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I am putting a custom rom on my wife's phone for the first time. She doesn't really do anything major on her phone. She has gingerbread and it just got rooted. Any suggestions on a good rom to use? Thanks.
Besides being in the wrong section, miui is a great asop rom. If you want a little sense 3.0 check out newt's sensation. Rmk has a debloated version of the latest ota gingerbread if you fancy something more stock.
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besides why she needs a custom rom?
I have been trying alot of these out last couple days but i havent tried the sense 3.0 been having best luck with miks new sensation 1.1 though
If you need GSM for international travel, select carefully. Most ROM's don't support it well or at all in many cases. If you are CDMA only, your choices are more solid.
I've tried miui and cm7 and in my opinion cm7 is just a snappier and better ROM. Just my opinion though
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bik2101 said:
I've tried miui and cm7 and in my opinion cm7 is just a snappier and better ROM. Just my opinion though
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CM7? Which one is that?
BTW, as to why she might want a custom rom, speed...right?
Really all of the roms out now are pretty nice...
Being for a girl I'd think shed lean toward liking miui or a sense 3.0 based roms like virtuous or mikroms incredible sensation. The latest version from newtoroot (incredible sensation) has given me the best results. Very fast and stable and newt has been very responsive with the few quirks. by quirks I mean that his version is based on sense 2.1 so there was more he had to do to get the framework to align. It is definitely good enough to be a daily driver now.
Cm7 and omgb/omfgb are probably the fastest roms out. I really like omfgb combined with the tiamat kernel but cm7 is similarly great with more customization options (most of which your wife would likely never use). Omgb/omfgb is very back to basic, pure Android experience.
Rmks gingersense has been mostly my go-to though. Similar to stock, debloated, customizable. Pretty much a set it and forget it option with no issues. The only thing that aosp based roms have that I have an issue with is the incall volume. Tiamats kernel improves this a lot but still not quite where stock sense is in volume level.
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Weselers said:
besides why she needs a custom rom?
I have been trying alot of these out last couple days but i havent tried the sense 3.0 been having best luck with miks new sensation 1.1 though
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MikRom rls 1.1 is sense 3.0 minus 2 features. It's our stock ROM with 3.0 added.
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primetime34 said:
I am putting a custom rom on my wife's phone for the first time. She doesn't really do anything major on her phone. She has gingerbread and it just got rooted. Any suggestions on a good rom to use? Thanks.
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Unity is a stable good daily runner. It is very heavy though.
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I've used every ROM I can find.. each has their own unique reason for people to fall in love with them.. Now my question to you is to help me out here.. I've flashed so many different ROM's this week alone I'm afraid to break it!! I love Sense roms.. but some are great performers but with little things wrong with them.. I'm looking for a fast, stable, 100% working rom that won't break on me and just function as it should.. I am running the last RUU rooted but I've been so used to Sense 3+ roms I just can't do it anymore.. I also love AOSP but as petty as it may sound I can't stand the camera performance that comes with it... Opinions on the best are always welcome but I'm looking for function... There has to be something I haven't tried..
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I've used every ROM I can find.. each has their own unique reason for people to fall in love with them.. Now my question to you is to help me out here.. I've flashed so many different ROM's this week alone I'm afraid to break it!! I love Sense roms.. but some are great performers but with little things wrong with them.. I'm looking for a fast, stable, 100% working rom that won't break on me and just function as it should.. I am running the last RUU rooted but I've been so used to Sense 3+ roms I just can't do it anymore.. I also love AOSP but as petty as it may sound I can't stand the camera performance that comes with it... Opinions on the best are always welcome but I'm looking for function... There has to be something I haven't tried..
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I've noticed Newt's DINC2HDrls 1.1 is quite stable. But that's just my two cents.
I personally prefer Newt's Sense roms above all. I'm on AOSP right now, but occasionally I'll flash back to Newt's Incredible 2 HD just to mess with Sense. It's Sense 3.5 and I gave it like a 15-20% overclock and I didn't lag once. There's a great communtiy over there, and tons of mods to get you whatever you want from your phone.
Here lately I've been having issues with newt's hd rls 1.1 ... when I turn Rosie on and use the shortcut widget my HTC sense just constantly reboots... It's not an issue with the rom or a bug so I don't know what I'm doing wrong there..
