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Review of ROMS -UPDATED 2/3/11

This thread will focus on the current roms, and if theres a new version, it'll be back up on here in a week or less.
I encourage other people to make REVIEW's as well to keep the new users updated on the new roms.
Try to do these reviews on ROMS that haven't had reviews done on them yet.
Note: These are personal opinions.
NOTE: as another person mentioned below, most of these ROMS do support OVER CLOCK kernels, but make sure by asking the devs or other people using the same ROM.
Disclaimer: By voicing my opinions here, i am not saying 1 dev is greater or better than the other, i'm simply stating my personal opinions and personal experiences.
What does a BETA- (ROM NAME) mean? It means that its a quick review, and not a fully detailed, when the beta is removed, it means the rom has been used for atleast a week, which gives me time to examine its uses etc.
Nero v5 (KA5)
Developers: Team Whiskey (TW)
Nero, is said to be the "best rom for the vibrant" by many users, and this reason is because of the reputation Team Whiskey has, their roms are ALWAYS stable, have incredible speed. Nero comes with VOODOO, the latest one available, and currently has KA5, which i'm guessing is because KA5 is currently loved by many people and serves good reception and speeds, where on KA6 and KA7, people compain about speeds, or TW may be working on their official froyo rom right after the source is released by Samsung.
Nero has the beauty, speeds, and anything else you can say.
If you have problems with lag on Nero, trust me it is NOT the rom, it may be that you do not have VOODOO (lagfix) enabled, or that you flashed it in a incorrect way.
Nero is based on unofficial 2.2 till now.
Nero comes with a sleek ginger-bread looking notification bar.
A little problem very few people have is that Team Whiskey is very "un-user-feedback" meaning they don't usually respond to comments, or questions on their threads unless if its absolutely necessary. Maybe because their more busy? I do not know.
Battery life is good, but i've had to recondition everytime. experiences will be differ.
Nero is recommended to everyone and anyone.
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AXURA Vibrant Edition 2.2.7.1 [KA5] Beauty
Developer: Master and his website is Devs4Android
Axura is EXTREMELY stable, and i admire this rom VERY much, knowing that Master, alone made this entire ROM. The developer Master is a common community member of XDA, and does answer questions, and replies to comments etc. Axura is also on KA5, and the latest VooDoo, and based off of a 2.2 unofficial ROM. Unlike most 2.2 based ROMS out right now, Axura has a sleek silver-grey theme, which makes it one of the most unique roms out. The best thing about Axura is not the beauty, or the speeds, and not even the stability. It is the Battery, even without a recondition, you will get around 20+ hours of battery life on this ROM, but it will all come into how much or how less you use your phone and how heavy you use it. If your need Battery, Stability, Speed, and Dev-to-User feedback then get this ROM NOW.
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Bionix-V (Official OTA 2.2)
Developer: Team Whiskey
Bionix is the latest, and greatest ROM out, as of 1/26/11.
This is the rom i've used for a few weeks and can i just say that this is magical. The battery life is EXCELLENT!(make sure to flash at when your at 100% battery for maximum effects, or recondition after flashing) I can easily last over 20 hours with moderate use and no recondition.
The Design of the theme is, as always, Gingerbread. It has a sleek black notification bar, and all the designs are black as well.
The speed of the rom is incredible, and i cannot tell if its voodoo doing this or the rom itself, because when i tested thsi without voodoo. i felt the same effects, it has absolutely no lag.
When you flash the rom, Voodoo is auto-enabled, so if your coming from a non-voodoo rom-enabled, it will take time to reboot.
It runs a KA7 Modem, which is good as any other modem for me.
IF you want the most out of your Vibrant, then THIS ROM IS A MUST TRY.
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Br1ck'd's **no bloat** Froyo
Developer: Einherjar
This is a rom that you'd like if you were more of a "STOCK" person.
This rom is TOTAL stock, but with all the crap (bloatware removed)
It has a KA7 modem, which is NOT the official that came with stock, but KA7 is better than KA6 according to many users.
If your a TouchWiz fan, this has most of that, gone, i'm guessing mostly because TouchWiz is un-used or it created more lag.
A thing with this rom is that the LIVE WALLPAPERS are removed my guess is to bog down the lag, but i'm not 100% sure.
The battery usage on this rom is about 15-20 hours on moderate, but it may vary.
This has a STOCK look, meaning the black notification you usually see, is not here.
It has a grey-ish-black-ish notification bar, like any stock.
The GPS on this thing is incredible, i have not messed with any of my hardware, and trust me on some of the best roms out there (no names) my gps wouldn't work... but this rom right after flashing gave me 7 sattelites in less than 5 seconds and got a lock.
This rom has VOODOO backing it up with its speed. This rom comes with an amazing music player "miui music player" which is NOT created by the devs of this rom but it is the stock music player and just looks BEAUTIFUL.
I love the music player so much, i've already stolen the .apk and put it on my other roms
A Problem i've faced during this ROM is that even though its extremely stable, and even runs voodoo, i did experience lag, not a whole lot like the official froyo, but a little bit, enough lag to make me go back to my old rom.
I'm not sure if its just me, or its for everyone.
besides the lag for me, this rom is wonderful, and perfect for anyone looking anywhere close to a STOCK rom.
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M - Flagship V4 BETA
Developers: Einherjar
Did you like Flagship V4? yes? well, you'll just think this beta is x5 better.
I don't know how Jellette makes these stable, while speedy roms, but whatever he does, it keeps improving every rom update!
The Battery Life WITHOUT recondition: 16 hours with light-moderate use.
The Battery Life WITH recondition: 20+ hours with light-moderate use.
The notification bar has been... redone.
As usual the notification bar is transparent and takes the place of any app your using, so it does change colors.
the pull-down is now, which i love, a sleek white-ish-grey-ish pulldown.
The icons, have also been re-done! They look beautiful, their kind of "oval" looking and fit with the whole rom.
It comes with an amazing music player, which includes...
Sound Hound music listener/finder, radio, your own playlists etc, and your videos, and youtube videos. It's a whole media package in 1 app.
The DOCK, i love it! The left side is a phone (we'll talk about this in the next sentence ) and the right is a messaging icon, in the middle is a ... hut? looking icon which you press for your app drawer.
The Dialer or phone call app on this Beta, is a transparent one. You can see all the numbers clearly, and you can see your background as well.
The icons on top are grey-white, and while your charging the battery goes green and starts going up.
The Beta comes with the newly found KB1, which has been giving me pretty good reception.
This rom is recommended to everyone, and anyone who has a vibrant.
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Thanks xriderx66 very nice and accurate writeup in total agreement with you.
The only thing I would add is the Team-Whiskey have some overclock roms you can play/flash over the stock nero should the user view their phone like a corvette in need of speed modification

