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Hi i want to know what is the best rom for now? Because i want to change my rom i cant decide which one is good.
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There's not a lot of active rom right now. So kinda hard to giv u some suggestion.
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I've used a LOT of the XP roms and first let me say this: there is no truly "best" rom, it all boils down largely to a matter of preference.
I'm currently running TrueAncestor 1.6 and I really like it, but I do miss certain things about ICS. The thing with ICS that's worth understanding is there is no truly stable or complete ICS rom for the Xperia Play. Every ICS rom has bugs or missing features. Some are worse than others. MANY ICS roms drop support for the touchpads in major games (EA Games, Gameloft Games, Rockstar Games) due to a colossal screwup on Sony's part. You can sort of regain the touchpad functionality using things like USB BT Joystick 6 or GameKeyboard, but those are hacks and they eat system resources.
Speaking of resources, ICS roms are also much more system intensive. Your phone will run slower, games will run less well, and your overall performance will be less snappy than GB roms. It's not *terrible* for sure, but Overclock is practically necessary for ICS roms to help make up for that performance loss. The XP's hardware is dated (it was dated when it launched, technically) and it's starting to show. The paltry amount of RAM and single core processor really hurt it's ability to run ICS and still kick ass at games.
Overall though, as far as ICS roms go I'd recommend AOKP, though the dev has gone dark and not updated it in a while. It was pretty good and had a lot of nice features. I hear CM9 is also nice, and it continues to get active support and development, and will eventually be superceded by CM10. Even then though, I still ran into moderate bugs on both of them - AOKP had a persistent problem where the WIFI would stop working due to a bug in the Settings dialog, so turning on/off your Wifi could cause it to stop working altogether, and the only fix was a reflash. It was a major pain in the ass. Other ICS roms will just randomly crash or reboot, or programs won't work or will crash that should otherwise work in ICS. Overall, be prepared for instability and don't expect 100% from your phone with virtually any ICS rom installed. Blame Sony for only releasing a beta of ICS and then dropping support.
There are other good ICS roms, such as ICS++, Ice Cream Sony, and KA, but some or all of those might have lost dev support (it's been a while since I checked) and none of them really did much in terms of feature changes/support, so they've stagnated compared to more active roms.
Honestly, I realize now that there wasn't a ton in ICS that I needed, and having switched back to GB last week I'm very happy I did - performance is better, battery life is tolerable (slightly worse than AOKP was), and games run great, plus I have full touchpad support again. It looked nice, but it didn't really add anything, and the bugs and missing features finally pushed me away from it after almost a year of running it (I've been running ICS since the first ICS ports hit the XP).
As for GB roms - TrueAncestor is good. I was running JokaWild for a bit, and it was ok, but it didn't blow me away, TA's theme is more preferrable to me. I'm running DoomKernel v14 which seems ok - it's also a bit dated though and Doom could probably do some updates to improve it a bit more if he had the time, but I'm sure he's quite busy.
I hope this helps - and good luck.
Also, if you aren't Fastboot enabled, get that done - it's worth the money and you'll need it in the hunt for the best rom, otherwise your selection will be very limited.
I have been using ICS roms and they are my favourite, there is a developer called secho I use many of his ports along with the kernel he recommends my favourite so far
True ancestor with my bloatware remover is my choice
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Also its not Sony's fault about the touchpads its ea gameloft etc
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Thanx guys.. I think i will switxh to gb instead of ics
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illuminerdi said:
I've used a LOT of the XP roms and first let me say this: there is no truly "best" rom, it all boils down largely to a matter of preference.
I'm currently running TrueAncestor 1.6 and I really like it, but I do miss certain things about ICS. The thing with ICS that's worth understanding is there is no truly stable or complete ICS rom for the Xperia Play. Every ICS rom has bugs or missing features. Some are worse than others. MANY ICS roms drop support for the touchpads in major games (EA Games, Gameloft Games, Rockstar Games) due to a colossal screwup on Sony's part. You can sort of regain the touchpad functionality using things like USB BT Joystick 6 or GameKeyboard, but those are hacks and they eat system resources.