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Here lately I've been having issues with newt's hd rls 1.1 ... when I turn Rosie on and use the shortcut widget my HTC sense just constantly reboots... It's not an issue with the rom or a bug so I don't know what I'm doing wrong there..
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Well the Shortcut Widget is almost entirely made by him since the official one would have taken so much work. I don't see that being a reason enough for me to stay away.
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Well the Shortcut Widget is almost entirely made by him since the official one would have taken so much work. I don't see that being a reason enough for me to stay away.
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I know. I just find it odd that it would be happening.. I just posted in their bug thread so hopefully I'm not alone..
Virtuous Affinity is the way to go. Sense 3.5
Newts ROM is great too - but Virtuous flat out runs better - and this is with many email syncs and data syncing.
Try both - You may favor one or the other.
Try the latest CM7 nightly #134 with Aeroevans .7cfs kernel. Then get the MIUI camera.apk and download. You have yourself a totally customizable, stable, fast, nothing to worry about rom. That is always my go to rom
Ialso love virtuous for my #1 sense rom
Tap'n on VIRTUOUS incredible 2
RMK's gingersense if you want stock. SkyRaider Zeus is amazing with a ton of customization. If your looking for the newest sense rom RCmix3D is my personal favorite and ran smooth. Haven't tried virtuos though..
I love Affinity. Newts Roms are nice until he gives up on them. However his HD rom kept giving me problems every fresh flash and he isn't big on helping
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I've used every ROM I can find.. each has their own unique reason for people to fall in love with them.. Now my question to you is to help me out here.. I've flashed so many different ROM's this week alone I'm afraid to break it!! I love Sense roms.. but some are great performers but with little things wrong with them.. I'm looking for a fast, stable, 100% working rom that won't break on me and just function as it should.. I am running the last RUU rooted but I've been so used to Sense 3+ roms I just can't do it anymore.. I also love AOSP but as petty as it may sound I can't stand the camera performance that comes with it... Opinions on the best are always welcome but I'm looking for function... There has to be something I haven't tried..
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Try MIUI only thing is not sense
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I love Affinity. Newts Roms are nice until he gives up on them. However his HD rom kept giving me problems every fresh flash and he isn't big on helping
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+1 for Affinity.
Running the latest one and it's excellent. Sense 3.5 is great.
Have you tried TSM GingerbangSense 3.0? I'm new to Inc2, but it seems very stock and very stable...I had to check the bootanimation to make sure it wasn't stock!
As you all know I love miui...it has beauty like a sense Rom, stability, and its fast as hell...I recommend miui build 1.10.28..very stable and customizable.
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I had really good luck with the HD roms and Unity for Sense based, but I do go back to MIUI or Liquid for AOSP once in a while.
I think the next on my list to try is Affinity.
I've tried nearly every rom available and am back to inc2hd. It just seems the most polished to me. Can't stand aosp after having all the awesome perks of sense. Though I do like Miui.
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For those who have used it, how good is Skyraider Zeus? I have tried Skyraider 4.3 on my DInc, and I have to say it's my fave alt ROM. I am running Jermaine's de-bloated stock + on my DInc now. Obviously also a Sense fan, so it would be good to get opinions from people who've used it.
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100% stable, with amazing features you won't find in any other ROM - SkyRaider Zeus.
If you want to explore the new Sense versions, NEWT's Incredible H RLS1.1 is the way to go as it's Sense 3.5
If you'd like to try a Sense 3.0 ROM I would suggest nitsuj17's TSM Trinity ROM
Or NEWT has a few options for Sense 3.0 Including his Inc3d ROM, and his Incredible sensation ROM, I personally dislike Sense 3.5 and think Sense 3.0 is a better choice, but SkyRaider Zeus is the best Sense ROM I've ever ran. I would highly suggest that as an everyday ROM.
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For those who have used it, how good is Skyraider Zeus? I have tried Skyraider 4.3 on my DInc, and I have to say it's my fave alt ROM. I am running Jermaine's de-bloated stock + on my DInc now. Obviously also a Sense fan, so it would be good to get opinions from people who've used it.
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Zeus 1.3 is honestly the best Sense ROM I've ever ran. I also used skyraider 4.3 for my Incredible1, and absolutely loved it, Zeus is basically that ROM on steroids. The options that are included into the ROM are simply incredible. I also get the best battery life on this ROM out of the rest.