Thank you for this write up,im sure everyone will love this.
It takes a very talented and patient person to write up such well done and accurate reviews.
Thanks again for your dedication and time
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App. Bionics V. by Team Whiskey

What are some of the other popular ROMs out there? I always here about Nero and Axura but seldom others. Is there a ROM that is basically stock Android for this phone?

Terrier Hockey said:
What are some of the other popular ROMs out there? I always here about Nero and Axura but seldom others. Is there a ROM that is basically stock Android for this phone?
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Team Whiskey makes a variety of other ROMs that may fit that bill more closely than their Nero or Bionix projects.
Why someone would want to flash a nearly stock Android ROM is beyond me.
Just look around in the Development section.
Here's an example of one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870480

Sorry guys. I was hoping to write a few more, and I will soon as I get back from my 7 mile cross country race so yeah ill add more, added axura and veto because their the best and most popular.
Bionix v commingle soon.

these roms are very stable ?? so does every official froyo and about battery life on TW for my phone was worst than stock ka7 just FYI .

bartek25 said:
these roms are very stable ?? so does every official froyo and about battery life on TW for my phone was worst than stock ka7 just FYI .
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note i said that battery life varies with how much or how less use.

Bionix v is the best vibrant ROm till date IMHO. Great battery life,very accurate GPS, thats all we need for our vibrants rite..

i'd like to see a review of one of heathen's roms. i've been interested, but lazy... and not wanting to flash anything until ninjabread is available.

funeralthirst said:
i'd like to see a review of one of heathen's roms. i've been interested, but lazy... and not wanting to flash anything until ninjabread is available.
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I'm sorry, i review ROMS that i've personally used and had experience with it for atleast a week, reviewing a rom right after flashing will give it a very in-accurate review and i don't want that.
but as i said, if you use a rom, and would like to review a ROM, just PM me your Review and i'll put yours in the first post along with Credits.
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bionixv review has been added.
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new review added: Br1cK'd's **No Bloat** Froyo - Einherjar Dev Team

This is the answer i was looking for. Glad I found this post. It's been a while since i flashed my phone with a new rom (Nero v3) and with the official stuff out from tmobile/samsung I wanted to know what was out there now. This post should be stickied. Thanks a bunch!
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you talk about reconditioning the battery. can you post a link to whatever post you use on how to do that exactly? Thanks!

Op, I just tried flagship v3. Trust me, you need to also. Great theme and very fast (1550+). I do wish voodoo was enabled by default.

dandab said:
This is the answer i was looking for. Glad I found this post. It's been a while since i flashed my phone with a new rom (Nero v3) and with the official stuff out from tmobile/samsung I wanted to know what was out there now. This post should be stickied. Thanks a bunch!
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you talk about reconditioning the battery. can you post a link to whatever post you use on how to do that exactly? Thanks!
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Charge phone till 100%
Use all phones battery 1 or less %
Recharge to 100%
Keep plugged in at 100
Now go into recovery
Select advanced
Now click wipe battery stats
@S1 ill try it later tomorrow

screenshot or video??
How about a screenshot for each ROM or a video link so we get the feel for it before committing to it? That would be nice.

