I've been been out of the loop for pretty long, and was just wondering what users of xda considered to be the best rom out at the moment. Currently on elelinux, but fancy a change, cheers!
CyanogenMod 7 was released today... but I can't seem to get it working. I'm (still) on 6 at the moment and I really like it.
Cyanogen 7 is reallllllyyyy slow.
Depends wether you want sense or aosp.
My favourite sense is chocolate froyo but it has no camera.
My favorite aosp is probably elelinux 2.3 but it has been really buggy. He released a new version today that promises to fix it but to be honest I am so happy with villain 13 that I probably won't flash again until either sense 2.2 or bonesys 2.3 have camera.
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Froyo: Elelinux Speedmachine v3 or Floyo 1.2
Gingerbread: Cronos Gingerbread 2.0.1
I'm not sure about 2.1 sense roms but i think cronos or villain would be best here.
Went from stock android 2.1 to VILLIANROM 13 then to tastyfroyo 1.2 then to CM7 nightly build #35 then now with CM7 stable release. CM7 was best for me but this stable release really buggy with the notorious transparent menu bug..
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no problem for me on cm7 !
not slower than cm6.1 rc1 that i had just before
If you need stability, do not touch CM7 for Hero. Wait at least for 7.1. There is an unfixed problem with overflowing graphics buffer in Android 2.3.3. Other devices also suffer from this issue, but Hero suffers more, as it has less graphics memory.
Actually no 2.3 ROM is satable and fast enough. I am using CM7 nightlies, but they can sometimes be a PITA.
I would suggest FroydVillian 1.7
Soon there will be Real Gingersense For an alfa it´s awesome
I'm using VillainRom 13 because I want Sense. Looking forward to their 2.3 with new Sense offering though.
i just installed Cyanogen 6 , it's my first time
how i wishsed to use fallah rom cause it's fully supporting arabic
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Hello XDA people
I am very much a fan of the darkstone build , just plain android, no sense.
But its not updated to gingerbread 2.3.3 or similar? And I heard there was security flaw in the current darkstone version, so is there any new builds that just plain has android and works fine?
All the ones I tried with sense is WAY slower (despite they all keep writing fast) and half the apps I used to just download from market and run on the darkstone wont work properly.
Sense is always like that. Lemme know when you find out.
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AmeriCanAndriod is sense less and also quite good!
fyi,
there is only ONE gingerbread sense ROM and it is still in alpha stage basically in the NAND section, so I'm not sure where you think you've used any sense gingerbread ROMs.
every 2.3.x ROM except that one is CM7 or some form of AOSP. for NAND this ROM is basically the final word on gingerbread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957652
It's a great ROM and is updated all the time, CM7 with no sense.
If you're willing to flash to NAND instead of running off SD there are even more great roms
I thought that all 2.3.3's are without sens.
Does HTC MUSIC player work in gingerbread?
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Are there any Sense ROMs that are CM-based for the Hero?
My girlfriend has a Hero that I've got rooted running LiquidSense right now (see sig). It's running pretty well, and she likes the interface. Early on I tried installing aospmod to see what she thought of it. She was not a fan. So CM is out of the cards for her. Moreover, I'm not a fan of CM since it seems to be pretty unstable overall. She needs her phone for work. It needs to be stable. And I really don't feel like I should have to update her phone with nightlies just to have something that's been upgraded since last Spring.
So my question is: Are there any STABLE Sense ROMs for Android 2.2 or 2.3? From what I can tell, any development for the Hero is sticking to CM7. I see that there's a Hero theme for CM7 now, but she wants the full Sense experience (incl contacts, etc), and not just the visuals.
There are a couple of 2.2 roms, but I don't think they are complete. If you want a full and complete sense rom, liquid is about it.
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Are there any Sense ROMs that are CM-based for the Hero?
My girlfriend has a Hero that I've got rooted running LiquidSense right now (see sig). It's running pretty well, and she likes the interface. Early on I tried installing aospmod to see what she thought of it. She was not a fan. So CM is out of the cards for her. Moreover, I'm not a fan of CM since it seems to be pretty unstable overall. She needs her phone for work. It needs to be stable. And I really don't feel like I should have to update her phone with nightlies just to have something that's been upgraded since last Spring.
