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There are so many roms available, but which is the fastest and most stable rom, whether it is eclair or a froyo mod? Since battery has been an issue for most of the roms available, we have to know which rom has the best battery life.
For me, the fastest rom I've encountered was the froyo mod 2.1
However, battery wise, the rom that uses the least amt of power for me was the normal GOT rom with no other roms applied.
Anyone feels otherwise? Feel free to share your experiences with the available roms so to give others an idea of what to expect on other roms.

Base on my personal experience, I think FroyoMod rocks (beside that small lag after undocking that I experience). the battery life is a-okay, not stellar, but good enough.
Last time I tried GOT the rom was really unstable and I had a hard time reflash to Eclair. :/
Will wait for MIUI, i love the launcher.

I have been using Telus Lite for the last few months, with general O/C at 900mhz and i'm very pleased. Average battery life i can stretch is 2 days with about 5-6 hours of wifi use.
I dont have a data plan, so take that into consideration, and screen brightness is always minimum. dont use it as an mp3 player. About 1 hour of talk in 2 days, about 30 - 50 texts / day. And i'm always using my calendar and making notes on the device.
Very pleased.

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i tried most of the roms available here, maybe all .
i searched for the fastest mod, that could let my milestone look superior, and high end. no teering , no slow skipping trough screens, a drawer that wont jerk when scrolling trow apps.
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this is the results of my research:
Eclair
The fastest eclair mod is most likely Telus Lite rom, i have never seen a rom fast as this one.
only problem: it will get slower with k9mail + pure messenger widget
so i skipped to froyo roms, i thought maybe the ram and overall system managment would be improved. :/ not really. maybe a little bit.
Froyo
The fastest froyo mod was cronos 1.5 , i waited passionly for v1.6 but it was in my oppnion too buggy. maybe just on my phone :/
now i am using the newest cyanogenmod, but i am still not satisfied. maybe i am expecting too much of a milestone overclocked to 1.1 ghz
the best batterylife has cronos v1.5
this is how i solved the drawer issue ( jerking around no more, maybe just a little tiny little bit):
i did it with the adw launcher, maybe launcher pro will give the same result.
in portraint mode, 3 apps in arow, in landscape mode 4 apps in a row, and drawer background just a little bit trancparent, if too much it seems to get laggy again, maybe my imagination...
if there is someone out there, that could make a froyo rom, that is slim, and fast as telsus lite rom, it would make the number one rom on xda developers.
like i said i tested all roms with a cpu frequenzy of 1.1 ghz. but still no setisfying
result.
do anybody know who made the telus lite rom, and would he do a froyo lite rom ?

jlove I agree on the Telus, I had been using it as my first rom after testing every eclair/bastardized froyos. very fast, stable.
however now as froyo (beta) came out I switched to FroyoMODv1... for me it is still best Froyo build as it seems very clean. No fancy addons. I love vanilla roms.
btw I didn't try cronos - and I won't. It is month till official release of Froyo. I'm just waiting with MODv1...
btw I always use the launcher pro - it seems as the most fluent of those I've tried (google default, adw, MIUI).
jlove said:
do anybody know who made the telus lite rom, and would he do a froyo lite rom ?
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Too bad telus isn't vanilla, it has it's own font and theme black icons and everything - both are big minus for usability.
I'm craving for very fast very clean tweaked rom.
Personally I have all animations turned off just to gain some performance. Isn't there anyone here who wants just pure speed(+battery life ofc)? Any animation, any fancy feature that I don't REALLY need is an obstacle when I try to get the job done on my phone.

when is the official froyo coming out for the asia region, or perhaps it doesn't matter cos everybody can still download them of the motorola sbf files website?

What's sad is people have given up on making 2.1 ROMs good. A lot of them had bugs here and there. CM6 is probably one of the best managed ROMs out there, but I know many people aren't ready to commit to Froyo.
I myself have sacrificed battery life for Nadlabak's awesome support/updates. I do wish I could get a bit more juice out of daily use though.

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like everyday, since i brought my milestone, i was digging for gold in xda developers . i found some good constalation a couple of days ago.
i have now a system that is running fast and stable, and the drawer isnt laggy anymore.
the best results i get with latest roms out here:
CM6 + OH!NO update * 1,1 ghz + launcherproplus 8.1.1 + widgets² = very fast stable, and very smotth. ----> better then an iphone
launcherproplus : Search it and you will find it forsure _' )
i searched for long and this is the setting, that had setisfied me. its the best result you can get for now.!!!!!!!
good luck

[Q] If Enom 2.14.4 is it, what's next for you?

