via OTG. All my apps work and there is great support on the thread.
The latest ROM (20120824-2036-Linaro) uses Hashcode's new kernel which is still under development, but since you have regular, weekly updates, improvements will soon be applied. I would consider it the best ROM I have used so far.

4.2.2 The bad

Well all things were fine on 4.2.1 and then this update comes,
This is what i noticed so far,
1.Phone is EXTREMELY laggy when downloading from play store
2.Browser quick controls are bugged
3.Lots of launcher crashes
4.Alarm icon in the notification disappears while it's still active
5.Random lag spikes while navigating in de drawer or homescreen,
As far as i go, this is the laggiest jelly bean version, maybe google just got lazy, or they're working on another version of Android (fingers crossed)
EDIT: I'm not talking about custom roms and such, and i'm not willing to flash, i like stock
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First:
Do a full wipe!
Flash STOCK ANDROID JB 4.2.2 (I mean stock, and not CWM flashable stock ROMs with root..)
Use stock Android launcher (Just stock, not modded or anything else)
And then Stop complaining!
I'm on cm10.1 4.2.2 and is probably the smoothest ROM I have ever been on.
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Even I'm using panaroid but i din feel any laggish or bug. May b its a problem which have been created without new boot loader from Google ?
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ray3andrei said:
Well all things were fine on 4.2.1 and then this update comes,
This is what i noticed so far,
1.Phone is EXTREMELY laggy when downloading from play store
2.Browser quick controls are bugged
3.Lots of launcher crashes
4.Alarm icon in the notification disappears while it's still active
5.Random lag spikes while navigating in de drawer or homescreen,
As far as i go, this is the laggiest jelly bean version, maybe google just got lazy, or they're working on another version of Android (fingers crossed)
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1. Use a custom kernel and tweak the read ahead buffer size. With sio io scheduler and 256k buffer size i made the lag minimal for me.
3+5 : use nova launcher and it will be fine
4: it works fine here, make sure you do clean installs.
As a last advice I must say to flash the factory image via fastboot. It is absolutely fine with no issues. I installed it on 2 gnex' already and no problems with lag.
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manumanfred said:
First:
Do a full wipe!
Flash STOCK ANDROID JB 4.2.2 (I mean stock, and not CWM flashable stock ROMs with root..)
Use stock Android launcher (Just stock, not modded or anything else)
And then Stop complaining!
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Stock android is far away from perfect now. JDQ39 is nowhere near rock stable JZO54K. My friend. Scrolling lag is not the matter of clean installation. I've tested five 4.2.2 based roms, including stock all of them lags as hell after a while - it can be one or two days or couple of hours. Actually it's been the most evident of stock and it concerns scrolling between homescreens, lockscreens, recents. A lot of people have experienced it and it's been already reported to google issue tracker. I've already tested stock, cm10.1 m2, PA 3.1 0309, XenonHD 6.0 - all of them lags after a while. At the moment I am testing Purity and I haven's seen lag for two days.
Te easiest way to reproduce the bug. Please do not reboot your devices, and do not change wallpapers for about two days.
Same here, on CM10.1 Play Store is now smooth but was bad on XenonHD.
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I am 100% stock... My phone flies.. No lags nor bugs or redraws...
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sam razzy said:
Even I'm using panaroid but i din feel any laggish or bug. May b its a problem which have been created without new boot loader from Google ?
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No. Your problem is more than likely the former.
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forever_lol said:
Stock android is far away from perfect now. JDQ39 is nowhere near rock stable JZO54K. My friend. Scrolling lag is not the matter of clean installation. I've tested five 4.2.2 based roms, including stock all of them lags as hell after a while - it can be one or two days or couple of hours. Actually it's been the most evident of stock and it concerns scrolling between homescreens, lockscreens, recents. A lot of people have experienced it and it's been already reported to google issue tracker. I've already tested stock, cm10.1 m2, PA 3.1 0309, XenonHD 6.0 - all of them lags after a while. At the moment I am testing Purity and I haven's seen lag for two days.
Te easiest way to reproduce the bug. Please do not reboot your devices, and do not change wallpapers for about two days.
