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I am going over to make my decision on what rom to flash for my device. looking into a good performance and battery life. I hear CM has it bad with battery usage, not sure if its true though.
I am also looking for roms that run on 4.4 Kit Kat to try out.
If not one of the roms in the poll, feel free to post another rom.
NeatROM seems cool as well
IMHO, i've flashed a bunch of custom ROMs
1: they all make and receive phone calls.
2: they all send and receive texts.
3: they wont pay my bills.
4: they wont wipe my *ss.
seriously; and seriously, for me they have to be tweaked for optimal battery life/performance.
best advice i have; try them all and see. they all have their own uniqueness developed by some very knowledgeable people.
good luck.
err on the side of kindness
I use SlimKat weekly, with QuantumKernel. Fast, good battery life, all I need
krycus21 said:
I use SlimKat weekly, with QuantumKernel. Fast, good battery life, all I need
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Runs on Kit Kat, Good Battery Life and Fast is all I need as well Have you tried others and compared it?
And would you happen to know where I can find the rom for my specific model and carrier? (Specs in my sig)
I am using full stock KitKat and I can push 21 hours of bat with 6 hours of screen time.....IMO that's awesome for 2100mah
drakemiller40 said:
Runs on Kit Kat, Good Battery Life and Fast is all I need as well Have you tried others and compared it?
And would you happen to know where I can find the rom for my specific model and carrier? (Specs in my sig)
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Ive installed quite a bit of rom's the two that stand out besides SlimKat would be Carbon and Mokee Both I used on my last phone (inspire 4g)
Carbon was nice, but kinda seemed slow for me. It would of been my first choice but I could not for the life of me find out what was causing it.
Mokee is also fast, they do have daily updates (Lets me know that someone is working on it) it's open source, but the only thing that killed it for me was the Chinese apps that was built in the rom.
Im not sure about the model of your phone if it's D2lte or Jflte here are download links for both.
http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/news/450-important-notice-for-d2lte-and-jflte-users
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Ive installed quite a bit of rom's the two that stand out besides SlimKat would be Carbon and Mokee Both I used on my last phone (inspire 4g)
Carbon was nice, but kinda seemed slow for me. It would of been my first choice but I could not for the life of me find out what was causing it.
Mokee is also fast, they do have daily updates (Lets me know that someone is working on it) it's open source, but the only thing that killed it for me was the Chinese apps that was built in the rom.
Im not sure about the model of your phone if it's D2lte or Jflte here are download links for both.
http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/news/450-important-notice-for-d2lte-and-jflte-users
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Thx, I got to flash slimkat 4.4.4! Would you know the link to QuantumKernel as well? and I'm d2lte btw.
Also what did you like about this kernel?
drakemiller40 said:
Thx, I got to flash slimkat 4.4.4! Would you know the link to QuantumKernel as well? and I'm d2lte btw.
Also what did you like about this kernel?
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The kernel is stable as can be, no lock ups. It's fast, out of the box so you dont have to overclock, and better battery life in the end.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390147
Saw a lot of these threads on other phone forums and got curious.
**This is not a dev bashing, rom compairing, best rom thread!**
What rom you you use and why do you like it?
I am a flashing junky, and no... not the kind that wanders around parks in a trench coat.
I flash a rom, play with it, get bored , and flash another.
ATM im on PAC ROM and love it so far. The mix of the 3 roms combined is fun.
Just wondering what the G3 population thinks, so.. Let's hear it!
Zonerom ?it's fast, stable and battery is very good. Favorite rom so far. Been running it since it came out.
used to run zone rom when it first came out, but now that aosp roms are released, im flashing back and forth every few days.
Love how 480 dpi looks on this phone, and everything works at that dpi on these aosp roms.
... ok well almost everything, there are some features not worked out yet, but it is still good enough to be used as a daily.
Running CloudyFA's ROM. Still on a stock kick, especially with the Quick Circle case. Loving it.
Currently, bone stock. I rooted, then unrooted. For what I personally use it for, so far, stock suits me fine. We'll see what the future holds in development.
was Zone, Carbon now
Zone, based on stock 10m, is very stable and fast
Carbon, AOSP, is very stable too and lightning fast
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was Zone, Carbon now
Zone, based on stock 10m, is very stable and fast
Carbon, AOSP, is very stable too and lightning fast
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How is battery life compared to stock?
Still_living714 said:
How is battery life compared to stock?
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I'm getting better battery life on every AOSP ROM I've used. My battery life on stock/stock ROMs wasn't bad either.
pside15 said:
I'm getting better battery life on every AOSP ROM I've used. My battery life on stock/stock ROMs wasn't bad either.
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Nice?what rom would you recommend?
Stock>Skydragon>Pac-rom.
