Hey guys and gals,
So I just rooted my EVO last week with the Beta unrevoked with success. I flash my first ROM that day(Drew's GB 15a ROM). I really like it but it really isn't something that I could use everyday yet, of course.
That being said, can anyone recommend a ROM that is just as easy to flash without haveing to flash anything else over it and with everything working? I hope I am making sence. Maybe a Froyo ROM without sence or even with sence. Anything custom that people really like. I am just getting into flashing ROM's so, I am trying to keep it simple at first.... The EVO is my first android phone. My hardware build is 0003 if that helps. I got it on release day.
Thanks Everyone!
Can't go wrong with cyanogen.
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+ the cyanogenmod.
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CM6 ftw...
Thanks for the replies guys! Do you have any links for the ones you like? When I do a search here I get tons of threads!
cyanogen's current stable doesn't have 4g FYI. i just got my evo today & flashed the fresh rom (used to use his hero roms). i dig it.
If you like sense Fresh is the way to go, calkulins ROM always been my favorite. Just head over to the development thread you see them, download, nandroid backup, wipe, flash.
I've had my evo for about a month and I flash a new rom every week a to try them all out I'm currently on my fourth rom and I think a nice noob rom would be the Sprint Lovers rom its not too different from stock
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MikFroyo or Ricsim
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MYN's Warm 2.2. Here is a great site to check out many different ROM's and Kernel's that are out there. Also gives links. Awesome site:
http://home.comcast.net/~evobenchers/reviews.html
Abracastabya said:
MikFroyo or Ricsim
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+1 for MikFroyo. Best rom out there right now.
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+1 for MikFroyo. Best rom out there right now.
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Make that +2 for MikFroYo! From another noob. Easy flash, no other installs were needed.
+3 mikfroyo for 4g and tether. I prefer cm6, but I was experiencing 3g dropouts.
CM7 gingerbread android 2.3.1! Updates daily....runs great
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No doubt, myn's warm twopointtwo has been the best ROM that I've flashed. It incorporates sense. Definitely worth checking out,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=793471
By the way, all the devs do great work. Thanks for all your input.
CyanogenMod....easilly the best rom out there. I get superb battery life out of it. It's very responsive.....just plain the best.
P.S. If you like sense try Fresh or Warm they are both great.
Can't go wrong with cyanogenmod. Yet again when you want gingerbread go with evervolv and sense go with myns or virus
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mjpuczko said:
cyanogen's current stable doesn't have 4g FYI.
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And it has wifi connection issues (see bug #2595).
kamtsa said:
And it has wifi connection issues (see bug #2595).
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So which ROM you recommend instead?
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Hi finally rooted my phone only to discover that the cyanogen mods dont support 4g!!! I use 4g all the time so this is serious to me.
Is there another rom that can give me my 4g back?
Or should I just restore my Sense ui?
The problem with that latter is that my sense ui was buggy, making my phone slow and the keyboards almost useless.
Is there an alternative Sense UI rom that might perform better?
Thanks
I use mikefroyo
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Ava
Azrael
Fresh
Just to name a few that I think are great and have great battery life.
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mikfroyo, check it out. you won't be dissappointed.
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mikfroyo, check it out. you won't be dissappointed.
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an amazing rom, very very fast.
Try this CM rom. It has 4G but its still in beta: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902051
mikions are as bad as mynions, surprised no mynjas have chimed in
Any Sense ROM will have 4G unless the ROM developer is a complete failure. Right now for non-Sense the only option I'm aware of is the CM6-WiMax mod posted above. It looks like if things keep developing as fast as they have been there's a strong chance CM7 will have it built in when the final release hits.
i hope you backed up your rsa keys
Myn's Warm 2.2 RLS5 has 4G and is wonderful.
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mikions are as bad as mynions, surprised no mynjas have chimed in
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If someone asks for recommendations on what rom to use, why are people "bad" for suggesting the rom they prefer, themselves? I have nothing against any rom, but none I have used runs as well as mikfroyo. Since the 3.70 update, I have used: vaelpak, fresh, myn's, one of the evoKings roms, cm6.1.2, cm wimax alpha, a few of the GB roms, and mikfroyo. Of all of these, none ran as smoothly as mikfroyo. My hwv is 0004, my original swv was 3.29, and I have the .97 hboot.
