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best rom for nexus 7?

just bought my nexus 7 would like to know what rom is best when it comes to battery life, quickness, and stability?? please help choose rom their are so many

mbrito41712 said:
just bought my nexus 7 would like to know what rom is best when it comes to battery life, quickness, and stability?? please help choose rom their are so many
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The new team BAMF wrong is sooooo buttery! Running very smooth and stable for me

Ive been using Paul Obriens Jr# ROMs. theyre just tweaked stock ROMs, but I have never had a single issue so far and with every release there are new features without any new bugs. which is always nice.

randroid123 said:
The new team BAMF wrong is sooooo buttery! Running very smooth and stable for me
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BAMF is my daily driver .. with Nova Launcher .. reeeeal smoove

Running skanky cm10 nightlies. Very stable, very happy

b0n3 said:
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BAMF is my daily driver .. with Nova Launcher .. reeeeal smoove
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How much smoother can it be than stock jb? Seems like people are getting placebo effects from custom roms, only benefit I see is removal of bloat, if there is any really.
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It ships with stock so run stock for a few weeks to establish a baseline for stability and speed before you go experimenting.

I would wait a couple months. Stock nexus 7 runs great. Just unlock and root it. After a couple months Roms will start to mature and you will also see which ones seem to be leading, me personally, I love to flash. But I, very happy with stock and nova launcher. There are some things I would like from full tablet ui. But every ROM is promising the world. Just waiting to see which ones take the lead.
So just wait for now. no rush, do you hate stock that much?
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Plus people are having some issues booting into recovery without a USB or adb
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Have tried just about all the popular ones out as of yet, favorite so far has to be TeamEOS' nightlies. Very stable, UI works great, launcher rotation, and has the ICS style status bar, which I prefer.
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I se quick boot - lets me soft boot into recovery - no messing around with USB cables
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Plus people are having some issues booting into recovery without a USB or adb
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I've been using the Pure AOSP rom, I used the stock for a couple of days and then switched, never looked back. There aren't a lot of differences between stock and the Pure AOSP, but the AOSP rom provides a cleaner starting point and the camera works by default.
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I'm currently running stock, I just rooted and unlocked so I'm set whenever the stable full roms start kicking in. No need to rush it, just stick with stock for now

SoHaunted said:
How much smoother can it be than stock jb? Seems like people are getting placebo effects from custom roms, only benefit I see is removal of bloat, if there is any really.
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I think you are right about that. Although I flash Roms on my galaxy note, I could not see the need on the nexus 7 because it runs better than any ROM I ever put on the note
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I keep trying new ones in hopes that it will somehow get even better, but keep returning to stock.
Nothing is as smooth.
Currently running stock, rooted, deodexed. With the tabletUI mod. Nova launcher. awesome.

I'm running BAMF Paradigm. It's absolutely an amazing blend of custom features that offer visual and performance related options to really make it your tablet, I'm very happy with it, I've run several others also. DEFINITELY recommend Motley's kernel, it's one of the things I love most about the nexus 7. Also Aaronpoweruser's (sp) cookies and cream rom ran really good for me.

Just go for a different kernel rather than ROM, I tried out Trinity today (only got the 7 yesterday) and I find its quite slick..

SoHaunted said:
lindenhurst said:
I think you are right about that. Although I flash Roms on my galaxy note, I could not see the need on the nexus 7 because it runs better than any ROM I ever put on the note
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How much smoother can it be than stock jb? Seems like people are getting placebo effects from custom roms, only benefit I see is removal of bloat, if there is any really.
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Hundred percent agree. I have Paranoid Android on there just for the Tablet UI changes. I have found that Kernel Improvements do help drastically.

plain old pure aosp. its clean and fast, with the trinity kernel at least

Jelly Bean Glazed V1.1.2
mbrito41712 said:
just bought my nexus 7 would like to know what rom is best when it comes to battery life, quickness, and stability?? please help choose rom their are so many
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I have only tried Jelly Bean Glazed V1.1.2 with motley kernel and I love it! Rock solid stability, amazing speed and great customization.

oscarinexus7 said:
I have only tried Jelly Bean Glazed V1.1.2 with motley kernel and I love it! Rock solid stability, amazing speed and great customization.
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I've also found that Glazed is the only ROM of the one's that I've tried so far that let's me use Amazon Instant Video from the Amazon web site.

