hey guys, and sorry for a question i know must have been asked before, but i am unable to find.
What roms are the best and most up to date as of now?
i was going to go with cm7 but saw we had cm9 and a few others out there, my real question is, anything better then cm7 out there?
this will be used for my wife, who just wants it to work, as little freezes and hang ups as possible, feature set means nothing next to speed and reliability.
this is my last attempt to make this phone usable for her before i take my 12 gauge to it. please please help! i have to her hear whine everyday with the 2.6.1(think that's it) kernel on there (hasn't been updated in over a year, so anything should be an improvement, it's just hard to get the phone off her long enough to toy with it)
In that case I would use either Superclean 3 or Geewiz
Both are stock EH03 based Touchwiz ROMS. Neither has bleeding edge features but they both just work and are the most up to date ROMs that come from the Samsung/Verizon base. Personally, I have found these ROMS to be the best on battery longevity.
bobloblaw1 said:
In that case I would use either Superclean 3 or Geewiz
Both are stock EH03 based Touchwiz ROMS. Neither has bleeding edge features but they both just work and are the most up to date ROMs that come from the Samsung/Verizon base. Personally, I have found these ROMS to be the best on battery longevity.
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cool, i already d/l'd the geewhiz but it's not taking like the other rom's i'm used to, flashed stock rom E3 and booted in to recovery and tried to update with gwiz through recovery, signature error of some sort, will try again with the other one you mentioned ..... or do i need to load the kernel using odin then flash rom through recovery?
I would also recomend giving Team Hacksung ICS build 6.5 w/ Icy Glitch v14 b4 kernel a try! No doubt superclean and geewiz are great roms, but I think you will like ICS 4.0.3 the best...just sayin.
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I would also recomend giving Team Hacksung ICS build 6.5 w/ Icy Glitch v14 b4 kernel a try! No doubt superclean and geewiz are great roms, but I think you will like ICS 4.0.3 the best...just sayin.
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i thought i saw that as a beta build, been around long enough to be proven?
[KERNEL][CM9][1/29/12] Icy Glitch V14 - BETA - LiveOC - Voodoo - DIDLE - USBhost
gotta bail from work will be back on with the tablet in about an hour.
ICS still has some issues and while it's good enough for 99% of people if this is for pure stability for a nontechnical user I'd say to go for the ROMs I mentioned earlier. Some issues on ICS are MMS doesn't work with wifi on, the datadata issue, the ui is a bit different from Touchwiz ROMs, phantom ring still occurs, CWM and nandroids still have some issues, and it's on a pretty rapid release cycle which would mean that you would need to update her phone fairly often.
ICS is great and it's what I'm running but I think the more mature EH03 ROMS are appropriate in this case.
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The link you have goes to Glitch which is a kernel. That is part of the operating system but isn't the entire ICS OS. ICS ROM development is centered over at the rootzwiki developer forum. AOKP, Gummy, and teamhacksung's build are the premier builds.
bobloblaw1 said:
ICS still has some issues and while it's good enough for 99% of people if this is for pure stability for a nontechnical user I'd say to go for the ROMs I mentioned earlier. Some issues on ICS are MMS doesn't work with wifi on, the datadata issue, the ui is a bit different from Touchwiz ROMs, phantom ring still occurs, CWM and nandroids still have some issues, and it's on a pretty rapid release cycle which would mean that you would need to update her phone fairly often.
ICS is great and it's what I'm running but I think the more mature EH03 ROMS are appropriate in this case.
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The link you have goes to Glitch which is a kernel. That is part of the operating system but isn't the entire ICS OS. ICS ROM development is centered over at the rootzwiki developer forum. AOKP, Gummy, and teamhacksung's build are the premier builds.
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Yeah, i figured if the kernel was in beta the rom would be as well, got her on super clean and she likes it , still can't tell the difference between that and a 2.6.1 build that was beta around a year ago,lol, thanks for the help and ics is sick , but bob nailed it in regards to my intentions.
That said , thanks to the both of you for bothering with this b.s. question in the first place , i was at work trying to sort her phone out , she needs her phone , life is chaos and time is short, thanks for making it all a little more easy. Also great to see such great support still going on for this, envious with my charge in regards to roms.
Hope i don't need to post here again for a while if you get what I'm saying, haha !! Thanks a ton !
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Just got a Nexus 7 Tablet last night. I know everyone hates the "best ROM" question but I am clueless ass to the Nexus 7 scene. I have been an EVO/EVO 3D rom user forever.
