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I've tried several sense roms but i don't like them personally. I'm currently on Android Revolution HD and i want to try something new. Is there a good CM7 or AOSP rom which is good in interface, small in size and with great battery life?
Thanks in advance
This is a subjective matter, but try these two:
BlackICE - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1298283
and
Ultimate Ace - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1341251
I also recommend BlackICE or if you want to try Maffia, with Maffia my battery once survived 58 hours , also with BlackIce your battery can survive for 2 days, but the ICS Theme in Maffia is not 100% working so you may not like that and BlackICE had a simple stylish dark theme, and has more features and some more tweaks.
Here are my suggestions, Absolution, BBmod and Black Ice
+1 on Black Ice.
Loving the higher res look and feel. The performance is excellent and its very stable and smooth. Recently tried a sense ROM and within 12 hours came back!
I used to use MIUI a lot (especially when I had my desire). I've had my HD less than a month and loving it.
For further interface tweaks install a different launcher. I use GO Launcher EX
Try CM7.1(nightly) with ICS theme
Fast, smooth, and looks great !
Add Go Launcher EX with ICS theme to make it complete.
I havent tried Black Ice yet.
All of these are good, in my experience:
Maffia 0.1.7 (still in a slightly early/embryonic state, though)
BlackIce 1.23
Absolution 2.0
CM7.1
Helios 0913
There are still a couple I haven't tried, but which look like winners, such as:
Ultimate Ace
BBMod
There is a beta called talon in the talon kernel thread in the inspire forums. It's very good.
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there is another one that you could try: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348425
I'm currently on it and I'm very pleased (fast, smooth, minimal, good battery life)
best regards
+1 for the Cyanogenmod 7.1
shad0wboss said:
I've tried several sense roms but i don't like them personally. I'm currently on Android Revolution HD and i want to try something new. Is there a good CM7 or AOSP rom which is good in interface, small in size and with great battery life?
Thanks in advance
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You could try CM7.1. its great.
Another option is MIUI Freshly squeezed. Its very light and can be a daily use rom.
my 2 cents..
You could try Hydrogen... 63.5 MB total size if i remember correctly....
Others already mentioned... Cyanogen, BlackIce...
MIUI's been very very stable for me.. .never gave me any problems whatsoever... but hey.. to each one his own..
Cyanogenmod? Good battery life?
lol.
i don't have a good alternative for you, but cyanogen is defenitive not that, what you are looking for :3
The Oxygen port which has appeared very recently is the smallest and fastest ROM I've ever used. Testing overall battery life now, but the drain is awesome with any recent LordModUE kernel (sleeps at 3mA within a couple of minutes).
The speed is ridiculous.
BenRoark said:
The Oxygen port which has appeared very recently is the smallest and fastest ROM I've ever used. Testing overall battery life now, but the drain is awesome with any recent LordModUE kernel (sleeps at 3mA within a couple of minutes).
The speed is ridiculous.
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ridiculous as if bad or ridiculously fast ?
Really, really fast.
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Really, really fast.
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I agree, it's an amazing experience. Give it a try, it's Sense-free.
Sent from Desire HD using XDA app.
+ 1 for Freshly Squeezed MIUI
I have also tried Cyanogen and the new ICS port from BeatMod. Cyanogen doesn't interest me too much, but the ICS port is cool although lacking in functionality right now.
Been using Freshly Squeezed for a couple of weeks and it is dramatically different then the other stock ROM's (looks iPhone-ish), but some of the extras really make it a good option.
My favourite features of Miui:
- SMS pop-up notification, allows you to respond to an sms within another app
- Long-Press close apps - long press back in an app to end the task
- Weekly ROM updates
i get great battery and performance on MIUI ROM's downloaded from miui.us nowhere else
Hey Guys. Thought i would share a really good combo that ive found for my nexus s , it is really smooth..
Rom: AOKP Build 32 4.0.4
Kernel: Matr1x V19 BFS
Launcher: Apex Launcher
Clock speed: 100-1200mhz lulzactive
Radio:KB3
Installed chainfire 3D and that really improved the ui speed.
If anyone else has found a really good combo please share
Thanks to the aokp dev team, mathkid95, and chainfire
cool story bro
Mind sharing the links to the ROM/Kernel/etc.?
Thanks in advance, mate
battery life? benchmark test?