Speaking of resources, ICS roms are also much more system intensive. Your phone will run slower, games will run less well, and your overall performance will be less snappy than GB roms. It's not *terrible* for sure, but Overclock is practically necessary for ICS roms to help make up for that performance loss. The XP's hardware is dated (it was dated when it launched, technically) and it's starting to show. The paltry amount of RAM and single core processor really hurt it's ability to run ICS and still kick ass at games.
Overall though, as far as ICS roms go I'd recommend AOKP, though the dev has gone dark and not updated it in a while. It was pretty good and had a lot of nice features. I hear CM9 is also nice, and it continues to get active support and development, and will eventually be superceded by CM10. Even then though, I still ran into moderate bugs on both of them - AOKP had a persistent problem where the WIFI would stop working due to a bug in the Settings dialog, so turning on/off your Wifi could cause it to stop working altogether, and the only fix was a reflash. It was a major pain in the ass. Other ICS roms will just randomly crash or reboot, or programs won't work or will crash that should otherwise work in ICS. Overall, be prepared for instability and don't expect 100% from your phone with virtually any ICS rom installed. Blame Sony for only releasing a beta of ICS and then dropping support.
There are other good ICS roms, such as ICS++, Ice Cream Sony, and KA, but some or all of those might have lost dev support (it's been a while since I checked) and none of them really did much in terms of feature changes/support, so they've stagnated compared to more active roms.
Honestly, I realize now that there wasn't a ton in ICS that I needed, and having switched back to GB last week I'm very happy I did - performance is better, battery life is tolerable (slightly worse than AOKP was), and games run great, plus I have full touchpad support again. It looked nice, but it didn't really add anything, and the bugs and missing features finally pushed me away from it after almost a year of running it (I've been running ICS since the first ICS ports hit the XP).
As for GB roms - TrueAncestor is good. I was running JokaWild for a bit, and it was ok, but it didn't blow me away, TA's theme is more preferrable to me. I'm running DoomKernel v14 which seems ok - it's also a bit dated though and Doom could probably do some updates to improve it a bit more if he had the time, but I'm sure he's quite busy.
I hope this helps - and good luck.
Also, if you aren't Fastboot enabled, get that done - it's worth the money and you'll need it in the hunt for the best rom, otherwise your selection will be very limited.
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Hi thanks for the info and suggestion but what is fastboot enabled? What it can do? Sorry for newbie question im only new at cfw world..
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[ROM] DiXperia 2 'Everlasting' | Performance. Stability. Experience. | 13.08.2012
Xperia NXT 1.2
ICS sucks btw. This custom ROM is smooth and touchpads arent buggy as hell as on ICS..
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Compared to the other phones I have used I have noticed that browser performance on my GNex seems slow. I have used both stock browser and Chrome. Has anyone else noticed this or have any tips on increasing browser performance? I am using a pretty clean rom (MMuzzy 4.2.1).
+1 this, both the default browser and especially chrome is very slow, I've had better results with third party browsers (dolphin browser, firefox etc.)
Never noticed any problems on my galaxy Nexus. Used cm + Franco. Buttery smooth since day one
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I should try Franco kernel. I have never done just a kernel swap before. I'll have to read up on the procedure and any risks.
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Never noticed any problems on my galaxy Nexus. Used cm + Franco. Buttery smooth since day one
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What other devices have you used for comparison? Comparing to an iphone 4s, which i got for my wife the same time i got my gnex, it is night and day how much faster the browser is.
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I should try Franco kernel. I have never done just a kernel swap before. I'll have to read up on the procedure and any risks.
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It won't make a difference.
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I should try Franco kernel. I have never done just a kernel swap before. I'll have to read up on the procedure and any risks.
