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Hey guys,
After this easter morning disappointment from the software update, I have decided that its time to root my phone to get my Jelly Bean. Therefore, I want to ask this community, what would be the best ROM based on what I want from my phone? Basically, I want it to still feel stock but not have to deal with the At&t bloatware and I want to be able to use 4G LTE. That's basically it. I have heard of SnowJB and Nocturnal but I am not really sure of the differences between them and feel free to suggest others. Also if I used the incorrect terminology, I apologize I am a n00b that wants to learn.
Thanks for the help,
yidavs
I'll definitely recommend SnowJB is you're looking for a stock feel without all the extra bloat. I used that for a while, until CFX became more stable as an AOSP rom. Unlocking is simple now with freegee now in the appstore. Just be sure to read and root before using it. Backup your efs prior to flashing stuff with it and place it somewhere on your computer. It's a small chance of that getting messed up, but with a backup you will be fine. Any questions you should be able to get a faster response in the IRC channel.
Battery on CFX kills my nexus converted OG to the point I might use my backup OG for that reason alone.
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SnowJB is the only way to go if you want a fully functional Jellybean ROM. I've been using it for a few weeks and it's as problem free as any ROM I've used before. Definitely recommend it!
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Another vote for SnowJB. If you want to upgrade to Jellybean, but want all the features working, its the only option at the moment as the 4.2.2 ROMs are still working out all the issues/missing features. It's a great ROM. I've been running it for like a month with zero problems.
The xperia 4.1.2 ROM is rock solid as well.running it with mysterious' kernel. No issues.
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SnowJB
Another vote for SnowJB as a daily driver, but if you can do without a camera, go for CodeFireX unless you've done the N4 conversion. CFX is fast, clean, and excellent battery life, and SO many more features and options. Including controlling your media with the volume rocker, Widgets on the lock screen, and custom unlock targets.
I'm thinking of jumping to the CM nightles, but the new LOTK Rom seems pretty sweet as well.
I've also been thinking of trying out the cleaned up TW ROMs (cleanROM and Hyperdrive). Not really sure what Hyperdrive is, though....
so, yeah. What ROM are you using? Pros, cons?
Running the Jellybeans rom . Everything is running great no issues at all.
I'm running Hyperdrive. Love this ROM!!! I'm also running it on my Note 10.1 and ran it on my SG3. Super smooth and lots of customization options.
Hyperdrive here too.......lots of options to tweak and runs smooth as buttah!
Tried a couple
I tried CM Nightly and AOKP yesterday (both based on stock Android). Both seemed like they were getting close to good daily driver. I'm looking for something based on stock. Both seemed to have GPS issues and AOKP had camera issues as well. I really liked the features on AOKP. (I used to run AOKP on previous phone a GNex). I'll be trying AOKP again soon to see if some of those issues are fixed.
What I really want (may be fantasy) is a stock (or at least stock looking) rom that still has IR blaster, Pedometer & maybe some of the camera features. I also want (again, maybe fantasy) a rom that allows super easy transfer of apps and app data to SD. Right now it looks complicated to transfer and maintain apps on the SD card, especially if one flashes new roms often.
jscarano said:
Running the Jellybeans rom . Everything is running great no issues at all.
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Which rom is this? does it require anothr kernel?
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I have run gruesome, hyper drive and beans. ( I think I am an addict. ) they are all really cool. I love the one button kill which is in both gruesome and hyperdrive. beans is also very nice with full blocking mode enabled in one of the framework mods . beans lacks the one button kill though. I have run the faux kernel against all of these a recommend that. I would like to try clean rom next then some of the original development. I love some of the TW fluff. Having said all that, I tried the gruesome wolf rom first so it had to be changed to try more. but I would have probably stuck with it. it was super stable and I am new at this but the thread is super quiet. my money is that their release three will be dope.
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puma1 said:
Which rom is this? does it require anothr kernel?
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I believe the dev recommended on of the two mod kernels. but I ran it without as well. I loved it with faux
I'm on the stock rom. Rooted and flashed a few mods (and added toggles). It's perfect for me and I never lost any data (didn't have to wipe) or apps.
cm nightlies running great for me
No one using paranoid android?
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Using CleanRom 1.1 with Ktoons kernel. If I play it right I think I can get about 6hrs of screen on time.
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Which rom is this? does it require anothr kernel?
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This rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2307357 . It doesnt require another kernel .
