As the title states looking for opinions on what non-CM Gingerbread ROMs are working best for other users. This also excludes ROMs based on CM. As much as Im not a Sense fan, Im at the point where I dont care if it is Sense or not. Im thinking of switching from CM7 mainly cause the GPS issue has finally gotten to me (ive tried all fixes and have GPS working but its so crappy compared to stock). Enough of that, time to move on. Welcome to opinions on some Gingerbread roms.
well i find the meXdroidMod meXperia remeX really awesome, though its cm nightly based, i think a good non cm would be the ginger-sense by gingervillian
I never was a Sense fan until I came across Virtuous. Best ROM for the G2 in my opinion. I'm always trying other ROMs just to keep up with what's out there, but I keep coming back to Virtuous as my daily driver. Everything just works with it, including GPS.
MIUI hands down. I love how fast and smooth it is, especially with pershoot's latest kernel.
miui for sure...
was gonna suggest ultimate droid. but its cm7 based. sooo.. miui. best rom IMHO
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MIUI hands down. I love how fast and smooth it is, especially with pershoot's latest kernel.
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Yea MIUI! My favorite. I think you will like UD( UltimateDroid) Its based on CM but I think its a little bit better but that's just me of course.
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ultimate droid 3.3 is the best i've come across thus far.
I wouldn't recommend MIUI, it's boring.
mexdroid and pyromod are great but are CM based yet I don't experience GPS issues.
non CM7 based I recommend this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983991
it's sense but one of the best sense roms out there.
Ultimatedroid definitely kicks ass. I really want to try the miui, but there are like five different ones in rom manager and two or three on the forum, no idea which is most up to date, supported the most, or used by the most people. Is miui supposed to be iphone clone?
Edit: UD is based off cyanogen also but actually feels like a rom all its own and not a CM ripoff.
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slider6000 said:
ultimate droid 3.3 is the best i've come across thus far.
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+1, its pretty awesome
xsteven77x said:
Ultimatedroid definitely kicks ass. I really want to try the miui, but there are like five different ones in rom manager and two or three on the forum, no idea which is most up to date, supported the most, or used by the most people. Is miui supposed to be iphone clone?
Edit: UD is based off cyanogen also but actually feels like a rom all its own and not a CM ripoff.
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yup that's what it's supposed to be with a little bit of android.
Thugnificent69 said:
I wouldn't recommend MIUI, it's boring.
mexdroid and pyromod are great but are CM based yet I don't experience GPS issues.
non CM7 based I recommend this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983991
it's sense but one of the best sense roms out there.
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Aha... we were just saying. It matters how you like a rom.I like Miui, haven't been in any other rom for a long time.
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is there any rom that has the tweeks from Ultimatedroid but gingersense based?
Use gingervillian 1.5 its stock with cm7 settings which you can use optional if you want.
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Ultimatedroid definitely kicks ass.
Edit: UD is based off cyanogen also but actually feels like a rom all its own and not a CM ripoff.
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Some issues with ultimatedroid(for g2) are thus follows:
~Gps is still borked.
~After you select one alternate theme no other one will install, same goes for boot animation though in the case of boot animations once you have selected an alternate you cannot change it.
~Font changes do not work.
~Applications like to uninstall themselves.
UD "seems" snappy but it is entirely due to sped up render effects. I pulled just as fast & faster quadrant scores running CM6.1.1 with pershoots latest kernel.
Speed is in the eye of the beholder people. So far virtually ever rom I've tried that is based on CM7 code has some sort of "gotta pray to machine gods" type element to get GPS going. Virtuous is laggy even with overclocking past 1ghz and if you don't dig SenseUI you're up a creek. The only major rom I have yet to try is MIUI but I really don't dig iphone style integration so I guess I'm just going to be stuck on CM6.1.1 till the official Gingerbread release for the g2 comes out.
astriaos said:
Some issues with ultimatedroid(for g2) are thus follows:
~Gps is still borked.
~After you select one alternate theme no other one will install, same goes for boot animation though in the case of boot animations once you have selected an alternate you cannot change it.
