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Hi.
Quite new to all this, managed to root and install a new custom ROM on my phone yesterday (took me 8hrs all together)
after alot of reading and help from other members i decided to go for the ARHD ROM.
Is this a good choice? i know alot about computer programing, but Phones are new to me, im enjoying learning about my DHD
is this a good ROM, or are there better I realise that its down to personal preferance, but is this an up to date ROM.
Cheers,
Jamie
There is no best rom.Best rom for one user is maybe the worst for some other.Try couple of custom roms and decide which suits you best.
Darius_III said:
There is no best rom.Best rom for one user is maybe the worst for some other.Try couple of custom roms and decide which suits you best.
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This is so true.. Just try other roms, and find which one suits your liking..
Also is there anyway to back up my home screen, and other screens settings with the widgets etc and all my app settings so i can just recover them back onto any new rom i install. it takes me hours to do this ater a factory reset or installing a new rom?
Cheers.
Jamie.Desire.HD said:
Also is there anyway to back up my home screen, and other screens settings with the widgets etc and all my app settings so i can just recover them back onto any new rom i install. it takes me hours to do this ater a factory reset or installing a new rom?
Cheers.
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Use titanium back up for apps and settings. Never back up system data. Widgets can't be backed up unless the launcher has a backup setting.
Jamie.Desire.HD said:
Also is there anyway to back up my home screen, and other screens settings with the widgets etc and all my app settings so i can just recover them back onto any new rom i install. it takes me hours to do this ater a factory reset or installing a new rom?
Cheers.
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I do not think it is better idea to back up your home/screen settings to use it across different ROMs. There is high chance that you will experience weird issues (every ROMs devs request to make a clean install if coming from other ROMs, importing backups would not make it clean anymore ).
As for the ROM, i think ARHD is a clever choice (i have settled to it after trying out all of the ROMs but RCMIX) if you want sense (or no-sense).
What if I asked you about the fastest ROM? I'm currently using LeeDroid bu I noticed that an OLDER Nexus One is much faster regarding the system. My only advantage is SuperFast IO and a bit faster 3D. CPU, even though it's set to 1,8 GHz Smoothass, is only half as efficient as the older 800MHz CPU in Nexus One.I read somewhere that it's a matter of picking a proper ROM, so which one would you suggest to me if I asked only for speed and responsiveness, and maybe battery life. Any Sense ROM is obviously out, but the problem is that I never used any other custom ROM. I would also like to retain my 2 way recording ability.
I used many roms, for me,
the best sense 2.1 rom is ARHD
best sense 3 rom is Virtuous Unity
ARHD is flawless and fast
VU has sense 3 but it has minor issues like Dolby is missing in music app. and its kernel doesnt have 2way recording support...
But i am stiil using VU with Lee s kernel
thanks, although Sense is not crucial, what I want is that my phone works as fast as possible and e'thing works as it should. I'm thinking about CM7 latest 7.1.0 RC1. People say camera is crappy but it can be changed.
I'd say give MIUI a try. It's really fast (faster then cm7 imo) and beautyful if you find the right theme in their theme manager
Furthermore it has way more features than cm7 but it isn't bloated like sense
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Flussen said:
I'd say give MIUI a try. It's really fast (faster then cm7 imo) and beautyful if you find the right theme in their theme manager
Furthermore it has way more features than cm7 but it isn't bloated like sense
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Only drawback is it makes your phone look and behave like an iPhone, I'd recommend Hydr0G3nMOD it's cm7 based but with some trimming and tweaking and fly's and it's a massive ~72mb! download so that should tell you something about the bloat.
i was deciding whether to flash to jokawild or gin2ics rom.
which one will be better in terms of stability and gaming experience? thanks and all opinions are appreciated!
I haven't tried any of them (yet), but how could you be sure without trying them both yourself? WOULD YOU TRUST US?!
I personally prefer PlayOSP by KeiranFTW, but it is ICS. I heard TrueAnchestor was nice too. But it's your choice, you'll have to try them.
ridder215215 said:
I personally prefer PlayOSP by KeiranFTW, but it is ICS. I heard TrueAnchestor was nice too. But it's your choice, you'll have to try them.