So far so good. Battery on AOSP holds up well. The build is a little laggy, but, as expected, this early into it.
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Nice?what rom would you recommend?
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What is best for me may not be the same for your use. I'd just pick one and flash away. I'm using Validus at the moment but have also used PAC, Beanstalk, Liquid Smooth, and shortly, AICP. They've all been solid with no issues for me.
currently running stock rooted. liquid smooth would be my daily but I have had to many blue screens on it.
Carbon currently. Loved PAC, but would get lag during some games and stutters here and there (expected). Tried Validus but had issues with unlocking screen and texting. AOSP has much better battery life than stock in general, for me at least. Haven't found one issue with Carbon yet.
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Carbon currently. Loved PAC, but would get lag during some games and stutters here and there (expected). Tried Validus but had issues with unlocking screen and texting. AOSP has much better battery life than stock in general, for me at least. Haven't found one issue with Carbon yet.
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Does exposed work on carbon? G3 tweakbox?
CloudyG3 1.2. I've tried pretty much every one of the stock and non-stock custom ROMs and I keep coming back to this. It has stock functionality with AOSP speed and performance.
Before Cloudy was released, I would have bet my house that I would have ditched stock ROMs for good once they got the camera working. It's not that the stock build was bad, but between it being a little wobbly and me coming from a Nexus 5... Even SkyDragon, Zone and Lonely didn't get to where I really wanted.
Now I'm all in with 'stock' again.... Because of that ROM
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Does exposed work on carbon? G3 tweakbox?
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Xposed does work on AOSP ROMs but I don't think G3 tweaksbox will though. That's built to run on a LG based ROM. I personally think that most AOSP ROMs have enough built in options that xposed isn't necessarily needed. App Settings(per app DPI settings) was always the only module I ever really used on AOSP based ROMs.
Carbon - everything just works!
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Does exposed work on carbon? G3 tweakbox?
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I haven't tried Xposed on Carbon, there is enough options in settings that I don't find myself needing it. Although I would assume it would work. G3 Tweakbox, on the other hand, probably wouldn't. That's more focused on stock mods.
LeoRex said:
CloudyG3 1.2. I've tried pretty much every one of the stock and non-stock custom ROMs and I keep coming back to this. It has stock functionality with AOSP speed and performance.
Before Cloudy was released, I would have bet my house that I would have ditched stock ROMs for good once they got the camera working. It's not that the stock build was bad, but between it being a little wobbly and me coming from a Nexus 5... Even SkyDragon, Zone and Lonely didn't get to where I really wanted.
Now I'm all in with 'stock' again.... Because of that ROM
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I tried cloudy but got some random reboots. Maybe I should download again and see how it goes. I wanna try carbon but stock has been so good
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I tried cloudy but got some random reboots. Maybe I should download again and see how it goes. I wanna try carbon but stock has been so good
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Which version? I haven't had a single reboot in my d851 with either 1.1 or 1.2
Good news everyone!
The superfantasticawesome Nameless ROM dev team currently has a very solid 5.0 port currently open for testing! You can find it at http://www.oppoforums.com/threads/5-x-namelessrom-all-variants.22451/ .
Be sure to say thank you to them, and give them the feedback they deserve for this!
TIPS FOR INSTALLING:
Like many ROMs for the Find7 variants, this ROM needs a specific baseband or the proximity sensor gets pretty finicky. However, not all basebands seem to be compatible at the moment. For myself, I found that downgrading to the 2.0.3 beta only worked for me (I'm on a Find7a), but I've also heard that some Find7 people were able to use 1.2.5.
Enjoy your Lollipop, everyone!
Fantastic news. I'm downloading it right now. Will test tonight. Thanks.
Nameless rom works fantastic for me.Very smooth indeed. The only issue is with proximity sensor. Can you please let me know on how youdegraded the baseband version?
manojava said:
Nameless rom works fantastic for me.Very smooth indeed. The only issue is with proximity sensor. Can you please let me know on how youdegraded the baseband version?
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Use the stock recovery to flash the 2.0.3i beta, then install the 5.0 port. If you're on a non stock recovery, I'd recommend using Tantrum's recovery installer here!
I think there is no need to flash whole COS rom then Nameless LL. If some sensors are not working in LL, like proximity, try to flash other modem, no need for whole ROM.
Go to modem collection here and try to flash 1.2.5 modem, it should work.
If you have chinese model, like me, I have x9007, I flashed Modempackage_1.2.5_zixuan_cn.zip and Nameless LL is working great, only NFC is not working.
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I think there is no need to flash whole COS rom then Nameless LL. If some sensors are not working in LL, like proximity, try to flash other modem, no need for whole ROM.
