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what would be the best rom to go to for my atrix?
It really depends on your daily usage and user style. I can tell you that you have 3 options:
2.3.4/2.3.6 Blur Based roms: Roms based on official motorola roms. They are very stable and have all the stuff working. Including Webtop. When i want a Blurred rom, i go with Nottachtrix 4G. Pretty sick and stable rom. Only complain so far is battery life. Blur roms tend to be a little laggy because they have lots of motorola stuff and they make the phone laggy.
CM7: Based on GB. Lots of good stuff and great customization. Great battery life. They have almost all the features working. Only problem with them is that they currently doesn't support webtop.
CM9: Based on ICS. Right now they are on beta stage so they have some bugs still that need to be worked on. We have no drivers for our processor, so the devs are having a hard time coding everything right now, and the deving is a little slow. Currently we have two CM9 roms Jokersax's and Turl1's. They are co-deving so the builds are pretty similar.
Thats about everything we have on the Atrix right now. You better.test them all and decide by yourself.
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I am running the cm7 rom right now after trying a couple of them and it is by far the best one I have used. Battery life is great and it realllllly fast. I also have the faux123 1.45 oc kernel. And altogether I have not found anything that works better for me personally.
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Nobody can tell you what the best ROM to use is.... Everyone looks for different things in their ROMs... Some like MIUI (which i dont get, if you want your device to look like an iPhone, then buy an iPhone....) Some like CM7, some like stock based.... you'll have to just play aroud with some ROMs and decide whats best for you.
Which roms (or rom families, really) are best for which purposes? I know some are designed to be fast and lightweight, while others go for the richest user experience, or other specialized purpose/situation.
My question is how can I find out the aim of the various roms?
The rom threads focus mostly on features provided and what rom family (if any) they based it on. Since I have no idea the aim of the original rom family (aokp, cm, miui, etc.) it's hard to decide which one is right for me.
Which player do you have?
dstarfire said:
Which roms (or rom families, really) are best for which purposes? I know some are designed to be fast and lightweight, while others go for the richest user experience, or other specialized purpose/situation.
My question is how can I find out the aim of the various roms?
The rom threads focus mostly on features provided and what rom family (if any) they based it on. Since I have no idea the aim of the original rom family (aokp, cm, miui, etc.) it's hard to decide which one is right for me.
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Stock ROMs, which most of the customs ROMs out there are based on, are probably the most stable but the performance won't be as good.
CM7 and CM9 are slim and super fast, while MIUI, which is Cyanogen-based, has a bit more eye candy at the cost of performance. AOKP is very similar to CM9, except as far as I know the team has added many tweaks and features to make the experience more pleasant. Both are good choices if you're looking for ICS.
Hope this clears up some of the questions you may have
Thanks, Klin. That's exactly the sort of info I'm looking for.
and I'm running the USA 5.0, fgcu. It was either this or an ipad, and avoiding itunes was worth the extra $20 (ipods were on sale that week).
If you are looking to install a rom, I recommend what I have listed down below. The dev of the rom is currently updating it to 2.3.6 and I can't wait for it. It will deffinitely fix the wifi drop bug and a slightly better Gingerbread version. You do need to install a custom rom though and the one below is also a good one too.
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This was my rom of choice back when I was running GB. In my opinion it is the most stable rom available for the Player 5.0. This rom is pretty fast and light as it is based on a stock GB rom.
I would also recommend this rom as it is also very stable.
For general use I would say use GB as everything works, but you can also get ICS roms if you want but all of the ICS roms in the development section have pretty major issues e.g. the camera does not work. Take a look in the development section and read the user comments/reviews/bug reports
Is CM9 better than CM7 or are they about the same and what features does CM9 have that CM7 doesn't?
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Is CM9 better than CM7 or are they about the same and what features does CM9 have that CM7 doesn't?
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Well as forum surfing, found this. Yes, there is a difference. Cm9 is faster, has more features such as FFC unlock, a better overhauled ui, its faster, more user friendly in my opinion, and it has more customizable options in custom rom. If you want a good ROM, cm9 is good.
