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[Q] Any suggestions for a decent ROM? :)

Hi everyone. I would just like some suggestions ( with links if possible ) of any good ROMs out there. I've used a few before, CM7's, CoreDroid's, the ICS ROM, Android Revolution and Nik Triity sensation XL's. So if anyone knows any other cool ROM that's fast and has a good battery life, do share! THANK YOU!

If your top priority is battery life, there's no question that cm7 is as good as it gets. The best way to find roms is to go through the development forum and just keep browsing. The most active topics are the most frequently updated, while there are still good ones to find two or three pages deep. You will not find anything here that you cannot find there
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Miui US for the aesthetics

LeanNSupreme said:
Miui US for the aesthetics
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+1 for MIUI. It's smooth, looks amazing, has well integrated features and paired up with a decent kernel gives excellent battery life to.
Basically if you're rooted, you're not stuck with one ROM anyway. Just give them all a go, and pick your favourite

I advise you Virtuous Affinity, if you prefer the original Sense look, and still has good battery life with Juice Defender.

I installed MIUI ICS v4 beta ROM, and it's great so far. Before I've been on older development MIUI. Try it I definetely recommend it

Virtuos affinity .. not a big fan of sense so just flash no sense script and enjoy the better battery life ..
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You can see a list of ROMs with their relevant links at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136463
Few of the good ones with HTC Sense (I prefer sense) are Android Revolution HD, Virtuos Affinity and Niks Trinity.
As mentioned above if you are rooted you can try them all Use titanium backup to backup your stuff on sd card before you start flashing else you will loose your data.

Thanks everyone! Will definitely be trying MIUI and the other ROMs mentioned. Cheers!

Another quick question tho, can anyone tell me if there are any ICS ROM now which is good? Good in the sense that everything works because I think one of them has the camera or camcorder not working? Not sure which but yeah.. Would love to try out an ICS ROM which works beautifully

Another vote for CM7, I am using it on my HTC Inc S and loving it.

CM7 is definitely a good choice if you don't care much about the UI looks. Htc sense is a resource hog but hey it makes your phone so much more beautiful ;-)
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Well CM7 is good, but it has its drawback like the low volume in call (compared to sense ROM) and worse camera driver. I'm rocking ARHD with ROM cleaner so I can keep apps I like and remove everything else that makes it slow. Using it with ADW Ex, smooth like butter. Best of both worlds lol.

bigeyes0x0 said:
Well CM7 is good, but it has its drawback like the low volume in call (compared to sense ROM) and worse camera driver. I'm rocking ARHD with ROM cleaner so I can keep apps I like and remove everything else that makes it slow. Using it with ADW Ex, smooth like butter. Best of both worlds lol.
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tiamat kernels have in call audio boost.

Best, Fastest Rom out there at the moment?

Hey guys, I've been changing roms alot recently and was wanting one that's nice and fast and has decent battery life.At the moment I have ARHD as I hear quite alot of good thoughts of it, but I think it's pretty average. It's slow and choppy. I've tried a reflash and I got rid of everything on my SD (I knew it wouldn't work, but thought I'd give it a shot)
So yeah, thoughts? Preferably one which has a kernel which supports OC'ing. Needs to be fast and nice to use, thanks all

This should really have been posted in General!!!! But according to me, try Virtuous Infinity (Still in Alpha but every feature except WiFi Hotspot Works) or try CoolDroid Revolution S by SurajKumar. If you want to try Virtuous Infinity: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/30873-virtuous-infinity-v1300-alpha1-general/

FallenSuisydal said:
This should really have been posted in General!!!! But according to me, try Virtuous Infinity (Still in Alpha but every feature except WiFi Hotspot Works) or try CoolDroid Revolution S by SurajKumar. If you want to try Virtuous Infinity: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/30873-virtuous-infinity-v1300-alpha1-general/
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Lol yeah, just noticed I put it in the wrong forum, if a mod/admin sees this, please move it
And thanks for the suggestions!

Ice Cold Sandwich 8.3 - You will appreciate the potential and amazing-ness of Android since you have no Sense and its an AOKP/AOSP. Battery will last for 2 days minimum with v4 Kernel. I'd say try it out, you won't be disappointed...you'll find that Sense is a waste of space and battery.