~Font changes do not work.
~Applications like to uninstall themselves.
UD "seems" snappy but it is entirely due to sped up render effects. I pulled just as fast & faster quadrant scores running CM6.1.1 with pershoots latest kernel.
Speed is in the eye of the beholder people. So far virtually ever rom I've tried that is based on CM7 code has some sort of "gotta pray to machine gods" type element to get GPS going. Virtuous is laggy even with overclocking past 1ghz and if you don't dig SenseUI you're up a creek. The only major rom I have yet to try is MIUI but I really don't dig iphone style integration so I guess I'm just going to be stuck on CM6.1.1 till the official Gingerbread release for the g2 comes out.
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I think the gps varies partly on hardware also, because I have never had any of the aforementioned problems on UD (given I never tried to change the font), and gps worked fine. As in accuracy three meters and under and no drifting. Gps works for me on all these roms that people say it is broke on when the OP states the technically it is working correctly. Coming from a vibrant before I have seen how wildly gps hardware quality can vary with a given model, I do believe people when they say it doesn't work for them but there are also people who never expierience these problems.
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you can use miui with a different launcher then its not really all that iphone'ish, i have used miui as my rom for most the time i have had my phone and it runs grate i used it as i love the luncher others seem to swear by it with luncher pro or adw though.
atm i am trying to get over my app drawer hate so i can try some more roms out there, sense seems to work best with the phone seen as it has been made for the keybaord or so i have have found anyway.
is there any luncher/mod out there that will remove an app form the drawer when its on a homepage?
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you can use miui with a different launcher then its not really all that iphone'ish, i have used miui as my rom for most the time i have had my phone and it runs grate i used it as i love the luncher others seem to swear by it with luncher pro or adw though.
atm i am trying to get over my app drawer hate so i can try some more roms out there, sense seems to work best with the phone seen as it has been made for the keybaord or so i have have found anyway.
is there any luncher/mod out there that will remove an app form the drawer when its on a homepage?
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Launcher pro and adw have to option to hide apps in the app drawer... I'm like 98% positive... I think adw is called categories..
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I was using GingerVillain for months because my GPS wouldn't run on my old radio with CM7. Once i upgraded my radio I used CM7. GingerVillain was great considering it was would before CM7 but did have some issues with randomly restarting.
I don't believe the xboarders rom is CM based. It's just straight up, no bs, stock gingerbread.
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Stability vs. Customization. I was a CM Fanatic(CM Donator) on my Nexus One until buggy laggy nightlies shifted me over to the far more stable & silky smooth MIUI but w/ MIUI I lost some customization that was there w/ CM7. Looking forward to Cyanogenmod getting their ish together and releasing a new stable so I can give them another shot.
I've moved both ways in the 12 months that I've had my Nexus. I started out using CM6.x, then thought I'd try MIUI when Rod started his mod (which is awesome btw). When CM7 hit Gingerbread, I couldn't resist and flashed the first nightly (fully expecting to go back to my MIUI nandroid). That Nand is long since deleted and I'm a fully fledged CM7 lover.
I can't really explain the exact reasons for each change. I think I just like something different once in a while, and when CM took the best bits from MIUI (FM radio, toggle bar in notification area etc) I had no reason to stick with MIUI.
I think my next "Big Flash" will be either a Sense ROM (never tried one) or Rod's GB MIUI...
Sense ROM are awesome
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Yes. MIUI is boring, yet CM is breathtaking ... been trying RCADSmix Sense 3.0 N1, new experience: new freezes, new force closes, new bootloops
So you're complaining that nightly/experimental builds of cm7 is buggy not stable. Go figure.
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So you're complaining that nightly/experimental builds of cm7 is buggy not stable. Go figure.
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nothing to complain about nightly. disclaimed.
