Related
Hey everyone, I am going to be trading some services (a mechanic is doing my breaks in exchange for me rooting and custom romming his lady's phone) and would like to know what your opinion is on the best thunderbolt ROMs available? She is currently on stock software and hates absolutely everything about her phone and how it behaves.
What would you guys recommend? I'm looking for functionality, reliability, battery life and the smallest amount of software bugs as possible.
Tweaked stock ROMs? AOSP? CM7 or 9? I know nothing about the thunderbolt community and would greatly appreciate any info you can give me.
Thank you everyone
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
EmperorX said:
Hey everyone, I am going to be trading some services (a mechanic is doing my breaks in exchange for me rooting and custom romming his lady's phone) and would like to know what your opinion is on the best thunderbolt ROMs available? She is currently on stock software and hates absolutely everything about her phone and how it behaves.
What would you guys recommend? I'm looking for functionality, reliability, battery life and the smallest amount of software bugs as possible.
Tweaked stock ROMs? AOSP? CM7 or 9? I know nothing about the thunderbolt community and would greatly appreciate any info you can give me.
Thank you everyone
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Leaving it on a stock rom unless you plan on maintaining the rom for her..If she has no idea what shes doing then dont cause a headache for yourself, with techs its nothing to change out a rom, or if it gets buggy, well you get the point... the best thing would be a factory reset, or check the memory on the phone she prob has to many apps, install the apps from the sd card to free up the memory cuz im on a stock rom and its way fast, great battery, most of all the battery issues are from apps..just trying to save you a down the road..
I would go to the dev section of this forum and look at the ROMs and see what catches your eyes its opinion over opinion when saying stock is better than custom tons, I myself like custom roms because you can choose a wide variety of tweaks etc etc
Sent from my ADR6400L using xda premium
LiquidRom 3.2 and use Rom Tool box built in to download pink theme, use built in theme chooser and apply theme, the get a pink keyboard skin and appy. Btw you can customize splash screen and bootanimation to her liking with Rom Tool box too. No bugs for me.
Sent from my HTC ThunderBolt using XDA Premium App
Thanks for the info so far. Any other suggestions?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
I use SkyRaider Zeus. Has an option to switch radio to 3g when screen is off which improved my battery life immensely.
Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk
You want no problems use zues.
Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk
Definitely a stock based ROM, like Zues. AOSP's battery life isn't as good as Sense (to no fault of the amazing devs of course).
I also suggest Imoyeson's leankernel 5.1.0GB in battsaver mode. Amazing performace with amazing battery life.
I also recommend Zues. ran it for a month straight no problems. only switched roms to see what else is out there
BAMF 1.11 with kernel+++ and turn off task manager at startup. Since I've installed the latest version of BAMF I've had zero fcs, great battery life and good speed. I'm a tech all day long with Windows PC and understand little about behind tor scene android functions. BAMF seems most reliable and low maintenance. Remember every phone responds different to the same os. It's just like gas every kia responds different to bp gas.
Sent from my thunderbolt using tapatalk
Liquid smooth 3.2. Phenomenal battery life and rom.
G3D is all you need
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App
Hey,
I've been thinking about rooting and roming my rezound. I was wondering which rom would be recommended at the moment?
I need almost everything to work. And I work 12 hour shifts, so I need decent battery life. I make it through a whole day stock, especially if I turn data off when I'm not using it. I would to maybe try to make it more smooth, faster, and have decent battery life. How stable are sense 4.0 roms? and cm9 based ones? I would just like some recommendations on what to try first. thanks!
I would definitely go with ViperRez . Very stable and good battery life.
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda premium
Business ICS and vigor 360 have my vote, both are stable and *****BUGLESS*****. Sense 4 roms still have some kinks to be worked on
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda app-developers app
Ineffabilis deus 1.2 for sure. I've mentioned this before and I'll say it again. Ive flashed all kinds of ROMs but nothing is as perfect as Chingy's ROMs. Everything that I use works perfectly. Give it a shot.
BTW I'm not trying to say all the other ROMs aren't as good. What I should say is try them all out for yourself. Everyone has different tastes.
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda premium
I can vouch for ineffabilis deus. The only problems I had was I couldn't get wifi tether to work and some minor glitches with the keyboard not popping up in text inputs on the main browser but using a different browser worked. I may have been the only one with those problems.. but it is a solid sense rom. Plenty of options to choose from when you flash it.
