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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)
G2 Running meXdroidMod meXperia V3
darkdata said:
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)
G2 Running meXdroidMod meXperia 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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Techngro said:
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......
PaganAng3l said:
+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!
ericc191 said:
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!
Adam g has updated oxygen 2.2.2 rom for galaxy s2 with hd video recording .
Download search oxygen on google.
http://forum.oxygen.im/viewforum.php?id=7
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Is it good rom, I never tried it before!
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Mhm I like it. But can't decide between CM7 and Oxygen
Why great rom makers are getting away from xda ???
They are not releasing thier work on xda.
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It was best n simple aosp android rom for htc desire.
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Oxygen ROM on the Nexus-S is AWESOME. It is a pure vanilla stock Android style ROM, no bloatware, no carrier UI, but just the way Google meant Android to be. And it is crazy fast and smooth, with great battery life, can only imagine the Galaxy S2 would be out of this world with this ROM.
yes it feels blazing fast '
battery also seems batter lets see hoz it.
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Why great rom makers are getting away from xda ???
They are not releasing thier work on xda.
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Well, look at MIUI-Galnet, they HAD to move away from XDA because of their donation schemes (Something to do with new devices) I think with Oxygen & DevNull it's just an agreement with the CM7 team since Oxygen is the same just a different framework. Not sure really.
But, all in all, I prefer AOSP always have, it's what I miss about my Nexus S & One basicalle
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Well, look at MIUI-Galnet, they HAD to move away from XDA because of their donation schemes (Something to do with new devices) I think with Oxygen & DevNull it's just an agreement with the CM7 team since Oxygen is the same just a different framework. Not sure really.
But, all in all, I prefer AOSP always have, it's what I miss about my Nexus S & One basicalle
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Not entirely true, the reasons Adamg moved away from XDA were the lack of moderation here and the 'dumb' questions being posted here. Those are also the reasons most devs move away here...
Zorachus said:
Oxygen ROM on the Nexus-S is AWESOME. It is a pure vanilla stock Android style ROM, no bloatware, no carrier UI, but just the way Google meant Android to be. And it is crazy fast and smooth, with great battery life, can only imagine the Galaxy S2 would be out of this world with this ROM.
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i totally agree! but my "problem" is, the SGS2 is just so freakin fast, i never had any speed issues on the stock rom and battery life isnt very different.... i WANT to use oxygen, but with this phone i would just get less features (no ukw-radio e.g.) :-/
(and if i dont want some crap/bloatware, i just remove/freeze it with titanium)
totally different story on other phones, Oxygen on my Desire was a total game-changer, just unbelievable what a difference it was compared to the stock htc rom!
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i totally agree! but my "problem" is, the SGS2 is just so freakin fast, i never had any speed issues on the stock rom and battery life isnt very different.... i WANT to use oxygen, but with this phone i would just get less features (no ukw-radio e.g.) :-/
(and if i dont want some crap/bloatware, i just remove/freeze it with titanium)
totally different story on other phones, Oxygen on my Desire was a total game-changer, just unbelievable what a difference it was compared to the stock htc rom!
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Yes, this is the funny thing that I ended up using a Samsung ROM (Cognition) after trying all the other options simply because it is fast as well, but has all the extra features (most importantly - for me - the wide video format support and the hw accelerated browser). It seems that Samsung is the first manufacturer that finally starts to get the hang of cooking a functional and fast ROM .
I am using this rom and I think it is simple, fast, good on battery life. I will keep it for a while. Thanks to Adam and the poster.
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I wonder... Is there a built-in RTL text support in this ROM?
waiting for bluetooth to work. oxygen was (IMO), the best rom for my desire but i use bluetooth daily
Yeah, Adam G is in my opinion one of the best chefs out here. He just makes roms that work with almost no bugs.
+1 to AdamG and thalamus for their great work! Been using Oxygen on my desire for more than 8 months, not I have it on my s2 as well
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waiting for bluetooth to work. oxygen was (IMO), the best rom for my desire but i use bluetooth daily
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Latest version supposed to have support for bluetooth ..http://forum.oxygen.im/viewtopic.php?pid=7564#p7564
ready to give it a go, need some time to be able to wipe all and set everything up from scratch. probably next week at this point
quick Q to those who have installed it - what toggles are available in the drop down menu?
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Its customizable like CM7. You choose which ones are up there, their order, and color.
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is there a way to install Theme Chooser in this ROM????
I was thinking about flashing some sense 3.0 or 3.5 but I wanna no way u guys think is the most stable ROM
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Personally the Sense ROM's are too laggy for my taste. I run CM7 and then load on a bunch of customizations to make it look hella awesome
I'll agree with u on that one, but the taste on sense 3.0 and 3.5 is awesome. it runs ok for me, its not too laggy tho
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The best way to find the best rom for you is to make a nandroid of your current setup and try whatever rom you are interested in. Because what some people might find to be the best rom here you might not like. Its all based on taste. I will say this, if you want speed and battery life go aosp. If you want pretty widgets and can put up with lag go sense.
