So.... What is the best ROM to get for this phone? or Most stable/fastest?
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No one rom is best for everyone, we all have different likes. There are many ics roms available. They are not perfect, but they are definitely good enough for daily use though. Imperium rom is very nice and good theme. For me, my favorite is 2.3.5 hybrid cm7/beblur. Very fast smooth and everything works. Very minimalist so you can add the apps that you like. Peetr did a great job with this. It also depends if you are unlocked or not. Rocko and Imperium have some locked versions. There are some older sudo roms for locked, you just have to search a little, can't remember them just now. And there is a deblur script for locked phones from loki. Try them all, great development work going on here! But fastest and most stable for me = 2.3.5 hybrid cm7 /beblur
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My vote would have to be cybiks cm7 if you're goin for a good mix of speed, stability, and customization. But like Bricky said, it depends on you're needs.
bricky23 said:
No one rom is best for everyone, we all have different likes. There are many ics roms available. They are not perfect, but they are definitely good enough for daily use though. Imperium rom is very nice and good theme. For me, my favorite is 2.3.5 hybrid cm7/beblur. Very fast smooth and everything works. Very minimalist so you can add the apps that you like. Peetr did a great job with this. It also depends if you are unlocked or not. Rocko and Imperium have some locked versions. There are some older sudo roms for locked, you just have to search a little, can't remember them just now. And there is a deblur script for locked phones from loki. Try them all, great development work going on here! But fastest and most stable for me = 2.3.5 hybrid cm7 /beblur
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OK, yes I understand it's all about trying them out. I'm just a little short on time so I was hopin for exactly this. One question though, the phone is rooted and unlocked, got clockwork 5.0?? Don't remember exactly but its the newest one. v3 I think? anyway, So if I were to try the hybrid 2.3.5 would it be rooted and all that? I thought I read somewhere that those roms wherent rooted?
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OK, yes I understand it's all about trying them out. I'm just a little short on time so I was hopin for exactly this. One question though, the phone is rooted and unlocked, got clockwork 5.0?? Don't remember exactly but its the newest one. v3 I think? anyway, So if I were to try the hybrid 2.3.5 would it be rooted and all that? I thought I read somewhere that those roms wherent rooted?
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Yes pre rooted. Make sure you choose the hybrid. When it comes to 2.3.5 you have to be careful what you install.
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Hey im considering flashing this as my first rom, but cant seem to find too definitely what does/doesn't work on this particular rom. Other than the list on the main post in dev section but i mean like bug wise is there anything major that has issues or isn't working at this moment? Other than the force close dialer(can you still make/receive calls??) is there any other things i should know before i flash this? Im currently stock rom/kernel just rooted. Just dont want to spend all the time flashing it and unlocking my bootloader to find out that the rom has serious issues that makes it unuseable for me. Im not too sure how you guys are about noobs/stupid questions posting in the dev section, so i just assumed that this is better suited for the Q&A. And correct me if im wrong, as im not quite positive, but i should be able to flash the cm7 rom and then the 1.3 OC kernel as well and have them both running? Is there one i need to flash before the other or how does that work?
This wouldnt be the rom to flash as it is still in alpha so it wont connect to any towers has bad battery life no dialer period. I would suggest flashing Jokers skinny rom for now its the most up to date and is running smooth for me
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you can try alien rom .I had it running smoothly until i bricked my photon
I'm considering the homebase or alien, but they aren't running the latest OTA. What is the difference that the latest OTA did? i see no difference running stock rom.. And can anyone vouch to how the battery life is on roms as opposed to stock? Specifically one of the photon ones. Thanks for responses guys
The latest ota has many bug fixes and moto changed alot of their blur apps, which have made the phone faster. Homebase and alien are great but not up to date. I have a non stock rom called skinny which is made from the latest. In the end its up to you. My suggestion is to flash all three with no less than 24 hours on each to get a feel for it. Please keep in mind you wont be able to judge battery life this way
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I'm considering the homebase or alien, but they aren't running the latest OTA. What is the difference that the latest OTA did? i see no difference running stock rom.. And can anyone vouch to how the battery life is on roms as opposed to stock? Specifically one of the photon ones. Thanks for responses guys
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Go with Joker, that's just my two cents. Battery life is slight better from Joker to Home Base. Alien was okay, but Home Base had more tweaks then Alien. Then Joker has more stuff and is on the latest OTA from sprint, so that's what I'd personally suggest, plus it's the one I'm running.
I'm enjoying Joker's skinny Rom...it's current, and fast.
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I'm enjoying Joker's skinny Rom...it's current, and fast.
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Agreed 100%
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Also cybik version of cm7 running very well. Fast and great battery
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Hi..Its maybe a repost but I'm starting this thread because lots of things changed into these ROMs since the old post.