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+1 for CM9, but it really depends what you're looking for. Granted, I've only tried AOKP ICS M6 so far, but I was on GB for a long time so I can feel the difference pretty well. If you're looking for bleeding edge and you don't mind a few hiccups and glitches every once in a while then go with CM9 based roms, but if you need rock solid stability then I'd say the CM7 roms are better suited. Don't forget that Jelly Bean (CM10) roms are already out and coming along quite nicely... I just can't upgrade myself until I get a new sd card.
Just got a brand new Razr Maxx on the cheap! So excited to have freedom from my charger! Made the switch from galaxy nexus just because of the battery life. Anyways, I have rooted the device and installed safestrap 3.0, and I want to install CM10 but I don't know the difference between Kexec and Stock type builds. Can someone please explain the differences for me? From what I've read I think maybe kexec builds can run custom kernels? I did a bunch of searching but I'm clueless still. Although rombitch.com is down, I found a download page on goo.im for hashcode's cm10 builds here (http://goo.im/devs/Hashcode/spyder/cm10). Does hashcode upload the same builds as the ones on rombitch.com/spyder, or does anyone have a link for the latest version? Are there any drawbacks from going OEM stock to CM10? From older posts i found in my search battery life and signal issues were present but I'm curious what you all think currently. I am pretty happy with the stock motoblur ics and bloat apps removed surprisingly, but after just 1 day of use I'm already eager to try and get the purest android experience.
Thanks
Wes
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Just got a brand new Razr Maxx on the cheap! So excited to have freedom from my charger! Made the switch from galaxy nexus just because of the battery life. Anyways, I have rooted the device and installed safestrap 3.0, and I want to install CM10 but I don't know the difference between Kexec and Stock type builds. Can someone please explain the differences for me? From what I've read I think maybe kexec builds can run custom kernels? I did a bunch of searching but I'm clueless still. Although rombitch.com is down, I found a download page on goo.im for hashcode's cm10 builds here (http://goo.im/devs/Hashcode/spyder/cm10). Does hashcode upload the same builds as the ones on rombitch.com/spyder, or does anyone have a link for the latest version? Are there any drawbacks from going OEM stock to CM10? From older posts i found in my search battery life and signal issues were present but I'm curious what you all think currently. I am pretty happy with the stock motoblur ics and bloat apps removed surprisingly, but after just 1 day of use I'm already eager to try and get the purest android experience.
Thanks
Wes
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I don't know the differences other than stock is what is in the OTA ICS builds?
But I do know that what is on goo should be identical to what's on rombitch and rombot.
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Yes kexec can run custom kernels but the builds currently have some big issues, especially the lack of deep sleep so it kills your battery. Moving to cm10 you lose the ability of web top, HDMI, and screen rotation animation.
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Yes kexec can run custom kernels but the builds currently have some big issues, especially the lack of deep sleep so it kills your battery. Moving to cm10 you lose the ability of web top, HDMI, and screen rotation animation.
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also I believe that camera is not working in kexec roms
thanks alot everyone. I got a stock-cm10 build up and running with safestrap v3 and it's running great.
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thanks alot everyone. I got a stock-cm10 build up and running with safestrap v3 and it's running great.
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Did u use Hashcode Rom? I run it in slot 1 and LOVE it. Never a problem. Camera works great!
Hmm I'm on a kexec rom (LiquidSmooth) and deep sleep is working great and the camera also works flawlessly.
Edit: I just realised that OP was created ages ago
Hello there. Yes I have hashcodes ROM installed but at the moment I'm running the new AOKP build that is newly posted. Hashcodes works great but for some reason I still get a problem with the ROM getting stuck at a black screen sometimes when I boot and I can't figure it out. Tried older safe strap version. Deleted ROM slot1 completely...fresh installs...fixed permissions....and I still get that problem.