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Well I don't understand where do you see the lags. Because I don't have any lags on my nexus.
The speed also depends what kernel you are using and how much free Memory you have on your nexus..
I'm using my own ROM which is based of stock Android ROM and I have actually never experienced any lags.
Yesterday I got few apps after using apple's BT mouse and when I set up multi users.. But all the lags went away when I rebooted.
thegtfusion said:
As a last advice I must say to flash the factory image via fastboot. It is absolutely fine with no issues. I installed it on 2 gnex' already and no problems with lag.
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How do I do this?
Not sure if this has been discussed or not I searched and found many bugs but none that meet this specific issue.. I noticed that since I updated to the 4.2.2 leak on my Toro Nexus there have been a few issues:
Audio from the pogo pin dock stopped working.
Car mode goes off and on randomly as well as the charging bolt when the phone should be charging.
Phone goes into daydream mode even when not being charged..
Turning on bluetooth randomly reboots the phone on occasion and other random bugs.
I think I'm going to flash back to the previous OTA. I'm stock unlocked, unrooted, just the way I like my Nexus (for now). In no way is this a complaint, more my observations and a last shot in the dark to see if anyone has overcome these issues in the latest leaked "OTA."
On a side note, other than the dock and power issues, everything has been smooth. No lag etc...
fireknuckles said:
... I think I'm going to flash back to the previous OTA....
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Ok so I realize I don't know how to do this without resetting all data. From what I've read, the only way back includes wiping all data. Am I wrong? Is there a way for me to go back without wiping? I'm not super versed in all things Android but I think I recall flashing back to a previous OTA in the past to get another OTA to work without wiping. I can't find that thread anywhere so I'm probably mistaken. Any help?
Edit: I re-read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895 and determined that it can be done without wiping for folks that aren't noobs. I consider myself a noob at this point so I'm stuck with this 4.2.2 update until I find an easier way.
fireknuckles said:
Ok so I realize I don't know how to do this without resetting all data. From what I've read, the only way back includes wiping all data. Am I wrong? Is there a way for me to go back without wiping? I'm not super versed in all things Android but I think I recall flashing back to a previous OTA in the past to get another OTA to work without wiping. I can't find that thread anywhere so I'm probably mistaken. Any help?
Edit: I re-read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895 and determined that it can be done without wiping for folks that aren't noobs. I consider myself a noob at this point so I'm stuck with this 4.2.2 update until I find an easier way.
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It's the same as flashing a rom! Use Titanium backup to backup the apps, and custom recovery to wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik cache. Format /system, /data, /cache , and downgrade with the toolkit w/o format when it ask. So for less than an hour you will downgrade, and keep music, videos and photos. So the only thing you lose is programs, but you can restore them whit titanium, and that is!
manumanfred said:
Well I don't understand where do you see the lags. Because I don't have any lags on my nexus.
The speed also depends what kernel you are using and how much free Memory you have on your nexus..
I'm using my own ROM which is based of stock Android ROM and I have actually never experienced any lags.
Yesterday I got few apps after using apple's BT mouse and when I set up multi users.. But all the lags went away when I rebooted.
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Lags what I am talking about is low fps scrolling that appears after some time of normal usage. I've never experienced it on 4.1.2 or 4.2.1. It has nothing to do with the kernel. (BTW aren't we talkin about the stock one?) Problem is still present on custom kernels and even OCed CPU. It looks rather like some sort of memory leak. Reboot or changing wallpaper is a workaround solution for this issue. So yeah if you reboot your device quite often you most probably won't see this bug.
If you want to read more about this issue visit this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2178962
Except this bug I really like the 4.2.2 rom, these new features. I consider it as an improvement from 4.2.1.
I agree, 4.1.2 was polished more. 4.2.2 is better then the initial 4.2 release, but still has a way to go. We'll see what IO brings soon.
wisefreakz said:
I am 100% stock... My phone flies.. No lags nor bugs or redraws...
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+1
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manumanfred said:
First:
Do a full wipe!
Flash STOCK ANDROID JB 4.2.2 (I mean stock, and not CWM flashable stock ROMs with root..)
