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Gb roms !

Has everyone jumped to the ics bandwagon? Ive noticed that many gb based roms are not being updated or any new roms are being made from gb...
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bigfdaddy said:
Has everyone jumped to the ics bandwagon? Ive noticed that many gb based roms are not being updated or any new roms are being made from gb...
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I have noticed that too, I kinda like the GB ones my self...more stable at the moment, I think anyway...

I'm still running Caulk's EL29. I see way too many issues with the ICS leaks.
I don't want to have to put up with force closes, loss of notification sounds, bad battery life, loss of the ability to move apps to the SD, or any of the other seemingly random bugs that may or may not plague me depending on the phase of the moon or if I had the right amount of toadstool and eye of newt ready when I flashed.
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I agree, I don't think we should be wasting our time on ICS until it becomes a final product. I have been tempted to go to another phone because of the lack of development. I personally like running Blazer ROM 4.0, really good ROM.

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I perfer GB roms more as well. And agree with finding them more stable and better GUI interface. Still running Caulk's EL29 as well. no problems at all with it. But could someone help me with a Kernel issue of trying to find the right kernel that supports BLN?? please and thankyou.

I prefer gb as far as reliability but like the look n feel of ics... Didnt realize gb roms would come to such a halt...
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I like the blueish look of ICS and the icons but not the feel for the simpleness look of it.. woulda expected a bit more for a vast or anxious release that many people want. some of the added features are interesting as well but should be hard to implement them for GB as well..

Well, here goes my first post.....
I took the plunge tonight. Went from from stock rooted el29 to sfhub's stock rooted fc22.
It seemed a little unstable for me so oc rooted back to el29, installed cwm and used my nandroid backup to restore all my settings.
All in all, it was a good exercise to see all the capabilities of ICS, but i am going to stick with GB until the official roll out.
I am pretty amazed with the development community here!
eric

I've tried just about every leaked ICS build and currently am running sfhub's one-click FC22 but EL29 remains my go-back-to build for guaranteed stability.
I've stopped installing all my apps, mostly because I'm unsure of restoring apps within new builds, so it makes it easier for me to play around with the leaks and learn something new.

Stick with gb. Ics is not a daily drive in my opinion. I have tried them all. Calks el29 is by far the best rom for this phone at the moment.
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bigfdaddy said:
Has everyone jumped to the ics bandwagon? Ive noticed that many gb based roms are not being updated or any new roms are being made from gb...
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What is already made is what is going to be for gb no one is going to go back and update ...they are all working on ics
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What exactly are you wanting them to update? I only run calks builds but I assume nobody left a half finished project out there except maybe cm7 lol. ICS will be final very soon and everyone will forget about GB.

abusedcloth said:
I agree, I don't think we should be wasting our time on ICS until it becomes a final product. I have been tempted to go to another phone because of the lack of development. I personally like running Blazer ROM 4.0, really good ROM.
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were just getting a head startfor when 4.x.x comes out
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enfurno said:
Stick with gb. Ics is not a daily drive in my opinion. I have tried them all. Calks el29 is by far the best rom for this phone at the moment.
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Same here!!

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GB is the way to go and believe Dev's should still work and update GB roms because of the community that still want GB over ICS.

krisI0N said:
were just getting a head startfor when 4.x.x comes out
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Everyone has to realize that many of the developers have taken the Gingerbread Roms just about as far as they can.
Also, they're releasing these ICS builds so that they (and we) can learn more about ICS so when the finalized product does arrive from Samsung we'll all be better prepared. They will have a better handle on it from a programming perspective and the end users will already have a better idea on how to handle certain problems as they arise.
Edit: I'm running Calkulin's GB Rom btw

Looking for a STABLE ROM for the Step Daughter

Was looking for some pointers on a STABLE ROM
Stability is the number one item of importance, rather than ICS or GB, but ICS is preferred for the camera options..
Currently the ET4G is at the stock OTA ICS build, but it is not even activated at this point.
My Step Daughter is using my EVO 4G, and as I upgraded my GF to the SGS3, I want to drop the EVO and move her to the ET4G.
No real rush, I told her it would be a week or two, I am just looking for a build that is super stable, as I wont get much chance to update and/or modify the build once I get it fully setup and give it to her.
Think I am best off using the rooted version of the Stock ICS FF18 ROM, with a modded kernel and just leaving it at that point?
Sadly, I have spent far to much time in the Epic section for my phone, and haven't had a chance to sort through all the builds here.
No need for extra themes, or fancy mods, just basic ICS will suffice, she couldn't tell the difference anyways.
I tried both Blazer and Calk's GB ROM, but both had stability issues here and there, and I was hoping for some tips to use with a new ICS build, now that the OTA is out.
Any advice for better stability than:
Stock ICS build
CWM recovery
Modded Kernel (AGAT's ?)
and just let it go at that?

