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[Q] Best Rom I have Found is MIUI. But want to have more updates

Best Rom I have Found is MIUI. But want to have more updates. Would like to know where you get the weekly updates or better yet can some one tell me how to add it to ROM Manager then I can just get the update there.
Here is what I have Tried so far
WarmTwoPointTwo RL5 (Great Rom if you like Sense) Good Job
EivO 2
Ava-froyo
Koni Elite
CM7 w/4G (Really Great Rom) Just don't like the dialer
HTC EVO 4G got First Day. Rooted 2 weeks ago.

More updates? MIUI is updated weekly, which makes it one of if not the most often updated ROM there is (excluding CM nightlies). Anyhoo, I agree with you wholeheartedly that MIUI is the best ROM out there and would like to personally welcome you to the MIUI family Not sure about ROM Manager because I prefer to do everything manually (not to mention Amon > Clockwork). Here is the link to the MIUI forums where you can grab the updates.
http://miui-dev.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?18-HTC-EVO-4G

Miui
Thanks Downloading now ..... Been trying a bunch of differant kernels as well.
Really like this rom...
Any word if there will be 4g added soon?

MikFroyo is also one of the better (if not best) Sense roms.
I use Miui as well.
No need to make this thread though lol...

scott951 said:
Thanks Downloading now ..... Been trying a bunch of differant kernels as well.
Really like this rom...
Any word if there will be 4g added soon?
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I know they are working on adding 4G but I have no clue when it will happen. The problem is that the ROM is actually developed in China and is closed source, the guys who give it to us just do the porting and translation. So it's up to the Chinamen to add the 4G, and since there are no EVOs in China, I'd imagine it's not a top priority for them.

4G is a big deal here in the usa. Is there any want to donate to them to get the job done sooner?
Thanks in advance

Donate to the Chinamen? I'm not sure. I'd post that ? over at the miui-dev forums. Keep in mind, they didn't build the ROM for the USA or even for the EVO. It is made for the N1 and the awesome devs here are the ones porting it. I would just sit tight, we'll have it soon enough.

Ok, this build is pretty much the same. But I love it. Iphone 4. Theme
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The bulk of the differences between builds are under the hood, but new features do get added all the time. I know there is supposed to be some big UI overhaul coming soon but couldn't tell you when.

Love love MIUI, just wish it had better battery life. Phone is losing 10-12% / hour just sitting idle, wifi or 3g doesn't make much difference. I need to try another kernel for sure, just not sure which one and hoping the update this week (if it gets released for Evo) fixes some things.

ECrispy said:
Love love MIUI, just wish it had better battery life. Phone is losing 10-12% / hour just sitting idle, wifi or 3g doesn't make much difference. I need to try another kernel for sure, just not sure which one and hoping the update this week (if it gets released for Evo) fixes some things.
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Have you tried reflashing? There is something going on with your phone, mine can sleep overnight and not lose a single % point.

_MetalHead_ said:
Have you tried reflashing? There is something going on with your phone, mine can sleep overnight and not lose a single % point.
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Wow MetalHead, are you sure that you don't have it plugged in overnight lol
Sent from my Evo using mikfroyo 4.5

_MetalHead_ said:
Have you tried reflashing? There is something going on with your phone, mine can sleep overnight and not lose a single % point.
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Same here mostly. Sometimes I lose up to 4% while I sleep, but that's generally on the days I sleep in.

Damn you guys, now I'm more curious about MIUI. Lol
Sent from my Evo using mikfroyo 4.5

EndlessDissent said:
Same here mostly. Sometimes I lose up to 4% while I sleep, but that's generally on the days I sleep in.
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Same here. I usually lose about 5-7% overnight.

scott951 said:
Best Rom I have Found is MIUI. But want to have more updates. Would like to know where you get the weekly updates or better yet can some one tell me how to add it to ROM Manager then I can just get the update there.
Here is what I have Tried so far
WarmTwoPointTwo RL5 (Great Rom if you like Sense) Good Job
EivO 2
Ava-froyo
Koni Elite
CM7 w/4G (Really Great Rom) Just don't like the dialer
HTC EVO 4G got First Day. Rooted 2 weeks ago.
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Updated more frequently?! Why? I've been skipping every other update, lol, because I think they update it too often!
Go to miui-dev.com and join in the fun. If you like tweaking, flash the mods and try out some themes.

