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Its been awhile since I have browsed the sgs2 forums and I stop in and notice ics is all over here. So I'm thinking of upgrading my girls s2 to 4.0 and I want opinions and stability and function of the current roms.
I'm leaning towards aokp or cm9. I have cm9 on my note and a500 so I'm fond of it obviously.
Coming from gb rooted w/ cwm full wipe and good to go I assume? I ask because in the n7k forum the leaked kernals suck and there were all these stupid methods for going from gb to ics...
Anyway thanks.
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Yup full wipe. I am not running either of those ROM's so cant comment on them. I have been following Task's AOKP thread. That may be the next one I try.
If you'd like to try a Samsung based rom, give ShoStock2 a try. It's the best I've ever tried.
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Ultimatum and SHOstock are excellent. AOKP is pretty sweet too.
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ICS is well worth the upgrade
I've been running CM9 since the first nightly. I love it. Haven't had any issues.
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I've been running aokp for a few weeks and love it so far. It has been pretty stable and fast as hell. I'm sure things are even better in the latest build, but I haven't flashed yet.
Its like when GB became available and everyone was still on Froyo- once you open the desert and have a taste, your likely not gonna go back. And now that video recording is fixed- its all gravy baby
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Definitely go with AOKP, it's stable, fast, full of features, and rocks great battery life.
The only benefit of the Samsung ICS is MHL.
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Its been awhile since I have browsed the sgs2 forums and I stop in and notice ics is all over here. So I'm thinking of upgrading my girls s2 to 4.0 and I want opinions and stability and function of the current roms.
I'm leaning towards aokp or cm9. I have cm9 on my note and a500 so I'm fond of it obviously.
Coming from gb rooted w/ cwm full wipe and good to go I assume? I ask because in the n7k forum the leaked kernals suck and there were all these stupid methods for going from gb to ics...
Anyway thanks.
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If MHL is a must, i think you're stuck with TW for now. My final choice was between aokp and cm9. Check the support/discussion threads, big difference...
No need for MHL I just want a stable ics rom for her because her miui rom is buggy as heck.
Thanks guys ill keep watching the dev section. For me aokp and cm9 are really similar so it just comes down to battery life and stability which is different for each person.
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Aokp all the way baby, super stable and awesome battery. Way better than gb
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I've been using shoshock lastest gingerbread build. it's great. I'm waiting for a while.
Running AOKP and it's running great.
Just flash Siyah's kernel and go for dual boot to check both Samsung and AOKP/CM9 roms together.
I've been running CM9 since the first nightly. I love it. My phone feels brand new and I don't feel like upgrade it, except I want LTE.
Thanks everyone. I flashed aokp for the extra settings and customization. Its been super stable so far and battery is good but will be better once it settles. Might try siyah might not???
Anyone recommend a Better modem? Have you been getting batter with gb ones or ics ones.
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I'd go with CM9 nightlies simply because it's supported by ROM Manager which makes it ridiculously easy to flash new updates, which come very fast by the way...plus it's CM9. Good luck.
Cm9 is nice I use it on my tablet and note but lacks some features I know my girl requires.
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DOGSofDOOM said:
Thanks everyone. I flashed aokp for the extra settings and customization. Its been super stable so far and battery is good but will be better once it settles. Might try siyah might not???
Anyone recommend a Better modem? Have you been getting batter with gb ones or ics ones.
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I tested the latest LD3 but decided to change back to LC5, it is faster than the old modems and seems more stable in my area. I have been running AOKP for a while and love it.
I am enjoying CM9. Lots of Entropy involvement. Good team working on it.
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What the title says.
From what I read, the leak isn't running quicker than meanrom. Personally I'm just going to wait for the official since I rely on roaming. What do you guys think about ICS so far?
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Its amazing man. I love it more than mean Rom which was ny favorite sense 3.0 rom. Battery life is amazing and I did update firmware and am having no problems at all. I love it hah
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What the title says.
From what I read, the leak isn't running quicker than meanrom. Personally I'm just going to wait for the official since I rely on roaming. What do you guys think about ICS so far?
