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How many of you would like a ROM like this?

Hi guys,
Like many of you, I've tested lots of different ROMs. After all, that's the beauty of owning a Google Phone.
However, I can't seem to find ONE ROM that fits all my needs. I was wondering how many of you would like something like this:
- Stock-based
- MIUI notification bar toggles (Cyanogen's would also be fine though)
- Battery Percentage Icon
- Themable (AOSP)
- Compatible with most kernels out there (so that we can choose whichever we want)
- No copyrighted things from other devices (ie. ringtones, apps, etc.)
I've yet to find a ROM that suits all these needs. Cyanogen is not stable or smooth enough to my liking, when compared to the stock experience. MUIU is beautiful, but a bit heavy and not really optimized for SAMOLED (even the darker theme uses very little pure black). Most of the other ROMs don't have notification bar toggles. The ones that do are based on Cyanogen or MUIU, so it's not much different from using one or the other.
The closest ROM I've seen to this is Amethyst, but it's been discontinued by the developer, and it's a bit limited on the notification toggle options. Heck, MIUI is perfect with so many toggles all easily accessible from the notification bar.
Does anyone else feel that way? Maybe if enough people would be into this, perhaps a developer could feel it's worth doing something like that. Or am I alone in my wishes?
Regards!

I too have went through a ton of roms on this phone, and the one that i keep coming back too is the NSCollab series of roms (currently on 1.0.43). it has the stock launcher so it is really smooth and has the app drawer that i love, also has notification buttons and other settings from cyanogen. You can also flash the theme chooser to have a few different looks to the rom, but the best thing i have like about it is that its really stable and fluid

Zuluzulu might be what you are looking for. Its really cool looking and stable. The batterylife is incredible, and it is clockable to 1.4 ghz since it use the netarchy kernel.
CM even the latest RC 1 consumes all my battery in less than 24 hours.
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lfmmoura said:
Hi guys,
Like many of you, I've tested lots of different ROMs. After all, that's the beauty of owning a Google Phone.
However, I can't seem to find ONE ROM that fits all my needs. I was wondering how many of you would like something like this:
- Stock-based
- MIUI notification bar toggles (Cyanogen's would also be fine though)
- Battery Percentage Icon
- Themable (AOSP)
- Compatible with most kernels out there (so that we can choose whichever we want)
- No copyrighted things from other devices (ie. ringtones, apps, etc.)
I've yet to find a ROM that suits all these needs. Cyanogen is not stable or smooth enough to my liking, when compared to the stock experience. MUIU is beautiful, but a bit heavy and not really optimized for SAMOLED (even the darker theme uses very little pure black). Most of the other ROMs don't have notification bar toggles. The ones that do are based on Cyanogen or MUIU, so it's not much different from using one or the other.
The closest ROM I've seen to this is Amethyst, but it's been discontinued by the developer, and it's a bit limited on the notification toggle options. Heck, MIUI is perfect with so many toggles all easily accessible from the notification bar.
Does anyone else feel that way? Maybe if enough people would be into this, perhaps a developer could feel it's worth doing something like that. Or am I alone in my wishes?
Regards!
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You can flash the systemui.apk that I made over a stock rom and get the notification toggles and still be able to theme the phone but be ware if you flash a theme copy the drawables to your system ui or loose the toggles. Its in nexus a themes and apps
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[Help] Getting my N7 next week...

I'm getting my N7 next week and I already decided not to run stock JB, but to root and install some of the kernels and roms already posted in dev. section.
Since I haven't been following those forums I'm a bit confused with so much choice, so I thought you could help wich kernel/rom to install.
So far, I think that motley kernel and smooth rom are the ones, but I hope you guys will make or break for me, since you've got more experience with the device.
Thanks!

