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[Q] (SGSi9000)What is the best froyo firmware and custom ROM to go with it (fastest)?

please help ive got JPC with rombie rom and i have to restart my samsung galaxy s i9000 like every day to to lag and fc.

I've tried several and this is the best for me.

This doesn't want to be in the development thread.....
I always ended up back on the doc's rom after trying others..

Use Voodoo 5 with any froyo rom and the phone will fly. Roms and tweaks are not making big differeces in speed. Only with lagfix you can feel the differnce and one of the easiest and fastest is Voodoo 5.

Any of DocRambone's bare-bones Rom with ULK kernel. All kernel tweaks on, JFS + EXT2 binds no journaling.
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CyanogenMod 6.1 BETA2... Fastest ROM and nicest to use, unfortunately takes a huge chunk of functionality away while the ROM developers are cleaning up Samsung's messy programming.
Once it's a Release Candidate stage, I think this will be the way to go. They also might be able to get Gingerbread out faster than Samsung. Here's hoping.

i guess for a normal phone user(not like me or many ppl here), want the phone work as a phone should, go for doc's jpo v8 plus hardcore's k10X kernel with gps fix, you can't be wrong.

usze nany rom, especially doc's 9.01 and then flash the YA-OK kernel.
very stable very fast and smooth.
lagfix EXT4/EXT2 no binds.
you will have at least 2100 quadrant.
In fact I just flashed with KIES froyo, then added root, and clockwork, and then the kernel.
using launcher pro (purchased) I added the DENA v2 theme and it looks very nice.

zoubidou said:
usze nany rom, especially doc's 9.01 and then flash the YA-OK kernel.
very stable very fast and smooth.
lagfix EXT4/EXT2 no binds.
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Hey m8, could you please be more specific which Rom you mean cause I can't find it. A link would be awesome.
Futhermore which laggfix do you mean with that? Is that the voodoo lagfix in the clockworkmod?
greetz!
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rf11 said:
please help ive got JPC with rombie rom and i have to restart my samsung galaxy s i9000 like every day to to lag and fc.
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Wait, What? JPC o_0
Also, this shouldn't be on the dev forum.

Questions like this should really not be posted in this section. There are enough threads on these kinds of questions. Please learn to use the search button and read before you post!
Link -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788800

Rombie ROM v2

thanks for all your help and time.

This could be a very informative thread but IMHO, it needs to be limited to only what works with some caveats. This should be a thread about what works.
If your ROM is in beta - don't recommend it! If it crashing constantly or throwing up FCs, don't recommend it! If the GPS doesn't work, don't recommend it.
Quadrant scores mean nothing - when you got your phone, it worked but had some lag. Now, with Froyo, lag has virtually been eliminated. Even the ROM dev are saying you don't need a lagfix in many cases as their ROM is so smooth.
There are nothing but ROM junkies in the dev forum; I'm one of them - load it on the phone crash it, load it on the phone crash it! But I didn't do this on my girlfriend's phone because I didn't want her calling me to fix it. There are a lot of people tiring of this and just want it to work. I admit the wow factor is wearing off for me. I'm leaning towards finding what works but I need some adrenalin... Some caveats?
1) Phone - no crashing/restarting daily
2) FC - limited; these will always happen occassionally our computers
3) GPS - good signal and lock
Without lagfix, I can recommend:
Doc's rom: v9.0.1_BUJP8 - very smooth, no lag fix required (quadrant 900+)
Modem ZSJPE (Hong Kong release) - very quick to lock on, very accuarate
BTW, our company developes GPS software for golfers always testing this!
My need for speed tells me to test the lagfix. If this thread continues, I'll be back...

[Q] Stable ROM

Hello I recently restored my Captivate thanks to the people that helped me yesterday but I need to know the most stable Froyo ROM out I had Darky's Captivate ROM and that failed and my phone became a brick. Thanks for the help.

