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what is the best sense rom out right now? skyraider? anyone have a preference? or the new desire hd rom?

kregstrong said:
what is the best sense rom out right now? skyraider? anyone have a preference? or the new desire hd rom?
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I have to say that I am absolutely loving Virtuous right now. I have tried them all and it's my daily driver.
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I am really enjoying the Uncommon Sense. Best I have tried so far.

Virtuous is clean and smooth
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virtuous - extremely stable and customizable. Best so far. Did try a bunch of others and always came back to virtuous. In fact I stopped experimenting with others. I am going steady with her now waiting for it to ask me for a diamond ring to show real commitment.

I like virtuous. It's the closest to stock but with lots of mods. I personally love to rotary lockscreen from our friend ihtfp69. But I only tried skyraider during RC2. Cm is nice except no sense widgets.
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I can say virtuous is probably THE best as far as stability and customization. It's by far one of the most polished ROMs out for the incredible right now.
I've tried both skyraider vanilla and sense and they are very nice ROMs as well. Unfortunately, a couple bugs bothered me and i always went back to virtuous.
CM6 was my first ROM and it was unfortunately too buggy for me. I miss a lot of things about it but overall, I realized there are a lot of things about Sense that i could not live without.
Desire HD ROM was also pretty cool but only because we got to see what great things HTC is inventing. I am also looking forward to dev's incorporating some things from it... like booting up in seconds!
Currently I am running uncommon sense and it's honestly just as stable (so far) as virtuous. Considering this is the first version of it, I am extremely impressed.
Since i was using virtuous with the sexyrosiemod and rotary lockscreen (but i really wanted the vanilla lockscreen), uncommon sense is pretty much my set up but built in the ROM already. As far as getting rid of bloatware though, i have to say virtuous is the easiest ROM for it. I had to use titanium with uncommon sense which really isn't that big of a deal but it wasn't as user friendly as virtuous.
EDIT: Forgot something important. I later found out that you can uninstall apps straight from the app menu in uncommon sense. very handy!
also, the other quirks in uncommon sense has really made me attached to this ROM. I never thought i would cross over from virtuous but I did and I don't see myself going back (due to personal preference not because it's necessarily better). If i was going to recommend a ROM to a friend, i would say virtuous.

From what you say cheese I'm going to give uncommon sense a try. So far I like it. Been only 10 minutes though
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Uncommon Sense.
It just works for me all the way through. The bloatware can be a little annoying but it's easily taken care of.

I would have to say virtuous also. I was a big fan of skyraider and can't wait for gold. But uncommon sense was slow for me. I don't use rosie but I like the color settings menu and the status bars better than vanilla.
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kregstrong said:
what is the best sense rom out right now? skyraider? anyone have a preference? or the new desire hd rom?
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In my opinion if you're looking for the Sense experience Virtuous is the best one out there. It doesn't change anything drastically, and the UI changes are subtle and more of added polish than wholesale changes you'll get with some other roms. I really like the spirit of the project which is to remain as close to stock as possible but to give the user options that they don't have with the official build.
It's been rock solid for me, the only issue was the Gmail Update issue with 2.7 which was quickly resolved.

Redemption ROM-
Best if you want sense without the added bloatware
It's pretty fast too!
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I like virtuous
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I think more people should try redemption. its been nothing but smooth.
Virtuous is nice too. great battery life with the custom kernel.
Actually, They're all really good. I've been doing a lot of jumping around from rom to rom because they're all really good. That's what's great about being rooted. Try'em all!

I like the new Uncommon 1.0 ROM. It is very clean and smooth and I like the small changes that were made. I am also noticing that my battery is lasting alot longer with this ROM.

I am also using Uncommon. Came from CM which was way too buggy for me and unstable.

I'm running with Uncommon Sense right now but had been on Virtuous after trying SR, Frankenrom, and the nonSense ROMS (CM, Ruby).
It's pretty nice and probably a bit more streamlined than Virtuous but still lacks something I can't place. I'd prefer Virtuous to have the power option to Reboot but while that mod is available, it conflicts with the Rotary Lockscreen mod which I like too, as well as the Revolution theme (well the rotary lockscreen conflicts). It would be nice to have DSP built in as well but aside from that these are both terrific ROMS. Hmmm...they should get married! Get the best of both worlds!

