Should I update to FF18? - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

Like should I update to FF18? To me why when I have access to all these awesome roms.? What benefits do I get doing the update?
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I'd say update to ff18..Don't mind all those people whining about how ICS sucks for our phones.... Especially all the great devs who spent their hard time making ICS better for us... But benefits, i like the multitasking, cool new features, the support for ics with all the devs, and personally an overall better experience.... I know there are more technical reasons but that's just coming in regular terms
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I experienced these ics based roms with all those features already.. That's why I'm asking why update to stock FF18 when I got all the features &been had em in roms like aokp for example
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Why ask the question if you already have already formed your opinion? Our phone is the easiest to bounce through any release there is....I suggest you flash the FF18 rom of your choice and form a new opinion.

Your so logic lol idk why people would update to FF18 since these roma already have the features
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what type of roms are you looking forward to?

since we dont have a q&a section yet ill ask this here. CM7 or stock or whatever .i personally would just like to see an improved version of the stock Rom with all the optimizations. Cm7 really did nothing for me i guess a little too vanilla ...any thoughts?
I want to see all the bloat removed. I have no idea why t-mobile bloatware apps lead to download more bloatware apps. I will like to see Miui and Cm8. Hopefully Ice cream sandwich is all its cooked up to be.
I came from the SGS 4g community, and i am a big fan of Whitehawkx - Valhalla Rom, and before that i like all of Team Acids work especially dsexton702's Adrenaline Shot (although not a rom, very helpful in making virtually making an Samsung rom smoother the melted butter XD)
So something along those lines.
on a side not i read that Whitehawkx was to pick up an SGSII today and was planning to see what he can do with it so im pretty excited. plus Team Aicd says they have things in store for our phone as well.
Well im looking forward to cm7 or 8 and other roms especially getting rid of all the bloat! But i heard Whitehawkx was passing on it for prime?
Well i guess we will have to wait and see what he does.
i have never got to play around with CM but looking forward to it, and cant wait to get rid of all the bloat!
CM7 and CM8 (ice cream 4.0) is definitely a must have
Looking forward to a sense port....
I kid, I kid.
I'd just like the bloat gone and root. Some miui would be great too though.
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The_Biz said:
Looking forward to a sense port....
I kid, I kid.
I'd just like the bloat gone and root. Some miui would be great too though.
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+1 on the bloat and root. i thought i was gonna hate touchwiz but its really not that bad. im a big camera person and the worst thing about CM7 for me was the Camera app that came with it .i absolutely hate it
Stock. Debloated.
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Im definitely looking forward to miui on my phone the most. Valhalla. Debloated stock would be good too. Dont really care for cm but hey. I dont mind a variety.
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Stock. Debloated.
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This. I have cm7 running on my Nexus S cus it felt laggy out the box. For my SGSII Im satisfied with performance and battery life. I just want a stock rom deodexed with no bloatware.
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For the most part no bloat and root. I have no real interest in cm7 but would really look forward to cm8.
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Any rom created by Whitehawkx!
Mexdroid Team!!!!!! best rom ever!!!
Deodexed, lockscreen options
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Root=No bloat=Overclock Kernel and optimizations. I can do without all the heavy theming
I'll take some Miui loving over here
Team whiskey come back to us!!!
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Team acid team whiskey some trigger love would be amazing anything by whitehawkx
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Id like a Rom just like the stock one but without any bloatware and lag when swiping between home screen. I would also love to have that "bouncing" effect when you reach the top or the bottom of a page instead of the light blue color.

POSSIBLE ICS Rom...want everyones take!

