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ROM List and Pros/ Cons

Froyo:
ViperROM Synergy
SyndicateROM Frozen
Bonsai (non xda)
Baked Snack (non xda)
Ec05 plus
Simply AOSP
Frankenstein
Urban Fury
Midnight Rom
Paranoid Android
Android4Autism
Gingerbread:
AnonymousROM (moved support to ppcgeeks)
Bonsai (non xda)
Stock Deodexed
Ef02 plus
Stock rooted
Urban Inception
Links soon.

Great list! All good choices. Just don't link to Baked Snack because the dev was banned and XDA rules prohibit you from linking them I believe.
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JohnCorleone said:
Great list! All good choices. Just don't link to Baked Snack because the dev was banned and XDA rules prohibit you from linking them I believe.
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I won't link bonsai nor baked snack. Can I link ppc geeks?
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don't 4get Frankenstein and Urban Fury / Emerald Envy ROMs ( xda by the way )

and SimplyAOSP
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Include Midnight Rom & ParanoidAndroid Rom
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ACS rom frozen Cons:too many google.system.com errors and swype system.com errors.
ACS rom frozen Pros: best 3g data speeds I had for some reason.
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ACS SyndicateROM Frozen pro: Great battery life
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flipblind said:
I won't link bonsai nor baked snack. Can I link ppc geeks?
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If I were you, I would PM Impaler to ckeck about a PPC Geeks link as well. This is a good thread you are starting. It would be a shame to have it locked as soon as it gets some thorough information.
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Urban Inception
just flashed Urban Inception and I have no sound after the flash. I saw one other person with same issue. any Ideas??

flipblind said:
Can I link ppc geeks?
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No linking to any "competitor" sites.

You can find lists like these in the wiki for samsung epic. I was trying to keep it updated, however, due to my illness my hands are less useful so it is too much for me to do anymore.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=SPH-D700-Official_Roms
No pros and cons though; might be a nice addition to the wiki however

diego1985 said:
ACS rom frozen Cons:too many google.system.com errors and swype system.com errors.
ACS rom frozen Pros: best 3g data speeds I had for some reason.
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You suffer from data corruption. Try reflashing the rom and enable journaling
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azmuzyk said:
just flashed Urban Inception and I have no sound after the flash. I saw one other person with same issue. any Ideas??
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Try enabling haptic feedback in sound settings. Also, try switching some sounds around and reboot.
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MysteryEmotionz said:
You suffer from data corruption. Try reflashing the rom and enable journaling
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Mystery is right...as he usually is. Actually, 1.2 is the most stable ACS release I have tried and I have tried all of their Froyo releases.
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Thanks for the response. I tried reflashing, redownloading and reflashing. But my epic just isn't playing nice with this great Rom. It appears to work about every other day, then errors come up again even with Journaling on. I will say I haven't tried the latest version. Since the last 2 versions been giving me Hell.
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azmuzyk said:
just flashed Urban Inception and I have no sound after the flash. I saw one other person with same issue. any Ideas??
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Flash the EF02 audio Fix...

Hows emerald fury? Can't find much on it
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x_maniic said:
Hows emerald fury? Can't find much on it
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I have been using it since it was beta. It is rock solid for me. Computerkid does some great work. It comes with some good apps baked in. He made some very nice themes to go along with it.
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diego1985 said:
Thanks for the response. I tried reflashing, redownloading and reflashing. But my epic just isn't playing nice with this great Rom. It appears to work about every other day, then errors come up again even with Journaling on. I will say I haven't tried the latest version. Since the last 2 versions been giving me Hell.
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What kernel you using? I suggest either gen or vision. Also don't forget to wipe. Sound like I am talking to a 3 year old with that statement "don't forget to wipe". Nothing towards you just me saying it reminded me of my son at 3. LOL

