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hi all, i'fe rooted my KF, installed TWRP, etc. and want to flash either CM7 or MIUI but I'm not sure which, any suggestions? I've used MIUI on my SGS4G before but have never used CM7 so I'm leaning towards that but do not know how stable it is.
Also, i know that CWM has an advanced restore: data option but is there anything like that in TWRP?
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I'be got twrp and cm7 both work awesome...
Cm7 is almost perfect and is smooth.
CM7 is too plain jane, no charactor. MIUI look and feels much better. CM7 is too over rated.
is it easy to install a rom on the KF? i may just try both if it's simple
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The only problem I've had with MIUI is that any kind of streaming video playback causes a reboot. Other than that everything runs just fine. Give it a shot bud.
CM7 is more polished for the Kindle right now...I switched back to it after trying MIUI
Very easy to install rom with Twrp I'm a noob and have cm7, just followed the threads
Had a few issues but there's so many people on this site who will help you.
Been following the good work of jackpotcalvin on ics rom got it flashed already but just waiting for the sound issues before swapping back from cm7.
I've never tried Mohicans so carny comment.
MIUI. It feels and looks much nicer. It's a lot faster than cm7, too. However, there are some icon issues in the default MIUI launcher and the notification bar when minimised in another application.
It's also worth it to note that cm7 makes up for the lack of home/back/menu/search key buttons by implementing them into the status bar. Miui makes up for it with the use of button savior, an "always on top" toolbar with the buttons. You can download button saviour in any rom, but cm7's tablet bar is worth mentioning. MIUI is actively being updated, though. I'd still go with it as a main rom. It's just so much faster, and I prefer the themes.
The lack of landscape is still annoying, but nothing a custom launcher can't fix.
MIUI or CM7?
Im confused.
I just want a ROM for games, music, books, movies. etc.
Which one is better anyway?
JoshuaLintag said:
MIUI or CM7?
Im confused.
I just want a ROM for games, music, books, movies. etc.
Which one is better anyway?
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Personally speaking I'd go for an optimized stock or CM7, MIUI is not a tablet ROM, IMHO it's a poor man's iOS copy.
CM7 is faster and funnily enough more reliable, however the draw of the Amazon side of it has brought me back to an optimized stock.
damianarnold said:
Personally speaking I'd go for an optimized stock or CM7, MIUI is not a tablet ROM, IMHO it's a poor man's iOS copy.
CM7 is faster and funnily enough more reliable, however the draw of the Amazon side of it has brought me back to an optimized stock.
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I think I agree about optimized stock. I have been checking out the ICS ROM, and it is pretty slick....but for every day use I think I am staying with optimized stock.
MoDaCo gr6 with go launcher is a great Combo.
I am using CM7 and i love it. I didn't like kindle stock, though. so if you like that, i would just get an optimized stock.
CM7 is more android tablet, like.
as far as i know, MIUI is pretty much iOS but for android. it looks cool, but CM7 seems to be better.
But, when ICS finally works, it's going to blow the others out of the water.
It's in beta right now, and has some bugs, but they're going to fix those before the final release.
if you want to try that one, it's a good idea.
it's very pretty, and the most Tablet-like.
I'm switching to it the second final release comes out.
I like CM7 for every day use. Modified stock was good, but would not connect to AD-hoc wifi wireless tether running on my phone. ICS looks and feels great, but still has some issues.
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I think I'm going to try Cm7, and If I won't like it, then MIUI, and if I won't like it, Ill go back to stock ROM.
Just keep in mind that MIUI IS Chinese so if you trust them with your credit card information and personal info go for it
Miui is more than ios, it is highly themeable and customized. And to the above comment, ignorant.
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CM7 is great. I had my Fire all of 2 days before rooting and installing CM7. Not one problem with it. Once CM9 (ICS) is fully functional, I'll gladly switch.
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Miui takes so much work to set up and ive never been able to keep it for more than a day before i vomit all over the device when i realize i just built an iphone lookalike. Then i make a beeline for the cleansing Wipe.
Miui vs cm7 is like asking which is better a piece of **** vs sweet honey laced bacon The question should be cm7 vs cm9. And thats a hard one to choose they are both so good and unique.
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thrashingdeth said:
Miui is more than ios, it is highly themeable and customized. And to the above comment, ignorant.
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How is what he said ignorant? Are they chinese? If so, then he hasn't said anything wrong. He only stated they were chinese.
The information part can be said for anyone, just because they were both in the same post it doesn't mean he's ignorant.
long live MIUI
Hello,
I want to ask you just like it's mentioned in the thread title, is CM10 worth to install right now? Are the differences big between CM9 and CM10?
I am currently on CM9 latest nightly from Epsylon. And whose CM10 is better for now? Epsylon's or Quarx's?
