Hi!
I love Sense UI, especially the Virtuous roms. The only thing that really annoys me is the choppy scrolling with all Sense-based roms i have tested so far.
It becomes most apparent in the app screen, the observed stuttering effect seems to me like some kind of refresh rate issue or a grid that the list automatically snaps to.
No mattter how much i overclock my phone, the choppiness remains Must be some kind of software/programming thing...
However, all AOSP or CM roms i have tried so far run absolutely butter-smooth.
Any ideas on that?
Chris
when youre flashing between roms do you wipe data etc? sense is heavy in terms of UI and its hard on even most advanced devices actually(IMO). obviously, ive noticed whenever i have tons of widgets on my screens in tends to slow down. try launcher pro, and if you want pay for the plus version and you get almost all major widgets found in sense and now you can skin and theme them however you want. but i DO feel you pain. Sense is really beautiful, it just sucks its so heavy on UI.
Hi all,
The Dev Forum seems to be pretty abundant with Sense-based ROMs at the moment, and I guess that's to be expected with 3.0 being everyone's new(ish) favourite thing, but not all of us are Sense fans and I just wanted to get people's opinions on the current state of play concerning AOSP ROMs and their latest versions, especially around battery life.
What have you used / are you using, and how do the current suite of AOSP ROMs compare with each other in terms of battery life (but other stuff as well)?
I'd love to hear about people's recent experiences.
Thanks.
This rom is the best aosp rom I've used yet. Blazing fast and amazing battery life.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070501
I tried Gingerbeast, HydrogenMod, Hikari, CyanogenMod and Ginger S and I can't seem to get any of them to be 100% fully functional. I've had a problem with bluetooth not working, not being able to import contacts, the home button stops working, com.android.phone force closing, etc. I've full wiped, reinstalled, fixed permissions, etc, but I can't get any AOSP rom to work. Surely there must be a leak of the AOSP rom that HTC use before adding Sense and other HTC addons?
While AOSP roms are light wight and seem fast they will never compare to roms built off of sense roms. Why you ask. Look at the roms like CM7 and other AOSP roms, they have to use open source drivers that dont make full use of the hardware. Like wifi and blue tooth. Both lose 25% strength because of the Open Source drivers instead of using the drivers built for the Phone like the closed source HTC drivers.
Umm, apologies if I've confused myself out of sheer ignorance, but can't you just flash a custom kernel like Lordmod's excellent one, which DOES contain official DHD phone drivers?
BenRoark said:
Umm, apologies if I've confused myself out of sheer ignorance, but can't you just flash a custom kernel like Lordmod's excellent one, which DOES contain official DHD phone drivers?
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Sense based kernels will not work on an AOSP roms
LM is a aosp kernel.
i don't see any problems with pretty much all of the AOSP kernels i have used (Most CM based ones, quite a few Miui Ones, and the default CM7). The Wifi and BT work, gaming is pretty good, and its also much less laggy (Sense based roms occasionally freeze for no reason. Its annoying with music playing)
The only thing i dislike about AOSP roms is the camera which doesnt have touch to focus video recording, but pretty much every other sense feature can be replaced by a free, custom app (LauncherPro is much better than rosie 3.0/.5, custom video players play more movies, etc.)
you could always flash a sense/rosie/app remover on top of a sense based rom
314 said:
LM is a aosp kernel.
i don't see any problems with pretty much all of the AOSP kernels i have used (Most CM based ones, quite a few Miui Ones, and the default CM7). The Wifi and BT work, gaming is pretty good, and its also much less laggy (Sense based roms occasionally freeze for no reason. Its annoying with music playing)
The only thing i dislike about AOSP roms is the camera which doesnt have touch to focus video recording, but pretty much every other sense feature can be replaced by a free, custom app (LauncherPro is much better than rosie 3.0/.5, custom video players play more movies, etc.)
you could always flash a sense/rosie/app remover on top of a sense based rom
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Unless you needed to connect to a spicific type of network or need BT to work a certain way you wouldn't notice it.
zelendel said:
While AOSP roms are light wight and seem fast they will never compare to roms built off of sense roms. Why you ask. Look at the roms like CM7 and other AOSP roms, they have to use open source drivers that dont make full use of the hardware. Like wifi and blue tooth. Both lose 25% strength because of the Open Source drivers instead of using the drivers built for the Phone like the closed source HTC drivers.
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Yeah, not sure about that 25% statement, mate.
I've been running CM7 Nightlies or CM-based ROMS for a while now and, if anything, I've noticed a significant improvement in connectivity (in general) from what I previously experienced on Sense ROMs. I'm sure that Lord Clockan's excellent kernels have a lot to do with it, but anyway...
I suppose everyone's experience is different.
Hy,
I am also a HUGE fan of AOSP. Since I bought my DHD it had Sense for one day because I had no time to flash. I also spent some time comparing Sense vs. AOSP Roms, and can say that AOSP has better performance on my DHD then Sense and always used them with the kernel they come with.
Aosp all the way. My recommended roms:
Oxygen Rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348425
TalonRom:
http://code.google.com/p/talon-rom/
OMFGB:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/6052-aospcustom-gingerbreadomfgb-131-nightlies/
OMGB:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/7923-rompure-gingerbreadomgb-123237/
All are my personal favorites.
Regards
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All are my personal favorites.
Regards
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Hmm Not sure that makes sense!
I have an issue with a rom I'm using on my GSM Galixy Nexus, and was wondering if anyone could suggest a possible way to tweak it or if I need another rom, which one you'd recomend. I'm currently using a pretty much stock looking rom, Bugless Beast Nightly 2/12/2012 IML74K based on Android 4.0.3 The battery life is good but most importantly, the text resiszes to fit the page on the browser and you can pinch to zoom in on things. But unfortuantely, everything on the screen looks a lot blander and not very HD-like as the stock rom appeared. the colors on the stock rom that I started with were very crisp and sharp, really eye popping if I do say so myself. I don't think brightness is the issue either cause it's at it's brightest during the once beautiful bootup animation. Would changing the rom's kernel to something else fix this or do I just need to try a different rom? And if so, which one would provide me the same web surfing capabilities as this one? Using the GSM Galixy Nexus. I'd greatly appreciate whatver you're willing to tell here about this, cause as much as I want a custom rom to be good on battery life and functional, I'd also love not to ahve to sacrifice the greatness of ths AMOLED screen.
You can try this.
It might not be the best board to ask about it, but I got my OP3 a few months back, and since then I changed ROMs a lot (like, really a lot). I found myself liking a lot OxygenOS (Oneplus apps like dialer, camera and explorer are really nice, and I'm digging a lot the power menu), but also features from AOSP (statusbar customisation mainly, also Substratum).
So I was wondering if there was any possibility to fuse these roms? I'm a big noob concerning coding on Android, so I might be asking for an absurdity, and I'd like to know why.
Thanks for reading.
Possible? Yes.
Viable? No.
It's A LOT of work to do that. Some things can be easily ported, some are near impossible or won't work as good as they should. For example, OOS camera has been ported to custom ROMs, but some features just don't work.
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Substratum is available on freedom OS which is based on oxygen OS
Its important to know that what you want must be based on oos. So you should look for roms based on oos. Because its much more work to get things from oos to aosp roms.
hi there. any rom that is very good at gaming. tried many aosp based roms run the CODM and lack of graphics and very laggy.
All Vanilla Android Custom ROMs perform more or less the same.
But they're definitely better compared to MIUI.
If you're unsatisfied with AOSP ROMs, it might actually be your phone. ^^