My vote goes for skyraider Zeus. Most stable rom I've ever used on any phone, also very customizable. That was the only rom that could get me away from MIUI (only bug in MIUI that I run into is having no voice commands while connected to Bluetooth)
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My girlfriend's Incredible is still running 2.2, rooted, and has mms issues (as in they don't work). I'm looking for a good stable ROM, sense based, and fast. Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks
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Redemption is a good one. Looks like stock with just a few changes to make it more appealing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768626
Incredible HD
Are you looking to upgrade to 2.3 or stick with 2.2?
If you want to stick with 2.2, my vote is for SkyRaider 4.3 on the Team Bamf site. It is my all-time favorite. I don't use it anymore simply because it is still 2.2.
I've got no advice on sense 2.3, as I use AOSP now.
I gotta have me some notification toggles (which SkyRaider has)....
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Skyraider is an excellently built ROM and is extremely stable.
First rom I ever used
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, much appreciated. Weekend project time now! I don't know which one I'm going with yet, but I might just flash a 2.2 rom one day and a 2.3 the next and see which one she likes more.
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I know this is kind of a late response but, I'd suggest checking out Gingerbread-Inc-Deck. It is very stable and very smooth. Or, there's Bugless Beast. It is fairly stable but really fast! More of a stock ROM...
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I know this is kind of a late response but, I'd suggest checking out Gingerbread-Inc-Deck. It is very stable and very smooth. Or, there's Bugless Beast. It is fairly stable but really fast! More of a stock ROM...
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Never too late, thanks! I'm really not up to speed on sense based roms as I've been a CM convert since my original droid, so any advice is awesome.
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i just installed the stock+ rom... so far so good.
i like the stock phone but wanted to fix things like ext4 to fix the low memory issues which lead me to needing non-stock kernel. stock+ rom / kernel got installed this morning and so far so good!
Did you try the messaging icon under all apps? Sometimes I have to remove the messaging icon on the main screen and drag the all-apps one back to the front screen. Then all is fine again...not sure why???
I've personally tried a few Sense 3.5 ROMs and the upgrades to the interface are really slick. I'd definitely recommend giving a couple of them a shot.
Try Nils Business Gingersense 3.5 or Prime XL 3D to get a feel for it.
Cyanogenmod 7 with the new Incredikernel is my favorite, if she do without the 720p recording give that a try.
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Cyanogenmod 7 with the new Incredikernel is my favorite, if she do without the 720p recording give that a try.
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That's my personal setup, along with ext4 / unlimited data mod, and I love it. My girlfriend really likes sense though, so we'll see what happens. Flashing for hers got delayed as the ext4 mod called my name.
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Try Evervolv ICS rom preview 5.
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Try Evervolv ICS rom preview 5.
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Meh... I prefer to run Rachel Rom :laugh:
I though I would start a thread to get peoples options on there favorite sense 3.5 Rom.
I think the most common Sense 3.5 ROMs are Magnolia, Incredible 2 HD, and Runnydroid. I will add more if you use somthing else as your daily driver.
Edit: Virtuous affinity,Mikrunny
My favorite Sense 3.5 ROM is incredible 2 HD. It has a lot of added tweaks and is fully functional.
So what's your favorite Sense 3.5
Virtuous affinity although I haven't tried the new build. I'm just not a sense kinda guy.
For sense 3. 5, without a doubt incredible 2 hd is the smoothest Rom. Looks awesome with ICS theme
"the relentless pursuit of the perfect ROM "
I withdraw my previous statement nitsuj's bullet rom is sick
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For sense 3. 5, without a doubt incredible 2 hd is the smoothest Rom. Looks awesome with ICS theme
"the relentless pursuit of the perfect ROM "
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Lol I actually got to help on that theme. I helped ready and junk long before it got released.
I'm hooked on mikrunny right now. Super smooth, stock kernel, stock speeds, stock theme, using the battery bar to name it minimal up top, and loving it.
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I withdraw my previous statement nitsuj's bullet rom is sick
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I love bullet, but its only sense 3.0, not 3.5, even though there are no true performance differences.
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Ugh....noob -_-
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Lol I actually got to help on that theme. I helped ready and junk long before it got released.
I'm hooked on mikrunny right now. Super smooth, stock kernel, stock speeds, stock theme, using the battery bar to name it minimal up top, and loving it.
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Does this have beats audio? Lol, its the only reason I use HD
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Does this have beats audio? Lol, its the only reason I use HD
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It does indeed. I don't use it, but it does have it.
