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[Q] cyanogen mod vs miui- which looks better?

My vote goes to cyanogen mod since miui just didn't feel right. Didn't like the look of the majority of the apps either.

Cm7 ftw.. if you like miui, get an iphone...

ksmullins88 said:
Cm7 ftw.. if you like miui, get an iphone...
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My thoughts exactly. I don't like the feel of miui nor the look of it.
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miui = polished android. if you like miu you don't necessarily need to get an iphone... JUST CHANGE YOUR LAUNCHER! ITS THAT SIMPLE. I consider miui menu style, popup system, and customization leaps and bounds ahead of stock android look. also this thread won't do justice to the xda'ers who've had miui and that can really comment on this.. would be nice to see this thead in Android General.

Throw a nice theme on cm7 with good looking icos an you have a winner
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omair2005 said:
miui = polished android. if you like miu you don't necessarily need to get an iphone... JUST CHANGE YOUR LAUNCHER! ITS THAT SIMPLE. I consider miui menu style, popup system, and customization leaps and bounds ahead of stock android look. also this thread won't do justice to the xda'ers who've had miui and that can really comment on this.. would be nice to see this thead in Android General.
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Only thing I like about it is the messaging pop-up. Other than that it's mostly eye candy to me. No more or less functionality than cm
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If a mod sees fit to move it so be it.

ksmullins88 said:
Only thing I like about it is the messaging pop-up. Other than that it's mostly eye candy to me. No more or less functionality than cm
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why do you think the iphone is the most successful smartphone ever made. because iOS looks clean and ordinary folks like the eye candy! android has more features than ios but lacks in the aesthetic department.. where stock android lacks, miui succeeds. ICS is going in the right direction..

Its the most succesful smartphone because people stick with what they know, and most wouldn't know how to use android to its full potential to begin with.

I like the transparent dock of miui and go launcher
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Im glad somebody asked this. I was wondering the same thing. I want to try one out, I just don't know which one has the least amount of bugs.

Both are good. I like CM better because it's more flexible and more along the lines of AOSP andriod. I would call it a roided out AOSP rom. With MIUI, once you add a launcher on top, besides the pulldown whats the point? If you want the iphone look then there are alternative's to miui like Espier which is more Iphone like than even miui (at least until apple sues the developer).

jworkcoo said:
Im glad somebody asked this. I was wondering the same thing. I want to try one out, I just don't know which one has the least amount of bugs.
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try both since each user has their own preference. cm7 has less bugs i believe. i rocked both but right i'm back to ec05 until stable wifi/video gets fixed. both very important to me.

jworkcoo said:
Im glad somebody asked this. I was wondering the same thing. I want to try one out, I just don't know which one has the least amount of bugs.
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Right now for the Epic, CM7 development is a bit further along than Miui. I've been running CM since the 11th and it just keeps getting better with every new release.
Note: I don't/can't use wimax.

shane6374 said:
Both are good. I like CM better because it's more flexible and more along the lines of AOSP andriod. I would call it a roided out AOSP rom. With MIUI, once you add a launcher on top, besides the pulldown whats the point? If you want the iphone look then there are alternative's to miui like Espier which is more Iphone like than even miui (at least until apple sues the developer).
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same function but miui is better eye candy. one would be silly to think your only stuck with miui launcher and that any other launcher on top would hinder performance. same goes for cm7 which had adw integrated.

omair2005 said:
same function but miui is better eye candy. one would be silly to think your only stuck with miui launcher and that any other launcher on top would hinder performance. same goes for cm7 which had adw integrated.
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I have been flipping back and forth on my Nexus every day. I like how on Miui you can use the dialer from one theme, mms from another, pulldown bar and boot ani from another, etc but CM7 seems more refined development wise and it has plenty of good themes as well...and CM7 has 4g
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MIUI is more customizable, and it's basically like a Sense, MotoBlur, or TouchWiz made by Root Developers. That's the main reason I lean to it more then anything, but CM is just so stock and has everything but it has it so minimalistically, and that's why it's better. Both have their pros and cons, no one ROM is perfect, but both are amazing.

ksmullins88 said:
Only thing I like about it is the messaging pop-up. Other than that it's mostly eye candy to me. No more or less functionality than cm
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Use sms pop up for text msg pop ups onscreen very nice. Problem solved lol
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CM7 with themes. Got a crap load of themes installed. Makes Android actually look good for the first time...

