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If so, who's ROM are you using?
Can you please share your experience with those of us who haven't taken the plunge yet?
What's your experience with...
battery life?
smoothness?
stability?
app incompatibilities?
whose kernel are you using?
how do you like Google Now? Does it kick Siri's butt?
would you recommend using now as a daily driver?
Feel free to add anything other experiences. I hope we can get some good info to help those of us who are still on the fence with Jelly Bean.
i'm still with stock, ill stay on it until CM10 starts nightlies. stock so far is very smooth, and great battery life.
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If so, who's ROM are you using?
Can you please share your experience with those of us who haven't taken the plunge yet?
What's your experience with...
Feel free to add anything other experiences. I hope we can get some good info to help those of us who are still on the fence with Jelly Bean.
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I'm using paranoid android's JB version
battery life? Equal to AOKP on ICS (2days standby, 4~5hours screen on time)
smoothness? Perfectly smooth, equal to all the other JB roms I've tried
stability? - No issues yet
app incompatibilities? - No issues yet either
whose kernel are you using? - The standard one for paranoid android (i.e. CM10's), I used to use franco's but the battery drains too fast with no real benefit for JB
how do you like Google Now? Does it kick Siri's butt? - Google now works incredibly well.
would you recommend using now as a daily driver? - Yes
battery life?
smoothness?
stability?
app incompatibilities?
whose kernel are you using?
how do you like Google Now? Does it kick Siri's butt?
would you recommend using now as a daily driver?
I'm running Paranoid Android v1.9.1a (based on JellyBro CM10, I believe?).
Battery Life: Having a hard time seeing much difference between JB- and ICS-based builds. More on that later.
Smoothness: So. Damn. Smooth. Really, really good. Rapid scrolling through APW FB and Twitter widgets would sort of stutter on ICS builds. No such hiccups now. Similarly, when installing/updating apps in the background, my system used to lag really hard. There's still a little bit of stutter, but so much better now.
Stability: I think I had maybe two random reboots in ~3 weeks. Some of those may have been related to experimental versions of the kernel. Hard to say, as I didn't investigate particularly hard.
App Incompatibilities: Haven't run into anything yet, aside from apps which do not play by the Holo UI rules and require an onscreen menu button. (CM10 commits appear to have baked longpress Multitasking button as Menu, though. Or maybe that is all molesarecoming's doing in ParanoidAndroid. In any case, it's excellent.)
Kernel: imoseyon's leanKernel v4.2.0. Stock voltages and frequencies. Using the InteractiveX governor. There were a few experimental builds for v4.1.x that were hotfixes to get it to even boot in CM10-based ROMs. I have the feeling that the few freak reboots I got were related to the kernel's growing pains.
Google Now vs. Siri: Having never used Siri, I can't really speak to that. Google Now is quite nice though! A real step up from the previous, boring Google Search app. Voice recognition is really good, and the few commands that I've played with (setting alarms, getting directions, etc.) were neat. Voice commands aren't really my cup of tea, though. I already think about my phone too much. If I start talking to it routinely, my girlfriend will probably up and leave me. And I probably wouldn't blame her :]
Daily Driver: Obviously recommended if you're a veteran ROM flasher! And definitely painless enough that I think even a newcomer would be just fine.
Neo3D said:
If so, who's ROM are you using?
Can you please share your experience with those of us who haven't taken the plunge yet?
What's your experience with...
battery life?
smoothness?
stability?
app incompatibilities?
whose kernel are you using?
how do you like Google Now? Does it kick Siri's butt?
would you recommend using now as a daily driver?
Feel free to add anything other experiences. I hope we can get some good info to help those of us who are still on the fence with Jelly Bean.
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I am running Bugless Beast Jelly Bean from Pete Alfonso (Verizon Toro). Currently on the 7/24 build but started with 7/9
1. Battery Life is good. Initially it was shaky, but good after I turned off most of the location based Google Now options.
2. Smoothness - Awesome. Big improvement from ICS
3. Stability - Perfect so far
4. App incompatibilities - So far only one, MyTouchTunes. One normal menu selection does not respond to touch. There is another menu with the same thing so it is not a big problem.