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There really any risks. It's the same process as flashing a ROM.
Boot into Recovery, Wipe Dalvik and Cache, Flash Kernel.
Upon flashing a new ROM, you will need to reflash the kernel after flashing the ROM as flashing the ROM will override your existing kernel with the packaged kernel that comes with the ROM.
What other devices have you used for comparison? Comparing to an iphone 4s, which i got for my wife the same time i got my gnex, it is night and day how much faster the browser is.
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I have a iPod Touch 3rd Generation (really just use it for music nowadays), Transformer, NS, GN, N4.
The only browsing problem out of those devices I had was my Nexus S where stock browser was laggy but it may of been fixed in 4.0.X. On GB, the experience wasn't very good. iOS browsing is definitely smooth, but I can't bother to use it anymore because the screen is way too small.
I don't use the GN anymore, I gave it to a family member but the browsing has been nothing but exceptional. I can't even choose whether to use AOSP browser (stock on GN) or chrome.
It won't make a difference.
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Better than doing nothing. It would make a difference on the overall phone performance that's for sure. Use Trickster Mod with Franco Kernel to customize the kernel in terms of color, sound, frequencies, etc.
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There really any risks. It's the same process as flashing a ROM.
Boot into Recovery, Wipe Dalvik and Cache, Flash Kernel.
Upon flashing a new ROM, you will need to reflash the kernel after flashing the ROM as flashing the ROM will override your existing kernel with the packaged kernel that comes with the ROM.
I have a iPod Touch 3rd Generation (really just use it for music nowadays), Transformer, NS, GN, N4.
The only browsing problem out of those devices I had was my Nexus S where stock browser was laggy but it may of been fixed in 4.0.X. On GB, the experience wasn't very good. iOS browsing is definitely smooth, but I can't bother to use it anymore because the screen is way too small.
I don't use the GN anymore, I gave it to a family member but the browsing has been nothing but exceptional. I can't even choose whether to use AOSP browser (stock on GN) or chrome.
Better than doing nothing. It would make a difference on the overall phone performance that's for sure. Use Trickster Mod with Franco Kernel to customize the kernel in terms of color, sound, frequencies, etc.
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I highly disagree that using a custom kernel on Android 4.2.1 will make a noticeable difference. It is my humble opinion that Google has optimized this device as far as possible to the point that these third-party developers can't squeeze out anymore performance - if it was possible the Google engineers would have done it themselves.
I use to be a huge Trinity fan, used it since the ICS days and swore up and down by it - now I just run with stock. Do I notice a difference? NOPE.
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I highly disagree that using a custom kernel on Android 4.2.1 will make a noticeable difference. It is my humble opinion that Google has optimized this device as far as possible to the point that these third-party developers can't squeeze out anymore performance - if it was possible the Google engineers would have done it themselves.
I use to be a huge Trinity fan, used it since the ICS days and swore up and down by it - now I just run with stock. Do I notice a difference? NOPE.
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By saying that you're implying that NO custom kernel on 4.2.1 on ANY phones it would make a difference. So you're calling everybody a liar in kernel threads because they feel a placebo? It certainly makes a noticeable difference in overall phone performance as well as battery.
Google has not optimized the device as far as possible by ANY means. There are always room for improvement in every device and software that is ever released. As more optimizations are done, it is harder to optimize but there is ALWAYS room for improvement. ALWAYS.
On the Nexus 4, your statement is outright wrong. Google didn't optimize the kernel by any means, there are many problems with it. It is stable for sure, but there is so much Google could of done to improve the kernel where kernel developers are doing quite the job on improving upon it. This goes the same for the Galaxy Nexus as it is the Galaxy Nexus forum.
Colors on stock kernel vs. custom kernel with Color Control... difference? YUP.
Benchmark differences? YUP. (benchmarks dont really mean anything for real-time performance but for some people they are so 'woah' about it)
Improved WiFi performance? YUP. Proved in many threads with newer sources.
