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thoughts on best rom

I know this question will cause some debate but what would you say is the best rom for the galaxy nexus?

ARHD
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What does that mean??

You didn't see a rom in the dec section that might be abbreviated ARHD? Or any of the other "what's the best rom" threads, for that matter?
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How about AOKP? Try that abbreviation
Terminators run on Android

I'm using rootzboat. I'm really good.
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Definitely Android Revolution HD (ARHD). I tried others but none were as sweet as ARHD.

I used android revolution but was tired of being on 4.0.2 as the developer was waiting for Google to drop 4.0.3 binaries.
And Franco's kernel was for 4.0.3 only. So I started using Aokp and I simply love it. Aokp + Franco Kernel is a amazing mix for performance and battery.
Aokp also adds new features such as power saver to help with battery and with various status bar tweaks.
Aokp +, Franco kernel.... Nothing gets any better. Also Aokp pushes updates every other day so you can expect goodies every 3-5 days.
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Always use Paul O'Brien Modaco roms. They simply work and let you get on with customising your phone.
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RootzBoat is by far my favorite. I like how it stay's true to AOSP and just adds little extras. Nothing too fancy and feels smooth.

I haven't installed one yet...I'm looking at Android Revolution and AOKP right now, but leaning toward the latter because I'd love to give Franco's a shot. Problem is I'm kind of thinking I should just wait for 4.0.3 to drop and go from there. I'd like to get it the day it drops, if possible.
Right now I'm just using stock rooted+unlocked with the 4.0.3 radio firmware. I'd love to install some graphical mods (mainly a status bar battery mod) but can't on Stock =(

surfboy69 said:
ARHD
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+1 that rom is what im running and after switching, i came back

anyone who uses this will not look back
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/11455-rom-android-open-kang-project-maguro-build-13/

I used arhd since getting the phone. But wanted 4.0.3. So switched to aokp. But for some reason had delays when unlocking the phone. And sometimes when typing. Tried wiping etc. No joy
So I am now using eagles blood with Franco kernal and can't fault it at all. Fb sync and the lock screen and great features.
For a perfect from I would want the power saver and UI mods of aokp. With the cm9 launcher mods. And the eb lock screen. Someone want to make it for me!
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Haven't tried any others, but Axiom is great. Wait for 2.4 update for VZW services fix though.

AOKP looks cool. They have the HC quick settings menu and a slew of options. Pretty slick.
RootzBoat has a good rom too with lots of options. I just hate how they label everything RootzBoat (wallpaper, carrier id, etc). I'm also using AOSP CM9 Kangs too. They're all fun. I typically flip between them when one has a few feature that I like.
RootzBoat has a Centered clock option, notification LED color options, and a 4-way lockscreen... but no notification toggles.
I get awesome battery on my CM9 Kang. BIG difference between it and RootzBoat.
I also noticed that MIUI was updated yesterday to a pretty usable state. I haven't personally tried it, and there are some bugs still, but it should be useable now.

AOKP rocks! But I cant wait to see how CM9 develops. They have to add something special to make me leave AOKP.

Me too I've tried other 4.0.3 but to me they just don't compare to the constant smoothness of ARHD
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+1 that rom is what im running and after switching, i came back
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winwiz said:
anyone who uses this will not look back
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/11455-rom-android-open-kang-project-maguro-build-13/
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I agree! This rom + franco's kernel waaayyy better than ARHD..... Love the quick toggles and being able to customize without having to flash or "bake" roms....

Another aokp here...it rocks!
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lack of miui roms for gnex :(

hey guys im making this thread only to request some of the amazing devs to take up miui and cook it for us, i personally love the rom so much since the days of moto milestone n nexus s, we are spoilt for choices in aosp roms and i just hope we get few miui roms
would like your comments what do you guys think
im using the latest miui 2.12.7 from miuiandroid.com and its as fast as any aosp rom and even the lockscreen lag has gone, just hoping for a cooked miui !!!

Why would I want to make my phone look like an iphone?