Go to modem collection here and try to flash 1.2.5 modem, it should work.
If you have chinese model, like me, I have x9007, I flashed Modempackage_1.2.5_zixuan_cn.zip and Nameless LL is working great, only NFC is not working.
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Thank you so much. Its working fine after flashing the 1.2.5 modem. BTW i use find7a.
Nikola P. said:
I think there is no need to flash whole COS rom then Nameless LL. If some sensors are not working in LL, like proximity, try to flash other modem, no need for whole ROM.
Go to modem collection here and try to flash 1.2.5 modem, it should work.
If you have chinese model, like me, I have x9007, I flashed Modempackage_1.2.5_zixuan_cn.zip and Nameless LL is working great, only NFC is not working.
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That's very interesting. I tried using three different basebands (the 1.2.5, 2.0.3, and a OnePlusOne baseband) but all of them only caused the ROM to bootloop. Glad it worked for you guys though!
Hi folks,
I'm considering unifying since I quickly run out of app space. Is there any word on a L port for unify and if there is a specific unify method that has to be followed?
Thanks for your help, apologies for my ignorance.
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Hi folks,
I'm considering unifying since I quickly run out of app space. Is there any word on a L port for unify and if there is a specific unify method that has to be followed?
Thanks for your help, apologies for my ignorance.
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I believe that this ROM actually supports unified storage. Check out the link that I posted at the top, and you should find unification instructions in the first post.
Great thanks BG!
Cant wait to flash.
This is awesome, I'm happy that I accidentally came to general looking for a new ROM.
Edit:
No dice on flashing the Dec 6th 5.0.1 for me (Find7a not unified)
I tried modem versions 1.2.5i and 2.02i
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Dont wanna rain on anyone's parade but i got the Omni 5.0 ROM to work instead.
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So after finding no Root yet on Omni, i went ahead and flashed NameLess again and for some reason it works. well.. yay! (Dec 6 not unified)
I have to admit it was easier to get Omni 5.0 to work over Nameless 5.0 and I came from Nameless 4.4.4 Kit Kat.
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I have to admit it was easier to get Omni 5.0 to work over Nameless 5.0 and I came from Nameless 4.4.4 Kit Kat.
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Hey, that's great! How have you found the battery life so far on Omni? I found that Nameless was a bit better in both the battery and features department, but I've been a huge fan of OmniRom for quite some time now, and would love to support their work too.
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Hey, that's great! How have you found the battery life so far on Omni? I found that Nameless was a bit better in both the battery and features department, but I've been a huge fan of OmniRom for quite some time now, and would love to support their work too.
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Battery life is good on Omni, however, I have to agree with you that Nameless battery life is better, and their features are more extensive.
On a side note: although the battery and features are a "bit better" on Nameless, OmniRom, in my opinion, is the gold standard for (AOSP) custom Roms. There are no fillers, they are quick to implement cutting-edge advancements, and their Roms just work. Meaning, they are stable.
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Battery life is good on Omni, however, I have to agree with you that Nameless battery life is better, and their features are more extensive.
On a side note: although the battery and features are a "bit better" on Nameless, OmniRom, in my opinion, is the gold standard for (AOSP) custom Roms. There are no fillers, they are quick to implement cutting-edge advancements, and their Roms just work. Meaning, they are stable.
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That has really, over the past year, become our primary focus - on our most well supported devices, we are far more stable than many other projects. (Although the EOS guys do a damn good job too).
We're also the only project other than EOS where users of Oppo devices can routinely interact with the developers who did the hardware support of the device.
In the case of CM - Most of the work is Steve swinging his ninja sword, at least Tom does talk to users but much of the work is done by people who never come here.
In the case of all CM derivatives that blind-track CM (Nameless is in this category - in fact it was founded by some Omni maintainers who disagreed with the rest of Omni as far as blind-tracking CM vs. actually solving the problems on your device yourself.) - you're even farther removed from the people actually doing the work.
Omni and EOS both have the guys who are doing the hardware bringup communicating with users directly to look for trends and issues that stand out. (the two teams also communicate with each other...) Gummy did too before they called it quits.
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That has really, over the past year, become our primary focus - on our most well supported devices, we are far more stable than many other projects. (Although the EOS guys do a damn good job too).
We're also the only project other than EOS where users of Oppo devices can routinely interact with the developers who did the hardware support of the device.
In the case of CM - Most of the work is Steve swinging his ninja sword, at least Tom does talk to users but much of the work is done by people who never come here.
In the case of all CM derivatives that blind-track CM (Nameless is in this category - in fact it was founded by some Omni maintainers who disagreed with the rest of Omni as far as blind-tracking CM vs. actually solving the problems on your device yourself.) - you're even farther removed from the people actually doing the work.