Jelly beans rom, loved it on my note 2 glad to see it on the s4
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I am also using 'Beans' Rom. Fantastic so far. Flashed it with ktoonsez' kernel and it flies. No issues at all. I like to put Nova launcher on it to get that stock vanilla feel while still having the features and functionality of TouchWiz. Dev did a great job debloating the rom as well. All the useless apps Samsung put on the phone (amazon, trip advisor, etc) were removed. Also the ongoing wifi notification icon is gone which really bugged the crap out of me. All in all, best rom on my GS4 so far. Highly recommended. :good::highfive:
Hyperdrive here damn rom is beast. I'm having np here been my dd since release :thumbup:
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No one using paranoid android?
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I'm watching that thread, but waiting for it to get out a few releases first. I've seen PA in various other areas of XDA (for use on other phones) so I'm confident that its going to be a great ROM even though I haven't personally used it.
With that being said, right now I'm on rooted stock but once Hyperdrive RC3 is released I'll be flashing that (still need to figure out what kernel is recommended)!
I'm currently using CM. It's good so far. I'd be using Hyperdrive, but I get stuck on boot (Samsung Galaxy S4 logo, no padlock). I'm happy with it though, it's a great rom. Spend a day with each rom that seems interesting to you before you make up your mind on what you want to use.
CM is the only ROM I run. I love it.
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I'd love me some somewhat-stock Android (CM or AOKP) but I just love some of the TouchWiz features too much. I don't use any of the gimmicky stuff, but the camera really has some nice things that stock can't even come close to touching.
Hyperdrive ROM for me
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CrDroid with crpalmer's kernel. Blazing fast with awesome battery life
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I've been switching back and forth between NOS's GPE and a few different aosp Roms (running Vanir ATM). The customization of aosp Roms is awesome, but the performance and screen-on time just isn't up to par with sense based Roms so I go back and forth a lot. Too bad we can't have the best of both worlds, but GPE+xposed modules is about as close as it gets.
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CrDroid with crpalmer's kernel. Blazing fast with awesome battery life
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Me too... specifically the 9/23 build because the active display works perfectly with crpalmers 4.4.15 great combo with 3-3.5 hours of screen time
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CM 10.2 /w crpalmer Kernel
Carbon has been my daily driver until just recently as pio isn't actively developing it anymore. Hopefully he will come back to it when the time is right, but in the meantime I've been bouncing around all over between Sense and AOSP...flashed Viper 2.0 and ran it all day yesterday and it's pretty close to the customization I was used to with Carbon and PAC, and it was nice to have full speaker volume for a change. But right now I'm flashing crDroid and will probably spend a little time playing with Beanstalk today too.
When picking a ROM, my main concern is whether or not it will still be supported a week from now. With a lot of the AOSP roms for the DNA, it looks like each developer is building and supporting three or four roms, and in some cases stop building/supporting an older rom when they have three or four new ones to compile.
Because of this I stick to CM (or really any other rom with a full team behind it who releases regular builds).
I just switched back to AOSP from ViperDNA and had a good run with that.
shobon said:
When picking a ROM, my main concern is whether or not it will still be supported a week from now. With a lot of the AOSP roms for the DNA, it looks like each developer is building and supporting three or four roms, and in some cases stop building/supporting an older rom when they have three or four new ones to compile.
Because of this I stick to CM (or really any other rom with a full team behind it who releases regular builds).
I just switched back to AOSP from ViperDNA and had a good run with that.
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None of the roms which i build has been abandoned. If they have been abandoned its due to the fact that their main team has stopped developing like jellybeer, uXylon etc.
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LuckyPuppy said:
Me too... specifically the 9/23 build because the active display works perfectly with crpalmers 4.4.15 great combo with 3-3.5 hours of screen time
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Wow didn't realize there was Active Display for the DNA...is crdroid that only rom that offers it?
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Wow didn't realize there was Active Display for the DNA...is crdroid that only rom that offers it?
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No... but it works best for me.... Amit has done a great job with this one :thumbup:
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Viper DNA sense 5. Won't be much longer since I have an HTC One coming in.
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GPE+xposed modules is about as close as it gets.
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Thanks for the tip. I've been using Carbon for months but the low speaker volume of CM-based roms started to bug me. Now I'm using GPE + xposed.
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I'm on stock still, ya I know. Anyway, what is active display?
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None of the roms which i build has been abandoned. If they have been abandoned its due to the fact that their main team has stopped developing like jellybeer, uXylon etc.