BurnOne77 said:
Why would I want to make my phone look like an iphone?
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you can use nova and make it look like pure android, but there are other small little things which make this rom very different n enjoyable

im using the latest miui 2.12.7 from miuiandroid.com and its as fast as any aosp rom and even the lockscreen lag has gone, just hoping for a cooked miui !!!
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So what exactly are you asking for? You want MIUI roms, you're using one that's "as fast as any AOSP". Seem's to me like an open and shut case.

sshede said:
So what exactly are you asking for? You want MIUI roms, you're using one that's "as fast as any AOSP". Seem's to me like an open and shut case.
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im asking for twekaed miui roms, like how aosp roms are tweaked and devs make them faster and add features

for example stuff like -
- insecure boot image
- 3-way reboot
- 30-step music volume control
- odexed for maximum performance
- volume rocker wake settings

rrohanjs said:
...insecure boot image...
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This is in any rom that has root installed and allows for advanced as commands. It's a simple ramdisk edit (edit default.prop). It's very easy to do with the dsixda kitchen.
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...odexed for maximum performance...
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Odex doesn't do anything except for first boot. On first boot (or clearing dalvik-cache) it speeds up dexopt process. After that it's like any other rom, odexed or deodexed.
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rrohanjs said:
for example stuff like -
- insecure boot image
- 3-way reboot
- 30-step music volume control
- odexed for maximum performance
- volume rocker wake settings
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I think MIUI.us has the 3 way reboot menu.
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rrohanjs said:
for example stuff like -
- insecure boot image
- 3-way reboot
- 30-step music volume control
- odexed for maximum performance
- volume rocker wake settings
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I have created all except 30 step music volume control for my personal.
The main problem we are ( nexus family) always latest version than any other devices. But miui always one or two version down..
That's why most of people not like MIUI.
Even i am big fan of miui when i was Galaxy s 2.
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Hmmm point, but thsoe points i mentioned are just examples .. each dev cooks a rom in his own way so all i said was it wud b great to have a modded miui rom

If I have 5 cents everytime.
http://roms.miui.us

i love miui.us roms than miuiandroid roms...........only due to miui.us toolbox............
but miui.us galaxynexus roms has been stuck in 2.11.9.............others i.e miuiandroid etc are in 2.12.30 at present...........
even miui.us has devoloped 2.12.7 roms for nexus 0ne and nexus s........but no development for galaxynexus
currently i'm using miui.us 2.11.9 rom.....

Best 4.1 ROM for our device?

In your own opinion what is your favourite 4.1 ROM available right now? I know this is going to be a very mixed bag thread but just for fun to see what my fellow t989ers are using
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Rom All star v7 is
fantastic,awesome,perfect,amazing #1 for me...:thumbup::beer:

I'm using Official slim bean 3.1 with lightning zap kernel and I'm getting average 4 hours of screen time. My favorite rom so far!

CM10 Nightlies. I always get the most out of my battery out of it. Yet, the call quality on them kinda suck. People keep saying i'm breaking up while on a call.

Just to add I'm currently running slimstar and its pretty smooth on my end hasn't settled yet though
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Depends what you are asking for. If you want performance, usually CM10. If you want battery, I'd also say CM10. For massive amounts of preferences go with PACman ROM.

Has anyone tried both cory's mod and slimstar?
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Droid_4_ever said:
Has anyone tried both cory's mod and slimstar?
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I have yet to get any data to work with Corry's Mod. Have yet to try out slimstar.

pwner5889 said:
I have yet to get any data to work with Corry's Mod. Have yet to try out slimstar.
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Other than the data issue how was the ROM? Just another CM10 port?
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Stock jellybean :thumbup:
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Droid_4_ever said:
In your own opinion what is your favourite 4.1 ROM available right now? I know this is going to be a very mixed bag thread but just for fun to see what my fellow t989ers are using
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I am praying for MIUI Jellybean based ROM. For now, Cory's Awesome Mod; It's a WIP but as of now ... It's minimal and is a reliable DD for me. :laugh:

I'm using Corys PAC rom love it best one I've tried so far
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All Star V7. Oddly enough I had to flash the rotate fix on it but otherwise great. I tend to get between 4-5hrs of screen time (tested on a plane flight from Dulles to Vienna) per battery.

Slim Bean All Star v5 the best so far...
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Cyanogenmod 10

I am running slim-star! I really like it. new build is 26.1 ... Currently re-flashing though because it wouldn't detect my network o__o so I couldn't call anyone.

ROM from GS2USR
I flashed almost all the ROMs and the best one so far is the "[P?+Aokp+Cm] P.A.Cman True All in 1 ROM[01-03-13]" by GS2USR . Using v 19.0 currently.
Very fast/ snappy, no bloatware, has all the options you can imagine. ANd everything works great. I went to other roms for change, but kept coming back to this for smooth sail experience.
Good luck brother !

