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+3 for Caulkin's ROM
Well? which is it?
RULES:
1. only vote once please!!!
2. vote for your overall favorite, speed, stability, ui, all of it matters.
3. feel free to post why!
thanks,
rickycodie
VeganTab so far
I'm a wooter (but been around XDA for a while, through several rooted and romed winphones, a beater G1 and now a rooted Defy)
Got the GTab and updated it, it was VERY laggy and I didnt like the interface.
Rooted, Clockworked, titanium and nandroid bu, reformatted 2048/0, then tried TNTlite
It was WAY nicer than stock, much quicker. After a couple of days I decided to try Vegan, which I like a little better although I forget what was wrong with TNTlite (FCs maybe?)
Will stay here but watch this poll and try something else based on results.
Where is CM7 in this list?
Where is calkulin's rom?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=985705
racketier said:
Where is calkulin's rom?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=985705
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+1 for Calkulin
After flashing and playing with several different ROMs, I'm back on stock.
The current stock ROM is stable. It's plenty quick for me (I find no speed differences in everyday use, although some do show up using test software). The setup is highly appropriate for a tablet. In particular, the launcher works far, far better for me than any replacement launcher I've tried - plenty of icons fit on the home screen and useless phone links and icons are not there. The Android Market and Gmail can be added easily.
Calkulin's by far!
Add another vote for Calkulin from me....
Caulkin's 1.1 Rom with Clemsyn's v9 kernel
Sweet, Stable and Fast!
Vegan-Tab for sure. It's fast, stable, and everything works.
mstevens said:
After flashing and playing with several different ROMs, I'm back on stock.
The current stock ROM is stable. It's plenty quick for me (I find no speed differences in everyday use, although some do show up using test software). The setup is highly appropriate for a tablet. In particular, the launcher works far, far better for me than any replacement launcher I've tried - plenty of icons fit on the home screen and useless phone links and icons are not there. The Android Market and Gmail can be added easily.
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Have you tried LauncherPro? Everything can be customized. Icons can be moved or added. You can even set how many rows of icons you want on a screen. Stock ROM was just garbage for me. Everything force closed no matter what fixes I tried. Finally just installed CWM and wiped the thing and put Vegan-tab on it.
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My ROM of choice as well, along with pershoot's kernel (seems to fix the wifi sleep bug).
+1 for Vegan-Tab its given me the least issues out of everything i've tried so far.
Calkulins for me too
sorry i didn't see caulkins when i was making this
sorry guys i didn't see caulkins when i was making the poll and i don't know how to go back and change it. so i will add it on the first post.
i was also thinking to make this a way for first time users to select their roms based on the most popular ones.
VEGAn-Tab an obvious winner?
I'd be surprised if it wasn't - it's been around for awhile and seems to be a perennial favorite with the new Woot! users.
I always thought TNT Lite to be more of a "gateway mod", if that makes any sense. Close to stock and doesn't veer far into unknown territory (for the most part -- I have made exceptions a few times).
I think they're all great, tbh - GB, Caulkin's speed demon, VEGA-based VEGAn, they all have their pros to them!
As a Woot purchaser, I started with Vegan and then tried TNT Lite, and ended up preferring TNT Lite. It just seemed a bit faster and more responsive to me. With Launcher Pro, it's great.
TNTLite for me, plus Roebeet has been very helpful and patient answering my questions at the time of installing the ROM.
So Kudos to you Buddy
I enjoyed TnT Lite for a while, then tried Vegan-tab. That is a solid ROM where my only issues were with the market. However, I'm finding that the CM7 with honeycomb-like tweaks to be the best for how I use my tablet. I had to setup the SDCard stuff off the bat, and I can't use Reader any more as it scales poorly in all GB ROM's, but I found that Pulse is a nice reader in itself that effectively replaces Reader.