Not to mention the PGM module? PGM is so awesome for the Galaxy Nexus that it can't be given up
For me the speed on Stock Android JB 4.2.1 browser is really good but I have issue with uploading:
When I upload files to e.g. xda-developers, ge.tt, mediafire, etc. uploading will fail what have not happened on JB 4.1.2 and older Jelly Bean ROMs.
So if I want to upload file to internet I have to use Chrome.
I use 3G on my Nexus pretty much and the speed is really good compared to other browsers e.g. Chrome, Dolphin.
if there is one thing where the galaxy nexus is really great is browser performance, the stock browser works fantastic, stock or with some custom kernel, the browsing experience is almost the same.. if your browser performance is bad may be your connection or any other issue, because atleast in my case it works perfect.
I just recently switched back to Dolphin after giving Chrome a good month or so to wow me. I don't think it is a lot faster than Chrome, but it is faster. Plus, extensions.
I've used Quick ICS Browser for ages and it's great. Recently started using Opera and it's pretty sweet too, although nut as feature-packed.
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Ok, generally speaking, AospX is WAY faster than any JB 4.1-4.2.2 AOSP/AOKP ROM I have ever tried.
Any reasonal explanation for this?
Because with every successive iteration of Android, it gets farther away from the software for which the hardware was optimized.
That's obvious, but JB is still supposed to be faster (or at least on pair) with it's project butter and gpu optimizations present..
btw Nexus S is officially running on 4.2 so it's not like jellybean wasn't intended to run on such HW.
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That's obvious, but JB is still supposed to be faster (or at least on pair) with it's project butter and gpu optimizations present..
btw Nexus S is officially running on 4.2 so it's not like jellybean wasn't intended to run on such HW.
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My guess is, JB utilizes hardware resources more efficiently. If the hardware capability just isn't there, there is nothing to optimize. Also, with every iteration, reverse-engineering closed-source drivers and making them compatible gets tougher as Android moves farther away from stock.
And comparing a Nexus, which is designed to be upgraded with AOSP for its lifetime, to an HTC, which is designed to be upgraded with Sense once (maybe twice), isn't really fair.
Ultimately, who cares. The faster the better. I've just tried Nikills after using Sabsa Prime - all I can say is wow. It's like using a new phone with modern h/w.
As above, JB isn't exactly designed to run on our hardware. Heck ICS wasn't either.. Its all about the complexity of the OS. You won't run Windows 8 smoothly on a PC that can, just about, handle Windows 7)
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I have only run one custom ROM so far. I went from stock 2.3.5 sense 3 which I used for a week or so..... I was impressed enough with the stock performance that the first day I decided this would be my first android phone to leave stock for any amount of time. Battery issues caused me to root and install cm10.1 m3. Turns out the battery is shot anyways nothing to do with either ROM. Cm10.1 runs on average just as fast as stock GB did and it has been just as stable.
So in this case I think stock GB ROM has enough stuff that no performance drop is felt going to cm10.
If I went cm7 I'm sure it would be a lot faster but it's fast enough as it is so I won't give up this ROM for a bit more speed.
Scrolling seems to be 100% smooth 99% of the time, the only lag is like a couple seconds to open an app especially when I have several running.
My nexus one which I loved was not even close to this perfect on any jb ROMs I tried on it. I went back to cm7. The desire HD is way faster.
I haven't tried any other ROMs on this phone and in trying to get rid of my flashing obsession. I probably won't try any more for a while. I hope.
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Just my 16 year of expert opinion, generally ICS is faster in terms of performance, but JB is much smoother.. going from CodeFireX to Nik's Rebirth ROm, its still pretty smooth, but not as slick as project butter. Still, a great ROM..
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mustavalkosta's cm 10.1 nightlie builds are MUCH faster on my dhd than the stock GB rom.
