just looking for opinions and why you like it better than the others
MIUI.
Positives:
1) Doesn't require messing with bootloaders (the only way to hard brick your phone and kill it permanently)
2) It's built from the ground up. MIUI is the only ROM I've flashed that doesn't feel like an incremental upgrade. So many new features have been added, both big (instantly downloadable and apply-able themes without the need for flashing or cache clearing) and small (long pressing notification icons takes you to their respective settings). There are many, many, many, MANY more features. There's a list on the stock MIUI thread over in Vibrant Development.
3) Smoothness. Any and all 2.2 roms have some measure of lag in certain situations. MIUI has none. My personal example is Aqua Pets. Under 2.2, even when OC'd, the casting line would jolt just a touch every so often, and sometimes very often. Under MIUI, it hasn't occurred even once.
Negatives.
1) GPS issues (shared by all 2.3 ROMs). It isn't as easy to use as on Froyo. Remedied by running Angry GPS or GPS Test or a similar program a few minutes before you need navigation. Takes a while to get the initial lock, but once you're locked on, it works perfectly, even indoors.
2) Battery life (again, shared by all 2.3 ROMs). Now that I've let my particular version of MIUI settle in, the battery life is lasting longer (30+ hours as of this writing, at 18%) However, Froyo lasts longer than Gingerbread, pretty much across the board.
CM7.101
CM 7.101 = ROCK SOLID STABLE
Close to AOSP, no bloatware no Touchwiz to slow you down.
GPS works if you do hardware fix and flash gpsfix.zip However Vibrant's GPS still sucks compared to HTC hw.
No 911 dialing is a problem
Unfortunately like all ROMs that run Linux 2.6.4.13+ kernel we get a weird intermittent Android OS battery drain bug. Sometimes it's there and drains battery sometimes it's not and works fine....
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I can imagine this may have been asked before, yet I can't find any definitive answers, to what are the benefits to running ICS over Gingerbread at this time?
I dont really think there is much right at this moment, due to the ICS being out is so buggy, but i read alot of positive about CM9 which is running ICS - though one major drawback for me is the USB mount doesn't work.
But after playing around with my dads Galaxy Nexus, the diffrence aint gamebreaking. Surely its optimised in other ways, better interface imo - but again, Gingerbread is really great, and i will surely stick to this untill ROM chefs starts to cook roms on stable ICS releases.
Eventually check out my thread where some people are talking about ICS and the benefits from it compared to Gingerbread
right, ics is still buggy. but check out some of the very good custom ics roms in the development forum. some of them now are more stable than they previously do. i mean, stable enough for daily use.
apparently ICS has a lot of benefit over GB:
some of the good points:
- smoother ui animation (you'll feel more smoother than GB, also there are more transition animation added)
- improved google apps (gmail, calendar, maps, phone, sms have been redesigned and feels better than current version in GB)
- voice dictation (different from the one in GB, instead of "press-speak-press-speak", now you can keep speaking and the word will come out as you speak)
- face unlock (no need to introduce)
- options to encrypt the phone memory (forget if GB has it)
- some new widgets (some of the custom roms use AOSP apps instead of the samsung one, e.g. the calendar widget looks much better now)
- camera app seems to open faster
some problems:
- usb mass storage not working (may get fixed in the future, but now you can use MTP instead, if you are using windows or mac. linux users can have some problem with that)
- some apps don't work with ICS (most apps work, for the rest we need to wait for update to support ics)
- battery drain issue (there have been several report for battery drain on "Android OS" process, google seems to fix it in 4.0.4, so we just need to wait. currently mine can last over 10h with moderate use)
- remember it's still in alpha/beta stage, so backup your data!
if you are really interested, make a full backup using CWM and try to flash some of the roms. you can always go back to ginger bread by recovering the backup. hope this helps
I tried one of the cyanogenmod alpha builds from codeworkx and i had the impression that the menu is cleanear and more tidied up all in all. dont know if thats an ics or a cyanogenmod thing though.
my wireless lan seemed to work better, too
THUDUK said:
I can imagine this may have been asked before, yet I can't find any definitive answers, to what are the benefits to running ICS over Gingerbread at this time?
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After being on ICS Remix 8.6 by Westcrip, I "feel" the browsing, the sliding and most of the navigation on the phone is happening a lot faster.
Before February I felt like my old Gingerbread-thingy by Eskimo i belive... was the nuts. Now its like playing in a other league.