U make me really want to try the bionix

droTurk said:
How about a screenshot for each ROM or a video link so we get the feel for it before committing to it? That would be nice.
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Ill see into that

I can't seem to find nero v5 anymore. whenever i click the links on the nerov5 thread only bionix v shows up. did they change the name? Did they just scrap nero 5?

s15274n said:
Op, I just tried flagship v3. Trust me, you need to also. Great theme and very fast (1550+). I do wish voodoo was enabled by default.
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I've been curious about jelette's toms myself. I guess im lazy to. I've got my phone the way I want it and everything is running good.
Powered by Axura with a dash of Voodoo

[POLL] Do you think ics is a failure??

I just want to share my opinion based on some reading.
Till now Samsung was not able to release bug free ICS ROM, despite the 6 months of working.
Also, I am noticing several complaints in both forums the nexus s and galaxy nexus.
ICS has proved to be slow compared to gingerbread, also it seems to be more battery consuming.
For now I am sticking to GB, maybe we should wait till Google releases the 4.0.4 update, even though I am not so positive.
Google its your job now.
So what do you think??

Dude!! HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING UNDER ROCKS?
4.0.4 has already been released and ics Is contrary to all the points you brought out
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Samsung's ICS is bug free, but it is slower than GB and consumes more battery (as you said)... That is why I am using GB...

Neo said:
Dude under which rocks have you been living?
4.0.4 has already been released and ics Is contrary to all the points you brought out
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4.0.4 was released only for nexus s and galaxy nexus, still there are plenty of bugs to be cured. BTW, have you read about connection problems in galaxy nexus due to the 4.0.4 update.

no, ICS is not a failure.
try it yourself and you'll get what i mean.
You are judging and making conclusions based on the complaints by the minorities, and that just doesn't make sense to me...
Look at the majority who are willing to try out the awesomeness of ICS custom roms, look at the number of views of ICS rom threads in this forum, look at the positive, encouraging comments people write to the devs. All these combined should carry some gravitas, right?
Oh yeah, btw, 4.0.4 is already out, take a look at cyanogen 9. It's just that Samsung is not currently implementing this update into the stock roms.

Unfortunately Samsung implementation of ics is an epic failure. Slow and horrible. But that's Samsung and its pretty early days (3months!?)
Plenty of custom ics roms (cm9 specifically) that prove what ics can do when freed from touchwiz Samsung tweaked rubbish.
4.04 been out a while. Try a custom rom you won't go back
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no, ICS is not a failure.
try it yourself and you'll get what i mean.
You are judging and making conclusions based on the complaints by the minorities, and that just doesn't make sense to me...
Look at the majority who are willing to try out the awesomeness of ICS custom roms, look at the number of views of ICS rom threads in this forum, look at the positive, encouraging comments people write to the devs. All these combined should carry some gravitas, right?
Oh yeah, btw, 4.0.4 is already out, take a look at cyanogen 9. It's just that Samsung is not currently implementing this update into the stock roms.
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Don't forget that we payed $700 for Samsung, Samsung is the one responsible for giving us updates. Also, xda devs are only willing to improve and make our experience richer.

pahardie said:
Unfortunately Samsung implementation of ics is an epic failure. Slow and horrible. But that's Samsung and its pretty early days (3months!?)
Plenty of custom ics roms (cm9 specifically) that prove what ics can do when freed from touchwiz Samsung tweaked rubbish.
4.04 been out a while. Try a custom rom you won't go back
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CM9 is awesome, for me it is 100% stable and for daily use, BUT the battery life is killing me...

Dark Emotion said:
CM9 is awesome, for me it is 100% stable and for daily use, BUT the battery life is killing me...
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Dark Emotion said:
Samsung's ICS is bug free, but it is slower than GB and consumes more battery (as you said)... That is why I am using GB...
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Hm! Don't know what is going on with your device but here it's nowhere near slow, and battery? Well it consumes same amount as in GB, no way more.
This ICS and impleneted HW acceleration and other stuffs kept me to stick with Android for little while longer actually, just when i was thinking about switching back to iOS it came and successfully purchased me, for some time the least.
And Samsung had put/implemented ICS exactly the way they wanted to be. Some few peoples opinion and nagging won't care them the bit, nor they should be bothered about it.
Besides, what's the point of this thread

Dark Emotion said:
CM9 is awesome, for me it is 100% stable and for daily use, BUT the battery life is killing me...
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Not getting terrible battery life here. Its same as stock really. Try siyah see if that helps you out or do a full wipe etc etc
To the op
Samsungs ics roms are late and hide most benefits of ics which is why I dislike them
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And screen-on time is...?
P.S. I didn't say that CM9 (or any other ICS) has terrible battery life, I just said that it is not as good as GB... And I always do a full wipe when flashing ROMs