I'm running Hyperrunner's Glazed Jellybean 2.0 with the included Franco kernel, and used PmR 2.0 for some additional tweaks, and I have to tell you, I'm loving this combo!. I've used/tried many rom and kernel combinations, and can honestly say I haven't found one much more polished than this.
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Paranoid Android; I hate the phone-style of the buttons in the center, can't reach them all with my thumb and it's really annoying since you'll be hitting the home button a lot in applications. Paranoid Android fixed that by letting me choose the tablet setting for that.
Also, what I noticed, is that apps are often build with two resolutions in mind; 360px and 720px. As the phablet mode tells the app it needs to use 600px, it will automatically scale down to 360. With Paranoid Android you can change that manually to 720
Which is also a nice toggle if your tablet gets older and can't seem to run all games anymore; you just set it to 360px for a little more FPS.
Although I'm hearing a lot from users here they are using glazed rom because it's the fastest and smoothest. Haven't noticed any stutters or lag on PA, and how smooth is smooth? It's just all down to launcher animations nowadays.

[Q] Is it worth using custom ROMs on the Nexus 4?

Why the need? Just for extra features? Is there any *perceivable* performance benefits when using custom ROMs?
EDIT: What about custom kernels + AOSP, any real improvement here?

You're the only one who can decide that. You already have stock, so the custom ROM's will only be giving you a (relatively) small set of added features, many of which can be duplicated with individual apps/mods. Performance benefits are debatable - a custom ROM will give you greater ability to tweak things and possibly speed it up, but on the flipside there's a greater likelihood of messing something up. In my case, the phone is already working as fast as I can imagine, so I'm not sure exactly what performance benefits I would see.
Note that rooting is a separate story, it does allow you to install mods that make the phone a better experience (battery circle as example).
edit: it could be worth installing a stock ROM that's been deodexed, allowing for more mods. I'm thinking about that.

personally I think AOKP and CyanogenMod bring a lot to the table. They essentially fill in gaps Google's left behind. Things like 4.1+'s broken notification system where the phone vibrates on all notifications as a global setting (no option to disable unless you go to silent), despite each app having individual vibrate settings.
It's screwups like these that piss me off. CM makes it easy to fix these things.

dmo580 said:
personally I think AOKP and CyanogenMod bring a lot to the table. They essentially fill in gaps Google's left behind. Things like 4.1+'s broken notification system where the phone vibrates on all notifications as a global setting (no option to disable unless you go to silent), despite each app having individual vibrate settings.
It's screwups like these that piss me off. CM makes it easy to fix these things.
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huh...somehow I hadn't realized that, even though my phone's been vibrating away. That is an annoying bug.

CM has faster download speed on WiFi than stock
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Stock is no slouch.
Many AOSP ROMs are no slouch either.
I've come to rely on many of CM's features, so that's what I typically run. As a feature list gets longer, so does the potential bug list though. I've yet to experience a mission critical bug on any ROM I've daily driven; you can usually determine very quickly if a ROM promises a lot of bugs, or is the right one for you.

I don't notice any performance benefits from roms, that's mainly kernel related. I flash roms for the extra features.

ceejay83 said:
I don't notice any performance benefits from roms, that's mainly kernel related. I flash roms for the extra features.
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DITTO.

asawoszc said:
DITTO.
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When on AOSP, you flash ROMs for the features, the performance gain isn't noticible- ill be rolling stock rom and custom kernel

As much as I like CyanogenMod and it's additional features, I get worried that the performance is sometimes stunted by the open source drivers for key parts of the phone, which sometimes lack the performance and stability of the closed source drivers from the stock ROM. This was my experience from my former phone, the i9000.
Is it the same case for the Nexus 4 and CM? Or is everything completely opened up because it is a AOSP phone (therefore no chance of drivers becoming a cause of performance issue)?
Thanks for the responses, my Nexus 4 is due to arrive in "6-7 weeks".

Tundraswan said:
As much as I like CyanogenMod and it's additional features, I get worried that the performance is sometimes stunted by the open source drivers for key parts of the phone, which sometimes lack the performance and stability of the closed source drivers from the stock ROM. This was my experience from my former phone, the i9000.
Is it the same case for the Nexus 4 and CM? Or is everything completely opened up because it is a AOSP phone (therefore no chance of drivers becoming a cause of performance issue)?
Thanks for the responses, my Nexus 4 is due to arrive in "6-7 weeks".
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Most of the drivers here are open source. This is an AOSP phone! A built from AOSP will the same as your stock rom.
Besides that there are some niceties of the Qualcom chipset which are under lock&key and proprietary. Some custom kernel's replace these with open source alternatives. (Franco & Faux for example). But as far as I can tell these guys are in the business of stability :good:

Ok, so I've had my Nexus 4 for 2-3 weeks, I'm very impressed.
Though I'm missing some of the little tweaks I used to have when I used CM10.1 on my old phone.
Things I'm concerned about on CM:-
Battery performance
Video decoding compatibility/performance
Camera performance
Can anyone who has experience advise if there any noticeable differences between stock and CM regarding these points?