Ok I have been a major lurker on xda for a while. I just created an xda profile a few days ago and made my first contribution with a hacked hulu plus app. Now I want to make a bigger contribution. In the form of a ROM. Ive got my build environment up and running smooth.
Now I dont want any donations. You wont find any donations links any where. I hack and build for fun. This community has many taliented developers. I just hope to merge what I know into real world stuff.
Now my question to the community is what do you want to see in a Rom? Features? Tweaks?
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Ok I have been a major lurker on xda for a while. I just created an xda profile a few days ago and made my first contribution with a hacked hulu plus app. Now I want to make a bigger contribution. In the form of a ROM. Ive got my build environment up and running smooth.
Now I dont want any donations. You wont find any donations links any where. I hack and build for fun. This community has many taliented developers. I just hope to merge what I know into real world stuff.
Now my question to the community is what do you want to see in a Rom? Features? Tweaks?
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Just my opinion, but stock TouchWiz ICS with good battery life.
batting1000 said:
Just my opinion, but stock TouchWiz ICS with good battery life.
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Opinions is what im looking for good sir. I actually like TW alot.
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I was going to help you out with info till I seen that you like TW...
The reason is because I know of only none TW roms since TW is the crappiest thing since sliced bread.
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Opinions is what im looking for good sir. I actually like TW alot.
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Same. It's very smooth and I like it a lot. Lmk when you get an ICS TW ROM with good battery life like EL29.
Just a fully functional ICS Stock rom that plays nice with the battery is all I can really ask for
You developers spend enormous amount of time and effort to provide to this community and it'll be absurd for people to "expect" ANYTHING. Thank you in advance for any future work you provide for the community.
Settings like AOKP with status bar changes and lockscreen changes and a theme engine would be sweet also.
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batting1000 said:
Same. It's very smooth and I like it a lot. Lmk when you get an ICS TW ROM with good battery life like EL29.
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Im on EL29 and battery is outstanding. I must admit.
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A tweak that allows force roaming like on some evo 3d roms. I need something like that.
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Alex1123 said:
A tweak that allows force roaming like on some evo 3d roms. I need something like that.
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Im going to have to contact romanbb. that guy is a master of tweaks apps and framework edits. It sholdnt be to hard.
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As long as it's a TW Rom that would be awesome. I like TW and there's a **** ton of people that add launchers to their roms, might as well get CM or AOKP.
Again TW and fast would be nice to see. I have had bad luck with ICS, my phone always hangs for some reason on all leaks.
Thanks in advance.
an aosp ics rom with every single customization option imported from aokp, codename, gummy, slim, and cm9. if you can get that with flawless mms, camera/camcorder, great battery life, with no service or data loss, and properly working sdcard, then you'll have yourself the best aosp rom available hands down.
This may be asking a lot, but i would love to see some of the tweaks for this ROM added. It may be kernel tweaks so i dont know if it is possible. My Mother's phone is running it and after 2 days she still has 50% battery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1466362
Edit: It seems kernel development has slowed down a lot here for our ET4G. I see this topic is for an ICS ROM so oops.
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It would be nice to see some of the UI from the Note.
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Honestly, would just like to see what you come up with. It can be TW based, aokp, cm9.... either way, there is going to be someone not pleased with your work. I think you should just pick and choose what you like, put it together, and the community will love you for it. I myself do prefer a nice lock screen mod (like maddoggin and the new aosp mod). The launcher I could give two s#*T's about, as long as it runs smooth. The best of luck to you. Hope to see some good things in the future.
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Im a huge fan of the cm9 launcher but i like the TW UI and Camera. Im thinking of a Touchwizless rom. it has the look and feel of aosp but with the great aspects of TW.
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Wow.. i see people askin for tuings that have already been done.. all i ask for is somthing unique! Not a stock ice or stock tw ics, i mean incorporate all you can but don just add all features that we have already.. come on guys think of somethin crazy awesome that is doable
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A touch wiz ROM with mods like AOKP (status bar notification and lockscreen mods ) and behaves like AOKP, the reason behind it being a touchwiz ROM is because the little touchwiz touches are nice( video player, working led, HW accelerated UI and browser and etc) ,putting other UI's might just cause problems (battery and lag). Yet I can only dream!! Just an idea. If this is even possible.
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Stock touch wiz ICS ROM themed the look like ICS and fix that darn notification bug.
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My opinion is to offer options.
Help swamp goblin port sense 4.0.
Help maintain and update MIUI if needed.
Port over motoblur (just so peeps can try it)
Help tcp if needed with aokp or cma or gummy.
Etc. Etc. The more options we have, the happier everyone will be.
While not a rom, how about porting the cm9 reloaded mod to our phone. The systemUI of the mod needs to be merged with ours to get the 4g toggle and other stuff working. I would do it, but time isn't something I have at the moment.
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First time Samsung user, need rom advice