The mods they have posted are kinda blah.
One bug I found is the time on the text messages is like 6 hours off on the popup and
where it displays all of the threads. When you go in to the message it displays the right time. Little bit of a pause on lock screen.
Overall this is the Best rom I have tried.
Just get 4G and I will never look back.

agentphantom said:
Damn you guys, now I'm more curious about MIUI. Lol
Sent from my Evo using mikfroyo 4.5
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You laugh but have you tried this Rom?
You can get Fancy Widget pro and have the same clock and weather you get with sense.

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scott951 said:
The mods they have posted are kinda blah.
One bug I found is the time on the text messages is like 6 hours off on the popup and
where it displays all of the threads. When you go in to the message it displays the right time. Little bit of a pause on lock screen.
Overall this is the Best rom I have tried.
Just get 4G and I will never look back.
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That's not a bug, it's a setting. Go to the text app, hit menu then scroll to the bottom and hit advanced. Scroll down to where it says Sort SMS by date and make sure that slider is off so it says sort messages by time received locally. That should clear that up.

[q] miui lovers step in!!!

So , i was thinking changing from sense to miui.... but havent made my mind yet
could someone who has a little experience on miui roms convince me to switch?
All i ask for is some arguments on miui>sense
please sense/aosp lovers and miui haters dont post here
thanks in advance!

well it seems you already want to switch and dont need much convincing...
seeing as how you will only get biased responses when you ask for only people who love miui to reply. you will only get replies telling you to switch.
only way you can tell is to try it.
but, since you asked for it:
"OMGZ TRY MIUI IZ THE BEST!!!1!11"

The one reason I don't use MIUI at the monent:
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Notice the wrong coloured text for the title/Google T&Cs (white on white)? It stops me using it, as silly as that sounds

As ringer13 said, if you're asking MIUI lovers you will just going to hear the good sides of MIUI. I think it's your decision, some like it some not... You have to try it by yourself. Make a nandroid backup if you don't like it so it isn't a lot of work...
Anyway I've wrote a list of advantages and disadvantages. But it's just my opinion.
Advantages:
Layout (Can also be an disadvantage depends if you're liking the iOS like layout)
Theme Manager (very easy to customize the layout with lot of possibilities)
Fast
Nice Backup Features
File Manager
Music Player (with automatic lyrics)
Notification bar (Quick Settings)
Weekly updates
Disadvantages:
Official release just in Chinese, you have to wait some day until the rom is translated...
Translation errors
FM-Radio isn't working
No 720p recording
As EddyOS said the color errors
I think it's more buggy then Sense
I hope it helped you.

For me I wanted something battery efficient and aosp does that for me. Sense is just a battery killer really. I also really like the apps that come with and how many settings come with the rom. There are minor issues like Eddy said but I couldn't care because they get out weighed. Tbh if you want to see what a rom is like you should be trying it, not asking people if you should use it or not. It's taken me months and months of flashing and now I'm finally settled on miui androids rom.
Swyped...

dexter93 said:
So , i was thinking changing from sense to miui.... but havent made my mind yet
could someone who has a little experience on miui roms convince me to switch?
All i ask for is some arguments on miui>sense
please sense/aosp lovers and miui haters dont post here
thanks in advance!
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MIUI convert here. I highly recommend MIUI Au for the best MIUI english experience. The guys do amazing work with the rom and are providing weekly updates and patch fixes to problems as they are found.
In last release *everything* was working, except wifi but that is fixed by flashing an alternative kernel available from the site. Just do a nandroid backup and flash away, if you dont like it, roll back!

To echo what's been said already - backup, flash and try it out.
I flashed the latest version last weekend and kept it for a couple of days. It was a bit of a shock going from an AOSP ROM, almost like learning to use a new OS again.
Not having an app drawer befuddled me - I was poking at the screen waiting for a full apps list to appear
As a ROM it is very polished, looks terrific and has plenty of customisation options. I liked the folder options for home screen. Battery was pretty good too. I can understand why it has so many passionate converts.
I ended up going back to Oxygen though for one reason only - laggy menus. They were driving me nuts, especially as I was setting everything up from new.
I'll keep an eye on the translated versions on the XDA dev page and may try it again though.

I tried it for a very brief time
Way to iPhone for my liking ! .....