Thanks
Enviado desde mi Nexus S usando Tapatalk
Head to http://forum.aokp.co/page/news for the rom
Kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361477
Will do a full battery life tomorow and post a screen shot.
(edit) added shot of the benchmark.
Installed Brainmasters tweaks, found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1454289
Heres the battery life .
Did quite alot of texting to day so not that good.
Thanks for the updates, mate!
lookin for good combo too
It's everything working in the rom? Suport for themes?
I was looking for a combo like this one...
Yes everything seams to be working fine a new build has just been released, havent updated yet tho.
Trying out this combination with build 33, my quadrant is reading around 1600... very smooth though
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA
Sorry, what is the name of the toggle in notification Bar?
The pic are in first post.
rascream sandwich with trinity t11 56hz kernel...
Stock 4.0.4
Matrix kernel
Sent from my Nexus S
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rascream sandwich with trinity t11 56hz kernel...
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Dude thats pretty tops battery life . Can you post a link for that rom?
I'm thinking of rooting soon. Just been using stock so far.
Stock seems nippy but sometime I get a blank screen and lag when going back to home from apps such as Chrome beta.
Do stock roms and kernals make a big difference performance wise?
Also, I would like a rom where everything works with no problems.
Any suggestions?
Warren_Orange said:
I'm thinking of rooting soon. Just been using stock so far.
Stock seems nippy but sometime I get a blank screen and lag when going back to home from apps such as Chrome beta.
Do stock roms and kernals make a big difference performance wise?
Also, I would like a rom where everything works with no problems.
Any suggestions?
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The lag is due to the launcher going out of memory. Our nexus has only 512 MB ram. Flash a kernel with Bigmem mod and it would be gone.
I feel they do make a difference but stock is naturally the most stable rom.
For a stable rom try:
Stable versions of CM9
Milestone releases of AOKP
Bugless beast for a close to stock experience,
rockdudecam2 said:
Dude thats pretty tops battery life . Can you post a link for that rom?
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you can get it here http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/rascream/?id=crespo
Warren_Orange said:
I'm thinking of rooting soon. Just been using stock so far.
Stock seems nippy but sometime I get a blank screen and lag when going back to home from apps such as Chrome beta.
Do stock roms and kernals make a big difference performance wise?
Also, I would like a rom where everything works with no problems.
Any suggestions?
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My ns4g was laggy before.
I'm running stock rom with matrix kernel and apex launcher. Couldn't be happier and my phone is lag free and 10x snappier running @1485mhz
Stock ICS was very laggy for me even with different kernels, OC, and launchers.
When I switched to custom roms (CyberGR and now CM9 nightly) that lag completely disappeared even without OC.
I've been on CM9 a week now and it's worked pretty much flawlessly.
Highly recommended.
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
Hi
Currently Im on Cyanogenmod 7.2.0 RC1 nightly 414 and while OK, the other day it had a HORRIBLE (unbearable) slowdown period. Even multiple restarts didnt help. Finally it seems it fixed itself but Ive looking for something new. I use Go Launcher if that makes any difference. Im into speed but I think Im going to go with stable over speed this time.
What ROM do you recommend? Also nothing broken (automatically discards all CM9 ROMs)
If you are into Sense UI, go for Virtuous ROM, stock ROM tweaked + enhancements. If CM7 works if you are into vanilla ROMs.
I have been using virtuous glite 2.0.1 its stable I had no issues at all and I get great battery life, plus its slightly overclocked. Gslim1.6 is also very good but I had better battery life with glite. Both roms are based on GB 2.3.4. Here is a good rom index thread it lists all G2-Desire Z roms
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1493365
Sent from my T-Mobile G2
rand0m_insanity said:
If you are into Sense UI
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You cannot say "Sense", "stable" and "speed" in the same sentence.
ACHILLES R32 said:
I have been using virtuous glite 2.0.1 its stable I had no issues at all and I get great battery life, plus its slightly overclocked. Gslim1.6 is also very good but I had better battery life with glite. Both roms are based on GB 2.3.4. Here is a good rom index thread it lists all G2-Desire Z roms
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1493365
Sent from my T-Mobile G2
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Yes, Im aware of the list but I wanted user feedback.
(Im not talking to any of you or anyone else Dont take this the wrong way at all as it is not a insult to any of you). Its funny: People ***** (a lot) when their ROMs go bad but when they are great, they dont say anything at all.