So I just rooted and installed CWM. Installing seems to be much different than the HTC phones I'm used to.
That said, can anyone recommend a few solid roms/mods that I should try out? It's pretty clunky trying to learn a new phone and what kinda development it has when you're a year or so late lol. Thanks guys n gals.
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Rock solid stable: EL 29 based ROMs
Fun as hell: AOKP
Bleeding edge: stock ICS leaks
Try everything out, read instructions and stickies Over and Over.
Have fun!
Well first and foremost, research and read, read, read. That is probably the best advice you'll get. I wouldn't say any rom is necessarily better than the rest. Its all about opinion. Not to mention, same device or not, every phone is different. I think you'd be better off trying a bunch of different ones and deciding for yourself.
Good luck and welcome to the e4gt community.
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stick with el29 gingerbread roms for now until you learn ICS.
While your on el29 i would go with Calkulins 3.0 or blazer 4.1
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stick with el29 gingerbread roms for now until you learn ICS.
While your on el29 i would go with Calkulins 3.0 or blazer 4.1
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I agree just use blazer or calkulin's rom..... READ AND RE-Read if you plan on taking the leap BE AWARE FLASHING ICS ****from the wrong recovery will brick you***** FLASHING ANYTHING IN THE STOCK ICS RECOVERY IS NOT RECOMMENDED.... WIPING IS ALSO NOT RECOMMENDED IN STOCK ICS RECOVERY... I bricked mines 3 times, all careless mistakes, I knew what to do just wasn't paying attention to details....
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Just flash blazer ROM.
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Thanks for the replies guys. I'm definitely not new to rooting, just new to Samsung, Odin and all that. Was just looking for a popular Rom and such to get me started. Appreciate the info
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I'd say the same... Calk or blazer on GB till you learn the ropes... For your sake, you don't want to brink your new toy..
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Its a little outdated....but my personal GB favorite was syndicated ice from ACS...just my .02
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So...how many of you guys sticking onto EL29?

