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Just a basic poll to get some idea of what ROMs seem to be the popular ones here. I also feel that this poll can help those wanting to dive into the world of ROMs in choosing the right direction.
Aside from voting on what ROM you're currently using, why don't you tell us about it...
Most importantly are what kind of battery life you're getting for how much you use.
What is the performance like?
What you feel this ROM offers that others don't.
How can this ROM be better?
Thanks guys!
So, um...where's the poll? I'm using CM6 myself.
It's the first ROM I've used on my device. It's very quick as compared to the stock 1.47 build (of course). Seeing FPS of 52 on my HW002 Novatek. Confirmed that I have 5-pt multitouch (though already knew from the ADB command before I flashed). Linpack consistently at 39/40 (not overclocked).
Battery life so far seems pretty good, on par with stock, though I've been on a couple of phone calls this morning which is atypical for me (I don't really use my phone as a phone I mostly text/web/e-mail etc. - I *might* use 150min a month of calling).
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Ah ha! There it is.
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1236 in Quadrant (again, no overclock, no special performance tweaking of any kind)
Fresh 1.0.1.
Getting about 20-22 hours with moderate use (2-3 hours voice calls).
Super fast! Getting about 52FPS with Netarchy's kernel (no overclocking) with my 003 Nova.
Aside from the badass FRESH boot up screen? I like how dedicated Flipz is to his work and how bugs gets squashed right away. It's stable and everything works.
Could use Froyo and I would like to use launcher Pro rather than Sense with it.
Using DC v3.2.3
With the stock kernel and SetCPU profiles set up I was getting pretty close to 20 hours out of my battery with moderate use.
The performance is great. Very quick with few lags. Couldn't ask for much more.
The one main tool that this ROM offers that others don't is DConfig. Having the ability to easily set up profiles to optimize the phones performance and battery is a valuable tool.
Can't wait for DC Froyo!
So for the ones I like the best are Cyanogen,Fresh, and EVO-OLOGY ROM. Using CyanogenMod 6 right now seems a little buggy, but so far i like it the best.
You need to add Yay for Juggs Rom up there. I am using his FrEak RoM, with ADW launcher and a mixture of Google apps and sense things. Very solid and zero issues.
I been following the 2.2 roms, betting waiting on V10, but I have the files for CM6. I may slap that one on for the weekend after I backup my current Rom.
Baked SNacks 9.7 with launcher pro +
battery life is GREAT ! 19 + hours per charge ( with OC )
everything works simple great !
i do have the CM nightly in nano to do some testing
Baked snacks 9.7 with netarchy kernel 3.7.3c I think. this is smoother than damage and battery life is great!
Really? In development? How about general or Q&A?
Buuuutttt: I'm using Fresh 1.0.1. WiMax is keeping me from switching to CM6.
CM6 but...
I'm using CM6 myself and being an Android n00b in general I still love it so much more than the stock experience. Coming from webOS I was excited at the idea of using custom roms and it hasn't let me down.
Currently I'm noticing the incredible performance increase of CM6 just in terms of smoothness and app loading times. Battery life seems fine to me (unplugged from charger at 830am and will need to charge around 430pm. My only complaints would be the lack of some quality email/calendar/feed widgets that come pre-loaded. Also I've flashed an updated version of the rom twice now and each time the cameras work great upon first use but then next time I try to use they "cannot connect."
WiMax is no big deal b/c I have Wi-Fi at my office and apartment. Would be nice to have in downtown Houston but can wait.
Would be willing to try DamageControl but wasn't sure if it's running of Froyo and has any speed issues. We'll see...
I'm using Fresh Evo 1.0.1 with netarchy kernel 3.7.3c. Waiting with baited breath for CM6 official release.
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WiMax is no big deal b/c I have Wi-Fi at my office and apartment. Would be nice to have in downtown Houston but can...
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Hows your 4g, I only get more than 1 bar in the heights.
