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Recommended Froyo Rom

I should be getting my SGS tomorrow coming from the nexus one (CM 6.1 RC1) which im giving to my girlfriend to keep around for 2.3. Ive been lurking the forums since Friday trying to decide which Froyo Rom to install and i would like to have some opinions from you guys to help me decide. Basically im looking for an everyday driver for stability so i dont end up throwing my phone out on the highway lol. I know all froyo release for SGS are leaks but from what ive seen on the forums run decent enough to suit my needs. Thanks in advance!!

It's all just a matter of personal taste. They all appear to be good daily drivers at this point. I personally prefer Team Whiskeys work and all the black that comes with it. I also hate the Touch Whiz Launcher so Onyx is the best fit. Very stable, faster than most and has great battery life.

Personally, I have only used Obsidian (V1 and V2) Version one had a few bugs that I didn't want to deal with, so I went back to Fusion 1.2 until V2 came out the next day. I have been running Obsidian V2 for about 1.5 days now and I have had absolutely no problems. I haven't had any FCs or random shutdowns, etc.. It is very snappy and I have been getting very good battery life (I still had 12% battery left last night after about 15 hours, and for much of that time I was using it heavily (texts, calls, graphic intensive games, etc..)) I have seen good reviews for the other Roms as well, however, I can only speak for Obsidian V2 and I would definitely recommend it if you are looking for stability. However, some people have encountered some bugs, so make sure that you read the instructions carefully and you should be fine. You may wait for V3 to come out too, since I am guessing it will be coming out pretty soon.

icandy75 said:
It's all just a matter of personal taste. They all appear to be good daily drivers at this point. I personally prefer Team Whiskeys work and all the black that comes with it. I also hate the Touch Whiz Launcher so Onyx is the best fit. Very stable, faster than most and has great battery life.
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Thanks for the input. From what ive seen of touch whiz, i dont like it either. Ive been leaning more towards team whiskey so i will def have to check out their work for sure.

http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=181

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http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=181
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Ive checked out their forums as well.

Again personal taste. I didn't really like the bionix rom, it felt a little slower to me than Eugene's R10 and his roms are constantly improving. Right now waiting is the best answer as both of them are still making adjustments and should have updates within the next couple days.
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Personal taste +10
That said, I'll put in a plug for Anderdroid's AOSPish Froyo ROM.
With some trepidation I flashed it earlier this week and to say that I am pleasantly surprised would be an understatement. It's a really good ROM. It's fast, it's been very stable for me, and the battery life has been fantastic - by far best battery I've experienced yet on any ROM.
Also, I haven't tried any of the Bionix Froyo builds, but I am coming from the Bionix Final ROM, which was great, but I just got tired of all of the blackness - and the incredibly cheesy boot/shutdown sounds.
Anderdroids Froyo ROM has a stock Android look, which I'm really liking at this point. Very clean, nice looking ROM.
I'd definitely recommend it.

smutek said:
Personal taste +10
That said, I'll put in a plug for Anderdroid's AOSPish Froyo ROM.
With some trepidation I flashed it earlier this week and to say that I am pleasantly surprised would be an understatement. It's a really good ROM. It's fast, it's been very stable for me, and the battery life has been fantastic - by far best battery I've experienced yet on any ROM.
Also, I haven't tried any of the Bionix Froyo builds, but I am coming from the Bionix Final ROM, which was great, but I just got tired of all of the blackness - and the incredibly cheesy boot/shutdown sounds.
Anderdroids Froyo ROM has a stock Android look, which I'm really liking at this point. Very clean, nice looking ROM.
I'd definitely recommend it.
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That rom also peeked my interest as im not interested in samsungs bloatware A.K.A touch wiz. Not fond of boot up or shutdown sounds either but i think im gonna check out Onyx first then get my AOSPish on. Its look pretty clean.

^ you know you can delete the sounds right? The file paths are in the sticky. I agree, first thing I did was delete those.