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And screen-on time is...?
P.S. I didn't say that CM9 (or any other ICS) has terrible battery life, I just said that it is not as good as GB... And I always do a full wipe when flashing ROMs
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I love ICS, run now on LUX LP4 and loving it.
Always do a full wipe and you have no problems
ICS is absolutely no failure in my opinion

I have installed CM9 + siyah 3.0
I have very good battery life (yeah sligtly less then gb, but i think the cause is that everithing is beta) but i have increased 10 times the responsiveness of my phone.. Everithing is better with ics..
ICS definitely no failure

I don't share the views on speed or battery life - in my view there is little tangible difference on my SGS2 - if anything I would say speed is a little better. Battery life depends on so many variables that it's almost impossible to be objective.
In terms of the update itself, it is definitely an improvement but still also a slight disappointment. In evolutionary terms we have crawled out of the primordial soup and lost the fins but we are still grooming each other looking for scurf and wondering where the smell comes from when we poke our fingers up our bottoms. The quest for fire remains a distant dream...
I can't vote in the poll therefore because there needs to be a middle option.

ICS is not a failure, actually it is a good path for android to travel. What let us down is the distribution method chosen by the oem and even by google itself. The purpose of bringing ics is not even satisfied by all the smartphones which got ics updates.

ICS is good.
Implementation of samsung/sony/htc is not good.

My $0.02, based on testing, and total indifference to "oo-Samsung-sux-lolz-I-demand-newest-FW-yesterday-Samsung-owes-me-I-paid-so-much-CM9-rox".
Failure? No. But not cool, awesome, rocking nor deserving of some of the fanboy praise posted here, in my opinion.
I've tried many, many stock and custom ICS, AOKP and CM9, every kernel and every combination (36 flashes since 30th March, to be precise). Not a single combination has been smoother or qucker than my daily driver or my next two preferences - krinyo's SlimROM, rohit's GB MIUI and Insanity build 57.
Battery life isn't a dealbreaker for me, lag is. I don't have bloatware, don't use mail, am not on Twitter or Facebook, haven't had TW launcher on my phone for 9 months. Even stripped down like this, my GB-based ROMs outperform everything else. And they're a hell of a lot more stable too.
As always, each to their own. But I haven't found any reason to leave GB after all this testing. Certainly no problem in refuting the "once you've tried 4.0.4 you'll never go back" spiel, which is lazy generalization based on nothing.
Unlike many, I wasn't wetting myself in anticipation of ICS, hence haven't needed to change my pants.
And the "poll" is ridiculous, pointless and useless, and not even a poll - there is middle ground.

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WooW, that is not bad at all mate, for me i've never get over 3 hours screen on time before
i might test cm9 out
can i also ask what kernel are u using?

MIUI v4 Discussion Thread

As we all know, the Galaxy Note was recently added for official MIUI support. MIUI China is working towards a first public build. Contrary to popular belief, MIUI v4 is based on the Stock ROMs rather than CyanogenMod 9. So, almost everything should be working flawless from the start -- as it was supposed to be. All in all, we can look forward to the looks of MIUI and the functionality of Stock ROMs.
According to the latest polls, 4x5 icon layout has been chosen as the default which is rather perfect for the Note's large screen. Here's the screenshot from the tweet...
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What's interesting to note is the S Memo icon! Although, that was expected since MIUI is based on stock Sammy ROMs, yet it's nice to have a "confirmation".

We'll also have the emmc bug then...
Though I won't be able to go to another ROM that doens't have per app DPI/Layout ever again...

what does it say about the emmc brickbug? will they have MMC_CAP_ERASE removed for safety?
also I guess that this means MIUI4 can no longer be considered AOSP ,since it's using TW as abase.
should be interesting though ,keep us posted please

Guess they are using lq2 base with rooted cf kernel.
but we can flash franco kernel etc. id wait for miui scotlands version of the official rom as they make it really better for samsung devices

^^ Exactly! I suppose we would be able to flash SpeedMod/Franco Kernel. So, we'll be safe from the eMMC bug to a certain extent -- of course, if we follow the instructions.
I'm excited because we get to retain all the stock goodness! I'm using PA myself and it'll be rather hard to switch to any other ROM. However, I'm a long time fan of MIUI and will definitely switch once it's available in all it's goodness.
Also, the MIUI theme contest which is going on right now should give us some great themes, which is lacking ATM.

love how they're asking the community what they want in the rom; how it should be done. only weak link is samsung, how a multi-million dollar company is out-shined by the dev community never ceases to amuse me xD.