Guys,
I'm a stability freak, kind of the opposite end of the planet from the CM7 nightly guys I suppose... I love the extra features that are in some ROMs, but Enom's ROM has lots of nice features and is rock solid stable.
But as we all know, he has taken personal leave of Android since December and maybe he'll come back, maybe he won't...
So for you all who want a stable ROM similar to Enom, what are you considering, or what have you already tried? I'm hoping CM7 gets stable and released in the next bit and I'll perhaps move to it, but I really don't want to leave Enom. However I've heard Gingerbread is a bit faster, better storage efficiency, plus fixes, etc..
I'd create a poll, but there's too many ROMs to really put in there I suppose and I'd inevitably leave one or two out, so I won't.

Really never had a problem with CM7. It never reboots and I always get my calls/messages. What do you need more stability from.
You could always try the stock rooted rom plus whatever extras you need.

I am currently using Geo's stock GB ROM. It is running pretty good. DT A2SD seems to screw with the phone volume. (Not sure how or why, but I tested this extensively over the last 2 hours and it definitely does something to it.) Battery life is a little bit lacking. Perhaps a better kernel will help that out. The only thing that is really needed is trackball wake/unlock. I hope someone can fix the code for GB soon. I never really cared for FM radio, so no loss there for me. Aside from the lack of Enom's spare parts, I am happy with it.

lets hope enom comes back to us (greedily ).. i think were all in agreeance when i say he has his priorities straight... all the best to enom..
aside from that, i enjoyed leos roms shortly after froyo was released. i think he was on personal leave as well just recently.. his spare parts reminded me of enoms as far as options. even though he doesnt have the 'hardware skills' necessary, id love to see more from leo..
DT A2SD seems to screw with the phone volume. (Not sure how or why said:
try using the stable release if youre on the beta.
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Very happy with the speed & stability of Geo's GB rom!

CM7 RC1 running VERY well for me. No wonks, great battery.. stable and fast

Yes I am missing enomthers latest touch for the gingerbread ota. But family comes first. Right now I am using dsixda gingerbread rom with root, deodexe, dt's apps2sd, busybox. So far it is running good. Was on geo114m's gingerbread for a little while.
What I miss about enomthers rom is the ability to uninstall programs that you are not going to use. Now I have to semi cook a rom taking out the stuff I don't want. Only thing all of these ota gbs are missing is the trackball wake and alert. Might go back to the latest enomther until that happens.
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After testing different roms, I'm now very happy with SuperAosp rom.

DirkGently1 said:
CM7 RC1 running VERY well for me. No wonks, great battery.. stable and fast
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+1 for me.

coldchillen said:
try using the stable release if youre on the beta.
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Where can I find the latest stable release? In the DT thread, I only see the last beta (4).

Know-Fear said:
Where can I find the latest stable release? In the DT thread, I only see the last beta (4).
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ftp://dtuser:[email protected]//
direct link:
http://www.darktremor.info/files/a2sd/dtapps2sd-2.7.5.2-1-signed.zip

I'm coming from Enom's ROM. I took the plunge and installed a couple of nightlies, and then CM7RC1.
I deeply regret it.
Even Dewonkifier didn't help me. Today my mic went silent and I had to reboot to regain it. I can't count the calls I've missed in the last week.
I don't like having to recompile it to build battery percentage.
Gingerbread completely sucks when it comes to launchers (or should I say it the other way around - all the launchers completely suck under Gingerbread). No launcher has been optimized to work with more than 5 screens - and that includes Go-EX / ADW / LP. They suck so badly I can't stand it. Nexus S has it the same way for almost 2 months - and it hasn't been fixed yet. I don't have high hopes of somebody fixing it too soon, until more devices with GB appear.
The only reason I'm keeping CM7 at this point is because I want to correct its RTL language support - it annoys me (specifically when mixing RTL and LTR languages, and more specifically - in punctuation). Plus, I hope to make it distinguish between LTR and RTL strings using a bit better algorithm than the "any RTL symbols in the string? => RTL string" current one. And make it adjustable under CM menus.
This week/weekend I hope to find enough time for it, test it, hopefully submit it (if I get a better solution than the current one), and I'm seriously considering going back to Enom's ROM, at least until one of the launchers gets GB-compatible and CM7 will be merged with GRI40 source and gets rid of the wonks. Never had this SMS bug for a year, don't think it'll bother me in another couple of months. And I don't use Copy-Paste nearly enough to justify GB sweetness. I'll really miss the screen animation...

