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[Q] Best ROM for EPiC Touch?? Stable/battery life

Just got my wife an Epic Touch 4G, I wanted to install CM9 on it, but I don't see it anywhere? I want something stable, with good battery life. What ROMS do you recommend ? can be TW/AOSP, as long as its STABLE and everything works. Shes rocking stock ICS on it now.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815854
I use that rom as my dd. Its calk's worked baked in to ff18 with some other stuff. Its almost stock feel. Most bloat removed. Ton of mods.
There is another awesome rom called blu kuban. Not sure if it fits your needs. Its super themed with awesome blue and black colors. Has its own kernel with a ton of cpu tweaks. Blu kuban is like the ultimate rom.
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euklid said:
Just got my wife an Epic Touch 4G, I wanted to install CM9 on it, but I don't see it anywhere? I want something stable, with good battery life. What ROMS do you recommend ? can be TW/AOSP, as long as its STABLE and everything works. Shes rocking stock ICS on it now.
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Cm9 is in original development
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cm9 is not stable yet on epic touch right?
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euklid said:
cm9 is not stable yet on epic touch right?
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Xda only has upto alpha 6 posted. But there are nightlies out there which are almost ready to be stable. I believe chris41g is himself working on that.
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BluesRulez said:
Xda only has upto alpha 6 posted. But there are nightlies out there which are almost ready to be stable. I believe chris41g is himself working on that.
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do you know where to download, i can't find it on cyanogenmod.com
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You could also try the "black" ROM, it's very stable and has a great battery life. It is off of ff18 right now but is going to move to fh13 soon.

Its funny how much this question gets asked. I would read up thoroughly on how to flash Roms and root or whatever it is you you want to do and go to the development section read about what is going on and how to install whatever ROM you want to try and try it, see how it works for you and if you don't like take it off. Trial and error is your best bet just make sure you aren't blindly flashing and installing stuff if you don't know what you are doing. Qbking77 has a lot of helpful videos on YouTube also.
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Also the most stable ROM is going to be the stock ota updates of course all of these Roms are in development obviously so as each one says on their page there is some issues with every single one.
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GiantJay said:
Also the most stable ROM is going to be the stock ota updates of course all of these Roms are in development obviously so as each one says on their page there is some issues with every single one.
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That's not true by a long shot...
The reason we started making our own ROMs was the instabilities, short-comings, and plain mistakes made by SamSprint in the stock ROMs.. you know, like the eMMC brick bug? That's a far cry from stable imo..

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That's not true by a long shot...
The reason we started making our own ROMs was the instabilities, short-comings, and plain mistakes made by SamSprint in the stock ROMs.. you know, like the eMMC brick bug? That's a far cry from stable imo..
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^^^this guy knows what he speaks of :thumbup:
We are legion, for we are many.
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Gargox said:
You could also try the "black" ROM, it's very stable and has a great battery life. It is off of ff18 right now but is going to move to fh13 soon.
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Agreed, I am very satisfied with the rom in terms of battery life. I wanted to try the fh13, but turned it keeps rebooting back to recovery.

S5 rom by venum check.out his thread just uploaded some pics on batery life 18+ hours and 3:30 on screen time every day best ics rom i have tried

chris41g said:
That's not true by a long shot...
The reason we started making our own ROMs was the instabilities, short-comings, and plain mistakes made by SamSprint in the stock ROMs.. you know, like the eMMC brick bug? That's a far cry from stable imo..
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STABLE! I DOWNGRADED from JB to get back to something this stable
Thx Chris.
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SHADOW GOD'S UNIVERSE ROM FH13
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I am using Phantom Blazer, great performance and battery seems to be pretty good too.
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roms
even though a "newbie", team nocturnal & team rejects Black rom is great for battery life, it is a darkly themed rom with available tweaks, pretty smooth & is my current daily driver

[POLL] What is your daily driver?

Hey guys, just take a poll as to what your daily driver is. Which ROM you have running the most. You can only pick one. Thanks for your time!

