[Q] What's the best rom? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi All,
My SGS3 is due for delivery this week, thought I'd have a look at what roms are on offer. But I'm finding the choices a bit confusing.
I've currently got a Moto Defy (hate it ) and on that I've had Miui, MS2, CM7 & CM9. I stuck with CM7.
My dilemma is, what SGS3 rom will give my phone the widest range of its features? Which rom has the least bugs? What are the differences between each rom and stock? (as not each rom has a list of features)
I know that this will be about personal preference, but I'd just like some info!
So I'm appealing to anyone running a custom SGS3 rom, to tell me what's good about the rom you have. Or if you've tried one and gone back to stock let me know.
Thanks
Lowyo

Lowyo said:
Hi All,
My SGS3 is due for delivery this week, thought I'd have a look at what roms are on offer. But I'm finding the choices a bit confusing.
I've currently got a Moto Defy (hate it ) and on that I've had Miui, MS2, CM7 & CM9. I stuck with CM7.
My dilemma is, what SGS3 rom will give my phone the widest range of its features? Which rom has the least bugs? What are the differences between each rom and stock? (as not each rom has a list of features)
I know that this will be about personal preference, but I'd just like some info!
So I'm appealing to anyone running a custom SGS3 rom, to tell me what's good about the rom you have. Or if you've tried one and gone back to stock let me know.
Thanks
Lowyo
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hi,
ive been running blackstar rom with siyah for 5-6 days now and can highly recommend it, its amazing and no issues for me. Never been a big fan so using a stripped back bloatware free aosp rom is my personal preference. the performance is streets ahead of stock rom, my battery life also greatly improved over stock.
Ive also tried omega rom and wanamlite, both good roms but blackstar easily the best for me. Fixes some issues over stock rom such as, auto brightness and inreasing ringtones. Plus as it rooted you get all the benefits of overclocking and undervolting. Try it you won't regret it

There is no best ROM.
Every ROM has it's pros and there cons.
Just review Change-Logs and check out which one you like more.

dazbutler1 said:
hi,
ive been running blackstar rom with siyah for 5-6 days now and can highly recommend it, its amazing and no issues for me. Never been a big fan so using a stripped back bloatware free aosp rom is my personal preference. the performance is streets ahead of stock rom, my battery life also greatly improved over stock.
Ive also tried omega rom and wanamlite, both good roms but blackstar easily the best for me. Fixes some issues over stock rom such as, auto brightness and inreasing ringtones. Plus as it rooted you get all the benefits of overclocking and undervolting. Try it you won't regret it
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Thanks Daz,
I'll give it a go. Battery life improvements are always welcome.

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Closed, there is no such thing as a "best rom", thus best rom threads are considered OT.
Also, post questions in the Q and A section.
Thank you.

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[Q] Should I flash a ROM?

what are the advantages of flashing ROMS? I've heard that Cyanogen mod 7 is very buggy, so I'll be leaning more towards Lighting ROM or Darky ROM if I do actually end up flashing one. I'm currently running Stock 2.3.5 if that makes any difference.
Thanks!
okmijnlp said:
what are the advantages of flashing ROMS? I've heard that Cyanogen mod 7 is very buggy, so I'll be leaning more towards Lighting ROM or Darky ROM if I do actually end up flashing one. I'm currently running Stock 2.3.5 if that makes any difference.
Thanks!
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Most custom ROMS, for example villainROM, are based on samsung firmware , so they bring a close to stock experience, with touchwiz interface, samsung camera, etc... For me the biggest benefit of these ROMs is that they most of the times get rid of samsung and carriers bloatware and go with the latest samsung firmware (that usually takes a lot time to get via official updates through kies). The latest firmware usually implies a lot f improvement in performance and battery life (yes, it is significant).
In the other hand you have AOSP ROMS (android open source project). This is the case of CM7 (cyangenMOD) and MIUI, and others like oxygen, insanity ii, etc... Here, the devs get rid of samsung firmware, and modify the open source gingerbread to run on a specific device (like samsung galaxy s2 in this case). This is the reason it may be buggy at first, because not everything is running as on samsung firmware.
ANyway, the latest CM7 nightly is working great for performance and battery life, much faster than samsung ROMs also. SOme problems anyway, like the camera which is worse than the samsung one, FM radio not working. There are a lot of things that are way better in CM7 and a lot of things that are worse. But with the latest nightlies the bugs are minor and you can use your device for daily use withouth problems.
I personally was using CM7 for some time and yesterday I switched to checkROM revolution (xda thread) which is samsung firmware XXKI4. I', constantly changing since I miss the camera app and polaris office alot (polaris office as a samsung app can't run on CM7).
Cyanogenmod is not buggy!
Just use checkROM like the rest of us...
I can suggest you to read here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1288850. Great team working on that rom.
okmijnlp said:
what are the advantages of flashing ROMS? I've heard that Cyanogen mod 7 is very buggy, so I'll be leaning more towards Lighting ROM or Darky ROM if I do actually end up flashing one. I'm currently running Stock 2.3.5 if that makes any difference.
Thanks!
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Flashing a custom ROM makes sense, if you want to optimize the performance of your phone => flash a custom ROM specialized for better performance.
And if you want more battery life, flash a custom ROM specialized for a longer battery life.
If you feel fine with the official firmware, stick to a stock ROM.
That's what I am doing in the moment.
For me, the latest stock ROM is a good compromise / balance between performance and battery life.
But it's up to you ... feel free to try other ROMs.
if you have to ask the question then no, you probably shouldnt
skimminstones said:
if you have to ask the question then no, you probably shouldnt
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I don't agree with you man.
tomascunill said:
I don't agree with you man.
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well, thanks for letting me know

