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So we have been blessed with android for almost 3 years now. Out of all the different treats Google has cooked up for us which one has been your favorite and why? For me its kind of a hard question to answer straight forward. A few of you may say this question seems irrelevant but I have a feeling some of the answers may surprise you.
Cupcake/doughnut was my first experience and brought us by far the best battery life.
Eclair kind of began to bring some much needed aesthetics to android.
Froyo gave us the glorious flash!!!!
Gingerbread.... still trying to figure out the point of that update, or at least why its a different version name
Honeycomb could have been the ****, but imho was rushed out way to soon.
I really liked eclair on the Droid
wheres the option for windows mobile. haha just kidding
Froyo
I started with Froyo as my first Android OS and I loved it coming from Blackberry. Well since GB came out I figured I would give it a try since i've heard alot of good things about it... I've tried it a couple of times now but in the end I always go back to Froyo (mysense).. I know alot of people say it's heavy and slow but the setup I've got thanks to the Royal team it seems no slower than any GB rom i've tried... I like GB ok, if i do decide to stick with GB as my daily driver it will probably be Royal Ginger I really like what they've done with that one...
I have to say that my favorite variant of Android is 2.3 AOSP. B L A Z I N G fast and really slim. Just gets the job done without all of the fluff and puff that others bring.
iOS is nice. I own an iPod Touch. But for a daily driver i cannot live without my Android.
I switched from blackberry and might switch back if they ever make a powerhouse phone withstand he big form factor....the bold touch that should be out soon might be it....I love android....but I love my bold's keyboard even more
MT4G + Royal MIUI + Faux's BFS LV kernel
Eclair was a HUGE improvement over 1.x. Froyo was a big improvement over Eclair. Gingerbread didn't bring significant improvements over Froyo for me that are worth dumping stable Froyo pure Sense (DHD) for funky Gingerbread Sense ports with problems. I want to be able to record videos. So, I guess it's Froyo for me.
Froyo runs the best on my phone
I like stock Froyo on the Droid Incredible 2
I had installed gingerbread on my myTouch 4G and now I have the G2x, and I must say, I miss gingerbread!
I have faux123's aosp gingerbread, its my daily driver as its fast and bloat free.
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I Really Like Gingerbread but we'll see about Ice Cream Sandwich
gbondoc said:
I Really Like Gingerbread but we'll see about Ice Cream Sandwich
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Froyo was nice, a huge update from eclair, but I like the look of gingerbread.
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cnote74 said:
I have faux123's aosp gingerbread, its my daily driver as its fast and bloat free.
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+ 1 here, CM Nexus Gingerbread by faux123 is a great clean rom.
The title says it all
The dev (AdamG) of THE BEST AOSP Rom (Oxygen) for the HTC Desire is getting an SGS2!
Expect a fast, clean, simple, feature rich and bug-free ROM for the SGS2!
http://twitter.com/#!/adamg_xda
Nice. Seems like alot of devs moving towards the SG2 in favor of the sensation and atrix(lol)
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Yeah, was quite happy to read that! Since he just got a Nexus I didn't think he would be developing for the SGS2. Let's just hope CM get AOSP working (properly) soon...
The Sensation new screen shape is horrible, remembers me of 5800!
At least the SGS2 is a real evolution in all levels (just needed better plastic) and its rooted.
The promises of CM7 and MIUI have pushed many ex-HTC devs to try the SGS2
Where are you Paul Obrien??
Whoop whoop, loved Adam's work on the Desire, can't wait for his development on the SG2....
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Adam G is one of the best rom chef on the Desire forum. It's great news that he is coming to our device
Nice! I love Oxygen on my Desire and looking forward installing it on SGS2
His last tweet: "Royal mail just delivered me an early xmas present http://bit.ly/lKaBZt ".
Sweet.
http://bit.ly/lKaBZt
It shouldnt be too hard to port Oxygen to SGS2, Im suprised there have been no other AOSP ROMs made when its been out for 2 months now.
Love Oxygen for my Desire, and can't wait to see it on my SGS2!
So happy to see so much development going on for the SGS2, looks like Samsung really have it together and understand how to please everyone. I'm sure this phone will be their best selling so far and rightfully so!
I'm not manufacturer loyal and the SGS2 is my first Samsung, but I can't really think of any reason so far why my next phone wouldn't be another Samsung.
there has been 1 attempt by ryanza
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It shouldnt be too hard to port Oxygen to SGS2, Im suprised there have been no other AOSP ROMs made when its been out for 2 months now.