My Warm TwoPointTwo RLS5 and MikFroyo 4.4 are the heavy favorites in these forums (hence that comment about Mikians and Mynjas). I use both, back and forth, they both have their ups and downs. Myn's is prettier, Mik's is faster. Both have all the function that stock has (4g, hdmi, etc).
As a previous poster said, all Sense roms will have it, but Mik and Myn have the 2 most popular ones.
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an amazing rom, very very fast.
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+2. This rom is awesome.
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what ROM has everythinig working ON THE HTC EVO?? AND which one the most awesome one!? SOME SCREEN SHOTS WOULD BE AWESOME.. if you guuys could help me here! I got bored of just trying out different launchers.. wanna go into different ROMS! THANKS!!
Flash them and try them out. I liked running Myn's Z rom for a while to try out the new Sense (which is suwheet), now I'm running Sprint Lovers which has everything working (as you say), with a few extras. For real though, just try them out, worst you can do is waste some time setting up your phone again. But hey, you said you were bored so that shouldnt be a deturbance.
MIUI is the best ROM around, period. It is the perfect balance of style and substance. 4G does not work but it is a fair trade off. We just got gingerbread but it still has a few kinks to be worked out. I recommend flashing one of the latest Froyo builds.
It all depends on what you want.
Sense
AOSP
Miui
drummer2780 said:
what ROM has everythinig working ON THE HTC EVO?? AND which one the most awesome one!? SOME SCREEN SHOTS WOULD BE AWESOME.. if you guuys could help me here! I got bored of just trying out different launchers.. wanna go into different ROMS! THANKS!!
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Many of the ROMs listed as threads in the Development section have screenshots of them, as appearance is a huge deciding factor for many of us. Take a look around and you'll see!
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Flash them and try them out. I liked running Myn's Z rom for a while to try out the new Sense (which is suwheet), now I'm running Sprint Lovers which has everything working (as you say), with a few extras. For real though, just try them out, worst you can do is waste some time setting up your phone again. But hey, you said you were bored so that shouldnt be a deturbance.
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I'm running Myn's Warm Z right now (which lacks 4G, but eh, I never use it anyway, 3G is more than adequate) and Sense 2.0 is damn sweet. It's gorgeous, responsive, fluid, and just has minor touches here and there that most people really enjoy.
MIKFROYO is a great rom to try,,
I guess I need to try Mik's now... !
Yea ive heard the mikifroyo or something like that righ? Does everything wrkk on that one? Im just looking for something different.. and if i give it a shot at this ROms it will be my first time.. hope everything goes good and not brick my phone ha
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Yea ive heard the mikifroyo or something like that righ? Does everything wrkk on that one? Im just looking for something different.. and if i give it a shot at this ROms it will be my first time.. hope everything goes good and not brick my phone ha
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Bricking only really happens from radio updates. Remember to back up stock first! Yeah everything works in mikfroyo
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I've tried a few Roms, the latest being CM7 and VaelPak. After 2 weeks with those Roms, I went back to Myn. No GPS or voicemail issues, and everything runs smooth. I think Myn Warm Z is the best looking Rom, but the lack of 4G made it a dealbreaker as my daily driver.
Yea.. ive never even done a nandroid.. haha.. but ill follow some instructions and i should be fine.. hopefully.. with the radio updates.. do i have to have a current one for it to wrk on ROMS o no?
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One more thing.. are all these ROMS already ROOTED? or do i jave to root again? So i can have the tethering
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One more thing.. are all these ROMS already ROOTED? or do i jave to root again? So i can have the tethering
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You root your phone once, the Rom it self is not rooted. They usually come with tethering and the hotspot fix.
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Yea.. ive never even done a nandroid.. haha.. but ill follow some instructions and i should be fine.. hopefully.. with the radio updates.. do i have to have a current one for it to wrk on ROMS o no?
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In the OP for Mik's, there is a link to 2 videos. The 2nd one shows how to do a nandroid, wipe properly and flash the ROM.
Very simple
But would i b able to move almost all my apps to sd card still? Hopefully the tether wtls
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I saw something on the mik's thread again about moving apps2sd. I didn't read it, because I don't use it, but it's there.
Awesomee thanks!!
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Whats a big cause of changing to a ROM? Is it more battery life or something? or its just the customization on them?
man when did people get so lazy ? just go t to the dev section and do a little research?