Help needed: Looking for a rom

Hey All,
I'm looking for a rom and having trouble figuring out which one will best suit my needs. Typically, I would just download a bunch of roms and try them out, but I'm stuck in China with a low data ceiling on a very slow connection for the foreseeable future. I really need to be like 80% sure before I download.
I've been running CleanRom since the summer, and that has been a great experience, but CleanRom is no longer being developed, so I'm no longer up to date.
I want something with integrated tablet mode, and I would like something with a volume slider in the notification tray. Wifi toggle switch would also be ideal (I prefer not to use apps for these features). Aside from those features, I just need the most stable rom possible. Additional customization isn't necessary. In fact, pure stock outside of the features I listed would be great. And I'm obviously not looking for nightly builds. I want something to throw on here and leave on until the next Android update.
Does anyone know a rom that meets this criteria? If you have suggestions, I would love to hear them, and then I'll go read some threads.
I really appreciate the help.
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Check CM10 with Tablet UI, it should fit the needs you are looking for.
I have been using it since last 4 days and its been stable.No issues yet.

sahshah said:
Check CM10 with Tablet UI, it should fit the needs you are looking for.
I have been using it since last 4 days and its been stable.No issues yet.
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I was just flipping through that thread to see what people were saying. I appreciate the suggestion.
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Check Glazed Jellybean here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1796668
I've been running this rom since 1.1.2 and have been very pleased with it. My current setup is Glazed JB 2.0 with the included Franco kernel, and Nova Launcher Prime for a launcher. I'm also using Pimp My Rom 2.0 for additional tweaks, but from the sounds of it you may not even want that.
Good luck in your search.
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jskeyes said:
Check Glazed Jellybean here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1796668
I've been running this rom since 1.1.2 and have been very pleased with it. My current setup is Glazed JB 2.0 with the included Franco kernel, and Nova Launcher Prime for a launcher. I'm also using Pimp My Rom 2.0 for additional tweaks, but from the sounds of it you may not even want that.
Good luck in your search.
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Ivbeen looking at that one too, but the feedback seems to indicate that it might be more buggy. Have you had this experience?
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ejchis said:
Ivbeen looking at that one too, but the feedback seems to indicate that it might be more buggy. Have you had this experience?
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You want a solid rom? Team EOS is going to be your best bet. Very minimal isnt loaded with a bunch of crap you wont use. Has its own toggles however are kind of an eyesore IMO. You could just use an app to do the same thing i recommend "Extended Controls" Its a dollar.. but well worth it. LOL reread your OP oops.. :S
Also if you have the pull down.. and swipe in the middle to either the right or the left.. it will swap the Date and clock to a volume slider on the left and a brightness slider on the right .

The only problem I've had with this rom is the oft mentioned error about invalid glazed 2.0 init.. and it's more of a minor nuisance than anything. Functionality does not seem to have a problem, and I'm sure the message has something to do with Glazed being based on a CM nightly.. a bad integer table entry perhaps. Either way, my overall experience has been great with this setup.. buttery fast, and buttery smooth.
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Thanks for getting back to me on that. I've got a list of three I'm investigating. Trying out this CM10 kang first.

I've had very good luck with cm10. I've tried a few others but keep coming back to cyanogenmod. It's stable and has the features I want. On my Tablet I have many of them turned off, but it's nice for my phone. I
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Best stable ROM for galaxy tab 2 7.0

I have been playing around with some custom ROMs and i am currently on slimbean build 7 official, i love it but i just wanted to see what other people feel is the best stable ROM in their opinion available for the galaxy tab 2 7.0
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I run stock rooted with the next kernel to overclock it and apex launcher. Then I can use the peel remote app.