Comparison
Camera on stock roms is better
also the stability is better on stock roms rarely any crashes
some stock roms give the ability to use some of the motorola goodies.
whereas with kexec u get
smoother UI and android 4.2.2
Innovative features like integrated pie controls and customization( try liquidsmooth)
and also the ability to overclock with the use of the JBX OCE kernel by dtrail1
<---hit thanks if i helped any of u! :laugh:
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Camera on stock roms is better
also the stability is better on stock roms rarely any crashes
some stock roms give the ability to use some of the motorola goodies.
whereas with kexec u get
smoother UI and android 4.2.2
Innovative features like integrated pie controls and customization( try liquidsmooth)
and also the ability to overclock with the use of the JBX OCE kernel by dtrail1
<---hit thanks if i helped any of u! :laugh:
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Kexec does not have FHD video recording, not even HD, only SD works for now. Well, you can use LG camera and it does work Full HD but it is not a standard app. Newer dtrail kernels are very stable, I have not had a reboot for over a week, just look @ some screenshots in his kernel thread. CM10.1 is very fast, very overclockable (1.5Ghz in my case) while vanilla rom (ICS or JB) are less overclockable (up to 1.35Ghz) and slower on top of that. They offer some futures not found in CM - webtop mode and working HDMI for example (not to forget about FHD recording).
Debloated vanilla rom would be a good compromise, especially with some custom launcher.
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Kexec does not have FHD video recording, not even HD, only SD works for now. Well, you can use LG camera and it does work Full HD but it is not a standard app. Newer dtrail kernels are very stable, I have not had a reboot for over a week, just look @ some screenshots in his kernel thread. CM10.1 is very fast, very overclockable (1.5Ghz in my case) while vanilla rom (ICS or JB) are less overclockable (up to 1.35Ghz) and slower on top of that. They offer some futures not found in CM - webtop mode and working HDMI for example (not to forget about FHD recording).
Debloated vanilla rom would be a good compromise, especially with some custom launcher.
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What is this vanilla ROM of which you speak?
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What is this vanilla ROM of which you speak?
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Those are Motorola roms.
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Those are Motorola roms.
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Thanks, never heard stock ROMs referred to that way.
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mat9v said:
Kexec does not have FHD video recording, not even HD, only SD works for now. Well, you can use LG camera and it does work Full HD but it is not a standard app. Newer dtrail kernels are very stable, I have not had a reboot for over a week, just look @ some screenshots in his kernel thread. CM10.1 is very fast, very overclockable (1.5Ghz in my case) while vanilla rom (ICS or JB) are less overclockable (up to 1.35Ghz) and slower on top of that. They offer some futures not found in CM - webtop mode and working HDMI for example (not to forget about FHD recording).
Debloated vanilla rom would be a good compromise, especially with some custom launcher.
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All of this will be fixed, be patient, hashcode is working on it! And yes I do prefer Cm 10.1 over stock rom to be honest. I never had any issues with cm 10.1 RC2.
HDMI, webtop and 1080p recording is on his todo-list and I am confident that he will fix it.
I'm not worried or dissatisfied, was just answering a question really I'm using CM10.1 myself and really happy with it.
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I'm not worried or dissatisfied, was just answering a question really I'm using CM10.1 myself and really happy with it.
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I know just answering some of question for members who have not tested cm 10.1 and are worried about the performance
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Hello there. Yes I have hashcodes ROM installed but at the moment I'm running the new AOKP build that is newly posted. Hashcodes works great but for some reason I still get a problem with the ROM getting stuck at a black screen sometimes when I boot and I can't figure it out. Tried older safe strap version. Deleted ROM slot1 completely...fresh installs...fixed permissions....and I still get that problem.
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same black screen problem here with AOKP on slot 2- BMM.
and there're same complains on same problem with cm and liquidsmooth
So... First of all, I'm not asking for the best ROM.
At the moment, I'm using ArchiDroid v2.5.2 on my i9300, and it's fast, but... Random reboots, and the camera quality it's not the same as in the 4.3 ROM's.
What I want is a ROM with no random reboots, with the best camera quality and of course, as fast as AOSP or even faster
So... Which ROMs (and kernel) do you guys recommend?
I'm tired of switching between 4.4.x ROMs, all of them have bugs. The Note2 ports are laggy (even though everybody is saying that these ROMs are smooth as butter) and AOSP have the problems that I've mentioned before.
Help me, please
Best/Recommend Roms/kernels threads are not allowed on XDA, try them yourself and decide.
If I were to recommend you I would say ArchiDroid or NeatRom
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gabyif said:
Best/Recommend Roms/kernels threads are not allowed on XDA, try them yourself and decide.