I've been running the Mikrunny ROM for a couple weeks now. I have no complaints at all.
Personally, I find all Sense 3.5 ROMs to be somewhat slow and laggy. For that reason I only run Sense 3.0 and lower and AOSP ROMs. In my experience they are far smoother than Sense 3.5. My personal recommendations are TSM Trinity and Bullet.
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Personally, I find all Sense 3.5 ROMs to be somewhat slow and laggy. For that reason I only run Sense 3.0 and lower and AOSP ROMs. In my experience they are far smoother than Sense 3.5. My personal recommendations are TSM Trinity and Bullet.
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Turn off the 3d features in the rosie tweaks. It flies after that. Much faster than 3.0 ever was
Bullet 1.4 by the the best Rom I've tried. Kills ICS. Wouldn't go back ICS even if my phone would let me. LOL. Still no luck on black screen. But this Rom Bullet 1.4 is great its sense 3.0 but I like it better than mikrunny. And I'm a huge fan of newt but he's pretty much gave up incredible 2.
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I don't know what I was doing wrong but I just loaded Mikrunny and its running like a champ! I'm so excited that I'm actually one of those people experiencing this awesomeness
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I'll give mikrunny a try soon
I don't like 3.0 that much becuase it dosnt have the alternate 1*4 weather and clock widget. It's funny though, sense 3.0 was made for dual core phones, and 3.5 was made for single core phones. To think 3.0 would run better
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I was the same way. MikRunny ran horrible for me the first time. Then magic ran awesome. Don't think I did anything different. Except broke ICS from working on my phone somehow.
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I was the same way. MikRunny ran horrible for me the first time. Then magic ran awesome. Don't think I did anything different. Except broke ICS from working on my phone somehow.
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You broke ICS?
thats weird, mabey you should do a full wipe of your phone "factory wipe" your phone with stock Rom. But before that back up your nano Droid bk ups in case it dosnt help
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tylerlawhon said:
Lol I actually got to help on that theme. I helped ready and junk long before it got released.
I'm hooked on mikrunny right now. Super smooth, stock kernel, stock speeds, stock theme, using the battery bar to name it minimal up top, and loving it.
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You guys did a great job with the theme, although the phone dialer is not very intuitive. I swapped htc dialer with the inverted theme one.
Now running tsm bullet though
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You broke ICS?
thats weird, mabey you should do a full wipe of your phone "factory wipe" your phone with stock Rom. But before that back up your nano Droid bk ups in case it dosnt help
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Yeah best way to describe it. I can't run ICS along with what appears to be several others. Nobody can figure it out either. Ive ran all ICS Roms up untill about 2 weeks ago. Tried ICS again. Everytime I turn my screen off goes black and when I try to turn screen back on only the bottom lights come up also Rom runs horrible extremely lagged, never had this problem in the past. Wiped everything even sd card. Only thing I haven't tried is rerooting. May be only hope. Wish I could fix it. Drives me crazy. Oh by the way can run cyanogenmod 7 just fine. Along with all other Roms. Weird.
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Yeah best way to describe it. I can't run ICS along with what appears to be several others. Nobody can figure it out either. Ive ran all ICS Roms up untill about 2 weeks ago. Tried ICS again. Everytime I turn my screen off goes black and when I try to turn screen back on only the bottom lights come up also Rom runs horrible extremely lagged, never had this problem in the past. Wiped everything even sd card. Only thing I haven't tried is rerooting. May be only hope. Wish I could fix it. Drives me crazy. Oh by the way can run cyanogenmod 7 just fine. Along with all other Roms. Weird.
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Not to smash your hopes, but I unrooted, s-off and factory stock (rom and recovery) and it didn't help. As I mentioned before, I'm not sure it is necessary ICS related as this started happing earlier this past summer with a paticular MIUI build. Maybe its the way these ICS roms install.
So I've tried probably 6 or so different Sense 3.5 ROMs including MikRunny, Magnolia, various TSM, and some others... I'd have to say that my favorite one is Magnolia... It is the most stable, smoothest, fastest, with the best battery life. Share your thoughts?
Use SkyRaider Zeus on teambamf.net
If battery life wasn't an issue, I would stick with TSMBullet. I am a stickler for battery life so I would use Skyraider Zeus over Bullet.
Gingerbang Sense 5.01m.