Hey xda,
I just got a HTC G2, straight of ebay. I'll be following the tutorials posted to perma-root, CID unlock and S-off (not using visionary).
My only question and concern is, just because I am new to this phone, apart from CM being at the top, what other roms are stable? fast? and reliable? (decent battery life, not too many fc's etc)
I'm very much interested in something with HTC Sense, but meh, am willing to compromise if its too buggy. I've been reading here and there that there are tons of problems with scaling etc when phones switches from portrait/landscape etc.
Any suggestions will be great! Thank you for reading this far!!
Sorry, but you're going to have to do what everyone else does. Try them out and decide for yourself.
Hello and welcome!
My suggestions:
If you want sense, look up Virtuous 1.0.2 for froyo. If you want sense 3.0, look up Virtuous Fusion 1.0.0.
If you want stock android, look up Virtuous G-lite 1.0.2.
All of the above ROMs are by the same dev, are very stable and I have used all of the above. Currently using G-lite because as much as I love sense, it does take alot of memory.
As posted before, try the ROMs for about a week each and see how you like them. It's all personal preference.
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insertcoin is a nice mix between sense 2.1 and 3.0
Athrun88 said:
Hello and welcome!
My suggestions:
If you want sense, look up Virtuous 1.0.2 for froyo. If you want sense 3.0, look up Virtuous Fusion 1.0.0.
If you want stock android, look up Virtuous G-lite 1.0.2.
All of the above ROMs are by the same dev, are very stable and I have used all of the above. Currently using G-lite because as much as I love sense, it does take alot of memory.
As posted before, try the ROMs for about a week each and see how you like them. It's all personal preference.
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I couldn't agree more; as far as ROMs go, rmk's are the most stable. CyanogenMod7 is actually extremely buggy still on the G2 (at least, when I used it a few weeks ago). While CM7 is probably the fastest ROM I've used, there are lots of little things that don't work correctly, and newer builds sometimes will break things that worked on older builds. I'm currently running G-Lite and I'm extremely satisfied.
My fav is mexdroid there new V3 been running good for me http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=886184
[ROM][05/21/11] meXdroidMod meXperia G2/DZ (V3)
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My fav is mexdroid there new V3 been running good for me http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=886184
[ROM][05/21/11] meXdroidMod meXperia G2/DZ (V3)
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+1 to that! It's colorful, fast, and siiiiicccckkk. Happy flashing
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Cm6.1.1 is nice and stable with decent battery life. It isn't as aesthetically pleasing as the myriad gingerbread releases but it gets the job done and can be tweaked to appear incredibly 'speedy' by using spare parts from the app market and Launcher Pro.
Ill throw my vote in there for Pyrorom. Its fast and is based off of CM7 if I remember correctly. I had tried a few, but as soon as I booted Pyro, I knew it was the one.
Good luck anyways.
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virtuous g-lite is faster than cyanogenmod... check it out.
Try a stock rom! Or dive in and before you know it you will be flashing new roms every other day.
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fwiw I have yet to find another ROM as stable as GingerVillain 1.5 with the 4.02.17 radio. Everything works perfect and I can get 18 hours battery life.
Tried Glite 1.02, super smooth, great ROM with the 4.30 radio BUT could not get the bluetooth to pair. Plus a few minor quirks with the camera flash not working. This is mostly due to the hw differences between the G2 and desire Z. I have a bell Can Desire Z
if u don't want sense...
If you have a G2, go for Glite 1.02 otherwise GV 1.5 is stable and can't be beat ..yet imo
Cm7 has been the only rom I stayed with. I tried sense roms and wanted to pull NY hair out, I simply just cannot stand sense.
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Ill throw my vote in there for Pyrorom. Its fast and is based off of CM7 if I remember correctly. I had tried a few, but as soon as I booted Pyro, I knew it was the one.
Good luck anyways.
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I 2ND that.. pyromod 2.0 is the best... no force closes and faster than a Russian prostitute just check out the video for the rom. I've been on it forever (currently awaiting 3.0 which supposedly drops tonight/soon)
* I'm just sayin......
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+1 to that! It's colorful, fast, and siiiiicccckkk. Happy flashing
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I 2nd meXdroidmod. This rom is fast and stable. By far my favorite.
If you're looking for a sense rom, I'd recommend insertcoin.