If your looking for stability stay away from the new 2.2.1 roms (JPX, JPU, & JPY) and stay away from overclocked roms too. From my personal experience, Di11igafs rom (version 2.5, not 3.0) was really good. It comes overclocked but its easy to remove with the voltage control app. I got good battery life, wifi worked, good reception, and even gps was better than normal. I also hear from others and from reading the entire thread that Mikey's Assonance 5.0 is pretty stable. It's a NO BS rom and many people like it. Hope this helped.

Thanks for the help I was on 2.2.1 lol and my phone just flat out died I will try them

I have safely used Cognition, Auxura, and Assonance. Currently on Assonance and although it is an i9000 OC ROM I haven't had any issues.

silverslotcar said:
If your looking for stability stay away from the new 2.2.1 roms (JPX, JPU, & JPY) and stay away from overclocked roms too.
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Why wouldn't you want to run the latest up to date froyo build?
Nothing wrong with mildly overclocked roms either, i've been running at 1200mhz for a while with no side effects. Sure trying to run the phone at 1500mhz might give you some issues... but i have yet to find a rom that isn't stable, and i've pretty much tried them all.
champ0497: how exactly did darky's rom brick your phone?

Cronus is my flavor of the day. It is a minimalistic rom that is very stable and fast.

See the ROM in my signature. U could use the same version, or the v2.5. Been pretty stable. Also have working GPS.

I have used both cognition 2.6 and Assonance 5. Both are very stable but Assonance wins hands down for being fast. It would be my recommendation
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[Q] Trying to pick between 3 roms

Hello, I just recently purchased a Samsung Captivate on At&t. I go to school with a kid who's totally into developing for android. He rooted my phone and put on the clockwork recovery, and Titanium Backup. We removed the At&t bloatware from the phone and now I'm picking up where he left off and I'm going to attempt to put a ROM onto the phone, I'm just having trouble picking one!
After reading and trying to understand everything, I'm trying to decide between the latest Cognition Rom, Perception Rom, and Paragon RC1.
I'm assuming they're all based on some version of Froyo. I'm looking for the one that will offer stable performance and better battery life than what the 2.1 is giving me now. Also, I couldn't tell but do any of these keep the Samsung UI or keyboard? I kind of actually prefer them to the normal android keyboard and interface.
Thanks!!
Dr3amCast

Well I've never used Paragon. But I have used Perception and Cognition.
Perception is based off of a leaked Froyo (I Believe)
Cognition 3.XX is basaed off the just released Rogers Official Froyo.
Both of those two roms have Swype/Samsung KB's to chose from

Try cognition. I think all of them are pretty equal in quality but cognition was made to keep a stock appearance with increased speed, stability and features while also offering better battery life and gps accuracy. I would say all of the roms you mentioned deserve a flash though. Also serendipity and firefly but who has time for all that.... i do.
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I'm currently running Cognition 3.02 btw
I switched over from Perception 10.1 when Cog 3.0 was released.
just FYI... But as Blazin said. They're all worth a look!

Okay, thanks for all the advice! I think I'm going to try cognition first. I've seen a lot of people using Serendipity. So if I don't like cognition, I might flash back to 2.1 then try that.

No problema.
Just a heads up. Alot of people here say you don't have to, but I like to flash back to stock before any ROM. Just ensures a good flash

DeMarzo said:
No problema.
Just a heads up. Alot of people here say you don't have to, but I like to flash back to stock before any ROM. Just ensures a good flash
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Yeah, seems like a lot of people disagree but it only takes a few extra minutes and better safe than sorry.

Do a datawipe too
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Okay, just wondering, I'm not sure what a "kernel" is, I'm using "Kernel Version 2.6.29", but do I have to change that as well to successfully switch to Cognition v3.02

thats the stock kernel for the capti ate.
When you flash the rom it will update I it to the set included in the package
Capti-sent

I'm quite sure you will end up flashing all three roms... Highly addictive.

