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What's your favorite custom ROM so far? What are you running currently?

I am curious about which ROMs everyone is running and enjoying the most.
Please redirect me if such a thread already exists. I searched the DI forums and didn't find one.

Cm all the way
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Lovin' me some tasty Froyo, with Sky Raider 1.9.

CM too. Tried Sky Raider, but CM is just so clean and fast I had to switch back. I can live without a camera for a couple weeks

Interested to see the replies to this one as well - I would love to go to CM6, but losing the camera means too much to me right now (work related, sadly).

I tried out CM6 (Koush_Test) last night. The one interesting thing I noticed, was the battery was draining like crazy. The battery stat said the display was utilizing 75%.
I went back, due to not having the Camera... When you have kids, I need to be ready.. It was fun to mess with.

I am on Jager 1.8ota and stock kernel and I love it I was on his 1.8 with the hydra 1.13 kernel which is really great too!

Stock 2.1! I have overclocked/hacked every electronic device in my house that could possibly have it done except for my phone. I want to wait for the official Froyo OTA update then have a go at it (in the meantime I will just have to settle with jtagging my Xbox 360 and setting it up to run games off an external HD =).

Been using 1.2 yasr and have been really happy. I think i just like launcher pro though. Love to do cm6 but the camera is an issue for me as well. Official froyo will be welcomed.
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dspero said:
Been using 1.2 yasr and have been really happy. I think i just like launcher pro though. Love to do cm6 but the camera is an issue for me as well. Official froyo will be welcomed.
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How is pmf yasr? I habe heared it was good, but i never got around to it.
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jdkoreclipse said:
How is pmf yasr? I habe heared it was good, but i never got around to it.
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It's good. Basically rooting your phone, removing the junk (sense included), leaving exchange support and adding launcher pro.
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dspero said:
It's good. Basically rooting your phone, removing the junk (sense included), leaving exchange support and adding launcher pro.
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Is it better or worse than cm6
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YASR for the win!
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Is it better or worse than cm6
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It's way better it's like stock ROM but without sense and a lot faster and it has great batterylife!! i'm actually using it and it proved that it's the best out there, with an undervolt and overclock hydra kernel you don't need anything else, would love to use skyrider 1.9 but i'm waiting for the camera, i already tried jagger, CM and basically everyone on incredibleroms dot com and believe YASR is way better if you need link just search here in the forum yasr 1.1! =) cheers

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It's way better it's like stock ROM but without sense and a lot faster and it has great batterylife!! i'm actually using it and it proved that it's the best out there, with an undervolt and overclock hydra kernel you don't need anything else, would love to use skyrider 1.9 but i'm waiting for the camera, i already tried jagger, CM and basically everyone on incredibleroms dot com and believe YASR is way better if you need link just search here in the forum yasr 1.1! =) cheers
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im gonna try that with that detox desire theme and jit. ive been hearing great things about pmf, and im gonna give it a spin.
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Cyanogenmod 6
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What do you want from a rom

Nothing unrealistic or innapropriate
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Are you making a ROM?
I want CIQ removed, stable, fast, battery life optimized in the kernel settings, 1x/3G display support, honeycomb theme built in, and something that'll attract even MORE girls to me and my Epic.

I want aosp.
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Overstew said:
Are you making a ROM?
I want CIQ removed, stable, fast, battery life optimized in the kernel settings, 1x/3G display support, honeycomb theme built in, and something that'll attract even MORE girls to me and my Epic.
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So wait, you want SRF with the Honeycomb theme?

k0nane said:
So wait, you want SRF with the Honeycomb theme?
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Think he wants something that'll make the girls notice him and his epic even more as well though. ;P

SemiGamer said:
Think he wants something that'll make the girls notice him and his epic even more as well though. ;P
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Then he needs to put down the phone and hit the gym.
Though, on the subject of the ladies, ACS member dreamsforgotten has a great pink theme available...

