Hello all. Firstly I would like to thank everyone for their great work on ROMs and applications for the HD2.
So, I have the HD2 obviously for about a month now, and I'm "stuck" with the default 1.42 ROM which actually makes the HD2 look like it has a 250MHz processor. It gets really slow from time to time.
I'm looking to flash it with a custom ROM, but I'm a bit puzzled, given the many ROMs that already exist.
I would like your opinion on this matter; Which ROM do you think is overall better, faster etc? I actually want less RAM footprint, I want Copilot and stuff like that removed, updated versions of the HTC apps etc.
I'm leaning towards the Artemis by Sternas, although I would appreciate some more experienced opinions.
Thanks in advance.
not again.....
makeveral said:
not again.....
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What do you mean "not again"? Many similar topics?
Yes, I've read them, and by starting this topic it's obvious that I need some more info from those who want to share their knowledge.
From those who don't want to share their knowledge I didn't ask anything.
I'm NOT asking which is the best ROM. I'm asking which ROM do the most of you have at this time installed and which OVERALL suits the needs of a larger audience and not just the "cooks" needs.
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Hi !
Should be a good idea to have a post where users comment their experience with different roms. I dont mean rating but more like user experience in therms of usability.
We've had this a thousand times. No, there will be no thread that asks for users' opinions on ROMs. Try them yourself.
The last thread like this got closed only a few hours ago...
equalness said:
Hi !
Should be a good idea to have a post where users comment their experience with different roms. I dont mean rating but more like user experience in therms of usability.
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I would disagree. Most users posting these kinds of questions are obviously too lazy to browse through each individual ROM's thread. I very much suspect that even if there was a central 'ROM experiences' thread they wouldn't bother to finish reading the first post.
Also, given how things have been around here recently, the thread would probably escalate into some sort of flamewar before it reaches page 2.
Anyway, if you're interested in a *very* rough indication of popularity:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=534&daysprune=-1&order=desc&sort=views
It's the ROM forum, sorted by views. Artemis thread does pop up somewhere at the top, so might be a good starting point for you, dimitris_s. Only a starting point, mind - only you will be able to tell which ROM is best for you, so try a few.
Hi everybody
Here am I again with a new advice for all of you how are addicted to flashing their phones with latest roms, I discovered a way to flash the phone a little bit faster :
instead of going to bootloader by pressing downvolume and power while the phone is off, you have to use the utility enterbootloader.exe (which you must copy to your SD and then run) => the phone will restart all alone in bootloader mode BUT will flash faster than the other way !!!!!!!!
DON'T ASK ME WHY !!!! I've tested it several times and I don't have any explanation. maybe the cookers may help us understand ?
Bye
Sure..
You only have 12 post here, and we should believe you?
I wouldn't trust it.
And when i flash my rom i have plenty of time.
Overloaded said:
Sure..
You only have 12 post here, and we should believe you?
I wouldn't trust it.
And when i flash my rom i have plenty of time.
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I dindn't expect better than this answer. No problem my friend. I didn't ask for any donation or charity. Just wanted to share what I discovered (I didn't invent it).
Anyway, try the two methods (as you have plenty of time) and see by yourself.
PS : The file attached can also be found along with 99% of available cooked roms ...
Bye
PS n°2 : Is there a way to judge people by the number of posts they read instead of the number of posts they wrote ?
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I dindn't expect better than this answer. No problem my friend. I didn't ask for any donation or charity. Just wanted to share what I discovered (I didn't invent it).
Anyway, try the two methods (as you have plenty of time) and see by yourself.
PS : The file attached can also be found along with 99% of available cooked roms ...
Bye
PS n°2 : Is there a way to judge people by the number of posts they read instead of the number of posts they wrote ?
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It is always better to read than to post.
Thanks for sharing
Why do you have to be so stubborn?
Overloaded said:
Sure..
You only have 12 post here, and we should believe you?
I wouldn't trust it.
And when i flash my rom i have plenty of time.
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I waited so long to have something interesting and valuable to post and share with the community. If it turns to this, it's better to shut up and continue reading ... (how sad, I was even thinking about going into the cooking adventure ... )
googy_anas, at least your increasing your post count, you maybe taken seriously yet As for me I have now increased my post to 18, so maybe only a few of you may take my comments seriously, but that’s ok because I will make useless comments until my post count is high enough to be taken seriously!