I'd also recommend trying out Miui and vanilla based Roms
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AwwwwYeaaaaa, You guys are the best!!!
at the moment, my phone is stuck in customs... been there for 10 days now... gah, cant wait to get it!
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Sorry, but you're going to have to do what everyone else does. Try them out and decide for yourself.
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In time, yep, will be flashing around here and there and i'll know for myself. I just wanted to know which ones are the best to start of with. I remember when i got my Milestone, man, i flashed all the bad roms first, had soo many problems.
Especially when ROM threads exceed 50 pages, Yikes!! Takes forever to go through them.
Thanks though!
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Ill throw my vote in there for Pyrorom. Its fast and is based off of CM7 if I remember correctly. I had tried a few, but as soon as I booted Pyro, I knew it was the one.
Good luck anyways.
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I saw the video review of it on Youtube and it looks solid! Thank you!
I love fast roms, but I haven't been given the time to test all of these new roms.
Which roms do you guys think is the overall fastest? Preferably with good battery life too.
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Give Deck's GB a try
+1 for DECKS!!!
lets just say i love experiment with some strange but i'll always come back to decks
Syndergy based roms are doing me right right about now, so any should be good. If your going to be in the community i find it hard to believe that the urge to flash multiple roms won't eventually get its grip on you
decks is cyanogen, with a different launcher.
try salvagemod or evervolv
Gotta give my vote to mikg v1.04
I'll be the first to represent for VaelPak AOSP GP Preview. I love it, no problems whatsoever for my admittedly-average usage experience. It's still in beta, but Vaelek is a talented dev. Not sure why he left XDA, but he's running his own show at vaelek.com these days.
I've also heard good things about Deck's ROM.
King r6
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+1 mikg 1.04
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alaman68 said:
decks is cyanogen, with a different launcher.
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Decks is decks. It is not cyanogen. Thank you!
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For AOSP, Deck's or Salvagemod.
For Sense, MikG 1.04 or the newest Synergy nightly.
DECKs rom is the way to go. Tried them all and still flash them just to stay on the edge of the development. Only problem with DECKs...DON'T GET COMFORTABLE!!! The guy updates his stuff every 10 minutes!!! Kidding of course but he really strives to make his the best it can be. I absolutely love it!!!
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DECKs rom is the way to go. Tried them all and still flash them just to stay on the edge of the development. Only problem with DECKs...DON'T GET COMFORTABLE!!! The guy updates his stuff every 10 minutes!!! Kidding of course but he really strives to make his the best it can be. I absolutely love it!!!
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I agree 100% I wasn't a big fan of asop till deck.
Decks is great. I keep finding myself coming back to Decks gb rom. way to go. Try it out and see how you like it.
I never tried Decks, but it is based off of CM 7 from what i'v heard. If you're looking for something other than CM7 then you HAVE to try out MIUI.
Not only is it one of the best GB roms i'v ever used, it's one of the best roms i'v used period (and i'v been flashing roms since the G1 days). Trust me, you won't regret. I highly suggest once you flash it install Go Launcher because the stock launcher is a little "iphone-ish" unless you like that kind of thing, then it's all good.
+1 for Decks ROM......
Deck's rom is pretty awesome. Running that with the SZ kernel, LauncherPro, and the Supercharger script, and my phone has never been faster.
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Decks is decks. It is not cyanogen. Thank you!
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Decks is CM7 if you can't figure that out you are dense.
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DECKs rom is the way to go. Tried them all and still flash them just to stay on the edge of the development. Only problem with DECKs...DON'T GET COMFORTABLE!!! The guy updates his stuff every 10 minutes!!! Kidding of course but he really strives to make his the best it can be. I absolutely love it!!!
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No he updates it everytime a new CM7 nightly is released.
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So, I tried using Synergy, and I have no idea what it could have been, but it felt a lot slower than I was comfortable with.
I have yet to try MIUI, but people seem to enjoy it. At the moment I'm on Kingdom R6 and I feel like it's one of the faster ROMs I've used.
I haven't used an AOSP ROM yet, but it seems that Deck is the ROM of choice. I know with CM7 I can't flash it because I used unrEVOked, is that the same situation with Deck?
Just finished rooting my Evo 4G for the first time and was wondering about the different ROM available. I haven't rooted since i had my Hero a year ago. I had fresh on my Hero and loved it. However I mainly use launcher pro and wanted to get away from a sense based ROM as I wanted to use full HDMI out and bluetooth HIDS and from last time I heard a bug in sense prevented this..is this still correct?? I was looking toward CM7.
