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Favorite Rom for Galaxy Tab

By far my favorite Rom for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is Task650's Rom in combination w/pershoots kernels very smooth, and the dev is very quick to respond to any questions or issues! Thanks for all the hard work really looking forward to anything in the future!

+1 man, new to the android world and happy to use his rom!!

starbust bb
Fast stable smooth. There is no going back once u flashed it

is it better than the build that comes with the tablet? (i think you call this stock rom, right? )
What are the advantages to use this build exactly?
Thanks!

this is by far the best thread out here so far! Lol. Thanks guys. I'm glad everyone's liking it. Tomorrow there will be update.

+1 Great rom task650. Thank You!
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Im waiting for a 3.2 port before I go to a custom ROM

Agreed. Currentlly running this ROM and Pershoots Kernal and its running smoooooooooooooooooooooooooth. Thank You!

I loved his rom too, but I dont like the blue theme introduced in 6.1. Can someone let me know how to go back to v6's theme?

I've been rocking with task650.
Sent from my GT-P7510 using Tapatalk

Broodcromb KH1 leak + pershots + 99superchargerv6 + browsermod onwz! fast like hell... would be perfect if i find a cool theme =p

One more Task's fan out here. LOL. His roms are soo clean. No bull****

Blazar non-TW + Bonsai kernel, smooth, love the stock Honeycomb UI.

I'm on stock. Is the rom worth the upgrade? I mainly use the web browser? Is the browser faster? Has anyone done any benchmarks?

Task's V5 gets my vote!

Tasks ROM is the perfect choice!

Task 650v6
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Task650 ROM is too unreliable. It has the battery drain issue. I ran Task650 for about a week and twice the tablets battery was dead in the morning after still having 60% or more life left the night before. I reverted back to the stock ROM and never had a problem since or before Task650. I wouldnt recommend it.

Hm which version did you use?
I'm about to try it out, but won't if this problem is "common"

ShannonAUT said:
Hm which version did you use?
I'm about to try it out, but won't if this problem is "common"
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Yes, it is a common problem with Task650 and other ROMs here. Stock ROM is the only one which is immune to it. You have to be very careful here. The devs who create ROMs here do not list you the bugs and issues their ROM has, and rest assure every ROM here has issues. They will not list them in the first posts of the threads because there is a sense of competition between the ROMs. They dont want to divulge the bugs, issues, and incompatibilities because it will look bad of their ROM. Its very unfortunate.
Anyway, I wouldnt flash your tab if I were you. Its just not worth it. I dont want to worry about my battery suddenly discharging in just 12 hours even when the unit is in sleep mode. Its a major issue and I recommend reading the huge thread about it. Its a mess.

[Q] Latest, hottest ROM

I was on Legendary and then SimpleROM but I'm ready for a change as long as it is stable (like the ones I just mentioned). I tried reading the threads but they keep changing and some are very long.
Just wondering if someone knows since I have been on only this 2 ROMs for nearly a year.
tsp

Try out CM9.
It's pretty popping fresh.
Also, MIUI.
And in the future, we discourage best ROM threads.

Depends on how you use your phone. CM9 beta 0 is stable for a daily ROM. But If your a power user like on your phone nonstop then you will find yourself wanting a charger.
Also gotta ask the question to you want to move to the MTD side.... best bet is to read up on everything, then test out different roms till you find one that you like.
Sent from a CM9 powered Epic.

If you want a good stable Rom the marcusant rom version3 and the shake and bake theme are a nice combo. Also cm9 is also kinda nice but its still in beta

Threads are long because everyone is trying to butt hurt everyone else, and there are a lot of useless postings (such as this one). Just be sure whatever rom you use has the appropriate thanks, documentation and GPL reference or you will get blasted even as just a user.
Just try them all, go nuts, have fun! Just be sure to do whatever you can to brick your device so you can provide yourself with the logical reasoning to upgrade as quickly as possible.
Sent from my, is it safe to claim, personally semi-tweaked (but not shared) and still therefore kanged??? sammiEpic running some CM9b0 shiznizzle.....