So my question is: Are there any STABLE Sense ROMs for Android 2.2 or 2.3? From what I can tell, any development for the Hero is sticking to CM7. I see that there's a Hero theme for CM7 now, but she wants the full Sense experience (incl contacts, etc), and not just the visuals.
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i too use my phone for work and there are stable versions of the CM variations, the nightlies are for the most part unstable.. the sense integration was cool, but stock android you can do all of the same by installing the apps that integrate the contacts, which essentially is all that HTC did with sense, they just used their own apps (which arent as good).. my wife was a huge sense fan, but after i got her to try something other than sense for a while she came to realize that it wasnt the awesomeness that it was toted to be.. aospcmod (which is android 2.3) is incredibly stable, and there are ways to make the phone look like sense, but in all honesty i dont believe that sense was ever meant to run efficiently (its too fat) on the hero, and they have come out with newer versions of sense that would be better suited for the hero but we cant get them.. like ranger said there is a 2.2 version of sense out there, but pretty sure it isnt that stable.. and the other sense products are just stock, but are "optimized" (meaning they just took some crap out)..
thanks for the response guys. I'll revisit the AOSP roms and see what I can do.
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_...gingerbread_on_16_may_in_the_uk-news-2638.php
The above article says that HTC Desire HD and Incredible S get Gingerbread on 16 May. Today is the 17th. Anybody got any news?
I'm sure these updates could help speed up the efforts to have a fully working version of Ginger-Sense for the HD2.
It's better to stick with your favorite Gingerbread Sense ROM for updates. If your favorite ROM thread is still support by the dev, he will surely upgrade his Sense build. Instead of making a thread that won't fasten his work. Give him a week or two after the official release date to update it in his thread.
I was asking because there's no Gingerbread Sense ROM that really works.
There are only 2 Sense ROMs that are Gingerbread based: imilka's Gingerbread Sense and RafDroid HD Gingerbread. Each of them has a long list of known issues and I assume they are made from bits and pieces of other Sense ROMs.
I assumed that having a Desire HD Ginger-ROM would stimulate other developers to get on board of similar projects.
I don't own a Desire HD so I don't know if the update has been released. I thought some of the people on this forum should know more on this issue.
I'm not trying to waste anyone's time, I was just asking a legitimate question.
PS: right now I'm running the same ROM that you are running.
of course there is no fully working one yet because the devs need access tothe source code and libraries used to be able to hack them to work on our hd2
deviant007 said:
I was asking because there's no Gingerbread Sense ROM that really works.
There are only 2 Sense ROMs that are Gingerbread based: imilka's Gingerbread Sense and RafDroid HD Gingerbread. ...
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There are some more Gingerbread Sense rom's, but max. Android 2.3.3.
There are no V2.3.4 sense rom from HTC available.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058110
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=989289
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076951
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075703
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075621
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1066279
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1062881 (Post 4+5)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052298
Have tried some, the stablest are the roms with the Sense 2.1 lock screen or the 3.0 one without the app-links. Pictures from the camera are a little bit unsharp with less light, camcorder works in no rom. But Dungphp said, it was working nearly. If you can live without the camera, you will have no graphical glitches. Had often start problems of the sense launcher, after install or after some reboot's.
All problems should be solved if HTC will release the code of the desire gingerbread kernel (!not desire HD, this is already released but hardware is more different).
I will check today and let you know.
Yeah i tried a few Ginger sense builds and whilst they are good they are still way too buggy for everday use not to mention the camcorder issue not resolved so i wont be flashing any more until they are stable.
Forgot the only solution to record a video. "Videocam illusion" record video's in .mov format at our sense gingerbread rom's, but the quality is not so good.
jonny68 said:
Yeah i tried a few Ginger sense builds and whilst they are good they are still way too buggy for everday use not to mention the camcorder issue not resolved so i wont be flashing any more until they are stable.
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+1, returned to stable froyo sense.
The stablest one was the sbryan12144 v0.2, no installation problem's and everthing working very fast. But the glitches and the bad camera and camcorder was 1 problem too much for me.