No idea why everybody thinks it's SAFER to flash back to stock first. Delete user data in CWM and everything will be fine. If odin messes up, phone gets disconnected, power goes out, etc. while flashing the bootloader files then your phone is screwed. Well...at least hard to recover. It is NOT safer by any means.

I've tried both perception and cognition.
I really think you should try both of them out and decide.
And you should also look at other roms?? Just saying...
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I have tried most roms on here. So far my absolute favorite is the Contiuum GT rom. Very lean and smokin fast. Second place would go to Cognition.

My best advice is to follow the threads for a bit to see what other users are experiencing. Usually people will post any issues and you can judge if it is crucial to you or not.
Me personally, I've been following phoenix, cog 3.0, and serendipity and so far still not sure which one to go for. I'm running on Cog 2.38b and it's pretty solid with some minor theme tweaks. Why break it if it works right? I'll probably try something new when I get bored.

maybe i am a little biased in my opinion of what ROM i am currently running....as I had a hand in developing it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=917727

Phoenix or firefly...
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I've flashed Cognition and Perception, but I have to say that I'm enjoying Phoenix 3.5 the most.

I successfully flashed Cognition onto my phone last night...was enjoying it although didn't notice any improvement in battery life. Today, it wont stay on for more than 3 mintues without rebooting and being stuck at cognition boot screen. So much for that one! Now I just have to figure out how to flash back to the original 2.1...is that odin program hard to use?

Im using cognition 3.02 and love it no problems at all silky smooth. Battery life is ok not great so far

[Q] What are the advantages of Gingerbread over Froyo?

I know this sounds like a stupid question, but bear with me.
When I started flashing custom ROMs, GB was already out, so I never got to try out Froyo. I know the whole deal of "it's newer, they worked out some bugs and it's better". but i want to know:
1) Would I miss anything specially important if I "downgraded" to Froyo?
2) could anyone tell me a few 9000 and 897 based roms that i could try? (I'm not asking "which is best")
3) are there any advantages of running Froyo over GB?
I'm used to flashing and if i decide to give Froyo a try, i would like to flash a few before i settle into any ROM. Thanks.
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Froyo its more stable. Gingerbread is faster and has more features.
A froyo rom to try would be firefly or andromeda.
Gingerbread would be saurom. Kk4 or the jvz
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sepherian said:
Froyo its more stable. Gingerbread is faster and has more features.
A froyo rom to try would be firefly or andromeda.
Gingerbread would be saurom. Kk4 or the jvz
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Thanks for the reply seph!
I have tried numerous GB roms (Fusion, Pinnacle, Illuminance, Fasty, Serendipity, Apex, Darky, Serenity, MaxQ...the list goes on), but I am looking for the ultimate stable ROM, and wanted to try some froyo roms. Thanks for the suggestions.
Edit: When you say that GB is "faster" are you talking about Quadrant or overall usage experience?

kafepuya said:
Thanks for the reply seph!
I have tried numerous GB roms (Fusion, Pinnacle, Illuminance, Fasty, Serendipity, Apex, Darky, Serenity, MaxQ...the list goes on), but I am looking for the ultimate stable ROM, and wanted to try some froyo roms. Thanks for the suggestions.
Edit: When you say that GB is "faster" are you talking about Quadrant or overall usage experience?
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Quadrant means nothing, on any phone -_- so don't start talk about Quadrant. It is faster and looks more polished(GB that is)!

I know Quadrant means nothing, it's just that some people still put some weight on it when determining how fast a ROM behaves. I should have know Sepherian was not talking about Quadrant scores because I seen how involved he is in the Dev sub-forum.
Anyhow, I'm gonna give Andromeda a try, just to satisfy my curiosity. I wanted to try Firefly, but all the download links seem to be dead. Thanks for replying.

sepherian said:
Froyo its more stable. Gingerbread is faster and has more features.
A froyo rom to try would be firefly or andromeda.
Gingerbread would be saurom. Kk4 or the jvz
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I have to argue that after all of this time of being released GB is as stable as froyo (depends on the rom). Look at my sig, I recommend that rom. If you don't like mosaic, look on the i9000 android development forum. There are a bunch of roms there.
I highly suggest using GB over Froyo. GB is faster, has more features, far more development (Froyo is dead development wise), and much more options. Froyo has absolutely no advantages over GB that I can think of

^^Yeah.... i hear mosaic is decent
On a serious note, its all subjective...
If you want to try firefly though...there is a working link in the last 2 or so pages in the thread if you wanna give that a go.