Id vote for Cyanogen, I like the minimalistic look of it all.
But I can't vote right now.
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ICS vs Gingerbread

For me is not a big deal about ICS but for some it is....here is a comparison I found on YouTube. If I r on the xda app and it doesn't open click on, open in browser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofEgPEwTWrg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Save us almighty CM and AOSP from the binds of Samsung and TouchWiz. Amen
Nice video. Seems like the browser has improved quite a bit.

me_is_rushin said:
Save us almighty CM and AOSP from the binds of Samsung and TouchWiz. Amen
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Amen brother! Preach on with your bad self!
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Amen!
Honestly the difference between aosp gingerbread and Ics is like what it is between windows 7 and XP. Once you make the leap you will never look back.
From touch wiz...it's like the windows ME of the bunch. POS....

zander21510 said:
Amen!
Honestly the difference between aosp gingerbread and Ics is like what it is between windows 7 and XP. Once you make the leap you will never look back.
From touch wiz...it's like the windows ME of the bunch. POS....
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But if we are talking Motoblur, Sense and TouchWizz....yah Ill take the wizz.

Personally, I think the "official" ICS (LPQ) for the SGS2 seems more like an alpha build than a final product. CM9 nightly version for the i9100 feels more stable than Samsung's LPQ release.
I think I'd just stick with Gingerbread, rather than upgrade to Samsung's ICS builds.

obviously ICS is better the look the feel the speed
Its like saying Tupac vs Sojiua boy

Yes... Another ICS thread!
Much like most of us, I've gotten fed up with the ICS thread phenomenon..
However, I wanted to post this thread for the veterans and Devs.
Of course those of us in the know have been watching the activity escalate in the online feeds, and I have to say it's exciting to see the ramping up of releases and leaks..
We are at the threshold of real ICS goodness. I for one have been watching Kevin's Nova Launcher, since I am not a big fan of TouchWiz. Don't get me wrong, Samsung is impressive at coding.. it's functional and beautiful but too too slow and not enough customization for us hardcore themers.. With a few custom apps I see a gorgeous, lightning fast, better than Vanilla ICS experience coming.
Thoughts?
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My thoughts: I don't get the big deal over ICS Now, people running WP7 on the other hand...I can see why they get jacked about OS updates - WP7 sucks exponentially less with each one

I can understand people not liking TouchWiz because of the lack of customization and other reasons but not for being too slow. When I first got my S2 I thought it was blazing fast. OP you really think TouchWiz is too slow?

zkid2010 said:
My thoughts: I don't get the big deal over ICS Now, people running WP7 on the other hand...I can see why they get jacked about OS updates - WP7 sucks exponentially less with each one
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that's in two different states to qualify, right?
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Ics has hardware acceleration. That makes the phone feel brand new. I'm running it on my vibrant and it's like a whole new world. I really wouldn't mind twizz ics because I personally like it.
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ingenious247 said:
Thoughts?
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I do not see the point of this thread

I actually just made a few posts in other threads about a vanilla launcher before seeing this.. check out trebuchet its similar to nova.
I get where you are headed and with a 4.0 build and a few custom aosp apps we can easily have a pretty vanilla rom
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I need to get an answer, which I've been combing through the forums and the internet. I've heard through a very reputable source that Samsung coded Touchwiz so deep it utilizes the on chip GPU verses all the other launchers uses up precious phone resources. Touchwiz was "made" for the hardware of this phone.
Can someone please verify this.
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lawalty said:
I need to get an answer, which I've been combing through the forums and the internet. I've heard through a very reputable source that Samsung coded Touchwiz so deep it utilizes the on chip GPU verses all the other launchers uses up precious phone resources. Touchwiz was "made" for the hardware of this phone.
Can someone please verify this.
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Precious resources? Lol I'm running an alternative launcher and a bunch of other intensive apps and have over 500MB of RAM free...
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I hate ics too wait,what, we have ics build for t989 im downloading now
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death to TW!!! HAHA