Just wondering if you guys are sticking to GB and why. I've tried FF18 and it's okay. CM9 is amazing but I don't think its solid like EL29 (IMO). But overall CM9 is solid. No flaming but I want to hear what you guys think.
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Still on el29 blazer rom until something can budge me from wanting to flash.
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Sucking on Call's EL29 for the battery life and lack of bugs.
None of the ICS builds last me a whole work day. GB gives me a consistent 18 - 36 hours depending on usage.
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Back to the one truly perfect rom (Calk's EL29) for me, too. I've tried ICS in many flavors (Calk's, mijj's, Phantom's) and they all have various issues. Be it poor battery life, MMS not working, audio bugs, Pandora not playing, GPS not locking, whatever, ICS sucks on the E4GT. The only ICS ROM that I've had any success with was CM9, but I use AllShare almost daily so that isn't a go for me.
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I'm trying to decide between EL29 and CM9.
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I'm on Calkulins El 29 myself I'm staying here until ICS is worked out, and the phone will work itself out eventually, trust the devs since the source kernel has been put out, slowly but surely we will see battery life improvements among the many other things!
Haha thats a trip ...yeah el29 is a solid build ...to be honest i like ginger bread...running calks 3.0
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Went to cm9 and probably won't return to a stock ish Rom any time soon. Have had great results with latest nightly and kernel from source combo.
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I dont get how you all are having issues with ICS Ive used ROMs from Venum, and other members of Team Venum. Using Dazed's Wicked Sensation 1.5 now. Great battery life, plenty fast for me. I did change the Kernel and modem to FF02 though. seems to work best for my phone. Ive used Blend, Blu Kuban, Anakonda, Boa, ICE, AOKP, CM9, Frankenstein's ego. Never had an issue with any of them. Well... except for not flashing AOKP right a couple times. Got it figured out fairly quickly Even running Placebo tweaks and havent had issues at all. One thing or another may not work on one ROM or another. but always found a work around for them. Im just learning all this stuff though. Havent really gotten in to the meat an potatos of it all yet. But Im learning.
Anyways... long answer just to say I Love ICS. Cant wait to try Jellybean.
Back to Calk's 3.0
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I love ics but the horrible speeds I encounter with my bandwidth brought me back to gb. I tried everything to get descent speeds and ended up losing the battle. Even resorted going back to stock ota and bringing the phone to Sprint so they could look at it. GB is the place to be for me and my bandwidth. I just wish the forum would branch sub cats for ics and GB users so I don't have to scroll for 20 mins looking for old GB roms
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donsh00tmesanta said:
Back to Calk's 3.0
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I can't flash calks 3.0 what modem should I be flashing? I'm in stock rooted el.29 what directions should I be doing? I tried today and soft bricked my phone and had to odin back to rooted .29
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ICS reminds me of Windows ME! It was just not a finished product, and with Jelly bean in the very near future, it's shaping up to be just like it. Ics needs that shot in the arm that it lacked for smoothness and other things. All i can say is BUTTER! ! !
On Calk 3.0. Considering a switch to CM9.
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I can't flash calks 3.0 what modem should I be flashing? I'm in stock rooted el.29 what directions should I be doing? I tried today and soft bricked my phone and had to odin back to rooted .29
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Did you install cwm? also try to redownload it. But to a PC. Transfer to the sd card and reboot into recovery do the wipe thing and install reboot and enjoy
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On caulk 3.0 buttery smooth baby
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Calks 3.0 tweaked out
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davidstjohn1 said:
ICS reminds me of Windows ME! It was just not a finished product, and with Jelly bean in the very near future, it's shaping up to be just like it. Ics needs that shot in the arm that it lacked for smoothness and other things. All i can say is BUTTER! ! !
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Oh and let's not forget vista since we are going there. Even google stated in there press conference when they announced jb the all around goal was to smooth out the os and tighten everything up. I pray we get it!
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I like stock experience (EL29) but since kernel source (ICS) dropped I gave it another chance to my favorite REAL ROM CyanogenMod9 7/21 from chris41g with his source kernel 2.5 so far excellent. (All the issues I had disappeared with the source kernel)
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Calkulin's EL29 2.8.1 specifically. I liked that older version better than 2.9.x's
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Did you install cwm? also try to redownload it. But to a PC. Transfer to the sd card and reboot into recovery do the wipe thing and install reboot and enjoy
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Yes I have rogue clockwork and no go
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[Q] Best ROM for EPiC Touch?? Stable/battery life

Just got my wife an Epic Touch 4G, I wanted to install CM9 on it, but I don't see it anywhere? I want something stable, with good battery life. What ROMS do you recommend ? can be TW/AOSP, as long as its STABLE and everything works. Shes rocking stock ICS on it now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815854
I use that rom as my dd. Its calk's worked baked in to ff18 with some other stuff. Its almost stock feel. Most bloat removed. Ton of mods.
There is another awesome rom called blu kuban. Not sure if it fits your needs. Its super themed with awesome blue and black colors. Has its own kernel with a ton of cpu tweaks. Blu kuban is like the ultimate rom.
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euklid said:
Just got my wife an Epic Touch 4G, I wanted to install CM9 on it, but I don't see it anywhere? I want something stable, with good battery life. What ROMS do you recommend ? can be TW/AOSP, as long as its STABLE and everything works. Shes rocking stock ICS on it now.
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Cm9 is in original development
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cm9 is not stable yet on epic touch right?
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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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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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You could also try the "black" ROM, it's very stable and has a great battery life. It is off of ff18 right now but is going to move to fh13 soon.
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Agreed, I am very satisfied with the rom in terms of battery life. I wanted to try the fh13, but turned it keeps rebooting back to recovery.
S5 rom by venum check.out his thread just uploaded some pics on batery life 18+ hours and 3:30 on screen time every day best ics rom i have tried
chris41g said:
That's not true by a long shot...
The reason we started making our own ROMs was the instabilities, short-comings, and plain mistakes made by SamSprint in the stock ROMs.. you know, like the eMMC brick bug? That's a far cry from stable imo..
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STABLE! I DOWNGRADED from JB to get back to something this stable
Thx Chris.
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SHADOW GOD'S UNIVERSE ROM FH13
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I am using Phantom Blazer, great performance and battery seems to be pretty good too.
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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

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