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Oh I wasn't referring to anyone in particular! I've just had a bad history on other devices of independent devs losing interest over time. I'm actually on Gummy right now and thoroughly enjoying it. I just tend to stick to "official" roms since they get updated daily, lol.
Now I flashed the 4.3.1 [ROM][4.3.1][16-Oct]**crDroid AOSP**|CM10.2|HALO 2.0|SLIMPIE|APPBAR and it's simply the best I tried so far... Awesome battery life, and perfect customization options!
GPE + xposed
orangechoochoo said:
Thanks for the tip. I've been using Carbon for months but the low speaker volume of CM-based roms started to bug me. Now I'm using GPE + xposed.
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Do you elaborating on GPE + xposed...I love the carbon rom and would love to increase the volume and I am getting frustrated.
I know AOSP roms have bugs. But why is it that I cannot use my voip apps on my phone whenever I have anything AOSP on it?? Is there something I'm missing?? Like changing settings somewhere?? My main complain with AOSP are the constant crashes, and that it renders my voip apps useless. Also, in my experience battery life was poor in AOSP and most of the feature rich sense based roms. I'm currently running DNA-Super-Digital rom on my phone. It's not fancy but at least it is very stable and offers a good battery life. I wish there were more stable roms with good battery life like it.
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Do you elaborating on GPE + xposed...I love the carbon rom and would love to increase the volume and I am getting frustrated.
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Xposed frameworks basically lets you modify apk's on the fly as if the functionality was built into the ROM, I think that's the best way to explain it. Right now I'm using xposed framework with gravitybox (various mods similar to what you find in aosp Roms), xblast tools (same type of thing), xposed statusbar mods (self-explanatory), xposed app settings (per-app DPI/permissions), and xtheme engine (let's you use cm10 themes, although they have to be pre-modified to work with xtheme). Here is the thread for xposed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401 installation instructions are in the thread, and all of the modules I mentioned are available through the app.
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Do you elaborating on GPE + xposed...I love the carbon rom and would love to increase the volume and I am getting frustrated.
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Jammiethemorris answered the question about xposed framework. Regarding the volume, xposed framework doesn't fix that. All CM-based roms have low speaker volume because the amplifier is not working correctly. So I switched to the GE rom which is Sense-based and therefore doesn't have the low volume problem. The GE rom looks very much like AOSP but doesn't have options to tweak it, hence the need for xposed framework which allows you to tweak he look and feel of the rom.
I have droid DNA carrier t-mobile is there a Rom that will improve data speeds?
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DNA-Super-Digital-2.07.605.1 710RD-v.1.0
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I have droid DNA carrier t-mobile is there a Rom that will improve data speeds?
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You're gonna find a lot of "feature rich" roms here. I tried them all. Even CM10 based roms. I was disappointed with each and every one of them. Almost all of them had bugs. These bugs might not seem significant to many of the people, but somehow they used to bug me the most because they were in the tasks which I used most. Battery life in almost all of the roms is just horrible. I was so disappointed with the roms here that I started spending more time on my Sammy note 8" and was contemplating changing my phone. I installed DNA-Super-Digital-2.07.605.1 710RD-v.1.0 as a last effort at using my phone at work rather than using my tablet as a phone. It's not one of those fancy roms, but trust me it's stable, gives the best performance and with awesome battery life. I don't know if it'll improve data speeds but I get constant 4G speeds all the time. Thanks MicroMod777 for this simple and stable rom
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You're gonna find a lot of "feature rich" roms here. I tried them all. Even CM10 based roms. I was disappointed with each and every one of them. Almost all of them had bugs. These bugs might not seem significant to many of the people, but somehow they used to bug me the most because they were in the tasks which I used most. Battery life in almost all of the roms is just horrible. I was so disappointed with the roms here that I started spending more time on my Sammy note 8" and was contemplating changing my phone. I installed DNA-Super-Digital-2.07.605.1 710RD-v.1.0 as a last effort at using my phone at work rather than using my tablet as a phone. It's not one of those fancy roms, but trust me it's stable, gives the best performance and with awesome battery life. I don't know if it'll improve data speeds but I get constant 4G speeds all the time. Thanks MicroMod777 for this simple and stable rom
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all CM based ROMs will have near the same radio performance. Also, I don't know when you've tried them, but most of the ROMs that are synched up with the current CM repo have very few bugs left.
if you're looking for the best radio performance i suggest sticking with sense, if you want a whole new (and in my opinion better) experience go with an AOSP (or CM) based ROM.