My SG2 feels generally Smoooottthheeeer
My 3 cents
The taste is better
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The taste is better
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More for hot weather, really.
What are the benefits in daily use that you are seeing from ICS over GB?
I'm running my SGSII on GB and have a few minimal issues:
I have the calendar notification bug where following a notification, the calendar will regularly wake up the CPU, causing battery drain
Occasionally unresponsive home screen for a second or two
Audio volume from the handset isn't great
I think ICS may fix the first and last, but would guess the second is launcher related. From reading ROM threads, people on ICS are getting random reboots, smoothness is poorer than GB, battery life is generally a bit worse, there's been issues with SMS (blanks and duplicates). Overall, it seems like I'd be swapping some issues for others.
Overall, I find my phone a pleasure to use most of the time, so am not keen to mess with it, unlike my previous ZTE Blade which was poor out of the box, so I was always trying new custom ROMs.
Any thoughts?
megapleb said:
What are the benefits in daily use that you are seeing from ICS over GB?
ICS is blue .
I'm running my SGSII on GB and have a few minimal issues:
leave it alone then for now .
I have the calendar notification bug where following a notification, the calendar will regularly wake up the CPU, causing battery drain
Occasionally unresponsive home screen for a second or two
Audio volume from the handset isn't great
I think ICS may fix the first and last, but would guess the second is launcher related. From reading ROM threads, people on ICS are getting random reboots, smoothness is poorer than GB, battery life is generally a bit worse, there's been issues with SMS (blanks and duplicates). Overall, it seems like I'd be swapping some issues for others.
Possible but many that have rushed to flash ICS are lacking in experience .
Overall, I find my phone a pleasure to use most of the time, so am not keen to mess with it, unlike my previous ZTE Blade which was poor out of the box, so I was always trying new custom ROMs.
Personal still on GB until i can have an ICS rom that matches it .
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How does DRH compare to our best Froyo Roms? I'm mainly concerned with stability and fluidity (ie, top-end gaming or video speed isn't as important as moving within and into-and-out-of apps). With the second core up and running in ICS, is DRH now our most consistent daily driver if we don't need the camera or the mic?
I've been running Clemsyn's Beastly combo for a while now, and it's incredible, but it lags on the two programs I use the most: Pulse and Dolphin, and for whatever reason its wifi connection is a little wonky for me. I've been following the DRH progress pretty closely, and my trigger finger is getting really itchy wanting to flash it. However, I'm about to travel a lot this summer and will need my GTab for work (word processing mainly), so I need it to be stable and reliable while I'm away from my desktop and can't monkey around with it if I need to.
So, community, what say you? Should I make the jump now, should I hold off until they roll out the 3.x kernel, or should I stick with Beastly?
(All of this, by the way, is asked in complete humility, knowing that I'm playing around with incredible work by incredible--and incredibly generous--people!!)
I have not used the Froyo ROMs, having installed Flashback and then DRH.
I like DRH, it is fast, I still get kernel panics when the tablet hangs and/or reboots. It surfs *very* well, esp with the different launchers.
I have noticed not all games work with ICS. I love Madden NFL but it won't run.
Froyo is still the smoother experience imo, however the ICS kernel is catching up very quickly. For me its definetly good enough for a daily driver, only minor anounces to deal with at this point. Fosser2 has even hinted that he may have a working camera and mic soon. I think in another month or two ICS will easily hold its own against the Froyo roms. Give it six months and we wont even be talking about anything but DRH's ICS kernel for the gtab.
I found the ICS to be maddeningly slow, switched back to C and C and it is a pleasure again.
I load a lot of apps, and when I want to use them I do not expect slow loading and constant warnings flashing on the screen. I hope ICS gets there but IMO not there now.
Looking to Flash a ROM for the first time on my Atrix. I want a ROM based off of either ICS or JellyBean (ie, 4.x).
I don't want to test out unstable ROMs. I only have one smartphone, so it needs to be reliable. Are there any 4.x ROMs that are stable enough for daily use? If there isn't, please tell me that.
Requirements:
Reboots no more than 1, maybe 2 times a day
4.x build
all hardware works, except for these things which I don't care about: fingerprint reader, laptop dock
Nice to have: in-car mode.
AtrICS looks nice, (video works, fingerprint reader works) - but lots of posters are saying it reboots on them.
They all have the same problem since they use the same kernel.