Snacks 9.6
Easily 40+ hours per charge, with 2 hours of surfing, 30 minutes of voice, 30 minutes of GPS.
I'm waiting for BuglessPete v0.5 or CM6 RC release.
Cyanogen to date...
Cyanogen - snappy little rom with great battery life and nightly builds! This combined with Rom Manager Premium, I have the option to locate, download, backup, flash and do a/b comparisons in minutes, with disaster recovery for the nOOb I am. DC comes in second but no technical "reports", just "seat-o-the-pants" kinda usage/feel...
I am running Cyanogen till DC 3.5 is released.
Sprint is 2 weeks out from Froyo on EVO.
I just rooted last night, started with the rooted stock ROM, then flashed Fresh, then DC, then CM6. Now I'm back on Fresh as I want to start simple before I jump away from all my HTC apps.
chandlerw88 said:
Hows your 4g, I only get more than 1 bar in the heights.
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I'll sometimes get 2 bars at my apartment off Wash ave. and then I also get 2 down at the Flying Saucer.
tayhimself said:
I'll sometimes get 2 bars at my apartment off Wash ave. and then I also get 2 down at the Flying Saucer.
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tayhimself said:
I'll sometimes get 2 bars at my apartment off Wash ave. and then I also get 2 down at the Flying Saucer.
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Nice, beer goddesses and 4g speed
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1.47 Rooted! Beat that! W00t!!
Seriously though, I'm using this one because I just got a Airave (50% off) and I could not connect to it using CM6, Fresh, or BakedSnack. I couldn't connect using any rom to be exact.
On another thread here, there was talk about changing the EVRC and roaming settings to get better call quality. Beware! Screwing with these will leave you with no connection to the Airave.
Back to the topic. I plan on trying out the latest CM6 tonight, but the stock root is working well for me.
I'm currently using Cyanogen's Nightly Builds of CM6 for the EVO. It's not perfect but I've gotten it customized to where it's everyday-kind-of-usable to me. I imagine as they move forward the it gets optimized, my gripes will go away (like the mising market apps, the slower than stock speeds, etc). I'm okay with it for now.
Before that, I had just begun using Fresh 1.0.1. Very stable and feature-rich... no problems with it at all. Memory management could have been better. This has been the only ROM where I've seen my memory dip below 70MB.
And before Fresh, I'd been using DamageControl 3.2.3. This was for me, the ROM to beat. Best battery life, snappy responsive system, great memory management, great support, nice features. I did find a couple of bugs (with Handcent) and it sure could have used one or two os Fresh's features (like the 270 rotation) but it was still the ROM to beat.
So far I have tried CM7 and Nils Business Sense and I'm conflicted.
I really like the new Sense 2 UI that comes with Nils Business Sense, but I also like the speed from Android 2.3 from CM7.
Hard to decide which to stay with.
I've only used one ROM, and that's CM7. While I like Sense, I really like CM7's lack of it.
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So far I have tried CM7 and Nils Business Sense and I'm conflicted.
I really like the new Sense 2 UI that comes with Nils Business Sense, but I also like the speed from Android 2.3 from CM7.
Hard to decide which to stay with.
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I'm between CM7 stable and Skyraider 3.5
Once Skyraider 4 drops I'll make a decision on which to stick with. I just flashed CM7 again earlier today, but I'll probably flash back tomorrow.
I'm a big CM7 fan. I view Android 2.3.3 more important than sense.
Warm z twopointtwo all the way. The appearance of 2.3 with sense 2.0 and a very well done UI. Give the newest nightly a shot....it may not be your cup if tea but I bet if you tried it you'd love it
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Its a tough call. I happen to like the sense interface and widgets but there are parts of gingerbread and cm7 settings that are really awesome as well. Rocking cm right now but I too will likely flash skyraider 4.0 and I am quite a fan of warm z as well.
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CM7 fan here...
I used to be a huge fan of skyraider. Was my goto ROM for several months. I then tried MIUI (great ROM... just not a fan of the UI), and a few others. I settled with warm 2.2. I used that ROM for quite some time and really liked it as well.