I want reliable, fast, and no extras added in. ****..I want a stock rooted Midnight rom.
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k0nane said:
Then he needs to put down the phone and hit the gym.
Though, on the subject of the ladies, ACS member dreamsforgotten has a great pink theme available...
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Oh come on you can't make him an app or feature that shoots out a cloak making him look like the sexiest guy on earth?
So much for being creative! ;D
I guess the pink would attract.. For the wrong reasons on a males phone though I'd assume..
Anyway to the OP:
I'd suggest just making a ROM based off what YOU want and than sharing it with the community. Its your ROM, make it to your liking and than share it.

1. I am making a rom called paczki rom
2. No ciq
3. Aosp bluetooth stacks (hopefully with help from the cm team)
4. Aosp lockscreen
5. Oc to 1.28ghz (not based on bakedsnackrom, based on twilight (tanimn, do I have permisson?))
6. No omadrm
7. Bonsai fs tweaks (hopefully)
8. Based on syndicate frozen (k0nane, do I have permission?)
9. No twlauncher
10. Nexus s livewallpapers.apk
11. Other possible nexus s files
12. Nexus s fingerprint
13. No sns service (samsung's own sync because they hate google)
14. No swype (flashable zip to add)
15. My modified red acs theme (you can download honeycomb theme if you want. I have a honeycomb device already so I dont need my phone to look like it)
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marcusant said:
1. I am making a rom called paczki rom
2. No ciq
3. Aosp bluetooth stacks (hopefully with help from the cm team)
4. Aosp lockscreen
5. Oc to 1.28ghz (not based on bakedsnackrom, based on twilight (tanimn, do I have permisson?))
6. No omadrm
7. Bonsai fs tweaks (hopefully)
8. Based on syndicate frozen (k0nane, do I have permission?)
9. No twlauncher
10. Nexus s livewallpapers.apk
11. Other possible nexus s files
12. Nexus s fingerprint
13. No sns service (samsung's own sync because they hate google)
14. No swype (flashable zip to add)
15. My modified red acs theme (you can download honeycomb theme if you want. I have a honeycomb device already so I dont need my phone to look like it)
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5. Have fun... We're working on 1.3 right now. Twilight Zone is GPL-licensed, you can do what you want with it.
6. Good luck with that, it'll take as much work as CIQ to remove, if you're able to do it at all.
7. These are standard across all EXT4 ROMs including SRF.
8. I'm hesistant because it's enough of a problem ensuring themes and mods stay up to date. It could work.

Dual-boot. And I know it'd be a right squeeze but that's what apps2sd is for.
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Electrofreak said:
Dual-boot. And I know it'd be a right squeeze but that's what apps2sd is for.
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I cant create a dual boot /boot and kernal myself. Not that skilled.
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k0nane said:
Then he needs to put down the phone and hit the gym.
Though, on the subject of the ladies, ACS member dreamsforgotten has a great pink theme available...
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I am speechless, with syndicate rom I've already gotten 7 girls to ask me..er..my phone out.
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I want a ROM that looks and feels like AOSP, but has features from other companies as add-ons and such to make the ROM complete. For example, multiple launchers - Sense, Stock, (even TW, possibly. I wouldn't recommend it), multiple keyboards - (Swype, Stock, HTC's, Droid's)
I think you get what I'm saying: Basically a ROM that features a little something from each major developer (if that's even possible), but still have it fast, smooth, ext4, OC @ 1.2 GHz. Basically a ROM that makes you never feel like you're not missing out on anything that your phone didn't come with.
I understand it's an optimistic view and likely impossible to completely fulfill, but that is what I'd like.

Just a minimalist, light-running ROM that runs silky smooth with great battery life. I'm pretty sure that's what a lot of people like actually. lol. Being reliable is also a huge priority for me. As well as simple upgrades to a next version of the rom.

professoroak said:
Just a minimalist, light-running ROM that runs silky smooth with great battery life. I'm pretty sure that's what a lot of people like actually. lol. Being reliable is also a huge priority for me. As well as simple upgrades to a next version of the rom.
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Yes. I may do the bonsai backup/restore method
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pwow I have to post 10 times before i can post in the development section - seams like a waste of time to me but here it goes
wow I have to wait 5 min between posts
this forum sucks!