Tw isn't even that bad lol, our phones are fast enough that it doesn't matter

i think its more the UI that most people don't like. ICS is so much prettier and smoother. for me, give me AOSP and I'll decide how I want my phone to look.
But the biggest reason I don't like TW or Sense or any of those custom UI's is cuz it just delays OS updates that much more cuz of that crap. When the AOSP version does everything the Custom ones do....what do I need the custom one for?

Sense or No Sense? What do you guys prefer...

Same question as in the title, do you prefer to have sense or prefer to get rid? I love sense 4 but do think the amount of ram it uses is a bit on the heavy side...
I'm currently undecided.
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Daley87 said:
Same question as in the title, do you prefer to have sense or prefer to get rid? I love sense 4 but do think the amount of ram it uses is a bit on the heavy side...
I'm currently undecided.
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i like sense..beautiful UI and just plain better than TW. but still if i see a AOKP rom or cm9 fully stable and working i will be making the jump. cause nothing beats pure google rom at the end of the day. both have their good and bad points. plus if you still like sense you can reduce the ram size it eats up by using rom cleaner

I prefer a vanilla experience, but I'm keeping a sense based ROM on my HOX until I can find a camera app that comes close to the greatness of the sense 4 camera and takes advantage of the hardware.
CM9 on my HOX was fast and snappy, but I don't care for the camera.
I did a bit of DE-Sensing on my own with Titanium by freezing a lot of HTC stuff; basically anything with the weird Sense in it. Greatly improved multitasking, but still not as well as my Nexus.
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distortedloop said:
I prefer a vanilla experience, but I'm keeping a sense based ROM on my HOX until I can find a camera app that comes close to the greatness of the sense 4 camera and takes advantage of the hardware.
CM9 on my HOX was fast and snappy, but I don't care for the camera.
I did a bit of DE-Sensing on my own with Titanium by freezing a lot of HTC stuff; basically anything with the weird Sense in it. Greatly improved multitasking, but still not as well as my Nexus.
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there is a thread now as well that gives you what apps to freeze or disable as well

Goku80 said:
there is a thread now as well that gives you what apps to freeze or disable as well
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Link?
I also feel the same as one of the above guys, until either the sense camera could be ported or something came close then i just can't make the jump to CM9
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Daley87 said:
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I also feel the same as one of the above guys, until either the sense camera could be ported or something came close then i just can't make the jump to CM9
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681729
there you go mate

Guys, I bought a HOX after owning a Samsung Captivate and then a Galaxy S2, so I considered myself a self proclaimed Samsung fanboi. I made the jump because I wanted to taste another brand and I've liked HTC since the Windows Mobile days.
Regarding Sense 4 let me tell you, compared to TW it is simply fantastic. It is so well designed, elegant, simple, love the lockscreen customizations.
You all are correct, the camera app on HOX is that good that I am not leaving sense until something better comes along. I am thinking of installing a Sense based ROM but I am hesitant as I am enjoying the stock experience so much (for now).

For me Sense gets old and ugly pretty quick. It's not worth the memory + cpu resources it consumes :/

tgascoigne said:
For me Sense gets old and ugly pretty quick. It's not worth the memory + cpu resources it consumes :/
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I agree it is a resource hog, but I think it looks better then most.
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I can't believe I'm saying this...

...But I am actually loving Touchwiz... I usually hate overlays but some of the features on TWIZ makes it hard to go back to AOSP based ROMs, as much as I love them (and I reallllllly love AOSP) I keep finding myself wanting to TWIZ it up. Anyone else have a new found love?
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I've been liking it a lot since the s2
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same **** here if they impliment tw motion features on AOSP it would be a real dream

I would love to have the aosp news and weather widget... it is my most favorite widget ever
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Have to agree tw on this phone rocks.
Apple just give up the IPHONE sucks deal with it.

i went to aokp and cm10 loved it but keep going back to tw......the features usually put in phones are usually corney as h*** but the ones samsung implemented in this phone is amazing and when im on cm10 and aokp i seem to missing those little extra bonus's touchwiz has.