- They all have the reboot problems
- Camera has fuzzy lines on the Blur based ROMs (can be easily fixed by turning widescreen mode on/off)
I'm currently on Someone's CM10 and I think that it can be a great daily driver (I don't use my Atrix to call/ SMS anymore though, so I can't really tell) and it doesn't have fingerprint scanner and web top (both of which you don't care).
And as I typed this, my phone rebooted.
Sent from that Atrix.
Even I'm in the same boat. Been on CM7 since ages.. waiting for a stable release before jumping the wagon.
Hopefully, epinter or jokersaxx will adopt the new libs and new stuff to their mods and we will get a new ICS/JB daily driver.
Im using miui 2.10.12 by thebill currently and no reboots. I dont play games dont use lapdock or fingerprint. Only bad thing for me not working buttons backlight
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Your choices are the unstable ones with poor battery life based on the leak with everything working or the ones not based on the leak which are stable with good battery but no camcorder and flakey hw acceleration. Pick your poison.
Hopefully the project to port the Xoom kernel goes somewhere and we have something more solid, but until then if you want something flawless you should stick with gingerbread.
Since your new to custom ROMs, I highly recommend you check out mrom. Its based on cm7/Gingerbread, and the best non-4.x ROM for the atrix. Coming from stock I think you'll find it a noticeable improvement in terms of performance.
Sent from my #motofail. No ICS for 2011 AT&T flagship? #boycottmoto
This is good info guys, thanks, MROM looks really interesting. I guess I'll unlock my bootloader now,
Just started this game too. I need a daily driver for my only phone to use for business and personal. I don't use fingerprint or laptop (except as a charging base/alarm clock stand). Although I would love to be able to use the laptop again someday. This my opinion based on limited experience with the following ROMs. This is in no way a knock on any of the fantastic work the Dev's have put in any ROMs, merely my experience.
IMHO
Somebody's- great JB ROM but too many random reboots and to short a battery life for a daily driver on my only phone, chrome works because hardware acceleration works. ROM didn't work for me but I really wanted it to because it was sweet!
Cyanogen 7 Stable- Rock solid, great battery life, dependable but not much different than stock except for the ability to play with root access, firewalls etc. I know iti's not 4.x... but as a daily driver it's fantastic work
Epinters - Wow! JB, video chat, battery life in the 8-9 hours with daily use for email, phone, music, text, light internet and gmaps (result may vary), no random reboots... no chrome due to lack of hardware acceleration (i think, but may be wrong here). Overall his was the best for my circumstances. Of course mileage may very depending on your phone, mine is USA, ATT with apparently the right tegra part. I have been running it for 2-3 weeks and keep coming back to it for a daily driver.
AtrICS - too many random reboots but another great JB ROM, really wanted this one to work too
My opinion - Epinter's http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1781970 works for me. I am very happy I unlocked/rooted and started playing this game.
Hi everyone,
I'm currently ussing the back-to-n00t v9 ROM (KitKat) together with Boeffla Kernel for a pretty long time. It was good at the beginning, although the rom had a few bugs (like the mobile data button not working sometimes and roaming mode disabling when disabling data causing roaming warnings). But for some time already, I'm getting kinda frustrated. The phone likes to lag sometimes, like when going out of some app to the home screen and everything loads again causing a terrible lag, or all the apps close in the background. Also many times when I want to unlock the phone I have to wait a few seconds because nothing works (can't draw the pattern). I'm looking for some simple ROM (not any Marshmallow stuff etc, I want to maintain stability and performance). I'd love to get some better performance, without lagging and having problems with the keyboard (like it's not showing because of low RAM or stuff like that). I'd also like to get some good battery life althought this isn't that of a priority because I have 2 batteries.
I don't want to flash Cyanogenmod because I want to keep the TouchWiz camera and stuff.
Which ROM would you suggest me? I saw some website recommending Revolutionary S5, although I don't like the idea of trying to make an old phone like the some new model, they claim it's super smooth and optimised. Is that true? I don't want to waste any more RAM because of some ****ty features from S5 that I'll never use.
Thanks in advance! Hope you can help me.
same here, I use RR + boeffla but it is sucking one and half battery a day, inactivity battery consume is the same as Whatsapp I use a lot, it seems to be active when not active.
Same problem with Lineage 14.1
Best ROM for me was a stock rooted ROM with unnecessary apps disabled.