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Best ROM/Kernal for speed and stability

Hey guys I have tried the HD ROM, Beastless bug and I am currently on liquid ROM. so far the liquid I have liked the best but it is just too buggy with apps closing constantly and other weird things happening. What do you guys suggest for speed and reliability? Thanks heaps for any suggestions

I'm running Manhattan ROM IC120 with its standard kernel (leankernel) for almost as long as the ROM has existed and it has yet to fail me, very stable, very fast but low quadrants (which doesn't mean anything in the end). I recommend you give it a try

I'm with AOKP (The most common ROM) with Franco kernel and my phone is blazingly fast. No lockups, no reboots. EXCELLENT 34+ hours battery life, not kidding

I have tried many ROMS & kernels last few weeks, I achieve the best results with AOKP b27 & franco.Kernel r66 and r94, the latter slightly faster.
Manhattan, OAKP M4 (and build previous to b27), Apex / Trinity, Leankernel, franco.Kernel, GlaDOS. Glados had best screen on time, bust wasn't utterly fast. Trinity is FAST, but not so good battery life when screen is on.
I love alle the customization options in OAKP, and b27 turned out best for me.
My experience with the kernels, from good for battery (screen on!!) to fast:
- GlaDOS
- Leankernel
- franco.Kernel
- Trinity
No Nexus is the same, so YMMV
I am on 3G mostly, and most of the time is spent browsing. The OAKP b27 & franco.Kernel r94 gives me both good battery life for browsing a lot and a fast and stable combo.

Thanks heaps for the replies guys. I have flashed AOKP and it is awesome, liking it very much. To flash Franco Kernal now do I just install it through recovery like I did with the ROM?

Yes mate, get the cwm flashable zips from Francisco's thread. Then flash the zip through cwm recovery
And drink a coffee/ beer less and spent the money on franco.Kernel updater app, it's AWESOME and let's you change pretty much anything related to his kernels.

Ok thanks, have done both . Phone is flying now and I love the mods and kernal.

And you was asking for KERNEL not KERNAL !!!

franco
I recommend Franco kernel updater app. It has many handy setting ( USB fast charge, hot plug, etc) and allow you to download only or download&flash stable kernels and nightlies too !

arzbhatia said:
I'm with AOKP (The most common ROM) with Franco kernel and my phone is blazingly fast. No lockups, no reboots. EXCELLENT 34+ hours battery life, not kidding
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milestone 4+leankernel 2.5.0

I highly recommend FuguMod kernel. It's a fantastic kernel. I have loaded many kernels including Franco and Trinity. By far and wide FuguMod kernel is the best, fastest and most stable kernel I've used. It's also actively updated. I don't see myself using anything else anymore.

CM9 has been great for me. Fast, smooth. Just using the stock kernel.
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AOKP M4 + Franco M1 = not too bad

ive had good luck with aokp m4 + franco r97
im trying franco m1 currently

Currently on bugless beat. Works fine and close to stock.

Just switched from CM9 to Modaco w/Franco and its the smoothest/quickest Rom I have used. No customizing tho.
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CM9 vs AOKP vs Codename?

hey guys, just looking to see which one you guys like the most. I have only tried CM9, and it works pretty good. AOKP seems to have more features, but I have read of random bugs such as LOS? Codename seems great! But, issues with airplane mode? .
Am tempted to try AOKP as well as Codename out. What are your thoughts on all of the builds?

Codename does have the Airplane issue BUT however I will say this about it. I noticed it the first day the rom dropped (not really a big deal) and I've not changed over still to another rom. I have noticed however over the last day now so far I've not gotten the airplane mode at all and all I've really done is flash the FC15 and now the FC18 modems (same kernel as release none FC18 one)
In all honesty I like both AOKP/CODENAME I do also like CM9 but that's cause I've used it since the G1 days. If I were to start today AOKP/CODENAME would most likely be the 2 roms I would go for and never change back (which is pretty much what I'm doing now)

CM9 is beast plus the nexus s themes work for it but you must flash them before you boot up also like the fact there are builds out faster and pretty much every other day
Only thing I'd rather AOKP for is customization but CM9 for me has been alot smoother with less problems
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[Discussion]What ROM are you using and why?