just remember to do a nandroid before flashing so you can always come back to what you had before if you're not happy
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You're gonna find a lot of "feature rich" roms here. I tried them all. Even CM10 based roms. I was disappointed with each and every one of them. Almost all of them had bugs. These bugs might not seem significant to many of the people, but somehow they used to bug me the most because they were in the tasks which I used most. Battery life in almost all of the roms is just horrible. I was so disappointed with the roms here that I started spending more time on my Sammy note 8" and was contemplating changing my phone. I installed DNA-Super-Digital-2.07.605.1 710RD-v.1.0 as a last effort at using my phone at work rather than using my tablet as a phone. It's not one of those fancy roms, but trust me it's stable, gives the best performance and with awesome battery life. I don't know if it'll improve data speeds but I get constant 4G speeds all the time. Thanks MicroMod777 for this simple and stable rom
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Coming from a Razr Maxx (3300 mAh), I feel extra sensitive to battery life between ROMs on the DNA(2050 mAh). But my experience had been quite opposite from yours...I get much better battery life on most CM-based roms when compared with Sense roms. I have the best luck with Slim rom, and Carbon - although carbon isn't actively built anymore. But Viper 2.0 (Sense 5) has been pretty impressive as well.
It's completely a personal choice. Do a full backup, flash an AOSP, back it up, try a Sense rom, rinse and repeat. New roms and rom updates are coming all the time.
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I have droid DNA carrier t-mobile is there a Rom that will improve data speeds?
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I recieve better battery on cm roms. I'm currently on ose but want to switch back to pac once their build server is up again
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Ok so I have a mdk version of this phone and I want to put a solid rom on it what one is the best do you think of the non tw ones? And another stupid question if I flash like dirty unicorn does it lock down the bootloadrr?
There is no right answer to this... the best rom is the one you like the most, so you need to start flashing and finding this out for yourself.
Flashing roms will not lock your bootloader. Only if you take an official update will it do that.
what the above user said is correct, the best ROM depends on the user. However, i have a rooted mdk gs4 and i was using stock for quite a whole and happy with it. after a while tho, the slight lag and other annoyances got to me so i decided to try a rom. I should note that this is my first android device, I am a long time iphone user and jailbreak expert, so i'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I decided to try Hyperdrive recently and I absoultely love it. its basically a hybrid of touchwiz for gs4 and note 3 with all of the bloated BS crap removed and lots of customization options. it is much faster and solves some of my gripes and was easy to install. I also chose to try it first because it was similar to what i was already on so it was a good first ROM choice in my opinion. it was also super easy to install. I am gonna try CM11 when it gets released to see if I like it, but for now i would recommend you try hyperdrive
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Ive had a lot of trouble with AOSP 4.3 ROM's with Bluetooth. On long conversations the BT will cut out and then the phone hot boots after I hang up.
I dont use that much I just want a good daily driver
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Ok so I have a mdk version of this phone and I want to put a solid rom on it what one is the best do you think of the non tw ones? And another stupid question if I flash like dirty unicorn does it lock down the bootloadrr?
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All the aosp roms bring something to the table. The touch wiz roms for this phone are great as well. There are fan boys for all of them.
See what you like.
That said. I can tell you which developers I'd follow. I say this based on user support and rom support, and listening to features requests, and a quality product. or a combination there of. Sbreen94, nitroglycerin33, dubbsy, beanstown106 , Bdogg for DU is starting out right. Andybones is also tops but I haven't seen as much of him lately.
Edit: forgot DaMadOne is is doing nice things on his aokp kang.
With the big aosp custom rom's you have a ton of peer support buy typically @ the mercy of whatever the larger team is working on in terms of bug fixes etc...
I have less experience with sacs so can't say there.
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I tryied a couple of rom and always come back to hyperdrive,there are a lot of support with it,but only you decide wish is the best for you....
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There is no right answer to this... the best rom is the one you like the most, so you need to start flashing and finding this out for yourself.
Flashing roms will not lock your bootloader. Only if you take an official update will it do that.
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His bootloader is already locked. But I do agree that there is no best. .. my favorite is stock unrooted.
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Spergy69's Tendernips 2.3 Rom with ThaShizz kernel and FeceTweaks works like crap. Definitely recommend
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I LOVE my ROM rules, your ROM sucks threads!
FWIW, I use CyanogenMod nightlies and it suits me just fine, as always, YMMV!