Since going to Gingerbread, I've used CM7, and Liquid, and I'm currently on Liberty 3. I tried to flash MIUI but it bricked and I had to SBF. What I'm looking for is a ROM with battery life closer to Liberty. I liked Liquid the most as far as battery life/performance, but I'd like battery life closer to that of Liberty. Any suggestions?
Have you tried MIUI ICS?
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I haven't. I didn't realize there would be an ICS ROM already. Is it stable? I've had a lot of issues with liberty3. I'd take a stable ROM over something hyper fast.
Its actually really stable. I've been using for 3 days now and have had no problems. And the battery life is great.
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I am using Rev's CM7 and that have been loving it although the battery life does leave something to be desired. I still get a full day but it's usually just barely. MIUI ICS has been surprisingly stable for me. Been running it using BootManager for a few days and haven't had any issues. But I know a lot of other people have had issues. Seems to be hit or miss with that one. The other ROM I would suggest trying out would be Apex. I have found it to be very zippy with great battery life. I ran it for a few days with now issues but ended up coming back to CM7. If I had to pick another ROM right now to run other than CM7 it would probably be Apex.
I've been looking around for MIUI ICS, but can only find it for the Nexus S. Does it exist for the Droid 2? I have been looking into Apex as my possible next ROM, I'm just a little reticent since it's only a release client, but I've heard it's very stable. I loved liberty when I was on Froyo, but liberty gingerbread just doesn't work as well. It's very buggy, slow, and some things just don't work.
MIUI ICS is on rootzwiki.
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I was wondering if anyone had a rom recommendation. I have used Stock Turbo in the past and it worked well but I had problems with my uptime=my awake time. I had to get a new EVO (Dropped my old one) wondering if some people could give me suggestions on what roms they like and why.
I would like to have Wiimax, Google apps, and wireless tethering.
AOSP all the way.
CM7.
Destroyer for themed awesomeness.
CM7 for customizability
Salvage-Mod or Savaged-Zen for simplicity
MikFroyo for a fast sense ROM
Myns or Kings Unleashed for themed sense awesomeness
EViO 2 for Battery
Warm Z, Mik Z or Unleashed Z for Sense 2.0
Miui or VaelPaek for something different
That's my experiences and recommendations based on what I've tried.
For what it's worth, I usually stay on Destroyer (Variant of CM7).
+1 for Jstalford. He is right on from personal experiance also. I'm currently running Dark Cocoa III and love it. Its sense but quick, everything works, and its very stable.
CM7 or deck's gingerbread imo
Just depends on what you are looking for...
For Gingerbread, I personally use Deck's ROM with Cayniarb's Tiamat kernel. Probably the most solid combination I've used.
I also like CM7 which I will test out from time to time.
For Froyo... Most are good. I don't play around with sense much because I think GB is much better.
Yeah, if you haven't tried GB yet you definitely should, there's a couple small issues that are fixable with a little bit of work.
For sense roms, I'm really liking Virus Airbourne right now, really nicely themed. Netarchy kernels have been giving me great battery life as well.
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Just depends on what you are looking for...
For Gingerbread, I personally use Deck's ROM with Cayniarb's Tiamat kernel. Probably the most solid combination I've used.
I also like CM7 which I will test out from time to time.
For Froyo... Most are good. I don't play around with sense much because I think GB is much better.
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I just went back to Deck's with RC8. Looking good so far, but I haven't left home long enough to test the battery, but I use the exact same ROM/kernel combo.
+1 for MikFroyo
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vaelpak 3.2 baby! Havent come across a more all around complete/customizeable rom
If I made a nandroid backup of my stock rooted rom now and flash a new rom (even ASOP rom) can I just reload my old image if I'm not happy with the new rom?
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If I made a nandroid backup of my stock rooted rom now and flash a new rom (even ASOP rom) can I just reload my old image if I'm not happy with the new rom?
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That's correct.
In fact, I forgot to backup my VaelPak flash :X
Myns 2.2 warm or koni's elite for sense or cm7 #36 for aosp.
what does everyone think about Fresh?
Nothing wrong with it. Good Stockish ROM.
New favorite
I have quickly fallen in love with Eternal Prophesy v.4.9. Fast with terrific battery life. Best combination of performance of the half-dozen or so ROMs I've tried so far.
Running omj Rom and sense kernels #15. Gives fantastic battery life.
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Which one do you prefer and why? I currently use CM7 with Incredikernel because I like stock Android. Is OMGB more stock?
OMGB is pure stock gingerbread. CM7 is highly customizable. I flip between these two and SR 4.0 from time to time. OMGB is a solid ROM IMO. zero issues.
There's omfgb... highly customizable as well.... super fast, and zero issues
If you want completely stock Gingerbread, then it would be OMGB ftw, but if you want it with some customizations, try CM7 or OMFGB.
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Which one do you prefer and why? I currently use CM7 with Incredikernel because I like stock Android. Is OMGB more stock?
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About a month and a half ago, I was hardcore OMFGB from the beginning.
Then I tried CM7....
So now I'm keeping up with the nightly builds.
To be honest, I wish I wasn't so obsessed with keeping up with it... but I like CM7 because it does have more tweaks, themes and support than OMFGB.