Now on cm9 Le noob and it's really smooth. In calls though the sound is a bit funky.. But everything is faast
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda app-developers app
I recommend Ineffabilis deus 1.2 but business ICS is also good
amaroth said:
I can vouch for ineffabilis deus. The only problems I had was I couldn't get wifi tether to work and some minor glitches with the keyboard not popping up in text inputs on the main browser but using a different browser worked. I may have been the only one with those problems.. but it is a solid sense rom. Plenty of options to choose from when you flash it.
Now on cm9 Le noob and it's really smooth. In calls though the sound is a bit funky.. But everything is faast
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I couldn't get Wi-Fi to work either, but besides that it's flawless.
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using Tapatalk 2
so is ineffabilis Deus fast as well? I do want fast. lol.
Nils makes some awrsomely fast things
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using Tapatalk 2
We have great devs across the board for the Rezound and each offers something unique and cool for their ROMs. I would say try several and figure out what works best for you. I have used ViperRez, Nils Business Sense, Newt's, Neo's AOKP and NeoMax, Vigor, and Ineffabillis (current). I like them all and find certain aspects of each appeal to me. S-off opens a whole new door of possibilities. Have fun and enjoy the hunt.
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda app-developers app
I'd vote for either of Nils' ROMs. I'm running his Sense 4 ROM right now and the only bug I've found is that every now and then Facebook authentication fails and I have to log in again. That happens every other week or so. Battery life is really good, but I think all Sense 4 ROMS are pretty good on battery.
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda app-developers app
htc rezound rom
jagrave said:
Hey,
I've been thinking about rooting and roming my rezound. I was wondering which rom would be recommended at the moment?
I need almost everything to work. And I work 12 hour shifts, so I need decent battery life. I make it through a whole day stock, especially if I turn data off when I'm not using it. I would to maybe try to make it more smooth, faster, and have decent battery life. How stable are sense 4.0 roms? and cm9 based ones? I would just like some recommendations on what to try first. thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have tried ClearRom4.5 and used it for a while, then I tried ViperRez1.0.3, Newts, and currently I am using Vigor360.
Honestly, if the camera will be stable in the ViperRez1.0.3, I would be still using it. So far, it is the ROM that gave me better battery life compared with others and it is very smooth imo.
I installed Newts and I was astonished with all the things loaded in there. Great ROM. Ubber stable. The camera is fast and didn't see any issues. Everything works in there. My only complain was that compared with other ICS ROMs it seems that it lags a bit for me and the battery drains faster than any other ROM I tried.
Because how stable is this ROM, I tried a couple of Kernels to see if I could get the same smoothness that I got with previous ICS ROMS. No luck!!
I just installed Vigor360 about a week ago and it is great too. Battery consumption is way better than Newts but less better than ViperRez. But the ROM is flawless and smooth. Probably same or better than ViperRez.
Benchmark in Quadrant Standard with all 4 different ROMS (with their original Kernels) gave me the average of:
- CleanRom4.5 **3100
- ViperRez 1.0.3 ** 3600
- Newts ** 2900
- Vigor360 **3100
Now, if we can have an ICS ROM that is stable as Newts, with the battery life of ViperRez and the smoothness of Vigor360, then we will have a winner.
If you don't need Sense, try Miui. The UI is very clean and smooth.
+1 for ViperRez. Stable, fast, and great battery life. Been using it since the end of July, & haven't looked back. Sense 4 is awesome. Now using it with DSB's kernel, which also works great. Camera and camcorder both working fine. Only "issue", if you want to call it that, is the data arrows not working, but you will see that with any of the Sense 4 ROMs, and to me, it is a non-issue. Awesome.
Oh, also, the Kindle app force closes, which has been reported, but again, no big deal to me, because I have my Nexus 7 for that, LOL.
Good luck, and enjoy.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
+10 viper rez.1.0.3 S-off your phone use dsbs cubed sense 4kernel. Great battery life, stable, smooth , extremely customizable, camera and camcorder work great for me so I don't know what problems other people are having.
Only thing is kindle force closes it that's just what I've read I dont use it.
If you like "sense" then vipers the way to go..
sent from my s-off reZound rockin' viperRez Rom on global ICS firmware
I recommend ViperRez latest with BAMF kernel.
Go with CM9, I literally shed a tear as to how awesome it is.