Miuiiiiiiiiiiii
Yes I'm aware of the typo on the thread name MIUi
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thebigbe said:
Yes. MIUI is boring, yet CM is breathtaking ... been trying RCADSmix Sense 3.0 N1, new experience: new freezes, new force closes, new bootloops
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This is probably my next port of call... Just need to get a bigger SD so I can fit the 1Gb Ext partition in...
CM7 all the way
MIUS looks boring
CM7 seems just like stock Android... I mean it's much more stable and offer a few more customizations compared to stock android.
But MIUI is a different experience altogether. You can change the launcher if you don't like the iPhone-like app organization you can change the launcher. However, MIUI's messaging, contacts and various functionality built in is very well thought out and I find it really convenient to use without relying on 3rd party apps. Besides, since MIUI is based on CM7, it is just as stable.
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i don't think MIUI is based on CM...its built from scratch using aosp... that's the main difference between these two..
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So you're complaining that nightly/experimental builds of cm7 is buggy not stable. Go figure.
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...and there you have it, folks. problem with stability? maybe try the stable, non-experimental, non-testing version of the ROM..
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i don't think MIUI is based on CM...its built from scratch using aosp... that's the main difference between these two..
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you mean..coming from AOSP is thier main (and probably only) similarity, right?
LMAO @ whoever though MIUI is based off CM7. It is definately not. Im still amazed @ the dummies out there posting on dev. threads thinking they know what theyre talking about. Do some research,get a clue then the people who know what theyre doing will listen to your opinions
WHAT!? NIGHTLIES AREN'T STABLE? Who would of guessed?
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...and there you have it, folks. problem with stability? maybe try the stable, non-experimental, non-testing version of the ROM..
you mean..coming from AOSP is thier main (and probably only) similarity, right?
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Yup...MIUI and CM7 are totally different..only similarity is that they are AOSP...
i've been used CM7 and Miui...
CM7 is greatful for customizations..but sometime lag when i'm typing...
now a day,i'm using the miui..very smooth..but i dislike the layout is simliar Iphone style...
arashion777 said:
i've been used CM7 and Miui...
CM7 is greatful for customizations..but sometime lag when i'm typing...
now a day,i'm using the miui..very smooth..but i dislike the layout is simliar Iphone style...
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stick your apps into categorised folders on the home screen, much more productive than having them all over the place.
I've tested MIUI & CM7
CM7 is now my daily ROM 'cause MIUI is sometimes laggy on my N1 & I don't like the iOS interface
MIUI ! bigger dev team, more support, nice and stable ROMs
Now, I know that cyanogenmod is probably the most popular of all the aosp roms however, that's irrelevant because this is about the evo, not other phones. So, in your own words, which rom is the best aosp rom for the evo? Excluding miui, because that's a different sort of aosp.
Thanks.
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Now, I know that cyanogenmod is probably the most popular of all the aosp roms however, that's irrelevant because this is about the evo, not other phones. So, in your own words, which rom is the best aosp rom for the evo? Excluding miui, because that's a different sort of aosp.
Thanks.
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numbers don't lie
http://stats.cyanogenmod.com
supersonic 38,749
Yeah, but how is it better than the other ones? Salvagemod, deck, etc..
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Decks Rom to me is the best due to being so much cleaner and faster. The way it runs on my phone is amazing. Battery life. Performance. Just flawless for an aosp
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I tried SalvageMod, didn't care for it since I got FC's and there doesn't seem to be much updates.
I have gone between CM7 and Decks a lot. So much lately that I am driving myself nuts. I want to stick with one.
I like Decks because it is a slimmer version and runs better. It also doesn't have as much misc. stuff/apps with it.
I like CM7 because of the nightlies, which also gives me headaches because I am always flashing, then if something sucks I go back to a previous version, sometimes having to wipe, etc.
I am most likely going to end up sticking with Decks since it runs better for me, and so I don't get the urge to try out a new nightly. LOL
I am not aware of any other AOSP ROM.
Lets face it, if it werent for CM7 we wouldnt have most of the AOSP roms for this phone that we do. DECKS is the best IMO. Its CM7 but tailored specifically for the EVO. Its VERY NOTICEABLY faster. More clean. Cant go wrong with it.