1 useful post is better than 200 useless posts.....
Quality, not Quantity
Thanks for your input googy, I will try it out next time I flash a new rom. Please don’t let this stop you from sticking around the forums, reading and posting.
Edit: And Cooking!
ramcid said:
googy_anas, at least your increasing your post count, you maybe taken seriously yet As for me I have now increased my post to 18, so maybe only a few of you may take my comments seriously, but that’s ok because I will make useless comments until my post count is high enough to be taken seriously!
1 useful post is better than 200 useless posts.....
Quality, not Quantity
Thanks for your input googy, I will try it out next time I flash a new rom. Please don’t let this stop you from sticking around the forums, reading and posting.
Edit: And Cooking!
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thanks for your kind words
anyway my first step in cooking is about to be done : I've downloaded WM6.5.3 23541 for osKitchen and will begin with simple and clean builds. My only problem is I don't know where to find the complementary packages manila, htc, tools .... (or may be I have to extract them from another rom) ?
ramcid said:
googy_anas, at least your increasing your post count, you maybe taken seriously yet As for me I have now increased my post to 18, so maybe only a few of you may take my comments seriously, but that’s ok because I will make useless comments until my post count is high enough to be taken seriously!
1 useful post is better than 200 useless posts.....
Quality, not Quantity
Thanks for your input googy, I will try it out next time I flash a new rom. Please don’t let this stop you from sticking around the forums, reading and posting.
Edit: And Cooking!
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Yes, perhaps I should have clarified my statement.
@Googy,
MOST here would not judge you on your post count and you should not be afraid to share anything that helps the community.
There are many senior members here only because they post crap like "flashing now", "thanks for the ROM" , "blah, blah, blah" that doesn't offer anything.
Do not be offended and do not be discouraged.
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thanks for your kind words
anyway my first step in cooking is about to be done : I've downloaded WM6.5.3 23541 for osKitchen and will begin with simple and clean builds. My only problem is I don't know where to find the complementary packages manila, htc, tools .... (or may be I have to extract them from another rom) ?
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BeeGee Tokyo hosts many packages on his server.
Here I am again, I've managed to build my first clean rom based on 23541 by using osKitchen and successfully flashed the two versions I built (French and WWE). It's soooooooooo smooth and faaaaaast !!!! wow I'm impressed !
I also extracted the packages of the official 2.53 rom but when I include them in my build, the phone is blocked after the first initialization (after the htc logo animation). can't understand why .... can anyone help ?
googy_anas said:
Here I am again, I've managed to build my first clean rom based on 23541 by using osKitchen and successfully flashed the two versions I built (French and WWE). It's soooooooooo smooth and faaaaaast !!!! wow I'm impressed !
I also extracted the packages of the official 2.53 rom but when I include them in my build, the phone is blocked after the first initialization (after the htc logo animation). can't understand why .... can anyone help ?
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You should post your build log in the forum where you downloaded your kitchen from. Whoever supports that kitchen would be able to view it for any conflicting packages.
Otherwise it is best to load one package at a time until you find the culprit.
That is why cooking a good ROM is hard, because of the trial and error and repeated flashes and testing, very time consuming.
Some things to consider;
Page Pool settings (20mb seems to work well)
Mort Script (for AutoInstall functionality)
Themes (Max Manila is the best)
Other general tweaks to optimize the performance.
Bruce Inman said:
You should post your build log in the forum where you downloaded your kitchen from. Whoever supports that kitchen would be able to view it for any conflicting packages.
Otherwise it is best to load one package at a time until you find the culprit.
That is why cooking a good ROM is hard, because of the trial and error and repeated flashes and testing, very time consuming.
Some things to consider;
Page Pool settings (20mb seems to work well)
Mort Script (for AutoInstall functionality)
Themes (Max Manila is the best)
Other general tweaks to optimize the performance.
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thank you for your support
actually, i'm rebuilding the rom without manila but keeping all the standard htc apps. i'll give some feedback in a few minutes ....
So actually, my test rom starts with manila enabled but it's full of bugs
the os itself is running as it should .... i think there's something with the packages i extracted from the stock rom !
