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Your favorite rom, kernel and settings

Hi guys! Lot's of threads are about "the best rom" or "best kernel and battery life" but there is no best rom or kernel. Everyone has his own taste Please share your favorite rom&kernel + your settings. and offcourse share your experience with performance and battery life
I'm currently trying out a few roms and will get back when I see some good replies here!

I'm on stock 4.1.2 image with stockish custom kernel from _thalamus and it's great compared to 4.1.1. Chrome runs at same speed as stock Browser now and memory management got alot better.
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madd0g said:
I'm on stock 4.1.2 image with stockish custom kernel from _thalamus and it's great compared to 4.1.1. Chrome runs at same speed as stock Browser now and memory management got alot better.
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One problem with stock ROMs: features limited, otherwise, they are great in terms of stability.
For me, i'm balancing between codenameandroid and MIUI(miui.us versions).

aladin6 said:
One problem with stock ROMs: features limited, otherwise, they are great in terms of stability.
For me, i'm balancing between codenameandroid and MIUI(miui.us versions).
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Was using CNA before for 2 months, but always thought that stock is more smoother. Don't mind that much for features and got fed up with constant updating.
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I used stock non rooted for some time and I liked the smoothness. The thing I missed was BLN and some other options. Also the battery life with moderate use is less good then some custom roms. Now flashing strawberry rom =)

I'm rocking CM10 w/ Marmite right now since they merged in 4.1.2 asap.. As soon as AOKP Build #5 is released I'm jumping back on the Unicorn saddle w/ Marmite though.. Love me some unicorns!

Rasbeanjelly + Trinity t11
Smooth, stable & 2 days of battery duration
On the road with my NexusS...

klinkerkp said:
Rasbeanjelly + Trinity t11
Smooth, stable & 2 days of battery duration
On the road with my NexusS...
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How do you get the 2 days? =)

lowtje said:
Hi guys! Lot's of threads are about "the best rom" or "best kernel and battery life" but there is no best rom or kernel. Everyone has his own taste Please share your favorite rom&kernel + your settings. and offcourse share your experience with performance and battery life
I'm currently trying out a few roms and will get back when I see some good replies here!
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Not to mention there is dozens of this same thread you started. Infact I found 3 in this 1 section.

lowtje said:
How do you get the 2 days? =)
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With rascarlos roms (Rascream before & Rasbean now) i always have 2 days. With very hard use...when i do corrections to my theme and flashing 10-20 times a day...have all day of battery.
On the road with my NexusS...

I'm going to try that as i too have rasbean jelly 10/10 build on my ns4g w/ marmite kernel 4.8.7. This combo plays very nice as well. I've had no reboots and the battery life gets me to about 24 - 32 hours of life. Going to see if i can actually beat that with Trinity kernel.

TNS11-JB-ALPHA12 is this the t11 kernel you use?

What are good kernel settings for marmite to get good battery life?
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lowtje said:
What are good kernel settings for marmite to get good battery life?
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Well for the 4.8.7 version, the scheduler is CFQ and i use On Demand 200min/ 1000max. I use NS Tools to put the On Demand Sampling rate at 120000 to save battery. This works for me.

rjones9902 said:
Well for the 4.8.7 version, the scheduler is CFQ and i use On Demand 200min/ 1000max. I use NS Tools to put the On Demand Sampling rate at 120000 to save battery. This works for me.
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Ok, will give that a go!
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I'm running cm10 m2 with marmite. So far so good. I'm on smartass max 1200. Very smooth
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klinkerkp said:
Rasbeanjelly + Trinity t11
Smooth, stable & 2 days of battery duration
On the road with my NexusS...
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How can you use rasbean jelly on the nexus s 3g? I thought it only was for the nexus s 4G version?
Oh one more thing, what does that mean if i change the on demand sampling rate from 40000 to 120000?

jabbeboy said:
How can you use rasbean jelly on the nexus s 3g? I thought it only was for the nexus s 4G version?
Oh one more thing, what does that mean if i change the on demand sampling rate from 40000 to 120000?
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Actualy rasbean is 3g, but ported to 4g by Rustyjay
On the road with my NexusS...

I'm on The Strawberry rom now. Running very very smooth and I like the battery life aleeady after one day of use. This rom is based on the rasbean source!

CM9.1.0 with default kernel and settings.
It may 'only' be ICS, but it runs better than any JB rom/kernel combo that I've tried on my phone to date.
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[Q] Best tweak [MOD] for RAZR M?