JokerNJ said:
I ended up going back to Oxygen though for one reason only - laggy menus. They were driving me nuts, especially as I was setting everything up from new.
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My thoughts exactly! I love eye candy and MIUI has such a nice design and concept (my opinion), but it was too laggy for me.

miui is really excellent and a good battery saver rom. in standby it stays more then 2 days for me. with sense i always had to charge it after 1 day.

I use MIUI-XJ X-part.. and i feel it is the best Rom... it isnt laggy a bit.. may be your installation is not perfect.. for me its damn fast... superb battery life..and so much of free space.. and ram.. for those who dont like.. IOS type interface.. you can always use launcher pro.. or go launche ex.. .i have used it too.. and I did not found any laggyness...
Some missing things are FM Radio.. and 720p recording.. which I am not a fan of.
And we might get 720p recording soon.. I miss FM sometime though..
I dont hate any ROM.. always apprecaite work behind it.. but I love MIUI

Debloated Original ROM

Hi guys can you tell me please if there is a ROM that pretty much stock but without that ATT garbage,rooted and may be with few tweaks but pretty much stock ROM ? Cause I am having all kind of little issues with CM10 ..but I just love GUI and stuff ....anyone ?
Thank you !

You could always just root, install titanium backup and uninstall the bloat yourself.
But did you check the development thread?
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kinghorsey said:
You could always just root, install titanium backup and uninstall the bloat yourself.
But did you check the development thread?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 2
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Oh crap ! Titanium allows you to remove stuff ? Nice ! I actually did backup with clockworks of original rom that rooted already. Yeah I check dev section yet I do not see slightly touched version they all like hard core

russiandivxclub said:
Oh crap ! Titanium allows you to remove stuff ? Nice ! I actually did backup with clockworks of original rom that rooted already. Yeah I check dev section yet I do not see slightly touched version they all like hard core
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Yep! Just curious, what issues are you having with Cyanogenmod 10? I'm using it and is 100% better than TouchWiz stock without the bloatware.

Thank you for your reply and actually I kinda lost this topic I created. Now I had few months with my phone and here what I can say including your question on what issue I had. Well first of all there are simply 2 things that I just love in stock and REALLY love to have them on my CM10 or other it sound silly but it's a weather widget and original ring tone I mean it sounds idiotic but I simply can't find this widget on it's own anywhere. I spoke with some guys in IRC channel and he gave me 27 step instruction on how to extract widget from original rom and then make it work on other roms and then actual install ...well I stuck on step 3 so .... never mind that. But I really want to have it on my screen. And that ringtone I can't find it for nothing, I searched here and torrents and everywhere I could not find it. So if someone already extracted that widget that'll make my live so much more. Now to bit more serious stuff. It been some time and I don't know about fresh versions but one I installed when I wrote original post I had major problems with games, frames in games were much lower than on original rom, many times once game is installed in Play Store and you start program and it trying to load actual game data I'd get error message saying device could not be identified download failed, one example I remember is Order and chaos actual game installed in Play Store yet when I started it game gave me error about unknown device, also MX Player had some problems with playing some mkv that I have when original rom no problems ..and other small things as well. Like I said I have not tried it for some time but if someone can point out that widget and ringtones from Original i747 that'll be really nice. And very important game performance. I just load Most Wanted on the phone and I can "feel" it game pulls every bit of cpu and gpu out of the phone cause I can see frame rate and as smooth as it should but game graphic is amazing on that game so don't know.
Anyhow that's pretty much it, once again thank you for your answer and may be someone can point something out for me or give me advice on good rom for games and that damn widget I like so much.
Thanks guys !
I manage to get ringtone name: "over the horizon" all version on internet are not the same as in the phone, similar but not as good. And here is screen shoot of widget I am taken about ... I really like it
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After my post today I installed latest and (I got lucky) Stable new release of CM10 version 10.0 and what a diffirence between two (one I installed months back and now) well now I really have no reason to go back. I also found way to get my original ringtone to CM10, now only one problem still exist I still can't get this weather widget I showed above. Can anyone help me with this I mean it's suck pretty widget I wonder why noone wants it or never asked for it. Anyhow anyone can help me out with putting original SGS3 Weather widget to CM10 ?
Thank you guys !

