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
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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
buzzboy said:
All are my personal favorites.
Regards
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Hmm Not sure that makes sense!
I have a couple of questions.
1-Why do battery drains faster in AOSP ROMs than Sense ROMs?
2-Is it possible to have, in the future, better battery on AOSP ROMs than on Sense ROMs?
3-Can AOSP ROMs one day capture images with high quality as in Sense ROMs?
4-Could Sense ROMs be as smooth as AOSP ROMs in next jelly bean release?
You do know that AOSP roms are built by few individuals as a hobby, right? Most of them don’t have access to detailed hardware specifications or source code for the device drivers. Whereas sense ROMs are developed by a dedicated team of developers employed by HTC as their fulltime paid job, with access to all the resources they need. So HTC can fine tune and tweak their ROM to maximize performance, whereas AOSP rom devs have to use hacks, patches and reverse engineering to get the AOSP code working on specialized hardware.
So I'm thinking of going on AOSP, but I don't like AOSP UI and I like BlinkFeed (I am aware of the app Flipboard), but the overall UI is not smooth and I get lags occasionally (which I why I want to try AOSP). I have just two questions, (Compared to ROMs with Sense UI) Is the overall performance & battery life better? Do you like the AOSP UI?
Also: I'm thinking of using CyanogenMod, which build is the most recent and stable? (please provide link)
comparing roms are not allowed....try bunch of roms and feel free to use which you like.. there are plenty of AOSP roms...
you can use flinkfeed(a part of sense 6) on AOSP rom..search it and you will get it..
CM11 m12 is latest build. link
So I have been testing a whole bunch of custom roms / Kernals on the Tab S 10.5 ( Wifi ) About now I have tried all the ones from here ( AOSP, AICP etc ) and no matter which I try the performance isn't as good as the stock Samsung ones. This confuses me ? They are bloated with Samsung junk, older builds and generally should be rubbish but here we are and performance simply isn't as good. Whilst the Antutu scores are higher the CM builds for instance simply aren't as fluid, pauses, stutters etc. As minor as they sometimes are annoyingly aren't there ( as much ) on the Samsung roms
In the end I stuck with the stock rom, debloated as much as I could and installed the Google Launcher from the market. It's a shame as I would love a stock experience but it's simply not as usable.
So, are we missing drivers etc ? There must be something in the stock roms which utilizes the CPU/GPU better. Any ideas ?
Those aosp/cm roms aint official at all, everything is just a port.
Well I don't know about stats, but the cm12 roms fly with no lag over stock.
I'm thinking of Camera quality of Custom ROMs. Is the Camera quality the same across Custom ROMs (e.g. Viper, ICE, LeeDroid, LOS, AICP...)? How is it compared with Stock firmware? Would anyone here please explain my concern.
Thank you very much
On Roms based on HTC Sense the quality is exactly the same..can't comment on the AOSP roms, since they do not use the same stock camera application.
Thanks for the clarification. Let's wait for other custom Rom user's confirmation
There is not much to confirm...custom roms based on HTC Sense use the same software as the stock roms. AOSP roms don't/can't do that. Does not mean the quality has to be worse...but it could, at least it won't offer the different video/camera modes the stock camera does.
If you are interested in AOSP roms...then simply try it out.