Galaxy s2 for tmobile which recommend thanks
flow214 said:
Galaxy s2 for tmobile which recommend thanks
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Whichever you like. They are all amazing. It's really a personal preference
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There are several great ROMs. Some have customized themes and others are just basic. Read the OP, not all ROMs are flashed the same.
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For me either AOKP M6 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1753351 or CM9 RC2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621678
Along with the corresponding Venom kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1775075
Installed with TWRP 2.2.0 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768742
has been super rock solid.
thanks all
Cm9 rc2
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Another vote for AOKP and the Venom kernel. Smooth, fast, and crazy battery life.
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By far the best rom out there for you is the one you flash on your phone and makes you feel like never flashing another rom. Until you get to that rom I suggest you flash them all. Not that many of them so it should take you about a week to figure out what you like.... Happy Flashing
which is the correct way to install without problems CM9 if I want to put the ICS Stock??
Thanks playya
Cm9 rc2 or aokp m6 combo with darksides kernel
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what is the difference NON-TOUCH CWM RECOVERY: RECOVERY ON TOUCH CWM as which I am thanks
The whole fun about modding your phone is trying all that there is to offer. That's the only way you will find a rom that matches your needs
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Depends, if you NEED wifi calling like some of us, you have limited choices.
Maybe a sticky that states the advantages and disadvantages of the popular roms would be helpful.
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I just got mine and was wondering is it worth rooting becausr stock is already fast and stable
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It's always worth rooting.
Right now, the performance increase isn't the biggest reason, because this phone can handle anything we through at it with ease.
The root_only features, however, definitely are.
Backups, tethering, painless restores, themes, ad hoc wifi, and all the other goodies that custom Roms provide really make a big difference.
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You really should check out the juggernaut rom and also faux123 kernal. I can't express how much faster the sg2 runs and no stuttering or lag. The phone also has much better battery life it's really amazing. Also no spying carrier iq, no bloatware etc. you can free wifi tether. You can over clock or under clock. My phone has never worked so good.
Definitely recommend the following:
Load cwm recovery
Install latest juggernaut rom 4.1
Install latest faux123 kernal
Not required but also install latest modem kl1
If you do then install swype beta keyboard
I use go launcher highly recommended.
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DOOOOOOOOOO it!!!! You'll love your phone twice as much. There are some awesome themes and roms. You can make it even smoother than it is. Go to dev section after and try gingersnap with either kernel. Smooth as butter
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You really should check out the juggernaut rom and also faux123 kernal. I can't express how much faster the sg2 runs and no stuttering or lag. The phone also has much better battery life it's really amazing. Also no spying carrier iq, no bloatware etc. you can free wifi tether. You can over clock or under clock. My phone has never worked so good.
Definitely recommend the following:
Load cwm recovery
Install latest juggernaut rom 4.1
Install latest faux123 kernal
Not required but also install latest modem kl1
If you do then install swype beta keyboard
I use go launcher highly recommended.
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How do you install the modem?
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Why install the modem? Also, I think you should try Launcher 7, made myself use it for a few days, and I love it.
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I came from a NS4G rooted and i noticed the big difference, and i went on to root my t989 today and i have juggernaut with bullet might switch to the kernel yu recommended and so far i dont notice perfomance differece cuhz this phone is already fast as hell but like you said you can do so much more with root
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How do you install the modem?
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There's a thread by Whitehawks over on rootzwiki..
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Mrcojocaru said:
DOOOOOOOOOO it!!!! You'll love your phone twice as much. There are some awesome themes and roms. You can make it even smoother than it is. Go to dev section after and try gingersnap with either kernel. Smooth as butter
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Doooooo it !! +100
what's the best Rom
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what's the best Rom
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Im really liking juggernaut with faux(correct me if im wronh with the kernel name)
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what's the best Rom
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That's a tough question mate. There really is no best. Its a matter of figuring out what you want and what roms do that the best. I recommend trying them all. Personally I'm a cyanogenmod fanboi and I try to run it on pretty much everything I own.
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main reason u should root and install a custom rom is BATTERY LIFE! lol u more than double your battery life, get all the bloat out of your phone, CIQ etc, plus you do get a performance increase, and its more stable than stock.. hands down best thing you could ever do to your phone.
Im getting the galaxy nexus soon and i was wondering witch JB rom is the most stable rom and is there more than one kernel, witch one is best?!
Excited to get this phone,
Thanks!
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That would depend on what variant you got. Is it Verizon, sprint, or gsm. If you got Verizon Xenon HD with the glados kernel has been fantastic for battery life and performance.
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That would depend on what variant you got. Is it Verizon, sprint, or gsm. If you got Verizon Xenon HD with the glados kernel has been fantastic for battery life and performance.
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Gsm
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stock.
Stock rooted or go with paranoid android. Best hybrid rom in my opinion. And don't forget about aokp
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Stock rooted or go with paranoid android. Best hybrid rom in my opinion. And don't forget about aokp
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im a porter and was ganna try porting a rom over but i was just trying to see what custom rom/port is most stable and CM10 based. and what kernel would be recommended. hopping to get nexus phone tomorrow
Witch CM10 is most stable?
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if you wanna cm10 based rom i can't help you, if you wanna try factory image based and stable rom here is thread of mine:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29863202#post29863202
very good battery life if you choose to flash, rate it
BigB1984
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almost all the custom ROM are unstable at the moment. I am using stock for now, but if you want custom ROM right now, I really like aokp black bean ROM. It's not hundred percent full featured, but it is quite stable
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If you want CM10, look at this. I like it, althogh I still go with CM9.
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If you want CM10, look at this. I like it, althogh I still go with CM9.
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what bugs does it have? if it has any?
Just got my wife an Epic Touch 4G, I wanted to install CM9 on it, but I don't see it anywhere? I want something stable, with good battery life. What ROMS do you recommend ? can be TW/AOSP, as long as its STABLE and everything works. Shes rocking stock ICS on it now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815854
I use that rom as my dd. Its calk's worked baked in to ff18 with some other stuff. Its almost stock feel. Most bloat removed. Ton of mods.
There is another awesome rom called blu kuban. Not sure if it fits your needs. Its super themed with awesome blue and black colors. Has its own kernel with a ton of cpu tweaks. Blu kuban is like the ultimate rom.
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Just got my wife an Epic Touch 4G, I wanted to install CM9 on it, but I don't see it anywhere? I want something stable, with good battery life. What ROMS do you recommend ? can be TW/AOSP, as long as its STABLE and everything works. Shes rocking stock ICS on it now.
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Cm9 is in original development
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cm9 is not stable yet on epic touch right?
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cm9 is not stable yet on epic touch right?
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Xda only has upto alpha 6 posted. But there are nightlies out there which are almost ready to be stable. I believe chris41g is himself working on that.
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Xda only has upto alpha 6 posted. But there are nightlies out there which are almost ready to be stable. I believe chris41g is himself working on that.
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do you know where to download, i can't find it on cyanogenmod.com
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You could also try the "black" ROM, it's very stable and has a great battery life. It is off of ff18 right now but is going to move to fh13 soon.
Its funny how much this question gets asked. I would read up thoroughly on how to flash Roms and root or whatever it is you you want to do and go to the development section read about what is going on and how to install whatever ROM you want to try and try it, see how it works for you and if you don't like take it off. Trial and error is your best bet just make sure you aren't blindly flashing and installing stuff if you don't know what you are doing. Qbking77 has a lot of helpful videos on YouTube also.
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Also the most stable ROM is going to be the stock ota updates of course all of these Roms are in development obviously so as each one says on their page there is some issues with every single one.
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GiantJay said:
Also the most stable ROM is going to be the stock ota updates of course all of these Roms are in development obviously so as each one says on their page there is some issues with every single one.
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That's not true by a long shot...
The reason we started making our own ROMs was the instabilities, short-comings, and plain mistakes made by SamSprint in the stock ROMs.. you know, like the eMMC brick bug? That's a far cry from stable imo..
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That's not true by a long shot...
The reason we started making our own ROMs was the instabilities, short-comings, and plain mistakes made by SamSprint in the stock ROMs.. you know, like the eMMC brick bug? That's a far cry from stable imo..
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^^^this guy knows what he speaks of :thumbup:
We are legion, for we are many.
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Gargox said:
You could also try the "black" ROM, it's very stable and has a great battery life. It is off of ff18 right now but is going to move to fh13 soon.
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Agreed, I am very satisfied with the rom in terms of battery life. I wanted to try the fh13, but turned it keeps rebooting back to recovery.
S5 rom by venum check.out his thread just uploaded some pics on batery life 18+ hours and 3:30 on screen time every day best ics rom i have tried
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That's not true by a long shot...
The reason we started making our own ROMs was the instabilities, short-comings, and plain mistakes made by SamSprint in the stock ROMs.. you know, like the eMMC brick bug? That's a far cry from stable imo..