OMGB is the closest to stock Gingerbread that you can get.
OMFGB has some tweaks you can implement.... but not nearly as many as CM7.
I use CM7 nightlies. I really like the customizability, especially the CPU settings menu so I don't have to use third-party paid apps to control such things.
CM7
CM7 nightly
Omfgb
Omfgb for me! I like cm7 but found that I don't use all the features that cm7 has.
I put omfgb on my wife's Eris(after cm7, just too laggy on Eris)and I runs great. So being it runs great on old hardware I tried it on my Dinc,and never looked back!
Evervolv!!!
I can't directly compare OMGB and CM7, but I came from an OG Droid running Peter Alfonso's GPA14 ROM which is pure stock GB to the DInc now running CM7.0.2. As much as I loved GPA, CM7 is the clear winner because of the extra features. I have no lag with CM7, and if you don't use all of the extra features, it doesn't matter, just leave those features disabled. But if you want to use any of the added features at all, then clearly CM7 is the way to go. And you never know when you may want to use any of the other extra features in the future.
I just switched from omfgb to CM7 and its works great on my DINC. plus it was an upgrade from 2.3.2 gb to 2.3.3 gb rom. Much faster as well but as I said before I just switched tonight. Lets see if this bogs down.
I roll with OMGB. I just picked up an incredible off ebay since my OG DROID finally bit the dust. I like lightweight AOSP stock roms. CM7 has a lot of options and tweaks but that is often a hindrance rather than an advantage.
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I haven't tried CM7, but I can attest for OMGB. I've been using it for over a month straight now with great battery life and zero issues. The screen transitions are a bit choppy, but I just run it with Launcherpro, and that fixes it.
I'm running the latest CM7 nightly (I'm actually downloading and installing nightly #80 as I'm typing this). There are a few bugs of course (it is a nightly build, after all) but it's stable and works well as my daily driver. And thanks to Juice Defender and Incredikernel I can get through a whole day with moderate usage without needing to charge. A couple quick questions though, is the latest version of OMGB 2.3.2 or 2.3.3? And how does OMGB's battery life compare to CM7's?
The latest version of OMGB is 2.3.3 actually. Its Gingerbread. I have been using it the past 12 hours or so and can't decide if I like it better than CM7.
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The latest version of OMGB is 2.3.3 actually. Its Gingerbread. I have been using it the past 12 hours or so and can't decide if I like it better than CM7.
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I ment 2.3.3. Sorry for the epic fail.
I'm getting better battery life off of OMGB than I did from CM7. I've used incredikernel on both, as well. But a lot of it really depends on personal preference. I like the stock launcher and a more vanilla experience. Hence OMGB works best for me.
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I haven't tried OM(F)GB but the two times I've tried CM7 they run extremely well for about the first 12-24 then everything goes to hell and I have to take it off. Lets see how the compare to Incredibly Re-Engineered 2.4 (froyo). IR 2.3 & 2.4 have been my default rom since I got my inc back in March and I haven't really had a problem with them.
I can't directly compare the two as I've never actually tired CM7, but I love OMFGB......customizable, smooth, and rarely have any FCs
From my experiences, OMFGB runs extremely fast and smooth but lacks the wide spectrum of customizations that CM offers. The difference in speed is noticeable but CM7 with incredikernel runs fast and is great for battery life.
I'm currently running CM7, I haven't tried many different roms with this phone, the others I had on my phone at least(besides CM7) were Froyo(stock/rooted) and rooted GB. What other custom roms would be good for me to try, for example, if I want to keep hdmi functionality and 720p recording etc. Is there an AOSP rom where I can keep that functionality?
Liberty .9 is pretty smooth and has the HDMI and 720 p recording down, as well as being very customizable (liberty customizer prompts at first boot to choose which features asop and blur you wish to have).
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I'm currently running DarslideX. It's a GB based prerooted rom. Has hdmi support, as do most GB builds. Been on it about 2weeks now, very stable, some blur, most bloat removed. There are a couple people making custom themes, sliders, etc for it. You can find it over at mdw.
My DroidX Thrives on the DarkSlide!!
I've had liberty and apex and the rooted leaked gingerbread but I have been happiest with cyanogenmod. Just waiting for HDMI.
DX+CM7
Thanks for the responses. I did try Apex, then I installed MIUI.
I am in the same boat. Looking for another GB rom until cm7 is stable.
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I am in the same boat. Looking for another GB rom until cm7 is stable.
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Cm7 is very stable. I update with the nightly every day. I do have to flash the camera fix to make YouTube work and I also flash the dx2 sound pack from team black hat app although they took it off the app. Wish there was a good HDMI fix already but that's the only thing that would really make cm7 any better for me.
DX+CM7
I'm currently using MIUI and besides the questionable battery life, I love it. My phone feels completely different, in a good way. It's also very smooth and haven't run into any problems yet.
I've been using Liberty v0.9 since it came out. Very smooth, customization is there, everything works... Best rom I've used. Had a problem the first time I loaded it. Re-downloaded it and data wipe fixed it. Liberty toolbox is just as good as team blackhat app.