Gingerbread roms

Wondering if anyone has a solid gingerbread rom out there they could recommend to me for install? Hopefully something that doesn't kill my battery too fast.. I have a vibrant and would be willing to test it out even. Let me know...thanks!
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Cm7
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None of the Gingerbread ROM's are stable yet. They still have a lot of bugs and battery life isn't where it should be.

I downloaded Atriarc last night and it seems pretty darn stable to me. I was running the Overstock kernel without issue until this morning when my flashing addiction flared up and I decided to try the Tiger Blood kernel. That ran fine for about an hour and then started soft rebooting constantly. I just flashed back to Atriarc and all is well. I have to say I've had exchange issues with email up until this rom, none now.

Atriarc isn't a gingerbread rom.
I just installed Whitehawkx's Gingerbread beta 3. So far it seems like I can use it as a daily driver. Some small issues, of course, but overall good.

White's is better than CM7 for now, better battery life and overall more stable.

Trigger, Atriarc, SweetHoney are my favs besides CM7

CM7 is amazing if you know how to customize it.
I get 14+ hours of battery life on it, not too bad, considering I get home before that and could just charge it.
It's very snappy and oh, no touchwiz, ftmfw.
Sure, GPS doesn't work, but who cares? Mapquest that ****.
Data seems to work fine.
I dun know, but for me, it's a great ROM and it's worth it.

xriderx66 said:
Trigger, Atriarc, SweetHoney are my favs besides CM7
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Of that list only CM7 is a gingerbread rom aka 2.3 the rest are froyo aka 2.2

pvspencer22 said:
Of that list only CM7 is a gingerbread rom aka 2.3 the rest are froyo aka 2.2
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Sorry didn't read title
Theres like 2 Gingerbread roms... and its kind of obvious which one you want... cm7.

Any gingerbread roms that have gps working
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If I knew how to customize cm7 I would be all over it!
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cashyftw said:
If I knew how to customize cm7 I would be all over it!
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Just tweak stuff until you find out what the settings do!
There is a whole cyanogenmod settings menu with a bunch of stuff. It's awesome!!!
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treyvaporizer said:
Just tweak stuff until you find out what the settings do!
There is a whole cyanogenmod settings menu with a bunch of stuff. It's awesome!!!
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I agree.
I'm running cm7 nightly from the 12th and after messing with it i'm pretty content. I know everyone's opinion of smooth is hugely subjective but please believe me when I say that I have mine running as smooth as the seemingly accelerated Touchwiz roms. I'm one for smooth transitions and scrolling and this so far is keeping me content.

Sdobron said:
White's is better than CM7 for now, better battery life and overall more stable.
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i had the exact opposite experience. i ran cm7 for like 3 weeks with little to no problems (besides no gps and no external sd), the double rainbow lasted on my phone for less than a day due to problems with it.

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cashmonkey said:
Any gingerbread roms that have gps working
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In a word, no.

funeralthirst said:
i had the exact opposite experience. i ran cm7 for like 3 weeks with little to no problems (besides no gps and no external sd), the double rainbow lasted on my phone for less than a day due to problems with it.
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You didn't encounter any corruption on applications?

brianburt1 said:
Wondering if anyone has a solid gingerbread rom out there they could recommend to me for install? Hopefully something that doesn't kill my battery too fast.. I have a vibrant and would be willing to test it out even. Let me know...thanks!
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Eugene's Gingerbread clone R2 final

Hi, I'm on CM7 and it's great. It's very snapy and the web brouser is the fastest of any rom I have tested. I don't see why people say the GPS does not work. It's never worked as well as it's working now. The lock on the GPS is very fast and very good. The compas works aswell but it does not point to north. There are a fiew games that FC on CM7 but most of them do work well. I would say that it is now very close to being a daily use rom and I'm running it on an I9000m with 850mh radio working perfectly. I just added flash 10.2 and it works very fast aswell.

[Q] The best ROM after rooting the epic 4g?

What is the best and most stable (more importantly) ROM out there for the epic, based on user experience?

I like midnight 5.3 but its all preference if you want stability go with stock ec05 plus
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Bonsai, the latest release.