Thanks to all that offered good advise and options.
And to clarify a few points:
1 - I did not ask what was the best ROM (I know better than that).
2 - I respect the advise of the users here and do not wish to try them all. It simply takes too much time when all the ROMs say to wipe everything clean including data. It's a very long process putting everything back the way it was. The last 2 updates I did did not update my programs so I had to install them all manually plus their data. And as some of you may know, restoring from backup is not always a good thing to do.
So... I really appreciate those that provided a few options for me to try. Will do soon. And btw I alway provide feedback to the thread on the ROMs that I try. Comes from being a technology administrator for many years.
Thanks again,
tsp

CleanGB
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I second that, CLEANGB!
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CM9
If you need battery life then use cm7.
Sent from my modded Epic 1x that I cannot love more.. Thank you EpicCM team, bbelos, and zeppelinrox

CM9! Seriously it's ****ing ICS and you will be surprised by how stable it is. There are bugs but as a daily driver I personally haven't run into any.

tsperez said:
I was on Legendary and then SimpleROM but I'm ready for a change as long as it is stable (like the ones I just mentioned). I tried reading the threads but they keep changing and some are very long.
Just wondering if someone knows since I have been on only this 2 ROMs for nearly a year.
tsp
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In order for someone to answer this you have to let people know how you use your phone. Are you hooled on the Touchwiz interface? Then it would require some work and getting similiar apps for CM7, CM9 or any other AOSP ROM. If you just want to update to the newer firmware and like how your phone is running now, then Sleeper or CleanGB. If you need more app space then you want to go to an MTD ROM like CleanGB MTD. At least read the OP's of any ROM you are considering to know all the features.

tsperez said:
I was on Legendary and then SimpleROM but I'm ready for a change as long as it is stable (like the ones I just mentioned). I tried reading the threads but they keep changing and some are very long.
Just wondering if someone knows since I have been on only this 2 ROMs for nearly a year.
tsp
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im running marcusants nexus s port and its really stable and everything besides voice search works

CM9 ICS
I've been using CM9 ICS since alpha 2 and I had to Odin my phone back to stock for some weird reason. It was so strange seeing the stock interface after using ICS. "I can't swipe notifications away? What is this vertical scrolling? Bloatware???" So yeah, beta 0 seems good enough for me for now, plus the battery life is way better than stock.

CM9 for sure. The only real issue was the phantom voicemail but there is a fix for it now (as of today).

Loving the CM9. It's like a new phone!
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Tried CM9 and it was allot more stable than I expected. However it still needs work and is not as solid as stock. The lag overall started to annoy me along with other things like garbled text messaging, 4G issues, occasional reboots, and no visual voicemail, but the devs are doing a great job.
I am on Clean GB right now and will jump back to Thunderhawk when Random updates to El30.
Dont flame my opinion, please.

Jed Dignazio said:
Tried CM9 and it was allot more stable than I expected. However it still needs work and is not as solid as stock. The lag overall started to annoy me along with other things like garbled text messaging, 4G issues, occasional reboots, and no visual voicemail, but the devs are doing a great job.
I am on Clean GB right now and will jump back to Thunderhawk when Random updates to El30.
Dont flame my opinion, please.
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What about CM7 Beta? have you given that a try?

XxLostSoulxX said:
What about CM7 Beta? have you given that a try?
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Hmm, No. I tried the RC0, but not the Beta. I think I am picky and just need everything to work as good as stock or better.

Jed Dignazio said:
Hmm, No. I tried the RC0, but not the Beta. I think I am picky and just need everything to work as good as stock or better.
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CM7 is 99% on the dot to being stock if not better haha try it out it says MMS may be unreliable it may not download sometimes but after clicking a few times it works but i had this on stock as well haha

XxLostSoulxX said:
CM7 is 99% on the dot to being stock if not better haha try it out it says MMS may be unreliable it may not download sometimes but after clicking a few times it works but i had this on stock as well haha
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My mms only works on cm9/variants.. Not stock, and lol
Sent from my modded Epic 1x that I cannot love more.. Thank you EpicCM team, bbelos, and zeppelinrox.

best ICS ROM for A500 ?

hi all
whats the best, smoothest, ICS rom for the A500 ?
I'm after the best stock ICS experience, no fancy addon etc.
I want speed !!!!
I want smoothness !!!

go to the dev section , what your asking is for 2 totally different things but you want a stock , go to icyliscious!