So which ROM would you reccomend for everyday use?
I personally like CM a lot. But as its not stable yet I can't reccomend it yet.
Other than I like Aura & The Darkside ROM. Which one will you prefer actually?
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Hi..Its maybe a repost but I'm starting this thread because lots of things changed into these ROMs since the old post.
So which ROM would you reccomend for everyday use?
I personally like CM a lot. But as its not stable yet I can't reccomend it yet.
Other than I like Aura & The Darkside ROM. Which one will you prefer actually?
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I have been using CM7 for atleast two months now. FYI its quite stable with the newest Ba2tf build.
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Agreed with CM7. The newer builds are rock solid.
The CM Weekly w FP is working great for me, really good battery life too.
saiftheboss7 said:
Hi..Its maybe a repost but I'm starting this thread because lots of things changed into these ROMs since the old post.
So which ROM would you reccomend for everyday use?
I personally like CM a lot. But as its not stable yet I can't reccomend it yet.
Other than I like Aura & The Darkside ROM. Which one will you prefer actually?
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CM7 and darkside. But, SamCripp is coming out with an update to his ninja Rom in the coming days...... hopefully. He said that in a post in his thread about it coming out. I personally am trying that again when it comes out.
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To help myself and others, please respond with the names (and links) of ROMs that are stable (locked or unlocked). I'll keep an updated list in this first post.
Please state any known bugs other than 4g not working for unlocked bootloaders. The goal is to create a list of ROMs that have little to no bugs. Thanks!
MOF 2.3.5.ish {locked} Leaked Update (Retains 4G!)
Official CM7 (works great!)
2.3.5 Hybrid (Stock/CM7), Multilingual, Deblur (works great!)
Android Open Kang Project {AOKP} (Bugs: Themes not functioning properly)
Official MIUI.us
Joker's Skinny ROMs
*Most ROMs based on CM9 have some bugs and problems with using the video camera. See here for possible fixes.
Im pretty new here however I have done my fair share of flashing but I have been on the hybrid 2.3.5 by peetr and its faster than stock ir any ics rom but as with everything this setup works the best for my needs and as always ymmv
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^ have to agree with you. Love using miui and other ics roms but 2.3.5 hybrid is so smooth and fast, and everything works.
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bricky23 said:
^ have to agree with you. Love using miui and other ics roms but 2.3.5 hybrid is so smooth and fast, and everything works.
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Have you noticed any wallpaper pixelation?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26287745&postcount=205
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To help myself and others, please respond with the names (and links) of ROMs that are stable (locked or unlocked). I'll keep an updated list in this first post.
Please state any known bugs; however, the goal is to create a list of ROMs that have little to no bugs. Thanks!
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Great idea. I was looking for a rom but am lacking the time to research each and every thread and its posts to root out the good and bad of each. I was going to post and ask myself about a decent working rom with the most working functions and with little bugs. Hopefully those with time will give feedback and include ALL the info you requested in your OP for those of us lacking the free time.
There are so many now. I know some say "go search", but not all of us have the time to weed through all details in each post. Thanks again.
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Have you noticed any wallpaper pixelation?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26287745&postcount=205
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Yeah but it looks like peetr is looking into it
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Cool, just wanted to see if the issue is across the board with this ROM or if it is just happening to some phones.
are there any roms out there that work with boot strap recovery that dont require me to break my 4g?
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are there any roms out there that work with boot strap recovery that dont require me to break my 4g?
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Yes Rocko has one it says locked in the title of the thread. Also imperium has a locked version. And a couple others alien and another one. I forget the name. Its older, but I think it says sudo in the name.
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you wouldnt happen to know which one works best and is the least bug free do you?
Sorry I don't have 4g where I live, so I am always unlocked
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Sorry I don't have 4g where I live, so I am always unlocked
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Hell, I have 4G where I live and I still unlocked. Wimax is worthless with the 2500mhz spectrum. It only works outside in the middle of the street when you're not moving.
I see little mention of them here, but the ICS builds that spleef,; Th3Bill, and Teqm Moto Tegra have put together based on Joker's CM9 are pretty nice, too. I'm running CNA right now and other than two items which do have work arounds (camera needs 3rd party app and browser is set to landscape only), they are very smooth and stable. I'm lovin me some ICS!!
My MoPho's in the kitchen sink!!
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I see little mention of them here, but the ICS builds that spleef,; Th3Bill, and Teqm Moto Tegra have put together based on Joker's CM9 are pretty nice, too. I'm running CNA right now and other than two items which do have work arounds (camera needs 3rd party app and browser is set to landscape only), they are very smooth and stable. I'm lovin me some ICS!!
My MoPho's in the kitchen sink!!