Try a couple, then try a couple more, SFR 1.1.1, Bonsai, Paranoid, Anonymous, Super Nova, Viper, all pretty good...
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ecooce said:
Try a couple, then try a couple more, SFR 1.1.1, Bonsai, Paranoid, Anonymous, Super Nova, Viper, all pretty good...
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Don't forget Frankenstein as well
But really, do try them all and just see which one you like best and works best for your phone.

this is what you need
best answer for you bub the post above me qbking77 start there how to root without a computer then learn how to odin then after you can fix what ur eventually going to semi brick or boot loop or wierd black screens that some ppl have never seen (qb) lol then get ur self a rom that u like and works for u what i like or qbking like maybe be different my phone never makes a noise till it rings so i dont need a rome with lots of sounds some roms dont work all the way then there r kernels well one step at a time............................ just go to you tube and get ready to get hooked

then
modems and themes ( i recomend darkis nebula) then ur goona say i want to try it there is a whole sticky for that but 1 thing that was told to me DO NOT post on the devs side of this read look dont post chance r what u post has been anserwed here on the general section word to the wise but you can do what u want

theduce102 said:
I like midnight 5.3 but its all preference if you want stability go with stock ec05 plus
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Agreed on stock+

qbking77 said:
Don't forget Frankenstein as well
But really, do try them all and just see which one you like best and works best for your phone.
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Oh, and that one too
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I don't really think there's a such thing as best rom. Some may be more popular than others, but my two favorite are simply aosp and srf v1.1.1.
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Overstew said:
I don't really think there's a such thing as best rom. Some may be more popular than others, but my two favorite are simply aosp and srf v1.1.1.
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Yes I use SFR 1.1.1 and genocide 1 but that maybe greek to him I would have liked if someone had told me when I was (and I still am) new at this learn how to fix it then move on would have saved alot of?
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If you don't care much about bluetooth, and 4g. Id say give CM7 Alpha a try. I feel like I'm in a whole new world after installing that rom after using every rom available! Except simply asop(cm7 clone)/ which I'm getting ready to test here in just a second when its done downloading!
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If you don't care much about bluetooth, and 4g. Id say give CM7 Alpha a try. I feel like I'm in a whole new world after installing that rom after using every rom available! Except simply asop(cm7 clone)/ which I'm getting ready to test here in just a second when its done downloading!
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Simply aosp is the next best thing to cm7 IMO. Never have problems on it, something always ends up breaking at some point or another with the other roms. For me anyways.
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I like SRF 1.1.1. Never tried anything else because it worked so good when I started with 1.1.0.

If you are on EE03 GB for me, the more stable ROM is anonymous V6. This guys have tried to fix most of the bugs from Swiss Cheese and more. V7 will be even more stable when they release it soon. I 100% recommended it if you guys want to try GB. Is Still a work in progress, but still very reliable.
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Haven't found a really stable custom rom yet. I'm back on stock, forcing myself to wait for the Sprint Gingerbread update release.

As others have said, try some, the beauty about being rooted and having the ability to flash custom ROM's is you can change as often as you want. No harm in flashing one, trying it out for a day or 2, flashing something else for a couple days... experiment until you find the one that you personally like best. Enjoy

We only have eight roms find the one that works best for you lol. I've been on SFR since release and currently have it paired with th Genocide kernel with great results. Just make sure to enable journaling.

stir fry a lot said:
We only have eight roms find the one that works best for you lol. I've been on SFR since release and currently have it paired with th Genocide kernel with great results. Just make sure to enable journaling.
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i run the same set up
and this is my quad