Even better, go to the Dev forum and do a search on your question. It's asked at least twice a day and you should find an answer.

ipguy said:
hi all
whats the best, smoothest, ICS rom for the A500 ?
I'm after the best stock ICS experience, no fancy addon etc.
I want speed !!!!
I want smoothness !!!
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Well, then, you will want to wait till an official ICS is released.
If you bother to read, you will see, they are "leaked" versions. AKA Beta.
But if you want some advice, and you want the least amount of issues, well, Icylecious. So far, his seems to be somewhat trouble free.
If you want some extra eye candy, and tons of scripts that does who knows what, well, you can try Flexreeper. Some folks like it.
But don't come crying back when your CWM Recovery gets fubarred, along with the backup images.
It's all Beta, and anything can happen,

my advice would be that if you really have to ask . You really should wait for Acer to push the OTA. not knowing your background / flashing and tech abilities.
But i would totally agree with MOSCOW .
Nothing personal if you are experienced in flashing and can handle a disaster. flash them all and see what you like best..
GOOD LUCK..

Moscow Desire said:
Well, then, you will want to wait till an official ICS is released.
If you bother to read, you will see, they are "leaked" versions. AKA Beta.
But if you want some advice, and you want the least amount of issues, well, Icylecious. So far, his seems to be somewhat trouble free.
If you want some extra eye candy, and tons of scripts that does who knows what, well, you can try Flexreeper. Some folks like it.
But don't come crying back when your CWM Recovery gets fubarred, along with the backup images.
It's all Beta, and anything can happen,
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Sorry to tell but Icylecious is a little outdated , not compaired to 0.014 , 0.022 but compaired to 1.031.00 got some good improvements like better touch screen response in games like shadow gun is now working (where with previous leaks it wasn't)and better camera.
Tons of scripts ?
Not only extra eye-candy , ring , development settings , extra widgets , tweaked kernel , etc ...................
Some like it ? 232207 hits is not some.
Oh and it's flexreaper .

I havent used icyliscious ,I just know KJ and his stuff is usally stable , and if you dont know what your doing he can show you exactly what to do to flash , now with that said ,I have been using Civatos flexreaper since he opened the leaked rom ,never had a failure , glitches ,sure its a leaked rom ,so you really dont know what your gonna get, but it sure is fast! Also running Amon Ra , never haver had a problem there either ,Ive gone back to HC twice , no problems , but I'll stick with flex for now!
The best advice is to go over to the dev section and READ!! Read everything and if you want to try something , most of the guys cooking roms will help ya (if they have the time)!

civato said:
Sorry to tell but Icylecious is a little outdated , not compaired to 0.014 , 0.022 but compaired to 1.031.00 got some good improvements like better touch screen response in games like shadow gun is now working (where with previous leaks it wasn't)and better camera.
Tons of scripts ?
Not only extra eye-candy , ring , development settings , extra widgets , tweaked kernel , etc ...................
Some like it ? 232207 hits is not some.
Oh and it's flexreaper .
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WOW . Im a few versions behind. Been slacking with spring cleaning and yard work.I will catch up this weekend .

I use Thor ICS 144 as his is the only ROM that actually make my GPS work.

my gps is working ,but I must admit its not its not anything I really care about ,my acer is basically for fun and testing stuff , I got so many other gadgets its just hard to keep up , but the a500 is the funnest!

anything wrong with Taboonay? i flashed it a couple of days ago, and its running awesome - aside from SOD, which seems to have been fixed by flashing the sod-fix going around, its been flawless.

I've been using Flexreeper and I really like it. So far stable too.

I tried the Taboonay and couldn't get the GPS to work even the patch. Other than that it was fast and smooth. Moving on to Lightspeed 4.4.

I just got my a500 from ebay and need to root it first (Its 3.2 stock at he moment) but think I will be going down the flexreaper root.

willski said:
anything wrong with Taboonay? i flashed it a couple of days ago, and its running awesome - aside from SOD, which seems to have been fixed by flashing the sod-fix going around, its been flawless.
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After SOD fix update the stock camera effect doesn't seem to work anymore, FCes everytime I try to turn them on.

I've Been using flexreaper v11 for a week now.. It's very smooth and stable. Backcamera turned to Rainbows, but it dont REALLY care because i don't use it anyways.

I'm running Thor's icsrom v158. Absolutely love it as it sticks to the stock android with customizations. No Acer ring, no bloatware just android.