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trueAncestor have a good gaming experience? is there any bug with this custom rom?
talzer said:
trueAncestor have a good gaming experience? is there any bug with this custom rom?
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no.
I have not yet tried TrueAncestor but in my opinion Gin2Ics if you want a smooth stable experience. For me it is the best GB rom I've seen. It looks exactly like ICS and has many features from the Xperia S implemented, such as messaging, phone, contacts, browser etc.. It's bloatware free and comes with only the bare essentials you need. The internal memory is ridiculous around 300 mb free! (If I remember correctly) It really is phenomenal, fast smooth, stable, good looking, and it has amazing battery life. Best of all the creator Vokal1992 updates the ROM very frequently any bugs found are sorted out in practically no time at all. Try it? What have you got to lose backup your phone now and if you don't like it then just restore.
Hope I've been of any help
ridder215215 said:
I personally prefer PlayOSP by KeiranFTW, but it is ICS. I heard TrueAnchestor was nice too. But it's your choice, you'll have to try them.
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Im with ridder, i have PlayOSP with Keirans kernel and i runs smooth, great battery life.
you would need an unlocked bootloader and you can find it here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635826
elnacho said:
Im with ridder, i have PlayOSP with Keirans kernel and i runs smooth, great battery life.
you would need an unlocked bootloader and you can find it here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635826
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i see the video recording function is not working with this rom, is it ?
fareeed said:
I have not yet tried TrueAncestor but in my opinion Gin2Ics if you want a smooth stable experience. For me it is the best GB rom I've seen. It looks exactly like ICS and has many features from the Xperia S implemented, such as messaging, phone, contacts, browser etc.. It's bloatware free and comes with only the bare essentials you need. The internal memory is ridiculous around 300 mb free! (If I remember correctly) It really is phenomenal, fast smooth, stable, good looking, and it has amazing battery life. Best of all the creator Vokal1992 updates the ROM very frequently any bugs found are sorted out in practically no time at all. Try it? What have you got to lose backup your phone now and if you don't like it then just restore.
Hope I've been of any help
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I used to using gin2ics rom..
And then I tried TrueAncestor, and booom! It's so fast and smooth
TrueAncestor will give you the best xperia S experience, and that's the thing which makes me stuck on that rom
Also the creator of TA rom is always respon to all people who posted on TA thread
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i see the video recording function is not working with this rom, is it ?
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As I can remember, on All ICS roms, the video recording is not functioning, but on this one, data, wifi, gamepad and several more stuff do work like a charm
good to hear
I'm using AOKP and video recording and playback works perfectly great battery life aswel
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Hi I have the N7100 model and Im testing Hawkish new rom, what rom u think is the best? I have tried Omega, Wanamlite, Veindroid, Crash, havent found a rom without problems, my favorite so far is Wanamlite v1.5 the most stable and smooth for me, what u think?
All of them... Test no one can answer that but you.
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All of them... Test no one can answer that but you.
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^ This.
Back-up your current ROM and go test! That's half the fun
latest stock
ARHD!
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ARHD!
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Thanks buddy will try it
The best one if the one you like the best. Even if that means stock.
Okay this is what I think.
Omega - Super good for themeing. Kinda heavy for a normal user
ARHD - Very close to stock. One of the best roms for me. Never had any issue with this.
monxdified - Honestly, this is one hell of a rom. Very good and slim. Didn't expect it to work well but heck, it does! No problem and highly recommended.
HyperNote - if you like a superb slim rom, this is the one for you. No bloatware. All all to you.
Crash - Too early to say. Still in testing phrase for me.
If you ask me, here's my rating.
ARHD = monxDIFIED > Omega > HyperNote > Crash
But, don't take my word completely! Try it out or something
ParanoidAndroid
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ParanoidAndroid
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I don't know but whats the point of owning a Note 2 and can't use its features like censors or s-pen?
DR0IDMANIAC said:
I don't know but whats the point of owning a Note 2 and can't use its features like censors or s-pen?