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda app-developers app
Thank ya'll for all the replies. I'm kind of afraid to do the s-off thing right now, so i'm sticking with just unlocking and roming. So far the only one I've tried is Neo's Rage1.2 and its pretty awesome. When the screen is off it barely has battery drain at all. I'm interested in trying viperrez, but I think i read that he is about to release an update soon so I'll probably wait until it comes out. But an example of the battery life of rage1.2: I have the standard battery, its been off charge for 16h 47 min, with 1h 1 min screen on time and i'm sitting at 37% battery. Granted a lot of that time was with data off when i wasn't using it, but when I had the screen on data was on. Just figured I would throw that out there for anyone interested.
You've just got to try the ROMs man. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but there are one thousand threads about "best" ROMS, and each is equally useless. Your device, tastes, and desires are going to determine which ROMS are most successful for your setup. I can almost guarantee that if you flash ANY rom in the development thread that it's going to be great. Just a heads up, it's best to refrain from discussing "best" ROMS. It just pisses devs off.
iamwalterwhite said:
You've just got to try the ROMs man. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but there are one thousand threads about "best" ROMS, and each is equally useless. Your device, tastes, and desires are going to determine which ROMS are most successful for your setup. I can almost guarantee that if you flash ANY rom in the development thread that it's going to be great. Just a heads up, it's best to refrain from discussing "best" ROMS. It just pisses devs off.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I hope that it didn't offend anyone. I was just wondering what people that are using the ROMS thought about which one would be good for me based on what I was needing. Because I know some ROMS will be great, but not have as great of battery life as another ROM that is just as awesome. I like getting suggestions, and seeing what people like about which ROM. I will keep what you said in mind, and I really appreciate you letting me know that.
I currently have a Droid Inc2 rooted unlocked OC running CM10. Is it worth picking up this phone? Much better than what I have? What's the best ROM out for Rezound? Battery life? Thanx!
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
d08speed3 said:
I currently have a Droid Inc2 rooted unlocked OC running CM10. Is it worth picking up this phone? Much better than what I have? What's the best ROM out for Rezound? Battery life? Thanx!
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes, definitely. check out the jb bulds that have recently come out
Performance wise: just pure amazing.
Development: Excellent! New Roms and updates almost daily.
Battery wise: Crap. Unless you buy an extended battery, your looking at up to 1:30 hours of screen on time. Compared to other phones that have 3 hours.
Damn I get 6+ hours of screen on time with my Inc2
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
im_high_tech said:
Performance wise: just pure amazing.
Development: Excellent! New Roms and updates almost daily.
Battery wise: Crap. Unless you buy an extended battery, your looking at up to 1:30 hours of screen on time. Compared to other phones that have 3 hours.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ymmv with the battery life. i've seen plenty of people with really good battery life reports on aosp (cm9 or cm10). getting anywhere from 3-4 hours screen on with the standard battery. obviously not the 6 hours your getting on your inc, but its to be expected with a better screen and a bigger screen.
Hmmm good to know still debating about buying one for $200 off a friend.
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
d08speed3 said:
Hmmm good to know still debating about buying one for $200 off a friend.
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just purchased two off ebay one with an extended battery for 150 each... thats cheaper than your friend ... I bought them for my parents so we could keep unlimited.
Hmmmm what's the best ROM out you think? And what's average battery life?
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
d08speed3 said:
Hmmmm what's the best ROM out you think? And what's average battery life?
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i think that's pretty subjective. but development on this phone is great. sense 3.6, sense 4, cm9, cm10 roms all available. and battery life will obviously depend on usage. jsut start looking through the rom threads to get a better sense of things.
bik2101 said:
i think that's pretty subjective. but development on this phone is great. sense 3.6, sense 4, cm9, cm10 roms all available. and battery life will obviously depend on usage. jsut start looking through the rom threads to get a better sense of things.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm running mean horsey face job ROM I'm at 90% battery with 1 hour 10 min screen on time. I was playing bejeweled for a while. The new jb ROMs seem to be pretty amazing on battery life. I do run an extended battery though.