The stock por CM10.1 you decided what you like more.
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apex
stock cm10 is ok but apex offers a little more features

wow slimbean build 7 official release... ??? i no heard that ...

fooiskandar said:
wow slimbean build 7 official release... ??? i no heard that ...
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I'd have to go with SlimBean. Good support, weekly builds, quick, and pretty bloat free.

Stock rom with Blackhawk rom by @ketut.kumajaya
custom rom mokee opensource by @daavvis worth to try
make it dual booted :thumbup:

Slimbean with Next Kernel .
fast,light,stablee

I'm currently using Aospa 3.x, but the battery duration is horrible, how is this compared to slimbean? im not too much into hard gaming (i use my tab for reading, casual games, email, etc..), so what do you guys recommend to me? stock+somekernel? or slimbean?, can i have tablet mode on slimbean 7? thanks in advance
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i plan on using the slim rom. as far as kernel.......i havent figured out how to/why should i modify my kernel. 2 days until i get my own tab 2...... no more using wife's

sewa2k said:
I'm currently using Aospa 3.x, but the battery duration is horrible, how is this compared to slimbean? im not too much into hard gaming (i use my tab for reading, casual games, email, etc..), so what do you guys recommend to me? stock+somekernel? or slimbean?, can i have tablet mode on slimbean 7? thanks in advance
Best Regards
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Slimbean official build 7 has really good battery life, the best of any rom i have tried. And there is a tablet mode mod you can flash for slimbean. It is on the slimbean thread somewhere, i will try to find it and post it here. Hope this helps
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Here is tablet ui patch, not sure if it will work on the newest version though -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40267654
Edit: this is the correct thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154075 works in latest version just download and flash the build 7 version, be sure to also download the build 7 restore file just in case something goes wrong
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acam333 said:
Slimbean official build 7 has really good battery life, the best of any rom i have tried. And there is a tablet mode mod you can flash for slimbean. It is on the slimbean thread somewhere, i will try to find it and post it here. Hope this helps
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Galaxy peria my rom and cm10.1.2 and blackhawk rom and mookee unoffical
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I've tried CM, AOSPA, PAC and finally SlimBean and combined with TabletUI, Xposed framework and Holo launcher the latter one is what I like most!

Eeehhhh. I use PAC-Man. It's not the most stable thing in the world, with it's occasional fast rebooting. But, I have never seen a ROM with as many customization options as this. Throw your favorite CM theme, and your favorite icon pack for Apex or Nova launcher, maybe play around with the transparency levels and colors on your Navbar and status bar, and then... Then you have a thing of beauty right there. I like it, even though it has it's quirks.
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Stock CM runs like a train here. Default Android was sluggy and laggish but everything is now super fast. Never had a problem.

Olburgs said:
Stock CM runs like a train here. Default Android was sluggy and laggish but everything is now super fast. Never had a problem.
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What do u mean by "stock CM" ?
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idhbar said:
What do u mean by "stock CM" ?
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The one found at http://download.cyanogenmod.org/
I am using the 10.1.0 RC5. I think it's the overhead of all Samsung crap that can be found on the device that makes it move like a slug. (Alas, for me the speed was barely acceptable)

Olburgs said:
The one found at http://download.cyanogenmod.org/
I am using the 10.1.0 RC5. I think it's the overhead of all Samsung crap that can be found on the device that makes it move like a slug. (Alas, for me the speed was barely acceptable)
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Why arent you using cm10.1.2 stable?
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Cm 10.1.2 is the most stable. Running with dhollmen kernel.
Absolutely smooth and no issues at all. Works like charm.
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Color Rom released!

Go get it!
http://www.oppoforums.com/index.php?threads/4253/
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Go get it!
http://www.oppoforums.com/index.php?threads/4253/
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I don not recommend to get this version if you need to use mobile internet, the settings to add APNs is failing

It's buggy like the versions before ColorROM. It is called "international", but no support for german or french. Hello, Oppo? What are you doing?