[16.May.11]BOYPPC-SHIFTPDA DESIRE HD V14*GINGER 2.3.4_Sense&HoneyComB V21*MIUI V2
Richy99 said:
of course there is no fully working one yet because the devs need access tothe source code and libraries used to be able to hack them to work on our hd2
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Yes, I know what they need to make the magic happen. I'm also a developer (C++/C#/SQL Windows software), and though I have little to no experience on Android software & ROMs, I know how hard they work for everything they do.
BTW HTC should kiss XDA's feet each and every morning. I got more support on this site than I ever got from HTC.
^^^it just so
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[16.May.11]BOYPPC-SHIFTPDA DESIRE HD V14*GINGER 2.3.4_Sense&HoneyComB V21*MIUI V2
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tried it but wayyyy too buggy at present.
Hello together,
well I have a new phone now (MOTO Defy). I want to give the GT540 to my brohter. He isn't that interested in technical stuff and it will be his first Android phone. So I want to ask you what you think is the best Rom for him?
He don't need that much features, but a stable running rom, with good battery and not that much preinstalled apps. Also it would be very good, if there is not that much on the todo-list of this rom, because I think he don't like to update the Rom "every week".
At the moment I'm really looking forward to airbus360's Froyo Optimum v7.0. I think it should be very stable, has a easy to use UI (Tochwiz looking Launcher) and seems to be nearly final.
What to you think or suggest?
airbus's froyo optimum will be the best choice for that ;D
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Well, I too am waiting for froyo optimum, but honestly.I recommend Eleganceswift or Greendroid 2.1 is just the most fastest, stable and lasting os(for now) on our devices oh and great choiche taking the Defy that fathermucker will last
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Okay, now after Froyo Optimum v7.0 has not been released and also finding some bugs in current version I tried EleganceSwift 5.0. And this ROM really rocks! Look great, is very fast and the UI is easy to use.
I think NoDze is right about suggesting 2.1 Roms for this purpose.
Please, no discussion on what's better..
last visited roms ...
in alphabetical order!
and the purpose is?
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and the purpose is?
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I'm just curious, aren't you?.. is a poll..
I think it's interesting, waiting for more people to vote
Currently on Speedmachine v4 because I need a little stronger battery compared to GB roms, so voted for other. Otherwise it would be DeckedX.
The main problem here is that you can't change your vote, so when I flash a new rom i can't update :/
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The main problem here is that you can't change your vote, so when I flash a new rom i can't update :/
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Anyway, it seems that this survey failed as long as I could not provide those "other" ROMs .. sorry
Very interesting thread.
I've currently hoped from Ligux 2.3.7 to heroine 2.1 sense.. The pure speed of this Rom is phenominal, I mean just when pulling down the status bar for example you really feel the smoothness.. and its actually in real time, so doesn't come down 5 seconds later. But yeah I've figured that I don't need android 2.3 or 2.2, all the upgrades are really unecessary for me personally. All I need is calls, text and whatsapp. If I needed games or web truthfully this phone would have been long gone by now.
I use the official CyanogenMod 6.1 release, with Flykernel 13 @264-576. Stable, battery life of 2-4 days, decent speed, vanilla Froyo.
Eclair wasn't really an option, I think it's quite behind the newer versions, I hate Sense and Gingerbread never run smoothly enough on Hero, so vanilla Froyo was the best compromise for me.
Why didn't I go with one of the local ROMs? Not to offend anyone, but most of the CM6 ROMs here are butchered, full of ugly themes and unnecessary changes. Show me one that runs better than my configuration and I'll be happy to change to it.
I'm using CyanogenMod 7 but i think i'll revert to some 2.2 rom like FroydVillain ot CM6, not sure yet
why don't have Elelinux-7.1-Hero-v3.6 Android 2.3.7 it is one of the best roms
Decked x ligux
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I think if you looking at performance and stable Elelinux-7.1-Hero-v3.6 and cyanogenmod are the best choice for Htc Hero
Elelinux, last one (7.1 v3.6), not the light or the Custom version, just the standar one with the default kernel