I keep on hearing about Stock ROM, Custom ROM and Official ROM's. What is the difference? Why there are so many ROM's for the same phone?
Nitinbhai
nitinbhai said:
I keep on hearing about Stock ROM, Custom ROM and Official ROM's. What is the difference? Why there are so many ROM's for the same phone?
Nitinbhai
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its all about the variety and customization. different people have different taste.
stock/official == released by samsung via kies or updates.
custom === modded stock roms with different themes/tweaks/apps
CM roms are based on offical android, the type you find on Google Android handest, and are optimised for performance with a shed load of features.
Samsung roms are based on stock, often with bloatware removed and optimised for performance, like packing new kernels, deodexing, zipaligning, busybox not to mention root. They will also have additional functionality over stock samsung in the form of mods.
Try them out, you'll notice the biggest difference with Cyanogenmod roms compared to stock samsung based roms.
Wouldn't be surprised if this thread is closed, but hope that helps nonetheless
DO NOT POST A "What's the best ROM/Kernel/Theme?" THREAD!
Point to note both custom roms and root void warranty and would need removing before returning to a service centre if needs be .
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nitinbhai said:
I keep on hearing about Stock ROM, Custom ROM and Official ROM's. What is the difference? Why there are so many ROM's for the same phone?
Nitinbhai
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You know you are rooted when spend more time flashing roms than using your phone.
You know you are on a custom rom when you spend more time on XDA asking variouse questions than spending time with your family
You know you are on a shipped stock rom of your phone when you eat on time sleep on time keep tablets away...
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Hi guys, due to the delay in update rollout for my active i had some spare time to take a look into custom roms and was left wondering should i do a stock update or flash a custom rom?
The reason i think my question isn't dumb is because full os update isn't an everyday situation. Before if you were on GB and wanted ICS features (plus extras) you only had one choice. What had me wondering is the number of people looking for the original stock rom to revert back to and update. Is the official update more stable/device suited/compatible than the CM7/9 rom, or just the same deal with fewer customization options?
Thank you for your opinions
Rudjgaard said:
Hi guys, due to the delay in update rollout for my active i had some spare time to take a look into custom roms and was left wondering should i do a stock update or flash a custom rom?
The reason i think my question isn't dumb is because full os update isn't an everyday situation. Before if you were on GB and wanted ICS features (plus extras) you only had one choice. What had me wondering is the number of people looking for the original stock rom to revert back to and update. Is the official update more stable/device suited/compatible than the CM7/9 rom, or just the same deal with fewer customization options?
Thank you for your opinions
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Do stock update first dude, then u can have more fun with new feather
As soon as you feeling bored with stock then just go and try other custom
Rudjgaard said:
Hi guys, due to the delay in update rollout for my active i had some spare time to take a look into custom roms and was left wondering should i do a stock update or flash a custom rom?
The reason i think my question isn't dumb is because full os update isn't an everyday situation. Before if you were on GB and wanted ICS features (plus extras) you only had one choice. What had me wondering is the number of people looking for the original stock rom to revert back to and update. Is the official update more stable/device suited/compatible than the CM7/9 rom, or just the same deal with fewer customization options?
Thank you for your opinions
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Stock roms are specifically designed for your phone and is tested by the manufacturer. So it would be very stable. Custom ICS roms had some problems with for e.g Accelerometer coz they didn't have the proper driver. Once ICS for your device is released, then custom rom developers will use the original drivers to make their roms working properly So wait for Official ICS
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Thank you for your opinions! The ideal would be a custom on official update....let's hope that will be out soon!
Rudjgaard said:
Thank you for your opinions! The ideal would be a custom on official update....let's hope that will be out soon!
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No need to say thanks bro Hit the thanks button instead
I've just started using CM9 again haven been on stock Samsung ROMs for most of my S3 usage. I remember seeing something on Twitter about custom ROMs now supporting OTA In Android and assumed that CM9 would be one of the first ROMs to use it. I don't see I anywhere though. Is it not built into the latest Cyanogenmod ROMs out of the box (as it were)?
If not, why not? I would have expected every custom ROM to have this as part of their package. I love OTA updates and having them in a custom ROM will make the experience seem so much more professional.
Just intrigued, chaps. It's not the end of the world but I was kind of expecting to see it. I tried downloading what appears to be the official app but when I try to install it it says that the developer hasn't added support for it. Which I suppose does answer my question but doesn't provide a reason!
Thanks anyway.
Hello I just came from LG optimus 2x, and I need your advice. What ROM should I use for best performance and stability and battery life? I want to make my SGS2 to very fast phone. need kernel, rom, recovery
scorpio1991 said:
Hello I just came from LG optimus 2x, and I need your advice. What ROM should I use for best performance and stability and battery life? I want to make my SGS2 to very fast phone. need kernel, rom, recovery
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You know what you really need to do is do the research yourself, post in the correct section for a question and basically decide what you want from the Rom.
In my opinion for speed you should go for one of the cm Roms although on latest jelly bean versions there is no official support from Samsung so the Rom lack in features you get from a Samsung Rom.
You can safely download and enjoy roms from all the big names in outer forum, they are all slightly different, be it aesthetically or through their features. Try the original section as a starting point, do some reading, some flashing and trying of differ things and make your own mind up on what you like.
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Just try the ROMs yourself, pretty simple/basic and much easier than creating a thread and waiting for enough responses to matter
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Hello everyone,
I am a new Galaxy S4 owner. I would like to root my phone and install a custom rom on it.
Could you recommend a rom? I know there are many developers who have created roms already but I would like some personal advise from people who have flashed various roms already and tried them out.
My preferences are:
1. I want the phone to be stable. I don't want to continually flash different roms. I want one that is free of bugs (mostly, at least), polished and able to be run long term without significant problems or limitations.
2. Personally, I am not a huge fan of TouchWiz and a rom based on the "Google Edition", with a straight and clean Android OS would be preferred. But I would like to retain as many features of the S4 as possible, from the Camera features to the touted (in commercials) S4 apps, at least the ones that would have any value and are not just junk.
3. I don't know much about Kernals, modems and different apps that I could potentially use. If you could recommend some of these I would appreciate it as well.
I did recently update the software on the phone. I asked this in another thread, but does this limit my ability to root? Is there a workaround?
Thanks for the help.
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If you took the OTA update then you are stuck for the time being. You can get root, but no custom recoveries or ROMS.
That said, there is at least one GE ROM running around, but I've not really looked at them as I'm trying TW out for a change.
jrodefeld said:
Hello everyone,
I am a new Galaxy S4 owner. I would like to root my phone and install a custom rom on it.
Could you recommend a rom? I know there are many developers who have created roms already but I would like some personal advise from people who have flashed various roms already and tried them out.
My preferences are:
1. I want the phone to be stable. I don't want to continually flash different roms. I want one that is free of bugs (mostly, at least), polished and able to be run long term without significant problems or limitations.
2. Personally, I am not a huge fan of TouchWiz and a rom based on the "Google Edition", with a straight and clean Android OS would be preferred. But I would like to retain as many features of the S4 as possible, from the Camera features to the touted (in commercials) S4 apps, at least the ones that would have any value and are not just junk.
3. I don't know much about Kernals, modems and different apps that I could potentially use. If you could recommend some of these I would appreciate it as well.
I did recently update the software on the phone. I asked this in another thread, but does this limit my ability to root? Is there a workaround?
Thanks for the help.
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1) READ. Pick some roms that seem interesting to you and test drive them. Your basic "pick a rom for me" query is strongly frowned upon and will result in a thread lock. Don't expect to be spoonfed- It's a subjective query that only you can answer for yourself. I suspect that the reason it wasn't locked is that you lack the ability to flash any roms, thus rendering your query moot.
2) See 1.
3) Also see 1.
Of course, all this is moot, as you apparently didn't read the multitude of posts regarding the ME7 update that you took. You no longer have the ability to flash custom roms, recoveries, or kernels. Perhaps you missed the very prominent thread in General offering a $3,000 bounty for root and recovery? All you can do is a basic root, a few mods, and use some apps that require root access.
yes unfortunately if you took the dreaded over the air update you can no longer install a custom recovery which is needed for installing any custom rom, There really is a lot you can do with a stock rooted phone like remove the annoying bloatware and back up your apps with titanium!!
I am a new Galaxy S4 owner. I would like to root my phone and install a custom rom on it.
Could you recommend a rom? I know there are many developers who have created roms already but I would like some personal advise from people who have flashed various roms already and tried them out.
My preferences are:
1. I want the phone to be stable. I don't want to continually flash different roms. I want one that is free of bugs (mostly, at least), polished and able to be run long term without significant problems or limitations.
2. Personally, I am not a huge fan of TouchWiz and a rom based on the "Google Edition", with a straight and clean Android OS would be preferred. But I would like to retain as many features of the S4 as possible, from the Camera features to the touted (in commercials) S4 apps, at least the ones that would have any value and are not just junk.
3. I don't know much about Kernals, modems and different apps that I could potentially use. If you could recommend some of these I would appreciate it as well.
I did recently update the software on the phone. I asked this in another thread, but does this limit my ability to root? Is there a workaround?
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I own a Samsung Infuse 4g and I am trying to update my kernel. I looked at a couple of threads and couldn't exactly find anything. My Kernel version is 2.6.35.7--I997UCLB-CL977492-g61faf9a-dirty. is there a way to update it?
pysklona said:
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I own a Samsung Infuse 4g and I am trying to update my kernel. I looked at a couple of threads and couldn't exactly find anything. My Kernel version is 2.6.35.7--I997UCLB-CL977492-g61faf9a-dirty. is there a way to update it?
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Depends on what you mean by update...
There are custom kernels built on top of that version that can give you possibilities (could also do the opposite depending on the situation and phone) for better performance, battery life, blinking light notifications, and the like, but as far as the actual kernel version itself, that is the last official Samsung one.
Now, there are tons of newer kernel versions than that for your phone, but they would require you to install a custom recovery and a custom version of Android, such as CyanogenMod. This varies vastly from the stock Samsung Touchwiz software that is on there now. Many people find the update to a custom version an upgrade, but it can cause things to work differently or not at all, depending on what it is, as well as enable many more great things and getting to enjoy the newer versions of Android.