I give up !!!!!!!!
cooking needs good skills and too much available time (I don't have one of the two )
next time i'll stop to say thanks to any cooker i use his rom, now that i know it's not as simple as it seems !!!!
bye
Thank you for sharing and good luck with the cooking.
I don't believe post counts have much to do with anything and it's always nice to learn something new. I tend to be skeptical of everything until i have researched it to death, but i'd rather be skeptical of something than not know about it in the first place
I've found a tread about Extendir. It should really increase the performance of our devices.
It has to be cooked in though. Is there somebody interested in this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530710
Grtz
interested yes, but a bit tricky to implement it seems...
need investigation but by now S200 cookers are looking to remove bugs of current release, there is to much to be done before starting optimising massively like this piece of software can do.
thanks for the remind anyway!
Dear Friend Thank you for lookinf into my question.
I have an HD2 from sometime now and thanks to the dev's on XDA for android and windows i am able to continue using my phone and liking it everyday
My question is: since i am set that android is better than winmo at least for me and i am using it permanently. If i buy an android phone LIKE Desire HD or Desire, will i be able to change the roms like my touch 4G or any other rom build.
or i will be bound to specific roms and themes for it.
i like to test everything i could and enjoy trying new systems, which i am doing now on my HTC HD2. But even with the stability of android roms nowadays i think the performance will be better if it is a native android phone.
Opinions are mostly appreciated
I'm no expert in either of those phones, but almost every Android phone has a pretty active dev'ing scene. It's not that much effort to switch roms on a native Android phone, but certainly more than with an HD2.
The variety of roms will also be less I think, coming from an HTC magic the abundance of choice here quite shocked me.
You can find the answer to this exciting question, and more, by reading the forums for other phones.
Well i dont suppose .
All the HD2 build out here have custom kernels and other tweaks which have been modified according to its hardware and devices specification.
But you can surely port it to your device. MEaning you will have to modify and tweak the builds accordingly.
I aint sure though
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You can find the answer to this exciting question, and more, by reading the forums for other phones.
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Thanks for looking into the subject, but, i tried before asking and i could not get the proper answer for it, i found some things that was not clear to me maybe since i am not a user for that specific device. Thats why i asked, so that someone who has enough knowledge about it could help with the info.
Thanks for your effort.
rapaholic999 said:
Well i dont suppose .
All the HD2 build out here have custom kernels and other tweaks which have been modified according to its hardware and devices specification.
But you can surely port it to your device. MEaning you will have to modify and tweak the builds accordingly.
I aint sure though
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Thanks for the info, i think you might be right about the kernels and required mods. that did shed a little light about the answer.
Thanks again for your effort
nicefellow said:
Thanks for looking into the subject, but, i tried before asking and i could not get the proper answer for it, i found some things that was not clear to me maybe since i am not a user for that specific device. Thats why i asked, so that someone who has enough knowledge about it could help with the info.
Thanks for your effort.
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Read and ask in these forums...
Desire - http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=594
Desire HD - http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=754
You're asking in the HD2 forum if there are ROMs available for other phones? Sorry, but that's just a waste of everyone's time (yours in particular!) Go to the relevant forums and do lots of reading in them before asking any questions, but ask them in THE RIGHT PLACE.
Oh yeah...
Thanks for your effort.
Please advice me the custom rom that use ram less than 600 mb , Battery Friendly and run stable
shanatoki said:
Please advice me the custom rom that use ram less than 600 mb , Battery Friendly and run stable
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Seriously mate? First of all, you should probably read the FAQ of this forum and specifically refer to Q8. Furthermore, there is another forum for i9500 ROMs where you can find plenty of nice ROMs, just go through the threads, get the ROMs which appear adequate for your purposes and try them out.
I don´t mean to be rude but XDA is a forum for people who want to try out new things, educate themselves and understand better how certain mechanisms and processes related to hardware and software work. You are expected and need to do some reading and investigative research by yourself, otherwise you will not improve your knowledge and won´t advance at all as a user. If you are not eager to learn and don´t want to improve/advance, then clearly XDA forums are not for you and you are better served by other forums of which are plenty around. Excuse my directness but that´s pretty much it, I am sorry.
Thread closed as "best ROM thread." You need to try them for yourself and see which works best for you.
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