Use stock Android launcher (Just stock, not modded or anything else)
And then Stop complaining!
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Yeah i did that 2 weeks ago, and it just got laggy again
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ray3andrei said:
Yeah i did that 2 weeks ago, and it just got laggy again
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Ok.. Hmmm.....
Are you using custom kernel?
And which apps are running in background? E.g. Currents, Google+. FB...
And if you use custom kernel then make sure you use CPU governor that doesn't make Android slower or laggier..
I have actually never had any lags on my Nexus, I use 100% stock kernel, sometimes CM's kernel. I have free memory 2,10 GB of 13 GB (16GB GNex)..
Also I recommend to use some cleaner apps to delete unnecessary files..
For cleaning a bit my Nexus I use "Mobile Care" on Windows it is "ASC"
Which deletes e.g. Cache and junk files..
manumanfred said:
Ok.. Hmmm.....
Are you using custom kernel?
And which apps are running in background? E.g. Currents, Google+. FB...
And if you use custom kernel then make sure you use CPU governor that doesn't make Android slower or laggier..
I have actually never had any lags on my Nexus, I use 100% stock kernel, sometimes CM's kernel. I have free memory 2,10 GB of 13 GB (16GB GNex)..
Also I recommend to use some cleaner apps to delete unnecessary files..
For cleaning a bit my Nexus I use "Mobile Care" on Windows it is "ASC"
Which deletes e.g. Cache and junk files..
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Like i said, i'm 100% stock, and i see a lot of people having these issues as well..
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[Q] Current fastest/most stable ROM?

Just a quick question for everybody! I've been using Liquid Nitro for a while now, but I'm getting a bit frustrated with the occasional spontaneous resets, and how slow it is. What does everyone here use, and what do you think is the best in terms of stability and speed?
Currently I am using sphinx rom. It is snappy ,good on battery, jelly bean. Be sure to apply both patches. I have found the kitkat to be unstable.
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Currently I am using sphinx rom. It is snappy ,good on battery, jelly bean. Be sure to apply both patches. I have found the kitkat to be unstable.
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You have an LG P930, right? is it this one?
i also use liquid nitro, and tried most other jb,kk roms, but always back to liquid for its stable.
the next stable rom for *my* p930 is cm 10.1.3.
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I used the version in this thread
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I used the version in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2294709
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So it's fast, and works with my p930. Is it stable for you (no random restarts?)
It is better then CM, but it still has random reboots. I did not find the reboots to occur as frequently as CM
Nz
So far, after changing the default language from Russian, I am finding Sphinx to be a lot faster and smoother than liquid nitro, though that might be because I don't have all my apps loaded yet. I also just experienced my first random reset (not even 6 hours! not looking good,) which put my phone into a boot loop (it gets to the lock screen, give a "system UI has crashed" error, and reboots,) that I fixed by pulling the battery.
AND SPEAKING OF THE BATTERY my phone now thinks my battery is at ~ %1-%5 power (it was at about %60 when I installed the ROM,) and is constantly telling me to plug it in, and the phone refuses to charge (it won't charge with any cable or wall adapter I have, and won't even recognize when I plug it into a computer.)
In short: lots of problems, but if I can fix them, I will probably keep sphinx.
*Edit: I just went and wiped everything (including battery information) in CWM and installed the "official unofficial" ROM from the same post. It seems so far to be decent (and it's charging the battery!) It's a bit laggy (like the stock ROM, but not as bad a Liquid Nitro got for me.) Tomorrow I will do the full data wipe again (including the battery info) and re-install sphinx to see if it helps.
In my P930, I use the last PAC-ROM, it gets me stability, battery friendly, smooth, it doest get lagged.
It's fully customizable, I recommend it.
The last version I installed is the nightly of 2014-03-28 or so.
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Don't forget to install both patches for sphinx.
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Also you should never need to yank battery, just unplug USB then hold Power down for 20 seconds.
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I'm looking at the Pac ROM releases, but I'm not sure which one to download (I'm not going to do nightly releases.)
keboose said:
I'm looking at the Pac ROM releases, but I'm not sure which one to download (I'm not going to do nightly releases.)