I'm running Liquid now, i looked at Darkslide X, my phone isn't activated yet, and wanted to know if i have to switch back to stock to get it activated(i may flash to a local company, not Verizon). I might try Liberty.
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I'm currently using MIUI and besides the questionable battery life, I love it. My phone feels completely different, in a good way. It's also very smooth and haven't run into any problems yet.
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Agreed 100% MIUI so far has been absolutely wonderful. I would agree though about the battery life issue. Prior to MIUI I was running an early leaked build of Froyo, FroyoDynamite, with SetCPU active on stock kernel I was getting around 2 days of battery life. With MIUI I'm lucky to get a full day.
But everything is super smooth, and it is absolutely beautiful, and the ability to change themes on the fly is amazing. I would agree, it's like a brand new phone to me again.
So is it worth it going from liberty 2.01 to liberty gb .9? I've been holding off because I finally got my dx to run nice with minimal random reboots. I'd love to be on 2.3 but If its still unstable I'll stick with this.
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So is it worth it going from liberty 2.01 to liberty gb .9? I've been holding off because I finally got my dx to run nice with minimal random reboots. I'd love to be on 2.3 but If its still unstable I'll stick with this.
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Yes, by a mile. Everything is smoother and faster, and gingerbread is the only place to be.
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To the OP
Liberty .8 was good. I then went on to try other ROMs. I avoided APEX because of the bluetooth issue. Right now I am back on rooted 596. CM4DX blew up on me on build 23 and I have been staying away.
I'm trying to find out which ROMS do not have the in-call bluetooth volume issue. I am not getting very many answers though. I wish there was a list of ROM's that do not have the bluetooth issue.
So I've been on liberty GB for awhile now, and want to switch roms, i was thinking about cm7 but it's still in beta and would like to wait till its final, unless it's worth it, so should I stay with liberty or go to another gingerbread rom? Thanks guys
DROID X running liberty GB V.8
STAYFROSTY777 said:
So I've been on liberty GB for awhile now, and want to switch roms, i was thinking about cm7 but it's still in beta and would like to wait till its final, unless it's worth it, so should I stay with liberty or go to another gingerbread rom? Thanks guys
DROID X running liberty GB V.8
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I would stay on Liberty GB if I was you. Iv'e been on it for awhile and I really don't want to go to CM7 (yet) or other similar roms until the battery life is up to what I can get on Liberty. I know a lot of people have made the switch to CM7 OR Justice and came back to Liberty for the battery life. However, it has been very quiet in the Liberty world lately so it will be interesting to see if this ROM gets more development soon.
yeah, it has been very slow lately with the developement, hopefully it speeds up, btew, lately ive been getting celluer disconnect with liberty, have you had this
i have been on cm7 since it was released. most all issues have been resolved at this point. the only reason why there is no rc or stable release is because there is not a way to include the patch that must be flashed for the camera/camcorder/battery%/torch to work without errors. there is not hdmi but that is only because it is aosp.
there is other minor issues but not anything really serious. also a gb kernel is in the works for cm7.
battery life depends on your usage and setup. i can go 18hrs slight to moderate use. just depends on your habits and setup.
i can watch net flix 2hr movie and still have 40% left.
i travel and need my x for work. trust me when in say this it is very stable at this point.
you cannot listen to the haters. just flash and try it out.
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cdexsw said:
i have been on cm7 since it was released. most all issues have been resolved at this point. the only reason why there is no rc or stable release is because there is not a way to include the patch that must be flashed for the camera/camcorder/battery%/torch to work without errors. there is not hdmi but that is only because it is aosp.
there is other minor issues but not anything really serious. also a gb kernel is in the works for cm7.
battery life depends on your usage and setup. i can go 18hrs slight to moderate use. just depends on your habits and setup.
i can watch net flix 2hr movie and still have 40% left.
i travel and need my x for work. trust me when in say this it is very stable at this point.
you cannot listen to the haters. just flash and try it out.
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I have to agree with you, cdexsw. I hardly run into any bugs these days. And as a person who listens to alot of music, all the customizations are just bliss.
I also was on Liberty before switching to cm7 and I don't miss it yet lol. Just make sure you get the torch and camera fix.
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Thanks guys, ill look into flashing it and doing the cm7, i don't mind flashing since I just use the linux cd tool, so should I just go look for the newest nightly, get that ant the camera fixed, and it should work from there?
DROID X running liberty GB V.8
i have not owned a Droidx since it came out with Froyo. whats the best rom for battery life out there right now? also, when CM got released i had read allot about CM, and Miui roms suck the battery out of the x bad. is that still true?
looking forward to all your posts...
Thanks
PS. will there be a decent working port of ICS ever ported to the X you think?
I would recommend trying MIUI 1.11.9. It uses the ICS framework, and some users have reported getting up to 40 hours of battery life. You just have to try it for yourself.
As far as stock based roms go, I would recommend Vortex, as it gets very good battery life. Most people recommend Liberty too.
Ice Cream Sandwich is coming to the Droid X, but of course it will take some time. We already have booting builds so the development process is coming along well.
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Liberty got great battery life for me. Also give Shuji a try.
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