Calkulin's
Calkulin's
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I enjoyed TnT Lite for a while, then tried Vegan-tab. That is a solid ROM where my only issues were with the market. However, I'm finding that the CM7 with honeycomb-like tweaks to be the best for how I use my tablet. I had to setup the SDCard stuff off the bat, and I can't use Reader any more as it scales poorly in all GB ROM's, but I found that Pulse is a nice reader in itself that effectively replaces Reader.
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This is the version I finally stopped on. I've tried TnT stock/Lite, VEGAn 5.1 & GB, Caulkins, gAdam, pretty much all of them. My two favorites are TnT Lite, and CM7 with tablet tweaks. Except I have audio issues on many of the non-stock based roms (no audio or static), so I installed Clemsyn's v9 GB kernel. However that has USB mounting issues ATM. Not to mention the video stuttering issues in CM. I can never win.
I may stick with this version until HC is available, but we'll see.
EDIT: clemsyn's kernel didn't fix my audio issue after all.
Calkulin's + clemsyn. Recently discovered Calkulin's and impressed with the performance.
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So I'm not sure what part of CM7 is not working for me, but I'm definately not happy. Three main reasons are:
ADW Force closing
Choppy scrolling
Poor signal/3g 4g toggling
I'm running MR2 and the kernal that came with the ROM in ROM Manager. I tried ADW EX and it does the same thing.
Is there anything I can do to improve this? I'm looking for a daily driver that is smooth, quick, and no force closing! I like Sense, but not the bloat. I would sacrifice performance for battery life.
I've seen some vids on UberBamf and it looks great! But I've also seen some good vids on CM7, it just does not work well on my phone. What are some suggestions?
If you installed it through ROM Manager, I'd recommend not doing that. Also, format /system. That's not done in a standard wipe.
you must be doing something wrong. I have been running CM7 as a daily driver since 1.1 and it has never done me wrong. My suggestion to you would be to clear off your sd card or get a new one for the install, wipe EVERYTHING yes everything, format /system, install the newest radio and do a fresh install. After you do the install run a fix permissions from rom manager and reboot. I have never had any issues doing it this way.
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So I'm not sure what part of CM7 is not working for me, but I'm definately not happy. Three main reasons are:
ADW Force closing
Choppy scrolling
Poor signal/3g 4g toggling
I'm running MR2 and the kernal that came with the ROM in ROM Manager. I tried ADW EX and it does the same thing.
Is there anything I can do to improve this? I'm looking for a daily driver that is smooth, quick, and no force closing! I like Sense, but not the bloat. I would sacrifice performance for battery life.
I've seen some vids on UberBamf and it looks great! But I've also seen some good vids on CM7, it just does not work well on my phone. What are some suggestions?
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I would like to say that perhaps your issues are from using ROM Manager to install it and not flashing directly in recovery. Maybe or maybe not, but there are a lot of people that do have issues from using rom manager. Other issues would be not clearing out all data from your previous rom including the /system partition, dalvik cache, normal cache and /data and restoring system data from your previous rom.
I have none of your issues and have been using CM7 for nearly 2 months.
So far I fixed permissions in Rom Manager and its been a whole different phone! I'll wait until tomorrow to see if anything else needs to be done.
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I saw the 3G/4G issue in RC 1.5.2, but not in RC 1.6.1 (current, updated via ROM Manager). The remaining issues I'm seeing are low in-call volume, and Flash in-browser play-back.
Background: After being a scaredy-cat for a year, I've finally achieved S-OFF on my HTC Rezound. My plan is to try a new ROM each week, and post a detailed review. I've decided to start with NIL's Business 2.1.0 as it seems (based on scanning the forums) to be very reliable and solid.
ROM: NIL's Business ICS 4.0.3
ROM version: 2.1.0 - 2012-12-09
ROM Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1757357
Phone: HTC Rezound
Security: Unlocked and S-OFF
Previous ROM: Stock+Root
Recovery: Amon-Ra 3.1.5
Installation:
copied .zip to root of SD card
adb reboot recovery
Wipe All / Factory reset
Wipe cache
Wipe dalvik
wipe battery
wipe cache/davlik again
Flash zip
followed Aroma installer instructions
Installation Time: Approx 15 minutes from flashing zip to starting configuration in Android. When the splash screen comes on, it took a good while (perhaps rebuilding Dalvik?), but nothing to worry about.