Android jb faster. Fact is that it need some time for the developers to make it stable port to jb. They have make kernel according to it port each and every file according to desire hd. And no one can deny that still after more than a year no ics is complete stable as stock gb Rom.
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Just my 16 year of expert opinion, generally ICS is faster in terms of performance, but JB is much smoother.. going from CodeFireX to Nik's Rebirth ROm, its still pretty smooth, but not as slick as project butter. Still, a great ROM..
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Your statement is right, from my experience JB is smoother, but ICS is faster (faster opening apps).
But comparison to Nik's ROM is simply not fair as it's a Sense4 ROM which is obviously slower / more stuttering than any other ICS AOSP.
That makes sense to me. I think iv can deal with the extra tiny bit of time opening apps cause I like how smooth the scrolling is.
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I've been using Android for years now and I'm a huge Linux geek, but does the TouchWiz kernel really make that much of a performance improvement over an AOSP kernel, or is it other things also? When I first got my S4 I was amazed at how fast TW was out of the box, I stuck with it a few days and then went on to AOSP roms. I stayed on AOSP roms for about a week or two and things started to feel slower.
(before anyone flames me, I know benchmark scores don't mean a lot but they are a decent performance measurement) Just for the hell of it I ran Quadrant Advanced OC'd to 1.9 GHz and got a max of 7,000; I was having call quality issues to I decided to switch back to a TW rom, I was using either Wicked or Infamous S4 and while I had it loaded I ran Quadrant and got a whopping 12,700 which blew my mind! After the GE rom came out I was running that for about a week and was getting the same score. I didn't test it on the 4.3 leak though, which is apparently AOSP and not a stripped down TW rom.
So what is it about TW based roms that accounts for the huge difference in performance? Not only are my benchmark scores about 5,000-6,000 points higher, it also feels snappier while opening up programs and changing orientations. Are there a bunch of drivers/kernel modules that are missing or are hacked together in the AOSP roms/kernels that aren't nearly as good as the ones in the "official" roms?
Actually that is not true, I have seen some fast aosp roms out there, it is kernel related, experiment with a different kernel, you will see the results change.
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So what is it about TW based roms that accounts for the huge difference in performance? Not only are my benchmark scores about 5,000-6,000 points higher, it also feels snappier while opening up programs and changing orientations. Are there a bunch of drivers/kernel modules that are missing or are hacked together in the AOSP roms/kernels that aren't nearly as good as the ones in the "official" roms?
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I wouldn't say they're missing or hacked together, but Samsung has all the sources for their devices. Not just the kernel source, but also all the inner workings of the SoCs they're programming for. They have all the information needed to maximize the performance of the devices the make. AOSP roms don't have this luxury.
Think of it like graphics drivers in the Linux world. You can use nvidia's driver blobs (TW roms), or you can use F/OSS developed Nouveau drivers (AOSP).
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Actually that is not true, I have seen some fast aosp roms out there, it is kernel related, experiment with a different kernel, you will see the results change.
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I never said that it happened on all of the devices that I've had. In most cases the AOSP roms were almost always faster.
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I wouldn't say they're missing or hacked together, but Samsung has all the sources for their devices. Not just the kernel source, but also all the inner workings of the SoCs they're programming for. They have all the information needed to maximize the performance of the devices the make. AOSP roms don't have this luxury.
Think of it like graphics drivers in the Linux world. You can use nvidia's driver blobs (TW roms), or you can use F/OSS developed Nouveau drivers (AOSP).
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Yea I figured it was something like that. Thanks. Boo for closed source stuff
Just for fun I'm going to keep a running tally of quadrant benchmarks in here.
