New S3 user with some questions about ROMs out there - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Hi all,
This is my first venture into Android and I must say, I these are incredible phones, and I am very excited for the future of mobiles again!
I've tested out a few ROMs so far, and while the ASOK and cyanogen mods are more my thing, the ROMS out for them are not (still buggy as a daily driver for me)
On the other hand the stock rom for this phone is awesome. All functions are working fine and I haven't had one hiccup yet.
Anyone know another ROM that is as stable and possibly in JB. If not on JB but a batter rom that I stock which is still on ICS?
Thanks for your help!
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Mitanc said:
Hi all,
This is my first venture into Android and I must say, I these are incredible phones, and I am very excited for the future of mobiles again!
I've tested out a few ROMs so far, and while the ASOK and cyanogen mods are more my thing, the ROMS out for them are not (still buggy as a daily driver for me)
On the other hand the stock rom for this phone is awesome. All functions are working fine and I haven't had one hiccup yet.
Anyone know another ROM that is as stable and possibly in JB. If not on JB but a batter rom that I stock which is still on ICS?
Thanks for your help!
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Tasks AOKP 10/13. I also use ktoonez's kernel. Stable, awesome battery, smooth as butter.

Jonnyredcorn said:
Tasks AOKP 10/13. I also use ktoonez's kernel. Stable, awesome battery, smooth as butter.
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+1 been using AOKP and KT747 kernel since both came out. No complaints yet.
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d3athsd00r said:
+1 been using AOKP and KT747 kernel since both came out. No complaints yet.
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CM10 Monthly builds are also quite stable. I've been using it for 2 months now. Also if you like the look of TouchWiz and want to stay on it but remove the Samsung bloatware, you could use the debloater tool or use Titanium Backup to freeze system apps

I'll be getting my S3 tomorrow. Will going to a ROM ruin the special features that come with the phone, like the best photo option?
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I am also new to the GS3 and so far ive gone through the Wanamlite rom, Triune ll, and currently on the Nexus Mod Triune ll. the Wanamlite rom was the best for battery consumption but i am loving the add ons and theming behind the triune roms. here are the links:
Wanamlite: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1782732
Triune ll: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1796502
NexusMod Triune ll: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1837624

JacenSolo2001 said:
I'll be getting my S3 tomorrow. Will going to a ROM ruin the special features that come with the phone, like the best photo option?
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nope

JacenSolo2001 said:
I'll be getting my S3 tomorrow. Will going to a ROM ruin the special features that come with the phone, like the best photo option?
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If you go with CM10, then you'll lose the stock camera app. I miss that app. The gyroscope features and floating video will be gone.
I haven't really tried the touchwiz based roms or AOKP.
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I put on the second milestone CM10 from a week ago. Seemed had some microphone issues. Also on some apps couldn't do voice note feature which was a deal breaker for me.
Overall all features which work in regular build of android should work on my phone as well.
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Which ics or jb Rom us d best?

Just got mine yesterday loving my be new phone case from atrix 4g it's running ics stock uvalem for now what do I do I know I need to root it then whats the best ics And jb Rom for me
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Stock is the best for me! Rockin fully stock and rooted.....the best combo imho!
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Aokp...not working perfectly yet but has so many extra features I easily forget what's wrong. TW, FreeGS3 all the way for me.
¶0w3®3d b¥ @OK¶™...GS3
I uprooted my phone it becomes a task to be looking for updates, stock works great on battery and everything else love this phone
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So really their no need for custom roms
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Depends on your needs or wants. I can't live with stock TouchWiz for more then a day or two. It is very sluggish and I notice way too much lag in things. I vote AOKP in a week or so. Its not 100% yet but very close too and stable for some. If you don't know what you're missing then don't worry about it, and stay stock.
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caribe said:
So really their no need for custom roms
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It depends, I haven't seen anyone saying gs3 is sluggish at all, I certainly can't find any problems with stock besides bloatware and carrier iq, for my needs 8t works great out of the box I used to root all my phones and put new rims and what not but this time it has a lot features integrated and more and the phone has pretty good battery life so I'm set
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Cm10 nightlies
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the wicked rom by evil1art is amazing. still running ics, but virtually without bugs and lightning fast. ive been on this rom since v1 and it has since been updated to v3

