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[Q] ROM Question - Looking for minimal ASOP Desire ROM

I just got an Incredible 2 to replace my Nexus One (new job, new phone), and I'm trying to find a stable, updated and minimal ROM. I have been going through the DEV forum, and I see quite a few choices, but I don't see anything that's minimal. Something similar to this.
Thanks for any suggestions.

I might give Liquid Smooth a try- AOSP GB 2.3.7 built from source and very minimal. It's in ROM Manager too.

Im not a fan of rom manager, but I like most AOSP.
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It looks like a nice ROM, but I don't think it's minimal. Are there any other suggestions? In the mean time, I'll just root my current phone and remove the bloatware.
Thanks

OMFG is probably the most minimal AOSP.
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But, I really not sure what you mean
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We don't really have a pure vanilla gingerbread rom for the inc2 but Omfg is a great rom too.

Well, there's OMGB, and there's OMFGB, the first being plain old gingerbread android, whereas the second is custom gingerbread.
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artvandelay440 said:
We don't really have a pure vanilla gingerbread rom for the inc2 but Omfg is a great rom too.
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Yes we do.. OMGB is straight AOSP
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The other thing I need is a rom that does GSM so I have world phone capabilities. From what I read about Liquid Smooth, it does not work.

joshnichols189 said:
Yes we do.. OMGB is straight AOSP
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Correction...except for the one i forgot, we have nothing

try skyraider its is very stable an gsm works

Sense or not

I know that this question was probably posted before, but I figured I would post it again because people's opinions change over time.
I have been running cm7.2 for a while now and was wondering what perks some sense roms have over cm7.2 if any at all and if it would be worth it to switch to a sense rom?
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Honestly, try SkyRadier on teambamf.net and just see for yourself. It's hard to talk about all of them.

GoTZeus said:
I know that this question was probably posted before, but I figured I would post it again because people's opinions change over time.
I have been running cm7.2 for a while now and was wondering what perks some sense roms have over cm7.2 if any at all and if it would be worth it to switch to a sense rom?
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The ONLY reason I would go back to a sense rom is for the camera.
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Sense is heavier so AOSP roms will have better battery life. Sense has its widgets and camera. I don't know if it's better for CM7. 2 but I had multitouch issues with CM and MIUI and aerovan v. 7 kernel so that's the reason I switched. You should try it and see if you like it or not. Personally, I love MIUI but I can't live with the multitouch issues so I changed to SkyRaider Zeus

+1 on the SRZ. I'm sticking this one out until we get our ics leak.
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FC127 said:
The ONLY reason I would go back to a sense rom is for the camera.
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Well unfortunately I just broke my camera
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mushypizza said:
Sense is heavier so AOSP roms will have better battery life. Sense has its widgets and camera. I don't know if it's better for CM7. 2 but I had multitouch issues with CM and MIUI and aerovan v. 7 kernel so that's the reason I switched. You should try it and see if you like it or not. Personally, I love MIUI but I can't live with the multitouch issues so I changed to SkyRaider Zeus
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Thanks for your input. I will keep SRZ in mind as I choose which rom to go with.
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How did you break your camera? Lol
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Amphibliam said:
How did you break your camera? Lol
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I lost my phone for about a week. When I was helping my friend clean his house I found it in his chair and the camera was cracked. I can't even open any camera app. On top of that I just realized my speaker is about to blow out
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Time for a galaxy nexus.
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I looked at the gnex, but it really didn't appeal to me that much. I saw some pictures about a phone rumored to be the inc3 coming out this summer so I am gonna wait and see what happens with that before I decide on a new phone.
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Sense 4.0 with GSM
Do you know a Sense 4.0 ROM for GSM?

I go back and forth between sense and CM7.2 Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Sense bluetooth works WAY better for me, but I like the customization of CM7 and the quickness.
Magnolia and Skyraider Zues have been my favorite sense roms and gotta give it up for Condemned's CM7 rom.
Your mileage may vary of course..

I prefer Sense to CM7 and CM9 too.

murat408 said:
Do you know a Sense 4.0 ROM for GSM?
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Not until HTC releases source for ICS.