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^^ Exactly! I suppose we would be able to flash SpeedMod/Franco Kernel. So, we'll be safe from the eMMC bug to a certain extent -- of course, if we follow the instructions.
I'm excited because we get to retain all the stock goodness! I'm using PA myself and it'll be rather hard to switch to any other ROM. However, I'm a long time fan of MIUI and will definitely switch once it's available in all it's goodness.
Also, the MIUI theme contest which is going on right now should give us some great themes, which is lacking ATM.
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I agree my friend. Some exciting times...miss miui... the amount of customization we can do...oh yeah!!
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Ha ha I logged on to post a similar thread when I found yours. Cheers!!
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love how they're asking the community what they want in the rom; how it should be done. only weak link is samsung, how a multi-million dollar company is out-shined by the dev community never ceases to amuse me xD.
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I don't think fb is the best place to get feedback. End users don't necessarily understand the concepts of developing or porting a ROM. Will try and push this thread to them, once it picks up activity.

iHoneyBadger said:
^^ Exactly! I suppose we would be able to flash SpeedMod/Franco Kernel. So, we'll be safe from the eMMC bug to a certain extent -- of course, if we follow the instructions.
I'm excited because we get to retain all the stock goodness! I'm using PA myself and it'll be rather hard to switch to any other ROM. However, I'm a long time fan of MIUI and will definitely switch once it's available in all it's goodness.
Also, the MIUI theme contest which is going on right now should give us some great themes, which is lacking ATM.
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of course we can flash a safe kernel ,but it would be nice if they released their own optimized safe kernel to begin with.
and yes I also think it would be interesting to see MIUI4 based on TW ,hopefully it won't have lagging or memory management issues like official ICS does.

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of course we can flash a safe kernel ,but it would be nice if they released their own optimized safe kernel to begin with.
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Don't expect much in the Kernel department. Everybody always switches MIUI Kernels ASAP mostly because they're not optimized for performance/battery. They're mostly just optimized to run.

iHoneyBadger said:
Don't expect much in the Kernel department. Everybody always switches MIUI Kernels ASAP mostly because they're not optimized for performance/battery. They're mostly just optimized to run.
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oh ,I didn't know that ,your MIUI V4 port was the first (brief) encounter with MIUI for me.
and since it was based on cm9 kernel it was actually very smooth.
here is hoping the real MIUI port is at least just as good

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oh ,I didn't know that ,your MIUI V4 port was the first (brief) encounter with MIUI for me.
and since it was based on cm9 kernel it was actually very smooth.
here is hoping the real MIUI port is at least just as good
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The official port should have a butter-smooth launcher just like MiHome for ICS.

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The official port should have a butter-smooth launcher just like MiHome for ICS.
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seeing that you are a long tie MIUI fan ,may I ask you what's so good about it?
when I tested your port the positive side was a feel of elegance ,and total customization even more than CM9.
the bad side however was the iOS look of the launcher which I hate so much,and the lack of an app drawer.
luckily the launcher can be easily replaced ,and since this is based on TW ,I can switch to it to retain full functionality ,while (hopefully) not draining all my RAM like the official sammy ROMs does.
so care to enlighten me to more positive points of this popular ROM ,ones that I won't find in CM9 (beside the TW functionality obviously).
thank you

Even I hate the fact that the launcher doesn't have an app drawer but there is an app for that -- MIUI Control -- it gives you a pull down app-drawer.
The best thing about MIUI is the fact that you can theme pretty much every aspect of the ROM with a click of a button. That's not the case with CM9. There aren't many themes for MIUI v4 as of now, however that will change in the near future.
Also, with MIUI you have the option to apply individual elements of different themes -- and then combine them into one theme file. That alone makes it the best ROM for theming.

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Even I hate the fact that the launcher doesn't have an app drawer but there is an app for that -- MIUI Control -- it gives you a pull down app-drawer.
The best thing about MIUI is the fact that you can theme pretty much every aspect of the ROM with a click of a button. That's not the case with CM9. There aren't many themes for MIUI v4 as of now, however that will change in the near future.
Also, with MIUI you have the option to apply individual elements of different themes -- and then combine them into one theme file. That alone makes it the best ROM for theming.
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exactly ,that pretty much sums what I know about MIUI from my ~1 hour trial with it
good to know that there is an app drawer ,can't stand a combined view of apps and widgets.
thanks again

I've already ask them about the removing of the emmc-bug in their kernel here and on their "what device should get miui next?" poll. Without any answer.