My phone has never run better than with SalvageMod! Even Decks which held that place previously. There are some features that I miss but haven't looked back for a second.
Lithid is an incredible Dev, and has produced a unique build of AOSP that will stand out from the rest. He also supports it directly, meaning you will hear from HIM if you ask a question.
I have tried cm7, decks, savaged zen and OMGB. None have quite the edge of SalvageMod. However, OMGB would be my second choice but I like something a bit more custom.
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I tried cm7 a while back and it was just OK for me( no disrespect, just my opinion). After playing around with a whole lot of sense roms I'm now looking for something a little different for a while...so I'm also interested in the slickest aosp rom.
Does Decks have the Theme engine built in?
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Does Decks have the Theme engine built in?
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yes it does. any theme chooser will theme work
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CM7 and MIUI are by far the most popular AOSP Roms on ALL Android devices. Miui is very popular battery and theme wise. Cm7 takes it with stability. They are both the best in my book.
Free Dirk!!!
Personally I use sense. Buttttt when used asop I preferred miui. I know you said no miui but personally I loved it. I thought it was way better than cm7. But honestly it's what you want and like haha
Swyped from my synergy evo!
Steven 1 said:
Decks Rom to me is the best due to being so much cleaner and faster. The way it runs on my phone is amazing. Battery life. Performance. Just flawless for an aosp
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My choice as well. Deck has all of the features I like, and none of the bloat. It's my perfect rom.
I often flash other aosp roms - and even the occasional sense rom... But I always return to Deck within hours.
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My choice as well. Deck has all of the features I like, and none of the bloat. It's my perfect rom.
I often flash other aosp roms - and even the occasional sense rom... But I always return to Deck within hours.
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If I'm not using salvagemod I always flash cm7 as well. Its a good choice.
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If I'm not using salvagemod I always flash cm7 as well. Its a good choice.
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I see what you did there.
I tried Salvage Mod briefly, but there were some little details that bugged me; the notification pulldown located at the bottom of the screen, lack of Theme Chooser, and a couple other minor settings not available.
It's the small details that makes or breaks a rom for me. Deck passes all the tests, and runs much better on my particular phone than the full CM 7.1
Homage and gratitude are definitely due to cyanogen.. Without his team, we wouldn't have many of the improvements available to us.
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yes it does. any theme chooser will theme work
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Thanks man.
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i prefer cm7 because it supports my blue tooth keyboard, but i never even looked into whether other roms support this feature, i just assumed not.
Another vote for Decks. I've tried just about every AOSP rom out there and Decks rom runs the fastest on my Evo.
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Another vote for Decks. I've tried just about every AOSP rom out there and Decks rom runs the fastest on my Evo.
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I agree, cm7 is a very fast rom. GPS is weird at times. But can't argue with speed. I still use salvagemod tho simply for the simple things that are different.
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Its a toss up, using Decks rom atm but with any AOSP rom I get bad wifi reception unless I am right next to my modem. That's the only thing I can say for Sense roms is that the wifi connection is better, at least in my case.
I'll admit, I was a huge CM Fanboy and deservedly so it's probably one of the most developed and feature laden ROMs available. MIUI never appealed to me. But, there was always something wonky happening then once most of the bugs were ironed out and I actually used it often enough I got tired of ADW.
I started flashing frank707's .zip that removed some of the extra apps and especially ADW and replaced it with launcher2. Then Deck came along and did it for me with an even more optimized ROM. Somewhere along the way I flirted with SalvageMod 1.2.1 but had some stability issues that were caused by the SavagedZen kernel that I stupidly blamed the ROM for. Flash forward to last week, I finally tried out SalvageMod 1.4 and gave it an honest chance and I think it's probably one of the most well developed and stable/fast ROMs that I've tried so far. It's different from CM based ROMs if that's what you're used to but it's simplicity is actually refreshing. There's some features that I'd like to have added but it's nothing that makes the ROM unusable.
