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I just got my G2 permarooted and I'm looking to step up to a Gingerbread ROM.
I've been looking at CM7 RC3 and GingerVillain 1.5 but am open to suggestions.
I prefer the stock look and feel but like to have stability and full hardware functionality over everything else.
Any help is appreciated. I'm new to this game and to xda and I'm looking to get serious about android!
Thanks
cjsmile said:
I just got my G2 permarooted and I'm looking to step up to a Gingerbread ROM.
I've been looking at CM7 RC3 and GingerVillain 1.5 but am open to suggestions.
I prefer the stock look and feel but like to have stability and full hardware functionality over everything else.
Any help is appreciated. I'm new to this game and to xda and I'm looking to get serious about android!
Thanks
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I've used GV 1.5 and the CM nightlies and I'm currently on PyroMod 1.2 for the A2SD capability.
I would go with Pyromod, it's excellent.
if you want almost complete stock Gingerbread go with the rom Stock Gingerbread 1.6.1. That's an excellent stock gingerbread rom. it's good performance wise and also looks good.
and between cyangoen and GV 1.5 I'd go with the latest nightly which right now is 32.
gv is still the most stable gb rom I have used. I am currently using "stock" gingerbread (it isnt really stock, it is cm-based but stripped down quite a bit) and like it as well, but gv is always where I end up going back to.
of course, cm has the biggest following among g2/dz users, so there is something to be said for that. I think you will find that both gv and any of the cm release candidates are stable enough for everyday use.
i can only speak for cm7, as i have not tried any other roms except for icedglacier for the mytouch4g on my mt4g. iced was good, but i find cm more stable and generally error free. im satisfied, and probably rather not change just because im comfortable.
one day i may try another rom for a couple of days to check it out...it is hard to change when you are familar with a certain setup
If you like the more stock look, stick with CM7 out of any of the roms. GV is based on a much older build of CM, and therefore I would not recommend it over the newest CM builds (unless it has something that I'm not aware of).
Thanks for the input I ended up going with cm7 RC3. Its pretty nice but I miss things like swype and my hardware keyboard has shortcuts that I don't know how to get rid of.
I think ill try out the other ones you've mentioned in my down time. I really want to learn more!
Gwanatu said:
GV is based on a much older build of CM, and therefore I would not recommend it over the newest CM builds (unless it has something that I'm not aware of).
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I have to disagree with you, because ever since CM7-RC2 there is an issue with the Gmail application (link to xda thread). GingerVillain is based on CM7 code before RC2 came out, and it does not have that Gmail margin problem. GV is a great Gingerbread based ROM, but I still have to say that I believe Froyo works so much better on G2 than Gingerbread.
cjsmile said:
I ended up going with cm7 RC3. Its pretty nice but I miss things like swype
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Just sign up for the Swype beta, and you can download and install Swype:
http://beta.swype.com/
Gwanatu said:
If you like the more stock look, stick with CM7 out of any of the roms. GV is based on a much older build of CM, and therefore I would not recommend it over the newest CM builds (unless it has something that I'm not aware of).
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Good point.. if a you want to try something very different try MIUI. Its kinda crazy to me but you can see all the hard work they (china) did.
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You should take a look at MIUI Roms, its quiet fast and stable. Plus a ton of customizing.
redpoint73 said:
Just sign up for the Swype beta, and you can download and install Swype:
http://beta.swype.com/
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Although this works very well, I believe it acts different from the stock swype that is pre-installed on our phone. I'm getting a lot errors and word predictions that aren't even words. I've gone through all the setting but the stock G2 swype works the best for me.
Am I the only one that feels this way?
I installed swype and its been working fine for me! However my keyboard is really ticking me off. I can't type any thing because half the keys are shortcuts that I don't want.
Help?
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Ah, forget it, I found the quick launch shortcuts under settings>applications. What a hassle though!
What kind of different stuff does miui offer?
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Hi guys,
I have a problem for which i can't seem to find a solution through search. I'm on the latest Ice Cold Sandwich and the recent apps function (holding home button) gets really slow after a while. It seems to me that the function holds to many apps in memory causing it to be slow. I tried nova launcher which made it a little faster but not quite solved the problem.
Does anyone know a way to adjust the number of apps this function holds in memory?
Thanks
Not that I know of. And changing the launcher won't help since recent apps list is not related to it. I was a longtime IceColdSandwich user till Lord Clockan stopped active development for it. It's gotten buggy over time and especially because he was blind developing it without a phone to test on. After some use the ROM UI becomes slow overall. For ICS, I'd recommend aospX. It's the most stable ICS ROM. However it's pure AOSP and won't have AOKP/CM features like IceColdSandwich except the quick toggles in the notification bar. I'd also recommend you they the codefireX JellyBean nightlies. They are CM10 with some AOKP features and are more stable than IceColdSandwich in my experience. There a also JellyTime which is CM10 only. Since these are JellyBean ROMs, they are by default faster than ICS throughout. Everything works including 720p video recording and there are no major bugs that hamper usability.
Of course I'm only talking about AOSP ROMs. There are many stable Sense ICS ROMs if you like Sense.
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As sashank said, you're not the only one facing slowing down issues with IceColdSandwich. It seems a lot of users are experiencing slow downs in the overall UI after a couple of days using the ROM.
I'm a fan of Sense ROMs, and there are a couple very stable ones around.
Thanks guys,
Might be time to switch to a jellybean ROM then....
rubykon said:
Thanks guys,
Might be time to switch to a jellybean ROM then....
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Happy flashing
Let us know how it goes for you..
Yeah, I am in the same boat. IceCold Sandwich while formally rock steady, now is just laggy. I flashed over to Jellytime, but my wifi was so unstable at home that I have axed that one as well. I had Jellytime around B7 and had no issues with wifi. R12 & R13 are completely unusable for me. Oh well, time for something else.
Just looking to hear what peoples favorite roms are. My brother and I traded phones, he's been using stock and it kept freezing on him. Looking for the best rom for daily use with alot of features
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GTDarthYoda said:
Just looking to hear what peoples favorite roms are. My brother and I traded phones, he's been using stock and it kept freezing on him. Looking for the best rom for daily use with alot of features
hit me!
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Wrong post ....go Q & A to get hit
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Wrong post ....go Q & A to get hit
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oops my bad thought i was in the forum >.<
Mods move this please
Whichever you choose, you won't be satisfied.lol
i offer to you install the revelotion roms ...
satiRM further
it really depends on what you want. lets say you want stock looking android GB so in that case your choice should "Android Revolution HD" 6.X.X I was personally using this rom for a while never had a single problem with it also battery life was very good. and also you might consider Cyanogen MOD 7.2 also GB rom with no HTC sense thats up to you Cyanogen is smooth and never had problems with it but ADW launcher which is used in Cyanogen is not that stable peace of software you would like it to be... anyway I think any GB based custom roms should be stable smooth and bugless... and its not that hard to try several custom roms and then choose your best...
now talking about ICS thats a bit different story there are lots to choose from and almost every ICS cutom rom states that its fully working but in reality I never found ICS rom which is really FULLY WORKING I would call them "almost fully working" because you can found small maybe not that important but still some glitches... Some camera effects may not work, some parts of HTC sense might be little bit buggy but of course nothing serious...
i did tried "blackout", "trickdroid", "sabsa prime" all of them was fine to use daily had some small glitches I mentioned before but no big problems keep in mind that memory "RAM" usage is a lot higher with ICS keep in mind if you multitasking alot but shouldn't be a big problem... actually tried to "break" my phone with intense usage like, listening to music, skyping, browsing web, runing games at the time, installing app from market but phone seemed able to handle all that just fine and thats good
and every ICS rom I tried had one annoying thing there was no "facebook for htc sense" so you must use that crappy facebook app to get your friend profiles synced... that really suck...
and you have an option to use "jellybean" i did tried "jellyTime" r16 had no problems with it but as much as I read about others expierence I would not consider "JT" to be stable and good choise for a new user who just wants to be sure his phone runs flawless...