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I feel like ics is amazing and you're missing out on alot! Don't flash the firmware and you shouldn't have an issue with roaming, as far as I know. ICS has brought alot of nice improvements. I say flash it and just give it a try for yourself man.
I went from mean to clean and I love the Ics and sense 3.6 combination. Battery life is definitely better
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Wow I didn't know it was that much of an improvement! I was on the mean thread the whole time and everyone there is pretty much loyal to Mike and aren't switching. He's a good dev and they won't switch till he releases one himself
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I feel like ics is amazing and you're missing out on alot! Don't flash the firmware and you shouldn't have an issue with roaming, as far as I know. ICS has brought alot of nice improvements. I say flash it and just give it a try for yourself man.
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Oh so the firmware is the culprit for the roaming issue
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Definitely an improvement, battery life seems to be better than almost any GB rom I had (aside from CM7 & og Anthrax RLS9). It's nice to have working ICS roms with WiMax though!
All I'm gonna say is I can never go back to Gingerbread!
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I have yet to mess around with the official ICS ROM due to my carrier not providing it yet. But from what I have seen it looks awesome and can't wait to test it out. I am currently playing with the ICS NonSense RC1 ROM by VladBelsky, I love the stock look and feel of ICS.
like ics. dislike sense 3.6. wish we had 4.0
I think people tend to exaggerate about how much better it is.
It's a definite improvement, but, if it had the same menus/look as GB.. You wouldn't really notice much difference. It's still worth using tho
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It breathed new life into the Evo 3d. I still dislike sense but it will be enough to hold me over until the next Nexus.
Aside from my personal dislike of sense it does run great though. I wish they didn't ugly up the notification bar and change around the settings but for the most part sense doesn't detract from the ICS experience. Battery life is exceptional and it seems to perform better at stock clock speeds than any other rom I have used @ 1.7ghz.
I roamed a bit yesterday and don't seem to get data while I'm roaming but that could be an issue on my part or area.
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I think people tend to exaggerate about how much better it is.
It's a definite improvement, but, if it had the same menus/look as GB.. You wouldn't really notice much difference. It's still worth using tho
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I don't know about you but I was using newts sense 4 amazing and almost fully working in beta state...flashed a 3.6 and while it seemed a little faster its horrible compared to 4.. then I flashed back to gb and I already hate it...doesn't seem as smooth and seems "clunky" IMO
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It seems to be much smoother, especially the browser. No reason to not upgrade really, except for the fact that most Rome are missing some minor features.
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my signal has been really ****ty compared to miui, sense 3.5, and sense 3.0 roms
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my signal has been really ****ty compared to miui, sense 3.5, and sense 3.0 roms
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If you've flashed the virgin mobile firmware, thats why.
i haven't had much of an enjoyable experience so far, i don't really have signal issues unless you include occasional LoS but no notice in decrease of signal strength.
I'm mostly disappointed with the mobile network settings missing that would allow me to enable data roaming, i have flashed Chubbzlou's Booster but that begins to FC and have performance issues after a day or 2 with the annoyance of Bluetooth issues.
not to trash one ROM, they all so far have the same issues and i can't find one to make my daily.
i am looking forward to sense 3.6 as it looks really good and has some great features.
i will politely and contently await the sprint leak or the official release, hopefully the firmware release included with the sprint leak will fix my "virgin mobile" banner
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If you've flashed the virgin mobile firmware, thats why.
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I did not flash any firmware. I only flashed the ics ROM.
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So much smoother than Sense 3.0 & battery life is great.
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I just came back from ICS. It was kinda unstable for me and I did pull out the superwipe before flashing
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Just read this:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...e-and-now-parts-of-it-are-being-added-to-cm9/
What do you guys think of this and will we see it it on the Rezound?
Read it and I'm in hopes it will be implemented eventually. Would be pretty sweet.
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I'm pretty sure it only works on aosp builds so when we start seeing those then we'll probably see this
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I think it sounds wonderful.
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performance is fine as it is really so I'd take battery conservation over extra performance I don't need
I'm not even going to think about this... Jealousy will take over and who knows when we'll get it.
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Cyanogenmod is going to be incorporating this, so hopefully this will come our way once we get cm9. I'd love to show all my iphone using friends how fast Android really is.