I prefer sense because of how stable it is. I have been running magnolia most of the time, but I have like 5 different roms on my sd card so I never know what I will be running from day to day.

sjpritch25 said:
Not until HTC releases source for ICS.
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What s the latest news for DINC2 ICS Upgrade? Are we gonna get that upgrade?
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murat408 said:
What s the latest news for DINC2 ICS Upgrade? Are we gonna get that upgrade?
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Yes we're getting the upgrade to Android v4 ICS w/ Sense 3.6
No we don't know when.

I heard sth about DINC3 is on its way. Any idea?
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murat408 said:
I heard sth about DINC3 is on its way. Any idea?
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yes, androidcentral/bgr have renders and specs of it but that doesnt really affect this phone

Most stable marvelc Rom? Virgin mobile wildfire s

Just got a wildfire s on vm.. I like the phone but want a fast and stable Rom to use on it.. any suggestions?
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thebasuke said:
Just got a wildfire s on vm.. I like the phone but want a fast and stable Rom to use on it.. any suggestions
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Not a lot of choices... There's a few modded stock roms, a buggy as hell cm7, and an abandoned cm9 that still has a few issues.

thebasuke said:
Just got a wildfire s on vm.. I like the phone but want a fast and stable Rom to use on it.. any suggestions?
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Your choices are the tweaked stocks that are buried in this forum by jmz and insink, or the cm9 project that modpunk has graciously started for the C. The most stable are obviously the stocks. But cm9 has such few bugs, it's possible to use as a daily driver.

I'm using jmz Rom right now I just love cm7 and wish we had a stable version.. I probably won't have this phone long.. I tried cm9 I'm just not a big fan of ics..
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Hensemod doesn't work?
what about this list?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1556983
any input on if those are viable or not?

Sense 3.5 is a great ROM
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bump Show the marvelc some love

There was a list to all the marvelc ROMs...let me see if I can dig it up
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I have been using the Wildchild 3.3 deodexed Rom just follow these steps to get it to run and also use the data2sd script and you get loads of storage. My Antutu score with this rom is 2069, not bad.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1891883

Stable rom
My favorite rom is MIUIus.v4 2.1012. MMS doesn't receive unless you use What's app from the Market. It's the fastest and most stable I have used and have been for 2 months. pm me.
thebasuke said:
Just got a wildfire s on vm.. I like the phone but want a fast and stable Rom to use on it.. any suggestions?
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I think the CM 10 for MarvelC users by po1vo is quite good, cause there is a short buglist and user like it, but i didn't try.

Try the WildChild v3.3...I've try more ROMs but that is the best join my opinion...
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Did you CM10 users changed to the Stock JB Update?

I am having a hard time deciding if I want to go back to TW with stock JB. So far I am really happy with CM10 except for minor bugs here and there but what about you guys, Have you changed from CM10 to JB?
How do you like it?
Is it as fast and snappy'?
I miss the stock camera, the email layout, some gestures (txt to talk, Facebook integrated with contacts) and other lil' things here and there but that is about it.
Let me know.

I switched back. Its nice, smooth and snappy, but I do miss the vanilla aosp that cm10 delivers.....
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Just jumped from cm10 to this partly because ill be sending my phone to samsung soon. It is snappier if not the same than cm10. Quadrant score is 6100
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I like both will use TouchWiz JB when need complete stock everything working 100% and then go to AOSP/AOKP when I want to have more fun with themes and such.

Yep I switched. I had been using all of the JB Leaks and had strangely poor performance but recently was able to attribute that to the "media server" taking up a disproportionate amount of CPU time and I was able to fix that. Everything's good.

I tried out the stock OTA and then switched right back. IMO nothing beats this stable CM 10.0 build.

dvno said:
I tried out the stock OTA and then switched right back. IMO nothing beats this stable CM 10.0 build.
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Except having a camera that can save to SD card, ammirite!!!
Kidding aside, I switched back from CM to stock just a few days before the JB update and am glad I did. I've always used CM ROMs with previous phones, but this was the first time that there were simply too many things that should just work right that simply were not working right. The stock JB is definitely snappy, camera is great, GPS works instantaneously (was another gripe I was having with CM).

krackerjac said:
I switched back. Its nice, smooth and snappy, but I do miss the vanilla aosp that cm10 delivers.....
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Cyanogen Mod is not vanilla Android.
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I was wondering how people would compare stock android camera vs the galaxy s3 camera. To me it seems like you would be losing features if you switched to a AOSP based rom, atlease until they are based on 4.2.
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I did, couldn't handle Cyanosh*t mod