If I were to recommend you I would say ArchiDroid or NeatRom
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Yes, I know that. But there are SO many ROMs and I've tried lots of them, and none of them are "perfect".
ArchiDroid or NeatROM? JellyBean versions? I've tried both, but the KK version.
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Yes, I know that. But there are SO many ROMs and I've tried lots of them, and none of them are "perfect".
ArchiDroid or NeatROM? JellyBean versions? I've tried both, but the KK version.
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Yes,Jb versions.
There are no such thing as perfect,you need to make sacrifice
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Yes,Jb versions.
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I'm going to try ArchiDroid. Is it based on Stock ROM or AOSP?
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I'm going to try ArchiDroid. Is it based on Stock ROM or AOSP?
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Stock JB
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Try Imperium KK: stable, smooth and pretty fast! This ROM is based on Note2 porting developed by JustArchi
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-t2842856
broken920 said:
Try Imperium KK: stable, smooth and pretty fast! This ROM is based on Note2 porting developed by JustArchi
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-t2842856
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Thanks for the suggestion. But I've read the comments and "everybody" was talking about FC and bugs.
Try Imperium 29 based on 4.3 stock deodexed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-imperium-v26-0-v13-6-t2135852
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Try Imperium 29 based on 4.3 stock deodexed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-imperium-v26-0-v13-6-t2135852
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First I will flash ArchiDroid V1.7.18 and if I don't like it, I'll flash this one. Thanks!
Stock debloated
I would use the stock Android 4.3, root it and than remove all the Bloatware from Samsung, install Googy Max2 and you got a pretty fast phone
Abort the Samsung laggy and almost useless world, choose AOSP roms.
I can propose you the only AOSP rom tried: CyanogenMod 11.
Download the latest M release (more stable than nightlies).
Note that there are some minor bugs, a 4.4 "perfect" system for S3 actually doesn't exist.
Then... the better kernel is BOEFFLA, useless to say [emoji6]
Download the related app (the latest BOEFFLA Config-v2 apk), choose zzmove or pegasusqplus as governor, while as scheduler choose sio.
To boost your phone, have fun with all the kernel parameters, CyanogenMod is considered the better rom, all other AOSP roms are based on CM source code, useless to change os.
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Try Imperium 29 based on 4.3 stock deodexed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-imperium-v26-0-v13-6-t2135852
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Simone98RC said:
Abort the Samsung laggy and almost useless world, choose AOSP roms.
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A wildly sweeping and inaccurate statement if ever there was one.
There are some exceptional stock based ROMS out there, with very good performance, good battery life and stock features that you don't get in AOSP which many people like to have (also from what i've seen, the stock Camera app gives better pictures too)
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A wildly sweeping and inaccurate statement if ever there was one.
There are some exceptional stock based ROMS out there, with very good performance, good battery life and stock features that you don't get in AOSP which many people like to have (also from what i've seen, the stock Camera app gives better pictures too)
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I tried Android Revolution HD: at first was moving better than stock rom, but when I began to use hardly my device... too many lags and terrible slowdowns.
Caused mainly by the unremovable TouchWiz.
Using another launcher, the heavy TouchWiz works ever, for different reasons than the simple use of launcher.
You can remove all the bloatware, make lots of optimizations... but TouchWiz will "eat" your RAM (only 1 GB on I9300 and lots of its variants) and never you'll be able to quietly use so many apps as in AOSP roms.
On CyanogenMod, Trebuchet can be completely replaced by other launchers, unthinkable thing on a Samsung rom.
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I tried Android Revolution HD: at first was moving better than stock rom, but when I began to use hardly my device... too many lags and terrible slowdowns.
Caused mainly by the unremovable TouchWiz.
Using another launcher, the heavy TouchWiz works ever, for different reasons than the simple use of launcher.
You can remove all the bloatware, make lots of optimizations... but TouchWiz will "eat" your RAM (only 1 GB on I9300 and lots of its variants) and never you'll be able to quietly use so many apps as in AOSP roms.
On CyanogenMod, Trebuchet can be completely replaced by other launchers, unthinkable thing on a Samsung rom.
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You tried one other stock based ROM and made your conclusion from that alone?