This isn't really a question, but a discussion of what ROM you are using and why, that''s why I don't think this should be in the Q&A section.
I've tried a few ROMs, from LiquidSmooth to AOKP and I've tried a few kernels as well, from Glados to Franco and I've made up my mind.
I think AOKP is the best ROM right, and Milestone 5 being the best build of AOKP. It has a good battery life, awesome performance, and a massive amount of settings. I though about mentioning CM9 first, since it also has good battery speed and awesome performance, but it doesn't have all those features I need.
The best kernel to go with AOKP is undoubtedly Franco's kernel and his best build is the Milestone 3. I have tried Imoseyon's kernel, Trinity kernel and Galdos kernel and Franco's is still the best one. Also having Franco's kernel updater app makes everything even better!
Of course, this is all personal, which means this is what I think and you may have a mix that work better for you. I just though I'd share my input. Now, please share your input.

BAMF Paradigm or my own AOSP build. I don't mess with kernels much past what comes with rom (Not to say others shouldn't). I have been using imnut's pbj kernel the last few days, however.
Reasoning: Not so many tweaks that they end up conflicting with each other, time was taken to use proper signing keys, and the modifications are thoroughly tested before release.
I don't tell people what to use, as I let them make up their own mind. Just know I don't use anything I deem poor quality.

Got my nexus one week ago. flashed the most popular Roms here (but cm9) and was kinda disappointed. Coming from a galaxy s2 with roms full of bugs I expected the nexus roms to be stable because of the open nexus. But most of the roms been unstable and buggy for me too.
Now I found a good combination of Rom and kernel:
Bamf and glados kernel.
So far the most stable and battery saving combination for me. Using it since 24 hours and no FC or freezes so far. Think I'll stick with it.
Mods are cool too I just don't like the quick settings look in the notification bar and the not modable power menu. But I can live with that.
-sent from my galaxy nexus

Stock 4.0.4 IMM76I pure&simple:thumbup:
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pmcee said:
Got my nexus one week ago. flashed the most popular Roms here (but cm9) and was kinda disappointed. Coming from a galaxy s2 with roms full of bugs I expected the nexus roms to be stable because of the open nexus. But most of the roms been unstable and buggy for me too.
Now I found a good combination of Rom and kernel:
Bamf and glados kernel.
So far the most stable and battery saving combination for me. Using it since 24 hours and no FC or freezes so far. Think I'll stick with it.
Mods are cool too I just don't like the quick settings look in the notification bar and the not modable power menu. But I can live with that.
-sent from my galaxy nexus
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The quick settings take a bit to grow on ya. I didn't care for them at first but find them essential now. This coming from someone who is part of the team

adrynalyne said:
The quick settings take a bit to grow on ya. I didn't care for them at first but find them essential now. This coming from someone who is part of the team
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It's gonna be real hard for me to adapt with another ROM other than AOKP, if I ever switch to some other ROM ^^

AOKP Milestone 5, but I'm switching to the Paranoid Android. Love the 'hybrid' tablet/phone mix

I'm currently running Liquidsmooth with Imoseyon's kernel. I was planning to try a lot more Roms and kernel combos than I currently have but been a bit too busy lately to test each one thoroughly. I'm happy with Liquidsmooth, it has very few issues and I'm getting 2 days battery life (minimum) with moderate usage.
Next time I get a decent chance I will try out a few more

Aokp franco.
Most of all other roms take features from aokp. Like liquid smooth who renamed rom control to liquid control
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Ditto, aokp m5, Franco m3....until somebody makes something better!

Sourcery and stock kernel I love the on the go customization without having to reboot and this from brings back great memories of my d1 since I ran it on their forever
for me, by me and I love you

Bugless Beast. Its just like the name says. Never had a single problem with it in 5 months.
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Miui v4 just because they rock!

