I figured I would start a thread since I couldn't find one devoted to posting our personal experiences with ROMs for our Kindles.
I have tried 3 separate roms out thus far.
CM 10.1 (JB 4.2.2)
This was my first dive into custom roms for my first gen Kindle Fire, and it was a pretty easy transition. Really enjoyed freeing up the device by not having to have the stock Kindle firmware. Apps ran far more quickly and smoothly. After using this for a while I yearned for something faster/smoother. (probably need to get myself a higher powered device to improve on that). Somewhat missed the lack of an Amazon Video app. It's too bad Amazon has not yet developed an app for other Android devices that we can install. A minor issue (with all roms) seems to be the boot animation. It starts out stretched and in the upper right region of the screen at first and then corrects itself maybe 10 seconds later and is centered. Not a big deal of course. The only drawback for me personally with this one is CM's lack of customization.
JB 4.3 Barebones
I had read that JB 4.3 ran a bit quicker (and used more battery) than 4.2.2. I found this to be the case. Especially when using an app like Flipboard this is apparent. The boot time seemed to be a bit longer than CM 10.1, but that could very well be my perception. I did find that the build I was on seemed to give me issues on restarts. I'd restart and icons would be missing and the icon themes I was using with Apex would have to be reset. Mild annoyance that I didn't enjoy dealing with. Overall I was mildly satisfied and preferred CM 10.1 to the specific (early) JB 4.3 that I was using, despite the fact that CM ran slower.
AOKP (JB 4.2.2)
Just installed this one tonight. Coming into this, I was already a big fan of AOKP 4.2.2 as its my daily driver on my Droid Razr M. Love AOKPs customization. Anything beyond AOKP level customization is overkill for my taste. AOKP just has everything I'd need in that department. I did notice that I feel like I'm back to CM 10.1 speed which I may or may not settle on. A minor issue I found was the screen rotation glitch (which I have heard is found in few different ROMs.) It's nothing too major, but it may be enough of a nuisance to get me to switch in the future. We'll see. I do prefer AOKP 4.2.2 over CM 10.1 strictly due to AOKPs level of customization. If you are simply looking for a ROM beyond stock and not necessarily looking for great options and customization, I'd say go with CM 10.1 (If you don't have your heart set on JB 4.3, that is). But my personal favorite of the 3 would have to be AOKP. I have not used this long enough to properly test the battery life compared to CM 10.1.
I hope this helps any noobs like me who are giving flashing roms a thought. Would love to hear what you all are finding for the best speed and battery life. I'll post any updates for roms that I try in the future.
Summary:
Best Battery - CM 10.1
Best Speed - JB 4.3 Barebones
Best Customization - AOKP 4.2.2
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There is an AOSP 4.2.2 ROM by hashcode on xda (search "kindle fire aosp rom") and i have it on my kindle fire. It's really smooth and fast. Come try it out
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There is an AOSP 4.2.2 ROM by hashcode on xda (search "kindle fire aosp rom") and i have it on my kindle fire. It's really smooth and fast. Come try it out
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I'll check it out thanks! How does battery life compare with the others you've tried? I'll take speed over battery life at this point though. So definitely giving it a shot, thanks!
The battery life is around the same as official CM10.1. The battery lasts a whole day with moderate to heavy usage. Performance is about the same too
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Thanks for starting this thread! I've been trying find a jelly bean rom that doesn't suffer from low memory app crashes. Like when the browser just quits suddenly and drops you to the home screen. So far cm10.1 and the stock roms have this problem pretty equally in my experience. Has aokp or any other rom better handled this issue for you?
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Thanks for starting this thread! I've been trying find a jelly bean rom that doesn't suffer from low memory app crashes. Like when the browser just quits suddenly and drops you to the home screen. So far cm10.1 and the stock roms have this problem pretty equally in my experience. Has aokp or any other rom better handled this issue for you?
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Well just as you mention it, BAM! That's exactly what I'm experiencing now with AOKP 4.3. Lots of browser crashes and keyboard issues where it will not pop up. Rom is still a decent bit quick, but I may be looking to downgrade from JB 4.3 to something that won't have minor issues such as browser crashing. Need a good daily driver with good speed and battery life. AOKP 4.2.2 didn't have the browser crashing.