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I am running infernosense and its pretty good.
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Isn't sky raider sense 3.0? I like 3.5 features. Magnolia is my favorite so far. If heard great things about sky raider though. Newtoroot is coming out with a sense 4 ROM have ya heard about that?
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Isn't sky raider sense 3.0? I like 3.5 features. Magnolia is my favorite so far. If heard great things about sky raider though. Newtoroot is coming out with a sense 4 ROM have ya heard about that?
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Yes skyraider is sense 3.0, and I have been checking mikmik daily for newts release but it will probably have a lot of the same issues as the other sense 4 Roms which at the moment is a deal breaker for me because I need my camera and camcorder as well as mms.
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I personally like Virtuous Unity (Sense 3.0) and would use it as my DD but I can't get MMS to work on it.
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I use a little bit of everything, but I usually end up going back to magnolia, for a sense rom.
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Yes skyraider is sense 3.0, and I have been checking mikmik daily for newts release but it will probably have a lot of the same issues as the other sense 4 Roms which at the moment is a deal breaker for me because I need my camera and camcorder as well as mms.
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Skyraider isn't sense 3, it's actually 2.1 with 3.0 features. Just for clarification.
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Yes skyraider is sense 3.0, and I have been checking mikmik daily for newts release but it will probably have a lot of the same issues as the other sense 4 Roms which at the moment is a deal breaker for me because I need my camera and camcorder as well as mms.
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Fwiw I got mms working in sense 4 for virtuous primadonna...so whenever it gets released that's one less issue
I prefer to use stock rom rooted, to uninstall some Verizon apps.
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Fwiw I got mms working in sense 4 for virtuous primadonna...so whenever it gets released that's one less issue
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Awesome man, looking forward to it. I like to change ROMS every few weeks... lol it keeps things interesting! I'll definitely be looking forward to that man. Somewhat off-topic but do you have any idea if you can install an OC Daemon on AOSP like CM9 or AOKP?
Coredriod is my favorite sense rom, but I would have to say Skyraider is a close second.
I've been using Mikrunny for a few months now. I have no complaints about speed or battery life.
Newt is working on a Sense 4 ROM. I don't see any Sense 4 ROM being completed till HTC releases the source.
Any work that a DEV does for the community is a favorite of mine.
all of nitsuj17's work I LOVE.
anything mik related- aka, NEWT, MIK, etc.
team BAMF,skyraider (ihtfp69) was my first "favorite" sense ROM, back on the Inc1.
JoelZ
There were many DEVs from the Eris days as well. good times.
Andybones stock was/is great... I loaded it up when my wife was using my phone until she could upgrade. All the flashable mods on a stock Rom was just what she needed.
Skyraider Zeus is solid. Anything nitsuj makes I highly recommend...and he always seems to have cool new stuff and is very active in the forums.
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Any work that a DEV does for the community is a favorite of mine.
all of nitsuj17's work I LOVE.
anything mik related- aka, NEWT, MIK, etc.
team BAMF,skyraider (ihtfp69) was my first "favorite" sense ROM, back on the Inc1.
JoelZ
There were many DEVs from the Eris days as well. good times.
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I was happy to see some people from the Eris dev section move up to the Inc2. Maybe we all have an attraction to the little guys in Verizon's line up.
I've loaded Nit's M version of Sense and Skyraider. Both are pretty solid with everything working out of the box. I have both saved right now as nands if I feel like switching back. I personally find Nit's version a little more smoother than Skyraider but that might be do to kernel settings.
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I was happy to see some people from the Eris dev section move up to the Inc2. Maybe we all have an attraction to the little guys in Verizon's line up.
I've loaded Nit's M version of Sense and Skyraider. Both are pretty solid with everything working out of the box. I have both saved right now as nands if I feel like switching back. I personally find Nit's version a little more smoother than Skyraider but that might be do to kernel settings.
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very true man, I love the inc2 community.
I'm currently selling my Rezound as it's in perfect condition and just sits on my desk.
I think I will be happier with the inc4g once that drops.
andybones said:
very true man, I love the inc2 community.
I'm currently selling my Rezound as it's in perfect condition and just sits on my desk.
I think I will be happier with the inc4g once that drops.
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I would make you an offer on it but seeing as how my daughter was born 2 weeks ago and my fiance already gets on case for playing around on my inc2, she would probably neuter me in my sleep
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