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On the latest builds some S-Pen functionality has been included (don't know how much though). I think they are including the wacom digitizer drivers on the kernel/rom. The stylus is functional, you loose functionality related to TW. And there's some apps that you can use instead of Samsungs, like Papyrus instead of S-Note (which is 10 times smaller btw). We'll see how it evolves, maybe in a couple of months there will be new ways of using the stylus implemented on those roms that you can't use with Samsung stock roms.
nicregi said:
Okay this is what I think.
Omega - Super good for themeing. Kinda heavy for a normal user
ARHD - Very close to stock. One of the best roms for me. Never had any issue with this.
monxdified - Honestly, this is one hell of a rom. Very good and slim. Didn't expect it to work well but heck, it does! No problem and highly recommended.
HyperNote - if you like a superb slim rom, this is the one for you. No bloatware. All all to you.
Crash - Too early to say. Still in testing phrase for me.
If you ask me, here's my rating.
ARHD = monxDIFIED > Omega > HyperNote > Crash
But, don't take my word completely! Try it out or something
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Im running ARHD ver. 4.0 with Redpill 0.5 kernel and it runs flawless no problems with camera or nothing and the battery is the best I have get in a custom rom, really impressive.
nicregi said:
Okay this is what I think.
Omega - Super good for themeing. Kinda heavy for a normal user
ARHD - Very close to stock. One of the best roms for me. Never had any issue with this.
monxdified - Honestly, this is one hell of a rom. Very good and slim. Didn't expect it to work well but heck, it does! No problem and highly recommended.
HyperNote - if you like a superb slim rom, this is the one for you. No bloatware. All all to you.
Crash - Too early to say. Still in testing phrase for me.
If you ask me, here's my rating.
ARHD = monxDIFIED > Omega > HyperNote > Crash
But, don't take my word completely! Try it out or something
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first of all, I think this is an excellent idea to gauge other users opinion. I have been using ARHD, and I think it is excellent. I would like to use a very slim ROM which focuses on best phone reception, leaving plenty of memory to watch movies/play games/or emails. Talking of movies, it would be nice to use ext4 format for sd card and permanently setting internal/external sd card. Anyone, advise.
Ive heard that battery life on stock rom is much more better than on all custom roms...
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Hey guys I recommend the new rom from Crash v3.1 its beautifully themed,super fast and have a new cool mod that when you're on the lock screen and touch it with you're finger you see the blue ink on the screen,remember that build LJ2 4.1.2 is a leaked base and have bugs,the only roms that I have tested and worked perfect was WanamLite v1.5 ,Android Revolution HD v4.2 and Omega v6.1 because they use LJ3 or LJA 4.1.1 oficial base, hope this helps
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Hey guys I recommend the new rom from Crash v3.1 its beautifully themed,super fast and have a new cool mod that when you're on the lock screen and touch it with you're finger you see the blue ink on the screen,remember that build LJ2 4.1.2 is a leaked base and have bugs,the only roms that I have tested and worked perfect was WanamLite v1.5 ,Android Revolution HD v4.2 and Omega v6.1 because they use LJ3 or LJA 4.1.1 oficial base, hope this helps
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Reading all the good reviews, I dont see a thing that I will gain installing any custom Rom and the best of best is still STOCK.
Hats off to Samsung.. no doubt hiring Steve (Cyanogen) is paying off well.
Right now I am rooted, have CWM touch recovery installed and only installed Multi App mod, waiting for a really temting rom to arrive.
There are great great hard works from developers and will have to wait some more days to enjoy best of custom roms which are evolving..till them Stock rom is perfect!!!
zabaknilesh said:
Reading all the good reviews, I dont see a thing that I will gain installing any custom Rom and the best of best is still STOCK.
Hats off to Samsung.. no doubt hiring Steve (Cyanogen) is paying off well.
Right now I am rooted, have CWM touch recovery installed and only installed Multi App mod, waiting for a really temting rom to arrive.
There are great great hard works from developers and will have to wait some more days to enjoy best of custom roms which are evolving..till them Stock rom is perfect!!!
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Have you tried Android Revolution HD? Its a stock rom with better performance and battery life,no visual changes or other mods.
Try version 4.2, dont flash 5.0, its based on the new leak and have some bugs.
Ok will sure try ....I am cust rom lover...
Is this the best as per you..?
