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Suggestions for a solid/stable ROM -> So many to choose from

Hey xda,
I just got a HTC G2, straight of ebay. I'll be following the tutorials posted to perma-root, CID unlock and S-off (not using visionary).
My only question and concern is, just because I am new to this phone, apart from CM being at the top, what other roms are stable? fast? and reliable? (decent battery life, not too many fc's etc)
I'm very much interested in something with HTC Sense, but meh, am willing to compromise if its too buggy. I've been reading here and there that there are tons of problems with scaling etc when phones switches from portrait/landscape etc.
Any suggestions will be great! Thank you for reading this far!!

Sorry, but you're going to have to do what everyone else does. Try them out and decide for yourself.

Hello and welcome!
My suggestions:
If you want sense, look up Virtuous 1.0.2 for froyo. If you want sense 3.0, look up Virtuous Fusion 1.0.0.
If you want stock android, look up Virtuous G-lite 1.0.2.
All of the above ROMs are by the same dev, are very stable and I have used all of the above. Currently using G-lite because as much as I love sense, it does take alot of memory.
As posted before, try the ROMs for about a week each and see how you like them. It's all personal preference.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

insertcoin is a nice mix between sense 2.1 and 3.0

Athrun88 said:
Hello and welcome!
My suggestions:
If you want sense, look up Virtuous 1.0.2 for froyo. If you want sense 3.0, look up Virtuous Fusion 1.0.0.
If you want stock android, look up Virtuous G-lite 1.0.2.
All of the above ROMs are by the same dev, are very stable and I have used all of the above. Currently using G-lite because as much as I love sense, it does take alot of memory.
As posted before, try the ROMs for about a week each and see how you like them. It's all personal preference.
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I couldn't agree more; as far as ROMs go, rmk's are the most stable. CyanogenMod7 is actually extremely buggy still on the G2 (at least, when I used it a few weeks ago). While CM7 is probably the fastest ROM I've used, there are lots of little things that don't work correctly, and newer builds sometimes will break things that worked on older builds. I'm currently running G-Lite and I'm extremely satisfied.

My fav is mexdroid there new V3 been running good for me http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=886184
[ROM][05/21/11] meXdroidMod meXperia G2/DZ (V3)
G2 Running meXdroidMod meXperia V3

darkdata said:
My fav is mexdroid there new V3 been running good for me http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=886184
[ROM][05/21/11] meXdroidMod meXperia G2/DZ (V3)
G2 Running meXdroidMod meXperia V3
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+1 to that! It's colorful, fast, and siiiiicccckkk. Happy flashing
Sent from my shiny metal G2 w/ meXdroid V3

Cm6.1.1 is nice and stable with decent battery life. It isn't as aesthetically pleasing as the myriad gingerbread releases but it gets the job done and can be tweaked to appear incredibly 'speedy' by using spare parts from the app market and Launcher Pro.

Ill throw my vote in there for Pyrorom. Its fast and is based off of CM7 if I remember correctly. I had tried a few, but as soon as I booted Pyro, I knew it was the one.
Good luck anyways.
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virtuous g-lite is faster than cyanogenmod... check it out.

Try a stock rom! Or dive in and before you know it you will be flashing new roms every other day.
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fwiw I have yet to find another ROM as stable as GingerVillain 1.5 with the 4.02.17 radio. Everything works perfect and I can get 18 hours battery life.
Tried Glite 1.02, super smooth, great ROM with the 4.30 radio BUT could not get the bluetooth to pair. Plus a few minor quirks with the camera flash not working. This is mostly due to the hw differences between the G2 and desire Z. I have a bell Can Desire Z
if u don't want sense...
If you have a G2, go for Glite 1.02 otherwise GV 1.5 is stable and can't be beat ..yet imo

Cm7 has been the only rom I stayed with. I tried sense roms and wanted to pull NY hair out, I simply just cannot stand sense.
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Techngro said:
Ill throw my vote in there for Pyrorom. Its fast and is based off of CM7 if I remember correctly. I had tried a few, but as soon as I booted Pyro, I knew it was the one.
Good luck anyways.
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I 2ND that.. pyromod 2.0 is the best... no force closes and faster than a Russian prostitute just check out the video for the rom. I've been on it forever (currently awaiting 3.0 which supposedly drops tonight/soon)
* I'm just sayin......