I'm at moment using "sabsa prime 6.5" stayed with it because it was last rom I tried lol
sorry for my bad english
Now I need to figure out if I like sense or not I guess. thus far Jelly Bean has been my favorite on my play despite the fact that like half the stuff doesn't work >.< So we'll see...
Thx for all the places to start.
Sabsa prime best
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I have a sound problem but still the best Virtuous Infinity v1.35.0 Beta1
entony80 said:
I have a sound problem but still the best Virtuous Infinity v1.35.0 Beta1
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Have you ever try CodefireX? The best ever!
iam using Cosmic Sandwich V2 after tersting Trickdroid and JellyTime. IMO its a solid experience for those who like a snappy UI (Miui) and some of the Sense goodies.
In my opinion, skip ICS and go to Jelly Bean. Google Now, some other fun things, you'll be glad you did.
Pick a flavor (there's many options these days). I'd go with CM10 - either codefireX or Jellytime with the KangBang-Kernel v0.1 (separate thread by synergye in the dev forum)
Try coredroid multy device sense 3.5 is the best rom everything works fine even the wifi ,camera are brilliant all rom is great
(Perdona por my ingles)
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There appear to be a couple of ICS/sense roms on the forum for the DHD. Most appear to have bugs and issues for one reason or other. Is there a fairly stable ICS with sense rom good for every day use?
I've been loving JellyTime R19. Been up for days without any issues. It has been exceptional.
I have flashed quite a few roms till now and have had mixed experience. Among the ICS roms, I found Trickdroid, Blackout and Nik Project X to be the best. I loved all three of them and currently using Trickdroid. I did not try too many JB roms but like Jelly time.
If you are looking for a stable ROM I would recommend CyanogenMod 7 - it runs GB.
If you want to experiment and don't mind some quirks then I would say JellyTime - it runs JB.
I started on CM7 when I first got my HTC, tried LeeDroid, another one I don't remember, back to CM7 and most recently through several revisions of JellyTime.
Of course YMMV, if you ask 10 people you will get 10 different answers. So you just have to experiment - that's the reason I went through all those different ROMs. I found that I like the CM mods (JT is based on CM10).
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Device: HTC Inspire 4G
ROM: JellyTime R21
OS Version: 4.1.2
Kernel: 3.0.46JellyTime_R21-g5928d49
Radio/Baseband: 12.69a.60.29U_26.17.14.11_M
CPU Governor: SMARTASSV2, Min 149, Max 806
I/O Scheduler: SIO
Recovery: 4EXTrecovery
XxXPachaXxX NERO XL Rom
My first rom after rooting was Blackout ICS Incredible v3.1.0 FULLY WORKING!!! [4.0.4][Sense 3.6] but my phone has frequent blackouts during calls and i tried IceColdSandwich. This ROM was stable but i did not like the camera - no touch focus, the zoom was strange.
The last ROM i've tried is XxXPachaXxX NERO XL Rom - is with a real sense camera and the sound is great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1797660
GTDarthYoda said:
Just looking to hear what peoples favorite roms are. My brother and I traded phones, he's been using stock and it kept freezing on him. Looking for the best rom for daily use with alot of features
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ive found Trick Droid 3.0.0 to be the most stable and gives me decent battery life. im running it on the inspire 4g. i live in the US west cost and running the 12.69.60.29_26.17.14.11_M radio.
I'm curious as to what are your favorite ROMs for the Dinc2. I have flashed many and found some good GB ROMs, and (mostly) stable ICS based ROMs. Jellybean looks nice, just not stable enough for me yet. I have a short list of favs (in no particular order):
andyBONESTOCK ( ya its a stock rom but i still like it at times)
SkyRaider Zeus 3.1
CM7.2
CM9
UKB ll
Might seem like fairly bland list but i like stability. I have tried many others but I always seem to keep coming back to one of the 5 listed above. There are a lot of great ROMs for our Dinc2 and i was just curious, what are your favorites?