Do I need to flask kernel too... or is stock kernel ok?
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zabaknilesh said:
Ok will sure try ....I am cust rom lover...
Is this the best as per you..?
Do I need to flask kernel too... or is stock kernel ok?
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If u want stock look ARHD is the best version 4.2,in aroma gives you the option to flash stock or Perseus ver. 26.1, go with Perseus better performance and battery life.
Some phones faced bugs and some didn't - weird. But, this also happens when you use any ROM and you're 100% sure you flashed correctly. I had no problems with ARHD 5. With monxDIFIED (my current test for the last 5 days) I used it for over 2 days without recharging and I still had about 26% battery. GPS, WI-FI etc. were on all the time. Using No-Frills CPU control to hit both top and bottom end (although top end only allows 1.6GHz, whereas with ARHD5, it allowed 1.8GHz(?))
There's a lot to be said about flashing and wiping et al.
I don really like CM stuff for my NoteII.
I really dont know If I want to run complete stock or run a rom. I don't like themes unless it was on a HTC phone with sense , but I like pure stock. Is having a rom will I get better performance cause ive ran AnTuTU & and Quadrant and seem to get better results by a little but I know people say not to go by benchmarks. I just want the best Performance and reliability.
Best performance is still subjective without narrowing in on a certain aspect. In the end it all comes down to your perspective of what works best for you in your usage patterns.
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I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
You could try ARHD. It's completely stock look, just changes "under the hood", if you will. Or you could remain with Stock, nothing wrong with that.
Well I do see a benchmark increase when using a ROM but im not sure to belaive it or not. I`m not sure ive been going back in foruth for almost a week now:laugh: I just wanna have something to leave on there lol.
I was using Omega but I dont like the its currently using a leaked 4.1.2 instead of offical 4.1.1
Most of the roms in the rom section are all 4.1.2 anyway. So you would have to be on that firmware if you flash a custom rom.
A little bit of my history. I've flashed a lot of custom roms for this phone and I've always found that I always revert back to stock rom. It's the most stable and battery efficient. There's always a problem with some app which I use which doesn't work when I used a custom rom.
So I gave up and just stuck to stock rom.
Beamed from Jupiter on my Galaxy Note II
AjunNg said:
Most of the roms in the rom section are all 4.1.2 anyway. So you would have to be on that firmware if you flash a custom rom.
A little bit of my history. I've flashed a lot of custom roms for this phone and I've always found that I always revert back to stock rom. It's the most stable and battery efficient. There's always a problem with some app which I use which doesn't work when I used a custom rom.
So I gave up and just stuck to stock rom.
Beamed from Jupiter on my Galaxy Note II
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Sounds like me!!!! Ive used odin a million times since 2010 haha. I got my first android coming from blackberry in 2010 then in dec 2010 I got the first galaxy s and thats when the flashing started but I kept going back to stock. Whats the best base or stock rom? Im currently on the oct germany stock rom.
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Which stock rom would be best?
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I have this device for about 2 weeks. Almost flashing everyday from custom to stock and vice versa. Now I am back at Stock Rom and just enjoying the device.
It's better to be in Stock ROM I think when you use a smartphone like Note 2. Stock ROM comes with proper functions that can utilize the hardware properly, specially that S Pen. It's just 7 day I have this device and I tried few ROM but back to stock now.
I rooted my phone with plans to use a custom rom, but after researching the different roms, though they add cool features, they always seem to break something else on your phone, and it seems like you have to spend a lot of time researching, downloading different fixes, just fiddling around with your phone. So I decided not to go that route and just wait for the official ATT updates.
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Which stock rom would be best?
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Where are two kinds of ROM for Note: one is based on AOSP (open sources) like CM10, and second – on Samsung sources (aka touchwiz or tw). First one is still a little buggy and don’t have proprietary software like exFat, S-Pen and so on.
ROM based on Samsung sources usually as stable as a stock rom and have all Samsung features.
Most popular are Android Revolution HD & Omega. Also a Hypernote is good, if you want clean installation and 280dpi for more screen real estate.
It is also worth looking at MIUI ROM – today it officially released for Note2 and (as I suggest) based on Samsung ROM.
