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best rom to run?

what would be the best rom to run, what is the most stable and would allow me to stay active on my phone at the same thing as giving me great customizations and battery life? also does any of the roms out there all you to set songs for the notification and messaging/email...

I want to say all around cm7(aosp) is the best rom, but not the most stable at the moment. If you like sense roms id say the best is myns warm 2.2. Second best sense rom is koni's elite III imo.
Download "zedge" for custom ringtones and notifications. (Free in market)

It's honestly up to you to find a rom that works for you.
Everyone is going to tell you the name of a different rom.
As fast as sense roms go, I found that Fresh gave me the most stable experience.
Aosp, I found salvageMod to be more stable than cyanogen mod, but cm is much more customizable.
I personally run Myn's Warm Z
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ff2co4 said:
what would be the best rom to run, what is the most stable and would allow me to stay active on my phone at the same thing as giving me great customizations and battery life? also does any of the roms out there all you to set songs for the notification and messaging/email...
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After the most recent cm update, I honestly don't know how any rom could be more stable than that. Everything works and 0 forecloses. To each their own though. I did use Fresh for a while and that seemed to be a pretty quick Sense based rom as well. What is best for me may not be for you. Just do like the rest of us and become a flashaholic

Like bjb said, we all have faves, for different reasons, ymmv.
The two Sense based ones that he mentions are in my sig, and also I've found MikFroyo to be very smooth, good batt life, but pretty much stock look.
Going to an AOSP ROM, or a variant like CM7, can be fun, but be Sure to read all the notes and helpful hints in the first posts for each ROM, they all have their "issues". But often they are worth it for the customizations and tweaking options...
Personally, I am a Sense user, but I ran CM-types on my Hero for a long time, and loved them. The Hero needed them though, to get any real function. The Hero choked on Sense.
But (again, my opinion) I've found Sense based ROMs to be the most stable, and fully "working" (your definition may be different than others) on me Evo. Mainly because the Evo has enough power to actually run it...
blah blah blah...

I have been very impressed with CM7 so far..

CM7 one the top on my list for sure..

Does there REALLY need to be 57,000 threads asking what is the best ROM??
Can't people just READ the goddamn forums?

HipKat said:
Does there REALLY need to be 57,000 threads asking what is the best ROM??
Can't people just READ the goddamn forums?
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Lol, that wont happen.
I don't know what's wrong with just flashing all the available roms and seeing what works best.
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k2buckley said:
Lol, that wont happen.
I don't know what's wrong with just flashing all the available roms and seeing what works best.
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That's the best way...flash all the highly spoken ones...try them for a week, make a note to yourself, then continue on, and stick with what you like.

I have tried a lot of rom,(I am addicted to flashing) and with all these roms. there are some shortfalls. I am on HW 0004 and apart form the screen brightness issue, i find that TMartinPPC_EvoGingerSense_v0.1 is very stable and effective. My screen is not thst bright anyway and the battery is good too.

If you look in the EVO developement section, myns rls5, then mikfroyo 4.6 for sense...then CM 7x and miui for aosp are the most popular. Start with those..
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Vaelpak, OMFGB, my favorites..

You can also try the rom in my signature one of my favs besides Myn 2.2, and Koni Elite II

Vegasrich said:
Vaelpak, OMFGB, my favorites..
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+1 and Kings and Koni's as in my Signature

k2buckley said:
Lol, that wont happen.
I don't know what's wrong with just flashing all the available roms and seeing what works best.
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QFT
Best way to see what works best on your evo
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Been gone! just wanna say hi again! 4S to SGS2

Hi Guys
been out of the scene for some time. ive been a member since the palm treo era. been so busy at work and was sunk into the iphone world. and im tired of the cat and mouse chase regarding the unlock and jailbreak scene. recently, i just fell in love with the SGS2. just ordered the white unlocked version from a UK source. been doin some reading recently bout rooting and mods.
i believe it comes with ginger bread rom and looking around youtube, it seems to be a nice rom. but maybe in the future i would eventually root it and install a custom rom. ( any suggestions?...) any one running the ICS?
oh well im just excited im getting a bad ass phone!