WOW G-lite is VERY old...
and i like ROMs with features; stripped down versions are not for me
sound like you will be most happy with elitemod, the cm7 based rom although i have been testing out nik3r's ics rom and like it better than most ics roms, i would go with his gingerbread rom. should be all you are looking for and great support from nik3r as well
Are you looking for a gingerbread or ics rom?
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WOW G-lite is VERY old...
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Damn I'm still happily running it! If it works great why worry how old it is. It's a testament to how well it works as it sits. anyways I'm waiting for a stable cyanogen 9. Then maybe, frankly I don't want to mess with it too much I want plain Android and I can customize it from there
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You cannot say "Sense", "stable" and "speed" in the same sentence.
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I don't think you have tried much of the Sense ROMs back then, or maybe you were doing something wrong. I have had quite a few stable and fast sense ROMs. Of course they were not as fast as vanilla ones, but it works, knowing that you are the type who wants more features in ROMs.
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What ROM do you recommend? Also nothing broken (automatically discards all CM9 ROMs)
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Have you tried a CM9 Rom lately? Don't let the Beta name scare you, I have found the latest andromadus audacity extremely reliable, and everything works. I actually think it has less bugs then my stock htc GB rom.
demkantor said:
sound like you will be most happy with elitemod, the cm7 based rom although i have been testing out nik3r's ics rom and like it better than most ics roms, i would go with his gingerbread rom. should be all you are looking for and great support from nik3r as well
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Same, though I'm still tweaking my SetCPU settings and such, I like EliteMod's ICS rom the most right now particularly in terms of features and responsiveness. I was trying the unofficial CM9beta13 for a couple days and that thing was eating battery like no-body's business. EliteMod seems to be much more tweaked as it's the same setup Nik3r is using for his own personal Desire-Z.
But far as stability goes, I would agree that going with a Ginger rom would be the best bet, ICS right now is still too experimental in my opinion.
I've never tried the CM7 version of EliteMod, only the official CM 7.2.0 which was ok-ish for me. The EliteMod ICS Rom to me feels much faster and responsive than even the stock CM7rom, and I much prefer QuickPix app the EliteMod uses over that slow-arse Gallery app in CM7.
I would recommend andromadus mimicry (ics) its pretty stable and everything works (for me at least). It has the ics specific flaws like scrambled text in app drawer but launcher restart fixes it. Using this rom for 2 weeks and had this text issue 1 time. Battery is good also
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk 2
You should try Elitemod cm7 it has never failed me, all the features you need, speed and stabiity plus amaizing battery life. If you wanna go ICS get the cm9 elitemod, but it is still a bit buggy.
I tried a lot of roms, and I always came back to ILWT CM7 (not new versions). Sense roms are quite good but not on Desire Z (too small amount of ram memory, multitasking on sense roms are poor - even on sense 2.1 roms with supercharger script). I waiting for stable CM9 (and yes i tried all versions of CM9 but text glitches and manually change apn to send/receives mms, makes me nervous).
That is only my subjective opinion
Anything CM7 based is very stable. Probably the most stable of all. Stay away from CM9 or anything ICS on this phone for another few months in terms of stability.
decompleter said:
Anything CM7 based is very stable. Probably the most stable of all. Stay away from CM9 or anything ICS on this phone for another few months in terms of stability.
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I can only vouch for my own experiences but I find cm9 very stable, perfect for a daily.
jessv3 said:
I can only vouch for my own experiences but I find cm9 very stable, perfect for a daily.
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Going to install the Beta14 right now, the ALPHA 1 month ago had a lot of issues... but that was 1 month ago. Will post back...
Try Quadrasense! Not true that rom based on CM9 is not stable....
Quadrasense is very fast and stable
inviato da HTC Desire Z
For most stable overall rom I would recommend the latest ILWT CM7. For most stable ICS rom I would recommend the Andromadus Mimicry rom.
Just back to CM7 nightly. It's so fast and smooth. I'm very impressed by the speed of it. Playing games such as Asphalt 6, shadow guns (chinefire3d) is so fast. I was pretty impressed by the speed of CM9 but now I know how fast our phone can go. (Swearing word) ****ing fast!
Thanak said:
Just back to CM7 nightly. It's so fast and smooth. I'm very impressed by the speed of it. Playing games such as Asphalt 6, shadow guns (chinefire3d) is so fast. I was pretty impressed by the speed of CM9 but now I know how fast our phone can go. (Swearing word) ****ing fast!