I know what cm10 is and such I ran it on older phones I couldnt bare cm on the note though. I wad meaning which stock rom is better to use under the stock rom thread? Im on th4 germsny one
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I think the Stock rom is a fantastic rom.
I don't root or anything. This phone FLIES by itself, it also offers very good stability. I don't have any crashes whatsoever from the system itself. If it does crash, it's the APP. (ejem ejem... CHROME!) But I don't have issues with the stock ANYTHING. Great phone. I can get more than a full day of use, or 4-5 hours of screen time with regular usage (not downloading torrents or anything like that over 3G. I mean with regular usage, email, chat, FB, some pictures, browsing the web etc etc).
Yea im prob gonna run stock plus root and kernal. But whats the best stock rom to odin? What do you all use?
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What stock rom base is the best? I was thinking of using N7100XXALJ3_N7100OXXALJ4
I've been flashing Lots of CustomROMs these days hoping that I will be able to find one with a good camera app. CyanogenMod is an awesome ROM but still doesn't have a decent Camera App that utilizes the most of my Camera ( I remember the stock ROM was better). I am here to ask for a good ROM with a good camera app, if there isn't any, I want to know how to flash the stock ROM back and Theme it ? Thanks in advance
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I've been flashing Lots of CustomROMs these days hoping that I will be able to find one with a good camera app. CyanogenMod is an awesome ROM but still doesn't have a decent Camera App that utilizes the most of my Camera ( I remember the stock ROM was better). I am here to ask for a good ROM with a good camera app, if there isn't any, I want to know how to flash the stock ROM back and Theme it ? Thanks in advance
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there's lot of custom rom fo gb..u can try it..and try search on developer section
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there's lot of custom rom fo gb..u can try it..and try search on developer section
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Could you please give me links for some ?
amr.reflection said:
I've been flashing Lots of CustomROMs these days hoping that I will be able to find one with a good camera app. CyanogenMod is an awesome ROM but still doesn't have a decent Camera App that utilizes the most of my Camera ( I remember the stock ROM was better). I am here to ask for a good ROM with a good camera app, if there isn't any, I want to know how to flash the stock ROM back and Theme it ? Thanks in advance
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If i may recommend one to you it would be Ehndroix III based on 4.2.2. Jelly Bean. Till now no noticeable problems. Just one little bug, that the taken picture turns green, but in gallery it is more than ok. This rom has Bravia Engine2 and pictures, even videos look for me better than on stock.
Another stable rom that's based on ICS is RemICS ux 1.7 by sparta 20 (4.0.4.). This rom is the absolute favourite so far because everything worked flawlessy. I modded it with Ac!d mode (Awesome Beats included) and Walkman player and made it lagfree with Seeder 2.0 apk. This one was also real smooth and it has S3 looks. I'm not using it right now because i like Jelly Beans new features and therefore i switched to that.
There are many more roms, tried some of them, but as you already noticed, there are indeed many bugs.
These two were my favourits, till know perfect for dayly use and also taking pictures or capturing videos in 720p.
Hope this gave you some direction.
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bhun said:
If i may recommend one to you it would be Ehndroix III based on 4.2.2. Jelly Bean. Till now no noticeable problems. Just one little bug, that the taken picture turns green, but in gallery it is more than ok. This rom has Bravia Engine2 and pictures, even videos look for me better than on stock.
Another stable rom that's based on ICS is RemICS ux 1.7 by sparta 20 (4.0.4.). This rom is the absolute favourite so far because everything worked flawlessy. I modded it with Ac!d mode (Awesome Beats included) and Walkman player and made it lagfree with Seeder 2.0 apk. This one was also real smooth and it has S3 looks. I'm not using it right now because i like Jelly Beans new features and therefore i switched to that.
There are many more roms, tried some of them, but as you already noticed, there are indeed many bugs.
These two were my favourits, till know perfect for dayly use and also taking pictures or capturing videos in 720p.
Hope this gave you some direction.
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One more little thing to Ehndroix III It has problems with wep connections wich are easily fixed by flashing latest Skull Kernel (link is in the posts on Ehndroix III thread). :fingers-crossed: