I have tried to flash many roms, keep them, and love them. But there is just no ROM that I think does the EVO right like Synergy. Almost a year since its release, too! I remember flashing every one of it's nightly builds.
The EVO's life span is at its end. I feel like because of this well collaborated project, I really have enjoyed and got the most function out of my EVO.
Is anyone else just a die hard fan of this rom?
Thank you DEVs:
DJzager
incubus26JC
Joelz9614
myn
Rafyvitto
siulmagic
WoZZer
Virus
for your amazing ROM.
P.S. EVO 4G LTE, here I come.
i was on rls1 up until a couple of weeks ago, loved it. i'm running express for my daily now, playing with shooter and kornerz. all are working good and i like them all.
the evo still has a good bit of life left.. the devs keep bringing new features to the table. i'll be using it till sprint gets something i like, my contract goes for another 3 months..
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I was a die hard fan at one time and still consider that ROM sort of a high water mark for Sense ROMs for the Evo. (As opposed to quick and dirty ports from other phones, this one showed some real skill and care on the part of the developers.) It piggybacked on the great community of fans that had grown around myn's previous ROMs, so the abundance of themes and mods was a real selling point as well.
But there's no denying it was based on an older stock ROM and older kernel, had CIQ baked in, offered a confusing experimental GodMode option (that turned out to be a developmental dead end and was incompatible with any mods or kernels not explicitly designed for it), and is no longer being updated with key performance enhancements that Sprint, HTC, and the wider XDA community have discovered or developed for almost a year now.
MikG is the logical successor to Synergy. Not that there aren't even newer and more exciting ROMs out there, but MikG really is the closest thing we have to Synergy that is actively maintained.
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Gotta go with mikG also. Even while synergy was still being developed I preferred mikg, miks roms are always great.
i was definitely hyped up for the release, but could never become a die hard fan. tried, and it was very good, just couldn't love it. I've been on Tommy Tomatoes since it was released and find it significantly more stable and useful. I believe Tommy is a Myn disciple, so you would be as happy there
I will admit that I never ran the Synergy Roms but I've flashed a lot of Roms since rooting my phone in Sept of 2011 and Tommy is doing incredible stuff.
His Roms are great! Super stable with a ton of tweaks. Supermagic is probably going to blow everyone's mind!
Just my opinion of course. Although all of the Developers keep the Evo 4G interesting. The amount of roms that are ported over to the Evo are unreal. Lots of variety.
I might give supermagic a try.... Been on mikg forever because I always come back
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I tried synergy mikgg3.11 and supermagoc classic evolution. I keep going back to swagged out stock n with lionfish
what a great rom it is, it was my first custom rom that i used and ended up using it for a few months and consider going back to it regularly when i get fed up with dealing with ics roms that are not stable enough for me to use on a daily basis and i kinda miss having htc sense now that im almost addicted to cm builds
Synergy was my first custom. But too many bugs for me. I did move on to Energy, but once ICS has been ported, there's no looking back.
CM9 all the way.
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Just wanted to say hi................traded my Epic for an Evo today, seems like better days should be ahead now
A wise decision you have made, my friend. Wise indeed.
thats what I am hoping for. Epic had some really nice features but in the end the lack of OTA support and me never once sliding out the keyboard to use we enough to lure me to the Evo
Welcome back
cool.. I hope you find happiness and fulfillment with the evo.
Funny... Me and the wife went from blackberry’s to EVO at the same time, and it took her about 2 weeks and she was done with the EVO. She wanted a new phone or a divorce. So down to the store we went and she walked away with the Epic. I'll say this much now that I've completely rooted, Rom'ed, battery tweaked, and spend about a month learning everything about the phone, it's the s*i*.... So out of the box the epic might win, but in the long haul I'm glad i stuck with the evo... The divorce, however it did cross my mind...
there will always be other new phones, they are much cheaper than divorces
but sometimes..
all you have is...
cut your losses and move on...
about the phone...
yes.. out of the box..
the epic is nice... same box
evo.. you can change that box.. with so many updates and ROMs and Sense 2.x
so what are the popular Roms here?
Im on Myn's Warm and its pretty good so far............hows CMod, is it fully functional yet???
