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What is the best custom rom?

I like the default theme and am not opposed to it, and most custom rom themes I do not enjoy. Nonetheless I want a faster system and the ability for live wallpapers.
Are there any reccomendations on the best custom rom for this situation?

Also looking for the same thing, an overclocked SENSE UI ROM? Currently running DD2.7
Any Help For US?
Thanx,
Tee Jay

The best help you're going to get is
"This is what I'm running, but you need to try everything"
The reason why there are so many ROMs is because there is no "best ROM"

For sense run fresh rom or dc
And flash the oc kernel on top
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ive tried all of the custom sense roms and i find this one to be the best. with this kernel OC to 710. its the fastest on my phone. and you can get live wallpapers from here.

What co0020 said.
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Really? The deoxed Sprint? cool!!!!!!!!!!

cp0020 said:
ive tried all of the custom sense roms and i find this one to be the best. with this kernel OC to 710. its the fastest on my phone. and you can get live wallpapers from here.
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I'm guessing the version for fresh and damage?

telepheedian said:
I'm guessing the version for fresh and damage?
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what do you mean? have i tried them? yes

cp0020 said:
what do you mean? have i tried them? yes
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There were two versions of the kernel there. I found out that the Fresh and Damage version is NOT the correct version.

Well if you like stability, and your gps and accelorometer to work properly. Ie you want to be able to use geocaching programs, and exercising programs like cardiotrainer then I would choose a rom based of of the official stock rom like fresh
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Yes this.......
cp0020 said:
ive tried all of the custom sense roms and i find this one to be the best. with this kernel OC to 710. its the fastest on my phone. and you can get live wallpapers from here.
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Yes this is the setup I have, its stable as compared to when I was running the dd rom and nothing freaking worked the way out was supposed to!
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yet again its up to the user to make the call, but im running blue echo 2.1.7 an its good as a mofo

[Q] OTA update received..few questions?

hi Louis here! umm alright down to business so i just got a notification on my MYT4G [ gingerbread OTA ] now i am officially rooted [ S-off ] custom splash screen, deleted original installed apps [ tmob tv etc ] now for my questions if i update RIGHT NOW what will happen? and ive been searching the forum for two days and ive had no luck in finding the gingerbread STOCK rom now i still want to update as well as keeping my ROOT so if anyone can provide guidance it'd be much appreciated thanks!

You can't update and keep root. You either stay rooted and run the rooted gingerbread rom or any other rom in dev section or update and lose root and s-off.
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do you know whats the best gingerbread rom to run ? their are a TON i've always ran STOCK i'm not into custom roms but seems like i have no choice but to jump into so which would you prefer?

l0uisz said:
do you know whats the best gingerbread rom to run ? their are a TON i've always ran STOCK i'm not into custom roms but seems like i have no choice but to jump into so which would you prefer?
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Well as of right now the most stable sense roms are coming from virtuous team. You can look into virtuous unity, virtious doubleshot. I'm running virtuous unity myself. Since you always ran stock you might like virtuous unity best.
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okay thanks ive never installed a custom ROM ill look up some info on how to do this.

l0uisz said:
okay thanks ive never installed a custom ROM ill look up some info on how to do this.
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Basically the main and most major thing, do a nandroid before flashing anything. But the actuall process is easy. Just download the rom, put it on your sd card and flash through recovery.
Might want to update clockwork also before if you haven't.
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never done a nandroid back up before....i did update the clockwork rec mod tho with ROM MANAGER

do i just drag n drop the file in my sd card and rename it update.zip?
SCRATCH IT! i was able to successfully install " virtuous unity " runs pretty smooth right now! thank you!

I think you are looking for the Rooted version of Stock 2.3.4 Rom
If you are interested, you can download it here.
Flash it in your ClockworkMod Recovery after a full wipe.

l0uisz said:
do i just drag n drop the file in my sd card and rename it update.zip?
SCRATCH IT! i was able to successfully install " virtuous unity " runs pretty smooth right now! thank you!
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Great. I dont know if you already figured out how to back up your rom. But before you do anything else to it, just get it where you can use your phone how you like it and boot into recovery. Once in recovery, scroll down with trackpad to backup and restore, click it and back up your current rom and let recovery do its thing.
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Yea I noticed that THANKS ! TWO questions though does this ROM have swype text? And a screenshot come along with it?

This Rom do come with Swype support.
As far as interface is concerned, the new update from T-mobile haven't changed the interface much.
So you will notice only a slight change in the 2.3.4 update.
Go to this YouTube link and have a look.

thanks bud!

What ROM please suggest!

Hi! Just got a Tab and rooted it.
I have a Galaxy S phone so I'm kind of experienced in Samsung stuff (a little) so what ROMs and kernels are best?
Thanks!

VeryCoolAlan said:
Hi! Just got a Tab and rooted it.
I have a Galaxy S phone so I'm kind of experienced in Samsung stuff (a little) so what ROMs and kernels are best?
Thanks!
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Galaxy Task ROM + Pershoot's kernal
Just my opinion

My advice is to stick with stock rom or use latest leaked stock rom.
Real tuning can be done without flashing custom rom, rooting is enough, for instance fixing low screen sensitivity using Screen Tuner app.
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Use Task 6.1, it already has pershoot's OC. Touch screen has been tuned. Browser works great. It has all the bells and whistles.