Thank you very much kind sir.
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ftp://dtuser:[email protected]//
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http://www.darktremor.info/files/a2sd/dtapps2sd-2.7.5.2-1-signed.zip
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This may actually be my first post here on XDA after countless hours of reading, installing, testing, tweaking and starting all over with my N1.
Your post title says it all. When Enomther called it quits, I figured my N1 had reached it's zenith and would live out it's days rocking The Official 2.14.4. This ROM does it all: Fast, many kernels available to play with, feature-rich, STABLE, did I mention fast?
Out of curiosity regarding the sheer number of threads, I just had to try an MIUI ROM. Tried the stock set-up from miui-dev.com. While I thought the graphics and integrated feature set was great, it was very buggy. Lots of little things just did not work as they should have.
I was not interested in CM7 as bloat seems to have sapped away speed over the last several months.
However, I have run the Gingerbread custom set-up put together by Geo411m and it rocks! Very stable so far, good battery life with the stock kernel, everything works like it should and the performance is excellent. Menus are snappy, web pages scroll smoothly...there are very few issues and I am thrilled that the N1s have a new lease on life.
Only two gripes about Gingerbread so far:
1) No Trackball unlock
2) No power widget integrated into the pull down - I LOVED this feature for toggling system states.
Other than those minor issues that I am sure will be addressed in future ROMs, I am thrilled with GB. Now if only Enomther would weave his magic once again...
Thanks to the great community that makes these phones so fun and powerful!
axial_pro

I'm with the TS when he says that he needs stability. CM7 up until RC1 was just not cutting it, too many wonks and quarks. I put CM7 RC1 on my N1 and it works, but I ended up back on Kang - o - rama's version of cm6.1. Now that I've seen Kangorama release a version with CM7, I may give that a shot.
One of my biggest concerns is memory. If I don't need the stock launcher or ADW, then I don't want to waste the memory there. Kang o rama really works that out with its advanced installer.
For now though, I'm more than happy with Kang o rama. My N1, my gf's N1, and my roommates N1 all are running it and are VERY pleased.

So not surprisingly overwhelming CM7 responses.. So maybe I'll try that as well, but I'm still going to wait until CM7 is released and the "wonky" stuff is fixed.

It's funny how some of us are having polar opposite experiences with CM7 RC1. Really good for some and totally lousy for others

I guess it depends on the usage, and on the level of stability required from the ROM...
I think if I was used to rebooting my phone once in a couple of days - I wouldn't notice some of the problems. If I wasn't used to having 7 screens filled with widgets and icons - I wouldn't complain about the launchers and GB. If I had a lot of calls - possibly I wouldn't have the phone idle for enough time to wonk out. Some uses make the problems more visible.

ayvecs said:
Yes I am missing enomthers latest touch for the gingerbread ota. But family comes first. Right now I am using dsixda gingerbread rom with root, deodexe, dt's apps2sd, busybox. So far it is running good. Was on geo114m's gingerbread for a little while.
What I miss about enomthers rom is the ability to uninstall programs that you are not going to use. Now I have to semi cook a rom taking out the stuff I don't want. Only thing all of these ota gbs are missing is the trackball wake and alert. Might go back to the latest enomther until that happens.
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I'm running this one as well.
I've found it to be extremely stable and even better battery life than Enom's. I've also seen an improvement in bluetooth connectivity.
I miss most the status bar power control widget, better trackball notification and the flexibility of his spareparts mod.

axial_pro said:
Only two gripes about Gingerbread so far:
1) No Trackball unlock
2) No power widget integrated into the pull down - I LOVED this feature for toggling system states.
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these are the exact two features I'm missing from the GB roms out there. I tried Geos GB rom and after a few hours I couldn't deal without having these features.

Rom install help.