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I hope thats true, i cannot stand touchwiz, currently using miui on my sgs2 but loved using aosp on my htc desire, i wish you the best of luck to get aosp working.
Andy.
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It shouldnt be too hard to port Oxygen to SGS2, Im suprised there have been no other AOSP ROMs made when its been out for 2 months now.
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Hey, good to see you here. Atinm and Codeworkx are the guys who are working hard to get AOSP working at the moment, but they're struggling with some issues. There are several threads here where they give progression updates every now and then. I know things haven't always been good between you and CM developers on the Desire, but I believe Atinm and Codeworkx are happily sharing information with other -serious- developers so it might be worth contacting them. Well, it's great to see you here and I hope you get it working soon!
What's the Oxygen rom guys?
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What's the Oxygen rom guys?
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you have to see desire thread for oxygen rom,
link--
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971904
i have used same on my desire.
but some how its battery life was not good as that of sense roms leedroid or coolexe.
also there are not more ports as we have seen in desire ,
devs have ported all most all present roms to HTC desire that was very cool.
something i am missing out here in SGS2 forum.
but hope for best future of samsung galaxy s2 will have ports like our old desire.
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What's the Oxygen rom guys?
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http://bit.ly/iNkzgV
Oxygen coming to sgs2. Most excellent. I have Oxygen on my Nexus S and love it. Looking forwards to getting the SGS2 when available plus Oxygen Rom.
Adam G is one of the best devs out there : ) not only in the desire section..... lucky galaxy 2 owner
Really great news... I was using Oxygen on my HTC Desire.
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http://bit.ly/iNkzgV
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coooool how did you do that!
i just wanted to say thanks to the folks at TEAMHACKSUNG . ive been running ICS on my galaxy s since yesterday. so far it is very nice . not quite as fast as cm7 but well worth the upgrade. known issues says gps doesnt work but mine is working fine with acurracy to 10 meters. thank you very much guys ! i couldnt post this in the development thread cause im a new poster.
Lol perhaps I should make the switch...
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I'm running beta1 of onecosmic and crew version, and I must agree : ICS on SGS is just plain great, and probably for most users usable as a daily rom, depending on your exact needs.
The look and feeel is really awesome, but many older apps feel clunky now !
Now if only Samsung could get there act together and offer to all SGS owner an official port .....
jc
Wonder how long for ics MIUI
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yeah looking forward to it
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chiefy009 said:
Wonder how long for ics MIUI
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first betas afaik should be at start of december - so quite soon.
give ICS a try! running for a few days in my i9000B with minor issues only. You should have some experiencie with flashing before even consider to try
/me impatianlty waiting for the camera to work :|
ICS is quite astonishing, however its port for SGS is still in early BETA development stage so newbies should wait for the final release as it naturally suffers from some bugs. Devs are doing a great job and hopefully ICS project on SGS will be finished quickly... maybe it's going to be a Christmas present
Yeah, it is quite awesome. I think I can't go back I use gingerbread anymore.
I does run very well who needs samsung
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I does run very well who needs samsung
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...Um, we do? Wouldn't have the phone otherwise!
'Hey guys, I've just ported ICS to the Samsung Galaxy S (that rhymes!), let me know your thoughts!'
'The what? Who's Samsung? :S'
I tried the ICS port for about 3 days, it running pretty smooth for a BETA, but... I came back to CM7.
I don't really see any advantages of the ICS compared to GB. The menus looks a bit fancier than GB, but I can't see any other advantages. Some apps don't work because they are not optimized for ICS, like facebook sync and some other apps. It still lags more than CM7 (for now). And I really like the toggles on the status bar on CM7, I cannot have them on the ICS port.
What do you guys like so much about ICS that you can't have on CM7??
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What do you guys like so much about ICS that you can't have on CM7??
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Full GPU rendering/HW acceleration.
Xbto said:
I tried the ICS port for about 3 days, it running pretty smooth for a BETA, but... I came back to CM7.
I don't really see any advantages of the ICS compared to GB. The menus looks a bit fancier than GB, but I can't see any other advantages. Some apps don't work because they are not optimized for ICS, like facebook sync and some other apps. It still lags more than CM7 (for now). And I really like the toggles on the status bar on CM7, I cannot have them on the ICS port.
What do you guys like so much about ICS that you can't have on CM7??