Lol. For the past week, I've been flashing a ROM a day. I wish there was that perfect ROM like Juggernaut 2.3.6 . It had AOKP with MIUI addons and a load of other stuff

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Lol. For the past week, I've been flashing a ROM a day. I wish there was that perfect ROM like Juggernaut 2.3.6 . It had AOKP with MIUI addons and a load of other stuff
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Ha me too. thats why i made the poll. trynna see which ROM gets used the most. Making some themes and MODs.

What about AOKP

Jedi mind trick. No rom can beat it in term of function and stability.
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peconaut said:
What about AOKP
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Missed one xD
prolly cause imnot a fan But thanks for reminding me! Anyone else who has this please comment AOKP JB or AOKP ICS . thanks!

Potluck JB - a pure and stable CMX variant
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29799166
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Alarmmy said:
Jedi mind trick. No rom can beat it in term of function and stability.
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Yep I got version 7 with faux 11 underclocked with the voltage app and running smooooth. Battery life is great too.
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Ive tried all the major ones, and for ICS based ROMS Jedi Mind Trick v7/v8 and TDJ's ROMS have been the best. That said, after a few days on ANY ICS ROM Ive tried I start getting anomalies that make it frustrating, so for now Im back on Darkside Digital Warfare 2.7. That seems to be my go-to ROM and I have never had one issue with it. I sacrifice a little snappiness, but for me its flawless and bulletproof.

AOKP fan here. I had the milestone 6 for the longest time.
Just trying out JMT since last week until AOKP-JB becomes stable.

Jedi Mind trick is my favorite but I was loving clones and drones when I was on it both are fast and stable
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It's CM10 by Erickwill build 0909
smooth and stable for me like charm
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CM10 super lite 91mb ROM I have NO issues. NOT one on the Hercules version of it. Just as stable and reliable as flashing any gingerbread ROM with the speed of jelly bean.
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Infamous 3.0 se stable, stock ,tweaked....its all you need
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I've been on ParanoidAndroid for a while now... But I will say the potluck version is a damn good cm10 rom for us Hercules owners. The most stable of all regular cm10 roms as all others had issues, his was very stable and good.
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Clones/Drones for me right now. Loving it too.
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Looks like its going to be beastmade for a while for me

I've been using the latest CM10 nightlies by EricWill ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852105 ) updating almost daily and its been great. Got a few SODs but its mostly been in the morning before I head out and a quick restart as I get in my car is sufficient. Aside from that small bug it's been great with me

Darkside Evolution 3v8! Easily the Rom of the year. Version 4 isn't a slouch either.
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Telus ICS Stock Rom for now
I've tried 4-5 roms since i bought my phone 4 weeks ago... and i'm always coming back to my nand backup of my stock rom because there'S always small things i'm not happy with every roms i tried...
Jedi knight 2... One of the best UI with SIII addons but got Launcher freezes 5-6 times a day for 30 seconds...
Clones and Drones... AccuWeather bugs on Lockscreen... ask in Celcius but got temp in Farenheit even with the small C besides and always show wrong city...
Koodo v.4.0.4 v3... this one was almost perfect for me but have poor data speed with Fido on 4G
Jedi mind Tricks V8 ... poor battery life...
But gonna continue to try others and coming back if there's new version of what i already tried...
thanks to all devs for the good work...

[Q] what rom to use?... read before QQ

now that darkside roms are gone (sad face) what alternatives that are just as good now? dont flame me

Death stalker looks promissing
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Jedi Mind Trick
Jedi Mind Trick V9 is the best ROM out there right now IMO..
Fast , smooth, galaxy s3 style, Super fast!!! Just make sure you do a clean install..
Use darkside super wipe before flashing
and darkside cache wipe after install
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818305

I dig the Superlite CM10 ROM. Pretty stable for Jellybean.

FeloHFP said:
now that darkside roms are gone (sad face) what alternatives that are just as good now? dont flame me
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None for me. My usual DD go tos are dark side v8 and cm9 but now that cm9 gives me graphical glitches I'm down to dark side. I tried pmtr3s roms and didn't like any of them. Didn't dig the theming at all especially with the sith (what's with all these Star Wars rom names? Tdj started it. Its cool but now just plain unoriginal.) Any who so now just running dark side v8.
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darth stalker #2 is the best rom no doubt. been running it for 3 days now and it super fast and stable. best battery life on any rom im tried too.