F U tapalk!!!!!!!

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...Anyhow, I'm gonna give Andromeda a try, just to satisfy my curiosity....
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JFYI...I had been trying several different ROMS, and found myself constantly updating. Got tired of it. I posted to ask about a 'stable' rom, and got most feedback that Andromeda 3 was the way to go.
That has been months ago, maybe over a year. I installed that and have been good to go. Haven't reloaded since.
I have had some problems with lockups, and slow running lately. Was considering reloading Andromeda. But I am thinking my problem is with two things: on the lockup, a specific app (Blue Tooth app for external GPS...although it had been working for a long time); and I abuse the phone with just too many apps installed.
I can't compare to the latest GB ROMS, as I've been on this for so long.

For me (on Rogers stock ROMS) I found that GB looked nicer than Froyo, was less laggy and gave me superior battery life.
Someone earlier mentioned that Froyo was more stable but for me the only difference was the occasional sleep death on GB (never happened on Froyo).

Good first time ROM for wife's captivate?

My wife's captivate has been freezing up a lot recently. She finally has asked about rooting. What is a good first ROM for her captivate?
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the kind that searches and posts in the right section :banghead:
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Not the right forum for this question.
In my opinion, however, rooting will not really improve the speed of the phone. A fresh install of android (rooted or otherwise) will afford performance boosts simply because its less cluttered with apps and whatnot.
That being said, there are tons of great roms out right now. If the phone is on gingerbread bootloaders, you may want to try some older GB roms that have been highly tuned for the captivate. Ice cream sandwich roms are pretty good as well right now, though as many OPs have said, simply installing the latest OS does not magically give your phone a second core and double its RAM.
tl;dnr: Look a few pages back for a gingerbread rom and follow the instructions for the most stable and fast option. If you want to try to ICS, I think its pretty good at the moment. Never had any speed issues on my captivate and I use AOKP Build 26 currently.

Here, I'll just cut straight to the point for you
1. Cyanogenmod 9 - If you want a (somewhat) clean ICS look along with decent stability and speed.
2. Doc's ICS Rom v5 - If you want the samsung touchwiz interface.
Take your pick. Those are the best roms out there imo. Or you could always try MIUI.us

Get Serendipity 7! Best battery life I've ever had, fast and amazingly stable. Not the best GUI when compared to roms like MIUI, but it's a good solid ROM.
You could also get MIUI, but it's not quite as stable and it's a bit slower. I just like it cause the themes are awesome and I'm a customization freak.

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Get Serendipity 7! Best battery life I've ever had, fast and amazingly stable. Not the best GUI when compared to roms like MIUI, but it's a good solid ROM.
You could also get MIUI, but it's not quite as stable and it's a bit slower. I just like it cause the themes are awesome and I'm a customization freak.
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No Stock or custom stock ROM will ever beat a custom AOSP ROM in performance.... period
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Want my unbiased opinion, try a few ROMs or so out and pick which one you like. I think all the different ROMs, samsung and aosp have something to offer.

