Best ROM for launchers - HTC EVO 3D

I love launchers. I love what custom kernels and ROMs can do to your phone. What I want to know; What kernel (if any) and ROM (if any) will make launchers smooth/lag free/fast and extend battery life at the same time. I don't play 3d games and I don't need crazy performance. All I want is for my launcher to be smooth, fast, and lag free and save as much battery as it can while still making the launcher lag free. I don't like sense. I don't like AOSP. or ASOP. Or whatever it is. I like launchers because you can customize it and they just seem better. What do you guys think?

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How about a Senseless rom? Check out Scott's Cleanrom with sense removed. Otherwise, I think leedroid tweeks can freeze sense up. Once you have that done, use ADW, GO, etc. Freezing all the sense components frees up ram and processing power, which helps save battery and preserve processing power to keep you launcher smooth.
If you find that you have more power than you need after that, use SetCPU to underclock for more battery, or overclock for even more power. Make sure your rom is based on the 2.17 update too; that really helped the battery out. Using the stock kernel, IMO works best for battery as well.

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Since I'm on Hboot 1.5 how do I get the 2.17? Since I already flashed before the update I don't think it will update.

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You have to relock the phone "fastboot oem lock" and run the latest Ruu.
Sent from my "Up all night, sleep all day" Evo3D via Tapatalk.

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Since youll probably miss this if I put it at the very bottom, there is a thread someone started here if you want a bit of inspiration for home screens:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459661
and the official MIUI only homescreen thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=990233
The absolute best by a HUGE margin is MIUI, and its features match exactly what you are looking for. It is incredibly smooth and has great battery life with very little running services in the background compared to most of the ROMs out there.
Everyone thinks Eternity is crazy smooth, and it does seem that way. But MIUI puts Eternity to shame on smoothness
Here is what I do to get amazing smoothness and battery life (can also just get the apps and stuff I said and look at screenshots at the bottom):
Install MIUI
Install AnthraX A06 kernel (best one yet, PM someone to get this kernel)
download SysTune. Yes SysTune, not System Tuner Pro or any of that. Needs to be SysTune. This is the best tuning app anyway so you should be using it.
download Launcher Pro (I prefer it, can use whatever but Launcher Pro works very well and it uses the same process as a lot of system stuff which is handy later)
download Script Manager
fin and download the V6 Supercharger script, update 9 RC5.2 (it is downloaded as a .txt file, remove the extension so it becomes a .sh file and put it on your SD card)
run script manager in root mode, run V6 script as su (dont select run on boot). Be sure and integrate it into build.prop I think it is. You will be asked this.
select 1000HP setting (option 9)
dont wipe and restart, go back to the menu and select die-hard + OOM groupings
select "engine flush" (option 18)
select "detailing" (option 19)
select to install the nitro lag nullifier tweak (option 20)
now select the "superclean and restart" (option 30)
once restarted open SysTune and change to OnDemand governor
set minimum speed to 192
set maximum speed to 1404
check "apply on boot" and hit apply
go to the governor tab and change to these:
[*]down_differential - 13
[*]sampling down factor - 4
[*]ignore_nice_load - 0
[*]up_threshold - 92
[*]two_phase_freq - 810000
[*]powersave_bias - 0
[*]sampling_rate - 15000
[*]io_is_busy - 1​
select "apply on boot" and hit apply
on the VDD tab select the "-" button at the top 4 times. You can go down more later but for now this is to be safe.
scroll down the list of frequencies and set/make sure the 1.4GHz step is set to "1150000".
Set each of these steps to:
[*]1404000GHz = 1150000
[*]1350000 frequency = 1125000
[*]1296000 frequency = 1100000
[*]1242000 = 1075000​
no NOT check apply on boot. Hit apply. After you have been running a couple hours straight on these voltages then come back and check apply on boot. You dont check it right away in case you set something wrong and it causes a crash from too low of voltage
on the miscallaneous tab change both IO schedulers to deadline
set both read ahead values to 2048
check "apply on boot" and hit apply
set:
[*]sched_child_runs_first - 0
[*]sched_compact_yield - 1
[*]sched_latency_ns - 18000000
[*]sched_min_granularity_na - 1500000
[*]sched_wakeup_granularity_na - 3000000
[*]sched_tunable_scaling - 1
[*]sched_nr_migrate - 32
[*]sched_migration_cost - 500000​
check "apply on boot" and hit apply
set:
[*]swappiness - 20
[*]dirty_ratio - 95
[*]dirty_background_ratio - 60
[*]dirty_writeback_centiseconds - 000
[*]vfs_cache_pressure - 40
[*]min_free_kb - 34133
[*]min_free_order_shift - 4
[*]oom_dump_tasks - 1
[*]oom_kill_allocating_task - 0​
check "apply on boot" and hit apply
in the Renice Process tab:
[*]click on the plus icon and select:
[*]android.process.acore = -15 (this is Launcher Pro, choose your launcher process)
[*]com.amazon.venezia = +15 (if you use and have the Amazon appstore installed)
[*]com.android.mms = -17
[*]com.android.phone = -18
[*]com.facebook.katana = +13 (if you use facebook and once it is installed)
[*]com.google.android.gm = +4
[*]com.teslacoilw.widgetlocker = -8 (if you use widgetlocker. If you dont, why arent you?)
[*]com.touchtype.swiftkey = -20 (if you use Swiftkey. If you dont, why dont you? Ok but select whatever process is for the keyboard you use)​
Select any other widgets you use in your launcher and set things like clock widgets to around +5 priority. Contact widgets and stuff like that to around -5 priority
press your menu button and click on "more", select service icon
change your icon or set it to no icon. I dont use an icon
check "apply on boot" and hit apply
lastly:
press menu and go to settings
in the personal tab, select display
make sure auto brightness is on
click on advanced mode
set Sample Interval to either 1 or 2 seconds, I use 2.
change the light levels to "use custom"
light level to dim = 5
click on "edit other levels"
change the lowest 5 settings to be "2" for the buttons
set up your screen levels like this:
[*]30
[*]42
[*]55
[*]67
[*]80
[*]125
[*]165
[*]205
[*]230
[*]255​
Set up your brightness levels under the "Lower" area like this:
[*]0
[*]35
[*]50
[*]70
[*]105
[*]350
[*]600
[*]1200
[*]3500
[*]7000​
Then click on "Save Settings"
oh and finally, in settings under the launcher category, make sure keep launcher in memory is turned off
Once you have everything going you may want to use that battery calibration script from the same place you downloaded the V6 Supercharger. It is the best calibration you can get.
You may or may not want to install the "super zip" made by il Duce. I like it since it includes an mms.apk file that auto splits messages at 160 characters so texts dont throw and error at you and spaz out when you send a long one. But you dont have to use it if you dont want to. In the current version of the ROM and super zip there are two small bugs where pressing the wifi button in the dropdown menu will cause a reboot and also your time select when setting an alarm is bugged. You can still see when the alarm will be set for it is just slightly harder to set since some of the numbers are covered up by a bad graphic. Other than that, no bugs at all that I can find.
My battery when I barely use my phone has lasted 3 days on one charge. When I do use my phone it easily goes all day long and I still have 30-40% battery by bedtime. If I am going crazy on usage, it still lasts me from when I wake up till I get home from work.
I know that was a HUGE amount of steps and settings and takes a bit of time. But once you know it all you can do it in like 10 minutes and you never need to mess with the stuff again. Trust me when I say the setup is well worth it and nothing even comes close to the smoothness
links:
V6 supercharger (thanks zeppelinrox )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18703418&postcount=5021
MIUI (thanks everyone who worked on this and t3project for EXT4 tweaks)
http://www.mediafire.com/?ne6b6cur54hkyry
Cant post links to kernel, need to ask someone who has it as it isnt uploaded anywhere either and we cant talk about stuff relating to the kernel or give support for it here at XDA.
Super Zip v32 (thanks il Duce)
http://db.tt/GmmA7xzM
What Super Zip does:
- ES (MIUIsettings.apk from 12.30 in /data, launcher2.apk from 12.30, SystemUI.apk from 12.16) - Andy Thomson
*note* overscroll actually works fine IF your framework-res.apk OR theme.mtz includes it already
- MiuiCamera.apk from kaos420 - no FCs
- newest market 3.4.4 plus speed hack - me
- newest google defaulted to search button - liquidsolstice
- OLD sprint VVM app (no idea if this will fix anything) - me
- volume+ from 12.30 (long press vol for track skip screen off) - Andy Thomson
- remove debug icon - jdeloach
- remove "no service" when in airplane mode - jdeloach
- kickass d3rp screen transitions - me
- added back in old DSP manager (no FC) - kaos420
- added back in gallery 1.0 (no FC) - miui
- added fixed qHD torch.apk - jdeloach
*note:
you can get better battery life by only maxing your speed at 1.18GHz instead of 1.4GHz
Also by changing your sampling rate in the governor to 25000
and by changing the up_threshold to 95
I included screenshots of my settings so that you can all see them first hand. I normally use a bit lower voltages too but I upped them for these shots to show levels most people have said work well for them. In my battery shot, youll notice today was a light day of usage. I only sent about 100 texts and made 4 or 5 phone calls and didnt play any games today.