I've been on MIUI since November. I tried going back to sense about a month ago, stuck with it for all of 10 minutes and restored my MIUI nandroid. MIUI is the perfect marriage of form and function.
are there any bugs with it. I loved CMod on my Epic but the Camera didnt work, nor did 4g or http streaming among others
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are there any bugs with it. I loved CMod on my Epic but the Camera didnt work, nor did 4g or http streaming among others
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Well pretty much all custom ROMs have bugs and MIUI is no exception. Thankfully, I have yet to encounter any with the build that I am on (1.1.28). I know some people have had [minor] gps issues, and some camera issues but I haven't experienced any. Since flashing this build I have not had one reboot, FC or any type of hiccup. It runs beautifully.
4G doesn't work (yet) but that's not really a bug. They are saying we will have it in the coming weeks.
have you compared it to Cmod?
There is cyanogenmod 7 wich is android gingerbread. Works very good i have used it and there is already a beta build of cyanogenmod 7 with wimax but like i said its in the beta process not yet ready to become stable but it works. I really like mikfroyos rom v4.5 its the fastest rom i ever used thats including myns and freshs rom and i like the theme it comes already installed. So if you wants sense give mikfroyo a try and if you want aosp go with cyanogenmod 7 nightlys very stable very fast and it has wimax hope this helps
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have you compared it to Cmod?
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Yeah, I tried CM but it's way too bland for me. MIUI is more stable, performs at least as fast, and looks a heck of a lot better. In fact, I get higher quad scores on MIUI than I did on CM.
Well it seems not a lot is going on in the development thread anymore. Not much really new. It'll prob pick up after GB officially releases or another HC SDK is released with more features.
The odd thing is that I was thinking the exact opposite. A while back I was on warm rls2 and not finding the desire to flash. Now im flashing 3 times a week. Between the cm7 gingerbread combo, miuiu, elite, warm, ava, milk froyo, the desire hd rims, liquid... its a party.
I would have to agree with the above post... Despite the fact that I stick to CM7, when I browse the development section there are numerous updated roms. I was actually taking back by the comment that you feel there is a "standstill". If you only stick to sense then there not be much going on, But in the ASOP world there is plenty going on.
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I would have to agree with the above post... Despite the fact that I stick to CM7, when I browse the development section there are numerous updated roms. I was actually taking back by the comment that you feel there is a "standstill". If you only stick to sense then there not be much going on, But in the ASOP world there is plenty going on.
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Agreed. I flash almost every nightly on cm7. Development is still happening.
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Well it seems not a lot is going on in the development thread anymore. Not much really new. It'll prob pick up after GB officially releases or another HC SDK is released with more features.
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as others have stated, CM7 GB nightlies, new MIUI, Wimax on CM, Full HDMI out port, JsChiSurf porting all kinds of stuff from CM into Sense, and the list could go on forever...
The sense based ROMs won't be updated until the next OTA/leak from HTC, however, there is a lot going on for the EVO.
I just got WiMax so I haven't tried out CM7 or the AOSP WiMax beta, once they are stable, I might make the AOSP jump permanetly.
Very exciting times
if this is a standstill....how would you describe the epic development ???
Non existant
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this thread is beyond rediculous
I agree with the above post.
Yeah, what exactly was this thread supposed to accomplish??
it has to do with acceleration, the dev thread has been accelerating so fast that it has reached a peak, there is tons of new so it's not that it's stale but rather theres not even more new stuff.
months ago there was a new thing every day, then there were 2, then 3, now theres still 3 new everyday but no 4 new or 5 new
Between the development standstill and the Gingerbread setback, it's amazing people are still hanging around here.
I would not say stand still, things are pretty much refined nowadays. as for CM7 we are waiting for an offical update for the nexus one then that will be become stable and have good drivers written for it.
Standstill no,
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Between the development standstill and the Gingerbread setback, it's amazing people are still hanging around here.
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where else would we go except to the nexus s. only phone with 2.3,
I will welcome the day when development is actually at a standstill, because most likely it'll be when the evo is close enough to being "done"
I love tweaking my phone as much as the next nightly romfiend, but its nice when i can just use my device. I had a great time when i was using CM6.1.2 w/ wimax since that implementation was only on one build and so i couldn't flash nightlies. I am now having the same great time on CM7 wimax.
Its nice to just use my phone, and people can call me now and i won't be in recovery when they do, WOOT!