First one I don't know since I don't run cm.
The rest will be the same as stock. Unlike your old phone ( probably). Cm doesn't have to do any hackery to get things like the camera to work on a officially supported nexus device.

Coming from CM on both the i9000 and the S3, it works flawless on my N4.
I don't notice any performance changes with either CM or AOKP, but I've come to rely on their added features. I also have a custom kernel (franco)...not sure the performance has changed with that either, but battery life is definitely improved.

Running AOKP with Franco r53 surely does make a difference to me. Screen time streched 1 hour more, I like the UI way better because it's so tweakable and other added functional features really get the most out of my phone like lock the screen with the home button drag and more status bar tile functions.
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Remcotjuuh said:
Running AOKP with Franco r53 surely does make a difference to me. Screen time streched 1 hour more, I like the UI way better because it's so tweakable and other added functional features really get the most out of my phone like lock the screen with the home button drag and more status bar tile functions.
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Screen lock with home button? What a great idea. I have been looking for an app to do that and found a few....but they all have there quirks.
Only thing that I can't get my head around is if there is room for improvement, why don't Google implement it?
I'm not taping about features but performance.

I guess they just want go promote Google Now with it since it opens that by default.
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Custom kernel - Yeah I notice a big difference between franco and stock (roughly double the battery life for my use case.)
Custom rom - The big thing for me was getting control of my volumes, stock you can't set a separate volume for notifications and ringtones but with AOKP I can. Outside of that though I don't notice much difference but I also picked the least different rom.
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monkeying. around said:
Screen lock with home button? What a great idea. I have been looking for an app to do that and found a few....but they all have there quirks.
Only thing that I can't get my head around is if there is room for improvement, why don't Google implement it?
I'm not taping about features but performance.
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Google seems to always leave things in a state of perpetual "beta", I've also noticed that they like to break things and instead of fixing them they take the attitude of "that's how it is now and it's better".
Fortunately they also release phones like the n4 that allows people to hack the crap out of it so some very smart people can fix those mistakes.

[Q] custom ROM with most tweaks

Just want to know the names of ROMs that have the most tweaks. Thanks in advance
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AOKP and Xylon probably.
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Cm 10 or PA or AOKP....

But I prefer PA rom its outstanding....runs so smooth my man...just try it out...and add franco kernel with it and your set!!!!

alewis2k12 said:
Cm 10 or PA or AOKP....
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cm10 is months behind aokp and pa.
i really want to try pa. but as i was reading through the paranoidandroid thread, i noticed the guy that builds it out doesnt necessarily have the same end game as i do. but i will still give it a try sooner or later.