Score: 7762
Rom: RevoltJB v4.4 Stable
Kernel: Chronic Kernel 3.4.50 7/2
CPU: max 1.89 GHz performance governor
GPU: 504 performance governor
Score: 13191
Rom: Infamous S4 Google Edition v3
Kernel: Ktoonsez 3.4.0-KT-SGS4
CPU: max 1.998 GHz performance governor
GPU: 504 MHz performance governor
Quadrant scores mean absolutely nothing in terms of how fast a ROM/kernel is. You're basically using a random number generator to base your idea of speed on. TW ROMs are slow as hell when compared to AOSP.
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Quadrant scores mean absolutely nothing in terms of how fast a ROM/kernel is. You're basically using a random number generator to base your idea of speed on. TW ROMs are slow as hell when compared to AOSP.
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Bench marks aren't completely useless or else companies that review tech products wouldn't use them at all (I'm not speaking necessarily about Android). They do vary by a few hundred points but they do give you a ballpark range. Have you tried out the Google Edition rom yet? It's easy faster than any AOSP rom I've ever used.
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I've been using the GE ROM since it leaked and my phone runs circles around my brothers TW galaxy s4. *shrugs
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I've been using the GE ROM since it leaked and my phone runs circles around my brothers TW galaxy s4. *shrugs
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I don't have another one to test against, but they feel equally fast to me.
AOSP and AOKP ROMS are by far much smoother. I believe its to do with the lower size of the OS, theres just much fewer processes, and not as much detailing in the menus which just creates smoother overall transitions and a good experience. My only crutch against them are that they heat my Galaxy S4 so much, and i don't know why it would be so, but on TW my device can idle in the 30's, heats to 40's/50's under medium-heavy load and goes up to about 65 when gaming for long periods of time.
On AOKP and AOSP in the same situations i wont ever idle below 50 degrees, moderate usage brings it to mid-high 60's and heavy usage it constantly throttles at 70, and when i disabled my throttle it heated up to 80 so quick that i got scared and quickly turned it back on. All these temps are in C.
I found on the Galaxy S3 that AOKP ran much cooler than it did on the S4, and its just the temps on those ROMS are what keeps me on Touchwiz as my daily driver. Its bad on the battery life and bad on the feel when your phone is warm no matter what you do, yet i love the whole neatness and smoothness of AOKP.
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AOSP and AOKP ROMS are by far much smoother
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That's not what I've experienced on my S4. The Google Edition (which is TW based) runs circles around Carbon and RevoltJB, I haven't tried pure CM or AOKP yet though.
I*experimented the same problem concerning performance and high temperature on S4 on AOSP*roms.
I opened a issue on CM (CYAN-1768) and SlimRom (SlimRoms/device_samsung_jfltetmo/issues/2) issue tracker.
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I*experimented the same problem concerning performance and high temperature on S4 on AOSP*roms.
I opened a issue on CM (CYAN-1768) and SlimRom (SlimRoms/device_samsung_jfltetmo/issues/2) issue tracker.
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Because people do not know that ODEXING a ROM optimizes it. Most members see "deodexed" on the title of the zip and believe it will be faster than odex version. *sigh*
But none of them are faster than the new LiquidSmooth rom it's blazing fast. I have used it on my S2 and S3 but this is the fastest aosp rom out easily.
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I'm on tasks AOKP and its really fast. Every aosp ROM in general I have tried are faster.
I have never seen an aosp rom be "faster" than stock, and that's on all my phones. I used to like cm/aokp but they always have bugs, whether it's small or big, they always have bugs. On the S3 and on the S4 I have flashed aosp roms but always end up coming back to tw. Tw>aosp
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But none of them are faster than the new LiquidSmooth rom it's blazing fast. I have used it on my S2 and S3 but this is the fastest aosp rom out easily.
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I'm on tasks AOKP and its really fast. Every aosp ROM in general I have tried are faster.