5. Kernel - Stock
6. Google now seems cool, shows off phone really well. Not really sure yet of value, and have not spent enough time with Siri to judge.
7. Highly recommended. Better experience than stock 4.04 all around.
Neo3D said:
If so, who's ROM are you using?
Can you please share your experience with those of us who haven't taken the plunge yet?
What's your experience with...
battery life?
smoothness?
stability?
app incompatibilities?
whose kernel are you using?
how do you like Google Now? Does it kick Siri's butt?
would you recommend using now as a daily driver?
Feel free to add anything other experiences. I hope we can get some good info to help those of us who are still on the fence with Jelly Bean.
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I tried jb the day it came out and went back to cm9 because of app incompatibilities. But apps are being upgraded to the point that it's not that much of an issue now, so I made the move to jb.
Went with bigxie's 4.1.1 ROM because of his reputation for releasing very solid, stable ROMs that just work. It also is already rooted and has busybox and gapps preinstalled, which eliminates more hassle. No complaints or issues whatsoever. Smooth as glass and rock solid.
Installed Nova launcher to give me a few of the conveniences I like, at least until a CM10 release candidate comes out. No issues.
Trinity kernel is still in alpha for jb, but after reading some good reports about it, I went ahead and installed it, too. Working great so far with no hiccups. Very good color control and ability to tweak for superior battery life (two of its strong points).
So at this point I'm very satisfied with this combination and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
I don't use Google Now, or even keep GPS turned on at all. I'm a big believer in internet privacy, and Google doesn't need to know about my daily activities. So can't offer an opinion there.
Tried one of the Roms thinking it wouldn't be ready and I'd have to go back to ICS... how wrong was I. Once you've been to JB you'll never go back to ICS... works perfectly well, no issues.
I'm using Jellybro CM10 Kangs.
In battery I notice no difference.
Very smooth for me, no random crashes, reboots or anything like that, everything works.
Only app I had a problem with is Power amp doesn't work right in the notification bar.
My friend has an i4S, even he agrees Google Now kicks Siri's butt. The voice is more human like, pictures come up, its more of a place to get info rather than a novelty like Siri.
I would strongly recommend the ROM I'm using because it has some of the most important things I missed from ROMs; Notification drawer widget, extra lock screen targets, lock screen weather, lock screen calendar, even theme chooser works now.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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i'm still with stock, ill stay on it until CM10 starts nightlies. stock so far is very smooth, and great battery life.
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agree:laugh:
I RECOMMEND minco rom.thats a rom colabboration between minooch and franco himself.its the best rom ever,with trinity kernel.best performance+battery life.incredible.brtter than any ics or jb rom.
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FNM
Hellz yeah!
I've been running BAMF Paradigm v.2.0 since it was released a few days ago and I absolutely love it. Battery life is well, the GNex typical battery life. I always have spare batteries charged.
I've had no random reboots and confidently use it as my daily driver. I'm using the kernel that is included with the ROM. I've tried a couple others and rolled back to the stock one right away. I was getting problem with deep sleep on any alternate kernel.
I never used ICS on this phone. I rooted and flashed JB from the day I got it, so I really can't speak the the difference in performance, but I run ICS on my HP Touchpad and I know I would not be happy with it on my phone after having used JB.
I would, without hesitation, tell you to make the leap to JB.
I don't think you'll miss ICS in the least.
Xenon HD is pretty good at this moment.
Dark jelly belly ROM gsm is smooth good battery nice custom keyboard option and extras Google now is great and love jellybean it makes android smooth and fluid great stuff
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Just as an update to my previous message, Trinity kernel for Jellybean is now released as stable.
D3HuM4NiZ3D said:
I RECOMMEND minco rom.thats a rom colabboration between minooch and franco himself.its the best rom ever,with trinity kernel.best performance+battery life.incredible.brtter than any ics or jb rom.
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Minco with Trinity is better than Minco with the embedded Franco?
Tell me your guys favorite ROM and why, I don't have a favorite, i usually flash the newest ROMs that are released, right now i'm on slimbean 3.1.1
If I had to pick it would either be the PACMAN ROM because of all the customization, or cyanogenmod because they're so stable.
Best ROM for battery Life?
My current favorite is onlychevys unofficial slim bean 3.1.0. Great battery life for me. I was unaware of a 3.1.1 version where did you get it?
jfreshh330 said:
Tell me your guys favorite ROM and why, I don't have a favorite, i usually flash the newest ROMs that are released, right now i'm on slimbean 3.1.1
If I had to pick it would either be the PACMAN ROM because of all the customization, or cyanogenmod because they're so stable.
Best ROM for battery Life?
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i use infamous resurrection 2.0. it's not exactly fast and it is not pack with features i'd like, but it is stable for my daily uses. CM ROMs and similar ROMs contain so many nice features, but they lacks wifi-calling. that's an essential feature as my phone cannot pick up any cell reception once i'm inside my school. Jedi Mindtrick and jediknight, for some reason unknown to me, do not work well on my phone. it'd constantly force restarts.
I am currently using Avatar ROM. I have zero problems with it ATM. Been a daily driver for about 3 weeks now. Nice that I can update it from GOO as well. Its compact, and the battery life is great. I'm using the Cerux kernel. Once installed, it will prompt you to d/l a kernel tuner from the app store. Great way to monitor and change your cpu speeds. Also give you the ability to change what govenors run with what core. Can set the primary core to on demand and have the second core turn on when the first core is getting a heavy load, and the second core can be on performance so nothing slows down. Its very stable, especially with the GO Launcher. Lots of customizations you can do to it. And it comes with a theme engine already installed on the ROM. Hope that helps.
Avatar rom
Hi how are you, I saw that you were talking about the avatar rom. I've been trying to get it for a while and it doesn't want to install in my phone and I don't have any clue of why. I have a Koodo Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989D, please do you have any advice for my?
XD: the root installs very well but then it stays at the screen boot
XDA is a development site not a support site. As such members are expected to do the research, read through the development threads and decide what is BEST for them. The only results that would be posted here are what each member has found to be BEST for them by experimentation based on their phone/usage/setup/apps/signal strength. Please take the time to read through those development threads to learn all about the software you are about to drastically alter your very expensive device with.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your cooperation.
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Have a great day!
I want a stable ROM for my younger brother's WFS, i tried to do some search but found tons of them,thus didnt had time to read everyones working and not working list, so please i need your kind suggestion, looking for a simple ROM which has gud battery life + small size...
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I want a stable ROM for my younger brother's WFS, i tried to do some search but found tons of them,thus didnt had time to read everyones working and not working list, so please i need your kind suggestion, looking for a simple ROM which has gud battery life + small size...
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It always depends on your usage.................
Stock rom is probably not bad option for stability and battery life.........You can also try sense 3.5, it has been stable for me............CM10 is also stable(Though battery life is a bit low) and I am using it now.............and CM10.1 by OWLTeam is also a good option(Battery life is good, mostly stable though has a few bugs(WiFi Hotspot and photo editor)).
Hi There,
I noticed we are not supposed to ask questions about "the best ultimate mega rom", or anything similar. I hope this thread, however, is different enough to not violate those rules..
What ROM would you suggest as a good daily driver? I do not need the fastest rom, or the newest android version. I just need to flash something on my Arc so my sister can use the phone for few months without a need for any troubleshooting from my side.. She wants working texting and calling, snapchat, facebook, whatsapp, wifi, camera, music player. She doesn't care about bluetooth, or video recording, or radio. Here are my findings so far:
Official gingerbread is too old.
Official ICS is too slow, even after cleanup (removal of some unnecessary official apps).
I tried some LegacyXperia-based roms, and they were amazing EXCEPT battery life was 4-5 hours even if the phone was not in use.
What would you suggest? Perhaps an older build of Cyanogen Mod? If yes, which one? Any ROM that is reasonably fast and stable would be OK, as long as it is ICS or newer.
Thank you!
Legacy Xperia ROMs are good, you just need to tweak the ROM such that it doesn't use up a lot of battery
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You're right.
As I don't care about latest android (well I do, but my sister doesn't), I have used LegacyXperia cm10.2 release version: cm-10.2-20140303-RELEASE-LegacyXperia-anzu
She is running it only for a day, but so far it seems remarkably stable and battery life seems good enough to last a day. I will report back here if anything changes, but so far so good!
matus201 said:
You're right.
As I don't care about latest android (well I do, but my sister doesn't), I have used LegacyXperia cm10.2 release version: cm-10.2-20140303-RELEASE-LegacyXperia-anzu
She is running it only for a day, but so far it seems remarkably stable and battery life seems good enough to last a day. I will report back here if anything changes, but so far so good!
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CM10.1 is stabler & more battery than 10.2 . else theres not much other. or choose KK cm10.2 isnt best choice (if then better use 10.1)
Legacy Xperia CM 11
I'm using Legacy Xperia CM 11 with Android KitKat. It's pretty good. Many issues are resolved. Previously I used CM 10 nightly, the new one is way better than that. And the KitKat is light weight. But battery usage is kinda high.
Maybe you should try Ultimate HD, now version 5.0.1 but version 6.0.1 will be available soon. I have experienced nearly all custom ROMs for Arc and Ultimate HD seems the most stable Rom, good battery life, app compatibility, ... Cyanogen Mod is good but it has problem with app, especially camera apps downloaded from Google store; battery drains a little fast.
There are many choices when it comes to ROM, depending on how you use it. UHD is a good ROM for daily use, but if you play games with your phone then UHD is not a good choice because the base ROM itself cannot handle games well. If you want AOSP ROM with no modifications, you can use CM.
Things like battery life and apps can be managed if you search properly and apply the knowledge.
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Im EvoX user but since no update and some bugs i've tried MIUI 13 Elite CN Free version but lack of customization but good performance and battery life,
Im a fans of aosp but MIUI still give more potential than aosp in my opinion. My complain on MIUI 13 is the app you close is closed and will have no notification unless you give permission to run on background and sometimes the app is auto closed (like adguard & google photo didnt backup) and i should open it again.
Im planning to try another MIUI custom rom like MIUI MOD by OG, VNa.
Please share your experience using MIUI Custom Rom or do you have recommendation? Thanks
For gaming, Try MIUI Mod OG. Performance is at par and you will get default 90 fps in PUBG even the device at Bootcamp manages to give 75+ fps in fights.
Only con is there's no throttling limit in Rom so device might get hear much and will affect battery life for future usage.
But to gain something, you have to lost something which applies here.
You can try MIUI Casnova Rom too, it is like MIUI mod OG and performance is more better in that rom in gaming but it's development has been stopped now.
For daily use, try MIUI VNa for stable performance or MIUI VN for daily stable use with few extra modifications available but VNa is more stable.
In AOSP, try Pixel rom once
There's some issue like you mentioned of delayed notifications in MIUI mod OG but VN is fine in that case.
I'm trying Greeshan feels fast and stable. Have 3 days with it. Google the name and there's a webpage: iT-DroiD-ZoNe by greeshan
umair.irfan786155 said:
For gaming, Try MIUI Mod OG. Performance is at par and you will get default 90 fps in PUBG even the device at Bootcamp manages to give 75+ fps in fights.
Only con is there's no throttling limit in Rom so device might get hear much and will affect battery life for future usage.
But to gain something, you have to lost something which applies here.
You can try MIUI Casnova Rom too, it is like MIUI mod OG and performance is more better in that rom in gaming but it's development has been stopped now.
For daily use, try MIUI VNa for stable performance or MIUI VN for daily stable use with few extra modifications available but VNa is more stable.
In AOSP, try Pixel rom once
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Thanks so much for the review of your experience
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I'm trying Greeshan feels fast and stable. Have 3 days with it. Google the name and there's a webpage: iT-DroiD-ZoNe by greeshan
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Okay ill try it later, thanks for the reference