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Best STABLE ROM released for Redmi 2?

Hello, I got my cousin's Redmi 2, so I was hoping to put Custom ROMs. I've been searching around, but didn't seem to find the best stable ROM. I need a daily driver, and it doesn't need to be Marshmallow, but an upgrade from KitKat would be nice. I love the Lollipop UI. But still, I give my preference to the most stable ROM, since I don't want juggle around every single custom ROM available.
Thank You!
UPDATE 21/03.
Thank you guys for the poll! MIUI was getting all RAM sucky so I needed to get a Custom ROM. I've tried Nexus Experience, Resurrection Remix, HTC Remix, and Kuma's CyanogenMod 13.
Nexus Experience: It has same user interface you get from Nexus, but it lacks multitasking capabilities. Besides most of the ROMs in stock looks like this, so I wouldn't recommend this. Link to Download, Credits:Nexus Exp. team
HTC Remix: This ROM is bulky in size, I've waited for 3-4 hrs for it to complete the download, and when I installed, the recovery ended with an error. But from the reviews, it said it has some camera bugs with the stock cam but Snapdragon cam is working. It didn't have the HTC Dialer also. If you switched from an HTC and want the HTC UI, you should take this. Link to Download, Credits:(--light--)
Resurrection Remix: This ROM was good, but compared to CM13, this ROM sucked battery more and at the first boot, the status bar had some lag issues, but after one or two reboots, it was working perfect. Besides that, no problem, this is the second best ROM. Link to Download, Credits:nick37332001
Kumajaya's CM13: This is by far the best ROM I've tried. Battery is the best, considerable less lag while multi-tasking, good gaming performance, and the basic MM UI. I didn't find any bugs at all. If you're looking for the best ROM, this is the one. Link to Download Credits:ketut.kumajaya
I've also found that, newbies to ROM flashing tend to think Official ROMs and Builds are better than Unofficial ones. This is a wrong perception. Kuma's build's are unofficial, but it had a much better performance compared to Nexus Experience. What counts is how much work the devs put into this.
Hope this thread becomes helpful to both users as well as developers. Great work, devs. Hope you keep up the good work.

Hello Venkatesh, Im using 2014818 too. Can you tell me which ROM are you using? Also, even after I flashed Custom recovery, I still see stock recovery, but from there Im able to access TWRP. is this expected behavior? Please tell stable roms for Redmi 2 2014818

john_keshav said:
Hello Venkatesh, Im using 2014818 too. Can you tell me which ROM are you using? Also, even after I flashed Custom recovery, I still see stock recovery, but from there Im able to access TWRP. is this expected behavior? Please tell stable roms for Redmi 2 2014818
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I am on stock miui brother. First root your device, install flashify and flash twrp from flashify. You are done.
Sent from my 2014818 using XDA Free mobile app

No rules broken here. Carry on! :good:
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Blisspop ROM
I have flashed Blisspop ROM, run smoothly until now ( more than 2 days)

Kumajaya's Marshmellow as daily driver. Using since last december, never crash-rebooted and rare bugs. Battery could have been better. And camera, obviously you can't beat MIUI's stock camera but it's all right.

cm 13 by kuma is already stable because basic functionality of redmi 2 is now working been using till now

Thanks guys! I've updated my OP, with reviews.

@rohitaar I'm too on cm 13 its smooth stable,but have you tried aosp caf,if yes how's it? I like idea of pure aosp ROM on which I could use xposed if I want any feature.Please review it if you can

I must add the (at least) here, none of the MM ROMs has a working adb, and some of has GPS issues

Lennoard said:
I must add the (at least) here, none of the MM ROMs has a working adb, and some of has GPS issues
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Do not believe this guy, I've been using ADB for like every ROM to batch install the APKs which I've backed up from the Stock MIUI.
ADB works perfectly. Also, I love Here Maps more than Google Maps, and it has no problems at all. Brother, if you have any issues with your phone, you should check it with the manufacturers, or at least other users, see if they have any issues.

rohitsonone said:
@rohitaar I'm too on cm 13 its smooth stable,but have you tried aosp caf,if yes how's it? I like idea of pure aosp ROM on which I could use xposed if I want any feature.Please review it if you can
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@rohitsonone No.. I had a look at it, but the UI seemed too Ice-Sandwich type! You see the screenshots! Guess I'm happy with CM13! You can use xposed in CM 13, no problems, although I don't want any tweaks.