Best TW ROM & kernal for Fascinate?

I need the best, most working, stable ROM & kernal combo available for my fassy, I prefer TW though? I use the phone as a daily driver, mainly I use almost every option that stock offers on a day-to-day basis so it must all be functional... And customization is always a great thing, please comment with any helpful info on this. Any helpful info on this is much appreciated, I dropped my EvO in the lake a week or so ago and had to go buy my Fassy. I am not new to rooting or ROMing phones, but I have found it is most helpful to get others insight on these types of things before trying EVERY ROM for a day or so lol? I am running Baked JB right now, but as I said I'm a little partial to the TW OS, and battery life isnt as fantastic.
Thanks in advance,
Ben :silly:
Try GeeWiz 2.8.1 with its own kernel. It's still Gingerbread though. There aren't any TouchWiz ICS or JB roms out there. You could also try AOKP M6 and install a TouchWiz theme from the play store.
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Awesome, thank you, any others???
BENEvO4g00 said:
Awesome, thank you, any others???
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back in the day I was partial to super clean 3 with the stock eh03
kernel (though I can't recall exactly why . Something about the behavior of the backlights?
I'm now running cm10 and loving it. Everything works.
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Like scarfman said, geewiz 2.8 is the best TW rom for stability...Superclean 3 was also good , just had to deal with a random reboot.
Rom for fascinate
BENEvO4g00 said:
I need the best, most working, stable ROM & kernal combo available for my fassy, I prefer TW though? I use the phone as a daily driver, mainly I use almost every option that stock offers on a day-to-day basis so it must all be functional... And customization is always a great thing, please comment with any helpful info on this. Any helpful info on this is much appreciated, I dropped my EvO in the lake a week or so ago and had to go buy my Fassy. I am not new to rooting or ROMing phones, but I have found it is most helpful to get others insight on these types of things before trying EVERY ROM for a day or so lol? I am running Baked JB right now, but as I said I'm a little partial to the TW OS, and battery life isnt as fantastic.
Thanks in advance,
Ben :silly:
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I'm currently running (pa_fascinate-4.0-BETA-20140103.zip) it's a KitKat 4.4.2 ROM. GAPPS are (pa_gapps-modular-full-4.4.2-20140318-signed.zip). It runs great with no Lag. To install you need to use Team Win Recovery.
BENEvO4g00 said:
I need the best, most working, stable ROM & kernal combo available for my fassy, I prefer TW though? I use the phone as a daily driver, mainly I use almost every option that stock offers on a day-to-day basis so it must all be functional... And customization is always a great thing, please comment with any helpful info on this. Any helpful info on this is much appreciated, I dropped my EvO in the lake a week or so ago and had to go buy my Fassy. I am not new to rooting or ROMing phones, but I have found it is most helpful to get others insight on these types of things before trying EVERY ROM for a day or so lol? I am running Baked JB right now, but as I said I'm a little partial to the TW OS, and battery life isnt as fantastic.
Thanks in advance,
Ben :silly:
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superclean was the best during my days with the fascinate with the stock kernel. good times