Ec05 further development

Are any devs working on cooking up more ec05 roms? Reason being is tht I feel like we are never going 2 see a official GB rom anytime soon with the way samsung Bull sh*ts everyone. I feel we should have a ec05 rom with everything completely loaded on it with the lastest tweaks an mods. A ec05 rom thts bascially on steroids lol with everything we can possibly get on it.
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Ec05 is pretty much maxxed out in terms of tweaks, however I still don't see an ec05 rom with the v6 supercharger script bakes in yet *hint hint era*
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Isn't that what srf 1.2 is? I'm sure 1.3 will be the ultimate finale once its done.
Btw does anyone have scroll stuttering issues on xda pro app?
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Are any devs working on cooking up more ec05 roms? Reason being is tht I feel like we are never going 2 see a official GB rom anytime soon with the way samsung Bull sh*ts everyone. I feel we should have a ec05 rom with everything completely loaded on it with the lastest tweaks an mods. A ec05 rom thts bascially on steroids lol with everything we can possibly get on it.
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I think what we need is an AOSP rom...full AOSP. I think that would be awesome with all the tweaks we have...

asdfghjkl said:
I think what we need is an AOSP rom...full AOSP. I think that would be awesome with all the tweaks we have...
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thank you captain obvious

xopher.hunter said:
Ec05 is pretty much maxxed out in terms of tweaks, however I still don't see an ec05 rom with the v6 supercharger script bakes in yet *hint hint era*
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From what I see, v6 supercharger is exactly like autokiller from the market (The memory optimizer, not an actual task killer).
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rs.autokiller&hl=en

How about the top devs get together to make one last truly great Froyo ROM like the EVO devs did with Synergy. I can think of aspects from 3 different ROMs that would be great together
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JohnCorleone said:
How about the top devs get together to make one last truly great Froyo ROM like the EVO devs did with Synergy. I can think of aspects from 3 different ROMs that would be great together
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Elaborate, O tester of Roms.
Cd's or tapes?

I hear what you're selling Mr. Corleone, but that's just because I know your jumping skills. When he describes it, they're all incomplete in ways that the other has figured it out.

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I hear what you're selling Mr. Corleone, but that's just because I know your jumping skills. When he describes it, they're all incomplete in ways that the other has figured it out.
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Oh, I don't feel that way at all. I think most of them are well put together but each has its own special quality. As far as us never getting Gingerbread...I guess these leaks are for no reason right? Lol
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Exactly. A rom all devs help develope to finalize EC05.
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BML vs MTD. Too soon to change for daily driver?

I'm still on bml because its more reliable and every thing works the way it's supposed to. I tried the cm7 rom and I lasted about 2 days and quickly realized that it was very limited in flexibility and function.
Granted, it was very smooth. I know it's the future but its still very beta. Just read all the mtd threads, and you'll see how some basic things are buggy or not working.
I'm a little disappointed that some of the devs are abandoning all ei22 bml support. Especially since official gingerbread isn't even fully mature yet.
I am happy that at least TW will be supported in MTD, that's a major plus for me.
What are your thoughts?
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I totally agree with you on this. I am trying to keep up on the MTD TW threads to see where the future is going but will remain probably on Legendary 2.1 with Shadowkernel for the immediate future because my phone is so freaking awesome right now!
As soon as Bbelos puts up 1.04 you guys should grab it! It will be phenomenal! All the speed you are used to and great voodoo color defaults (most will not need voodoo control app).

Well I happen to be the one that always says you'll come back. I have since moved to cm7 because earthbound put out the cm7 kernel I missed the first time I moved. I do have a few bugs I'm dealing with atm but nothing to hard to workaround. To be honest I don't see much improvment from mtd to bml or than the space and file system. As of now its just not too different however once the devs start to tear it apart and see how stuff works is when things will start to pick up. However they must be getting somewhere since there has been multiple updates on cm7 since to mtd move compared to bml.
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Mtd is awesome!!!!!!!
Im running tortel1210's TWMTD rom and its amazing with Samurai3.3.1MTD and Ii really can see somewhat of a difference. On BML my phone was not able to run certain programs like chainfire correctly. Games like Trainz,SHADOWGUN, and GTA 3 would not play. After switching to MTD these games run smooth as ever and I have seen change in the behavior of many apps I have downloaded. MTD in my opinion will save the Epic from discontinuation of development on it. Mabye ports like working sense can finally be achieved from this new propietary system