treoreloaded said:
Hi Guys
been out of the scene for some time. ive been a member since the palm treo era. been so busy at work and was sunk into the iphone world. and im tired of the cat and mouse chase regarding the unlock and jailbreak scene. recently, i just fell in love with the SGS2. just ordered the white unlocked version from a UK source. been doin some reading recently bout rooting and mods.
i believe it comes with ginger bread rom and looking around youtube, it seems to be a nice rom. but maybe in the future i would eventually root it and install a custom rom. ( any suggestions?...) any one running the ICS?
oh well im just excited im getting a bad ass phone!
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Welcome back
Don't think you have to wait long for an official Samsung ICS, but if you can't wait take a look at this:
http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entry/New-Android-4-0-3-ROM-leak-by-Samsung-for-Galaxy-S-II-I9100XXLP2-Download-Screenshots-Video-

Welcome on "our side". ;-)
As for the roms, well, here is a quick-start-guide:
1. Full TouchWiz-based ROM's like lightning and checkrom.
2. TouchWiz-based ROM's with less preinstalled apps like gingermod.
3. CyanogenMod 7 for gingerbread and 9 for ice cream sandwich
4. MIUI for a totally redefined UI.
I had them all and liked them all. There were just some that I liked more than others, and before I give you a biased tip, I'd say that you should try all out by yourself.
Installing custom-roms is a piece of cake on that device.
Have fun!
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Welcome,
You'll love the phone it's a nice bit of kit.
User above has explained the rom side ill explain the kernel side,
Most basic stock, intratechs thread all stock roms and kernel odexed versions.
Looking to root or maintain a stock kernel with root, busybox etc CF Root by Chainfire.
Looking for a stock like kernel, with tweaks and good performance and battery checkout SpeedMod or Phenomenal which is based on Speedmod.
If you like tinkering with kernels then Phoenix, NEAK and SiyahKernel all very popular and can adjust them in many ways for your liking.
Most of all enjoy, you'll soon start flashing and testing out various things.
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thanks guys! just found out that my phone was dispatched already by DHL hopefully ill get it in 3days from UK to US.
just also ordered a DL jig on ebay just incase i need it to restore to factory for warranty purposes.
thanks sniper for that list. would definitely try it and see what suits my taste.
nice one nikz - as far as these kernels, are they all compatible with the roms that sniper listed?
thanks again!

It depends on the kernel.
I doubt any of them is compatible to CyanogenMod 9.
The Siyah-kernel is compare to all other tho.
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TheSniperFan said:
It depends on the kernel.
I doubt any of them is compatible to CyanogenMod 9.
The Siyah-kernel is compare to all other tho.
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Only official kernels work with any ics rom. No custom kernels until kernel source is released by Sammy.
As for rom/kernel combos, I got the best battery out of cm7+siyah kernel after undervolting and stuff. Cm9 is just too good to pass up. Still getting a full day, but not 20ish hours heavy use like I did with cm7.
As far as I know all gb kernels work for all gb roms, but I would check each one. The difference is Samsung based or cm7 based(miui)
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Juzt make sure it is i9100 or i9100g or other variant so you can flash the correct roms etc. And most of all welcome back and enjoy your freedom in an open community and always search before posting ;-)
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Fastest/Smoothest Rom

Hello,
I try a lot of Roms but I don't have time to try them all. I'm just wondering what you guys think the fastest or smoothest rom out for the SG2 right now is?
So far Neat Rom and CM9 both seem really smooth. I'm talking about when you have a live wallpaper and a bunch of widgets and apps and it still runs without any lag or noticeable slow down.

No such thing. Too many variables determine phone 'performance'.