xylon most likely

codefireX
Customizations and tweaks without compromising smoothness and performance. Bleeding edge seems like, as far as performance modifications go.
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You should check out BR11 by Codefirex or PA which i haven't tried yet but it is very customizable.
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Thanks guys I'll try em later.
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PA is a solid choice.
I enjoyed it for a while on my Note, would switch back and forth between it and vanilla CM10.
PA allows one to customize the presentation of Android better than any other ROM but whether or not usability is improved as far as practical application seems to usually be more a function of app limits than user. What I mean by this is that as far as UI layout, colors etc go - nothing comes close to touching this ROM. But the user experience beyond design is largely based on how a given app has been designed to be interacted with in different form factor layouts.
So for example, you switch your Gmail to display in tablet mode . If you find your user experience improved, it's because the Google dev team behind the Gmail app did a good job designing its different layouts.
As far as tailoring your Android experience to your own desire, your limits are design limits: colors, layouts, etc
ROMs like codefireX have a customization and user experience philosophy based more around function and practical application than design. So while I do not have the choice to change layout, colors etc per app, I can change/add functionality and buttons to the nav bar, the behavior of expanding the notification shade is different, I can modify power menu options etc.
Neither philosophy is necessarily superior to the other but I found myself more attracted to that codefireX offered than what PA offers.
What PA can accomplish is impressive in its own right but my user experience is better served by being able to do more in a wider variety of areas than specializing and excelling in general aesthetics and presentation.
That being said, PA is less performance and power user oriented. The performance hit on the hardware and limitations of the Note was very marked, the N4's beefy internals can easily take the performance hit the invasive per app modifications and hybrid engine generates. While PA seemed to me to be as smooth as any, it definitely wasn't close to being the fastest. It seemed to me to be as fast (maybe a tad slower) than stock but it's not as fast as some of these other ROMs (codefireX included).
So honestly, you should probably try a variety of ROMs out and see which suits you best. I found myself diverging from the philosophy behind PA but you might enjoy it best. It was just no longer the right setup for me.
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rlaw said:
PA is a solid choice.
I enjoyed it for a while on my Note, would switch back and forth between it and vanilla CM10.
PA allows one to customize the presentation of Android better than any other ROM but whether or not usability is improved as far as practical application seems to usually be more a function of app limits than user. What I mean by this is that as far as UI layout, colors etc go - nothing comes close to touching this ROM. But the user experience beyond design is largely based on how a given app has been designed to be interacted with in different form factor layouts.
So for example, you switch your Gmail to display in tablet mode . If you find your user experience improved, it's because the Google dev team behind the Gmail app did a good job designing its different layouts.
As far as tailoring your Android experience to your own desire, your limits are design limits: colors, layouts, etc
ROMs like codefireX have a customization and user experience philosophy based more around function and practical application than design. So while I do not have the choice to change layout, colors etc per app, I can change/add functionality and buttons to the nav bar, the behavior of expanding the notification shade is different, I can modify power menu options etc.
Neither philosophy is necessarily superior to the other but I found myself more attracted to that codefireX offered than what PA offers.
What PA can accomplish is impressive in its own right but my user experience is better served by being able to do more in a wider variety of areas than specializing and excelling in general aesthetics and presentation.
That being said, PA is less performance and power user oriented. The performance hit on the hardware and limitations of the Note was very marked, the N4's beefy internals can easily take the performance hit the invasive per app modifications and hybrid engine generates. While PA seemed to me to be as smooth as any, it definitely wasn't close to being the fastest. It seemed to me to be as fast (maybe a tad slower) than stock but it's not as fast as some of these other ROMs (codefireX included).
So honestly, you should probably try a variety of ROMs out and see which suits you best. I found myself diverging from the philosophy behind PA but you might enjoy it best. It was just no longer the right setup for me.
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i went ahead and stuck pa on my phone last night. i wasnt impressed with the speeds or the confusion. definitely going to try codefirex next.

phermey said:
i went ahead and stuck pa on my phone last night. i wasnt impressed with the speeds or the confusion. definitely going to try codefirex next.
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Be aware the latest build (11) introduced issues with its toolchain that causes chrome/opera mobile browsers to crash on certain sites. The regular aosp browser works perfectly. (it's my assumption it's the new toolchain causing this, little else changed)
If you depend on chrome/opera mobile, try to find the 10.1 build.
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To a novice user, ParanoidAndroid may seem a bit daunting, and lacking in features. However, many thematic add-ons–such as extra toggles and notification widgets–will definitely come in time. Battery icons can easily be injected yourself. I wrote a brief tutorial on how to do so here.
Here's a short album I made of a few unique features to ParanoidAndroid (and will likely stay unique to the project). Pay attention to the nav/notification bar. It can be a different color depending on the app you are using. Further, no other ROM today allows you to consolidate the nav and notification bar, à la tablet UIs. Also, I attached a few cropped photos highlighting zoom buttons that I put in place myself. Theming is REALLY easy to do. Independent dpi and layout.... now there's something you won't see on CM10, Codefirex, AOKP, etc. ParanoidAndroid is very innovative in this regard and is really the only current pre-release ROM that is capable of providing a significantly different user experience.