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dyetheskin said:
performance is fine as it is really so I'd take battery conservation over extra performance I don't need
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Greater performance=more usable phone at low frequencies
Low frequencies=better battery
my friend has a Gnex and said he flashed it and it made a huge boost in smoothness. If we found out any way to incorporate it into sense immagine how smooth our phone would be
I dont see how ICS could be any more fluid... ICS with sense fragments still left in it runs perfect even at 800mhz. I don't see how it could be any better!
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I dont see how ICS could be any more fluid... ICS with sense fragments still left in it runs perfect even at 800mhz. I don't see how it could be any better!
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Running perfect at 192 or 384mhz?
I'm pretty sure it doesn't double performance but it does make things a little more fluid
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Its too bad we'll never see this since the rezound is cursed when it comes to aosp.
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Its too bad we'll never see this since the rezound is cursed when it comes to aosp.
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YOU HAVE TO BERIEVE!!! (asian voice)
AOSP will come(hopefully) it might be a while though.
RoryHe said:
YOU HAVE TO BERIEVE!!! (asian voice)
AOSP will come(hopefully) it might be a while though.
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Never ever lol.
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Aosp will come eventually. Ril is working, just a matter of the kernel from what I've heard. I think we should have more faith in our devs.
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luis86dr said:
Aosp will come eventually. Ril is working, just a matter of the kernel from what I've heard. I think we should have more faith in our devs.
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I don't care about AOSP, but these devs are machines. Chad is working on a kernel that will eventually be able to do AOSP.
All of your woes will be things of the past soon enough.
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Decided to retire my Rez for a GN. Tried the linaro cm9. Its great. You guys will love it when you get aosp.
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dyetheskin said:
performance is fine as it is really so I'd take battery conservation over extra performance I don't need
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i feel the same way. More performance is nice but double my battery life and you get my attention then
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loki993 said:
i feel the same way. More performance is nice but double my battery life and you get my attention then
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Faster performance has the potential to increase battery life. If you can get the same task done in half the time, you return to idle faster, and this conserve power.
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Hello Thunderbolt users, I need your help with something. I finally convinced my girlfriend to rooting her Thunderbolt, now I need to know what's the most recommended ROM for the Thunderbolt, it needs to be stable, no major bugs, what do you guys recommend?
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It depends if she likes sense or not. I've been running eternity which is a sense 3.5 rom which runs excellent, stable and fast. And for aosp I've run thundershed cm7.2. Very quick and stable. Another cm7.2 based rom to check is the new rom zombie. I just loaded it up and so far is awesome. Has a nice red theme to it.
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dizzyman1180 said:
It depends if she likes sense or not. I've been running eternity which is a sense 3.5 rom which runs excellent, stable and fast. And for aosp I've run thundershed cm7.2. Very quick and stable. Another cm7.2 based rom to check is the new rom zombie. I just loaded it up and so far is awesome. Has a nice red theme to it.
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Well she insists on Sense since that's what she's used to, I personally don't like Sense but I'll let her try out those ROMs, thank you!
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Benignoid said:
Well she insists on Sense since that's what she's used to, I personally don't like Sense but I'll let her try out those ROMs, thank you!
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If you're looking for a sense based ROM I suggest gingeritis 3d 1.2! I love it!!!
As far as AOSP goes I suggest cm7.2 thundershed
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jumpman1229 said:
If you're looking for a sense based ROM I suggest gingeritis 3d 1.2! I love it!!!
As far as AOSP goes I suggest cm7.2 thundershed
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Thanks dude!
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I would recommend eternity 3.5. Its smooth fast and has plenty of customisation.
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dizzyman1180 said:
It depends if she likes sense or not. I've been running eternity which is a sense 3.5 rom which runs excellent, stable and fast. And for aosp I've run thundershed cm7.2. Very quick and stable. Another cm7.2 based rom to check is the new rom zombie. I just loaded it up and so far is awesome. Has a nice red theme to it.
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That 3.5 Rom drains crazier then a rat in outhouse. In ten minutes lost 10% then lost more about the same rate. This Rom needs to be fixed.as that is not stable. Seems as is stock os the best on the battery, and that is sad. Also your my Verizon app won't work which is another area of concern with limited data and shared plans we need to have an app that works. UNACCeptable people to have those two issues. My Verizon app is not.bloate as it gives vital account information.