Try MIUI.
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Ok so which one is a very good stable one that is included in an Odin one click that would make her cappy less slow??? You guys are so helpful.
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99% of roms do not come in an odin one click
read the Q&A sticky " How to install custom captivate roms from stock " (also in my sig)
I wrote it. its super easy to follow to install ANY rom.
Normally "best rom" threads are shutdown, there is no best, only opinion, BUT.. "best for your wife", I get the point! LOL
2.2 based rom - firefly 3.0 rom with onix kernel flashed after - hands down best way to go for useability and battery.
Gingerbread 2.3 based roms - there are quite a few to choose from, from stock feeling to many added features. pick one built on KK4
ICE CREAM SANDWICH roms
CM roms are packed with features but has a long list of bugs. probably not the best choice for your wife. *CM7 is gingerbread base CM9 is ICS based
AOSP is google stock. - pretty nice and stable
AOKP is stock plus new features. - really nice and stable *with glitch kernel added after and nstools installed. - what i run! PM me if you want a link to this rom prebuilt with glitch kernel and a few added extras for easier install.

Dude, please read. It isn't that hard. If 11 and 10 year olds are doing this every day, then you should be able to do this no sweat. If you read the only OneClicks you will see are SauROM and stock ROM's. Others have to be flashing using Odin or CWM recovery. If you don't know what that is then you need to search and read some more... Sorry but this is how everyone learns, at least it used to be until people just came in here expecting things to be handed to them. And that is why XDA dev's are leaving and keeping their work to themselves...

stock? really?
I'd disagree with stock ROM being the best. After fixing so many GB KK4 bugs...
And if you run any of my ROMs you WILL have better performance, because all PNGs are reduced to 256 colors. And JPGs, mp3s and oggs are processed too. Then repacked with KZip. Jars repacked with Kzip too. Overall smaller and faster system.
I share it only from my good heart, and since it is really based on other people work. Enjoy peeps!
And I can process Apex GB if there is interest...

Thank you so much for your answer. I will do some reading.
Thanks again friend.
AJ

My ROM, mosaic, has an Odin flashable version, not a one click but its only like 1 more step to load the .tar into the pda slot into Odin.
I agree you should read up and know what you're doing. Just throwing that out there...

If you choose an ICS based ROM you should be aware of this issue forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447303. It seems to be randomly effecting captivate phones. I'm not saying this will happen but if it does you will have two options:
1) Face a steep learning curve (that installing a custom ROM seem trivial) and still only have partial phone functionality due to no internal SD card.
2) Just upgrade to a new phone if able & willing.

I think the latest ICS ROMS are not very prone to that issue. I'd go with Doc's Master ICS v6, tons of functionality out of the box and customizable if you're so inclined.
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If you choose an ICS based ROM you should be aware of this issue forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447303. It seems to be randomly effecting captivate phones. I'm not saying this will happen but if it does you will have two options:
1) Face a steep learning curve (that installing a custom ROM seem trivial) and still only have partial phone functionality due to no internal SD card.
2) Just upgrade to a new phone if able & willing.
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Bdev3 said:
I think the latest ICS ROMS are not very prone to that issue. I'd go with Doc's Master ICS v6, tons of functionality out of the box and customizable if you're so inclined.
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Doc's V6 is based on AOKP 4.0.3; I was using Dark Night 3 which is based on AOKP 4.0.4 when I had this problem. Therefore, I was actually using a more recent ROM than the one you are recommending. There are plenty of people out there using ICS without any problems and it may work great for the OP; I just think it should be an informed decision.

For my wife's phone I keep kk4 roms on it, they are all good.

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Normally "best rom" threads are shutdown, there is no best, only opinion, BUT.. "best for your wife", I get the point! LOL
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I would have to agree with the statement that there is no best. Everyone has a different expectation for what a rom should do and be. With that being said I will offer my opinion on a starting point for your wife. SimplyStockV2.0 is what I'm currently running. I've used several others and so far this is my favorite. As you can see from the name it is very similar to stock minus all the junk that never needed to be there and a custom settings option within the regular settings. Battery life is good and it has run faster than a couple other roms I've used that claimed to be "fast". Good luck.
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I have used many different roms. My first rom was S7. Then ICS came out!! Used 5 different ones. SGSICS is very strong!! Had some auto shut down problems. App was doing??
I'm currently running Doc's V8. Loving it.
Read Read Read.
Trial and Error
Good Luck
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