I too wish recovery had a dailer, I might actually use it as a phone instead of a small tablet with unlimited internet
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I too wish recovery had a dailer, I might actually use it as a phone instead of a small tablet with unlimited internet
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How significant are the nightly updates on CM? I just got a new replacement in today and I might consider trying it out (currently on Fresh on my current phone).
Call me crazy, but I feel a lot of the CM updates are stuff we've had with Sense a while back.
the nightlys you don't have to constantly update when a new one comes out, grab the newest and when you feel the urge to update then go for it, its mostly perfected
after summer i think development will slow down alot on the evo as it will be well over a year old. most including me will probably be on the next android device sprint offers.
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after summer i think development will slow down alot on the evo as it will be well over a year old. most including me will probably be on the next android device sprint offers.
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If sprint has a next device... :O
I probably will too.
Just wanted to introduce myself. I just traded my white EVO for the EPIC, and I am loving this phone already. The keyboard is what I was really missing. I rooted the crap out of my EVO, and switched ROMs constantly. I saw that there weren't as many ROM's for the EPIC, but I can't wait to get going on this phone.
Welcome to the darkside LOL! Yeah, there are not as many roms here as there are for HTC, but the developers here are very good, and I'm sure you won't be disappointed. Hope you enjoy your Epic. I definitely love mine!
Welcome & good choice ;-) I love the epic's hardware over evo anyday. yes there currently aren't as many custom roms as there are for the evo but that's also somewhat because we only got froyo officially a month ago. The rate at which our rom choices for epic are increasing as of late is pretty impressive. Plus cm7 is now comming along nicely.
If you like your phone already just wait until you get one of the new custom roms without carrier IQ in it on EXT4. IE:Bonsai or ACS Frozen and derivatives, those just fly.
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I know this question has been asked before but I have to ask again. It's been a while since I've been here, I had moved on to the the Evo but I had a accident at work and I'm waiting for Assurion to send me my replacement. So I had to dust off my old Hero in the meantime, but I'm having trouble finding a stable, daily Froyo ROM. All of the ones I have found seem to have something wrong. i.e. Camera, Wifi, GPS... Can anybody suggest a good Froyo ROM with everything working. I know Froyo had to get ported over because the Hero never got the update but it's been over a year since Froyo. I figured by now somebody would have cooked up something. Hopefully a Sense based ROM (never cared for ASOP) but I'll take any functional Froyo ROM at this moment. I'm pulling my hair out over here. After coming back from the Evo & Epic it's hard to believe that the Hero was once one the best Android phone around. Technology moves soooooo fast!
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I know this question has been asked before but I have to ask again. It's been a while since I've been here, I had moved on to the the Evo but I had a accident at work and I'm waiting for Assurion to send me my replacement. So I had to dust off my old Hero in the meantime, but I'm having trouble finding a stable, daily Froyo ROM. All of the ones I have found seem to have something wrong. i.e. Camera, Wifi, GPS... Can anybody suggest a good Froyo ROM with everything working. I know Froyo had to get ported over because the Hero never got the update but it's been over a year since Froyo. I figured by now somebody would have cooked up something. Hopefully a Sense based ROM (never cared for ASOP) but I'll take any functional Froyo ROM at this moment. I'm pulling my hair out over here. After coming back from the Evo & Epic it's hard to believe that the Hero was once one the best Android phone around. Technology moves soooooo fast!
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i dont think its too hard to believe that the hero is one of the best android phones around.. yes she is a little dated, and she has some problems (99 problems but a dead hero aint one) but she is still rock solid.. and we have gingerbread now (thanks to some of the greatest devs around), so thats probably why you dont see a lot about froyo, froyo was cool for all of a couple months and then we moved on to the gingery goodness.. there are some sense based roms out there, both froyo and gingerbread, but i think they all have their weaknesses due to HTC not giving out the proprietary drivers for things like camera and what not.. so if you are wanting something that is totally stable, it will more than likely have to be aosp (but if you only have the hero for a couple days who cares).. but there are a few stable gingerbread aosp roms out there, i would check those out, i post no links because they are all on the forefront of our development section.. good luck with your hero though.. just treat her with the respect she deserves..