Franco kernel and aokp here. Haven't upgraded to milestone 5 yet. What governors are you guys running?
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I'm using liquid smooth with the provided kernel. USB tethering isn't working but the lightweight and zippy feel of the from beats everything out there. I also have a nandriod of Paranoid Android, miui.us, Imm30b, and aokp just in case they improve enough to be worthy of a couple weeks on my phone. The aokp launcher IMHO hesitates too much.
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I tried almost everything we have for now and stick to Modaco ROM because it's the smoothest of all, other roms are greatly customisable like CM9 or AOKP but they all lag here and there and i can't stand it/ The battery life is almost similar in all roms and it depends more on kernel you've chosen. I'm fine with franco milestone3. However I don't use nightlies because every of them gave me a random reboot at least once.

Theshawty said:
It's gonna be real hard for me to adapt with another ROM other than AOKP, if I ever switch to some other ROM ^^
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To each their own. I am not asking you to.

I have been rocking Bamf for the last few weeks. Really good with maybe 1 fc. Stock kernel wasn't giving me great battery so testing out Bond kernel right now. Getting slightly better battery results.
Have also tried Liquidsmooth, Modaco, and cm9. All pretty good but not as stable I find.
Have never tried Aokp. Crazy I know.

adrynalyne said:
To each their own. I am not asking you to.
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I know, but being the ROM freak I am, I'll probably end up flashing som other cool looking build
Right now, though, I'm satisfied with AOKP.
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I use the Modaco rom with Franco kernel m3. Modaco is running since 3 months and I can't complain about anything.
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Best ROM?

Whats best ROM out there? I know the ICS roms are buggy so lets try to exclude those unless you really do recommend it as a daily driver....lets here ur guys opinion? I havent installed a custom ROM on my phone yet so i'm trying to see what should be my 1st one. Thanks
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I take some offense that you call the ics roms buggy. They are excellent daily driver candidates. If you need wifi calling the. Dark side evolution 2 beta 3 is excellent as it is a tmo base. The only known big bug is that there is a voice delay on wifi calling if you are far from your router. The att based ics roms are a bit less "buggy" from what I hear but won't cut it if you absolutely need wifi calling. I recommend trying them all and seeing what you like. Its a matter of preference, not stability.
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I've used both ics darkside and gb I went back to gb for better battery and stability. There are still bugs that need to be fixed in ics. If you need more customization and faster speeds you can go with the ever so popular juggernaut. Or you can mix juggernauts rom and save battery with the darkside kernal witch people seem to be doing the most.
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Haha sorry dont mean to offend. I appreciate all the work the devs put in to these roms and I guess I have no room to call them buggy. They do the best the can with the resources they have.....but I guess until the official ics ROM comes out I can't expect perfection nor do i ever. But just wondering what roms people are running on their GS2
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Darkside Digital Warfare 2.7 is my daily driver, stable, smooth, fast, I can recommend this ROM!!
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Before you ask whats the ROM you should see if everyone could actually agree on the ranking of importance of features on ROMS.

I personally enjoyed Juggs 5 with either the hercules kernel or synergy. Great stability, customization and battery life.
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I meant streamline kernel
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Darkside 2.7 is best rom for our phone on GB.
I have tried darkside ICS too but lots of bugs there so went back to GB.
Tried AOKP too but not good as daily driver.
Jag 5.0 is good too but i choose Darkside for best battery life.
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I have flashed pretty much EVERY rom that has been put out by our great developers. I will say that the ICS roms seem to be less stable, and more problem prone because they are usually ports or have issues with hardware... As far as recommending a rom, I would recommend Juggernaut 5.0 (2.3.6) gingerbread. It is extremely fast, I get great battery life, and I do not have any problems. Along with Juggernaut, I flashed the Blaze radio, and crypted's GPS fix script, therefore I have 5 second or so GPS lock and my 4G is getting DL speeds of 15mb/s or so with uploads of 2mb/s.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1322642 - Juggernaut
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1476962 - Crypteds AGPS lock ADB script.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572198 - Blaze Modem
BUT; in reality, its user preference.
Happy Flashing!