The one that is least modified gave me the least amount of problems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833024

Definitely Onyx R2.1 from Team Whiskey.
http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=181

frankencat said:
Definitely Onyx R2.1 from Team Whiskey.
http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=181
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This is def going to be my first flash when my phone arrives. Im assuming you just flash through recovery without messing with odin. Odin seems like a PITA but, im sure i will get accustom to using it. My phone can not come in any sooner. Im about to join loserville and call off work to play with my phone all day lol. Im sure i would'nt be the only one here who would do such a thing

If you have a new phone you just root it and then go and download ROM Manager for Root Users (Clockwork) and install that. Then flash Clockwork recovery and boot into Clockwork and flash Onyx. Getting the downloads and the files copied over is probably the hardest part of doing it, lol.

what is this onyx that you guys are speaking about? Is it the same as Obsidian?

malevolent000 said:
This is def going to be my first flash when my phone arrives. Im assuming you just flash through recovery without messing with odin. Odin seems like a PITA but, im sure i will get accustom to using it. My phone can not come in any sooner. Im about to join loserville and call off work to play with my phone all day lol. Im sure i would'nt be the only one here who would do such a thing
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Haha don't be afraid of ODIN, its just as easy as CWM. I have had to ODIN 3-4 times already and never 1 hang up.

+1 vouch for AOSP ish rom.

Smithben1983 said:
what is this onyx that you guys are speaking about? Is it the same as Obsidian?
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no it has no touchwiz launcher and its black themed throughout like the old bionix roms.. its like a 2.2/froyo version of fusion

Rodriguez92 said:
no it has no touchwiz launcher and its black themed throughout like the old bionix roms.. its like a 2.2/froyo version of fusion
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where can a guy download that?

I'm running the Odin version till all the bugs are worked out on the current flashable Roms. Still sitting at 30% batter life since 12 am this morning.
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[Q] Axura 2.3.1 or Trigger 2.5?

Currently on Bionix v and it's just too tempting.... time to flash!
Any advice for me? The choice is the latest release of Axura (2.3.1) or Trigger (2.5)...
Which way would you go???

I have been tempted to flash bionix. I seen videos and looks to be very impressive. why are you switching?

xxcaponexx said:
I have been tempted to flash bionix. I seen videos and looks to be very impressive. why are you switching?
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First let me say that I think that all of the Devs here do a fantastic job, and in the end it is probably a bit subjective as to which ROM you prefer. I have seen many say that both Axura and Trigger are the bomb... and there is only one way to find out! The only other reason would be that it appears that the Devs of these ROM's are a bit more responsive - not that TW is not - it just somehow seems that they are a bit overwhelmed (more users, more questions?) and many of the answers come from other users rather than the DEV's .... not bad, just different. Again, I'm not flaming anyone - all of the DEV's here are amazing!

I'd go for Axura because I've been wanting to try it. But earlier this week I flashed Flagship (coming from Bionix) and I haven't been displeased at all.
But it's all personal preference.

I flashed Trigger 2.1 couple a days ago with DoW kernel by Morphic and I can tell you that this beast is incredible fast and so smooth. Couple of months ago I hated my vibrant but now it's running at its real capacity.
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2.2.1 stock beta 2. also works great with the DOW14 kernel.

This is interesting... I would have thought that Axura 2.3.1 would run away with the vote as it is a more mature ROM....

TASTE THEM ALL!
BIONIX today
AXURA tomorrow
TRIGGER the next....
and then go back to cycling to Bionix! lolol

ndwgs said:
TASTE THEM ALL!
BIONIX today
AXURA tomorrow
TRIGGER the next....
and then go back to cycling to Bionix! lolol
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and by the time you try them all, there will be new ones and new versions of them. lol.