What is the best tweak MOD for the RAZR M?
Battery Life: TESTING...
Smoothness/speed: Pure Performance X Gold Edition
Features: Pimp My ROM
Pure Performance X Gold Edition
Pimp My ROM
CrossBreader
Fly-On
ODEX (Compatible with any of the above)

I have to go with x-breeder, its been my go to mod for a while now. If i remember correctly pimp my rom can help "pimp" a stock rom which is pretty cool.
Its worth noting that I have not used fly-on and am still on a 4.2.2 Rom.

SD swap. As implemented in the Avsitralia deodexed mod rom. Basically renders internal for system use. You can still use internal if you want.

YEah, I tried out Pimp My ROM... that was a fail.
Both the Aroma & App versions failed to create a rescue.zip, along with all of their other features.
Switching to crossbreeder...

lukkypuggy said:
What is the best tweak MOD for the RAZR M?
Battery Life:
Speed:
Smoothness:
Features:
Pimp My ROM
CrossBreader
Fly-On
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I use this + Pimp My ROM
Killjoy is awesome script!

St.Noigel said:
I use this + Pimp My ROM
Killjoy is awesome script!
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It says DO NOT use any other tweaks with this package...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2360670
THIS WORKS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lukkypuggy said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2360670
THIS WORKS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Please specify what version you tried?
Thanks.

aviwdoowks said:
Please specify what version you tried?
Thanks.
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Just the latest version... 1.4.x
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lukkypuggy said:
Just the latest version... 1.4.x
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Cm or stock? I guess cm as I see from your sig...

What ROM are you using? CM based (Carbon, PAC, Slimbean etc...) or Stock lol
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lukkypuggy said:
What ROM are you using? CM based (Carbon, PAC, Slimbean etc...) or Stock lol
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The DD in my with. You must be on a cm variant.
How does the mod work? Is it initd based?
Review?

aviwdoowks said:
The DD in my with. You must be on a cm variant.
How does the mod work? Is it initd based?
Review?
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Click the link and it will provide a full description.
It speeds up the UI drastically, it is smooth like butter
I highly recommend this over crossbreeder.
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lukkypuggy said:
Click the link and it will provide a full description.
It speeds up the UI drastically, it is smooth like butter
I highly recommend this over crossbreeder.
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It works in a totally different way than XBreeder, and I'm pretty sure you can use them together. Also, the issues with many of the those types of mods is that they eat battery. They claim to save on battery, but I've tested a lot of them and almost every one of them eats up battery.

I think I'm starting to notice that... But it defiantly does what it says, best performance I've ever had on this.
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lukkypuggy said:
I think I'm starting to notice that... But it defiantly does what it says, best performance I've ever had on this.
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Yeah, with every mod that I've run the phone will fly, but with performance comes battery drain.

What is the best mod for battery life in your opinion?
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lukkypuggy said:
What is the best mod for battery life in your opinion?
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I used to use Supremacy, but it's pretty old and is not updated. However, it is a real light init.d script that doesn't touch build.prop at all. I would use this on stock CM and helped and didn't drain the battery much at all. On any ROM that's not stock CM, I only run XBreeder. A lot of ROMs have tweaks build in that we can't see, so I just leave it up to developer to give us a good product.

Haven't really seen any noticeable battery drain on xbreeder but not doing any scientifically sound tests... Just general use
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OK so I pulled my old Dinc out and fired up 4.2.2 on it with the performance and xbreeder mods... Wow! It competes with my RAZR m when it doesn't have the mod, and it doesn't kill the battery either!
I figured out the battery consumption problem also
It is not in any of the mods, it is your wakelocks.
I've found "Google Services" as a whole is the big bad wolf to look out for. I suggest turn off all location related services (NlpWakeLock). Also make sure NFC is turned off if you really don't ever use it.
I suggest flashing both xbreeder AND Pure Performance for best results.
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D802 rom stable and battery life

I am on stock rom rooted with dor. Kernel
I want to flash a rom lg based ofc but i want the same battery life and the most stable out there with no force closing and lagfree hopefully
I read that energy rom is so smooth but i want the most problem free rom too...
Answer based on your experiences please
I get from 5 to 6 hours screen on with some gaming like candy crush and browsing quite often
So if you know a rom that can provide same battery life with no lag or bugs or forceclosing pls advise
I dont want to mess up my new phone with flashing a lot of roms and trying this and trying that
So if anyone can help me, pls do.
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Hi, can't give you specific rom. Right now I am using the rom and kernel combo you said, so far so good with performance antutu 37900+.
What I can tell you is that, you can play around because you can always go back to stock unrooted. Just read properly and follow instructions.

