Fastest Rom - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

What's the fastest Rom? Nothing pretty, just works fast and smooth. I don't play games, just call, text, email, and YouTube
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Supamike88 said:
What's the fastest Rom? Nothing pretty, just works fast and smooth. I don't play games, just call, text, email, and YouTube
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I recommend flashing every rom/port and see what you like the most, everyone has different taste and just find one to your liking that's what I did. I been running "SkyTouch" over 3 weeks now, and like that McDonald's slogan goes, "I'm loving it"
"I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.”

CyanogenMod 7 7/29 nightly seems pretty fast to me, but it's all a matter of opinion.
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if you want Sense, go for Android Revolution HD
if you want AOSP, go for Cyanogenmod 7
i would stay away from ICS and JB if i were you

saranhai said:
if you want Sense, go for Android Revolution HD
if you want AOSP, go for Cyanogenmod 7
i would stay away from ICS and JB if i were you
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Lmao! Well said.
“I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.”

Well miui has always been the fastest rom to me then cm7
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saranhai said:
if you want Sense, go for Android Revolution HD
if you want AOSP, go for Cyanogenmod 7
i would stay away from ICS and JB if i were you
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This is dead on. For raw speed, full functionality and few frills (as far as eye candy) go with CM7.2. Flash thederekjay's CM7 kernel, use smartass or darkside governor, and don't worry about a thing.

The only thing I like a little more about miui is that the message app has the pop up feature built in
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Supamike88 said:
The only thing I like a little more about miui is that the message app has the pop up feature built in
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Agreed. However, all the extra MIUI features do bog the ROM down ever-so-slightly. I'm sure someone will argue with me on that, but they'll be wasting their time.
Don't get me wrong. MIUI is AWESOME and tons of fun to customize. OP might want to consider flashing it as well. If you don't like the look, download a different launcher.
Speaking of launchers, I recently purchased FTL launcher. I'd recommend it to anyone. The pro version has some amazing features, like changing android animation speeds (sliders) and applying adw, go and launcher pro themes, and is screaming fast.

estallings15 said:
This is dead on. For raw speed, full functionality and few frills (as far as eye candy) go with CM7.2. Flash thederekjay's CM7 kernel, use smartass or darkside governor, and don't worry about a thing.
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Can you elaborate on "use smartass or darkside governor"? I have CM7.2 and am not familiar with the rest of what you posted here and would like to try this if I can get more speed.
Side thought: Which ROM has the best battery life?

st1n said:
Can you elaborate on "use smartass or darkside governor"? I have CM7.2 and am not familiar with the rest of what you posted here and would like to try this if I can get more speed.
Side thought: Which ROM has the best battery life?
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No rom has the "best" battery life. It varies from phone to phone and has more factors than just the rom itself. Optimal battery life is something you kind of have to toy around with yourself to achieve, but cm7 has given me and many users here some solid battery life. As for governers, look up no-frills CPU control in the play store and adjust your governor from there.
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Synthetic.Nightmare said:
No rom has the "best" battery life. It varies from phone to phone and has more factors than just the rom itself. Optimal battery life is something you kind of have to toy around with yourself to achieve, but cm7 has given me and many users here some solid battery life. As for governers, look up no-frills CPU control in the play store and adjust your governor from there.
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Can't you adjust your governor and speeds in Cynogen settings?
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Supamike88 said:
Can't you adjust your governor and speeds in Cynogen settings?
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Yes it does. If someone is using a ROM other than CM No-Frills is a good choice.
Also, undervolting helps, if your chip can handle it. Use incredicontrol (play store) or oc/uv beater (xda) for that.

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Can't you adjust your governor and speeds in Cynogen settings?
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Yeah but I never used the Cyanogen settings for cpu. I forgot who it was (twas a while ago), but they recommended using another app to do so rather than the settings in CM7... Though I don't know if I even read it right; I wasn't developing at the time so I wasn't as knowledgeable and I haven't used CM7 since ICS became stable enough for me to use.

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Yeah but I never used the Cyanogen settings for cpu. I forgot who it was (twas a while ago), but they recommended using another app to do so rather than the settings in CM7... Though I don't know if I even read it right; I wasn't developing at the time so I wasn't as knowledgeable and I haven't used CM7 since ICS became stable enough for me to use.
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Hey, does your JB kernel support UV?

THEindian said:
Hey, does your JB kernel support UV?
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Ummm... I never compiled a jb kernel lol.
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Synthetic.Nightmare said:
Ummm... I never compiled a jb kernel lol.
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Um, well, the modified kernel thats in the CM10 ports, that IS your kernel isn't it? I could have sworn it was yours lol.

THEindian said:
Um, well, the modified kernel thats in the CM10 ports, that IS your kernel isn't it? I could have sworn it was yours lol.
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Lol. I've only compiled the aospx kernel the way existz has his set to compile (only minor change is mine works for our phone); any of the cm10 ports with the kernel I compiled in them have modifications elsewhere (i.e. ram disk)
This is why I posted what I did in random comments.
All of this misinformation makes it seem like I know a thing or two about kernels haha...when I'm still kinda learning.
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st1n said:
Can you elaborate on "use smartass or darkside governor"? I have CM7.2 and am not familiar with the rest of what you posted here and would like to try this if I can get more speed.
Side thought: Which ROM has the best battery life?
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in cm7 settings or if you use an app like SetCPU you can adjust the governor one of the governors that estallings15 has suggested, just be sure to use Darkside kernel for CM7 if you want to use the Smartass or Darkside governors.
I use the same configuration (cm7 and darkside kernel) and i get great battery life and a nice, fast, stripped down ROM.
I hope it helps.
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Does the Darkside kernel work with the Joy OS rom?
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[Q] Whats better....? CM7 or RoyalGinger 1.6

Over all i want to know comparison please if y'all can help! If you had to choose which one would be better CM7 or RoyalGinger 1.6. I am on CM7 just trying to see if its worth getting RG1.6 help me out here!! Thanks in advance!!!!!
CM7 Nightlies
Thanks I'm really liking it but I heard the RG looks great and saves battery life
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I switched from cm7 to royal Ginger 1.6. Very fast and responsive. Moving from screen to screen is quick. Apps load up fast. Actually i am having trouble using up my battery everyday before charging it at night. Sometimes it will last two days without needing to be charged. Coupled with faux's latest kernel Cfs lv I have not run into any problems so far. Signals are good and strong.
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I moved from CM7 to RG1.6 and can say it runs a bit faster and good on battery.
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chem.manish said:
I moved from CM7 to RG1.6 and can say it runs a bit faster and good on battery.
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Im also giving it a try just out of curiosty.. Reminds me of SuperD by benbuchacher from his G1 days. Just wish it was updated to the latest CM Nightlies theres a lot of new features that I liked in nightly 54
G1-evolve said:
Im also giving it a try just out of curiosty.. Reminds me of SuperD by benbuchacher from his G1 days. Just wish it was updated to the latest CM Nightlies theres a lot of new features that I liked in nightly 52
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How about giving a pure aosp rom a try
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faux123 said:
How about giving a pure aosp rom a try
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For what? Any ideas?
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For what? Any ideas?
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I have to give that a try sometime. faux keeps releasing a new version every day...i am tempted. I have always been fan of pure google experience (and then customize on my own)
use the new CM7 (7.0.2) its very stable.
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If you want pure aosp that is fast as hell without the extra crap... get faux's rom. Its amazing.
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Don't really like questions like this but every rom is different. It is all personal preference. Your phone is different as well it may not like certain roms. You should do try out different roms to see what your phone likes best.
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Running faux's AOSP rom! Fabulous!
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which one is better...
I think what is being asked here is not which one is better, because that answer would be based on opinion; the info sought here is what are the ups and downs of each ROM so he will know which one would be best for him.
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Don't really like questions like this but every rom is different. It is all personal preference. Your phone is different as well it may not like certain roms. You should do try out different roms to see what your phone likes best.
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The only way to know based on your own preference is to try them all. It only takes a few minutes to change roms. I suggest you try them all for a few days each ans go from there.
My personal preference is pure Google. I hate extra stuff. Some people need a little flavor so CM is great. Just try them all and make your own choice
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GB
I would say that is the best thing to do try them all... I'll be honest with ya out of the GB experience i like what Royal Ginger has done lately and the new Cm7 is really really stable good experience.. But i always and i mean always go back to Royal Glacier (mysense) i know i know.. but it's fast as hell in my eyes.... and i have ALL of my phones functions... anyways, to each his own..
Cm7 is og and royalginger is bg meanning baby gangstar
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Just switched to EVO from from nexus s, what next?

I am fine with the rooting and all that, what Rom should I go with sense 3.0 wise if any thanks.
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If you must have sense 3.0, try flashing the evolvedrom r3chargeD... I'm running it and its great, however I am also seeing a lot of people that like the new king ROM.
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Do you want it themed or not?
Synergy and MikG are both Sense 2.1 + 3.0. They are probably a couple of the most popular ROMs, if not the most. Quite personally, I like MikG more than Synergy. Feels faster to me, and I've been a big Mik user since I started with my Evo.
Right now I am running EVOlvedROM r3chargeD, which is based on Mik3D, which is based on the HTC Evo 3D. So it is full Sense 3.0, themed and I love it.
Kernel, I use Lithid's Freedom kernel. Aggressive-Freedom Universal.
Links to my setup provided in my signature.
Partition your SD card to offload some weight from the phone itself: DELETES EVERYTHING OFF OF THE CARD SO BACK IT UP.
As far as themed I like the look of stock sense and i'll check those out. how fast is that kernel and what is the safest oc? (i only have my phone till I get home) thanks
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evolvedrom r3chargeD has been awesome.... Worth a try
CLMT said:
As far as themed I like the look of stock sense and i'll check those out. how fast is that kernel and what is the safest oc? (i only have my phone till I get home) thanks
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Overclock depends on the phone. Some are more picky than others. Personally, I underclock because my phone still flies and it saves me some battery life.
Links:
MikG
Mik3D
Link to kernel in my signature.
Max safe overclock... the highest shown in SetCPU is 1228800. I overclock while charging (only time I ever do) and usually I put it at 1113600
I have an Evo and a Nexus S on Boost and I love the ASOP roms...I have CM7 and love it on my Evo...just my opinion..
Thanks I'm going to try the mike 3d first. It looks like there are a lot of different options for rooting revoked ect. What do you suggest? And I switched from the nexus s so I could have sense not dissing cm I just love sense and htc.
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If your phone has Gingerbread on it, then you will have to root with Revolutionary. Look in development for that
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recommend ROM?