Miui.us.12.09.12Gingerbread.
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nitsua98 said:
Why..would...you...post...a QUESTION... In general and not in q&a(maybe you shouldn't put q in the title)
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Silly me, forgot i was in general
Gingerbread based: Condemned's CM7.2
JellyBean Based: ParanoidAndroid. it's surprisingly stable.
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Paranoid Android is by far my favorite, I love Tablet Mode and Phablet Mode! #2 spot goes to Mimicry CM9 based ROM.
ThePhantom97 said:
Paranoid Android is by far my favorite, I love Tablet Mode and Phablet Mode! #2 spot goes to Mimicry CM9 based ROM.
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Agreed.
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I ran paranoid android for the longest time. I recently got into miui and I love that one as well
Current: Kangdemnation v0.5 - great battery life and stable
MIUI 12.9
SRZ
Currently on MIUI v4 CDMA, and love it.
I guess you could say MIUI in general, because I ran GB MIUI until January due to the amazing customization and theming abilities.
Some of my other favorites...
GBS Sense 5 with Sense 3 patch - Everything worked and you got some of the nicer features of Sense 3
UKB - Love the work Nits is doing with Sense 4, and excited to try Viper when it releases
Aero's CM10 - This is actually quite stable and very fast/smooth. There were, of course, bugs that kept me from staying with it long term.
I usually look for stability (no hot-boots or FCs), good battery life, decent speed/fluid animations, high-end features/customization. So the absence of features like 720p recording on ICS or JB wasn't a problem. I switched from CM10 because I wanted to use Skype with the ffc, but I really loved the smoothness and JB features in that one.
Currently running AE's CM10 and I love it. Beyond that, his CM9 is good and UKB is the only Sense Rom that I actually enjoy using.
Card83 said:
UKB is the only Sense Rom that I actually enjoy using.
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Wait till you try ViperINC
Try out Magnolia. It is gingerbread based and very stable. I have tried most of the Roms mentioned but not paranoid android yet. Guess I know what I am doing on my day off tomorrow...
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Wait till you try ViperINC
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It sounds interesting that's for sure. But I'm on my last day or two of using the Inc2. Once I get my GNex activated, the Inc2 will become my WiFi home phone. For that, I'll likely go back to CM7, as it seems to play the nicest with WiFi settings and GrooveIP.
Arctic Ascension v2.02 has been the most stable ROM I've tried on the Dinc2. Everything works on it including cameras, camcorder, mms, rotating softkeys, etc. It'll even automatically switch to 3G mode when sending a MMS message (only ROM i know if that does that BTW). The only problems I've heard (but never actually experienced) has been it running slowly in some installations but running the DeSensed version will take care of that.
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It sounds interesting that's for sure. But I'm on my last day or two of using the Inc2. Once I get my GNex activated, the Inc2 will become my WiFi home phone. For that, I'll likely go back to CM7, as it seems to play the nicest with WiFi settings and GrooveIP.
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That's odd, for me the WiFi was why I left cm7. My girlfriend was out of state for a couple months a while back so we would chat through gtalk throughout the day, every day. When I flashed cm7 everything seemed awesome, but then I noticed that my WIFI would lose connection with gtalk many times a day. I had to check gtalk constantly all day long to see if I had lost connection with it or not, and had missed many messages throughout the day (a couple hours old at times and man would she get pissed). I dont know if its cm7s WIFI management or what it was but i got tired of it. So I started using andbonestock and good ole gb, with the 'best WIFI performance' setting on and never lost a WIFI connection with gtalk after that. It could also have something to do with my WIFI in my house though, as most the time the performance of it pretty much blows.
i like "TSM UKB II 1.3.1 (sense4 ics)" best overall so far.