Shayd93 said:
I did, couldn't handle Cyanosh*t mod
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Hold on there Cyanogenmod is far from sh*t. They do us all a great service, for free, by giving us the ability to truely own our devices and customize it the way we want.
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Master_sk3 said:
I was wondering how people would compare stock android camera vs the galaxy s3 camera. To me it seems like you would be losing features if you switched to a AOSP based rom, atlease until they are based on 4.2.
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Correct, the stock camera has a lot more features, at least a lot more that comes with the CM10 rom

I thought about it but i have always been a sucker for AOKP and CM10 since the my touch 4g, the reason I bought this phone was the fact that Samsung is usually dev friendly and usually has aosp ROMs available
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redhooka said:
Cyanogen Mod is not vanilla Android.
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Its the closest thing to vanilla aosp for sgs3. please enlighten me and let me know what you think is the closest...
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I did change from cm10 nightly to stock jb official because the features touchwiz have are just amazing.:thumbup:
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Touch wiz may be bloated.... But the features are awesome. The motion and sharing options are way ahead of stock Android. IMO not since HTC Hero has a "skin" actually added something good to android.
We can have most of the best features and still have tw options with jb roms. I don't see a benefit to running aosp on the s3.
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I switch between Official JB and CM10 Stable. Both are great and I just cant seem to settle.

Running the last nightly cm10
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Shayd93 said:
I did, couldn't handle Cyanosh*t mod
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Just because you couldn't handle it doesn't mean it's sh*t.. You need to know what you're doing. But it's okay if you're inexperienced, just don't bash something great because you don't know what you're doing.
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krackerjac said:
Its the closest thing to vanilla aosp for sgs3. please enlighten me and let me know what you think is the closest...
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Cyanogen Mod has plenty of stuff added, it is far from vanilla Android.
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most stable ROM?

I need to update my wife's DInc 2 and was wondering if anyone has suggestions on a stable ROM. I don't have time to try a bunch out for her and am not familiar with the phone. she's not techy, so it needs to work, but stock is a little boring/laggy for her.
the main things she needs to work are camera (both), tether, and pretty decent battery life.
thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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Miui v4 or viper. But viper is way too laggy. Heard desenced version of viper is good.
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casseer15 said:
Miui v4 or viper. But viper is way too laggy. Heard desenced version of viper is good.
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Thanks. I looked at viper a month ago and it looked great, but just like you said, crazy lag when I tried it. That's actually why I'm looking for something new.
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casseer15 said:
Miui v4 or viper. But viper is way too laggy. Heard desenced version of viper is good.
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Also, would you recommend a kernel with MIUI? I see you're the dev on that one. ; )
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If you want stable but don't like stock, I would suggest cm7 (mrom) or the old gingerbread miui (though this may be harder to find unless someone still has it, try rom manager). Ics and jellybean can be iffy since we never got an official release and a proper kernel.
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Miui v12.9 is stable with 0.7bfs kernel
http://roms.miui.us/vivow/MIUI.us_vivow_1.12.9_Eng_Deo_ZipA_Signed_buildbot.zip
Skyraider Zeus is also another stable rom
Condemned CM7.2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1435312

mushypizza said:
Miui v12.9 is stable with 0.7bfs kernel
http://roms.miui.us/vivow/MIUI.us_vivow_1.12.9_Eng_Deo_ZipA_Signed_buildbot.zip
Skyraider Zeus is also another stable rom
Condemned CM7.2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1435312
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I say CM7 (even their latest nightly has a lot of customizations) or Skyraider Zeus (what I am currently running). Although ICS works really well - it has its glitches which could be frustrating for someone who doesn't want to deal with workarounds.

thanks for all the replies! I've got her on miui v4 for now. she likes the miui look and theme options. if she decides she doesn't like it, I'll probably go with cm7.
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I'm currently back on Skyraider Zeus, and enjoying the stability and zippy response time, after trying various ICS Roms.
I do miss the HTC trace keyboard and the newer HTC mail app, though.