Well for ICS I'm running M'ICS 1.1 its very stable. Also using agat 0.2.1 dirty kernel (safe) for extra speed and battery life. As for GB, calkulin or blazer roms are very stable as well. I got good battery life on both. Just make sure you read up and ask questions if you not sure. Happy flashing.
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Me personally I'm using the deodexed stock rooted ROM with Agat's safe kernel & Phaker's placebo script, & it's been super smooth for me so far
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Thanks for the responses..
I have been leaning towards rooted stock ICS with AGAT's kernel, but figured I would see what flash-a-holics would advise

DCRocks said:
Thanks for the responses..
I have been leaning towards rooted stock ICS with AGAT's kernel, but figured I would see what flash-a-holics would advise
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Lol, flash-a-holic? I'm in denial. Lol
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I love Flashahol! I'm running blazer ics, just came from calkulins 1.6 about a month ago. Both are solid.
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With the issues surrounding ICS, think I am gonna go with a GB ROM..
Torn between Blazer and Calk's... sigh... lol...

I personally liked blazer more that calkulins. But that's just me. Its all up to you. Plus I flashed mysterious beast theme for it.
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I'm gonna stay away from themes and tweaks, unless I find I got no choice...
Been a big fan of Calk's for a long time, and tried both before my GF got her SGS3, just seemed to have a few more issues with Blazer, but most was with Facebook, and I feel it may have been a FB app issue, and I also think I am gonna stay with the EL29 modem, as the newer ones didnt seem to work as well.
I may just keep both on the internal SD, and create a nand backup of both one I get the the phone fully setup, and let her try both for a week or two and see what works best for her in the Baltimore area.

Yeah the EL29 modern works good for me in the dmv area.. I also been having success with ff18 in dc
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Nothing but hell since ICS

I have had nothing but hell out of this phone since ICS. Has anyone had a lot of problems with ICS or is it just me? Nothing works consistently anymore. I believe this phone has become unreliable.

Wow hell.. huh?
Did you consider rooting and try custom ROMs to get to heaven?
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BluesRulez said:
Wow hell.. huh?
Did you consider rooting and try custom ROMs to get to heaven?
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I did. :/
The several i tried lasted a week at the latest. But most did the same thing as stock ics. Calls never recieved, voicemails never received. Once i couldn't dial out and it took three flashes to fix it. I got a new one from sprint but i really just don't know if i want to go through anymore drama.

PoisonerKA said:
I did. :/
The several i tried lasted a week at the latest. But most did the same thing as stock ics. Calls never recieved, voicemails never received. Once i couldn't dial out and it took three flashes to fix it. I got a new one from sprint but i really just don't know if i want to go through anymore drama.
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Try OC EL29, you'll get no bugs, and a better battery life than on ICS.

Still had trouble with ics and el 29. I tried just running GB but that message never goes away. Its always trying to download and killing my battery and connection. I never had this niche trouble with my evo 4g

There's an unrooted trick that is said to kill the update notification.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28921256
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BluesRulez said:
Wow hell.. huh?
Did you consider rooting and try custom ROMs to get to heaven?
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The devs did a great job with the ROMs but its not the same like gingerbread since Samsung and sprint screwed our ICS, every custom ROM I tryed still has that nasty super fast scroll, it has that glitchy freezing up a bit also when scrolling. OP if you want ICS you will need to get on an aosp ROM or cm9 and aokp that's the closest and smoothness of ICS you will get or you could just roll back to gingerbread.
Another thing is there's a lot of folks that would claim how smooth these ICS custom ROMs are but in reality it isn't its either you guys are blind or your just to into and to used to ICS that it blended in you guys soul.every time I roll back to gingerbread I see a huge difference in smoothness and butter heck even these jellybean aosp and cm10 ROMs are way smoother then the ICS that Samsung and sprint gave us.
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yellowman82 said:
The devs did a great job with the ROMs but its not the same like gingerbread since Samsung and sprint screwed our ICS, every custom ROM I tryed still has that nasty super fast scroll, it has that glitchy freezing up a bit also when scrolling. OP if you want ICS you will need to get on an aosp ROM or cm9 and aokp that's the closest and smoothness of ICS you will get or you could just roll back to gingerbread.
Another thing is there's a lot of folks that would claim how smooth these ICS custom ROMs are but in reality it isn't its either you guys are blind or your just to into and to used to ICS that it blended in you guys soul.every time I roll back to gingerbread I see a huge difference in smoothness and butter heck even these jellybean aosp and cm10 ROMs are way smoother then the ICS that Samsung and sprint gave us.
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Maybe I'll try a jellybean ROM. With the short gap between ICS and JB, i wonder if ICS is the Vista of Android.