What is the BEST Nexus 7 Rom for basic performance, battery and mostly added features / tools? If anyone has the time/desire to quickly (in a nutshell) compare and contrast a few top roms that would be awesome.
Your best results will be for you to read the various threads about each of the roms.
There the users of the roms will have posted what they like, have problems with experiences.
It would be hard to get a good comparison from anyone unless they actually have tried all the various rom.
I prefer clean ROM's that don't stray too far from AOSP, and don't include a lot of features. With that said, here's some of my favorites:
CleanROM
TeamEOS
Liquid Jellybean
Glazed Jellybean
And if you do choose a AOSP ROM, Here are some kernels:
motley kernel
faux kernel
Clemsyn's Elite Kernel
Trinity Seven
I'm currently about to give TeamEOS's latest nightly + Clemsyn's Elite Kernel (undervolted) a try
I've moved to Baked Grouper with motley's kernel and am wildly impressed. Liquid is also a very nice ROM.
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I've moved to Baked Grouper with motley's kernel and am wildly impressed. Liquid is also a very nice ROM.
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Thanks for the replies guys. I went ahead and tried Baked Grouper Blackbean by Team Baked.
What are some advantages of the motley kernel?
I'm trying to find a good 4.1.2 ROM, but all seem to be 4.2.2 now. Looking for something stable.
Currently on CM 10 with Matrix kernel, but it still lags for me when swiping home screens.
Any suggestions?
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I'm trying to find a good 4.1.2 ROM, but all seem to be 4.2.2 now. Looking for something stable.
Currently on CM 10 with Matrix kernel, but it still lags for me when swiping home screens.
Any suggestions?
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Try CM10 with Marmite kernel 8.5cm_bigmen version (smartassV2 and row)... Never lagged for me
So I was running stock for a very long time, and I had insane battery life. I usually got 5 and a half hours of screen on time with my usage which mostly included browsing and a bit of youtube-ing and maybe the 30-40 minutes of gaming. I never used it conservatively though, I just didn't need anything else. I had GPS and bluetooth off and I used WiFi only at home (2g, not 3g, when outside).
Anyway, a month ago I flashed PA 3.99 and my battery life has reduced. I only (relatively) get 4 and a half to 5 hours of screen on time. Is this normal? I thought I'll get better battery life with a custom ROM. I'm still running stock kernel BTW.
PA is giving me too many issues including random reboots so I've decided to flash either CM, PSX, Carbon or PACman (help me in deciding from these?). Should I flash a custom kernel too? I'm leaning towards Faux for the battery life but I'm scared it might reduce it!
PS : I just flashed the PA ROM, so I'm still running the stock kernel, right? The thing is, on my older phone, some devs bundled the ROM with a custom kernel. My kernel version says 3.4.0-perf-g04b6fae. Sorry for the noob-ness.
There are just too many factors, the coding, apps installed, kernel, optimization, the user usage pattern, signal quality. It wouldn't surprise me though, but if it work for you stick with it.
Kernel alone doesn't determine the whole picture. I don't use PA, but I don't think it use stock kernel since stock usually ends with "mtv.corp.google.com".
You can check these battery life benchmark for kernels if you want to try, however, I don't go by them: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449982
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So I was running stock for a very long time, and I had insane battery life. I usually got 5 and a half hours of screen on time with my usage which mostly included browsing and a bit of youtube-ing and maybe the 30-40 minutes of gaming. I never used it conservatively though, I just didn't need anything else. I had GPS and bluetooth off and I used WiFi only at home (2g, not 3g, when outside).
Anyway, a month ago I flashed PA 3.99 and my battery life has reduced. I only (relatively) get 4 and a half to 5 hours of screen on time. Is this normal? I thought I'll get better battery life with a custom ROM. I'm still running stock kernel BTW.
PA is giving me too many issues including random reboots so I've decided to flash either CM, PSX, Carbon or PACman (help me in deciding from these?). Should I flash a custom kernel too? I'm leaning towards Faux for the battery life but I'm scared it might reduce it!
PS : I just flashed the PA ROM, so I'm still running the stock kernel, right? The thing is, on my older phone, some devs bundled the ROM with a custom kernel. My kernel version says 3.4.0-perf-g04b6fae. Sorry for the noob-ness.
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I did exactly the same, and feel exactly the same... I have the same apps, same usage, and I feel like I have a few hours less with this ROM (and same Kernel). I'm planning to give Franco a try, I think, although according to that benchmark it won't give a great battery life either... Have you already tried anyone?