I say give SM 1.4 a real chance, I don't think that it (or the devs for that matter) get the recognition deserved.
Lately, I've been having quite a few issues with CM7. I've been flashing nightlies every day for a few months now and there is always some issue it seems. Besides instability, I'm a bit bored of CM. I'd like to try something new, something reliable, lightweight, and stable. I love being able to tweak every aspect of my phone though. Any suggestions?
I have tried (I have mt4G and G2) iced glacier, royal ginger, miui, cm6, cm7, and nightlies.
Personally, miui & cm7 are the best.
My girlfriend ran cm7 forever. She loves to tweak her phone but somehow had rotten luck, and glitched her phone on cm a lot.
I installed miui. She hated it right away, as did I, but later it grew on her. I did a nandroid backup and she asked for cm7 back. Now she says she likes miui better, and a bit later goes well I like them both.
My point. Dude try em all
Miui is pretty slick for customizing. I personally like my cm7 with the minimal theme and icons. It looks almost like dos. Green text on black for terminal. 2screens. Everything in folders. It owns. Anyhow. Done rambling
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Keep in mind I've only had this for a single day, but I'm really liking meXdriod. It's like a flashy, better looking cm7. After I turned the screen animations off it seems faster than cm7 as well, and everything works just fine, wifi calling is my biggest requirement and it worked right away. I don't know how much weight you can give it, but with mexdroid set to 1.1 OC I got a 2200 on quadrant.
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My point. Dude try em all
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Yeah, pretty much. Flashing a new ROM only takes about 5 minutes (after its downloaded). May as well try a bunch, and see what you like best. Everyone has different needs and tastes. Maybe you don't have time to try them ALL, but at least start with a few recommendations, and try them out.
HTC Clay SuperCM7
Apart from CM7.1.0, my favorite rom for my G2 is HTC Clay's SuperCM7 2.4. Here's a link to where you can get the 2.3 version. I had to root around on the internet to find the slightly updated 2.4, he never released it or updated it in ClockworkMod.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076691
It runs fast and smooth and battery life if great. It's mostly just a themed/tweaked CM7, but it seems to have fewer issues. the only thing i really missed was access the FM Radio, but you may not use that at all.
I would suggest cm7 based roms. my favorite is the ice and fire with ice cream sandwich love. miui is nice but not my cup of tea... And beatmod bliss sense and desire hd 1.3 are my favorite sense 3.0/3.5 roms. but its your choice on whatever you like.
Ten words.
I'm using Virtuous 2.0.0. I have to admit that I like sense somehow. If you want a stable, smooth sense UI with an awesome cpu clock daemon, try this.
legato89 said:
Lately, I've been having quite a few issues with CM7. I've been flashing nightlies every day for a few months now and there is always some issue it seems. Besides instability, I'm a bit bored of CM. I'd like to try something new, something reliable, lightweight, and stable. I love being able to tweak every aspect of my phone though. Any suggestions?
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Why not use a CM7 stable release then? 7.1 just came out recently. You can't flash nightlies then complain about bugs and instability
Other than CM7 my go-to ROM when I want a change is tun4f1sh' bulletproof MIUI.
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Cyanogen said on twitter that he is trying unity. He mighta been being a little sarcastic, but i'd try it if it wasn't "hard" to install and I need my text messages right now.
I am running colorized latest cm nightly with ics theme. Before that I liked the wildfire theme and the ubuntu theme.
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I think he was referring to Unity in Ubuntu.
Karakoram2 said:
Cyanogen said on twitter that he is trying unity. He mighta been being a little sarcastic, but i'd try it if it wasn't "hard" to install and I need my text messages right now.
I am running colorized latest cm nightly with ics theme. Before that I liked the wildfire theme and the ubuntu theme.
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He was using Unity in Ubuntu. lol....
Try using IWLT cm7 it is really fast and battery saver because it is built in with the custom oc daemon based on the virtuous oc daemon so you wont need 3rd party apps like setcpu and other
You should really give it a try!