Thanks in advance for answering...
Hi there,
Yes the current CM10 is quite stable and very usable.
The biggest attraction to CM10 is how smooth it is over the current CM9 - Installing Apex Launcher makes it even better.
The new features that were introduced as part of JB are all there and functioning .. eg. two finger swipe and Project Butter.
The JB default browser is the best and responsive browser I have ever used .. flick-scrolls through heavy pages effortlessly ..
I am using the Froyo based build right now though I have a Red lens defy.
Personally I couldnt last on CM9 for more than a day before switching back to MIUI ..
but now i'm hooked on the CM10 and even the dev are focussing all their attention on it..
in short -- most definitely worth the Install
About JB - Only basic things are functioning properly. But, if you ask me, i am using it as my daily ROM, as i use my defy as a phone
About ICS - Its almost fully functional, you won't feel like changing ROM after using it.
Thanks a lot guys. Downloading CM10 then...
I will wait a few more weeks so it's more stable. Satisfied with CM9 right now. (I'm always using Quarx' builds, Defy+)
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i am using it as my daily ROM,it's developing very fast,but not stable as cm9
Yeah, it's not so stable as CM9, and honestly, not so fast. Epsylon's CM9 was really really fast. CM10 is in my opinion something biggest which our phone can't hold on.
After installing all my applications which I am using there is only about 50MB free ram. After one day of using there is even less and phone needs to be restarted because of hard lags in launcher.
I am going back to CM9, differences are not so big. But I'll miss the notification bar.
My daughter got a new Kindle Fire as a birthday gift over the weekend, and we’re trying to figure out which ROM to put on it. She has an Android phone, so her primary purpose of ROMing the Kindle Fire is to access the Google Play store and to be able to sync all of her other Google services... Books, Music, Apps, Gmail, Calendar, Talk, etc…
We’re not necessarily looking for the latest/greatest, but we are mostly interested in…
Most Stable & Bug Free (we don't plan on changing often)
Closest to Vanilla Android (no themes)
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Honestly a rooted kindle fire and Go launcher app will get you the least fuss and closest to an android phone without losing the Amazon functionality.
However, if you want to go ROM and are looking for most stable the Cynogen Mod 7 roms are the most stable and will be exactly like having an android phone.
Good luck
Laquox said:
Honestly a rooted kindle fire and Go launcher app will get you the least fuss and closest to an android phone without losing the Amazon functionality.
However, if you want to go ROM and are looking for most stable the Cynogen Mod 7 roms are the most stable and will be exactly like having an android phone.
Good luck
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Thank you... and honestly, we don't care much about keeping the Amazon functionality. If I knew magic, I would simply turn the Kindle Fire into a Nexus 7 and be done with it. But, we'll work with what we've got!
i use this mod:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778010
it is pretty stable as is, and updating it is easy.
cm7 is nice, because it is stable, but myself, i prefer the latest and greatest.
also, be sure to use something along these lines to set up your kindle for the new rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399889
Thanks I was looking at that one and also Hashcode's Jellybean.
I downloaded the Kindle Fire Utility and read the KFFB Guide this morning... just trying to figure out which ROM to go with.
Personally I recommend an ICS rom. CM7 is good but it is getting outdated. Jellybean is also good but still has bugs. ICS does not have any major bugs and is a lot smoother than CM7. I suggest either the SGT7 based rom by twa_priv, Glazed ICS, or gedeROM.
When you ask me the cm9/ SGT7 based rom by twa_priv,
Or cm10/jelly bean rom based on SGT7 by twa_priv.
If you need to use Amazon's services, check out the MoDaCo ROM. It is the stock rom, but has preinstalled, the Play Store, as well as other things.
If you would like to use ICS, check out GedeROM as it is based on Cyanogen Mod 9 and has lots of features such as advertisement blocking and Beats audio as well as limited support for USB OTG.
If you want it to look like a Nexus 7, you can always install a Jelly Bean ROM. I'm using the Jandycane ROM.
twa_priv's jelly bean Rom is pretty stable. I use it and haven't had any problems.
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Thanks everyone... I got Hashcode's Jellybean installed last night, and it's running great. However, now my daughter is telling me that she misses the way her Kindle Fire looked before the ROM... teenagers! So, I might have to redo it and give MoDaCo that jji7skyline recommended.
dja1980 said:
Thanks everyone... I got Hashcode's Jellybean installed last night, and it's running great. However, now my daughter is telling me that she misses the way her Kindle Fire looked before the ROM... teenagers! So, I might have to redo it and give MoDaCo that jji7skyline recommended.
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Modaco is pretty good. I personally like the real android interface better but it's her kindle not mine.