Errors encountered: None
Gut reaction: Pretty psyched about flashing my first ROM without screwing my phone up royally. Excited that the install went sooo smoothly. I'm enjoying the tweaks to Sense that come with 4.0. I wish HTC would update the Rezound with 4.0 in a future OTA. Performance doesn't seem much better yet, although I need more time for things to settle in.
Initial thoughts:
Sense 4.0 is great! The extra quick settings are fantastic
It's nice having the built-in Dropbox integration
Aroma installer is fantastic. It lets you choose from about 2 dozen apps to install, which is great
Initial speed is just ho-hum. That might be because Play store almost instantly starts downloading all of my apps, so I'll evaluate tomorrow
1% battery increments is a nice touch
Sense 4.0 app drawer now pages side-to-side, more like standard Android. Nice.
I plan on running this ROM for about 7 days to really let it settle in. My next ROM will be one of the JB ROMs. If you're curious about this ROM, and there are things you'd like me to test, please post your questions below! I'm doing this all for you guys.
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Battery Life: Batter has been simply fantastic compared to stock+root. I'm now going a full work-day on a battery. On stock, I used to charge every 6 hours, and it would drain fast. I'm not sure if it's just that I have a new ROM (and thus cleaned out whatever crud) or the ROM itself, but it has been a massive improvement. If you're having battery problems on stock, then this would be a great first ROM to try.
Bluetooth: I have 2 BT devices I used routinely. I have a pair of Jabra bluetooth headphones I used at the gym, and a Creative Labs bluetooth speaker. Both paired quickly and have worked flawlessly. I don't have a bluetooth headset for calls, so I can't comment on that.
Call quality: I've only made a few calls, and they've all worked fine with the same quality as stock.
Text / MMS: That's all worked fine. I don't send MMS, but I sent a few test ones, and they worked fine.
App compatibility: The apps I use routinely are:
Google+
MyBackup Pro
Dropbox
Chrome Beta
PocketCasts
Spotify
Google Drive
XDA Premium
LinkedIn
All of those apps worked fine. No issues. In fact, Google Drive and Dropbox were both failing on my previous ROM (stock) and this fixed any of those issues.
Gaming: I play a few games, and they all worked fine. Those games are Archipelago, Royal Revolt, Planet Wars, Flood-It! and Robo Defense. Some of those are 3D, and all had no problems.
Photo and Video: I've always had a few photo quality issues with my Rezound (mostly around having to tweak the white balance). I haven't found good settings yet under NILs, so I'm seeing photos not as good. I've had a few problems where changing the camera from main-to-front caused the photo app to quit. So out of 5 stars, I would give the photo situation 3.
Reliability: Things have been very solid and fast. There have been a few regressions compared to stock, however.
I've had to remove the battery once after the phone froze up in Play Store.
I had to manually mount the SD card after it failed to do so. I was freaked out that it was empty, but I just had to mount it.
I power-off my phone at night. In the mornings, after powering on, it feels sluggish for a few minutes. (Note, that by power-off I mean suspend or fastboot).
I've just rooted my Flyer (using this)
It's been a great tablet, but has been showing it's age a bit and had also started crashing and rebooting, particularly when browsing the internet - it always had a problem with the stock browser so I'd been using Opera and Firefox instead, but Opera in particular became almost unusable.
So I rooted, installed System Tuner, picked recommended settings mostly, or medium and it seems to be running a lot better. The stock browser works better than it ever has, a number of games that used to force close seem to work now. Don't know if that is just down to System Tuner, but overall it seems to be running better.
Would it be worth changing to a HC ROM without sense?
If you rely on some Sense apps, such as Calendar/Tasks and the widgets + if you're using the Pen - no.
If you don't use or need any of these, you can install a HC ROM without Sense.