Darkside Evolution3 v8 is still the most reliable and stable imo.. if anyone needs it, they can PM me

I like the cm9 of teamchopsticks, its stable and more smooth than other rom, i tried the jedi mind trick, but the animations and transitions are more faster than what i like
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Can I get a link for how to install death stalker?

tdj's CM10.. he posted it on his Twitter.. the last Darkside product.. with interactive and deadline I haven't gotten a single sod or rr.. check it out..

Eugenes plain Jane ics.. If you don't dig touchwiz try this. Its my favorite. Very stable vanilla ics. I love it.. Running this until jb comes out officially for our phone.
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Was wondering what ROM to install. I'm glad I found this thread. Of the recommended ones above, do any of them have camera issues? I need my camera to just work, in addition to voice/data.

My question might deserve a new thread. but we'll see what happens..
Best ROM for...
Music? (Sound Quality).......
Battery?
Customization?

blob754 said:
darth stalker #2 is the best rom no doubt. been running it for 3 days now and it super fast and stable. best battery life on any rom im tried too.
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Could vouch for Darth stalker. Everything works, lightly themed, amazing battery life.
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Could vouch for Darth stalker. Everything works, lightly themed, amazing battery life.
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Does it use TouchWiz or a different launcher? Which camera app does it use?

Jedi mindtrick use touch wiz like galaxy s3
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drLouie said:
Does it use TouchWiz or a different launcher? Which camera app does it use?
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You have a choice of the S3 launcher or a modified stock. Of course you are free to use what you wish. I'm using nova myself.
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I've been using dark stalker now coming from Jedi mind trick. Much smoother ROM.
hey mind trick was fast but this is much more stable
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I'm using JMT v9 and its pretty shhweet. It's only my second rom, first was plain jane ICS. So i don't have experience with many roms.
Only had one problem with it, and of course it was when i was showing it off to an iphone owner.
Problem was I was pretty drunk and was adding pages to the home screen and maxxed them out. Went to delete them and it locked up and said touchwiz was not responding. So i just reflashed and wont be doing that again.
Cant post up the bug in the dev section yet, only a couple more posts to go.

Giomv21 said:
tdj's CM10.. he posted it on his Twitter.. the last Darkside product.. with interactive and deadline I haven't gotten a single sod or rr.. check it out..
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Word?
I gotta have it.
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Most stable ics rom with touchwiz

I am new to the galaxy s2 after coming from a sensation. I don't see a clear cut winner on this forum like in the sensation forum, I tried JediMindTrick and it seemed a little buggy after freezing sometimes. Can anyone recommend me another stable ics with tw rom?

Clones | drones, Jedi knight
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The new Jedi knight 3 is AMAZING!!!
If I helped in any way hit thanks!!
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Darkside evolution v8. These pmtr3 roms are okay but the theming is ridiculous. Evo8 keeps it stock and smooth. Its always my go to when I get tired of random reboots and sleeps of death. Trust me Evolution v8 is where its at for stability, best battery life, all while keeping that stock touchwiz look. There's a reason why its the most popular rom made so far for the t989 with over 1 million thread views. The rom is still available for download on TDJs sourceforge. Just Google thederekjay source forge. It will come up.
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RushAOZ said:
Darkside evolution v8. These pmtr3 roms are okay but the theming is ridiculous. Evo8 keeps it stock and smooth. Its always my go to when I get tired of random reboots and sleeps of death. Trust me Evolution v8 is where its at for stability, best battery life, all while keeping that stock touchwiz look. There's a reason why its the most popular rom made so far for the t989 with over 1 million thread views. The rom is still available for download on TDJs sourceforge. Just Google thederekjay source forge. It will come up.
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(http://sourceforge.net/projects/darkside-evo/)