Here is a writeup of the setup I use on my phone, includfing the additional mods.
For me, the theme is the most important part, as most ROMs are pretty close to each other (except asop & cm7)
My fav setup on my Moment came from when I built my own collection from all the development pieces, so I figured I would start my collection for the Epic as well
EXT4 is a standard for me now, so after stock flashing to stock EC05, the next step is to add:
Clockwork Mod 3.0.0.6 or Clockwork Mod 3.0.2.5
Next is my base EC05 ROM, currently I am using SyndicateROM Frozen
I will probably stay with this ROM until CM7 is fixed, or a Frankenstein version is released
My FAV theme has finally been updated, here is the link to it: Honeycomb Fusion 1.1 / Addons!
Next is custom apps, I simply love the transparent MMS app, it is a themed versions of stock, and is good enough I don't need any other version: Transparent Messaging App Collection (EC05,EB13,DK28)
Then I found a transparent dialer in the thread for Erebos! Slick, Professional theme in post number 6
Another must have app, though it comes with the ROM, is WiFi Tether (ver 3.0-pre11) as it works to connect my Moment to my Epic via WiFi. Here is a link to the download page for the latest version
Added the ADW Ex Launcher, and while I still prefer LP, I am gonna keep it because the Black Glass 1.7 Theme makes my App drawer transparent!
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OMG stock 2.2 sucks! Help!

Was on CM7 thinking that the wifi was terrible and I needed a good signal so I thought I'd go back to the 2.2 roms. So far all Ive been able to do is update the phone to 2.2 stock and I HATE IT!
Quick! what is the fastest method to gain root and get a ROM on there!?
Thanks in advance!

Odin to jfd and root. Then install cwm or if you have the old update.zip reinstall that a couple of times. Oh yeah don't forget to put a rom on as wwell.
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wait wait wait. I feel like such a noob. I odin'd to jfd (stock 2.1 right) rooted and installed clockwork recovery. Tried to flash trigger and it didn't work, which made me think, "crap, do I need to be on 2.2?' dammit! I am confused... Are you saying that I should have been able to flash trigger 3.2 from stock, rooted, 2.1? It didn't work for some reason...oh jeez...I bet it was a bad dl...

Yeah. Basically. You might need to wait a little for voodoo to kick in, but I've flashed trigger 3.2 multiple times on 2.1 stock.rooted.
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i just flashed bionixs 1.3.1 sooo nice

Yeah it is nice, but you could also try any other 2.2 rom. Every dev beat the **** out of 2.2 so its basically perfect for us rom wise
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Yea! It worked! Ya know, seriously, it must be the hardware because this phone WITHOUT custom roms SUCKS big time... I don't know how anyone could handle being stock. It is so slow and clunky. Samsung sucks at software. I'm going back to htc on my next.. K. Enough ranting. Thanks guys!
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Yeah I know your going back to HTC....I think it was you who made a thread in general how great the sensation was -_- but on some phone stock 2.2 runs great
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duboi97 said:
Yeah it is nice, but you could also try any other 2.2 rom. Every dev beat the **** out of 2.2 so its basically perfect for us rom wise
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true story

Amen to that! These devs make this phone what it should be. On that note, I misspoke before. My next will definitely be the nexus prime. The beauty there is solid samsung hardware and pure google software. I don't even care what carrier gets it. I'll switch for that sucker!

Droidicus said:
Yea! It worked! Ya know, seriously, it must be the hardware because this phone WITHOUT custom roms SUCKS big time... I don't know how anyone could handle being stock. It is so slow and clunky. Samsung sucks at software. I'm going back to htc on my next.. K. Enough ranting. Thanks guys!
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But Samsung is superior in hardware an your gonna root phone so what's the point :-/ an with the great team of CM around we ain't gotta worry about updates an also vibrant 4G we might see one more update to give us GPS on next CM
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Droidicus said:
Amen to that! These devs make this phone what it should be. On that note, I misspoke before. My next will definitely be the nexus prime. The beauty there is solid samsung hardware and pure google software. I don't even care what carrier gets it. I'll switch for that sucker!
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my phone doesnt run bad on stock actually lol but it runs great on cm7, my next phone is probably going to be the triumph

My phone actually runs RFS pretty good for some reason 0.o I could hardly see a difference between Ext4 and RFS until I ran benchmarks...

duboi97 said:
My phone actually runs RFS pretty good for some reason 0.o I could hardly see a difference between Ext4 and RFS until I ran benchmarks...
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must be high. jking

No dude I'm being for real. Unless on gingerbread my phone runs RFS pretty good on 2.1 and 2.2...