PaganAng3l said:
+1 to that! It's colorful, fast, and siiiiicccckkk. Happy flashing
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I 2nd meXdroidmod. This rom is fast and stable. By far my favorite.

If you're looking for a sense rom, I'd recommend insertcoin.
I'd also recommend trying out Miui and vanilla based Roms
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AwwwwYeaaaaa, You guys are the best!!!

at the moment, my phone is stuck in customs... been there for 10 days now... gah, cant wait to get it!

ericc191 said:
Sorry, but you're going to have to do what everyone else does. Try them out and decide for yourself.
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In time, yep, will be flashing around here and there and i'll know for myself. I just wanted to know which ones are the best to start of with. I remember when i got my Milestone, man, i flashed all the bad roms first, had soo many problems.
Especially when ROM threads exceed 50 pages, Yikes!! Takes forever to go through them.
Thanks though!

Techngro said:
Ill throw my vote in there for Pyrorom. Its fast and is based off of CM7 if I remember correctly. I had tried a few, but as soon as I booted Pyro, I knew it was the one.
Good luck anyways.
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I saw the video review of it on Youtube and it looks solid! Thank you!

Ideas for roms??????

Anyone got any ideas for roms? Not ics.
Anything specific? I'm going to make one, but I need ideas
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Sense 3.5
Bliss base
Runny nav bar
No bloat
Runs perfect without swap
Or maybe u wanna port Android evolution or Runnymede desire rom by sebastian15? The latter is a great rom

Yeah, the DZ community has a love/hate relationship with 3.5 sense rom, so a one running smoothly without swap, no bloat, nicely themed (easy on the eyes ), is a way to go.
There are alot of sense 3.5 roms for the DZ. I've tried them all (literally), so far the Bliss sense and the NRG 3.5 sense roms are good, other I had trouble with (laggy, slow, crashes...).
MIUI, seen one seen them all, although popular you will be just one in a bucket of full pretty good and functional MIUI roms.
Stock g2 or AOSP also, there are alot of them for the DZ, there has to be yet an AOSP that can beat the awesome CM 7 rom.
If you make it really try hard to stand out, cause it will be burred soon under the mentioned ones.

You could try porting a weird obscure ROM that nobody has really seen much of. I remember using a ROM by SiulMagic called LiquidM_Villain, its basically an Acer modified version of Froyo. I used it for a few weeks before leaving because I missed Gingerbread, but it was quite a neat ROM. Theres a Gingerbread version around now that could be ported? Or maybe theres another modified version of Android that nobody really sees much of?

jiddahidda said:
You could try porting a weird obscure ROM that nobody has really seen much of. I remember using a ROM by SiulMagic called LiquidM_Villain, its basically an Acer modified version of Froyo. I used it for a few weeks before leaving because I missed Gingerbread, but it was quite a neat ROM. Theres a Gingerbread version around now that could be ported? Or maybe theres another modified version of Android that nobody really sees much of?
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Lol or he could build cm7 for the acer liquid metal my wife has it, nice device but seriously lacking in the rom department. Taz if your interested fire me a pm, I have some background on the liquid and could help out you'd be a god on the liquid metal modaco forum
As for the g2 there isn't anything I can think of...we pretty much have everything except full ICS.
Taz I'm serious about the acer tho...pm me!
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Great idea: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416622

What specs does the acer have?
Also, will hopefully try my hand at that desire rom. Doesn't look too easy because of desire-specific things, but will try
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xT4Z1N4TRx said:
What specs does the acer have?
Also, will hopefully try my hand at that desire rom. Doesn't look too easy because of desire-specific things, but will try
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Lots of similarities with the DZ taz, same cpu, ill have to check again. But they've been trying to port cm7 from the DZ to the liquid MT, they almost have it but I think you could blow it out of the water.
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ptesmoke said:
Lots of similarities with the DZ taz, same cpu, ill have to check again. But they've been trying to port cm7 from the DZ to the liquid MT, they almost have it but I think you could blow it out of the water.
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www.gsmarena.com/acer_liquid_mt-3519.php
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will have a look at that acer liquid
i am diong that runnymede one now, but am at a bootloop, trying to figure out how to get past it