I eventually made my way to CM7 and have been using it for roughly two months now. Very stable and getting great battery life (you can see my config below). I've learned to significantly customize the UI and notification bar and have been very happy thus far.
I may try SR 4.0 or Myn's Z ROM... we'll see. The only thing constant with my phone is change
Happy Flashing
+1 for warm z 2point2. I had used skyraider 3.5 for a long time and am loving 2point2. I tried cm7 and it just wasn't for me...havent tried nils yet.
Nils new update is working fantastic for me!
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It depends what you value most. For me, battery life was a very major part in my decision- probably the most important.
CM7 with chad's kernel and a bit of underclock has some crazy good battery life, you probably already know that though.
To be honest I don't know why this is a post because it just comes down to preference
Nils is a great developer and very active on fixing any bugs or problems with his ROM's. If you shout him a change or something you'd like to see there's a real possibility you may see it in the next release.
I started out with Virtuous, switched onto Skyraider Athena, and now CM7.
I really enjoyed the sense aspect of everything, specifically the dialer and fb connectivity... other than that I didn't care much.
Then I switched to Athena, it was the best of both worlds, dash of sense, pinch of vanilla. basically was vanilla with the exception of dialer and the aforementioned.
Now on CM7 I decided to jump ship and go full vanilla, and it's awesome. The sheer amount of customization within the ROM (including all the themes) is just awesome, and I don't think I'd switch to anything else.
I had CM7 on mine for like 2 days and it ran great and then started to get really slow and stupid on me so I flashed back to Incredibly Re-Engineered 2.4. Over the past month I've grown to love sense (had an og droid for a year), but absolutely hate the dock thing for it. I wish I could have all the sense features but use a dock like ADW's.
My biggest gripe with the aosp roms was having to use a different lockscreen. I got so used to not even looking at my phone to unlock it, but cm7 has me covered there as you can choose from several lockscreens in the settings. The only other thing I really missed was the messaging widget but I was able to add a shortcut to the messaging app to my lockscreen slider so it's even easier to check my texts. I was only ever truly happy with Lou's redemptive revolution before cm7 came around.
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Hi Guys,
I've been with Android since truly day 1.
I lived with my G1 for a long time and together we endured lots of roms. Cyanogen is what most always ran on my G1. Finally, after all the bugs, slow downs and issues, I got a nexus 1 and kept it stock. It's been an amazingly unfrustrating experience and I truly fear any cooked roms.
I do however, have some gripes with stock android. One of the biggest is the lack of permissions controls in apps.
Today, I read that cyanogen is implementing permissions blocking at the app level on the nightly builds. I am VERY intrigued and want to give this a go.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...port-for-revoking-and-faking-app-permissions/
So to everyone, how stable is cyan compared to stock 2.3.4? Is it still the same old buggy, bloated, incomplete rom as it was, or have they been able to keep it light, stable and full of extra features?
Please let me and the other readers know!
Thanks!
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Hi Guys,
I've been with Android since truly day 1.
I lived with my G1 for a long time and together we endured lots of roms. Cyanogen is what most always ran on my G1. Finally, after all the bugs, slow downs and issues, I got a nexus 1 and kept it stock. It's been an amazingly unfrustrating experience and I truly fear any cooked roms.
I do however, have some gripes with stock android. One of the biggest is the lack of permissions controls in apps.
Today, I read that cyanogen is implementing permissions blocking at the app level on the nightly builds. I am VERY intrigued and want to give this a go.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...port-for-revoking-and-faking-app-permissions/
So to everyone, how stable is cyan compared to stock 2.3.4? Is it still the same old buggy, bloated, incomplete rom as it was, or have they been able to keep it light, stable and full of extra features?
Please let me and the other readers know!
Thanks!