I dont think kuma's cm13 ROM has best battery. I mean it is not to hurt him, but the marshmallow changes which forces us to enable gps for wifi functionality is the thief. It sucks battery like hell. But cm13 of kuma had awesome camera and it had no lags at all !! Very clean and smooth UI. As the kernel source has been released for redmi 2 we will have wait for some good battery management tweaks. PS: I am using kuma's cm12.1 as my daily driver and it has no problem at all except camera quality and the battery management(better than cm13 but still . . .)

can anyone help me with the audio bug? {audio playing with speaker and headphones.} the roms i used tends to work normally for 10 reboots. but after some reboots the audio bug kicks in. audio playing with speaker and headphones. hope thats the bug with roms. I have used Ressurection Remix both 5.1 and 6.0.

Smoothest rom for heavy games like injustice 2, modern combat...etc

There are too many roms now available for 3s....So I am getting confused for which is the BEST for gaming ?
I tried the most downloaded rr and los roms but somehow rr rom lagged much compared to new carbon rom. (for me... I don't know about others) And los doesn't have the ram bar feature ( Yes I want the ram bar specifically, other features don't matter much.
So if anyone who is expert in rom testing can tell me which one is the smoothest rom of all please it will be a very big help....
I am not saying other roms are bad or anything but please if anyone can tell me it is much appreciated .
Thank you
And i made a thread earlier asking about how the f2fs format increases performance compared to ext4 but no one replied...
Can anyone explain it in simple words as I am not an expert in this area ? (As you can see I am a Junior member)

Hi. I dont think any rom make different in this case. The Snapdragon 430 its a very good "CPU" and you can do almost anything, but it's a low perfil CPU and cant do miracles. Yea, you can play a lot of games and emulators but I dont think that any Rom (Stock or Custom) can do a (notable) different.
You can gain better battery or faster UI etc. with a specific rom, but if a game going slow, will go slow with another Roms.
I used Stock MIUI, stables and Beta. Custom like Arvanasoft (MIUI 8 and MIUI 9)... LineageOS, Xperience and right now I am using ViperOS because is fast and almost perfect, and for games I dont saw different. I must to say, I dont play a lot and I most using emulators like PPSSPP and the result is same.

kukuteku said:
Hi. I dont think any rom make different in this case. The Snapdragon 430 its a very good "CPU" and you can do almost anything, but it's a low perfil CPU and cant do miracles. Yea, you can play a lot of games and emulators but I dont think that any Rom (Stock or Custom) can do a (notable) different.
You can gain better battery or faster UI etc. with a specific rom, but if a game going slow, will go slow with another Roms.
I used Stock MIUI, stables and Beta. Custom like Arvanasoft (MIUI 8 and MIUI 9)... LineageOS, Xperience and right now I am using ViperOS because is fast and almost perfect, and for games I dont saw different. I must to say, I dont play a lot and I most using emulators like PPSSPP and the result is same.
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Then can you tell me which one is the lightest yet stable ( with good camera ) and has a option for ram bar? Thanks. And do you know the difference between f2fs and ext4 ?

Mmmmm No, I dont know the difference between ext4 or f2fs, even I don't know which we are using.
About the Rom, if you want a MIUI rom, I think Arvanasoft with MUI9 is the best. If you want Custom Rom with Nougat, I used LineageOS, Xperience and others, but the best I already used and I am using is ViperOS. Good battery, stable, few customizations and very fast. Any bug till now.

kukuteku said:
Mmmmm No, I dont know the difference between ext4 or f2fs, even I don't know which we are using.
About the Rom, if you want a MIUI rom, I think Arvanasoft with MUI9 is the best. If you want Custom Rom with Nougat, I used LineageOS, Xperience and others, but the best I already used and I am using is ViperOS. Good battery, stable, few customizations and very fast. Any bug till now.
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Does ViperOS have a rambar option?

kukuteku said:
Mmmmm No, I dont know the difference between ext4 or f2fs, even I don't know which we are using.
About the Rom, if you want a MIUI rom, I think Arvanasoft with MUI9 is the best. If you want Custom Rom with Nougat, I used LineageOS, Xperience and others, but the best I already used and I am using is ViperOS. Good battery, stable, few customizations and very fast. Any bug till now.
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Thanks
It is the best ?

need suggestion for best rom

hii
while waiting other official rom (im waiting for aex official)
and since im new here,especially about miui
i need suggestion which best rom betwen globe vs eu vs miuipro (or maybe any rom?)
i dnt care about style, best audio like dolby, viper etc, or more customization
im just looking for
battery life
less ram usage
lighter of course
all about perform,i mean prefer gameplay than graphic
sorry for my english
thank u mifans

go for mokee official builds > use agesis (in built)to get control over apps > set battery use to efficiency > install kernel auditor > and cpu governor to conservative!
you will have all you need!