Honeycomb?
I noticed the HC SDK 3.0 uses the GB launcher so...
Some other folks built and compiled HC for their phones too, off the SDK I believe.

kaijura said:
Honeycomb?
I noticed the HC SDK 3.0 uses the GB launcher so...
Some other folks built and compiled HC for their phones too, off the SDK I believe.
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Honeycomb is a bad idea when we have ICS being ported at the moment (which if you check the dev page, there's a thread with an almost complete port) since honeycomb was designed purely for tablets and is not meant for phones. A LOT of quite possibly pointless work would have to go in it.

take any existing ROM - figure out how to make it have even better reception in weak signal areas - and you will be a STAR on XDA!!
and start with the ROM that is the fastest, leanest, and has the best battery life and most free RAM of any ROM.........yes I am talking about G-Lite 2.0.1

My idea is the latest stock rom with nice tweaks and addons but that's just an idea... And maybe nobody likes it
Sent from my HTC Desire Z

The ICS rom on Desire Z is out ? or it's still the alpha version ?

[q] ics roms

Alright guys, i want you to sound off your opinions, what is the best ics rom in your experience based on speed and stability?

THEindian said:
Alright guys, i want you to sound off your opinions, what is the best ics rom in your experience based on speed and stability?
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Since I'm a Sense fan, I go with Virtuous Affinity 3.11.0 Alpha 1. It's really smooth, but can be laggy at times. But then remember it's an alpha. But blackwing's ROM has a working camera, so that's a plus 100000. So for me, Virtuous Affinity 3.11.0 Alpha 1 or blackwing's AOKP.

I an downloading the new creamed glacier, will report back
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My opinion, they are all buggy and need much improvement before it's a daily driver for me.
Don't get me wrong all of our developers do an AWESOME job, but there is only so much one can do with limited supplies. And until relative phone has ICS on it, we're going to be stuck with buggy ROMs.

invasion2 said:
since i'm a sense fan, i go with virtuous affinity 3.11.0 alpha 1. It's really smooth, but can be laggy at times. But then remember it's an alpha. But blackwing's rom has a working camera, so that's a plus 100000. So for me, virtuous affinity 3.11.0 alpha 1 or blackwing's aokp.
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camera problem fixed?

grimey01 said:
camera problem fixed?
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Yup. Go to blackhawks thread.
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neidlinger said:
My opinion, they are all buggy and need much improvement before it's a daily driver for me.
Don't get me wrong all of our developers do an AWESOME job, but there is only so much one can do with limited supplies. And until relative phone has ICS on it, we're going to be stuck with buggy ROMs.
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I agree with you for the most part. I dont think that they are really buggy though.
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camera problem fixed?
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Yep, but its f ed up
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Bluetooth
Anyody notice on Blackhawks ICS rom that the bluetooth does not pic up any device?

lazaruspr said:
Anyody notice on Blackhawks ICS rom that the bluetooth does not pic up any device?
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Only time I use BT is to transfer files from one phone to another. imo not a deterrent for using this rom when I can just transfer another way. Good to know that it dont work though, I think another ICS one was having BT problems too.

eqjunkie829 said:
Only time I use BT is to transfer files from one phone to another. imo not a deterrent for using this rom when I can just transfer another way. Good to know that it dont work though, I think another ICS one was having BT problems too.
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Well at least wifi is fixed now...

A search would have told you there is no BEST only best for you and XDA doesnt do best rom threads as this is not a Rom site but a Development site, More people need to learn what that means

[Q] Sense 4A

I was just curious about what Sense 4A brings to the table. I've had my Glacier running on Virtuous Affinity for a while now, which comes with Sense 3.5. What does Sense 4A do that 3.5 doesn't? Or is it the same thing with a different name because it goes hand in hand with ICS?