Incredible2011 said:
Ice Cold Sandwich 8.3 - You will appreciate the potential and amazing-ness of Android since you have no Sense and its an AOKP/AOSP. Battery will last for 2 days minimum with v4 Kernel. I'd say try it out, you won't be disappointed...you'll find that Sense is a waste of space and battery.
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Thanks! Will try this one out aswell, is everything working? I used to run version 7 or so and it didn't have a working Camcorder and stuff.

TaLEntZ96 said:
Thanks! Will try this one out aswell, is everything working? I used to run version 7 or so and it didn't have a working Camcorder and stuff.
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Most of the times you can't record video, sometime it does but sometimes it record videos with strange lines.

I'll chip in with an opinion...
CM7.2 RC3!
I've been trying all the other roms that come out just for fun and some of them really are great but I can't help myself - I keep returning to CM7.2 after a week or so of each... It just works perfectly in every way, it's fast, stable and has a great battery life. Can't really ask for more. Second place is The Incredible 1.1 but that's not a surprise seeing as it is a mod of CM - the only thing not so great is the use of Launcher Pro instead of ADW but I guess that is down to personal choice.
Anyway, in the unlikely event of you not having tried CM7.2 I'd say fire it up

dannyfranks76 said:
I'll chip in with an opinion...
CM7.2 RC3!
I've been trying all the other roms that come out just for fun and some of them really are great but I can't help myself - I keep returning to CM7.2 after a week or so of each... It just works perfectly in every way, it's fast, stable and has a great battery life. Can't really ask for more. Second place is The Incredible 1.1 but that's not a surprise seeing as it is a mod of CM - the only thing not so great is the use of Launcher Pro instead of ADW but I guess that is down to personal choice.
Anyway, in the unlikely event of you not having tried CM7.2 I'd say fire it up
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Buddy I am holding my horses for CM9

Incredible2011 said:
Ice Cold Sandwich 8.3 - You will appreciate the potential and amazing-ness of Android since you have no Sense and its an AOKP/AOSP. Battery will last for 2 days minimum with v4 Kernel. I'd say try it out, you won't be disappointed...you'll find that Sense is a waste of space and battery.
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I read that a lot here.. that sense is a waste of battery but In my experience it has been the opposite. I had Ice Cold Sandwich for a few days and the battery life was terrible... Tried all the kernels with it...stock, tiamats, v3, v4 etc but no luck..changed radio to the latest but still the same battery drain problem... got frustrated so switched to sense with ARHD ..battery life way bettter..the best battery life i got was with NIK's trinity rom... but wanted ics so opted for arhd....

samgurung said:
I read that a lot here.. that sense is a waste of battery but In my experience it has been the opposite. I had Ice Cold Sandwich for a few days and the battery life was terrible... Tried all the kernels with it...stock, tiamats, v3, v4 etc but no luck..changed radio to the latest but still the same battery drain problem... got frustrated so switched to sense with ARHD ..battery life way bettter..the best battery life i got was with NIK's trinity rom... but wanted ics so opted for arhd....
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Don't know why you found battery life terrible...sometimes it's also a matter of what you like really...but once you try open Android you'll start fully appreciating it and start hating Sense from my experience...different people different opinions though.

The incredible 1.1: fully stable and using supercharger actually slows it down. It's lightning fast after install.

i too found that with the IceCold series up until 7.2/7.3 battery life was horrible. Sense roms seem to give a very good battery life lasting me well over a day. and i prefer the sense ui way better than stock aosp/aokp roms.

Well I'm back with ice cold and it is great! Haven't used it since 7.0 or somwthinf,... its just so much better compared to sense. Its faster and looks way nicer. Only thing is mms doesn't work. *sad face*
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In IceCold 8.4 there's a solved MMS/SMS issue - at leat the one I had and I was one of the first people who experienced the problem in the first place. Plus if the automatic settings don't work out, the manual override is working without a glitch .... So it's fully working ROM for now but depends on how you install it/download it and other stuff.... It's all written in the thread but so far there's no other ROM that's as fast and as stable for me. Battery wise - I got through a full day of at least an hour talk time, browsing, WiFi moderate usage and I still have at least 50% when I get home. And my phone is on 3G/H mode all the time - on 2G/EDGE - it lasts two days :good: If that's bad you need Motorola Razr MAXX with the 3,3Ah battery