[Q] RoM performance tweaks

Hello I know the best custom rom is subjective, but which of the following roms has the most performance tweaks?
It's very difficult to chose from 3 different Roms if they all look almost completely the same. (especially ARHD & wanamlight)
Wanamlight
Android Revolution HD
Omega
Because my phone is still very new, I'm not bored yet of the user interface so I would like to keep the look of the stock rom.
I know Omega has a few visual changes but it won't bother, it mostly looks like the stock rom with only some little visual tweaks.
Which of the above rom's has the most performance tweaks, or is this almost the same?
I expect that they are all stable?
Again I know that the 'best' rom is just personal preference but I'm asking what would be the fastest one, because I have no idea which one to test first.
GoGoris said:
Hello I know the best custom rom is subjective, but which of the following roms has the most performance tweaks?
It's very difficult to chose from 3 different Roms if they all look almost completely the same. (especially ARHD & wanamlight)
Wanamlight
Android Revolution HD
Omega
Because my phone is still very new, I'm not bored yet of the user interface so I would like to keep the look of the stock rom.
I know Omega has a few visual changes but it won't bother, it mostly looks like the stock rom with only some little visual tweaks.
Which of the above rom's has the most performance tweaks, or is this almost the same?
I expect that they are all stable?
Again I know that the 'best' rom is just personal preference but I'm asking what would be the fastest one, because I have no idea which one to test first.
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Actually I'm using ARHD, it has a very good battery life and is very smooth. I tried Omega a few days ago but just restored to ARHD as I also prefer stock visual. But as you said, everybody has his own personal preference.
I used wanamlite for quite some time. Very nice rom in combination with boeffla kernel.
I flashed Omega 2 days ago but going back to wanamlite.
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[Q] Fastest/Most Stable i717 4.1.1+ Rom?

Hi Forum
Just curious for your opinions on what the fastest 4.1.1+ ROM is. Also another one I'm curious about is the most stable.
All opinions are welcome!
Thanks in advance!
Xda is a development site and doesn't want to be an opinion site. Your encouraged to try all the roms yourself and see what works best for you. No two devices are alike so what works best for you on your device won't necessarily work for others.
440bro said:
Xda is a development site and doesn't want to be an opinion site. Your encouraged to try all the roms yourself and see what works best for you. No two devices are alike so what works best for you on your device won't necessarily work for others.
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This is a forum.. a Q/A forum in fact.. opinions are welcome! I have the same question.. I've tried several roms and so far they all have been pretty stable yet all have been bigtime sluggish/laggy. All that I've tried were 4.4 roms. Are the 4.1/2 roms any better? If I use the overclocking at min 1000 max 1500 I get pretty decent performance but stock is just terrible. I'm gonna try a 4.1 rom now but if anyone has any daily drivers that are peppy and stable from 4.1 and up I'd appreciate opinions.. as the op would I'd assume.
Ok.. so I ended up giving a 4.1 rom a try.. Liquid-jb-v.20-rc7 to be exact and a HUGE difference in speed.. everything is peppy and smooth at stock speeds in fact not a huge difference from my LG G2 in cruising the system and the internet via Boat browser. I tested Cameras/GPS/Bluetooth everything is perfect working order.. and after a few hours of use no fc's or reboots. Battery life .. only time will tell but my battery is old and has always been terrible. Only other thing is terrible charging speed.. even with the fast charge option in the settings. If anyone has any experience with this let me know. So overall this rom i give :good::good:
Note I717
Swiftflikk said:
Hi Forum
Just curious for your opinions on what the fastest 4.1.1+ ROM is. Also another one I'm curious about is the most stable.
All opinions are welcome!
Thanks in advance!
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In my humble opinion so far trying a bunch I've come down to Liquid smooth for 4.42 Kit Kat.
If that is where you want to go. That is the latest version only. With Polluti0n's wonderful patches.
Mine using "Uber". Fairly smooth fairly fast. Not to great on battery, but still "tweaking" away.
I've tried so many Roms and versions of those Roms I thought I would save you some frustration.
I've had a lot.
I moved my service to TMobile and am now using Flapjaxx's ROM with wifi calling and couldn't be happier. This is the stock ROM with all the S-Pen apps and wifi calling and is smooth as butter and fast with no tweaking needed. I actually like Samsung'g skin.
A very good and stable ROM is bigfau's blackstar ROM and if it had wifi calling, it'd be my daily driver.
A gave all the KK ROMS as spin and hats off to the devs working on giving it to us but they all require too many patches and some still get FCs, etc.
i'm in the same boat as you guys, looking for a stable rom for my sisters Gnote, tried cm10.1 and aokp non OC. CM keeps restarting, and aokp is pretty sluggish. i will give liquid JB a try, you guys think that i should maybe try an ICS rom mayeb it will be a bit faster?
I have been running Unofficial AOKP 4.4.2 Rom. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2609761. It is the most stable 4.4.2 rom I have used. Other roms always crash during youtube and video playback causing a full reboot. I like Unofficial CM 11. But the gallery crashes if there is an mp4 file in it. If you don't care for AOKP. AOCP is by far the best Jelly Bean ROM. (4.3).
Well for me i flashed the canadian rooted base version (its crazy how the att rom is overbloated ) with the phaze kernel and the multiwindow mod . That the best experience i ever had no random reboot like the aosp roms and no lag ( I use the seeder app that reduce most stock jb lags )
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All ROMs I've tried so far go through battery so fast its not even funny.
boomslang06 said:
All ROMs I've tried so far go through battery so fast its not even funny.
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As I refer to my last post in the thread you started with this same question. And I posted same thing in another thread. Look for thread with smartass govornor.
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Suggest a ROM for my dad...