I am super new to all of this and not exactly sure how to install a rom that isnt from ROMmanager...
I have downloaded this rom ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717377 ) because I am tired of having to charge my phone twice a day, and I don't really need any of the super extra cool things that my current rom (Steel Droid) comes with. I've tried CM7 many times but the battery life is just ridiculous, not to mention it over-heats my phone all the time.
My phone is mostly stock, except for being rooted, here are the details.
It's a CDMA Droid
Current Version : 2.2.1
Kernel : 2.6.32.9_RZ [email protected] #37
Build : Steel Droid 3.3.32 FRG83G
Just looking to install this ROM, thanks for any help, and/or if you find any rom this is Eclair and still fast as / battery magical as this one. Thanks in advance

That rom is not for the Droid. Its for the milestone.
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Well...That's disappointing.... Do you know of any ROMs that are virtually stock, minus the un-needed items that just slow it down and reduce battery life? I've been looking everywhere. None of the ROMs on ROMmanager have enough battery life for me, and i would prefer to go back to 2.1 if possible. Thank you, though.

Well, I am not sure if you'll find one other than stock. Milestone had 2 good ones, Telus lite and eclairmod. I don't know of a good one for the Droid. Will let you know if I get hold of one.
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How exactly is your battery life for you Droid? I have the CDMA version as well.
I can get 16 hours with moderate use pretty easy, and I'm overclocked to 1Ghz. I have no idea why you'd want to go back to 2.1 or 2.2, considering the first GB ROM I used SIGNIFICANTLY increased performance and battery life for my phone.
If you'd like to give what I'm running a shot:
However, Simply Stunning isn't very stock at all, its a very customizable ROM with a ton of features.
Get SS 5.4 and change the CPU to 1Ghz (less, if you want even greater battery life), and interactive Governor, also Automatic brightness is always set.
JIT, and compache are enabled.
If you want to try Peter Alfonso's take on an "official" GB release for the Droid, he made GPA16, which is basically the stock ROM with Gingerbread (and root of course).
There final option you have is to get a App like Titanium Backup and remove all the bloatware that you don't want installed.

Sorry for the long response time. I have been messing around with a lot of different ROMs and it seems as if the version of Steel Droid I have now, has a significantly difference in signal as the others...The Steel Droid rom is on average 1-2 bars lower on signal than what I have currently been running the past couple days (second to last update of CM7)
As for your help i really appreciate it, but i do not understand about 75% of it, i am still a "noob" as you would say, and i'm still learning.
Mod Version : CyanogenMod-7.0.3.-Droid
Build : GRI40
Mem Avail (avg) : 60mb
Kernel : 2.6.32.9.-cm-stk [email protected] #1

bump......

Just bought a droid.

I just bought a droid to mess with when I'm board of my thunderbolt. I'm really excited about the phone because for about 8 months I've really been missing my G2. I know I that I probably wont permanently leave my tbolt for the droid but at least ill have a keyboard again whenever I want it. What smooth roms are there for the droid? I really want to run CM7 or maybe miui. CM7 working nicely on the droid?
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If a Droid as twice the RAM a Milestone have so you will have much fun with any GB-ROM.
Because you have the same smal RAM like a Milestone, then you will have a App-Kicking Mono-Task ROM with any GB.
The fastest and smoothest ROM is Eclair (Stock) following by a Froyo based MOD.
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For droid if u want gb use liquid gb or project elite they b oth have their cons and pros and a overclock kernel would be good like chevys ULV kernels to save battery if they work and make sure u use supercharged v6 script it helps it run realy smooth and use rzrecovery for recovery and make sure you back up before you so anything you have any other question just ask
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Had my droid for almost two years. Been through MANY roms. Standard CM7 is a little too buggy for my liking. And liquid ginger has a bunch of call bugs.
I am LOVING Chevyno1's simply stunning 2.3.4 rom right now. No FC'S or bugs so far. Very stable.
Also running his LV 1000 kernel. But running it at only 800. I've noticed that anything over 800 mhz and the Droid becomes a handwarmer. Plus I've noticed no additional output in performance either.
Lastly yes, absolutely run V6 supercharger. It will make a very snappy phone for ya.
Pm me if you have any questions!
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Awesome phone. I've used many ROMs over the past two years but Bugless and MIUI are my favorites.

Peter Alfonso has a pretty good AOSP Gingerbread ROM that I'm currently running in tandem with Chevy's low-voltage 1GHz kernel. It's basically a stock ROM with a few minor modifications. GPA16 is good, and GPA17 is currently in open beta but I use it as my daily driver without issue.