dannyfranks76 said:
I'll chip in with an opinion...
CM7.2 RC3!
I've been trying all the other roms that come out just for fun and some of them really are great but I can't help myself - I keep returning to CM7.2 after a week or so of each... It just works perfectly in every way, it's fast, stable and has a great battery life. Can't really ask for more. Second place is The Incredible 1.1 but that's not a surprise seeing as it is a mod of CM - the only thing not so great is the use of Launcher Pro instead of ADW but I guess that is down to personal choice.
Anyway, in the unlikely event of you not having tried CM7.2 I'd say fire it up
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make full backup current rom,backup apps with titanium backup.
then try Ice cold sanwich with full wipe,restore apps .
u may change your opinion.
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Incredible2011 said:
Don't know why you found battery life terrible...sometimes it's also a matter of what you like really...but once you try open Android you'll start fully appreciating it and start hating Sense from my experience...different people different opinions though.
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Dont get me wrong.... I love the openness and customizability of asop aokp roms. But right now they lack the stability that i desire.
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My own choice,you should try WE_WANT_ICS_V3_By_Nikhil007. I used it for a long time,stable,fast,smooth,no FC or Auto Restart and good battery life. I upgraded to V4,but I'm back to V3 now. ^_^

chok_thewa said:
make full backup current rom,backup apps with titanium backup.
then try Ice cold sanwich with full wipe,restore apps .
u may change your opinion.
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Already tried it and it is great, seriously. That and playground are the best ICS roms I've tried but I still found myself back on CM7 after a week or so... Probably because of the reason below:
samgurung said:
Dont get me wrong.... I love the openness and customizability of asop aokp roms. But right now they lack the stability that i desire.
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Apart from CM7.2! As it's GB based it is rock solid and everything works flawlessly. I use maps a lot and MMS too a bit and the compass works perfectly in maps and MMS is not an issue. No FCs, no compatibility issues (the earlier ICS roms seemed to be incompatible with some apps but that seems to be resolved completely now) and just no worries at all.
It'll be a different story once the devs get hold of the kernal source of course... once that happens I'll be grabbing CM9 so fast it'll get whiplash!

The only gripe i have with AOSP/AOKP is the camera.
It just cant churn out the same quality that the sense roms can

Incredible S slow with Android 4/ICS

Hi!
I recently updated my IS to the newest Android 4 and god, it's slow. There is lag everywhere, I click on a icon and it takes like a second for screen to appear. The previous version was much smoother.
I disabled the animations and it seems to helped a bit, is there anything else I can do? Or just revert to the older version?
Anybody else experiencing the same problem?
Thanks

Biges said:
Hi!
I recently updated my IS to the newest Android 4 and god, it's slow. There is lag everywhere, I click on a icon and it takes like a second for screen to appear. The previous version was much smoother.
I disabled the animations and it seems to helped a bit, is there anything else I can do? Or just revert to the older version?
Anybody else experiencing the same problem?
Thanks
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Thats a known problem with stock ICS
If you flash a custom rom, generally they are faster
for example I had Ice Cold for a few months, rock solid and super fast

I bought my incredible more than one year ago and I've never thought to unlock and go with custom rom until i got the last OTA. I was so disappointed i flashed Nik's project x almost the same day. You should really consider trying a custom rom. If you like stock appearance you could try android revolution HD i bet it will perform way better than stock ics
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Thanks for your confirmations!
I'll try a custom ROM then.
As for the appearance I use a custom homepage anyway.

After using CM7 for a while, which was great, I upgraded to IceCold 8.1.1. I found it slow and laggy. Then I updated to Official Stock ICS. Same. I updated the radio to the '11' version. Still the same. Now I am using Ice Cold 8.3. Still the same. I did full wipe, and restored apps with Titanium.
I am very frustrated. I want ICS, but I am thinking of going back to CM7.2. I should be happy with IceCold, but I'm not. Slow, laggy, and lots of 'not responding' messages. Facebook app is the worst - almost unusable.
Any ideas anyone? I have:
IceColdSandwich 8.3 Rossi
4EXT Recovery
Blackrose 2.02 S-OFF