Tesla_77 said:
go for mokee official builds > use agesis (in built)to get control over apps > set battery use to efficiency > install kernel auditor > and cpu governor to conservative!
you will have all you need!
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But mokee builds have the same bug from 5 releases

melekpek said:
hii
while waiting other official rom (im waiting for aex official)
and since im new here,especially about miui
i need suggestion which best rom betwen globe vs eu vs miuipro (or maybe any rom?)
i dnt care about style, best audio like dolby, viper etc, or more customization
im just looking for
battery life
less ram usage
lighter of course
all about perform,i mean prefer gameplay than graphic
sorry for my english
thank u mifans
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"Official" build does not necessarily mean it's great (even official rom from xiaomi is buggy sometimes). you can always try available builds for you device that suits your requirement.
when it comes to performance, rom with less costumization is often performs well.
when I first joined xda, comparing rom is strictly prohibited to respect the dev. that's why I had to install the rom to find out if it's good for me or not.
:good: cheers

melekpek said:
hii
while waiting other official rom (im waiting for aex official)
and since im new here,especially about miui
i need suggestion which best rom betwen globe vs eu vs miuipro (or maybe any rom?)
i dnt care about style, best audio like dolby, viper etc, or more customization
im just looking for
battery life
less ram usage
lighter of course
all about perform,i mean prefer gameplay than graphic
sorry for my english
thank u mifans
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Mokee is official, but unfortunatelly it have some bug like music player don't working. Maybe they will fix the issues because they are working on it and they already have fixed a lot of issue.
We don't have perfectly Official Rom, but we have a lot of nice Unofficial rom. I think the best are Resurrection Remix 5.8.4/5.8.5 and Validus. I tried both of them, these are bug free, it have awesome performance and battery life! Unofficial means that you won't get OTA updates, but i think if you are able to install a Custom ROM then you needn't OTA updates cause you can update from the TWRP .

I'd say go with rr5.8.5 hrafninns build
use vodoo kernel with conservative or impulse governor
also use the a1 camera port

I running Miui 9 (based on Android 6.0), it's very fast, battery is great.
I found Hexagon Nougat normally quite good but not found this rom for Redmi4 Prime yet.
Not sure about all the Nougat roms on this forum, it's always lag with the waiting arrow when open app or youtube etc. Miui8/9 do not have this lag symtom mentioned.

I prefer MIUI since it's fast and stable (less heat when playing games). Mine is running on mi-globe miui9. So far so good

stable bugless rom

which pie rom is stable and bugless
answer me plzzz

You can try these
First of all I don't think there's no such ROM as BUG-LESS. Even our X00TD's official stock ROM has many bugs. But yes there are some ROMs, stable enough to make you feel awesome. They have bugs but it shouldn't affect your experience. You can try the followings, I've tried them personally.
Pixel Experience Official : A full stock Pie experience. Not much customization.​
DOT OS Official : Fully customized and one of the best looking custom ROM out there.​
Havoc OS Official : I'm currently using this one. It'll provide you options to fully customize your device. Battery life of the Kernel is good as well.​
Let me know if you've some other ROMs (with lesser bugs) as well, I'll give'em a try too....!!
Hope it helps....!

thanks and which custom kernel i use

siddhant bhardwaj said:
thanks and which custom kernel i use
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First off, wrong place to post. Second, there is no best kernel or ROM. Everything has issues, just that some don't effect everybody.
Kernels u can try: TheRagingBeast, Rawwork, Darkonah, Azure, PBH, Singh, etc. Try all and settle on one. Rawwork is my personal favorite.

ParadoxTheDevil said:
First of all I don't think there's no such ROM as BUG-LESS. Even our X00TD's official stock ROM has many bugs. But yes there are some ROMs, stable enough to make you feel awesome. They have bugs but it shouldn't affect your experience. You can try the followings, I've tried them personally.
Pixel Experience Official : A full stock Pie experience. Not much customization.
DOT OS Official : Fully customized and one of the best looking custom ROM out there.
Havoc OS Official : I'm currently using this one. It'll provide you options to fully customize your device. Battery life of the Kernel is good as well.
Let me know if you've some other ROMs (with lesser bugs) as well, I'll give'em a try too....!!
Hope it helps....!
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Resurrection Remix is on par with havoc , if not better(with pbh v11 kernel

james11705 said:
Resurrection Remix is on par with havoc , if not better(with pbh v11 kernel
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I agree. In fact it's better than havoc because it's well polished and 99.99% bug free(could be totally bugless). Going to try dotos now.

Best Davinci ROM w/o GApps

Of all Davinci roms that come without GApps preinstalled, which seems the most stable and supported? Possibly a gutted version of MIUI?

Derpfest latest build have a fast FOD and u can literally customize anything in your system if u are a fan of themes and colors, the system is stable and smooth im running it for 2 weeks i didnt notice a single bug
I would suggest u LKT mode for more battery life u can search it on xda. Good luck !