Just finished rooting my Evo 4G for the first time and was wondering about the different ROM available. I haven't rooted since i had my Hero a year ago. I had fresh on my Hero and loved it. However I mainly use launcher pro and wanted to get away from a sense based ROM as I wanted to use full HDMI out and bluetooth HIDS and from last time I heard a bug in sense prevented this..is this still correct?? I was looking toward CM7.
So does anyone have any recommendation to start off with?
Thanks,
-Stephen
Sense does have the broken Bluetooth stacks, yes. So AOSP-wise? Whenever I actually use AOSP, I use MIUI with latest Tiamat kernel. People complain about no 4G and how it looks like an iPhone, but it is so customizable and it has some great devs.
Other than that, I would suggest SalvageMod or Deck's.
MIUI>SalvageMod>Deck's. All with the latest Tiamat.
But I am a Sense guy, so you know.... Full HDMI mirroring works on Sense with latest Freedom and Chopsuey kernel, if you are interested.
And if you need a refresher, check out my guide in my signature. It is written for Sense but it should apply universally.
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thanks, ill look into those. Also what recovery do you recommend CM or RA?
Amon Ra by far
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My recommendation would be Team Nocturnal Xplod 1.2 with Tiamat 3.37, it has bewn very smooth for me and AOSP
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My recommendations :
CM7.1.0
ICS themes from market (both cm7 and adw.)
Set screen density to 200.
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^_^ hope it helps
stamason said:
thanks, ill look into those. Also what recovery do you recommend CM or RA?
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i recommend amon ra, and if you are interested in learning about aosp roms/kernels click on the link in my sig it's a guide that will explain it all to you with download links to all the roms and download zips to all the kernels. and if you need help installing your rom/kernel i put a link there to a guide for that
Thanks everyone,
I'm gonna start w/ CM7 stable. A few quick questions. What would be the best kernel to go with this. Something to increase battery, trickle charging.
Also do i need to flash a radio with this??
I went with Decks. From what I read it is a striped down version of CM7. What are the main differences? whats has been removed?
stamason said:
Thanks everyone,
I'm gonna start w/ CM7 stable. A few quick questions. What would be the best kernel to go with this. Something to increase battery, trickle charging.
Also do i need to flash a radio with this??
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stamason said:
I went with Decks. From what I read it is a striped down version of CM7. What are the main differences? whats has been removed?
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Check the thread in my sig
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Decks is the way to go with aosp roms. I read people praising salvaged zen all the time, but I always have issues when charging my phone on that kernel. I go with.Tiamat. I like the idea of an aosp rom that is still being updated.
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Go with cm7.0 always gave me the best speed and battery life. Use tiamat kernel with supercharger script.
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Jasgfx said:
Go with cm7.0 always gave me the best speed and battery life. Use tiamat kernel with supercharger script.
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were can i find scripts and is the a thread for how they install?
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I Like sinister R9 - its sense based It is very fast has working everything as far as ive seen used this rom for over 3 weeks and as a result even my IT guy that swares by AOSP CM7 switched to it and he also likes it alot .. The one thing i can say i didnt like about Cm7 is the way it links contacts .. sense is amazing at linking contacts
dvsnis said:
I Like sinister R9 - its sense based It is very fast has working everything as far as ive seen used this rom for over 3 weeks and as a result even my IT guy that swares by AOSP CM7 switched to it and he also likes it alot .. The one thing i can say i didnt like about Cm7 is the way it links contacts .. sense is amazing at linking contacts
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yea the contact link is the 1st thing i noticed. Don't like it at all but i can deal with it. Main reason I'm going w/ AOSP is to use bluetooth HIDs, as sense doesn't allow this.
agemyth said:
Decks is the way to go with aosp roms. I read people praising salvaged zen all the time, but I always have issues when charging my phone on that kernel. I go with.Tiamat. I like the idea of an aosp rom that is still being updated.
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Can I just flash the Tiamat on top or will i have to reflash the ROM again and start over?
I just flashed the tiamat kernel. went w/o SBC as i have read that can be risky. Do I need to adjust any settings to help with battery life or does the kernel take care of that? Should Id be using setCPU?
stamason said:
I just flashed the tiamat kernel. went w/o SBC as i have read that can be risky. Do I need to adjust any settings to help with battery life or does the kernel take care of that? Should Id be using setCPU?
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do not use set cpu and if you want to learn about aosp you should click on the link in my sig and you should really look through the Q&A section b/c it will help you out A LOT!!!
I have tried a bunch of roms, asop and sense, I by far like the aosp roms much better. I am currently digging the latest Xplod rom by Team Nocturnal.
Team Blaze Roms with Sense 3.5 you cant go wrong with Blaze
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[Q] Stock vanilla android

Has anyone created a rom that is stock android for this phone? Sense is killing this phone. I need better battery life and faster performance. It's for my wife. All she does is text and Facebook but it's slow as crap. Thanks for the feedback.
Cm7.
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Thanks. Fingers crossed for no bricks!
Sense 3 flies on this phone. If you're rooted - you can as well try it.
What rom did you install that has sense 3? Thanks
buycat said:
What rom did you install that has sense 3? Thanks
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For sense 3.0 try virtuous and for 3.5 try darkside
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Nicgraner said:
Cm7.
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+1 cm7 is very fast, also using the Derek Jays kernel gets you different governors and extra overclocking.
buycat said:
Has anyone created a rom that is stock android for this phone? Sense is killing this phone. I need better battery life and faster performance. It's for my wife. All she does is text and Facebook but it's slow as crap. Thanks for the feedback.
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You know there's a rooted stock gingerbread, also you can flash Derek's kernel with that rooted gingerbread stock Rom..
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wiggumpd1 said:
+1 cm7 is very fast, also using the Derek Jays kernel gets you different governors and extra overclocking.
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I like faux123 GB rom more
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urmothersluvr said:
I like faux123 GB rom more
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S
This X 10
CM7 is really fast! But if you speed and Sense, I would say try a Virtuous ROM, it moves pretty quick for me!
buycat said:
Has anyone created a rom that is stock android for this phone? Sense is killing this phone. I need better battery life and faster performance. It's for my wife. All she does is text and Facebook but it's slow as crap. Thanks for the feedback.
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If you're referring to the stock MySense rom...yes it sucks ass. But Sense in general isn't bad, but highly bloated. I agree with the others on CM7 and Faux's GB rom(Faux's is as close to pure AOSP as you're gonna get), but CM7 is more updated
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Best kernel for Epic 4G ICS?