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STABLE! I DOWNGRADED from JB to get back to something this stable
Thx Chris.
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SHADOW GOD'S UNIVERSE ROM FH13
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I am using Phantom Blazer, great performance and battery seems to be pretty good too.
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roms
even though a "newbie", team nocturnal & team rejects Black rom is great for battery life, it is a darkly themed rom with available tweaks, pretty smooth & is my current daily driver
Just wondering if there is a stable Jellybean ROM for Epic 4G? I would like to use one as a daily driver.
also I'm looking for a good kernel for CM9.1 Stable ROM. Forgot to post that too...
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Look in development. Paranoid android has lots of good reviews, and there is a cm10 build out but not sure how stable. As for kernels look for nyan colonel or shadow kernel. Have used both, but prefer nyan.
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Look in development. Paranoid android has lots of good reviews, and there is a cm10 build out but not sure how stable. As for kernels look for nyan colonel or shadow kernel. Have used both, but prefer nyan.
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As of when I used it, it wasn't 100% stable. I think for now, you need to stick with CM9/7 or whatever you like. CM10 still has a bit to go to be a daily driver for everybody (some people are happy with it now, but many are waiting).
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Look in development. Paranoid android has lots of good reviews, and there is a cm10 build out but not sure how stable. As for kernels look for nyan colonel or shadow kernel. Have used both, but prefer nyan.
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i have tried PA and I liked it but I couldn't get it to stock. I didn't need all the fancy UIs.
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As of when I used it, it wasn't 100% stable. I think for now, you need to stick with CM9/7 or whatever you like. CM10 still has a bit to go to be a daily driver for everybody (some people are happy with it now, but many are waiting).
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Aww OK. I'll stick with my CM9.1 Stable. I just really want the JB Notification drawer.
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TaviRawr said:
i have tried PA and I liked it but I couldn't get it to stock. I didn't need all the fancy UIs.
Aww OK. I'll stick with my CM9.1 Stable. I just really want the JB Notification drawer.
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I've been using pa 1.99 for about a well and it's been a stable as anything since I came off of stock EC05...you can set the ui to "phone mode(hybrid mode off)" and not have to deal with alternate views.
PA+nyan+Nexus modem = best battery life I've had since stock
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Pre-release build of CM10 is released for the Epic and looks to be fairly stable already.
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Pre-release build of CM10 is released for the Epic and looks to be fairly stable already.
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Are you talking about the newly released Cm10 preview build?
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Are you talking about the newly released Cm10 preview build?
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Probably so, I'm running the Cm10 preview build now and it's pretty stable I'm running it with the nexus modem. The only thing I am having a problem with is being unable to get voodoo sound to work.
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Probably so, I'm running the Cm10 preview build now and it's pretty stable I'm running it with the nexus modem. The only thing I am having a problem with is being unable to get voodoo sound to work.
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What I did to get rid of the voodoo color is flash a stock ICS kernel. And right now I installed the ParanoidAndroid ROM. And do you just flash the nexus modem?
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I tried one of the nightlies in the ERA thread and it was lock-up and battery-pull city.
Just my own experience though.
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TaviRawr said:
What I did to get rid of the voodoo color is flash a stock ICS kernel. And right now I installed the ParanoidAndroid ROM. And do you just flash the nexus modem?
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I wasn't referring to voodoo color I meant voodoo sound, I paid for the voodoo sound plus app and it's suppose to inject the code which make voodoo sound work for whatever Rom without the need of a required kernel.
And to answer your question about flashing the nexus modem, you don't just flash it it require a patch for the modem to be flashed.
There are two threads in the Development section that will guide to flashing not only the nexus modem, but any modem you want.
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CyanogenMod 10. Its officially butter smooth.
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I wasn't referring to voodoo color I meant voodoo sound, I paid for the voodoo sound plus app and it's suppose to inject the code which make voodoo sound work for whatever Rom without the need of a required kernel.
And to answer your question about flashing the nexus modem, you don't just flash it it require a patch for the modem to be flashed.
There are two threads in the Development section that will guide to flashing not only the nexus modem, but any modem you want.
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I know you were just talking about the sound but I thought voodoo color and sound was like, a package with a kernel. I don't know that much about modems and such so excuse my ignorance.
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Shinydude100 said:
CyanogenMod 10. Its officially butter smooth.
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Thanks for the tip . Might use CM10 Official.