What settings did you use in System Tuner?
Could live without the widgets etc, shame to lose the pen, but at this point I guess it's just about squeezing a bit of extra life out of the Flyer - and it is an opportunity to play about with it
Not looked too deeply into System Tuner yet, need figure out what the best settings are. At the moment OOM is set to medium, doubled the cache size for the SD cards from 128 to 256, SysCtl I just hit recommended. That all seemed fairly conservative to start off with.
Just to give an idea, it never used to be happy running Bejeweled Blitz (would force close) and Spirit HD & Vanitas would both cause it to reboot. They're all working fine so far. As is ADW Launcher which also used to FC. A factory reset and wiping the internal storage didn't fix it.
Just found the app taken from another tablet that has handwriting recognition, which changes things a bit as it gives more of a reason to keep the pen functionality - for now at least.
So are my choices:
1. Leave as is, try and configure system tuner for best performance
2. Use globatrons method, flash a Rom without sense, hopefully have better performance overall but lose pen
3. As 2 but a Rom with sense & pen functionality - are there any that would improve performance more so than tweaking what I already have?
this jellybean rom is way smoother in my experience than latest stock sense. the pen works with it too (as a regular stylus). http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2023668
Does this :
Downloads
Download NexusFlyerv1.3
If you rooted your FLYER by unlocking the bootloader you need to flash the boot manualy. Extract boot.img open cmd boot the flyer in fastboot mode and type fastboot flash boot boot.img.
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mean I don't have to follow globatrons guide?
it says the pen works, would the Lenovo notes app from here still work?
Looks good though!
The 4.3 ROM and Kernel 3.0.8 perf+chocolate on P500 (as well as P505, P506, P509, and other clones), which most have currently, seems to be working very horribly. The battery life drain remains, with my P505 shutting down in less than 7 hours when on sleep (I know, P500 has a better battery life than my P505, but its life also drains life like anything). They do not come with the GAPPS, and there are other problems in getting that application. I had a problem with my AOSP stop working, and a train of those types of messages "Unfortunately, Trebuchet had stopped" when I rebooted the phone. Luckily, I had just closed my browser then, and since the Keyboard did not work, I was not able to search for anything. Lucky as anything, I had recently been to the 4.2 ROM site, and reached it through the History. I then just downloaded it. I'm pretty sure I know why that had happened. My /cache had filled, with only a couple KB's left. So said the CWM recovery message after I had installed the GAPPS. My ROM space was filled as well, even after getting rid of all the applications that I would not use, but still had no space to get the 20 MB GAPPS on there. If I had not been to the ROM site recently, and if it did not show in the site, I would have to go through the unbelievably long steps: Install the KDZ Updater on my computer again (I had uninstalled it and its Adapters months back), and install the 2.2 OS (the only one available with the KDZ Updater, sadly), and flash it. Then would I be able to install 4.2/4.3 on it.
4.3 ROM and Kernel on P500 has very few changes from the 4.2, and has more disadvantages in getting than 4.2. The few added features are such things as adding some "fn" key shortcuts or so, and other minute features that you probably won't give a second look at. All the Developer options still would be there after you click on your phone's build 8 times, in the "About Phone" at the very bottom of setting. The Reboot shortcut in the Power Menu is there in 4.2, along with every other Developer features. The camera seems to work at lower fps than 4.2, but that's my observation. And, as you may know, Link2SD works on both ROM's, though I had a bit of problems with it on 4.3 (like it not linking properly, not showing how much space there is left on the SD-EXT, etc). The SD script works on the EXT 4, and none other on 4.2/4.3. On 4.1, however, it works on EXT 2. The Swapper 2 also does work with 4.2/4.3, but ONLY once you install the Busybox from Stericon (4.2 and 4.3 both come with Busybox-jb).