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Once again, the fool is wrong!
My Verizon works fine on Eternity....
Guess you just have to know how to click an icon and enter your user info.
I guess that's too hard for some people.
Dont listen to this idiot. He doesn't know how to set a rom up to save his life so don't pay attention to what he says. He has been banned twice already. Eternity gets better battery life than any rom i have tried. That includes stock which has horrible battery life.
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disconnecktie said:
Eternity gets better battery life than any rom i have tried. That includes stock which has horrible battery life.
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You force me to agree with the troll, damn it! I have to qualify your statement with: 'which eternity'? I was very happy with 248 but when I updated to my battery life dropped down to 5 - 6 hours(!) with no change in the setup.
I'm getting over 14 hours of battery life with Gingeritis 3d by comparison and the phone is getting the same or more use.
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You force me to agree with the troll, damn it! I have to qualify your statement with: 'which eternity'? I was very happy with 248 but when I updated to my battery life dropped down to 5 - 6 hours(!) with no change in the setup.
I'm getting over 14 hours of battery life with Gingeritis 3d by comparison and the phone is getting the same or more use.
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Yes, r248 had better battery life then the latest test builds.
Why is that you ask?
As I stated in the Eternity thread, the newest build has a test kernel from Ziggy based on the latest OTA, as is the new test build Rom.
That kernel has an identified and known issue where the Performance and On Demand governor are locked at Max, no matter what you do.
The solution:
Change governor to Lag Free, or install Imos 6.2 kernel for Mr4 based roms, or the Bamf 3++ kernel.
Then apply your preferred CPU settings.
Battery use should return to as good or Better then r248.
The new kernel in the Rom is being reworked currently to resolve the issue.
So, the concern is with the kernel, more so then the Rom.
As far as Gingeritis having better battery life, I don't doubt that any Sense 3.5 Rom is going to be somewhat more draining on our devices/batteries.
Im talking about r248 but i still had decent battery on the test builds.
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Alright guys well I'll take what each of you have said and review each ROM carefully, till I can help her decide which would be the best, thanks guys!
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Soab or skyraider imo
I'm on Thunderstick BareBack 3.0.3. Smooth, quick and it just works. :beer:
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santod040 said:
As far as Gingeritis having better battery life, I don't doubt that any Sense 3.5 Rom is going to be somewhat more draining on our devices/batteries.
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Your explanation is very much appreciated but......
I never thought I'd say this and it's subject to change from hour to hour...... I'm pretty much stuck on Gingeritis 3D, getting up in the AM, subjecting the phone to fairly heavy use and seeing 50% battery or more remaining when I go to bed is something I thought I'd never see after abandoning my BB for Android and.....
I seem to have lost my enthusiasm for messing with this phone for some reason? Every thing works now with Thunderstick BB or Eternity or Liquid or ???? and the only reason I change from one ROM to another is some minor annoyances and battery life so.... I think maybe I'll leave well enough alone.
I'm saving my flashing desires for when the devs get ICS with Sense 4.x, I'll don't think I'll flash ICS with Sense 3.x and I might just wait for Jellybean?
I have about forever left on my contract and then we'll see what's up.
So it changed as I said it might! Tried the Bamf kernel and battery life is back to normal.
Up until yesterday I had been running the Thunderstick GenII rom for the last 6-7 months (been running Thunderstick roms since last September..when Verizon bricked my phone with their update). It is a very stable Sense rom, and the only issue I had with it was my custom ring tones would sometimes get confused. The only reason I upgraded was to try something new (now running Thunderstick FullBlown) and I am half tempted to go back to the GenII just because it has some features I like that the FullBlown version does not.
Been running ThunderStick ROMS (FB, BB) for a good while... They just work on my phone. YMMV. Flashed SfKCM7 (AOSP) last nite and it runs real smooth... Gonna ride with this til I get the itch :beer:
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I have been running urban nonsense forever. Everything works and I keep telling myself I am going to go to something else but I never do. I think the dev's (R3D's) roms are all great actually. Check them out.