If you use HTC sense, which I assume you do based on the title of the thread, then Virtuous is the cleanest and most stable stock sense experience you'll find.
I use SR vanilla mostly because I only like SOME of sense, like the gallery and camera app. I use launcher pro too, so having a full sense rom wouldn't be too beneficial for me personally. Gotta love choice
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Div033 said:
If you use HTC sense, which I assume you do based on the title of the thread, then Virtuous is the cleanest and most stable stock sense experience you'll find.
I use SR vanilla mostly because I only like SOME of sense, like the gallery and camera app. I use launcher pro too, so having a full sense rom wouldn't be too beneficial for me personally. Gotta love choice
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I use virtuous with rosie removed and launcher pro in its place with a hydra kernel and it's running like a dream. Can't really comment on the battery life since I am using an extended battery, but it seems to be okay.
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Which is your preference

So far I have tried CM7 and Nils Business Sense and I'm conflicted.
I really like the new Sense 2 UI that comes with Nils Business Sense, but I also like the speed from Android 2.3 from CM7.
Hard to decide which to stay with.

I've only used one ROM, and that's CM7. While I like Sense, I really like CM7's lack of it.

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So far I have tried CM7 and Nils Business Sense and I'm conflicted.
I really like the new Sense 2 UI that comes with Nils Business Sense, but I also like the speed from Android 2.3 from CM7.
Hard to decide which to stay with.
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I'm between CM7 stable and Skyraider 3.5
Once Skyraider 4 drops I'll make a decision on which to stick with. I just flashed CM7 again earlier today, but I'll probably flash back tomorrow.

I'm a big CM7 fan. I view Android 2.3.3 more important than sense.

Warm z twopointtwo all the way. The appearance of 2.3 with sense 2.0 and a very well done UI. Give the newest nightly a shot....it may not be your cup if tea but I bet if you tried it you'd love it
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Its a tough call. I happen to like the sense interface and widgets but there are parts of gingerbread and cm7 settings that are really awesome as well. Rocking cm right now but I too will likely flash skyraider 4.0 and I am quite a fan of warm z as well.
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CM7 fan here...
I used to be a huge fan of skyraider. Was my goto ROM for several months. I then tried MIUI (great ROM... just not a fan of the UI), and a few others. I settled with warm 2.2. I used that ROM for quite some time and really liked it as well.
I eventually made my way to CM7 and have been using it for roughly two months now. Very stable and getting great battery life (you can see my config below). I've learned to significantly customize the UI and notification bar and have been very happy thus far.
I may try SR 4.0 or Myn's Z ROM... we'll see. The only thing constant with my phone is change
Happy Flashing

+1 for warm z 2point2. I had used skyraider 3.5 for a long time and am loving 2point2. I tried cm7 and it just wasn't for me...havent tried nils yet.

Nils new update is working fantastic for me!
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It depends what you value most. For me, battery life was a very major part in my decision- probably the most important.
CM7 with chad's kernel and a bit of underclock has some crazy good battery life, you probably already know that though.
To be honest I don't know why this is a post because it just comes down to preference
Nils is a great developer and very active on fixing any bugs or problems with his ROM's. If you shout him a change or something you'd like to see there's a real possibility you may see it in the next release.

I started out with Virtuous, switched onto Skyraider Athena, and now CM7.
I really enjoyed the sense aspect of everything, specifically the dialer and fb connectivity... other than that I didn't care much.
Then I switched to Athena, it was the best of both worlds, dash of sense, pinch of vanilla. basically was vanilla with the exception of dialer and the aforementioned.
Now on CM7 I decided to jump ship and go full vanilla, and it's awesome. The sheer amount of customization within the ROM (including all the themes) is just awesome, and I don't think I'd switch to anything else.

I had CM7 on mine for like 2 days and it ran great and then started to get really slow and stupid on me so I flashed back to Incredibly Re-Engineered 2.4. Over the past month I've grown to love sense (had an og droid for a year), but absolutely hate the dock thing for it. I wish I could have all the sense features but use a dock like ADW's.

My biggest gripe with the aosp roms was having to use a different lockscreen. I got so used to not even looking at my phone to unlock it, but cm7 has me covered there as you can choose from several lockscreens in the settings. The only other thing I really missed was the messaging widget but I was able to add a shortcut to the messaging app to my lockscreen slider so it's even easier to check my texts. I was only ever truly happy with Lou's redemptive revolution before cm7 came around.
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Those of you who went from CM to Sense 3

How do you like it? Anything you miss about CM that sense 3.0 does not offer?