I believe its a new looking sense but a slightly stripped down version of sense 4 seemed pretty stable when I ran it, only way to truly see what it brings.... is to run it, would highly recommend it. devs worked extremely hard on venomous.

jasondwhite93 said:
I was just curious about what Sense 4A brings to the table. I've had my Glacier running on Virtuous Affinity for a while now, which comes with Sense 3.5. What does Sense 4A do that 3.5 doesn't? Or is it the same thing with a different name because it goes hand in hand with ICS?
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It's a much slimmer version of sense. It's an alpha build so its not really ready to use as a daily driver. It shows alot of promise for an alpha build though.
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eqjunkie829 said:
It's a much slimmer version of sense. It's an alpha build so its not really ready to use as a daily driver. It shows alot of promise for an alpha build though.
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The Virtuous Team reported they are updating it soon with 3D Rosie, Virtuous Tweaks, and button remapping!

invasion2 said:
The Virtuous Team reported they are updating it soon with 3D Rosie, Virtuous Tweaks, and button remapping!
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Button remapping!! :F
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jasondwhite93 said:
I was just curious about what Sense 4A brings to the table. I've had my Glacier running on Virtuous Affinity for a while now, which comes with Sense 3.5. What does Sense 4A do that 3.5 doesn't? Or is it the same thing with a different name because it goes hand in hand with ICS?
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It's basically a glorified version of Sense 4.0. I usually use SetCPU to bench my roms and it was comparable to AOSP Gingerbread. It's main focus is speed but there is plenty of eyecandy. Unlike EQjunkie, i think sense 4 can easily be used as your daily driver provided you don't need to use the camera.

THEindian said:
It's basically a glorified version of Sense 4.0. I usually use SetCPU to bench my roms and it was comparable to AOSP Gingerbread. It's main focus is speed but there is plenty of eyecandy. Unlike EQjunkie, i think sense 4 can easily be used as your daily driver provided you don't need to use the camera.
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That right there would be a problem. The camera, that is. I wouldn't flash creamed glacier for the longest time due to the camera issue. I'm running MIUI V4 right now and its amazing. It'll be hard to pry me from it, but those screenshots a little further up look mighty nice...
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THEindian said:
It's basically a glorified version of Sense 4.0. I usually use SetCPU to bench my roms and it was comparable to AOSP Gingerbread. It's main focus is speed but there is plenty of eyecandy. Unlike EQjunkie, i think sense 4 can easily be used as your daily driver provided you don't need to use the camera.
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I ran the Virtuous Sense 4a rom for a while. It seems like whenever I decide that I never use the camera, I need it for something so I went back to creamed glacier.
I was very impressed with the virtuous rom though and I have been watching very closely for an update. It is crazy fast and I got the best battery life I have ever had with any android phone. The latest version of Creamed Glacier is also giving me good battery life so far. It is a good time to be a MT4G owner.

richdaley said:
I ran the Virtuous Sense 4a rom for a while. It seems like whenever I decide that I never use the camera, I need it for something so I went back to creamed glacier.
I was very impressed with the virtuous rom though and I have been watching very closely for an update. It is crazy fast and I got the best battery life I have ever had with any android phone. The latest version of Creamed Glacier is also giving me good battery life so far. It is a good time to be a MT4G owner.
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The same thing happens to me with the camera. All you can do is sit back and wait. That was the initial story with ICS ROMs, and now it applies to Sense 4.0/4A ROMs.
...Sad thing is I have no patience. As long as Wifi and 90% of other things work, I'll probably flash it later tonight.
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EDIT: Just flashed a Sense 4.0 ROM. It's not 4A, but it's amazing regardless. Pure eye candy.

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The Virtuous Team reported they are updating it soon with 3D Rosie, Virtuous Tweaks, and button remapping!
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i freakin love those guys.. cant wait
one guy to always follow is evil_d
dude comes out with quality after quality
if he gets to the one S im gone

I personally think that sense 4 is like crack. I keep flashing back to it lol
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THEindian said:
I personally think that sense 4 is like crack. I keep flashing back to it lol
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I agree. The camera isn't even an issue. Plus I'm sure a fix will be found soon. As soon as the camera works, this ROM will be perfect.
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[Q] Best AOSP ROM? In your opinion.

I'm looking for a ROM for my brother cause I gave him my glacier. I'm just looking for some opinions.
TIA for any replies.
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linsalata28 said:
I'm looking for a ROM for my brother cause I gave him my glacier. I'm just looking for some opinions.
TIA for any replies.
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It depends on what you/he wants. They all have their advantages. Personally I like the Dark Unicorn... but ROMs change quickly, so pick one, try it, and if you/he don't like, try another.