Was having some problems with CM7 too and decided to try something new. Except for the lack of an app drawer, I'm digging Bulletproof MIUI right now.
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Try virtuous unity v2.39.0 or virtuous beta 2. Currently using virtuous unity v2.39.0 & works great. Plus sense 3.0.
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I have used
CM7
MIUI
Mexdroid Ghostchill aid
Unity w/sense 3.0
ILWT CM7 and others..............
I find myself going back to ILWT every time I try a different ROM . It is the most customizable ROM IMO
Going to flash using virtuous beta 2.
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I have tryed all the rom's on here at least once I like suils work though
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Which rom should you try? ALL OF THEM.
Which rom should you stick with? the one you liked most.
I can't believe people are still making threads about this topic.
That's a bit harsh, some people don't want to experiment so much as just find something that works for them. Also, some of these rom's need a little time for a new person to learn about them before you can decide on it, so it's nice if people give objective opinions on the different types so a new person can at least get an idea of where to start. I've tried one of each of the main types (Sense, CM, and Miui) and didn't like any of the sense-types at all. I didn't like MIUI at first either but realized I could put GoLauncher on it and have it work like I want it to. On my phone at least it seems like MIUI runs faster than any of the others I've tried, at least it gives me higher scores on any of the benchmarks I've run using the same cpu setting.
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I have tried (I have mt4G and G2) iced glacier, royal ginger, miui, cm6, cm7, and nightlies.
Personally, miui & cm7 are the best.
My girlfriend ran cm7 forever. She loves to tweak her phone but somehow had rotten luck, and glitched her phone on cm a lot.
I installed miui. She hated it right away, as did I, but later it grew on her. I did a nandroid backup and she asked for cm7 back. Now she says she likes miui better, and a bit later goes well I like them both.
My point. Dude try em all
Miui is pretty slick for customizing. I personally like my cm7 with the minimal theme and icons. It looks almost like dos. Green text on black for terminal. 2screens. Everything in folders. It owns. Anyhow. Done rambling
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I installed miui. She hated it right away, as did I, but later it grew on her. I did a nandroid backup and she asked for cm7 back. Now she says she likes miui better, and a bit later goes well I like them both.
My point. Women.....
There you go, fixed it for ya!
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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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
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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
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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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Curious to know what you like most about ILWT, especially compared with mexdroid and miui?
I don't know about u guys but mine is sense 2.1/3.0 cuz it has a mix of things and its smooth ! (Mikg) wats urs?
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I have to say, I've grown to enjoy what Sense 3.5 has to offer. I fully intend the remainder of my phones on contract life to be spent with either Nils Business GingerSense 3.5 or (my currently installed rom) Warm TwoPointThree. I missed out on Warm TwoPointTwo and all it's heyday so I'm fully enjoying my first ever run with the Warm series.
Side note, I think my next android phone will spend its life on AOSP either because:
A) it's a Nexus device
B) I rooted/installed an AOSP rom
My current favs are Stock+/Inc-Deck GB/OMGB
I never have had a good experience with sense 3.0+ roms, too slow and I dont want to overclock although some of the roms are built really well. AOSP is really nice on our old hardware and always runs clean.
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I have to say, I've grown to enjoy what Sense 3.5 has to offer. I fully intend the remainder of my phones on contract life to be spent with either Nils Business GingerSense 3.5 or (my currently installed rom) Warm TwoPointThree. I missed out on Warm TwoPointTwo and all it's heyday so I'm fully enjoying my first ever run with the Warm series.
Side note, I think my next android phone will spend its life on AOSP either because:
A) it's a Nexus device
B) I rooted/installed an AOSP rom
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Yea sense 3.5 is REALLY great but also is REALLY laggy but overall I find it to be one if the best too.
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bukithd said:
My current favs are Stock+/In-Deck GB/OMGB
I never have had a good experience with sense 3.0+ roms, too slow and I dont want to overclock although some of the roms are built really well. AOSP is really nice on our old hardware and always runs clean.