Blackwidowman said:
Use Task 6.1, it already has pershoot's OC. Touch screen has been tuned. Browser works great. It has all the bells and whistles.
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I second that! If you're rooted, there's really no point in not trying something different; and while all the developers for the Tab here have done great work, I'm partial to Task's stuff. I can count on one finger the number of times I've had a problem with any of his roms...and he fixed that in minutes. Try to get that kind of response from Samsung!

Blackwidowman said:
Use Task 6.1, it already has pershoot's OC. Touch screen has been tuned. Browser works great. It has all the bells and whistles.
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+1 on Task's ROM running v6.1 and it'svery smooth

Task 6.1 - you can go for it!
It is the best rom available. Very stable and smooth.

Task 6.1 the best

Yay! Awesome!
Say when you flash CWR do you have to root to flash a ROM?
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VeryCoolAlan said:
Yay! Awesome!
Say when you flash CWR do you have to root to flash a ROM?
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When you flash with a custom rom you a replacing your existing rom and custom roms usually grant you root access. CWR is clockwork recovery . You flash that to replace the standard recovery. makes it easier to install custom ROMs
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i would stay task's rom but then again I am bias

b00sted said:
i would stay task's rom but then again I am bias
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And your theme which is as good as the rom

After rooting your phone

Hello,
I have few questions to ask here in the community regarding rom and kernels.
1. Which Rom do you guys recommend that works without any problems (beside cyanogenmod)?
2. If Cyanogenmod which one do you recommend stable or nightly?
3. Which Kernel should i use after rooting my phone that works correctly and has no problems?
Please share with me some of your thoughts and opinions.

PainKiller89 said:
Hello,
I have few questions to ask here in the community regarding rom and kernels.
1. Which Rom do you guys recommend that works without any problems (beside cyanogenmod)?
2. If Cyanogenmod which one do you recommend stable or nightly?
3. Which Kernel should i use after rooting my phone that works correctly and has no problems?
Please share with me some of your thoughts and opinions.
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1. If you want a 100% working rom with a lot of support go with classic and mikg
2. I don't use cyanogenmod
3.you could stick with stock or try out one of the lionfish kernels. I recommend you use stock voltage one for now
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA

Thanks for replying back appreciate it, Can you please tell me the exact rom name and where would i find updated rom for classic and mikg?

PainKiller89 said:
Thanks for replying back appreciate it, Can you please tell me the exact rom name and where would i find updated rom for classic and mikg?
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Mikg make sure you download full wipe version http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?10338-MikG-v3-11-3-9-2012
classic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312414

Any other roms do you recommend? Beside this two, which are stable and works with wifi hotspot.

Deck 1.3 with tiamat 4.1.0 kernel +sbc
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evo4gnoob said:
1. If you want a 100% working rom with a lot of support go with classic and mikg
2. I don't use cyanogenmod
3.you could stick with stock or try out one of the lionfish kernels. I recommend you use stock voltage one for now
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never tried classic, but mikeG is 100% great rom, i need to try out new kernals myself

Myn's Warm series have always been very smooth and stable for me. I'm not going to give you a link, you can find it yourself in the Dev section.

Energy 2/6/12 rom is awesome... nice and smooth pretty much bug free. can be a bit hefty on the internal storage, but with dt a2sd and dalvik on sd card its not bad.

100% MIUI 2.3.2_es by Swiper with Tiamat 4.1.0

HipKat said:
100% MIUI 2.3.2_es by Swiper with Tiamat 4.1.0
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I second this. Wife wanted an iPhone, I wasn't having that. She got an Evo and complained since day one....until this build of MIUI. She is overjoyed now. I've flashed a lot of stuff on mine and am very happy with the look and feel. Much better than any Sense based ROM I have tried by far and doesn't look like any other Android build without heavy customization. Just runs nicely out out of the box.
Doesn't have 4g but I never turned it on anyway.
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Missing Flash_Image

Guys i've flashed SFM 3.0 hero, good rom but the wifi doesn't works so i want come back to stock. the big problem is that's my sister's phone and this rom has deleted the recovery and now i don't manage to reinstall it. it says flash_image not found. i even tried with this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645253 at the step missing flash image, but every thing i do it get reveals useless. here's a screenshot of prompt adb: http://imageshack.us/f/338/immaginevi.png/

Guys please help me, it's important!
more details:
i've started with the stock 2.1 and rooted with universal androot and flashed SFM 3.0 with AmonRA recovery.
now if i try open the recovery it's stuck on the bootlogo. i tried with fastboot, adb, the official RUU but it says that my phone's firmware is wrong.