Ice cold is not laggy for me at all
How long have you let the ROM settle before deeming it laggy?
What clock speed for CPU? And maybe try go to recovery and clear both cache an dalvik cache, and make sure to do that after every rom flash if you don't already
Just that most of us are having a smooth nearly flawless ICS experience, hard to think only you are having problems
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Guys try cool droid ROM, its the best and fastest Rom....
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@jcr67: It's funny how mine is the other way round. I mean I didn't use the stock ROM (or whatever it is called) and installed CM 7.2 as soon as I got my phone because I didn't like the stock UI at all and I had seen CM 7.2 running on DHD with my cousin so I was kinda impressed. I kept using it until I visited my cousin and comparing both the phones (play store, I had a topic on that) was just awful. My play store searching, loading, agreement would take ages. I had been trying lots of ROMs until I came across Ice cream sandwich ROMs and the speeds were great (Virtuous Vivo) but it was the stock UI again which got me bored. I, yesterday, came across a topic by Nathan about Incredible S ROMs and battery life and after reading each and every post, I knew IceColdSandwich is my next ROM or I am selling this ****. Then and now, this is the best ROM I tried till now. No lag, great UI (after theme installation that was in the topic itself, it's become even greater). The only problem I am having is with my battery life. I had this on other ROMs too. So all I can say is that I am more than just satisfied with this ROM.
Try reinstalling the ROM by after running the SuperWipe script (inside the Android Revolution HD ROM topic.)
Sorry for the long post.

Biges said:
Hi!
I recently updated my IS to the newest Android 4 and god, it's slow. There is lag everywhere, I click on a icon and it takes like a second for screen to appear. The previous version was much smoother.
I disabled the animations and it seems to helped a bit, is there anything else I can do? Or just revert to the older version?
Anybody else experiencing the same problem?
Thanks
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i have the same problem ..
could any one help how to return to official old Android ROM before 4.0. version ?

Update - It is getting better!
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Ignore my earlier comments, re IceCold.
I always clear dalvik, wipe etc, when installing. But I repeated this anyway, just to make sure. I let it settle down. It got better. And better. And now I have V6 supercharged it.
It's pretty great now.
Except for the battery life. I'm getting not much more than half a day, without doing much.

Usually I ensure that the following are disabled unless I really want them:
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- Vibration (keyboard)
- keyboard tones
- USB debugging
Optional: Automatic brightness turned off and set brightness to comfortable level
If you are overclocking it try to use it at usual clock speed. Overclocking consumes more battery.
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Except for the battery life. I'm getting not much more than half a day, without doing much.
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I started to use custom ROM after upgrade to ICS. Laggy, even.the apps & notification drawer also laggy.

for me the latest ota ics upgrade is quite good, just sometimes i can feel that things just dun get smooth enough, made my mind and tried few custom roms. Most of them are just really gud in term of performances and looks. Now im gud to go with ice cold rom, much better than official rom of course, and on the battery issue, just make sure u turn off anything u dun need when u dun need them

I find ARHD 3.0.1 with V6 Supercharger script properly installed (no KickAssKernelizer cos I want to wait for a custom kernel) and ultrasmooth rosie.apk to be a fairly smooth running experience.
Tip:
I've improved battery life and reduced common running temperature and hence increased performance/stability/speed by simply running GSM only instead of GSM/HSPA unless I'm in a good signal zone and want to browse data quickly. (I'm talking 2G/3G switching in the mobile network settings.. may not be labelled gsm/hspa in some ROMs). This is a good bet, especially when indoors. I live in a basement so signal drops are more steep for the higher frequency 3G signal.
This should be true for any ROM. Anywhere your data browsing is slow to heart-rendingly unusable.. should definitely save battery, reduce temp, and improve text and call reception to switch to GSM only!
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OK, I have a simple question: Is any ICS custom ROM as fast as the Gingerbread stock ROM? OR do I need to find a way do downgrade to Gingerbread? Which will be a pain in the bottom parts...

Biges said:
OK, I have a simple question: Is any ICS custom ROM as fast as the Gingerbread stock ROM? OR do I need to find a way do downgrade to Gingerbread? Which will be a pain in the bottom parts...
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There's a thread about this guy enjoying ics as it speeds up the 3d performance.
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Biges said:
OK, I have a simple question: Is any ICS custom ROM as fast as the Gingerbread stock ROM? OR do I need to find a way do downgrade to Gingerbread? Which will be a pain in the bottom parts...
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I find project X to be really quick and doesn't seem to struggle with multiple apps running I.e spotify, Facebook and chrome.
Easy to flash too!