The 3rd thread about "Best ROMs". How many times does everyone have to say this: There is no best ROM. It's all based on what your brother uses and needs to be working. He could be a huge bluetooth user, and a ROM could have broken bluetooth. That ROM might be good for someone else, but not your brother. Come on...there are threads about it. And just look in the dev section of what looks best.

I just flashed the latest CM7 nightly. Honestly, its really great. I was all ICS for a long time, and was surprised by how blazing fast and super stable it is.
Edit: Saw your request for links below.
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get/jenkins/2269/update-cm-7-20120603-NIGHTLY-glacier-signed.zip
There you go. That was released 6-3, so it's pretty new

Sorry about the above rage. I've had a VERY bad day...I'd recommend MIUI

invasion2 said:
The 3rd thread about "Best ROMs". How many times does everyone have to say this: There is no best ROM. It's all based on what your brother uses and needs to be working. He could be a huge bluetooth user, and a ROM could have broken bluetooth. That ROM might be good for someone else, but not your brother. Come on...there are threads about it. And just look in the dev section of what looks best.
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I know what you mean but I'm strapped for time and have no PC atm and search sucks on the app. If you don't like my post then just don't help or reply. I appreciate anyone who does though. If you look at my # of posts and thanks you'll see I'm not new to this and I was only asking for personal opinion .
Thanks for your reply though. I use to be like you and get mad but then realized that sometimes people just don't have the time to search.
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linsalata28 said:
I know what you mean but I'm strapped for time and have no PC atm and search sucks on the app. If you don't like my post then just don't help or reply. I appreciate anyone who does though. If you look at my # of posts and thanks you'll see I'm not new to this and I was only asking for personal opinion .
Thanks for your reply though. I use to be like you and get mad but then realized that sometimes people just don't have the time to search.
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I realized that right after I posted..my apologies. I'd recommend MIUI my thederekjay. Probably on page 4 by now . Or CM7/9.

estallings15 said:
I just flashed the latest CM7 nightly. Honestly, its really great. I was all ICS for a long time, and was surprised by how blazing fast and super stable it is.
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Do you have a link you could pm me? That would be great. I personally love MIUI and the one for my Evo 3D is almost complete. I can't wait for the update.
invasion2 said:
Sorry about the above rage. I've had a VERY bad day...I'd recommend MIUI
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Its cool no worries.
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invasion2 said:
I realized that right after I posted..my apologies. I'd recommend MIUI my thederekjay. Probably on page 4 by now . Or CM7/9.
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I would really appreciate it if you guys could post links but if not its cool I'll do some searching tomorrow.
thanks for all your replies.
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Thederekjay MIUI: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060415
CM7 nightlies is stickied...and there are about 3 cm9 threads on the 1st and 2nd pages.

invasion2 said:
I realized that right after I posted..my apologies. I'd recommend MIUI my thederekjay. Probably on page 4 by now . Or CM7/9.
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Dude, TDJ put out some great MIUI ROMs, but that was a LONG time ago. Lanternslight and cnote have put out some great MIUI's since then.
Just sayin, hombre.
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estallings15 said:
Dude, TDJ put out some great MIUI ROMs, but that was a LONG time ago. Lanternslight and cnote have put out some great MIUI's since then.
Just sayin, hombre.
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True, but they still run great. But cnote and Lanternslight have the regular updates, right?

I thought tdj's threads were deleted.... Made great roms though. The best rom over all is dark side sense in my opinion. I ALWAYS have a nandroid of it on my sd card
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THEindian said:
I thought tdj's threads were deleted.... Made great roms though. The best rom over all is dark side sense in my opinion. I ALWAYS have a nandroid of it on my sd card
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I saw one of his threads yesterday. They're there
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I get the Keyboard lag issue with CM nightlies, but I don't with BlackIce. That's what I'm currently running. I don't know if they do something to pep it up or if its in my head.
I know you asked for AOSP, but I'd also recommend the StockMOD ROM before they added Beats Audio. You could just run ADW Launcher but you get some of the bonuses of Sense. I know people like to grip about Sense but in my experience after about a week of using both, StockMOD was barely slower and got about an hour less battery life each day. Everything worked though and the Sense camera is much nicer.