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I second the MoDaCo recommendation. It gives the best of both worlds, full Amazon integration with performance enhancements, root and GAPPS! I've tried many of the ICS ROMs and the charging / battery life issues are just a deal breaker for me as it seriously hampers usability. I also have yet to see an ICS ROM that implements decent 2D video acceleration...try using Zite on an ICS ROM vs stock/MoDaCo, it's buttery smooth on stock and so slow scrolling on ICS that it's nearly unusable (and that's with the 1.2 Ghz overclock).
Good luck with whatever choice you make!
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I ended up installing MoDaCo over the weekend. My daughter was out of town, so she hasn't given me her feedback yet. But, I played around with it and liked it quite a bit.
The only thing that bugs me is the low resolution icons from the Play Store that show up in the carousel. The Play Store icon itself seems to be high resolution, but the icons from downloaded apps look pretty bad when enlarged by the carousel.
In the next coming days ill be running into your same situation. Younger sis got a kindle fire for her birthday. Am planning to root and install her a good ICS Rom. A stable one, as I will not have free time to wipe cache and debug everytime something happens. My kindle fire has the Modaco Rom. I can tell you from my experience that the modaco has several downsides, as I see it. As u mentilned the carousel icons are hectic but bearable. One more problem is the gapps are all outdated like youtube and the browser is sub par compared to chrome.
I just wish I can flash nexus 7's Rom right on top
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veeman said:
Personally I recommend an ICS rom. CM7 is good but it is getting outdated. Jellybean is also good but still has bugs. ICS does not have any major bugs and is a lot smoother than CM7. I suggest either the SGT7 based rom by twa_priv, Glazed ICS, or gedeROM.
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This is good advice. CM10 ROMs still have Location Services issues and the occasional widget loss on reboot. If you want everything to work nicely grab twa_priv's CM9 ROM. If you want Jelly Bean and can wait a few weeks it's likely a good idea to wait. Remember, for us half the fun is gettng the latest and greatest and fiddling with getting stuff to work. For your daughter you really just want it to work.
Try Jandycane. I installed it and it runs great
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Anything from twa_prob. His CM9 based ROM is more stable, but the CM10 version is quickly catching up.
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Hashcode's is great and easy to use. (I am a kid , also.)
When life gives you tech....Make use of it.
I stopped playing with my rooted Nook Color back when the Nexus 7 came out. I don't even know what's on the NC anymore. And I stopped paying attention to the ROM and launcher scene because I liked the Nexus as it came.
I want to give the NC to my 5 year old. What's a nice, stable, complete ROM, etc. that I won't have to keep tweaking? I wouldn't want a stock Nook experience, but something resembling stock Nexus or an iPad would be OK. (She knows mom's iPad -- we're trying to reclaim it for mom.)
Thanks,
tlc
tee el cee said:
I stopped playing with my rooted Nook Color back when the Nexus 7 came out. I don't even know what's on the NC anymore. And I stopped paying attention to the ROM and launcher scene because I liked the Nexus as it came.
I want to give the NC to my 5 year old. What's a nice, stable, complete ROM, etc. that I won't have to keep tweaking? I wouldn't want a stock Nook experience, but something resembling stock Nexus or an iPad would be OK. (She knows mom's iPad -- we're trying to reclaim it for mom.)
Thanks,
tlc
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Probably the AOSP 4.2 rom, it has most of the developer features taken out and is fairly fast compared other 4.2 roms.
tee el cee said:
I want to give the NC to my 5 year old. What's a nice, stable, complete ROM, etc. that I won't have to keep tweaking? I wouldn't want a stock Nook experience, but something resembling stock Nexus or an iPad would be OK. (She knows mom's iPad -- we're trying to reclaim it for mom.)
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Lately I have been using both AOSP and ParanoidAndroid in my Nook Color, changing from one to another every 2-3 weeks.
As dombeef mentioned, the AOSP builds made by mateorod are indeed the most stock-like experience, and probably the most responsive Android 4.2 experience for the NC. You can find them here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2313435
That being said, I have my love divided between AOSP and the ParanoidAndroid 3+ builds for the NC (also by mateorod), which you can find here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1761257 (avoid the last two builds, sound does not work) *— I find the ability of switching to tablet mode in PA great, and even when AOSP can be patched in to have tablet mode, the result is not as good. Also after using PA for a while I find myself trying to change the DPI or the font scaling of some apps, and I have to end up installing Xposed when running AOSP... PA, while running very decently for such an old device as the Nook, is not as responsive as AOSP, so if you are not going to use the PA features, I would totally recomment sticking with AOSP.
Thanks. I've put mateorod's AOSP on. I hope to leave it alone unless my daughter discovers an issue.
And the "Kids Place" launcher is very nice -- whitelisted apps and a PIN for everything else.
Now I'm packing it with free games. Add a $10 pink "leather" case and we're done!
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