The 4.3 is currently being experimented with, and people are just taking it from the Jenkins or other Developer websites and posting them all around. There are many more bugs and glitches in the 4.3 ROM, but not coming in my mind right now. Many applications I can install on the 4.2 could not have been installed on the 4.3. I would suggest, though, that you uninstall all the useless system applications from the ROM, just to save space, and maybe add something else in them. NEVER delete and of the applications such as the Phone, Messenger, Trebuchet, Google TTS, Pico TTS, and others. Get rid of ones you don't use, which may be the Voice Dialer. Make sure you search up the ones you delete before you delete any, and make sure, of course, that you make a nandroid backup.
4.3, as my preference, would not be close to a good choice until they actually are done experimenting with it. All 4.3 has in change, as I said, are one or two things, and of course that "4.3" written on the "About Phone". It's no better, rather, worse, trust me, as I have heard from more people, and am not alone in facing all the problems. 4.2 comes with all the GAPPS installed, and is 99 percent the same as the 4.3. I have soft-bricked my phone 7 times, and 2 times with 4.3, only because of struggling to get what's already there in 4.2, and what can be obtained in 4.2 as well.
Please don't mind if I wrote too much. I'm just new to posting here (though have known and been to this site for years), and am liking it very much.
Xx_Jafours_xX
OK, OK, most improvements (if they are indeed improvements) are under the hood. The more versatile notifications system is probably the best of them. Most others of the few will not play on P50*.
But be fair. 4.2 was the same for battery. I did very well with Sweetnsour's version 11 kernel. In 4.3, I can get 30 hours light usage, 20+ for more moderate usage. Most important thing is that these ROMs -- ALL of them -- need help on battery life. Need to run something like DSBatterySaver or 2xBatterySaver to control radios when phone not in use (screen off). An app to remind you or automatically turn of WIFI when exiting a hot-spot is also necessary.
While I may go back to 4.2, I am satisfied with 4.3, even as a daily driver. Main problem now is stagnation in development for our devices. Not much (if anything) changed/fixed since the September 4 build I am still using.
4.4 is coming soon and will pour more brown goo on 4.3 development. Maybe this is for the best! One article spoke of 4.4 being lighter weight which should be a great boon to us. We shall see ...
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Dovidhalevi said:
OK, OK, most improvements (if they are indeed improvements) are under the hood. The more versatile notifications system is probably the best of them. Most others of the few will not play on P50*.
But be fair. 4.2 was the same for battery. I did very well with Sweetnsour's version 11 kernel. In 4.3, I can get 30 hours light usage, 20+ for more moderate usage. Most important thing is that these ROMs -- ALL of them -- need help on battery life. Need to run something like DSBatterySaver or 2xBatterySaver to control radios when phone not in use (screen off). An app to remind you or automatically turn of WIFI when exiting a hot-spot is also necessary.
While I may go back to 4.2, I am satisfied with 4.3, even as a daily driver. Main problem now is stagnation in development for our devices. Not much (if anything) changed/fixed since the September 4 build I am still using.
4.4 is coming soon and will pour more brown goo on 4.3 development. Maybe this is for the best! One article spoke of 4.4 being lighter weight which should be a great boon to us. We shall see ...
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My apologies. I had meant the kernel as well as the 4.2/4.3 ROM, the "3.0.8-perf+chocolate", that is being used by most. The latest ROM's with 4.3 all have the perf+chocolate kernel on them, which is also the cause of all the battery drain and all. 4.2 ROM with the same perf+chocolate Kernel seems better with the battery, but that was what I had noticed. Maybe it isn't. Again, my apologies, I had meant the kernel as well as the ROM, not the ROM itself.
I have yet to try the Sweetnsour kernel with 4.2 (or possibly, 4.3) and hopefully won't run into the problem of the distorted blue and green colors, a problem I had run into years ago when trying to install 4.1, and needing mighty "Joban's Kernel" to fix that problem; a problem with all P505's. P500 clones (P505, P506, so on...) are not exactly clones from the Kernel perspective (they will need slight tweaking in kernels to get the right color). And of course, the RAM also differs, with the P500 having 512 MB RAM, as well as the P506, but P505 (mine) having 414 MB RAM. Keep in mind that different Kernels/ROM's each have certain incompatibilities, that is, not all of what can be installed on the 4.2/4.3 perf+chocolate Kernel can be installed on the Sweetnsour Kernel. Same is with the ROM's.