ROMS

What ROM's are you guys rocking? I'm thinking about switching from stock. Why are you guys rocking the ROMs your rocking? Im new to radio flashing so if someone can chime in on those too. I switched from my t-mobile/boost mobile G2X (never buying anything from LG again) to my Sprint/ Boost mobile GS3.
Samsung Galaxy S3
OdexedBlue ROM
LI3 Stock Kernel
LIF Baseband
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Jelly bomb domination v5 just the way it came super themed just like the galaxy nexus
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CodefireX for some smooth JB action.
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AOKP. Simple, with a lot of useful features. My personal favorite out of the many I've tried.
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newnoobkid said:
What ROM's are you guys rocking? I'm thinking about switching from stock. Why are you guys rocking the ROMs your rocking? Im new to radio flashing so if someone can chime in on those too. I switched from my t-mobile/boost mobile G2X (never buying anything from LG again) to my Sprint/ Boost mobile GS3.
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I am rocking LIH Jelly Bean leak. It suffers from overheating, but I don't use the phone that much. So I appreciate extra smoothness of operation.
Jellybomb lite themed Clark's FreeGS3 v2.0 w Agat kernel & LF9 modem.
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I switch back n' forth between Blazer and AnaKonda.....oh, and my phone prefers LI3 baseband.
FreeGS3 0.2.0!! Best rom ever! Why am I running this rom? I don't know, its just amazing!
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Humzaman said:
FreeGS3 0.2.0!! Best rom ever! Why am I running this rom? I don't know, its just amazing!
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Same here, FreeGS3 was the first and last ROM I've flashed . I tend to stay away from AOKP and AOSP builds since they sometimes have jitters and instability problems... I'm picky lmao
Might switch to Warm when it's out or switch between the two..
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I'm rocking the latest stock jellybean leak until some good jellybean touchwiz roms come out. Although i miss a few aosp features, i don't think I'll ever leave touchwiz. I started liking it on the S2 and i think I've fallen in love with it on the S3.
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Also rocking the LIH leak. Super smooth and fast and relatively few problems!
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givioo instantly
dragon_rckr said:
Same here, FreeGS3 was the first and last ROM I've flashed . I tend to stay away from AOKP and AOSP builds since they sometimes have jitters and instability problems... I'm picky lmao
Might switch to Warm when it's out or switch between the two..
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Try out Liquid Smooth with its new update.
Green Ranger said:
Try out Liquid Smooth with its new update.
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Where can I find this update?
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pastert33 said:
Where can I find this update?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1913470
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1913470
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Why would you recommend a rom that's not meant for our phone(sprint)? Flashing a rom not meant for our phone can cause serious problems.
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pastert33 said:
Why would you recommend a rom that's not meant for our phone(sprint)? Flashing a rom not meant for our phone can cause serious problems.
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It'll be so nice to be out of the Evo forums when I get my SG3 where threads like this get shut down and locked on a regular basis
AOKP 10/11b (awesome!) CM10's M2 build (also great) but mainly FreeGS3 (GREAT rom!)
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newnoobkid said:
What ROM's are you guys rocking? I'm thinking about switching from stock. Why are you guys rocking the ROMs your rocking? Im new to radio flashing so if someone can chime in on those too. I switched from my t-mobile/boost mobile G2X (never buying anything from LG again) to my Sprint/ Boost mobile GS3.
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i only rock what i like to rock when i feel like rocking what i rock. with that being said, you will rock for different reasons than i rock and our phones don't rock the same.
gotta rock what you like to rock!

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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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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What jellybean ROM are you using? Why?

I am using Cm10. I heard it was very stable but I do not know much more about the different ROMs. I'm a neeewbie!
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The CM10 nightlies are usually a little buggy. And I heard bluetooth doesn't work too often. I usually switch between CM10 and AOKP roms. Using LiquidSmooth right now just to try something different.
uplift777 said:
I am using Cm10. I heard it was very stable but I do not know much more about the different ROMs. I'm a neeewbie!
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I use cm10 but WiFi is broken in the newest nightly
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My wi-fi is working.
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DarthDerron said:
The CM10 nightlies are usually a little buggy. And I heard bluetooth doesn't work too often. I usually switch between CM10 and AOKP roms. Using LiquidSmooth right now just to try something different.
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Does reflashing delete apps? If so what do you use to back up apps?
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uplift777 said:
Does reflashing delete apps? If so what do you use to back up apps?
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You don't have to wipe data if its the same rom, but I use Titanium Backup when switching to different roms.
Rom: LiquidSmooth RC9
Kernel: KT747
so far so good.
What jelly bean rom are you using? And why?
I am using cm10 stable and love it and the reason why is that I'm a newbie it is the one pour stock android I can get on my Samsung galaxy s3. I think my next phone will be the google nexus 5 when ever that comes out or a new galaxy nexus.
I'm using the latest cm10 nightly and it has some glitches here and there but it's solid for most part.
I'm using Serenity. It's a port of JB from the Galaxy Note II.
Why this one and not something else? I wanted to keep the Touchwiz feel for a while longer and I've used Serenity ROMs in the past on a different device.
Using CM10. Bass over bluetooth doesn't work so I dropped back to an older build. Even the older ones still work fine. Running leankernel. Couldn't be happier with my phone!
Organized_Chaos said:
I'm using Serenity. It's a port of JB from the Galaxy Note II.
Why this one and not something else? I wanted to keep the Touchwiz feel for a while longer and I've used Serenity ROMs in the past on a different device.
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I too am using Serenity. I love it! How is your battery life?
Slimbean w/ lean kernel.
Nice combo.
thyroidgland said:
Using CM10. Bass over bluetooth doesn't work so I dropped back to an older build. Even the older ones still work fine. Running leankernel. Couldn't be happier with my phone!
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I'm a new @ this...what is a kernel for? As far as I know I didn't install one...
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uplift777 said:
I'm a new @ this...what is a kernel for? As far as I know I didn't install one...
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I tried to find something that really put this in layman's terms. This article, I think, will tell you exactly what you want to know. Easy peasy http://www.vikitech.com/8239/beginners-guide-android-kernels
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I'm a new @ this...what is a kernel for? As far as I know I didn't install one...
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You did install the kernel, you just didnt know it. The kernel gets installed with the ROM. But you can flash a different kernel at some other point if you want to. I generally find the stock kernels work well for me
kangi26 said:
You did install the kernel, you just didnt know it. The kernel gets installed with the ROM. But you can flash a different kernel at some other point if you want to. I generally find the stock kernels work well for me
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I'm running BlackBean with LeanKernel all apps inverted along with inverted JB 4.2 keyboard. Why? I used BlackBean on my old Nexus S, inverted stuff saves a ton of battery life on our SAMOLED screens, the combo is overall damn smooth and the kernel also helps to save that battery life while maintaining buttery smoothness. Couldn't be happier.
LiquidSmooth RC9 with leankernel. Seems to be working pretty good so far. A couple of complaints here and there (had an issue with phone crashing every time I received a call, some minor annoyances with music playback) but for the most part it's very speedy and stable.
scorpiopantera said:
I too am using Serenity. I love it! How is your battery life?
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Organized_Chaos said:
I'm using Serenity. It's a port of JB from the Galaxy Note II.
Why this one and not something else? I wanted to keep the Touchwiz feel for a while longer and I've used Serenity ROMs in the past on a different device.
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I'm using the same currently.. What kernels are you guys using.. Also do you have any volume issues like extremely loud or flat when plugging in via car...
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What is the BEST stable ROM? For a beginner

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stock rom, leave it as is
several ahy
Dime cual es mejor
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nabilbek said:
stock rom, leave it as is
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I don't want to leave it on stock
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I don't want to leave it on stock
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all roms will have SOME bugs on them, even stock ones. I suggest trying a few 4.04 touchwiz based ones such as KOODO or JK, and moving from there to a AOSP based 4.1 or 4.2 rom or a 4.12 leak.
Anything Jedi
Haven't been disappointed since I bought this phone
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CM10.0 Stable - I find it smoother and faster compared to Touchwiz roms.
I say go to jedi mind trick or jedi jelly. Both are extremely smooth and stable.
Cyanogenmod 10 was my first ROM and I think it's pretty easy to install and use. Recently I started using PACman and it's pretty easy to use too. Just make sure you know what you're doing before you start romming!
I liked aokp because of all of the features it offered but the battery life on my tmobile galaxy s2 was not the greatest. i'm currently rocking sons of android build 2, from the maker of the jedi roms.
dLee.2678 said:
I liked aokp because of all of the features it offered but the battery life on my tmobile galaxy s2 was not the greatest. i'm currently rocking sons of android build 2, from the maker of the jedi roms.
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Could you send me the ROM ? Can I flash any ROM using Odin
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Nice rom for begginers
Here is a good ROM I have found. everything works. The only down side i have noticed is the call quality. but if you use bluetooth or wifi calling it is crystal clear.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151010
cyco786 said:
Here is a good ROM I have found. everything works. The only down side i have noticed is the call quality. but if you use bluetooth or wifi calling it is crystal clear.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151010
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It won't let me down load it.. Its a Broken link..it says
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Embryo 6-8, just awesome my favorite to date, another one I liked was JMT but that was ICS 4.0.3, it ran great but I felt that I downgraded since my stock ROM was 4.0.4. Others I tried were AOKP 4.2.2 M1 B5, just too AOSP looking for my taste, had random crashes, Jedi Jelly this one just stuck on booting.
So:
#1 Embryo 6-8, overclocked to 1.78 using samsung governer
#2 Stock 4.0.4 Koodo
#3 JMT

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