jsauder2 said:
thanks for all the replies! I've got her on miui v4 for now. she likes the miui look and theme options. if she decides she doesn't like it, I'll probably go with cm7.
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The gingerbread miui rom with aeroevans .7 kernel is nice as stated above. The only real feature missing that newer gingerbread roms have is swipe to dismiss notifications.
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Good topic. After getting bored with Cm 7.2 stable, I'm using de-sensed Viper 1.3.1, but I thinking about trying MROM. This is my work phone and Viper doesn't play nice with the device administrator security settings.
I'll miss ICS, but I won't miss having to enter my password to answer a phone call!
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+1 for Skyraider Zeus, got an iPhone and I gave my DI2 to my mom threw Skyraider on it because I didn't want to have to talk her through clearing data to make camera's work and I used it for two days while the new phone was in the mail and forgot why I stopped using it. One of the smoother/fast roms and the battery life is amazing. Easily double what I got on Viper's.

seasonone said:
+1 for Skyraider Zeus, got an iPhone and I gave my DI2 to my mom threw Skyraider on it because I didn't want to have to talk her through clearing data to make camera's work and I used it for two days while the new phone was in the mail and forgot why I stopped using it. One of the smoother/fast roms and the battery life is amazing. Easily double what I got on Viper's.
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awesome. I may have to try that out next...
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Latest mrom w .8 kernel is by far the best cm7 rom available. Totally functional w amazing battery life. It is all I run.
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msolaw said:
Latest mrom w .8 kernel is by far the best cm7 rom available. Totally functional w amazing battery life. It is all I run.
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Agree with this. Although I've only tried CM7 because I'm all about battery life and stability. MROM does that and more. The UI is clean and everything is zippy. It really gets the most out of this phone. Who needs ICS or Jellybean when you have a kickass rom like this?

Jeffero28 said:
Agree with this. Although I've only tried CM7 because I'm all about battery life and stability. MROM does that and more. The UI is clean and everything is zippy. It really gets the most out of this phone. Who needs ICS or Jellybean when you have a kickass rom like this?
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totally agree with you. I've had a droidx for a few years and have stuck with the gb roms the whole way. I've tried all the ics ones, but they all have their issues, even if it's just battery life. every once in awhile I even flash a froyo rom and love it...
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MROM
Incredicontrol overclocked to 1.3GHz
Zeppelinrox's V6 Supercharger and Kick Ass Kernelizer scripts
Flawless functionality, battery life, and stability.
Theme it however you want.
Good luck with the phone! It's a good one that is overlooked.
-MROM on DInc2

phonetool said:
MROM
Incredicontrol overclocked to 1.3GHz
Zeppelinrox's V6 Supercharger and Kick Ass Kernelizer scripts
Flawless functionality, battery life, and stability.
Theme it however you want.
Good luck with the phone! It's a good one that is overlooked.
-MROM on DInc2
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I have run this rom with and without the scripts, I don't see much if any difference. You don't have to use those if you don't want to. And you don't need an app to overclock, it has that in settings. But you can use that to undervolt and change I/o's. As phonetool stated, this rom runs really well on this phone. Give it a shot.
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I had been using DKStunna's Global 10.1 JB ROM build 3 as my DD for a few months and it was mostly stable. It would lag out once in a while I was managing apps, but it was pretty fast with the built-in Nova Launcher. I got tired of not having a working camcorder and since DKStunna broke his Vivow and ceased development I decided to switch to ChillyBean's ParanoidAndroid/PAC 2.19 ROM. So far it's been awesome! It has "inverted" GAPPS, Facebook, and some other core system apps, which I'm not a fan of, but it's supposedly something you can change. I have a working camcorder again (after a few tweaks), which is what I was looking for. It looks like ChillyBean broke his Vivow also so I don't know how much more development he'll be able to do, which is very sad. Anyway, I highly recommend the latest ParanoidAndroid.

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I had been using DKStunna's Global 10.1 JB ROM build 3 as my DD for a few months and it was mostly stable. It would lag out once in a while I was managing apps, but it was pretty fast with the built-in Nova Launcher. I got tired of not having a working camcorder and since DKStunna broke his Vivow and ceased development I decided to switch to ChillyBean's ParanoidAndroid/PAC 2.19 ROM. So far it's been awesome! It has "inverted" GAPPS, Facebook, and some other core system apps, which I'm not a fan of, but it's supposedly something you can change. I have a working camcorder again (after a few tweaks), which is what I was looking for. It looks like ChillyBean broke his Vivow also so I don't know how much more development he'll be able to do, which is very sad. Anyway, I highly recommend the latest ParanoidAndroid.
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You don't have to change anything for the inverted gapps. Just flash the normal ones instead. Then you never have the inverted ones to begin with.
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