Each to their own, but I've used enough versions of CM on enough devices over the years to know the pros and cons, and personally on the S3 I can get a most satisfactory level of performance and battery life from a stock derived ROM whilst not losing any of the additional functions.
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You tried one other stock based ROM and made your conclusion from that alone?
Each to their own, but I've used enough versions of CM on enough devices over the years to know the pros and cons, and personally on the S3 I can get a most satisfactory level of performance and battery life from a stock derived ROM whilst not losing any of the additional functions.
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A Samsung rom is useful only for a better compatibility with Samsung devices and the 2-way call recording support.
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A Samsung rom is useful only for a better compatibility with Samsung devices and the 2-way call recording support.
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Enough said, this is going off-topic and is not helpful to the OP, and as we both agree on your statement of 'A Samsung rom is useful for better compatibility' that's reason enough on it's own to recommend a stock derived ROM like Imperium as it will address the OP's original request of:
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What I want is a ROM with no random reboots, with the best camera quality
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hundred_miles_high said:
Enough said, this is going off-topic and is not helpful to the OP, and as we both agree on your statement of 'A Samsung rom is useful for better compatibility' that's reason enough on it's own to recommend a stock derived ROM like Imperium as it will address the OP's original request of (blablabla)
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Totally agree with the first thing, then you told a bull****, you based your "fictitious reason" on a my partial citation at your leisure.
To prevent misconceptions and "abuse" of what I said in the topic, @hundred_miles_high forget to explain that according to me, the stock roms "compatibility" is limited only to Samsung devices.
With BubbleUPnP and similar (you should know them), stock roms become completely useless... or you need the 2-way call recording? [emoji6]
OP dislikes (as everyone) forced reboots, and need a good camera quality. If the suggested rom is poorer in any other term respect to AOSP systems, it doesn't matter.
Is this your reasoning?
With CyanogenMod 11, the terrible 10.2 camera experience was aborted.
Stability is guaranteed, also if the releases are snapshots, more than 6 months of developing.
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Totally agree with the first thing, then you told a bull****, you based your "fictitious reason" on a my partial citation at your leisure.
To prevent misconceptions and "abuse" of what I said in the topic, @hundred_miles_high forget to explain that according to me, the stock roms "compatibility" is limited only to Samsung devices.
With BubbleUPnP and similar (you should know them), stock roms become completely useless... or you need the 2-way call recording? [emoji6]
OP dislikes (as everyone) forced reboots, and need a good camera quality. If the suggested rom is poorer in any other term respect to AOSP systems, it doesn't matter.
Is this your reasoning?
With CyanogenMod 11, the terrible 10.2 camera experience was aborted.
Stability is guaranteed, also if the releases are snapshots, more than 6 months of developing.
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Why would a Samsung ROM be compatible with anything other than a Samsung phone? This is after all the SAMSUNG S3 forum isn't it, thought it would be pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain the context it was used in.
I don't understand your ramblings about BubbleUPNP but Bubble and Sempervid links work fine on my stock derived ROM - I use them regularly with youtube/tubemate , streaming web content and media on my other devices to play direct to my TV (or xbox or nexus 7 for that matter) through my S3.
Ran out of interest with rest of your post due to your rudeness, but maybe you should check the CM11 M9 thread in regard to complaints of poor sound quality in the camera app...........
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Enough said, this is going off-topic and is not helpful to the OP, and as we both agree on your statement of 'A Samsung rom is useful for better compatibility'
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Yes, I was a bit hard in my answer, because you hurted me with your presumption and falsity to report properly my citation.
"This is after all the Samsung S3 forum"
With this stupid aforism you have damned lots of users who run a different rom.
I propose you to browse with brain (I dubt you know how use it, almost in this context) any S3 support forum, and see how many people use, speak and receive support about CyanogenMod, SlimKat, PacRom, etc.
And you are the first user who compare, even consider better a stock rom than AOSP... in terms of performance.
I hope you are joking.
"Ran out (...) Samsung devices"
You won't recognize the mistake (if not intentional) when you reported partially my famouscited my famous citation.
The truth is that you braved me since replying my first post: this is a topic where OP required "suggestions" (do you know this term?) from each user, not debates, nor topic wars.
Reread the topic, reflect about and get out, you told enough.