update: now doesn't stuck on the boot logo, but it boots normally without a recovery.
it's rooted on the SFM 3.0 rom and give the "flash_image not found" error

first things first. i have no idea how to get back to stock using the official RUU
however i do have a few alternatives you could try just in case you don't find the answer your looking for
now you say you flashed sfm 3.0. a similar rom to this would be Wildheroc ROSE V5. its exactly the same as sfm 3.0 but its more stable. it can be found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1316886 also you could try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24343144&postcount=500 which is a themed version of ROSE V5 created by slobo2712.
if your looking for a stock rom then i highly recomend Heroine ++ which can be found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295991 this rom is seriously fast. its basically the same as stock with a few minor adjustments here and there
there are other roms which remove sense from your phone that i could recommend but if your looking to keep sense on your phone then those two roms are the ones I'd highly recommend
i know this doesn't exactly answer your question of how to flash the official RUU from HTC but as i said previously in the post i simply don't know. these are just a few options you could try if you don't find your answer.

if i can't access the recovery how can flash another rom??

pochopsp said:
if i can't access the recovery how can flash another rom??
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Ahhh ok must have missed that bit
Can you still use the phone normally???? If so maybe try installing Rom manager from the market and then flashing the recovery from there
Could be worth a try
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i managed it with an official RUU, don't remember wich. now i've another problem. from 2.1 stock i've flashed Elelinux gingerbread ROM, but 3D games like dead runner wich worked on stock rom on this one don't work. maybe the kernel? i still have the stock one.

pochopsp said:
i managed it with an official RUU, don't remember wich. now i've another problem. from 2.1 stock i've flashed Elelinux gingerbread ROM, but 3D games like dead runner wich worked on stock rom on this one don't work. maybe the kernel? i still have the stock one.
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Do you DEFINITELY still have the stock kernal? The reason I ask is because Elelinux roms usually come with flykernal13.
Sometimes re flashing a rom can solve issues. So I'd say go into your recovery and wipe data 2 or 3 times just to make sure because 1 wipe sometimes doesn't get rid of everything. Then wipe cache and dalvik cache and then re flash the rom
If that doesn't work then you could try flashing the Las Venturas kernal but I'd doubt it would be a kernal problem

You're wright it isn't a kernel problem but i did all kind Of wipes but 3D games and applications don't work
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pochopsp said:
You're wright it isn't a kernel problem but i did all kind Of wipes but 3D games and applications don't work
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Hmmm if they worked on stock then I'd expect a newer version of Android to be ok as well . I'm not a big gamer on my phone so can't say I've ever experienced these problems
What games and applications don't work? And do they not work completely? Or just not as good as on stock?
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Dead runner, cut The rope, fruit slice and The screen off animation is too slow
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pochopsp said:
Dead runner, cut The rope, fruit slice and The screen off animation is too slow
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I always turn off the screen off animation, I find it annoying personally
I'll try those games on my phone. I'm using a sense rom so I'll see if they work on this
EDIT: couldn't try dead runner or cut the rope because there paid apps but fruit slice worked fine
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Fine but The screen off animation works good for you? Anyway i meant on gingerbread roms not on sense roms
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pochopsp said:
Fine but The screen off animation works good for you? Anyway i meant on gingerbread roms not on sense roms
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The sense rom I was using is a gingerbread rom. Anyway I switched to elelinux to see if maybe it was the rom causing problems but fruit slice was perfect on my phone
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good, then the crt animation works fast for you right?
last things, for custom kernels, i have to unlock bootloader like on my X8?
and for all of you, wich is the best hero's ROM?

pochopsp said:
good, then the crt animation works fast for you right?
last things, for custom kernels, i have to unlock bootloader like on my X8?
and for all of you, wich is the best hero's ROM?
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I've never touched the bootloader so I'm afraid I can't really answer that question
As for best Rom. There isn't really an overall best rom. It all just comes down to personal preference and what your looking for in a Rom but there are roms that are a step ahead in each android version.
If stock 2.1 is what your looking for then you can't beat heroine ++ if you want sense or you could try VE 6.2 if you want AOSP
As for 2.2 froyo you could try FloYo. I used it once and it seemed ok
And as for 2.3 gingerbread. If your after a 2.3 sense Rom then wildheroc is by far the best one around at the moment. As for 2.3 AOSP roms I'd highly recommend decked_x or any of the elelinux roms or even the two latest cyanogenmod nightlies
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BeatsByMessi said:
I've never touched the bootloader so I'm afraid I can't really answer that question
As for best Rom. There isn't really an overall best rom. It all just comes down to personal preference and what your looking for in a Rom but there are roms that are a step ahead in each android version.
If stock 2.1 is what your looking for then you can't beat heroine ++
As for 2.2 froyo vanilla eclair seems to be a popular one
And as for 2.3 gingerbread. If your after a 2.3 sense Rom then wildheroc is by far the best one around at the moment. As for 2.3 AOSP roms I'd highly recommend decked_x or any of the elelinux roms or even the two latest cyanogenmod nightlies
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Just gotta correct you, VE is 2.1 Eclair that's why it's soooooo smooth xD

Habarug said:
Just gotta correct you, VE is 2.1 Eclair that's why it's soooooo smooth xD
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oh my bad haha i've been thinking its 2.2 all this time. i've edited the post so no one gets confused