Yea I'm down with sense
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
I was thinking about flashing some sense 3.0 or 3.5 but I wanna no way u guys think is the most stable ROM
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Wildstang's roms have always been solid for me. I would recommend his 3.0 Rom based on the desire hd, it is optimized for a single core device with WVGA resolution so it is just as smooth as our OTA. Battery life is pretty amazing, I get about a full day out of the stock battery with moderate use. That's from about 6:30 am to about 6:00 pm with about 20% left at the end of the day. If you chose his rom, I would wait until vfour drops tonight or tomorrow morning to flash so you don't have to start all over after you set everything up.
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AJGO23 said:
Wildstang's roms have always been solid for me. I would recommend his 3.0 Rom based on the desire hd, it is optimized for a single core device with WVGA resolution so it is just as smooth as our OTA. Battery life is pretty amazing, I get about a full day out of the stock battery with moderate use. That's from about 6:30 am to about 6:00 pm with about 20% left at the end of the day. If you chose his rom, I would wait until vfour drops tonight or tomorrow morning to flash so you don't have to start all over after you set everything up.
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Downloading vfour now thanks AJ
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
Downloading vfour now thanks AJ
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That's what we're here for
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Im running Nil's current 3.5 sense Rom. I haven't tried any kernels with it yet.
I've flashed CM7, MIUI, Gingersense...etc. Personally, you just have to try what's best for you.
I'm loving the 3.5 sense with 3D movement. I don't think I'll go back after this ROM. I've tried Nils and Newt. Both are very similar. But very awesome.
I prefer Nil's. Nil's rom + tiny's kernel ftw
Stangs vfour had a lot of fcs so I went with newtoroots latest sense 3.5 Rom and I'm loving it
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Stangs vfour had a lot of fcs so I went with newtoroots latest sense 3.5 Rom and I'm loving it
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Geeze... I've gone through so many ROMs on that dInc in the last 2 days I can't keep them straight. If I'm right, that's the same ROM I slapped on there last and it's working like a dream. It seemed like an honestly finished piece of work. I'm so happy not to be dealing with that butterfaced CM7 anymore. No offense to the devs, but two things really irked me a little in looking for ROMs. First, names and OPs that didn't describe what the ROM was. Second, no mention in the OP of major known issues... like a camera that FC's after every pic??? And I saw one that didn't even have a download. Instead it pushed you off to Rootzwiki. Kinda goofy, I thought. Don't even ask me to point fingers because I wouldn't even if I could. Frankly, I don't remember anything I flashed except that last one... because it worked and I liked it. The others got a 5 minute interview and didn't get the job and were promptly forgotten.
I can't mess with the 3.x roms to choppy/laggy. I think the 3.0 ports show just how outdated our hardware is. Ive just been rollin with the 2.3.4 GB release. The speed and battery life is great.
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Im runnin newts 3.5 sense build 1.02, and it smokes everything but the ota roms out there, but its real close. A few kinks to work out and it could be the best dinc rom ever.
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I'm running nils 3.5 Rom v1.1 and find it solid.
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I'm on Newts 3.5 v1.02 is definitely a strong daily. Tried Nils 3.5 not bad just needs little tweaks. Will try that one again with new release.Had Nils GBS 3.0 on since release before that .
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I've gotta represent for Jermaine. I'm running InSensitive Minimalist 2.3.1 right now and it is great, very fast, smooth, stable. Basically the OTA with all of the bloat and more removed, including the Rosie launcher.
Why not just go AOSP, you might ask? Well, I feel like the Inc just runs better with the Sense framework, and I'm a sucker for the Sense apps, Mail, Camera, Music, Gallery, People. That ROM is the best of both worlds, IMHO.
I've tried a few Sense 3 ROMs, and they were a lot of fun...but they ultimately felt like an awkward fit.
But here's the bottom line...there is no *best* ROM. There are a lot of options, especially on this phone, and you have the freedom to find the one that best suits your needs and preferences. That is the beauty of Android, of XDA, and of the many great Devs.
So...happy flashing and much respect to all the Devs.
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I'm running nils 3.5 Rom v1.1 and find it solid.
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I'm downloading that now
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nils 3.5 + tinys kernel ftw!
Have to say joelz's shooter rewind 3D has been running great for the past month or so, waiting for his new Sense 3.5 release before I retire shooter. Gotta be honest, out of all the roms I've flashed, joelz's usually come out on top.
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Anyone got any ideas for roms? Not ics.
Anything specific? I'm going to make one, but I need ideas
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Sense 3.5
Bliss base
Runny nav bar
No bloat
Runs perfect without swap
Or maybe u wanna port Android evolution or Runnymede desire rom by sebastian15? The latter is a great rom
Yeah, the DZ community has a love/hate relationship with 3.5 sense rom, so a one running smoothly without swap, no bloat, nicely themed (easy on the eyes ), is a way to go.
There are alot of sense 3.5 roms for the DZ. I've tried them all (literally), so far the Bliss sense and the NRG 3.5 sense roms are good, other I had trouble with (laggy, slow, crashes...).
MIUI, seen one seen them all, although popular you will be just one in a bucket of full pretty good and functional MIUI roms.