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Well just as you mention it, BAM! That's exactly what I'm experiencing now with AOKP 4.3. Lots of browser crashes and keyboard issues where it will not pop up. Rom is still a decent bit quick, but I may be looking to downgrade from JB 4.3 to something that won't have minor issues such as browser crashing. Need a good daily driver with good speed and battery life. AOKP 4.2.2 didn't have the browser crashing.
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Yeah I recently switched to twa priv's cm9 and so far the only problem I've had is it doesn't sleep quite as deeply. And I can't just let it sit unplugged all day and barely lose any battery like jb roms. Not a huge sacrifice.
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Yeah I recently switched to twa priv's cm9 and so far the only problem I've had is it doesn't sleep quite as deeply. And I can't just let it sit unplugged all day and barely lose any battery like jb roms. Not a huge sacrifice.
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Interesting. Going to try giving that one a shot then! Haven't yet found the daily driver. Do you have a link to that version you're running?
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My first (and current) rom is/was CM 10.1(official from cm site).It ran perfectly for about a month, but now its force closing apps, play store(and othe gapps) dont work. Has become really frustrating. Looking forward to a 4.4 rom, if it doesnt come, will install 4.3
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My first (and current) rom is/was CM 10.1(official from cm site).It ran perfectly for about a month, but now its force closing apps, play store(and othe gapps) dont work. Has become really frustrating. Looking forward to a 4.4 rom, if it doesnt come, will install 4.3
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Basic question, but have you done a weekly wipe of cache and dalvik cache in recovery? May be worth a shot if it took a month for errors. I always do a cache and dalvik cache wipe once a week on my phone. Seems to keep it running smoothly.
I am also running CM 10.1 now. Really like it so far. Smoothest running rom I've tried for the Kindle.
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I've had my kf for about 3 months and while i haven't flashed them all i have flashed lots of them.
Unfortunately, i haven't found any rom either with or without gapps that have the low memory/ram issue.
I have done lots of searching an just plain tinkering with everything from freezing everything possible in stock roms to only having 2 user apps installed, i.e. dolphin browser and adobe flash player.
The only thing i really want to do is to be able to let my grandson and nefews/nieces watch cartoons on the net, and maybe some simple type kids games. (This way they have their own and dont mess with mine lol)
The games I've found and installed and they work fine, but the memory on this thing is just not capable of even rudimentary multitasking.
Its a damn shame too, because just an extra 50 - 100 mb of ram would make the difference.
Wish i knew how to dev a kernel id look at the big memory kernels on the gnex and see if he same principles could be applied.
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I've had my kf for about 3 months and while i haven't flashed them all i have flashed lots of them.
Unfortunately, i haven't found any rom either with or without gapps that have the low memory/ram issue.
I have done lots of searching an just plain tinkering with everything from freezing everything possible in stock roms to only having 2 user apps installed, i.e. dolphin browser and adobe flash player.
The only thing i really want to do is to be able to let my grandson and nefews/nieces watch cartoons on the net, and maybe some simple type kids games. (This way they have their own and dont mess with mine lol)
The games I've found and installed and they work fine, but the memory on this thing is just not capable of even rudimentary multitasking.
Its a damn shame too, because just an extra 50 - 100 mb of ram would make the difference.
Wish i knew how to dev a kernel id look at the big memory kernels on the gnex and see if he same principles could be applied.
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I'm not sure if anybody is going to get us a 4.4 rom, but isn't 4.4 supposed to address low ram devices specifically? If so, this may help us out.
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Best ROMs:
SGT7 JellyBean
AOSP
Alien ROM
Worst:
PAC Man
Hellfire
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Jersey846 said:
Basic question, but have you done a weekly wipe of cache and dalvik cache in recovery? May be worth a shot if it took a month for errors. I always do a cache and dalvik cache wipe once a week on my phone. Seems to keep it running smoothly.
I am also running CM 10.1 now. Really like it so far. Smoothest running rom I've tried for the Kindle.
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Hey thanks! Had to fiddle around in COTR for some time...
Never thought I have to do a weekly wipe... Thanks!
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Hey thanks! Had to fiddle around in COTR for some time...
Never thought I have to do a weekly wipe... Thanks!