We Want ICS
For 'We Want CS' I still can see lag when open apps drawer & pull down notification. Anyway, its still better than OTA update.

markj338 said:
Thats a known problem with stock ICS
If you flash a custom rom, generally they are faster
for example I had Ice Cold for a few months, rock solid and super fast
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Dear markj338,
i'm new to this, i had same experience with the OTA ICS too, so bad.....
Can u guide me how to s-off , upgrade to icecoldsandwich 8.3.3 ?

Best ROM (I know this question has been asked a lot of times)

Hi,
I am tired of trying new ROMs daily and want to settle down with one ROM. Currently i am on Ice cold sandwich and always come back to this ROM after trying any other ROM. My dream ROM would be with HTC sense (3.6 or 4 any would do) with fast ice cream sandwich. Speed and stability is important for me. Please suggest some good ROMs.
Thanks

Everyone's experience is dofferent with each rom..
Have u tried miui? Thats the one to go for me
Smooth, light and sense camera with miui sleekness
Waiting for the stable jb now
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I'm on Nik's Project X. If you like Sense 4, it's the perfect ROM for you

lagu805 said:
Everyone's experience is dofferent with each rom..
Have u tried miui? Thats the one to go for me
Smooth, light and sense camera with miui sleekness
Waiting for the stable jb now
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Is it stable?? i have tried almost all ROMs except miui.

WILLI120 said:
I'm on Nik's Project X. If you like Sense 4, it's the perfect ROM for you
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i found the haptic feedback intermittent and very low. is it changed in 4.1

Hmmm up until now i havent experienced any drawbacks... Its good for me
You might need to flash the boot img though
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akshaywani said:
i found the haptic feedback intermittent and very low. is it changed in 4.1
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I think, yes. But we don't have Sense 4.1 right now. But we will get it surely when we get a port from the new Desire X. But with the kernel from lost.prophet and the governor lionheart the ROM seems very smooth to me. It feels great, but try it yourself - it's all about taste

you should try the official pre-root rom, if the stability is your main key. I use the rooted official rom, sense 3.6 on ics. The speed is not bad but not so fast.
Because I use this phone for getting my job done and little chat with my friends. Next year I will flash the custom rom, when htc is no longer issue any updates for this phone.
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The best ROM is the one that works best for your requirements on your phone.
Each ROM has certain features, some USPs and some shortcomings, but ALL ARE GOOD! Or else they wouldn't be showcased by the respective ROM developers (thank god htcphones has been banned).
So check each one out, try them in your daily usage pattern and then select one. Asking others what's good for me is like choosing a girlfriend/ partner and asking others to test and tell if she's OK!
Sent from my HTC Incredible S &/or Xperia Mini ST15i

Cookie Ninja said:
The best ROM is the one that works best for your requirements on your phone.
Each ROM has certain features, some USPs and some shortcomings, but ALL ARE GOOD! Or else they wouldn't be showcased by the respective ROM developers (thank god htcphones has been banned).
So check each one out, try them in your daily usage pattern and then select one. Asking others what's good for me is like choosing a girlfriend/ partner and asking others to test and tell if she's OK!
Sent from my HTC Incredible S &/or Xperia Mini ST15i
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I volunteer for that job.

Nonverbose said:
I volunteer for that job.
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You dawg, you!
P.S. don't mind volunteering, myself, but the wife would be mighty miffed.
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WILLI120 said:
I'm on Nik's Project X. If you like Sense 4, it's the perfect ROM for you
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Been running it for 2 days now. A poster in the thread mentioned phenomenal battery life. Unfortunately I don't see it. I am at 50% right now since the morning and I am a light user. I am coming from 2.3.5 which had a 3 day average use for me. Not happy with performance buy happy that I have ICS. If my provider didn't stop development I'd be still on 2.3.5 until stable release. Oh well.
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moskva said:
Been running it for 2 days now. A poster in the thread mentioned phenomenal battery life. Unfortunately I don't see it. I am at 50% right now since the morning and I am a light user. I am coming from 2.3.5 which had a 3 day average use for me. Not happy with performance buy happy that I have ICS. If my provider didn't stop development I'd be still on 2.3.5 until stable release. Oh well.
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Than you're doing sth wrong. My battery life is great. I'm on 60% now with a rough usage the whole day... Disable auto-brightness, that should do it