AOSP has significantly better battery life. At least in my experience. YMMY.

YMMV, I mean.
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yeah, any AOSP blows the battery life of any sense 2.0 and higher away. I played around with newtoroot's 3.5 version yesterday and liked it. The widgets are cool and I found it entertaining. Switched back to AOSP for battery though. I don't use widgets, my phone is pure utility only, nothing fancy no no widgets.

First Sense ROM I actually like
Have been on Team Blaze's Sense 3.5 based FEARMEde (the Hybrid version) on my EVO 4G for almost a week. It runs quickly and smoothly and has had most of the HTC crap stripped out of it. Technically it is in Beta, but I've had no troubles with it so far. And the battery has been pretty good using stock kernel...similar to what I was getting on AOSP ROMs using Savaged Zen kernels. I'm about to flash ChopSuey kernel to see if it improves battery life.

Sense 3.5
OK,I went with nocturnalbliss sense 3.5 rom to my evo4G and absolutly love it, I was running cm7 nightlys,I really don't give a crap for 4G anyway(I live out in the boonies)Even thou I live a half mile from the nearest cell tower,too manys trees around to get a excellent signal...But the bliss rom is really decent,but for some reason when i download a app from the market,(does everything)when it says installing such app,screen comes up"Package file is invalid"....I tried clearing data/cache from market,shutting down a few times,etc,I do have my gmail,Any tricks,info,files i need to get the install to work? any help would be appericiated...Thanks.. I put my old gapps on this rom,installs now but crashes all the time,least I'm getting somewhere..Thanks...Nobody to help/opinions on this,

I did CM for a couple of days. I ws too used to sense. I like the sense time app, the clock widget, the calender. I used beautiful widgets when I switched to LP on my stock phone. Once I rooted and did sense 3.0 after cm, I stayed.

I made the opposite move. I was using Synergy for awhile and tried a few different sense 3.0 roms. So far, CM7 has far superior speed mostly from not being ram starved like the sense roms were.
go launcher + beautiful widgets is pretty close to what sense offered and is much more customizible as well.
I miss 2 things:
sense camera (miui closest thing to it)
4 application lock screen (haven't been able to add more than 1 app to lockscreen)

If you miss the camera, you can change the settings to 6mp wide and it is very similar
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[Q] Can't Decide MIUI/SENSE/AOSP? :(

Hey guys if you dont know me I was a rom dev for the xperia but moved on to the DZ. HAven't yet made a rom for the DZ, yet.
But I have been flashing non-stop since i got this phone. Its just I can't decide what I should stick to, and what will match my needs.
So im a highschool student, calendars reminders are big for me and staying organized. I play basketball and watch it too so video and stuff is needed.
But Im also a dj/producer and i need the best sound. I also like to play games ocassionaly as well.
I really love Sense 3.0 but I cant handle the laggyness even with swap enabled, is there anything else that can be done? I was on virtuous 2.00 (sense 2.1) for 2 weeks it was stable and all, but the battery was pretty drainable fast. BlissBeatMod is promising if some of it can get less laggy. And we'll have to see what Virtuous Tretanique (Affinity) will go.
Aosp is nice and fast but I dont really get the nice looks and features that miui have to offer.
Miui is really nice im running BulletProof right now. But i still dont feel like its the "one". and the quality of music isnt as great on sense even with equalizer options on.
PLEASE TELL ME ANY SUGGESTIONS, ALL WILL BE APPRECIATED

i personally have ILWT CM7... fast yet battery efficient... plus, there's alot of themes you can add to it so it can be visually good too
btw, i saw your work man! you are LEGEND!! i encourage you to make a ROM for us!
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Riro Zizo said:
i personally have ILWT CM7... fast yet battery efficient... plus, there's alot of themes you can add to it so it can be visually good too
btw, i saw your work man! you are LEGEND!! i encourage you to make a ROM for us!
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Thanks a lot, once I decide what kind I will produce I will start.
Ok Im running ILWT. It is amazing. I put a theme on. Very fast. But still some reason it just seems "boring". And the sms app on aosp/cm7 isnt as sexy.