AOSP's rom was pretty stable but I found it hard on the battery CyanogenMod 6.1 or whatever it was had everything working too and the battery was much better for me. The only issue with CM was a random reboot every once in a while which was usually solved by changing the vm heap size to something larger.
Thanks fellas! Don't get me wrong, I loved my Hero. It was my first Android phone and started my love affair with Android. I've always loved HTC. But coming back after having the Evo and Epic for almost a year, it feels so inadequate. Gonna give a Ginger ROM a try and see if I get any better performance. Thanks again.
My favorite pre-gingerbread roms are zenexp 0.9.7 and aosp 0.9.9.2. Both of them are fast and stable. Zenexp is 2.1 though but is just as good if not better than any rom I've used.
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Like many others, I jumped on the train to try out all these ICS roms. I have the Nexus S 4G, so I am more limited, but still.
So far, they are really impressive, all being built from source. Lots of people are saying they are super smooth and responsive.
So I tired out AOSP's build, Kwiboo's, Drew Garens, and some of the Kangs. I used Franco's kernel, Matrix, and Glados to see what all worked best.
Results? Nothing compares to CM7 Gingerbread. When people say the ICS roms are quick, they aren't compared to CM7. Clicking on apps open instantly in CM7, settings menu is snappy, and moving between screens has extremely little lag. The ICS roms all had issues of randomly slowing down, but thats almost no existent in CM7. The worst part was the battery life. I don't know if I wasn't doing things correctly, but with minimal use I was draining 8-9% per hour. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27361088/batterylife.png
So I went back to CM7 to see if it was just my phone, or my kernel. I put on Matrix 11.5, and got all set up. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27361088/batterylife2.png
In this picture I was at 76% battery life as well. As you can see, thats MUCH better life.
My question is, has anyone else experienced what I have? I COMPLETELY understand that the ROM's are not perfect, I am not worried about that. I just hear all these AMAZING things about these ICS roms, but I personally don't see it. Just looking for some discussion here, and some other peoples comparisons between Gingerbread and ICS. Thanks to all the devs out there, you guys are great!
Its a difference between a rom built from source without components from a actually device ota. The performance of ICS roms will take big turn for the better when devs have an official nexus s ota to work with.
If you want the quickest gingerbread experience try Pete's GPA19 bugless beast out.
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Perhaps most of us when saying it's quick and responsive, are not trying to make a battle over gingerbread roms......
Perhaps when the term alpha is used and the ROM runs really well it gets us excited for what's down the pipe line.
When I tell people the ics runs smooth on my nexus I'm commenting on how well it runs from the little amount of time that has been spent so far with out pre supplied drivers and kernel. And is described from the Dev as being buggy
Not everything is commented on being nice is not to be precieved as something else is bad.
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Of all the ICS roms I've tried, I give the best performance to aosp. Having said that, they're all still not as fast as GB (Oxygen, my preferred). Played with ICS for a few days, did a nandroid backup and went back to Oxygen.
I understand that the devs are working with what they've got but I'm not satisfied with the current iterations as a daily driver. Battery life is not the best, slow transistions sometimes...performance generally is not what I like. It was fun to play with though.
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It is obvious that GB is still faster, it is based on the OTA and it is here for like one year, devs had time to make it mature. ICS is on the beginning, and imo is running very well at this moment. I have installed CM9 alpha 11 with franco´s kernel and it is quite fast and with the same battery life than I was having with GB.
My ICS is running as fast as I need it for the most part.
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Please don't be stupid.
The Gingerbread ROM you are talking about are 1 year old and have been optimized by many ways!
ICS is just a few weeks old and as only be officially ported to one device (Galaxy Nexus)
Do you remember one year ago, the crappy gingerbread ROM we had?
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Please don't be stupid.
The Gingerbread ROM you are talking about are 1 year old and have been optimized by many ways!
ICS is just a few weeks old and as only be officially ported to one device (Galaxy Nexus)
Do you remember one year ago, the crappy gingerbread ROM we had?
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I understand it has been optimized, I am not saying it hasn't.
My point is that people are saying the ICS ROMS are "super fast" "no issues!." I would just like to find out how relative Gingerbread is to ICS. When I say that ICS is fast, I would compare it to Gingerbread fast, which is not the same at all.
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Its a difference between a rom built from source without components from a actually device ota. The performance of ICS roms will take big turn for the better when devs have an official nexus s ota to work with.