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I love it right now.. before it was bloated and totally incomplete and now they got it working pretty darn good you asked at a good time! but for some users.. still causing issues. For some like myself it is perfect right now absolutely no problems I took a while to stick with GB because of all the problems with CM7 I had an htc magic which was pretty similar to the dream and I understand most the problems you probably faced. I've tried a bajillion cooked rooms myself and ever since I moved to the nexus one I just stick with a few (I tried so many on the magic it was my first android and wasted so much time -_-) I would suggest you give this one a try it still has extra features but most of which I find useful
It makes it noticeably snappier and battery life is better. 99% win (wireless LAN reception is a bit worse). I went from stock 2.3.4 to CM7 and am kicking myself for not doing it 16 months ago lol. Maybe there were issues with cooked Roms earlier but the n1 is a mature platform and I haven't noticed any major issues with cyanogen 7.03, of course YMMV
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I have been running the nightlies for weeks and they have been very stable for me. I have not had any significant problems and really like using them. #85 put the permissions blocking in yesterday and I tried it with a few apps. Seems to work fine. I liked stock rom, but personally could not do without trackball wake and lots of other wonderful features in cm.
Once you go custom you wont ever go back to stock.
Make sure you understand how to flash a custom recovery and how to get to it first.
he said he had cm on his hero so he must now about custom roms..
i think it is currently very stable and good apart from the wonk issue.
CM7 Nightlies have been gold for me. Except couple bootloops. I'm on #83 now with data throttle removed. I love my Dinc
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I have been running CM7 since shortly after the official Froyo was released from Google. I had to send my phone back for the powerbutton and so I rooted it right before and tried out one of the CM6 nightlies. It was amazing. The features in every subsequent version have only built on the quality of CyanogenMod. I have been a nightly user ever since (although I only flash nightlies every week or so).
It has been extremely stable for me and I have converted a few friends (most recently a friend with the Desire HD) and they don't know how they dealt with the stock crap for so long.
So in short, give it a shot. Do a nandroid beforehand if you are worried, as then you can go right back if you don't like it.
You can only control the permissions on cm7 nightlies. That feature isn't available in the stable release I believe.
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cyanogen 7 starting at nightly #74 has introduced some new bug fixes which greatly improve standby battery life, so that now idle current with screen off is 3-4mA. its so good now, that you can leave your phone unplugged over night for 8 hours and only lose like 3% battery. and this is WITH wifi and email accounts turned on and syncing.
this makes the nexus one like a brand new phone and turned it into a proper normal device in the sense that you can now rely on superb battery life. you know that when you arent using it and the screen is off, when you come back to it you will have the same battery percentage as when you left it.
its a no brainer to use the nightly just because of this alone.
Ever since the 2.3.4, I've been happy with the battery life and fixes with the GPS. Currently my uptime is 190+ hours without the usual sluggish response that requires a restart.
Running CM7 I found more random issues from the call quality being distorted and random reboots, to other random bugs that I need something stable.
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i often go 550 hours between reboots on cyanogen.
Got the idea from a post by a dev who thought that we wouldn't need the custom roms so much now that we have CM for the Atrix.
I slightly disagree with that and could bet a 5er that there's more people on other custom roms than on CM, at least for the Atrix and due to its "special" features.
(If I'm wrong the 5er will go to XDA)
EDIT: Seemingly (though numbers cannot always be trusted..) I was wrong. 10€ donated to XDA!
Stock ROM with BLUR frozen. I was having way too many problems with CM7 (like the pattern lock suddenly changed to pin lock on me, but I had no PIN set. ) I love CM7, but will wait to try it again when its finished. Plus the fingerprint scanner and webtop are just too useful to give up for me.
I definately would like to see a vanilla AOSP build.
Of course with the ability to retain fingerprint scanner and webtop functionality.
I just put CM7 on and i'm loving it. alien build 4 was cool and I'd love to have webtop back but it's not that important to me. My fingerprint scanner had been broken for a while and I don't know how to fix it so CM7 seems right fir me now
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Stock rooted. As a change of pace from my sgs2.
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Definitely stock rooted/with most of motoblur frozen. Pciture sync is about the only thing i like about it.