I'd go with axura best rom I've used...I've used bionix v and bionix v 1.2, koffeblack (bad didn't appeal to me just launcher pro with a custom dock) , some touch wiz rom with LG optimus 2x Widgets (forgot it's name) , Loki 1-3 (really good), and axura (its fast, stable, and sexy with tons of themes). I haven't used trigger yet but I hear its good. Its up for you to decide but I prefer axura the most and I know most people would if they tried it out also! It also comes stock with launcher pro, adw, zeam (I use this) , and Eugene's gingerbread launcher not Steven lins. It also has a custom star wars unlock screen plus the best transition I've seen and you can make them extra smooth by making it slow on spare parts app which is included .
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flip a coin you will be happy with both I've used both and they are different but equal.
You will smile no matter what

You can try different themes and launchers instead
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funeralthirst said:
and by the time you try them all, there will be new ones and new versions of them. lol.
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LMAO... Exactly...
Then, you flash again.... LOL
Then you become a crack flashing addict...
Then attend FA (Flashing Annonymous) **which i currently am now**
But all seriousness... Do TRY them ALL until you find that sweetspot for the phone....

ndwgs said:
LMAO... Exactly...
Then, you flash again.... LOL
Then you become a crack flashing addict...
Then attend FA (Flashing Annonymous) **which i currently am now**
But all seriousness... Do TRY them ALL until you find that sweetspot for the phone....
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YUP, you will end up worse than a naked man running through the park..... you will end up suffering from extreme flasheritius, always flashing the next new rom, with a constant grin on your face that no one can remove. AND ! you will know it is a problem when you refer to your phone as "brother"

oka1 said:
YUP, you will end up worse than a naked man running through the park..... you will end up suffering from extreme flasheritius, always flashing the next new rom, with a constant grin on your face that no one can remove. AND ! you will know it is a problem when you refer to your phone as "brother"
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Happened to me I still don't see a difference between the bionix roms yet I still downloaded the just to try lol but I stuck with axura to me the best rom I've used and it's really stable I don't think I can better!
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ndwgs said:
TASTE THEM ALL!
BIONIX today
AXURA tomorrow
TRIGGER the next....
and then go back to cycling to Bionix! lolol
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LOL, sounds like I'm getting ready for a hot date! Maybe we need to start referring to the ROM's as women!

duboi97 said:
I'd go with axura best rom I've used...I've used bionix v and bionix v 1.2, koffeblack (bad didn't appeal to me just launcher pro with a custom dock) , some touch wiz rom with LG optimus 2x Widgets (forgot it's name) , Loki 1-3 (really good), and axura (its fast, stable, and sexy with tons of themes). I haven't used trigger yet but I hear its good. Its up for you to decide but I prefer axura the most and I know most people would if they tried it out also! It also comes stock with launcher pro, adw, zeam (I use this) , and Eugene's gingerbread launcher not Steven lins. It also has a custom star wars unlock screen plus the best transition I've seen and you can make them extra smooth by making it slow on spare parts app which is included .
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Wow, thanks for this! I have watched Master's thread too, and it seems that he is concentrating on one build and making it better and better.

Just for confirmation, flashing between these three great roms: Axura/Trigger/Bionix-V, one DOES NOT need to disable voodoo, correct??

frisbee912 said:
Just for confirmation, flashing between these three great roms: Axura/Trigger/Bionix-V, one DOES NOT need to disable voodoo, correct??
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I can say for sure Axura and Bionix don't need it as I have gone between them often.

Personally, I love Axura. It's fast, rock-stable, and there are a nice variety of themes and mods all on their home site (Devsforandroid.com).
I'm a pretty demanding user, and I havn't had any problems or even a moment of lag or buggieness with this ROM.
Just my 2 cents, of course, spend it as you will.

Key differences between trigger 2.7 and bionix 1.3.1 ??