I have a stock battery (with water damage) running my jb build and although I don't have the stats on hand but I tinker around online all day and I don't have to worry about battery until about 8-9 pm running from 7:30 am
Great devoloping phone
I'd have to say if you are used to geting your hands dirty this is a great phone to mess around with. Certain things are tricky to learn like the S-Off trick. The batery life and speed on this phone is great. I've used almost every rom for this and the 2 roms that ive met that meet my requirements for now are Viper Rez 1.0.3 and jelybean ┬─┬ ノ( ^_^ノ) rom. I prefer to use the Amon Ra Recovery and nandroid backup and restore is my bestfriend when switching my roms out. The best thing i've learned though is how to use the kitchen and theming for any device ive owned.
I'm pretty familiar with the Kitchen but what so do I need to upload? For CM7 I just pulled the apk theme and uses that. CM10 you need framework Res? What else
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
d08speed3 said:
I'm pretty familiar with the Kitchen but what so do I need to upload? For CM7 I just pulled the apk theme and uses that. CM10 you need framework Res? What else
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Don't be fooled by the optimism of these guys. There is currently no AOSP variant that is fully functional. CM9 is closer than 10, but there are still things that don't fully work. If you want everything to work as it should, you will need a Sense 3.6 rom and battery life will not be very good. The awesome screen on this phone drains a battery very quickly. We do have some great devs working on both Sense and AOSP, but they can't really make the screen more efficient.
gr8nole said:
Don't be fooled by the optimism of these guys. There is currently no AOSP variant that is fully functional. CM9 is closer than 10, but there are still things that don't fully work. If you want everything to work as it should, you will need a Sense 3.6 rom and battery life will not be very good. The awesome screen on this phone drains a battery very quickly. We do have some great devs working on both Sense and AOSP, but they can't really make the screen more efficient.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
well, what exactly, outside of bluetooth calling isn't fully functioning on aosp? afaik, nothing. and even on sense 3.6 roms, there are plenty of very optimized roms with some awesome kernels that can actually give you pretty good battery life.
bik2101 said:
well, what exactly, outside of bluetooth calling isn't fully functioning on aosp? afaik, nothing. and even on sense 3.6 roms, there are plenty of very optimized roms with some awesome kernels that can actually give you pretty good battery life.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You just made my point. If everything doesn't work, then it is not fully functional. As for battery life, it will always be personal opinion as to what is "good", but I don't consider 2-2.5 hours screen on time to be good (and that is what I have seen reported more often than not).
Don't get me wrong, I do think the Rez is a good phone, but it isn't great, and I probably wouldn't spend $200 to get one right now. I was lucky enough to get mine for $50 back when they had it on special and still kept my unlimited.
Well I avg 2.5 hrs screen time stock battery on 4g on and sync and data for everything and over 4 on the OEM extended. Doesn't matter if I run aosp or sense or jb.
To the op, I very much enjoy my rezound and after having many phones on Verizon the rezound is still a fantastic device. However I would strongly suggest soff, amon ra, and multiple stock batteries with a wall/dock for them if you want to keep it slim. Camera is top notch. I run a sense 4 Rom currently and couldn't be happier. It's development is growing due to committed devs. I get battery battery life on my stock rezound battery and sense 4 or aosp that any Rom I had on my vzw nexus. Consistently. The screen is beautiful. Signal is always strong. Soff wil allow you to test many many combinations until you find something you like.
bik2101 said:
yes, definitely. check out the jb bulds that have recently come out
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1
Dcnovicky said:
+1
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+2
Damn 2.5 screen time with stock battery is kinda horrible. =\ I get 4.5 on my Inc2 OC @1.4 I know MT phone is slower but it's still pretty fast for what it is. Don't wanna carry around a brick.
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
Has anyone here used both? I'm currently using ViperDNA but considering moving towards CyanogenMod 10.1 as it appears to be more and more stable as a daily driver.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Backup and try it out
Everyone has different preferences, so you will get any number of different opinions
Yeah you just have to try it man I'd personal try like slim bean or carbon may jelly beer those are all soils choices and they are more option loaded then cm10.1. Just as stable as well
Sent from my HTC6435LVW using Tapatalk 2
I agree give it a shot. I personally am not a big fan of Cm 10.1. I like the more polished roms. The Sense 5 Dream rom and Viper are my favorites.
Sent from my HTC6435LVW using xda app-developers app
Agreed with what everyone else said, just try it out. You'll get 100s of different opinions. I've tried both and continue to bounce back and forth between the two. They are both phenomenal ROMs with very talented developers.