But I don't like the look of stock gingerbread (or at least 'adw's stock' look on CM7, assuming the touchpad's CM7 has the same look as most CM7 releases - just too basic!)
I voted CM7 because thats the best rom availible today in terms of speed and features, but there's so much more that can be done with an AOSP code base. We need more non-blur ROMs before I would consider anything other than CM to be worth while.
Definitely CM7 but With Swype. CM7 is not final yet and it it's by far the smoothest ROM I have used on any phone. The camera ideas improved a lot flute some weird resin as my photos are no longer people, which was the czar with the stick ROMs. The only thing I Miss right note is the ability to use fingerprint scanner but one can't have everything in life....and patience is a virtue.
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Give every rom a try, you will see that always you go back to CM7.
Most stable, fastest and top customization ability.
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Give every rom a try, you will see that always you go back to CM7.
Most stable, fastest and top customization ability.
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Man, it's so different user by user.. I've tried CM7 three times in the last 2 months but I keep going away from it; battery is worse than on other roms to start with, go figure?! And it's not as "snappy" as other roms either. Stability is for me equal on all the roms I tried.
Will definitely try the next release as well though..
P. S. Check the attached, on The DarkSide. Battery started from 95%. OC'd to 1,3 Ghz and on constant browsing, market, XDA app through wifi. Can you get that on cm7, basically 4,5 hrs of screen time on a bit more than half a charge..?
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Man, it's so different user by user.. I've tried CM7 three times in the last 2 months but I keep going away from it; battery is worse than on other roms to start with, go figure?! And it's not as "snappy" as other roms either. Stability is for me equal on all the roms I tried.
Will definitely try the next release as well though..
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Agreed. I was starting to like CM7 on the atrix until it randomly changed the lock screen on me. I also had terrible battery life. I loved CM on the G-Tablet, and I love it on my friend's Droid X. I'm sure once the team is done I'll love it on the Atrix too.
Darkside V2.1, pretty stable and fast. Love the look on my SGS2 friend's face when my phone CF benchmarks better than his.
...Though I suspect it wont last long.
I'm on alien just because I haven't wanted to re-setup everything on my phone...once CM hits RC status I'll be on that for sure.
I'm still rockin stock Froyo be wise of the battery life reported on other options.
I'll probably make the jump to ICS if the version is stable...
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well stock was great before 2.3.4 update as far as the battery goes, the best up to date custom rom IMO is Homebase, next would be ninja's latest, but in this poll i would have to go with the CM7 beta, it's been flawless so far(3 days of testing) and i finally got my original battery life back(30+ hours) along with CM's features that i miss from my G1 days when CM first started....
CM7 is my daily driver, but I use the Darkside when I want to do webtop(or just want a change lol)
I have both as nandroid backups on my SD so all i have to do is backup my texts and any new apps i installed and flash between them..15 minutes to change at the most
I voted other rom though, since I still like having the option to do webtop
CM7 all the way. I don't need that BS fingerprint scanner or webtop. It's all useless to me.
Stock, rooted.
MUST HAVE WEBTOP.
the only way to future proof our atrix (at least for a year or two)
is to totally reject this ignoranamous
notion that cm7 or any rom is the end all be all rom
for our devices yes it is a great totally
custom ground up build i respect the time and effert that all the people took to build it ;
with that said we do need other roms too for the fact that maybe there are certain aspects that are not impemented into cm7 and cant be
i implore all the rom creators for the time they spend away from there familys to work on this "hobby"
futhermore yes we do need roms or Oc kernals for it ;
but should we expect it No.
alienv4 fauxv2.0/1.3+custom xfdesktop/xfce4-panel
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Man, it's so different user by user.. I've tried CM7 three times in the last 2 months but I keep going away from it; battery is worse than on other roms to start with, go figure?! And it's not as "snappy" as other roms either. Stability is for me equal on all the roms I tried.
Will definitely try the next release as well though..