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ICS is the bigest android makeover so far and to say is not that different than GB is big understatement . I've been using android since Cupcake and ICS is the bigest change so far. And I,m loving it.
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I love ICS as well, but there are many features of touchwiz that I find necessary, like the toggles in the notification bar.
I've been resisting it, but all the good things I keep reading about these ICS ports, I think I might have a go!
lol thats what I am worried about, so I am going to take everyone positive comments in for now.
then when ICS is close to being perfect (like official release version) i will make the switcharoooooo.
I have tried alpha6 version but i was missing FM radio so I switched back to official rom. I am seriously missing smart dialing in ICS. Is it possible to port it to ICS??
Many thanks to devs
Great work
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I have tried alpha6 version but i was missing FM radio so I switched back to official rom. I am seriously missing smart dialing in ICS. Is it possible to port it to ICS??
Many thanks to devs
Great work
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This may sound stupid, but what exactly is smart dialing? :|
I've owned my G2 since it's been out, and I have to say that I'm starting to get bored with it. I have it rooted and I've flashed just about every ROM that's been released for it. Sadly, all the recent ROM development is for ICS, and most of those are in alpha/beta stages. I need something new, fresh and is close to 100% bug-free as possible. I've played with most of the Sense based ROMs, MIUI, and CM7 creations, but my primary DD has been CM7.1 Stable.
Just thought I'd share my thoughts here, see if I'm not alone in this, and what others have done to get out of this rut.
What phone are you thinking of switching to?
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What phone are you thinking of switching to?
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My contract won't expire for about a year, and I'll more than likely be leaving TMO as their service is horrible in my new place. That's an issue that really isn't tolerable at all, but my boredom comes from the decline in ROM development for this kick ass phone. Sure, it's an older phone, but it's still a great phone that other phones can't compete with. Also, I tried ICS and I honestly wasn't all that impressed with it. I still enjoyed running Froyo and love Gingerbread, and wish I had the skills/talent to develop updated/enhanced flavors of Sense/AOSP/MIUI based ROMs. There's many to choose out there, but as I said so many of them are in alpha/beta stages with the prevalent "camera not working" bug.
The purpose of this thread was more so to see what ROMs people were using as their DDs, but based on your question I'd be interested to hear what G2 owners have upgraded their phones to as well. I love my G2 and will be sad to part ways with it when that day comes.
I Recomand HTC one x It's the best phone I've ever .
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I Recomand HTC one x It's the best phone I've ever .
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That's only available for AT&T, correct? Which HTC One phone is coming out for TMO?
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That's only available for AT&T, correct? Which HTC One phone is coming out for TMO?
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Google was my friend, and the S is coming out for TMO and X for AT&T.
I'm getting equally bored. My contract isn't up till next jan but I'm thinking of trading in for an asus padfone. This will also replace my asus transformer. I enjoy the keyboard on the DZ but I just feel there is a drop in gingerbread development and ICS is in need of proper drivers. Maybe things will change when the DHD get official update.
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Google was my friend, and the S is coming out for TMO and X for AT&T.
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Unconfirmed rumors indicate the X may be coming to T-Mobile (in addition to the S), and also coming to Sprint as the "EVO One" of "EVO HD".
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I Recomand HTC one x It's the best phone I've ever .
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The fact that the HTC One S has no micro sd card slot is a def deal breaker for me. I've been using miui as my daily driver. I would love to see a smooth ics miui rom released
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I've been using miui as my daily driver. I would love to see a smooth ics miui rom released
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Regardless of speed, miuiv4 doesn't have the same feel for me as gingerbread based. It just lacks the user friendly experience.
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I've been using gb miui for nearly the time I've had this phone (about 6 months). I've played with the HTC one x and galaxy note and without custom roms I don't think they are any smoother in general interface than what I have (overclock to 1.5 helps). However you are right, I've also tried nearly every rom out there and after a few hours or days running an ics rom I always come back to miui because it's bug free and fast.
Development has slowed lately, probably because they've run out of things to improve, but there are a few ics development teams improving their roms on a weekly basis so in a couple of months I'd hope for a near perfect ics version.
Saying that I'll be getting a galaxy note in a few days because I still want something new and different.
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G2 is life
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I am also extremely interested in finding out which the roms the community is using as their daily rom. Like OP I have flashed most of the roms and now am just looking for the most stable rom.
ILWT all the way!
I first flashed it in February and have come back to it every time I've flashed another ROM. That's more that can be said of any other ROM I've had.