Stock.
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RushAOZ said:
Darkside evolution v8. These pmtr3 roms are okay but the theming is ridiculous. Evo8 keeps it stock and smooth. Its always my go to when I get tired of random reboots and sleeps of death. Trust me Evolution v8 is where its at for stability, best battery life, all while keeping that stock touchwiz look. There's a reason why its the most popular rom made so far for the t989 with over 1 million thread views. The rom is still available for download on TDJs sourceforge. Just Google thederekjay source forge. It will come up.
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ptmr3 has a zip to flash back to stock on JK3, just saying.

my 2 cents
I stay with jedi mind trik 7 (I'm to lazy to update ) and after about 3 weeks I haven't had any problem.
I just added the tw calendar.
I moved from stock because of skype, that didn't work properly on stock ICS, but I have to say that this rom is really smooth and nice, therefore I think you should try to reinstall again everything before move to another distribution.
A tip, I reinstalled all app, instead of using titanium or similar, it's cleaner and in the end not so long with the market.
I suggest also to have some fun with google now

Dark side is definitely the hands down winner in TW roms. Besides, Jedi and all those other ptmr roms borrow heavily from tdj. Just saying.
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Jedi Knight V3 is the best of them all. :good:

bobpantsspongesquare said:
Dark side is definitely the hands down winner in TW roms. Besides, Jedi and all those other ptmr roms borrow heavily from tdj. Just saying.
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Truth.
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aranurea said:
Stock.
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Afraid I have to agree. My warranty replacement S2 came yesterday, preloaded with 4.04. I think I'm just staying here for a while. At least until I get my upgrade next month.
I had been on Paradox for probably 6 months and never really had many issues with the gingerbread roms, most are very stable. I tried jmt and sith as well as Beastmade, in a few different versions and flavors and they were ALL buggy. Most are putting way more time into themeing than into to trouble shooting. Read the posts...most issues are blamed on a bad flash or you used the wrong recovery method...NEVER the rom. To be fair I never got to try a Darkside rom as my phone went back under warranty... supposedly developed the bad power button thing and started boot looping and freaking out. I'm still not sure it wasn't rom related as the way it started it had nothing to do with the power button...that was the biproduct of a really unstable Sith rom.
All that said, if my stock 4.04 starts to lag and bog down with background bloatware, like my original s2 did that sent me here in the first place, then I will probably be back to flashing...or on to the S3.