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No problem! Hope it does the trick for ya. I'm using TWRP and it's fairly easy in that.
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Interesting. Going to try giving that one a shot then! Haven't yet found the daily driver. Do you have a link to that version you're running?
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I found it in the link below in the op. Unfortunately it wasn't as stable as I remembered and I moved on to the latest cm M release. Pretty good so far, but I doubt it fully solves any problems mentioned.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1859851
[INDEX] Kindle Fire Development *REVISED*
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Hey thanks again!
I activated halo by mistake but am not able to deactivate it. I went around the while settings panel, but couldn't find an option.
Any ideas
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OK I deactivated it.
Best roms : Energy cm9
SGT 7 jb 4.3.1
Worst ROMs FFICIAL CM10.1
Sgt 7 jb 4.2.2
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Ok I'm quickly tiring of my Kindle running unbearably slow at the benefit of battery life. Which Rom, any version of android, works the best on the Kindle Fire? I'm talking smooth. I'm running 4.3.1 CM 10.2 and I just can't do it anymore. If I have to downgrade to an earlier version of Android I will. I just need faster. I've got a Nexus 10 ordered, but keeping this and want it at it's best. So what's the fastest?
Here is a thanks for speeding up my rom...
Hashcodes cm 11 (deadly amount of free RAM)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591850
TWA privs OmniROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2410112
The rom I use - Fuzz(buttery smooth and tremendous battery life (13 hrs with wifi on ) with about 150 mb free ram always)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2266248
I tested all the three rooms, all well.
Make sure you have the latest twrp 2.6.3.1 or you will be bricked.
Good luck
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Title says it all. Thx guys
My custom one. Why? because i did it. i made it easy to change to statusbar color, icons, ect.
Hashcode's. It's Stock Google & it Works.
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Eye Candy. Now I'm waiting for Hellfires version.
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Just buy my kindle last night, played 1 hour on the stock rom...
I just installed Project Jandycane, it works well, but I have NO comparison, not even with the stock speed and the stock stability... lol
All I have is a desire z with 2.3.5 revolution hd
Running Jandycane by Lithium at the moment. Super smooth and stable for everything I need. It's so good in fact, I started using my KF again thanks to the smooth UI
I am having Jelly Beans SGT7 rom of twa_priv on my KF, and it is updating day by day....wow
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Jandycane
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Is jelly bean stable enough for every day use like YouTube works and everything? I want to switch from ics but I feel like i should wait a while for all the bugs to be worked out.
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Is jelly bean stable enough for every day use like YouTube works and everything? I want to switch from ics but I feel like i should wait a while for all the bugs to be worked out.
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No harm in waiting. I'm in the same situation as you, finally found an ICS ROM that has everything to my liking. I went through 4-5 and found a showstopper issue (for me anyhow) on all of them, then moved on, always reverting to gedeROM 1.7 as my daily driver. Recently tried twa_priv's ICS ROM and it's better for me because I can switch the sides for the notification bar and Netflix sound is loud enough to actually hear. Those were 2 issues that bothered me on gede's ICS ROM. I imagine one of the JB ROMs will be to my liking here shortly but in the meantime I'm perfectly happy with ICS with the SGT7 enhancements.
One thing I took the time to do when I would find myself in TWRP in a flashing frenzy is that I would test the 2-3 backups of previous ROMs to make sure I was comfortable with actually being able to restore versus having a nasty surprise of a bad backup. Later today I'll have my ICS ROM custom configured well enough to call it my new daily driver, run a backup, wipe it and test the latest and greatest JB ROMs from Lithium76 and twa_priv. Once I give them the quick run-through looking for issues I know irritate me in particular, I'll either start working on more testing or revert to the ICS ROM I just backed up. Maybe not the best way to do it but I learn something new everyday and knowledge is a good thing, right?
My dumb question of the day: ICS and JB charging issues... is this global for the Android mod world or is it a Kindle Fire thing only?
Jandycane! Pretty smooth so far.
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My dumb question of the day: ICS and JB charging issues... is this global for the Android mod world or is it a Kindle Fire thing only?
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Only a Kindle Fire thing (that I know of). My other Android devices such as my SII all charge fine on custom ROMs.