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1. Thanks a million.
2. I hope you didn't type all that out for that specific post. I hope you copied and pasted.
3. Thanks a billion.
haha I will do this for sure. One thing though, I have a SEIDO 1900mAh 3.7V Li-ion battery. It seems better than stock. Will the battery calibration script work for this battery?
I have been at work since 330am. It is now 130pm. Sent only 50 texts. 1 quick phone calll. I think I got on the internet for 5 minutes. My battery is down to 65%. Is this good?
Up time: 73:08:20
Awake time: 37:28:39
Display 75%
Cell standby 12%
phone idle 10%
voice calls 2%
Android OS 2%
Seems like it shouldn't be down to 65%. But it's better than nothing. It will get me through the day. With very light usage though. I don't usually use it this little.

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njdurkin said:
2. I hope you didn't type all that out for that specific post. I hope you copied and pasted.
haha I will do this for sure. One thing though, I have a SEIDO 1900mAh 3.7V Li-ion battery. It seems better than stock. Will the battery calibration script work for this battery?
I have been at work since 330am. It is now 130pm. Sent only 50 texts. 1 quick phone calll. I think I got on the internet for 5 minutes. My battery is down to 65%. Is this good?
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lol actually I typed it up just for this post, but I needed to anyone since another person was asking me to do it for him too. Now I was able to just link him here and save everything I typed up for future linking to people who want it
Yes the battery calibration will work for any battery on any ROM. It monitors your actual mili voltage level of the battery and gives you precise instructions for how to perfectly calibrate the battery. It also shows you what it is being read as, and what level it should be at perfect calibration so you know how far off you are. Batteries have different capacities but all the batteries for our phones are supposed to be at a certain voltage when full and drain in a certain way as they discharge, this lets you calibrate it perfectly for how it should be
That seems like a bit high idle drain to me. I did that same thing today so far with usage and have been on battery almost as long as you and I am at 86% right now. with the ROM, kernel, and settings I posted.

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Those are a lot of steps. I'm a noob still so don't lose this thread. I will most likely need your help at some point. If not, I will still probably have questions. Thanks again. Will post back soon.

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miui doesn't have 4g so I'm going to try cleanrom