If you want the quickest gingerbread experience try Pete's GPA19 bugless beast out.
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Alright, I guess I don't understand the actual component side of it. I thought that source was decently close to what a final build would be like (besides drivers and stability of course).
Thanks for the suggestion.
When we get the OTA for the nexus s 3g & 4g and Devs get the actual kernel and drivers etc designed for our device we will see a major difference.
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I understand it has been optimized, I am not saying it hasn't.
My point is that people are saying the ICS ROMS are "super fast" "no issues!." I would just like to find out how relative Gingerbread is to ICS. When I say that ICS is fast, I would compare it to Gingerbread fast, which is not the same at all.
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then dont use other people may like the progress so far and comment on it threads related to the ROM. Not creating a thread to say other people are wrong comes off ignorant. Do you have a lot of participation trophies at home?
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then dont use other people may like the progress so far and comment on it threads related to the ROM. Not creating a thread to say other people are wrong comes off ignorant. Do you have a lot of participation trophies at home?
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I never said anyone was wrong. Don't be so quick to be a douch.
I agree that there has been a lot of progress, but my point is - there is no relativity when people talk. They say its fast! What does that even mean? I'm not being ignorant, I am just wondering what other people say fast is.
For me it was the big turn it took from the SDK port. I tried that and it was slow and laggish and some components didn't work at all.
Then came along the first ICS version built from AOSP and that was already a massive performance increase compared to what we had.
After a few weeks, I call the latest releases 'fast', looking at the iterations it has made. ICS is running smooth-ish here now; no lags while flicking screen, minor lag when open some dialogs.
Lastly I think it helps the devs out a lot if they get feedback on whichever optimization script they put on their release to make it go a bit faster.
Greetz
I own my Nexus since four days now and I think that ICS ins a little bit faster than 3.3.6 Gingerbread. But I used only the Stock and prefer ICS now.
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I never said anyone was wrong. Don't be so quick to be a douch.
I agree that there has been a lot of progress, but my point is - there is no relativity when people talk. They say its fast! What does that even mean? I'm not being ignorant, I am just wondering what other people say fast is.
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oh so your just saying people that like the ICS roms and think they are fast are dead wrong. When I ran I tried it was fast and good battery life, I went back to gb cause of 4g and app compatablity. But your not being ignorant im sorry your telling me my opinion is wrong. Thank you for informing me what "my" opinions are
You must be new to this scene and hopefully you can learn from this. Not every comment on something that is positive is not meant to bash another thing. I can not even understand why if your not telling people they are wrong for forming their own opinion different from yours, that a thread needed to be created. Which even the topic title is flame bait
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oh so your just saying people that like the ICS roms and think they are fast are dead wrong. When I ran I tried it was fast and good battery life, I went back to gb cause of 4g and app compatablity. But your not being ignorant im sorry your telling me my opinion is wrong. Thank you for informing me what "my" opinions are
You must be new to this scene and hopefully you can learn from this. Not every comment on something that is positive is not meant to bash another thing. I can not even understand why if your not telling people they are wrong for forming their own opinion different from yours, that a thread needed to be created. Which even the topic title is flame bait
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Dude chill out.
I never said anyone is wrong. All I said is that the term fast is relative. I'm not here to bash anyone, or anything. I am just wondering what other peoples experiences are. Stop flaming because you have a different opinion. That's the whole point of this, to get other peoples OPINIONS. Relax.
Who's still disappointed by the keyboard? The response time is near perfect now. I just wish Google would implement some more settings and features, like custom auto corrections.
I used the stock keyboard for an entire day and it almost killed me, I hate it. Swiftkey X is miles ahead, I cant type in my phone without it.
You know what also bothers me? The fact that the letter "i" is not automatically capitalized in the middle of the sentence. For example, "Have i shown you my picture?" Why is the "i" not capped, Google?
Argh.
Yes, these ICS builds are no where close to the smoothness, snappiness, and fluidity of Gingerbread ROMs. I was hoping that when the official Ice Cream Sandwich OTA for the Nexus S was released this problem would be remedied. These AOSP builds have not been properly optimized and such to run perfectly on our devices, but for Alphas they are decent. Sadly not my cup of decent. They are annoyingly less quick than Gingerbread builds currently are.