What is the difference between the two roms?
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A lot, and mostly things you (or 99%) of the people on here could explain.....
from an end-user, just try both and see which you prefer. Not hard to try one and then try another. I flashed 4 roms one day, and loved every moment.

s15274n said:
A lot, and mostly things you (or 99%) of the people on here could explain.....
from an end-user, just try both and see which you prefer. Not hard to try one and then try another. I flashed 4 roms one day, and loved every moment.
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Yep, just try both and see what works better for you. I have, and I like the Trigger 2.7 personally. Just seems "flashier" and shows off the phone a little better, in my opinion.
Both are VERY good ROMs and you can't go wrong with either

Tried both, can't tell the difference speed wise. Battery life is also good on both.
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For me the biggest difference between the two is level of "polish." They are both nice ROMs, but Trigger is just slightly better IMO in regards to the slickness and cosmetic appeal. As was stated above, it's the ROM to show off your phone to friends.
And I never experience any slow-downs or lagginess anywhere and I can't remember the last time I had a FC.
Trigger is the closest thing to my favorite ROM from my G1 days, SuperD.

Man I miss SuperD!!

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Man I miss SuperD!!
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I've still got it running on my G1
Beast of a ROM
(Trigger should not be compared to it!)

Just flash both, and see which one you like the most.
Then when CM7 is finally fully stable, and has great battery life, go to that.

Longcat14 said:
Just flash both, and see which one you like the most.
Then when CM7 is finally fully stable, and has great battery life, go to that.
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but then team whiskey will come out with 2.3 that is better. Cm7 is not really the best. I've tried a cm7 rom many times on different phones and there just not "Polished".

The TeamWhiskey will be a stock 2.3.
Compared to CM which has a bunch of speed improvements and options to enhance your phone!
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Best Epic Rom? (In your opinion)

Hello fellow XDA members. I have become obsessed with flashing Roms lately so I wanted to start this thread to figure out which Rom to flash next for my Epic.
So here is my question, What is the Best Rom in your opinion and why? It can be any Epic rom and for any reason(stable, fast, battery life, etc) The more reasons the better. So answer below and we can have a good discussion of this as well. I am not trying to promote or put down any Roms this is just for my use, and perhaps others that don't know which one to use next. I will probably start a poll soon too.

If you like flashing so much, just try them all, stay with one for a while and keep the one you like the most... not everyone has the same experiences with ROMs and peoples opinions differ. Just try them yourself.

Darkshneider said:
If you like flashing so much, just try them all, stay with one for a while and keep the one you like the most... not everyone has the same experiences with ROMs and peoples opinions differ. Just try them yourself.
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I know that, and I plan to do so. I just figured this would be a good discussion thread, for the general discussion thread.
The opinions of the users matter when it comes to Roms. So I thought it would be nice for a place to compare and contrast what each Roms are missing and what they are bringing to the table.

Personally i like syndicates frozen rom with impalers keyboard patch but then love midnights byor because its empty of bull**** pretty much but find bonsai to be effiecient so its hard to really choose between them all and with the right kernel but right now im running syndicates 1.1.0 with visionkernel 1.4ghz setup
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I like ACS myself.

*in my best dj khali voice* We takin over......
We can't tell you witch is best. They all have there pros and cons. Flash them all to you find what suites your needs.
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I was like u once.. got home from work and flashed a new theme and/or rom almost every day. Then I flashed syndicaterom frozen 1.1.0
I haven't flashed a thing in 3+ weeks.. because I haven't had a single issue. Its like this is the rom my phone was built to run
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Stock.
It's stable. Battery life is good after removing bloat, freezing DRM, and deleting SNS.

FROZEN 1.1. works for me.. Tried the others, but find this to be the best for me.
Not only is the ROM top notch, but it has the best support out there. Those guys are right on it when someone has a problem, and they show such patience when dealing with the same question for the 1000th time..

SyndicateRom Frozen version 1.0.2.
I run the old version because it seems to run faster, and I have less problems with it. (please don't respond and tell me how I'm wrong and/or how to fix it. I am so incredibly happy with 1.0.2 that I will likely never change to a different froyo rom.)