For me stock xwlpg or cm9 is the best.
Also:
1. Please use the Q and A section for questions
2. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1612881
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There isn't such thing as the best ROM. There's still people downgrading from ICS to GB, I don't see any point, but they just think that GB is better. Try those ROMs: CM9, WanamLite, SlimICS, Stock LPG. For me, the best ROM is CM9, but one of those ROMs can be the best for you.

ephraim033 said:
For me stock xwlpg or cm9 is the best.
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1. Please use the Q and A section for questions
2. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1612881
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Well I think that's a bit harsh. I've probably flashed about 200 roms onto my phone and I just don't know what gives a rom it's performance. There are people with much more technical knowledge than me who understands how a rom/kernel affects performance. I'm not too lazy to flash roms, I'm just asking for knowledge from those with more of it than myself. And that is a primary reason for using a forum, to share.

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There isn't such thing as the best ROM. There's still people downgrading from ICS to GB, I don't see any point, but they just think that GB is better. Try those ROMs: CM9, WanamLite, SlimICS, Stock LPG. For me, the best ROM is CM9, but one of those ROMs can be the best for you.
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I tried out CM9 and it did seem fast. For whatever reason SlimICS didn't seem as fast. It's so hard to know if you're just imagining the difference in speed or if it's really their though.

For me Samsung based roms seem the best and I've tried most of them. CM9 is decently quick but the Sammy stuff definitely has the edge for smooth and stable.
I'm using thebyani from and its as fast as anything I've used.
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The best ROM is the one that you find works best for you. Try a few out and decide for yourself.

Do you guys want an updated ICS build, what kind?

Exactly what the thread title says...
As most of you should already be aware I have a gingerbread build that I try to provide something close to a monthly update on (plus or minus a few days). What I would like to know tonight is if y'all would like something similar with ICS?
Just like the gingerbread builds this won't have a lot of progression and I won't be trying to really create anything so much as compile y'all something (hopefully stable) to use if you so choose.
Assuming the answer to the first question is yes, do y'all have a preference for the build (cm9, aokp, etc)?

A release candidate of CM9 would be nice or if there's an ICS rom of ParanoidAndroid, then that would be great as well, I like having proper tablet UI for apps.
Has hash already updated his CM9 kernel?

ice cold sandwich by Lord Clocken From the HTC dhd trend is an aokp ice cold sandwich ,it has great features like kill all back button.
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Every enhancement
the sg7 enhancement, linaro, supercharge, oc'ed kernal
and nothing else.
Base it on the least flashy ROM. I want to change, and add in things as I see fit, and I want the most basic version of android to do it from. I want it the fastest it can go, so all the enhancements and nothing else added in.

You can port sense rom to our Kindle???

All of the roms I have tried have these really annoying bugs. In the ROM I have now, the WIFI keeps dropping, even when i'm in the middle of a download.
If you guys can make a simple, stable ROM without all the bells and whistles (swipe left, themes, etc), that would make me (and a lot of other people) very happy.

Trafford Devil said:
Has hash already updated his CM9 kernel?
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With a little bit of tweaks I'm pretty sure we can use the newer JB kernel (they're both 3.y based but the newer one has the working charge indicator and screen driver.
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Every enhancement
the sg7 enhancement, linaro, supercharge, oc'ed kernal
and nothing else.
Base it on the least flashy ROM. I want to change, and add in things as I see fit, and I want the most basic version of android to do it from. I want it the fastest it can go, so all the enhancements and nothing else added in.
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This is sort of where I was already leaning; was considering basing something off of the loosethiskin builds that TWA was providing before cm10 but I wanted some opinions first as just like my cm7 rom I won't be the one running it (I'm using cm10 and it's going to remain that way)
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You can port sense rom to our Kindle???
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No; others may be capable and or willing to do this. I personally don't touch binary ports; partly cause I don't want to and partly cause I don't know how to do binary ports (I haven't researched it do to the fact that I just didn't want to do it; source code for me)
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All of the roms I have tried have these really annoying bugs. In the ROM I have now, the WIFI keeps dropping, even when i'm in the middle of a download.
If you guys can make a simple, stable ROM without all the bells and whistles (swipe left, themes, etc), that would make me (and a lot of other people) very happy.
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I haven't experienced any of those issues but one thing I can point out is wifi issues are most likely kernel related; I'm most definitely not a kernel dev so anything I do will have something close to hashcodes current kernel (assuming it won't work as is)

Hi Sblood,
Funny, I was just thinking about this today, wondering if anybody that's capable is willing to take the time to do this. While I'm pretty much satisified with my JB rom, I really like ICS and I was very happy with twa_priv's CM9 builds.
I watch a lot of video from CNN and that's flash, the JB roms are finally giving me pretty good performance with this but I also like to watch video from ESPN and I haven't figured out a way to get that to work. With ICS, it prompts you to choose a player to watch the videos, like MX Player or Dice Player, with JB, it just tells me that the content is unavailable. That's probably the biggest thing I miss from ICS. I still keep a nandroid of twa's last CM9 release under a different gmail address and update any apps from Play Store every couple of weeks and then I OD on ESPN vids & Flash stuff, tonight I had 17 apps to update. LOL
For me, it's a tradeoff of JB Google Now for ICS ESPN vids and I'd rather have ESPN videos. So, if you could use twa's CM9 build as a base and hook in Hashcode's newer kernels, say on a monthly basis, that would be awesome & most appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike T

So no new ICS ROM?
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Joey11746 said:
So no new ICS ROM?
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Sorry I've been busy and interest actually seemed much lower than I would have expected so it's been a somewhat lower priority.
I would still love to get it done (if for no other reason than we don't really have a stable/buildable version of ICS) but as it stands I've been having a few issues getting the ICS device repo updated to use the current kernel but I have been trying at least some.
I have to remind you it's the holiday season as well.

A good, stable, release candidate ICS ROM? I can see the appeal. I'd definitely give it a whirl. I'm starting to get tired of instability on a lot of ROMs.

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I'm starting to get tired of instability on a lot of ROMs.
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Well I suggest you put in the work to correct them

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Well I suggest you put in the work to correct them
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You mean report bugs and stuff? Well, they wouldn't exactly be called bugs, more instability. For example, the android browser self closing itself every now and then.

Sblood86 said:
Sorry I've been busy and interest actually seemed much lower than I would have expected so it's been a somewhat lower priority.
I would still love to get it done (if for no other reason than we don't really have a stable/buildable version of ICS) but as it stands I've been having a few issues getting the ICS device repo updated to use the current kernel but I have been trying at least some.
I have to remind you it's the holiday season as well.
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True, still try

Any luck blood?

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That's a joke right; it's been 5 days since you asked this previously, it's still the holiday season and I haven't said anything in regards to something working so it must be I'm just not sure I get the humor in it...
Admittedly I probably shouldn't have created this thread til I had made some more progress but the goal was to find out if people were even interested in ICS in the first place. As I have stated this is still on my project list but let's be serious for a moment; how high of a priority do you really think back tracking to a previous version is? (I'll give you a clue: it's not).
I can tell you this; syncing cm9 and the old Kfire-Android local manifest for it doesn't build (and that's with the old kernel branch), it's not as simple as sync a bunch of folders and compile; I have to actually dig into the code of several repos to sort this out.
Lastly consider that my primary role is as a recovery dev; you know the term 'the plate is full', well I have a platter over here...
Not directly related but on the subject of recovery development; this is where most of my time has gone as of late.

I'd like to see an updated ICS but if it doesn't happen......oh well......I'll wait
.....when you hit the walls of sanity, you have no-where to go.....

Yea I'll wait too. And it was a joke. :c

How about a ROM with similar battery life as the stock Amazon one? Every custom ICS or JB ROM I have tried has not been awesome for battery life. Especially in sleep mode.

I'd like to see a honeycomb ROM that wold be pretty neat

Which rom is good for daily use??