Just a noob question, I haven't yet completely understood that thing about builds. When I was completely stock I was in JWR66Y. Then I only flashed PA 3.99 RC2 (for that build) and now in settings it says JLS36G. It now means that I have to care that kernels get on well with JLS36G? I thought I would stay in JWR66Y.
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I did exactly the same, and feel exactly the same... I have the same apps, same usage, and I feel like I have a few hours less with this ROM (and same Kernel). I'm planning to give Franco a try, I think, although according to that benchmark it won't give a great battery life either... Have you already tried anyone?
Just a noob question, I haven't yet completely understood that thing about builds. When I was completely stock I was in JWR66Y. Then I only flashed PA 3.99 RC2 (for that build) and now in settings it says JLS36G. It now means that I have to care that kernels get on well with JLS36G? I thought I would stay in JWR66Y.
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there are two versions of 4.3..one is stock (JWR) and one is AOSP (JLS)
the AOSP build is more latest in a way..AOSP build has more speed but has random freezes for 2-3 seconds (should be fixed in most of the roms by now) while stock JWR build is not as speedy as AOSP but doesnt have those random freezes.
And yeah you would now have to flash a JLS kernel rather than JWR..and if you want a kernel with good battery life..try hells core kernel which IMO has the best battery life and performance
http://d-h.st/users/hellsgod/?fld_id=13048#files
Mohit12 said:
So I was running stock for a very long time, and I had insane battery life. I usually got 5 and a half hours of screen on time with my usage which mostly included browsing and a bit of youtube-ing and maybe the 30-40 minutes of gaming. I never used it conservatively though, I just didn't need anything else. I had GPS and bluetooth off and I used WiFi only at home (2g, not 3g, when outside).
Anyway, a month ago I flashed PA 3.99 and my battery life has reduced. I only (relatively) get 4 and a half to 5 hours of screen on time. Is this normal? I thought I'll get better battery life with a custom ROM. I'm still running stock kernel BTW.
PA is giving me too many issues including random reboots so I've decided to flash either CM, PSX, Carbon or PACman (help me in deciding from these?). Should I flash a custom kernel too? I'm leaning towards Faux for the battery life but I'm scared it might reduce it!
PS : I just flashed the PA ROM, so I'm still running the stock kernel, right? The thing is, on my older phone, some devs bundled the ROM with a custom kernel. My kernel version says 3.4.0-perf-g04b6fae. Sorry for the noob-ness.
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after trying multiple different ROMs, kernels, etc.. I found that I wasted a lot of time getting geeked-out over nothing special. Sure, it's fun.. exciting... learning.. some minor features that are cool.. but, I do desire to have those hours of life back. Also, I experienced many more downsides than positives. Battery, lock-ups, random reboots, etc. A rooted stock device has served me very well..
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there are two versions of 4.3..one is stock (JWR) and one is AOSP (JLS)
the AOSP build is more latest in a way..AOSP build has more speed but has random freezes for 2-3 seconds (should be fixed in most of the roms by now) while stock JWR build is not as speedy as AOSP but doesnt have those random freezes.
And yeah you would now have to flash a JLS kernel rather than JWR..and if you want a kernel with good battery life..try hells core kernel which IMO has the best battery life and performance
http://d-h.st/users/hellsgod/?fld_id=13048#files
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Thanks! I had read about the difference between AOSP and stock, but didn't know/remember that JLS always AOSP. I think I felt this one better than stock. I've already been 4 days with it and I'm really comfortable being able to change dpi individually, custom it and use Pie, too, and stability is just as in stock, I think (I only got restarts in both of them while using Skype :S ). I didn't even worry to try CyanogenMod (in all my previous phones I had used it, always).
schmit said:
after trying multiple different ROMs, kernels, etc.. I found that I wasted a lot of time getting geeked-out over nothing special. Sure, it's fun.. exciting... learning.. some minor features that are cool.. but, I do desire to have those hours of life back. Also, I experienced many more downsides than positives. Battery, lock-ups, random reboots, etc. A rooted stock device has served me very well..
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That's my concern in trying with new, custom kernels. Right now I'm just fine (although I'd like to have a little better battery life), so I'll keep reading and see if it's worth changing the kernel .
Thank you!
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Thanks! I had read about the difference between AOSP and stock, but didn't know/remember that JLS always AOSP. I think I felt this one better than stock. I've already been 4 days with it and I'm really comfortable being able to change dpi individually, custom it and use Pie, too, and stability is just as in stock, I think (I only got restarts in both of them while using Skype :S ). I didn't even worry to try CyanogenMod (in all my previous phones I had used it, always).