Viper has full features (otg + mhl) I had trouble with those on cm. But cm is a lot leaner... They definitely both have pros and cons
Sent from my HTC6435LVW using xda app-developers app
Depending on which Rom you use I've noticed aosp is snappier where it matters but has it drawbacks as far as widgets goes. Viper is the best sense Rom IMO. Always the best customizations and amazing support. I'm torn at times which one to run day to day but I usually stick with the least problematic. Aosp for DNA has some kinks to iron out so I'm holding out for that.
xlxcrossing said:
Depending on which Rom you use I've noticed aosp is snappier where it matters but has it drawbacks as far as widgets goes. Viper is the best sense Rom IMO. Always the best customizations and amazing support. I'm torn at times which one to run day to day but I usually stick with the least problematic. Aosp for DNA has some kinks to iron out so I'm holding out for that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Unfortunately, I've had nothing but trouble with the Viper ROM. Absolutely LOVE it, but my 4G almost never worked, and I constantly lost all connectivity altogether randomly. Moved to Cm10.1 and haven't had any issues yet. I miss Viper though.
Hey guys what is the best battery friendly custom rom. just wondering. newbie here. since we can flash the roms built for the international HTC One.
Try them for yourself.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Iv had good battery with the tripNdroid rom but there a few small thing i dont like about the rom so i am back to ice cold just my 2 cents.
Test test and test some more see what works best for you
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Viper is amazing compared to pre-root. 75% more for me. Lots of variables though.
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
spk99 said:
Viper is amazing compared to pre-root. 75% more for me. Lots of variables though.
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Your battery life increased by 75%?!?! 0_o
Sent from my HTC One running CM 10.1
killman2659 said:
Your battery life increased by 75%?!?! 0_o
Sent from my HTC One running CM 10.1
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I hear ya.... Per GSam averaged 20ish hours per charge now 36ish...
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
rahtrip said:
Hey guys what is the best battery friendly custom rom. just wondering. newbie here. since we can flash the roms built for the international HTC One.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Battery life on ROMs is a tough variable. Having hung around these forums for a really long time I can tell you that you will see huge swings in reeactions to battery life, often on the same ROM. There are so many things that can influence battery life that it really is a YMMV thing. you might be able to get some general trends from reading ROM threads, but there is no such thing as "gospel truth". some genral thoughts
1. Push email and facebook chew through battery
2. The accepted consensus is that battery saver prgrams like juice defender can eat as much battery ormore than they save but if you have a specific use case they may work.
3. you can spend your whole day chasing wakelocks...
All ROMs generally have about the same battery life. Battery is all about how you use your phone and how you manage what is running in the background.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
Obviously everyone's mileage will vary, but of every ROM I've tried I've seen the best battery out of the Sentinel sense based ROM over in the international one development section. Yes it and basically every other ROM over there is compatible with the att variant
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
I have tried Sense 5.0, the Google Play Edition ROM and two CM nightly, the most recent one being July 5.
Both the GE and CM handily beat the stock Sense ROM in battery life (at least that was my perception).
CM 10.1 seemed to be a bit better than the Google Edition ROM (it also seems to be significantly more efficient in its use of resources which translates into better battery life), but there are still some issues with CM...NFC, Bluetooth, no Beats Audio Drivers, and I like the new Jelly Bean Camera App better so I am sticking with the GE ROM for the time being.
I love CM though and will probably go back to it once everything gets ironed out...
OK so I too have been questioning battery life. CM 11 did... OK. My previous phone was the Moto G, and comparatively my One has been doing terrible on battery life! I'm currently on Pacrom, tried PA and a couple similar as well, getting 9 hr battery life, 2 hr on (like what the f***!) according to GSam. I'm thinking about stock gpe and playing with kernels? Thoughts? Testing has been taking a while as I try to give every rom kernel combo 3 days at least, a week preferred.
the_odom_project said:
OK so I too have been questioning battery life. CM 11 did... OK. My previous phone was the Moto G, and comparatively my One has been doing terrible on battery life! I'm currently on Pacrom, tried PA and a couple similar as well, getting 9 hr battery life, 2 hr on (like what the f***!) according to GSam. I'm thinking about stock gpe and playing with kernels? Thoughts? Testing has been taking a while as I try to give every rom kernel combo 3 days at least, a week preferred.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
A some what general consensus of Battery life for the One:
Sense > Google Edition > AOSP
In my opinion the best battery life will come from a fairly close to stock sense Rom such as MaximusHD with poondog's Kangaroo Kernel.
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Free mobile app