Aokp. Its virtually bug free.
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I wish (ROM-4.1.2-MS1) SlimAOKP Lite/SuperLite Nightlies (made by All-Star Devs) wasn't so buggy I do badly want that ROM to work!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1934723

Best T989 ROM Setup
Based on the advice of others who posted, I tried Slim Star v1.26, updated OTA today to v1.27. It is the best of all I tried for T989. No call echo, which was the deal breaker on a few JB roms. No WiFi issues, which I had with the latest CM10 nightlies. Here's the whole sequence of what I end up doing, after a lot of trying things
Flashed Slim Star ROM
Flash the Nexus boot anim from here
Flash Walkman.zip forget where I got that one from LOL, it was in the "Extras" or "Add-Ons" section of one of many ROMS I tried
Flashed latest ASD Kernel (probably overkill I know but I have good luck with this flash as far as eliminating Echo)
Bonus that ASD Kernel flash script does a cache wipe and dalvik wipe and reboot for me, so I do it last (3 less things I have to do in CWMR lol)
Wait 10 min (hardest part LOL)
Reboot, wait 1 min
Set up Google Acct but don't restore phone! Once I accidentally didn't uncheck Restore Phone and it won't let you go back! I had to start all over LOL
Slim Star comes with an app called Update Me, full of Awesomeness. I used the Add-ons menu in there to download a Extras.zip and it's own Slim-Gapps, reboot to Recovery and flash both of those
Today Slim Star did an OTA update of itself to 1.27, dirty flashed that, then set default keyboard to Android because I have to have gesture texting! It just never stops getting more Awesome! :good:
Also Holo Launcher that comes with Slim Star did a Play store update of itself to v2.01. Nice launcher that comes with Slim Star, I set as default, has really good solid Settings organization, never "forgets" my settings like some ROMs did, also wrap around Home screens which I missed for awhile. And it doesn't try to be Phablet, which personally for me I didn't like about some ROMs.
I then disable the following Apps that I don't use (don't know if this is a good idea or not, but it seems to work)
Apollo (I use Walkman)
Google Partner Setup
Google Play Music
Music
Picasa Uploader
Picasa Web Albums
Seeder
Tags
Talk
Phone is really running better than it ever has, after I followed these steps. Hope this helps others.

4.2.2 ROMS

Is there any real difference between CarbonRom and liquid smooth ROMS as both are based on 4.2.2 !!

There are minor differences between the two. Honestly, I've been switching between the two for a few weeks now, and I still don't know which one I like better. They are both supported regularly by awesome devs.
I know this isn't the answer you wanted, but I'd say try them both out and see which one you prefer. I eventually landed on Liquid Smooth, but it wasbasically a coin toss.
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smartguy10 said:
Is there any real difference between CarbonRom and liquid smooth ROMS as both are based on 4.2.2 !!
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From what I noticed in general daily use, LiquidSmooth has an hdr feature in their camera, and a few more customization options (qs tiles color settings, notification drawer) but probably only because they have a more current release. I'm pretty sure Carbon will implement these features as well in their next release.
Performance wise, at least for my phone, there aren't any noticeable differences. Both use linaro (i think) but then again, results vary for each phone.

Yeah liquidsmooth has hdr feature but no photosphere which can be flashed also. Basically it all comes to what features are included in both rom and which gets regular updates through goo manager
Does liquid smooth has options to disable camera shutter sound .
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smartguy10 said:
Yeah liquidsmooth has hdr feature but no photosphere which can be flashed also. Basically it all comes to what features are included in both rom and which gets regular updates through goo manager
Does liquid smooth has options to disable camera shutter sound .
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Yes, if you put your phone on mute or vibrate the shutter sound is off. It basically follows your devices sound profile lol.

Don't see a need to start another thread another 4.2.2 roms so I will ask here. In any of them can I set it up so if i have a pattern for the lockscreen I don't have to put it in when accessing the camera?
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shazo85 said:
Don't see a need to start another thread another 4.2.2 roms so I will ask here. In any of them can I set it up so if i have a pattern for the lockscreen I don't have to put it in when accessing the camera?
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Lockscreen camera widget. Can take a pic literally from the lockscreen!

I can't find anything on the market with that name. Can you post a link to it? Everything I have tried I still have to put in the pattern to unlock the phone before I can use the camera.

shazo85 said:
I can't find anything on the market with that name. Can you post a link to it? Everything I have tried I still have to put in the pattern to unlock the phone before I can use the camera.
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Bro you are running the newest Liquid Smooth (v2.1 STABLE) right?! If you are:
1. Go to settings
2. Go to "Lockscreen" (right under "Interface")
3. Scroll all the way down to "Widgets"
4. Check the "Camera Widget" box (shows the camera widget on lockscreen)
5. Lock your phone
6. Wake your phone up, and from the lockscreen scroll to the right and... BAM there's your camera and you can take a pic from the lockscreen!
Hope that helps!