Loving the Wiz since Epic Touch
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i know what you mean. I like smart stay stay and the move up to your ear to call feature. Some nice options in the settings too, but cm10 has more.

TW is nice without being too much. I'm sold.

Not sure if it's just because it's something new and different but I'm really diggin' TW after two HTC devices with Sense.

clankfu said:
Not sure if it's just because it's something new and different but I'm really diggin' TW after two HTC devices with Sense.
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It's one of the reasons I stayed with Sammy instead of going to the OneX. The TW additions really improve android. I only wish they would make the TW launcher more flexible. I gave up on custom ROMs on my Epic 4G and so far I haven't found anything I like better than stock on my SGS3 either.

Yes the new TW on the S3 is the best. I love all the added new features.

Smart Stay and most motion features still work on other launchers btw.

clankfu said:
Not sure if it's just because it's something new and different but I'm really diggin' TW after two HTC devices with Sense.
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Ditto. I ran sense 1.0-3.0 on my Evo OG and TW on the SGS3 is much much better. I also think TW looks "cleaner" than Sense. I'm just really satisfied with my SGS3. It's going to be a long time before I replace it.

Sleestax said:
Ditto. I ran sense 1.0-3.0 on my Evo OG and TW on the SGS3 is much much better. I also think TW looks "cleaner" than Sense. I'm just really satisfied with my SGS3. It's going to be a long time before I replace it.
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I began liking TW towards the later stages of Gingerbread on my OG Epic. AOSP is great, no question, but Sammy really has done a good job of the 'less is more' attitude with skins. There seems to be enough benefits to keep it around and enough to differentiate themselves, but it's not bogging your whole phone down like Sense can either.
It's like the took a page from Norton and did it the other way! Norton used to be great for anti-virus stuff, but now, that crap steals every single resource your computer has, and then some...

I also agree. Coming from a long line of HTC devices and a Motorola thrown in there, I think TW has a much lighter footprint than Sense and Motoblur.

I'm coming from the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon and I ran Jelly Bean on it since the day after Google announced it, and loved it.
Since moving to Sprint and the Galaxy S III and have not even thought about flashing a Jelly Bean ROM, okay, so I thought about it but can't bring myself to flash one and lose all the cool motion features.
But I am running Apex Launcher...

Add me to the list. I have been a fan since the original Epic and it just keeps getting better to me. I was checking out the Galaxy Nexus at Sprint one day a while back and I had to put it down. I was so used to Touchwiz I couldn't handle it. Felt like a let down.

Surprisingly i feel the same way.
Hated touchwiz on the Epic and Epic 4g Touch
but on the s3, it's not as instrusive and actually adds alot of functionality.
And that's cause I come from a Gnex running Jelly Belly... It's impressive.
I never though id say this, but I'm loving touchwiz.

[Q] What ROM?

I got my phone rooted.. Now what ROM would you recommend? I've moved over from HTC Sense.. so I would like something that has some sense alternatives like favorite contacts widget, bookmarks, and weather. So what would you recommend for me?

FreeGS3...all kinds of mods, a good theme, update me so you can customize your way...you will be very happy..link is in my sig below

I'm loving FreeGS3, but really try them all. Ask yourself a question - Do you want to stay with touchwiz or go with a aosp Rom.
Currently there is only a handful of each. Read the OP before you flash anything. And it wouldn't hurt to backtrack a few pages from the last one and get caught up on what bugs people are talking about.
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I don't know either ROM. They say developers are flocking to S3 but there is so few ROM's compared to HTC why is that? Like I said I een a fan of HTC Sense and I prefer whatever has the closest feel to it.. the favorites widgets, animated weather, Messenger Widgets I just can't seem to find any variation of for Android. The UI is just so clean of a feel to it what would come closest of the two?