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I've already ask them about the removing of the emmc-bug in their kernel here and on their "what device should get miui next?" poll. Without any answer.
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I asked them on their facebook page but forgot to check back on the answer lol

I have been using MIUI for more than a year on my HD2, which I have sold to get Galaxy Note. I can tell you that the nicest thing about MIUI roms is the notification bar on top. I don't understand why all ROMs don't have this notification / control panel that MIUI has.
No more widgets to turn on bluetooth, wifi or toggle between 2g and 3g to save battery. You just pull down the curtain, and switch everything on or off easily. So this is what I miss most on other ROMs.
The rest, its a very fast and smooth mobile OS. Simple to use, lots of themes and frequent updates with new features and bug fixes.
Not sure how well it will handle the S Pen, as this is one of the features that separate G.Note from the rest of the competition, but if they manage to get everything working well, I am sure that it will be a great success.

^^ Agreed. The main thing I like about MIUI is that it is a complete experience right off the bat. You get...
1. File Explorer
2. Backup
3. Monitor
4. Blacklist
...and so much more! Of course you can install all these separately for other ROMs but it's nice to know that they're all packaged with MIUI.
And yes, it would be great if they manage to retain all the S-Pen functionality. With custom ROMs we lose this functionality which then makes our phone like any other. Don't get me wrong, I love myself some PA/CM9/AOKP goodness, but then my phone doesn't feel any different from the S2 I had.

iHoneyBadger said:
^^ Agreed. The main thing I like about MIUI is that it is a complete experience right off the bat. You get...
1. File Explorer
2. Backup
3. Monitor
4. Blacklist
...and so much more! Of course you can install all these separately for other ROMs but it's nice to know that they're all packaged with MIUI.
And yes, it would be great if they manage to retain all the S-Pen functionality. With custom ROMs we lose this functionality which then makes our phone like any other. Don't get me wrong, I love myself some PA/CM9/AOKP goodness, but then my phone doesn't feel any different from the S2 I had.
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well the Spen still works in CM9 ,just without the Snote app ,have you tried installing photoshop touch? you get absolute control with the pen .
did you know that hovering the pen gives you a mouse cursor in CM9 ,while touching it will register a click ,just like a desktop PC .
but of course it will be nice tom have MIUI with all TW functionality ,IF they keep the performance a priority

ICS Just doesnt cut it.

Ive recently downgraded back to CM7 GB. ICS just has too many bugs and it seems im the only one who seems to think its "slow" or jerky at times. I encourage you if you just want your phone to work and be as fast as it can be to go back to CM7. It seems everyone keeps saying ICS is ultra fast and ultra smooth. In my experiences, ICS just wasnt made for the SGS1, the hardware just isnt powerful enough, heck even the Galaxy Nexus looked a tad slow on ICS compared to how fast it is on JB.
I dont think CM10 will be that much different from CM9. Im looking into getting an S3 when they drop the price a little bit, (£500!!!! I can get a decent laptop for that price)

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I honestly disagree. I do feel Slim ICS is as fast, as any other 2.3 rom i've tried, with the added bonus of slightly improved responsiveness. This is my personal experience, of course.
And i also think it's not about the hardware. If it was, the iphone wouldn't be such a success. But this is a loaded statement and not really worth going over. I'm just glad everyone has a favourite flavour they can use

Ya really think dat ugly'n'slow CM7 is better dan ICS?

There are trillions of possible combinations of apps and settings, did you do a clean install (wipe everything)?
A clean ICS beats a clean 2.3 ROM.

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I honestly disagree. I do feel Slim ICS is as fast, as any other 2.3 rom i've tried, with the added bonus of slightly improved responsiveness. This is my personal experience, of course.
And i also think it's not about the hardware. If it was, the iphone wouldn't be such a success. But this is a loaded statement and not really worth going over. I'm just glad everyone has a favourite flavour they can use
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Yeah its definitely useable. but maybe its just me, I feel like sometimes it will run flawless then sometimes it will feel laggy and slow, regarding iOS, its alot better coded than Android (im going to get hate for taht, but its true, you can run obsolete processors with iOS and still get it to work flawlesly since its so closely ccontrolled and optimised) Its the same with Windows Phone 7. If theres anyone who hasnt tried using Wp7, I encourage you to do so, my next phone will hopefully be the SGS3, but with every single Android phone regardless of specs, sometimes theres a delay with some things, i.e. the gallery. Its not so much lag anymore, just a delay between pressing the app icon and it actually loading. On windows phone, you press the app, BOOM, instantly its there.But JellyBean and "project Butter" is a step in the right direction. (And it looks alot cooler)

is here any happy user of MIUI v4 on SGS?
sorry for this question - is it worth to install it or just forget about it?
Thanks!

trexon said:
is here any happy user of MIUI v4 on SGS?
sorry for this question - is it worth to install it or just forget about it?
Thanks!
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I used it and it's nice, especially the Music app .

dark_knight35 said:
I used it and it's nice, especially the Music app .
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and you have moved to ics?
what caused thay you have moved from MIUI to other rom?