russiandivxclub said:
After my post today I installed latest and (I got lucky) Stable new release of CM10 version 10.0 and what a diffirence between two (one I installed months back and now) well now I really have no reason to go back. I also found way to get my original ringtone to CM10, now only one problem still exist I still can't get this weather widget I showed above. Can anyone help me with this I mean it's suck pretty widget I wonder why noone wants it or never asked for it. Anyhow anyone can help me out with putting original SGS3 Weather widget to CM10 ?
Thank you guys !
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I honestly dont go to stock but i remember seeing a apk for the widget im pretty sure if you didnt remove that you could reinstall that on whatever rom you chose

I use intergalactic v1.1. Basically stock plus some tweak. I came from cm10 too but need the all share cast function. Will switch back to cm10 when 4.2 is ready which includes the miracast stuff in default.
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Hi guys !
For past several weeks I've been using CM10 ...then they released 10.1 and everything stop working. I had a lot of problems with core apps like play store ,. Bluetooth and alarm and my games crashed a lot as well. I switched to .....pink unicorn and it actually working pretty good, they now have OTA, then for some reason my Order and Chaos start to crash all the time and I had no choice to go back to vanilla.
Thank you for that intergalactic ROM I have not tried it yet but as of 1.6.13 you still think it's good ? I really can use something like that. And in general what's new in Original rom - garbage scene ....is there something new beside intergalactic ?
Thank you !

[Q] Preload Folder... plus to full to install apps?

Hey guys, I have the L900, but my girlfriend with the E4gt was asking me to upgrade hers. I had her on Dirty Unicorn running great, but I switched over to volt and added the blasphemy kernel.
I noticed that the camera wasn't working, and that the gallery was force closing which is probably just the graphics mod I have on there, but my real problem is that I can't install user apps because it is saying it's full, even though it's not.
I went looking through thinking that maybe something happened to the Sd card, and it looks like there is a preload folder i've never seen or heard of before. So I'm not sure what to do or if anything else I do will mess the phone up. So before I go anywhere either recovery or odin wise I wanted to check the forums but I havent been able to find anything using the search terms im using either with google or xda.
Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks everyone!

N3Ph1L1M said:
Hey guys, I have the L900, but my girlfriend with the E4gt was asking me to upgrade hers. I had her on Dirty Unicorn running great, but I switched over to volt and added the blasphemy kernel.
I noticed that the camera wasn't working, and that the gallery was force closing which is probably just the graphics mod I have on there, but my real problem is that I can't install user apps because it is saying it's full, even though it's not.
I went looking through thinking that maybe something happened to the Sd card, and it looks like there is a preload folder i've never seen or heard of before. So I'm not sure what to do or if anything else I do will mess the phone up. So before I go anywhere either recovery or odin wise I wanted to check the forums but I havent been able to find anything using the search terms im using either with google or xda.
Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks everyone!
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Can you provide a screenshot?
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N3Ph1L1M said:
Hey guys, I have the L900, but my girlfriend with the E4gt was asking me to upgrade hers. I had her on Dirty Unicorn running great, but I switched over to volt and added the blasphemy kernel.
I noticed that the camera wasn't working, and that the gallery was force closing which is probably just the graphics mod I have on there, but my real problem is that I can't install user apps because it is saying it's full, even though it's not.
I went looking through thinking that maybe something happened to the Sd card, and it looks like there is a preload folder i've never seen or heard of before. So I'm not sure what to do or if anything else I do will mess the phone up. So before I go anywhere either recovery or odin wise I wanted to check the forums but I havent been able to find anything using the search terms im using either with google or xda.
Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks everyone!
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I had seen this earlier but couldn't think of any fix... after reading it again I see that you have the blasphemy kernel.. I would imagine you're using the latest version...
Kick back to version 2 of the blasphemy kernel and see if that fixes it..
I seen some problems it was causing in a different rom thread... the issues were different, but it seemed in that thread ( illusion rom )some members had problems...some didn't.. Worth a try.. Let me know...
Good Luck..

Check the md5 sum to make sure it wasn't a bad download also.
Slithering from the nether regions of a twisted mind and tarnished soul

Good call stryke...
Man I totally didn't think of that... I'm such a noob..

The preload partition is only used in JB TouchWiz by the way, if it didn't get wiped it may be causing your problems.
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Thanks All!
Thankz All,
I decided to just flash back to "Dirty Unicorn's" w/ "Blasphemy 6". All is well now, so not a hundred percent sure, but it could have been a few things. I had recently switched to twrp, or it could have been the preload folder like the above stated because it was still there... but I also had flashed a few tweaks I use like Team Kernelizers | Operation Killjoy™ | RC7 | Insanity, ◢ PurePerformances™X ◣ | Golden Edition | Scary performances on Android,PenberEngine v1.3,[SCRIPTS][GB/ICS/JB] LOVINS THE AIO TWEAKS [ALL IN ONE TWEAKS][GP/F1 Series], INFINITY Engine 2.1 Super Edition | fly up your phone !, v6 supercharger,or...UNLIMITED™tweaks[18.11.2012][MORE POWER].
I couldn't remember exactly which ones I had used, but I assume ◢ Pure™Graphics HD + Rendering Version ◣ | Enjoy your graphics, was what was causing the camera from working, because when I downloaded one it worked but would crash. Plus I think I may have created an extra EXT somewhere in there...
None the less, I got her on the "Dirty Unicorns" with PurePerformances, and Infinity Engine 2.1 along with a few other things from here and there, and I couldn't be happier with it so far. Battery did great the past two nights, zero lag even under very harsh circumstances and the screen quality is greatly improved.
I didn't mention all that before because I couldn't remember the exact tweaks used and that'd be cruel to expect people to clean up a mess like along with I was more looking to see if there was any known changes between the two roms I wasn't able to find though google and xda searches, like with my L900 when I switch to an AOSP 4.2.2 from 4.1.2 our internal gets hid, it's still accesible but hidden, if you wanna go back to 4.1.2 someone created a zip to restore everything otherwise I think it gets written over, plus the newly created internal you used with 4.2.2 turns into just a folder that you can restore everything from. So I was curious if there was something like that going on.
Good looking though, you guys do great work, my girl'z E4gt would be a paper weight by now had it not been for all the detailed break down of the emmc problems.

Which KitKat 4.4.x ROM have you used on an SPH-D710 and would recommend?

A few years ago this seemed to be limited to either Cyanogen or a couple other ROMS, I had performance issues with CM9 and used a custom ROM instead. Now it seems like everyone has their own flavor and builds. I'm currently on a 4.1.2 ROM, I think it was SlimBean.
I'm just looking for a close-to-stock 4.4 ROM for Sprint Epic 4g Touch, that is stable and works. Does anyone have a ROM you have tried and would recommend?
I'm leaning towards Mookie or CM11
Thanks and sorry for the noob post.

Its not kitkat, but have you checked out Project X ? I am running KitKat on my nexus tab. Though have solid custom rom options that am bouncing between , really wish I could install Project X .

Titchener17 said:
Its not kitkat, but have you checked out Project X ? I am running KitKat on my nexus tab. Though have solid custom rom options that am bouncing between , really wish I could install Project X .
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I had not, but I did some googling and it looks pretty nice. I may download it and give it a try.
I already installed CM11 VILLUMINATI. It was a bit tricky, but after following the steps at the bottom of page 77 of that thread, I got it running and it seems fine so far. CM always takes some time for me to get used to, so I'll run it for a few days and see how it goes.

Hope it goes well. Must say, battery life is crazy good and the highly customize-able launcher (can save settings and implement when flashing updates et cetera) @bilgerryan created are awesome - like borderline time for a tattoo time awesome. Not to mention the folks in the forum are cool - good people. Anyway, good luck with everything.

Titchener17 said:
Hope it goes well. Must say, battery life is crazy good and the highly customize-able launcher (can save settings and implement when flashing updates et cetera) @bilgerryan created are awesome - like borderline time for a tattoo time awesome. Not to mention the folks in the forum are cool - good people. Anyway, good luck with everything.
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Thanks! So far, I only have a few issues with the build. I can't figure out how to get rid of the Google search bar at the top and I can't figure out how to scale the number of columns/rows on the desktops. Other than that, the lack of 4G is hardly noticeable, even here in Silicon Valley. Can't get Kies to restore my data via USB, going to try WiFi connection tonight.