My apns are sticking just fine here.
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COLOR ROM looks nice and you can see that's made with much love to the details. However, in the most important point is there no progress: The Kernel!
Drainage is still awesome and it gets quickly hot, difference between existing Faux Kernel is big especially at screen on. Think I will accordingly change back to the current Stock BETA and Faux Kernel wich was for me a real good combination for daily use.
Don't think that Oppo will spend much effort in this Kernel improvement due to announcement of a 4.2 release and considering that 4.3 is close. Hope they will do their homework with one of the next releases, a lot of people hope this and I think they will do a big fault wrt. community if the Find 7 comes out and the Find 5 is still not running as it should or better could..
It makes me a little bit worry that for a phone which is since several month's on the market no solution from the manufacturer is in place to improve the battery life which is one of the most important things on a mobile. Hope there will come something with the release of 4.2 in August..
But it's still a good phone and I like it very much, finally I trust Oppo that they doing something...

There's an update for the color.rom about the APN settings! link is in the forum at oppoforums :thumbup:
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I had no problems with my apn settings and so far its amazing. Cant comment on battery life yet. I love stock android but this is ridiculously good.
Edit: I did have issues after all. Ripped the apn settings off the stock rom.
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No battery drainage while idle.So far seems nice.
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I set the leaf rain wallpaper and now it's always raining no matter which wallpaper I set. Any ideas?
Edit: fixed by clearing launcher data.
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Idle is o.k. for me as well... but as soon I do something with the launcher (testing, go into settings as usual when trying a new rom) it's getting to hot for such simple things and battery goes quickly down.

Best ROM for battery life and performance?

Last time I ever flashed a ROM or participated in this was about 3 years ago. I'm pretty fresh to how this works and all but i still remember the gist of it. I just got my nexus 4 and am hoping to make it better
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mksin11 said:
Last time I ever flashed a ROM or participated in this was about 3 years ago. I'm pretty fresh to how this works and all but i still remember the gist of it. I just got my nexus 4 and am hoping to make it better
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ROM will be pretty much irrelevant. The vast majority are AOSP based, with the differences being visual tweaks and added features, which add little, if any, drain on the battery. Some features, like pocket mode, might drain a bit more, but it's up to you to use them. All will run smooth as butter, stock. It's things like live wallpapers, excessive widgets, and apps running in the background that'll cause lag and stutters.
Custom kernels can help with battery life, but it's a small percentage, and it depends more on how you use the phone. A wakelock detector app plus Greenify can keep your phone from constantly waking and syncing, and that helps battery life a lot. And of course, screen brightness is the biggest battery killer of all.

mksin11 said:
Last time I ever flashed a ROM or participated in this was about 3 years ago. I'm pretty fresh to how this works and all but i still remember the gist of it. I just got my nexus 4 and am hoping to make it better
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Well if you want a really smooth and battery friendly rom, I'd recommend the L preview.. If you want a Kk rom I'd recommend liquidsmooth as it's feature packed and optimized really well. I personally have used both and right now use LS with Unleashed kernel.. It's a great combo. But in the end you gotta try out doff things to see what you like

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Well if you want a really smooth and battery friendly rom, I'd recommend the L preview.. If you want a Kk rom I'd recommend liquidsmooth as it's feature packed and optimized really well. I personally have used both and right now use LS with Unleashed kernel.. It's a great combo. But in the end you gotta try out doff things to see what you like
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I was thinking of install the L preview and matrix kernal! But I don't really know how stable and what bugs are in the ROM and also not many apps will work on L...
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I was thinking of install the L preview and matrix kernal! But I don't really know how stable and what bugs are in the ROM and also not many apps will work on L...
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While I used it there weren't any issues in my end .. But since L will be out in a matter a few weeks, if you want to stick to kk, the try out LS..

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While I used it there weren't any issues in my end .. But since L will be out in a matter a few weeks, if you want to stick to kk, the try out LS..
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So let's say I install L and matrix kernal. When the official update comes out, will I lose root when I update?
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So let's say I install L and matrix kernal. When the official update comes out, will I lose root when I update?
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Well I doubt you would be able to even install an ota update of the official L.. You'd have to probably flash a new rom based on it or flash the factory image once it's out.. I'm sure rooted base roms of L would come out within a week of the release so you could flash that.. But if you want the ota, then you can go back to factory image 4.4.4 after release of L and get the ota after.. But no root.