I tried CyanogenMod7 on my (now on warranty) Milestone, and I have to say.. CM7 is great, but, I really want a usable phone, the last days with my phone and CM7 I couldn't use the browser, after I tried to click on some link of google search, the browser close.. And if this happen on the browser, just imagine how was with other apps.
But, according to what I'm reading, CM7 RC14 is great.. Maybe when I have my phone back I'll try it, but for now I'll try FroyoMod.
BTW, Android 2.3/CM7 just bring to us 2 big things: SIP calls and be able to use Google Talk with voice and video, so, maybe is not a big enhancement.

Have tried both CM7 and MIUI, but sticking with CM7 for now.

And, here I'm with my new Milestone phone (changed by warranty)...
I decided to go with CyanogenMod 6 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1155454). This is a really great ROM, and for my, 14 hours of charge using the phone is pretty good

[Q] Which version of Android naturally runs the best?

First things first. This is NOT a "Which ROM is the best".
I want to know which version of Android under any circumstances, and almost specifically about specifications, will, does, or should run best on a Rogers i896 captivate. I have tried many different roms ranging from 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.3, 2.2.3, 4.01, 4.03, 4.1.1 etcetc and so far here are my observations:
The higher up in version, the better the battery life was, but the more glitches/issues/(sometimes lag) I encountered.
For the more technical people: Which version of android should run best on a Captivate considering things like bootloader etc (stuff I know nothing about).
Again, I'm not asking what ROM is better, and I understand that every ROM is different, but I want this from a technical standpoint!
Okay, thanks for taking the time to read the above paragraph and I'm looking forward to the knowledge.

For me, version 2.3.7 (CM 7.2) runs the best. Just bone stock CM. But then again that might be because I don't use this phone that often but it feels like it just runs better.
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ICS runs so much faster. Slim ICS is probably the quickest. Devil kernel is a fast kernel. Put em together!
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ICS runs so much faster. Slim ICS is probably the quickest. Devil kernel is a fast kernel. Put em together!
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Well, I admit that you might be right. My particular captivate never ran ICS or JB without performance problems, but that is just from my personal experience.
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I would like to know too. I put cm10 on my gfs phone and have had problems. What are most used gingerbread roms? I have looked through the forums but can't find anything solid, others input would help alot I had an epic myself just got gs3. The most stable daily I ran on my epic was 2.3.7. Would like something for her she doesn't ***** about.
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I never ran 4.0.x due to fear of the notorious "encryption unsuccessful" bug, so I can't comment on that one, but now running 4.1.2 (Slim Bean 2.7) and it is definitely smoother, faster, and more stable than any 2.3.x ROM ever was for me. My GB ROMs used to slow down and eventually hang, requiring a reboot every 2-3 days. 4.1.x has never done that-- it just runs and runs. It's so good, it has pretty much cured my previous thoughts of upgrading to a new phone.
As for the bootloaders, they only matter during boot, as the name implies. After that, they don't matter. Just make sure you have the GB bootloaders and you can use any ROM you want.

slim bean 2.7 works wonders for me and so did the previous version. Skip google now and you will be golden, at least form my experience.

Google now runs really bad on my phone as well. I wonder why it uses so much ram, it doesn't seem to be doing so much.
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slim bean 2.7 works wonders for me and so did the previous version. Skip google now and you will be golden, at least form my experience.
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Google now runs really bad on my phone as well. I wonder why it uses so much ram, it doesn't seem to be doing so much.
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I reverted to the standard Google Search. I find that it has more usefulness. Google Now seemed really cool, but in practice, I don't have much use for it.

RJ287 said:
First things first. This is NOT a "Which ROM is the best".
I want to know which version of Android under any circumstances, and almost specifically about specifications, will, does, or should run best on a Rogers i896 captivate. I have tried many different roms ranging from 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.3, 2.2.3, 4.01, 4.03, 4.1.1 etcetc and so far here are my observations:
The higher up in version, the better the battery life was, but the more glitches/issues/(sometimes lag) I encountered.
For the more technical people: Which version of android should run best on a Captivate considering things like bootloader etc (stuff I know nothing about).
Again, I'm not asking what ROM is better, and I understand that every ROM is different, but I want this from a technical standpoint!
Okay, thanks for taking the time to read the above paragraph and I'm looking forward to the knowledge.
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There is no specific version that runs naturally better. The smoothness of the rom depends on the developer and what changes he/she made to stock. No version of android after Froyo is naturally better than the others. While it is true that new versions of android bring new features, a good rom will run well regardless of version. This is the reason that stock is usually much more stable than custom roms. Stock is built for stability, so this boils down to which rom works best on your phone and with your preferences. The glitches and lag happen because most of the newer versions of android were never actually released for the captivate, so developers are porting from other sources. Another reason for glitches and lag is the limitations of captivate hardware. There is a reason why it does not receive any updates from samsung anymore. In samsung's eyes the phone's hardware has reached its potential. The captivate was released about 2 years ago, so according to Moore's law the software being released today is for devices that are 2 times more powerful. The fact that jelly bean is able to run at all on this phone is a feat to be proud of so kudos to the developers.
Also, bootloader does not have that much of an impact on performance. The bootloader is just the code that "loads the boot", or turns on the phone. The only thing that changing bootloader affects is compatibility with certain roms.
PS-I know some of the things seem unconnected to your original question, but I wanted to help you completely understand my answer.