Stock g2 or AOSP also, there are alot of them for the DZ, there has to be yet an AOSP that can beat the awesome CM 7 rom.
If you make it really try hard to stand out, cause it will be burred soon under the mentioned ones.
You could try porting a weird obscure ROM that nobody has really seen much of. I remember using a ROM by SiulMagic called LiquidM_Villain, its basically an Acer modified version of Froyo. I used it for a few weeks before leaving because I missed Gingerbread, but it was quite a neat ROM. Theres a Gingerbread version around now that could be ported? Or maybe theres another modified version of Android that nobody really sees much of?
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You could try porting a weird obscure ROM that nobody has really seen much of. I remember using a ROM by SiulMagic called LiquidM_Villain, its basically an Acer modified version of Froyo. I used it for a few weeks before leaving because I missed Gingerbread, but it was quite a neat ROM. Theres a Gingerbread version around now that could be ported? Or maybe theres another modified version of Android that nobody really sees much of?
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Lol or he could build cm7 for the acer liquid metal my wife has it, nice device but seriously lacking in the rom department. Taz if your interested fire me a pm, I have some background on the liquid and could help out you'd be a god on the liquid metal modaco forum
As for the g2 there isn't anything I can think of...we pretty much have everything except full ICS.
Taz I'm serious about the acer tho...pm me!
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Great idea: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416622
What specs does the acer have?
Also, will hopefully try my hand at that desire rom. Doesn't look too easy because of desire-specific things, but will try
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xT4Z1N4TRx said:
What specs does the acer have?
Also, will hopefully try my hand at that desire rom. Doesn't look too easy because of desire-specific things, but will try
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Lots of similarities with the DZ taz, same cpu, ill have to check again. But they've been trying to port cm7 from the DZ to the liquid MT, they almost have it but I think you could blow it out of the water.
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Lots of similarities with the DZ taz, same cpu, ill have to check again. But they've been trying to port cm7 from the DZ to the liquid MT, they almost have it but I think you could blow it out of the water.
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www.gsmarena.com/acer_liquid_mt-3519.php
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will have a look at that acer liquid
i am diong that runnymede one now, but am at a bootloop, trying to figure out how to get past it
Honeycomb?
I noticed the HC SDK 3.0 uses the GB launcher so...
Some other folks built and compiled HC for their phones too, off the SDK I believe.
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Honeycomb?
I noticed the HC SDK 3.0 uses the GB launcher so...
Some other folks built and compiled HC for their phones too, off the SDK I believe.
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Honeycomb is a bad idea when we have ICS being ported at the moment (which if you check the dev page, there's a thread with an almost complete port) since honeycomb was designed purely for tablets and is not meant for phones. A LOT of quite possibly pointless work would have to go in it.
take any existing ROM - figure out how to make it have even better reception in weak signal areas - and you will be a STAR on XDA!!
and start with the ROM that is the fastest, leanest, and has the best battery life and most free RAM of any ROM.........yes I am talking about G-Lite 2.0.1
My idea is the latest stock rom with nice tweaks and addons but that's just an idea... And maybe nobody likes it
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The ICS rom on Desire Z is out ? or it's still the alpha version ?
Hello folks
It is time for me to upgrade my RoM to something newer and hopefully better.
My current Rom is from the Infected: virus, about a year old.
it is very important for me to have the following working:
4G
working camera
GPS
I do not care if it is Sense or AOSP or whatever the new/trendy thing is now.
Classic by tommytomatoe
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Digital Karma V6 Seduction... I love it
Nitrous is great rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1486126
Classic by tommytomatoe its fast and customizable highly recommend it
MikG i think by far the best rom 4G works perfect Camera also basically everything beside the bluetooth that acts up from time to time its by far the best rom in my opinion
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Definitely the classic. It's gotta be the snappiest rom I've ever used. It's my got to rom when others are that good
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Definitely MYN's SYNERGY (non-God-mode)!!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144447
Haven't seen AOSP mentioned. Decks GB ROM has what you want, so does CM7.1 and 7.2. Another one I can't think of.
sent from my Evo LTE, usually.
noob question
what is AOSP again?
HTC Sense is the stock feel to it
AOSP is with go-widgit and stuff like that???
senseless = AOSP or completely different?
thx in advance and being patient with me
Check out cyanogenmod...you will not be disappointed ...they develop for almost every device..throw in savaged-zen's kernel and bam! Great performance and battery life all in one!
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grrgrrgrr said:
noob question
what is AOSP again?
HTC Sense is the stock feel to it
AOSP is with go-widgit and stuff like that???
senseless = AOSP or completely different?
thx in advance and being patient with me
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HTC sense is a overlay or launcher they have put on top of android. Aosp or Android Open Souce Project is vanilla or stock android.
grrgrrgrr said:
Hello folks
It is time for me to upgrade my RoM to something newer and hopefully better.
My current Rom is from the Infected: virus, about a year old.
it is very important for me to have the following working:
4G
working camera
GPS
I do not care if it is Sense or AOSP or whatever the new/trendy thing is now.
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Check out the dirt crew,they seem to have it going on right now.