I currently have 5.0.8 on my G1. It runs terribly slow. All I want is a fast ROM. I want to be able to hit the home or back key and not have to wait 5 seconds for the phone to actually do it. I'm using automatic task killer too and I still have difficulty with performance.
Can anyone tell me what the best options are?
angasreid said:
I currently have 5.0.8 on my G1. It runs terribly slow. All I want is a fast ROM. I want to be able to hit the home or back key and not have to wait 5 seconds for the phone to actually do it. I'm using automatic task killer too and I still have difficulty with performance.
Can anyone tell me what the best options are?
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use swapper with swapiness 60 and some swap space (file), works great!
Just from my experience, stick with Android 1.6, don't go any higher than that
My opinion is that the G1's hardware was simply not meant nor is capable of running anything above Android 1.6 "well" and at a constant reliable speed.
I have used every ROM starting from JF 1.41 (Android 1.0) to the latest FroYo Roms (Android 2.2). I say the best, fastest and most stable ROM is SuperD (Android 1.6). I don't use the latest version of it... because the theme I love, DarkStar doesn't support it, but even my dated version of SuperD runs extremely well, I am certain the latest version of SuperD runs even better.
I have over 6000 text messages on my phone, I use all 5 screens on my home screen with a total of 10 widgets spread across them, including a Weather Clock which takes quite a bit of memory. Even so, the phone still loads everything very fast. (I do use CompCache and a 32 MB Swap)
I have stuck with SuperD for several months now and I am pretty convinced that this ROM is what I will use until the day I need to get a new phone, which is in half a year or so.
angasreid said:
I currently have 5.0.8 on my G1. It runs terribly slow. All I want is a fast ROM. I want to be able to hit the home or back key and not have to wait 5 seconds for the phone to actually do it. I'm using automatic task killer too and I still have difficulty with performance.
Can anyone tell me what the best options are?
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Fastest Roms on the G1 are probably Htcclays superbad 1.3.3 and SuperD
But if your looking for 2.1 roms I highly suggest Chromatic 3.8 by
far the fastest eclair rom for the g1.
enomther !!! 1.6 the original! speeedy and reliable!
anyone have a down load for any of enomther 1.6 or 2.1 roms? links seem to be dead and I've just returned to 2.22.23.02 trying to get t-mobile aosp while remaining rooted.
Anyone have the dl link for Htcclays superbad 1.3.3? And I don't understand the difference between superd white and black. Which ones better and faster?
http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=htcclay/
It's somewhere in there
If you ever are looking for more ROMs look in:
http://files.androidspin.com/
db.androidspin.com has mostly dead links
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I have Drizzy's Personal Hero rom and its ridiculously slow and laggy compared to Cyan3.9.10... Just wondering if theres a way to make it any faster.
I read you could install swapper and overclocker from the market and that would make it faster but then i read that it would brick your phone?
Also Drizzys Personal hero didnt come with some of the htc widgets like stocks and contacts, is there somewhere i can download those from?
double post. sorry
pretty much nothing will be anywhere near as fast as cyanogenmod. that's what his rom is know for really.
don't run overclock or the swapper applications from the market on any of drizzys heros. swapper is automatic on it. you need a linux-swap partition on your sd card and that will REALLLLLLy speed it up.
also, if you want all the htc widgets, get the FULL hero off his page. his personal is customized to his (and coincidentally, my) liking, so he got rid of exchange, widgets he didn't use, etc.
none of the builds on his current thread are fully optimized either. he's going to wait till he gets all the bugs and kinks out before he fully optimizes it. when it's fully optimized, it'll run faster and more stable.
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pretty much nothing will be anywhere near as fast as cyanogenmod. that's what his rom is know for really.
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It's not so much that Cyanogenmod and other stock builds are fast so much that builds with Sense are slow. Stock builds run at baseline speed-- that which any non-standard builds should be compared to.
jashsu said:
It's not so much that Cyanogenmod and other stock builds are fast so much that builds with Sense are slow. Stock builds run at baseline speed-- that which any non-standard builds should be compared to.
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true. very true. my statement was a VAST exaggeration
I quit running jac or drizzy's because of the lag. If you really want hero run zeroXD 3.82r3 been running it for a couple of day's running 4 screens clock people bookmarks and weather zero lag I have been pushing this build hard it's my understanding that the dalvik cache is what slows hero down twisted has forced cache to SD and stops the lag not a single crash or loading screen yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=525284
Been searching for a bit.. and can't seem to find a straight answer.
I have read that ION is a very quick ROM. Is anybody running it on their G1? If you are.. does it run smoothly with all the features?
Ion's a really smooth rom. I was using it for a while.
It's really quick, but it's also more of a standard build.