Omni and EOS both have the guys who are doing the hardware bringup communicating with users directly to look for trends and issues that stand out. (the two teams also communicate with each other...) Gummy did too before they called it quits.
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Hey, thanks for the post Entropy. I really like hearing developers opinions. In all honesty, I was using your ROM before I switched to nameless (and only did so because it was the first fully functional, stable Lollipop ROM available) and would love to switch back. You guys seem to be pretty avid in releasing your builds as of late, so I'll certainly be keeping an eye out! All I really need in terms of features anyway is the ability to change button configurations and double tap something to sleep or wake the device (I hate using the power button) so once you have those, you'll have one more on the bandwagon. You guys really are doing something right here, and I intend to support it!
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That has really, over the past year, become our primary focus - on our most well supported devices, we are far more stable than many other projects. (Although the EOS guys do a damn good job too).
We're also the only project other than EOS where users of Oppo devices can routinely interact with the developers who did the hardware support of the device.
In the case of CM - Most of the work is Steve swinging his ninja sword, at least Tom does talk to users but much of the work is done by people who never come here.
In the case of all CM derivatives that blind-track CM (Nameless is in this category - in fact it was founded by some Omni maintainers who disagreed with the rest of Omni as far as blind-tracking CM vs. actually solving the problems on your device yourself.) - you're even farther removed from the people actually doing the work.
Omni and EOS both have the guys who are doing the hardware bringup communicating with users directly to look for trends and issues that stand out. (the two teams also communicate with each other...) Gummy did too before they called it quits.
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This is the reason I decided to stay with omni and I am really thankful that there are people like you guys out there that don't let us alone with a great device but awful default firmware (COS).
But I would really like to know your opinion about Paranoid Android, as I always thought they have (sometimes more, sometimes less) good communication to their users and a solid team of Devs that solves issues instead of blind-tracking the solutions from somewhere else.
I got a few questions:
1) Can you provide a link to a Lollipop rom for the S3 that has no issues? If not, can you suggest one with the least issues?
2) Can you provide a good Lollipop rom for the S3 thats not based on CM?
yahanna said:
I got a few questions:
1) Can you provide a link to a Lollipop rom for the S3 that has no issues? If not, can you suggest one with the least issues?
2) Can you provide a good Lollipop rom for the S3 thats not based on CM?
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They all pretty much have the same issues, they're built off of the same base. And you're not gonna find a rom that's not built on CM. Maybe slim lp is the closest you're gonna come but CM is the base right now for everything. I'm running the nightlies and they're really stable. Definitely a daily driver. Some signal drops but that's pretty much it.
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They all pretty much have the same issues, they're built off of the same base. And you're not gonna find a rom that's not built on CM. Maybe slim lp is the closest you're gonna come but CM is the base right now for everything. I'm running the nightlies and they're really stable. Definitely a daily driver. Some signal drops but that's pretty much it.
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Hi tditdot. How's the camera and video on the nighties that youre running?
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Hi tditdot. How's the camera and video on the nighties that youre running?
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Works fine.
There are no best roms, what's best for you maybe isn't best for others.
That is why we don't allow these threads, since there's always members saying the rom they are using is best for them and becomes a redundant thread.
On that note, thread closed and moved.
I was wondering if someone had experience with multiple versions of CM on this device and which one was the most stable and performs best. I noticed there is a new CM13 that seems to be actively updated so was thinking about giving it a go.
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I was wondering if someone had experience with multiple versions of CM on this device and which one was the most stable and performs best. I noticed there is a new CM13 that seems to be actively updated so was thinking about giving it a go.
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You can always try the cm13 builds listed under original android development. The issues I always seem to have with cm tend to be buggy gps or malfunctioning camera. My biggest turn off with cm or any aosp based builds are battery life and charge speed. I'm not knocking them and its definitely fun to try out but as a "daily driver" I find touchwiz based roms to just be more dependable.
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You can always try the cm13 builds listed under original android development. The issues I always seem to have with cm tend to be buggy gps or malfunctioning camera. My biggest turn off with cm or any aosp based builds are battery life and charge speed. I'm not knocking them and its definitely fun to try out but as a "daily driver" I find touchwiz based roms to just be more dependable.
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Emotion is the most stable, followed by CM13, @SaintZ93 is a great developer!
chrisresponsibility said:
You can always try the cm13 builds listed under original android development. The issues I always seem to have with cm tend to be buggy gps or malfunctioning camera. My biggest turn off with cm or any aosp based builds are battery life and charge speed. I'm not knocking them and its definitely fun to try out but as a "daily driver" I find touchwiz based roms to just be more dependable.
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That's a really convoluted way to say, "No, I don't have an answer to your question" :laugh: