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Best Roms on Nexus 7?

Just got a new Nexus haven't even powered it on yet, and I was curious what Android version has the best Rom support on this device?
Would it be advisable in your opinion to bring it all the way up to marshmallow or would I have more options temporarily staying on lollipop? Or is marshmallow just fraught with problems or anything to that effect? I had some devices in the past that just plain sucked for a while when the new version came out.
Thanks in advance. I did read up on several things but that's not going to compare to the experiences you guys have. I appreciate it.

If u want performance , better battery life and do not care about a higher number in Android version in about tab of system settings and fancy animations here and there, I suggest u go with Android 4.4.4, especially Mahdi 2.9 Final ROM with ElementalX 2.15 kernel and get a LP/MM theme from Play Store that is compatible with CM11 theme engine. Lollipop and Marshmallow are not optimised at all for Nexus 7 2013, they transform it in a 2009 device. But if u want MM or LP , I suggest Dirty Unicorns with stock kernel (Unicorn Blood) which is fantastic or ElementalX/Glitch Kernel.
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Pure nexus rom(6.0.1) runs flawlessly on my nexus 7... It went while on wifi 6 days no use and only used 20% of the battery with tapatalk running Gmail and YouTube along with titanium backup running every night...you can run the latest without issue or compromise. Oh running xposed also no issue.
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I came here to ask this same question haha.
I'm runnning Screw'd rom for my Nexus 7 and it's been pretty damn great to be honest. Apart from little glitches here and there, it runs flawlessly. (Okay maybe not little glitches, but sometimes I'll turn it on from standby and it won't detect any touch inputs at all, then I have to restart it and it works fine)
Thanks though Admiral, I think I'm going to try out the Pure rom and see how it goes. Also happy that Xposed is running fine. Hell yes!

I'm not sure anymore, I liked Tesla but that project isn't updated anymore for the N7 I believe, CleanROM isn't updated anymore either so I'm still trying to find which is best for me. I'm thinking about sticking to stock with maybe a custom Kernel for overclocking and double-tap to wake.

idCyber said:
If u want performance , better battery life and do not care about a higher number in Android version in about tab of system settings and fancy animations here and there, I suggest u go with Android 4.4.4, especially Mahdi 2.9 Final ROM with ElementalX 2.15 kernel and get a LP/MM theme from Play Store that is compatible with CM11 theme engine. Lollipop and Marshmallow are not optimised at all for Nexus 7 2013, they transform it in a 2009 device. But if u want MM or LP , I suggest Dirty Unicorns with stock kernel (Unicorn Blood) which is fantastic or ElementalX/Glitch Kernel.
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In the past I preferred Paranoid Android, Pac-Man and Cyanogenmod, how would you say this Mahdi 2.9 ROM compares to those in the way of customization?
I was looking to see what was available in the way of those on 4.4.4 and 5.1.1 the other night. Seems like the last time Paranoid was good was on 4.4.4 and Cyanogenmod seems like it didn't have any stable releases on 5.1.1 from what I can see but nightlys available.
Wondering 4.4.4 has a stable cyanogenmod? I don't mean to be lazy about dealing with nightlys (I have in the past) but I'm Uber busy nowadays. Still I'm a suckered for the customization lol ??? it's a terrible dilemma

DanRyan85 said:
In the past I preferred Paranoid Android, Pac-Man and Cyanogenmod, how would you say this Mahdi 2.9 ROM compares to those in the way of customization?
I was looking to see what was available in the way of those on 4.4.4 and 5.1.1 the other night. Seems like the last time Paranoid was good was on 4.4.4 and Cyanogenmod seems like it didn't have any stable releases on 5.1.1 from what I can see but nightlys available.
Wondering 4.4.4 has a stable cyanogenmod? I don't mean to be lazy about dealing with nightlys (I have in the past) but I'm Uber busy nowadays. Still I'm a suckered for the customization lol ??? it's a terrible dilemma
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U have all the UI customisation that other ROMs have on Mahdi and for me is the best 4.4.4 ROM with ElementalX kernel. Haven't used PA in a very long time so I dunno how the latest release of 4.4.4 is. I have never touched CM on this device because there is no Official CM maintainer for flo/deb and never will and if we get fixes and updates at mercy's will just because Google still supports it and no dev tests anything, I prefer to keep away from it. For example on 5.x.x there was a bug that was fixed after a few months
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Which AOSP rom are you currently using and why?

I'm kinda bored of sense, just want to give some twist at my phone and flash an aosp based rom
too bad that, despite we share SoC with nexus 6p, there is no vanilla aosp rom, so we have to go for CM based stuff, which hasn't been my choice since today, but....actually there is no choice....
SO! AOSP guys, what are you running now? I always find cm official not so smooth, and some other roms too much feature packed without performance optimization....
give me your point!

There aren't many to choose from. Either you try RR, cm13, slim and cm13 unofficial. You can even try aicp

Don't all the AOSP roms crash as soon as you try and do 1080p video recording?

Yeah but....I mean, I want to hear your opinion, maybe you saw something I didn't in these roms!...which is your choice?

I'm currently on Vanir AOSP, and meh, the best i've ever tried is slim ROM, can't wait to have time to switch back.

MuyKurioso said:
I'm currently on Vanir AOSP, and meh, the best i've ever tried is slim ROM, can't wait to have time to switch back.
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slim?! mmm...too many brand-focused customizations....launcher button, navbar and stuff
wow, looks like there is something outside here
there is no vanir here so I searched and found it just googling, I also found AICP and MoKee nightlies! I thought that all stuff was here!....
do anyone know any nice project?

I currently use cm13, however, once the dev fixes music issue on RR, I will jump straight back, if you don't mind not using google music, I highly recommend resurrection remix, it is the fastest ROM for the m9 I've tried

OS choice.

Hello XDA,
I on my past phones I have used a wide variety of ROMs, but on my OP3 the camera quality drops if it is not OxygenOS based.
My question is, what is the best Oxygen based ROM? I have been using FreedomOS/FOS CE for about a year, but now I see others popping up like Experience ROM.
Which of these two has more features? What other O2 based ROMs are worth nothing?
I haven't had much success with mixing CM and flashable Oxygen camera zips, so that's why I prefer to stick to Oxygen based ROMs.
Thanks

They are pretty similar. I'd prefer Experience because I'd use only the debloated ROM with Arise, Adaway, adfree youtube with supersu. I personally use Sultanxda's cm 13 build. It's stable and camera quality is almost on par with OOS.

Experience and Freedom are pretty much the same.
i personally like FreedomOS more, cause nevax always has some interesting new ideas for features. but if you want completely debloated ROM you can also choose it in aroma installer also.

MarcTremonti said:
Experience and Freedom are pretty much the same.
i personally like FreedomOS more, cause nevax always has some interesting new ideas for features. but if you want completely debloated ROM you can also choose it in aroma installer also.
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Yeah I like the features and the personalized aroma installer. Seems im sticking to FreedomOS then.

smoothest custom ROM ? (Nugat)

Lineage 14.1(SULTAN) , paranoid, RR ....OR ANY OTHER ROM ?

Paranoid or anything that can take blu_spark kernel. Sultan's is also OK.
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Pa > los > rr

Pa is best stable ,feature rich,camera quality,smoothness everything

Sultans on 1+3 is nice, but if you remove the underclock. There is a lot of stutter with the underclock.
I was pleasantly surprised by Paranoid Android, very very smooth rom. Didn't keep that long though because 'custom camera hal'
Now I have the rom that is equally smooth to paranoid Android, stock oos (beta 29)
I love oos, very very smooth and amazing speed and smoothness.

gordito_gr said:
Sultans on 1+3 is nice, but if you remove the underclock. There is a lot of stutter with the underclock.
I was pleasantly surprised by Paranoid Android, very very smooth rom. Didn't keep that long though because 'custom camera hal'
Now I have the rom that is equally smooth to paranoid Android, stock oos (beta 29)
I love oos, very very smooth and amazing speed and smoothness.
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But oos is buggy and latest oreo betas have network issues also battery is much better on paranoid than oos for oos sucks the last oos i liked was 3.2.8 after that most of the versions are buggy

I've used most of the custom roms out their but I didn't find a complete package like what OOS offers. Customs roms lack one or the other stuff what a complete package like OOS offers.
The last OOS nougat beta is very stable. Oreo is still kinda early for daily use.

maxs8007 said:
I've used most of the custom roms out their but I didn't find a complete package like what OOS offers. Customs roms lack one or the other stuff what a complete package like OOS offers.
The last OOS nougat beta is very stable. Oreo is still kinda early for daily use.
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But oos betas have the headset mic bug. Quite annoying, if you ask me. That's why I'm stuck on Nitrogen 8.1

You will never get a true answer to this. As each person will give their personal fav rom. Then you will hear the bad parts about other roms.
Each rom runs differently depending on the device, person, location and how it is used. So the only way you will get a good answer is to try some yourself.

gordito_gr said:
Sultans on 1+3 is nice, but if you remove the underclock. There is a lot of stutter with the underclock.
I was pleasantly surprised by Paranoid Android, very very smooth rom. Didn't keep that long though because 'custom camera hal'
Now I have the rom that is equally smooth to paranoid Android, stock oos (beta 29)
I love oos, very very smooth and amazing speed and smoothness.
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why did you left PA because of "Custom camera hal", it is supposed to make camera better...?????

Blu spark kernel will work on pa?

Daily driver AOSP ROM for Redmi Note 5?

I need a rom i can rely on with no bugs or issues. Since I rely on my device for work and studies.

Mcaosp
The develop is experience and knows what he's doing.
He's not just porting roms.

Have to say this after using pe extended for about 2 months now, its ****ing awesome as a daily driver. I'm also a student and I prefer not to go too nerdy on phones, because i cant find the time,but hate miui because of its looks and lag. So, pe extended is good as a daily driver. But there are some issues, for eg, playing games can sometimes be laggy af, bluetooth can sometimes not work when I want it to. But a restart fixes everything always. Ohhh, and if u prefer the stock buttery not so much modded android, stick with pe or pe extended. Havos os, arrow os are awesome too, but there is too much customization, and you'll probably end up hating the rom because of minute lags you see when you customize it tooo much.

I don't like aosp ROMs,, most of the time I used miui based ROMs, but I tried all ROMs , now iam using Nitrogen os excellent ROM