faithraze said:
Hi, can't give you specific rom. Right now I am using the rom and kernel combo you said, so far so good with performance antutu 37900+.
What I can tell you is that, you can play around because you can always go back to stock unrooted. Just read properly and follow instructions.
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What about force close all around and random reboots ?
are you facing any problems ?
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anonymousss said:
What about force close all around and random reboots ?
are you facing any problems ?
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No not really. It runs perfectly fine so far.

anonymousss said:
I am on stock rom rooted with dor. Kernel
I want to flash a rom lg based ofc but i want the same battery life and the most stable out there with no force closing and lagfree hopefully
Answer based on your experiences please
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Can't remember on top of my head which ROM was but I got 15+ hrs screen time, no FC whatsoever even though I got it from Apple Appstore. Also I can run any Windows executable file on it. It's superior!
That's the most stable ROM I got.
Again, it is based on my experiences

votinh said:
Can't remember on top of my head which ROM was but I got 15+ hrs screen time, no FC whatsoever even though I got it from Apple Appstore. Also I can run any Windows executable file on it. It's superior!
That's the most stable ROM I got.
Again, it is based on my experiences
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OMG plzz rememberrrr
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LG L7(p700) performance

Hi I would like to how this phone behaves after flashing to CM and stuff because I hve updated it from official IC(4.0.1) to JB(4.1.2) and it's a lttle bit faster it has around 300 points more in Antutu. But still hase some weird lag. I was wondering if it has those weird behaviors after installing kitkat or smth because it's really annoying.
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wrbl said:
Hi I would like to how this phone behaves after flashing to CM and stuff because I hve updated it from official IC(4.0.1) to JB(4.1.2) and it's a lttle bit faster it has around 300 points more in Antutu. But still hase some weird lag. I was wondering if it has those weird behaviors after installing kitkat or smth because it's really annoying.
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This phone is faster with a custom rom but it's not a ferrari! But seriously, custom roms are better than stock. Some minors bugs on kitkat roms but faster than JB (JB is not really designed to run with 512 of RAM but KK yes). I use a custom KK rom and i'm happy with it. convinced?

and i say it again .......ANTUTU benchmark score say nothing about performance.you can have a high score but the phone lags and you can have low score with a fast lagless rom.

-CALIBAN666- said:
and i say it again .......ANTUTU benchmark score say nothing about performance.you can have a high score but the phone lags and you can have low score with a fast lagless rom.
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That's true.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2486512
I gave you a link with tutorial how you can do that.

Post your Benchmark

The Note 4 is an impressive device...
A Beast in my opinion...
Lets have the benchmark speak for themselves...
Feel free to share tips or tricks to better your benchmark...

Completely stock not rooted, just got it for Christmas

With the NK2 update
Rooted and running crazy Xposes modules...

Running smooth cat v1 stock kernal.

How the hell is someone running flat stock scoring 6000 more than me with custom rom and kernel? There is no way stock is faster than this xnote. This is way quicker. Stock lags like hell.
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mitchellvii said:
How the hell is someone running flat stock scoring 6000 more than me with custom rom and kernel? There is no way stock is faster than this xnote. This is way quicker. Stock lags like hell.
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Well, im not bashing anyones work but when i flashed ported Echoe i was running at about 43000. Maybe because the codes are meant for another phone it could affect the performance.

XPinochitoX said:
Well, im not bashing anyones work but when i flashed ported Echoe i was running at about 43000. Maybe because the codes are meant for another phone it could affect the performance.
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Well benchmarks are funny things. A higher benchmark doesn't always mean better real world performance. It could be that customizations in a rom lower your benchmark score but not your performance. NK2 stock is pretty sluggish compared to this xnote rom.
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Stock NK2 Rooted, Xposed

Stock Rom. Rooted. Removed Bloatware

Running tx_dbs_tx's x 1.0.2 deodexed.

jhill110 said:
Running tx_dbs_tx's x 1.0.2 deodexed.
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Haha! Don't make me break out the mad tweaks and make this thing bellow smoke from the top of the phone! Real world performance is what matters. I don't so much read into the benchmark tests because I've seen phones with lower scores perform outstanding against a device with a much higher benchmark score. It all depends on how the device uses it's resources and how well the os is optimized. The kernel plays a big part also. The scores tend to fluctuate and the differences you see in the app benchmark tests don't always translate into real world performance differences. Most of these variances you will never notice. With this said, this phone is awesome... right out of the box!

Running xnote rom
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Goodbye lg g3. Hello note 4. Loving this thing.
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Running custom init.d and build.prop tweaks along with a modified egl tweak (all made by me) running on Hybrid-X r1.07.

benchmark
Running ael 7.2 for sprint note 4