You will come back in 6 hours or less.
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trexon said:
and you have moved to ics?
what caused thay you have moved from MIUI to other rom?
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MIUI v4 is ICS . I moved to test JB.

dark_knight35 said:
MIUI v4 is ICS . I moved to test JB.
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I got back to gingerbread although I liked the neat GUI of ICS and tested almost every variant of it except Slim ICS because it lacked support for Arabic based languages (my native language is Pashto). Another thing for me was the lack of feature of copying contacts to SIM which is crucial for me. Anyway I'm waiting if someone could include that feature, then certainly I will get back to ICS or JB.

ICS is good but the SGS just doesn't get the most of it, you can say what you want but if you think you're getting the full ICS experience on this phone you are sadly mistaken..
Honestly I don't blame the OP downgrading to GB, the sgs is what 2-3 years old now? If you want to run the latest software it might pay to start thinking about upgrading.
My 2c

MrIwik said:
ICS is good but the SGS just doesn't get the most of it, you can say what you want but if you think you're getting the full ICS experience on this phone you are sadly mistaken..
Honestly I don't blame the OP downgrading to GB, the sgs is what 2-3 years old now? If you want to run the latest software it might pay to start thinking about upgrading.
My 2c
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For me,
Slim ICS>Froyo 2.2.1 (especially stock ZSJPK)>Any Gingerbread rom
Why? The answer is ram. The notion of free ram being wasted ram is just silly. When ram is full, the phone has to constantly close and reopen background processes, causing a decrease in smoothness.
That's why Froyo 2.2.1 was the best, because it had the most least ram consumption. However, slim ICS had that ridiculously big ram configuration, which put it on par with 2.2.1. But it ranks higher because it is ICS and has more features.

Hmm i downgraded to froyo a while ago and found it heaps laggier than ICS , JB is much better than ICS imo now.
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What a strange thread. I've been on a load of different ICS Roms, I've tried almost all of them and I've found 90% of them faster than stock Gingerbread/Froyo.
Right now I've been on CM10 Alpha (JB) for two days and my SGS feels like a new phone again. It's not perfect and 100% reliable, but it's pretty good for an alpha build.

im sorry. what is gingerbread/froyo? never heard of that.
it depends on personal preference to be honest.

trexon said:
is here any happy user of MIUI v4 on SGS?
sorry for this question - is it worth to install it or just forget about it?
Thanks!
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I used tot Love MIUI but thats only because Android didnt look that good before ics.
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For me,
Slim ICS>Froyo 2.2.1 (especially stock ZSJPK)>Any Gingerbread rom
Why? The answer is ram. The notion of free ram being wasted ram is just silly. When ram is full, the phone has to constantly close and reopen background processes, causing a decrease in smoothness.
That's why Froyo 2.2.1 was the best, because it had the most least ram consumption. However, slim ICS had that ridiculously big ram configuration, which put it on par with 2.2.1. But it ranks higher because it is ICS and has more features.
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Im not a developer, but the ram being full is not always bad. It just depends on how the Os uses it. I agree if you are constantly clearing and caching the ram as u open apps, you will lose smoothness but, for instance, my version of nix pre caches the majority of ram in advance for various applications to use. In essence insuring there is enough ram available for gui apps. Obviously if you are overall limited on ram though it will slow things down.
I have never felt like the ics ports were sluggish, just bit battery heavy, and they seem to run hot. That being said GB is the best compromise for me. Plus there is so much more hacking done for GB.
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Let's get the G1 alive & kicking again

Hi guys,
With all the changes going on with Android especially the past couple of years, the ancient G1 has been pretty much left behind at this point. It's quite understandable given how poor the hardware is by today's standards and just how old it is. But for nostalgic purposes, a reminder of how far we've come and to demonstrate the power of the development community I want to revive it in some form. I've already posted some videos of the G1 running a couple of the brand new material design Google apps on my own channel here and for the new channel I have just launched for my Android news site Little Green Dude here.
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The plans are as follows:
1. Produce a more up to date ICS build with a "Lollipop-esque" experience in terms of UI (I know there is a Jelly Bean port but ICS is the most modern Android build that ever reached a usable state).
2. Attempt to improve the performance and utility of this ROM as much as possible within the limitations of the hardware - for instance I want to try and use pretty much the entire internal 256MB ROM for /system and have /data mounted entirely on the MicroSD if the performance of the G1's SD reader will allow it. I am also considering producing and modifying some apps especially for the G1
3. Explore backporting of certain apps and features to ARMv6 where they are currently only AMv7 compatible and also from newer versions of Android to ICS if this remains the newest possible stable Android base
4. The big one, if I can get some help and support from an experienced kernel developer I would like to eventually try and look into getting a more modern version of Android working. Either building on the limited support we have for Jelly Bean or leapfrogging it to KitKat or dare I say it Lollipop.
I have already made some limited progress as shown in the image above which was made with a screenshot taken from my G1 a few days ago (full res screenshot attached) and the two YouTube videos I linked to.
Now before anyone get's carried away please understand that these are ideal goals, some of which may prove to be too difficult but most should theoretically be possible with enough work and support. I can make no promises as to which if any of these will successfully make it to fruition but I am already fairly confident about 1 and parts of 2.
Is there anyone out there who would like to support such a project at any level? Testing, development, donations - literally any level of help would be fantastic!
Come on guys, she's never going to be anyone's daily device or even close at this point but there's life in the old gal yet! Let's do this!