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Thanks! So far, I only have a few issues with the build. I can't figure out how to get rid of the Google search bar at the top and I can't figure out how to scale the number of columns/rows on the desktops. Other than that, the lack of 4G is hardly noticeable, even here in Silicon Valley. Can't get Kies to restore my data via USB, going to try WiFi connection tonight.
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From my experience, you can't do anything with kies unless you have the version of android that's originally on the phone. So it's either Kitkat or 4.1.2, bloatware, and kies. I think we both know who the clear winner is here! I've also been using the VILLUMINATI ROM and I've had exceptional battery life and fast response from my phone at the same time. As for the Google search bar at the top, I think that is permanent unless you download one of those custom theme app thingies (can't remember what they're called), but doing that kinda defeats the purpose of having Kitkat for me, as I absolutely love the new white theme with everything. I've also noticed that from using those theme apps before that they tend to drain battery fast.
EDIT: As for 'what rom I would reccomend' it would have to be VILLUMINATI, even though it's the only one I've used so far. It works, and it's good. I'll be using this rom until there is a better update somewhere, or if I find a game breaker somewhere.

Zaverns said:
From my experience, you can't do anything with kies unless you have the version of android that's originally on the phone. So it's either Kitkat or 4.1.2, bloatware, and kies. I think we both know who the clear winner is here! I've also been using the VILLUMINATI ROM and I've had exceptional battery life and fast response from my phone at the same time. As for the Google search bar at the top, I think that is permanent unless you download one of those custom theme app thingies (can't remember what they're called), but doing that kinda defeats the purpose of having Kitkat for me, as I absolutely love the new white theme with everything. I've also noticed that from using those theme apps before that they tend to drain battery fast.
EDIT: As for 'what rom I would reccomend' it would have to be VILLUMINATI, even though it's the only one I've used so far. It works, and it's good. I'll be using this rom until there is a better update somewhere, or if I find a game breaker somewhere.
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You know there are custom TouchWiz ROMs out there don't you? With tons of extra features and no bloatware. I say try my Project X and see if you still go with the bug-filled AOSP ROMs with quiet mic volume and speaker volume. BTW Kies is useless, try using Titanium Backup or ROM Toolbox next time.
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bilgerryan said:
You know there are custom TouchWiz ROMs out there don't you? With tons of extra features and no bloatware. I say try my Project X and see if you still go with the bug-filled AOSP ROMs with quiet mic volume and speaker volume. BTW Kies is useless, try using Titanium Backup or ROM Toolbox next time.
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Ok, I'll take a look at your rom later, thanks. Also, I have never really used kies except just to see what it was, I was just referring to the post I quoted.

thewrai6th said:
A few years ago this seemed to be limited to either Cyanogen or a couple other ROMS, I had performance issues with CM9 and used a custom ROM instead. Now it seems like everyone has their own flavor and builds. I'm currently on a 4.1.2 ROM, I think it was SlimBean.
I'm just looking for a close-to-stock 4.4 ROM for Sprint Epic 4g Touch, that is stable and works. Does anyone have a ROM you have tried and would recommend?
I'm leaning towards Mookie or CM11
Thanks and sorry for the noob post.
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Here are my two cents. Personally, I like VILLUMINATTI better than Mokee, mainly because Mokee has a weird thing it does when scrolling lists. It makes the lower list items really small, and expands them to full size as you scroll down a list. Cool looking once or twice, but not something I can handle on a daily basis. They are both extremely fast and smooth ROMS, and they use very little RAM, like 30% less! Just make sure to get the best ICS modem for your area (mine was FE22), update the GPS config file using FasterFix, and load in Textra so you can activate MMS easily. Of course, you'll loose 4G and dock connectivity with either ROM.
However, I can't use the 4.4 ROMS right now because they both have the same two bugs. Firstly, the Orientation Sensor doesn't respond correctly. Secondly, they don't communicate well with Google Glass (no phone calls). So I went back to Touched By an S4 ROM, which is a TW based 4.1.2 ROM that performs really well "out of the box".
Once those two bugs are fixed I'm definitely switching back to VILLUMINATTI CM11 because it unleashes this phones true capabilities.

Given the above offerings, coupled with the fact that only the individual user can make their own determination as to what is most stable for their device, going to close this.
XDA is not a support site as it relates to asking what is most stable, best etc, for roms and or kernels. This is because threads like these become places of arguments and trolling commentary.
All users are expected and encouraged to do their own research and review of development threads to arrive to the answer they need.