I roll with the dark side ics 4.0.4 beta 6 on my t989. Works lovely for myself
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I flashed tons of roms and ended up going back to rooted GB stock. Its 100% bug free and i used TB to freeze the bloatware which greatly improved battery life.
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I flashed my share of roms. I flashed several slickmod roms, darkside digital roms, beastmod roms, malice, foxstar, stock, juggernaut, tuesday blu-ray, etc.
I would like darkside digital if it wasn't for the horrible echo when calling other S2 phones. I tried this rom several times over and the echo is still there. Juggs and foxstar give me echo problems too. But not every rom I tried gives echos. I flashed every rom I tried at least a good 4 times each. So I know.
I would like slickmod if the battery life was better (for the older ones) and if the theme was better (for the newer ones). I really don't like the new theme.
I would like tuesday if it had a more preferable theme to me (I don't like the dull gray theme but it's not too bad though). I would like more than 3 icons at the base also. But it's a very good rom.
I keep coming back to beastmod 5.0 though. It gave me the least problems (besides tuesday) and the best battery life (besides Darkside), while being fully featured (lots of features), and while the theme is livable (not the best but not bad either).
My vote is either beastmod 5.0 or tuesday rom (if you can dig the theme and the 3 icon base).
If I can create a hybrid. I would start with beastmod exteme 5.0 as a base, with stock theme (I like stock theme the best), the speed and smoothness of slickmod (it uses darkside kernel very well), the battery life of beastmod or darkside digital 2.5.1, and the stability of tuesday.
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quest4fire said:
I flashed tons of roms and ended up going back to rooted GB stock. Its 100% bug free and i used TB to freeze the bloatware which greatly improved battery life.
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Did you try flashing the stock GB rom with the synergy kernel or streamline kernel?
If so then did you still get 100% bug free? What about any improvements?
Anyone can answer this question though.

rfail1988 said:
Its a matter of preference, not stability.
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No offense but, I disagree. Stability is part of what makes a ROM a good candidate for use. What if a ROM with super excellent themes and mods running at the best speed possible and providing all features possible under the sun (well, as much as the device could possibly offer) and freezes or locks up randomly or every 2 mins?
Case in point, I was using a Blackberry previously -before ditching that thing completely- which had full data enabled, maps etc. (if you ever used BB, you'd know each of these services had to be provisioned) so, someone offered to sell me a hacked BB which had all these enabled. It worked great! I was ecstatic but the damn thing would freeze randomly all the time and at the worst time possible. I was driving with helps of google maps and had no clue about this place. Sure enough, for the past 9 hours it was fine but, that's when it decides to crap out. I pull over wait for 5 mins reboot (which is forever when you are really pissed) and restart maps again, search for address etc. only to crap out 5 mins later. See, there is no rhyme or reason for this to die but it does.
So, what did we learn? Stability IS a very important thing.

h1a8 said:
I flashed my share of roms. I flashed several slickmod roms, darkside digital roms, beastmod roms, malice, foxstar, stock, juggernaut, tuesday blu-ray, etc.
I would like darkside digital if it wasn't for the horrible echo when calling other S2 phones. I tried this rom several times over and the echo is still there. Juggs and foxstar give me echo problems too. But not every rom I tried gives echos. I flashed every rom I tried at least a good 4 times each. So I know.
I would like slickmod if the battery life was better (for the older ones) and if the theme was better (for the newer ones). I really don't like the new theme.
I would like tuesday if it had a more preferable theme to me (I don't like the dull gray theme but it's not too bad though). I would like more than 3 icons at the base also. But it's a very good rom.
I keep coming back to beastmod 5.0 though. It gave me the least problems (besides tuesday) and the best battery life (besides Darkside), while being fully featured (lots of features), and while the theme is livable (not the best but not bad either).
My vote is either beastmod 5.0 or tuesday rom (if you can dig the theme and the 3 icon base).
If I can create a hybrid. I would start with beastmod exteme 5.0 as a base, with stock theme (I like stock theme the best), the speed and smoothness of slickmod (it uses darkside kernel very well), the battery life of beastmod or darkside digital 2.5.1, and the stability of tuesday.
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Did you try flashing the stock GB rom with the synergy kernel or streamline kernel?
If so then did you still get 100% bug free? What about any improvements?
Anyone can answer this question though.
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No i have stock kernel. I miss having BLN with custom kernels. Sometimes when a ROM was buggy it was hard to tell if it was the Rom or kernel. Stability was worth trade off of not having BLN.
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I was using Beastmod 4.2 for ages and just switched to Darkside UCLE2 ICS ROM along with the AOSP theme on top of it. So far, I am really liking it. The camera seems to have a few bugs, but it still takes pictures fine. Also, the Wifi calling has some issues, but I don't use that either. All that said, I haven't encountered a force close yet, which was a pretty frequent occurance when I was using Beastmod.
I'm not sure why this thread exists though. Everyone has different expectations and needs of what a good ROM should be, so it all comes down to opinion and preference based on what you need.