yea i know exactly where youre coming from, I always want a newer prettier ROM... I wish someone would release one that just didnt look like it was android almost, and not like iphone, or anything, something with an original GUI.. yes i realize that's a lot to ask btw and not something I would be able to do myself but I think it'd be cool and get a lot of support! In the mean time the one I've found to be the freshest for me is MIUI because of how the themes affect like everything and really the launcher is what catches my eye, im kinda excited for the ROU launcher

i used to use cm7 and miui before. cm7 is lightweight rom, smooth and has excellent battery life. but it is lack of killer feature such as in its sms functionality, the smart dialer and etc. of course you can always download apps from market for that functions but it takes forever to load those apps on startup.
so i moved to miui, which i am currently running with bulletproof miui rom. it is rich with functionality, ridiculously-convenient-built in-features and interfaces, but consume more battery compared to cm7 unless you made certain tweak on its OC/UC. but its interface lacks of originality because it is obviously a mimic of iOS. but so far i m happy using miui.
i want to try sense based rom, but from what i learned, sense based is laggy. i miss sense interface though. look clean.

OK, if you think cm7 is boring (and I agree) I suggest you give MexDroid a spin. It was my DD for quite some time. The only reason it's not anymore is because I found Bulletproof MIUI. but I'm sure you've already tried MIUI. if not. Tun4f1sh's Bulletproof is the ONLY one I recommend.

More options would be most welcome I'm sure. I'm trying to figure out how to port roms from hd forums at the moment. The collective's absolution looks pretty sweet.
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If you use bootmanager (market app) you can install sense / miui and cyanogen at the same time... Only thing you have to do is seeting up the phonerom as sense (miui and cyanogen based mods run very smooth booting from sdcard)
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hoffmas said:
If you use bootmanager (market app) you can install sense / miui and cyanogen at the same time... Only thing you have to do is seeting up the phonerom as sense (miui and cyanogen based mods run very smooth booting from sdcard)
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Neat, I like that idea. Kinda like having a nand backup without the pain of restoring everytime you want to switch.
I also champion Bulletproof, tun4 and tsubus seem to make sure this Rom stays a top contender. There is also talk of miXdroid Mod which is a miui meXdroid, looking forward to seeing how that one turns out
Sent from my Bulletproof G2

Ya know what... forget what I said above, if this MixDroid thing happens I'll be happier than a /b/ troll.
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Neat, I like that idea. Kinda like having a nand backup without the pain of restoring everytime you want to switch.
I also champion Bulletproof, tun4 and tsubus seem to make sure this Rom stays a top contender. There is also talk of miXdroid Mod which is a miui meXdroid, looking forward to seeing how that one turns out
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MIUI is great, iv been runing Bulletproof, it's definitely unique miui whit its virtuos oc controller witch cough my eye. But now i got ICS fever on me, not for the isc gui but some of the features. I stumbled on Galnet MIUI whit ics framework. runing fine, tried it for couple days, and the batterylife seems fine, maybe. Ill stick to this since it seems to work, and hope for updates whit possibly some new ics features.(its still same MIUI ui and functionality)
after we get somewhat working ICS, i will try that a little, and propably get back to MIUI.

I'm on Bulletproof MIUI at the moment but since the iPhone-esque UI makes my eyes hurt I installed LPP and some icon pack (can't remember the name). That way I still have the looks of Android but can combine with the impressive speed and flow of the Bulletproof MIUI ROM.
CM 7.1 for me lacks a little bit of polish visually (can't wait for CM9!) compared to Sense based ROMs and IMO MIUI offers that. I like Sense but any Sense based ROM I've tried has started to get laggy on me after a while.

Bulletproof MIUI for the win...I also like good old Cyanogen too, but for a nice mix of speed AND looks MIUI is tops for me
Love the look of Sense, but too slow and laggy

Check my thread, i got a bunch of videos of roms and see which one you like the best
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19002986#post19002986

in this few days, i have been testing 3 sense 3.5 rom, beatmode, affinity and rcmix.
for someone who has a very sensitive sense like me, i cant stand to wait for the phone to response due to insufficient memory in sense 3.5.
its time to go back to miui bulletproof.