P. S. Check the attached, on The DarkSide. Battery started from 95%. OC'd to 1,3 Ghz and on constant browsing, market, XDA app through wifi. Can you get that on cm7, basically 4,5 hrs of screen time on a bit more than half a charge..?
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Seriously??? i've been through every rom, and CM7 has great battery life, along with Ninja and Homebase. Then again the problem may not be the rom, maybe your battery needs to be re-calibrated. That was the problem when i would go from rom to rom. For example i would flash ninja and have amazing battery life, then i tried homebase when it first was released, which the battery was also great, then after a while i went back to ninja and the battery life was horrible(barely got to 8 hours). After i did the steps to re-calibrate my battery, it was just as strong as it was on the day the phone was released(30+ hours), so that may have been the problem
Hi Everybody (Hi Dr. Nick!),
TLDR:
Giving my DX to my mother, need to know what the best stable ROM that is the most bug-free; stock will be considered.
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I've moved on from my Droid X to an HTC Rezound. I recently had to use my good old DX (Running the last Liberty released) and realized what a great phone it is. Really, a top of the line phone... so much so that I actually considered giving my wife the Rezound and going back to the X... it was really only 4G that kept me on the Rezound (and the DX's terrible WiFi radio).
Anyway...
I'm most likely going to be giving my mom this phone since she has some crappy LG phone that lags when playing Angry Birds (the only reason my mom got a smart phone). I want to give her a phone that is going to be fast, stable, and hassle free.
I'm torn between giving her a stock device in case she needs support, or giving her a modified rooted device, so she can have the bonuses of a great phone. I no longer live in her area (I'm from Miami, FL where she still lives, currently living in Kansas City) and I can't support her in case something breaks; she'll need to call VZW or go to a store.
Here are my ideas:
My initial thought is CM 7.1 RC. Seems like it will be stable with minimal lag, and most bugs worked out.
I might leave her on Liberty since Ive been using it and it works pretty well for the most part.
How good is the CM9 beta? It looks to be working, there just has to be a bunch of extra work to get it stable that isn't baked into the initial install yet? I would love to get her on ICS, but she needs a camera so I can't give her Encounter ICS (which from what I understand is really well done, but abandoned). I don't mind doing the leg work for ICS, but I need to know most things work, or can be workable.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Try out MIUI DefX, it's fairly full featured, definitely fast, and very stable.
Otherwise I would recommend going completely stock.
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The newest Miui DefX posted by wizard0f0s is very stable. Can have working HDMI with additional app. Camera works great if it is left on 8MP. Have to change it to that yourself though because its default is 6MP. It has the Motorola Blur power manager stuff so it gets really good battery life. Also has FM Radio built in. Just make sure you check around for guides on how to set up to automatic brightness correctly and you should have the perfect daily driver for your mom.
Hmmm, I hadn't considered MIUI; is it ICS based? Only reason I ask is because I'd like to get Apex Launcher for her. She actually think iOS looks cluttered, and I think the default MIUI Launcher is pretty crappy with the absence of an app drawer.
Also, is there a way to get the iOS theme out? I tried MIUI for a short time, but even after popping Launcher Pro on it, I couldn't stand the MIUI menus because they looked way too iOS-ish for me.
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Hmmm, I hadn't considered MIUI; is it ICS based? Only reason I ask is because I'd like to get Apex Launcher for her. She actually think iOS looks cluttered, and I think the default MIUI Launcher is pretty crappy with the absence of an app drawer.
Also, is there a way to get the iOS theme out? I tried MIUI for a short time, but even after popping Launcher Pro on it, I couldn't stand the MIUI menus because they looked way too iOS-ish for me.
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MIUI DefX is not ICS, although MIUI v4 is; however, MIUI v4 is not as stable or fully featured as MIUI DefX by any means.
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i have an identical objective. something super stable and faster than stock. my older sister is wrestling the stock rom constantly crashing and being bloated as hell on her droid 2, and as far as i know the DX and the D2 have almost identical architecture