My dad has GSII (I9100, the "original" S2) and it feels kinda sluggish compared to my One S C2(pretty much HTC Sensation) and it also lacks app space(I have moved all of them to SD card but still cant install new apps). Since I'm going to reinstall it I might aswell install some other ROM. It needs to be almost fully stable with all the features working and it would be nice if it had touchwiz(my dad isnt a power user and doesnt like to adopt to new things). I don't know how much faster non-touchwiz ROMs are so you can suggest some of those too. Also I don't really know yet how to install custom ROMs on GSII except for the stock one but I'm sure I'll find info on how to do that. Oh, performance and battery life should be balanced although my dad has 4 batteries
Thank you for your help!
EDIT: after some searching I have realized that 95% of roms are without touchwiz... So just suggest any ROM that is stable and smooth
Mixz1890 said:
My dad has GSII (I9100, the "original" S2) and it feels kinda sluggish compared to my One S C2(pretty much HTC Sensation) and it also lacks app space(I have moved all of them to SD card but still cant install new apps). Since I'm going to reinstall it I might aswell install some other ROM. It needs to be almost fully stable with all the features working and it would be nice if it had touchwiz(my dad isnt a power user and doesnt like to adopt to new things). I don't know how much faster non-touchwiz ROMs are so you can suggest some of those too. Also I don't really know yet how to install custom ROMs on GSII except for the stock one but I'm sure I'll find info on how to do that. Oh, performance and battery life should be balanced although my dad has 4 batteries
Thank you for your help!
EDIT: after some searching I have realized that 95% of roms are without touchwiz... So just suggest any ROM that is stable and smooth
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Hey!
To root your phone, head here: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/galaxys2-i9100-root-android412-jellybean-install-clockworkmod-445008
1. Neat ROM: is perhaps based on Touchwiz. Also, it has had a huge support. So, it should fit your Dad's expectations.
2. SlimSaber 4.4.4: I guess pretty much the best non-touchwiz ROM for the S2. And stable as well!
3. Go ahead and try out Lollipop ROMs as well, although they are still under work and can have some bugs: CM12.1, Resurrection Remix , BlissPOP, SlimLP and many more.
Hope this helps.
Regards.
warrior1208 said:
Hey!
To root your phone, head here: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/galaxys2-i9100-root-android412-jellybean-install-clockworkmod-445008
1. Neat ROM: is perhaps based on Touchwiz. Also, it has had a huge support. So, it should fit your Dad's expectations.
2. SlimSaber 4.4.4: I guess pretty much the best non-touchwiz ROM for the S2. And stable as well!
3. Go ahead and try out Lollipop ROMs as well, although they are still under work and can have some bugs: CM12.1, Resurrection Remix , BlissPOP, SlimLP and many more.
Hope this helps.
Regards.
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Big thanks for your help man! I think I'll try both of the ROMs you suggested, but not going to try lollipop because my classmate has GSII with it and its just too buggy. Gonna report back on how it went.
Mixz1890 said:
My dad has GSII (I9100, the "original" S2) and it feels kinda sluggish compared to my One S C2(pretty much HTC Sensation) and it also lacks app space(I have moved all of them to SD card but still cant install new apps). Since I'm going to reinstall it I might aswell install some other ROM. It needs to be almost fully stable with all the features working and it would be nice if it had touchwiz(my dad isnt a power user and doesnt like to adopt to new things). I don't know how much faster non-touchwiz ROMs are so you can suggest some of those too. Also I don't really know yet how to install custom ROMs on GSII except for the stock one but I'm sure I'll find info on how to do that. Oh, performance and battery life should be balanced although my dad has 4 batteries
Thank you for your help!
EDIT: after some searching I have realized that 95% of roms are without touchwiz... So just suggest any ROM that is stable and smooth
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Try http://www.cyanogenmod.org/, that's how i started with custom ROM's, they have "idiot friendly" way of installing their ROM, you just install app form google store and follow setup proces, really easy. Very stable ROM also. I still use Cyanogenmod, bus some unnoficial lolipop version. I recomend it!
Slimsaber 4.4.4 by fusionjack. Would recommend it to anyone on XDA and to friends and family.
gordak985 said:
Try http://www.cyanogenmod.org/, that's how i started with custom ROM's, they have "idiot friendly" way of installing their ROM, you just install app form google store and follow setup proces, really easy. Very stable ROM also. I still use Cyanogenmod, bus some unnoficial lolipop version. I recomend it!
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I know but for some reason I don't like Cyanogenmod...Its not always the fastest anyway.
gsstudios said:
Slimsaber 4.4.4 by fusionjack. Would recommend it to anyone on XDA and to friends and family.
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Tried it but dad didnt like it so I installed him NeatRom and everything is working really well.

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