Any idea? Stability + good battery?
I was using Legendary before, awesome battery life while at 1400Mhz all the time. It was amazing.
Anyone know which kernel I should use now?
YMMV but this was my battery today with the newest samurai kernel tanto
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This being covered time and time again in many different posts over many different threads almost warrants no answer but ill give you one and here it is
try them all flash one per day till you find one that works for you the way you like it everyone uses their phone differently so no matter what you will get different results than i do or the next person that post on this
It's really up to you, try them out and see what you like the best. I've tried all 3 kernels currently out right now and they all work pretty good. The two I usually stick with are shadow kernel and the samurai kernel. Shadow kernel is nice and makes everything feel real snappy. You can overclock to 1400 mHz and the battery life for me is good. The newest shadow, tanto, overclocks to 1500 mHz and works with voodoo control. Haven't gotten the chance to really test battery since it just came out but so far it runs pretty good. Just test both of them out, you can always flash over another kernel.
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Bad question....like what's the best ROM. Every phone and every user is different. You have to try them out to see what works best for you.
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Exactly im still on froyo acs because it works for me
ZenInsight said:
Any idea? Stability + good battery?
I was using Legendary before, awesome battery life while at 1400Mhz all the time. It was amazing.
Anyone know which kernel I should use now?
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I am pretty much a noob here and know better than to ask any "what's the best....." question. I have read it dozens of times that your phone and your use is different. Might as well ask us how you should dress too.
Stock.
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Zeinzu said:
Stock.
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+1
Also close to stock kernels like aprosamurai's. He likes to keep his stockish with a few tweaks and some new fixes. Just my opinion of what works best on my phone. Others like earthbound's are too tweaked for me but his is really fast and bleeding edge. Bbelos's are also good.
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Zeinzu said:
Stock.
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The best kernel is Colonel Sanders.
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xSaint21 said:
Exactly im still on froyo acs because it works for me
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Lmao ohh my...believe me your missing out on so much my man
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Cm7 till cm9 is official
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Best kernel is facepalm. Epic facepalm.
Frostacious said:
Cm7 till cm9 is official
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Those are ROMs not kernels.
austin420 said:
The best kernel is Colonel Sanders.
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That's for CM7 only
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I'm using shadow now and have used apro's too and they both worked great. You need to experiment with them, and you're going to have to tweak to get better battery life. I had several trying to constantly run and none of them were things I use a lot so they had to go. If I wanted super battery life I would have bought a flip phone and not a micromini laptop, and I wouldn't have such a joyful device to tinker with.
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Stock is always going to be the best for wanting nothing but the simplicity.
Put it like this when i buy a car, i put bigger tires on my car for grip, and better handling. But i know i will loose some gas mileage but not alot.
I'll put a turbo and some internals into my engine to gain in power but will loose gas.
But if we can put bigger tires and a bigger turbo but still have the same gas results as stock, Then why not do it?
We all benefit in one area and thats why custom kernels are there for those who want options that stock doesn't provide.
Stock= Base Model
Custom = Fully Loaded
Simple as that. So everyone should try different kernels and then reply not saying oh this is the best. But say IMO i prefer this over that simply because of these reasons. Everyone will want a specific kernel because one may like different things about the different kernels
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Lmao ohh my...believe me your missing out on so much my man
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I know we all are man we gotta get that iPhone
kennyglass123 said:
Those are ROMs not kernels.
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And also cm9 IS official.
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If you want to keep close to stock: aprosamurai's.
If you want to live on the bleeding edge: earthbound's
I prefer stock, though I may give earthbound's another try now that he made some updates

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