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I'm running spleef's AOKP build 36 and overall, everything works great! Very usable with only a few annoyances that I am sure will be fixed in time.
I need a ROM with a stable navigation app because I travel for work a lot. So far only the stock ROM works well enough for daily use. CM7, AOKP, and CM9 all exhibit strange behavior like spontaneous rebooting or switching back to Car Home repeatedly despite the navigation continuing to call turns.
CM9 and AOKP also don't seem to work with my car dock well, I can't get any sound to go through the AUX port. I also noticed that when I drove around SoCal for a while with any of the CM ROMs, the screen will blank when the phone got hot. I restored a stock rom and had no problems in the same situations. CM7 doesn't have any problems playing music through the dock but the unstable nav bums me out.
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I need a ROM with a stable navigation app because I travel for work a lot. So far only the stock ROM works well enough for daily use. CM7, AOKP, and CM9 all exhibit strange behavior like spontaneous rebooting or switching back to Car Home repeatedly despite the navigation continuing to call turns.
CM9 and AOKP also don't seem to work with my car dock well, I can't get any sound to go through the AUX port. I also noticed that when I drove around SoCal for a while with any of the CM ROMs, the screen will blank when the phone got hot. I restored a stock rom and had no problems in the same situations. CM7 doesn't have any problems playing music through the dock but the unstable nav bums me out.
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Try the 2.3.5 Hybrid (Stock/CM7), Multilingual, Deblur ROM. It is almost flawless.
ROM Pros and Cons
Here is a great write-up of the pros and cons of different Photon ROMs.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686434
Good lookin out and all, but loki already has a thread for this and many other aspects of the mopho that he's been keeping updated since the creation of the photon forum.
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Which specific thread are you referring to that specifies which ROMs are stable and their pros and cons?
Nevermind, it used to be a sticky is android development forum but I don't see it there now. Perhaps he had a mod take it down when his harddrives crashed a few weeks ago. My bad dude.
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I have been trying out several different ICS ROMs on my phone for the last few months. Never had a GB custom ROM. I was on stock UCKK6 which came with my phone and then went on to the ICS roms.
I have tried almost all of the SGH-i777 custom ROMS - and MIUI as well.
Out of curiosity I decided to go back to Gingerbread so flashed UnOriginal ROM.
First thing I noticed - Damn this is smooth. Everything - browser, launcher, touch response - everything is smooth like a baby's butt.
So whats going on with ICS? why dont we have the same smooth experience on any of the ICS roms. Is it because the official source code has not been released yet? or is it resource heavy compared to GB?
Do not want to start a ROM comparison but just curious. Having moved back to GB I am not sure I am missing anything critical from ICS. Others might not share this opinion but this is what it is for me and the things I use my phone for.
I am still bitten by the flash bug - so will continue to try out the ICS ROMs.
What do all of you think about moving back to GB and the pros/cons? What ICS feature will you miss the most? Please share your thoughts!
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I'm about ready to go that route myself... Becoming frustrated when I find a "perfect" ROM, only to have the wlan_rx wakelock come back and drain my battery into nothingness. My favorite GB is Shishir's - Fairly stock, but with some nice tweakability, and have never run into the same battery probs.
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What do all of you think about moving back to GB and the pros/cons? What ICS feature will you miss the most? Please share your thoughts!
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It is a personal choice.
In here, in this world, whole universe, no one forces you to do what you don't want to.
Once in a while, I still heard some people saying "Windows 3.1 is so much better than Windows 7".
It is purely your choice so no need to put the flame on.
It's good that seeing you in fact trying out a few different ROMs and finally made the decision on your own.
That's a good sign for all of us.
I've had the same experience as well. I'm not so sure if it's issues with the roms but more with the Kernels. There is a lot involved to tune the kernels just right. I'm no developer but I believe ICS may just be a little more complex this GB.... or at lease ICS is not so forgiving.... I'm not developer so who knows.
On a side note, I just tried the PARANOIDANDROID v1.1 port so far this has been on the same level as smoothness as any GB rom I've ran. Link below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660974
I even found a port for my SGS Captivate and wow.... its 10x better then the GB rom. So this rom has something going on that I'm going to keep testing out. You may want to give it a try as well.
Im still on unnamed and ics has a few system changes like scrolling and touch screen responsiveness that make it how it is
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nappent said:
I've had the same experience as well. I'm not so sure if it's issues with the roms but more with the Kernels. There is a lot involved to tune the kernels just right. I'm no developer but I believe ICS may just be a little more complex this GB.... or at lease ICS is not so forgiving.... I'm not developer so who knows.
On a side note, I just tried the PARANOIDANDROID v1.1 port so far this has been on the same level as smoothness as any GB rom I've ran. Link below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660974
I even found a port for my SGS Captivate and wow.... its 10x better then the GB rom. So this rom has something going on that I'm going to keep testing out. You may want to give it a try as well.
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ive been running paranoidandroid since pre 1.0. its been my daily driver for sure. its ridiculously smooth and stable.
In case you haven't tried this combo already, I've found tasks aokp combined with the fluxi kernel to be the smoothest thing I've ever run. And yes, I've run many gb roms. Bought this phone the day it was released. Unnamed is an awesome rom, but I'm in love with this combo
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In case you haven't tried this combo already, I've found tasks aokp combined with the fluxi kernel to be the smoothest thing I've ever run. And yes, I've run many gb roms. Bought this phone the day it was released. Unnamed is an awesome rom, but I'm in love with this combo
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Agreed. I've been running AOKP/Fluxi combo since I decided to jump into the world of ICS ROMs, and it's the best one I've used so far. I will definitely agree about the smoothness of UnNamed, though. I've got a backup saved just in case
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In case you haven't tried this combo already, I've found tasks aokp combined with the fluxi kernel to be the smoothest thing I've ever run. And yes, I've run many gb roms. Bought this phone the day it was released. Unnamed is an awesome rom, but I'm in love with this combo
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I have tried AOKP with Siyah and Neak but not with Fluxi. I will give it a shot.
Of all the ICS ROMs I have tried - I thought Shishir ICS and Serendipity 9 were the smoothest - however that might be partly due to the SGS3 launcher.
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ive been running paranoidandroid since pre 1.0. its been my daily driver for sure. its ridiculously smooth and stable.
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I need to give this ROM a shot as well. Looks pretty interesting.
GB > ICS.
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Binnacle is also damn smooth. That was my personal favorite GB rom.
Every time I flash an ICS rom, I immediately go running back to GB. Maybe it's just me being impatient and not letting things "settle in", but most ICS roms I've tried aren't as quick and smooth, and that just gives me an anxiety attack
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Binnacle is also damn smooth. That was my personal favorite GB rom.
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I had not even heard of this one. But saw LilChris's index post and found it. I will definitely try this one. A ROM that PirateGhost and Red5 worked on - has to be great
It shows Beta7 as the latest version. Is this stable enough to be a daily driver?
Binnacle is hands down the best gb rom for this phone. It is wicked fast and epic battery life. Its more than enough for a dd
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The only thing that doesn't work on Binnacle is the strippers. Pirate took them out of the last beta build, said they were too "lulzactive" for him.
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MikeyMikes Serendipity 9 is the smoothest thing I've run. Especially with the stock Sammy launcher available during Aroma install.
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MikeyMikes Serendipity 9 is the smoothest thing I've run. Especially with the stock Sammy launcher available during Aroma install.
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+1. The new Touchwiz UX is really smooth. Trebuchet does not feel as smooth on the same ROM
yoderk said:
Binnacle is hands down the best gb rom for this phone. It is wicked fast and epic battery life. Its more than enough for a dd
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I did try Binnacle Beta 7 yesterday. I did not realize it had android 2.3.6. I somehow like the bounce effect in 2.3.4 that the UnOriginal ROM offers. Hate the glow effect in 2.3.6. Also, personally I felt UnOriginal was smoother than Binnacle (no offense) - just my opinion.
I did not leave it on long enough to comment about battery life. I flashed a different ROM. Seems like I am turning into a Flashaholic (need to restrain)
My progression:
Unnamed, then MIUI then CM7 then CM9. Doubt I'll ever leave CM9.
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So I need a stable rom cuz this is my only phone and I use it for work. I just started flashing roms. So far I've only tried Th3Bill's CNA, 2.3.5 Hybrid, and CM7. I liked all of them, but I ended up going back to Homebase for its stability and battery life. I really like CM7 for its simplicity and pure Google. What is the best stable CM7 rom and where can I find it? Links? Love to hear your opinions in other roms too. I love the support we're getting now on this phone. Thanks devs!
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So I need a stable rom cuz this is my only phone and I use it for work. I just started flashing roms. So far I've only tried Th3Bill's CNA, 2.3.5 Hybrid, and CM7. I liked all of them, but I ended up going back to Homebase for its stability and battery life. I really like CM7 for its simplicity and pure Google. What is the best stable CM7 rom and where can I find it? Links? Love to hear your opinions in other roms too. I love the support we're getting now on this phone. Thanks devs!
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I am still on a locked rom.. How do I and guys like me say???
Well, at least there are a few locked roms out there. Anyone else?
Plz provide me the list...
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U can do a search, but most locked roms will say locked in the title. Mof2.3.5ish is one. I've seen a list around here somewhere, so it's here. Or u can try this: http://lmgtfy.com/