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I agree
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I'm on Inc-Deck-GB myself, I guess that probably answers the question.
with special props to SkyRaider 4.+... that was the best sense ROM. I would still use it if it had ever got updated to Gingerbread.
I've never tried MikG, Downloading and flashing tonight ^.^ hows the battery life? What kernel do you use etc? My personal fav has always been CM7
Cm7 loyalist no doubt. It gives the best performance, support, and customization of any rom. When I get a new phone, ill be shopping on the base of roms, and cm7 support is a must.
-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
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Cm7 loyalist no doubt. It gives the best performance, support, and customization of any rom. When I get a new phone, ill be shopping on the base of roms, and cm7 support is a must.
-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
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same here, love CM7. With heavy customization from android kitchen and other apps I'm loving my phone and don't have any urge to try other ROMs (maybe a bad thing?)
Sense always gave my phone a little more bloat, no matter how small it was, I'm still all for faster and leaner so that's why I've been stuck to CM7.
Just loaded up MikG and its booted, but its at the mikmikmik wallpaper, and no unlock screen, i can see the battery, time 3g and signal bar though..
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Just loaded up MikG and its booted, but its at the mikmikmik wallpaper, and no unlock screen, i can see the battery, time 3g and signal bar though..
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Same happened to me on that rom a few times. I got it booted on my first flash but after that, none.
If you want a fun rom to play around with I suggest anyone of the super stock AOSP roms i.e. OMGB/Bugless Beast. What better way to customize than to start with the bare bones.
MIUI with my WP7 customizations runs like a boss. I underclock to 245/128 when I listen to music only and it runs as maybe a 700 MHz Sense rom would, while getting maybe days of battery.
I'm using Stock Plus with a bunch of themes I blended together. My favorite ROM of all time was WarmZ though. What I would give to have it in Gingerbread form... its what's in my sig actually.
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Just loaded up MikG and its booted, but its at the mikmikmik wallpaper, and no unlock screen, i can see the battery, time 3g and signal bar though..
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U format boot and system ?
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Fergusonfox7 said:
I've never tried MikG, Downloading and flashing tonight ^.^ hows the battery life? What kernel do you use etc? My personal fav has always been CM7
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Battery life isn't the best but its still great I use tinys latest kernel 12/31
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Redemption 2.2 my battery life was beast haha froyo. Bugless/Synergy if it didn't time bomb/cm7
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ended up with MIUI
My first flash in the rooting game was McTwist. I enjoyed it but wanted to try something else. I switched to Nils Business GingerSense with sense 3.0 and loved his design and the smoothness. Something happened where after a few weeks my phone became unstable tho. Could have been my kernel or my phone or even the charger I was using since apps crashed when plugged in. I then decided to get away from sense roms and tried MIUI 1.12.9. It's smooth and doesn't seem to have that sense bloat. I flashed the latest incredikernel and have been loving the ROM since. It has custom themes which is great for me. I also find myself using the stock dialer,SMS, and camera instead of searching for an after market app. The only thing I didn't like was the homescreens and the launcher so I just use launcherpro and everything looks good.
So as a recap:
McTwist was good
Nils Business GingerSense was great but caused phone problems for me
Sticking with MIUI for now
Alton (Halo 2) said:
Yea sense 3.5 is REALLY great but also is REALLY laggy but overall I find it to be one if the best too.
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I can see how the lag puts people off from Sense 3.5. I haven't run into the issue cuz I use ADW Ex (proudly purchased for .10 cents awhile back) and I just go about my business.
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I can see how the lag puts people off from Sense 3.5. I haven't run into the issue cuz I use ADW Ex (proudly purchased for .10 cents awhile back) and I just go about my business.
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Yea I dont mind the lag but I just need to flash a sense 2.1/3.0 once in a while
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
Yea I dont mind the lag but I just need to flash a sense 2.1/3.0 once in a while
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I believe it. Probably my personal favorite moment to be a member of XDA was when we first had the GingerSense leak last May. Development just shot through the roof for Sense 2.1+ roms. Sense 2.1 is the sweet spot.