We need PACMan ROM. Paranoid, with AOKP and CM10 all baked in. That was my DD on the Skyrocket. Definitely miss it.
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** OFFICIAL WHICH IS THE BEST or FAVORITE ROM /KERNEL THREAD **

This is the official "which is the best or favorite ROM/KERNEL for the Nexus 7 Thread"
In lieu of all the threads recently being created, asking the same question "which is the best, fastest, least trouble free" ROM for the device, this thread has been created. This thread also covers Kernels.
Notice, all other threads asking the same question, will be deleted and re-directed here. This is in an effort to keep the number of new threads lower, and to enable better searches for people looking for an answer.
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Thanks for locking my thread and opening this about best ROM for nexus. I will watch this thread and see which is the answer of my question.

STOCK ROM!

Honestly, on my N73G, I am liking stock. I will probably do Parandroid eventually, but the amount of trouble, vs. benefit is too high. (Am not able to make my N7 connect via adb to unlock, etc...but that's not what this thread is for )

Paranoid Android for me.

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For Nexus 7 3G, I must say that Supernexus 2 is quite good. even though the customization options are lacking compared to CM10.1 for example, it's smooth and so much stable!
I tried temasek unofficial CM10.1 for quite some time before using supernexus rom; I think I have been flashing 1x of his roms, latest one on top previous ones. I only update temasek rom every 3 or so version or when there is an interesting changes. Can't afford to download everyday; slow and expensive Internet here. If only it offers delta update through cyandelta or rom manager. It's got all CM10.1 features plus many cherry picks which are epic IMO, like native USB OTG mounting, wifi / bluetooth/USB tethering. Just to name a few.
I am now waiting for supernexus 2 build 3 which should be released today, one day after its been released for S2 and S3. It's based on 4.2.2. Gonna try that for a few days. If there's any major problem, I might try temasek rom again.
I have a question: is it safe to flash just the bootloader in fastboot even though I'm using a custom rom based on 4.2.1? I don't want to return to stock because I heard it will wipe internal sd again. My N7 can't connect to my desktop computer through MTP; tried in windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04
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The amount of roms out here is simply confusing.. And please don't accuse me of not doing my homework, I've spent hours reading through rom features and trying them out. None of them have the perfect feeling to me. Also, there is no performance comparision as there is with kernels.
What I'm looking for is as clean rom as possible, more impprtantly though, one that is fast(est) for gaming. Yes, I will use a kernel and oc my device, but roms i've tested still have different performance levels with same kernel settings. Rom should also have tablet ui and some fundametal configuration options such as power menu, quick settings customization etc.. Also, it should be stable enough for everyday use. Battery life is not as important, as it can be saved with app usage and undervolting.
I'm sure others have the same things in mindk, so I'll ask for everyone.
Thank you very much in advance.

scream4cheese said:
STOCK ROM!
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zedwards said:
Honestly, on my N73G, I am liking stock. I will probably do Parandroid eventually, but the amount of trouble, vs. benefit is too high. (Am not able to make my N7 connect via adb to unlock, etc...but that's not what this thread is for )
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I have to agree - stock and unrooted my N7 rocks. Granted, I've only had it a week tomorrow and I'm coming from Hashcode's Kindle Fire rom'ed device - which with most mods is trying to emulate the Nexus 7 - and does a pretty good job too. But my new device got the latest 4.2.2 jelly bean pushed to it a couple of days ago - no fuss/muss - and smooth and awesome it is still.
I'd decided when I activated my new N7 that I'd hold off root and modding it for a week or two to break it in, make sure that I had no warranty claims to make. With one week down all that I've missed about not having root so far is Titanium Backup.
Maybe I'm in the wrong place. Where is the, "Benefits of rooting your Nexus 7?" thread?

Maybe I'm a weirdo here but while stock ROMs are great and fast and whatnot, I'm looking for the most unique ROM! Or maybe I just need a different launcher to spice things up?
But, agreed, there are way too many ROMs that offer minimal differences...