Yes, the problem with the battery has been there. However, going for the ROM/Kernel with the least battery consumption would not at all be a smart choice. If the Sweetnsour Kernel does not have the compatibility with Link2SD (or Apps2SD) scripts, I would not look twice at that Kernel, only because of the reason that the 270 apps I have installed on my phone are only because of Link2SD (...and of course, the SD card space ), which made space on the SD card for all the /data, /cache, /dalvik-cache files, so that we don't have to worry a lot about our Legend phones' internal space running out. Without Link2SD type of applications existing, a 32 GB SD-card would not be a bit better than a 2 GB SD-card, as space would run out of internal storage faster than you would know.
Look at the names Google has been coming up with for the Android OS's. From the Cupcake, to Donut, Eclair, Froyo, GingerBread, HoneyComb, Ice Cream Sandwich, to JellyBean, and now soon to come to the table is "KitKat". And by the way, I would suggest you try the "Juice Defender" application, as it has many neat features, including lowering your screen brightness to lower than the default lowest of your phone's to save battery, and short-cuts to closing Wi-Fi/Data, so on, and much more than the 2xBatterySaver or others would have. Can you please tell me what CPU Frequency the Kernel Sweetnsour has got? As in, does it have the same Frequency as 120-866? What else is different? I'd like to know about it before testing it out, because of the fact that I would need a full factory data reset before installing it, only because the Link2SD and other apps that have those scripts installed, and the partitions in the SD-card will mess the whole installation up (at least that's what had happened to me when I tried without factory data resetting). Thanks!
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Yes, the problem with the battery has been there. However, going for the ROM/Kernel with the least battery consumption would not at all be a smart choice. If the Sweetnsour Kernel does not have the compatibility with Link2SD (or Apps2SD) scripts, I would not look twice at that Kernel, only because of the reason that the 270 apps I have installed on my phone are only because of Link2SD (...and of course, the SD card space ), which made space on the SD card for all the /data, /cache, /dalvik-cache files, so that we don't have to worry a lot about our Legend phones' internal space running out. Without Link2SD type of applications existing, a 32 GB SD-card would not be a bit better than a 2 GB SD-card, as space would run out faster than you would know.
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I use link2sd without a hitch, also on version 11 kernel
With sooo many apps, have you run into the "Achilles Heel" I cite for link2sd? Seems all those linked dex's need to get back on data for the first "android is updating" after wiping the dalvik cache for a flash. Maybe avoided by not having the mount scripts always resident the way I do it?
Look at the names Google has been coming up with for the Android OS's. From the Cupcake, to Donut, Eclair, Froyo, GingerBread, HoneyComb, Ice Cream Sandwich, to JellyBean, and now soon to come to the table is "KitKat". And by the way, I would prefer you try the "Juice Defender" application, as it has many neat features, including lowering your screen brightness to lower than the default lowest of your phone's to save battery, and short-cuts to closing Wi-Fi/Data, so on, and much more than the 2xBatterySaver or others would have. Can you please tell me what CPU Frequency the Kernel Sweetnsour has got? As in, does it have the same Frequency as 120-866? What else is different? I'd like to know about it before testing it out, because of the fact that I would need a full factory data reset before installing it, only because the Link2SD and other apps that have those scripts installed, and the partitions in the SD-card will mess the whole installation up (at least that's what had happened to me when I tried without factory data resetting). Thanks!
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Version 11 has all the CPU frequencies available. Has SmartassV2 and other governers and i/o schedulers included a new "zen."
Simply do a backup (ALWAYS!) and flash the kernel. No need to futz with anything else. Don't work or don't like it? Restore the backup.
Thanks. I'll try installing the Kernel as soon as I get some time in my hands.
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