escrowdog said:
Afraid I have to agree. My warranty replacement S2 came yesterday, preloaded with 4.04. I think I'm just staying here for a while. At least until I get my upgrade next month.
I had been on Paradox for probably 6 months and never really had many issues with the gingerbread roms, most are very stable. I tried jmt and sith as well as Beastmade, in a few different versions and flavors and they were ALL buggy. Most are putting way more time into themeing than into to trouble shooting. Read the posts...most issues are blamed on a bad flash or you used the wrong recovery method...NEVER the rom. To be fair I never got to try a Darkside rom as my phone went back under warranty... supposedly developed the bad power button thing and started boot looping and freaking out. I'm still not sure it wasn't rom related as the way it started it had nothing to do with the power button...that was the biproduct of a really unstable Sith rom.
All that said, if my stock 4.04 starts to lag and bog down with background bloatware, like my original s2 did that sent me here in the first place, then I will probably be back to flashing...or on to the S3.
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Exactly why I haven't even touched any if these new roms. No offense to any devs but our trusty ol' developers are almost all gone. As soon as tdj decided to leave all these new "devs" started flooding in. Trust me and let's end this post god dammit. If you want a WELL KNOWN, trusty, speedy, stable rom that keeps its stock look from a WELL KNOWN TRUSTED DEVELOPER, look no further than darkside evolution v8. The rom is perfect. No bugs I can think of, no nothing wrong with it whatsoever. God dammit I miss the Derek Jay. This place had to go and run him off. In all honesty I don't even want this phone anymore now that development is dead to me. Official cm9 twitches and flickers now and there's no more TDJ. The only developers that I trust on this thing now are eugene373 and whitehawkx. Forget the rest.
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RushAOZ said:
Exactly why I haven't even touched any if these new roms. No offense to any devs but our trusty ol' developers are almost all gone. As soon as tdj decided to leave all these new "devs" started flooding in. Trust me and let's end this post god dammit. If you want a WELL KNOWN, trusty, speedy, stable rom that keeps its stock look from a WELL KNOWN TRUSTED DEVELOPER, look no further than darkside evolution v8. The rom is perfect. No bugs I can think of, no nothing wrong with it whatsoever. God dammit I miss the Derek Jay. This place had to go and run him off. In all honesty I don't even want this phone anymore now that development is dead to me. Official cm9 twitches and flickers now and there's no more TDJ. The only developers that I trust on this thing now are eugene373 and whitehawkx. Forget the rest.
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I'm still running v7 based on 4.0.3. It's literally the perfect ROM for me. If 8 is as good or better, I'm going to flash that this weekend... I'm not one whose particularly a flash happy user. I really have not been impressed with what I've read about the other ROMs. I wish tdj was still here for this device.
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inpherknow said:
I'm still running v7 based on 4.0.3. It's literally the perfect ROM for me. If 8 is as good or better, I'm going to flash that this weekend... I'm not one whose particularly a flash happy user. I really have not been impressed with what I've read about the other ROMs. I wish tdj was still here for this device.
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It really is the perfect ICS rom. It will be a long while before see a jelly bean rom of the same caliber.
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You could check one of the other 10 threads asking the same thing
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RushAOZ said:
Exactly why I haven't even touched any if these new roms. No offense to any devs but our trusty ol' developers are almost all gone. As soon as tdj decided to leave all these new "devs" started flooding in. Trust me and let's end this post god dammit. If you want a WELL KNOWN, trusty, speedy, stable rom that keeps its stock look from a WELL KNOWN TRUSTED DEVELOPER, look no further than darkside evolution v8. The rom is perfect. No bugs I can think of, no nothing wrong with it whatsoever. God dammit I miss the Derek Jay. This place had to go and run him off. In all honesty I don't even want this phone anymore now that development is dead to me. Official cm9 twitches and flickers now and there's no more TDJ. The only developers that I trust on this thing now are eugene373 and whitehawkx. Forget the rest.
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Was over on the Sith thread...another phone bit the dust! Of course the post just gets ignored. Same issues I had. Not saying it's just his ROM but something weird is going on. Never saw some many people having power button, boot loop, flashing on and off, etc.

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I'm still running v7 based on 4.0.3. It's literally the perfect ROM for me. If 8 is as good or better, I'm going to flash that this weekend... I'm not one whose particularly a flash happy user. I really have not been impressed with what I've read about the other ROMs. I wish tdj was still here for this device.
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Do you have the developer landing page for the v8 rom? I am currently on koodo because i actually like tw and love its speed. I dont like is that GPS takes for ever to lock. I am not a flash happy guy either i want something stable and fast.

Don't want to sound like a hater but as far development goes good luck pfinding anything close to revolution or viper s in terms of quality. Now with that being said I like Darthstalker.

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Do you have the developer landing page for the v8 rom? I am currently on koodo because i actually like tw and love its speed. I dont like is that GPS takes for ever to lock. I am not a flash happy guy either i want something stable and fast.
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Unfortunately I don't, yet. That's my goal before the weekend is over though.
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looking for roms (mostly stable)- New too s3 devs.. point me in the right direction?

anything helps.

This will be locked soon. And the most common answer will be "try them all", but you can try FreeGS3 JB in Android Development.
Also search for mods in Themes and Apps for a thread with "morph" in the title for full customization.
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This will be locked soon. And the most common answer will be "try them all", but you can try FreeGS3 JB in Android Development.
Also search for mods in Themes and Apps for a thread with "morph" in the title for full customization.
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hey thanks a lot. right now my main goal is note 2 gallery and slooowwwwmoooooo cam
oh and of course jb. for some reason my stock ics found no update. whateves. flash time

