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What do you think is the best ROM out today? What do you like about them, and what would you change?
I like the look and feel of stock Android. I also like to be able to tweak lots of setting, so naturally, CyanogenMod is my favorite.
CM can look exactly like stock, barebones Android, but has so many customizations it's awesome. For instance, I think the auto-brightness for the screen is too bright when I'm in a dark room. CM lets me tweak it to make the screen darker or lighter for any ambient light scenario. Just little things like that.
But since this is in the Vibrant section and the Vibrant doesn't have CM yet, I'm sure you'd like to know what is on my Vibrant. I'm running Eugene's Vibrant Hybrid since it has much of the feel of vanilla Android, but with many of Eugene's tweaks. But it's still not perfect. I have a custom boot animation, and am running Voodoo just for good measure. I like it a lot
I've been a Droid 2 owner for over a month and I love the squidlymandingo rom but I find it really hard to locate any compatible themes for it. I know there are more people like myself who would like to see more themes for this rom or atleast some links to some working themes. I hope some talented d2 themers see this thread and help contribute some themes to a perfect rom.
I know its a very popular rom that is very smooth and there are options for blurry or blurless rom and its got the best quadrant score (2500 was my lowest running stock Squidly 2.3.20.2 with oc at 1.2) out of all the roms i've tried for the d2.
Just need some themes for it so can anyone please help us Squidly users out on the theme tip?
I just posted a poll on some themes we would like to see ported for it here
suggestion: since you have noticed the need/want for themes for the rom and an apparent lack of a supply, why wouldn't you jump on it and become somewhat of a hero amongst the squidly community? trust me, theming isnt hard (even i figured it out lol)
jj702561 said:
suggestion: since you have noticed the need/want for themes for the rom and an apparent lack of a supply, why wouldn't you jump on it and become somewhat of a hero amongst the squidly community? trust me, theming isnt hard (even i figured it out lol)
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i've been trying to follow the instructions for porting over themes to this very beastly squidly rom but haven't any luck minus a port of a old revolution remix but didn't like how some of the stuff didn't theme over correctly and i lost the verizon wireless indication in the drop down and when i tried to port the WatermarkD it completely jacked my phone so i'm going to leave this to the pros i just hope someone shows us some theme love cause i'm not going anywhere romwise and i am sure most of the users feel this way but we just need some theme options that are designed for the rom.
The quadrant score didn't mean crap all squidly did was run openfront or opensource or whatever that improves AAC encoding which is one aspect of quadrant, but it messes around with audio streaming. This "massive" quadrant score doesn't really mean any better day to day performance.
regardless of the quadrant score its still a very popular rom and there are many that would love some themes for the rom. i like the rom cause its smooth and i can choose to keep some aspects if motoblur or remove it completely but honestly like a few of them so its a good rom for me just lacks themes.
Squidly enabled stagefright in the build.prop which is why it gets high quadrant scores. Squidly is awesome and I would love to see some themes for it.
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I recently began working on theming. I will make this my first project. Gimme a few days to get everything out.
Well... a lot of AOSP themes will work for other AOSP roms, like a bunch of fission themes work fine on gummyjar or liberty.
Sometimes they screw up a few features but since they don't do any huge modifications themes often will work for similar roms.
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Okey fellow android owners. I've tried them all, the tweaks. But can't say in matter of benchmarks that they've made a total makeover to my score, nore to the feeling I got with the phone in matter of speed etc.
And most of the tweaks I've downloaded are always packages with seveal tweaks inside.
I would like to know, if there was only ONE tweak you could choose, wich one would it be. Wich one has made the most difference in terms of speed, memory or battery saving for you?
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Well one of the BEST tweaks I've done on my device is install the V6 SuperCharger. Definately helped with Memory, Speed, and overall device Responsiveness.
I had a feeling this would be one of the obvious answers. Though, this might sound weird, on my Xperia Arc S, I don't feel that much of a difference with it installed. :-(
Maybe it's a revert placebo, as when I started to think that the tweaks didn't improve the phone very much, they stopped working ;-)
And as I said in OP, most of the tweaks comes within a packege with several tweaks. This is the case with V6 as it changes several things within the phone.
So, to expand my question even further. If you where to choose on thing the V6 changes, wich setting would it be? The memory? The kernel? 3G supercharger?
Well in essence it affects all of those. But where I see the biggest difference is in the Memory. Or more to the point the Memory Management. My device literally has way more available memory. Also as stated before the responsiveness is much improved.
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Mik Roms Since 3/13/11
The one change that's made each phone and tablet more responsive has been zeam launcher.
I've toyed around in the past with Supercharger and gotten mixed results, so I was wondering if there was a particular speedup script(and options for it) that work particularly well for the gtab? Running smootherbean if that matters, it's already fairly zippy but I'd love to be able to squeeze out a little more performance.
I was wondering about the pros and cons of each. For example, right now I'm running MIUI, and it has the best experience of any rom I've used (I've been using MIUI since GB on my N1 - only recently upgraded to the GSIII). But, I really like the way Milk Music looks, and I can only get that particular app if I'm running a near-stock touchwiz based rom.
I was wondering if there was a way to get the best of both worlds? Or if I should stay away from stock entirely, or if there are any other benefits I'm missing!
Hello !
I believe this is one of the hardest question to reply ever "stock or aosp/aokp/miui".
For me, everything depends on what you want to do with your phone. Exellent battery life would be stock rom, but more smoothness would be cm, for exemple.
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Hello !
I believe this is one of the hardest question to reply ever "stock or aosp/aokp/miui".
For me, everything depends on what you want to do with your phone. Exellent battery life would be stock rom, but more smoothness would be cm, for exemple.
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It's mostly about appearance and functionality for me. I'm pretty good on battery life, and have a battery backup if needed. I love how clean MIUI looks. It's always looked obsessively clean, and I love it for that. It also lets me arrange my status bar into the iOS style (I like the battery on one side, signal on the other - clock in the middle).
MIUI with Aviate as my launcher seems to work wonders, and MIUI has a lot of great features - built in data monitor, app and trash cleaners, just a lot of great things to keep the phone running smooth.
But I want the samsung support as well. I like a lot of the touchwiz stuff (minus the actual launcher), and I enjoy having my data backed up with them (MIUI backs up my data, but not all of it, really). And I am absurdly interested in the Milk Music app. But when you look at stock/near-stock touchwiz based roms that have the samsung support and the camera app, and the like, you're stuck with the stock UI as well. Which is nice, mind you - leaps and bounds better than it was in previous versions, but still leaps and bounds behind the work that MIUI has done to give it the smooth feel I've come to expect.
If only there was a way to get the Samsung Framework on MIUI, I think all my problems would be solved.
I never tried MIUI, because I don't really fancy the iOS style..
I think, the perfect rom would be a mix of CM, stock rom, and maybe MIUI too, but I believe that's impossible to make.. :/
Stock:
Pros:Usually completely stable,Full warranty,Apps is usually better designed/has more features,Can use official updates easily,More Secure(Without root of course)Usually looks better(my opinion)
Cons:
(may be a bit slow)
Inefficient
Unrooted
Bootloader may be locked
High ram usage
Custom
Pros:
Usually faster than stock
Usually pre-rooted
More efficient
Usually quicker update timeframe
Less space is used
Easier to install certain apps
Cons:
Loss of warranty
Unstable
Errors
Insecure(rooted)
Apps are more plain (less features/looks)