Imho mtd is waay more reliable. I haven't got any of the dreaded gingerbread corruption.
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xopher.hunter said:
Imho mtd is waay more reliable. I haven't got any of the dreaded gingerbread corruption.
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I haven't had any problems with Gingerbread on BML. I always make sure journaling is enabled.
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kennyglass123 said:
I haven't had any problems with Gingerbread on BML. I always make sure journaling is enabled.
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Bml/rfs is fine. Bml/ext4 sucks (even if journaling is enabled). Mtd/yaffs2 FTW!!
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Phantomg93 said:
Im running tortel1210's TWMTD rom and its amazing with Samurai3.3.1MTD and Ii really can see somewhat of a difference. On BML my phone was not able to run certain programs like chainfire correctly. Games like Trainz,SHADOWGUN, and GTA 3 would not play. After switching to MTD these games run smooth as ever and I have seen change in the behavior of many apps I have downloaded. MTD in my opinion will save the Epic from discontinuation of development on it. Mabye ports like working sense can finally be achieved from this new propietary system
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Chainfire works fine for me on bml/rfs. I've been playing Shadowgun and Deadspace all afternoon.
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xopher.hunter said:
Bml/rfs is fine. Bml/ext4 sucks (even if journaling is enabled). Mtd/yaffs2 FTW!!
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Wow! Don't sugar coat it Xopher...how do you really feel? LOL. A lot of people said that about EXT4 vs. RFS but there are still those that prefer RFS. I am not ready for the MTD jump yet but may check it out in the months to come.
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I love MTD. Between CM7, marcusant V2 and the Stock MTD ROM, I see no reason to switch back to BML.

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Wow! Don't sugar coat it Xopher...how do you really feel? LOL. A lot of people said that about EXT4 vs. RFS but there are still those that prefer RFS. I am not ready for the MTD jump yet but may check it out in the months to come.
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You should just take the jump once Earthbound comes out with his updated cm kernel so far cm7 has been everything I wanted it to be. Much faster game wise than two I don't quite understand it but its amazingly fast. Try it at least. I have yet to regret it.
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Biggoron said:
You should just take the jump once Earthbound comes out with his updated cm kernel so far cm7 has been everything I wanted it to be. Much faster game wise than two I don't quite understand it but its amazingly fast. Try it at least. I have yet to regret it.
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Can't. I use 4G a lot.
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Awe 4g too bad alright stay where your at mtd tw is the same as bml tw. Cm is a whole nother beast.
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Biggoron said:
Awe 4g too bad alright stay where your at mtd tw is the same as bml tw. Cm is a whole nother beast.
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I am hoping that we will see CM9 and LTE working together in the summer on the new phones.
Merry Christmas B!
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kennyglass123 said:
I am hoping that we will see CM9 and LTE working together in the summer on the new phones.
Merry Christmas B!
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That's what I'm waiting for too. No 4g is the deal breaker for me to.
My 4g service is awesome in my area, no rom can be so good that I would sacrifice my 4g for it.
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kennyglass123 said:
I am hoping that we will see CM9 and LTE working together in the summer on the new phones.
Merry Christmas B!
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Yessir, it's going to be Epic.
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thomasskull666 said:
Yessir, it's going to be Epic.
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So .... you holding out on us again ? Got sum inside info to share ? LOL !