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These are 2 very very fast roms... best aosp roms ive used. But, bottom line, samsung has stepped their game up and made tw work like a custom rom itself. Aside from the 600mb+ of stock bloat, this phone is perfect out if the box
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These are 2 very very fast roms... best aosp roms ive used. But, bottom line, samsung has stepped their game up and made tw work like a custom rom itself. Aside from the 600mb+ of stock bloat, this phone is perfect out if the box
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Say what??? Perfect out of the box no way.. and the tw theme it comes with is terrible looking as well.
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Say what??? Perfect out of the box no way.. and the tw theme it comes with is terrible looking as well.
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Lol ok
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Lol ok
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I mean l love the phone how I have it now but I guess to each his own. TW just doesn't work for me. The best TW rom I have seen that is themed and looks gteat is DeathStar but that's just my opinion. Personally I have never kept a stock rom on any phone I have ever had because of the limitations with it and the usual stock bull that comes with it.
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I mean l love the phone how I have it now but I guess to each his own. TW just doesn't work for me. The best TW rom I have seen that is themed and looks gteat is DeathStar but that's just my opinion. Personally I have never kept a stock rom on any phone I have ever had because of the limitations with it and the usual stock bull that comes with it.
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I always use custom roms as well... usually the ones i cook myself (see sig) but I'm just saying that there aren't as many mods or whatnot to add to this phone because of how nice it is on stock. Like u said... to each his own.
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I've been wondering. I've tested at least 30 xperia roms. From GB to ICS to Jellybean. And while the developers on this site have done a excellent, the majority of the custom roms, in my experience start to lag after a few weeks. Yes I know apps like Facebook will cause that but somehow I've only experienced none/little lag with the stock rom. So I can't help but wonder, in the long run are the Stock Roms provided by Sony the best? When it comes to the stability factor.
Yes ofcourse, thats how sony made it and they know best for our device.
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I've been wondering. I've tested at least 30 xperia roms. From GB to ICS to Jellybean. And while the developers on this site have done a excellent, the majority of the custom roms, in my experience start to lag after a few weeks. Yes I know apps like Facebook will cause that but somehow I've only experienced none/little lag with the stock rom. So I can't help but wonder, in the long run are the Stock Roms provided by Sony the best? When it comes to the stability factor.
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try this..JB ROM even not yet tested.. no LAG and all the latest options.. way better than a GB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357756
and yes.. SONY made the software.. sony made the hardware.. they made it.. its their brain child.. they know best.. but Devs also have an almost identical twin Performance Roms.. lolz
saqibkhan said:
try this..JB ROM even not yet tested.. no LAG and all the latest options.. way better than a GB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357756
and yes.. SONY made the software.. sony made the hardware.. they made it.. its their brain child.. they know best.. but Devs also have an almost identical twin Performance Roms.. lolz
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Sorry to say man but none of JB ROMs can be stable. Even yours. You can only achieve smooth UI and partly smooth gaming (not in heavy games of course) but performance will never be same as GB. And the big pain in the ass is random rebooting when big workload. You're right that JB have better options but that's all.
""For what you have big shiny car when you have only small rusted engine""
Jecmenn said:
Sorry to say man but none of JB ROMs can be stable. Even yours. You can only achieve smooth UI and partly smooth gaming (not in heavy games of course) but performance will never be same as GB. And the big pain in the ass is random rebooting when big workload. You're right that JB have better options but that's all.
""For what you have big shiny car when you have only small rusted engine""
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I agree. A Question can kernels mess up the stability of a stock rom? Cause I've flashed a stock rom on a Lupus kernel mainly for overclocking and I think the stock kernel works better...
Is there a stock kernel available but only with overclocking added on it?
Kevinkdc said:
I agree. A Question can kernels mess up the stability of a stock rom? Cause I've flashed a stock rom on a Lupus kernel mainly for overclocking and I think the stock kernel works better...
Is there a stock kernel available but only with overclocking added on it?
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I dunno but LUPUS has no problems with stability. In what aspect stock kernel is better?
You can try DoomKernel. It's probably closer to stock than LUPUS and has overclocking ability of course.