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TaviRawr said:
I know you were just talking about the sound but I thought voodoo color and sound was like, a package with a kernel. I don't know that much about modems and such so excuse my ignorance.
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it's okay
as long as you're willing to learn about modems and such you're good I'm pretty cautious about flashing anything on my phone, so trust me flashing modems is a piece of cake. You should really try CM10 the only problem I see with CM10 is not being able to switch roms until odining back stock.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to switch Roms after running CM10 with that extra artery clogging butter. Lol
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it's okay
as long as you're willing to learn about modems and such you're good I'm pretty cautious about flashing anything on my phone, so trust me flashing modems is a piece of cake. You should really try CM10 the only problem I see with CM10 is not being able to switch roms until odining back stock.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to switch Roms after running CM10 with that extra artery clogging butter. Lol
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Thanks for the advice! And a question, can I dirty flash over ParanoidAndroid or do I have to factory reset? And can I just flash CM10 or do I have to flash modems and everything else?
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TaviRawr said:
Thanks for the advice! And a question, can I dirty flash over ParanoidAndroid or do I have to factory reset? And can I just flash CM10 or do I have to flash modems and everything else?
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I advise you to make a backup, wipe the usual data and such. CM10 does something with MTD I can't recall, so wiping data would be in your best interest. And don't be alarmed while flashing CM10 your phone reboots and you get stuck on the Cyanogen screen. Wait a minute or so, remove battery put it back in and go back to recovery wipe data again and reflash CM10. Make sure you have JB GAPPS too flash right after you flash CM10.
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I advise you to make a backup, wipe the usual data and such. CM10 does MTD I can't recall, so wiping data would be in your best interest. And don't be alarmed while flashing CM10 your phone reboots and you get stuck on the Cyanogen screen. Wait a minute or so, remove battery put it back in and go back to recovery wipe data again and reflash CM10. Make sure you have JB GAPPS too flash right after you flash CM10.
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When I flashed other ROM it got stuck on the screen so that isn't new to me. Also have jb gapps. And thanks!
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CM10 official preview is excellent thus far. They are still finding out what doesnt work, but it runs solid and fast!
I haven't posted in a while but my phone is still solid on 3.8 Darkside. Ive used nothing but Darkside since he started development. What happened to the dev? It feels strange using an awesome rom that isnt even in the dev section anymore.
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TDJ moved on. Remember our valued devs are volunteers and hobbyists, and it's to be expected that they will come and go.
But there is an awesome group of devs active on the T989 today, and many excellent ROMS to select from.
I'd recommend that you nandroid your trusty Darkside, then try a clean install of JB. Flash your way through a series of CM, AOKP, and various kangs.
I will be extremely surprised if you don't find a new favorite. The aesthetics, responsiveness and features of the ROMs out today far exceed where we were even back in the summer.
Nandroid is your friend. Go play.
Kent
T989, AOKP JB MS1 (KK nightly), V6'd
Can anyone post a link with the latest rom
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mrimage said:
Can anyone post a link with the latest rom
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Latest ROM of what? Go to the development section.
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Darkside rom
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Darkside rom
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You can actually search sourceforge.net for thederekjay to find his last build.
I had to Odin back to stock after a nameless recovery screwed my phone up for the second time (nothing I flashed would work right). I remembered how much I liked Darkside Evolution and decided to search for it and try it again. It has to be the most stable custom ROM to date. It obviously doesn't have the bells and whistles that the others do, but everything just works. It also looks sweet if you slap Touch0Color and TouchWiz UX on top of it (both are still in the apps and themes section).
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Darkside Evolution v8 is still my go to touchwiz ROM. Love it. Can't stand the crop of TW ROMs we have now. No offense to anyone.
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Go Liquidsmooth with mixer theme or any Jedi... the best...
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I also used mostly the 3.8 darkside rom. Now I'm using slim bean version 3 and its great!
I am on liquid but it lag sometimes
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I am on liquid but it lag sometimes
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V6 that *****.
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I just started using it after all the crappy battery and various problems from some of the JB Roms. Ive used them all I think. Slim beans awesome as far as battery goes and liquid smooth but each still have graphical glitches. 3.8 is the way to go its by far the most reliable TW Rom we got with bulletproof a close second IMO.
I just recently committed to making the switch. I was on Darkside v. 8. I am now using Infamous Resurrection Gangnam Style. Great Touchwiz basedRom. Good battery life. No lags. And it's still active so lots of support etc for this rom.
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