Dynam0 said:
I've been using Flexreeper and I really like it. So far stable too.
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Same here. I just flashed to the R12.5 release and that is really smooth and everything works. Mind you, it isn't 'stock', but there are a lot of optional things to make it either themed or unthemed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517181

fcmugen said:
I'm running Thor's icsrom v158. Absolutely love it as it sticks to the stock android with customizations. No Acer ring, no bloatware just android.
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Dear fcmugen, I don't think there's anything stock in a CM9 ROM with tweaked framework and a custom overclockable kernel. So it's faaaaar from "stock" Android

FLEXREAPER-ICS-4.0.3 R12.5
good

[Q] Another "which rom" thread. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE

Hello XDA,
First! Sorry, just had to get that out of the way.
I just purchased a used MyTouch 4G and I'm browsing through some roms. I know people here generally hate the "Omg wut rom iz de best!!?" threads, so I am going to be a bit more specific.
I've tried several several of the roms here and I cant say that I've really found what I'm looking for. A lot of the roms are basically alpha, slow, eat battery, or are generally incomplete. So I ask: What is the most developed, stable, complete, and polished MyTouch 4G jelly rom?
What do you use?
Thanks

If you get a jelly bean rom that was updated within the last month, you'll be fine, i could make that shameless pitch for SuperGalaxy
Essentially, all the roms released have their own bugs, if you want something that's complete, use AOSPX

I try most of the JB roms (if not all) and there is not a single one without a bug. The common bug for ICS and JB is the screen flicking. All of them have kernel problems. CM104.2.1 like to freeze( in addition to screen flicking). The others have camera problems or wi-fi (hot spot,tethering). Some report too much battery use. You just have to try and see with one have the least bugs. Some MyTouch 4g did not had the screen problem. It is a puzzle. Just go for it and try.

good luck finding a fully stable and fully working ICS+ ROM for the MyTouch 4G...i suggest you go to Gingerbread, most stable there. if you like Sense, i'd suggest Android Revolution HD .
but if you absolutely insist on ICS+, then i suggest MyTouchUX, the original and first ROM based on the Galaxy S III until them PermaBricks decided to copy us hahahhahaha

saranhai said:
good luck finding a fully stable and fully working ICS+ ROM for the MyTouch 4G...i suggest you go to Gingerbread, most stable there. if you like Sense, i'd suggest Android Revolution HD .
but if you absolutely insist on ICS+, then i suggest MyTouchUX, the original and first ROM based on the Galaxy S III until them PermaBricks decided to copy us hahahhahaha
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A shameless plug followed by a bad joke? Boo :thumbdown:

estallings15 said:
A shameless plug followed by a bad joke? Boo :thumbdown:
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Actually, 2 shameless plugs, then a bad joke

Well since we are all doing it... Cm9 by me lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600073

this is by far the most stable & trouble free rom I found...but its ICS. I am not big camera user to tell ua bout that but signal, battery & everything else seems to work more than great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852410

Well I have to up my post count so I will contribute that ViperTouch has been good on battery and stable for me the past 2 or 3 weeks and I usually stick to CM 7.2 kang ... not a sense guy but impressed. Tried some of the others mentioned and I think you would be happy with those as well depending on wants.

aethero said:
Hello XDA,
First! Sorry, just had to get that out of the way.
I just purchased a used MyTouch 4G and I'm browsing through some roms. I know people here generally hate the "Omg wut rom iz de best!!?" threads, so I am going to be a bit more specific.
I've tried several several of the roms here and I cant say that I've really found what I'm looking for. A lot of the roms are basically alpha, slow, eat battery, or are generally incomplete. So I ask: What is the most developed, stable, complete, and polished MyTouch 4G jelly rom?
What do you use?
Thanks
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Gotta up my post count, too so here it goes... Coderz's v133 1st, then Cnote's v12 with the updated 61 or 62 kernal 2nd. Cnote's v13 seems a bit laggy to me. Awesome, saranhai & 0.0 have done great work too, but I haven't seen any new roms from them in a while. They might have moved on. Those are the most stable I've tried, but I apparently have the good screen.

Testing complete - SentinelROM

BETA Testing now complete....
ROM will be available in the Development section soon.

Sentinel196 said:
Hi all,
I am the developer of SentinelROM, which is one of the most popular ROMs for Nexus 10, Nexus 7, Nexus 4 and HTC One X.
SentinelROM is compiled by me with modified CyanogenMod 10.1 code (additional tweaks for performance and battery life, as well as some theming). So far the ROM has been very successful.
I've decided to release the ROM for Samsung Galaxy SIII (i9300) also, but I need your help as I don't own a SGSIII to test with.
I am reaching out to anyone who would be willing to flash my test ROM and test a few things for me.
If you're interested, please PM me either here, or via the SentinelROM facebook page. I will reply with a download link and instructions.
I only need a few people for testing, so please don't be offended if I don't get back to you with a download link.
This ROM is for i9300 only at this stage, so please do not reply if you own an i9305 as the ROM will not work on your device.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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You know I want to, but as you said on FB, probably not a good idea to do it on my wife's everyday phone
Everyone, this guy turns out a great ROM. I have Sentinel ROM on my Nexus 4 and it's very, VERY nice. I highly recommend it.