Supersmooth performance, stable and everything works.
In regards to the phone itself; this is the first phone I've ever had where I'm actually reluctant to get another because I don't want to let it go. I bought my DZ about 14 months ago. I'm not bound to any contract so that is not why I keep it around. I'm guessing it must be true love
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I am also extremely interested in finding out which the roms the community is using as their daily rom. Like OP I have flashed most of the roms and now am just looking for the most stable rom.
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I've tried them all, literally, and I keep coming back to CM 7.1.0 Stable with it OC'd at 1200 MHz. I don't believe I've ever experienced an issue, except for the fact that TMO coverage in my area sucks ass.
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I am also extremely interested in finding out which the roms the community is using as their daily rom. Like OP I have flashed most of the roms and now am just looking for the most stable rom.
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Rocking ILWT. It's one of the best CM7 ROM's around, and my personal favourite. I also find myself coming back to it. =]
I just flashed ILWT and I'm impressed with it, although it's not very different than CM7. I do like the Aroma installer, very nice touch.
G lite all the way baby
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I am using Andromadus Audacity b2 as daily driver and it is very smooth after i understood that I should use 4ext superwipe not 3ext...
As the life expectancy of the Evo winds down, Dev work is still going strong! Which brings me to ask, over the course of the life of the Evo (3 Years since release date is getting closer), what are the most epic, legendary ROMS that this phone has enjoyed??
Limit this to the very best of the very best.
For me, there are a few that definitely need to be mentioned.
The Koni Elite Series (I miss Koni around here)
Vaelpak's original ROMs
MikGFoyo and Mik 3G Aamikam
WarmZ Myn - Where did THAT guy go?
MIUI, before ICS/JB was huge. (Did MIUI for the Evo die?)
And now, I'd have to throw Jellybread in there by Kendall. It's right up there
I always enjoyed MikG ROM's whenever I was running a Sense ROM on my OG EVO. For AOSP, Deck's Reloaded
The advice is free....the bandwidth, not so much
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As the life expectancy of the Evo winds down, Dev work is still going strong! Which brings me to ask, over the course of the life of the Evo (3 Years since release date is getting closer), what are the most epic, legendary ROMS that this phone has enjoyed??
Limit this to the very best of the very best.
For me, there are a few that definitely need to be mentioned.
The Koni Elite Series (I miss Koni around here)
Vaelpak's original ROMs
Mik & Myn (Where did THAT guy go, too?) had two of the best.
MIUI, before ICS/JB was huge. (Did MIUI for the Evo die?)
And now, I'd have to thrown Jellybread in there.
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Definitely Aamikam and Tommy Tomatoes roms.Those are the 2 most helpful and knowledgable guys i know and as far as legends go,they're definitely in the top of that league,along with Dropzero,Outerdepth and Gruesomewolf.
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Definitely Aamikam and Tommy Tomatoes roms.Those are the 2 most helpful and knowledgable guys i know and as far as legends go,they're definitely in the top of that league,along with Dropzero,Outerdepth and Gruesomewolf.
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Diablo67 said:
Definitely Aamikam and Tommy Tomatoes roms.Those are the 2 most helpful and knowledgable guys i know and as far as legends go,they're definitely in the top of that league,along with Dropzero,Outerdepth and Gruesomewolf.
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Agreed, totally, but instead of listing Devs, I'm guilty also, lets just list specific ROMs (with Devs' credited, ofc). That's more of what I was looking for, I'll update my OP, too.
I nominate
SavagedZen (Lithid's gotta make the list)
EViO (Calkulin? Come on!)
Synergy (myn's, not the other one)
Deck's 1.3d
Some development efforts spanned multiple versions of android or were very closely related some other way, so you could just say
MikFroyo/MikG
CM6/7
Warm 2.2/Warm Z/Synergy
Deck's 1.3d/Reloaded
..etc
Evervolv anyone?
I suppose Virus needs to be in there somewhere.
And I think Kendall, while honored, might agree it is a *little* early to include JellyBread? Not trying to disrespect, I totally support the project, just trying to put it in the perspective of all-time Evo history.
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Mik3d and Drop's Infamous.
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1. Salvagemod
1. Decks Reloaded
1. Myn Warm 2.1
1. Calkulin Evio
1. konikub elite (that rom alone made 5 of my friends root their phone)
1. Tommy Tomatoes classic
- i had 6 favorites of all time
Ok here is my list of tabs.