I have tried many of them. CM and MIUI is cool, I just miss too many features from sense. Sense 3.0 is either laggy or will get laggy after a while. So, I always go back to my Virtuous Sense 2.0.0 NAND backup.
But: question here: why is this draining the battery soooo badly? Apart from this, this could be THE perfect ROM.
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I have tried muiu, mexdroid, htc clay, g-lite, sense 2.0, unity sense and the affinity sense. I keep finding myself going back to the most stable, configurable and updated ROM ILWT CM7 (268).
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Sense is smooth and polished, but every custom Sense ROM that I have ever flashed is a battery hog, even the Sense 2.1 + 3.0 hybrids.
So my current favorite is G-lite 1.05 - it's like stock + overclocking + better than stock battery life (due to deep sleep)

I like sense and am currently running Virtuous Afinity but I can see me switching to an ASOP build of ICS when it's stable enough

darklordray said:
I have tried muiu, mexdroid, htc clay, g-lite, sense 2.0, unity sense and the affinity sense. I keep finding myself going back to the most stable, configurable and updated ROM ILWT CM7 (268).
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Curious to know what you like most about ILWT, especially compared with mexdroid and miui?

AOKP or Sense

Which is the best system for your DesireZ?
Sense, beautiful in appearance, but using too much memory. aokp, light and fast, but can be a problem (icon under the articles distorted) Sorry for my english

i hate sense
i m on 4.1 jb now and its perfect!!!

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i hate sense
i m on 4.1 jb now and its perfect!!!
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which Rom? and whats your phone model?

AOKP for sure, faster, smoother and really good battery life
But that's only my oppinion, if you miss the sense tweaks better get a sense (maybe the one from viper)
I am using the JB testbuild from flinny...it's awesome
Greets Vauvenal7
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I prefer aokp. Sense is too heavy for that phone...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1605016
i have desire Z

I LOVED sense in every way - it's so complete out of the box and very visually pleasing, but it was a bit slowish, terrible multitasking, and battery performance suffered.
I'm using mimicry for the last 4 months and, I must say I'm quite happy, apart from MMS not working (seems to be some ICS general if you use separate APNs for data and mms) - It's blazing fast, multitasks and has at least 50% more battery efficiency.
I dislike all phone/dialer/contacts alternatives to sense and ICS (holo) theme, but I'm compromising for performance and battery life.

Sense for eye candy, AOKP for performance and extremely much tweaks. I run MIUI on my One X now, and it’s perfect.
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Isn't Sense 4.0A from the HTC One V meant to be pretty lightweight, and more so than Sense 3.6? When I get a Desire Z I'm going for either Gen.Y Vision Sense 4.0A or an Andromadus CM9/ 10.

It is supposed to be lightweight - I haven't yet tried Gen.Y, but I doubt it will be lighter than sense 2 was with gingerbread. I hope I'm wrong.
And CM9/10 based ROMs are still smoother and offer better battery life than sense 2 ROMs.

I Love Sense!
I think it's the Android's equivalent of an iPhone in terms of slickness and UI design.
However, i found the best "Sense" version to be the good old 2.1 (with Sense 3 lock screen) and everything that came after is too heavy and a lot even lack features! While 2.1/3.0 gives you the best Performance/Features combo even for older phones.
When i don't use a Sense rom, then i try to make the AOSP rom to look as close to it as i possible can but every once in awhile i try a real Sense cause i miss it's visual aspects.

EliteMod -AOKP . - my current, most stable from. Which I found. Extremely customizable . Had it for 4-5 months now
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pure.noob said:
EliteMod -AOKP . - my current, most stable from. Which I found. Extremely customizable . Had it for 4-5 months now
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Elite mod very slow for my DZ but YozgatG's Gen.Y VisionX R3 very fast, i cant understand :S

AOKP all the way for me.. much better UI(Jellybean) and much more faster that Sense too..

Trying out trickdroid desensed, and so far it seems awesome.

CM10.1 by Flinny. Everything starts up smoothly.

l like sense
sense3.5 or sense4.1

AOSP, hands down. AOKP's and Others just simply... start to lag after a day or two. Months on them and I simply can't take jerkiness and RAM lags, and of course I appreciate dev work, this is more of a phone memory limitation, and AOSP fits just right.

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CM10.1 by Flinny. Everything starts up smoothly.
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I agree ! Using it alrdy 2 months !

pure.noob said:
EliteMod -AOKP . - my current, most stable from. Which I found. Extremely customizable . Had it for 4-5 months now
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Same here!!! T-Mobile wifi calling + Elitemods ICS Rom is the best so far!! I can't choose CM10.1 bcuz they will never release the the RIL library's for wifi calling and for me that's a big no no bcuz I like longer battery!!
Anyways...haha AoKp IMO is better for functions and quicksettings and just better for more user friendly and different! No reboots in like 6months and perfect speed every time I boot rom!
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