TexasEpic4G said:
So .... you holding out on us again ? Got sum inside info to share ? LOL !
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Heh I wish, I did see something about a quad core HTC phone that I'm *hoping* is on Sprint.
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I've been running MarcusantRom on mtd since he released it, and it is great! I have had no problems on v2. I like the room that my internal memory now had. I always had "low memory" messages on bml roms.
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Heh I wish, I did see something about a quad core HTC phone that I'm *hoping* is on Sprint.
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I WANT IT! I read somewhere that the Galaxy S III will be quadcore. I wonder when it is coming out
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seanknighton said:
I wonder when it is coming out
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In due time.
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Best kernel for Epic 4G ICS?

Any idea? Stability + good battery?
I was using Legendary before, awesome battery life while at 1400Mhz all the time. It was amazing.
Anyone know which kernel I should use now?

YMMV but this was my battery today with the newest samurai kernel tanto
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This being covered time and time again in many different posts over many different threads almost warrants no answer but ill give you one and here it is
try them all flash one per day till you find one that works for you the way you like it everyone uses their phone differently so no matter what you will get different results than i do or the next person that post on this

It's really up to you, try them out and see what you like the best. I've tried all 3 kernels currently out right now and they all work pretty good. The two I usually stick with are shadow kernel and the samurai kernel. Shadow kernel is nice and makes everything feel real snappy. You can overclock to 1400 mHz and the battery life for me is good. The newest shadow, tanto, overclocks to 1500 mHz and works with voodoo control. Haven't gotten the chance to really test battery since it just came out but so far it runs pretty good. Just test both of them out, you can always flash over another kernel.
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Bad question....like what's the best ROM. Every phone and every user is different. You have to try them out to see what works best for you.
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Exactly im still on froyo acs because it works for me

ZenInsight said:
Any idea? Stability + good battery?
I was using Legendary before, awesome battery life while at 1400Mhz all the time. It was amazing.
Anyone know which kernel I should use now?
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I am pretty much a noob here and know better than to ask any "what's the best....." question. I have read it dozens of times that your phone and your use is different. Might as well ask us how you should dress too.

Stock.
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Zeinzu said:
Stock.
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+1
Also close to stock kernels like aprosamurai's. He likes to keep his stockish with a few tweaks and some new fixes. Just my opinion of what works best on my phone. Others like earthbound's are too tweaked for me but his is really fast and bleeding edge. Bbelos's are also good.
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Zeinzu said:
Stock.
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The best kernel is Colonel Sanders.
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xSaint21 said:
Exactly im still on froyo acs because it works for me
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Lmao ohh my...believe me your missing out on so much my man
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Cm7 till cm9 is official
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Best kernel is facepalm. Epic facepalm.

Frostacious said:
Cm7 till cm9 is official
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Those are ROMs not kernels.

austin420 said:
The best kernel is Colonel Sanders.
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That's for CM7 only
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I'm using shadow now and have used apro's too and they both worked great. You need to experiment with them, and you're going to have to tweak to get better battery life. I had several trying to constantly run and none of them were things I use a lot so they had to go. If I wanted super battery life I would have bought a flip phone and not a micromini laptop, and I wouldn't have such a joyful device to tinker with.
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Stock is always going to be the best for wanting nothing but the simplicity.
Put it like this when i buy a car, i put bigger tires on my car for grip, and better handling. But i know i will loose some gas mileage but not alot.
I'll put a turbo and some internals into my engine to gain in power but will loose gas.
But if we can put bigger tires and a bigger turbo but still have the same gas results as stock, Then why not do it?
We all benefit in one area and thats why custom kernels are there for those who want options that stock doesn't provide.
Stock= Base Model
Custom = Fully Loaded
Simple as that. So everyone should try different kernels and then reply not saying oh this is the best. But say IMO i prefer this over that simply because of these reasons. Everyone will want a specific kernel because one may like different things about the different kernels

tony45x220 said:
Lmao ohh my...believe me your missing out on so much my man
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I know we all are man we gotta get that iPhone

kennyglass123 said:
Those are ROMs not kernels.
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And also cm9 IS official.
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If you want to keep close to stock: aprosamurai's.
If you want to live on the bleeding edge: earthbound's
I prefer stock, though I may give earthbound's another try now that he made some updates