I like EyeCandy. I used the cm9 version as well. My second choice would be Jandycane. I like EyeCandy because it is dressed, smooth, and zippy. The most frequent comment I get is, "That's a kindle?"
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Eye candy is awesome.
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Eye candy is awesome.
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For me too Eye candy Jelly Bean of pimpmaneaton,
i love it but when you don't like the theme
try the cm10/Jelly Bean off twa_priv it's the same rom but no theme.
Been flashing twa_priv's CM10 Jelly Bean with SGT7 enh...pretty much every day now #notcomplaining
Brilliant piece of work and amazing how twa_priv's keep developing new updates. Coming from Modaco Gr9, this experience is fantastic.
Using Jandycane. Miss some of the mods that were in cm, but that's to be expected considering jb is the new kid on the block.
BTW: No charging issues here other than the usual "no status bar display" common to all.
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Jandycane. The perfect ROM for the Kindle Fire users.
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Twa_priv's jb rom. Smooth as butter and fast too.
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Using Glazed Jelly Bean. Pretty smooth for Beta.
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ThatAzianGuy said:
Jandycane! Pretty smooth so far.
Only a Kindle Fire thing (that I know of). My other Android devices such as my SII all charge fine on custom ROMs.
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I think so. It's so smooth!
I cannot return to original Rom.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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I am looking at the Rom's and am itching to flash one to go with the Matrix kernel but I don't know what to choose!
I was looking at "[ROM] Android Open Kang Project - MAKO - JBean 4.2" but never ran AOKP before so I'm unsure. Then Cyanogenmod has the nightlys out now so I could flash an official one from the website or go for KonstantineKeller"s "[ROM] CyanogenMod 10.1 Unofficial - Mako - JellyBean 4.2 [NOV/25/2012]"
Stock is treating me very well but I never ran stock in so long, I always ran Cyanogen or Viper rom on my Sensation!
I like the customization of the custom Roms but am worried about stability.
I am stuck in a swirling torrent of indecisiveness... help.
Waiting a week or two for more mature CM10.1 and CM10.1-based ROMs.
I do have my bootloader unlocked and CWM installed in preparation, though.
I've got my circle battery mod, and pretty soon I'll flash a kernel so I can undervolt a little. If someone comes up with way to use the volume button for music controls, I won't have any reason to flash a new rom. gotta love stock android.
I think I'm staying stock until a proper CM or AOKP rom goes out, I had a Galaxy S3 and the CM and AOKP overall experience is/was pretty bad because of the propietary drivers. So until N4 gets AOSP, no custom roms for me.
but tstock nexus 4 runs simply great, so at least for now, it's ok.
Trying to stay stock until a stable Paranoid Android ROM is out.
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Trying to stay stock until a stable Paranoid Android ROM is out.
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Running paranoid android for 2 days now. System has crashed twice but it instantly comes back. It is amazing though. You will not regret flashing it now.
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Yeah I'm still on stock too. Just came from the HTC One X running CM10 and really enjoying the smoothness of stock on the N4. Only things I miss are the music controls from volume rocker (skip forward/backwards) and the theme chooser.
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I think I'm staying stock until a proper CM or AOKP rom goes out, I had a Galaxy S3 and the CM and AOKP overall experience is/was pretty bad because of the propietary drivers. So until N4 gets AOSP, no custom roms for me.
but tstock nexus 4 runs simply great, so at least for now, it's ok.
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I'm with you too. This is the first time I haven't had the urge to root and flash from the get go. Android 4.2 really is great and I am only missing a few features from aokp. I will however root and flash as soon as we get stable aokp because I don't want to deal with bugs and instability issues on my sunny new device.
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I am going to stay stock until I make sure all is well with my device. Besides that I actually like it just as it is.
I will also wait until some ROMs are stable and as bug free as possible. I don't want to have my device not have the front-facing camera or Bluetooth not work properly. Or some other issue.
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I love Paranoid Android I have been using their rom ever since I had a gnex... and it's been running just fine on my N4!
Within an hour I was up and running with Paranoid Android. Such a simple device to unlock/root/flash etc especially with the tool kits. My first Android experience was with a HTC Legend where you needed to make gold cards and stuff. Wasn't complicated, just a lot of steps. Thankfully I moved to a HD2 which was a breeze to do most stuff.