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That's odd, for me the WiFi was why I left cm7. My girlfriend was out of state for a couple months a while back so we would chat through gtalk throughout the day, every day. When I flashed cm7 everything seemed awesome, but then I noticed that my WIFI would lose connection with gtalk many times a day. I had to check gtalk constantly all day long to see if I had lost connection with it or not, and had missed many messages throughout the day (a couple hours old at times and man would she get pissed). I dont know if its cm7s WIFI management or what it was but i got tired of it. So I started using andbonestock and good ole gb, with the 'best WIFI performance' setting on and never lost a WIFI connection with gtalk after that. It could also have something to do with my WIFI in my house though, as most the time the performance of it pretty much blows.
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Weird. I've never had that issue. My router is in my bedroom, so I've always had a great signal. I would go back to SkyRaider or AndyBoneStock, but I really just don't like GB Sense on this phone. Not sure why, I just prefer AOSP.
For the longest time I have been running my custom vivo sense 3 port (gb of course) because of stability until I recently tried the latest miui (cdma version) built from tazz's sense ics build.
It was very stable and everything worked. Since yesterday I've been running stunner's global cm9 build and I must say it is very stable so far. 720 recording works and all. The only issue with that one is an upside down ffc. For now that is my daily driver.
Which rom are you using? What's your setup? Feedback? Reasons? Screenshots?
Development has slowed down a lot on our beloved G2, so it made me curious what everyone has decided to use as their daily roms.
I am using pyromod cm7. Looking to switch. I love Jellybean roms but my sipdroid calling cuts out too much on those roms. Sipdroid works perfectly on gingerbread however.
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Odp: Which room is everyone using?
Using pacman rom, but PA function isn't working, so I'm changing to cm7.
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Mimicry 1.5 is smooth but has still some bugs. I tried some andromodus roms but ended with mimicry.
cjx said:
Mimicry 1.5 is smooth but has still some bugs. I tried some andromodus roms but ended with mimicry.
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I stuck with Gen.Y VisionX R3 as it was the first one I installed and everything seems to work really well on it, and it's nice and quick. I didn't really feel like going CM as I like the Sense UI, and I always find that really simple things like calendar, contacts etc always have some sort of problem in the CM builds like the Facebook link to contacts breaking or the calendar randomly stopping syncing, but I do miss some of the extra customizability in the CM builds.
Im using blackice and it runs very well. Its 2.3.4, I love mimicry but for some reason it crashes my router. I personaly may try cm9 or the aokp rom.
I tried several ROM's but they would hang or reboot after running a day or two. Minicry even wouldn't start at all. TrickDroid is a nice Sence Rom, but it was very slow even using swap. Now I've switched to EliteMod & Kernel ICS and it runs fluently.
Unfortunately my beloved Dezire Z died last week.
Was using mimicry 1.5 for quite a time, but recently moved to Flinny's JB 4.2.2. Pretty much happy with it so far.
My DD is a fusion of gen y r3 and sense z lite. My kernel was based on virtous that I have re-configured for functionality. some of the rosie are was taken from desire x. bugs exist but nothing I cant handle and I dont intend to upload any of my work because some of it was taken from other devs work. When I started porting my rom I intended it for personal use only.
Currently I use ajhavery's Desire XZ 1.0 with APM mod (http://www.ajhavery.com/category/desire-xz/) and ckpv5's Tabbed Extended Quick Settings with battery percentage for myOnev 9.0 (here is his rom thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1647052).
It is a very smooth Sense rom, the smoothest I think, just a pity that Rosie Lite can't get landscape mode.
I love tweaks and sense.
Venom ViperZ.
I tried almost all the recent roms, so far viperz is the most complete and stable one imo. With some tweaks, its fast as a fresh install of mimicry.
I ran mimicry for dd (4 months) before switching to viperz.
Flinny's CM10.1 ROMs. Once the phone gets going it runs pretty smooth for a two-year-old single-core phone.