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Why dont you try the RC1?
because there are two labeled RC1?
Not the Milestone, but the pac-p930-22.2.0-rc1.zip
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ultimate_neet said:
Not the Milestone, but the pac-p930-22.2.0-rc1.zip
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Well, it's going (somewhat) well. With the stable release, I haven't had to restart yet, but there are still problems: mainly that the home button doesn't work. along with that, the "cLock" app keeps crashing, and gapps looks like it wasn't installed properly (no gapps except gmail are there, and it doesn't work.) Did you experience any of this with the nightly build you use?
I made doubly sure I installed the correct gapps zip, could it be I have an old version of CWM that's messing it up? I have CWM v6.0.1.5
Installl the gapps core only.
I didn't have any problems with the clock.
You did full swipe?
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gapps core? I installed the gapps they linked to in the official thread.
I followed their instructions as well: factory reset, flash ROM, flash gapps, reboot.
Never mind! I installed the nightly you said you use (03/29/2014) and it works! I'm loving kitkat. It's being a bit slow right now, but I'm hoping that's because the phone's been downloading the files for GTA 3 since I installed the ROM (and linked my google account) earlier today.
hey, I don't know what is going on, but I'm not finding any of these ROM's to be stable at all. They seem to work alright at first, but once I get my apps back, it all goes down the tubes. Even the Pac ROM, which so far has been the MOST stable, is frustrating to use. I found that my music player (PowerAmp) causes it to be a bit more unstable, but both it and the default music player often crash 'android.process.media' and then I have to reboot my phone.
Along with that, randomly, and frequently, when I try to wake my phone up from sleeping with the power button, the screen will just go black, the buttons will stop responding, and I have to pull the battery. This one is particularly frustrating because this morning my phone tried to turn on the screen to play an alarm and the phone locked up!
I've wiped my phone again and haven't installed any apps. Let's see if the problems still happen.
keboose said:
hey, I don't know what is going on, but I'm not finding any of these ROM's to be stable at all....
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I've had this phone since it came out. From my experience, ICS ROM's are the most stable, followed by JB ROMS, then KitKat ROMs. If you want the best stability, battery, and for daily use go with either stock ICS or one that's based on stock. The only problem with that is that you miss out on any of the new improvements in JB and KitKat. For daily use, non of the KitKat ROMs are stable enough. Currently, I'm running CM 10.1.3 with Wind Kernel 2.6. It's not as stable as ICS stock. I get random locks/restarts about once or twice a week. It does however offer the best compromise in stability and features/improvement over just running ICS ROMs. Specwise, this phone was ahead of the curve when it came out. But battery and performance issues kept this from being a good phone. Because it's not well used, there's very little support and development for this phone.

Still on 4.1.2

Anyone else still this far back? I'm on Eclipse 412. I want to upgrade, but I've never found a rom that works as well. Tried some of the 4.2 and 4.4 but haven't found a good one yet. Didn't try any 4.3 for some reason. I just keep going back to 412, but Google services don't work on it and I'm sick of seeing that pop up on some apps. Though I'm wondering if maybe that's a good thing since I hear a lot abt Google services killing battery and stuff.
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eclipse 4.1.2 was one of the best setups I've ever ran on this device. I've considered going back to it recently even, not sure what you mean about Google play services not working on it?
Google now doesn't work for example. I'll get a message saying "Google services cannot run on this device"
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cnoevl21 said:
Google now doesn't work for example. I'll get a message saying "Google services cannot run on this device"
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Must be only that ROM related issue.
Everything works fine with the PA 4.1.2 ROM I've still been running for 18+ months, but I did have some temporary Google issues from using a black theme, uninstalled theme and it was back to normal.
Test it out here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/rom-maguro-toro-toroplus-t1892214
isajoo said:
Must be only that ROM related issue.
Everything works fine with the PA 4.1.2 ROM I've still been running for 18+ months, but I did have some temporary Google issues from using a black theme, uninstalled theme and it was back to normal.