So does anyone have any recommendation to start off with?
Thanks,
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Sense does have the broken Bluetooth stacks, yes. So AOSP-wise? Whenever I actually use AOSP, I use MIUI with latest Tiamat kernel. People complain about no 4G and how it looks like an iPhone, but it is so customizable and it has some great devs.
Other than that, I would suggest SalvageMod or Deck's.
MIUI>SalvageMod>Deck's. All with the latest Tiamat.
But I am a Sense guy, so you know.... Full HDMI mirroring works on Sense with latest Freedom and Chopsuey kernel, if you are interested.
And if you need a refresher, check out my guide in my signature. It is written for Sense but it should apply universally.
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thanks, ill look into those. Also what recovery do you recommend CM or RA?
Amon Ra by far
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My recommendation would be Team Nocturnal Xplod 1.2 with Tiamat 3.37, it has bewn very smooth for me and AOSP
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My recommendations :
CM7.1.0
ICS themes from market (both cm7 and adw.)
Set screen density to 200.
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^_^ hope it helps
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thanks, ill look into those. Also what recovery do you recommend CM or RA?
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i recommend amon ra, and if you are interested in learning about aosp roms/kernels click on the link in my sig it's a guide that will explain it all to you with download links to all the roms and download zips to all the kernels. and if you need help installing your rom/kernel i put a link there to a guide for that
Thanks everyone,
I'm gonna start w/ CM7 stable. A few quick questions. What would be the best kernel to go with this. Something to increase battery, trickle charging.
Also do i need to flash a radio with this??
I went with Decks. From what I read it is a striped down version of CM7. What are the main differences? whats has been removed?
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Thanks everyone,
I'm gonna start w/ CM7 stable. A few quick questions. What would be the best kernel to go with this. Something to increase battery, trickle charging.
Also do i need to flash a radio with this??
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I went with Decks. From what I read it is a striped down version of CM7. What are the main differences? whats has been removed?
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Check the thread in my sig
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Decks is the way to go with aosp roms. I read people praising salvaged zen all the time, but I always have issues when charging my phone on that kernel. I go with.Tiamat. I like the idea of an aosp rom that is still being updated.
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Go with cm7.0 always gave me the best speed and battery life. Use tiamat kernel with supercharger script.
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Go with cm7.0 always gave me the best speed and battery life. Use tiamat kernel with supercharger script.
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were can i find scripts and is the a thread for how they install?
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I Like sinister R9 - its sense based It is very fast has working everything as far as ive seen used this rom for over 3 weeks and as a result even my IT guy that swares by AOSP CM7 switched to it and he also likes it alot .. The one thing i can say i didnt like about Cm7 is the way it links contacts .. sense is amazing at linking contacts
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I Like sinister R9 - its sense based It is very fast has working everything as far as ive seen used this rom for over 3 weeks and as a result even my IT guy that swares by AOSP CM7 switched to it and he also likes it alot .. The one thing i can say i didnt like about Cm7 is the way it links contacts .. sense is amazing at linking contacts
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yea the contact link is the 1st thing i noticed. Don't like it at all but i can deal with it. Main reason I'm going w/ AOSP is to use bluetooth HIDs, as sense doesn't allow this.
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Decks is the way to go with aosp roms. I read people praising salvaged zen all the time, but I always have issues when charging my phone on that kernel. I go with.Tiamat. I like the idea of an aosp rom that is still being updated.
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Can I just flash the Tiamat on top or will i have to reflash the ROM again and start over?
I just flashed the tiamat kernel. went w/o SBC as i have read that can be risky. Do I need to adjust any settings to help with battery life or does the kernel take care of that? Should Id be using setCPU?
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I just flashed the tiamat kernel. went w/o SBC as i have read that can be risky. Do I need to adjust any settings to help with battery life or does the kernel take care of that? Should Id be using setCPU?
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do not use set cpu and if you want to learn about aosp you should click on the link in my sig and you should really look through the Q&A section b/c it will help you out A LOT!!!
I have tried a bunch of roms, asop and sense, I by far like the aosp roms much better. I am currently digging the latest Xplod rom by Team Nocturnal.
Team Blaze Roms with Sense 3.5 you cant go wrong with Blaze
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