1. merge rls 2 - aosp and sense 3.0 together I still run it.
2. Energy sense 3.5 great solid rom only issue I ever had was SMS 160 length
3. Gb miui 2-24 dual signal bars like the old cupcake, call and SMS filters (dnd), extremely customization of looks, oh and most of all the ugly ios style launcher
4. As always evervolv without we most likely would not had ics or jb
5. Express X fully enabled rotation ( launcher and lock screen)
6. Royal sacs liquid rom even though it is froyo was still a very unique launcher ported from acer
7. Last but not least is baked black bean yes it is newish but I love it
Peace,
Love, and
Happiness
Jlmancuso
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Tn shooter
Hands down great port
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Synergy for my first 3.5 sense rom, preludedrew for the first port of ics on my birthday Nov 27, 2011, swagster for my first 1.0 sense rom. Jamieg71 for my fast Reloaded rom. And dropzeroc for my first 3.0 sense. But it has been a great experience for all other roms from everyone else.
Wow has it already been that long since ICS came out?
Swagstr doesn't quite make my list, but I guess a lot of people ran his ROMs for awhile there.
A legendary ROM would actually be "Sprint Lovers" even though its only claim to fame was more colorful statusbar icons - a lot of new flashers used it because it was suggested as a good starter ROM in a rooting guide by the famous xHausx.
Oh and which Synergy are you talking about? myn's? That was sense 2.1 with a couple Sense 3.0 features glommed on (like the ring lockscreen).
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Ok,the best roms go to......
Aamikams Sense 2.1/3.0 Rom
eVoKings Unleashed/Hateslinger Roms
Virus Roms
Outerdepths Express Rom
Konikubs ELITE Rom
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Wow has it already been that long since ICS came out?
Swagstr doesn't quite make my list, but I guess a lot of people ran his ROMs for awhile there.
A legendary ROM would actually be "Sprint Lovers" even though its only claim to fame was more colorful statusbar icons - a lot of new flashers used it because it was suggested as a good starter ROM in a rooting guide by the famous xHausx.
Oh and which Synergy are you talking about? myn's? That was sense 2.1 with a couple Sense 3.0 features glommed on (like the ring lockscreen).
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Myns 2.1 and his 3.5. Swagster was great when you first root your phone and it was on Rom Manager.
Oh yeah, I know what you mean, yeah, myn had nothing to do with the 3.5 version, "Warm two point three" I believe it was called. Someone from "Team Synergy" tossed us a bone with a well-themed port of the same runnymede Sense 3.5 ROM base everyone else used, but the real "Warm two point three" by myn was only for the 3D.
It's a testament to the legendary status of myn that so many people would try out that ROM based on name recognition alone when it was not functionally different from RCMix3D, Energy, Prime XL, and all those other Sense 3.5 ROMs with the same 160 character SMS split issue and no 4G.
Found it-- Warm 2.3 for OG Evo thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1441152
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As the life expectancy of the Evo winds down, Dev work is still going strong! Which brings me to ask, over the course of the life of the Evo (3 Years since release date is getting closer), what are the most epic, legendary ROMS that this phone has enjoyed??
Limit this to the very best of the very best.
For me, there are a few that definitely need to be mentioned.
The Koni Elite Series (I miss Koni around here)
Vaelpak's original ROMs
MikGFoyo and Mik 3G Aamikam
WarmZ Myn - Where did THAT guy go?
MIUI, before ICS/JB was huge. (Did MIUI for the Evo die?)
And now, I'd have to throw Jellybread in there by Kendall. It's right up there
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My list is yours, except subtract miui, throw in cm7, classic tomatoe, and some swag. Both my evos loaned out right now to friends in need, both running underworld under the hood lol.
ca1ne said:
My list is yours, except subtract miui, throw in cm7, classic tomatoe, and some swag. Both my evos loaned out right now to friends in need, both running underworld under the hood lol.
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Ahh, yeah, how could I forget CM7, especially when the nightlies were coming out.
I still miss MIUI on the Evo. I remember when I first saw it,it was just so much better than anything out there and such an amazing rom. It's sad that it never recovered after ICS.
Mik's rooms will always have a spot right up there too.
Still have the last great GB MIUI ROM in my Dev--Host
Most definitely the Classic. Also Decks roms and reloaded of course. Synergy is one of epic ones that blew people away at the time. These are all still amazing roms and definitely legends for the OG EVO along with several others. Myn's roms , virus, mik roms too many to list for this amazing device.