Easily one of the most reliable and fast ROMs out there and it leaves you about 80mb of space to do what you want with it.
It is smooth, and very easy to set up Apps2SD (You just need the Apps2SD app) but the ROM slows to a crawl when you listen to music and run other apps, it's virtually unuseable. Have a look in the release thread, there appears to be lots of people with that problem. Personally I use Cyanogen because it's very smooth and some donut goodness included.
It is smooth, and very easy to set up Apps2SD (You just need the Apps2SD app) but the ROM slows to a crawl when you listen to music and run other apps, it's virtually unuseable. Have a look in the release thread, there appears to be lots of people with that problem. Personally I use Cyanogen because it's very smooth and some donut goodness included.
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This must only be an issue when you use apps2sd....? The ROM is blazing fast when you just use the phone.
However, I personally use Cyanogen's stuff as well. I like the donut stuff.
Senorkabob said:
This must only be an issue when you use apps2sd....? The ROM is blazing fast when you just use the phone.
However, I personally use Cyanogen's stuff as well. I like the donut stuff.
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A2SD was on a class 2 card, but really it shouldn't make a difference. I'd be listening to a song and browser my music, then go home to open twidroid (which is about 400kb) and the phone would become very unresponsive. An app like twidroid would take no time to load in to RAM, but still the phone would be unuseable. At the time I blamed it on the Class 2, until I read the thread.
i am running the latest cyan with the updater, recently got nav working and my g1 is running super fast.
i tried out some hero roms last week and dont like the fc's, glitches, or sluggish performance.
cyans roms are much much faster. BUT i was wondering if there is a way to get the hero contacts lists ( with the facebook integration) onto my doughnut rom? did a little searching and cannot find anything. can someone point me in the right direction? or is this just not do- able?
No, htc framework != open source. To enable that you would be back with a hero rom. Run kings or cc's latest (i prefer his themed, link in sig I think) they are both plenty fast for everyday use.
I'm on an old Soulife build that's firmware 1.5
It's fine with me and all, I really appreciate this rom especially because I can get up to 24 hours of battery life on it with light texting where on my previous Cyan build I got 4 hours no matter what.
But I have played around on 1.6 builds and I kind of miss the screen shots available for apps and game previews.
Is there anyway I can flash it to my phone or run some scripts so I can get it? Or is it just tied strictly into 1.6 and can't work on 1.5 given all the coding?
I would suggest trying a few 1.6 builds. I use cyanogen 4.2.5 with light texting throughout the day and I charge my phone once every other day.
If you really want to save battery on a CM build just lower your brightness, don't install any themes (don't install any different lock screens) and turn off the gps. Also, don't use any widgets that use GPS like weather widgets, etc.
Like i said, with just texting, regular brightness and no heavy gps use i get more than 24 hours on my phone.
I'm not sure if you can use the 1.6 market on 1.5.
Icebergxx said:
Is there anyway I can flash it to my phone or run some scripts so I can get it? Or is it just tied strictly into 1.6 and can't work on 1.5 given all the coding?
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follow Mrandroid 's advice because your assumption is corrected as the new market is tied to 1.6
Can somebody recommend me some nice ROM with decent multitasking? I don't care much about speed but I do care about keeping apps running in the background. I can't remember which ROM was my first one when I bought G1 back in January, but I remember multitasking was pretty good. Then I switched to Cyanogen 5 and tried different versions as they were released but all of them had appalling multitasking. I have now installed Complete Eclair and it's not really any better.
Just to clarify what I want to achieve - I want to be able to say open a website, go back to the home screen, open market and be able to switch back to the website exactly as it was when I left it. And then switch back to market and see it exactly as I left it. At the moment it's just not happening, every time I switch to any background application it sort of reloads itself. If your ROM can do this please let me know. Another thing - navigation. As far as I remember I used to be able to press power button to conserve battery and still have voice guidance. Now navigation gets killed as soon as I press power button. Again, if your ROM can do this properly please let me know.
I do need Exchange support so it will have to be at least 2.0 rom I suppose. The only Donut ROMs with Exchange support I have found are Sense ones and these are out of the question because of no BT support.
thanks
Probably not gonna find what you're looking for. Eclair and Froyo ROMs are so RAM intensive that not much room is left for decent multitasking. I'd say to try and use a giant SWAP partition and a modest compcache with whatever your favorite Eclair ROM is. This is gonna be dog slow most of the rest of the time though.
Isnt there an ap for 1.6 that lets you exchange sync im not sure but if there is remix cdvsi < somthin like that 40 mem when not using anythin wich i think is good ?
Turned out the latest Donut Cyanogen has Work Email which is good enough for me. I miss a few Eclair specific things but nothing too serious, so I guess problem solved.