The Best EL30 Custom Rom

CM9, wasn't for me, so I'm currently using CM7-which I love. BUT, the nightlies still haven't fixed the volume whenever you make outgoing calls and I don't like the Camera/video recorder. Since those two things haven't been fixed (And its driving me crazy) I was wondering what you guys think is a very good EL30 Rom? I'm thinking about switching to one but I don't want to sacrifice battery life and how snappy CM7 is. Just interested in seeing what you guys recommend that I should try.

There is only like 3. Just try them all and see what is best for YOU. Each phone and user is different.
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Yeah I figured that is what people would say...haha...I will give one a try tonight and see how it works out. Thanks for the reply!
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jworkcoo said:
Yeah I figured that is what people would say...haha...I will give one a try tonight and see how it works out. Thanks for the reply!
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You know its not like this is the evo where there's like 200 different sense 3.0 or 2.1 or 1.0+3.0 or 2.1+3.0 we just have TouchWiz Cyanogenmod and Miui not a lot to choose from
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Im still trying to figure out what else I can do to my epic...i got cm9 alpha 4 on it....but besides that idk where else to go..

Before I switched over to CM9, I was on Clean GB. Before that, it was SleeperROM, but I remember finding something that I didn't like too much. I'm not putting it down or anything. Its just that one of my apps wasn't working or the camera. I forgot exactly what it was, but they're both good. I can't say about the other one. I liked Clean GB a lot. Give it a try.
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tried CM7, tried MIUI (had to add a launcher becuase it was driving me crazy without one...lol) and tried CleanGB...
all very nice and unique in their own ways...
in the end, went back to Legendary Rom v2.2, after converting it from BML to MTD format....
the creators have made the install of all the roms idiot proof, it's fun to just backup/wipe as many times as you want and try them all out

SleeperRom or CleanGB are both great Roms.

And Marcusant's v4 will be out soon too. It is in beta now.
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I'm using cleangb and really like it. But I noticed that even stock el30 will do just we fine. No more ciq so its a good rom really. Bonus is, everything works.

Thanks for all of the replies! I'm trying CleanGB and the battery life is....ok. I guess I got spoiled with CM7 battery. I'm just glad everything works....Will give Marcusant's new one a try once released. May even try SleeperRom. Anybody on Thunderhawk right now?
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And Marcusant's v4 will be out soon too. It is in beta now.
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That is a ROM I will leave CM for...at least for a few days to check it our ;-)
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adamdelozier said:
That is a ROM I will leave CM for...at least for a few days to check it our ;-)
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I am running it right now. Seems solid and quick. The only issue found was the twlauncher FC'd. Changed launchers and it is running nice. He has a link up for the beta.

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I am running it right now. Seems solid and quick. The only issue found was the twlauncher FC'd. Changed launchers and it is running nice. He has a link up for the beta.
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Didn't realize the link was up..I was so consumed by your "cranky" thread! LOL
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adamdelozier said:
Didn't realize the link was up..I was so consumed by your "cranky" thread! LOL
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LOL. But I think it did a little good. I have noticed a few people being nicer. Maybe having that thread to vent was not a bad idea.

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LOL. But I think it did a little good. I have noticed a few people being nicer. Maybe having that thread to vent was not a bad idea.
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Hehehe. I think it did work. Mercusant got reported but I accepted his apology.

gastricpenguin said:
Hehehe. I think it did work. Mercusant got reported but I accepted his apology.
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Wasn't needed, but whatever floats your boat. I just hope the devs that bring us all our toys don't all take off because of the childish behavior out here.
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adamdelozier said:
Wasn't needed, but whatever floats your boat. I just hope the devs that bring us all our toys don't all take off because of the childish behavior out here.
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Me too. As long as we keep this stuff out of the development threads.