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No matter what rom I try I always end up back on Skyraider. It's the fastest sense rom I've ever used.
Basically, title says it all. I've been a loyal swg user because I like the smoothness the goodies and the battery life. Now that it's gone what's out there that's similar?
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eddy0090 said:
Basically, title says it all. I've been a loyal swg user because I like the smoothness the goodies and the battery life. Now that it's gone what's out there that's similar?
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Try sinistertensai v5 Rom. Its sick. Or jelly bam. Should be what your looking fo.
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mammothjojo88 said:
Try sinistertensai v5 Rom. Its sick. Or jelly bam. Should be what your looking fo.
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How's battery life? Any known bugs?
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Battery life? I get 20 hrs on it. And bugs? None. Its a smooth stable Rom. I personally suggest that.
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Thanks and so my quest begins
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Whatever you choose try to pick a dev who doesn't steal other people's work.
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eddy0090 said:
Thanks and so my quest begins
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Here's a beer for you sir :beer:
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Mmmm beer
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meanbean is the way to go!
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meanbean is the way to go!
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That's by OMJ right? I use his mod pack which is really sweet.
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fernando sor said:
Whatever you choose try to pick a dev who doesn't steal other people's work.
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I suggest Tranquility JB very smooth a lot of hard work done by the Bad Seed Gang
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I suggest Tranquility JB very smooth a lot of hard work done by the Bad Seed Gang
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Their Bistro for mods is cool too
I was going to go to MeanBean. However, not sure about this Tranquility ROM. Is it even on XDA? Is it heavily themed or more stock? I am giving my phone to my father-in-law and want him to have a good ROM that just works and is close to stock in look.
just going to chime in here, if youre looking for a stock rom best bet is build yourself. it's easy enough to do if you follow some steps. sense isnt really stock imo
if youre looking for something nice to run theres plenty of roms out. best advice is try em all.
Another vote for Tranquility. I've run MeanBean for a while and it was good. Tranquility seems slightly smoother and the theming is excellent. Tranquility was on XDA, but they removed it. Now it's on www.themikmik.com
I did add Zepplinrox multitasking mod, which Mean bean already has in it. Makes a noticeable difference, especially with Sense reloads.
Is tranquility stock looking? On mikmik, it looks heavily themed.
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Another vote for Tranquility. I've run MeanBean for a while and it was good. Tranquility seems slightly smoother and the theming is excellent. Tranquility was on XDA, but they removed it. Now it's on www.themikmik.com
I did add Zepplinrox multitasking mod, which Mean bean already has in it. Makes a noticeable difference, especially with Sense reloads.
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Yeh tranquility looks super moded, I am looking for a rom closer to stock.
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Sinistertensai said:
just going to chime in here, if youre looking for a stock rom best bet is build yourself. it's easy enough to do if you follow some steps. sense isnt really stock imo
if youre looking for something nice to run theres plenty of roms out. best advice is try em all.
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If I had the skills I would try but making my own is way above my head. Plus whatever is out there would be far better than anything I could cook up
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Think I'm going to give MeanBean a shot, working on backing everything up right now.
My biggest concern is battery life, I don't sit on my phone all day so I'm mostly concerned with how the phone behaves while the screen is off; though I do like a smooth experience when it's on.
I'll post back with my initial impression of MeanBean and my experience with the battery once I've had long enough to establish a norm.
-- Question from me. Anyone recommend a kernel over the stock kernel? Maybe something with better governors or fastcharge?
OakyTree said:
Think I'm going to give MeanBean a shot, working on backing everything up right now.
My biggest concern is battery life, I don't sit on my phone all day so I'm mostly concerned with how the phone behaves while the screen is off. Though I do like a smooth experience when it's on.
I'll post back with my initial impression of MeanBean and my experience with the battery once I've had long enough to establish a norm.
-- Question from me. Anyone recommend a kernel over the stock kernel? Maybe something with better governors or fastcharge?
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For your situation I would go with OMJ 2.2. It is an ICS rom but runs super smoothe, fast, and has exceptional battery life, and everything works. OMJ also has a later version 2.6 which uses Aroma so you can customize yourself.