+1 for ACS. I thought I was happy on Bonsai, then I started seeing more themes for ACS rather than Bonsai so I switched and haven't looked back. Better battery life and easy auto-backup/restore are my main points.
The one con is I'm no longer stable at 100mhz. Hoping a kernal update will fix this soon.
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I like ACS syndicate as well and is what I am running.
Also Bonsai 4 is good, use one of those 2.
ACS doesn't have both wired & wireless tether working really, but is supposed to next version.
Force

Bonsai!
Its been the most stable, great speed, everything seems smooth, and it back ups data.
I love it!

I'm done with roms...back when I was on stock EB13 with a few modifications, (Ext4, custom kernal, overclocked) my phone was running BEAUTIFULLY. No issues at all whatsoever. Then I got convinced to flash a custom ROM when EC05 dropped. So I did it. I've tried Syndicate, Midnight and Viper and none of which ran as smoothly as my stock phone with a few modifications. Syndicate gave me FC's left and right, all day and all night. I tried wiping and reflashing several times...no dice...
Midnight gave me HORRIBLE battery life and random reboots. When I would press my power key to turn it off, my phone would freeze...then I would get a black screen with my keypad lit and the bottom touch buttons lit...but no option to turn my phone off. It would just vibrate periodically until I did a battery pull. I would then power the phone back up only to be introduced to the Setup Wizard each time and forced to log into my gmail. Again...I tried wipes and reflashing. That helped the setup wizard issue...but not the power down issue or the random reboots.
Viper...battery life was better. But the lag seemed too severe to justify after I had been spoiled on FLAWLESS performance.
So I plan on going back to EC05...completely stock and do my own thing from there. I've had nothing but bad luck on the custom ROM scene. I greatly respect and appreciate everything the devs are doing...but the custom ROMS are just not for me. I depend on my phone too greatly to have these issues reoccuring.

I would have to agree I like syndicate rom frozen. I haven't tied many but I like this one. it's very stable. No force closes or anything .
Samsung Epic 4g

I have tried syndicate (still have my backup should I want to reflash) it was nice, but I am currently am using red beast and the genocide kernel and my phone is running smoother than I thought possible. syndicate is great, but this rom is great too, and soooo beautiful lol
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I really like baked snack 2.3

dsalman said:
I really like baked snack 2.3
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+1
Great battery life, no crackling sound, really fastt.
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Another for Bonsai 4

Nebula has been a great and consistent rom through several releases. I will go back as soon as the ec05 version is ready. Testing out viper rom right now to see what eb13 is like, and thoroughly enjoying it. Pretty zippy and stable but seemed "bulky" with viper mods/addons out of the gate..... some are useful.

Lets talk roms!!!

What's everyone using and what's everyone liking? Have any of you tried them all? I use to make a habit of testing every ROM available but my life has taken a turn for the busy and cell phone playtime is minimal. At this point I am only interested in TW ROMS as I know AOSP ROMS all to well..... Unless one of these bad boys integrated S-PEN action into the ROM. I grew tired of installing all those side apps for S-PEN support. So lay it on me people.

Gorguts said:
What's everyone using and what's everyone liking? Have any of you tried them all? I use to make a habit of testing every ROM available but my life has taken a turn for the busy and cell phone playtime is minimal. At this point I am only interested in TW ROMS as I know AOSP ROMS all to well..... Unless one of these bad boys integrated S-PEN action into the ROM. I grew tired of installing all those side apps for S-PEN support. So lay it on me people.
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Go with Dynamic Kat. It's amazing. I love the rom control option he packs in the rom. Pretty fast too.