WILLI120 said:
Than you're doing sth wrong. My battery life is great. I'm on 60% now with a rough usage the whole day... Disable auto-brightness, that should do it
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Not sure what could be wrong. Didn't touch any settings. Everything default, except turned off the animations that I hate so much.
I'll turn it off and see what that does.

moskva said:
Not sure what could be wrong. Didn't touch any settings. Everything default, except turned off the animations that I hate so much.
I'll turn it off and see what that does.
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I'm also using Nik Project X. Even though the ICS experience is so much better than GB, the battery life is not comparable. I could get at least 4 days with Nik Trinity XL. With Project X, I get 3 days roughly. I'm using the same settings I used to have with Trinity XL but battery performance could not match Project X. I'm still happy about the ICS's smoothness.

moskva said:
Not sure what could be wrong. Didn't touch any settings. Everything default, except turned off the animations that I hate so much.
I'll turn it off and see what that does.
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In the beginning I also didn't touch anything and battery life was terrible... Don't really know what changed it. I hope auto-brightness does it...

WILLI120 said:
In the beginning I also didn't touch anything and battery life was terrible... Don't really know what changed it. I hope auto-brightness does it...
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Auto-brightness, how often things sync with the internet, how good of an area are you in for signal reception. Even having your phone on silent will give you better battery life: if your constantly getting messages from whatsapp etc instead of playing a sound for message notification.
My phone will get to about 8pm with 70% battery, but then i talk to people on whatsapp and my battery goes down to about 10%.

akshaywani said:
Hi,
I am tired of trying new ROMs daily and want to settle down with one ROM. Currently i am on Ice cold sandwich and always come back to this ROM after trying any other ROM. My dream ROM would be with HTC sense (3.6 or 4 any would do) with fast ice cream sandwich. Speed and stability is important for me. Please suggest some good ROMs.
Thanks
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Hi. I'm interested to try IceColdSandwich someday, but it seems that there were several bugs which makes me thinking whether should or not to flash this ROM. Have you tried Nik Project X V4.1? If so, can you help me compare pros and cons between these two ROMs? Because I'm Nik Project X V4.1's user. Never had a chance to try IceColdSandwich yet.

WILLI120 said:
I'm on Nik's Project X. If you like Sense 4, it's the perfect ROM for you
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I tried flashing that, got stuck at White screen with htc logo, stayed like that for few hours, went back to my CM7.2 ROM

phoenix633 said:
I tried flashing that, got stuck at White screen with htc logo, stayed like that for few hours, went back to my CM7.2 ROM
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am using the rom since few days i dont find any bugs..its the best sense 4.0 rom i ever used..

ROM Advice

HTC Vivid, S-on, Unlocked boot loaded and rooted. Looking for a new ROM, Preferably ICS and De-sensed. Something light-weight, Easy on battery and RAM usage. Here is a small list of what I do with my phone:
- Music
- Facebook / Web browsing
- Texting. Alot of texting
- Camera / Video
- Calls
- Weather monitoring.
Other than that, Nothing. I don't use GPS, Or bar code scanning apps. I want a light-weight fast, stable ROM. Something that'll work with S-on preferably. It can be ICS or even JellyBean, Gingerbread depending.. but it must be De-sensed.

My advice is use the De-Sensed ROM found in the development thread. It's super small, completely de-sensed, has the CRT-OFF effect, and is pretty reliable.
As with any S-ON phone, you need to flash the kernel via fastboot, then install the ROM, then for good measure flash the kernel again. You'll also need either ClockWorkMod or TWRP recovery to flash custom ROMs.
There are dozens of threads on here which will help you install a ROM with S-ON, and help you through any issues you might have.
With that said, I'd be remiss if I didn't at least TRY to sway you into S-OFFing your phone. It makes life much easier. ROMs install in a single action with no fastboot needed. You can toss a ROM (or several) on your SD card, and go sit in the park with a bottle of wine and try new ROMS all day long.