Hi, I have a question: I aim getting a new nexus 4 (by June 10) and I wanted to ask a few question. 1. Which color should I get. (Prefer black but open for suggestion) and 2. Which cm10.1/PAC/ SlimBean rom should I prefer??? Nightly builds would be ok but RC or weekly builds would be ok... I will flash it within a week of getting it. I will be getting this phone for primary use so basic calling function is needed

Every rom is good for daily use. Most rom's are rock solid and stable. Even the nightlys only have minor bugs. These are the advantages on nexus devices.
Get the black nexus. The only-back-white one looks kind of weird.

You have to decide on your own. You have to make that judgement call. When you get your phone, flash the ROM and see if you like it or not base on your wants.
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As above. Most are very stable. If you want a kind of stock android on steroids then CyanogenMod is great. Very professionally run team and the roms (even the nightlies) are smooth and without bugs. If you like customisation then AOKP, AOSPA or one of the derivatives are great. Also very smooth and solid but with more original features and you can customise just about anything.

Carbon Rom. Hands down.

Can anyone tell me the main differences between xylon rom and aokp? I'm really confused what to flash :S
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I would vote for CyanogenMod or any derivative of it - find one that suits your needs regarding updates and features...
Take a look in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2006616

ameinild said:
I would vote for CyanogenMod or any derivative of it - find one that suits your needs regarding updates and features...
Take a look in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2006616
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Only thing I dislike about cm is their refusal to put navigation bar resize.
Try carbon if you haven't yet. It's the best of all roms. It has features from cm, aokp, paranoid android. The latest alpha currently has paranoid androids halo feature. All while maintaining the best speed. Only complaint is that goo servers are slightly slow. So if you plan on giving the rom a try them look at the last couple pages for a mirror and you'll download the rom faster.
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All the roms in Development section! Happy Flashing...

themsubtle said:
Can anyone tell me the main differences between xylon rom and aokp? I'm really confused what to flash :S
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Would really help if anyone could explain this to me?

Any rom based off CyanogenMod is stable enough for daily use, Whether it be AOKP, ParanoidAndroid, PacMan etc.

Thanks for this great thread there should be a users feedback about every Rom ,to make things easy on other users,I will try the carbon myself and see what it looks like

aelsharawi said:
Thanks for this great thread there should be a users feedback about every Rom ,to make things easy on other users,I will try the carbon myself and see what it looks like
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They already have that... you just have to look in each thread and the last couple of pages would of give you a good reflection on what the rom is like. Some people on youtube do video reviews on the rom too.

Carbon+trinity 130 best stuf fast speed
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Hi shortlisted PA and carbon. Which is fast and good for daily use??? Although being a nexus both are fully feature on this phone but is pa or carbon better in stability and phone calls and other things???? I will later try all roms but what should I begin with????? This would be my daily driver. Selected black.

RohMish said:
Hi shortlisted PA and carbon. Which is fast and good for daily use??? Although being a nexus both are fully feature on this phone but is pa or carbon better in stability and phone calls and other things???? I will later try all roms but what should I begin with????? This would be my daily driver. Selected black.
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Why don't you try them out and see? They're both stable and quick.
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RohMish said:
Hi shortlisted PA and carbon. Which is fast and good for daily use??? Although being a nexus both are fully feature on this phone but is pa or carbon better in stability and phone calls and other things???? I will later try all roms but what should I begin with????? This would be my daily driver. Selected black.
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Why don't you try them out and see? They're both stable and quick.
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After writing this i was checking for all roms and settled with downloading carbon and cm for now. Will check as soon as device comes and then decide. By the way, what is the actual free user available space on the device???

RohMish said:
After writing this i was checking for all roms and settled with downloading carbon and cm for now. Will check as soon as device comes and then decide. By the way, what is the actual free user available space on the device???
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The 8gig model is about 5.74gig. The 16gig model is about 12-13gig of free space.
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The 8gig model is about 5.74gig. The 16gig model is about 12-13gig of free space.
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Thanks 12-13 is good

Which launcher should I use???? Nova or apex or some other???? I currently use nova launcher