PoisonerKA said:
Maybe I'll try a jellybean ROM. With the short gap between ICS and JB, i wonder if ICS is the Vista of Android.
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JB is awesome its just the battery but I prefer it then ICS.
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One piece of advice: Go get sfhub's stock ek02 or eg30 auto package. Start from the beginning and go back and flash an ICS ROM. That usually fixes any bugs. :good:
I don't know about the other ICS ROMs but I have tried CM9 and Blu Kuban and they come as close to perfection as we could've gotten without source kernel. Haven't fully tried ICS since just because I prefer the better battery life of GB though.

I'm on cm10 and the battery is much better than anything I got in ICS, and I've tried half the ROMs out there. Blue kuban, codename, cm9, aokp, etc. The cm10 ROM is freaking amazing. Honestly, try it. You won't regret it
Swyped from a Galaxy S2 on CM10

MultiLockOn said:
I'm on cm10 and the battery is much better than anything I got in ICS, and I've tried half the ROMs out there. Blue kuban, codename, cm9, aokp, etc. The cm10 ROM is freaking amazing. Honestly, try it. You won't regret it
Swyped from a Galaxy S2 on CM10
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I might try cm10, but I've tried CM on this phone and the evo4g I had and they were both horrible experiences.

I'm getting pretty decent battery on pics and not to many bugs lol.don't use 4g.task manager doesn't kill me. So its working beautifully for me
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Also I hope you are not restoring apps and data when downgrading etc. Start clean 100%.
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BluesRulez said:
Also I hope you are not restoring apps and data when downgrading etc. Start clean 100%.
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I always start fresh. I don't back up texts, apps, hell not even a NAND back up.

Q _ Q moar OP

rovar said:
Q _ Q moar OP
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Awh cmon.that's uncalled for meanie.
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PoisonerKA said:
I always start fresh. I don't back up texts, apps, hell not even a NAND back up.
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Look, if you are doing everything right as you say, and are having problems that are making your phone "hell," the problem is likely your device itself. I have personally never had issues with any ICS builds, from the leaks, to the OTAs, to CM9. And the latest FH23 leak gives me excellent battery life. Unfortunately, since you didn't give any more information to go on than the fact that you phone has been hell, I have no further advice to give you then to get your phone replaced. Again, I have had no issues with ICS. Running much smoother than GB.

sputnik767 said:
Look, if you are doing everything right as you say, and are having problems that are making your phone "hell," the problem is likely your device itself. I have personally never had issues with any ICS builds, from the leaks, to the OTAs, to CM9. And the latest FH23 leak gives me excellent battery life. Unfortunately, since you didn't give any more information to go on than the fact that you phone has been hell, I have no further advice to give you then to get your phone replaced. Again, I have had no issues with ICS. Running much smoother than GB.
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I have never had any battery life issues. All my problems revolve around the phone part of my smart phone. I didn't start a thread to cry as as one jerk off suggested, I am having huge problems around ICS that is making my phone worthless. Even this replacement phone that i just activated is getting **** phone reception compared to my old one with GB. If they both have ICS installed they both get crap signal. I wonder.if its related to Sprint.

PoisonerKA said:
I have never had any battery life issues. All my problems revolve around the phone part of my smart phone. I didn't start a thread to cry as as one jerk off suggested, I am having huge problems around ICS that is making my phone worthless. Even this replacement phone that i just activated is getting **** phone reception compared to my old one with GB. If they both have ICS installed they both get crap signal. I wonder.if its related to Sprint.
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First thing, have you updated profile and PRL? If so, have you tried using the ODIN one-click to go back to EL29 ROM, kernel, and modem? Let's start there. If you are having no issues using EL29 as I suggested, we can further explore this being an ICS-related issue. Otherwise, it could very well be Sprint. If that works fine, use ODIN to install the latest FH23 leaked ROM, kernel, and modem. Forget flashing through recovery for now, and only use the one-clicks that erase user data. Also, do you have these issues everywhere you go, or is this localized to a particular area? To put it simply, for 2 phones to be having an identical problem (given a device that is not really known for having problems) is very strange, which leads me to blame Sprint in your particular area. But if you say that you did not have these issues on GB, let's explore that further. ODIN EL29 and report back.

Rooting Gf's phone, need a STABLE ROM

Hello,
I have the VZW GS3 which has a million ROM's, sadly this doesn't seem to be the case here on the sprint phone.l
The most important thing is that everything works , thats it.
Are there any good stable ROM's out there without any built in themes?
Does anyone make TW ROM's? I havnt seen any on here
Lastly, what does LG8 mean?

The stock room is very stable imo. I have tried custom rooms on my evo in the past but have not felt the need here yet.
LG8 is the build number of the stock Rom that was the latest into a few weeks ago. The current release is LI3.
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dpaine88 said:
Hello,
I have the VZW GS3 which has a million ROM's, sadly this doesn't seem to be the case here on the sprint phone.l
The most important thing is that everything works , thats it.
Are there any good stable ROM's out there without any built in themes?
Does anyone make TW ROM's? I havnt seen any on here
Lastly, what does LG8 mean?
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So your girlfriend has Sprint?
LG8 is the firmware version. This version is old. The latest official release is LI3. There are leaked firmware versions up to LIH now. This is Samsung's way to identify when the firmware versions were made. L=2012 I=September, 3=3rd. It goes up to 9 before it goes into letters to represent 10th day and higher.
As for Roms, there are quite a few tw roms available. Check out the android development section. There you will find both ice cream sandwich roms as well as the jelly bean leaks. I'm running jelly bomb domination jelly bean Rom. It's perfect!!!! Great battery life, no issues at all, and its fully themed.
If you want ICS I'd recommend team sonic free gs3 Rom.
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Blazer rom jelly Bean V1.9 is the most stable and zero lag on bluetooth stream. update to LIH n u are good.

dpaine88 said:
Hello,
I have the VZW GS3 which has a million ROM's, sadly this doesn't seem to be the case here on the sprint phone.l
The most important thing is that everything works , thats it.
Are there any good stable ROM's out there without any built in themes?
Does anyone make TW ROM's? I havnt seen any on here
Lastly, what does LG8 mean?
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Most of the roms in the dev forum are touchwiz roms. Almost all of these are stable, even jellybomb (based of leaked jellybean rom) is stable. I've had 0 issues so far, and it feels faster. Sonic, blazer, and many others are stable as well. I like jellybomb though. Most of the bugs will be in the AOSP roms (or miui). These were built from the ground up without Samsungs work. They'll be in the original development mostly.

I've been running blazer for weeks now, on the ics 1.9 version currently and no issues what-so-ever.
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Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28116723
This is the stock, rooted, LI3 ROM. No themes, most recent official ICS build, you're good to go.
Samsung Galaxy S3
OdexedBlue ROM
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Thanks guys!!
I appreciate you guys clearing it up for me. I have not been on XDA for a while and didn't see there are two separate Dev sections now. I was only looking at one of them.
I just have a question regarding Jelly Bean. I run the VZW version myself and we have some major data issues when we run AOSP JB, like data drops, not connecting despite showing full bars etc. Is this an issue at all on the Sprint version ? Are there any issues related to JB?

dpaine88 said:
Thanks guys!!
I appreciate you guys clearing it up for me. I have not been on XDA for a while and didn't see there are two separate Dev sections now. I was only looking at one of them.
I just have a question regarding Jelly Bean. I run the VZW version myself and we have some major data issues when we run AOSP JB, like data drops, not connecting despite showing full bars etc. Is this an issue at all on the Sprint version ? Are there any issues related to JB?
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As long as you follow directions and flash the modem that they tell you to, it works perfectly
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I thought the best TWiz ROM was Team Sonic FreeGS3 and ran that for the longest until i stumbled upon Blackbean ROM, which is a Jelly Bean ROM, and haven't gone back to TWiz ever since.

The TW JB LIH leak is very nice, very stable, and used by many as a daily driver.
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Try the jellybean jelly bomb rom

If you want stable tw rom just use blazer its not themed at all and super super stable
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smac7 said:
As long as you follow directions and flash the modem that they tell you to, it works perfectly
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Well, quite a few people have had data issues, mostly concerning the 3g/4g handoff, but I wouldn't say its MAJOR like you make it sound on VZW. I personally like TouchWiz Jellybean.
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LordLugard said:
I thought the best TWiz ROM was Team Sonic FreeGS3 and ran that for the longest until i stumbled upon Blackbean ROM, which is a Jelly Bean ROM, and haven't gone back to TWiz ever since.
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All the JB ROM's I've tried have caused a noticeable hit on battery life for me. I need my phone to last 10 hours reliably, and after every JB ROM I've tried, I was down below 20% after 10 hours, and that's not acceptable. What's your battery life on Blackbean like?
With FreeGS, I am usually around 60-70% after 10 hours, depending on usage.

Can anyone give me input on data quality on Blackbean and FreeS3 ROMs? I know its an odd question but my ROM's data isn't what it should be. I'm just wondering if this the case with most JB ROMs.
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That's probably a modem issue iamdestruktor

if you root your girlfriend's phone, be prepared to play constant IT guy when the slightest thing doesn't work perfectly. you will wind up managing two phones and it is not very fun when things go wrong...

alaman68 said:
if you root your girlfriend's phone, be prepared to play constant IT guy when the slightest thing doesn't work perfectly. you will wind up managing two phones and it is not very fun when things go wrong...
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I'll agree. I rooted a couple of Nook Colors at work and when the slightest thing went wrong I'd have to take it home and flash it or update it or something. I guess rooting is best kept to one's self.
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alaman68 said:
if you root your girlfriend's phone, be prepared to play constant IT guy when the slightest thing doesn't work perfectly. you will wind up managing two phones and it is not very fun when things go wrong...
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Haha it is technically my ex-gf.
I am only doing her S3 because I did this for her Evo 4g and she didn't complain once.

What's the first rom you would throw on your new E4GT

Currently waiting on the UPS man to deliver our two E4GT's. I have the samsung driver's installed and ready to go. I am leaning towards using Odin to restore a rooted FK23. But I have made alot of consideration's on some of these other packaged rom's. In the past I would just install a cyanogenmod variant and never look back till there was a update. But reading around here, CM does not seem all that popular? Maybe because the stock based rom's are so good?
What would you choose? FK23 is getting alot of good reports. Maybe something based off of it?

Jellyverse stable nicely themed great developers good battery whatelse can I say.
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evo3d6 said:
Jellyverse stable nicely themed great developers good battery whatelse can I say.
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+1 Def Jellyverse
Lucy Lu...will you have my children?

Honestly? Stock JB for me.
(ducks for cover)

fk23 offers a lot of new features that those of us that had the phone for over a year aren't used to so its something new. CM10 b2 is running great if you're into cm. King Kang is also running great. To get started out I'm gonna recommend you Odin el29 cwm, then flash cm10 over that

Lightweight v.05..easy.
Awesome installation process, and this ROM runs without any hiccups for me.

Fk23

Re-calked. So many mods. You will get used to flashing stuff after flashing those mods

Any FK23. Stock Rooted is real slick and stable.

I would personally flash a custom ics rom. Get used to flashing roms and mods on the e4gt then choose your rom. I personally have only flashed Mijjz roms because I follow Team Nocturnal, but everyone has their own opinion. Right now I'm sticking with stock jb until either Rw and Mijj put out a jb rom or source drops

garwynn said:
Honestly? Stock JB for me.
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+1 but rooted to remove the crapware!
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I also say the one-click rooted FK23 with the full wipe option.
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LOL, what have we come to. I'm using Stock Rooted FK23 as well!
Honestly though, it's all up to taste. When I'm not on CM10, I miss theme chooser. When I'm on CM10, I miss the leaked JB UI and new features. This is why I will die happy if we every get multiboot.

Well I like the idea that everything works as it should on fk23. I was really liking cm10 for a while but the erratic mms feature was a buzz kill. The whole gps lock issue is a drag expecially since I was flashing between roms so much.
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Hello. You are asking the question we all have soon after getting our phone.
I will get to the bread and butter for you. Please note, this is from my experience only. I can't speak for everybody because as I am sure you know, NO ....NO.... two users are the same.
So, I have had the E4GT for around 5 months now. Love the phone....hate the battery life, but for this kind of power...I expected a weak battery. So firstly....get the extended battery!
Roms....Hahahahaha...so many. I have tried a lot. My phone came with ICS installed. Within a week I moved to CM9 beta 1....not bad....then to black rom....then to jellyverse....than went to a gingerbread build CM....than found " the blu kuban" Man I love the kuban. Tried the Ginger bread build and ICS build too. I AM back on the ICS build because GB build kept acting like I had a slide out keyboard. But man the kuban is awesome. It allows you to pick what you want installed upon first installation. Sweet...so sweet. It has tons of tweaks built in. It allows you to tweak everything from charging to boot animations inside the settings. I am telling you....try what you want, but once you get comfortable with the kuban you will always come back to it. I just left the new leaked jellybean Fk23 2 days ago...returning to the blue kuban. Fk23 was way to lagging for me...typing had delays, Apps hesitated to open and close....just way to slow.
Here is the link I use for roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II/SPH-D710/ROMs
It is a bit old, but a great start for you. Also...
Qbking77 has tons of YouTube walkthroughs and review videos posted for the E4GT. I hope this helps you get started, have fun....find what best suits you...but do try the Blu Kuban.....it is worth a spin.
Goodluck. Happy rom'ing....FOLLOW DIRECTIONS CLOSELY!
P.S. your comment about CM roms....it is because our phone has yet to get a stable release of CM :-\ something about how long it took for the cyanogenmod team to get the source code for the phone. I AM no Dev..and it has been a while since I read the article about it...but please note...there is NO stable CM for the E4GT as of yet. CM 10 is on beta 2 and CM9 is on beta 1.
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I always liked the theory behind the Kuban, but it's never agreed with my phone. I've had more boot loops on that Rom just by using the Rom updater.
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Flash mine!!! Lol... shameless self promotion.
It's nothing special just stock FK23 that's been deodexed rooted and has busybox. And a ton of mods by tdunham.
Either that or Jellyverse which is based on mine and themed. Shadow has some serious talent. Just make sure to do some reading.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

depends on your mode. If your thinking TW, then i'd go with mattix's FK23. Otherwise the PAC MAN rom (aokp+cm10+paranoid android) is pretty nifty thanks to KB!

I have had the reboot on the rom updater.... never a boot loop. I did have a boot loop on my first install....but did a factory reset inside recovery...and it fired up fine after that. For the Kuban you HAVE to use the format all zip....and also begin with flashing a safe recovery. I Followed QBKING77's video for the rouge recovery install...than flashed the kuban from there. Also...the thread for the kuban is huge....all sorts of problems addressed inside that thread. All my questions have been answered just reading through them all or searching the thread for a certain topic.
Still...no one rom is a perfect fit for everybody. I recommend starting by putting a safe recovery on the phone first and foremost...than begin doing rom flashes from there. Test and tune....then try another.
I have tried almost all the roms in the link I posted earlier....I like different things in each one...but the Kuban keeps calling me back. I hate lag mostly....and I get that on a lot of roms. Only time the kuban lags.....for me.....is on certain governors....like saveged Zen....FOR ME.
Just be sure to get on a safe recovery first, than read and follow any roms directions closely....than all is safe after that.
Also Qbking has a how to unbrick your phone video that will help you a ton. It will require a file download.....Hahahahaha, save.....SAVE that file. It will come in handy with this phone due to the crazy flash/brick bug that seems to be inside it.
Why can't Samsung use a safe flashing setup? They have to try to be intelligent...or seem so at least.
Once again, goodluck...I hope we have helped you. I have seen my share of problems so feel free to PM me for any help. I will be happy to help if I can, or help you search for an answer.
Also....the fk23...yea, it has some great new features....but I would wait for a custom, sped up build of it. On start up after install I had 300 megs of ram free...on the kuban I have 500+, cm9 500+, cm 10 450+.....fk23 down too 200+ within an hour of use :-\
Peeps will say that free ram does not mean faster...but to me....knowing what little I do know about android....it means a ton when it comes to the E4GT.
Sent from my Galaxy S2 E4GT, Running The Blu Kuban FI27 Build using the XDA app.

I flash a different Rom seems like every day
So far the ones I keep going back to are any of the FK23 roms or CNA I love the customization of aosp based roms but FK23 I get awesome battery life compared to aosp. The kuban is insanely stable and great battery life.
I used to be a huge fan of cm on previous devices then I got a taste of aokp left cm all together but felt something was missing then I tried cna which has in my opinion the best of aokp and cm.