That's my concern in trying with new, custom kernels. Right now I'm just fine (although I'd like to have a little better battery life), so I'll keep reading and see if it's worth changing the kernel .
Thank you!
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the hassle come with flashing a new rom because you have to do a factory reset..with kernel though its pretty simple just wipe cache/dalvik cache flash kernel then reboot. So just try the kernels you think are interesting and if youre not comfortable with it then flash another one..i know its a hassle with rom but not much with kernel.
P.S you guys should really try hells god kernel. Ive been personally using it for 3 months and the battery life is just amazing
I'm getting good battery life with KitKat.
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the hassle come with flashing a new rom because you have to do a factory reset..with kernel though its pretty simple just wipe cache/dalvik cache flash kernel then reboot. So just try the kernels you think are interesting and if youre not comfortable with it then flash another one..i know its a hassle with rom but not much with kernel.
P.S you guys should really try hells god kernel. Ive been personally using it for 3 months and the battery life is just amazing
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Yeah, I've already flashed kernels in other phones, but never had this risk of compatibility issues due to different builds.
I've read that JSS kernels in JWR roms cause problems. Is the opposite not true? I mean, right now I have a stock JWR kernel running in a AOSP based ROM (JLS). Could this compatibility problems cause boot issues too? Of course, always with tested kernels. Or I'll always have the opportunity to boot into TWRP and flash a new kernel, until one works?
And one last question. When I look for AK's 4.3 kernel I only read JWR and JSS. Why doesn't it say JLS? Is it the same as JSS, then?
Thanks!
I can vouch for the above statements. I'm liking Hells core kernel. It's fast and has great battery life (as good as stock, maybe even slightly better). FWIW, I'm using Carbon ROM now and it's MUCH better than PA.
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Yeah, I've already flashed kernels in other phones, but never had this risk of compatibility issues due to different builds.
I've read that JSS kernels in JWR roms cause problems. Is the opposite not true? I mean, right now I have a stock JWR kernel running in a AOSP based ROM (JLS). Could this compatibility problems cause boot issues too? Of course, always with tested kernels. Or I'll always have the opportunity to boot into TWRP and flash a new kernel, until one works?
And one last question. When I look for AK's 4.3 kernel I only read JWR and JSS. Why doesn't it say JLS? Is it the same as JSS, then?
Thanks!
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Sorry i forgot to mention that JLS and JSS are the same build JLS being the latest one..so there is no difference in JSS or JLS. You can flash a JSS kernel on a JLS build no problem. But if youre build is jwr then your kernel build should also be jwr because yes it causes compatibility issues if you flash a jwr kernel on a jss/jls build or vice versa. In every ROM the stock kernel is matched with its build number. If its a jwr ROM then the stock kernel would also be jwr and vice versa.
Flashing a jwr on a jls/jss rom or a jls/jss kernel on a jwr rom might cause the phone to be in a bootloop (not going past the bootanimation) and even if you get it to boot up the performance would be lacking and it might cause random freezes, graphic glitches and or random reboots.
However there are some roms that are a hybrid which means its a combination of jwr build and jls/jss build. In that case you will flash a jwr kernel only nothing else.
Hi,
Is it just my i9300 or there is a lag that is evident in Jelly Bean 4.3 / CM 10.2?
I have noticed this lag when double-tapping to zoom in photos (on stock browser, stock Gallery, Quickpic, etc.) with Carbon 1.8 (JB 4.3 with default kernel and Boeffla 2.0) and CM 10.2 (JB 4.3 with default kernel and Boeffla 2.0).
Anyone else having this lag when double-tapping to zoom in photos?
Thanks in advance.
Aosp roms on the s3 are all laggy to an extent. Samsung still refuse to release the sources for exynos
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Aosp roms on the s3 are all laggy to an extent. Samsung still refuse to release the sources for exynos
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AOSP JB 4.2.2 is very smooth though on my i9300. Currently using Carbon 1.7 + Boeffla 2.0 @ default frequencies -- no lags and much smoother than AOSP JB 4.3.
You aren't the only one. Same thing on my I9305 currenty using CM 10.1 stable, it is very smooth and fast. On any 4.3 rom it's lagging big time custom kernels only make it worse, I wonder why this happens
Mine has no lag on cm10.2
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Tried CM many times,no lag.
I feel lag on JB 4.3....
i experience minor lags from time to time nothing to severe cm10.2