Test it out here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/rom-maguro-toro-toroplus-t1892214
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time to upgrade to 4.3/4.4. they're better than 4.1.2 for sure. 4.3 is more fluid for sure. Try the stock 4.3 rom or purity 4.3 + franco. you won't be disappointed.
hp13 said:
time to upgrade to 4.3/4.4. they're BETTER than 4.1.2 for sure. 4.3 is more fluid for sure. Try the stock 4.3 rom or purity 4.3 + franco. you won't be disappointed.
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BETTER in what way exactly?
Cause I've tested all the 4.2/4.3/4.4 ROM's and nothing seems to work any BETTER than 4.1.2 for my needs, which for me is too have as many possible controls/functions available from touching the lower half of the screen, w/out having to sacrifice any screen space for status/navi bars and while holding it w/1 hand only using thumb, be it for any quick settings or launching/switching/closing apps or typing or turning the screen on/off/unlocked.
Extended desktop in 240dpi tablet mode helps too.
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BETTER in what way exactly?
Cause I've tested all the 4.2/4.3/4.4 ROM's and nothing seems to work any BETTER than 4.1.2 for my needs, which for me is too have as many possible controls/functions available from touching the lower half of the screen, w/out having to sacrifice any screen space for status/navi bars and while holding it w/1 hand only using thumb, be it for any quick settings or launching/switching/closing apps or typing or turning the screen on/off/unlocked.
Extended desktop in 240dpi tablet mode helps too.
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im on resurrection remix (4.4.2) and it is so much smoother and faster than the 4.3 and older ROMs ive tried (PA and PACMAN). I heard LiquidSmooth is also great so I consider upgrading to that at some point and switch to F2FS while im at it
Plenty of roms have the option to customize that nav and status bar (including hiding it for slide in) as well as app launchers and various other features. I recommend checking out reviews of popular roms on youtube or something, to check what the are capable of and then decide on which one to pick!
hp13 said:
time to upgrade to 4.3/4.4. they're better than 4.1.2 for sure. 4.3 is more fluid for sure. Try the stock 4.3 rom or purity 4.3 + franco. you won't be disappointed.
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Skip 4.3 if you can, it is horribly slow and heavy. at least go to 4.2.2 or 4.4 would even be better in term of overall performance and device usability.
jazle said:
Skip 4.3 if you can, it is horribly slow and heavy. at least go to 4.2.2 or 4.4 would even be better in term of overall performance and device usability.
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i found 4.2.2 rom sluggish. i didn't experience the memory leak bug on 4.3. even the stock launcher on 4.2.2 was little laggy
Just stick with 4.1.2 if that works best for you. 4.2 is very laggy and 4.3 and 4.4 are so-so(not as smooth as 4.1.2).

[Q] Need some practical ROM advice

So I have had a rooted 1st gen Fire for a while now. Mostly I've just used OtterX builds.
I love the ability to use the more advanced Android platform but to be blunt? This is unfathomably slow. Not only does it take forever to open even the Twitter app, the persistent power drain is obnoxious.
Are there any low-CPU use ROMs out there? Should I just go back to stock and then add Gapps to that? Could use some advice.
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Lepha
The latest alpha for slimrom is not slow at all. It does use more battery, as has every ROM I have used since Ice Cream Sandwich. You could stay with Gingerbread.
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I have been using Hashcodes Android 4.3 with my old Kindle. It seems responsive and smooth. I don't use it that much, but the battery drain seem reasonable.
Here is a link to the rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2377629
Not sure if it will work if you flashed OtterX, you might have to check into that.
Slimkat is pretty reasonable. I tried cm11 first. They both speed up after the caches fill, I suspect. I can't install Google calendar, something is conflicting, must be an Android thang.
I've had the same experience. I've had trouble with games like CoC (screen doesn't always respond to a touch in important moments) in everything except ICS ROMs before I switched to Otterx. Otterx is great because I don't have to worry about storage running out and of course functionality is great, but in Otterx, the sound pops a lot, and there's trouble with plugging headphones in and out. (I've tried a couple different ROMs.) Linaro builds are best for sure so far. I haven't tried a Slim ROM yet. That's last on my list.
Are there any other ROMs that play CoC well and has the sounds working well. Almost wish there was an Otterx ICS Rom out there!

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