wollac11 said:
Hi guys,
With all the changes going on with Android especially the past couple of years, the ancient G1 has been pretty much left behind at this point. It's quite understandable given how poor the hardware is by today's standards and just how old it is. But for nostalgic purposes, a reminder of how far we've come and to demonstrate the power of the development community I want to revive it in some form. I've already posted some videos of the G1 running a couple of the brand new material design Google apps on my own channel here and for the new channel I have just launched for my Android news site Little Green Dude here.
The plans are as follows:
1. Produce a more up to date ICS build with a "Lollipop-esque" experience in terms of UI (I know there is a Jelly Bean port but ICS is the most modern Android build that ever reached a usable state).
2. Attempt to improve the performance and utility of this ROM as much as possible within the limitations of the hardware - for instance I want to try and use pretty much the entire internal 256MB ROM for /system and have /data mounted entirely on the MicroSD if the performance of the G1's SD reader will allow it. I am also considering producing and modifying some apps especially for the G1
3. Explore backporting of certain apps and features to ARMv6 where they are currently only AMv7 compatible and also from newer versions of Android to ICS if this remains the newest possible stable Android base
4. The big one, if I can get some help and support from an experienced kernel developer I would like to eventually try and look into getting a more modern version of Android working. Either building on the limited support we have for Jelly Bean or leapfrogging it to KitKat or dare I say it Lollipop.
I have already made some limited progress as shown in the image above which was made with a screenshot taken from my G1 a few days ago (full res screenshot attached) and the two YouTube videos I linked to.
Now before anyone get's carried away please understand that these are ideal goals, some of which may prove to be too difficult but most should theoretically be possible with enough work and support. I can make no promises as to which if any of these will successfully make it to fruition but I am already fairly confident about 1 and parts of 2.
Is there anyone out there who would like to support such a project at any level? Testing, development, donations - literally any level of help would be fantastic!
Come on guys, she's never going to be anyone's daily device or even close at this point but there's life in the old gal yet! Let's do this!
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I like the idea of this haven't been here in damn ages but for nostalgic purposes I say why not I am on board

Let's do this.
It has been some time since Ive worked on the D/S. I wasnt planning on coming out of retirement but since Ive got a bit more time on my hands recently, I suppose it wouldnt hurt to helpout where I can. I know some of the United guys may be interested as well, xillius200 already took the liberty to email us, so hopefully some others join in.
TL;DR: I'm game.

Great idea indeed! Just checked with my brother, he still keeps my HTC Magic. So will fetch that from him later next week.

Tengku you are back!!!

Well devs, contact me if you need a hand or even a dream to develop on. May have some time myself

I am willing to help test builds. I have been playing around with a Wildfire S for a few days now, it has 4.4.4 CM11 on it and using Int2Ext+ with an ext4 partition. My G1 is enjoying retirement in the closet right now.

The G1 is possibly the greatest phone I have ever owned. I tell people about it all the time and the fact that it was incredibly good for being the first of it's kind.

Hi all,
Thanks to everyone here offering their support on this. Progress has been slow due to other commitments and some problems with my G1, but I have not given up on the idea and would certainly welcome the help of anyone who is able to. I hope to have something usable to share fairly soon so hold on for that.
The biggest obstacle I am having is getting working hardware acceleration on a recent CM version. BananaSandwich seems to have HWA working but there is no source for that ROM and it is very outdated at this point. It also includes bugs not present in the United ICS builds. I tried contacting @banana4444 a while back but I didn't get a response so I assume he is busy with other things. If anyone knows how it was fixed in that ROM (so I could replicate it on a new build from source) I would be very grateful.

what's the best current ROM for this device? I have 2.3.6 cyanogenmod on it I think.

I'm here too, if you need help on tests
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Only just found this thread, sounds like an awesome idea. JianC is the one to talk to about hw acceleration, was trying to help him with it Summer last year but I don't know whether he got anywhere with it.

Let's get the G1 alive & kicking again
Nothing is impossible ,cheers
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I have just got a g1 yesterday, I have got RA-1.5.2 recovery on it.
Is there a flashable version of your ROM I can put on it?
It is on 1.0 rc29 now lolz.
I have not had one of these for years so I don't know what the jig is with these now.
It is in lovely condition, it had texts on it from 2008 from T-Mobile lol.
Thanks

Is this still being developed? I might be able to donate a device or two if they are needed.