I'm in love with Wicked Sensations. Great Touchwiz based rom with strong Developer support.
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Jelly bomb is the bomb. Has become my go to since cm10 is having issue that make it unreliable for work
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With that said post 2 says it all. In apps section you can find the Note 2 apps and add to most ROMs.
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I second Josh Beach's jelly bomb jellybean rom as top notch. Quadrupled battery life and improved all aspects of the s3. I came from blazer rom and was blown away by jelly bomb! Until flashing this I was about to get rid of the s3!!
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Chinkybean said:
I second Josh Beach's jelly bomb jellybean rom as top notch. Quadrupled battery life and improved all aspects of the s3. I came from blazer rom and was blown away by jelly bomb! Until flashing this I was about to get rid of the s3!!
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i have started using Jelly Bomb! i love it! only thing i wish it was less themed lol

I have 2 ROMs for you that I have fallen in love with. The first is the latest Paranoid Android with its awesome custom options and battery life. And the other one is the one I'm using now, aokp with ktoonz. This ROM is also very customizable and has given me be best battery life so far.
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Welcome to jelly bomb domination!...once you complete a full battery cycle and compare to other roms you will not mind the theming. Read/search the thread for how to mod it. You can get rid of the pull down graphic, slider and even the subdued background image that appears everywhere in v.8.0. At first I wasn't liking some of these either but now I barely notice them.
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The answer to your search depends on whether you want to keep Touch Wiz or not. The upside to Touch Wiz is that you can still use S-Beam etc.
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I would just flash for yourself and see what you like best. Different phones react differently to ROMs so what works for some people may not work for you. It seems that most people here are using Jelly Bomb, Wicked Sensation, Paranoid Android, CM10. Try them for yourself, but be sure to give it a few days to settle before you make any decisions on battery life, stability, etc.

Chinkybean said:
Welcome to jelly bomb domination!...once you complete a full battery cycle and compare to other roms you will not mind the theming. Read/search the thread for how to mod it. You can get rid of the pull down graphic, slider and even the subdued background image that appears everywhere in v.8.0. At first I wasn't liking some of these either but now I barely notice them.
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i have left jelly bomb and am now trying Frankenstein's kill joy v2.1 and wow am i loving it.. talk about performance and batt life.. quadrants in the 6k range. able to oc to 1890 Mhz using voltage control! super clean ui. can use silkui morphology mods to customize how i want.
idk.. the jelly bomb drove me nuts.. to much theme.
its was fun for the first 3 hours.. but yeah. it didn't grow on me.
i wish there was rom ratings poll.. for each device. and a stability rating along with the rating. if anyone knows someone or is capable of making this happen.. id be all over it! i know there is alot of junk troll crap out on these forms. I was looking at a rom to flash.. and baised off of OP it sounded ligit! then reading through the thread i soon found out that no one had been able to get the thing to even boot.. why cant posts like this be FLAGGED. idk. maybe the moderators were doing a crappy job or something. seems like they come in when least needed half the time ha. anyways. thanks guys for pointing me in the right direction!!!!
gladd this post didnt get deleted.
as for suggestions i think i will try PARANOIDANDROID. i had it running on my epic 4g touch and it was snazzy.. i dont remember why i left it.. i have "the collective" on e4gt now and was loving it.
anyways happy flashing and wish me luck!!

tnguyen1310 said:
I would just flash for yourself and see what you like best. Different phones react differently to ROMs so what works for some people may not work for you. It seems that most people here are using Jelly Bomb, Wicked Sensation, Paranoid Android, CM10. Try them for yourself, but be sure to give it a few days to settle before you make any decisions on battery life, stability, etc.
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are you a girl?? Tracy?

The People's ROM for JB just dropped yesterday....
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Any of y'all had any luck or success with an overclocked TouchWiz ROM?
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Naddict said:
The People's ROM for JB just dropped yesterday....
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taking a look now.
what do you think??

I'm in the same position. I upgraded from my 3 year old EVO 4G and am looking for where to start. This is a whole new learning lesson for me after being so use to roms and upgrading on the EVO. Are there some stable stock roms that have the sprint applications removed already? Which recovery is preferred as well. The EVO pretty much had only one recovery that worked well and Clockwork wasn't it. Not it appears there are 5 or six. TWRP is looking pretty good.
*Maybe this should be it's own thread. Hopefully with better spelling.

the peoples rom has ktweaker and i was able to land this
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