quest4fire said:
No i have stock kernel. I miss having BLN with custom kernels. Sometimes when a ROM was buggy it was hard to tell if it was the Rom or kernel. Stability was worth trade off of not having BLN.
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May you try with synergy v10 or streamline kernels and report back. I have a feeling that those kernels are bug free, but I could be wrong. If I'm right then you would still have your bug free stock rom, with BLN ability, and a vast improvement of battery life. You would be a very happy camper indeed. It's definitely worth a try.
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Troyis said:
I was using Beastmod 4.2 for ages and just switched to Darkside UCLE2 ICS ROM along with the AOSP theme on top of it. So far, I am really liking it. The camera seems to have a few bugs, but it still takes pictures fine. Also, the Wifi calling has some issues, but I don't use that either. All that said, I haven't encountered a force close yet, which was a pretty frequent occurance when I was using Beastmod.
I'm not sure why this thread exists though. Everyone has different expectations and needs of what a good ROM should be, so it all comes down to opinion and preference based on what you need.
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Beastmod 4.2? Why not Beastmod 5.0?
But I agree. For the rom best for an individual theymust look at:
Theme
Stability
Performance
Features
Battery Life
To me it's beastmod 5 then maybe Tuesday next. But Darkside's digital Warfare would be the ABSOLUTE BEST to me if it wasn't for the echo when calling other s2 phones.

Optimizer said:
I have flashed pretty much EVERY rom that has been put out by our great developers. I will say that the ICS roms seem to be less stable, and more problem prone because they are usually ports or have issues with hardware... As far as recommending a rom, I would recommend Juggernaut 5.0 (2.3.6) gingerbread. It is extremely fast, I get great battery life, and I do not have any problems. Along with Juggernaut, I flashed the Blaze radio, and crypted's GPS fix script, therefore I have 5 second or so GPS lock and my 4G is getting DL speeds of 15mb/s or so with uploads of 2mb/s.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1322642 - Juggernaut
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1476962 - Crypteds AGPS lock ADB script.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572198 - Blaze Modem
BUT; in reality, its user preference.
Happy Flashing!
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Is there any specific order you install these in or just as how you posted it? Just wanted to make sure one doesn't affect the other if no order is required.
Thanks

You should try Seanster_GBaxe EX rom
You should try Seanster_GBaxe EX rom
It is GB but it has an ICS theme to it. You should try it. Its fast and I get good battery life as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445039&highlight=sean

Im on Juggernaut now. Loving it. But i must say i was a huge fan of the ICS Skyrocket port from att. It was very clean and didn't notice many bugs if any. I struggled to get my stuff restored on it. So i went back to juggs. Used TB to restore on juggs and everything was back to normal.

Best JB Rom for Nitro?

Which JB Rom would be the best for the Nitro? I'm on CM10 Stable right now and all seems good so far. When I had my GSIII CM10 was to buggy. Just wanted some opinions from you who have been using the Nitro for some time. Also which JB Roms work with LTE?

AUSTIN3:16 said:
Which JB Rom would be the best for the Nitro? I'm on CM10 Stable right now and all seems good so far. When I had my GSIII CM10 was to buggy. Just wanted some opinions from you who have been using the Nitro for some time. Also which JB Roms work with LTE?
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Asking questions like this, you miss out on all the fun. They are all more or less equally stable, equally battery draining, and most have functional LTE.

For my part, tried a couple and came back to normal CM10, im running the nightlies and not having any problems, added 4.2 camera, 42 kerboard and flashed Lighting Zap kernel gave me a little more performance and battery life.
Honestly, you should do the same, backup what you have now and try them, it's all about your personnal preference ...

Thanks for the input. When I had my SIII I got tired of flashing different ROMs all the time. I guess I'm just getting to the point where I just want something that works great. I see the ROM options for this device are limited compared to the other Android devices I've had.