molitar said:
I don't know either ROM. They say developers are flocking to S3 but there is so few ROM's compared to HTC why is that? Like I said I een a fan of HTC Sense and I prefer whatever has the closest feel to it.. the favorites widgets, animated weather, Messenger Widgets I just can't seem to find any variation of for Android. The UI is just so clean of a feel to it what would come closest of the two?
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Try both... Read the threads... Form your own opinion... Test em out.... Neither will eat your phone...
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I've always liked AOSP roms(CM9/10, AOKP) but dang man Sammy got it down with the GS3's TW so i find myself running FreeGS3 since its still TW with extras(mods and themes baby!) but yeah like everyone else is saying try them out. My other rom i keep up with though are the Cm10 Nightlies.

FreeGS3 user here. Best Rom I've flashed so far and the developer (clark44) is on top of things and talks to his userbase regularly via irc and responds relatively quickly in thread.
I came from the evo4g so I know the feel.
I installed a sense clock lookalike and when I have some free time plan to at least see if I can install a similar contacts/dialer app if I can't get the real deal. Everything else is awesome though, and the TW calendar is definitely better.
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molitar said:
I don't know either ROM. They say developers are flocking to S3 but there is so few ROM's compared to HTC why is that? Like I said I een a fan of HTC Sense and I prefer whatever has the closest feel to it.. the favorites widgets, animated weather, Messenger Widgets I just can't seem to find any variation of for Android. The UI is just so clean of a feel to it what would come closest of the two?
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I think the reason theres not a lot of roms for the gs3 yet is that the phone is relatively new. Wait... we'll have a ton of them in a month or 2.

Anything with an aosp base for sure. Touchwiz sucks although sense is htc's touchwiz so its about taste i guess. I would flash freegs3 or some other tw based rom and use the dualboot setup as a means of trying some aosp flavor so you can have both while u make up ur mind

I've been using the CM10 nightlies and they're running great for me!
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I've been using phantom hacker's blazer Rom since I got mine and loved until the last few weeks when the updates pretty much stopped due to ph getting is laptop stolen. Also using joshs jellybomb domination for a theme setup. Now while I like this set up I haven't yet tried others much because I have liked it so far mad if I like a Rom I tend to stick with it. I do prefer the stock lock screen over the jb one though.
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I'm a big fan of Strongsteve Odex Blue. You really have to like blue a lot, though.

billard412 said:
Anything with an aosp base for sure. Touchwiz sucks although sense is htc's touchwiz so its about taste i guess. I would flash freegs3 or some other tw based rom and use the dualboot setup as a means of trying some aosp flavor so you can have both while u make up ur mind
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Dual boot sounds interesting.. got a thread on the setup?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1767144
Can be set up to dualboot cm10/aokp/P.A as well

molitar said:
I don't know either ROM. They say developers are flocking to S3 but there is so few ROM's compared to HTC why is that? Like I said I een a fan of HTC Sense and I prefer whatever has the closest feel to it.. the favorites widgets, animated weather, Messenger Widgets I just can't seem to find any variation of for Android. The UI is just so clean of a feel to it what would come closest of the two?
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Personally I don't mind at all having just a handful of good roms. I'll take quality over quantity any day. Of the devices with tons of roms how many of those are either slight variants of other roms or just not quality? I mean how many roms does there need to be really as long as the themes/mods are plentiful? My 2 cents.

CCallahan said:
Personally I don't mind at all having just a handful of good roms. I'll take quality over quantity any day. Of the devices with tons of roms how many of those are either slight variants of other roms or just not quality? I mean how many roms does there need to be really as long as the themes/mods are plentiful? My 2 cents.
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Yeah....what he said

Does dual boot work well with TWRP recovery? Just want to make sure before I try it as I am using the FreeGS3 v0.1.0 on the phone now. It uses Update Me for many mods for that ROM. Been nice and stable ROM for me.

no twrp wont work it gotta be the cwm thats linked on their page

Ok.. btw since CWM it won't work with the CWM Touch Recovery either? The non touch recoveries really suck.