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But What about Battery Life.
Sent from my LT15i using Tapatalk 2
on cm 9 is low -.-
ArcMan09 said:
But What about Battery Life.
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Little bit better than CM9 but still pretty quick
I'm having an odd issue with last two nightly builds. After all is installed, I go to play google to install Titanium Backup, and play google says that TB is not compatible with my device.
Any Clue?
Download the TB.apk and install on your phone via a file manager (i recommend ES File Explorer)
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Im using CM7.2 runs fast & smooth with good battery life, but im thinking of going to Arconium 4.0 ICS
What is being referred here? The latest nightly in
Code:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=nightly&device=anzu
Or the latest stable in
Code:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=anzu&type=stable
?
Sad to say I can't find instructions in their site, is this as simple as "fastboot flash boot" the "boot.img" inside the downloaded zip file, then flash the zip in CWM?
EDIT: I found instructions how to install. Will go from there
Code:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_Xperia_Arc:_Full_Update_Guide
Also, there's a freexperia project on CM7.2
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102523
Is this better compared to the ones on the official site? Why on this they have gapps and baseband that needs to be installed as well?
Sorry for asking, its just I want to try CyanogenMod for 1st time.
jtdc said:
What is being referred here? The latest nightly in
Code:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=nightly&device=anzu
Or the latest stable in
Code:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=anzu&type=stable
?
Sad to say I can't find instructions in their site, is this as simple as "fastboot flash boot" the "boot.img" inside the downloaded zip file, then flash the zip in CWM?
EDIT: I found instructions how to install. Will go from there
Code:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_Xperia_Arc:_Full_Update_Guide
Also, there's a freexperia project on CM7.2
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102523
Is this better compared to the ones on the official site? Why on this they have gapps and baseband that needs to be installed as well?
Sorry for asking, its just I want to try CyanogenMod for 1st time.
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CM7 from official CM and CM from FXP is the same because FXP work for CM and they handle all Sony and Sony Ericsson devices. CM7 from FXP update more often. CM7 from official CM website only update the RC version.
I see. I installed CM7.2 stable from the official one. It is less bloaty compared to stock based ROMs and custom ROMs. It handles processes and memory management better. Because of that, it is indeed FAST.
However the ADWlauncher that comes with CM7.2 ROM is either old or inefficient, and it stutters. When I replaced it with "ADWLauncher EX", lag/stutter was destroyed. Anyway that is an old fact already. ADWLauncher EX is really very good.
Thanks to your "catchy" title for this thread, I was able to install and experience CyanogenMod. I think I will stay with this ROM for some time.
When I get bored I will try CM9 next.
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I see. I installed CM7.2 stable from the official one. It is less bloaty compared to stock based ROMs and custom ROMs. It handles processes and memory management better. Because of that, it is indeed FAST.
However the ADWlauncher that comes with CM7.2 ROM is either old or inefficient, and it stutters. When I replaced it with "ADWLauncher EX", lag/stutter was destroyed. Anyway that is an old fact already. ADWLauncher EX is really very good.
Thanks to your "catchy" title for this thread, I was able to install and experience CyanogenMod. I think I will stay with this ROM for some time.
When I get bored I will try CM9 next.
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I replaced ADW with go luncher. It's amazingly fast and smooth.
Thanak said:
I replaced ADW with go luncher. It's amazingly fast and smooth.
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I replaced it with go launcher too, and it's very smooth.
The annoying thing that I found on this last Nightly, is the rotation screen, sometimes when you totate to landscape, the screen shows only the middle of the image, rest is black.
caqo71 said:
I replaced it with go launcher too, and it's very smooth.
The annoying thing that I found on this last Nightly, is the rotation screen, sometimes when you totate to landscape, the screen shows only the middle of the image, rest is black.
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Never had that problem
So after a week or so of use, I noticed I get strange battery drain in CM7.2 that I do not get in others. Specifically, I get 1% off every 30-35 minutes in phone idle (122 Mhz min), only thing on is GSM standby. For the other ROMs I tried 1% would last up to 90 minutes.
I've done checking what consumes it and its nothing, phone always in deep sleep. Nothing unusual also in betterbatterystats. Perhaps this is the trade-off of how this ROM manages things and makes it fast. Even my testing of Temple Run Brave runs great, no lags and instant response.
Also, I did not see Bravia Engine (in any options). I can't say if it is active already, I dunno. Was this implemented at all in this ROM?