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I think it's smoothroom with franco kernel
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Paranoid Android is by far the best Custom ROM I've tried. Other than ViperX for the HOX etc I think the Paranoid team do such amazing work.
Updated all the time, and never had an issue with PA.
With Faux kernel it "USED" to be amazing all round, but I've noticed recently the battery has been less and less with each update (perhaps Faux isn't keeping up)?
Franco kernel is also brilliant with PA. But yeah, for the Nexus, PA is the way to go !

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The last time I tried PA, my N7 just freezes in the lock screen, quite often. Only thing I can do is reboot. At other time, when lock screen is working, there are lots of lags pretty much everywhere. I still don't understand why people still praised it until now even though in my testing it feels as if I'm holding a bomb ready to explode at any time.
Even people in the nexus community can't escape the "hype" and placebo effect of roms or tweaks or even kernels.
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I have to agree - stock and unrooted my N7 rocks. Granted, I've only had it a week tomorrow and I'm coming from Hashcode's Kindle Fire rom'ed device - which with most mods is trying to emulate the Nexus 7 - and does a pretty good job too. But my new device got the latest 4.2.2 jelly bean pushed to it a couple of days ago - no fuss/muss - and smooth and awesome it is still.
I'd decided when I activated my new N7 that I'd hold off root and modding it for a week or two to break it in, make sure that I had no warranty claims to make. With one week down all that I've missed about not having root so far is Titanium Backup.
Maybe I'm in the wrong place. Where is the, "Benefits of rooting your Nexus 7?" thread?
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I love stock and stock kernel on my N7 because it gives me the best battery life plus performance. I can run many applications flawlessly. No hiccups or lags. To be fair, i have only tried MiNCO ROM, paranoidandroid, and CM 10.1. I liked the customizations and the tweaks that were implemented to improve it but it just wasn't for me.
I flashed back to stock a few days and I'm going to camp here for a while.
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For me: #1 Paranoid Android, #2 Stock.

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Paranoid android, but cant wait to get back to stock 4.2.2...
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I'm a pretty big fan of dirty root box IMHO. I think it looks really slick and gives pretty good performance and tons of customization. Paired with Franco kernel it also gets great battery life.

PRIME D02 is the fastest ROM I've tried, by far.
It is a clean ROM concentrated on improving performance, it doesn't add a lot of features which also can be added afterwards to your taste (for instance if you want a PIE menu you can add LMT Launcher). But you can select extended desktop (full screen), you can customize the navbar buttons and settings, nav ring, status bar, and quick settings (swipe down from the top right of the status bar).
If you use this rom with its standard kernel, make sure to install Trickster MOD and adjust the setting 'CPUQuit Power Management' to 'RUNNABLE' (swipe to the last tab, and don't forget to press 'V' on top of the screen to activate, and enable 'set on boot'). This is needed to get good battery performance, otherwise 3 cores will run at high speed. You will still get the super fluid performance.

fac51void said:
PRIME D02 is the fastest ROM I've tried, by far.
It is a clean ROM concentrated on improving performance, it doesn't add a lot of features which also can be added afterwards to your taste (for instance if you want a PIE menu you can add LMT Launcher). But you can select extended desktop (full screen), you can customize the navbar buttons and settings, nav ring, status bar, and quick settings (swipe down from the top right of the status bar).
If you use this rom with its standard kernel, make sure to install Trickster MOD and adjust the setting 'CPUQuit Power Management' to 'RUNNABLE' (swipe to the last tab, and don't forget to press 'V' on top of the screen to activate). This is needed to get good battery performance, otherwise 3 cores will run at high speed. You will still get the super fluid performance.
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Isn't anyone using AOKP? I switched from SmoothROM and never looked back. SmoothROM was nice, much better than stock, but the customization and stability with AOKP simply incredible. I'm using a 4.2.2 nightly right now, couldn't wait for the Bluetooth fix and haven't had a problem yet.
aokp.co
Try it out, you don't hate unicorns do you? :cyclops:

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CodefireX,Xylon,Vanilla Root box,and now Dirty Rootbox have been impressive this year. Originally loved Baked but haven't even looked for an update since v.7.
Don't much care for PA.
Got tired of hearing about tablet ui and the (ugh) 'Phablet' ui and now its Pie this and Pie that. There is a launcher for that so keep pie out of the ROMs please...
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