From the Moderator
These kind of threads rarely end well ......... I will leave it open for now ...... but any trolling, bashing or disrespect will make it close....... ANY ....... fair warning
To answer your question all perform well depends on what you want.......... so that said, you will need to try them all........ there are only 2 I know that havfe custom theming being made for them...... you will need to research this if this is something you want.
Play nice people.......... or no one will get to play at all
Thanks ~~~ oka1

Ive tried firekat, awsome. I was on skyfall for about 2 weeks,awsome and now I'm using dynamic kat, again, awsome. There are plenty of options here and that's great, who doesn't love choice. I also am not a big fan of aosp, but i tried it a few times on the note 3. Anyway, go to all the threads and read the description of each to see what you need more as I'm in the same boat and don't have much time but all these roms are great, vision x and of course darthstarker, all of them, i will go back to firekat in about 2 weeks because i can't keep just one rom for long, i have a problem, and I'm proud of it. Flashaholic, who needs an intervention. Enjoy the world of flashing, embrace it, love it.

Firekat for me
But Test them all see what works best for you

MattMJB0188 said:
Go with Dynamic Kat. It's amazing. I love the rom control option he packs in the rom. Pretty fast too.
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+1

Read the threads and see what you like. Some have issues others don't. Jovy stuff the best battery life for me
BAD ASS NOTE 4

oka1 said:
These kind of threads rarely end well ......... I will leave it open for now ...... but any trolling, bashing or disrespect will make it close....... ANY ....... fair warning
To answer your question all perform well depends on what you want.......... so that said, you will need to try them all........ there are only 2 I know that havfe custom theming being made for them...... you will need to research this if this is something you want.
Play nice people.......... or no one will get to play at all
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which two are themed? because i know dynamic kat has two options in themes, i love me some dialer themes

I'm still thinking I will go with CM 12 as soon as I get it running, having a few issues still. But I got Lollipop on my shield tablet and I think a good Android 5.0 AOSP ROM will be where I go. It's just TOO perfect to not use pure.
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I agree with what others said- try them all, it will come down to personal preference. They are all pretty good (we are after all in the early stages)...
+Jovys Darth gives great battery life and reliability
+vision x- just solid. Great battery
+Dynamic - my personal favorite - nice out of the box features (dk control) and fast. Decent enough battery
+firekat - solid all around... Just not my flavor for some reason...
Then again none of them are making me go crazy like LiquidSmooth, Temasek or Effortless for Note 3...
Just my two cents.

I'm running Firekat on mine.It runs very well.
To be quite honest, I am it really interested in testing others. I need my phone to be reliable and ready for work every morning. That being said, I am sure the other available ROM are great, I just don't have time to play around.
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For some reason I have chosen to stay with stock. But end up freezing a bunch of apps. I tried for very few days firekat and darthvador roms. And I couldn't figure out things like greenify and xposed. Wish I had more knowledge on those apps to fully understand and use better my note 4 with those apps.

Are there any AOSP roms out yet?

Soon my friend. Soon.

Used Dynamic Kat since it came out and just recently flashed VisionX. They are both really good and fast but I just wanna try everything I have nandroid both of them so I can switch back and forth.

Honestly all the roms are almost the same at this level, with dynamic being "most featured" base, and thats saying a lot. Just matter of finding a great dev, most battery, and which thread you enjoy the most lol.
If yall should check out xnote as well, run pretty sweet due to the firmware being newer
I enjoy all the devs thread as well as their roms

mgbotoe said:
Honestly all the roms are almost the same at this level, with dynamic being "most featured" base, and thats saying a lot. Just matter of finding a great dev, most battery, and which thread you enjoy the most lol.
If yall should check out xnote as well, run pretty sweet due to the firmware being newer
I enjoy all the devs thread as well as their roms
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You been flashing the Intl Roms ?
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I love Touchwiz and Firekat Rom makes Touchwiz uber smooth + amazing battery life.
I wish stock people would try it before yelling Touchwiz sucks, Touchwiz lags.

Running Firekatv4 on the wife's note 4 very nice performance amazing battery life with same recommended edits as Dev settings..... Haven't had a chance to try any other because ...... Can't hog wife's phone forever you know how that goes lol

Thanks so much
You guys are awesome and thank you for all the input. Dynamic sounds like my cup of tea so far so I will start there.
Thanks again!