Until I get tired of this and the mood strikes, I will try other rom again. However, I will always remember that this is the best rom I had tried.
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So after a week or so of use, I noticed I get strange battery drain in CM7.2 that I do not get in others. Specifically, I get 1% off every 30-35 minutes in phone idle (122 Mhz min), only thing on is GSM standby. For the other ROMs I tried 1% would last up to 90 minutes.
I've done checking what consumes it and its nothing, phone always in deep sleep. Nothing unusual also in betterbatterystats. Perhaps this is the trade-off of how this ROM manages things and makes it fast. Even my testing of Temple Run Brave runs great, no lags and instant response.
Also, I did not see Bravia Engine (in any options). I can't say if it is active already, I dunno. Was this implemented at all in this ROM?
Until I get tired of this and the mood strikes, I will try other rom again. However, I will always remember that this is the best rom I had tried.
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Yeah! Battery seem to drain pretty quick. But there is no mobile bravia engine in this rom. Only in rom that base on official from Sony have this setting. Anyway mobile bravia engine only work in stock Xperia gallery.
I see. I better research more on the Bravia Engine if its just a placebo. As I know it only works on photos and videos when displayed on the phone screen. To be honest I never use stock gallery, I use QuickPic which is 10000% better than it, and for the video player I use MX Video.
In any case, I already left CM7.2 due to the battery drain. Tried JJHybrid ROM to give a chance to ICS again, but I really am allergic to the lag and overall slowness must be the hardware really being stressed by ICS.
Went back to Arconium 8.2 now and intend to stick with this (until a new ICS comes along again). Going thru all these ROMs make me appreciate the speed, response, and management of Gingerbread.
As far as experience is concerned, Arconium 8.2 is as speedy, fast, and overall like CM7.2 but without the battery drain and still has the Sony Ericsson experience (ie. launcher, icons). You have to try it, if you haven't.
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Went back to Arconium 8.2 now and intend to stick with this (until a new ICS comes along again). Going thru all these ROMs make me appreciate the speed, response, and management of Gingerbread.
As far as experience is concerned, Arconium 8.2 is as speedy, fast, and overall like CM7.2 but without the battery drain and still has the Sony Ericsson experience (ie. launcher, icons). You have to try it, if you haven't.
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Is there some mod for GB that gives the rotational effect to the screen?.
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Is there some mod for GB that gives the rotational effect to the screen?.
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Yes. Try look at Android development thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1519742&page=45
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Yes. Try look at Android development thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1519742&page=45
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mmm, That's not what I asked for. I'm not talking about the Launcher, just the navite rotation effect that CM7.2, CM9 and ICS have
I'm testing CM7 about one week, and, of course is very very fast, the best rom for our Arc, but battery drained "very very fast". I think that FXP need solve this (35% at night)
But, of course, great job FXP team!
Waiting bug fixes!!
I've been using Quarx's CM10 build on my Defy+ for the past few days and whilst it's extremely stable and relatively fast, the performance is not quite fast enough for everyday use for me. I was considering instead installing CM9 or CM7, but not having installed either of these previously, I was not sure which would be best. I would prefer to go with CM9 if the performance is significantly better than CM10, but if not perhaps CM7 would be a safer choice? Any other suggestions to increase performance on CM10 would be appreciated also.
In my opinion CM10 is way more faster than every cm9 build i used.
so if you want to increase stability and performance, use CM7
CM7
I've used CM10 but my device was running slow, I've installed CM7, never used CM9.
newest CM10 from Quarx is faster than speeding speedy gonzales!
got 3147 points in AnTuTu. CM10 is more responsive, and with right launcher (like nova or apex) works like a charm
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I've been using Quarx's CM10 build on my Defy+ for the past few days and whilst it's extremely stable and relatively fast, the performance is not quite fast enough for everyday use for me. I was considering instead installing CM9 or CM7, but not having installed either of these previously, I was not sure which would be best. I would prefer to go with CM9 if the performance is significantly better than CM10, but if not perhaps CM7 would be a safer choice? Any other suggestions to increase performance on CM10 would be appreciated also.
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Trust me. CM10 is better. CM7 might be a little better, but I think by the next two update, Quarx will make CM10 just as good..
So I suggest you stick with this for a week or two and decide.
I have only one phone and I use defy for everything. I run CM10.
Thank if I was helpful.
Cheers
Sent from my Awesome Defy!