No, I'm not. I have not rooted yet. I was wondering if one of the roms talked about did what I was looking for. Now that I know Liquid Smooth rom does I plan on rooting this weekend and running it.

shazo85 said:
No, I'm not. I have not rooted yet. I was wondering if one of the roms talked about did what I was looking for. Now that I know Liquid Smooth rom does I plan on rooting this weekend and running it.
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Built right into the ROM. But it is built into most (if not all) 4.2 based ROMs.

[ROM] VanirAOSP [official] [closed] Developer supports Exodus ROM now

Welcome to VanirAOSP. Our mission is to deliver a clean optimized version of Android to as many devices as possible. This is not a kang rom. You will find versions of the features you love that we've rewritten and improved on plus a few we wrote ourselves. we've tried to acheive a more organized and cohesive setup to improve the user experience while correcting any performance regressions and improving functionality.
If you're the kind of person that needs options to change the font and color on every letter and expect the ROM to end up looking like kid's cereal box then GTFO. You will not find customizations that are done just because someone figured out how to do them. Everything in here has a purpose and is held to a high standard of coding.
General features:
stock mode - ability revert to stock AOSP code with the exception of a few custom features we chose to keep active
enhanced performance.. longer uptime with less slowdown
custom written CRON and init.d.
minor UI and graphics improvements
custom navbar, navring, and hardware key features
active notifications (improved active display + lockscreen notifications)
usability improvements like power reboot menu and sound
animation control
Improved Vanir keyboard
CM's profiles & quicksettings
additional quicksetting tiles
immersive desktop <- fully configurable immersive mode
low profile mode
statusbar mods
clock & battery mods
lockscreen blur and other mods
soon to come -> quick cam and flash notifications
busybox, embedded root, init.d, cron etc
many improvements and new features unique to vanir
more to come when i feel like updating the op
issues:
- stop flashing the moto X binaries. they do not improve anything for you and aren't even for your device.
- open source camera and launcher3 do not have the same featuers as the google versions. use the latest
banks standard gapps if you'd like these. His gapps are super legit and always up to date.
Join our Google+ community for news/updates
Nightly downloads are available on our google+ page or directly from our server
if you're interested in becoming a maintainer.. or just need help please email me. i'll reply as soon as i can. [email protected]
Please help me continue developing, or simply just toss me some loose change for a coffee
tutorials for building, translating, testing
kernel source

First! Loved this Rom on my N4

i'm reserving this thread to tell you i'm probably not going to take screen shots.
edit: dammit.. ninja'd by zainiak lol

Second and hell yeah!
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PrimeDirective said:
i'm reserving this thread to tell you i'm probably not going to take screen shots.
edit: ninja'd by zainiak haha
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I've actually been using the betas for a while. Only thing missing is NTFS support to make the OTG-USB work. Otherwise a good solid rom at this point.

Hell yea. I've always really liked vanir roms.
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Sweet!! Finally some Vanir love for our Nexus 5s
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This sounds really nice. Hope a build comes for the N7 2013 too
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Titanium Backup Pro Automatic Restore seems to be not working in this rom.
Overall, the rom is really fast and smooth

Been running the Dec 28th build, and it's really smooth. Recommended.
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Good ol Nexus days
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Its a Happy New Year with Vanir!

galaxys said:
Its a Happy New Year with Vanir!
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lol happy new year from vanir
:good::good::good:

your rom is the only to actually work fully on sprint, i applaud you devs hopefully we can get some fixes from this rom into others. You can update PRL and Profile on this rom with Sprint.
When i tried to use ART i get boot loops, i was using correct gapps(i ran art on a few other roms)

Does trinity kernel work on this ROM?
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kepapas said:
Does trinity kernel work on this ROM?
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Yes it does mate
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Circaflex said:
your rom is the only to actually work fully on sprint, i applaud you devs hopefully we can get some fixes from this rom into others. You can update PRL and Profile on this rom with Sprint.
When i tried to use ART i get boot loops, i was using correct gapps(i ran art on a few other roms)
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this is true. i have the fix sitting on my computer right now but i'm done for the night. the problem is the google release branch of ART is not compatible with GCC 4.8+. Any variant of it. Not even the one they just switched to lmao..
OP updated.. thanks for the reminder i should have put that in there.

aamitabh28 said:
Yes it does mate
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I'm on it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks Team Vanir! Loved using your builds on my S3 until I got my N5 and sold my S3. I had been keeping an eye out for Vanir in the Nexus 5 forums, so I'm happy to see it. Thanks again. Happy New Year to all....
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Which gapps do you recommend?
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