ZackFearheart said:
HTC Vivid, S-on, Unlocked boot loaded and rooted. Looking for a new ROM, Preferably ICS and De-sensed. Something light-weight, Easy on battery and RAM usage. Here is a small list of what I do with my phone:
- Music
- Facebook / Web browsing
- Texting. Alot of texting
- Camera / Video
- Calls
- Weather monitoring.
Other than that, Nothing. I don't use GPS, Or bar code scanning apps. I want a light-weight fast, stable ROM. Something that'll work with S-on preferably. It can be ICS or even JellyBean, Gingerbread depending.. but it must be De-sensed.
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Desensed Rom is cool. Bit if you want like a kind of more reliable Rom try HoliCS 1.3 and also the theme that is on to OP of that thread. Itl make itl ook like an soap/ aokp Rom.
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Marshmellow92 said:
Desensed Rom is cool. Bit if you want like a kind of more reliable Rom try HoliCS 1.3 and also the theme that is on to OP of that thread. Itl make itl ook like an soap/ aokp Rom.
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The Marine Theme certainly doesn't make the phone look/act like it's been de-sensed... I love it myself, don't get me wrong. Holics 1.2 with Marine's theme has been my daily driver since it was released. Holics certainly isn't light weight either at 600MB, versus the 140ish MB of the De-Sensed ROM.
I personally found De-Sensed to be quite stable. I tried Virtrious too, and found that to be full of bugs, though maybe that was a few releases ago by now.

Desensed and virtuous were in fact pretty buggy. Holics made me want to bash my head into a wall. DarkRaider 1.5 is pretty spectacular though. It isn't desensed, but it's very stable and battery life is pretty good.
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ess.boyer said:
The Marine Theme certainly doesn't make the phone look/act like it's been de-sensed... I love it myself, don't get me wrong. Holics 1.2 with Marine's theme has been my daily driver since it was released. Holics certainly isn't light weight either at 600MB, versus the 140ish MB of the De-Sensed ROM.
I personally found De-Sensed to be quite stable. I tried Virtrious too, and found that to be full of bugs, though maybe that was a few releases ago by now.
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I meant like phone app and message.. stiff like that I like the green happy face lol
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Is it bad to delete stock / pre-installed apps? Would that affect battery life? I'm currently using a Pure ICS ROM and I deleted some of the stock apps (Calendar, Calculator, etc) and I was wondering if that would have an affect on performance and battery life?
I really wish there was a port of CyanongenMod 9 or 10 for the vivid that would work on an s-on device.
Only reason I haven't s-off'd is because I am lost, confused and not sure what to do.

ZackFearheart said:
Is it bad to delete stock / pre-installed apps? Would that affect battery life? I'm currently using a Pure ICS ROM and I deleted some of the stock apps (Calendar, Calculator, etc) and I was wondering if that would have an affect on performance and battery life?
I really wish there was a port of CyanongenMod 9 or 10 for the vivid that would work on an s-on device.
Only reason I haven't s-off'd is because I am lost, confused and not sure what to do.
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It depends. System apps can cause problems if you remove them. Miscellaneous stuff shouldn't matter, but only stuff that constantly runs would have any effect. The long and short of it is there's no real reason to delete them.
Just read the superguide, watch the videos and you'll be fine. Hundreds of us have done it without any problems. Just make sure you understand what you're doing. Also keep in mind that the s-off process voids your warranty if that's going to be an issue.
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Monkeymannnn said:
It depends. System apps can cause problems if you remove them. Miscellaneous stuff shouldn't matter, but only stuff that constantly runs would have any effect. The long and short of it is there's no real reason to delete them.
Just read the superguide, watch the videos and you'll be fine. Hundreds of us have done it without any problems. Just make sure you understand what you're doing. Also keep in mind that the s-off process voids your warranty if that's going to be an issue.
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I've deleted stuff like the stock Browser, Stock download manager, Car home thing, The clock widget, Calendar, VPN Services, Stock gallery thing, Stuff like that. Space isn't an issue.. It's more of stuff running I don't want to run, or don't need wasting battery and RAM.
And the phone was bought second hand, So there isn't a warranty.

Monkeymannnn said:
Desensed and virtuous were in fact pretty buggy. Holics made me want to bash my head into a wall. DarkRaider 1.5 is pretty spectacular though. It isn't desensed, but it's very stable and battery life is pretty good.
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You can select no sense in the install setup and I am running it this and its real clean and smooth .

Bigtjmc said:
You can select no sense in the install setup and I am running it this and its real clean and smooth .
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I think at one point I selected a "No sense" install on a ROM and it still had bits and pieces of the sense parts in it. Forget what ROM it was.
What's you guys and gals opinions on a de-sensed GB ROM? How would that be in terms of performance and battery life on my Vivid? I only like ICS for it's colour theme and that's it... And I highly doubt there are any JellyBean ports for it yet.