Thanks for the plug mate.

OP updated with a download link so you can get up and running right away.
Looking forward to some feedback so I can launch this ROM

Well i am installing this now will let you know how it goes..

Thanks heaps!
how did you go?

I wish I cud try it too. Any chance for us I9305 users to get this? Maybe later when it gets a good rep on i9300? I know you asked us users to not to reply but I cudnt resist asking
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Well everything is working as normal. I played about with the rom it is pretty stable. Everything works, and when i fell asleep unlike cm the battery never drained maybe about 3 percent drain overnight which is great. So the battery life on this rom is excellent. You're good to go with your rom. Sorry for the late reply i installed this around midnight. Used the rom and till about 2am and fell asleep. I am still using it. I must say overall it is a great rom. Thank you very much. I've not yet found a fault but maybe i might find one but that would be cm related.
For a beta rom this is really stable. Onlything maybe it isn't a big problem now but in the ota updater lol it doesn't recognize the device as MO.

Beautiful!!!
I'll credit you in the OP. Thankyou very much!

Sentinel196 said:
Beautiful!!!
I'll credit you in the OP. Thankyou very much!
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I will let you know if i find anything else and you're most welcome.

sentinel rom v 4.5 for gt-i9300
Hello, Sentinel.
First of all I'd like to thank you for this truly amazing rom, there's so many things I can do with my phone and change almost everything I want to within it. I only found 1 issue which may not be an issue at all, I might still be a bit inexperienced with all this modding stuff, but I haven't found a way to overclock or undervolt my phone using your kernel, but I took a risk of using siyah kernel 1.9.1 which is said not to be compatible with 4.2.2 JB and basically all new roms that are out now, but the funny thing is IT DOES WORK! And I think that siyah 1.9.1 kernel and your custom sentinel rom is the best combo ever for my galaxy s3. The battery works great even when I overclock it, it's really stable and never glitching. I can say I'm a heavy consumer, wifi constantly on, and I'm playing psone games with and emulator alot and it still does a pretty decent job. On my next payday I'm definitely donating, buddy. And in a months time when s3 stock 4.2.2 JB will come out, I'd like to see what you can do with that one aswell.
Keep up the great work, best regards, Lietus.

Lietus said:
Hello, Sentinel.
First of all I'd like to thank you for this truly amazing rom, there's so many things I can do with my phone and change almost everything I want to within it. I only found 1 issue which may not be an issue at all, I might still be a bit inexperienced with all this modding stuff, but I haven't found a way to overclock or undervolt my phone using your kernel, but I took a risk of using siyah kernel 1.9.1 which is said not to be compatible with 4.2.2 JB and basically all new roms that are out now, but the funny thing is IT DOES WORK! And I think that siyah 1.9.1 kernel and your custom sentinel rom is the best combo ever for my galaxy s3. The battery works great even when I overclock it, it's really stable and never glitching. I can say I'm a heavy consumer, wifi constantly on, and I'm playing psone games with and emulator alot and it still does a pretty decent job. On my next payday I'm definitely donating, buddy. And in a months time when s3 stock 4.2.2 JB will come out, I'd like to see what you can do with that one aswell.
Keep up the great work, best regards, Lietus.
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Hi Lietus. I assume you posted this here because you can't post in the ROM thread, so I'll answer you here
My official position on over/underclocking and UV/OV is discussed on my website. Have a browse.
Sorry but it's not something I support in my ROMs. People are alwsys welcome to use other Kernels to unlock these features if they want them.
Looking forward to payday

Hey, this is my first post, you did a really good job with this rom!
Is there any way to disable the fullscreen keyboard feature?

I understand where you're coming from and I totally agree with you if we users want we can make it ourselves using different kernels especially when your ROM is that great and it accepts different types of kernels. And I've got 5 different types of android machines which could use some improvement so if you're interested and have the time to expand your ROMs through those it would be just awesome. Because your ROM is actually the first custom one I've tried, and after a lot of research I can't seem to trust myself with someone else's
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