With the N4 it was just download a program, install the press, load up the program, answer a question or two in relation to what build you have and the application updates. Press option #8 which does everything (unlock/root/flash) then about 5 minutes later you have everything done for you.
Cunning official CM10.1 nightlies. Quite stable, haven't had a problem as of yet.
Running CM10.1 Official. Works better than stock..
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Running CM10.1 Official. Works better than stock..
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Flashed paranoid android straight away. Its pretty stable for me. Not had any crashes or anything. Only problem is not all features have been added yet but that adds to the excitement for updates
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Bone stock here. These bricking threads are scaring me.
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Actually really loving stock. I just threw nova to customize it more.
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I completely stock at the moment. I'm very content with it. Hopefully there'll be a PACman ROM soon, I liked that on my Xperia Play.
Hello all
Brought this phone recently and I am trying to install custom ROM's.Currently, there are four customs ROM'S available for this phone. I intend to have good battery life after installing ROM. So which one do you think will best for this purpose
1) BDH
2) CM 10 Unofficial
3) Eclipse
4) Beam
Kindly make a suggestion based upon your interest and usage so far
Thank you
+1 to Eclipse Rom
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+1 to Eclipse Rom
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What is the standout feature of this rom
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Stock + Inverted gapps
What is BEAM?
Oh and BDH is by far the best battery and performance, but not themed in any way. Eclipse has aosp themed apps on a stock base. CM10 is nice but not as good performance.
Check out Trippin' Bean. It's CM10 and pretty stable. I've been using it for the last week and have had no issues. GAPPS are inverted, as are several other apps. It is themeable and tweak able.
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Thanks all for your suggestions. I installed bdh rom and it worked fine for me. It gives good battery life which is important to me. Planning to install latest version of BDH ROM. But it seems to have some FC problems. Will try it though.
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Cynogen--not perfect room. Better to avoid this
Bdh rom-- tweaked for improvements in battery life. It's stock rom from Motorola
Eclipse-- stock os from google. Stable os
From my experience of using various ROMs available for this mobile
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Cynogen--not perfect room. Better to avoid this
Bdh rom-- tweaked for improvements in battery life. It's stock rom from Motorola
Eclipse-- stock os from google. Stable os
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Trippin' Bean is very stable and is CM based. I have been using it for almost 2 weeks. I only had an issue with MMS, but I found a different MMS.apk and installed it. After verifying that the new apk worked, I let the dev know about it. Marxman immediately replaced the old MMS with the new one. He had a new release, 3.1, out that night.
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Trip pin' Bean is very stable and is CM based. I have been using it for almost 2 weeks. I only had an issue with MMS, but I found a different MMS.apk and installed. After verifying that the new apk worked, I let the dev know about it. Marxman immediately replaced the old MMS with the new one. He had a new release, 3.1, out that night.
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How is the battery life. It is the deciding factor for me
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How is the battery life. It is the deciding factor for me
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I got a little over 3 days on last charge.
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The CM10 builds are stable outside of no NFC, WiFi direct, and the WiFi will act up after a few days. I think the best setup is the Eclipse ROM, which is the stock verizon ROM built with AOSP apps. Great battery, very stable, and you can move it to the stock slot on the phone to save space on the internal storage.
Check out flying jelly on droidrzr. Great battery life. Seemingly nightly OTA updates. Blur based so its fully functional.
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New kid on the block too... my ROM.. the Energy ROM. Check it out in the dev forum.
have only been so far using Eclipse 1.1
battery life is average I guess - not sure if I'm expecting too much out of my M or it's merely a 2000mAh battery, what more can we expect?
I am a heavy user, always refreshing facebook, checking emails, I swap between auto brightness in the sun and minimal when indoors. Data is 3G on all the time or wifi if available..
If I start the day with 100% and I'm constantly refreshing and leaving the screen on I'd probably get about 5-6 hrs on screen time before requiring to charge again.
Some people post their 10+hours of batt life but do factor in the screen on time.. just cuz it looks nice doesn't mean it's the actual stats. After all you're not going to just buy a phone only to leave the screen off 99% of the time aren't you?
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)
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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)
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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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