sthodupunuri said:
There is no specific version that runs naturally better. The smoothness of the rom depends on the developer and what changes he/she made to stock. No version of android after Froyo is naturally better than the others. While it is true that new versions of android bring new features, a good rom will run well regardless of version. This is the reason that stock is usually much more stable than custom roms. Stock is built for stability, so this boils down to which rom works best on your phone and with your preferences. The glitches and lag happen because most of the newer versions of android were never actually released for the captivate, so developers are porting from other sources. Another reason for glitches and lag is the limitations of captivate hardware. There is a reason why it does not receive any updates from samsung anymore. In samsung's eyes the phone's hardware has reached its potential. The captivate was released about 2 years ago, so according to Moore's law the software being released today is for devices that are 2 times more powerful. The fact that jelly bean is able to run at all on this phone is a feat to be proud of so kudos to the developers.
Also, bootloader does not have that much of an impact on performance. The bootloader is just the code that "loads the boot", or turns on the phone. The only thing that changing bootloader affects is compatibility with certain roms.
PS-I know some of the things seem unconnected to your original question, but I wanted to help you completely understand my answer.
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Pretty much... I would have to say after using the Captivate on all versions except Eclair that Gingerbread runs the best. Not stock Gingerbread, but CM7 Gingerbread. While ICS/JB feel fast and smooth because of the hardware acceleration and nice animations, the system feels much slower overall and is often subjected to lag/lockups (partially due to things mentioned by the previous post). Things like Google now and Chrome were almost unusable for me. I would attribute the Gingerbread affinity due to the fact that the Captivate and Nexus S are very close hardware-wise, and that hardware was designed to run Gingerbread. CM7 was very fast, and if it weren't for the appearance of GB compared to JB, I would have stuck with it.

The stock gingerbread was getting worse by the day that's why I convinced her to put a rom on it. I never touched anything beyond gingerbread on my epic because I needed the phone to work for work. I will look into a gingerbread rom for stability.
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SlimBean
RJ287 said:
First things first. This is NOT a "Which ROM is the best".
I want to know which version of Android under any circumstances, and almost specifically about specifications, will, does, or should run best on a Rogers i896 captivate. I have tried many different roms ranging from 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.3, 2.2.3, 4.01, 4.03, 4.1.1 etcetc and so far here are my observations:
The higher up in version, the better the battery life was, but the more glitches/issues/(sometimes lag) I encountered.
For the more technical people: Which version of android should run best on a Captivate considering things like bootloader etc (stuff I know nothing about).
Again, I'm not asking what ROM is better, and I understand that every ROM is different, but I want this from a technical standpoint!
Okay, thanks for taking the time to read the above paragraph and I'm looking forward to the knowledge.
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I'D say SlimBean with sovaphone or somting kernal

can you guys tell me which is the best modem for battery use and best rom and kernel for battery am using slim 2.7 latest with stock kernel semophrne something i would appreciate if you guys share you experience

xtremists said:
can you guys tell me which is the best modem for battery use and best rom and kernel for battery am using slim 2.7 latest with stock kernel semophrne something i would appreciate if you guys share you experience
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Modem depends on geographical location, and the rest depends on what works best for your phone. That should be a decent setup though.
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For pure battery life I think Fasty KK4 was an excellent Gingerbread. I remember actually being blown away by the battery life.
As far as great performance, Team Nyx ICSSGS was the most rock solid! AOSP 4.0 was light and really fast with decent battery life. All in all, I would say that is my overall favorite of the roms I've run through the ol' cappy.